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You want to be 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.319 a part of this extravaganza. I am going to pull 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:17.240 all of this together for you because there is something 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:22.280 much much bigger and deeper going on than anybody seems 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.440 to be able to put together as it relates to 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:31.080 General Flynn his resignation slash firing from earlier today. And 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:36.080 you've got to understand that there's this is so deep, 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.280 and it's all related to everything that is predictable and 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.000 frankly everything that I warned would happen, and that is 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:52.640 there is an unrelenting attempt by the entire establishment in Washington, 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.760 d C. What do they vote for percent for Trump 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.600 and DC to destroy his presidency. And you can see 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.440 it right out of Olynsky, one on one, isolating people 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.440 one after the other, and I keep I was pointing 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.480 out they've even gone after the president's son for crying 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.480 out loud as ten year old son. Oh, isn't that 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.959 Isn't that brave? Of them to do. They've at different 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.520 times what they've gone after. Tried to get Steve Bannon out. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.840 They made Eric Trump stop his charity raising money for St. Jude's. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.760 That was a great success for them. What the things 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.560 that have been said about Melania Trump, imagine if they 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:33.680 were said about about Michelle Obama, for example, then you've 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.600 got they've gone after Reiks. They've tried all weeks to 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.120 demonize Steve Miller. While we have an update on Kelly 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.040 Ann's story, according to the Office for Government Ethics, because 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:49.760 an off literally an entire off the cuff comment. Now, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.960 the Office of Government Ethics has now informed the White 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.360 House Council's Office there is strong reason to believe that 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.320 Kelly Ann Conway has violated the standards of conduct and 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:07.200 that disciplinary disciplinary action is warranted. Why because Avanka, the 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.960 daughter of the president, was targeted for political reasons and 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.480 her entire business put in jeopardy and she said, go 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:18.239 buy Avanka's online big deal? I mean, is this the 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:23.640 superfluous nonsense? There is such great hypocrisy on every level 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:29.079 here where was this outrage over Hillary Clinton top secret 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:35.400 information special access program information she sought to bypass congressional 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.000 oversight and put an email server in the closet of 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.520 a mom and pop shop bathroom. What about the ethics 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.960 involving the Clinton Foundation While Secretary of State, she and 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:49.080 her husband are raking in millions and millions to their 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:54.680 foundation and for themselves, and she's making specific actions connected 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.960 to donations. Nobody there wasn't the breathless reporting by the 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.560 alt left radical media on any of those issues either. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.200 Now Flynn submitted as letter of resignation to the President 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.800 saying that he inadvertently gave Vice President Mike Pence incomplete 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.600 information on phone calls that he had with the Russian 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:19.520 ambassador in which he allegedly discussed lifting lifting sanctions against Moscow. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.440 I have sincerely apologized to the President and Vice President, 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.880 the letter stated, and they have accepted my apology. Now, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.680 you know, you go back. He's been a target, but 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.039 think about this. Everybody's been a target, and everybody will 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.280 be a target. But what they're what they're really aiming for, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.839 is much higher. And that's the president and that's the 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.359 Donald Trump. You've got a media establishment, you've got a 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.200 lobbyist establishment, you've got the entire democratic establishment and their 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.360 party and their friends which owns d C. And then 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.120 you've got, of course the Republican weak establishment. They are 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.279 part of this as well, because the way of doing 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.600 things is now dramatically changing and they don't like it. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.720 You know, this idea that that he may have violated 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.680 the Logan Act, which bans unauthorized US citizens from communicating 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.800 with foreign governments, is a joke. It's from and it 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:17.120 has never ever, ever been used, not one time. So 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.080 let's be real here, and I read the Washington Post 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.719 right now. Trump knew that Flynn misled officials. Well, Sean 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.680 Spicer earlier today dealt with this at the press conference 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.039 when he said, yeah, but the White House Council said 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.360 that no crimes were committed. And then in the course 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:38.920 of understanding this, General Flynn talked to Mike Pence and 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.800 didn't give him the full context of the call. Now 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.839 the question is, and it remains, well, who's up to 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.640 their eyeballs in this? And how is it that communications 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.520 that only an intercepts, that only our intelligence community would 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.000 have ends up in the newspaper time and time and 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:01.040 time and time again. Eli Lake will a great column today, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.760 the political assassination of Mike Flynn, and what he points 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.360 out here, if you're Flynn, he resigned because he lied 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.880 about the conversations with the Russian ambassador to the Vice President, etcetera. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.599 He doesn't buy that one bit any point. The point 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.960 here is the White House at such casual opportunity. You know, 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.800 he has criticisms of the of the White House, but 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.600 that's not the important part here. This is what Trump 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:28.600 ran on. And it's very likely in conversations in the Intern, 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.479 between being elected and putting a government together and getting 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.960 inaugurated that I'm sure Donald Trump many times said to 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.000 General Flynn exactly whatever it was that he discussed with 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.960 his Russian counterpart. So there's a big part of all 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.919 of this here that's not being told. Now, we have 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:52.120 a series of incidents now where our intelligence community keeps 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:57.880 leaking information. Now, the information in this particular case was 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.560 glean from a phone conversation. How is he like A 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.679 Lake points out in his column, Normally, intercepts of US 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.280 officials and citizens are some of the most tightly held 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:14.320 government secrets. And he writes for good reason, selectively disclosing 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.560 details of private conversations that are monitored by our government, 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.400 by the FBI, by the n s A gives the 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.920 permanent state. What is the permanent state? Those are the 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.960 Obama holdovers, Those are the people that hate Trump. That 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.600 is the swamp, that is the bureaucracy that is threatened 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.360 by the very presence of Donald Trump. But he says 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.800 it gives the permanent state the power to destroy reputations 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.680 from the cloak of anonymity. And he rightly writes, this 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.760 is what a police state does. Remember one of the 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.960 early leagues over the summer was, you know, after Trump 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.440 claimed that analysts have this first classified briefing as Republican, 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.400 that the nominee told them through their body language that 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.960 they disagreed with President Obama's pol sees the sort of 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:05.280 thing that intelligence professionals pride themselves on not doing well. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.760 All of a sudden the next day, as Sam Frazel 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.440 pointed out in a really good column, the very next day, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:17.240 NBC News sighted six current and former senior officials who 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.440 described Flynn as repeatedly interrupting the analysts at the classified briefing. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.119 Flynn called the report bs and In January, just before 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.120 the president was inaugurated, multiple senior intelligence officials told CNN 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:35.959 about classified briefings from intelligence officials about the dossier, the 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:40.560 claim that Russia operatives, Russian operatives had compromising information on 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:45.240 the president. And remember, senior US officials provided the Washington 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.040 Post with an account of Trump's you know, phone call 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.400 with the Australian Prime minister, contradicting the White House version 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:56.760 of events. Who's leaking this? And as Eli is saying 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.840 Lake in his column, these intercepts of US officials and 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.040 citizens are some of the most tightly held government secrets 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:10.079 because selectively disclosing private conversations, monitored by what he calls 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.240 the permanent state in the FBI, in intelligence, in the 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.080 n s A gives power to destroy reputations from the 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.640 cloak of anonymity. And this is what a police state does. Well, 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.120 how does it keep happening again and again? And last 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.319 week and current officials Flynn discussed U S sanctions against 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.160 Russia in a phone call and apparently didn't remember all 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.480 the details, didn't tell at all to the Vice president. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.520 And this is where we end up today. And this 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.079 is the first blood that the swamp has been able 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.120 to draw from any of the Trump people that they 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.200 have been attacking from day one. There's not one Democrat 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.840 that wanted one person except Joe Manchion, that wanted one 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.920 person in Trump's cabinet that Trump pick, not one. They 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.400 wanted to do everything to smear, slanderby smirch, and destroy 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.840 every single one of them. Now, Congressman Nunez is quoted 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.679 in this column, aairman of the House Permanent Select Committee 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.120 on Intelligence said that he saw the leaks about Flynn's 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.720 conversations with his Russian counterpart as part of a problem 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.240 that does not appear to be. There does appear to 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.440 be a well orchestrated effort to attack Flynn and others 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.200 in the administration, from leaking phone calls between the president 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.520 and foreign leaders, to what appears to be high level 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:26.960 FISA court information, to leaking of American citizens being denied 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.760 security clearances. It is a pattern. And he was gonna 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.520 bring this up with the FBI. Now they're going to 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.360 investigate here, etcetera, etcetera. And but you've got to understand 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.560 the bigger picture. Now, I want you to add this. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.719 Paul Sperry, both Paul Sperry and Eli Lake will be 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.080 on the program later today that he writes a column, 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.960 how Obama sche mean the sabotage Trump's presidency. He's living 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.040 right down the block. The President encouraged people to keep 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.000 going out there in protest, and you keep That's what 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.160 he said publicly. So if he's encouraging the pro the 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.559 public protests, what is he doing behind the scenes. Well, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.040 according to Sperry, he's working with a network of leftist 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:08.800 nonprofit organizations led by Organizing for Action. Normally, it would 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.200 expect an organization set up by a politician and his 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.400 agenda to close up shop after that person leaves office. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.520 But not Obama, not O f A. As a matter 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.320 of fact, they're gearing up for battle and growing a 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:26.920 war chest and more than two fifty offices around the country. Wow, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.840 that seems a little unusual. And since Trump's election, this 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.559 group of well funded protesting arm is beaped up. There's that. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.360 What do you think showing up at these at Tason Shafts, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.720 his town hall and all these and Mitch McConnell's office. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.520 These are all the Obama people. So you got Obama 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.160 basically and his his Sperry rights, he's kind of setting 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.040 up a shadow government. All not to protest is not 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.240 only to protest is threatened legacy, but to sabotage Trump. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.240 So the political assassination of Mike Flynn is what Eli 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.280 Lake writes, and how Obama I'm a scheming to sabotage 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.200 Trump's presidency. It all begins to fit, doesn't it. And 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.000 then all the leaks from the intelligence community, and then 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.040 it looks like they want to give Kelly Anne Conway 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.920 the death penalty over the fact that she innocently mentioned 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.680 Ivanka Trump. And then they've gone after Jared Trump, Ivanka Trump, 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:21.320 Baron Trump, Eric Trump, Don Trump, and the Junior and 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.120 his kids. They're gone after Milania with the fierceness. Then 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.640 they've gone after Bannon, and then they're gone after Kelly Ann. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.400 And then they've gone after Renes is on the chopping block. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.800 I'm reading all over the place today, and then there's 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.720 talk of Chris Christie coming in, and then they've gone 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:41.199 after everybody else. Wiki leaks. Not to be dismissed, They've 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.480 never been wrong. I sent I think they sent out 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:49.080 a pretty cryptic message today, probably based on information they have, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:54.640 and it's a statement that blame the destabilization campaign by 0:12:54.679 --> 0:13:00.480 the media and Democrats for National security advisor My Flynn. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:06.199 Quote Trump's national security advisor Mike Flynn resigns after destabilization 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:12.840 campaign by US spies, Democrats, and the press. The organization tweeted, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.000 including a screenshot of the press release from the White 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:20.520 House announcing President Trump accepting Flynn's resignation. By the way, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.800 here's a point nobody else in the media will tell you. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:28.400 Did you know before Obama was even elected that the 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.520 guy that ended up serving as his ambassador to Russia? 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.480 This is weeks before the election and his lead up 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:39.400 to the election, before he got elected. Mike McFall. He actually, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.880 he ended up serving as the US ambassador in Russia 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:46.240 during the Obama administration, was in Moscow before Obama was 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.760 even elected, in the weeks leading up to the two 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.680 thousand and eight election, meeting with officials in Russia. As 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.560 a former diplomat, US government official said, one needs to 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.320 be able to have contact with foreigners to do one's job. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.080 McFall said, if you're ready to get out of the 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:07.400 media spin room, you've come to the right place. Is 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:33.320 the Sean Hannity Show. This is everything that I have 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.280 tried to predict for all of you here, and they've 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.920 they've there's been no honeymoon period. There will be no 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.240 honeymoon period, and as long as Donald Trump as president, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.680 this is going to be how the country operates. But 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.960 there's something very dark, very much bigger, going on behind 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.520 the scenes. And you've got this coalition of people that 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.040 do not want Donald Trump to succeed. It's everybody in 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.440 the media, the alt radical left that have They've never 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.400 said one nice thing, and Donald Trump has fulfilled many promises, 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.720 not a thing. They're too busy chasing rabbits, as I've 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.800 been pointing out here, and to stop the President from 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.720 draining the swamp, which impacts all of them in the 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:19.680 media and impacts every Democrat and impacts every establishment Republican 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.440 and every lobbyist there. Now the DC swamp is rising. 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.800 They're now colluding, they're now viciously fighting, and they have 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.760 now allies within what what Kenneth Timmerman writes about in 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.000 his book in two thousand and seven, Shadow Warriors, and 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:40.560 how these covert operatives working in darkness and a universal lies, 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:46.440 and how it involves a very sophisticated political sabotage operation 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.280 aimed at leaders to doubt their own judgment, question their 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.760 own subordinates. It's it's being used against Flynn and the 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.680 shadow warriors are within our own intelligence community. As I've mentioned, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.400 there's been way too many leak now now as a 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.440 result of this, I asked the President this question, are 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:10.400 you going to investigate the leaks by probable Obama officials 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.720 against your administration? Because if you don't drain this part 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:19.160 of the swamp, this is never ever gonna end. And 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.960 this is just going to continue, and this is only 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.000 gonna get worse, and they're not going to stop until 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.840 ultimately they get the president himself, because that's what their 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.560 goal is. You know, now we have House investigators have 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.840 said they're gonna pass on investigating the Flynn gate, but 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.840 they said they may look into leaks to the private 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.920 What do you mean may leak into you know? Go 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:45.240 to Eli Lakes column today. Again, I urge you because 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.880 it's too important to miss. This is not something that 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.080 would happen on a regular basis. This is not normal 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:56.920 operating procedure. What you have here are rogue intelligence officials 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:02.040 purposely sabotaging and this case General Flynn. But ultimately it's 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.680 the President who they disagree with the most and don't 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.679 want an office. Hence the leaks against Trump again and 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.400 again of top secret information. Then you got a president 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.360 now organizing from down the block, a former president as 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.920 part of this effort. And don't think these protests are 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:30.920 not all by designing congressmen and senator's offices. We've been 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.080 a reviewing and evaluating this issue with respect to General 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.720 Flynn on a daily basis for a few weeks, trying 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.480 to ascertain the truth. We got to a point not 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.359 based on a legal issue, but based on a trust issue, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.560 with a level of trust between the President and General 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.119 Flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.960 had to make a change. The President was very concerned 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.399 that General Flynn had misled the Vice President and others. 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.760 He was also very concerned in light of sensitive subjects 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.200 dealt with by that position of national secure are the 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.600 advisors like China, North Korea, and the Middle East that 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.000 the President must have complete and unwavering trust for the 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:11.199 person in that position. The evolving an eroding level of 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.159 trust as a result of this situation in a series 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.679 of other questionable instances, is what led the President to 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:22.240 ask for General Flynn's resignation. Immediately after the Department of 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.679 Justice notified the White House Council of the situation. The 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.800 White House Council brief the President and a small group 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.119 of the senior advisors. The White House Council reviewed and 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.600 determined that there is not an illegal issue, but rather 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:40.439 a trust issue. Understand that all of this information was leaked. 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.760 The idea that not just in this administration, but the 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.600 obamb administration, going back to the Bush administration back that 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.040 we have an issue were classified information of which this 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.920 would be is handled in such a way that it 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.200 is being given out. And I know in some cases 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.720 it's it's a good story, and I understand that, and 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.320 that's to some degree your responsibility to write that. But 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.280 I think there's also to a story here with an 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.560 amount of leaks that are coming out of people that 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.880 are entrusted with national security secrets and classified information are 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.760 leaking it out. That's a real concern for this president 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.480 that when he's talking on the phone with a world leader, 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:15.720 that when he's making key decisions that are in an 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.200 interest in protecting this country, that we have to wonder 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.400 whether or not people who work for our government, who 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.800 are entrusted with classified information and decisional based materials are 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.399 leaking that information out. That I do believe is a 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.040 big story that should be reported. I also believe that 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.959 the President is rightly, so very very concerned about this 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.119 because it's not just something that is plaguing, you know, 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:41.720 the current situation, but it goes back through the Obama administration, 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:45.040 the Bush administration, the Clinton administration. When we have government 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.199 employees that are entrusted with this and can't and then 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:52.199 leak it out, that undermines our national security. Frankly, so, 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.120 now when I want to press to press these questions, 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.439 who are the White House decided to do nothing for 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.240 three weeks as flair set in on meeting at the meeting, 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.040 at the meeting, did the president decide the way the 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.359 counsel decided to wait? Something is wrong here, Madam Leader. 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:13.160 Just this morning, friend tweeted, and this is a quote scapegoat, 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.960 and the quote escapegoat he basically the Scott subscribe himself 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.680 as a scapegoat. And so I believe we need to 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.480 hold a public hearing with Flynn to get to the 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:26.200 bottom of this. Our committee held three or four hearings, 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.240 emergency hearings on Hillary Clinton in a matter of a 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.240 week or two. And if there was any emergency at 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.840 this moment in the history of this country. This is 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.479 the moment, and so we need to get his security 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.399 and clearance of documents. I want to see him. I 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.879 want to see what he put in those documents to 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.040 find out if he was honest on those forms. And 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.760 we need to know how much he got paid to 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:52.640 have dinner with Pewton. But that is only levigating the presses. 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.239 I asked us over and over again. I know they 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.560 asked the chief and asked the leader. Doesn't end here? 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.000 Shouldn't things in here? No, they cannot end here, ladies 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.720 and gentlemen. We are a fight in a fight for 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.159 the soul of our democracy. The question is is whether 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:11.280 whether we will clearly understand that this is our watch. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.359 And let's be clear. Chips said it quite eloquently. The 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.919 Republicans need to join us. This is not a democratic issue. 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.360 This is not a Republican he said. It's not an 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.280 independent issue. This is an American issue for the soul 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.720 of our democracy. Twenty four now till the top of 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.800 the hour, Elijah Cummings making a fight for the soul 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:35.600 of our democ Where was he? Where were they when 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.440 it came to an email server with top secret Special 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:44.399 Access program classification in on an email server in a 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:48.320 bathroom closet of a mom and pop shop. Where were 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:52.240 they when all of the collusion went on and millions 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:57.159 of dollars were transferred to the Clinton Foundation directly connected 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:01.000 to Hillary Clinton's job. None of that matter to any 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:04.240 of the people that are screaming the loudest here. I 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:08.920 want to backtrack now, Wiki leaks Annity, you like Julian Osandi. 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.000 I think Julian Osandra has done us a favor. They 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:16.480 sent out what I believe is a somewhat cryptic email. 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:21.320 Today they're telling a story, probably based on information they 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.840 have that has been my understanding following them on a 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:30.600 regular basis. Trump's national security adviser, Mike Flynn resigns and 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:37.240 listen to this part after destabilization campaign by US spies, 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.240 That's what Sean Spicer was just talking about, how the 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:46.600 intelligence community relentlessly as leaking since Donald Trump has been president, 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:52.320 by U spies, by Democrats, and by the press. In 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.159 other words, the entire swamp that Donald Trump would like 0:22:56.400 --> 0:23:01.040 to drain. The organization tweets out today. Now let's go 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.240 to Devin Juniaz and let's go to Eli Lakes column 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:07.600 again today because He's sang, as the Chairman of the 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:11.760 House Intelligence Committee that the decision to League talks top 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:15.080 secret information about General Flynn and his private conversations as 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:21.640 appears to be well orchestrated by Obama administration intelligence officials. 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:26.680 Now this is key because Devin Nunez goes on to say, 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:29.159 there does appear to be a well orchestrated effort to 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:32.439 attack flann and others in the administration from the leaking 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:35.000 of phone calls between the president and foreign leaders. Remember 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.639 the Australian League. Oh, he threatened to invade Mexico League. 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:42.160 Remember all this stuff. Um, well, that's all intelligence because 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:44.960 these conversations are jacked and recorded by the n s 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:48.679 A and and and by top intelligence agencies. That's the 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:52.040 shadow government that Timmerman is is referring to in his 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.320 book and in his column today as is he went 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:57.919 out on a lim in a pretty big way, defending 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:00.240 General Flynn and saying that he's a victor him of 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.720 this intelligence swamp. He said, with Flynn leaks, the shadow 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:08.040 warriors draw first blood. He's talking about the Intelligence Committee, 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:11.639 the same intelligence committee that Wicky Leaks is saying is involved, 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:15.000 the same intelligence that Devin Nunez, who's the head of 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:18.000 the House Intelligence Committee, is saying to handed to your 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:21.040 conspiracy theorist. No, I'm not, I'm looking at the facts. 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.520 He said, quote there does appear to be a well 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:27.600 orchestrated effort to attack Flynn and others in the administration. 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:31.280 Stop what have I been saying systematically? Right out of 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:35.439 a Lynsky one oh one? They go after uh tarth Vader, 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:38.960 Steve Bannon, They they go after Jared, they go after Avanca, 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:42.240 they go after Don Junr, they go after uh Eric. 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:43.840