WEBVTT - The FBI is Targeting Catholics, NBA Coaches Are Attacking The 2nd Amendment, & Bud Light is Going Woke 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:04.359 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.160 with you. Senator, nice to chat with you today, and 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:11.399 let's start with the big headline that so many people, 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:15.480 especially in the Catholic faith, are talking about, and that 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.520 is the fact that it looks like the FBI was 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:25.759 trying to infiltrate Catholic groups and using trying to use 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.560 people in the church to basically become, you know, FBI informants. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.680 There's also a lot of people that are asking the question, now, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.760 did the FBI lie to Congress about this, saying I 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:39.520 don't know, we didn't do this, and now it's coming 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.639 to light that, in fact, this was actually happening. Your 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.400 initial reaction to that, well, I think these reports are 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:50.080 very concerning. We have seen that the Biden Justice Department 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:56.279 has a persistent animosity to religious faith and that they 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.760 are willing to weaponize the Department of Justice in the 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.360 FI to target people of faith. We've seen that in 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.600 a host of different context We've seen that, for example, 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:13.759 in their unwillingness to prosecute the protesters who are committing 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.440 federal crimes by protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:27.280 justices and because the Attorney General disagrees with the dab's decision, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.640 he refuses to prosecute even a single one of them. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.880 At the same time, we've also seen the Attorney General 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:38.360 in the Department of Justice and the FBI bring very 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:45.759 limited prosecutorial resources to going after violent terrorists who are attacking, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:52.200 who are vandalizing, who are firebombing crisis pregnancy centers. Again, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:59.080 because they're politics, they don't prioritize those acts of violence. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.920 And now the latest news we knew publicly because of 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.160 a whistleblower who had leaked it that one of the 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.680 field officers the Richmond Field Office of the FBI had 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:16.080 written a document that was entitled interest of racially or 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:24.160 ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical traditionalist Catholic ideology almost 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:31.079 certainly presents new mitigation opportunities. And so this this memo 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:36.040 was called a domain perspective, was leaked by a whistleblower, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.960 and when Chris Ray, the head of the FBI, was 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.639 asked before the Senate Judiciary Committee about it, he denounced 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.760 the document and he said the document was appalling and 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.400 that it had been withdrawn. Well, what has now broken 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.079 this week is that Jim Jordan and the House Committee 0:02:55.120 --> 0:03:01.399 on the Weaponization of Law Enforcement has a public that 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.600 the FBI and in particular the Richmond Field Office was 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:13.799 using undercover agents and in particular at least one undercover 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:21.760 employee to try to penetrate local Catholic churches. And so, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:27.720 for example, this is a quote from the Opportunities that 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:33.120 part of the memo. It says, in addition to redaction, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.800 we don't know what's under the redaction, engage an outreach 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.880 to the leadership of other Society of Saint Pious, the 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:44.840 tenth Chapels in the FBI Richmond Area of responsibility to 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.840 sensitize these congregations to the warning signs of radicalization and 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:54.000 to enlist their assistance to serve as suspicious activity trip wires. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.400 And so this piece, Chris Ray had not indicated before 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.960 that the FBI was was placing undercover operatives. Well, I 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.600 don't know whether they were trying to recruit undercover sources 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.280 from within the Catholic Church or whether they were trying 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.280 to place agents undercover. Either way, that that is a 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:18.080 major escalation from what was known previously, and it's very concerning. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.599 It also has to concern you the fact that we're 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.920 not getting straight answers yet again from the DOJ and 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.000 the FBI. And this isn't the first time that's happening. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.600 We've had reports even they have come out recently about 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.160 the White House may have actually been involved or at 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.080 least read in on the Donald Trump Marlago raid. We 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.200 know that they lied about, you know, having parents be 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.360 labeled as domestic terrorists is another example there that we're 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.560 going to school boards. I mean, there have been quite 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:49.400 a few instances now where the documents call into question 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.640 the FBI and the DOJ on their explanations when they 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.320 come before you and your fellow members of Congress, where 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.279 their stories don't add up. You can be old fashioned 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.680 to say, it seems like they're lying to you guys 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:06.160 on a pretty regular basis. Well, unfortunately, neither the FBI 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:12.400 nor the Department of Justice have shown really any willingness 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:18.279 to be held accountable by Congress or the American people. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.039 In with both the Attorney General and the head of 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.640 the FBI, they are highly resistant to answering questions. They 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.840 typically will stonewall, they'll refuse to answer any specifics. By 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.479 the way that they've done this persistently concerning January six. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.279 When I've questioned the Department of Justice, when I've questioned 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:41.560 the FBI about undercover agents that were involved in January six, 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.919 they refuse to answer. When I've questioned them about ray Epps, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.920 they refuse to answer. They simply stonewall. When I asked 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:54.360 the FBI if undercover agents were involved in inciting acts 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:58.160 of violence, they refuse to answer. And I think that 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:02.479 is highly concerning. That there's an attitude within the FBI 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.760 and the Department of Justice that they get to decide 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.040 the rules, they get to decide what's acceptable, and that 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:14.240 no one, no one can hold them to account. And 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.280 I think it's producing an enormous lack of trust in 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.200 law enforcement. It's it's the reason I wrote the book 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.400 a few months ago, Justice Corrupted, How the Left is 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.360 weaponize the legal system, because in that book, I outlined 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.440 how under Joe Biden, the Department of Justice and the 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:37.520 FBI have deliberately been turned into weapons to target the 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:43.080 political opponents of this administration. And with regard to the 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.120 to the targeting of the Catholic Church. Look, these documents 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.680 indicate that they see as a quote warning sign people 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.039 who attend Latin masses. Now, now that that is Latin 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.080 masses are something attended by millions of people across the 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:04.800 world and simply being following traditional Catholic beliefs. The idea 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:09.000 that that is indicative of being a criminal, or being 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.360 violent or being a terrorist, it is absurd. But but 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:20.640 it also it demonstrates a deep animosity and distrust to 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:26.080 people of faith and and and and this is it's 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:31.840 a pattern that that that's sadly, the FBI director seems 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.360 to have little or no interest in in drilling down 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:40.640 and holding the people accountable who are demonstrating this animosity. Center. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.040 On Tuesday, I was hosting out Numbered on Fox. I 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.080 was in New York and we were sitting there talking 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.600 about this exact now, Ben, Ben, is that is that 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.000 known as a humble bragg? That's a humble bragg right 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.320 there right? You know the other day when I was 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.600 piling around with my buddies, you know, Jay Z and Beyonce, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.800 and then you know, Frank Sinatra wandered in and and uh, 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.120 I'm sorry, go ahead, Ben, I didn't interrupt now, but 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.000 we were sitting there on set and they were talking 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.040 about this, and I said the question that I now 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.480 want Congress to ask forget the Catholic part just for 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.120 a moment, because I think now the question has to be, Okay, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.640 if you're now an extremist in the eyes of the 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:23.120 FBI and the Biden administration, because you go to a 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:28.200 very traditional Catholic Mass, then who else is on this list? 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.800 And how many other religions are they trying to infiltrate 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.719 right now? Are they going after Baptists, Are they going 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.720 after Methodists? Are they going after Presbyterians? My question now is, well, 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.760 if they're doing this with Catholics and and and those 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.000 that are traditional their words traditional Catholics right now, but 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.120 now you're an extremist traditionalist Catholic, all right? You used 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.000 to just be a traditionalist Catholic. Now you're an extremist. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.440 If they're doing this and labeling this on Catholics, I 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.959 just want to know who else is on this list 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.000 and who else are they sitting these guidance out on 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.600 their religions or conservative groups. If you're on the Tea Party, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.839 if you used to be a member of the Tea Party, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.040 if you've gone to Republican convention, if you've gone to 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.520 a Ted Cruise event, a rally, are you now on 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.960 a list as well. Well. We know that they define 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.400 extremist by politics, and their definition of extremist is anyone 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.760 who disagrees with their politics. With regard to Tea Party groups, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.480 we know that the Obama IRS explicitly targeted Tea Party 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:35.280 groups and went after them. We know that they tea Party, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.480 that they targeted groups that defended the Constitution because they 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:44.160 viewed the Constitution and Bill of Rights as as a threat, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.920 and that all of that is detailed. There's an entire 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.480 chapter in Justice Corrupted called the Irs Comes Knocking that 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.000 walks through chapter and verse. And it's worth remembering. When 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.160 that story broke that the Obama IRS was targeting Tea 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:04.200 Party groups and conservative groups, Barack Obama publicly gave a 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.840 press conference where he said that he was angry, and 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.200 he said the American people have a right to be angry. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.920 So he recognized, at least he pretended to recognize that 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.640 it was appalling, that it was wrong, that it was 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.880 an abusive power. And then what happened was the Obama 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.000 Department of Justice stonewalled over and over and over again. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.800 Lois Lerner pleaded the fifth refused, it refused to testify 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.760 and the Department of Justice refused to prosecutor, so that 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.640 they stonewalled across the board. If you look at this 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.400 this recent FBI memo, they explicitly focus on politics. So 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.040 for example, this is a quote from the memo. The 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:45.800 ongoing convergence of the far right white nationalist movement and 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:52.040 RTCs RTCs of their fancy acronym for quote radical Traditionalist 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:59.160 Catholics was further demonstrated through the increase in hostility toward 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.520 abortion rights advocates on social media in the run up 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.760 and the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Dobbs League. In 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:11.040 other words, if you're pro life, that is an indication 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.960 that you are a dangerous radical. And the document at 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.240 for appendices, one of which was a list from the 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:24.000 Southern Poverty Law Center, which is widely denounced for smearing 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:28.240 conservative groups as hate groups and for being a hard 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:33.560 left political advocacy organization. And now you have the FBI 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:39.199 relying on that to target people they politically disagree with. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.800 That is highly, highly concerning. Well, let's talk about another 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.800 aspect of this, and I want to go back to 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.839 the FBI. I remember, you're a boot guy. You love 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.280 cowboy boots. I love cowboy boots. By the way, I 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.400 got a new pair. I'll show you on set this week. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.360 I'm upping my game. You're going to be jealous, but 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.559 you've got some pretty nice boots. And you used one 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.360 of those to make a point of the absurdity of 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.640 FBI guidelines on quote symbols that they also put a 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.839 list together that indicate extremist groups. I guess now, maybe 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.640 you know if you have a Catholic symbol that's going 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.880 to get on there too. You got a rosary that's 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.240 gonna get you on the list. And I want to 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.440 play that for everybody to go back, because this is 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.880 not something new. This is a year ago when this happened. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.400 I'm going to play that. But first, let me tell 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.240 you about our friends at Patriot Mobile. 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Call them, use the promo code Verdict. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.600 You'll get the best savings and promotions of the day 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.880 eight seven eighth Patriot eight seven eight Patriot eight seven 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.960 eight Patriot or online at patriotmobile dot com slash verdict 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.000 use a promo code Verdict center. When this happened with 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.920 a Catholic church, it was immediately reminded me of that 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:52.760 moment where you were questioning Ray before the Senate and 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.280 you used your actual boot, put it on the table 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.760 because of a symbol that is on your boot. And 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.079 this is what it sounded like, and this is a 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:06.079 text that I was particularly struck. Is the Gonzales battle flag? 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:10.520 Come and take it as indicative of being a violent 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.480 extremist militia. Well, I will self report right now that 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.440 every day in the Senate I wear my boots that 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.720 have the Gonzales battle flag on the back of them. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:27.280 Director Ray, what are y'all doing? This makes no sense. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.720 Do you agree with this FBI guidance that the Betsy 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:37.080 Ross flag and the Gadson flag and the Gonzales battle 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:43.760 flag are signs of militia violent extremism. Well, Cent, I'm 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.720 not familiar with the particular document you have behind you, 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.920 and I'm not in the practice of trying to comment 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.320 on documents that I haven't recognized. But I will tell 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.920 you that when we put out intelligence products, including ones 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:01.360 that reference symbols, which we do across a wide variety 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:07.560 of contexts, we usually make great pains, take great pains 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:12.240 to put caveats and warnings in the document to make 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.000 clear that a symbol alone is not considered evidence of 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.800 our extremism. I mean, Center. Some of these symbols are 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.960 on license plates and states, for goodness sakes, including the 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.680 Great State of Texas and look that that exchange. There 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.840 I had behind me a poster board showing this document 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.680 from the FBI that was in identifying these symbols as 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.480 signs of extremism. And there are things like literally the 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.840 Betsy Ross flag, the Gonzales battle flag. It's it's worth 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.640 for those who are not familiar with Texas history, the 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.600 history of the Gonzales Battle flag. That there is a 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:56.240 town in South Texas to the town of Gonzales, and 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:02.240 in the eighteen hundreds, Texas was part of Mexico and 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.640 the dictator of Mexico was General Santa Anna, and General 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.560 Santa Anna issued an order to the Texians who lived 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.320 in Gonzales, and at the time Texans were called Texians, 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.160 and the order was for the Texians to hand over 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:22.000 their guns and also to hand over the cannon that 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:26.200 guarded the city. And in response, what the Texians did 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.680 is is they erected a battle flag. And the battle 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:34.440 flag simply has a picture of the cannon with a 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.120 star and underneath it the legend come and take it. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:44.240 And that battle flag became the beginning of the Texas 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:50.400 War for Independence, where Texas Sam Houston was Texas's George Washington, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.280 he led the army of the Texians. Santa Anna came 0:16:54.440 --> 0:17:00.280 and attacked Gonzales, attacked Goliad, attacked the Alibo. And just 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:06.640 like the Continental Army under George Washington, who lost nearly 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.960 every battle of the American Revolution to the Red Coats, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.200 to the British, the Texans likewise lost nearly every battle 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.480 to the Mexican army, which was much bigger, much better armed, 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.959 right up until the Battle of San Jacino, where we 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.880 won a decisive victory and won our independence and Texas 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:30.200 became an independent nation, the Republic of Texas for nine years. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.280 Texas was its own nation from eighteen thirty six to 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.840 eighteen forty five until in eighteen forty five Texas joined 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.520 the United States and became a state in the Union. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.639 That's the history of of the Gonzales Battle flag, and 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:48.119 the reason I wear it on my boots is I 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:54.600 admire that rugged independence, that spirit of freedom. It's been 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.399 really an unofficial flag of when I first ran for 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.320 the Senate, that that standing up for freedom is a 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:08.600 fundamentally a quintessentially American value. And for the FBI to 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.719 identify that and say, well, that shows that you're an extremist. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:16.359 What that really shows is an antipathy to anything other 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:21.240 than far left democrats and and and all. The Gadson 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.560 flag also flag from the American Revolution. It's if you're 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:30.560 a patriot, if you believe in America, that makes you suspicious. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.600 And you know, I'll say this, So you heard Chris 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.159 Ray's response where he said, well, gosh, I don't know 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.640 what that memo is. Well, you know what Chris Ray 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.440 hasn't done, to the best of my knowledge, gone and 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.600 figured out who wrote that memo, Gone and figured out 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:50.720 why they were targeting symbols of American patriotism and freedom. 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:57.920 Gone and figured out who has that partisan animosity and bias. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:06.280 And likewise, with the demonstrated antipathy to traditional Catholics, as 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.280 best as I can tell, nobody's been held accountable. Now, 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.879 it is possible that that that the antipathy to Catholics 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.680 was was particularly concentrated in the Richmond Field office that's 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.679 where this memo originated, and the FBI did retract the 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.880 memo targeting Catholics the peace though That's new that just 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:31.000 came out is that, in addition to the memo that 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.600 the FBI had relied on at least one undercover agent 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:38.600 to spy on the Catholic Church and at least one 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.520 other at least where George is concerning to everybody listening, 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.119 it is so. So here's how Jim Jordan put it. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.960 Based on the limited information produced by the FBI to 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.480 the committee, we now know that the FBI relied on 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:01.160 at least one undercover agent to produce use its analysis, 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:07.720 and that the FBI proposed that its agents engage in 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:13.080 outreach to Catholic parishes to develop sources among the clergy 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:18.520 and church leadership to inform on Americans practicing their faith. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.080 So they're trying to enlist priests, they're trying to enlist 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:28.080 church leadership to be FBI informants to spam their own congregations. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:34.400 And that you know, we've talked before about Chris Ray. 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:38.160 I do not believe Chris Ray is as a hardcore leftist. 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.720 He was appointed to that position by Donald Trump. The 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.600 problem with Chris Ray as directors so he's not nearly 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:50.080 as bad as James Comey was. James Comey abuse the 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:54.040 power of the FBI and effectively waged war on President 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:57.680 Trump from within the administration. Chris Ray has not been 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.360 nearly as abusive as Comy, But I think Chris Ray 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.159 is fundamentally a company man. I think he views his 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:09.520 job as defend everyone at the FBI, even if they 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.919 are hardcore partisans who burrowed into senior career positions and 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:19.719 are corrupting the machinery of justice with a partisan lens 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.440 or a lens of antipathy to people of faith. And 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:29.640 what Director Ray is not doing is digging down and saying, Okay, 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.399 I may not have known about this memo when it issued, 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.200 but I know about it now and I want to 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:35.880 see who wrote it. I want to see what we've done. 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:37.439 I want to go in and stop it. And we 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:43.119 don't see any of that. And that's if he's not 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.200 doing that. He's not doing his job, and he's allowing 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:50.119 the FBI to continue to be abused politically. Oh L 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:52.320 ask question for you, if you're the person that wrote 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:55.359 this memo at the FBI, should you lose your job 0:21:55.400 --> 0:22:03.440 over this? Look? Probably we need to see. We don't 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.040 seem to have any accountability anymore. It's like everybody in 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.040 government can do whatever the hell they want and then 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:09.560 when they get busted. And I think this is where 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.120 Americans are getting really frustrated. Center is that they see 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.360 this happen. We keep seeing these stories and no one 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:19.200 loses their job. Lois Learner another example that you mentioned earlier. 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:23.320 I mean over and over when they admit something happens 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:25.840 and they're like, Okay, this memo went out and it 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:30.080 shouldn't have. No one seems together get fired. Well Lois 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:35.400 Lerner was allowed to retire and she kept her pension. Yeah, 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:38.440 look at the Biden administration. Can you name one person 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:42.280 who's lost his job. That's my point. Look, the last 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.040 podcast we did, we did a deep dive on Afghanistan 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:49.600 where at the time of our disastrous surrender to the 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:53.439 Taliban and the catastrophe that unfolded, everyone recognized that it 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:55.920 was a catastrophe. Now you have the Biden White House 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.359 trying to whitewash the whole thing and pretend it was 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:01.439 all terrific and we should be proud of the great 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:07.360 surrender Joe Biden did. There not a single person, as 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:09.520 far as I know, has lost his or her job 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:14.280 because of that screw up. And so this is a 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:19.760 consistent pattern, which is the people who are weaponizing the 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:25.080 machinery of justice, not only are not held accountable. 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