1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: The news is reporting on what they say is a story. 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: They don't want you to believe it's a big story, 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,879 Speaker 1: and in fact they're burying it on purpose and admitting 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: massive and important information. Axios just reported the lowest murder 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 1: rate since nineteen hundred. 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: Let me say that again. 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: They just reported the lowest murder rate since nineteen hundred, 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: and the murder rate is now down twenty percent from 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. And somehow, as the FBI Director Caspattel 10 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: pointed out, they forgot to mention that President Donald Trump 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: is the reason why the results of this are from 12 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: the men and women in uniform at the FBI, ice 13 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: agents and others who have now been able to do 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: their job under Donald Trump's leadership. I've also made sure 15 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: they've gone into cities that were incredibly unsafe and put 16 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: law and order back into place. One of those is 17 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, and the crime rates have 18 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: dropped significantly. 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Violent gangs have been crushed, 45 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: fugitives have been hunted down. Media gymnastics is what they're 46 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: doing now, trying to hide the reality that this administration 47 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: brought law and order back to actually even liberal cities, 48 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: and that means that Americans are safer because of it. 49 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 1: Center Cruz and I talked about these numbers, and I 50 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: want you to hear what he had to say about 51 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: it as well. 52 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 3: What was released this week is the latest murder rates, 53 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 3: and the murder rates across the United States decreased nationwide 54 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 3: roughly twenty percent. And let's put that in specific numbers. 55 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 3: If you look at January through October of twenty twenty 56 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 3: five and you compare it to the same time period 57 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four. In twenty twenty five, approximately five 58 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 3: nine hundred and twelve murders were recorded in the US 59 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 3: In that same time period in twenty twenty four, seven thousand, 60 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 3: three hundred and sixty nine murders were recorded. In other words, 61 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 3: there are about fourteen hundred people one thousand, four hundred 62 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 3: people alive who were not murdered because of common sense 63 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 3: law and order policies, because of not releasing murderers onto 64 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 3: the street, because of deporting murderers and violent gang members. 65 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 3: And let's break the numbers down. Chicago the murder rate 66 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 3: dropped thirty percent. New York City the murder rate dropped 67 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 3: twenty percent. Birmingham, Alabama, dropped forty nine percent, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 68 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 3: had dropped thirty two percent, Baltimore, Maryland had dropped thirty 69 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 3: one percent, Atlanta, Georgia, twenty six percent, Oakland, California, thirty 70 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 3: three percent, Washington, d C. Where President Trump deployed the 71 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 3: National Guard, thirty one percent. These are historic lows, and 72 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 3: if these trends continue, the US may record its lowest 73 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 3: murder rate since nineteen sixty, that is sixty six years ago. 74 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 3: That is a stunning result. By the way, border crime, 75 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 3: border crime, other violent crimes also decreased twenty twive, including 76 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 3: a twenty five percent drop in motor vehicle theft, an 77 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 3: eighteen percent drop in robberies, and an eight percent drop 78 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 3: in aggravated assaults. Now, these data are being reported, and 79 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 3: what is really quite interesting is the media is doing 80 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 3: everything they can to cover it up. So Axios wrote 81 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 3: the first story on this. They talk about the murder 82 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: rate has fallen, but they say, well, it's unclear that 83 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 3: this has anything to do with Donald Trump or DOJ 84 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 3: or the FBI or policies that Republicans have put in 85 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 3: place deporting violent criminals and murderers and gang members, which 86 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 3: is truly it is a level of dishonesty that is incredible. 87 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 3: And I want to give you some of the raw 88 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 3: backgrounds that explains why the murder rate has dropped so profoundly. 89 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 3: Here are some raw numbers, and this was put out 90 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 3: by FBI Director Cash Betel of what has happened that 91 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 3: would explain why is it that we've seen a twenty 92 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 3: percent drop in murder rate in the last year, we've 93 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 3: seen an increase in violent crime arrests. What rate do 94 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 3: you think the increase in violent crime arrests has been? 95 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 4: What has it been? 96 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: I have no clue. 97 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 3: One hundred percent? Wow, all right, how about this gangs 98 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 3: and criminal enterprises disrupted? What rate do you think that 99 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 3: that increase has been. 100 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess it's got to be significant. 101 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 3: Two hundred and ten percent a total of one thy 102 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 3: eight hundred gangs and criminal enterprises disrupted, all right, Fentanyl 103 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 3: more than two thousand kilos of fentanyl seas, that's up 104 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 3: thirty one percent. That's enough to kill one hundred and 105 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 3: thirty million Americans. There've also been more than six thousand 106 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 3: child victims located. That's an increase of twenty two percent. 107 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 3: There have been more than one thy seven hundred child 108 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 3: predators arrested. That's an increase of ten percent. There have 109 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 3: been more than three hundred human traffickers arrested, that's up 110 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 3: fifteen percent. There's a thirty five percent increase in espionage arrests. 111 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: And four of the FBI's top ten most wanted fugitives 112 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 3: were captured. And to give you a sense of that, 113 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 3: in one year, do you have many how many of 114 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 3: the FBI's top ten lists were captured in the four 115 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 3: years of the Biden presidency. 116 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess it's less than five. 117 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 3: Four So in one year they captured as many on 118 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 3: the top ten list as Biden did in all four years. 119 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 3: And the media want to do every thing they can 120 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 3: to say no, no, this drop and the murder rate. 121 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 3: It just happened magically. It's probably due to global warming 122 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 3: or something. It has nothing to do with arresting murderers. 123 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 3: It has nothing to do with deporting murderers. It certainly 124 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 3: has nothing to do with MS thirteen gang members being 125 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 3: put in jail and deported, despite the fact that the 126 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 3: way you join MS thirteen is by murdering someone. And 127 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 3: this is real results. And then you put on top 128 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 3: of it, you put on top of it the drop 129 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 3: in overdoses. And I want to pause for a second 130 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 3: and ask everyone listening to this. Have you seen this 131 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 3: on the six o'clock news? Have you read this of 132 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 3: the New York Times? Have you seen the corporate media 133 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 3: covering this? They don't want to cover this. Here are 134 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 3: the stats. In twenty twenty five, drug overdose deaths in 135 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 3: America dropped roughly twenty one percent. Now what does that mean. 136 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 3: That means in twenty twenty four there were ninety one thousand, 137 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 3: six hundred and ninety four deaths from drug overdoses. Ninety 138 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 3: one thousand, six hundred ninety four same time period. And 139 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 3: that's actually a year long projected looking at the data 140 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 3: from January to August, and this is from the CDC. 141 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 3: Ninety one thousand, six hundred ninety four and twenty twenty four. 142 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 3: What do you think they were in twenty twenty five. Well, 143 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 3: the answer is seventy two thousand, eight hundred and thirty six. 144 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 3: In other words, the deaths fell from ninety one thousand, 145 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 3: six hundred ninety four to seventy two thousand, eight hundred 146 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 3: and thirty six. That means they're about nineteen thousand people 147 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 3: who did not die because of drug overdoses. And what 148 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 3: are the policies that led to it. Well, Number one, 149 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 3: securing the border. We've seen a ninety nine percent decrease 150 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 3: in illegal crossings. Number Two, targeting the drug traffickers. All 151 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 3: of the images you've seen of the administration taking out 152 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 3: Venezuelan drug boats filled with drugs, those drugs are not 153 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 3: arriving in the United States at nearly the same rate. 154 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 3: And they're nineteen thousand Americans who are alive today. These 155 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 3: are sons and daughters, These are husbands and wives, brothers 156 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 3: and sisters that are alive that did not die. You 157 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 3: combine the decrease in deaths from drug overdoses with the 158 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 3: decrease in deaths from murders, and you're looking at more 159 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 3: than twenty thousand Americans that are alive today, and so 160 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 3: you may not think that government policies necessarily impact your life, 161 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 3: but they're twenty thousand Americans, and none of us will 162 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,959 Speaker 3: know for sure who those twenty thousand are that are 163 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 3: alive today. Because the administration is rightly focused on public safety, 164 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 3: rightly focused on locking up violent criminals, on putting murderers 165 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 3: in jail, on putting rapists in jail, and putting child 166 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 3: molesters in jail, and on deporting violent criminal illegal immigrants 167 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 3: and gang members. EMREKA is much much safer as a result. 168 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: This is really exactly why it's so important that we 169 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: stand up for ICE wherever they go. This is why 170 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: it's so important to call out the left when they 171 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: become anarchists and they start trying to target and kill 172 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: ICE agents and other law enforcement agents. Remember this is 173 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: a trend now in the Democratic Party. They are trying 174 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 1: to defund the police. They're trying to have what they 175 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: refer to as prison reform, which means let all the 176 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: criminals out, and bail reform, which is where you can 177 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: go out and basically kill someone and we can't keep 178 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: you in jail. And there's the other side of this, 179 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: which is the report that has just come out that 180 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: we have the lowest murder rate since nineteen hundred. Literally, 181 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is saving lives every day. A twenty percent 182 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: drop in nationwide murder rate in less than a year 183 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: is incredible. One hundred percent increase in violent crime arrests 184 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: year to year, in one hundred gangs in criminal enterprises disrupted, 185 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: that's a two hundred and ten percent increase. Incredible. Two 186 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 1: thousand plus kilos of fetnal cees that's up thirty one percent. 187 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: That's enough fetnol, by the way, to kill one hundred 188 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: and thirty plus million Americans. A four hundred and ninety 189 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: percent increase in FBI affiliated violent extremist arrests. This is 190 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: what I voted for, this is what so many others 191 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: voted for. And we better back the president up while 192 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: he's doing it, no matter what the media says. During 193 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: the first public testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Republicans, 194 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: especially the committee chair, Representative Jim Jordan, repeatedly accused Jack 195 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: Smith of trying to get former President Trump and pursuing 196 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: prosecutions for political reasons rather than legal ones. In questioning 197 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: from some GOP members like Representative Ben Klein. Smith refused 198 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: to confirm whether Trump could be prosecuted, again, prompting accusations 199 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: that his legal reasoning is unclear and even inconsistent. And 200 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: then there were the controversial subpoenas from lawmaker's phone records, 201 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: which shocked many around the country. One of the major 202 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: flashpoints is that Smith's Arctic frost investigation led to secret 203 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: subpoenas for Republican lawmaker phone records, including that of Representative 204 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, who erupted during the 205 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: hearing questioning whether his records were unfairly targeted. GOP members 206 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: called this an abuse of power and obviously constitutional overreach 207 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: at its highest level. Former President Trump also launching attacks 208 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: on Smith. While Smith testified, Trump brandon him as a 209 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: deranged animal, accusing him of perjury, and called for actions 210 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: against Smith, claims widely denounced by of course the left 211 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: and the media, as you know, politically motivated tax without evidence. 212 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 3: Isn't it funny? 213 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: They'll say that about Trump, but not about the actual 214 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: evidence that Smith was clearly doing that exact thing to 215 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: Republicans in Congress for no reason, even getting the phone 216 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: records of the speaker of the House Republicans. Painting Smith's 217 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: motives and his decisions, including seeking gag orders and aggressive 218 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: investigative tactics, has more evidence of a prosecutor overreach in partisanship 219 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: rather than impartial law enforcement. Which brings me to the 220 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: first piece of audio that I want you to hear. 221 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: This is Jim Jordan questioning Jack Smith publicly for the 222 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: world to see, and I want you to listen to 223 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: him hammered down on the facts of the abuse of 224 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: power by Jack Smith and the Department of Justice when 225 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: he was a special prosecutor going after Trump for one 226 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: simple reason to stop him from ever getting back in 227 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: the White House. 228 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 5: Gentlemen, yields back. Mister Smith. Is Cassidy Hutchinson a liar. 229 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 4: She was their star witness January sixth Committee, their star 230 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 4: witness in one of those staged and choreographed hearings they 231 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 4: paid the former president of ABC News to put together. 232 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 4: She was fact the only witness at this special prime 233 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 4: time hearing Tuesday, June twenty eighth, twenty twenty two, eight 234 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 4: o'clock in the evening, and she told some stories. 235 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 5: I mean these these were some stories she. 236 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 4: Talked about President lunched across the back seat, grabbed the 237 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 4: steering wheel, tried to drive the car to the Capitol. 238 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 4: And I just want to know you think she. 239 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 6: Was lying, Chairman Jordan, My assessment of that particular issue 240 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 6: is that, with respect to the testimony about someone of 241 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 6: the president lunging towards the driver, my recollection of her 242 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 6: testimony about that is that it was secondhand. She said 243 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 6: she'd heard that from somebody. 244 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 4: You familiar with the name Tony Ornado. I'm sorry, you 245 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 4: familiar with the name Tony Ornado. Yes, White House Deputy 246 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 4: Chief of Operations, Deputy chief of Staff for Operations. 247 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 5: Right, remember what. 248 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 6: He said about it, as I said here right now, 249 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 6: I do not. 250 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, he said it didn't happen. How about Bobby Engle, 251 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 4: you famire with that name. Yes, I am Secret Service 252 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 4: agent who was actually in the car that day. 253 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 5: You know what he said? He said, it didn't happen. 254 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 4: And they both said the first time they ever heard 255 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 4: this story was when miss Hutchinson testified in the prime 256 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 4: time hearing as their star witness of the January sixth committee. 257 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 4: By the way, do you ever confirm her testimony about 258 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 4: this particular incident. 259 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 6: We conducted, as I said, before our own independent investigation 260 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 6: of all aspects of the case that we thought was relevant. 261 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 6: We attorneys from my office. 262 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 5: Did you ever confirm it? That's a simple question. 263 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 6: We interviewed her, I should say, attorneys in my office. 264 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 4: But did you ever confirm the president leaping across the 265 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 4: see grabbing the steering wheel, this whole concoction she brought 266 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 4: up in the January sixth hearing, Do you ever confirm that. 267 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 6: We interviewed another firsthand witness who was in the car 268 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 6: who did not confirm that that happened. 269 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 4: But also your deposition to the committee last month, mister Smith, 270 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 4: you said this my recollection with miss Hutchinson was a 271 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 4: number of the things that she gave evidence on were 272 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 4: secondhand hearsay. Your remembers making that statement to us last 273 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 4: month in the deposition. 274 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 6: I did, and I was referring particularly to what we're 275 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 6: talking about now. 276 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, And you also said, miss Hutchinson regarding this particular 277 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 4: claim was a second or even third hand witness. We 278 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 4: ask you, if you were a defense attorney, how would 279 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 4: you handle cross examining her if she was on the 280 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 4: witness stand, And you said, if I were a defense attorney, 281 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 4: miss Hutchinson were a witness, The first thing I would 282 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 4: do was seek to preclude her testimony because it was here, say. 283 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 5: You remember saying all that? Yes, that's correct, So that's correct. 284 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 4: Right, We're gonna put her on the witness stand if 285 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 4: you ever got to trial. 286 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 6: We had not made final determinations as to who we 287 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 6: were going to call as a witness. 288 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 5: We had a large still considering her. 289 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 6: We had a large choice of witnesses in this. 290 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 4: Are you familiar what Washington Post reporters Carol Lenning and 291 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 4: Aaron Davis said in their book? They did his book 292 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 4: three hundreds on pages book on chronicle and the whole 293 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 4: investigation of the Justice Department, And here's what they said. 294 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 4: On page three ten, they said Jack Smith had wondered 295 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 4: whether some of Hutchinson's claims might be relied upon a trial. Still, 296 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 4: at one point, Smith told the elections team he wasn't 297 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 4: ready to give up on Hutchinson's account. Ultimately, however, Trump 298 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 4: administration officials uniformly fiercely disputed her accounts under oath. Prosecutors 299 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 4: on your team told Smith they wouldn't want to use 300 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 4: Hutchinson as a witness in court, and Smith agreed. Are 301 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 4: Caro Lenning and Aaron Davis who wrote this, are they lying? 302 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 6: My recollection is that I certainly had not made any 303 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 6: final determinations about. 304 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 5: In who we were going to call. Well, that's the point. 305 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 4: That is the point, the fact that they used her 306 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 4: in a primetime hearing, and you won't rule out using her, 307 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 4: or didn't rule out using her putting on the witness 308 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 4: stand when everybody knows she wasn't. 309 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 5: Telling the truth. That says it all. 310 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 4: That's the degree. And Democrats were willing to go to 311 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 4: get President Trump putting on the witness stand someone everybody 312 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 4: knows is making it up. Everybody knows that, and you 313 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 4: were willing to by the way, you know how many 314 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 4: times Cassie Hutchinson was mentioned in their report, the January 315 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 4: sixth report, any idea, mister Smith, I do not one 316 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 4: hundred and eighty five times, someone that the whole country 317 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 4: knows wasn't telling the truth and you were still considering 318 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 4: putting her on the witness stand because you had to 319 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 4: get President Trump. 320 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 5: And everybody can see that now. 321 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan won the only one going after Jack Smith. 322 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: Representative Chip Roy, who I mentioned earlier, had this to say, do. 323 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 5: You know who Cleta Mitchell is, yes, I do. 324 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 7: She's an election lawyer that was involved in filing an 325 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 7: election contest on behalf of President Trump and Georgia in 326 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 7: December of twenty twenty, a sixty four page complaint with 327 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 7: over eleven hundred pages of exhibits, witness Ava David's and 328 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 7: expert witness reports documenting thousands of votes cast in violation 329 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 7: of Georgia law, but which were nevertheless included in the 330 00:19:55,280 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 7: vote totals. Now, notwithstanding the disposition of the cases that 331 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 7: was filed, is that. 332 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 5: A criminal act? 333 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 7: Filing an election contest on behalf of a candidate for 334 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 7: office a client? 335 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 2: Is that a criminal act? 336 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 5: Yes? 337 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 2: Or no? No? 338 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 7: In fact we see, So why did you deem it 339 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 7: appropriate to monitor Cleida Mitchell's long distance phone records in 340 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 7: twenty twenty three, two and a half years after the 341 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 7: election context was filed and after the presidential electors were certified? 342 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 7: What about Jen Ellis? What about Sidney Powell? What about 343 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,680 Speaker 7: Bill Sepien? What crime did you suspect had been committed 344 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 7: by them that would warrant monitoring their phone records two 345 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 7: and a half years after the twenty twenty election was certified. 346 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,479 Speaker 6: With respect to Sidney Powell, she is one of the 347 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 6: co conspirators alleged in the indictment. I don't know what 348 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 6: you mean by monitoring, sir. 349 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 7: If you're talking, oh, there were some four hundred plus 350 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 7: Republican conservative groups and leaders who were targeted by your investigation. 351 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 7: Their financial records were obtained, records of the RNC, the 352 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 7: Trump campaign, Cleta Mitchell, the Conservative Partnership Institute, the America 353 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 7: First League Policy Institute NRCC, RSC, conservative groups, people all 354 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 7: across the country's citizens. Because we hear a lot about 355 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 7: members of Congress, and we should because the separation of 356 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 7: powers and the egregious abuse of power. But what we're 357 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 7: not talking about enough, in my opinion, are the American 358 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 7: citizens that have been targeted. Because, frankly, are there any 359 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,199 Speaker 7: limits to the power of a special prosecutor a special counsel? 360 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: And that's the big question why there needs to be 361 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: accountability for Jack Smith. Are there any limits or any 362 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: laws that he broke? And should there be accountability? Now 363 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 1: the answer is obviously yes. Now, chip Roy wasn't the 364 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: only one that wanted his pound of flesh, especially from 365 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: an abusive psychotic as I would describe it, man who 366 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: said he was really a special prosecutor that abused his 367 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: power to try to overthrow the will of the people 368 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: and try to put Donald Trump in jail and make 369 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: sure he was never president again. Brandon Gill had this 370 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: to say when he had a chance to talk directly 371 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: to this man that destroyed what was supposed to be 372 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: law and order in this country. 373 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 8: Mister Smith, in January of twenty twenty three, did you 374 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 8: subpoena then Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy's toll records? 375 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, we did, Yes, you did. 376 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 8: And the subpoena covered the time period between November twenty 377 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 8: twenty and January twenty twenty one. 378 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 2: Is that right? I'm sorry, sir. Could you say that again. 379 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 2: We're not going to delay like this. 380 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 8: The subpoena covered the time period between November of twenty 381 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 8: twenty and January twenty twenty one. How many days after 382 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,360 Speaker 8: Kevin McCarthy was sworn in his speaker did U subpoena 383 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 8: his records? 384 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 6: I don't recall, but those two things had nothing. 385 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 8: It was sixteen days after becoming the highest ranking Republican 386 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 8: in the House of Representatives, usubpoenaed his toll records. Do 387 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 8: you agree that that might reasonably be considered a violation 388 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 8: of the speech of debate clause? 389 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 6: I do not, And I want to be clear that 390 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 6: the till. 391 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 8: We were collecting months worth of phone data on the 392 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 8: Republican Speaker of the House, the leader of the opposition, 393 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 8: right after he got sworn in as speaker, all around 394 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 8: the time of a major vote. That sounds like a 395 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 8: flagrant violation of the speech or debate clause to me, 396 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 8: and I think most people agree with me. And Speaker 397 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 8: McCarthy had no recourse, did he, because you issued a 398 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 8: non disclosure order ensuring that neither he nor any of 399 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 8: the American people knew about the subpoenas. 400 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 2: Is that right? 401 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 6: The toll record, the non content toll record subpoena is 402 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 6: we did secure non disclosure orders for those subpoenas. 403 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 2: You did. 404 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,199 Speaker 8: And let me ask you, mister Smith, at the time 405 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 8: you secured those non disclosure orders. 406 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 2: Was Speaker McCarthy a flight risk? 407 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 6: The non disclosure order was based on concerns about it. 408 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 2: Was Speaker McCarthy a flight risks? 409 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 6: He was not? 410 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 2: He was not. 411 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 8: Then why did your non disclosure order refer to him 412 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 8: as a flight risk. It says right here, the court 413 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,479 Speaker 8: finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result 414 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 8: in flight from prosecution, Sir. 415 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 6: When securing a non disclosure order, the risks don't have 416 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 6: to associated. 417 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 8: I think that the Speaker of the House is a 418 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 8: risk this question? No, this is not your time. This 419 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 8: is my time. You think you think the Speaker of 420 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 8: the House is a flight risk? You think he's going 421 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 8: to hop on a plane and leave the country. 422 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,479 Speaker 6: No, what I was trying to explain is, with respect 423 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 6: to a non disclosure order, the risks aren't necessarily associated 424 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 6: with the subscriber to the phone, the risks. 425 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 2: To okay, mistigation. 426 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 8: I think that you were using this is clearly in 427 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 8: reference to Speaker McCarthy, and you were using clearly false 428 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 8: information to secure a non disclosure order to hide from 429 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,679 Speaker 8: Speaker McCarthy and from the American people the fact that 430 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 8: you were spying on his toll records. 431 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,239 Speaker 2: But I've got more more, so let's move on. 432 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 8: In May of twenty twenty three, you also issued subpoenas 433 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 8: for toll records of nine US senators And an additional 434 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 8: representative is that right. 435 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 6: In May of twenty three, we did issues. 436 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 8: You did, and there were non disclosure orders in conjunction 437 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 8: with those subpoenas as well. 438 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 6: Right, that's correct, consistent with department policy, right law. 439 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 2: So again, nobody would know what you were doing. 440 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 8: The Senators would, and the representatives would, and the American 441 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 8: people wouldn't know what you were doing. 442 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 2: Is that right? 443 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 6: The toll records that we secured in the non disclosure 444 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 6: orders were consistent with policy. 445 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 8: And case, and you knew whenever you were doing that 446 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 8: that there was a risk you were violating the speech 447 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 8: or debate clause. 448 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 2: Is that right? 449 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 6: The toll record subpoena is that we secured were with 450 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 6: the concurrence of the public context. 451 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 8: Your own analysis says that you knew there was a 452 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 8: risk you were violating the speech or debate clause. 453 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 2: I have it right here. 454 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 8: This is an email from John Keller at Public Integrity 455 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 8: Section to your team. As you are aware, quote, as 456 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 8: you are aware, there is some litigation risk regarding whether 457 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 8: compelled disclosure of toll records of a member's legislative calls 458 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 8: violates the speech or debate clause in the DC circuit. 459 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 8: That's from your own analysis right there. So you did know, 460 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 8: didn't you? 461 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 6: So with respect to the item you just put up 462 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 6: on the screen. The last sentence states. 463 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 8: Uh, oh, we're going to get to the last sentence. Okay, 464 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 8: we're going to get to the last sentence, and you 465 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 8: cite case Lawn here. Quote the bar on compelled disclosure 466 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 8: is absolute? 467 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 2: Is right? Is that right? Or do you think that 468 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 2: you didn't have to abide by that precedent? 469 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 6: To be clear, this is not this statement is not 470 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 6: from my office. This is the statement. 471 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 8: This is This is your justification for those subpoenas and 472 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 8: indios that you ordered. This was part of your analysis. 473 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 8: It's a cursory analysis. I think it's worth noting, well, 474 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 8: let's get to that last sentence then. 475 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 2: Quote. 476 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 8: Given my understanding of the low likelihood that any of 477 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 8: the members listed below would be charged, the litigation risk 478 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 8: should be minimal here. In other words, you're using a 479 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 8: novel legal theory, which you knew was novel, has never 480 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 8: been tested by any court. You're not charging any of 481 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,880 Speaker 8: these members. Nobody is going to know about it because 482 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 8: you issued indos. Nobody is going to sue about it. 483 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 8: So sue this, So who cares? We're going to do it. Anyways, 484 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 8: When you walked all over the Constitution. Throughout this entire 485 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 8: process of the gentleman's side are members of Congress, and 486 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 8: you know it. 487 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 2: It's absolutely disgraceful. 488 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: Let's just go back for a second to the Kevin 489 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 1: McCarthy aspect of this. Kevin McCarthy put out a post 490 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: and this is what he said, after watching Brandon Gill 491 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 1: go after Jack Smith. Quote a Speaker of the House, 492 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: I had a twenty four to seven security detail, and 493 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: my location was known to the government at all times. 494 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: Flight risk question mark another of Jack Smith's many lies. Now, 495 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy's absolutely right, when you're the Speaker of the House, 496 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: the government knows where you are twenty four to seven, 497 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: not just in America, literally anywhere you go in the world, 498 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 1: they know where you are, your third in line to 499 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: the presidency. So the idea that Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker 500 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: of the House at the time, was a flight risk 501 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 1: and therefore Jack Smith had to do this secretly because 502 00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: if you knew about it, somehow he was just going 503 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,159 Speaker 1: to like leave the country is another example of the 504 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 1: total insanity from Jack Smith. Now it's not insanity like 505 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 1: he's crazy, it's the insanity that he had to justify 506 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,439 Speaker 1: doing something he knew he shouldn't be doing, and he 507 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: needed a crazy reason to do it. In almost every 508 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,880 Speaker 1: case a third by the way, the US Senate, their 509 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 1: phone records were asked. They're basically being surveyed, spied on 510 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: from the government for which they serve, and they went 511 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: to Verizon and they got those records from many members 512 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: of the Senate, thank goodness, at and T. When they 513 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: were asked for the phone records of Senator Ted Cruz, 514 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: they said no because they understood that this was like 515 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: absolute abuse of power and they weren't going to be 516 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: a part of it. But Verizon was more than happy 517 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: to just hand over the records of all of these 518 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: members of Congress. This is just how bad it was. Now. 519 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: This is also I want to be clear what happens 520 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: in like communists and socialists kind They are willing and 521 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: jack Smith is willing to lie to your face over 522 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: this had no problem, Kevin McCarthy. I'll give you another example. 523 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: And this was even before Jacksmith testifies before the House 524 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee. Someone posted quote, don't forget what he did. 525 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: He forced cell phone comings to hand over the phone 526 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: records of sitting members of Congress. That kind of abuse 527 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: de Man's consequences. Accountability for Joe Biden and Jack Smith 528 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: is overdue, and it begins with Jack Smith answering every 529 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: single question put to him by the House. Now, AT 530 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: and T not only do they turn over Speaker McCarthy's 531 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: records to Jack Smith after it told the public that 532 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: it didn't, AT and T straight up lied to the public. 533 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: They did give then House Speaker McCarthy's personal cell phone 534 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: records amid the January sixth investigation. AT and T lied publicly, 535 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: so they did not over the records, but upon review, 536 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: they did comply with Smith's January twenty twenty three subpoena. Now, 537 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: why would AT and T lie about this? Because they 538 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: knew exactly what they did was straight up illegal, They 539 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: knew they were a part of it, and apparently they 540 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: didn't like Donald Trump, so they said we'll go along 541 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: with it. I assure you they wouldn't have given these 542 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: phone records for a Democrat sitting president. They wouldn't have 543 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: done to Joe Biden, and they certainly wouldn't have done 544 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 1: it to Barack Obama. But because it was Donald Trump, 545 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: they said, fine, do it, we have no problem with it, 546 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: and This is exactly why we need accountability. Congressional hearings 547 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: with him are important. It's a masterclass and transparenty. The 548 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: short answer is also easy. Many Democrats say, move on 549 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: from it and act like it never happened. Well, thank goodness, Republicans, 550 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: they're not gonna do that. Make sure you share this 551 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: podcast please wherever you can on social media so others 552 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 1: will hear it. Hit that subscriber auto download button, and 553 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: I'll see you back here tomorrow.