WEBVTT - 7-27-26: Rules Of Having Sources 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:31.640 Hi oh, let's go oh, let's go oh, let's go oh, 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.040 let's go Welcome back to SHAWT Snooze Talk one oh 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:36.919 seven point nine FM WBT. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.400 Brad Jensen here with you, come it to you. Two 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.120 minutes late. Don't know who that is? 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.639 Two minutes late, seven oh four, five seven oh one 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.120 O seven nine And again that is the WBT text 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.720 line driven by Liberty Buick GMC. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.360 I don't know why we are two minutes late. Get 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:00.360 in on that. We'll figure that one out. So pull 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:00.880 a TJ. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.880 I mean TJ was complaining being thirty seconds late. Somebody 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.240 somebody's jacking it up, making me two minutes late. My 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.759 people expect me at six h five, not six oh seven. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.840 We have to do something about that, all right. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.640 So anyways, we've got some stuff we're gonna get into, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.880 and you know that I will take you behind the 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.480 scenes like no one else in this station can, and 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.520 very few people actually in this city can. When it 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.800 comes to behind the scenes of media. I've been at 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.360 the smallest levels, and I've been at the biggest levels, 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:41.320 and everywhere in between. I've covered major major sporting events, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:48.040 major major political events, major major news events, and it's 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:49.920 not to like sit here and pat myself on the 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.200 back and govern my resume. But when I tell you 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:58.400 things about the way things work behind this curtain, no 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.600 one else can tell you about it, and I can. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:04.480 I've been in the middle. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.760 Of this for thirty years, like I said, from this, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.480 like it says in my ex bio, I've covered everything 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:17.600 from six year old six year old championship swimming to 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:24.160 the Olympics, and been in the middle of a war 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.000 over there in Ukraine near the like right beside the 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.639 front lines, interviewing people whose villages have been bombed out, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.919 and they call me breaking bray. This is going to 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:40.240 be about breaking news and house sources. And this topic 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.280 is very relevant because of what's going to be taking 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.520 place in a couple of days with ancient Anthony Fauci 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.360 and you know the the Covid Zar if you remember 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.280 all that craziness where he said, you don't need a mask, 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:57.880 you need a mask. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.320 You don't need a mask, you need a mask. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:06.720 So and there's a reason why, and I know that's 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.480 a cliche now because everyone uses that term. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.720 There's a reason why this, there's a reason why this happened. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.000 There's a reason why that happened. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:17.000 Well, we now know the reason why Joe Biden gave 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.680 Anthony Fauci immunity for basically twelve years, ten twelve years, 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.160 whatever it was going back eight years, I guess, going 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:29.240 back to twenty sixteen. So anything that Fauci did between 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.480 twenty fourteen, whatever it was in twenty twenty four Fauci 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.160 cannot be prosecuted criminally for not only did he do 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.040 that for some, but he did it for Anthony Fauci, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.240 and I believe he also did it to a couple 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.440 of then congressmen like Adam Shift and stuff like that, 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.520 who were clearly breaking US law the way they were 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:52.480 doing things, like clearly breaking rules in the Constitution on 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.560 the way to set things up, like truly, like it's 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.880 not even it's not even a debate, because if they 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:04.360 weren't breaking US law, then why would they need the 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.880 pardon they get out of jail free card from Fauci 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:10.280 dating back for ten years. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:18.680 So there's some things that I'm going to. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:24.240 Play for you, and I will apologize in advance if 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.919 it sounds a little weird or a little muffled. And 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.680 the only reason I'm saying that is is because T 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:34.560 Mobile is experiencing a power outage nationwide. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.479 Yours truly is on T Mobile. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:45.440 And I I can't email certain audio. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:47.159 I can't email audio. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.480 So with that being said, I'm gonna have to try 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:57.359 and play the audio over my phone because, as I 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.360 just said, I can't email it. Well, Brent wi Fi, no, 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:06.000 I get it. No, I understand what you're saying. That'd 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.800 be a note. I've had SOS on my phone for 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.400 over an hour, meaning the only thing you can do 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.359 is reach out to nine to one one on your phone. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.640 That's the only thing you can do. Meaning your phone 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.719 is in SOS mode, you can only call nine one one. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:24.960 Yeah. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:33.599 So, oh, somehow mine just went through. I don't know how, 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.359 but I think it did all right. That actually amazes me. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:39.839 So no, I don't want to play it here because 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.720 I want to be able to get into it next 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.840 segment and like not play for you now and then 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.640 have to discuss it and then go, okay, well when 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.440 we come back, we're going to discuss it. I actually 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.360 wanted to be able to discuss it, and I may 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.680 have Lonnie stop it at certain points so I can 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:56.240 tell you. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:56.960 Some things that are going on. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.200 But what I am going to do is I'm going 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.560 to take you behind the scenes of what it's like 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.160 when you're dealing with sources, because the audio that I'm 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.520 gonna play for you deals talks about that and things 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.960 that Fauci did, things that he literally wrote in his diary. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.719 First of all, I was not aware that a sixty 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.440 something year old man kept a diary. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:23.400 I don't know if it had. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.359 His little cover had unicorns on it and pink flowers. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:32.360 Not sure, not sure, little unicorns, flowers, rainbows, not sure. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.479 Sixty five year old man, twelve year old girl. Not 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.640 quite sure, although he's about the size of a twelve 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:44.280 year old girl. But oh my gosh, I got it back. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.279 I'm up to five g My cel service is back. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.440 Maybe that's why my email finally just went through to Lonnie. 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.239 There you go. How about them apples? 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.440 It only took T Mobile, Nation's largest carrier, service to 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.839 only an hour to get cell service, Thanks T Mobile. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.840 Shape that do I get a discount on my bill 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.400 for not having mobile service for an hour? But I 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.200 do want. Like I said, what I'm going to do 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:14.720 is like sort of like a magician, you know, like 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.000 there's a lot of things on YouTube now where magicians 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.880 will tell you how tricks work. They've broken the code, 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.440 so to speak, and show you certain things on how 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.000 illusions work, magic trick works. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:29.640 Whatever. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.560 Well, I'm going to do the same thing and take 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:39.520 you behind the scenes and behind the curtain about dealing 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:44.840 with sources, the dues and the don'ts, the ya's and 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:53.000 the na's. Because my entire brand, my entire career has 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.720 been built on breaking news. I've never been the guy 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.560 that wants to write the nice, fluffy story about the 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.920 one arm baseball player who's twelve years old, or the 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.680 dog that can climb a tree whatever, Like I'm not 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.600 mister touchy feely, oh human interest. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:13.600 No, that's never been me. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.760 From the onset, a coworker of mine at the Charlot 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.520 Observer got laid off and fired because I was breaking 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.520 stories on his beat and I'd been on the job 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.280 six months and they're like. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.120 Dude, this has been your beat for a couple of years. 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.960 It was this no name who knows nothing about journalism 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.360 breaking all your stories and then they ultimately let him go. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.480 True story. I was twenty three years old. It's the 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:44.319 Charlot Observer, and that's been my forte Some of the 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.559 biggest stories I ever broke, or even when I was 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.719 working at the Hickory Daily Record, and this would have 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.360 been from ninety eight to two thousand and I broke 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.320 a massive, massive story on Lenard Ryan athletics that wound 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.720 up in the Washington Post and the Associated Press and 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:06.640 other places I've that's I broke stories on the University 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.720 of South Carolina and cheating that was going on with 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:16.400 their football program under Holtz and under Steve Spurrier. Sports 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.800 Illustrated even called me about it. So this has like 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.520 been my whole thing. This is I've hung my hat 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.320 on breaking stories my entire career. So when we come back, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.080 I'm gonna take you behind the scenes a little bit. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.760 I'm gonna pull back the curtain. You're gonna hear some audio, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:47.600 and I'm gonna discuss the dudes and the don'ts. Going 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.720 back to breaking good Brett Jensen, all right, so we're 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:51.840 gonna jump straight into this. 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.839 Okay, We're gonna jump straight into it. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:10:00.520 This is Megan Kelly earlier today talking about what's in 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.520 Fauci's diaries. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.599 Again, I did not know grown. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.480 Men kept diaries, but okay, again, I don't know if 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.280 they're pink with unicorns and rainbows on them, little flowers, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:16.040 but who knows. So Fauci keeping a diary, an actual diary, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.880 and making Kelly. Here's about two minutes of audio of 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.480 making Kelly talking about what's in the diary. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.720 Dana Bash, who is featured there of CNN in April 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.079 of twenty twenty one, after his Fauci's heated exchange with 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:32.760 Ohio Representative Jim Jordan at a hearing, Fauci Dana bat 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.800 Fauci wrote in his diary, Dana Bash sent me a text, 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.280 and then he quotes the text. This is what a sad, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.640 little pathetic manny is who writes down their texts that 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.360 they've received from people who are on television, just so 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.560 they can keep them a note of how many famous 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.600 people texted them. Dana Bash sent me a text quote, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.719 I just watched the whole Jordan thing again. You're a 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.199 better man than I. Well, what do you mean, You're 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.640 not a man? As our friend Wolf Blitzer said to 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.120 me yesterday, no would have blamed you if you said, simply, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.920 mister Jordan, go yourself. So this is Dana Bash, who's 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.360 still interviewing him on her show as though she's an 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:13.280 objective newsperson, texting him this behind the scenes. Then there's 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.800 Jake Tapper, he writes, had dinner over at Jake Tapper 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:22.120 and Jen Tapper's home in DC. Terrific couple friendship building 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.160 again so weird. Normal people don't behave like that unless 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.640 they're users, right, which clearly he was. Then Tapper, the 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.840 most revealing aspect of these pages, writes the Ran Paul Team, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.760 or how Fauci worked with compliant journalists to shape media narratives. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.480 On July twenty six, twenty twenty, while watching the Assistant 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.320 Secretary for Health and a fellow member of the White 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.800 House Task Force be interviewed on CNN's State of the Union, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.680 Fauci writes that the Assistant Secretary for Health was talking 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.480 about testing with Jake pressing him quote. I gave Jake 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.520 some questions to ask him, and then Tapper and he 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.120 were making fun of Laura Ingram of Fox News. After 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:06.160 my Laura Ingram hit Jake Tapper texted me saying, sarcastically, quote, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.000 hard to believe Laura Ingram went to Dartmouth, isn't it? 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.520 All of us alumni are very proud. What the hell 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.040 he's this is a federal official whom he should be 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:20.080 cross examining and pressing and cynical love and pessimistic about 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.720 that's what you get paid to do, now, Chum, chum, 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.000 we dart with alum. Can't stand Laura Ingram. All of 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.560 it is so stomach turning, all. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:34.640 Right, So there's a lot of to impact there, the 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:39.439 whole uh, clearly, And let's not forget this all through COVID, 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:41.120 let's not forget this. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:47.559 CNN was lying to you about a lot of things. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:53.640 How many of you remember that daring the whole COVID thing, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.320 CNN twenty four hours a day on the right hand 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:58.520 side of that, I believe it was on the right 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.480 hand side of the screen a strip they went from 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:02.640 the top of the screen to the bottom of the 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.320 screen like a rectangle. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.440 They had, and a. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.880 Running total of the world death count and the US 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:17.160 death count for months months like it was the US 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.480 stock market, and constantly updated total because they were trying 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.600 to scare the Holy but Jesus out of you, right, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.480 that's all they were trying to do. Never leave your house, 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.280 make sure that your two month old gets vaccinated like 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.000 all that crap, right, Never let your children breathe on 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:41.480 anyone whatever like. That's what they were up like. And 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.640 they were the ones saying, basically, it wasn't a virus 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.000 out of a laboratory. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.480 It was out of the wet market from a bat. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:51.200 Let's not forget all this. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:56.960 So now you've got two journalists playing buddy buddy, actually 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.680 more than that, because I'm sure what Blitzer was right 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.520 in the middle of it, playing ring around the rosie. Right, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.360 They're all having like a four way together between Wolf 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.520 Dana It's not Dana, she spells it d a n 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:18.880 a Dana Dana bash between Wolf Dana and Jake, Jake 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:27.560 Tapper and Fauci. So when we come back, I'm gonna 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.960 break everything down for you and the rights and the 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.680 wrongs of sources. So now that you've heard the audio 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.480 and everything that went on, I'm going to tell you 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.720 the good and the bad, the right and the wrong 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:45.560 that was taking place. With all that, Welcome back to 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.840 breaking with Brad Jensen here on this. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:48.760 What are we going? 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.040 Monday night, Monday night, beautiful Monday night. By the way, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.720 tonight might be a cigar night. I haven't smoked a 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.720 cigar in about two three weeks Okay, so let's get 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.440 back to this is this is the important part of 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.560 the show. Okay, you're about to learn something that you 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:11.320 do not know, and I will tell you this. Ninety 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.520 five percent of the media in Charlotte they don't know 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.360 this either. Okay, either a because they've never been in 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.640 these situations or be either so young they don't they 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:32.000 haven't experienced this yet. Sources, here's how they work. Obviously 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.160 not all the time. It's about fifty to fifty. Okay, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.720 fifty percent of my info comes from people that I 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.680 know that trust me. Fifty percent of my info comes 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.000 from people I don't know, who could be just a 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:50.320 listener like you who works at CMS or CMPD or 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.000 up in Raleigh and would will send me some information. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.720 And then when they send me information, I try to 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:02.720 verify it through my other long term sources. But if 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.840 it turns out to be true, then okay, now I'm 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.320 starting to be able to trust this person. But I've 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.080 had multiple people reach out to me only because they 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.000 know I'm on the radio and only because they know 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.280 I break stories. And nobody knows who my sources are. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.480 Not even my bosses know who my sources are. That 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:25.840 is a fact. That is a fact. So here's what 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:32.400 I've told going back. God, it's amazing now twenty years 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:39.520 actually more than not. Nineteen ninety nine was the first 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:45.360 time I used this particular statement when I knew there 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:50.160 was when there was a coach or a player, because 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.880 this is when I was doing sports. But I use 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:56.080 it to this day, this particular statement. I said the 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.360 same thing when I was covering Clemson and I would 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.280 see half the starting offensive line in the quarterback Charlie 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.960 Whitehurst and all the running backs, like at the Esso 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.959 Club or at Tigertown tavern, whatever, because Clemson's very small, 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:17.680 and they'd see me and they like, oh crap, is 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.760 Brett gonna write about us or report about us? And 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.920 here's what I've told police officers, Here's what I've told 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:34.480 like administrators, executives, politicians, here's athletes. Here's what I tell everyone. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:41.840 I don't care if you throw somebody through a bar window, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:48.960 don't care. I don't care if you're drinking. There's a 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:55.000 chance that I'll even buy you a beer. But if 0:17:55.000 --> 0:18:01.240 you do throw someone through a window, I will only 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.520 get involved, basically if they get. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.600 Hurt or if. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.120 The police get involved. And if the police get involved, 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:14.520 I've got no choice. That's how it works. If the 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.520 police get involved in something you do, even if I'm 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.520 with you or happen to be in the same bar, 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:25.240 but not with you. Once the police get involved, I'm 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.399 reporting on it. I do not have a choice. So 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:35.960 whatever you do, just don't get the police involved. If 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.760 you get in a fight. It happens, people get in 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.800 fights all the time. Don't get the police involved, and 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.760 don't like knock the guy unconscious that the ambulance has 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.600 to come, which is hard to tell an offensive lineman 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:50.480 or a linebacker. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:57.119 So that's rule number one. Don't get the police involved. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.359 If you are a source of mind, if you're a 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.200 friend of mine, I don't have a choice. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.080 At that particular point. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.840 Once you've gotten the police involved or you've sent somebody 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.959 to the hospital, now I don't have a choice, and 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.520 I will report on it. And I tell everyone that 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.840 and they understand that, so they don't want to go, oh, Brett, man, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.480 I can't believe you're reporting on this. Man, I thought 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:25.560 we were boys. Dude, you got the police involved, the 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:32.080 hell do you want me to do? So that's number one. 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:37.800 Number two, you know, with having dinner over at Jake 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:42.240 Tapper's house, or texting back and forth with Dana Bash 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:43.320 and Wolf Blitzer. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.399 I will text people. 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:55.600 That I believe will be involved in a particular situation. 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.119 We all remember the Oversight Committee hearing on Safety and 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:04.240 Charlotte where Game McFadden went to Raleigh and he got 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:09.520 in a back and forth that went national about know 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.520 what branch of government does the sheriff serve under? 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:13.600 And all that stuff. 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.600 Right, we all remember that very famous incident back in February. 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.680 I believe it was February. We all remember that. 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:29.920 Leading up to that particular moment, I texted a couple 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:35.880 of members that were on the subcommittee and said, Hey, 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.880 what can we expect? What are you looking for with this? 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:46.960 What angles are you going to take? I spoke to 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:52.600 Gary McFadden beforehand. I knew before anyone in Charlotte that 0:20:52.680 --> 0:21:00.159 he had been subpoened. He called me Christmas Eve, the 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.760 Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, I believe it was Christmas Eve. 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:05.720 It said Brett, I just got subpoena to show up 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:10.520 at the House Oversight Committee hearing. So okay, but he 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.560 told me, look, he gave me the information. But he 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.920 also told me, Brett, you can't report this. It's like, 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:20.639 all right, fine, So I didn't report it. He was 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:26.240 offering me the information, but under the condition that I 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.040 didn't report it, And I will go and tell you this. 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.600 There's an old saying that reporters only reveal about sixty 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:40.119 percent of what we know. A lot of times we 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:44.280 can't reveal information because A we weren't given permission by 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:48.000 our sources, or B if we did reveal information, it 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:51.040 would out our sources and it would be very easy 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:53.639 to figure out who was feeding us the information or 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:58.760 leaking us the information. Or we were ninety five percent 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:03.840 sure that something happened, but we can't one hundred percent 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.320 guarantee it, like when I bet a lot of money 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:07.520 on it. 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.240 Yeah, I would, But can I one hundred percent prove it? No, 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:10.760 I can't. 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:14.840 So even if you're ninety five percent sure it happened, 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:24.439 you can't report it. So getting tight with sources. There 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:27.320 are a lot of politicians that I know, as a 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.440 matter of fact, making no secret about it. 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:34.240 When I was up in DC, what was it. 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:35.920 A month ago, month, month and a half ago, month, 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:39.040 month and a half ago, something like that. When I 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:44.360 was up in DC the week before July fourth, so yeah, 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:50.640 we're almost a month ago. I was invited. There were 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:55.840 twenty people invited to a dinner at the Palm restaurant, 0:22:56.000 --> 0:23:04.560 twenty people. Six of the twenty were congressmen. Thirty percent 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.440 of the people in attendance were congressmen. There were twenty 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:11.320 people invited, and I was one of the twenty people. 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:17.040 Some of the congressmen I'd never met before, I had 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:20.440 never spoken to. As a matter of fact, I even 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:24.399 had to ask somebody said, what's that dude's name? And 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:28.600 these were all congressmen from North Carolina. Now, there were 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:30.439 others there that I did know that I have a 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:35.439 really good working relationship with. That's the key term working relationship. 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:40.680 And they were telling me who some of these There 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:47.560 was a state legislator there as well, and some political operatives. 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:52.800 People do that all the time in our world. That's 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.240 what you do. But what you don't want to do 0:23:55.960 --> 0:24:05.080 is become Diana Russini and you start dating someone in 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:10.919 political office or that's a head football coach. All right, 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:14.919 you don't do that. You don't date on someone that 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:21.720 you're reporting on. That's called a conflict of interests. Clearly, clearly. 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:30.560 But you do try and build up trust, and but 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:35.520 you always set the parameters. You always set the groundwork. Look, yeah, 0:24:36.640 --> 0:24:38.320 you invite me over to your house for dinner. Yeah, 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:43.080 I'll go. But Jake Tapper and his wife or all 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:45.879 of them should have been like, just just so you know, 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:48.400 this doesn't. 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:53.560 Mean X y Z don't screw up and I won't 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:54.560 have to report about it. 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:59.320 If you do something stupid, I'm gonna have to report 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:00.520 about it, and I'm gonna i have to ask you 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:09.280 about it. And every congressman, every city council member that 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:13.679 I've ever interviewed, every state representative, they all know the 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:14.160 same thing. 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:16.200 But you know, what does happen. 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:20.959 Let's say one of them really really screws up in 0:25:21.000 --> 0:25:27.080 a major way. Because I've built up a relationship with them, 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:30.639 because that's the only way you build sources. Because I've 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:34.119 built up a relationship with them, they feel comfortable talking 0:25:34.160 --> 0:25:37.800 to me about the situation that they screwed up more 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:41.679 than they might other media outlets because they trust me. 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:47.320 There's never been an interview that I can think of 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:52.600 or I've said, Okay, here are my questions when people 0:25:52.640 --> 0:25:56.280 come in the studio, whether it's the US Attorney Rus 0:25:56.280 --> 0:26:01.520 Ferguson or CMPD chief Estella Patterson, whomever. They don't know 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:05.840 my questions. Nobody knows my questions. And be brutally honest 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:08.639 with you. I go into every interview knowing one or 0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:12.080 two questions that I'm gonna ask, and all the other 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:17.480 questions are generally based off of their answers. So, yes, 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:21.560 you build up sources. I sincerely doubt any of them 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:23.800 is keeping a diary and go. Bret Jensen sent me 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:33.159 a text today, yay, like Fauci did with Dana Bash. Yes, 0:26:34.560 --> 0:26:38.119