The Highwire with Del Bigtree - Episode 382: THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

The Greatest Threat to Democracy Today; Jefferey Jaxen on the Total Breakdown of Quality Control at CrowdStrike, and Joe Biden’s Absence and Surprise Decision; US Senator pushing for answers around the assassination attempt of Donald TrumpGuest: Wisconsin Senator Ron JohnsonBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

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Action. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are out there in the world. It's time to step out onto the high wire. Oh, my God, it feels so good to be back at my own desk. Had a few weeks off over the summer there. I went to Freedom Fest. I really want to thank Tracy Beans and Jeffrey Jackson for holding the fort down. Last week I was still running around dealing with some other issues around the country.

But I'm so excited to be back and it feels like the whole time I was gone, things just went absolutely haywire. We're going to talk about that all the way through the show. But first, I just want to reflect the last time I was at the desk that you saw. We were at Freedom Fest, which was really a celebration of liberty. and, you know, getting outside of party partisan thinking and looking at the future of the nation. That's what that, you know, that festival is all about. So it's amazing.

All walks of life coming together. I always joke, you know, if I was going to make a poster for Freedom Fest, it probably have, you know, some, you know, weed smoking guy in a tied-eyed shirt and dreadlocks or the joint hanging out of his mouth, standing across from like a, you know, a cowboy with a big buckle and a 10-gallon hat. And it would say something like, I won't touch your weed if you lay off my guns. Deal. It's all about freedom there. And it brings all walks of life and all kinds of freedom.

And it looks something like this. Good morning. Good afternoon. Wherever you are out there in the world, it's time to step onto the high wire. Hey everybody, we're live in the blazing sun of Las Vegas. It's the third year we're broadcasting live from Freedom Fest. And the theme is here, a brave new world. I think we're at a very serious problem.

Today, America's adding one trillion in debt every 90 days. Throughout history, any time a country has done this, bad things happen. There are so many ways that our freedoms are being eroded. Finally, people are starting to see the issues that you've been screaming about. And they're like, this really sucks. Like, I have less economic mobility, and government has much more control over my life. And that is the antithesis of freedoms. I was an actor.

I didn't ask to be part of the freedom movement. I want to just make, you know, silly movies with a lot of nudity back in the day. Yeah. You know, my nudity, unfortunately, for the audience. But then what happened was you just, you can't stand up. on the sidelines and seeing injustice and seeing a very noticeable erosion of individual freedom. I was just an IT guy who was watching the world go crazy and I was thinking to myself, I want to be able to express myself, but it felt like you're not allowed to question things.

Every day that goes by, more people are waking up to realize that the solutions they need for their family and their children will never come from the Republican and Democratic parties. I live in the center of tyranny, right? Whatever happens in New York State, in New York City is gonna go someplace else. That's why I keep fighting, right? My congressperson is actually AOC. I accept the condolences. There's nothing in the Constitution that creates a presumption of liberty,

but as the best means for enforcing what is in the Constitution, and that just means the burden is on the government to justify what is doing. I have an important topic. I think it may be the most important in the world. And the reason is because my topic is the people that lock you down to do your businesses. and destroy our economy all across the world. The evidence is overwhelming that they were playing with exactly the right kind of virus,

doing exactly the right kind of experiments at exactly the right time that came from exactly the right place. That's pretty strange. Right. I don't think it occurred to any of us that they would take measures like they did and absolutely decimate people's lives, and you're a racist if you ask the question. Our mission is to protect patient and Dr. Freedom. So the electronic health record was imposed by the,

government to do what the government wants it to do, which is to control your doctor. Look at the fact that your schools don't give a hoot about the education of your child. What I'm interested in is sort of how people are making choices and how we're thinking about people who make different decisions because it paves the way for us to really be quite judgmental, contemptuous, and disdainful of one another. If you look over all of these different social revolutions, they were always using incendiary images and radical rhetoric to jar people. The biggest misconception that most people have is who the American oil industry is. Cars are not only a symbol of freedom, they're actually an incredible

driver of freedom and prosperity. When I conceive of like the idea of liberty, I think of two ideas and balance with each other. I think of personal freedom, your right to do whatever you want, but balanced with personal responsibility. We find people who are being abused by their local government, we rally the public around their causes, and we put public pressure on the officials that are doing this harm until they back off and do the right thing. Some of these things that started off in the fringes have now become, you know, really solid things. Yeah.

Some people learned from the lockdowns that just because government says do it, we shouldn't always do it. Right. I'm happy about that. This is the most special country, which gives it the potential for greatness because we have freedoms that don't exist anywhere else in the world. We should never take those for granted. And I'm going to say this on your network,

which is not going to make me popular, I used to think that you guys were cranks. But, geez, was I wrong? Like, I should have taken a more critical eye. The fear we're talking about is going to be used to give you to do things that it would never do before. Look back from what has brought

more harm and destruction on humanity in any doubt. I'll tell you it was not a virus or bacteria or pestilence. It was the idea. that government, that it's king, dictating, central authority, you'd better than you had to live your life. And tell you how to live. And you needed to cede your rights to some central,

whether it's agency or government authority, and often the way that they took the rights was fear. So if you're gonna be afraid, you're afraid to go take your rights. I want to thank Freedom Fest for this opportunity three years in a row. What a partnership it's been. Let's fight back.

We are fighting back. You guys are big time. We are big time. Thank you. It's so important. This is awesome. Keep up for good work. It's very exciting.

All right. We'll keep being loud. Thanks for talking to me. Thank you, Jeffrey. What a pleasure. We should record this now. Well, we had an absolute blast. My team was amazing, you know, setting up that set there.

I mean, that's what it takes, folks. You make that possible so that we can go and reach new hearts and minds at Freedom Fest. And what a difference to come. of years makes. I was thinking back like the first time we went to Freedom Fest, you know, a few years ago, you had to sort of beg and drag people into interview. They're like, oh, I don't know if I want to be affiliated with you guys. Now, honestly, there's like a line of people begging to be a part of our Freedom Files. And speaking of Freedom Files, we're assembling those in a way we never have before. We did over 20 interviews, Jeffrey, doing most of those with all sorts of

dynamic thought leaders from around the country and around the world. We're building that into a series of episodes, and it's some of the work that we're doing. I want to just give you a little hint right now. If you are not a donor to the high wire right now, you probably want to become one. If you want to be a part of beta testing, the future of the highwire and where we're going, we've got some very exciting things we've been working on actually for a couple of years building up to this moment in just a few weeks from now. you're going to start seeing the new direction that we're heading in.

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Become a part of it now because we're going to start really blessing all of you that take care of us with some exciting new things in the future. All right. I've got a huge show coming up today. Of course, while I was away, just over, I mean, everyone is saying over these last couple weeks, what is happening in the United States of America? You know, a good friend of mine called, you know, and I was talking to one of my best friends, back home that I grew up with. And he says, I have to be honest, Del, I'm losing the ability to be

surprised anymore, which is kind of scary. It feels like our world has just been turned up to 11, you know, if you get that reference from spinal tap. But we are just, everything is at this level all the time. And it's really starting to dead in our sentence, sort of our senses. And we're losing track of where we're at, which is a huge part of, what we want to talk about this week. I'm going to be talking about the assassination attempt and where those hearings are at with Senator Ron Johnson coming up later in the show. Of course, he's on one of the committees that are asking the hard questions on that issue, and I have some questions for him. But I want to sort of dive into a space, and if you've been

seeing the highway we're stretching out, I want to make it really clear. We are a nonprofit, and there are certain rules to being a nonprofit, which means technically I am not here to tell you who to vote for. I am making no selections whatsoever. But we are allowed to talk about attacks what we believe are on our democracy or when we think this country isn't running the right way. So I'm never going to tell you who to vote for. And frankly, I don't think any news station in this country should be. Freedom of the press means you express you're not afraid to challenge every single politician that's out there. And every single party that's out there, if you see issues with it, that's what we're here to do.

So today I'm going to weigh into this space, but I make no judgments other than the fact that I am really starting to struggle with these ideas of democracy and republic. And when I think of what our founding fathers meant for this country, I think we should start asking some serious questions. Are we representing what those founding fathers and what the heart of America stands for? This week, as we all waited throughout the weekend, and finally heard on Sunday that President Biden is not going to seek re-election. Something that I think many of us expected but wondered, was he going to finally make that decision? The Democratic Party being torn apart over the last couple of weeks, we've discussed the cognitive issues that we saw, and even the potential that it could have been a vaccine injury. We've covered this all from our perspective.

but I want to talk about the statement that was made last night by President Biden, and really specifically just this idea. I review this office, but I love my country more. It's been the honor of my life to serve as your president. But in the defense of democracy, which is a stake, I think it's more important than any title. I draw strength, and I find joy in working for the American people. But this sacred task of perfecting our union, it's not about me. I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America's future,

all married at a second term, but nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition. So I've decided the best way forward is the past. torch for a new generation. I sort of want to point out this idea that in defense of democracy, I am making this decision, you know, that is what is at stake. First of all, you know, I think we were all getting really tired of this kind of language. We've gone way too far with the rhetoric.

I think it's one of the reasons we had an assassination attempt is that this idea that the other, you know, candidate or the other part of the other part of the reason we had an assassination attempt is that this idea that the other party for that matter is the end of democracy as we know it. We have all taken a part of this. We are all to blame, at least most of the people who I've met and many of you who I consider friends, but I see your commenting online. We've gotten used to it. Our media has trained us to speak like this, but it is tearing our nation apart. And I just want to point out because, you know, I've been an athlete my whole life, you know, especially when I was younger playing sports, whether it was soccer or football or whatever it was. I want to say this.

Any time, if you're an athlete, do you remember when you would look across the field and you'd see the team that was arguing and screaming at each other and blaming each other for what went wrong or why the play didn't work and there's just, there's no cohesive energy over there? Have you ever seen that team win? Because that is what is happening here in the United States of America. The United States of America. If we are not united, then this entire dream falls apart. We have issues that we're talking about on the high wire all the time every single week, whether it's AI, central digital currencies, or mandated medical cartels, you know, taking over our nation, our sovereignty hanging in the balance. And if we're sitting and screaming at each other, instead of paying attention to those that are on the other side of the wall of this castle and are taking our rights away, then shame on us. And I just want to say, this idea of democracy. I'm not going to get, I know, I know so many of you in the audience right now are screaming whether it's a democracy or a republic. That is not an argument I want to have today.

I want to take President Biden at his words that he is here to save the democracy. So can we have the definition of a democracy? Please, this is Webster's. Dictionary, a government by the people, a rule of the majority, or be, a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation, usually involving periodically held free elections. So what is so incredibly ironic about this statement by President Trump is going to save democracy because that's what's at stake here in the United States of America. And by saving democracy, what he means is he's going to, what, throw out democracy,

throw out the power of the people and select the next leader of the Democratic Party, which is what just happened this week in the selection of Kamala Harris. I find this to be one of the greatest hypocrisies I've seen in my life. The idea that a person that has not been elected by any citizen in this country right now went through no primary process, but the way we're going to save democracy is by circumventing it and dictating to the nation who your, you know, one of your choices is going to be in election. This is the type of thing we hear Vladimir Putin doing, selecting his opponents so that he's the best choice. And then you've got to start asking questions. How long, how far back was this

decision made? Was it just made this weekend? Or was this the plan all along when no primaries happened? when there were plenty of Democrats that were out there saying, I think the president should have to debate us on a stage and prove that he is cognizant, that his mind is working at the level that it should be to run the United States of America. That was what's being said. And instead, the DNC circumvented that primary process,

made all sorts of crazy rules. Like I think there was one in New Hampshire that the DNC passed. That if you went and campaigned in New Hampshire as a Democratic campaign, candidate that that would disqualify you from getting those votes that your votes would be handed to President Biden. So, I mean, some crazy stuff like that. You can check me, but they did everything they could to keep there from being an actual primary. And now here we find ourselves

shockingly backed up against the wall because we're run out of time. We run out of time, therefore there's no time for a, for a democratic process. And whose fault is that? So the same people that robbed us of that time, robbed us of the opportunity to see President Biden on a debate stage with other Democrats that would possibly have been able to do a better job. Now we're out of time, can't have that process. So to save democracy, we're going to dictate to you who your choice actually is. I think this is a really, really sad day for the party that is named the Democratic Party. I'm not alone, shockingly. This statement was put out by Black Lives Matter. A statement on Kamala Harris securing enough delegates to become Democratic nominee.

This is just some of what they said. Now, Democratic Party elites and billionaire donors are attempting to manipulate black voters by an an unknown Vice President as the new Democratic ticket without a primary vote by the public. This blatant disregard for democratic principles is unacceptable. While the potential outcome of a Harris presidency may be his. historic, the process to achieve it must align with true democratic values. We have no idea where Kamala Harris stands on the issues now that she has assumed Joe Biden's place, and we have no idea of the record of her potential vice president because we don't even know who it is yet. We do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs. Any attempt to evade or override the will

of voters in our primary system, no matter how historic the candidate must be condemned. We demand an informal virtual snap primary now that the incumbent president is no longer in the running. Certainly, that is just one opinion by a shocking, you know, group that we haven't really been fans of here at the high wire, but today we're aligned and so I'll point that out. I agree. Let me be perfectly clear. I'm not saying that Kamala Harris is a bad choice to be the head of the Democratic Party and their nominee. I have a problem with the fact that she was selected and not elected. I also think it undermines her credibility. It undermines her voice when she says she stands for Democratic values when she was dictated upon us instead of elected. I, you know, been watching so many of my friends that are

Democrats out there celebrating this move. And I just wonder, is this what we've come to? That the end justifies, that means that throwing out the entire process of involving the people, the people's choice of by the people of the United States of America. Oh, who needs that? We don't have enough time for that right now. My God, I mean, this on the back of the COVID pandemic, where apparently our Constitution was only made for the good times as soon as there's any pressure, just throw it out. We don't have time for it. We don't have time to figure out what the people need. We don't have time to test the vaccine. We don't time to have an election. These are really scary decisions, and it even goes a step further.

I would say this. Even if you are selecting Kamala Harris, let's see what happens in the convention. If you find yourself having to circumvent your own convention, now you really got to start asking yourself some serious questions. This is the headline I'm talking about, of course. Democrats plan to push ahead with virtual roll call ahead of their convention with Harris favored. The Democratic Party plans to push forward with a virtual role call. which delegates to its convention can choose a presidential nominee before they gather next month in Chicago.

Why are they doing that? I mean, so let's just throw out everything we know to be our electoral process. That's the way we save democracy. These are the types of things that I think we should all be calling out. I've said it before. I've been politically marooned for years. I am disenfranchised by the entire party system now. it does appear that no matter who gets elected, the problems just get worse, the inflation keeps going up. No one can claim to have downsized government in any sort of way. Both of these guys have been president. We've got Donald Trump now has been president. So has Joe Biden. They both were a disaster during COVID, which is something that we covered. They both locked down our economy, destroyed jobs, rushed, you know, a vaccine onto the market.

that is now proving to not only be harmful, it's also ineffective. So for all of this, I'm calling it all out. And I also want to say this just to be perfectly fair. I think it's ridiculous that Donald Trump didn't show up for any of the primaries in the Republican Party either. Those candidates deserve to test the medal of President Trump in front of public on television, of course. He showed himself fairly stalwart when he was up against Joe Biden, but that was after he got the nomination. And we can say, well, it would have turned out that way anyway.

This forgiveness of the destruction of our democratic process is going to get us all in jeopardy, no matter what side of the fence you are on. We have got to come together and say the democratic process must be saved in order to save our republic. All right, I'm going to get into more details. I know Jeffrey Jackson is going to get into more details because it's time for the Jackson Report. I mean, it's mind-boggling these last couple of weeks. I saw a meme that really cracked me up. It said, we are living the most difficult section of somebody's history final in 2016.

You can imagine like, okay, I know it was July. I know it was, you know, 2024, but what was the date where there was an assassination attempt? But then they said that the sitting president was going to leave, but then he didn't. Jimmy Carter died, came back to life. You know, I mean, it's just been totally insane. I don't even remember these chapters in my history lessons. These events back to back to back like this in such a short time. And I'm seeing two big things happening right now.

I'm seeing the corporate media over the last two weeks is asking the public to ignore details and to ignore, a lot of times, their own common sense on historically significant events. And I'm also seeing a critical mass of everyday people stepping up. in disrupting corporate media narratives in real time. Something we've never seen before of, I don't think in this country. So these are just two trains heading towards each other. So let's unpack this a little bit from that media narrative

that's attempted to be woven into society continuously and it's not sticking. So as you said, Joe Biden, he announced just over this weekend here via a message on X, formerly known as Twitter, the social media platform. He's dropping out. Hey, you know what, just gonna go ahead and drop out. And this was after he wasn't seen for five days.

People were questioning his health. He said he came down with COVID. And it took a full seven, a week, full seven days for him to make an announcement to the country. That was last night, as you showed. And a lot of people say this time really looks back to the late 60s in the United States when there was political uppeople. There were assassinations of key figures. And at that time, Lyndon Johnson, who was facing a major uphill battle with the Vietnam War, All Americans wanted us out of this war.

It was grinding on. Instead of putting out a message through a surrogate or just sending a letter to people, he went on TV that night and said this. With America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace and the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or our day of my time. to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office, the presidency of your country.

Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. So you see there are a sharp, capable president leveling with the American people in real time and seeing the political headwinds that he's going to face and saying, look, I can't do this. And obviously that was the choice at that point. But let's go back now to you were mentioning this Democratic primary process and all the things that have been happening just over this last week. So let's go back to 2023. And we go to, I'm just going to keep calling it the corporate media because that's how I see it.

That's how I've always seen it in my reporting. We go to the corporate media, and when Joe Biden announced that he was going to run for re-election last year, this is how they framed it. This is how in unison corporate media spoke. Look at this. All right. I really think that the mealy-mouthed Democrats, as I like to call them, and some of my progressive friends who would like to live in a fantasy land, they need to come back to reality. And the reality is this. The sitting president of the United States of America is a Democrat, a Democrat that would like to run for re-election so much so that,

He has declared a re-election campaign. In that case, the Democratic National Committee will not facilitate a primary process. There will be no debate stage for Bobby Kennedy, Marianne Williamson, or anyone else to stand on. So we're going to have another Bobby Kennedy and an empty chair in the debate, right? There will be no debate. Yeah, no debate. The Democratic National Committee administers the debates, and they're not going to set up a primary process for debates for someone to challenge the head of the Democratic Party.

Wow. Words that now will live forever. And this process that she's speaking about is not unheard of when a president says I'm going to go for a re-election. There's oftentimes not this primary process where they go through debates. But as we sit here today, obviously that was the wrong choice. Biden could have been tested at that point by other very competent people to run for that nomination, but they weren't. And at that same time, it wasn't like people weren't questioning this. Here's mainstream reporting on Biden. And it was saying that broad doubts about Biden's age and acuity.

That's what they were questioning at that point, spell Republican opportunity in 2024. It's a poll. And you read in here and it says the latest ABC News, Washington Post poll says abroad 68 percent of Americans say he's too old for another term as president, views that put him in a trailing position against top Republicans and early preferences for 2024. So that's, I mean, that was the sentiment at the time. People were already saying this guy, he can't do this. So again, to skip this. Yeah, of four by the people. If 68% of the nation are saying, hold on a second, I don't think this guy is ready. Isn't our political system supposed to say we should be listening to the people? Let's show him the right. Let's have primary. Let's,

let's parade him out and put him under challenge and pressure and show them he is the guy that can do this job. And so what else did we see? We saw the most professional, political person closest to Joe Biden, the second in command, Kamala Harris. And this is what she had to say during this whole time. Take a listen to this. We have a very bold and vibrant president in Joe Biden. I work with Joe Biden every day. The work that under Joe Biden's leadership, our administration has accomplished is transformative. He is an extraordinary leader and I wish that people could see what I see. I want to get to the heart of what I think you're raising, which you've said, is his age. This is someone who is tireless in terms of working on behalf of the American people.

Thank God our president is in good shape, in good help, and is ready to lead in our second term. But if there ever is a problem, do you think that you could go tell the American people, American public. Do you think in your role that you're in a position to do that? Of course, if necessary, but there's no need for that. I mean, before we even start having the conversation about Kamala Harris being a presidential nominee in this 2024 election, we have to really pump the brakes and ask, is Biden, is Joe Biden really mentally cognizant to be president of the United States right now?

And someone needs to ask, I mean, Kamala Harris is doing the media rounds right now. Will any journalist ask, when did you first notice his mental capacity starting to decline? Because this is an obvious fact right now. And if she says at the debate, like the rest of the country, we have a problem. We have a big, big problem. So because the media, no one was able, this was a guarded man. Obviously as the president is going to be guarded, but this was a guarded man with issues and declining mental capacity. And a person really not able to fully lead the country, as we now see. And so we, We look at the media.

Let me, let me, I want to clarify, I think the question could be even more pointed. At what point did you realize you were lying to the American public? You said that you're with him every single day. He has now said to us, as everyone now recognizes, he's not fit to hold the office for another four years. So at what point when you were saying he was, did you know that you were lying? And you must explain to us now, as though you would be on the Supreme Court, explain to us how you just have. lie to the American people. How is that okay? And how can you promise us a transparent government that we can trust when you knowingly lied to us? I mean, it just seems like a really important,

certainly a question that I'd be asking if I was, you know, allowed into the press room. And I think it has to be answered. And here's the media aggressively defending. So let me look at, check out this headline here. Our age of cynicism, when people really started to question this, and cynicism, cynicism over age are the only things holding Biden back. So it's the public's fault. Okay. Well, last month, as, you know, every time in the last month or two,

as Biden did a speech or as he appeared in public, we had compilations of him forgetting his train of thought, tripping over his own feet, I mean, just over and over again. And so people are putting these videos together and going, look, look. And so even at that point, the media, you can see these narratives. Here comes the next narrative.

New York Times, how misleading videos are trailing Biden as he battles age doubts. And then another one here, White House jumps in. White House rips unflattering Biden videos as cheapfakes. So they tried to spin this idea of these failed attempts to divert this narrative away from this. And even this is one of my favorites. And people remember this from the COVID times. It's time to end the conspiracy theories about Biden being replaced as a candidate. Okay.

Well, we don't have to believe the media because just over a week ago, Joe Biden was in Michigan. While he was president and what we thought he was going to be going for the re-election campaign, and he said this. Take a look. A lot of speculation lately. What's Joe Biden going to do? Is he going to stay in the race? He's going to drop out. Where's my saying?

I am running and we're going to win. I'm not going to change that. Another one that conspiracy theorists got right. I mean, at this point, I think it should be a badge of honor if anyone calls you a conspiracy theorists because I can't, you know, there's very little that, especially when it comes to COVID, these issues, if that's a conspiracy theory that he would drop out. And where are the apologies from mainstream news for calling people names and calling things, you know, fake news when they were the ones that were producing the lie? It's an incredible time. And I don't know if we'll

ever hear the whole story about what happened because as you saw there, President Biden was all in. He was extremely excited. And, you know, that did not match the enthusiasm we saw from him last night, and nor were there actually valid excuses of where he was, why that went out on X. All of these things, I guess we'll never have those answers. But as we sit now, we have Kamala, we have Kamala Harris, and she's been endorsed by Biden. That was via X, too, just a reply to his own message of the endorsements. That's how we know that. But we have CNN. Harris secures enough delegate endorsement. to win the Democratic presidential nomination. So let me break this down a little bit.

She has pledged delegates. So technically they're obligated to support her with the party rules called good conscience. So this isn't legally binding. This isn't an ironclad situation. But to be clear, these were delegates that were pledged to President Biden. He went out and actually campaigned to get that he didn't run a primary,

but he got these delegates. And now, like if I remember correctly, the way it's set up, those delegates are not obligated to, you know, vote for whatever Biden wants. They're obligated to represent the people that cast votes for Joe Biden. And so what do those people want? Did any of these delegates ask the constituent, those that actually voted, who do you want to replace him? No, they didn't. They took a mandate from Joe Biden and said, now we're obligated to do what Joe Biden wants.

that is not how this system was actually designed. You're obligated to do with the citizens of this country that vote want. That's exactly what it appears happens. And again, this is in good conscience. It's a strong expectation they're going to vote this way. As you pointed out, August 7th, this virtual vote has been rushed. So the actual conventions, August starts August 19th. So we'll see.

I mean, anything could happen at this point. You know, obviously the media is fully behind Kamala Harris, and that's where it looks like it's going, but it's not ironclad yet. What is interesting too, because there was a lot of other people in that running. We heard names like Gavin Newsome, Hillary Clinton, and people like this. But we have Kamala Harris, and even as VP, this is an interesting pick because here's some headlines here. It's just 2023 an MPC news poll. Kamala Harris hits record low for VP net favorability.

And the last time anyone in America had the right to vote for Kamala, She wasn't a top pick. It was in 2019. She actually dropped out of the race. And this was a poll at that point right before she dropped out. And you can see Harris was basically 13% behind Biden and Elizabeth Warren and tied with Bernie Sanders. So not really a top front runner there. But again, that was a different time. And so we're going to see how this turns out. But I don't think we're done reporting on the twists and turns here. I really don't. Yeah. Yeah, it's really fascinating. And I just wonder, you know, will, you know, will, all of the supporters of the Democratic Party step up and say, we're really giving our party a bad look here. You know, maybe we should do this snap poll that is being recommended by many people, including Black Lives Matter, some way to reach out to the public. It just seems clear from the get-go that this whole thing was set up.

And the question was, did Kamales Harris know the entire time she was saying he's sharp, I stand by with him. When she was saying those words, was there ever a time where she knew, don't worry, just keep saying it, I'm going to hand it to you. Was she a part of selecting herself in this position and circumventing a democratic vote? I think that that's, will we ever know the answer to that? But it's a very important question when we look at what's taking place here. And Del, you and I, we've been so busy here because really in the midst of an attempted

assassination of a former president and obviously the leading Republican candidate for president. And then the current president dropping out, switching out people right before this election, we had the world's biggest cyber outage. And if anybody was in a cabin or something without internet service, this is what it looked like. All right. A massive global tech outage impacting what's estimated to be millions of people. A day of worldwide IT chaos, thanks to an update meant to protect systems. The widespread global impact of a single software glitch has given many a cause for concern. It's an issue with a software update.

It's impacting lots and lots of Microsoft computer systems worldwide. This is impacting all different types of businesses. Banks, hospitals, government offices, media outlets and other businesses all around the world. To emergency services, 911, traffic lights, transit systems, and it's having a major impact on airlines as well. American Delta United, they're all keeping their flights grounded. This appears to be an issue between CrowdStrike and Microsoft. You may not have heard of CrowdStrike before, but it has nearly 24,000 business customers around the world, many of them huge organizations. They were pushing out a pretty simple Windows update, mostly aimed at trying

to stop malicious actors from targeting certain infrastructure that they found online. And it just just went wrong. It caused this dreaded blue screen of deaths. It's weird because CrowdStrike is a very respectable company and when they do these type of updates, they test and they test and they test in all different environments. So someone really dropped the ball, someone truly made a mistake because this should not have happened. I've heard it describe as the most spectacular IT failure ever. It feels like the reasoning for everything we're watching the world is somebody dropped the ball. It was an accident, you know, there should have been, you know, better stopgaps in place.

As there were to expect that some of the largest chaotic moments in the history of mankind, all of them are accidental, all happening at the same time. Everyone watching needs to turn on their discernment, turn on their intelligence, and question everything, especially when it's coincidence. We're at that point in history right now. We're not talking conspiracy theory. We're talking about valid questioning of timing. So you saw those headlines. You heard there in the report. There's this word blue screen of death.

So, I mean, when I see that, that's something that's going to stick in people's head for a long time. That's a media narrative right there. So World brought to a halt. You can see this in headline form by drastic Microsoft outage with computers showing blue screen of death. And so we're being kind of taught to, at least from the media standpoint, we're being taught to believe that one, little thing, just one little hiccup, and the whole world can go down. So that's how fragile everything is. So if it happens again, you need to just understand this is the world we're living in.

One little thing. When in reality, you heard the person in that clip there saying, I don't know how this happens. There's stopgap measures baked in to every level here. This should have never happened. I heard someone, a computer programmer, say this is like a Chernobyl event, like just one in a million chance it should have never happened. So we see here what's going on, what is this, is it still going on? I know Delta was still dealing with some of their flights over this last week.

Some cancellations, I know Monday and Tuesday into the thousands. So we look at Reuters and it gives us an idea of what we're looking at with CrowdStrike. And it's a company, they provide this malware software to protect. And it says, CrowdStrike update that caused global outage, likely skipped checks. Whoops, experts say, but it says in here, over half of Fortune 500 companies and many government bodies such as the top US cybersecurity agency itself, the cybersecurity and infrastructure, security agency, use the company's software. Well, if you're looking for a one-stop shop

to really affect the world on a global scale, this looks like a pretty good place to start. So this was pushed out by one single automated software update, an AI update, and it affected all Microsoft Windows systems. It affected over 8 billion individual devices. Initial reports were saying, I'm hearing costs over $5 billion. There's a congressional hearing coming.

This was, in order to reset these computers, I'm hearing it needs a manual intervention to delete the bad files on every computer. So, you know, it's pretty shocking that it's still not trailing and it's still not affecting the world more than it is right now. I guess that's a good thing for the response time. But this type of malware files that CrowdStrike has,

it goes into the computer's operating system. So this is the base level of these 8 billion devices. So that's why they can't even start up. You get that blue screen. You can't even, the computer is completely worthless. And when I see this, I start to think, again, timing, coincidence, especially right now in this historical time. In 2021, in the middle of the pandemic,

the pandemic is raging. People are losing their lives. We have mandates, lockdowns, masking. The World Economic Forum comes out and says this, check out this headline, prepping for a cyber pandemic, worldwide drill underway. The World Economic Forum kicked off its annual Cyber Polygon exercise Friday, which gives

companies and governments, the opportunity to participate in a simulation of a cyber pandemic. So just pouring on this fear from WEF. Well, I mean, look, I also, I mean, I just want to say one of the things that bothers me the most about this story is how quickly the problem was solved. I mean, I find it really hard to imagine that something you didn't see coming that wiped out created a blue screen of death in companies across the world, tens of thousands of them could be remedied in. nothing to see here a day later we're all just fine. That just defies reason. Now, I'm not a computer specialist in any way, but I will say based on that point, and based on, let me just, let me just take it from the perspective of a journalist. I am so tired of journalists just taking whatever narrative they're handed. Call the company, what does Crowdstrike say? It was an accident.

We were just doing a computer. We're just doing an upgrade, and somehow that triggered this problem all across. Okay, thank you. We'll go ahead and report that. How about the fact that, was there some sort of blackmail that went on here? Was there some diabolical entity that says you think you're in control of your systems in the United States government, your defense systems? We're going to shut you down for a day and show you. How do we know that that didn't happen? Was there a threat attached to this? Was this simply a test by the U.S. government to see how the entire world will respond? Where are those questions by journalists? Start asking the questions, would you please, instead of whatever they told me, that's what I'm going to say.

I mean, this is a shocking story. And the fact that we're just being given this really simple explanation, oh, it was a mistake, everybody go back to sleep. I'm so tired of fact that everyone's afraid to ask the most obvious question. Was this potentially on purpose in any way? Who would be gaining something? Where are all the places that someone that did this on purpose? Would they gain advantage in the world or power and over-government?

governments, these are the types of questions should be asked. Our media has become absolutely useless to citizens in this country and around the world. And that's why we're questioning, we're looking at people like the WF saying, we're going to run these drills. I mean, we saw what happened the last time drills were run right before the coronavirus. You got to question these things. So on World Economic Forum's own website in 2023, they ran this headline, which is kind of accurate, geopolitical instability raises threat of catastrophic cyber attack in next two years. Well, boy, did they get that one right on target. Not that we're saying this is a, we're being told the cyber outage with CrowdStrike. We're talking cyber attack here,

but where's the line drawn? And that's the question I'm asking. So here's another report. These are all within the last year or two. UK could be brought to a halt at any moment by cyber attack report warns. Even in 2022, Biden releases Russian cyber attack warning to, to all Americans. So in America here, we're seeing a framing of that if the cyber outage happens, cyber attack happens, we may want to look towards Russia, which is really dangerous. And that's not just the first time we saw that headline from President Biden or that type of talking point.

In 2016, when Hillary Clinton was challenging Donald Trump for the presidential election, she said something really interesting. This was the headline that came out of that. Clinton, treat cyber attacks like any other attack. And people kind of thought, this is kind of coming out of nowhere. She says, as president, I will make it clear that the United States will treat cyber attacks just like any other attack. The Democratic presidential nominee said, we will be ready with serious political, economic,

and military responses, military responses. So after she did not obviously win that presidential election, she was doing a talk in Stanford, and she said this. Take a listen. Right. I believe it is time for the United States to declare a new doctrine, stating that a cyber attack on our vital infrastructure will be treated as an act of war

and met with a proportional response. If you watch the crowd in that video after she says that, the camera pans over the crowd, people's jaws are hanging open. She's saying an act of war, a military response, I mean, are we talking nuclear? What are we talking about here? And so that was the posture that she wanted coming into the White House

if she would have been elected, why is everyone focusing on this cyber attack so intently? And where's the line drawn between cyber audits and cyber attack? And this checks a lot of boxes. So we heard that when COVID happened. It really checks a lot of boxes for control, for people that are in power that want to stay in power. A cyber attack does the same thing now. So let's just go break this down really quickly. We have Australia.

Here's a headline. Australia to be functionally cashless by 2025. Well, we know that when this cyber outage happened across the world, anybody that was cashless like Australia, here's a coal supermarket in Australia. And you can see here, they had literally a handwritten piece of paper saying cash only, EFT down globally, so sorry. So you're shutting, you're completely shutting down the financial system at that point. We know here in the United States, e-trade, places like that that were trading for the stock

market, those avenues into the stock market were shut down, those were paused. So this would be a great cover for what we're being told is a global financial reset. A lot of our guests talk about this, Catherine Rosson Fitts and other people, also these central bank digital currencies, the switchover, that would be one. And then we talk about this, you know, the election coming up. So even before this cyber outage happened, we saw this out of mainstream news, voting experts warn of serious threats for 2024 from election equipment software breaches. Well, that's exactly what happened in Arizona for this cyber outage.

just a couple weeks ago. Global computer outage snarls Arizona's early voting raises alarm about November. So just to recap, a cyber outage, however it's framed, checks a lot of boxes. It provides cover for a financial reset possibly, provides an excuse to go to war with Russia, if we're going to use that combination, and at the very least, it could provide disruption for the 2024 election. So this is something I really think people are going to have to keep on the front burner and watch. This was the biggest cyber outage. if anybody was living in 1999, this was the outage that we were told to expect when the year 2000 happened, global cyber outage. So it's interesting this happens now, and it kind of just gets brushed off the media.

I mean, obviously we have a pretty stacked news cycle these days, but this is a very important topic. And I don't think it was the last of this topic we're going to hear from, unfortunately. That's what is so disturbing. As I sit here, I've had a couple more thoughts just watching your incredible breakdown of this story. The fact that it wasn't a big story should be shocking to everybody. In fact, here is the question, you know, as I'm sitting here thinking about, well, you have this cyber attack, nobody seems to want to talk about it. Why are we asking any of the right questions? Was it like I've said before?

Was it done on purpose? Was there anything to gain? You know, was it a test? Was it something that could affect our electoral systems? But here is the point. Here's the biggest question of all. When you want to call bologna beans, let's look at the media. Let's look how dramatic it is.

It says things like deadly snowstorm. I mean, we now live in a time where it can't just snow, where we're not talking about someone that died because their heater didn't work in their house or somehow they decided to light a propane tank in their house and got asphyxiated. Therefore, the snow killed them. media goes out of its way to exaggerate the dangers of a story, except this one.

Except this one. Let me riddle me this, Batman. Are we to believe that computer systems across the world just shut down, some of which run airplanes and God knows what else and not a single person in the world died because of it? somehow some glitch didn't either cause an accident or something to fall or anything to happen or or a medical machine to stop working. Nobody could find a single death to exaggerate to this story to the level that we see every other story. When the news stops acting like itself, when it breaks outside of its norm, you should be asking

serious questions. When a story this big is something like, it's just a basic story, everyone did just find moving on no way, no how. Something stinks here, and it stinks really bad, and all of the media is in on it in some way. That's how I got to see it, because you're not acting like yourselves. You're a bunch of crazy people

that make everything seem as big as you could possibly make it except this story. Why? And there's going to be congressional hearings on this actual event, so that hopefully will shed some light. We have people, I know you're going to speak to Ron Johnson. Yeah. We have people that are very,

very knowledgeable about these things that can come in there and really point to where, you know, where to look for this congressional hearing. So I hope that happens. Yeah. Well, I'm Jeffrey. You are a busy man. This is, I mean, it is incredible the amount of stories that we're having to handle here and just, you know, it's just a blur. It's all happening so fast. It's getting scary to go to bed to imagine what am I going to wake up to tomorrow. I'm so glad we have you on our team. Thank you for bringing the truth where you can find it and getting into details. I'm really just not seeing reported the same way anywhere else. You're amazing. It's great to have you on the team. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much.

All right. Well, when you talk about, you know, common sense is under attack. That is what is happening here. They are going to, you know, plant the story. And God forbid you ask the right questions. Question the President of the United States whether they have the cognitive ability to run your country and you're a conspiracy theorist if you think he's going to step down. I mean, they just throw this conspiracy theorist out there. That's simply asking obvious questions. The man is tripped, you know, going upstairs more than any other candidate I've seen. Can someone just make sure he's okay? He's slurring his words. He has no consonants left and it looks like he's getting lost in the middle of his sentences. Am I allowed to ask that

without being attacked and called a conspiracy theorist? Why is it we're attacking people that ask obvious questions. It used to be what it meant to advocate, to advocate for humanity, which is what we do as reporters. I'm supposed to be asking your questions for you because I have a camera. I can walk up.

I can challenge presidents. I can challenge people. I can ask senators and congressmen. The hard questions. And then you're allowed to answer. I'm even allowed to ask crazy questions if I want. And you're allowed to answer. But when you start attacking the people

asking the questions and saying that it's criminal to ask those questions and they're dangerous conspiracy theories. Like, why was that not a big story? I don't know. Are you suggesting something? You must be a conspiracy theorist. Well, I'm an advocate for humanity, and it's getting more and more dangerous to be that, especially in the space of medical freedom. God forbid you ever asked the question, was that vaccine properly safety tested? Are you sure it's going to stop transmission? And in a disease that does not be here, to be affecting any children whatsoever, almost like a zero death rate, should we really be injecting them with an experimental product and forcing it on them? Should we really be taking jobs away for a product that

never went through a proper safety trial? Is that an honest question? Is that an advocate? Or is Is that a domestic terrorist? If Peter Hotez gets his way, it will be the latter. Look at what this idiot said recently. Fortunately, I have to give you a very long, I don't know the answer to your question answer, because it is very complicated. And quite honestly, you know, the health sector doesn't know what to do because this is now first and foremost a political problem.

And what I've said to the Biden administration is, you know, the health sector doesn't know what to do. the health sector can't solve this on its own. We're going to have to bring in Homeland Security, the Commerce Department, Justice Department, to help us understand how to do this. And I've said the same with, I met with Dr. Tedros last month in Geneva, WHO, the Director General, to say, I don't know that the World Health Organization

can solve this on our own. We need the other United Nations agencies, NATO. This is a security problem, because it's no longer a theoretical construct or some arcane academic exercise. 200,000 Americans died because of anti-vaccine aggression, anti-science aggression. And so this is now a lethal force that, and now I feel as a pediatric vaccine scientist, it's just as it's important, just as it's important for me to make new vaccines to save lives. The other side of saving lives is countering this anti-vaccine aggression.

It's a new term we're sitting there anti-vaccine aggression, aggressively giving you the truth. Apparently, he wants that to be illegal, and WHO can't handle it by itself. We've got to bring in NATO. He's also called for FBI. CIA Homeland Security should stop these people from asking the questions that I have failed to answer. You know, Peter, you're a disaster. And frankly, I wish you would just focus on making a better product instead of attacking those that are asking the right questions about what's going on.

But let me be perfectly clear, because I will stand in that. I will own it right now. I am the anti-Baxor you are talking about. Here I am. I have been outspoken. So Homeland Security, NATO, WHO, whoever you are, my name is Dell Bigtree. I work on the high wire for the nonprofit, the informed consent action network. I'm here in Austin, Texas.

Come and find me because I'm not going to stop telling people the truth. And what is that truth? It's not some speculation. We were right the whole time. If you look at the articles just last week, Stanley Plotkin, finally admitting there have been no proper safety trials in the pre-licensure phase of vaccine development. It says it right here. However, the widespread vaccine hesitancy observed during the COVID-19 pandemic suggests that the public is no longer satisfied with the traditional safety goal of simply detecting and quantifying the associated risks after a vaccine has been authorized for use.

Not before. There it is, Peter. You guys have been getting away literally with murder. We killed 200,000 people. how many millions have you killed putting out a product that you never tested for safety? And then once it's out in the market, that article goes on to say, we never had the correct funding to actually do post-marketing surveillance. You have a very system where people are dying every day with 37,544 reported deaths from

the COVID vaccine and all the rest of those issues, 1.6 million. And that's in the system that barely anyone knows exists or knows how to use. it. No doctor will go near it and the numbers are that high. And every study of that Bear system, including Harvard Medical School, said that it appears that bears captures less than 1% of the actual amount of vaccine adverse events that are reported. So what are we talking about? Yeah, I'm the danger to this country. Let's go on with this great vaccine that you stood behind and told everybody to get that was going to stop transmission, everything else. We've got, what is it, Cleveland clinic?

I think they're reputable. Effectiveness of the 2023, 2024 formulation of the coronavirus disease, 2019, MRNA vaccine against the JN1 variant. What did it say there? Consistent with similar findings in many prior studies, a higher number of prior vaccine doses was associated with a higher risk of COVID-19. It has negative efficacy. It's making more people sick, not less.

Peter, go ahead and suck on that piece of information for a while, would you? And let's go on to another study, a potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and the development of Alzheimer's disease. This is out of Korea. We covered this just recently. Finding show an increased incidence of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease in vaccinated individuals, particularly those who received the MRI vaccines within three months post-vaccination. The MRI vaccine group exhibited a significantly higher incidence.

of Alzheimer's disease, actually about 22.5% higher rates among the vaccinated. When it came to mild cognitive impairment, 137% increased risk. 137%. But God forbid, I tell you that, Peter Hottes wants to bring in NATO and Homeland Security to keep me from being able to say that to you. And lastly, you've seen the studies of myocarditis. They're all over the place. This is the giant Nordic study.

myocytitis in an Nordic cohort study of 23 million residents. The numbers were astronomical between 8 and 10 times the amount, 37 times the amount of myocotitis and paracotiditis in certain age groups. This vaccine was a disaster. It was the whole time. We called it out the whole time. And Peter, you know where I am. We're in the same state.

Why do we have a debate? Why you just be a human being? Why you sit on the stage and explain to me all of the things that I just pointed out. And for every one of you out there, I want you to recognize what it means to be the Highwire right now, what it means to be running a nonprofit called the Informed Consent Action Network. Peter Hotez is not alone. He's meeting with government officials all the time and heads of the pharmaceutical industry and your regulatory agencies, and they're coming up with talking points to figure out how to make Dell Bigtree and the Highwire a domestic terrorist here in this country for telling you the truth.

So you want to do me a favor. We need some protections here. We need to win some lawsuits so we can stop these people before they end what you know to be free press, before they end free speech, before they end up forcing your kid to take every crazy next product that has never been tested before. We have so much work to do. We're winning. It's why they're saying words like aggression. It's why they're coming after us. You saw we've got Aaron Siri in front of Congress. That's forcing Stanley Flodkin, the godfather of the vaccine program, to admit where we're saying words like aggression. It's why they're coming after us. You saw we've got Aaron Siri in front of Congress. That's forcing Stanley Flodkin, the godfather of the vaccine program to admit, we're right because he's got nothing else to say to these health departments that are wandering around with their hair on fire saying, I don't understand. How is it there's never been a vaccine safety study? We're winning, but they're going to try to close the door on us. I need your help now. Please, please take this as an important moment and say going to this election, whoever wins, there is work that needs to be done. We need these hearings to continue. We need to be able to bring all the evidence. We need to win in courtrooms. We need these things on trial. right now and we need the best lawyer, the one that can win every time he's in the courtroom,

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I was out in Milwaukee for some time where this was a point of conversation. I've been watching the hearings the way you have. I am blown away at the level of cover-up that's going on right before our eyes. I mean, it's like, have we not learned? Are we here again? Are we going to watch in a modern area where there are self-ups? now everywhere and act like it's a pruder film and no one should find out what actually happened? Well, I'm going to ask those hard questions right now, Senator Ron Johnson that finds himself in the middle of these hearings.

I've watched how he's been fearless on this subject of vaccine injury, and I've been watching him, and I hope he's going to be fearless on this discussion about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. This is what Senator Ron Johnson's been saying over the last couple of days. This was security failure. I think we all assume that, you know, Any kind of high rooftop is totally covered, totally secured. I mean, particularly after JFK's assassination from the, you know, in Dallas from, what was it, the sixth floor window? Yeah. I mean, we've just assumed the Secret Service has all that covered.

We are getting information from local law enforcement, and we appreciate that. But unfortunately, federal law enforcement agent, they're just saying, well, go through your congressional liaison. Again, that's going to be unacceptable. From my standpoint, the briefings were infuriating. Director Cheedel started out and she admitted there were mistakes and gaffs. Yeah, those mistakes and gaffes result in the death of an American hero who died protecting his family, two other Americans grievously wounded, and a former president's candidate almost assassinated. The Department of Justice, Secret Service, FBI need to be completely transparent.

I mean, completely transparent. They haven't been so in the past. I've sent a letter yesterday demanding these agencies preserve all of their records. I've already got a long list of questions. At the very end of the briefing, they said, well, if you have additional questions, submit them to DHS and the FBI. Well, I've submitted them.

I'll be waiting for answers. I won't be holding my breath. It's my honor and just real pleasure to be joined now by Senator Ron Johnson. Senator Johnson, from a lay position out here in the world, not working in government, it feels like the political system in America is the craziest I've ever seen in my lifetime.

Is that a shared sentiment amongst those working in government right now in Washington? Yeah, I think most of us would agree we live in interesting times. I would call them bizarre times. I mean, the number of major news events that just get layered one over the other, very dis-stabilizing, but I think the greatest,

The great instability we have in this country is the fact that we were just a horribly divided nation. And I was hoping, after the assassination attempt, we certainly heard it from President Trump and even President Biden from the Oval Office, that maybe that tragedy, and it was a tragedy, we lost an American hero, others grievously wounded, that tragedy could result in some good if it would wake Americans up to the fact that this is too great a threat to this nation. As Lincoln said, quoting scripture, a house divided against itself cannot stand. We need to heal and unify this nation. Maybe this tragedy can be a catalyst for doing that.

I hope so, and I absolutely agree with you, the level of vitriol, the idea that our opponents are the end of the democracy, end of the republic, end of the world. This type of language is just, it's hit a level that has now creating an environment, where I would say in many ways, I was shocked the very next day I was traveling right after the assassination attempt on President Trump and I was in the airport. I didn't hear anyone talking about it. I mean, you would think any other moment in history

in this country, it would at least be the conversation for the next 24 hours. And I just feel like in some ways, we are just accepting, yeah, you know, that happens. I think we're just so overloaded, as you said, by just this change, like this whirlpool of news and everything feels like it's just turned up to the maximum of 11. And our vitriol is so deep that it's almost like we accept that this is the world we live in and people can be shot at.

And, you know, it's really, it's really a scary time for this country. Well, I mean, murders on big city streets are just becoming common. So even though somebody tried to see lost their life, well, that happens. Yeah. You know, President Trump survived. You know, he got a hole in his ear. He's going to show up the convention.

Let's move on. Let's talk about something else. So, no, it's, again, these are perilous. These are troubling times. All these things that are happening, I hope they really do awaken Americans to the urgency of the moment. We can't continue to go down this path. You found yourself, I think, in a key position here.

You're a part of the investigations, the hearings that are taking place right now. around this assassination attempt. But I think even more importantly, it was your state, Wisconsin, where the convention was about to happen. What were your thoughts? I mean, what happened just as far as security

around what the convention was in your state? Did things have to change the moment you saw this assassination attempt just days before the biggest event in your state, maybe ever? How did that affect you? Because I know that there was a really big show you were putting on. and to think that at the center of it was a presidential candidate that is now under serious threat.

Well, there were already very serious security plans in place. There was law enforcement, you know, personnel from all over the country. It was really fun to see them. They were incredibly complimentary of Milwaukee and how nice Wisconsinites were. But we already had a pretty beefy security plan, a lot of manpower present and visible. That was definitely beefed up. I think security perimeters were tightened. I think probably fewer access zones.

So trying to get in and out of the convention's secured site took more time. It was kind of a hassle. Once you're inside, you felt very secure. And quite honestly, what few protesters were there, by and large were very peaceful, which I truly appreciated. And I just hope and pray that the same thing holds true for the DNC convention in Chicago. Let's let the political parties have their conventions. If you want to protest, protest peacefully.

So that honestly was a pretty good sign. There was one instance where protesters didn't let convention goers get into the zone, but that lasted for a very short period of time and pretty much it was a peaceful convention. And again, it was entirely bipartisan. You know, the mayor of Milwaukee's Democrat, the governor is Democrat. I mean, we all wanted the same goal. We wanted to showcase Milwaukee, people were impressed with it. We wanted people leaving with a very good impression of Wisconsin.

in Wisconsinites, and that absolutely happened. So totally bipartisan basis, which is helpful. Wow, so it could work. You guys actually can come together and get things done. It's a great sign. Let's get into the details a little bit because, I mean, this is, for those that are watching, this story of this assassination attempt is mind-blowing. I mean, it is, you're watching these hearings, of course, now the head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheathels is stepped down, which I suppose, is the right move. My first question is, does that change her ability to be subpoenaed for your ability to get answers from her? It's a lot of the questions that I have is did she step down to avoid having to answer these questions? I would personally think the opposite, that you have more

predictions when you're working inside of government than when you're outside. But what would be the answer to that? Has she protected herself from having to face some of the hard question that's going on? Well, the Inspector General Office now cannot interview her. subpoenas, you know, congressional inquiry can continue, but that would be the only impediment. And I think personally we've got a pretty good inspector general in DHS, which is one of the reasons I think the Biden administration is trying to ease him out the door. But anyway, that's really the only impact on that. You know, for my standpoint, I think we need a completely independent investigation. Now, this recognizes the fact that, you know, Secret Service,

FBI Department of Justice, they have certain investigatory tools and capabilities that we don't possess. And so we're going to have to rely on them to secure the site, do the ballistic testing, do a lot of that type of investigation work. But Congress certainly can do transcribed interviews. And that's what I've had my staff do almost immediately after the assassination. We started reaching out to law enforcement on the local state and federal level. Fortunately for us, local authorities are talking to us, I think partly because I think the federal officials are trying to throw them under the bus. So they want to get the truth out as quickly as possible. But we appreciate those law enforcement officials talking to us. I would say it's also good news.

I talked to the chairman of the permanent subcommittee investigation. I'm the ranking member there, as well as the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, which is the full committee over that subcommittee. Both of those chairman are interested in a bipartisan investigation. Senator Paul is a ranking member on the full committee. I think we have the agreement within the four of us to proceed, recognizing that you need to do interviews early before memory fades or is influenced by events. So hopefully this can be a bipartisan investigation. I just need to make sure it is absolutely thorough. I don't want to see investigatory leads go unfollowed up in case they may lead to some place, some people.

people may not want us to go. Yeah. The American people are going to demand the full truth here and full accountability. And that's certainly what I'm dedicated to providing. You know, I, even in like the, in this sort of just from a director's position of having been around some of these conversations, I have to say, in all honesty, that building is the first thing that I would have been looking at. It's in my light training, you look out over a space and we were told you look as far as a mile out.

Can you see any high ground, a mile out that has access to the stage? That is what I was taught. I'm not in Secret Service. I have to imagine that they're taught exactly the same thing. That is what is making this story so hard to wrap your head around that a building, you know, 150 yards, you know, away, which is clearly, in this sight line that, first of all, that no one's on it, but even if you couldn't, if you were just, you didn't have enough manpower to have someone on it, that you wouldn't have someone guarding it, watching it. And then the fact that we, you know, and you've got this brilliant

timeline you've released that we can look at, but you have people shouting and pointing out and going to saying to someone up there, you have, you know, snipers that already said there's a strange guy walking around. I mean, this story is absolutely mind-blowing. It is really, you know, hard for me to even accept that it's ineptitude right now at the level it's at, because as I'm saying, a novice that I would call myself and just looking at security issues the way I've been taught to, that roof is like prime number one space we're looking at the whole time, making sure that's covered. How is it, how can it be explained that the Secret Service just didn't have that same attitude?

Well, that's the $64,000 question, and you're right, that AGR building was obvious. Yes. As we spoke with local law enforcement, and we issued our initial findings, what I can say is just about every assumption you would make in terms of how Secret Service would handle protecting the life of a president, a former president, a candidate, and any of their protectees, they didn't do those things. So the first thing, they didn't attend the 9 o'clock security briefing the day of the event. I mean, they're in charge. You think they would have to be there to finalize plans, make sure people are allocated, make sure their AGR building was fully covered. Nobody could get on the roof because it's an obvious threat.

They didn't do that. They didn't show up. They were all on separate communication channels. So the county law enforcement snipers and SWAT teams, they were on a different communication channel than the county law enforcement patrol officers who were on a different channel from Secret Service. They were all filtering the communication through the Butler County Com Center.

So everything would have to be relayed, which would sort of help explain that the assassin was first noticed at 510 by the sniper team inside the AGR building. They took a photograph of him at 514. The first shots were 5-611. You know, like an hour out. I mean, that's a long time for people, hey, this guy's looking suspicious, sent some patrol officers there, check this guy out.

Okay? So again, just about everything you would assume the Secret Service would do they didn't do. And so that begs the question. Was this allowed to happen? I mean, I understand why people would think that, which is why the American public needs to have a full and complete explanation of how this spectacular. security failure could have occurred. It's not going to be good enough to hold a couple of hearings, get a couple of people to resign, and move on.

And the beauty of dell is this isn't in 1963 where you have one Zuprooter film. You've got hundreds of video cameras which are recording audio, and so there's all kinds of evidence out there. People need to preserve it. They need to come forward. They need to memorialize what they remember because memories do change. do change. They can be influenced by events, but we need a completely independent investigation.

That's where I intend to be a part of. Look, can we, I want to just bring up the timeline really quick just to read through this for people that haven't seen. I want to thank you for releasing this. I know you've said it's not complete. It's just sort of the basics of what you've learned here. But when we look at it at 9 a.m., they hold a briefing. Let's go ahead and move to the first time that they see him at 510, the next page of this. So at 510, Crooks is first observed by one of the snipers, one of the units at the AGR building at 514. Sniper 1 takes a picture. We got a picture. They're looking at him. This is a guy you're looking for. They take a picture of a strange bicycle with a backpack

at 532. AGR sniper one spots Crooks looking at his phone and using a range finder. Next page. AGR sniper one sends a message to the sniper group about this guy. At 5.3. He's told to call it into command, which he does at 541 calls into command and provides a description of crooks in the range finder as well as that crooks was lurking around. You got this guy? I mean, the fact that, I mean, you just can't believe they're not grabbing this guy already. What is going on? I mean, this, it's like a comedy of errors. And if it wasn't so tragic, 605, sniper one later communicates that crooks has seen moving northeast in their direction of sheets.

and the Crooks has a backpack at 6.06 to 612 AGR, Stepper 1, goes to ground floor of the building to meet local law enforcement patrol to alert them about Crooks. Presence at 611, Crooks begins shooting. And it goes on from there. You're reporting now that there were eight casings found where Crooks was found dead. Had there been discussions about the amount of shots there were? Was it just eight? I'm seeing all sorts of things online.

some people saying there's as many as 14, talks about a shooter on a water tower. Is any of that real? Is any of that a part of this investigation? Or from your perspective, are we really just looking at one shooter right now? Well, again, pretty interesting videos out there that kind of breaking down with audio files. The first three shots certainly sounded different than the next five that were very staccato, you know, closer together. Then you have the final shot probably took the sniper out. Again, this is what the FBI should be telling us.

They should be telling us how many shots did the Secret Service sniper fire? Was it just one? Was it two? What are your audio files showing? Because of that speculation out there of potentially three different guns being used, I thought it was pretty interesting. Once we got eyewitness testimony, the two eyewitnesses saw eight shells next to the body, Well, that will certainly start answering some of those questions.

I can't answer all the questions, but that's where we're trying to get this information out as quickly as possible. And we received a briefing the Senate did on Wednesday last week with the director of the FBI and Director of the Secret Service. Both of those directors said, we're trying to provide these briefings so that these conspiracy theories aren't hatched and they don't start spreading. Well, they're going to spread because you're not giving us information.

Director Cheedell, she was asked, how many shells? I'm referring to the FBI investigation. Why? I mean, if you know it's eight, say eight. There's nothing going to harm investigation by saying, you know, there are eight shells up there. I mean, it's just, that is what the bureaucrats do. That's what the deep state does.

They hide behind the age-old excuse of, well, there's an active investigation. I love to give the information, but active investigation, and what I found really infuriating is when she started saying it's only been nine days. When I heard that, I'm thinking, it's been nine days. How can you not have this information? How can you not have released this?

Why aren't you providing daily briefings, updates with what you know? You don't have to have the whole puzzle filled in right now. You want to have enough information so that conspiracy theories don't run wild, so you give the American public some confidence you're going to be honest and transparent. We've gotten none of that. And it's a real shame. You know, you're in government right now. You know, this is the type of story we're used to, as you pointed out, you know, with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, of Robert Kennedy.

These files always seem to be buried. Can you guarantee to the public right now that we are not going to live through another one of these events where suddenly this thing will just get packaged up, sent to a vault somewhere? I mean, do you feel like we're going to get the truth here as the American public? because, you know, we're sitting in a time where we keep asking every president, will you release the file so we know what actually happened in the JFK assassination and they don't? Are there, like, do you get a sense? I mean, I'm sure now you're in government, it's got to be weird being there. We always forget that, you know, at least guys like yourself that aren't like career politicians, that you find yourself in this position where these decisions are made.

Are there people around you you think that would like to see this all buttoned up and hidden from the public or is everyone bipartisan, you know, involved in wanting transparency right now? Can we expect transparency? Well, right now everybody's saying that. I mean, I will tell you I am absolutely dedicated doing everything I can to, you know, uncover and expose the full truth so we know what happened here. I can't say that's true. The agencies.

I don't trust the FBI. I don't trust Department of Justice. I don't trust the Secret Service. They give me all kinds of reasons not to trust them. I have firsthand knowledge not to trust them. So, I mean, we know that, you know, the Warren Commission was by and large set up to cover up what happened. And I would think, I would hope that President Trump, who said that Mike Pompeo talked to him out of releasing all the documents that were supposed to be released on the Kennedy assassination, I would hope the first day in office he released the truth to the American public in terms of what happened.

Because I think that will probably also open up people's eyes and help us ask some questions that people don't necessarily. want to have asked. Again, you can't explain this. This is such an amateurish attempt to protect a presidential candidate. It just, it bothers the mind. It's like it almost, you almost feel like something happened here on purpose. Can't say that for sure, but I can certainly understand why people would think that, which again, just underscores the need to be fully transparent, fully honest, and provide a full accounting so people can make sense of this. Yeah. I don't think people can be that incompetent, quite honestly.

Do you have colleagues that are going as far as saying that privately, just saying it looks like an inside job to me, or is everyone, are you all so well-trained at avoiding the big question? I mean, is that murmur even, is it, I mean, because outside, out here in the world, we're all going, come on. There's just too many questions. It seems harder to explain it as being accidental, at least, than it's like the Occam's razor, the simplest answer is usually the one that's true. What is the murmurings, you know, inside of, you know, official, like government officials right now?

Well, right now I think we're having such a hard time getting the agencies to be transparent with information they have. So right now it's all about, well, how do we, how do we, you know, coax this information? How do we extract this out of the agency? So we're focused on that. Again, the facts will lead us to our conclusions. So, you know, listen, we shouldn't be speculating. We really shouldn't be. No.

But I completely understand why others are, which is why it's so important for the information of the truth to get out there. This has to be explained, and right now, it's inexplicable. I mean, you literally cannot. I can't explain it. This makes no sense to me whatsoever. I know you've got to run. I do want to get into one of the topic because you've been having. having some of the most important hearings of all times for the work that I do, which is on

transparency around vaccines, especially the COVID vaccine, the COVID lockdowns. We've spoken many times. You are really making headway. Just want to play this clip of Robert Redfield on the stand, former head of the CDC. Let's take a look at this. I think, Senator, what you're getting at, which I'm 100% agreeing with you, is I think there was not appropriate transparency from the beginning about the, the potential side effects of these vaccines. And I do think there was inappropriate decisions

by some to try to under report any side effects because they argued that would make the public less likely to get vaccinated. I do think one of the greatest mistakes that was made, of course, was mandating these vaccines. They should have never been mandated. It should have been open to personal choice. They don't prevent infection.

They do have side effects. I'm going to clinic this afternoon. again, again, I appreciate your admitting side effects, but you have to admit the people of the agencies, the marks, the Dr. Marks, the Dr. Woodcock, they're still by and large denying this, right? They're saying, well, they're mild, they're rare, and they're mild. The FDA should release all of the safety data they have. I was very disappointed to hear that they were planning to hold on to that until 2026. That really creates a sense of total lack of trust in our public health agencies,

towards vaccination. It's counterproductive. So, Mr. Chairman, I'm not getting cooperation out of the chairman of the Perm, Subcommittee, to issue subpoenas to get this information, this information. You have not yet issued a subpoena to get the final 50 pages unredacted. I would suggest we do that. Again, as important as the cover-up of the origin story is there's a lot more that's being covered up the public has a right to know. We pay for these agencies. We pay their salaries. We fund these studies and they're not giving him to us. So, I mean, you know, this exchange, you know, that just took place, Robert Redfield is admitting things. The fact that he knew that vaccine injuries, uh, were going to happen,

that there's a cover up because they're trying to get the vaccine out. They wanted confidence. I mean, these are shocking. If we didn't live in a time where there was assassination attempts, this seems like some of the most shocking evidence ever to come about. Um, what is What is the response from your colleagues? Again, I keep asking this. You've been all alone. Are you starting to have some of your colleagues say, my God, did he just say what I heard him say?

Are we waking up here to the fact that a product looked like it wasn't properly tested? The head of the CDC knew it. He knew we were covering up, you know, getting it out there. I mean, what's happening? There was absolutely no reaction on the part of my colleagues. You know, the chairman of the committee, Gary Peters, he was the one that really ticked out Pierre Corey by calling him a political animal, basically, for Pierre Corrie's testimony in Ivermectin. Yeah. And so, no, I mean, I got no reaction. Unfortunately, I'm not on

committees where Dr. Redfield or Dr. Fauci would normally appear. Redfield came here because we're talking about gain of function research and how dangerous that is. Yeah. I took that opportunity. By the way, that was a good hearing. We need to figure out the cover up there. We still, by the way, haven't subpoenaed the last 50 pages of redacted emails out of Anthony Fauci. Right. You know, the chairman won't subpoena that. If I'm I would chair that would already be subpoenaed. So I've written over 60 oversight letters. If I become, if we get the majority,

I'll become chairman of the permanent subcommittee investigation, actually have stronger subpoena power than I did as chairman of the full committee. So I would fully intend to use that and start uncovering this. But no, short answer to your question, nobody, absolutely, nobody came up to me after my questioning. I thought it was kind of a blockbuster admission.

And I credit Dr. Redfield for being honest. But even that is pretty much a limited hangout, right? We hear Dr. Birx now saying, well, yeah, you know, vaccine injuries are real. We've seen a couple thousand. No, Dr. Burks, we've seen millions. Right. There's over 37,000 deaths associated with the COVID vaccine, 24% occurring on day zero, one or two. Come on, wake up.

But listen, I appreciate Redsfield's honesty. Hope and pray that we're in the majority and that I get the gavel, permissump can be investigation. I should. And that will be one of my primary focus. Now, obviously, we're going to have to certainly spend resources on getting the bottom of this assassination attempt as well. I mean, it's a target-rich environment here. I keep saying, I'm like a mosquito in a nudist colony.

There's a lot to investigate. It's a great line. Do you have any sense? I want to express a concern of mine. Donald Trump talks about vaccines more than any other president. He's shown some sense of, you know, even prior to running the last time when he won, that he thought vaccine injury was real. It could happen. Has he ever reached out to you on any of the testimony you're doing? Have you had any sense from him just like, great job, Senator Johnson, or

we're going to continue these hearings, you know, if I can get back in office, do you have any sense of where he is at? Is he watching your hearings? I've spoken to him a couple times on this subject. Again, he's pretty proud of Operation Warp Speed. I think he's pretty proud of the vaccine. but I've also heard him talk about his concern about vaccine injuries and children. You know, he had somebody worked for him whose child was obviously vaccine injured, which is why I think he was going to have Bobby Kennedy, you know, establish that commission for some reason he was talked out of it. I was very pleased to see what, you know, you revealed.

What was the gentleman's name again? Yeah, Stanley Plotkin, Stanley Plotkin has just come clean on the fact that they're, here's my concern on that, is that, yeah, they're looking for funding. So again, another limited hangout, not necessarily to get to the truth, but to get more funding so they can, you know, conduct studies. They're going to be corrupt and going to prove that vaccines are safe and effective. So that we cannot let happen. So don't be fooled by this limited hangout. And I know you're not fooled.

But again, the truth is coming out. They simply can't deny it anymore. I think more people's minds are open to this. And I think President Trump's mind will definitely be open to these vaccine injuries, particularly on the childhood schedule. One of my concerns is, you know, clearly you're doing these hearings with Joe Biden as president because there seems to be Republican pushback. There's some partisanship around this, though.

There shouldn't be. My concern is a little bit that if Donald Trump was elected president, that he might shut down these hearings and investigations in the COVID lockdown because, as you said, He loved Warp Speed. His name's attached his vaccines, kind of got the big Trump gold letters on the side of it. I'd be worried that, you know, knowing his need to sort of be right,

people call him an egomaniac, whatever, but that, you know, even if he goes on to do things, you know, limited hangouts, as he point out, maybe looking at vaccine investigations in the future, I'm concerned he might try to shut these hearings down because he just doesn't look good.

This lockdown, the pandemic, how it's handled by both President Trump, Trump and Joe Biden. They both handled this poorly, shut down businesses. He rushed the vaccine out. You know, if I guess my question to you is, is if you're a Republican leader, you finally get a president and they said, Ron, I need you to sort of look the other way on these investigations. Is there a risk that these investigations be shut down? Because they're really important for the work that we're doing. Could it turn on a partisan dime to sort of just say, we don't want to make the president look bad any longer?

With me, there is zero percent chance risk of that happening. Zero. Okay. There is no way I'm going to be deterred. It's the main reason I ran for re-election in 2022. I could be living a good life right now. I ran because I couldn't turn my back on this country, but also the vaccine injured needed an advocate

because there were no advocates. So now I've been laying all the foundational groundwork to do these investigatory oversight hearings. We will do those. Okay, and also from a standpoint of President Trump, he's not going to be up for re-election. I mean, he has a new lease on life. There's no way that could happen to any of us and not have it literally change our life. So he's been granted a new lease on life.

Hopefully he will be on a mission to expose truth, to heal and unify this nation, to start addressing these enormous challenges that face our nation. But no, there will be no way that I'll be deterred. This is why I ran again. This is going to be my mission in life. We need to get to the truth. And not just on the COVID vaccines. You know, I want to take it upon myself to make sure that the childhood vaccine schedule is explored, that we expose the fact these things had never been tested against the true placebo.

I mean, the massive amount of vaccine. I mean, people are asking questions. Yeah. The American public is starting to open up their eyes. And that's what COVID did. It was so mismanaged. We were lied to, obviously lied to by so many people. government that a lot of a lot of I don't know what percentage but a pretty good significant share of the

American public does not trust these federal health agencies does not believe what they've told you know during COVID and so they're starting to question all the other lies as well so I think we have a real opportunity here to expose this and hopefully correct course well that makes me feel really good I won't say that I trust Donald Trump or any you know anyone else who ever as president of the United States. I think these are some of the most important hearings going on. As you point out, this childhood schedule has been a part of a lot of lives for many decades now. The government's behind it. It's time for transparency. It's time for us to unite in bipartisan missions to start finding ways to come to answers together. You know, I've said it before.

When you look at a photo, have you played sports at all? If there's a team across the field, it's all yelling and screaming at each other, that team loses 100% of the time. We're going to lose in the world if we keep yelling at each other. It's time to bring back the vitriol, bring it down, start having communications, find out where we can agree and work from there. I'm just so happy that you're in there. It's just an honor to know you're truly a hero in this time. I know what a sacrifice it is. You know, you could be retired. You could be out boating on the lakes up there in beautiful Wisconsin. Instead, you're doing the work for the people. So keep it up. That's a great encouragement. Thank you so much for all you're doing, Senator Johnson.

Dale, you're doing the same thing, and I don't know how anybody could not watch Vaxed your documentary and not look into this, not take this seriously. I mean, that is a hard documentary to watch. It literally took me three cracks at the apple to get all the way through it. That's the kind of information, the truth that people have to see. And once they see it, once your eyes are open, you can't close them. So again, I've actually got a fair amount of hope that we can open this up and we can change course. Fantastic. We're supporting you all the way. Take care. And thank you for taking the time today. Share all of your thoughts. Thank you. All right. All right. Well, you know, Senator Ron Johnson, first of all, we got a guy. We got a guy on the inside. I mean, that's all I know. What a gift he is to the movement that we've been a part of here, really bringing transparency to this vaccine issue. Even earlier when I think about Peter Hote's.

screaming to bring in NATO. Yeah, I got Senator Ron Johnson and more and more politicians around him are starting to wake up to the reality that we've been lied to in a major way. For those of you, they're maybe just watching the high wire for the first time or new to it. Maybe you don't know what he's talking about when he brings up the film Vaxed. Vax was a documentary I made that I got involved with. Actually, for about a year and a half it had been in production. I was working at CBS and the daytime chalk show The Doctors. I did know about this. story of a whistleblower inside the CDC named Dr. William Thompson that came forward and said they were committing scientific fraud on the vaccine safety studies, especially the study

looking at the MMR vaccine and autism. Well, through an incredible set of circumstances, I ran into Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who had been working on this film for over a year and a half. I got involved and helped him finish that film. We actually spent about another year. When I was working with him. One of the things that, you know, I brought to it as a producer. This is, you know, what I do. I remember, you know, saying to Andy and Polly Tommy, one of my co-producers, you know, this story is very scientific. It was all about the science at the CDC and a study that was fraudulent. I was like, do you have any interviews of parents that have gone through this issue with their child maybe they have before and after photos or things? Because, I mean, I think it would be great

if we could just feel the emotion of parents that are going through this. Believe it or not, that that wasn't really in the film at the moment. And I'll never forget, Andy, you know, and probably Polly, they both said, I mean, yeah, we've been doing those interviews for years and years. I was like, well, let me take a look at them. Let's see if we can make that a part of this film. And they gave me a hard drive. And I'll never forget, I spent an afternoon just, you know, they had dozens and dozens

of these, you know, incredible interviews of people who had worked. watch their child regress into autism after the MMR vaccination. But I will be honest with you. There were some great interviews in there. Many of them made it into the film Vaxed. But one changed, changed me immediately. And it was the story told by Sheila Ely. And the conversation about her twins when she brought them in to get an MMR vaccine.

And because of a mistake, her son got two. outcome for both of those children could not be more different. But the way she told the story and the passion with which she told the story, I called my wife and I said, I just saw an interview that is going to change their trajectory of this film forever. It is going to sweep the world. This is the type of story that is going to move hearts and minds. We just lost Sheila Ely this week in a long fought battle with cancer. But she will never be free. Her contribution in vaxed is probably the most important story in there. Of course, she toured all over the country telling that story.

But for those of you that have never seen it, or maybe it's just been a little while, this was Sheely Ely, and the story that I believe made vaxed, the international success that it became. Temple walked at 12 months, so he had been walking for an entire month before we went in. For the next set of vaccinations, the minute we were, we were walking for a whole month. The minute we walked into the pediatric office, Lou, his twin, she's screaming her head off. I mean, she knows what's going on. She doesn't want the doctor touching her. I look up, and there she's got the shots lined up.

Three for him, three for her. By the second shot, Lucinda had flipped herself over, so I had to stop looking at what I was doing. Unstrap her, get her out. Where the minute I get her out, and I calm her down a little bit, and I'll look over her. he's screaming. I look at the shots and I noticed that one of hers was gone. There are only

two shots left for her and I asked the nurse practitioner I said, what happened to that other shot? She says, oh my goodness, I gave it to him. I said which one was it? She said it was the other MMR. I said call the doctor. This baby

is screaming his head off. You've given him an extra shot. I don't know what the effects of that's going to be. We're leaving and I left so she never got her shots I go home this baby cried cry cried I put him down on his little blanket he starts banging his head on the floor banging his head on the floor next morning I go in this room and he's staring in this space and he's looking around like this as if you know he's a bit paralyzed Not the baby who was always doing this every morning and smiling for me to get him out of bed.

And I pick him up and he does this. And I said, what has happened to my baby? So I call a clinic. And I said, I think my child's had adverse reaction to those shots yesterday. She says, no, no, no. I'm waiting for a representative from Merck. I don't think it was a reaction to that. I take him to see the pediatrician that I know.

And she looks at me, she closes the door, and she whispers. She says, Sheila, I believe he has autism. I said, what? Like rain, man? She says something like that. I'm going to refer you out to a neurologist. And we go see the neurologist the next week. He says, he has every classical symptom of autism.

I do not believe this. I was angry. When he was explaining to me what Canna's autism is, he told me he was born that way. I said, no, he wasn't. Temple's twin is amazing. She is fluent in three languages. She speaks French like a native. She is an A student. She plays classical piano.

With all of the guilt that I feel from that day, One of the best decisions I made for her was to walk out of that office without her being vaccinated at the end of this journey I don't want to be one of those mothers standing there saying what I wish I would or could or should have done I want to be able to say

I gave it everything that I had I gave it my best shot his twin is gone into the 11th grade and for someone who still can't manage to cross the street Now am I grateful he's here, you bet? I'm grateful my son lived. And I was so naive that he would live a fulfilling life.

He would end up being a happy man, having a family. My dreams for him. But my son gets the further than dream seems to be. Well, Sheila, you definitely will not be forgotten, and certainly that interview will never be forgotten. You've spoken, you've been the voice for so many parents that have a similar story, too many millions, perhaps, across the world. But what a warrior mother, Sheila Ely was. And for those of you that want to help out, there is a go-fund meet trying to handle the expenses, the funeral expenses and that, because she was always so busy fighting for us.

Let's step up and help her out. It is. Give Send GoFund Me. Give Send Go. BIT. There it is. You can get the link right there and you can look it up. And let's make sure that she's taken care of and that her family is taken care of so they can get through this very difficult time. What an amazing person. I really feel blessed to have known her. And for those of you that maybe are now curious, oh, what is this movie of Axed? I mean, I think it's one of the most powerful films as Senator Ron John and said, hopefully it doesn't take you three times to get through it, like he said it did him.

It is a powerful movie. It has been very effective. I've seen doctors when we were on tour, which is that's what puts me in the middle of the high wire in this work with the informed consent action network. When I was on tour with that film, I remember doctors would come up yelling at me outside, specifically, one, a pediatrician, just really upset and saying that I was going to get babies killed. And I said, are you going to watch the film? He said, yes, just so that I can refer. feud everything that's in there. It said, great, come out and talk to me afterwards. And I'll never forget, he came out with tears running down his face. He can barely breathe. And he said, I'm going to have to get a therapist to be able to atone for what I've done.

I don't know, I mean, I've said it before. It's something special about that movie. I don't exactly know what's in it, that it moves doctors and nurses that actually go and watch it. But it is a powerful film. If you want to watch it, you can do that for free on our website. website at the highwire.com. All you have to do is just click on that little magnifying glass type in vaxed up there in the corner and it'll pop up and you can watch the whole film. Share it with everyone you know. I think Senator Ron Johnson is right. If you, this is a new journey for you. If you have a parent or a family member that's maybe about to have a child and they want to start this journey into vaccinations, that film, just say, hey, let's have some popcorn. Let me just show you a film that really moved me and changed me. It's very effective that way. I want to point out that I haven't been, had the time lately to speak publicly that often. It's something that I'm usually doing. But this Monday I'm going to be in Orlando, Florida, speaking a great event with my good friend Ben Rawl.

Take a moment right here. There he is. Chiropractor, he puts on spectacular events. I'm really looking forward to speak in the audience there. If I get the opportunity, maybe I can answer some questions, do some Q&A. There's so many questions all of you have. But take a moment right now to get a photo. I'm going to give you enough time.

There's been some pressure on, you know, him, you know, getting funding. I mean, just the whole, the usual censorship's going on. So he's using QR codes. I want to make sure you take the opportunity to take a picture of that. We're going to be in Orlando, Florida. It starts at 5.15 p.m. this Monday. I'm really looking forward to seeing all of you in person. If you haven't seen me in person, believe it or not, I can be.

even more emotional when I speak on the stage. I love having an audience. I'm looking forward to having that opportunity in Orlando, Florida. So for all of you, I'll see you there. There's a quote I saw that came out this week that I think really speaks to something that we all have to be very focused on. Going back to how I opened the show

with my best friend saying, I've lost the ability to be surprised. This is by Hannah Arendt. She is a German philosopher. This constant lie is not intended to make the people believe a lie, but to make no one believe anything anymore. A people who can no longer distinguish between truth and falsehood cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

And such a people, which considers itself deprived of its power, to think and to judge, is also, without knowing or wanting, completely subject to the law of lying. With such people, you can do. whatever you want. You know, I said it early on. You, you know, here at the high wire, we go out of our way, cannot tell you how much work we do to make sure that what we're delivering to you is factually accurate so that you can share it with your friends.

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to your friends, well, Del Bigtree said, blah, blah, blah, you can show them the CDs study, the JAMA study, the excerpt from New York Times, whatever you want. This is such a brilliant tool we put in your hands so that you can be informed. But I want to say this. If you allow yourself to just be, oh, I give up, I don't know who to trust anymore, I don't know what's going on, I don't care to know, I'm just going to stick my head in the sand. They, if there is a they, have won. And no, I don't believe they're all in concert with each other. They're creating chaos from their perspective so that you give up even looking for them. You give up in looking for the truth. And so right now, and believe me, it's only going to get crazier.

As we get closer and closer to this election, there is real change at stake. There are real corporate interests that are trying to take our rights as free citizens in this country away. They're trying to take away our right to vote, to be a part of the election process, which we've talked about this whole time. So you need to be informed. The only way to be a valuable citizen is to be an informed citizen. So whether it's the high wire or some other show, look at the track record of the shows that you're watching and say, do I trust them? Have they ever gotten it wrong? How often have they gotten it wrong? Do they correct it when they do get it wrong? Do I feel confident that every time I've shared something from that group that they got it right? Do they give me

evidence of what they're talking about. Do they put it in my hands or they tell me just to trust them? And whoever that group is for you, whatever that agency is for you, fund them. Vote with your dollars. Take care of them. Make sure that they're there for you when the going gets rough because trust me, it's rough now and it doesn't look like it's going to get any better. This new cycle is getting crazier and crazier and crazier. So if you have watched the highwire and said they've never led me astray. They were right when everyone else was wrong. They were bold when everyone else was timid. I hope you'll find the heart in the moment today to start helping funding the work that we're doing. We care about you. We're here for you. We're asking the questions we believe

you want to have asked. And we're making sure we get the right answers, not just the answers they give us. We're going to continue to ask the questions. Dig deeper. As I pointed out, there are so many more important questions that need to be asked. There aren't being asked. by anyone else. This is what the high wire is all about. The informed consent action network is our nonprofit. We're dedicated to finding the information in informing you so you can make an educated decision

about the choices you're making in your life. We take this very seriously, and we want you to take the truth very seriously. This is our time. We are being empowered with the truth. We're winning. We're moving mountains. We're winning lawsuits.

Thank you for all of you that are part of this. And just know this. The truth always prevails. We're going to bring you the truth like we do every single week. I'll see you next week on the high wire.