1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: So what has come out of the Bolton raid? First 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: things first, the understanding that this was not about politics. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: It wasn't Trump engaged in retribution. No part of that 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: at all is true. Tony Katz, Tony Katz Today, good 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: to be with you. Find everything at Tony Katz dot com. 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: It wasn't the Trump administration going after John Bolton, the 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 1: former national security advisor for President Trump, the former ambassador 8 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: to the UN who now is very anti Trump. It 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: wasn't some level of retribution. That isn't what happened. That's 10 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: not true. What happened was the Biden Justice Department started 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: working on this, the Biden Justine department. Justice Department started 12 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 1: putting this together, and what they said was was that 13 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: John Bolton had files that he shouldn't have. As The 14 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: New York Post reports the story, they raided his home 15 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: in Bethesda, Maryland. They raided his office in DC. The 16 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: investigation looks into allegations that he snuck national security files 17 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: out of the White House during President Trump's first term 18 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: and then emailed them to family members on a private server. 19 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: This according to high ranking FBI official speaking to the 20 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: New York Post. So they took two iPhones and seized 21 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: three computers. In addition, they confiscated two USB drives, a 22 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: hard drive, four boxes of printed daily activities, typed documents 23 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: in folders labeled Trump one through four, one through four 24 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: being in Roman numerals, and a whitebinder labeled statements and 25 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: reflections to Allied Strike. Bolton's also being looked at, according 26 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: to the warrant, for allegedly violating two sections of the 27 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: Espionage Act of nineteen seventeen, which would forbid unauthorized possession 28 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: or removal of national defense information and another law that 29 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: prevents the hoarding of classified files. Now what does this 30 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: tell us? It tells us a whole host of things. First, 31 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: one can still argue that we live in a world 32 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: of overclassification. The people in charge of classifying classify things, 33 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: because after all, that's what they're supposed to do. If 34 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: you're given a stamp and told to keep things classified, 35 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: everything you look at it is like, well that's going 36 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 1: to have to be classified. Oh, we're gonna have to 37 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: classify that, you know what, I'm gonna be safe and 38 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: make sure that's classified. All that has to be classified, 39 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: super extra top secret is what that one has to 40 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: be classified. That's what you're gonna do all day long. 41 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: So the people who deal in the world have classified 42 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: are going to go out there are going to classify everything. 43 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: So we have too many things that fit into this world. 44 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: The second thing is is that I have not changed 45 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: in any of my opinions at all, and these people 46 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: who are taking classified documents have to be dealt with. 47 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: When the former vice president Mike Pence had found classified 48 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: documents in his home, he made the calls immediately and said, hey, 49 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: this stuff is here, come get it, and they did 50 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: a search of everything. Do I think the former vice 51 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: president was trying to keep classified documents in his house? No, 52 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: I don't think he's Sandy Berger stuffing things into his socks. 53 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: I don't think that's him at all. But the fact 54 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: that he had them is at least proof of we 55 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: have too many classified things. But he shouldn't have had them, 56 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: and he has to deal with the consequences of having them. 57 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: When President Trump had the classified documents, first that you 58 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: knew the boxes existed, and the Biden people were saying, 59 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: pick up these boxes. And he brought them to mar 60 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: A Lago and the Secret Service put the lock on 61 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: the door. And then you had the nonsense raid. No 62 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: one talks about the fact of what a setup that 63 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: all was. But there were things that President Trump should 64 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: not have had. Now, the argument of he was the 65 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: president and therefore the taking of the document is the 66 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: declassifying of the document is actually an argument that I 67 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: ascribed to I still think that that argument holds. That said, 68 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: it should have been with him in a box somewhere 69 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: mar a lago that other people may have had access 70 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: to before any level of lock was put on there, 71 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: or even with the lock that was put on there 72 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 1: by the Secret Service. No, I think it's a sound argument. No, 73 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: absolutely not. That should not have ever been the case. 74 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: Should Joe Biden have had any classified documents, No, absolutely 75 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: not in his offices in DC. Ro is it in 76 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania wherever it was he was running some pseudo institute 77 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: there where he was taking lord only knows how much money, 78 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: because well, paying for access is what happens. Not in 79 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: his home in Delaware that we still don't have the 80 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: logs for who visited. The Secret Service under Joe Biden 81 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: did not keep a record of who visited him at 82 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: the house in Delaware. We have no idea who was there. 83 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: We have no idea, what they had access to, what 84 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: they saw. The documents are laying around the garage where 85 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: his drug adult son is damn strade. I'll call Hunter 86 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: Biden drug adults. You think I want a coke fiend 87 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: near classified information. He might be trying to clean himself up, 88 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: and I only wish him the very best in that regard. 89 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: But is there any question that a guy who did coke, 90 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: that a guy who lied on a federal form to 91 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: purchase a gun, and then you found cocaine in the 92 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: White House and nobody knows whose cocaine it was. My 93 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: take is that it was Hunter's. And since I while 94 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: I can't prove it, at least my argument has plausibility. 95 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: You could believe it took place. The rational national security 96 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: thing is to not let that guy near anything classified. Also, 97 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: do not allow him near any kind of operating machinery, 98 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: heavy equipment, nor any electric can openers. You do not 99 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: want to know what happens. Of course, Joe Biden was 100 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: in the wrong. Of course Joe Biden should have been 101 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: charged for what he did. This violation and of course 102 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: putting America's safety and security at risk. When Hillary Clinton 103 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: was emailing classified documents through her home Brews server. She 104 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: didn't know what the classified marking even meant. That was 105 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: a crime and it needed to be dealt with. I 106 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: put forth to you that what John Bolton has done here, 107 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 1: based on the information without having any other information, the 108 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: idea that he had these materials and emailed these materials, 109 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: that's a crime. There is no excuse, nothing, zero less 110 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: than zero. He was entitled to it. He was entitled 111 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: to nothing. Now, if you can show me a statute 112 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: that says the National Security Advisor can take home classified documents, 113 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: I'll say, Okay. Then I want to know. I want 114 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: to know who wrote that statute, and then I want 115 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: him thrown in jail or worse. But since I don't 116 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: think that statute exists, I think he did something wrong here. 117 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: I think he violated the law here, and I think 118 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: there has to be jail time because we cannot tolerate this. 119 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: We can't have it. Republican democrat makes no difference. As 120 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: a society, we cannot have these things. Look at how 121 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: many things I just rattled off. This is only the 122 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: past couple of years. Lord only knows the number of 123 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: people who have things we haven't looked into. It's like 124 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: when people say you're going to look into everybody, investigate 125 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: everybody who got a mortgage, see who's committing mortgage fraud. Well, 126 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: if everybody's committing mortgage fraud, I don't believe in a 127 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: society where you say show me the man and I'll 128 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: show you the crime. But is everybody going to be 129 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: checking into everything via to do opposition research. It's already happening. 130 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: Lisa Cook clearly manipulated data and information on mortgage applications. 131 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: So did the teacher James in my view, so did 132 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: Adam Shift In my view. If these are crimes, these 133 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: are crimes. Doesn't matter how long ago it really happens 134 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: these people who want to be in the public trust. 135 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: Shouldn't we the people know it that these people are 136 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: frauds and liars and con artists and bull crap artists. 137 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: I think we should. If you have classified documents in 138 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: your possession and you're not the President of the United States, 139 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: well that's a crime. So let's just call it what 140 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: it is. Let's not give anybody a pass. Let's not 141 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: give them a pass regarding lying on mortgage applications or 142 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: lying on gun applications. Right to get a law to 143 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: the ability to buy a firearm. Nor should we give 144 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: them a pass unclassified documents because you and I don't 145 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: get a pass on the parking ticket. They are not special, 146 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: they are not different. They are not in another stratosphere 147 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: or at another level, deserving of some kind of well, 148 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: we don't. The law doesn't apply to them. It only 149 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: applies to you. Screw them, screw that, screw it all. 150 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: Absolutely not. So. Yeah, this happened in the Biden Justice Department, 151 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: carried out by the Trump Justice Department. This is the 152 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: kind of stuff you should be investigating. And if indeed 153 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 1: he has these documents, and he has all this stuff, 154 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: John Bolton should go to jail and I only hope 155 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: he does. This is Tony Katz to day.