The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #2204: Internet ID: Forging The Chains Of The Digital Surveillance State

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

──────────────────────────────────────── 00:00:51:03 — State-Level Internet ID Laws Build Digital Surveillance BackboneMandatory age verification for all apps is framed as constructing a universal tracking system under child-protection branding. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:09:06:04 — Federal Judge Blocks Texas App-ID LawA court likens mandatory app identification to forcing bookstores to check IDs, warning of constitutional overreach. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:11:25:11 — EU Moves Toward Single-ID InternetEuropean leaders push verified digital identity requirements that would end anonymous speech and expand enforcement powers. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:21:24:00 — Courts Overwhelmed by ICE Detention ChallengesThousands of rulings and habeas petitions cite due process violations in federal immigration enforcement. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:27:15:00 — Federal Judge Documents Repeated ICE Court ViolationsNearly 100 alleged order violations in one month intensify concerns about executive defiance of judicial authority. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:34:49:02 — Welfare Expansion Linked to Immigration IncentivesRising refugee funding and high benefit participation rates are presented as drivers of systemic strain. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:51:02:16 — Monsanto Secures Long-Term Roundup Liability CapA multibillion-dollar settlement limits future glyphosate cancer claims despite ongoing health disputes. ──────────────────────────────────────── 00:56:07:08 — Idaho Medical Freedom Act Challenges Mandate FrameworksState-level efforts aim to dismantle vaccine and emergency mandate authority established after 9/11. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:20:24:11 — Only a Fraction of Epstein Data ReleasedSeized terabytes of material contrast sharply with limited public disclosures, fueling cover-up allegations. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:24:11:06 — Massive Document Dumps Obscure Key Epstein DetailsBulk releases are characterized as burying relevant names beneath overwhelming data. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:36:32:21 — Allegations of Political Pressure to Halt File ReleaseClaims surface that transparency efforts were discouraged to avoid exposing powerful figures. ──────────────────────────────────────── 01:58:38:04 — Pentagon Expands Push for Autonomous Weapons and SurveillanceDefense officials advocate full-spectrum AI deployment, signaling rapid expansion of automated warfare and monitoring systems. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

of deceit. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13th, it's Wednesday the 18th of February, year of our Lord, 2006. Well, government everywhere is quickly canceling privacy. As they take us into the surveillance state, we can see it at the EU. We can see it, of course, in the federal government, but it is state governments now that have come up with some of the worst, most absurd regulations to protect children, supposedly. Folks, we can at least fight it there if we know what it is. We're going to talk about that today. A new report shows just how huge the welfare magnet is for immigrants

and how effective the Cloward Piven strategy has been. And then we're going to take a look at what the Pentagon's fight with Anthropic, the company behind Claude A.I. But that fight from the Pentagon, what they really want, shows us the frightening plans the Pentagon has for war with America. It's not just Palantir. Palantir is central to it, but this is the federal government at war with you. And we're going to take a look at the quote-unquote list.

The Department of Justice put out the names. It's got everybody from Elvis to Alex Jones named in the Epstein file. What is behind that trick? We'll be right back. Well, an Arizona bill would require ID checks in order to even use a weather app. Yeah, that's right. Even apps that are come pre-installed on your phone. The bill would require parental permission or identity checks to open the calculator app that came with your photos.

Your phone, rather, your photos as well. This is all being done in the name of protecting children. and they would classify everybody into four different age groups, adults and then three minor age groups. And even if a minor update to the terms of services or something like that is included, you'd have to go through the whole authorization process yet again. Let me tell you, this is not about protecting kids as we've seen over and over again. This is about having an excuse of pretense to make sure that nobody can use the internet without an ID. and it is another pretext for the surveillance state.

The surveillance state has to cancel privacy. I mean, just look at what they do with their masks, the ICE agents with their mask. It's absurd. What have they got to hide? Well, everything, I guess, apparently. It would create a surveillance architecture that applies to every mobile device user in the state of Arizona.

App Store providers would be required to verify every single account, age category and share that data with developers. We got to know. This is coming out of Arizona, but there's a lot of states that have done this. Texas has. Texas is on the first ones. Now, so far, that has been blocked in courts, and it should be blocked. And divide users under four age categories, children under 13, those between 13 and 16, those between 16 and 18, and then adults. Everybody would be put in one of these four buckets and the Arizona Attorney General would be tasked with creating rules to establish acceptable verification procedures. So once you establish this, once you start creating a mechanism for tracking and a permission system for using the internet,

it'll apply to politics. It'll apply to religion. There's no end of it. So they say, say for anyone under 18, the bill mandates that their account be affiliated with a parental account. We got to make sure the parents know what's going on. Well, if they're under 18, most likely the parents are paying for the phone and paying the monthly bill. Kids don't have a job to do that. So, of course, they already know about that. The law doesn't specify how the parent-child account affiliation would actually be verified. You know, maybe they could ask the company that they pay the bill.

to. It's absurd what it's happening with this. But developers will be required to notify app stores of any significant change. App stores would then be required to notify parent accounts and obtain renewed consent. The burden will fall on both of those parties with civil penalties of up to $75,000 per violation. And of course it would allow parents and the children to sue them. Arizona joins a growing list of states pursuing app store age verification. Texas, Utah, Louisiana, California of all past versions of these laws. The Texas law faces an appeal after having been stopped in court. Utah and Louisiana are scheduled take effect later this year,

and California's version arrives in 2027. So we've seen this happening over and over again in the EU. They have to know everything that we are doing. and yet we expect this from the federal government. We expect it from the EU. But this is something that is happening at the state level. And really, at the state level, we have the ability to do something about this. That's where you need to get involved.

So hang on just one second, having an issue here with this. I'm trying to get to my next article. But I had another one that I wanted to talk about here. but here we go. It seems to have revived. This is, well, evidently not. I'm going to try to take care of this thing, and we're going to take a quick break, folks.

I mean, really quick break. And we will be right back. Stay with us. You're listening to the David Knight Show. You're listening to the David Night Show. All right, we're back. And again, these can't live with other things, and I can't live with them and sometimes as well.

This is the thing that we had the issue with last week. I actually like this, but it does have its issues from time, time. This is the quote that I was looking for that I couldn't pull up. A federal judge blocked the Texas law before it could take effect. A U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman said the law is akin to a law that would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door. and for minors to require parental consent before the child or teen could enter and require parental consent again before they could buy a book.

This is the absurdity of it, but it's even worse than this, and this article does not mention it. I looked up, I thought, well, is Arizona a state that requires parental consent before they change a child's gender, or before they start gaslighting them over pronouns in school? no as a matter of fact there's less control over what happens to your child and in arizona public school than there is what happens on your cell phone in arizona even with this law of course in arizona they have no parental consent required for changing pronouns they have a law that says well we really

suggest that you tell the parents but it's not a requirement that they tell the parents if they're gaslighting a child and the child now thinks they're different sex So there's no requirement at all for that, but look at all these stringent requirements. Let me just tell you, we all know this is not about protecting kids. There's many ways that you can protect kids, and of course parents have the key to doing that. But if they were concerned about protecting kids from perversion or sexual content or whatever, you can imagine, they would do something about this gender mutilation and gaslighting that's going on in their own institutions. They're not.

They're not. But again, Texas law is on hold. Utah, Louisiana and California, Utah and Louisiana coming up this year. California coming up next year. Meanwhile, you have in the EU, you have Macron, Fred Mertz, and Ursula, who's fond of lying. They want expanded speech controls. Of course they do. We have to be sure that there is one single person with one account.

said Macaron. And if this is an AI system, if this is a bot or if it's organized by a big organization, that should be forbidden. Well, fine. Then regulate the artificial intelligence. Regulate the corporations. Don't regulate the people. If you're concerned about AI masquerading at something else because you know how dangerous that is,

because you do it all the time, you governments do it. And so you know how dangerous that is. Well, you could very easily require ID from the artificial intelligence. intelligence, for example. So you're going to identify yourself preemptively or we'll do something about it once we find out that you're not doing it. Instead, they come after humans and they use that as an excuse. It's a system where every social media user would have their identity verified by platforms and tied to a single permitted account. Anonymous speech, pseudo-anonymous commentary, the ability to maintain separate personal and professional presences online would all effectively

end. And of course, they're coming after VPNs as well, virtual privacy networks. The governments want a powerful tool to identify, track, and silence anybody whose speech they object to. We see so many aspects of this. The West has descended folks into tyranny. It is pervasive in the leadership of every party in every country. If you didn't see it in 2020, you can still see it in this. None of them respect our individual liberties, none of them. Not the U.S., certainly, and not the EU, of course, obviously.

They all aspire to tyranny. And they're open about it as well. And so the question is, what do we do about this? Macron defended this by characterizing free expression online as a form of brainwashing. So when you brainwash and gaslight a kid about what sex they are, that's okay. Just don't do it online because we don't want people passing information back and forth about narratives that we're lying to them about, about climate change, about the vaccines, about the pandemics, about what they're doing, actually, with each other.

Macron invoked the Digital Services Act as a foundation for expanded censorship across Europe. He said this is a very important regulation because it is the first. time that we've created a framework to regulate the internet. And of course, they're not going to regulate it in any way that is reasonable. They simply want to regulate it to shut up dissent and to punish dissenters and protesters. He offered a familiar list of speech categories and he wants to suppress. Of course, the first one is going to be racist speech. That's the first refuge of these scoundrels, then hateful speech, then anti-Semitic speech. Yeah, don't criticize Benjamin Netanyahu because, you know, that minority government of Israel

represents all Jews. And you know, there's a lot of Jews who don't like that idea. Just like I would not want to be represented by the Trump administration. They don't want to be represented by the Netanyahu administration. They disagree with their policies. These terms have no fixed legal definition that applies uniformly across the EU member states. You know, what is hate speech? What is racism?

By the way, what is anti-Semitism? If you even ask that question, as Kerry Pre-Gene Baller found out, you get kicked off of the Religious Liberty Commission. What a joke set up by Trump. German Chancellor Fred Merz. He's got some splining to do, Lucy. A divide has opened up between Europe and the United States, he said. J.D. Vance said this openly here at the Munich Security Conference a year ago. And he was right.

The battle of cultures of Maga in the U.S. is not ours. Freedom of speech here ends where the words spoken are directed against the government. Oh, no, he said human dignity, he means, right? And basic law, he said. so we have laws about what you can say. And your right to free speech ends where we say it ends. And we call that human dignity. What cynical liars they are.

You know, that's one of the key things of B.F. Skinner, because this is all really about behavioral psychology, and he was really kind of the father of behavioral psychology, but he certainly advanced it a great deal. And his book was called Beyond Freedom and Dignity. and that's where these people are. And yet, that is the German cynical way describing it. Human dignity is the phrase that the German governments have used to justify prosecuting speech.

They prosecute speech in the name of human dignity. Imagine that. They've interpreted it to cover anything from insults to Holocaust denier. So Israel always is at the forefront of this censorship, if you notice this, right? And so the question is, why are they desperately pushing this? Well, I've seen that whenever somebody is desperately trying to hide something, it's because they're lying to you about it. Have you noticed that?

They'll lie to you about the pandemic. They lie to you about the vaccine. They lie to you about climate change. They lie to you about the wars. They lie to you about what they're going to do. Everything that they want to censor is something that exposes those lies. So, European Commission President Ursula Fond of Lying joined the censorship chorus at the Munich Security Conference.

It's their security, not your security, just like national security has nothing to do with the safety and the freedom and the security of Americans. It has everything to do with the security of the government and its continuity of governance. staying in their jobs, staying in office, staying in power, staying in control. It has nothing to do with our safety, nothing to do with our security. A fond of lying described European speech regulation is under attack from the U.S.

said they have wielded the threats of tariffs on partners to secure preferential access and decried the EU's digital rules as an assault on free speech. Well, because they are. It's unfortunate that the Trump administration, while decrying the censorship of the EU is busy doing the same thing here, except in a more hidden and devious way. The EU's digital rules are an assault on free speech. The DSA empowers bureaucrats to demand platforms, remove content under threat of massive fines.

She claimed that Europe has a long tradition of freedom of speech, and she's telling the truth about that. What she doesn't say is that Ursula Fond of Lying and Fred Mertz and Emmanuel Macron, the rest of these EU leaders, after Europe has got a long tradition of free speech, their mission is to end that tradition, to destroy that, and to do it in the name of dignity and democracy. What cynical liars they are. The leaders who gathered in Munich, writes, reclaimed the net, spoke of protecting democracy while proposing tools that would let governments identify and punish dissent.

They invoked free speech while demanding the power to decide what speech is free. They claim to defend Europe while stripping Europeans of the ability to speak freely online. And they have openly declared their intention to do so for quite some time. Your annual global risk report makes for a stunning and sobering read. For the global business community, the top concern for the next two years is not conflict or climate. It is disinformation and misinformation, followed closely by polarization within our societies. In a world of deceit. the truth is a revolutionary act. You are listening to the David Knight Show.

Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant, an additional warrant to go and apprehend people who we... That's what you always needed. You're a lawyer. Come on. We don't have enough judges. We don't have enough time. It would take decades probably to do that. The people who are advocating for that don't want any immigration enforcement. They do not. Yeah, well, you don't want it either because you just decided that you're going to basically double the amount of money that's given to people like the Somalians who come in here on the refugee program. $6 billion. Well, you're going to jump it by another $5 billion, right?

It's the welfare magnet, stupid. And, of course, they create the problem, and then they use the created problem to argue that we need to throw out the Constitution, due process, the Bill of Rights. courts have jailed, have ruled that ICE has illegally jailed people more than 4,400 times in just the last five months. Judges across the country have ruled the more than 4,400 times since the start of October that the U.S. government has illegally detained immigrants according to Reuters' investigations published on Saturday. Now, I know I've gotten a lot of people who have contacted me and said, well, these rights are not for illegal aliens that are here. No, we have due process for people that we know committed crimes, don't we? You see somebody, you got a video of somebody committing a murder, they still get due process.

Why do we do that? Why don't we just take them out and shoot them, which the Trump administration and Stephen Miller would love to do to anybody? Forget about the due process. We suspect you're a drug dealer. Let's just shoot you on the street like Robert Duterte, the leader of the Philippines. Extrajudicial killings are all for that. cheered that on the streets of the Philippines. He's cheered it and the water is off of Venezuela. They don't care about due process. They don't care about making sure they got the right person

before they even execute people. So of course they have contempt for a due process in terms of arrest. And let me just say this. There's nothing in the Bill of Rights. There's nothing in the Declaration of Independence that says that we have these rights because we are American citizens. if that were the case, that would change your God-given rights into government-granted privileges. You need to understand that. All you people who are out there, good, good, do all this stuff. These people who are illegally. Yeah, they've committed a crime.

Let's make sure the punishment is proportional to it. That is not excessive. Let's make sure that it's not unusual. And let's go through due process. Because if you let them use cruel, unusual, and excessive punishment, if you let them skip due process on your fellow human beings that are out there who maybe probably are guilty obviously guilty of committing crime so you know have a process for handling this and send them back to where they came from most importantly you could stop handing them out money but mike johnson is at the

head of the list shoveling out money to people that he claims are so bad they shouldn't have any due process cynical again what they are doing and And so just be careful because the government that ignores the humanity of people who have committed crimes, even if they've committed crimes, you don't ignore their humanity. That's why the Bill of Rights exists. If you let them get away with that with other people, they will do that to you. They'll do that to your children, to your family. They'll do that to Americans. So, again, the number of people in ICE custody has ballooned to 68,000.

month, 75% higher than when Trump took office. Midway through 2025, the administration began pushing for daily quotas of 3,000 arrests per day, with a goal of reaching a million per year. This has led to the targeting of mostly people with no criminal records rather than the supposedly worst of the worst that they keep saying. This has also resulted in a staggering number of arrests that judges have found later to be illegal. And it's another reason why when somebody is going through the process of, you know, getting their green card or applying for American citizenship or something, they go in and they arrest the people in the courtrooms. Well, that's low-hanging fruit. That's like, hey, look, I got my quota end this month. We ought to be disgusted about that.

You know, it's like the speed trap in a town or something. It's not anything that helps us. this is a cynical abuse of power by law enforcement, quote unquote. Since the beginning of the Trump term, immigrants have filed more than 20,200 habeas corpus petitions, claiming that they were held indefinitely without trial in violation of the Constitution. In at least 4,421 cases, listen to this, more than 400 federal judges, I can't tell you the number of times that every time something like this happens and a federal judge slaps, down these authoritarian, illegal, unconstitutional policies. Every time that happens, you see the Trump cult say, oh, that's just a Democrat judge or something.

400 federal judges in 4,400 cases have ruled that their detentions were illegal. Last month, more than 6,000 habeas petitioners, petitions were filed. Prior to the second Trump administration, no other month, dating back. back to 2010 had seen even 500. Now they had 6,000. So again, we can't bother with following the law, says the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, a lawyer. Let's just forget about the law. Maybe he ought to have his license revoked, right?

What do lawyers even police that? I mean, if you get admitted to the bar and you, you decide that you need to just ignore the bill of rights and the Constitution as an elected leader, isn't that grounds for removing your license by the bar? It should be. As a matter of fact, I think they got rid of Bill Clinton's, I'm just going on a memory here, but I think they got rid of his license to practice law when he committed perjury. They've done that for other people. What if you break your oath to the Constitution? Is that grounds evidently not? not. In ruling last month, Chief Judge Patrick Schlitz of the U.S. District Court in Minnesota,

a conservative judge appointed by Bush, W. Bush, provided a list of nearly 100 court orders that ICE had violated just that month while deployed as part of Trump's Operation Metro Surge. Meanwhile, the Alex Petty shooting investigation, Minnesota, the FBI has told Minnesota law enforcement, we will give you absolutely no information, will not share anything with you. And they said this is unprecedented. Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said the FBI formally notified this agency on Friday that it will, quote, not provide the BCA with access to any information or evidence that it has collected in the shooting death of Alex Pretty. while this lack of corporation is concerning and unprecedented,

the BCA is committed to thorough, independent, and transparent investigations of these incidents, even if hampered by a lack of access to key information and evidence. Maybe what the FBI stands for is Fed's blocking investigation. They have done this time and again. Talked about this many times. One of the most interesting ones that they blocked, well documented, was the investigation of flight 800.

the FBI blocked that investigation as well. And here they are blocking this investigation. It's just amazing how perverted the federal government has become. Before we take a break, we've got Georgia Boy 1142 said, David forgot to verify his age. It's kind of frightening for me to verify my age, isn't it? You know, you get to the point where, you know, when you look in the mirror and verify your age, it's like,

who is that person? I don't know who that is. But maybe that's why they kicked me. me off, write it and verify my age. I think it has something else to do with content. Milotvin Milakovich, Militon Milakovich, has gifted a sub on Rumble. Thank you very much. And Guard Goldsmith, Liberty Conspiracy, good to see you, Guard. He said the feds are buying a warehouse in the town bordering ours and putting in an ICE detention camp. They're buying warehouses all over the place. This is an insane policy when you stop and think about it. What is the purpose of

this really. The purpose is to boast about the kinetic actions that they're doing. Look, we're, we're tough guys. We're going to take care of this. And we got numbers that we're going to produce to give it to you. I remember when the Vietnam War was being conducted by Robert McNamara. And it was all about his body counts. They're not they were right. He didn't really care about anything except how many people did we kill? And how many people of ours did they kill? That was the entire calculus of what they were doing. Well, we're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back. Using free speech to free minds. It's the David Knight Show. Welcome back. I want to thank the people who have supported us and give our supporters and donors

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leave a like on the show. We appreciate it. That's a big help. Thank you so much. All right. Let's talk a little bit about the immigration issue itself. As we have laughed about this and joked about it, as Lance said the other day, why do I have to be either team open border or team

federal police beating people on the streets? Why do we We have to, why are those our only two choices? Isn't there another way? Well, of course there is. It's the welfare magnet that the Trump administration has just nearly doubled for people who are coming in as refugees. Reports show, these are new studies that have come out. This is an article from the new American. Report shows that most immigrants get some form of welfare. Sixty one percent of illegal aliens get welfare. I've always said it's the welfare magnet, stupid. It's not the wall. or anything else. It's the biggest issue. If you've got a big welfare magnet, people are going to find some way to get in. So again, a majority of immigrant households, more than 50% are on welfare.

Somalis in Minnesota receive some form of welfare, almost 90% of them. And there has been an explosion in Somalis who've come in. Again, they're not walking across the border. You're not going to stop them with a wall. They're being incentivized by all these different administrations. I mean, when there were no Somalis at all before they started coming in, there was hardly any money in the refugee program. Then by the time they started coming in, they ramped it up to a couple billion dollars, and it gradually has increased until the last three years. It's been $6 billion a year.

Now, this is not including the welfare fraud that they've engaged in, criminal fraud, for which they've not been punished, for which we knew they were doing this back in 2018. it was reported on. I reported on it back then. And the Trump administration didn't do anything about it. The Biden administration didn't do anything about it. The second Trump administration did nothing about it until you had a reporter show it to everybody. Then they got interested. But they still haven't rounded these people and up and stopped it.

I mean, this is the type of thing. Or if you look at Al Capone, it was the tax auditors that took him down. It was the accountants who took him down. It wasn't Elliott Nesson. and his untouchables. And it's not Christy Nome and her untouchables, the ICE criminals that are out there. So again, refugee funding then increased by Trump.

This year, as they are talking about all this stuff, they're not getting rid of the Somalis. Instead, what they're doing is they're increasing the refugee fund from $6 billion to $11 billion, an 80% increase, nearly doubling it. And so still nothing happening with the fraud. Immigrants are a bottomless drain on taxpayer resources, and they contribute virtually nothing to the fiscal health of the federal and state treasuries either. As a matter of fact, we keep ramping this up.

53% of immigrant-headed households, according to a survey that was done by CIS, 53% include naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal aliens, are using at least one major wealth. program. Just 37% of American-born households use a welfare program. So Americans, 37% for illegal and even legal immigrants, 53%. And of course, this is not counting the schools. When we were in Texas, they were building one school after the other because of all the illegal aliens coming in, all the kids that they were bringing in. I mentioned this before, but when we lived in Austin, I got stuck behind a school bus for, you know, 30 minutes, something like that. I didn't see them offload a single white kid.

Yeah, yeah. All foreigners coming in. Welfare use by non-citizen households. Illegals on green card holders is 59%. They get free health care compared to households headed by the U.S.-born immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs. 35% versus 22%.

Medicaid, you have 3,000. 39% of foreigners on it versus 27% for Americans. Earned income tax credit, 15% for foreigners, 10% for U.S. born. Illegals use welfare at a much higher rate than legal immigrants, 61% to 51%. So, again, it's worse for the illegals, and it's much worse for immigrants in general than Americans using the program, and much worse for illegals. And of course, this is what Cloward and Pivot knew. Cloward and Pivot said, you know,

we've been trying to take down the American system using welfare, but the Americans aren't signing up for it enough. So let's bring in people from other countries. That'll do it. That'll collapse it using welfare. That is the Cloward and Pivot strategy. And it's working. You know, the research shows us,

excluding the extensively used but less costly school lunch and breakfast program. Now, they're going to talk about school lunch and breakfast program, but they're not going to talk about schools in general, the massive cost of schools, the buildings, the teachers, the buses, everything about it. And of course, if they're putting up signs, if companies like Walmart are having to put up signs in other languages, they're having to hire teachers that speak these languages. You're not just able to hire any old teacher off the street. Oh, let's not teach them English at all. As a matter of fact, that's one of the issues in this particular thing here. When you look at

at the smallies and the fact that they're not learning English, that is a key issue and why they are not succeeding. You're not going to be able to get a good job if you can't speak English. It's just a given. And they have absolutely no interest in learning how to speak English. And so children on the nutrition program, women, infants, and children, shows that 47% of immigrant households versus 34% of American households use at least one of the remaining programs.

The numbers show that 59% of non-citizen-headed households are on welfare. 53% of immigrant-headed households are. 21% of illegal and legal immigrant households get cash assistance. 44 and 32% respectively get food assistance, 44 and 38% go on Medicaid. And bottom line, when you start looking at these comparative numbers, you're finding that 20 to 50% higher use of welfare, subsidies, and things like that for people who were not American-born. And they're not even counting the schools.

For those here less than a decade, the rate is 48%. But for those who have here more than a decade, it goes up to 50%. 54%. They're gaming the system even more after they come. 86% of all immigrant households have at least one worker compared with just 74% of U.S. born households. Income determines welfare eligibility, so many low-wage workers are on welfare. Immigrant households without children, however, and those with higher incomes and those that are headed by well-educated immigrants tend to be more likely to use.

welfare than the U.S.-born counterpart. So it's not just, well, these people are poor, they're not making any money, no, the people who have people who are making higher incomes, people have a higher education, but who are immigrants, are more likely to use the welfare. It's a cultural thing. The question is how immigrants who are forbidden from receiving welfare get so much of it. While they collect benefits because of their anchor baby kids, the prohibition excluded some programs, most legal immigrants have lived here long enough to qualify for welfare,

states provide their own welfare, and naturalized immigrants can, of course, jump on the dole the minute they take the oath of citizenship. The big problem with immigrants on welfare isn't just the money that they collect. It's the tax revenue that they don't contribute. The federal government spends roughly $1 trillion every year, collectively, on the above programs, which represents a substantial share of the federal budget. And again, that's not even counting the free quote-unquote education, which an education which, by the way, trashes American values, right?

It's not enough that we have to pay property taxes and can't own homes because of the cost of the schools. What the schools are doing is they are doing everything they can to make the kids hate their own bodies, but also to hate their own country. And so that's very easy to do with foreigners coming in. And then you have Somalia, the welfare bonanza that's there. CIS warned that the high rate of welfare use should not be seen as immigrants who are gaming the system.

Unless you're talking about Somalia. And then they said it truly is a organized gaming of the system. Major welfare fraud operations in which almost 90% of, of Somalis get some form of welfare. 90%. They speak little, if any, English. They are virtually illiterate, and they are a sinkhole for tax dollars,

even without all the fraud. Almost 40% of them live below the poverty line. 52% of kids in Somali immigrant homes live in poverty. The strongest predictors of poverty are low education and a lack of English language ability. And so virtually all native Minnesotans speak English very well. But 58% of working-age Somalis do not speak English. 40% don't have a high school diploma.

21% of working-age Somali men are unemployed. Let me put this in context. Antonin Scalia was speaking abroad when he was talking about the importance of culture and really what it is. I want you to hear what he had to say about this, and it really does give you an understanding why the Somalis are not ever going to fit in here if they don't want to learn to speak English. Diversity alone is not what makes a great nation. I mean, diversity alone makes some of the tribal societies of the world that never quite make it,

such as some of the places in the Middle East, where we're, trying to establish nationhood. As I said earlier, it's part of our tradition that everybody can be an American. But there has been a common culture. You don't have to belong to it. But there has been that. What is it? What is it? Okay, you want to know what it is number one? Is there a bond? Is there a common culture? I think, let me tell you a story. My junior college I studied in Switzerland, and I used to get really annoyed when the French-Swiss professors I had would refer constantly to Les Paix Anglosaxon, the Anglo-Saxon countries, meaning England, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada.

I said, you know, hey, my name is Scalia, and I'm as American as anybody. Look at this face. Is this an Anglo-Saxon phase? I had never been in England, but at the end of my year, I went to England, and I felt it home. There is no doubt that American culture, American common culture, which nobody has to belong to, originates with English culture. And that includes Shakespeare, it includes nursery rhymes that we all know,

and that we use as examples. That's our common culture. I think the framers recognized that. And diversity is fine, but diversity does not make a nation. That's right. Nations, tongues, and tribes. That's the way the Bible understands it and explains it. That was back in 2006, by the way.

And, you know, that's what he said really hit home with me because that was the reason that it took Karen for a honeymoon to the U.K. We spent a lot of time in London going through free museums. It was a great time. But that was a key thing. The culture, the language, you know, just as he points out, Shakespeare, the rest of this stuff, it was amazing to see it. And even though we have a, you know, the American culture is different from UK's culture. There's been a divergence.

There's still that baseline that's there. And he didn't mention, interestingly enough, our common law. You know, if you're a Supreme Court judge, a lot of this stuff, it traces back to the Magna Carter and traces back when you look at things like habeas corpus, for example, locking people up without having any law that allows you to do that. You know, that goes back to jury nullification cases that we talked about many times here. You know, the ordeal of Edwin Bushnell, William Penn, who was in the UK, before he came to America and started the state there, Pennsylvania,

when the Quakers set that up. They were meeting and had their Quaker church in violation of the law. Church of England was the only one that you were allowed to go to, but they did it anyway. They locked the doors to their church building. They held their church services on the steps. Then they arrested William Penn. And the jury didn't agree with that law.

There should not be a prohibition as to how people, worship God. And so they let him go. And the judge was furious. It was clear that he had violated the law. But the jury looked at the law and they said, that law is awful. We're going to nullify it. And so the judge and his anger locked up the foreman and the assistant foreman. And he didn't have any reason to do that. And so they stayed in jail for a while, like some of these migrants that were there. And then their lawyer said, you know, show me the law. Habius corpus. Show me the body of law that these people violated for you to lock them up. And he had to let them go.

That was a very important trial because it established habeas corpus, it also established geronification. These types of traditions that go back for a very long time, all of these things are being overturned. And that's why it is necessary for them to overturn our cultures.

It's why it's necessary for them to bring in people who, A, don't speak English, and B, don't care to ever learn to speak English. they don't want to have anything to do with what this country is about. And that's the bottom line. And these types of totalitarian, authoritarian, quote-unquote enforcement is backfiring big time on all this. It's going to push a lot of people towards the open border position because a lot of people realize just how dangerous this is. And we should not be supporting it in any way, shape, or form.

It is a dagger that is aimed at our chest, not just the people who are here illegally. If you have police that are given carte blanche to just walk down the street, if they think that you are engaged in criminal activity, just kill you as Trump cheered when Duterte was doing that in the Philippines. If you do that here in America, we are all in jeopardy. That's why this is so important that we get this right. Well, some people obviously are above the law, and I guess we can put in that category, Bear and Monsanto. Bear stock has soared after a settlement, a mere $10 billion on current and future Roundup cancer lawsuits,

$10 billion settlement to settle current and future cancer lawsuits. So this will save them from any potential. claims that could be filed over a 20-year period. So regardless of how many people they kill with their glyphosate, regardless of how many people get non-Hodgkins lymphoma, they now know that they don't have to pay more than this $10 billion, which is chicken feed to them. Bear bought Monsanto for $60 billion.

And this stuff was already on the table. And they rightly calculated that they wouldn't have to pay for these lawsuits. Barrett also announced a $3 billion settlement of existing U.S. cases in which former Roundup users blamed the herbicide for causing their non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Yeah, that killed our dog. Our neighbor liked to use weed treatment on their yard. And we would lock him up and he escaped and repeatedly. And he got over there and also killed a friend of ours who worked for us with a video store. I died from this.

And I remember when our dog was going through it. And there was a report on the radio where they're talking about people who worked agricultural workers working on farms and how they were getting this high rate of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. That's when we put two and two together. The company has paid about $10 billion to settle most of these round-up lawsuits. They were pending as of 2020, but they failed to get a settlement covering future cases. So now they've been given immunity from paying for this regardless of how many people. They give this to, and you know, glyphosate is so widely used that it now permeates our food supply. Really does.

By the way, let me just say this while we're talking about cancer. You're not helpless about this kind of stuff. Go to R&C store.com. They've got the books that help you to understand what's going on with this stuff. One that I would recommend highly is one by GEO. Edward Griffin, a man of the utmost intelligence and integrity, a world without cancer. And you can get apricot seeds, vitamin B-17, very effective. One of the best things you can do to protect yourself because, folks, the government is not

going to protect you. They're going to allow big, rich corporations like Bear and Monsanto. They're going to allow them to poison our food with cancer-causing chemicals. So one of the things that you need to do is go to R&C store.com. And by the way, you can save 10% if you use the code night. And I don't care if anybody criticizes me and thinks that this is, I'm saying this because of money. I'm not saying it because of money. We don't get that much from it.

But the bottom line is, you know, I accept ads from people whose products I believe in. And I believe in this stuff. I know people that have been helped by personally. Anyway, a new coalition is aiming to ban vaccine mandates across the U.S. And again, I talked about this yesterday. It's not just the things that are happening in HHS with RFK Jr., but it's also several different organizations, including the children's health defense that he founded.

So they said the model state that they're trying to get to is Idaho. In 2025, Idaho enacted a law that prohibits businesses and schools from requiring customers, employees, and students to receive vaccines or other medical procedures. They call it the Idaho Medical Freedom Act. And folks, this is absolutely essential. How did we get to this point? Well, just to review quickly, we had two months before 9-11. We had their first germ game, which is called Dark Winter.

One week after 9-11, they had the anthrax attack. A couple of people were killed with anthrax. Two months after that, they put out model state legislation, model state emergency powers act. That's where they get the power. They set up the state power to mandate this kind of stuff. And then Trump writes them checks to bribe them to do that 20 years later after they practiced it on an annual basis. So we've got to do this at the state level. We've got to stop this authority to mandate vaccines.

They've done it in Idaho. And this is a coalition of different organizations. that are working to do this at the state level. This is more important than what is happening at HHS. HHS can come in and change the vaccine schedule. And then when these guys at the top leave, then they'll change it right back. The lasting change is at the state level.

That's why the feds did that with their germ games. You know, dark winter, 9-11, anthrax attack, boom, here's your legislation. Give this power to yourself. at the state level. We need to remove that at the state level. This is one of the things that needs to be done, a very important thing. So because of that past, it really showed that this is possible. And so our goal is to take this Idaho's Medical Freedom Act to as many states as possible across the U.S. Children's Health Defense finds vaccine mandates and medical mandates to be reprehensible.

And we are honored to be a part of this coalition fighting to end forced medical procedures to end medical mandates and vaccine mandates for all Americans. We should all aspire to that. And again, you know, trying to fix this in Washington is not going to last for long, if it works at all. With the next regime change, it'll come right back. Where the rubber reeds the road is at the state level. That's why these people put in the regulations at the state level. And, of course, it's being fought by the pediatricians.

and some organization called American Families for Vaccines. I bet if you look that up, I didn't have time to do that. I bet there, well, I know the American Academy of Pediatrics is heavily funded by big pharmaceutical companies. But I bet this American Families for vaccines, that sounds like an AstroTurf organization, if ever there was one. The Idaho Medical Freedom Act says in part that a school, quote, shall not mandate a medical intervention for any person to attend,

to enter campus or buildings, or to be employed. They said every state in the country requires vaccines for school attendance. Some allow exemptions for religious or philosophical reasons while all permit medical exemptions. Florida officials said in 2025 they would be removing all vaccine mandates, but the goal has met resistance in the state legislature. Well, we're going to take a quick break, but before we do, I want to talk a little bit about what's going on with AI in terms of entertainment. And actually, this is one area where I think it's,

It's very positive. You know, when you look at the creation of images and movies and things like that, it can be very dangerous in terms of its ability to audit us, in terms of its ability to manipulate our opinions, in terms of pacifying us. You know, when you think about some of the movies like Arthur, right, which is basically based on PG Wodehouse's series of Jeeves and, a Wooster, right?

A couple of characters out of stories of that. And so, but you probably are more familiar with, certainly familiar with Arthur. And what you see over and over again with this stereotype, right, is you've got this upper class twit who has a very knowledgeable butler who does everything for him. And before you know, the guy can't do anything at all for himself. I thought it's kind of interesting that that was really kind of aspired to early early on. with the internet, there was a kind of a search engine or something, wasn't it, Jeeves? I actually called that.

Of course, they didn't have the chops. They didn't have the technology actually pull it off. Now you actually do have little Jeeves out there, the AI agents and things like that, and people are getting pacified on it. So all of that is a danger. However, there's just been an update from Bite Dance. They're C-Dance 2.0. I haven't used it.

Lance hasn't used it, but the stuff that I've seen coming out of it truly is amazing. And I've seen some posts on social media. One guy says, I've been working in film for about 30 years. And he goes, this is wonderful because I can do the script writing. I can do the cinematography. I can do all the, you know, I can do every aspect of everything. I can do it myself. And it opens up the creative door for a lot of people because, frankly, Hollywood doesn't have a story to tell.

Right? Truth and beauty left Hollywood a long, long, long time ago. And it's gotten very ugly in the interim there. And so it is creating, because it's coming out of China, of course, China doesn't have any interest at all in preserving intellectual property. It's kind of like, yeah, make this. As a matter of fact, they almost did, they or somebody like them did a video that basically taunted Disney because Disney has been one of the most aggressive companies in terms of protecting their intellectual property. I remember there was a daycare center that had some artists come in and they

painted Disney characters on the wall, right, for the little kids and everything. Disney sought them out. This one, it's not a franchise or anything, but they sought them out to make an example of them and hit them with lawyers and they got picked up by the newspaper. Hannah Barbera sent their own artists in and drew Fred Flintstone and the Jetsons and other characters like that on the wall for them to cover up the Disney stuff. But it's also used, and it's been used against me multiple times, to try to silence us on political issues. The first and most obvious one was The It's Wonderful Life, which kind of actually,

added insult to injury because they didn't even have a legitimate copyright. That's one of the things that Disney has done. Disney has extended their copyrights. They've gone to Congress and got special legislation just for themselves to extend copyrights over and over and over again. Many times past the life of the people who created this stuff. And they've been very aggressive with that. Well, you know, we look at it's a wonderful life. That was in public domain. That's how it became popular. it was a failure when it first came out. Then with it being the public domain, it got to be very popular. I did the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve.

Of course, I did, it's a wonderful lie. Because there were a lot of parallels to the banker there, Mr. Potter, was actually based on J.P. Morgan in terms of many different aspects and things they did, organizing runs against other banks and stuff like that. So I used that, but that was just, it was used as fair use because there was a lot of commentary about the creation of the Federal Reserve, what people in Congress were saying at the time how it would be abused and the fact that it was abused that way.

And even the numbers that they were talking about, the numbers that Mr. Potter was using to try to entice Bailey in order to join him, you know, the salary figures that he's thrown out, the cost of the houses and things like that. There was a lot in a movie like that that you could draw in terms of the negative aspects the Federal Reserve has had. Well, they took that down. They said, that's a copyright violation.

Well, where did I get the clips that I used for that? I got them off of YouTube. Same people took me down for a copyright violation. The entire movie had been up for years. The entire movie had had over a million views on YouTube. And they took down my thing, which is covered under fair use, even if it had a valid copyright, it would have been covered under fair use. It wasn't about the copyright issue at all.

it was about what I was saying about the Federal Reserve. So I'm not really friendly to this. And, of course, the Hitchcock people did the same thing. We're going to do another McGuffin, though. He doesn't own the term McGuffin. That's not owned by Hitchcock. And he doesn't own the music either. If the copyright rules have been there, you wouldn't have had a Hitchcock theme either.

That was written by another composer long before they ever picked that up and used it. So Disney is at the center of this. And look at this. So for people who are listening to this, I'll just describe the scene and then I'll play it for you. They have Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robocop, and Predator. And the three of them are fighting. And then you have little Mickey Mouse coming out in a suit, smoking a cigar like a wealthy CEO. And he holds up a sign and, you know, to tell them that, you know, cease and desist type of thing.

And the three of them stomping them into the ground. I forbid. That's basically what's going on with this stuff. And, you know, it's, again, it's a complicated issue, but one of the reasons that this is coming up is because this isn't simply about protecting the intellectual property of people who are creators. This is something about corporations extending this in perpetuity

and exploiting it in another way. And I'll play you just a little bit of this. This is somebody went back and did Austin Powers with a different cast. Right. So they've got Tom Cruise is Austin Powers. They've got a Guineph Poltro. There's a sidekick. Actually, they do have Michael Myers who did Austin Powers.

They have him in there. What I think is interesting is that you can, these characters are so well defined and so well captured that you can identify who these actors are, even though they are in a different role. I got Kevin Spacey is. the villain, what's his name, Evil or something, Dr. Evil. And his sidekick is Danny DeVina, DeVino, and then they have Steven Spielberg in there as well. And they not only captured their voice, but they captured their mannerisms and everything in this. Just take a look at this.

Yeah, baby. I'm Dixie. Dixie Normas. I may just be a small town FBI agent slash single mother, but I'm still tough. And sexy. Well, Miss Normis, shall we shag now? Or shag later?

Oh, Austin. Behave. You better watch your friggin' self because this is one doctor who does make house calls. Right, mini-me? Hey, assholes! Right over here!

I'm mini-mee! Come and get me! This is all done by AI and just a few prompts. Think about that. So, Austin, what's the thing? think of the opening credits well i can't believe sir stephen spillberg the grueviest filmmaker in the history of cinema is making a movie about my life very shagadelic baby yeah having said that i do have some thoughts really uh my friend here thinks it's fine the way it is well no offense sir stevie but you got to have mojo baby yeah yeah isn't that amazing

what do you think about that Travis? I mean, you can see the personality, these different actors and even Steven Spielberg, and even as the actors are playing a different role. Truly is amazing. I don't know how they get that expression in there. But that's the new, the newest version of AI. And quite frankly, you know, they're letting people use characters from Star Wars, Marvel, other Disney franchises.

Disney is very upset about it, but a lot of people are looking at this and saying, Well, that's basically it for the movie business, because Hollywood has been out of ideas. It's just been licensing and copyright. People in chat are saying that's not AI. That's actually from the Austin Powers movie. Oh, really? Yeah. I've never seen Austin Powers.

I didn't either. Oh, okay. Well, maybe that's why it's so realistic because maybe it is realistic. It is the type of thing Tom Cruise would do. I've seen a lot of things that were put up. And I've got to say, the other ones that I saw up were almost that. good, but not quite as good as that. So that is actually from the movie itself. Okay, well, I staying corrected. I thought that was, that surfaced as part of the put up on social media and

attributed to C-Dance, but I've seen some other stuff that I thought was the best example because it is real. We're going to take a quick break, folks. We'll be right back. Making sense. Common again. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Yeah, as a matter of fact, Travis Simeon said, now the entire chat's telling me he's got to watch Austin Powers. Yeah, that's not our thing. That's not our kind of movie. And I got to say, I fell for that because I saw some, some of the Seedance stuff that was DC comic characters versus Marvel comic characters. And they were very well done.

For example, they had Superman versus Wolverine. And so you had Henry Cavell as Superman versus, what was it, Hugh Jackson as Wolverine, And, I mean, that was very, very convincing. Hugh Jackman. You, Jackman. Okay, not Jackson. Okay. So, again, I'm losing it in terms of my movie references.

I mean, I did that for a living for a while, but I really have lost interest in it. There's nothing nicer than not knowing who Hollywood celebrities are. That's right. Every time I see some new Hollywood celebrity and don't know who they are, it's like, oh, that's nice. Well, they had Batman versus Captain America. too, action scenes that were there. And then they had some action scenes that were just massive in terms of special effects that were there. When a person said, here's a billion dollar movie with just a couple of prompts, you know, it truly is going to open up narrative storytelling for

other people, I think. So one thing they're going to have to work on is the sense of continuous motion and maintaining angles people are traveling. A high doesn't really consider typical human movement in the way it does things. So you'll see someone, you know, like, I saw a clip of, I think, Spider-Man, where he's moving in one direction, and then all of a sudden, you know, momentum doesn't stop, but he just starts moving up as opposed to forward. Yeah. So.

Well, they're getting better on that all the time, physics and things like that. That's something that's going to come in the future. And then you'll still probably need a really good video editor in the back end to stitch it together in ways that makes sense. That's right. For a while, yeah. Then you'll also have to have, you know, people that sit. there and monitor the entire thing. Oh, look, Captain America has seven fingers on this hand

in this brief snippet, so we got to chop that out. Character continuity was a big, big issue at the very beginning. They've worked a lot on that to make sure that's happening. And when we talk about continuity of character, I guess we talk about that in the real world in terms of people like Steve Bannon. There is a continuity of character. It may seem like the guy is flipping from one side to the other, and yet, if you look carefully, there is a... a continuity of character, meaning none at all. Despite Epstein's toxicity, Steve Bannon stood by him, indicate the text, a very chummy relationship.

And, of course, he was going to fix that relationship for him. Mid-afternoon, late June 2019, Steve Bannon sent Epstein an excited series of texts. Dude, he said, is this real? Tell me this is real. Epstein had just texted him a headline from Miami Herald. they reported that victims of Epstein's sexual abuse had lost a court battle to nullify a decade-old agreement that protected him from prosecution for those crimes.

Think about that. Here you've got Steve Bannon giving him high-fives for getting away with his sexual abuse of women and children. That's the guy that you're following if you're listening to this guy. Truly is amazing. And so, you know, we see. this, not just from Steve Bannon, but from so many people here, Pam Bondi actually ran for office talking about how she was going to be tough on sexual predators.

Florida ranks third nationally and calls for help for human trafficking, where young women and children are enslaved and abused. I knew we needed all hands on deck. Businesses and hospitals to spot it are great law enforcement to stop it and tougher penalties to punish it. We're taking on Medicaid fraud, pill mills, gangs, and more. And I'll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong behind bars. Pam Bondi, our Attorney General. Well, now she's fighting to keep them where they don't belong in the Oval Office and the head of the FBI and other places like that.

Also, can I just point out what an absurd time we live in when a selling point for the person you're going to elect is they'll actually be tough on child predators and traffickers? Exactly. Not like these other guys. Yeah, not like she is now even. So again, Bannon had been advising Epstein and had to handle these allegations of being a serial pedophile. He recommended he hire which are lawyers to hire and when to lie low and when he should or lie high. He lied high and low about everything, didn't he?

And when he should jump on an opening to push his narrative. He said, first we need to push back on the lies, then crush the peasant. petto-trafficking narrative. Crush that, right? It's just a narrative, right? We don't have to worry about it. Then rebuild your image as a philanthropist. Oh, there you go.

That's Steve Bannon advising Jeffrey Epstein. That was five months after the Miami Herald series exposed how prosecutors had ignored evidence of his crimes. And so, three million pages have revealed for the first time the extent of Bannon's efforts to advise Epstein when many of his friends were abandoning him. In the six months before Epstein was arrested and charged, Bannon's name appears nearly every day in these files

because the two men were constantly exchanging texts. So again, just remember, Bannon betrayed Maga with a we-build-the-wall stuff. He got convicted of that. He went to jail for that. Trump pardoned him. And then he gets out and he betrays morals decency, reprehensibly aiding Epstein. He's going to do PR for him, telling lies for him.

And all this is now he's using this notoriety. He knows that he can do whatever he wishes and the Maga cult will still pay attention to him, just like they do to Trump. So he's going to use this notoriety to push his film that he's putting together. And no penalty at all for him. again, when you look at people like Bannon, Dershowitz, Trump, Bondi, it's disgusting to see what they are getting away with. So one person writes and says, saying it's about, quote, how the elites and the intelligence services are inextricably leaked. Who knew, right?

Yeah, I think we always knew that was the case. Well, Bannon told Epstein that Trump should be removed via the 25th Amendment during his first term. Think about that. Now he's pushing, as I pointed out the other day, a third term. So you have the 25th Amendment. So as you can remove a president that is not fit for office mentally. That was in 2018, Bannon won to use the 25th Amendment against Trump. And now he's talking about third term, which is prohibited by the 22nd Amendment.

But he's going to find ways to ignore the 22nd Amendment. and keep Trump in forever. So 10 years before he wants him to run again for a third term, he was saying the guy wasn't mentally fit for office. Can you trust anything that Steve Bannon says? You'd be a fool to trust anything that he has to say. And so Marjorie Taylor Green says, Steve Bannon went to jail for Trump.

But back on 1-1-2019, he was texting with Epstein about the 25th Amendment. But there's no excuse for having such a friendly relationship with Epstein post-conviction. Let me just say Marjorie Teller Green is wrong about that. Steve Bannon didn't go to jail for Trump. He went to jail because of his hubris. I'm not going to go testify the January of six people. I don't have to. I'm too big to do that.

Well, you'll go to jail if you don't do that. You can go testify and not say anything. You can plead the fifth, but he was too arrogant. too filled with hubris to do that. Maga hopeful in Texas, Don Huffeins is under a lot of pressure because he purchased the Zorro Ranch that was owned by Epstein, 7,600 acre property in New Mexico. He set up a corporation to buy it. This guy, Don Huffeins, who has a lot of money, is running for office in Texas, and

Republicans in Texas are attacking it. Why did you buy that? Why are you, why you have that ranch? Are you going to open it up for investigations? Again, this is the place where he was going to be seeding his DNA to the world and a lot of really horrible allegations about what was going on there. So the DOJ may have released only 2% of the Epstein files that they've got based on previous information of what they said that they have. You know, a lot of people are saying, you know, what's going to go on with this investigation? We ever going to have an investigation of this stuff?

Even the Big Lobowski, even the dude is questioning Cash Patel on this. Are you going to find these guys or you have any promising leads? Leeds? Yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in. shifts.

Leeds. Now that was the guy. That was Cash Mattel and Jeff Bridges as the dude and the Big Loewski. I think Cash Patel needs to take another look down in that toilet. Remember this scene from the Big Lobowski? Where's the money, Lobowski? You want that money, LaBoski? Boney says you're good for it.

Where's the money, Lubowski? Where's the money, Labowski? Where's the fucking money? It's down there somewhere. Let me take another look. Don't. Yeah, I think Cash needs to take another look. It's pretty nasty stuff, but he needs to take another look.

Because there's a lot of information there that hasn't been released. U.K-based broadcaster, Channel 4 News, reported the internal emails, Seenby's journalist, show federal investigators expected to process between 20 and 40 terabytes of data, seized from Epstein's properties, including his Florida mansion, his New York townhouse, and his private island. The broadcaster added that these emails between investigators discussed the data totaling up to 50 terabytes from the earliest stages back in June of 2020. Another internal email from 2025, the report continued. Officials said that they were looking at approximately 14.5 terabytes of archived data. So the most recent tranche of 3.5 million Epstein documents totaled more than 300 gigabytes,

only about 2% of what they were talking about that they had. And that was just last year. They claimed that 6 million pages were identified, including duplicates. They released over 3 million. said the broadcaster, which is Channel 4 News in the UK. Both those numbers are tiny compared to the amount collected according to today's emails. Many files are too large to open. There are many files that are completely invisible to us, said one email.

Another investigator said, imagine if we had seized the papers from approximately 100,000 filing cabinets. Then that all just got dumped in one big pile. Documents that had multiple parts stapled together got separated. and then any of those documents that was larger than 100 pages couldn't be opened. Well, that's what we have. So they're pushing that back and forth. So a couple of things about this.

First of all, notice that in the U.K., they're far more concerned about this than here in America. There have actually been people who have been fired, people who have lost their jobs, the man formerly known as Prince, Andrew. They've had a lot of consequences in the U.K. and in Europe. Basically, very little consequences. It's certainly none for politicians here in the United States, not for Trump, not for the Clintons, not for anybody else along those lines.

And how are they manipulating this? It truly is amazing to see this latest tactic that they've done. They put out a big list. And some people emailed me and said, hey, look, Alex Jones is on the list. And Tucker Carlson, all this kind of stuff. They have Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Elvis, Cher, Alex Jones, again, all these entertainers, right?

And Tucker Carlson. But the bottom line is, is that this goes on and on and on this list. This is just anybody that they said anything at all about, not anybody that they had a dealing with. And what this really is, folks, this is Pam Bondi and her haystack approach. Right? If you want to find the needle, what she does just starts throwing pile after pile of hay, right?

one bail after the other. This is her way of bailing out Trump. Massive amounts of hay to hide the needle. And so I've seen government officials do this in the past, right? They can't, if they have to release the information, they give you so much information, so much of it that is irrelevant. They use that as a way to hide what they don't want you to see. And that's exactly what Pam Bondi is doing as a matter.

That also allows them to redact to keep back a bunch of things. You've been given, you know, three million. You know, a lot of that is duplicates. But you're given three million pieces of paper to look through. And all of a sudden you're not thinking, well, what else is there? Surely they've dumped it all. It's three million items, right? That's right.

But we've got no way of knowing. Keep the relevant stuff and just snow job people with things. As a matter of fact, this is another AI thing of baby Trump talking about the name. names out there. What do you want? On the Epstein files, you talk about Democrats who were in there. Elon Musk was also in there, and so was your Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik and correspondence that he had with him.

Did you read those new files that were published by the Department of Justice? No, I didn't. I have a lot of things I'm doing. I'm really busy. I don't know. You mentioned two names. I'm sure they're fine. I'm sure they're fine.

Otherwise, it would have been major headlines. A lot of women who are survivors of Epstein's are unhappy with those redactions that came out. Some of the entire witness interviews are totally blacked out. Do you think that they should be more transparent? I'm also happy with the fact that they thought they were at least too much. You know, I heard that, and you tell me something else. No. I think it's really time for the country to get onto something else, really.

And now that nothing came out about me, other than there was a conspiracy against me, literally, by Epstein and other people. But I think it's time now for the country to maybe get onto something else. Like health care or something that people care about. You know, what did you say? What would you say to the survivors who feel like they haven't gotten justice? You are the worst reporter. No wonder. CNN has no ratings because of people like you.

You know, she's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a smile. I'm asking you about survivors. You know why you're not smiling? Because you know you're not telling the truth. And you're a very dishonest organization.

And they should be ashamed of you. Yeah. Yeah. Now, of course, that was an actual audio of an exchange there. And they put words in the mouths of babes. But when you look at what he's saying, yeah, we've given you so much information. Here's this list, for example. Alex Jones and right underneath him is Janice Joplin.

Is that obscuring stuff or what, right? We can see through this. This is a joke. It's disgusting. As a matter of fact, it's kind of interesting. I've seen a couple of things from John Cleese in support of Thomas Mast's. See, go get him Massey. That's coming from John Cleese.

He knows a joke when he sees it. And this stuff is a disgusting joke. They got Thomas Massey right there next to Galane Maxwell. You know, yeah, they're talking about Thomas Massey. Well, this is a absolutely pointless. Cash Patel right underneath him, Ron Paul. Over and over again. Ronald Reagan.

And then Brett Ratner, who is the guy who directed Melania, a friend of Epstein and somebody who had been accused multiple times of sexual harassment. And so again, it's just another cover-up tactic by the Queen of Smear, Pam Bondi, the Queen of Deception. It just keeps going, Marjorie Taylor Green, is listed in there as well. Hundreds of names, politicians, celebrities, historical figures, deceased individuals, and others. again, yeah, we're supposed to believe that there's something, some connection between Elvis and Jeffrey Epstein. So the paper trail bombshell moment that Epstein's former butler tried to sell the little black book. The butler tried to do it.

But again, the FBI stopped him. The FBI, the feds who were blocking investigation. So he tried, he thought it was some of the people. that wanted to report on this, and he was going to sell them Epstein's little black book of names, real names, for $50,000. They hand him the money, and then they arrest the guy, and then they cover up the information. Alfredo Rodriguez, who worked for the pedophile, as Palm Beach mentioned, thought that he was dealing with a victim's lawyer when he was actually talking to the FBI.

So rather than use this to help the victims, rather than use this to expose the perpetrators, he was handing it to the federal agency that's been tasked to block the investigation. In the covert 45-minute recording from November 2009, Rodriguez claims the book listed underage girls allegedly procured by Galane Maxwell. And again, the victim's lawyers would want this kind of information, but not the FBI. Ah, pathetic they are. It's truly amazing. It took place two years after the FBI demanded that he turned this over.

that any documents that he might have obtained while he was working for Epstein. And of course, they're demanding that they be turned over, not because they want to put that out, but because they want to cover it up. Same way they're doing with the shootings in Minnesota. He also alleged that Galane would go to Eastern countries in Europe to find girls for Epstein. And also the kind of girls that Donald Trump prefers, right?

Eastern European women. So he admitted that he stole the book while working for, Epstein between 2004 and 2005. He alleged that he once saw Maxwell running a database filled with images of minors, who are nude, of course. And so he said there were naked girls from Sweden, from Romania, from Czechoslovakia, from Brazil, all minors, all them young girls, teenagers, many of them with braces. When he asked who created the book, he said, well, Epstein himself.

Rodriguez claimed that he kept the book as an insurance policy because he feared Epstein would make him disappear or harm him. He was arrested by the FBI for obstruction and they said the book would be extremely useful in investigating and prosecuting the case, but they covered it up. The current whereabouts of the book remains unknown. They got rid of it. That's the FBI. just like the flight information about Flight 800, the radar tapes and things like that. Rodriguez was jailed in 2012 for 18 months. Now listen to this.

He got 18 months, which was the same sentence that Alex Azar, who was later picked to be Trump's Labor Secretary, the same, he served the same amount of time for that having Jeffrey Epstein's book and trying to sell it to somebody. He served the same amount of time as Jeffrey Epstein served for the crimes that he did. Jeffrey Epstein served 18 months. Now, what I don't know is whether or not this guy got day release like Epstein did. Epstein would come back and just sleep in the cell like the town drunk on Mayberry. But this guy got the same sentence as Jeffrey Epstein.

Just think about that. This is how corrupt our government is. That's the key thing, the key takeaway from all this stuff. He died at the age of 60 from cancer. So again, same sentence, but not clear whether or not he got released every single day, just like Jeffrey Epstein did. So when we look at the Hillary Clinton has gotten involved in this. As a matter of fact,

She was interviewed by the BBC. And the BBC in terms of, let's see, let me get up here. Yeah, it's in this one here. The BBC asked her some questions about this, and she said, oh, it's all Trump, right? You keep saying that you didn't know Jeffrey Epstein, but your husband flew with him 26 times to party butt-naked in the island with some girls. And most people say that you kill Jeffrey Epstein to silence him, Just like the other hundreds of mysterious deaths surrounding you and your husband.

So are you sure you didn't know Jeffrey Epstein? Okay, look, just because I killed the guy doesn't mean I knew the guy. Okay, and can you please stop asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein? A lot of reporters can go missing, you know? Accidents do happen. People shoot themselves in the back three times, if you know what I mean. Anyway, let's talk about something else. Of course, that was not the original BBC interview.

That was also AI. But that's the, you know, AI. That's the truth. Probably much more truthful than anything that Hillary Clinton said. But she's saying, you know, they're trying to drag us into this as if she had nothing to say about it. Now she's saying, yeah, Bill and I are perfectly happy to talk to anybody about this and tell them everything about it. After they had to, they brought charges of contempt against them, just like they did against Steve Bannon. And that's what got them to testify.

Now she's like, oh, yeah, we just want to tell everybody everything about it. And we're all above board. Of course, Trump is saying he has absolutely nothing to do with any of this stuff. Even though he and Clinton partied with this guy for years, Trump for 15 years. Marjorie Taylor Green says Trump yelled at her not to release the Epstein files. He said, my friends will get hurt. Yeah, you know, friends like the Clintons, actually. But he's playing that left-right red-blue game now.

we're getting pressure from the speaker. Take your name off of this discharge petition. And we're like, we're talking about the Epstein files. This is the ultimate promise. This is the ultimate way to provide transparency, said Marjorie Taylor Green. This is the ultimate way to expose a whole criminal cabal of rich, powerful elites that I believe control everything. And so that's her perspective on all this stuff. When is she going to come to the realization that if this is a,

a rich, powerful cabal of pedophiles that control everything, and they're friends of Donald Trump. When she's going to connect the dots to say, well, therefore, therefore, she's made of wood, right? Therefore, Trump is a part of the cabal. They're his friends. He said they're his friends. He's protecting the powerful elite pedophile rings that you believe exist

and have believed exist. And yet he wants to protect them. They're his friends. And yet you do not want to attribute that to him. We talk about Trump delusion syndrome. It truly is amazing. So she said, Trump is fighting it. He's fighting it.

He's yelling at me through all this stuff. Again, you know, it says it came out that he was the one who reported Jeffrey Epstein. Well, we knew that all along, right? But it wasn't because Trump was upset about what Epstein was doing to women and children. It was because he was upset because they were fighting over a piece of real estate. That's when they got, they had the fight and that's when he turned him in. It wasn't that he cared about the women and children. Trump was right there along with him the entire time.

And so he says, Marjorie, my friends will get hurt, is what she's saying. She said, that's it. That's it. I mean, that's it because they're all in here. They're all in there. Every billionaire, the heads of state, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel. They're all in there, said Marjorie Teller Green. Does that tell you something about Trump?

Has she ever heard that expression? Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are. She doesn't seem to really get that, does she? If all of his friends are the evil pedo elite, then I can tell you that's who this guy is, as a matter of fact. And so, you know, when we, I think Marjorie Teller Green may be clueless as to what's going on, but Catherine Austin Fitz is not. she understands exactly what it's happening.

So one of the things I'm concluding is I think Trump was part of the operation. I don't just think he was a friend of Jeffrey. It looks to me more and more like he was an integral part of the operation. And if Trump was, then likely Lutnik was as well, not just somebody who lived next door and help him wander money. So this administration is the Epstein Network. It is the Epstein Network taking control of the U.S. government. and ejecting its booster rocket.

So by shutting down Jeffrey Epstein's operation, whether he's still alive or not, it doesn't matter. They're simply ejecting the booster rocket and moving up. The reason the Department of Justice can't prosecute the Epstein Network is because the Epstein Network is running the government, Donald Trump, the Department of Justice. They are the Epstein Network. That's right.

as a matter of fact you've had jimmy kemel joking about the fact we should call them the trump epstein files he said trump is trying to put his name on everything the kennedy center bridges airports all the rest of stuff but there's one thing that his name really does belong on is these these documents out of them call him the trump epstein files well katherine austin fits is absolutely right uh you know they're completely involved in all this stuff and um nobody's and more connected to Jeffrey Epstein than Donald Trump has. And it is the Trump Epstein administration or regime. Another thing that I keep thinking about is, let's say Donald Trump is completely innocent. Let's say, you know, he never did anything. He was the good guy. For 15 years, right?

15 years. He parted with him privately. They went to beauty contend, beauty contests. They organized all that. But Trump didn't have anything to do with any of that. Right. Let's say all that is true. look at how incompetently this administration has handled this rollout of information to the public. Yeah. That shows he is not capable at minimum. At minimum, he's just an idiot that's incapable of fixing the government for you. At minimum, he can't do what he's promised. That's the best you could say.

The best you could say he's an incompetent idiot that has lied to the American people about what he can do for them. Well, it's like calling it the Trump Epstein files. It's like calling it the Trump. shot. Trump has bragged and boasted about how that's his shot. He was the father of the vaccine or anything, but they consider that to be an attack on Trump for me to call it the Trump shots. Now, that's the level of double think that is involved here with all this stuff. And again, it was all the narrative that you heard from Alex Jones and so many people. It was just the people that Trump appointed, they have deceived him. They're evil. And it's all the people around

Jeffrey Epstein. And they're all Trump's friends and everything. But Trump doesn't have anything to do with it. Trump's not responsible for the people that he picked and had running his regime. He's not responsible for any of this stuff. And just as you were saying, Travis, we've said that before about the anger that the Trump administration, people like War Pete have of these people who put out the video that said, you have a responsibility as a member of the armed forces to not follow illegal orders. The Trump administration could have easily come out and said,

we haven't given any illegal orders. And to their shame, Mark Kelly and the other person that said, I can't remember her name. She's a retired CIA. When they were pressed, so what? Illegal orders as Trump put out? They couldn't think of any. Couldn't think of any. I mean, I can't think of any legal orders he's put out in terms of the Venezuela stuff.

Every aspect of it has been illegal and criminal. By U.S. law, by constitutional law, by Pentagon rules that they have. and by international law as well. They broke on all of those things. What did they do this legal? I can't think of a single thing. And yet they didn't defend themselves by saying, well, we didn't do anything illegal.

That would have been the easiest thing to do. Instead, this is a thing of their own making. You know, you can look at the Trump Epstein files, and you can actually call them the Trumpenstein files, because this is a Frankenstein monster of his own making. Because he decided that he was going to try to cover up at all costs. And basically, he got it all over himself.

It was a pile of excrement that he not only stepped in, but he jumped up and down until he splashed it all over himself. Well, there may be no consequences for Trump or Lutnik or any of the people in the Trump regime. But when we look at other people, they are getting a lot of consequences. And I think it's interesting to see this because, you see, who is in the pecking order who's getting punished and who isn't. It's kind of like who you're allowed to talk about and who you're not allowed to talk about.

That's who's running the thing. This is another indication that Trump and his people are the ones who are running this because they're not paying any penalty for this. And yet we have people all over the place, prominent figures, people who are very successful, very rich, are paying a big price.

One guy, a physician, longevity expert, he's had to resign because he was writing text messages that were very crude to Epstein. So he has been purged. Interestingly enough, this guy was going to be hired by Barry Weiss at CBS as a consultant. And they still haven't said that they're not going to keep him as a consultant. Then, of course, we got the Sultan, Suleim, the Sultan of Slime, who was talking about. He loved the torture video that Epstein.

gave him. Epstein told the Sultan in one 2013 email, you are one of my most trusted friends in the very sense of the word. You have never let me down. Thank you, my friend. I am off to sample a fresh 100% female Russian at my yacht, is what he said. This is also the guy who's talking about torture videos. And you got Sarah Ferguson, who's simply the wife of the man who is formerly known as Prince, Andrew. And she's had to shut down her charity because of the taint of Epstein. She had gotten a 15,000 pound loaned payoff debts from him at one point in time. She said, I abhor pedophilia and any sexual abuse of children.

And I know that this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf. Yeah, but hey, I needed the money. At the time she got that, it was known that he was a pedophile, but she goes to him for money anyway. And then you got Larry Summers, the former Harvard University president. He was the Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, another, you know, Clintons and Larry Summers and Epstein and all these people. He was on the board, by the way, of Open AI. This is another sleazy cesspool. Sam Altman, who the first time I saw Sam Altman, he was out there hawking.

this big eyeball thing that you'd look into and he would get your biometric identity looking at your retina. And so you let him create a database and he would give you a little bit of crypto coin and some crypto thing that he had just invented. What a totally worthless thing. This guy is going around, shopping around, trying to create a global database of everybody from biometric stuff that he can then sell to governments. and he was the one who worked his way in and took over Open AI, which is supposed to be a not-for-profit organization. He's involved in all this. So, again, Larry Summers is on the board of Open AI

and with senior roles in Clinton and Obama administration. He advised Biden on economics. He joined the board of Open AI in 2023, advocating a light regulatory approach to AI. See, he's on the same page. as Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, all the rest of these people. They want AI to have no restrictions on it whatsoever.

We've got a bunch of people from Norway, former Secretary General of the Council of Europe, former Prime Minister of Norway, and then there's also a couple that got money and they have some criminal charges being brought against them. That's in Norway. You got a guy named Brad Karp, no relation to the volunteer crook.

Karp thanked Eipstein for hosting him for a one, Once in a lifetime event. And Karp was told by Epstein, you're always welcome. And there's going to be many more nights of this type of thing. So you look at this and this guy gets canceled because of an email saying we had a once in a lifetime night at that party. And yet Trump partied with him for 15 years. And there's been no consequences for Donald Trump.

You got people involved in the UN. people that have been fired. A former French cultural minister and his daughter have been investigated for tax fraud because of things that have come out from that. And of course, in the UK, Peter Mandelson, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.S. from the U.K., and there were some financial information, insider trading information,

that he gave to Epstein. So not only did he get thrown out of politics because of the stench of Epstein. But he's looking at criminal prosecutions that are there. And not only him, but the guy that put him in as ambassador, Morgan McSweeney, this is a second-degree connection here. This guy put him in spite of some things that had come out in the past about his connections with Epstein.

And so Morgan McSweeney is out. And people are looking at Kirstarmor. and saying Kirstarman needs to resign. So in the UK, this is, in other countries, anybody that's even a couple of degrees of separation from this are having effects with it. But not the Clintons, not Donald Trump, right? So Bill Clinton, whatever he does,

that's fine. That just happened. Hillary Clinton doesn't have any penalties with that either. And she says, I never met Jeffrey Epstein. I met Gleine Maxwell once. We have these global Clinton initiatives. And she was there once, and I met her. And it turns out the senior editor for CNN called her on that in the BBC interview.

He said, well, she was actually an honored guest there, invited as an honor. She didn't just show up and stand in the line and shake Hillary Clinton's hand. She was an honored speaker and guest at that. So this is the way they're trying to whitewash this. But the interesting thing is there's been no penalty for Trump, for Bill Clinton, for Hillary Clinton, for Melania, in spite of the close connections that they had. Even Melania, the director of her film was somebody who was close to Jeffrey Epstein. George Mitchell, a former U.S. Senator from Maine. He was also Bill Clinton's envoy to Northern Ireland.

He was mentioned three times, sorry, 300 times in this. And so now he is persona non grata. And so we're seeing this over and over again. And yet the dog that did not bark is the penalties for the Trump's and the Clintons that are there. I think that is very, very telling. So we've seen people like the chief lawyer, chief counsel. for Goldman Sachs. She's had to resign because of connections with this.

We've seen the co-owner of the New York Giants being questioned, Steve Tish. And I don't think there's going to be anything with that. The young fellow is so corrupt, they probably see that as a badge of honor. And then this guy, Casey Wasserman, who had a talent agency, he sent an email to Glamy Maxwell saying he'd like to see her in a tight leather outfit. I think normal people would like to see her in a straight jacket. Not this guy. But the bottom line is there's no consequences for Trump,

none for Bill Clinton, none for Hillary, none for Melania or the director of her film. No consequences for Alan Dershowitz. No consequences for Alex Acosta, who defended him and worked out the deals. for him and continue to defend him. No consequences for Bill Barr and the connections that his family has had for the longest time. No consequences for Lucky Lutnik

and no consequences for Pam Bondi or Cash Patel. That is the reality of what we're looking at with this folks. We're going to take a quick break and when we come back and we'll talk a little bit about the Pentagon and their fight with antropic, Anthropic and Claude A.I.

And what it tells us really about the Pentagon, we'll be right back. Stay with us. You're listening to the David Knight Show. If you like the Eagles, on the dark desert highway, the cars, and Huey Lewis in the news, love the classic hits channel at APS Radio.

Download our app or listen now at APSRadio.com. Well, folks, there's something I think that is very interesting in terms of what the Pentagon is threatening anthropic about. This is a company, their AI model, Claude, was just like people were talking about bite dances, C-dance 2.0 in terms of creating movies and things like that. Claude had carved out a niche for itself. They caused it stock to skyrocket. It's widely used for a lot of different things.

And they were, Palantir had access to it. I don't know why they thought that Palantir would be ethical, but they were concerned about this raid in Venezuela, where Maduro was kidnapped. And so they asked Palantir, did you use our software? Because we have an agreement with our company that we're not going to have it used to make weapons. We've got certain guard rails that we want for it. We don't want it to be a part of autonomous weapons.

We don't want to use it for mass surveillance of Americans and other things like that. which, of course, that is a stock and trade of Palantir. But, yeah, Palantir gave them an indication that was what was going on. And so they started talks with Pentagon people. And Pentagon people got furious. You're telling us that you don't want your stuff used for mass surveillance of Americans. You don't want to use it for autonomous killer robots? How dare you?

We're going to put you on a list that we reserve for foreign adversaries. was called a supply chain risk list. So if you're on that, that list, then anybody who supplies anything to the Pentagon has to make sure they don't use anything that you provide. So they're going to treat them as if they're from China or something like that. And the Anthropic doesn't have a lot of business that they do with the Pentagon. They've got a $200 million contract,

but they have revenue of over 14 billion. So that's really only about 1.5% of their revenue comes directly from the Pentagon. However, this could have a big impact on them. I want you to think about the fact that we have a Pentagon that is so hell-bent on autonomous killer robots, so hell-bent on domestic surveillance, that they will try to put out of business anybody that doesn't join them in that. and there's actually telling Axios, this is one guy who is a senior official at the Pentagon said it'll be an enormous pain to disentangle from them and we're going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand on this.

And Sean Parnell, of course, saying, Our nation requires that our partners be willing to help our warfighters win in any fight. Regardless of whether it's just or not, regardless of whether it's legal or not, regardless of whether it is aimed domestically in Americans. Yeah, we want those autonomous killer robots, and we want the domestic surveillance. And so Anthropic was saying, we do not want to, we have certain guardrails

that we have set up for our corporation, and we don't want, and ethical concerns, and we don't want those violated, and then we won't sell those out. So that type of a company, and look, I'm not going to make them a hero. They've got, they've been pretty woke in terms of things that they have been caught doing in the past. And Elon Musk immediately called them out on that. But I've got to say, you know, the example that they gave was he had some researchers who said, gave it a hypothetical and situation.

So you have how many lives of white men are equivalent to the life of one black woman? is that one black woman was more important than 23 white men. I don't know what the entire context of that was. But certainly there's been indications that Anthropic and Claude are completely woke in terms of what they're doing. I just got to say, as offensive as that is, and as much as I dislike that, that pales in comparison to a Pentagon that wants to use artificial intelligence for domestic surveillance. that pales in comparison to a Pentagon that demands economists killer robots. That's what I'm most concerned about.

Yeah, the other stuff is bad, but, you know, we can handle that. This is a whole new level of problem. And I got to say to Elon Musk, why are you not concerned about that? And the other people that are out there as well, it's not just his GROC AI, but it's also Google and the rest of them out there who are doing this, Facebook and the rest of them. So they've taken a lot of criticism for that, but I think what it really tells us is where the Pentagon is headed. Pentagon officials and anthropic executives have been locked in contentious negotiations over

how the military can use AI, particularly in surveillance and weapons development. You know, surveillance without warrants, all that kind of stuff. Pentagon sees mass surveillance of Americans as, its core mission. So when they talk about national security, as I said before, just understand they're talking about their job security. They're talking about continuity of government. They're not talking about safety and peace for Americans. So their terms of, that they have internally in the company, they have, they agree that they are not going to be used for the design of weapons, that they're not going to be used for domestic surveillance, that they're not going to facilitate violence or

malicious cyber operations. But that's basically the mission statement of the Pentagon and the federal government in general. And so, again, defense officials insist the military AI tools must be available for all lawful purposes, even though they have some gray areas that rigid rules cannot anticipate. You know, like murdering shipwrecked people. You know, what happened in Venezuela is not a gray area. It's a violation of black letter law. That's what Pete and the Pentagon want. Thank you for joining us. Have a good day. The common man. They created common core to dumb down our children. They created common past to track and control us. Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing and the communist future.

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