TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Red-Faced Pentagon Can’t Explain Delay in Finding Missing F-35

Episode Date: September 19, 2023

All US Marine Corps aircraft were grounded Monday after a stealth F-35 jet mysteriously disappeared in South Caroline. The stand-down applies to all Marine domestic and international aircraft. The order was issued by General Eric Smith, the acting commandant of the Marines. He said the stand down will ensure the service is maintaining operational standardization of combat-ready aircraft with well-prepared pilots and crews. The question that is on the minds of a lot people, however, is why it took the Pentagon so long to find the missing F-35. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 9/19/23Show guest: Thomas Baker, Author, The Fall of the FBIYou can partner with us by visiting https://www.TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969.Now is the time to protect your assets with physical gold & silver. Contact Genesis Gold Today!https://www.TruNewsGold.comGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

You are listening to True News with Rick Wiles. We appreciate you tuning in. To find out more information regarding the broadcast, including prayer and financial support, please visit our website at truenews.com. Our mailing address for all correspondence is True News, P.O. whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help us God. I'm Rick Wiles, and today is Tuesday, September 19, 2023. All U.S. Marine Corps aircraft were grounded Monday after a stealth F-35 jet mysteriously disappeared in South Carolina.

The stand down applies to all Marine domestic and international aircraft. The order was issued by General Eric Smith, the acting commandant of the Marine Corps. He said the stand down will ensure the service is maintaining operational standardization of combat ready aircraft with well-prepared pilots and crews. The question that is on the minds of a lot of people, however, is why it took the Pentagon

so long to find a missing F-35. Doc Burkhardt and I have been asking that question too, and we want to talk about it here in the opening segment of True News. today's first hour, co-sponsored by Genesis Gold Group and American Reserves Emergency Food. And so, Doc, I'm going to take a look at a report. I guess I went, you know, on things like this, I try to go to local news to see what we can find. And I want to show, I actually have these in reverse, so our guys in control, pardon me. I want to go with number two. This is the debris found in search for F-35 jet in Williamsburg County.

That's the report today, as of today. So I'm going to go back to number one. So now this is a video report that was seen on WMBF TV yesterday. This was a breaking news local emergency. And when you hear what the reporter said, I can only imagine people in their homes hearing this breaking news report and like going outside looking up in the air. Yes. Listen to what was reported yesterday in Myrtle Beach. For a missing F-35, Joint Base Charleston says they're still looking for the plane after a

mishap involving a pilot who safely ejected yesterday. Live 5 spoke with Congresswoman Nancy Mace earlier this afternoon, and she says it's unclear if the jet is still in the sky or if it's crashed. Our Emily Johnson joins us outside of Joint Base Charleston after speaking with Mace. Emily, what more can you tell us? Yes, Roth. Well, Representative Mace says that the search for the $80 million missing jet is a local emergency. She was briefed by the U.S. Marine Corps earlier this afternoon, but says that the

briefing left her with questions and they didn't fully answer all of her questions. Congresswoman Mace says that they don't know if the plane is still in the air or underwater, and they couldn't tell if her precise location of the plane, if the pilot was ejected, that landed. The incident involved a Marine Corps Air Station Buford F-35B lightning jet, and the pilot was safely ejected and taken to a hospital where they are in stable condition. Joint Base Charleston said in a press release not long ago that teams are searching and preparing for the recovery of the jet. Congresswoman Mays says that if the plane is still in the air flying and ends up going down in

a heavily populated area, lives could be at risk. We've received a lot of phone calls from local leaders who are frustrated with the lack of transparency and the lack of information. And we're talking about an $80 million jet. How does it just disappear? And how does the Pentagon ask for the public's help in finding it? It's just a huge embarrassment. As of yesterday, Joint Base Charleston said that they were focusing the search around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion. We obviously do not have any new information at this time, but we will continue to keep you updated on the air and online once we know more.

Reporting live in North Charleston, Emily Johnson, Lifehive News. Now if anyone has information that might help locate that F-35, you've been asked to call the Base Defense Operations Center. That number is 843-963-3600. One more time, 843-963-3600. So that was the report yesterday where they were asking for the public's help to find the missing jet. If you happen to see a jet somewhere, would you call this phone number, please? But, Doc, what got my attention before they put out the SOS, you know, help us find a missing jet, they said it could still be in the air flying. That's right.

That beginning of that cliff. Without a pilot. Yes. It was on autopilot, apparently. That's what I mean. If I'd heard that on local television and think, wait a minute, there's an F-35 without a pilot that's exactly what's going on right now so you had you you had that that's the first issue okay was there an f-35

flying without a pilot the answer is yes because the pilot ejected he's okay he He's safe. But number two, it took them a day to find the jet. 28 hours to find the jet. 28 hours to find. Now, I guess you could say it was a stealth jet, and it proved that it was stealth. Yes, it was so stealthy. It was invisible. You couldn't see it. But they found it 80 miles from the military base right and curious enough the

transponder was off on the jet too which they're still trying to figure out why the transponder was off so this i mean the mystery just keeps deep getting deeper and deeper on this particular incident episode now they did find the debris field uh late yesterday early this morning and so they the jet did come down it it made it to the ground and so it's but it just a crazy story i remember sharing it with you yesterday i said hey rick they're missing a stealth fighter yeah let's do uh number three this is another video report from WMBF-TV in Myrtle Beach. We're continuing to follow that breaking news. Officials with Joint Base Charleston have confirmed a debris field from the missing F-35 jet has been found in Williamsburg County.

The jet went missing after what Joint Base Charleston called a mishap. Want to go live out to the scene right now. Our crews just got there. This is all along Old Georgetown Road and Bartells Road near the Hemingway area. Fortunately, it looks like the search itself, the crash site itself is much farther down the road. So we're not able to see where they are actually searching. But Joint Base Charleston tells me, unfortunately, we are not going to be able to get any videos

or photos from the crash scene itself. Now, multiple agencies have been helping in this search for the military jet since yesterday. You can see a helicopter still in the air right there, maybe searching for leftover pieces that are very far off the road. Again, that pilot had to eject yesterday closer to North Charleston, about two hours south of where this scene is right now. The pilot is expected to be okay, but of course this has been a huge effort from low country agencies. Charleston, Williamsburg, Florence, County Sheriff's Office, Joint Base Charleston with the Marine Corps. It has been a group effort here. Yeah, this is an $80 million

piece of military equipment. No word right now on when or why that plane came down. Officials say those in the community should avoid the area again as the recovery team secures that debris field. And it's not just people here in the United States asking, how did the Pentagon not find a jet for 28 hours? This story has made international headlines around the world. Here's a headline from the Daily Mail today. How did it take the Pentagon 28 hours to find a missing F-35 that had crashed in a field 80 miles from the base?

Mystery surrounds the loss of an $80 million stealth fighter. As unearthed study raised jet fears, fears that the jet could be hacked. Yes. And apparently the Pentagon has known about this for about four years now, that the jet could be hacked. Was this F-35 hacked? Right now, we don't know, do we? Was the pilot unable to fly it? Is that what happened? Did the pilot lose the ability to fly the jet? Well, these are questions that the Pentagon is being faced with even right now. So the Pentagon is facing questions over how it lost. How do you lose an $80 million jet aircraft that was finally found crashed in a field 80 miles from its base

following a frantic 28-hour search? The stealth jet's transponder, which usually helps locate the aircraft, was not working for some reason that we haven't yet determined, said Jeremy Huggins, another spokesman at the Joint Base Charleston. It forced the base to issue a humiliating appeal for assistance in finding the jet, even launching a hotline for tips, which was mercilessly mocked online. So that's why we put out the public request for help, said Huggins. He said the aircraft's sophistication made it even more complicated to find. Now, listen to this quote, Rick. The aircraft is stealth, so it has different coatings and different designs that make it more difficult than a normal aircraft to detect. Okay,

it's a stealth fighter. Give it that. Meanwhile, it emerged, and this is the scary part of the story, it emerged on Monday night that the Pentagon in 2019 was concerned the plane could be vulnerable to attack by hackers, which may have sparked panic during the 28-hour search mission. And did it contribute to the stand-down order from the Marine Commandant, General Smith? Certainly, it had a great deal of bearing on that decision. Doc, he grounded all Marine aircraft worldwide, inside the U.S. and outside the U.S. He grounded all. So are they concerned that hackers are getting inside

the control systems of fighter jets? And would they tell us if they had no that's that's the question they wouldn't tell us if they had because if they told us we'd have to question every single aircraft flying in the sky wouldn't we and it would be realistic to say that the very first suspect would be the russian military just to just to mess with the Pentagon, just to mess with their head. Hey, I bet you didn't know we could do this. We just took control of an F-35. Your pilot had to eject.

You know what? We can do this to all your aircraft. Would that send fear in the Pentagon? Yes, it certainly would. You're thinking about fighting us over Ukraine? We can hack your aircraft. That's a real possibility, Doc, that the Russians just demonstrated an ability to hack and take control of aircraft. Think about that in a war.

That you have soldiers on the ground hacking combat aircraft, take control and turn them around and fly them back to the home countries where they came from and attack their home cities with their own aircraft. Well, in maybe a related story that we're going to be touching on later on, maybe it was the Chinese. where they came from and attacked their home cities with their own aircraft well in a maybe a related story that we're going to be touching on later on maybe it was the chinese the chinese have been posing as tourists around military bases and operations maybe they had the opportunity

we're going to look at that in just a few minutes and the north koreans are very skilled in hacking so there's a lot of a lot of possibilities. The bottom line is that you can hack an aircraft. At least the Pentagon's concerned about it. Could you hack an aircraft and fly it into a building and blame somebody else? Now that's an interesting thought, isn't it?

How long has that technology been available to take control of a of an aircraft and fly it into a building and blame it on somebody else my mind thinks like that, Doc. I think this last one with Congressman Mace, I think this is probably the same statement that was in the earlier report. Probably. Yeah, so I'm going to bypass it. She's asking questions about why it took so long. Suddenly, I've noticed – I see patterns in the news, and whenever you see multiple news organizations publishing similar stories, you know something's up. That there's some message has gone out, a memo has gone out, We need this story floating around in the universe right now. And first they started as a few drops to kind of test the waters a little bit.

Right. And then you start seeing other media catch on. And then it's like everyone's talking about it. Yes. And what we're talking about is the possibility that Joe Biden might drop out of the 2024 election. Why am I not surprised? He was just a placeholder. That's all he was.

He was a placeholder so that Barack Obama could run the country from the back room. Joe was never the president. They weren't going to allow him to stay in the white he was just a placeholder and so here's the the guardian in london and this is from earlier this month september 4th biographer says it wouldn't be a total shock if biden drops out of the 2024 race now so that's the first strip yeah do we see we see a pattern? We'll go to the Washington Post. Here's an op-ed. President Biden should not run again in 2024.

The next one, Daily Mail. Nancy Pelosi concedes Biden may drop out of 2024 race, then laughs and refuses to say if Kamala Harris is the best running mate. So this is just a few days ago. Yeah. Over the weekend. Yeah. So, Doc, the word is out. Joe Biden's out.

I mean, the man is not going to be the nominee of the Democratic Party in 24. Just not going to happen. And so they're priming the audience to get ready for that. And you don't have to do a lot of priming. I mean, have you ever seen a Biden bumper sticker from the last election? Or yard sign. Have you ever seen one? No.

Because he doesn't have any supporters. How did he win? He never campaigned. He never left his basement. Well, a couple times he went out. Remember he had 50, 80 people show up at a rally. Drive-in or something like that. Remember that?

And they had them separated by social distancing. Yes. And all the cars were from the same manufacturer i think oh yeah that's right they were having drive-in rallies people were sitting in their cars you know it was the most fake election ever ever it was a totally fake election you know if you could hack an f-35 i bet you could hack a voting machine. Well, they, you know, the Democrats accused Donald Trump and the Russians of doing just that in 2016. Yes. They hacked the election. And then they flipped it around and said, if you say we hacked it, you're going to prison.

We're going to make it a crime if you say the elections were hacked. So, of course, they can hack voting machines. Anything connected to the Internet is hackable. I mean, why do we spend so much money on security if things aren't hackable? But then they want us to believe voting machines can't be hacked. Even though Democrats in the past have said voting machines can be hacked. That's right. And then they said.

Especially when they lose elections. That's right. And then one day the Democrats said, wait a minute. Why fight this? Let's just go with it. All right. Let's make this work. So we got Nancy Pelosi laughing.

I wonder if she did her impersonation of Kamala Harris laughing. But the word is out. Joe Biden is going to be pushed out. No big surprise. I said back at the beginning of the year, Joe Biden, I doubted if he would even be in the White House by December. You know, they may let him stay in all the way to the end of his term. But if he gets really embarrassing, either through scandals with his son or falling down more stair steps or, you know, shaking hands with invisible people on stage. I mean, if it gets too bad,

they'll just trot him away and just have a family intervention and say, Grandpa needs to go home and rest. But the nominee of the Democratic Party, I honestly believe is going to be Michelle Obama. You got Gavin Newsom in California saying he absolutely is not running. Yeah, he has said that repeatedly. He said it twice in interviews with Sean Hannity.

So who else would they go? Who else could step in? I mean, Hillary Clinton? Hey, I'll tell you a name that's been tossed around here lately. Gretchen Whitmer. Oh, my. It really has been tossed around. Now, that would be frightening.

Yes. Can you imagine her doing to America what she did to Michigan? Right. They're going to need a very strong. Well, they're going to have Whitmer and Grisham from Arizona team up as a ticket. That would be a scary ticket. I want to show you some polls that came out today. This is a New York Post. Trump, Haley and Scott. Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Scott. Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Tim Scott.

All three are beating Joe Biden in a mock election for 2024. And this was a Harvard-Harris poll. And we're going to show you some of the results in this poll. Wow. Okay. So now take the results in this poll. Wow. Okay. So now take a look at this stock. This is really interesting. And for those of you who are listening, I'll do my best to just to verbally explain what we're seeing right now on the screen.

So the headline is GOP candidates Haley, Ramaswamy, and Scott enjoy net favorability alongside Kennedy, Musk, and Sanders. This particular poll is on the favorability of candidates. Does the voter look very favorable? Favorable, never heard of them, no opinion, unfavorable, very unfavorable. Those are the choices at the top at the very top of favorability is robert f kennedy and his unfavorability rating is what 29 right so this is fairly low means less than one-third of the people dislike him. Right.

Now compare that to Donald Trump. Donald Trump is number two in favorability. Yes. But he has a high unfavorability. So favorability on Donald Trump is what, 49%? 44%. 44%. Same as Robert Kennedy.

Okay. But the unfavorable view of Donald Trump is 50%. Right. Whenever your unfavorable numbers in a poll like this are high, that's not good, Doc. It's not a good sign. It means more people dislike Donald Trump than like him. With Kennedy, half, the numbers are half, 44% like him, 29% dislike him.

Much better numbers for Robert Kennedy. And then you just go down the list, Bernie Sanders is third, Elon Musk is on the list. Why are they putting Elon Musk on this list? That's a great question. Of course, they've got Hillary Clinton and several others on there. They're throwing out a lot of names. Let's go to the next one and see what we got. Okay. When factoring in independents who can vote in primaries trump's lead is less strong so some states have open primaries and if you are registered as an independent voter you can choose which which primary you want to vote in democrat primary or republican primary right

so if the republican presidential candidate or primary was held today, the person who would win, if it was restricted to only Republican voters, far ahead of anybody is Donald Trump. And that number is what, Doc? I don't have my glasses, so I can't see what the number is. But if you add independents in, Donald Trump, he still wins, but not with such a great majority. That's interesting, then, to have that. So if independents, there are certain states where independents are allowed to join and vote in a primary without joining the party if they vote in the republican

primary independents are not going to vote for donald trump at the same um margin as as republican voters so it's not good for donald trump uh that's where we're at on this thing hey so um where are we at doc we got to take, so where are we at, Doc? We got to take a break, don't we? Yes. And I need to remind you, I'm trying to get used to our new format, folks. All right.

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Many Americans accused the FBI of protecting Hillary Clinton from a litany of possible crimes. Citizens were also outraged over the FBI's corrupt role in setting up and Hunter Biden from being prosecuted for influence peddling and bribery. Well, some Republicans in Washington want Congress to defund the FBI and start over with a new federal agency. Those voices include Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs, Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz. They accuse the FBI of weaponizing law enforcement against conservative American citizens. The call to defund the FBI is getting pushback from other Washington Republicans. Last week, Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said calls to shut down the FBI are stupid. He said Republicans cannot criticize progressive Democrats for seeking to defund local police agencies while at the same time supporting the defunding of the FBI.

The Iowa Republican said he does agree that politics has influenced internal FBI decisions and the Iowa senator wants to reform the FBI, not dismantle it. Well, that leads me to the question, what do former FBI agents think about the debate to reform or defund the FBI? Mr. Thomas Baker served for over 33 years as an FBI special agent in a variety of leadership positions dealing with terrorists and criminal investigations. He has extensive experience with law enforcement training and management issues and served as an instructor at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Additionally, Mr. Baker served as an instructor at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Additionally, Mr. Baker served as the legal attache at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia. Mr. Baker recently published a book, The Fall of the FBI.

It is available on Amazon. And I want to welcome on to True News, Mr. Baker. Sir, glad to have you here today. Great, Rick. Good to be with you. Well, before we get into this topic about whether to defund or reform the FBI, I'd like to get your comments about the recent incident in Los Angeles last weekend at a Robert F. Kennedy event where a man posing as a U.S. Marshal, he had what looked to be a U.S. Marshal's badge on his belt, several weapons, and a second suspect, which a gentleman who was carrying weapons and knives, but the police say he wasn't arrested. I'm asking you this because you were the first FBI agent on the scene when President Reagan

was shot. So you have direct experience with assassination attempts. What was your thought when you heard about the RFK incident on Saturday? Well, it was kind of haunting when you realize what happened to his father and his uncle. They were victims of assassination. I think he had in the past uh i believe uh formally requested as a as a presidential candidate to get secret service protection and as of the most recent thing i heard he's been denied that protection uh perhaps this um this will make the powers that be rethink that decision.

Any thoughts about this man posing as a U.S. marshal? Not particularly. You know, people, criminals or deranged people, and I'm not sure which this man was, they often do things like that. In the case you referenced, the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley, who we all know today was a deranged individual. He was very open about what he was doing and why he was doing it, which was crazy to most of us. And of course, he was found to be insane and spent a lot of time in a mental institution. But there are also people with either terrorist or straight up criminal motives who could be involved in something like this. Times reported that Mr. Kennedy's private security guards detained a second suspect who had firearms and knives, but the L.A. Police Department said there was no second suspect. So how do you have a discrepancy like that?

I don't know. It is a discrepancy. It is puzzling. I have no explanation. The FBI has been an agency that decades ago had very high standing in the eyes of American citizens and has in the past, I'd say, two decades has really fallen. What do you think, what contributed to this change in the perspective of the American public towards the FBI? Well, the American public's, and there's no doubt about it, assessment of the FBI has changed. But what changed in the FBI that caused it, in my estimation, is a change in culture. The FBI always had a culture, and that's what we were trained to, of strict adherence to the Constitution. It was a culture of a law enforcement organization. Now, granted, the FBI always had, from its very beginning, some responsibility for counter intelligence or counterterrorism activities in this country, but it was primarily a law enforcement organization,

and it had a law enforcement mentality and mindset. I think the key moment, if you let me say this, Rick, was right after September 11th. The horrendous September 11th attacks sent a shock to this country, and unfortunately, there were unintended consequences that came out of the response to that attack. Specifically, Robert Mueller, Robert Mueller of special counsel fame, was the FBI director for only two or three days before that attacks attacks which happened on a Tuesday September 11th the following Saturday morning now he's only been the FBI director for a week he's called to a meeting in Camp David Maryland with President George W Bush and his the president's national security team he goes to get he gives a report of the FBI's investigation. Now, only about

three and a half days elapsed between that Tuesday attack and that Saturday morning meeting. And in that time, the FBI had done what it does best, investigate. And they had identified all 19 hijackers. They had identified their financing. They had identified their travel, all their documents, all their connections going back to al-Qaeda. And when he was done presenting that report, expecting some praise and thanks, and Bob Mueller's a very proud man, instead, George W. Bush just looked at him and said, I don't care about that. I just want to know how you're going to prevent the next one. He left that meeting humiliated, but he also said he left that meeting bound and determined to change the culture of the FBI. And that's the word he used, culture, from that of a law enforcement organization to an intelligence organization. Now, to some people, there may have been some justification for some of that then, but it had unintended consequences and very bad consequences for our liberty. That's true. But there was something

else that Mr. Mueller did in those days after September 11. The FBI sent SUVs around the country and gathered up members of the bin Laden family and escorted them safely out of the united states why i don't know did you find that strange when it happened i've heard that i i don't know the logic or the reasoning behind that or the explanations and i think president george w bush has been questioned about that and i don't know if he's ever given a logical explanation either. There was a long relationship between the Bushes and the Bin Ladens. And it's just one of those things that happened immediately after. You know, American citizens were still in the rubble.

The smoke was still coming out of their ruins. And the U.S. government was quietly giving transportation to the family members of the chief culprit in the attack. It's things like that, Mr. Baker, that make people ask, what in the world is going on in Washington, D.C.? Who's really running the show? And for you, what year did you join the the uh the bureau i was in the bureau for 33 years from uh 1967 until 2000 and since 2000 i might add i've stayed in close um involvement with the fbi i serve on the board of directors of the credit union. I'm in several of their associations.

I did a lot of consulting on biometrics at the FBI Sieges Division in West Virginia. So I've had my ear to the ground and I've stayed in touch with FBI executives over this past 20 years. So when you started, Mr. Hoover was the director. It's obviously very controversial. What was your impression of J. Edgar Hoover? I only met the man once. We had all heard, I mean, he was feared by the employees. It's in the book, one of the cases, and it was quite a good case, actually, the first aircraft hijacking for ransom. The original aircraft hijackings, you may or may not remember, Rick, were people who for political or for some because mental illness, they wanted to go to Cuba.

They hijacked the planes to take them to Cuba. The first time any plane was hijacked for ransom for money was a hijacking that was centered on at Dulles Airport. And I happen to work on that quite closely. And it's a chapter in the book. At the end of that, the hijacking was resolved. The agents got in. One agent in particular got into a very close shootout with the subject. The subject was wounded, shot in the hand.

The airline pilot was wounded. But at the end of the day, there was no major catastrophe. The plane and all the passengers were safely liberated. It just so happened I was going to be in Washington the following week for a meeting for an in-service. In those days, when you were at an in-service, you could request a meeting with Mr. Hoover. And that's what we called him. I never requested a meeting with him. But the agent in charge of the office, Jack McDermott, was very concerned that the lack of a response from Hoover, neither criticism nor praise for what we had done. So he made the appointment for me to go in and see Mr. Hoover, which I did.

And it was quite remarkable. I went in to see him. He just said he had that very gruff voice. He said, Baker, I see you're on the transfer to New York. That's the toughest assignment, but our most important assignment. And that was it for me. And he then proceeded to ramble on. And other people in meetings with him in those years said that's what often happened. He would, when he was meeting with an agent, a regular street agent, I was a very young, new street agent.

He would take advantage of the opportunity. And I say, I do not mean take advantage in a negative way. He would use the opportunity to vent himself about his thoughts, his thinking on different subjects. And people would come out and they'd always be asked, what did he say? And sometimes you'd be asked to write down notes of what he said. I was. And anyway, he began talking to me about an evening at his home just in the preceding week or two. And I later read about this in other books. Ehrlichman and Haldeman, two of Nixon's top assistants, had made arrangements for a boys night out. And they went to Hoover's home for dinner. and he had them to his home in dinner for dinner and he told me all about it he said you know they started in the living room uh clyde joined them clyde tolson they had drinks in the living room then they went down to the finished basement which

was typical in those days right and it um after dinner they had steaks for dinner just steaks and bourbons whiskey and water and then then they went to the basement. He said, again, we had another bourbons and water. And and then when they were leaving, Hoover was rather annoyed. He spared no words in telling me this, that Holderman and Ehrlichman had called the press and the press was outside the door as they exited Hoover's home in northwest Washington and they asked him to step outside and he said he said I wouldn't step outside and he goes like this my face was flush flush from the bourbons and water bourbons and water and he

repeated himself and I wrote that down in my notes uh it turns out years later I read in books by Ehrlichman and Holdeman and others that they were sent there that evening to ask for his resignation, to suggest to him that he resign, retire. But they couldn't get a word in edgewise either, nor could I in my meeting with Hoover. So that was the one and only time I met Hoover. So they had to go back and tell Mr. Nixon they did not ask Mr. Hoover to resign. I don't think anybody would have done that. A year later, Hoover was dead and two years later, both of those guys were in jail. Well, that says a lot, doesn't it? Yeah.

Well, let me ask you, regarding Hillary Clinton, when the whole Clinton, you know, the Teflon family, there's been so much suspicion and allegations about the Clintons for decades, and they never get investigated. And then there finally was what appeared to be a half-hearted investigation. And I remember the day that Director Comey was on national television reading the report, and we're looking at each other in the office saying, oh my gosh, they're actually going to arrest her. And he got to the end of his report and then said no reasonable prosecutor would would take on this case it didn't make sense he read all of the evidence of what she did wrong and then said but we're not going to arrest her what was your thoughts about that my thought was similar to other people in and

who had been in the fbi he was totally out of order. He was totally out of bounds. That is James Comey. He has such a high opinion of himself. He usurped the role of the prosecutor. The decision whether to prosecute or not is really the role of the prosecutor in the federal system, a U.S. attorney, or in this sort of a case, perhaps the attorney general herself in that case. But he didn't. He fixed it at the end of his remarks, making that statement, no reasonable prosecutor would take that case, was a virtual declination. He took it out of the hands of the Department of Justice, and he did it himself. He was out of order. He was wrong. He was out of bounds. But that's how he was. He probably did more damage to the FBI's reputation than any other director.

But his bad leadership was only exacerbating the cultural change that had been started by Bob Mueller. It's the one-two punch. Mueller making these cultural changes, which by the way, one of the things in making it an intelligence agency, he centralized certain key investigations. He called them headquarters specials and headquarters eliminating layers of review. And the Hillary Clinton email investigation under Comey followed that pattern, as did the Russian collusion investigation. So it was started by Mueller, his cultural change, which was very significant. That's what we're living with today. And it was just exacerbated by the poor leadership of James Comey. How do you describe this cultural change? How did it lead to this politicalization of the FBI?

Well, here's the key thing, Rick. In a law enforcement organization, in a law enforcement culture, you live, you exist every single day, consciously or unconsciously, for when the day comes that you're going to have to stand up in court, raise your right hand, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God, before a judge or a jury, to a set of facts. Now that's so different than the intelligence culture, the intelligence mindset, where they deal, first of all, they literally operate in deceit and deception. Their product at the end of the day is an estimate, an intelligence estimate. We would call it a best guess.

Guesses aren't allowed in the courtroom. So that change, that allowing that free-wielding intelligence approach is what has led to all the looseness and all the mistakes. And we could go over a half a dozen of them. That's happened in the last half dozen years. But it all goes back to that central cultural change. It's not the work of a few bad apples. Chris Wray would tell us and has told us several times, the bad apples are gone, whether it was Comey struck in McCabe in the Russian collusion case, all the way up to the two people they fired and the governor Whitmer kidnapping plot to other individuals.

They're all gone. They're all out the door. Nothing more to see here. The bad apples are gone. That's not the issue. There'll be more bad apples because of this free range thinking that's going on, the intelligence mindset. That has to be changed. The culture of the FBI has to be changed. So I agree, I would have used different words, but I agree with your quoting Senator Grassley at the outset, the FBI must be reformed. And how can it be done? Well, it can be done by changing the culture, and culture can be changed in organizations. It's been done in the past. It's been done before. The first thing that has to be done is the problem has to be recognized. And as I said, Chris Wray and others aren't recognizing the problem. Once you recognize the problem, you can do it. One, there's a lot of specifics, but one specific would be the intelligence analyst. This is a new cadre of individuals that has been recruited and staffed up since the September 11th attacks, they took the model, and they said this internally,

they took the CIA's model of the intelligence analyst and brought it over into the FBI. It just doesn't fit having free-range analysts. It can work in the CIA where they have to think about all kinds of possibilities, but it doesn't work in an organization with police power. And a specific example came to light recently, a month or two ago now, where intelligence analysts cooked up this crackpot idea of focusing resources on what they call RTCs, radical traditional Catholics. The fact that the FBI even has an acronym like that should be scary. And these are people, Catholics, who prefer to worship using Latin. That may not be everybody else's cup of tea, but it's not a crime. It's undoubtedly protected by the First Amendment, yet they want to initiate an investigation using surveillance, using informants, and they specify that, of this group of people of a particular religious persuasion. That's the result of intelligence analysts being able to engage in this free-wielding thinking, whereas

FBI special agents in the past are trained within the, and most often abide by it, within the guide rails of the Constitution. Number one, you have to obey in your investigations the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. That was drilled into us, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments dealing with search and seizure, the right against self-incrimination, stuff like that. But all it was emphasized to protect the First Amendment, the First Amendment being freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom of assembly. And in opening cases, you were never this was a checkoff item. You were never to do anything that would infringe on those First Amendment rights. That mentality has clearly

changed. And that's what has to be reformed. That's what has to be changed. I'm not sure any federal agency today talks about the U.S. Constitution. It seems like the attitude of many people in Washington is that if you uphold the Constitution, you are a threat. And that means they are the threat. They're the threat to a constitutional republic. Mr. Baker, one last question regarding Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. Most of us are looking at this and we've been watching it for years and we're saying, what is there to talk about? The evidence is there. The laptop computer has the evidence. If his name was John Smith and his father wasn't the president of the United States, he would be in prison right now. The evidence is overwhelming. The FBI had the laptop for several years before the public knew about it. And then after the public found out about it, the FBI said it's Russian disinformation.

Why are people in the FBI covering up the Biden crimes? They shouldn't be. And there's more than enough reason to investigate. And there is. And as you say, there is evidence. One specific item which which really needs to be focused on, and I hope I believe the various House committees will focus in on it, is 176 suspicious activity reports have been filed involving Hunter Biden and or other members of the Biden family. Now, suspicious activity reports, it's a Treasury Department requirement of all financial institutions, brokerages and others, as well as banks. When they see something they suspect is a crime, they're supposed to report it using this form. In the past, and I mean in the past up to the present day, since that form is existent, often one suspicious activity report, one is enough probable cause, depending on what's in it, to open an investigation of an individual or an entity. 176 suspicious activity

reports. It's just mind boggling. And anybody who's involved in financial crime investigations or anybody in the private sector in banking or finance realizes that. That's astounding. That in itself is more than enough that they should be elbows deep into investigating this family and then when you that is somewhat corroborated by the uh informant report saying a five million dollar bribe was paid to the biden's and then further you have this which in itself is suspicious and maybe is is tied into the activity reports that we now know there are 20 20 20 some shell companies that is paper companies set up through which these funds up to 20 million dollars that we know about so far were wired to nine different members of the Biden family.

This goes beyond enough probable cause to open an investigation. A lot of this stuff is evidentiary. Mr. Baker, so what you're saying is federal officers in other departments, like Treasury, were doing their job, sending the suspicious activity reports to the fbi but somebody the fbi put them in a file folder somewhere 170 some reports so who is who has that kind of power in the fbi there there's somebody in the agency who remains there regardless of who is the director. And that person doesn't fear the director.

So who is it? Well, I go back, Rick. I have to go back to it's the culture. In terms of the 176, and I believe that is the number, suspicious activity reports, they're actually filed by people in finance, bankers or brokers. Yes. Some branch manager even who sees something and they believe they have to report this. It's suspicious. Right. It goes to Treasury, but then Treasury sends it to the FBI. And it goes to Treasury. Well, Treasury sorts them out. Some

would go to the FBI. Some would go to the DEA. The DEA opens a lot of drug cases based on these things, too. So they go to different places, just to be precise about it. But yes, I get your basic point. There seems to be, this whole investigation has taken far too long. Anyone who's looked at it or had any involvement in it all thinks it's taken far too long. This latest charge only a few days ago against Hunter Biden, the gun charge, the gun charge, the facts of that were known two or three years ago. It's a very clear-cut violation. It could have been brought forward two or three years ago, and it's virtually a slam dunk.

I mean, he lied on a federal form. That's the key violation there. He was willing to plead guilty to it, in fact. So that's pretty clear cut. What also now I think is almost as clear cut, not quite as clear cut, but when they bring it forward, it will be, is the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which has civil and criminal penalties. He clearly was acting as an agent of several foreign entities, some of which were connected to foreign governments. The Chinese one certainly was. But even if they weren't, they're foreign entities, and that falls under the definition to prove that violation is pretty clear cut also.

So I expect that will happen. If that doesn't happen, there should be more outrage because they have a special counsel now who's free to look at any any matters arising concerning Hunter Biden and things arising concerning Hunter Biden will definitely connect back to other Bidens. If I were a counterintelligence agent at the FBI and I saw that the president's son had 176 suspicious activity reports filed at the FBI, nothing was done. I would quickly conclude that there is a mole in the FBI working for a foreign entity. And I would be demanding an investigation to find the mole. Because somebody with power is in the FBI and has outlived various directors and has had the power to protect the Bidens. And it seems like it doesn't matter who is the director. Nothing happens. That's what puzzles people. And to me, there is a, my first gut feeling would be there's somebody working for a foreign government inside the FBI, like China, somebody working for China. Wouldn't be the first time.

I mean, you and I, we both know that some high-level FBI agents in the past have been arrested for working for foreign governments. Well, it's pretty well documented that Hunter Biden was working for Chinese entities and Ukrainian entities. That's documented. And hopefully we'll get to the end of this and we'll get justice. But people like you and others have to keep talking about it, have to keep bringing it forward.

And it's one of the reasons I wrote this book. Look, I wrote this book because I think what's been going on with the FBI is a threat to American liberties. And that's the concrete reason I wrote the book. But I also wrote the book with a broken heart because the FBI that I worked in and loved and knew for 33 years is no longer there. And I'll tell you this, Rick, and maybe I'll close on this. I've done with the book, my book, The Fall of the FBI, I've done book signings at Barnes and Noble and similar places. And every, almost every time I do it, I've had people come up to me, identify themselves as current FBI employees, and tell me, and thank me for having written the book, but also tell me words to this effect, Tom, it's worse than you think. And

it's nice to be validated that validates my book and my efforts. But it also is very, very scary and very discouraging. Worse than you think. Well, the book is The Fall of the FBI. The author is Thomas Baker, 33-year veteran of the FBI. Mr. Baker, thank you for spending his time with us today. Thank you, Rick, and thank you for all the good you do. Thank you, sir. We'll take a break.

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visit our platform, Faith and Values, through desktop, iOS, or Android. Welcome back to the second hour of the Tuesday, September 19th edition of True News. I hope I do better in the second hour than I did in the first hour in following the schedule. It's all right. Hey, we're still learning. Hey, it's been a while since we've done a two-hour live show. It is. Plus, Doc, everything is out of place.

We're not in the studio. We're in my office. Tomorrow, I'll show you some photographs behind the scenes of what's going on here. We're not in the studio. We're in my office. Tomorrow I'll show you some photographs behind the scenes of what's going on here. We are moving. We have sold the church property, and we're moving to another location. And it's part of God is just reorganizing us, and he's doing some pruning and some enlarging at the same time. For what purpose?

Greater harvest. Some people say, well, why would the church sell your property? Well, I'll tell you two reasons. Number one, we truly, truly believe the Holy Spirit was telling us to do it. It had been for a while. Yes, and we prayed about it for a long, long time. And number two, we're taking out the equity. Right. When I say we, I don't mean Doc and me.

I'm talking about the church. The church is taking out. We were offered a very good price for our property. And that money will be able to be plowed back into producing more content. And we're faced with a decision. Either we expand where we currently are, or we refocus and do what we do best. Yes. And we had some issues here on the property that were going to require us to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to be brought up to code. And we're like, you know what?

Is it worth it? Is it worth it? And we went to the Lord in prayer, and finally I got the green light from the Holy Spirit. It's time to sell the property. And so we're moving into a new location, and we're very excited about the changes. The new location has an enormous amount of office space. Our present location has barely any office space. Even though it's a good-sized building.

Yes, but it's not laid out. It's a 12,000 square foot steel frame building. And most of it is in the sanctuary where we turned it into studios. And we have employees sitting at desks on the floor of studios. Yes. Because there's no office space for them. And it's just been a problem. The air conditioning needs to be replaced. That's a substantial investment. There were code issues that had to be replaced. That's a substantial investment.

There were code issues that had to be fixed. And it was just a growing list of investments. It's like the property is, what, 25 years old or 30 years old? I think 30, yes. 30 years old, you know, and it needed investment. But it served its purpose for what we were doing at the time. We grew. It was a broadcast.

And what we did, Doc, is that we outgrew it. That's the- And that has been a pattern. Over the years, we move into locations, we stay there for a number of years, and then we outgrow it. And the previous building we had, we bought it at pennies on the dollar. After the 2008 crash, we bought it in 2011. I bought it for 13 cents on the dollar. And what's, I still remember this because I've been with the ministry now nearly 10 years.

Even when we were at the old location, God had put in your heart this location where we're at, and you'd just drive over here and take a look at it every once in a while. Yeah, I would. I had to come over and look in the windows and pray for it, you know? And then the opportunity came along, and it's to purchase it. And it's like the Lord prepares us for the next event on the horizon. Well, the Roman Catholic Church owned this property before us, and they had built another church. And this property was sitting there, basically empty, being used as a community center. And they had a very high price on it, and I offered a very low price.

And the archbishop turned it down and told me that they sold it to another organization. Right, remember that. And I'm like, I don't think so because I prayed for it. And I've got my faith locked in. I've locked it down with my faith. Well, a month or two would go by and I'd find out that the deal fell through. And then we'd wait, and I'd put in another offer at the same price. I just stayed, held my own, held my ground.

And they would turn it down and then later tell me, well, we sold it. Don't worry. Don't bring another offer because we've sold it. That happened three times, Doc. They sold this property three times at the high price, and all three sales fell through. And they fell through because I had my faith locked on this property. I'm just, I don't know. Does that sound cocky?

No. It doesn't sound cocky in heaven. It sounds like faith to me. It doesn't sound cocky in heaven. It sounds like faith to me. It doesn't sound cocky in heaven. I said, this is what we're paying for it. And we'd been looking at some possible other locations from this point to others. And it wasn't until we found the one that we're moving to that – Then the green light from heaven.

This is it. And then we sold the property at a high price. Yes. Okay? If I had another life to live, I'd be a real estate developer. I love transactions in real estate, and I come out on top. If you want to buy something, let me know. I'll come. I'll do the dealing. I'll do the negotiations

for you. But I do like buying and selling real estate when the time is right. And right now, I'm telling you, for commercial real estate, you don't want to be holding commercial real estate right now. Because the bottom is going to drop out. Yes. and it's going to be out for a long, long time. Commercial real estate is not the place to be. Get out of commercial real estate before you lose your shirt. If you stay in much longer, you're going to be in it for a decade or two. In fact, one major investment house, Doc, said it may take 30 years. Oh, yes, I remember said it may take 30 years.

Oh, yes. I remember that article from the other day. To get one of the New York investment houses said it may be 30 years until commercial real estate comes out of this hole. So many factors that are coming into play. Interest rates, people not coming back to the office to work, so many different things that are happening at the very same time. There's a glut of commercial real estate property out there, and there's going to be a tipping point one day where the bottom is just going to fall out. And I'll tell you, we didn't buy. We're not buying.

We are leasing because that's what I believe the Lord was telling me to do. Lease. The bottom isn't here yet. You're selling. You're getting a good price. The bottom to commercial here yet. You're selling. You're getting a good price. The bottom to commercial real estate has not arrived yet. Lease for several years, and you will then buy at the bottom. So that's my strategy if you're wondering, what are we doing?

All right, that's my plan. Just trust me. We're doing our best to be good stewards with the resources that have been entrusted to us. And those resources come from you as you donate and support us. And we're doing our very best. So— Well, we have about a little over 12 minutes before we have Morning Man today, Rick. Okay. So I want to go quickly through. We've got a number of things I want to talk about. The man who was arrested in Los Angeles

for carrying firearms at the Robert Kennedy event. Doc found this video of this man. His name is Adrian Paul Aspiro, age 44. And he was arrested at the event wearing a u.s marshal's badge right pretending to be a federal agent we have video of that that's that first video is that what this is okay so let's watch this first this is when they arrested him Officer, we have a bomb dog. Do you want to take a look at that bag really quick before you guys get into it? Yeah, okay, we'll wait.

Hey, Will. they're ready find out how long until Doug yeah yeah now for our radio audience out there of course you weren't it but it was a surreal uh interchange there you know uh he was being arrested by the los angeles police but he wasn't resisting wasn't fighting or anything uh he was armed had two shoulder holsters on two badges a lanyard uh but it was just surreal and no one seemed really concerned even the

commentator said hey you know we should check that uh that bag there in case there's explosives hey can we go back and show this again had had the police officers removed the firearms from his holster oh that's a great question let's go back and look at this and see if the firearms are still in the holster and i don't know if you guys can run it as a VO. Yeah, so let's take a look at that. So he had two shoulder holsters. I can see one, but I can't tell if there's a firearm there or not. It sure looks like there is.

It appears that there is, but one officer is just standing there kind of with his hands in his pockets. The other one is casually going through the suspect's pockets. Not much alarm. You were talking about a guy that was pretending to be a federal U.S. marshal. Bringing weapons to a Kennedy event. A Kennedy event.

A mile and a half away from the ambassador hotel where his father was was shot that was a message the lapd is not who found this man this man was spotted by kennedy's private security team and he has a private security team because he doesn't have Secret Service protection. Because the Biden administration has repeatedly rejected his application for Secret Service protection. So that's the video of him being arrested. And also, the L.A. Times said last Saturday that a second suspect was also detained. With a backpack. With a backpack backpack with a firearm and knives but the la

police department said no there was no second suspect well there was no second arrest is what they said second arrest there was no second arrest so it makes you wonder was he the handler right now dog came across the video yesterday on TikTok Yes And this is several months old Right, end of July, July 31st Mr. Espirro, Adrian Paul Espirro posted this on TikTok This is the same guy Yes, tattoos and everything

Months earlier, wearing the same clothes, almost identical But listen to what he said about his name And how you can identify him Some of you will recognize the word that he uses Others will say I don't know what that means Let's watch Oh shit Big homie Zorro over here Oh, bitch. Big homie Zorro over here.

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So now that's the only video that he has on his TikTok channel. The only thing he's published. He publishes the end of July. And like you said, he's wearing the very same outfit that you see him arrested at the Kennedy event. Very same thing. What stood out to me, I mean, there's a lot of things that were odd, but he said, if you want to know the meaning of my name, run it through gematria. Right. Well, gematria is Jewish numerology.

It's Kabbalahism. It's sorcer is Jewish numerology. Yes. It's Kabbalahism. It's sorcery, witchcraft. Yes. So this guy is a practitioner of Kabbalah and gematria. There's a lot of weird stuff going on here. Doc, I don't know how to do gematria. I'm not wasting my time learning it.

It's of the devil. Did you spend? Yes, as a matter of fact, I did. You spent time doing it? Okay. What's his name? I looked up his last name. You have a Gematria device? I have a Gematria decoder.

An app? You got a decoder? It's on my Dick Tracy watch here. No. You don't have to believe in Gatria to know that there are those Who do believe in it and guide themselves By it so his last name a Spiro in in Gematria isn't has a numerical code to

It of 490 490 and there are a number of Other words that also match that for Instance ready Patri, the beginning of the end, cyber, it's all connected, source code, midterm election, just a number of words that match up to his last name. Now, there are other words, too, that match up his last name that don't seem to have any connection, like toilet paper or Oxford, things like that. But there's enough words in there that match up to his last name that make you sit back and think, did he read something into the gematria of his name that was guiding him? And, of course, gematria is big within the QAnon community. And so that was kind of a flashing light saying he probably picked some of that up through QAnon posts and things like that.

Well, I always believed QAnon was an Israeli Mossad operation. I believe it, too. It was a psyops operation. They had the Trump supporters conned into believing that there was some kind of super secret plan underway to take down the deep state, and it immobilized the Trump base for four years. They didn't do anything because they kept being told, trust the plan. Well, the plan was to deceive you. That was the plan. And it worked. Now, a couple of things you might have noticed there.

There were brand new flags that were being flown in front of his house like he just had unwrapped them out of the POW flag. It still had creases in it. Yes. So they hadn't been steamed or pressed or anything. But I wanted to bring up his TikTok profile real quick. And this is what you would see when you would go to his TikTok page. And I would have skipped over it, but I read the profile underneath it, how he described himself.

He says, emergency broadcast name, Adrian Paul Ice Bureau, secret space program, Gen 3 ultra enhanced asset, Jedi warrior, medical science officer specializing in emergency health sciences and corporate espionage. That's how he described himself on TikTok. Did he go to Mars with Barack Obama? That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw that. Well, that was weird. Okay. We have about a couple minutes before yeah elon musk says he's going to uh

implement a small monthly subscriber fee for twitter to get rid of the bots so he's coming to uh grips with the fact that most of the accounts on twitter are fake. Yes. And most of the tweets are fake. What was Twitter? A massive psyops operation. Right. Fake accounts, fake people, messages coming out of intelligence agencies to make the public believe that the majority of people believed a certain way. Yes. So he's got to get rid of the bots,

and he said the only way he can do it is to have a monthly subscription fee because each bot would have to be registered as an individual and have a separate credit card. And when you're dealing with billions of bots, or not billions, but millions of bots, that's almost impossible. So you can expect a subscription fee coming up very soon at Twitter. We have Morning Manna coming up. And we had a good Bible study today.

We're in the book of the Acts of the Apostles, and it's getting gooder and gooder every day. And I hope you would just join in in the morning at 8 a.m. It's when we go live on faithandvalues.com. And we're learning a lot. And apparently a lot of people are enjoying it. We're getting great feedback from our audience who are watching it in real time at 8 a.m. and also people who are watching it later in the day or listening to it on International Shortwave. So we'll share that with you right after this message from Genesis Gold. Okay, let's do that. Are you concerned about this economic storm and how your IRA and 401k will fare during these turbulent times? Top experts are predicting now is the time to be protecting your assets with physical gold and

silver. Find out why Genesis Gold Group is the number one recommended company by your favorite preppers and homestead channels. Receive Genesis Gold Group's free definitive gold guide today or give them a call at 800-200-GOLD. Let us go to our Heavenly Father and invite the Holy Spirit into this Bible study. Dear gracious Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, we pray. Father, we thank you for this awesome, wonderful, beautiful morning. This is the day that you have made, and we will rejoice in it, Father. We choose to rejoice.

We make a decision, a choice to rejoice and to be glad and to be happy and to be thankful. Father, you are a good father and we are grateful to be in your family. To illuminate our spirits. To open our spiritual eyes and our ears. To hear and see and understand the greatness of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And the wonders of his kingdom. And it's his name, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Amen. Praise God.

Go ahead, Doc Christ, we pray. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Okay. Go ahead, Doc. Yes, sir. So I'm reading from the King James chapter 9, starting at verse number 36. Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and alms deeds, which she did. And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died, when they had washed they laid her in an upper chamber and for as much as Lydda was nigh to Joppa and the disciples had heard that Peter was there they sent unto him two men desiring him

that he would not delay to come to them then Peter rose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them. But Peter put them all forth and kneeled down and prayed, and turning him to the body, said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. And when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive. And it was known throughout all Joppa, many believed in the Lord. And it came to pass that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon, aanner. God bless you. Praise God.

Okay, starting with verse 36. Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy, which she did. So Dr. Luke's narrative started with a, now I'm talking about at the beginning of this chapter. Dr. Luke's narrative started with a certain man in the city of Damascus named Ananias. The narrative later told us about a certain man

named Aeneas who dwelt in Lydda. The narrative now tells us about a certain woman, a disciple of Jesus Christ named Tabitha. The name is of Chaldean origin, and it is translated into Greek as Dorcas, which means gazelle. Yes. So maybe she had bright, large, bright eyes. You know, that may be an appropriate name for her. She probably was just a cheerful woman. And her eyes were always wide and lit up and just a happy person.

That's how I picture her. So Dorcas was described as a kind and merciful soul who did many humanitarian deeds and acts of mercy. The literal translation says that Dorcas was always abounding in and completely occupied in doing acts of kindness. Yes. She got up in the morning thinking about who she could bless that day. Who could she be kind to that day? She was completely occupied in her mind, her soul, her being with serving others, being kind. Today, we would say that Dorcas was a woman with a good heart. She loved people and people loved her. So she lived in the city of Joppa. That city today is known as Jaffa.

And it's located about 30 miles, 48 kilometers south of Caesarea. The present day population is approximately 60,000 with a present day Jewish majority and a minority divided between Arab Muslims and Christians. Biblically, Joppa first appeared in the Holy Bible known as Yapo. It was spelled J-A-P-H-O, pronounced Yapo. And it was in Joshua 19, verse 46. And it was part of the land that belonged to the tribe of Dan. It's one of the oldest shipping harbors in the world. In addition to the book of Joshua,

Joppa is also mentioned in three additional books of the Old Testament and nine times in the Acts of the Apostles. Right. This is interesting. Joppa is the harbor where Jonah boarded a ship to escape from God's commandment to preach repentance to the people of Nineveh. So Joppa was a city of commerce. It was a harbor city, a port city, and the place where many travelers departed or arrived at the port. So there was a lot of activity in that city. It was a commercial center is really what it was. Yes. For shipping and trading. Travel. And industry too because Simon

the Tanner lived there. We'll talk more about that today too. And he was probably shipping his leather goods out on the boats that were coming into the port. Now, the Bible doesn't tell us, but I think it's most likely Dorcas was the spiritual fruit born from the evangelistic work of Philip. Evangelists don't stay in one area.

They evangelize. And they're always going somewhere else. So it was Apostle Peter who cared for the saints in Joppa, who were led to Jesus by Philip. He was the overseer. And he was there to check up on everyone. Verse 37, in those days she became sick and died. When they washed her, they laid her in an upper room. So Dork has developed some type of sickness.

We don't know what it was. Her body became weakened and she died. And the saints who loved her prepared her body for burial. And they did that by washing the body, which was the custom of civilized nations toward the deceased. Why burial, not cremation? Because burial shows the hope of the resurrection of the dead on the day of the Lord. The upper chamber most likely was the attic room in most homes. It was where people went to pray alone or to have private conversations.

Now, some theologians believe that her body was placed in the upper room to delay her burial, to give Apostle Peter time to arrive. Verse 38, as Lydda, the city of Lydda, was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. So why would the local saints send for Apostle Peter regarding a church member who had already died? And I think there are two. Number one, the church elders sent for Apostle Peter because Dorcas was a beloved member of the church and the community. And they knew that many people would be distraught over her death and they wanted an apostle there to help console and comfort people. Or number two, they had expected faith that God would raise up Dorcas from the dead if Peter prayed in the name of Jesus,

even though none of the apostles had raised any dead people as of yet. So the church sent two men to Peter, who he was still in Lydda, and they begged him not to delay his arrival in Joppa. The more accurate translation would be do not be reluctant to come immediately. Now there's approximately eight to nine miles separating Lydda and Joppa. So it wasn't a huge distance, but they wanted Peter there right away.

So Peter got up and went with them. This is verse 39. Right. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them. It's easy for me to imagine that scene. Peter immediately, Rose, went with those men to Joppa. And once he arrived at the house, he was greeted by a delegation of widows of the church.

I kind of think of Dorcas as the leader of a church auxiliary group. Yeah. The sisterhood of mercy. And her saintly sisters were in the upper room in their sorrow over losing their beloved sister in Christ. And obviously she was in business for herself too, Rick. And so because she was making coats and garments and there's no mention of a husband. So she was likely a widow. And so I bet she gave the doc, I bet she gave away more garments than she sold. She probably did. That's my, that's my impression of her. She was a good hearted woman. And she's, she sold enough garments that she sewed to pay her bills and buy her food,

but she gave away a lot to the poor. And so, you know, I can imagine this scene. Dorcas's body's there. She's surrounded by the women who loved her. And what do they show Peter when he walks in? Peter, look at these fine garments that Dorcas made. This was her life. She loved to make clothing and give it to the poor. Just look at the quality. Look at what she made. She gave these garments out to so many families. She barely kept any money for herself. She just worked day and night making these clothes. I can just imagine the women just holding up the garments and saying, look, Peter, this was this woman's life. You know, I think of my grandmother, and her life was cooking.

Doc, that's what that woman lived for. She loved to cook meals for people. She loved to give food to people. And if she invited you to a dinner and you didn't accept, she would cry and you showed up. Because you couldn't, once she started crying, you were going to dinner. Because it meant that much to her. It was it was her ministry. And so I think of my grandmother cooking meals for people. And and I think of Dorcas making clothing for people.

She was a seamstress who loved making clothing for the brethren. Now, these coats were tunics worn next to the body, and the garments were the outerwear that were worn over the tunics. And as I said, these widows were showing everybody who came into the upper room the garments that Dorcas made from her love of people to bless people in Joppa. And they just wanted everyone to know the goodness of Dorcas and how much she loved people and making clothing for them. So that's the scene when Peter walked into the upper room.

But verse 40, Peter sent them all out. Yes. Now he didn't, he didn't say, Hey, get out of here. He gently, he gently said to the women, Oh, I know Dorcas was a good woman. I know these are beautiful clothings. Could I have some private time here with her? He didn't point to the door and say, get out of here. He was kind hearted. He led them out and said, just give me some private time here to pray. So he sent them all out and knelt down and prayed. This is verse 40.

Turning to the body. He's praying. He's on his knees. He's praying. Then he turns and looks at the dead body. And it's a body. It's a corpse. And he spoke these words.

Tabitha, get up. She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. So if we go back into the gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Peter was present on all three occasions when Jesus raised the dead. He had firsthand training. Yes. And what did Jesus do in all those circumstances, Rick? He cleared the room, and then he spoke to the dead body. Now, why do you think it was necessary for Jesus and for Peter to clear the room? Because faith cannot operate in an atmosphere of sorrow, mourning,

and emotionalism. That's right. Even though there was nothing wrong, he understood the reason for the sorrow, the mourning, the emotional outburst. He understood it. He wasn't condemning it.

His heart was touched by by the emotions of people when Jesus hated death. I think every time he saw it, Doc, he said, I hate death. He's the resurrection in life. I'm going to kill it. I'm going to kill it someday. I'm going to kill death. And he will. He hated it because he saw the sorrow the pain that it brings to humans and he he knew it was not natural death is not natural death is the result of sin in this world wow that's a good word rick it's not natural. It was never meant to be. It was never meant to be in creation. Hallelujah. Wow.

So he didn't want any crying and mourning and weeping in the room. Only faith was permitted to remain. Hallelujah. And the reason he did it was because Jesus had done the same thing in the home of Jairus when his daughter died. We'll go to Luke chapter 8, 49 through 56. While he still spoke. Again, this was Luke 8, 49, 56. While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue's house came saying to him, your daughter is dead.

Don't trouble the teacher. But Jesus hearing it answered him, don't be afraid. Only believe she will be healed. When he came to the house, he didn't allow anyone to enter in except Peter, John, James, the father of the child and her mother. All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, don't weep. She isn't dead, but sleeping. They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead. But he put them all outside and taking her, the child, by the hand. He called saying, child, arise. Her spirit returned and she rose immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat. Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one what he had done.

Well, how are you going to keep that a secret? Everybody in town knew the girl died. And now she's walking around going to school. And you're not going to talk about it, you know? You know, I've said this many times. Jesus ruined every funeral he ever attended. That's right.

If you have a good funeral, don't invite Jesus. He's going to just ruin the, the church dinner and everything. Everything. Dead people get up. You know why?

Because he's pure. Your life. That's why he's pure life. There's no death in him. There's no sin in him. He's pure life. And death has to depart when Jesus is on the scene. Glory. Amen. And we want to believe that because when he comes back, and if you and I are in the grave when he comes back, we want to believe that death has to depart. Yes. When he comes back, death runs out

from our body. Yes. It can't stick with our bodies anymore. And we will sit up when we see Jesus. That's right. Arise, Rick. Arise, Doc. Arise, John. And you know what, Doc? Just like he said to the parents of the little child, give her something to eat. When we come out of the grave, he's going to have a marriage supper. That's right. He's going to feed us. So first, Peter knelt on his knees in submission to God. Second, he spoke a solemn prayer to God and asked the creator to console the saints who deeply loved Dorcas. Third, after his spirit received assurance from the Holy Spirit that his prayer was heard in heaven and approved. He had to discern this. Peter turned and spoke to the deceased body of Dorcas Tabitha.

Get up. Peter spoke with authority. It was authority derived from the great commission of Jesus Christ. Two words were sufficient when spoken in the authority and the power of the name Jesus Christ. Two words, Tabitha, arise. Amen. He didn't pray, oh God, this would really help my ministry if you would raise this dead woman. This would really look good here on you, Lord. He didn't say that.

He spoke to the dead corpse and said, get up. I'm going to take that back. He spoke towards the body, but he didn't speak to the body. He spoke to the spirit, Tabitha. Yes. He spoke to the soul, Tabitha. Arise in that old body. Get up. He identified the object of the command, Tabitha. And then he spoke the object of the command, Tabitha. And then he spoke the action that he expected, arise.

And Dorcas opened her eyes. She's looking around. You can only imagine what she's experienced. She's suddenly back in the room. Well, she's in the upper room and she's suddenly back in the room. Well, she's in the upper room, and she's probably thinking, hey, this is where they put the dead bodies. What am I doing up here? And then she turns and she saw Peter, and she sat up in bed.

Verse 41, he gave her his hand, raised her up, calling the same widows he presented her alive. Yes. So there's another action. He stretched forth his hand and helped her to get up out of the bed. Just like the little girl, Jesus said, hey, she's her body. Let's get her up. I mean, your body's been dead here for a while. And you're suddenly back inside your body.

So Peter gave his hand to help her get on her feet. Dorcas' fellow church members, including the widows, were downstairs in the lower room, still weeping for her. They're still down there praying and crying and boo-hooing and all that. So Peter called out to them and presented Dorcas. Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you Dorcas.

She's alive and well. Amen. And Dr. Luke, who was a physician, never told us the sickness that killed her because it didn't matter. Right. It was gone. Who cares?

Who cares what it was? It was under the authority of Jesus. It had to submit to the name of Jesus. It didn't matter the name. It could have been flu. It could have been cancer. What's it matter? Both submit to Christ when the name of Jesus is spoken.

Verses 42,43, this became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. He, meaning Peter, stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon. So news spread fairly quickly that dead Dorcas was walking around her house laughing and talking with her friends. You're not going to keep that quiet. You know, people ran out of that house and went down the street saying Dorcas is alive.

I mean, the neighbors could hear the crying and the weeping. Now they're hearing laughing. Yes. Something's changed in the house. So reports of her recovery from the dead went everywhere in Joppa and beyond. And keep in mind, Joppa was a port city. And many sailors and passengers carried this astounding testimony to other cities and countries. If they were in Joppa that day, either they came to Joppa to get on a ship or they arrived in Joppa on a ship, and they heard people talking about a dead woman was raised from the dead today.

She's walking around. You can be certain that wherever they traveled, what other city they went to or country they told the story in the name of Jesus was spread to other places. Well, consequently, many souls were saved. They believed in Jesus. So if they believed in Jesus, they confessed, they repented of their sins, they confessed the name of Jesus, and they were baptized.

Once again, a city was on fire for Jesus. And Peter stayed in the city for many days. Why? Because he took advantage of the favorable spiritual conditions in Joppa and the surrounding region to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. Hearts were open. Ears were attentive. The conditions were perfect to sow good seed. I always think of Peter as the blue collar apostle.

The working man's apostle, the redneck apostle. So he found lodging with a man named Simon who made his living tanning animal skins. Peter, he liked to be around working people. Right. What's interesting about Simon the tanner, really, he was in a profession that really a lot of Jews didn't participate in. That's right. You dealt with two things that were considered unclean to most Jews, and that was dead animals and no other way to put it, urine, because the way they tanned hides back in those times, they didn't bring out a bottle of ammonia and do all that, but no, they used urine that they collected from the local latrines and public toilets and stuff like that, and that's

how they tanned hides. And so for a lot of Jews, that was considered an unclean profession. It was not one of the most prestigious jobs you could have. Right. And yet here's Peter staying with Simon the tanner. And it could have been a couple reasons why he was staying with him. It could have been working with him. It could have been tanners lived along the coast and everything so they could dry hides and everything on rocks and stuff. So Peter probably had known other tanners or may have known Simon the Tanner from a long time back.

He might have been working with him. Might have been apprenticing with him. Paul worked making tents. Maybe Peter was, you Peter was doing a side hustle to work with Simon the Tanner. It's interesting that they include Simon the Tanner in the story and identify him. I never thought about this, Doc. Maybe later, Paul was buying leather to make tents. Yes. Just from Simon the tanner.

So Simon made his living tanning animal skins. And the Ethiopian church says he was a maker of leather shoes. That's even more interesting. Okay. I didn't hear that. I didn't see that. Right.

So as Doc said, tanning hides from dead animals was an occupation Jews were not permitted to perform. According to rabbinical regulations about touching unclean animals and blood and urine and so forth, the job of a tanner, quite frankly, was an abomination to Jews.

Right. So he was about as close to a Gentile as you could get without being a Gentile. Yes. He was obviously a Jew. He had a Jewish name, but he wasn't a Gentile. So you see this transition in Peter's life here now. Why Simon the Tanner? Couldn't he stay anywhere else or anything like that? We don't know. We'd have to make up the story to fit it.

But it's interesting now in the scriptures, you see this transition as now in chapter 10, Simon's a part of the story of Cornelius as well, because Cornelius will receive a vision and the Lord identifies Simon the Tanner as the house that Peter is staying in. Yes. And so these are all pieces of this beautiful story that God has laid out where one person leads to another. You're right, Doc. So Peter, at this point, this is a really important piece of information what Doc's bringing out. Peter, at this point in his ministry and in the development of the church, Peter was gradually moving away from the rigid rabbinical doctrines that he had learned earlier in life. But Peter heard Jesus teach about defilement.

Peter knew that the Jews were saying, Peter, you can't stay in the house of a tanner. That man is unclean. But Peter heard Jesus say this. This is Mark 7, verses 17 to 23. When he had entered a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. He said to them, are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever goes into the man from the outside cannot defile him because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach and then into the latrine, making all foods clean. He said, that which proceeds out of the man defiles the man. For from within, out of the hearts of men

proceeds evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man. Right. So Peter was on a spiritual journey from Jewish legalism to freedom in Christ. And although he's an apostle, he's not there yet. Right. And we're getting really close to the moment where he arrives. And Simon, all this is part of this process.

It was a big step. It was a big deal for Peter to take up lodging in the house of a man that he previously would have been prohibited from visiting his home. Yes. So the Holy Spirit was gently working inside Peter to prepare him for his acceptance of Gentiles into the church. That's the important lesson in Peter staying with Simon the Tanner. So we'll pick it up tomorrow. Yes. At verse 44.

And we have a lot to go in the Acts of the Apostles. It's really starting to get good now. Yes, it is. And Chapter 10 is that fulcrum point where it shifts here now where the focus is going to be on the development of the Gentile church. So thank God. Thank God Almighty that that happened. And so, because there would be no church without that happening. And so, but something had to happen to Peter first.

And we'll be talking about that in chapter 10. Amen. All right, everybody. Have a blessed and wonderful day in the Lord Jesus Christ. And we'll see you either in the 12 noon live feed or later in the day on video on demand. Love you so much. Take care. God bless you. We'll see you on the next Morning Manor.

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Yes. And both of them affect you in different ways. When I study the Word of God, when I teach the Word of God, I'm energetic, I'm uplifted, I feel positive. When I spend time researching and talking about the world's news, it affects me in a negative way. It brings me down. You're not saying people shouldn't be informed, right? You should be informed, but you should not spend too much time in the news. If you spend more time in the news than you do the Word of God,

you're imbalanced. Darrell Bock Jacob and MP used to say that he had a newspaper in one hand and a Bible in the other. That always impressed me, and that's really what we try to do. Sometimes people want to hear more of the newspaper side of things than they do the Scripture, don't they? Darrell Bock That's true. But Smith Wigglesworth would not even go in a house if they had a newspaper. Darrell Bock No kidding. I didn't know that story. He refused to even sit in a house if they read the newspaper, because he said,

if you're reading the news, you're not studying the Word of God. So that was a different viewpoint. Darrell Bock That's that atmosphere of faith and belief. Darrell Bock Yes, yes. Dar. So we talked about that one morning. It does affect you. It absolutely does affect you. By the way, Doc has his own program that he does every day on faith and values, and it is called Ask Doc. Darrell Bock Yes. Darrell Bock Just asking questions. Darrell Bock Yes. 4 p.m. live every day on faith and values.

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