Speaker 1: Let me get right to it, because it's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff to get into, and I'm not mad and
Speaker 1: pissed off like some people are. But I'm not going
Speaker 1: to run from subjects either, because certain things need to
Speaker 1: be broached and we're going to get started today in
Speaker 1: the world of politics and social media, where many of
Speaker 1: you I have taken issue with my takes on the
Speaker 1: political headlines, I want to say for.
Speaker 2: The record, that's fair. I accept it, and.
Speaker 1: It often comes with being a pundit in this business.
Speaker 1: I've accepted that a long time ago. With that being said,
Speaker 1: I want to address some recent comments from my friend
Speaker 1: Roland Martin, who took issue with my thoughts this past
Speaker 1: weekend on a Justice Department's report on the January sixth
Speaker 1: Capitol riots in twenty twenty one. In summary, I made
Speaker 1: the connection that Donald Trump appeared to be right to
Speaker 1: some degree when it came to the conspiracy theories about
Speaker 1: the FBI's involvement on that day.
Speaker 2: At least that's how some took it.
Speaker 1: Well, here's what Roland Martin had to say Monday about
Speaker 1: my comments on his show, Roland mart It's an unfiltered
Speaker 1: take a listen.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what the hell steven A was
Speaker 3: just talking about. I know stephen A, I respect stephen A.
Speaker 3: Stephen A, you know sports on this, you know what
Speaker 3: the hell you're talking about? Like, I literally have no
Speaker 3: idea what the hell he was talking about there? How
Speaker 3: he's pissed off and the Democrats and Trump said stuff
Speaker 3: was rigged. And y'all Magla is running that clip everywhere.
Speaker 3: Oh they are saying, oh see, even steven the truth,
Speaker 3: the truth.
Speaker 2: They all's knowing the truth.
Speaker 3: Go by pad.
Speaker 4: Associated Press Fact Focus. Inspector General's January sixth report misrepresented
Speaker 4: as proof of FBI set up. The basis of what
Speaker 4: the right has been saying is that January sixth was fine,
Speaker 4: it was great, it was wonderful.
Speaker 5: But the FBI, it was a setup. The FBI, they
Speaker 5: were behind the whole deal. They were were agents. Now,
Speaker 5: they were the ones who was starting stuff. That's the report.
Speaker 3: And so when stephen A is going on and all
Speaker 3: they they said here making Trump out to be true.
Speaker 2: No, he lied.
Speaker 1: He lied a couple of things. First off, Roland Martin,
Speaker 1: nice touch with the cowboy hat. You should wear it
Speaker 1: more often. It's fitting of you. You are from Texas.
Speaker 1: After all, uh, you're a Texas fan, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: so it's that's more appropot that you put on that
Speaker 1: had even more so than I do. So good look there,
Speaker 1: but nice try ain't gonna work this way. Before I
Speaker 1: get into it any further, let me show my audience
Speaker 1: exactly what Roland Martin was replying to when he said
Speaker 1: I didn't know what the hell I.
Speaker 2: Was talking about.
Speaker 1: This is what he was responding to that had him
Speaker 1: all up in a tizzy.
Speaker 2: Take a listen.
Speaker 1: The news comes amissed a bombshell report from the Justice
Speaker 1: Department that revealed the FBI had at least twenty six
Speaker 1: confidential informants on the ground when the capital was stormed
Speaker 1: on January sixth, twenty twenty one. The report says most
Speaker 1: of the informants engaged in illegal activity during the chaos.
Speaker 1: The Justice Department says only three of its twenty six
Speaker 1: informants president had been instructed to observe potential domestic terrorist
Speaker 1: suspects on the day of the riot. The rest of
Speaker 1: the twenty three appeared to have gone to the capital
Speaker 1: on their own accord. Upon hearing news of the report,
Speaker 1: Vice President elect JD Vance posted the following on x quote.
Speaker 1: For those keeping score at home, this was labeled a
Speaker 1: dangerous conspiracy thirty months ago end quote. Didn't hear anything
Speaker 1: about that for the election. Didn't hear anything about that
Speaker 1: when the quote unquote insurrection was broached by Vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris as a Democratic nominee the belief that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump was a danger to democracy and using this as
Speaker 1: a profound, illuminating bullet point to make that case. And
Speaker 1: now here we are yet again finding even more evidence
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump's claims when he articulated that process is rigged.
Speaker 1: My big issue is that I'm really really sick and
Speaker 1: tired of every time I turn around finding something else
Speaker 1: that the Democrats have lied about or downplayed or misrepresented
Speaker 1: along the way. I mean, I see Republicans like Megan
Speaker 1: Kelly or off of Ce Tatum or a Canvas Owens,
Speaker 1: or you know, the showing Hannities of the world that you.
Speaker 2: Know what I'm getting tired of. I'm getting you know
Speaker 2: what I'm.
Speaker 1: Getting to the Democratic Party, you know what I'm getting
Speaker 1: really pissed off about.
Speaker 6: I'm getting really ticked off. And every time they open
Speaker 6: their mouth about something pertaining to y'all, they seem right
Speaker 6: to make the case that the right had a monopoly
Speaker 6: on insidious, evil tendencies, corrupt tendencies, duplicitous, hypocritical, untruthful tendencies,
Speaker 6: And every time they made those accusations, we turn around
Speaker 6: and find out that at least some of them are
Speaker 6: guilty of the same shit.
Speaker 1: I don't know about y'all, but I'm sick of all
Speaker 1: of it. I'm sick of all of it. Dave actually
Speaker 1: made Donald Trump look like he was right instead of them.
Speaker 1: That is what Roland Martin is responding to. That is
Speaker 1: what he is saying. He doesn't understand what the hell
Speaker 1: I'm talking about and what I'm saying when he brings
Speaker 1: that up. First of all, let me say this about
Speaker 1: Roland Martin. Not hang out buddies or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But we are friends. He's a guest on this show.
Speaker 1: Anytime I ask him to I respect his knowledge, and
Speaker 1: he is absolutely right. This is his lane, not mine.
Speaker 2: Sports is my thing. This is what he does.
Speaker 1: I get that, but I am alive to be an
Speaker 1: expert on what the hell comes out of my mouth
Speaker 1: and what.
Speaker 2: I believe I said.
Speaker 1: And that is why I clap back respectfully at my
Speaker 1: man Roland Martin, not his panelists chirping and mimicking and
Speaker 1: laughing and giggling in the sideline, like anybody know who
Speaker 1: the hell they are. I ain't talking about them, That's
Speaker 1: a waste of my time. I'm talking about my brother
Speaker 1: Roland Martin.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: When you say you don't understand or you don't know
Speaker 1: what the hell I'm talking about, and you have a
Speaker 1: panel to piggyback and parrot every syllable you uttered, well,
Speaker 1: why are you doing it? If you didn't understand what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about? Why am I getting attacked if you
Speaker 1: don't he don't understand what I was saying, If it's convoluted,
Speaker 1: why not ask me to come on and clarify. Why
Speaker 1: not talk to me and say what exactly is it
Speaker 1: that you're trying to say. That is not what Roland
Speaker 1: Martin did, lady and gentlemen. What he did instead was
Speaker 1: marry my thoughts to these extreme conspiracy theories that the
Speaker 1: MAGA Wright might have put out there about the FBI
Speaker 1: having some pivotal role in what transpired on January sixth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. That's what he was doing. Look at
Speaker 1: this right here, Look at this report from the DOJ.
Speaker 1: It reads confusion and lack of coordination contributed to the
Speaker 1: FBI's inaccurate report to Congress that had canvas field offices
Speaker 1: after January sixth. The FBI reported to Congress that then
Speaker 1: had directed its field offices prior to January sixth to
Speaker 1: canvas their CHSS for information concerning threats and connection with
Speaker 1: the January sixth electoral certification.
Speaker 2: However, as noted, we found that.
Speaker 1: No canvassing a field officers for source information had occurred.
Speaker 1: We found that the FBI statements to Congress were not
Speaker 1: intentionally inaccurate, and that confus usion and lack of coordinator
Speaker 1: communications contributed to the inaccurate reporting.
Speaker 2: Why do I bring that up? It doesn't convict the FBI.
Speaker 1: It doesn't authenticate or validate assertions from the MAGA right
Speaker 1: that somehow the FBI was corrupt and they manipulated the
Speaker 1: proceedings to invoke or provoke violence at the US Capitol
Speaker 1: that ultimately would be blamed on Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: That's not what I was saying. What I was saying
Speaker 2: is why the hell are we hearing.
Speaker 1: About this now? We took the report so damn long.
Speaker 1: How can we didn't hear about this before the election,
Speaker 1: And is it possible that the reason why we didn't
Speaker 1: hear about it before the election is because folks on
Speaker 1: the left wanted to marry January sixth, completely and totally
Speaker 1: and utterly to Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Is that clear enough?
Speaker 1: Since y'all got people chirping, and you said you got
Speaker 1: people chirping in your studio, let me chirp to people
Speaker 1: in my studio, Brandon, is that c enough? They're clear enough, man,
Speaker 1: I think it is. But let me go a step further.
Speaker 1: I'm a registered and dependent The people aren't rolling Martin unfiltered,
Speaker 1: by the way, watch that the brother's brilliant, I got
Speaker 1: love for him, got over a million and a half subscribers.
Speaker 1: Ain't trying dissuade anybody from watching my man rolling Martin because.
Speaker 2: I watch them.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is these people that were behind the
Speaker 1: scenes before they came on as your panelists. I recall
Speaker 1: one person saying I even need to know what the
Speaker 1: hell I'm talking about, or admit that I'm one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Mega, I got news for you. I'm neither.
Speaker 1: I don't completely know all the intricate details, nor am
Speaker 1: I mega. I'm a registered and dependent who voted for
Speaker 1: Kamla Harris. Oh, by the way, they tried to sit
Speaker 1: up there and say I didn't vote.
Speaker 2: For Kamala Harris. I'm sorry. I thought, y'all are about facts.
Speaker 2: I did vote for her.
Speaker 1: I had my issues, I have my reservations, but I
Speaker 1: was unapologetic about who I was voting for, and I.
Speaker 2: Was very transparent about it. Where's your facts?
Speaker 1: So you get to engage in innuendo express frustration, but
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: Why not every time we turn around.
Speaker 1: All I was trying to say is that something repeatedly
Speaker 1: comes up.
Speaker 2: That gives the right fadder to say.
Speaker 1: See look what they did when President Joe Biden decided
Speaker 1: to pardon his son Hunter.
Speaker 2: He's got no problems with that, But I did have
Speaker 2: a problem with them lying about it for months, saying.
Speaker 1: We're about the rule of law, We're about the rule
Speaker 1: of law, We're about the rule of law.
Speaker 2: He said, he's knocking to pardon Hunt, about the rule
Speaker 2: of lord, the rule of lord, rule of law.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden he parties them, and
Speaker 1: you hear crickets. So here come to write again. See
Speaker 1: see they're lying.
Speaker 2: I've often joked about people like Sean Hannedy and other conservatives.
Speaker 1: That I know that if you are a Republican and
Speaker 1: you shot somebody in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue in
Speaker 1: New York City, the first words that would come out
Speaker 1: of their mouth is the Democrats did it first, because
Speaker 1: their real salty position.
Speaker 2: It's not about acting like they're holier than now.
Speaker 1: It's about the Democrats always acting like they're on a
Speaker 1: higher moral ground and they're above board, when one evidence,
Speaker 1: nuggetive evidence after another always comes forth showing us they're not.
Speaker 1: That is frustrating for somebody who doesn't know all the facts,
Speaker 1: that intricate details and studies this night and day, Like
Speaker 1: Roland Martin, everybody's industry or chosen profession isn't following what's
Speaker 1: happening on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 2: And everything associated with it.
Speaker 1: People working nine to fives, taking care of families, getting
Speaker 1: stuck in traffic for two hours a day, preoccupy with
Speaker 1: an abundance of other things, relying on others to give
Speaker 1: them information, but also frustrated that everybody's got.
Speaker 2: To spend That's all I was saying.
Speaker 1: I didn't take a definitive position against anybody into perpetuity
Speaker 1: I'm simply making the point that it gets frustrating to
Speaker 1: see little nuggets of intel always leaking out, usually after
Speaker 1: the fact, incriminating one side or the other all the
Speaker 1: damn time, and Roland Lamar will come up with his
Speaker 1: facts and he'll spew them out for the world to know.
Speaker 2: That doesn't erase the perception and rollingd On You notice
Speaker 2: better than me, Bruh.
Speaker 1: Perceptions provoke people's attitude while they walk to the polls.
Speaker 2: Even more so than the facts.
Speaker 1: It's not that the facts don't matter, but that they
Speaker 1: always seem so debatable. Ultimately, it comes back to how
Speaker 1: you feel. Am I clear enough being? Am I convoluted?
Speaker 1: Now fellas ladies, I'm a frustrated voter. I watched the
Speaker 1: Democrats get their ass kicked. I watched them in the
Speaker 1: aftermath of the election literally say, well, Trump really didn't
Speaker 1: win the popular vote. I mean, he didn't get fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the vote.
Speaker 2: Who cares.
Speaker 1: He won a popular vote, he won an electoral college vote,
Speaker 1: he won all the swing states, he increased it practically
Speaker 1: every demographic and you got people coming on the airways. Well,
Speaker 1: it really wasn't a referendum against the Democratic Party because
Speaker 1: you know what, he didn't get fifty percent of the vote.
Speaker 1: He didn't get fifty percent of the popular vote. Really,
Speaker 1: they got the White House, the House, in the Senate.
Speaker 2: I was speaking Macro.
Speaker 1: I was just saying, hey, yet another thing that they
Speaker 1: can point to to stake some claim to how they've
Speaker 1: been victimized by the hands of the left.
Speaker 2: Are they probably lying some of the help?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, But what are the Democrats doing?
Speaker 1: The Democrats they're for the working class, They're for the
Speaker 1: working class.
Speaker 2: They were for the working class. Well, the working class
Speaker 2: doesn't feel that way. Then after the.
Speaker 1: Election, we're hearing some Democrats go out there and they're
Speaker 1: talking about how too many people in the party are
Speaker 1: about catering to the elite. Well, that's what they were
Speaker 1: accusing the Republicans are doing. You see how confusing it gets.
Speaker 1: Not for you, Roland, You might know.
Speaker 2: What about your million and a half subscribers. They know
Speaker 2: what about your boys, They know what.
Speaker 1: About people that walk through the streets throughout America, because
Speaker 1: you're rolling around all over the damn place.
Speaker 2: They know.
Speaker 1: If they know so much, Roland, why were you determined
Speaker 1: for Trump's lies not to be heard? If they know
Speaker 1: so much rolling because they listen to you. Why were
Speaker 1: you so fixated on standing right there in the audience
Speaker 1: and whenever Trump spoke, you came on this show and
Speaker 1: you said you were gonna stand up and scream lies.
Speaker 2: If they know because they.
Speaker 1: Listening to you and other folks who think like you
Speaker 1: and know what you know that you wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: worry about doing that because they would have consumed your
Speaker 1: message and they would know he's lying, wouldn't they? You
Speaker 1: know better, and you know that most people are frustrated
Speaker 1: citizens who vote, who are mindful of the times that
Speaker 1: we're living in and want finite, definitive evidence about which
Speaker 1: side is right and which side is wrong with no
Speaker 1: convolution in the equation. And when reports like the DOJ
Speaker 1: comes out talking about the FBI on January sixth and
Speaker 1: passing words like they weren't intentionally inaccurate, Well, why the
Speaker 1: hell had the word intentionally? You were inaccurate or you
Speaker 1: were inaccurate? Where the hell intentional comes from? That's a perception,
Speaker 1: that's an opinion, that's not a fact. That's a report
Speaker 1: that said they weren't intentionally inaccurate. How can you prove
Speaker 1: somebody was intentionally inaccurate.
Speaker 2: That is a thought. It's just me.
Speaker 1: I know you know what you're talking about in politics,
Speaker 1: I know what I'm talking about in sports.
Speaker 2: I just thought that as.
Speaker 1: Too common sense people, we could relate to one another
Speaker 1: feeling frustrated on either side. See you all away laughed.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I'm center. I see bullshit on both sides.
Speaker 1: I know you do too better than me. The difference
Speaker 1: is you care a lot more about one side. I
Speaker 1: don't give a shit about either. I just wander as
Speaker 1: close to the truth as I can get to elevate
Speaker 1: my level of understanding. I am sorry Roland Martin if
Speaker 1: that was such a bad thing that would get you
Speaker 1: so riled up that not only did you have to
Speaker 1: come at me, you had to throw on the cowboy
Speaker 1: had to do it. But I liked seeing it on you.
Speaker 2: Bruh.
Speaker 1: It looked good on you your panel. Nuh it is
Speaker 1: what it is. That's all I got to say about that.
Speaker 1: I hope I provided some clarity. I was just frustrated
Speaker 1: at the right having something in their mind to point
Speaker 1: to the left about again, and the left seemingly slipping
Speaker 1: up on providing the ammunition because of the timing of
Speaker 1: the report coming out, and whatever potential role they may
Speaker 1: or may not have played. I just thought it added
Speaker 1: fadder and fuel to a s a side that is
Speaker 1: already kicking.
Speaker 2: The lefts behind right now. That's all. I wasn't trying
Speaker 2: to be specific. I was just expressing frustration.
Speaker 1: As a conscientious observer, not an expert like you, Bro.
Speaker 2: I know my lane.