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Episode Date: February 27, 2025

Blaze Media D.C. correspondent Christopher Bedford joins to discuss his experience attending President Trump’s first Cabinet meeting as the first new media to be allowed in the White House press pool. Brownstone Research founder and CEO Jeff Brown joins to discuss whether artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence. FBI whistleblower Steve Friend joins to discuss the future of the FBI. Can it be salvaged under new Director Kash Patel?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Can it even be salvaged at this point, or is it too far gone? Also, in that topic, we talk a little bit about what Pam Bondi is releasing today. What do you expect to happen? Anything big? I say, unless they release it, it's a name even if we know it. But if it doesn't come quickly with prosecution, it's a nothing burger. You know that one type of guy you see in the old movies, a strong, silent type. The John Wayne guy who's rough and tough and doesn't feel the pain, he just, you know,

you can punch and shoot him. just keeps coming. Yeah, I'm not that guy. I'm totally not that guy. When I was dealing with regular agonizing pain of my own, not from being shot or being beat up, just, ow, my hands hurt a lot. Uh, I whined a lot. Um, and I looked for anybody that had any answer for me, any doctor who went to the best doctors around. Nobody could do anything except, you know, put narcotics in me, which is not really the best idea to do. My wife said, I can't, you can't continue this way and I'm not going to listen to you wine all the time. You've got to try everything.

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He asked the question yesterday. And he also clarified some things that the mainstream media was saying that were absolutely untrue. But when he walked into the press office, he saw over the Perel, you know, a sign taped to the wall that says, we stand with the Associated Press. Can I ask you why? You know, the Associated Press is saying, this is a violation of freedom of speech in the First Amendment. What? That we're rotating people out? That we don't think the White House correspondence club should be the one that says, nope, only you are qualified to go in and ask questions. No, I don't think so. You've been proven as liars over and over again. And I just want to show you, and this is one of the benefits if you're what, if you have a subscription to the blaze, this will pay for six months. Just this is worth six months of subscription. I want to show you a picture of a guy.

This is the gentleman. Can you put him up, please? Yeah, this is the gentleman. The one in the pink dress carrying the purse, he was the guy making that, oh, there he is. Look at that. Oh, he's in another dress, and it's cut up to his crotch,

and he's wearing leather boots and a fan. Oh, man, he's a handsome it. Anyway, this is the guy that was in charge of the White House press corps. He was the guy for Biden making the decisions on who was qualified to go in or not. His name is Eugene Daniels. And he just said recently, the White House, the White House press corps, we did not receive any notice in advance that the White House was making a decision and said, you know, move AP out. and rotate people. And he said, quote,

it tears at the independence of a free press in the United States. It suggests that governments will choose the journalist who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press score.

You were still there, dude. Well, you weren't because you just took a job, believe it or not, as the replacement of Joy Reid. Boy, MSNBC has sure woken up. They get it, uh? My gosh, this is Such a perversion, but that is the word of the day, I think, in Washington.

Perversion. But he's a sexy, sexy it. He really is. And he's the guy who has said to my company forever, you're not qualified. You're not serious. Oh, really, dude in the pink dress with the purse? You're qualified and serious?

Uh-huh. Okay. Chris Bedford is with us. right now. He is our senior editor for politics and our Blaze Media Washington correspondent. He was in the cabinet meeting yesterday and I understand Chris, you were getting daggers in the back like crazy from the mainstream media. Well, thanks for having me, Glenn. And you know, you're right. If you're in the media

and you're trying to actually convince people that you are the American people that you stand with them, then maybe you shouldn't dress like you're a villain from the Hunger Games. Maybe people look at that. and say, you know, this is strange. This doesn't seem representative of me. And certainly they love to talk about this. No one in there was elected by anyone except for other members of the press and other members of their club. Exactly right. Exactly right.

You know, I have to tell you, when I heard you were there and I knew you were standing in front of a lot of the press corps, I so wanted to send you a T-shirt. I would have sent it to you had I known that just has, you know, Blaze Media, White House, press. And then on the back, it just said all of it, not just let F you. Because that way, you'd look absolutely, you know, I'm just proud of the White House press corps. But all of those weasels standing behind you, I so want to say to them, F you, your time is up. You've betrayed the people and journalism. So it's, it's, you know, all you want, but this isn't a violation of the First Amendment.

You have been keeping people out who are trying to actually tell the truth. And yesterday, you saw it. You did a, I think you did a story or it was at least a tweet, where they were lying again about who was actually in charge of the cabinet meeting. They said it was Elon Musk. Yeah, you had Aaron Rupar, passions himself as a reporter out there trying to claim that Elon Musk was in charge of the cabinet meeting. And it didn't run with any of the facts, but of course, the narrative had already been cooked up. Elon must sat in a chair with other invited guests who are not members of the cabinet against the wall, wasn't at the main table, referred to the president as the commander in chief, and answered questions when he was directed to by the president,

just like you saw Howard Lutnik and then Pete Hicksheth and other members of the cabinet do when President Trump called on them because of the area of their expertise. It was a mix when I went in there because I wasn't sure exactly what to expect. It had been a few years since I'd been in the briefing room. Basically, you know, everyone always talks about access, but at the blaze, at the Federalists, at the Daily Color, we were not frequent guests of the Biden administration. My time in the Oval Office was limited to Trump's first time. And I was there with James Rosen from Newsmax and previously Fox, who had been there in the Oval Office and the press briefing covering George W. Bush.

but it's been a long time since I had the pool of being able to choose them. And there was a mix of reactions. Some people were really upset. A few people, a small group of people were clearly upset. But after talking with them for a minute and then suddenly realizing, wait a second, this guy hasn't tried to rip my throat out with his fangs. I'm not bleeding from the eyes. They didn't quite know what the thing.

It was almost like we were a bunch of humans stuck in the same room for a number of hours there. You assured them, though, that we weren't. Right. Of course. And one of my favorite things is I sat with a bunch of the camera crews. And those guys, those are hardworking guys who are very skilled. They're going to hold up those boom mics, those cameras, try to get shots in, try to make sure that they're broadcasting everyone. And they also don't care.

They're not all the high and mighty guys. And if you wanted to hear someone cracking a joko at AP, there would be that in that crew. And they did not have any of the self-importance that the reporters did. But it's a funny room in there and kind of a sad room in a funny way. Uh, it is amazing to me how they have their own elite interests, uh, from the 60 Minutes lawsuit to Ukraine, but are not in touch with the American people at all. And it's, it's nice to be in the same room with them so you can actually view them and go, dude. I mean, I mean, you're almost a parody of yourself at this point. That was a wild round of questioning. When you

finally get the opportunity at the first cabinet meeting of the most powerful person in the world who is reshaping American government in the way that is impacting regular people when tax cuts are on the line when the country is barreling towards debt and you ask one two three four questions in a row about your friends who completely and totally fixed and doctored an interview to make a candidate look good and are now losing a lawsuit and that's the focus of your questions and they were so proud of themselves. I saw one reporter who was asking questions about Ukraine and her phone blew up from all of her friends saying, thank you. Thank you for asking that question. At one point, the president said, what am I here doing? Am I negotiating with you in the press corps or am I

negotiating with Russia on this? This is the beginning. And we're trying to get toward peace here. And it's a room that there was actually, there were some really good journalists in there. And there's some people who are asking some questions that are rather interesting about what's next in the American policy with Israel. What's next? with the tariffs that are going on, Mexico and Canada. But there are others who are just so can't get out of their own way. And the obsessions of elite, niche interest, and it reflects in the declining, and the fact that the American people don't listen to them anymore.

They consider themselves the fourth branch of government in a way. And when the press, when we act properly, we can be that check and balance. But what they don't realize is we don't have an army. We don't have the executive. none of us are elected, none of us are judges. All we have is the people's trust and the people caring about us and the honor of our word and the fact that we represent them. That's all we have.

And these people are forgotten that. And a lot of them just represent the small niche interests of people of Manhattan or Los Angeles. And they think that they are owed the trust of the American people, but they're not. And that's why they're suffering. We're talking to Chris Bedford. He is our Washington correspondent. and senior editor for politics. He also has his

Beltway brief that comes out in the morning. You find it at the blaze.com slash Bedford sign up for it. It's great. We use it on the program an awful lot. Chris, you got one question in, but I think you got two in,

didn't you? What were you concerned about yesterday? Yes, well, one of the questions that I got in was talking about what's next for Doge? because I got this, and I know that you guys are loving it out there in Free Texas, but it took me an hour to get into work today

because of all the changes that are going on in Washington, D.C. We're trying to figure out who's coming to work. People are actually showing up. That's crazy. They suddenly have to go. I talk to my wife. I said, we're going to have to leave an hour earlier to get in, to get in on time.

It's having a remarkable impact around here, and it's a complete change to the federal government. So we all knew that Elon Musk had sent out an email the previous week saying, give me five things that you did in the past week. And I asked him, well, what's the process? About half of the federal workforce estimated has responded to your email. Have you begun the process of firing them? Are they going to be under review? What happens next? And he had a great answer, which was this was not a performance review. This was a pulse check. If you have two neurons and a pulse, you ought to be able to respond to an email.

and even if it's someone saying, well, the work I worked on last week was classified, but here's my severe revising, and that's, that would have been a pulse check. You would have responded. So the second question I asked. So wait, wait, wait, before we leave that, because I saw the morons at CNN saying, oh, he is, you know what the, he admitted to? He's saying that these are dead people who died in the government years ago and are still now collecting, I guess, their salary and social security.

is that what Elon Musk is insinuating? He was saying that they think that they're paying some people who either haven't been working for the federal government for years or maybe have retired or maybe he even insinuating. Yeah, that some of the people have expired. Now, of course, there's different jobs that would never work. If you work in the Pentagon or the military, then you're going to be kicked out of your email if you don't keep up to date on the different patches. that that same kind of Byzantine system allows folks to be able to stay on the role potentially for a lot longer. And we've been discovering that with voter rolls. We've been discovering that with a whole lot of different aspects of the federal government and the state governments in general.

And I've heard stories when I first moved to D.C. about people who would never come to work because they were alcoholics. And that was considered a medical condition. And you can't fire somebody for a medical condition. They couldn't get there. And that's when you've got a system. that allows for that kind of thing and doesn't make people show up and doesn't make people respond to emails, then you might get people who are on there fraudulently.

Okay, Christopher, I've got one minute left. Tell me the second question and the answer. Well, Eric Prince, a friend of the show, had offered his services for private military contractors to help with immigration and deportation. And I asked the president, is that something you're considering? He was the shortest answer he ever gave. He said he is not considering that offer. Did he say he wasn't considering or he hasn't talked to Eric Prince about it?

I said, have you talked to Eric Prince or are you going to be talking about that? And he said no. Okay. So are you going to? Okay. Covered. Chris, thank you so much for everything. Thanks for going into that sewer yesterday and helping clean it up and asking legitimate questions. Thank you so much.

Christopher Bedford, our senior editor for politics and Washington correspondent, the White House yesterday. I got to tell you, it was such a big deal yesterday. I mean, Stu, I've been saying this. I mean, we were treated as lizard people when I worked at CNN. You don't have the credentials to work here or question politics or political leaders or what's going on in Washington. That's been going on for so long.

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It's Patriotmobile.com slash Beck 972. Patriot. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Friend of the program and a guy who is so deeply entrenched in AI and what's happening on the technology front. and has this really gift to be able to break it down for dummies like me. So we understand what's coming and what's coming next. He has been spot on with us.

I think I talked to you a couple of years ago, Jeff. Maybe you were in town and we talked and you said, AI agents are going to be a reality and people will be using them in 2025, by or by the end of 2025. And here we are. and people have no idea what an AI agent even is, but they're about to. Hi, Jeff. Hey, good morning.

It is happening as we speak. I mean, the 11 Labs example is just one of many, but this trend towards agentic AI, which is giving artificial intelligence programs agency, i.e. empowerment, to perform tasks that we would normally do ourselves. That's the biggest trend of 2025. And so what will that mean for the average person? How will that manifest itself to the average person? We'll all feel like we have a very talented executive assistant

that is helping us navigate our days and recapture, you know, an hour, two hours, three hours of our time. that we would normally spend on really kind of menial things that tend to suck up a lot of our time. You know, making hotel reservations, which was the example from 11 labs, is a perfect example. Something that's probably even more tangible would be, you know, imagine your own agentic AI for just a normal American household, understands their food consumption and their eating habits. It is empowered to go out and order online a week's worth of groceries to be delivered at a time when it knows that you're at home,

dropped off at your front door, happy to provide you with recipes for all of the food that it purchased on your behalf, and able to actually transact with the store. So empowered to, you know, charge to credit cards or bank accounts. I mean, all of that friction that we spend hours a week literally disappears overnight. And this is just the beginning. This is in the next, well, in this year. So, I mean, what do we have left?

Eight months? This will become reality this year. It is moving at such a fast pace. I mean, when Elon Musk on Sunday said, we are at the event horizon of the, the event of horizon of the singularity. That is stunning if you know what that means. That means what you and I talked about five years ago and saying, well, maybe we would get to AGI and maybe someday we could get to ASI.

it's now looking as though that is upon us. We're at the event horizon, which means you're about to be sucked into it and cannot turn around. There is no turning back at the stage. I mean, I remember when you and I spoke in 2019, the experts in the industry were talking about AGI in 2035 or 2040 that far out. And I said at that time, no later than 2028. And I've since revised that prediction to no later than 2026.

And, you know, Musk's comment is absolutely spot on. AJI will come very fast. We're already seeing some of the sprouts of AGI. Musk and his team at XAI, which is his artificial intelligence. intelligence company, just a few days ago released their latest frontier AI model called GROC 3. It's amazing. And it's just extraordinary.

It is. It's jaw-dropping. If you haven't played with GROC 3 yet, to understand and to start to be, to start waking up to, oh, dear God, you know, the wonders of it and the horrors of it, just go in and ask it to just say, here's who I am. and this is my goal. How do I reach that goal? Ask it philosophical questions.

Ask it deep questions about your industry that only the best people would know. And watch what it spits back. It is incredible. I played with it over the weekend and I said to my wife, I understand what people have been saying that they just want to be in the room. the reason why they want ASI, some of them, is because they want to meet a god. And I said, I just played with GROC 3, and I just have met the smartest entity, the smartest person I have ever met.

And we're not even there. We're not even close to there yet. We're not there yet. That's right. I mean, if I think back just 12 months ago, you know, Mosque and, and his team at XAI, most of the experts in the industry were, they were kind of a punching bag. They thought it was. They counted them out.

Yeah. Yeah. They, you know, they were so far behind what was being done in the industry with meta, with Google, with OpenAI, with Anthropic, you know, four major players in the frontier models. But what I wasn't, look, I wasn't looking at where XI was 12 months ago. I was looking at what they were doing and what they were building and how fast they were building it. Didn't they build this from scratch in 12 months? The feat was even more incredible, actually. Oh.

They, you know, they found very smartly an existing physical building, a factory. It was actually an old Electrolux factory of all things. Wow. So they, and they did that because they could save time not having to construct, you know, the physical infrastructure, the building. And so they found this Electrolex factory outside of Memphis. And literally in 122 days, they spun up 100,000 Nvidia graphics processing units. These are like the workhorses for training artificial intelligence. 122 days they did what nobody else in the industry had ever done.

And it gets better because then the next 92 days, they spun up an additional 100,000 GPUs. So a total of 200,000, the largest AI super factory that exists on the planet in the span of just over 200 days. So less than 12 months. And that is what enabled them to produce GROC 3 which is better than anything else that exists on the market today.

So let's spend a minute talking about Elon Musk because he's doing the same thing. And Donald Trump, I swear to you, between the two of them, I think they get about 10 minutes of sleep a day. They are moving at such a rapid pace. I think Donald Trump is going to be recognized in time as the guy who brought the entire world into a new world, a new position, not just by how he is transforming how we do work in government, but by bringing Elon Musk in who is not hiring a bunch of 20-somethings that

know nothing. The one thing I, and I'd love to hear your opinion on, the one thing that these 20-somethings know is how to write a query, how to set up the question, ask the right questions, the right prompts for AI. That's what's happening. AI is what's propelling the, I think, the speed of discovery of what's in our government. Do you agree with that, Jeff? That is 100% accurate.

But when we're dealing with systems like this at scale, millions of, in this case, government employees, trillions of dollars that, as we've learned, nobody really knows where the money's going, who's receiving it, and what it's being used for, you really do need software engineers, and that's precisely who he hired. And they are using forms of artificial intelligence to get through the data very, very quickly to find out the fraud, which they've done with remarkable speed. And they'll continue to do it. I mean, imagine in a matter of weeks how much progress they've made.

Just imagine where we'll be by the end of 25 by employing the technology and, of course, really the operational approach that Elon Musk uses in all of his businesses. And to be able to have agenic AI. go in and write the programs that will make it easy for the average person to see, understand, and query, follow that trail for us. I mean, in a year with the speed of the growth of AI, it's going to put the power into the hands of the average person. There's no hiding anymore.

In 2026, there will be no hiding. Do you agree with that? The premise, and that is that President Trump and his team are able to continue to dismantle this industrial censorship complex. You know, the last four years, what did we see? We saw that they had complete control over the big tech companies, over Microsoft, over Google, over meta, that were influencing us and manipulating us and, you know, engaging in, massive sci-op campaigns. And there was no freedom of speech, as we know very well.

And so, you know, as long as that is true, as long as that continues to be dismantled, and we have the level of transparency that we've seen just in the last six weeks. Hopefully today will be another big day on that point. Pam Bondi is supposedly releasing the Epstein client list today. precisely. Amazing. I'm very excited about that. And I presume that the reason it's taken, as long as it has, is that they've been lining up the prosecutions and preparing to do both at the same time. Yeah. I sincerely hope. You can't just let that information just fly out there and just sit there and do nothing about it. You're streaming the best of Glenn Beck.

To hear more of this interview and others, download the full show podcasts wherever you get podcasts. Steve Friend, FBI whistleblower, and a guy who honestly should be reinstated at the FBI and be running a few things, I think, along with all the other whistleblowers that were ushered out by the last administration. Steve, welcome to the program. Great to be here. Thanks, Joanne. Thanks. Do you have any comments on what's happening with what we should expect from the client list from Epstein today? Well, I mean, I've just been on record. There is no. expectation of privacy because Jeffrey Epstein is no longer alive. So I've always kind of trashed my head the fact that it was kept back. And if there's any sort of insinuation,

well, it could compromise and jeopardize ongoing investigations. I think we're at a level in this country that we need to have the transparency. And this should have been bit out there. And I was looking at listening to your numbers, Glenn, 14, 5, 6. I'm going to put it at 6.66. I think that's probably the same thing. So do you expect that there is information in there that we don't know that's meaningful? I think that it will be meaningful. I mean, if they went through the lengths that they did, and I mean, if memory serves for the, I mean, I've always been, this is an unpopular opinion, Jeffrey Epstein was charged in violation of double jeopardy. And so, I mean, I'm not crying for the guy because he was fundamentally an evil person who's probably,

burning eternally in hell right now. Right. The fact that this has been used this list to charge is Lane Maxwell for trafficking, but we don't know to who. I mean, the way that it was handled, it just never passed the smell test. And I think that this is one of those big pillar type of moments where they can turn over a new leaf and push forward that transparency is the rule of day as in keeping with what we're seeing at the Doge.

and completely government-wide right now. And it doesn't mean anything if it's released and there's no action. I think that's why Cash passed it to Bondi, because if there are pretty significant names in there, I would imagine the prosecution has to follow pretty quickly or it'll just look like a nothing burger because nobody expects anything, any bad guy to ever go to jail anymore in the government. It does, and look, he's keeping in with what James Comey didn't,

And that was when James Comey stood up and said that no reasonable prosecutor will bring charges against Hillary Clinton. That was never his call to make. That goes to the Department of Justice. Correct. So I think Cash handed over to the Attorney General Bond here. Let her make that assessment is probably the way, the way to go. So they were apparently, another whistleblower, was saying that the FBI, you know,

as Cash was getting ready to come in and coming in, they were, I mean, they were shredding documents like they were going to do a ticker tape parade for the astronauts in New York City. And I'm wondering how much may have been lost. And can we get the FBI back on track? Are there enough good guys in there? And are there enough good guys that know where to look and know who the bad guys are? The level of subterfuge that went on during the transition period and then even during the Trump administration before Casperl was elevated to become the director was enormous. I mean, it wasn't just limited to document shredding as Gerrida Boyle brought forth.

I mean, would it come to the ICE deportation raids, the FBI at first was letting people opt out. They still are. They're saying, well, if you have a moral objection to going after Trenda-Ragua, then you don't have to participate in it. What the hell has a moment? Who has a moral case against arresting those guys? I think you just have to look no further than the hiring practices over the last 10 to 12 years when they've really elevated and prioritized diversity. I mean, the core values of the FBI, rigorous obedience to the Constitution used to be it.

And then they put that last behind diversity. And they've just fundamentally changed the personnel who are in there. So, you know, the subterfuge is enormous. but I think it is going to be contingent and hinge on how guys like Garrett Boyle and Kyle Serafin, myself and others who are not as public, are handled now. Because if we set the precedent that if you come forward for the right reasons or the right time and the right way, then not even just rewarded, just you aren't having your life completely crushed. I mean, Garrett and I both are one week apart on our suspensions. And definitely, we hit 29 months this week. So, I mean, there needs to be some movement on that.

And if it does happen, then people will know that the Bureau now is going to have the back of people who come forward for the right reasons. And I think that there will be more people coming forward because they know where the bodies are buried. They're not going to have to try to launder it to just a few of us out here in the Twitter space or the content creation space. So hopefully that we can bring it out. Have you been contacted by Cash or anybody at the FBI? I mean, because I think, you know, one thing I like about Cash is he knows. firsthand what the FBI is capable of because they did it to him. And the same thing with you guys. Has anybody reached out about the possibility of you guys not only coming back, but leading some of this

house cleaning? And we haven't had any of those conversations now, not at this point, which, you know, and I don't think any of us are aspiring to do that. Fundamentally, we're sort of in Isaiah 6'8 moment where, you know, Shell, I said, here I am, send me. It's a recognition of I'm on the hill, and if it's called to serve, I will. We certainly have a lot of information. We have a lot of thoughts. And if they want that, that'd be great and fantastic. But I live in Florida, and I work shorts every day. I don't know how I feel like going to the swamp. Right. By the way, I so agree that I heard the other day that it's an insult to swamps to call it. It's more of a sewer. A swamp is not bad enough. Um, the, um, uh, the, what do you think we need to see from cash Patel that would say to us,

this is, we're serious, we're correcting that. Um, we're, we're cleaning this thing out. What, what, go ahead. I think a very public, uh, firings of some of the worst actors who, uh, we do no names of, we've brought forward, would be great. I think a very public announcement that the FBI is going away and completely ending its intelligence collection apparatus on the American people, doing away with the quota system that they've had for the last 11 years called integrated program management that's driving it forward, restating how they're going to bring in people of merit and no longer going to prioritize diversity and use the FBI Academy as some sort of washout program, just make it a competent

law enforcement trading program that makes meritorial. is people capable investigators. Those are the sorts of changes that you can have. And I think as long as we're on the topic of something like an Epstein list, if I could have my choice of any one of those stories that you have, and there's a lot of them, I want to see the Butler, Pennsylvania case completely opened up. Again, that individual has no expectation of privacy. He's no longer alive.

The fact that the FBI purposely said that it was potentially domestic terrorism. And to justify that said it was because of the congressional baseball shooting because they had erred in that decision to call that not an assassination attempt. They said that the Bernie Sanders supporter who arrived at the baseball fields and asked where the Republicans and then tried to murder them all wasn't an assassin. It was suicide by cop. They labeled Butler domestic terrorism, and that puts a classified label on it, and they can't comment on that.

I'm sorry, Senator, Congressman. It's an ongoing investigation. Well, the victim is at 1,600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He's entitled that, and as are the people who put them there. So let's just come up with a quick list here, if you don't mind, Steve. Okay, Butler, what else should be opened up? Butler, I think the... The J-6 pipe bomber, the weapons of mass destruction,

the sole act of possible terrorism on January 6, 2021, who never struck again for the last four years mysteriously, and the FBI claimed the cell phone data was corrupted, but then the cell phone provider said, no, it wasn't. They're still lying about that. I think we could probably go to Las Vegas, the Vegas shooting, one of the worst mass shootings in the history of the country, they memory hold pretty quickly after that if they got the bump stock. What do you think that was? What are your thoughts on that, Steve?

If I have to put on my theorizing Pat speculation, I think there was a deconfliction issue there where multiple agencies were involved. I think that Stephen Paddock, who interestingly, his father was on the FBI top 10 most wanted list, that Paddock was probably, working with some government agency was selling weapons to a terrorist organization, laundering it through the casino to justify having it. And then he happened to sell to the wrong people who perpetuated the attack at that moment. And then the government said, oh, no, we might have just materially supported terrorism ourselves. Good heavens. I even thought, oh, I don't want to live in your brain.

That is a, that's a frightening thought. This is what happens when you're at home for 29 months, Clint. The Clinton case with her email servers. I'd like to see that. And also, I think it's worth getting into the fact that we now have the expose. I mean, it's dated information and just didn't get the public awareness was the honeypot scheme that James Comey ran on Donald Trump's campaign in 2015. Explain that. That just came out a couple of days ago.

Well, it actually came back in October of last year, Kerry Pickett reports that James Comey ran off the book, so nothing was officially opened up. He had two female agents infiltrate Donald Trump's campaign to put themselves out as sexually available to try to elicit information that they could then open up criminal investigations on members of the Trump campaign. And when it came to light, because media actually took a photograph of one of the agents, they pulled the plug, promoted one to a high-level senior executive position, and moved the other one over to CIA,

so that they wouldn't have to be called to testify. And this is James Comey acting, calling the shots on this as the director of the FBI trying to impact presidential election. You know, one of the things I thought of, we would go back to the Epstein case. If you look at the Epstein file, we all know that one way or another, Prince Andrew's name is going to be on there. and I believe today the Prime Minister of England is visiting the White House. How unbelievably awkward would it be if our Department of Justice has released information

showing that Prince Andrew was involved in something this horrendous? I mean, we all know he was, but I mean, for the government to make it very clear that, yep, here's how many times, here's where he was, here was in the room, here was on the plane with him on the day the Prime Minister of England comes Wow, that's going to be an awkward meeting It'll be fun, but I think if anybody can handle that In front of the media, Donald Trump

And if it's conduct of Prince Andrew, I mean, I'm sorry, that's on you I mean, no, I know that I'm just revealing it Yeah, no, I'm just saying I don't like conflict so much I would be the guy who was like, I'm going to leave you guys here for a minute I'm going to go, would you guys like a cup of coffee or a Diet Coke or something?

I could go run out and get that while you just chit-chat here for me. I don't want you. It's going to be awkward. It's going to be really awkward. I don't know. I would be extinguishing a teaky torch. Oh, I know. I know.

Steve, thank you so much. Thanks for all of your service in the past and thanks for keeping us up to speed. FBI whistleblower. Steve Friend. Welcome to aboard via Rai. Embarked and profite. Embarque and celebrated. Rigolet.

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