TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - House Suspense: Could Moderate Republicans Elect a Democrat Speaker?

Episode Date: January 3, 2023

History was made today in Washington when California Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy failed to gain the necessary 218 votes to be elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. Mr. McCarthy’s defeat today was the first time since 1923 that the US House needed multiple ballots to elect a Speaker. We will also discuss the possibility that Donald Trump may run as a third-party candidate in 2024. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 1/3/22. You can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969.The Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielfIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day. https://www.rickwiles.com/final-day

This is true news, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help us God. History was made today in Washingtonhington when california republican representative kevin mccarthy failed to gain the necessary 218 votes to be elected speaker of the house of representatives mr mccarthy's defeat today was the first time since 1923 100 years that the united states house needed multiple ballots to elect a speaker doc burkhardt and i will talk about today's historic event plus we'll talk about that uh the rumors that donald trump may run as a third party candidate in 2024 we got a lot to talk about here today doc it's going to be a great God cast today, Rick. A lot of information today.

So let's start with the votes that have been two votes so far. They may be going for a third vote as we are sitting here right now recording true news. But we'll start with an NBC report from earlier today. McCarthy loses first vote for Speaker, sending House to second ballot for the first time in 100 years. The next story is from Politico. This came about an hour later. Open revolt. McCarthy rejected a second time. Yes. So Kevin McCarthy again failed to secure the votes for Speaker in a highly unusual second ballot as his dozen-plus detractors refused to relent in their push for fresh leadership atop the party. This time,

conservative hero Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio personally urged his colleagues to back McCarthy in a speech before the vote. Instead, 19 Republicans voted for Jordan on the floor, again sending GOP leaders scrambling. And so we're heading to a third vote, as Rick mentioned. Don't know if that's going to happen this evening. They're on an apparent break right now, going back to what they call conference, where they're meeting together with their various groups. I'm not so sure. I was coming out here, Doc. Really? I was listening to the talks. I think that they were being called back

to vote again. Really? Okay. Yes. We'll show you. Here's a video clip from C-SPAN. This is what the voting has looked like today. Webster of Florida. McCarthy. So on the screen, you saw on the left-hand side the vote tally, and it was McCarthy, what was it, 203? Yes. And Jeffries, 213. Right. Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader.

Yes. Who had more votes than Kevin McCarthy. That's right. Leading the Republicans. And, I mean, worst case scenario, Rick, if five Republicans shifted their vote to Jeffries, I mean, some moderate Republicans shifted their vote to Hakeem Jeffries, it's possible that you could have a Democrat as Speaker of a Republican majority house. It's possible. Thank God Liz Cheney's not there right now. That's true.

You could also have the reverse, Doc, where the Democrats team up with the Liz Cheney type of person. Yes. And elect a moderate Republican where the Democrats and a group of Republicans come up with a power sharing agreement as far as committee assignments and the power that they're going to have in the House. So this could go either way. So the person who is running the house right now, this is interesting, is the clerk of the house. And that is this lady right here, Cheryl Johnson.

She's not an elected member of the house. She is the clerk of the house. And she was appointed to that position in 2021 by the former Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. And so temporarily, until the Republicans elect a Speaker, Mrs. Johnson is running the House. Yes. And another aspect of that, too, is no other business can get done until an election for a speaker is settled. There's nothing. They have not even adopted the rules for this session of the House. I've got a question for you. Have the new members been sworn in yet?

Yes. They have been. Yes. So they're voting in the new session, the 118th session. Yes. Okay. I just want to be clear on that. Yeah.

It's not the- No, it's the new Congress. Okay. So that's why they have 218 votes. They have the majority of the seats. But this is extremely embarrassing for Kevin McCarthy. I don't think the most extreme things that could happen would be the two things we just talked about. A small group of Republicans team up with their Democrats

and either elect a Democrat to be the speaker or elect a liberal moderate Republican to be the speaker or elect a liberal moderate Republican to be the speaker. That's the most extreme radical thing that could happen. And it's not out of the question. And it could bring back Nancy. But realistically, they would, if they went down that road, they would choose, I would think that they would choose either a moderate Democrat or a liberal Republican. Most likely what will happen is Kevin McCarthy will drop out.

The wisest, my personal opinion, is he should drop out. He's already lost. And to only have a slim majority of what, six seats. Right. If he won, he's already a weak speaker. I was going to ask you that very question. He's already wounded.

He's already bleeding. He's already bleeding. He's not going to be a strong speaker. He would be a one-termer. The third vote is taking place right now. So they're voting again. Yes. It does not appear that any of the 19 Republicans are going to bend. I mean, you had Jim Jordan who gave a speech to them saying come on vote for mccarthy and then he gets and they and they voted for him right they voted for jordan

so you know this could end while we're sitting here as as possible there could be i mean mccarthy could win i i don't think that's going to happen. I think that they're going to continue to vote. And at some point, McCarthy is going to realize they're not going to budge. And there's going to be a stalemate. This is embarrassing, not only for the Republican Party and for Kevin McCarthy, but it's embarrassing for the House of Representatives. The whole world's watching this right now. You guys can't elect a leader to hold your meetings. What does this say to the world? So I would hope that Kevin McCarthy would do the right thing and simply say, hey, look, I love my country, and I don't want to put the country through this type of

emotional stress and division, and I'm just going to step aside and get out of this race and let somebody else be chosen. If that happened, I think you'd have the two people that would be most likely would be Steve Scalise. I think he'd have the upper hand. The next one would be Jim Jordan. But most likely Steve Scalise. Now, we'll remind our audience, we're not limited to members of the House being Speaker of the House. No, they can elect anybody. Right. If this was six, if six months, if this vote was taking place six months ago,

I would actually believe that Donald Trump could be elected Speaker of the House. But Donald Trump has lost so much political support in six months that he couldn't do it now. The Republicans wouldn't. The Republicans wouldn't, wouldn't do it. Six months ago, they would have. But you had the FBI raid and you've had his taxes being released. You've had the January 6th hearings. The Kanye West. The Kanye West debacle, the NFTs, all that kind of stuff. And his political stature has dropped and dropped and dropped and dropped. And right now he doesn't have the clout that he had six months ago. I was listening to various news channels this afternoon trying to get a bearing on,

you know, if they did go outside the House, what was the name that was being tossed about? One was Representative Lee Zeldin from New York. His name is being tossed around. Now, of course, he lost the election in New York, but he gained a lot of political favor by bringing what they're saying, a lot of clout for the GOP. Let me ask you this. About Newt Gingrich. Well, I was going to ask you, who would be your dream speaker?

Bring in Newt Gingrich, bring him back for two years. Newt Gingrich would whip the house into shape. That would be awesome, wouldn't it? That would be interesting to see. The nightmare would be Nancy comes back. Yes, and that's, hey, I forget what year it was, but somewhere in the 1800s, it went to 113 ballots. It was a few years before the Civil Wars in the 1850s. 113 ballots.

So it's entirely possible they could be going for days. That went two months. Wow. It's actually good for the country that the Congress is paralyzed. So they're not doing anything. They can't do anything. Nothing is happening. But I don't think it'll go like that. I think Mr. McCarthy will step aside at some point and Steve Scalise or Jim Jordan or a surprise candidate will come along and become the speaker.

But he is, he's damaged goods right now. And there's just too much animosity against him. You've got 19 people. Doc, a week ago the political pundits were saying five Republicans were going to vote against him. You go back and look at the articles.

Five Republicans are going to vote against him. And he could only lose four votes. And they said right now there are to vote against him. And he could only lose four votes. And they said, right now, there are five votes against him. And the last ballot here was 19. 19. So the number of people opposing him went up. That's not a good sign for him.

So I don't... I mean, he's going to have to peel away a lot of votes of those 19 to get down to that there's only four opponents. That's going to be a major hurdle. He's got to get 15 of those people to back down. That's not going to be easy because right now they're emboldened. You know they're emboldened, the 19. Like, hey, we stopped McCarthy. They're thinking that way. And why would they back down?

They're in the driver's seat right now. So I think they're going to hold on through the night. And I think by tomorrow, I expect McCarthy will be out. That's what I think. But as you said, even if McCarthy wins, he goes in as a weakened speaker. He's a wounded, bleeding speaker. He's not going to have much clout. Don't forget, we're without a Speaker of the House right now,

and the Speaker is third in line for the presidency. So actually, you could actually say, well, it's third in line. If President Biden died and Kamala Harris, for some reason, didn't take the position or something happened to her. The next person to be elevated to the presidency is the Speaker of the House. Right. Right now, we don't have a speaker. We don't have a speaker.

So then it goes to the— Secretary of State. Well, actually— No, Senate pro tem. Senate pro tem. Yes. And currently, that's pro tem. Yes. And currently that's Patty Murray. Yes.

So let's hope nothing happens tonight. President Murray. Okay. We mentioned about the rumor that Donald Trump could run for president in 2024 as a third party or an independent. This is Newsweek. Trump post article urging him to ditch the Republican Party, run as a third party or an independent. This is Newsweek. Trump post article urging him to ditch the Republican Party, run as a third party candidate. And this is, I'll show you the article.

We're not going to read the entire article. I'll show you the headline. Oh, this is from Newsweek. Right, so if Donald Trump doesn't emerge as the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nominee, he might just try to go it alone. On Wednesday, the former president posted an article titled, The Coming Split to His Truth Social Account.

And that particular piece argues that if the Republican establishment opted against Trump as its 2024 nominee, then he should run as a third-party candidate. This is the previous Wednesday, of course. Yeah, so there's the article. Yeah, American Greatness, a very pro-Trump publication. And so it asks a question, what should we do when a majority of Republicans want Donald Trump, but the Republican Party establishment says we can't have him? And it's a great question because obviously, Rick, within

the Republican voting base itself, there is a lot of support for Donald Trump. But as far as the party is concerned, they're trying to stay as far away as they possibly can from Donald Trump. Absolutely. And, you know, you go back to 2016, Doc, there were rumors, I say rumors, there were accusations in the Republican Party that Donald Trump was a Democrat on a mission to destroy the Republican Party. Well, and there. And he was a Democrat. At one time, yes, this guy, Trump, his real goal is to destroy the Republican party. Here we are now in 2023 and there's open talk. Even Donald Trump himself is, is a retweeting this, you know, on his, on his platform, Truth Social,

the very article saying Donald Trump should leave the Republican Party, run as an independent. Yes, and here's... Or a Trump party. Most likely he'll start the Trump party. Right, so here's his Truth Social, where he quotes that article or posts the link to that article. That obviously sends a message out there to the general public, but especially to his base, that this is a consideration, that if we can't do a takeover of the GOP, then go do something else. Now, if something like that would happen,

obviously Rick would split the Republican party right down the middle. Um, there'd be a lot of people that would be okay with that. Um, last time something like that happened, doc was a New York Republican. Yes. Like Donald Trump. Yes. And a wealthy New York Republican. Yes, by the name of Teddy Roosevelt. And this is the election of 1912. So in the election of 1912, you had a sitting Republican president of Taft. That's the third individual mentioned there. So you have Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, President Taft, and Eugene Debs, a perennial socialist candidate. But in that particular year, 1912, when Teddy Roosevelt left office in 1908, he had made a pledge that he wasn't going to run it for a third term.

He endorsed William Howard Taft for president. But as the Taft presidency, you know, began to roll through, a division developed in the Republican Party between Roosevelt and Taft, and that led to a split, basically, within the Republican Party. When he got to the convention, Teddy Roosevelt didn't win the nomination, but he garnered enough votes at the convention that they had another convention that basically started the Progressive Republican Party, or what's been called the Bull Moose Party. And progressive wasn't what it is today. Right. It had a totally different meaning. Now, that was the campaign where Teddy Roosevelt got shot in the chest and everything, kept on delivering his speech and everything.

Which is why this is where the Bull Moose name came from. That's right. The guy campaigned. In fact, he went to his grave with that bullet still in him. Still in his chest, in the chest muscle. And he made a remark. He said it takes more than one bullet to take down a Bull Moose. Right.

And that's where they got the nickname, the Bull Moose Party. But the split within the GOP ended up with Wilson, which I consider to be a socialist light as compared to Debs, ended up with Wilson now becoming president. And that, of course, and this is what the electoral map looked like in 1912. So now Wilson only had 41 percent of the vote. Now think about this. Wilson only garnered 41 percent of the national vote.

Roosevelt, 27%. Taft, 23%. Sitting president, Taft, 23%. And Debs, Eugene Debs, 6%. But look at the electoral map here, Rick. With only 41% of the vote, Wilson carried most of the country in the electoral college.

And Roosevelt, even though it was far behind, you have far more electoral votes than President Taft. Right. And Roosevelt didn't even carry New York where he was from. But he carried California. Yes. And Washington State. And so, of course, this set in motion

the extreme liberal policies of the Wilson administration. You know, you had the League of Nations. You had everything else. That was the beginning of proto-New World Order. You also got the income tax, the IRS, the Federal Reserve. So all the things that have been set in place for the past 100 years. Elections matter. Elections matter in a big way.

And like it or not, we have basically a party system here in the U.S. And a split within the GOP could have disastrous results that we'll see 100 years from now. We're still dealing with stuff Wilson and the Wilson administration did 115 years later, 110 years later. That's how important an election is and how it's so essential to come to a consensus. Now, there are some issues you just can't come to a consensus on, but this is a big deal that we're talking about here if Donald Trump should go to a third party. And even, let me throw this out, Rick, even if Trump should go to a third party. And even, let me throw this out, Rick, even if he does go to a third party, let's say that happens and he wins, wins, and even

wins the electoral college, can an independent govern in a two-party system? It's never really been tried. And so I don't, I think you'd I think he'd be really a lame duck because you'd have two parties against him once he got in. The only way he could lead is that his popularity would have to be so high that the members of the House and the Senate would be afraid to oppose him. Right. So it's a great question to see how all this is going to play out here over the next couple of years. But if he started running, Doc, if he started, if he runs as an independent or third party,

if he puts up Trump candidates for every House and Senate seat? Yes. He would wipe out the Republican Party because they would be defeated. That wouldn't mean that the Trump people would win. It would mean that the conservative vote would be split and Democrats would win traditional Republican seats. It would be an interesting scenario. But if something like that is going to happen, it has to happen soon. I mean, like it or not, we're in the presidential campaign cycle right now for 2024.

But we're also in the congressional cycle for 2024. And there are people that are sitting around all over the country saying, do I run? Do I sit this one out? And if I run and I get a Trump endorsement, is that a death knell or is that a sure win for me? So there's a lot of people that are going to be considering these things. And if Donald Trump does go independent or start the Trump party and we have Trump endorsed candidates, it's going to be an interesting scenario to see played out. But it means you and I will have work for the next couple of years. That's right.

There will be plenty to talk about. But one thing's for sure, even if that does happen, you've got a large Democrat bloc of voters and representatives that are not going to shift to Trump. They're just not because it's an ideological battle. But the reverse is true. You've got this big group of Trump supporters who aren't going to go the other way. So the countries polarized, even inside the major polarized groups, they're sub-polarized. To extremes on both sides. And the man who right now is the leading candidate to be the Republican

nominee in 2024 is Governor Ron DeSantis of our home state here in Florida. And today in Tallahassee, the state capitol, he was sworn in for his second term today. And so we have we got a couple video clips of the inauguration. This is the governor and his wife and family being escorted to to their seats at the front of the service. Watch this. Ladies and gentlemen, Governor Ron DeSantis, First Lady Casey DeSantis, Madison, Mason and Mamie DeSantis, First Lady Casey DeSantis, Madison Mason, and Mamie DeSantis. ¶¶ Well, a couple of comments. Well, first of all, Mrs. DeSantis is going to make a very nice first lady of the United States of America. When I first saw her come out earlier today, the first thought I had was Jackie Kennedy. That's exactly what I thought, too.

And I think they did that on purpose. It's all that imagery because they're considering that. She resembles Jackie Kennedy. Right. And bringing the children out of course, it's a young family. It's youth. It's

vibrant. Reminders of Camelot in the Kennedy administration. And Trump is old. And in two years, he's going to be older. That's right. vibrant, reminders of Camelot in the Kennedy administration. And Trump is old. Right. And in two years, he's going to be older. That's right. Okay. I really think Donald Trump's time is over.

And I know there's some diehard Trump people watching me and you're getting angry. I'm just talking about... Optics. Optics. Yes. Okay. Forget about how, you know, his views. that you know he's what is he 78 now i think he's 76 he'll be he'll be 78 in 2024 i mean we're coming off of think about in 2024

76 the democrats are going to nominate a guy in his 80s. Who has to be led around by his hand and he can't form sentences. And you're going to nominate as his opponent. Someone pushing 80. Yeah, another one pushing 80. No, the time of the baby boomers is over. It's over, Doc. He's done.

Sorry, Rick. That's it. I missed my chance this is it okay that's the way it is the baby boomer time for presidents is over but watching this clip here you know it definitely they're framing it as consider this two years from now. So what generation group is Ron DeSantis? I think he's pushing Gen X. Is he? Yeah, so I'll double check. It's going to be a generational shift.

It's certainly not going to be Joe Biden, and I don't think it's going to be Donald Trump. I think the country... He's 44, so that puts him beyond beyond gen x that puts him millennial almost you go back to 1960 yeah i missed my chance to yeah yeah i'm out too you go back to 1960 uh general dwight eisenhower had finished his second term. He was World War II Allied Commander. Well respected, well loved, but he was old.

He was of another age, another time, World War II. He was the right man to lead the country after World War II the right man, right time but when 1960 came nobody from that World War II generation was the right person that's why it fell to John F. Kennedy

who was a soldier in World War II not a general. And so the country was ready for a youthful president. Because early 60s, there was hope in the world. We're putting men into space. I mean, we're not limited to just our country anymore. We're going to conquer the galaxy. So you and I, a couple of us here today, we ran out the door like kids

because we remembered there was a SpaceX launch, what, at 9.56, 10.56, whatever. And we got outside stretching our necks just in time to see the SpaceX rocket go into the atmosphere. So this is one of the great things of living in Florida. You get to see the launches. But that launch was from what used to be Cape Kennedy's back to being Cape Canaveral. But again, here we are, Cape Kennedy, Cape Canaveral, space launches. People still go outside to see a rocket go into the atmosphere. And that takes you back to John F. Kennedy.

Ron DeSantis is going to be the Republican John Kennedy. Young family, attractive wife, nice little children. He's going to be the Republican John Kennedy. And of course, he has an underdog story. He had no chance in the first election to win, comes up, wins, then wins overwhelmingly. His wife has gone through a cancer battle so she's got a story yes there's so many things that like him or not that he's the most he's marketable right donald trump is not marketable ron de santis is marketable so uh donald trump has been through the battle battle, and he's battle scarred.

And so he's going to have to exit and just ride it out. I honestly, when it comes down to a dock, I honestly don't think Donald Trump's going to be on the ballot in 24 in any way. Not even as an independent? No. It's going to be interesting to see. I don't think he's going to be there. I think he will be, if he's still alive, because it's possible he's not even alive in two years,

I think he will be so wounded politically and financially, he will not make another attempt. Because losing will be, the fear of losing would be so great he's a narcissist and the fear of being rejected i think will be too great on him i think he'll just sit it out and because his whole his entire family is against him in this right now. If the reports are true, only Lara Trump, Eric's wife, is the only one who supports him in running. The whole family's done with it.

I don't blame them. I mean, look at what you go through whenever you run for office. Whether it's the Trump family or the Obama family, it doesn't matter. When you get in politics, your family takes a beating. And so none of the Trump family wants him to run again.

And I think when it comes at the end of it, he's just going to bow out. I mean, I saw Don Jr. Sign a seven-figure deal to do a podcast on Rumble. Yes, two days a week. Yes, think about that yeah that shows two things that there's a shift in the attitude toward donald trump jr but also shows the increased influence of rumble now yes now a de santis don trump jr ticket think about what i just said ron desantis for president donald trump jr for for vice president

that might satisfy a whole bunch of people right satisfy a lot of people and you'd have a young ticket that's something to watch for let's see where it ends up here uh governor desantis had some additional remarks as he was sworn in for his second term. Let's watch this. Over the past few years, as so many states in our country grinded their citizens down, we in Florida lifted our people up. When other states consigned their people's freedom to the dustbin, Florida stood strongly as freedom's linchpin. When the world lost its mind, when

common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue, Florida was a refuge of sanity, a citadel of freedom for our fellow Americans and even for people around the world. In captaining the ship of state, we choose to navigate the boisterous sea of liberty rather than cower in the calm docks of despotism. He's absolutely telling the truth during the covet mania uh florida uh florida was locked down for what about two months right and uh you know i i remember praying about this and in in the spring of 2020 and i remember the holy spirit telling me me this is going to end in Florida, I think early June. And right on schedule, Governor DeSantis lifted all of the COVID restrictions in the state of Florida. You know, the main things that, you know, had everything locked down. And Florida went the other way. Doc, you know,

living here in Florida, first of all, we forget that it's cold in the rest of the country in the wintertime. But during the COVID mania, we forgot that there were other states where people were still wearing masks, still social distancing. The restaurants were closed, schools were closed. We forgot about it because everything was open in Florida. Right, yeah, we traveled to other states and people were wearing masks and we were like going, we haven't worn masks in six months. But yeah, that was the difference.

I still remember when the grocery stores opened back up, you know, they were open, but remember they had the arrows on the floor and you're going to walk six. How stupid were we? And, you know, if a virus can escape,

if we're going to believe the story, and if a virus can escape a level five viral lab, is a paper mask going to stop that virus? Of course not. We don't think about it. And will it know the way to go down the pickle line?

That's right. At the grocery store. You want your bread and butter pickles. So all well. Let's don't go there. I'll start laughing too much. Governor DeSantis does offer hope for some in the Republican Party as we move forward to 2024. And so it's going to be an interesting two years.

We'll have plenty to talk about. All right, something happened today. Sam Bankman Freed, the crypto creep who stole hundreds of millions of dollars from people who trusted him to hold their money, pleaded not guilty on all counts in federal court today. Story from a Cointelegraph cryptocurrency publication. Right. Former FTX chief executive officer Sam Bankman-Fried has pled not guilty to all

criminal charges he's facing related to the collapse of the crypto exchange, including wire fraud, securities fraud, and violations of campaign finance laws. Multiple observers in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York on January 3rd reported that Bankman-Fried's attorneys had entered a not guilty plea on SBF's behalf in his first court appearance since December. Bankman-Fried faces eight criminal counts, which could result in 115 years in prison, should he be convicted. Well, he'll probably get it because they've got to make sure he never talks about the money the Democrats got.

Right. That's the reason he's arrested. He was arrested the night before he was scheduled to give testimony to a House committee. Right. They did not want a republican asking him about money he gave to democrats honestly this is why he was arrested i believe that they shut him up to prevent any exposure to the crime operation the democrats were running through Sam Bankman Freed. Now, you remember when he got released on bail? $250 million bail.

Right. Biggest in history. In the history of this country. And the story, the narrative was... His mom and dad put up their house, and that was going to be security for the bail and everything. Well, it's only partially true. Yes.

Because the house obviously is not worth $250 million. And it wasn't worth $25 million. Which at 10% you need. I think what I read was the value of the house was $4 million. Yes. So the equity, the 10%, was $400,000. So the question is, who guaranteed the rest of the $250 million bail? So he couldn't use any of the funds from the crypto exchange because apparently it's all gone, right?

Well, how do you use stolen money to bail yourself out? Right. So somebody signed court documents and said, I'm good for $250 million if he escapes, if he flees. $250 million. Who is it? Who signed it? That's a great question because they're not letting you know right now, are they?

That's exactly right. So let's take a look at Bloomberg. Sam Bankman-Fried asked judge to keep his bail guarantors secret. Yes. So FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried asked a judge to keep confidential the identities of two people who will help secure his bail to protect them from public scrutiny and potential harassment. Lawyers for Bankman-Fried on Tuesday filed a letter seeking redactions of the names of the two people who intend to sign on as sureties

to his $250 million bail package, saying there's no need for public disclosure. If the two remaining sureties are publicly identified, they will likely be subjected to probing media security and potentially targeted for harassment, despite having no substantive connection to the case. Bankman-Fried's lawyers wrote, consequently, the privacy and safety of the sureties are countervailing factors that significantly outweigh the presumption of public access to the very limited information at issue. All right, Doc, if you were a wealthy man and you could risk $250 million as guarantee for a criminal, a man that's in federal prison on one of the biggest financial crimes in the history of the world. Yes.

What would it require you to be willing to risk that kind of money? Family relationship. Okay. Okay. I mean, I could see that. Family relationship. But it'd have to be a close relative. And apparently...

And so his parents don't have that kind of money. Right. Is it an uncle? Who is close to him in his family that has $250 million to risk? I'll say nobody. Okay, so you put aside that it wasn't a relative, a close relative.

So it has to be someone that maybe had a business relationship with him or... Well, would you risk $250 million to bailouts somebody you did business with that you now know is a crook? I wouldn't risk $250 in that case. So where I'm going with this is... Who is it?

It's somebody who's got skin in the game. It's somebody that wants to make sure Sam Bankman Freed never talks about what he did. And they're willing to put up $250 million to secure that. Because they have assurance from others, don't worry, he's not going to talk. He'll end up in the same prison Jeffrey Epstein went to. Excuse me. I forgot to put it on the list here. Did you hear what happened in the Virgin Islands? Yes, about the Attorney General. The Attorney General of the Virgin Islands sued JPMorgan Chase

Bank for assisting Jeffrey Epstein. And three days after she filed the lawsuit, the governor of the Virgin Islands fired her as the attorney general. And guess who was visiting St. Croix at the same time? Joe Biden. That's right. Is that why he went to the Virgin Islands for Christmas? It might have been. Got to take care of business, don't we? Just like Bill Barr made a visit up to the prison where Jeffrey Epstein was executed, where he committed suicide. He made a visit there.

The Attorney General of the United States went to that prison. This is after the death of Epstein. But it just sounded very suspicious that somebody at the level of the Attorney General would visit the prison to talk to the warden. Like, are we, we got everything under control here? You sure all the video cameras were malfunctioning that day. Okay. So I'm getting back to Sam Bankman and Freedman. Somebody, somebody with a lot of money or two or three people with a lot of money have a vested interest in this case.

Because it's just not, you know, out of the goodness of their heart. Oh yeah, I saw that young man. I feel sorry for him. I'm going to risk $250 million on that little creep. No, that didn't happen. Now these guarantors, Rick, are being imposed by a judge. It says, in addition to Bankman-Fried and his parents, the judge asked that the bond be signed

by two other people of considerable means, one of whom can't be a relative. Now, the two people haven't signed on yet, but intend to do so by the January 5th deadline, his lawyer said in the letter.

So he was released without the guarantee. Yeah, which I thought was odd in itself there. That is odd. So they have until the 5th to sign on. And part of it, too, it might very well be that they won't sign on unless their names are... Precisely.

I'm sure you're right on that, Doc. Okay. Now, I'm going to go down a road, and this is entirely speculative. I'm just sniffing where I smell something amiss, right? And follow along with me. No evidence, just suspicion. It's just one of those things, there's hunches where I get sometimes. And I start going down a trail and maybe I have to wait months, sometimes a year.

Sometimes the truth comes out in a week or two, and more facts will come out. I'll go, you know what? I did have the right hunch. There was something. There was smoke there, and the reason that there was smoke there was that there was a fire there. So I'm going to start with this.

I'm going to start with this fortune report. This is from back in November. November of this year. So I'm going to start with this. I'm going to start with this Fortune report. Okay. This is from back in November. November of this year. Well, this week. I mean of 2022. Poor earnings, power struggles, and politics pushed Disney to replace CEO Bob Chapek

after just two years. Now, Chapek was the appointed CEO, basically. Bob Iger said, hey, Bob Chapek, after just two years. Now, Chapek was the appointed CEO, basically. Bob Iger said, hey, Bob Chapek's your guy. He's my man. Yes, to lead after I leave. So Bob Iger was the CEO before and said, Bob Chapek, he's the guy. Right, and so Bob Iger had kind of the Wonder Boy image running Disney and nothing could go wrong with Bob Iger and nothing, you know.

So he retired. Mr. Chapek was put in as CEO of Disney here in Florida. And then suddenly, just, you know, less than two months ago, November 21st of 2022, the CEO of Disney was abruptly removed. Now, just follow the story. Just watch where I'm going with this. His removal was during the live stream of Elton John's farewell concert. Right. So this was a big event that was promoted by Disney streaming platform, Disney Plus.

They were promoting it everywhere. They were promoting it on SiriusXM everywhere. And so this was a big event for Disney. During the time that they're broadcasting this, this is a live event. In real time. During that live broadcast,

there was basically a coup that took place at Disney that night while that concert is going on. The concert was being streamed in real time. Disney executives were there at the concert and were going to be involved in the introduction of Elton John. Right. And they receive messages on their phones as they're sitting there at the Elton John concert, the top executives of Disney saying, uh, the CEO has been removed. It was a corporate coup d'etat. Right. In, in their biggest public relations event of the year, a live streaming of the Elton John concert on Disney+.

Where am I going with it? Stay with me. All right, I'm going to take you to the next one. Next story is Wall Street Journal, November 11. So this is a couple weeks before what happened at Disney. Disney was November 21st. Right. So 10 days earlier, this article appeared.

FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall. It was a Wall Street Journal. This is one of the first big articles. The only thing else that had been published about FTX was basically in crypto publications, crypto websites. Because the story hadn't really gained traction yet. Right. They coined Telegraph and other websites. They were reporting it. So suddenly, November 11, the Wall Street Journal published this major report on Sam Bankman Freed, and the

company had not collapsed yet, but people were getting very worried about the FTX exchange. Ten days later, November 21st, in the middle of the Elton John concert, a corporate coup d'etat took place, and Bob Chapek was removed as the CEO of Disney. And who did they bring back? Bob Iger. Bob Iger reappears and takes his seat as the man running Disney. Now, I'm going to go back a couple years.

This next one, Security Exchange Commission, Disney whistleblower. I'll see the date, MarketWatch at CBS News. MarketWatch, August 24th, 2019. Right, so. Disney whistleblower told the Security Exchange Commission that Disney inflated revenue for years.

Let's let's look at what was reported in 2019. OK, so we look at another article here. This is from SEC whistleblowers where attorney Scott Silver comments on the Disney case here. This is from SEC Whistleblowers, where attorney Scott Silver comments on the Disney case here. Now, it tells the story of the senior financial analyst at Disney, internally reported billions of dollars of alleged financial irregularities and claims that she was harassed and retaliated against for speaking out. In 2017, she filed an SEC whistleblower complaint. Now she is suing Disney. Now this is back in 2021,

but it's based upon things that happened in 2017, 2019. Bob Iger was running Disney. That's right. So Sandra Kuba, the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Disney, is a CPA who was hired as a financial analyst for Disney Financial Services back in 1999. So she's had an incredibly long tenure with Disney. In 2013, Disney promoted Cuba to the position of senior financial analyst. Cuba claims that she became aware that employees in the parks

and resort segment were systematically overstating revenue by billions of dollars by exploiting weaknesses in the company's accounting software. Are you going to be stunned when you hear how, according to her allegations, how Disney was inflating their revenue by billions of dollars? When I hear billions of dollars, I'm thinking some elaborate scheme to cook the books and add billions of dollars to the books. But when you read it...

No, they went from the ground up on this. And so now in one of the ways, in the various ways they did this, one of the ways Cuba alleges Disney employees did this was by recording fictitious revenue for complimentary golf rounds or for free guest promotions. She also alleged that revenue for $500 gift cards was recorded at face value, even though guests only paid a discounted rate of $395 for them. Kubel alleges that she reported this wrongdoing to her supervisors, but was ignored. Now remember, she was a senior

financial analyst at Disney. But she analyzed too much. Right. So who would her supervisors be if she was a senior financial analyst at Disney? Well, I would assume she was reporting to vice presidents in the finance department of Disney.

And above vice president, who do you have? A president. Right, Bob Iger. So there's no way that this was going under the radar or anything like that. There were people aware of what was going on. All right, Doc, if I were a CPA involved in any kind of financial position

at a company like Disney. And I found that lower level employees were running gift cards and charging them for $500 when they were really, what, $350 or something like that. Okay, so you got basically a $100 spread in there. I would think this is petty theft. Yeah, but they're not putting it in their pockets. But that's the first thing I would think. Yes. This is petty theft.

No, this was in the software. I know, but you would think something this small, using gift cards, you would think, okay, there's an organized theft ring operating in the company. Somehow they're getting cash and putting cash in their pockets. But that's not the case at all. And so that's the road I would go down to investigate. What she alleged is that this was a corporate policy policy and this is just one of the ways and she also mentioned the golf uh uh the the golf fees and everything but you go through the whole article uh on sec whistleblower she lists you know various ways that they that they padded

the books and added she said three billion $3 billion to the revenue of Disney. Which, of course, impacts the value of the company, valuation, stocks, everything to the outside world. Yes, that would be a very important thing. But could it also give you a hidden slush fund? Absolutely. Yeah, could you use that mystery money to do other things? And I think that's what some people are asking right now. Again, this is all speculation.

The Security Exchange Commission closed down the investigation they ruled in favor of disney miss akuba lost it right lost that that complaint sec ruled in favor of disney and said they found nothing to substantiate her allegations. So there's no more investigation going on. All right. So fast forward to today. How does that connect to what's happening today? Okay.

So let me see here. One of the biggest high profile people that got caught up into the FTX scandal was Kevin O'Leary. Kevin O'Leary, everybody knows him from Shark Tank. He was on there for years, Mr. Lovable, you know. And a very sharp businessman. But he had a contract with FTX to promote them. Right. I think it was $15 million. He was paid to be their public spokesman. Right.

Okay. On the surface, nothing wrong with that. Kevin O'Leary is a very, you know, he's an influencer. Right. So they paid him $15 million to appear in public advertising and various promotional events, promoting FTX as a cryptocurrency exchange. Nothing wrong with that at all. He got burned when FTX went down because people said, hey, the only reason I put money in FTX for them to hold my funds to do cryptocurrency transactions, is I trusted you, Kevin O'Leary. Right.

You told me it was a good company. So the hit to Kevin O'Leary was to his reputation, his credibility. There's no evidence at all that Kevin O'Leary was involved in anything shady with FTX. According to him, he's been financially wounded by this entire time, and I believe him on that. But I want you to see and pay close attention, listen for one name. This is a real short clip from a CNBC television interview where he's talking about his involvement with FTX.

Just listen and see if you pick up the name. I obviously know all the institutional investors in this deal. We all look like idiots. Let's put that on the table, okay? We relied on each other's due diligence, but we also relied on another investment theme that I felt drove a lot of interest in FTX. Sam Bankman Freed is an American. His parents are American compliance lawyers. There were no other American large exchanges to invest in if you wanted to invest in crypto as an infrastructure play. So many of us said wait a second who's coming to this deal we knew for example it sounds like tiger it sounds like

groupthink uh did you catch it maybe we need to play it again because it's it it's right near the end and the host interrupted him when he said the name. Let's play it one more time. Listen closely at the end. And he says the name when he when he starts talking about large institutional investors and he says one name. Even where we sit. I obviously know all the institutional investors in this deal. We all look like idiots. Let's put that on the table. Okay. We relied on each other's due diligence, but we also relied on another investment theme that I felt drove a lot of interest in FTX. Sam Bankman-Fried is an American. His parents are American compliance lawyers. There were no other American large exchanges to invest in if you wanted to invest in crypto as an infrastructure play.

So many of us said, wait a second, who's coming to this deal? We knew, for example, that Iger. It sounds like groupthink. It was a joke. He said, who's coming to this deal? Iger. Iger. Who's Iger?

That's Bob Iger, the new current chairman of Disney. So what Kevin O'Leary said was a lot of big heavyweights in the investment world were talking among themselves about where to invest in a crypto exchange. to exchange and they looked and realized bob eiger of disney is that's what he was implying bob because bob eiger was there and investing okay so now what we don't know was it bob eiger representing his personal finances or disney's finances he never answered that question. It was never asked. But a lot of people said, wait a minute. He mentioned Iger. Now start to put this together. We go back.

Let's go back and put up on the screen the Wall Street Journal. That's November 10th. There we go. November 11th uh wall street journal ftx tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets company still had not collapsed people are now starting to ask questions november 11 2022 and then we go to no not this one we go to uh the uh the report the uh from coin telegraph um that the uh company uh had lost money um so what we had from from the 10th from the 10th, from the 11th. And 10 days later, Bob Iger is reinstated as the CEO of Disney. The coup d'etat at Disney took place

10 days after that Wall Street Journal article. And then you have the interview. What was the date of the interview with CNBC? December 8th. December 8th. About two weeks later. Two weeks after that. So the fallout was beginning to happen, major fallout.

So Kevin O'Leary says he just happens to drop Iger's name in a CNBC interview. Okay, so we got one more piece to this puzzle. And this is from a podcast that I watched today, Doc. Fascinating. Yeah. So this is a valiant renegade. And the gentleman that the host was interviewing is Cameron Pasha. And he's got a lot of inside information. Now, he is quick to say i have no proof i have no evidence but i do have but i've got insiders at disney that are feeding me information let's watch it so this is a development that happened uh yesterday uh to me and i put it out on my patreon so valence had a chance to see that mike has seen it as well because they're both members of my patreon and uh so some of you may know that on friday i did a a

video friday morning with our friends at midnight's edge where we noticed something that had perhaps been not been noticed by a lot of people but i had had someone sent me a link to it and it was an interview a few days before by this gentleman kevin o'Leary, who some of you may know. He is an investor, a Canadian origin guy. I think he's on Shark Tank. And so he was the paid spokesman for the FTX. And you'd all heard my theory for some time now that I'm sticking to, that there's a hidden FTX scandal here behind all of this, right? That they're desperately trying to keep all the spotlight off of. And people have been saying for four weeks now, Cameron, you're just making that up, which is true. I'm just making it up. It's speculation based on all the data points. Seems to connect them for me. I

haven't heard a better theory to connect all the data points, but yeah. And so there's no evidence whatsoever that these people had anything to do with FTX. You're just making it up. And then someone sent me this link to this video, and maybe I'll throw it into the chat if you want to pull it up to the exact point there. But Kevin O'Leary was on CNBC a few days ago talking, and he made a little slip. He's talking, and they interrupted him, and they quickly changed the topic on CNBC. So Kevin O'Leary, the FTX spokesman, paid $15 million, was out there sort of defending himself. Hey, I wasn't an idiot for being involved in this and touting this and whatever. And he started talking about how there was no American exchanges that big American investors could get involved in. That's

not true. There's Coinbase and others, but there's no American exchange, right? But that was what the position was. And that's what made major American investors such as Iger. He drops the name Iger, and immediately the host changed the topic and interrupted him right and so everyone's alarms went off when they heard that and maybe if you haven't had it I can just send you the link and give you the minute where it is I was going to ask if you wanted me to pull it up

yeah if you have it but I mean I can send you the link as well so I'll put it in the private chat but it's so yeah so that so that's the background of this that's not the new information so those of you haven't seen it go to Midnight's Edge it's so, yeah, so that so that so that's so that's the background of this. That's not the new information. So those of you haven't seen it go to Midnight's Edge, it's on their site. And that led to even people who are skeptical saying, OK, well, this guy just dropped Bob Iger's name for some reason as a major investor. And why is this the first name on this guy's head? Right. You know, why is of all the possible people this FTX spokesman could be talking about as major investors in FTX?

Why is the first name that comes out of his mouth Iger, right? So that shook up a lot of people that have been saying, Cameron's just making all of this up, right, without any rational connection to anything, because now the Disney CEO's name has been dropped by the FTX spokesman as a major investor in FTX. So now, that being said, and we can pull that up in a moment, but that being said, so the new information is this, that's on my Patreon. So on Saturday afternoon, I got a message from one of my very trusted sources, Connections Inside Disney. You know, balance has seen some of my sources have proven to be extremely good, such as when I was able to scoop

the entire industry by 48 hours on the Disney hiring freeze. I put it on Wednesday and trades announced it on Friday. That was because Disney Insider sent me that information. And I didn't even know it was true because no one else was reporting. I was like, what the hell? One of the biggest scoops that could have possibly been had across the entire industry. Let me just say that. Yeah, and by 48 hours.

I put it on Wednesday. I expected to hear something Thursday morning. Nothing goes by. So I think I'm a sucker. I believe somebody that I shouldn't have. Thursday goes by. Friday morning goes by. And then Friday afternoon, I was like, what? So yeah. So this is another source I trust very much. And he got in touch with me because also he was giving me a personal warning to be careful because of this what happened so i'm going to now what i'll do is let me just read to you what the source said if i if i may do that okay so the information he sent to me was that i don't know if this happened on friday on set or on saturday our conversation was on friday with midnight's edge where we suddenly noted that eiger's name had been dropped as being involved in ftx so my source inside Disney says, this led to panic at the highest levels within Disney, because no one had noticed that until we

started talking about it and dropped that clip that this idiot O'Leary mentioned Iger's name as an investor, right? And so they gave directives to very high level executives. We're talking about division head levels, right? And this was the directive. And I'm going to quote you what this person sent to me. He said, the directive was telling senior executives, quote, they are not to comment on anything related to FTX other than to say that Disney isn't involved and Iger's personal finances are not relevant to his job as CEO. So they sent that message out, directive out to senior people inside of Disney saying, there will be no conversation about FTX.

And if anyone asked you about it, you are saying nothing. And if anyone asked you about Iger's involvement in it, you are simply saying his personal finances have nothing to do with the company or his job. Why the hell are they putting this out there to senior? If this is just a crazy conspiracy theory, you ignore it. You don't entail people at that level, but then it gets worse. This is the thing that he warned me about, that this is even worse because he wasn't just telling

people, okay, be quiet. And Iger, it's his personal business. It's not the company's business. That's your official line that you're going to tell everyone. Hold for just a second, Cameron. Let me see if I can get some details on this. Yes, yes. So that message was sent out to division heads. Do you know if that was sent out via official memorandum, or do you know if it was sent out as part of some sort of in-person or virtual meeting? How was that message conveyed?

I do know the answer to that, but if I reveal the answer to that, it will lead to the source. Okay, and we don't want to reveal that. I know the answer to that. I know how this was communicated to these people. And if I reveal how it was communicated, the source is blown, okay? Okay, I understand that.

Yeah, and so- Fair enough. Because it revealed to me exactly why they would be aware of this, right? And so that blows their identity. So yes, and the second thing that they reveal, which startled me, and it's a little, it's really sinister, says,

and he says, to top it off, these executives are also being told, quote, if they hear anyone under them, inside the divisions under them, talking about FTX, the names are to be forwarded so that it can be brought into line with Disney core values, end quote. So they're telling if you hear your employees even mentioning FTX, you report it internally to the system, the legal or whoever, and they're going to be brought in for a conversation, that they're realigned them with Disney corporate values, i.e. re-educate them, right? So that is a shocking thing because it's

not just, okay, where's the stupid story out there? Deny it. Tell your employees, if any of your employees talk about this, we need to know who they are. That is not normal behavior unless you are covering something up and you're scared and my contact said i said it's i mean what the hell this is crazy stuff he said he said this is this his interpretation of it was what this is is they are afraid of a of they're not afraid of me right they're irritated that i and some of the people are not talking about this but the problem is it's now disney employees are talking about it because some of them are some of them are on my patreon they know about it right they're talking about it and so their their fear according to the source is whistleblower inside the system that can blow this open just like the whistleblower

that went to the sec uh in 2017 or in 2017 discovered the three billion dollar annual fraud and then told the bosses, got fired, and then went to the SEC and blew the whistle on it, right? And they just settled with her now. And so this is the source's interpretation of why. He said, what the hell does this mean? He said, they are afraid that employees, they're allowed to talk about it.

It will encourage a whistleblower to come forward. Again, this person has not said, I have evidence that what you're saying is true. He has not said, I've seen the documents that show they invested XYZ and FTX. No evidence like that has been presented to me, but this has been presented to me, their reaction to this story and the extremes they are going to try to police people talking about this story inside of Disney Corp. All right. Now, my dot connector, what I'm thinking right now, is there a connection between this Disney internal memorandum to executives? Do not talk about Bob Iger and FTX.

And if any employee of Disney talks about it, they have to go to re-education camp. Yes. Corporate re-education camp and be reformed to talk correctly. asking the judge, do not reveal the identities of the people who are guaranteeing my $250 million bail. Somebody is scared that the truth is going to come out about FTX and Sam Bankman Freed and the Democrats. Because it was part of the Democrat criminal operation. They stole massive

amounts of money to finance their election campaigns. Money laundering. Remember there's a Ukraine Zelensky connection to FTX. That's true. This thing's big. And I don't know what role Disney and Bob Iger, if they have any role in it,

but what this gentleman said was it's very unusual that a corporation would become this extreme in the reaction to a rumor. If there's nothing there, they would simply issue a statement and say, our company has nothing to do with it and neither does our CEO. They wouldn't go so far as to say, we're not even going to let you talk about it. Right.

And if you do, you're going to be reeducated. That's right. So that's a Disney core value, reeducation. Yes, it is. Another one is ratting out coworkers. That's another Disney core value. And where would you get that? China. Is there a China connection to FTX?

I don't know where this is going. But it's interesting that when that name, Iager, got dropped by Kevin O'Leary, suddenly that opened the door to all sorts of, wait a minute here. People were asking a lot of questions. People want to know where the billions of dollars went that Sam Bankman Freed stole. Where's the money? Where did it go? Right. And if we go back in time to the SEC, you know, investigation on Disney, you know, the only reason why that got shut down is they settled with with the Cuba at the end.

And so this is going to be interesting to see how this actually plays out here, because there might be a lot of this, you know, corporate bankrolling that's going on globally. I mean, think of it. Disney's a global company. Operations on nearly every continent. I am convinced I have been for two decades doing this job. What you and I and the public, what we see on the surface is all a mirage. That there's another world below the surface, the real world of the world.

And Satan's world, his kingdom, there's dark money, really dark money. And most of these people who are in high positions, corporate, political, education, media, if we knew the truth about them, we would see that they are the slimiest, dirtiest, filthiest criminals that you could ever imagine. And they're running a global global international crime syndicate that involves

pedophilia, that involves all kinds of evil, wicked activities. I think that's the real world that operates below the surface. They keep a lid on it. Jeffrey Epstein, hey, we've got to take him out. He's got to go to prison. Whether he died or just was taken somewhere else and given a new idea, who knows? They have the ability to do these things. Sam Bankman Freed, you messed up, boy. Yes. You got a little too greedy.

Now we've got to put you into custody, and we've got to to deal with you and something will happen to Sam Bankman-Fried, but the story won't be told, will it? No. The Attorney General of the Virgin Islands sued JPMorgan Chase for assisting Jeffrey Epstein and she got fired for doing her job as the Attorney General. This is what happens if you start pulling the blanket up and letting everyone see the maggots that's under the blanket, under the lid. They're nothing but a bunch of maggots.

And only God knows the true depth of their crimes. I think we would be just overwhelmed if we really knew what the world, the true world is like. From the Vatican to the World Economic Forum to all of these operations, these criminal operations, and just a massive amount of crime taking place. Before we wrap it up here, I want to touch on some things that happened in the Middle East.

Oh, no, before I get there, there was a tragedy last night. Buffalo Bills, DeMar Hamlin had a heart attack last night during the game. And a lot of people saw it in real time. Yes, so Monday night football, of course, watched by millions of people every Monday night in the football season. And for something dramatic like this to happen, fortunately, he did not pass away. So...

But he's still in ICU. That's right. So we have a clip of what happened last night. Let's watch this. That's not what any of us want to see and everybody's around him and just hope that he's going to be okay. So we'll take another break

here in cincinnati um very dramatic now of course football is very tough sport and everything but he stood up he didn't act like he was injured it wasn't like he was saying hey you crushed my chest you broke my ribs he stood up he was he he to me was looking like hey i'm feeling good right and then he collapsed what he's 24 years old yes he did take a major hit there yes and that happens but that happens in football and so it happens in football for every game yes but 24 year olds don't pass out on the field with a heart attack. So what do we have happening again? Well, we don't have the evidence.

But I think the first thing that many of us thought was, was he vaccinated with one of the gene therapy drugs that had been causing heart attacks and strokes. Because this entire year, you know, not this year, we're into 2023, but I said that January a year ago, 2022, I said 2022 will be the year of funerals. And deaths were up in many nations. Substantially up. And the officials in cities

and counties and states and at federal level in each country, it's like, we're not going to talk about it. Insurance companies, life insurance companies paying out billions of dollars above average in life insurance claims There's only one explanation for a sudden surge in deaths particularly among young people So we're told that there's now a new

cause of death, sudden adult death syndrome. SADS. Yeah, yeah right. How about children having heart attacks, which we've seen happening in the past year? My own view is it's the vaccines the fake vaccines they're not real vaccines whether uh mr hamlin was vaccinated we don't know it had to be all nfl players are well that's right he had to be yes that's right doc it was required but nobody will say it. Nobody in any official capacity will link his heart attack to the vaccine. Right. The Bills had a statement that they issued on Twitter. DeMar Hamlin did this this afternoon. DeMar Hamlin spent last night in the intensive care unit, remains there today in critical condition at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

We're grateful and thankful for the outpouring of support we've received thus far. So that's their statement and everything. And of course, you know, millions of people that were watching the game last night. I don't really watch football or anything. And so this morning while I was hearing the reports, when I heard, hey, he had a heart attack on the football field. What was my first response? I wonder if he was vaccinated. And you had to know that's going through the minds of millions of Americans. Now in Europe and other places in the world, they've already have been watching this over the past year, year and a half. This was the first time

we've had to deal with it in a major way where you had millions of people watching live as someone had a heart attack on the field and a healthy 24 year old athlete right don't tell me that it's normal it's not normal but the public will pretend it's not happening you try to tell people in the public just the general public they don't connect it they don't connect it. They don't get it. You know why? Because they got vaccinated and they don't want to deal with it. You tell somebody who's been vaccinated with this stuff that people are dying. They don't want to hear it. They don't want to talk about it. It means they could die at any moment. And they need to know that. They need to be aware. All right, I want to go quickly to a couple of last stories from the Middle East. So this new radical Zionist that's in Netanyahu's cabinet, Ben-Gavir.

He threatened to go to the Temple Mount then it appeared that Netanyahu talked him into not going but at 7 a.m. the next day he went and so today there's been a wave of international criticism after Ben-Gavir visited the Temple Mount and so various nations around the world have issued denunciations of his visit, saying it was provocative, trying to create trouble between the Jews and the Muslims. And we have some video of Mr. Gevier actually at the Ayahuasca Mosque. I'm not going to call it the Temple Mount anymore because it's not the Temple Mount. This is the compound of the Ayahuasca Mosqueir is right there in the center and in the uh white skull cap there and so this is the him appearing and for no reason other than to provoke a response from

the arab and the palestinian community there's no there was no purpose for it. He wasn't there to inspect security forces or anything else. He was simply there to take a stick and poke a hornet's nest. That's the only reason. Just to irritate and aggravate the Muslims there. It was the only reason, hoping to get some trouble going. Well, the one country that became furious was Jordan. As we've told you many times, King Abdullah is the custodian of the holy sites, the Muslim holy sites and the Christian holy sites in Jerusalem. And so the Israeli ambassador to Jordan was hauled in to the Jordanian government for the foreign affairs uh minister and I guess given uh

you know read the riot act about what he did and uh so we have this uh this story here Jordan summons Israeli ambassador for reprimand over Ben Gavir's Temple Mountain visit. So this is obviously having international repercussions. Mr. Netanyahu ended up having to cancel his trip to the UAE as a result of the response to Ben-Gavir's visit. The United Arab Emirates issued a stinging denunciation. That's the reason he's not going. The official reason was, well, we had to put off the trip to work out some details of the meeting. That's not the reason.

We'll read in that Jerusalem Post article. It gives you some details about it. Right. So the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not in the end fly to Abu Dhabi in the UAE next week, as he originally planned. The announcement that the visit would not take place came hours after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gavir visited the Temple Mount during wall-to-wall international condemnations, including from the UAE itself. And in its statement, the UAE condemned Israel for allowing Ben-Gavir to visit the site and reiterated its firm position on the need to provide full protection for the

Aqsa Mosque and halt serious and provocative violations taking place there. The UAE government underscored the need to respect the custodial role of Jordan over the holy sites and endowments in accordance with international law and the historical situation at hand, and not to compromise the authority of the Jerusalem Endowment Administration. So this is having repercussions now with relationships that had been built previously. This is where the road is taking us, Rick. I think this latest term of Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be very turbulent. And most likely there will be violence. I don't think he'll be able to rein in the radical Zionists in his administration.

That means he's not in control. That's exactly right. They are. The only way he got back in as the prime minister is that he had to cut a deal with the most radical Zionists in Israel. So he got to be prime minister, but... They're running the country. So he called him in. He called in Ben-Veguer and said, don't go up there. And Ben-Veguer told the prime minister, I'm going to do what I want to do.

So they're running the country right now. And this is not going to end well for Netanyahu or the state of Israel. Well, this is going to end well for us right now because we're going to close it up. We gave you nearly 90 minutes of national and international news and analysis and commentary. We appreciate

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