Sekulow - Impeachment Whistleblower Referred For Prosecution

April 29, 2026 | 26:29

Jay Sekulow speaks about the protection of religious freedoms in America.

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Sekulow | Sekulow - Impeachment Whistleblower Referred For Prosecution | April 29, 2026
  • (gentle music begins)
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  • - welcome to "sekulow."
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  • We got a packed one.
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  • Jordan is here, will's here,
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  • Rick grenell's gonna be joining us a little bit later,
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  • So stay tuned again, packed show coming up.
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  • And look, i wanna make sure you understand,
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  • Each day we have had something, the last three days,
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  • Something related to this same main topic,
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  • But more keeps coming out,
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  • And more news keeps developing.
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  • And the big one today involves a criminal referral.
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  • - that's right.
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  • So as we talked about earlier in the week,
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  • Tulsi gabbard, the director of national intelligence,
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  • Had put out information, declassified information,
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  • That showed both the missteps by the inspector general,
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  • The intelligence community inspector general,
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  • During this impeachment issue,
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  • As well as the whistleblower
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  • That put the information forward,
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  • That lied to the inspector general
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  • To try and fast track this complaint
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  • Getting before congress.
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  • He told congress that, "i had nothing, no talks with them,
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  • Nothing of that nature."
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  • When in reality, he even admitted later
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  • To the inspector general
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  • That there was some coordination there with the senate,
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  • The house intelligence committee, with adam schiff,
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  • Who was the chair at the time.
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  • So then the next day we found out
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  • That the inspector general, the new inspector general,
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  • This is christopher fox, the icig,
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  • Was looking into any other things
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  • That michael atkins had done,
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  • Potentially atkinson had used this procedure
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  • And gone around some of the rules.
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  • As we know, he did something like this
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  • With one of the most important referrals
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  • That would've come before him,
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  • Because it was against the president of the united states.
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  • Was there other misuse of process by this individual?
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  • Now we find out that tulsi gabbard
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  • Has sent a criminal referral to the doj.
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  • So for those of you that have been asking,
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  • Will there be accountability?
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  • Now she is saying not just the inspector general,
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  • But the whistleblower as well.
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  • - to understand though, this is like a process.
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  • So it's not like she refers a criminal, she's referring.
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  • - [jordan] she does not have the ability to start.
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  • - let's make sure we understand, the word is refer.
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  • - yes, let me explain it to people.
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  • So cabinet official levels who represent departments,
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  • And she represents multiple departments,
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  • When they come across information that they are gathering
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  • And believe that there are people
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  • Who may have not just done something that was wrong
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  • Or just something not nice, let's say.
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  • That they actually crossed the line
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  • Into potential criminal conduct.
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  • And there there's tons of us code about that,
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  • Especially when you are inside the intelligence community.
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  • So your information,
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  • How you share things has to be crystal clear.
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  • But as crystal clear as that is,
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  • That's different than court of law.
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  • Court of law with a felony,
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  • You've gotta really be able to prove your case.
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  • And so listen,
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  • As the team who went through this impeachment,
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  • There were documents flying all over the place.
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  • I mean adam schiff, the situation,
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  • Swalwell, all those guys, i mean it was a wild, wild west.
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  • What this has allowed, tulsi taking that time,
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  • Has allowed people to kind of,
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  • Other issues are going on.
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  • She was able then to put it together.
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  • It's been long enough to get in a new team there
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  • That would actually put together this information.
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  • - [logan] every year.
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  • - so the next step is, okay,
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  • What can you do with it?
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  • And that is what's being researched right now.
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  • - over the last few days
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  • We've been talking about this tulsi gabbard issued report,
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  • And you've heard all about that.
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  • But now we have a big update,
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  • Which is there's been a criminal referral.
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  • And again, jordan broke down to the last segment
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  • Of what that looks like, what it means.
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  • We wanted to dive a little bit deeper,
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  • But we wanna hear from tulsi herself.
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  • - from the beginning of the week
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  • That they were releasing this information
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  • That there was improperly done things,
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  • We didn't know to the level also
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  • That they were looking at it internally,
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  • How far they believed it went.
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  • Now we know they believe it rises to the level
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  • Of sending a criminal referral to the doj,
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  • Which the doj will look at.
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  • They will take the evidence and decide
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  • Whether or not to move forward with a prosecution
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  • Of these individuals.
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  • - the dni sees criminality.
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  • - [will] right.
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  • - and look, when you read the report,
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  • If the report is accurate,
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  • Let's assume the report is accurate,
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  • It's pretty hard to imagine that there isn't.
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  • - right, especially within their own transcripts.
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  • - [logan] right, that's what i'm saying, yeah.
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  • - the inspector general is saying that one,
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  • They went around guardrails.
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  • - [logan] i lied.
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  • - and that the person bringing the whistleblower complaint
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  • Admitted to lying.
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  • All of these things put together,
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  • Yeah, it does appear there is criminal activity,
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  • But let's hear from the director of national intelligence
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  • Bite four.
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  • - but the bottom line is this, number one,
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  • The whistleblower, so-called whistleblower
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  • Who came forward presented no evidence
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  • And no firsthand knowledge.
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  • This is a person who had heard about a conversation
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  • That president trump had with zelensky,
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  • Then went straight to adam schiff
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  • On the house intelligence committee.
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  • And this is where they came up with this false narrative,
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  • And this so-called whistleblower then went
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  • And filed a complaint
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  • With the intelligence community inspector general.
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  • The other witness, so-called witness to this
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  • Is somebody who also had zero firsthand knowledge
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  • And presented zero evidence.
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  • Someone who was also a co-author
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  • Of the 2017 russia hoax intelligence community assessment
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  • That president obama had ordered be created
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  • In conjunction with john brennan and james clapper
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  • At the time.
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  • Again, no firsthand knowledge or evidence,
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  • And someone who said that even after reading the transcript,
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  • He didn't really see the issue there
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  • Until the whistleblower had explained it to him.
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  • - so once again,
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  • There's the director of national intelligence
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  • Laying out all the issues that they found with this.
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  • Also, we haven't seen the actual criminal referral itself.
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  • Normally those aren't made public.
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  • But what we do know is there's some quotes
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  • That fox news was able to see from it
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  • And said, "i wanna refer information
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  • That may constitute possible criminal activity
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  • In violation of federal criminal law
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  • Committed by one or more former employees
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  • Of the intelligence community."
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  • And this was obviously the letter,
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  • At the direction of the dni,
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  • Was sent by the general counsel
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  • Of the office of director of national intelligence.
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  • And furthermore, it says, "the possible criminal activity
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  • Concerns the circumstances
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  • Described in the following congressional briefings.
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  • Discussion with the intelligence community inspector general
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  • House permanent select committee,
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  • The briefing by the ica inspector general
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  • To the house permanent select committee,"
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  • And gives the dates.
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  • Now, jordan, one thing we do know.
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  • - [jordan] who was the head of that at that time?
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  • - right.
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  • We know that it was adam schiff.
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  • And one other thing that it has been brought out
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  • By tulsi gabbard during this
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  • Is that the house intelligence committee
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  • Would not release these transcripts
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  • To the house judiciary committee,
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  • Which pushed forward with the impeachment.
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  • So they didn't even have the full set of data to go off of
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  • To know these things about the alleged whistleblower,
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  • The witnesses, and the inspector general
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  • Whose entire process was out of the ordinary.
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  • - this is the research that's now in place right now.
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  • Which is, when they said,
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  • "no, we're not gonna give you the data."
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  • Did the data ever get to them eventually?
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  • Were they ever able to compromise behind closed doors?
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  • And it just was, it got so wild during that period of time
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  • That by that happened, you weren't even thinking
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  • About the second part?
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  • - [logan] right, it wasn't our focus then.
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  • - and we also know that, remember the russia stuff
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  • Starts with mueller, then they switch
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  • And they pivot to ukraine.
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  • I mean, it was any way we could try an impeachment,
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  • 'cause they thought it was going to assist their base.
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  • There's arguments that it might have eventually.
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  • But what was interesting is that after the fact,
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  • It re-encouraged president trump's pace and in a huge way.
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  • - [logan] actually lit a fire.
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  • - he survived four years of being outside the white house
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  • And then came back even stronger in his second election,
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  • Third race.
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  • - yeah, there's some questions,
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  • And we talked a little about it yesterday,
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  • Of the sort of blanket immunity that was put out
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  • With his pardons by biden at the end.
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  • And if there would be any sort of issue with that,
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  • With who he's talking about
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  • And who these whistleblowers are
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  • To where the criminality side of it
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  • Could be a little taken care of.
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  • - well, it all depends on what pardon they received.
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  • What was the extent of that pardon?
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  • - some were so vague.
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  • It was like any and all.
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  • - you can sometimes challenge that.
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  • It's like so overly vague
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  • For the level of person this likely was.
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  • Because you know, the reports that john solomon said,
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  • And we have to corroborate that ourselves.
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  • - [logan] yeah.
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  • - as attorneys is that this person was not on the call.
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  • We know vidman was on the call, wrote his version of it.
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  • Then we know that adam schiff wrote his version of it
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  • Based off that.
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  • And then now we have this third person,
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  • Who wasn't on the call at all,
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  • But was actually the first person, it looks like,
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  • Who went to the doj.
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  • It wasn't exactly vidman,
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  • Probably because of his nsc role,
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  • Though i'm trying to figure out
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  • Who else would've overheard it
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  • If they weren't in that intelligence world.
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  • And the intelligence world, under law, guys,
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  • Is held to a higher standard than any normal.
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  • - [logan] anyone else.
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  • - kind of branch of the federal government.
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  • - and jordan, i think what makes this so remarkable,
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  • Finding it out now, even in light of you and your dad
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  • Fighting out that first impeachment
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  • In the well of the senate is that,
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  • What seemed to start this was the whistleblower
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  • Coordinating with adam schiff,
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  • And then going to the director of national intelligence's
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  • Inspector general's office,
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  • Which is supposed to be outside the scope
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  • Of the normal chain of command.
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  • They're the independent auditor internally, so to speak.
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  • And went and tried to get this urgent review process through
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  • To get it to congress.
  • 00:10:27.395 --> 00:10:28.163
  • And by doing that,
  • 00:10:28.163 --> 00:10:29.464
  • Because they knew they were on a timeline,
  • 00:10:29.464 --> 00:10:30.899
  • We knew that they were trying to obstruct the election
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  • Through this, it was late 2019.
  • 00:10:33.869 --> 00:10:36.037
  • And what they did is they get this urgent review process
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  • So that they can get it to congress quicker.
  • 00:10:39.841 --> 00:10:41.843
  • And to get that, he had to lie and say,
  • 00:10:41.843 --> 00:10:45.514
  • "i haven't already talked with people, members of congress."
  • 00:10:45.514 --> 00:10:48.817
  • So it's abusing the process to try to get it out there,
  • 00:10:48.817 --> 00:10:51.486
  • And make it seem like a bigger deal.
  • 00:10:51.486 --> 00:10:53.021
  • The witnesses they brought in,
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  • One, the whistleblower under this
  • 00:10:54.523 --> 00:10:56.391
  • Allegedly did not hear the phone call firsthand.
  • 00:10:56.391 --> 00:11:01.696
  • The witnesses, one of the witnesses
  • 00:11:02.430 --> 00:11:04.399
  • Told the inspector general,
  • 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:06.001
  • "i didn't think there was anything wrong with it
  • 00:11:06.001 --> 00:11:08.470
  • Until someone said, 'hey, maybe there's something
  • 00:11:08.470 --> 00:11:12.440
  • Wrong with that.' i went back and listened and be like,
  • 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:14.342
  • Well, yeah, i could maybe see that."
  • 00:11:14.342 --> 00:11:16.311
  • So one of the witnesses wasn't even thinking
  • 00:11:16.311 --> 00:11:18.146
  • It was a big deal until they were told
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  • To say it's a big deal.
  • 00:11:20.048 --> 00:11:21.316
  • And the other one helped write the ica,
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  • Intelligence community assessment,
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  • Which launched the mueller probe,
  • 00:11:25.987 --> 00:11:28.423
  • Which made up the russia collusion hoax
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  • And used the steal dossier and all of that nonsense
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  • To perpetrate that hoax on the american people.
  • 00:11:33.962 --> 00:11:36.498
  • So what you're seeing in reality,
  • 00:11:36.498 --> 00:11:38.333
  • When they call this a conspiracy,
  • 00:11:38.333 --> 00:11:40.769
  • And that's the words that were coming
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  • Out of the director of national intelligence office,
  • 00:11:42.270 --> 00:11:45.473
  • It does appear that way,
  • 00:11:45.473 --> 00:11:46.741
  • That it wasn't like the russia hoax ever ended.
  • 00:11:46.741 --> 00:11:49.644
  • It's the same conspiracy.
  • 00:11:49.644 --> 00:11:51.847
  • The conspiracy wasn't russia hoax, the conspiracy is,
  • 00:11:51.847 --> 00:11:56.017
  • Take down the sitting president of the united states,
  • 00:11:56.017 --> 00:11:59.287
  • And they continued that over his entire presidency.
  • 00:11:59.287 --> 00:12:03.725
  • - the house democrats,
  • 00:12:03.725 --> 00:12:05.594
  • If they are successful in the midterm elections,
  • 00:12:05.594 --> 00:12:09.431
  • Are gonna be under tremendous pressure
  • 00:12:09.431 --> 00:12:12.033
  • To bring some kind of impeachment type of action
  • 00:12:12.033 --> 00:12:14.669
  • Against president trump, and so.
  • 00:12:14.669 --> 00:12:17.038
  • - and we've all expected that was gonna come.
  • 00:12:17.038 --> 00:12:18.607
  • - right, even if the senate lost a few votes,
  • 00:12:18.607 --> 00:12:20.742
  • If the senate did switch dem,
  • 00:12:20.742 --> 00:12:22.577
  • You have to have a 60 vote majority there.
  • 00:12:22.577 --> 00:12:26.081
  • So i'm not worried about an actual conviction
  • 00:12:26.081 --> 00:12:28.250
  • At this point because at this point
  • 00:12:28.250 --> 00:12:29.751
  • I'm trying to think like, what would it even be on?
  • 00:12:30.819 --> 00:12:32.854
  • But they're pretty good at making up.
  • 00:12:32.854 --> 00:12:34.356
  • - i think they're gonna say he launched an illegal war
  • 00:12:34.356 --> 00:12:36.558
  • And therefore we must impeach him.
  • 00:12:36.558 --> 00:12:38.293
  • I think that's probably one of the main ones.
  • 00:12:38.293 --> 00:12:40.195
  • - the courts go to the war powers act
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  • And they go to political questions.
  • 00:12:41.363 --> 00:12:42.664
  • Say, "congress, you had the power of the purse,
  • 00:12:42.664 --> 00:12:45.133
  • And the purse kept spending money, so bad on you."
  • 00:12:45.133 --> 00:12:50.305
  • I mean, so here's what i think.
  • 00:12:50.939 --> 00:12:53.308
  • It's more complicated than what you're hearing in the news,
  • 00:12:53.308 --> 00:12:55.944
  • As everything is that involves parliamentary rules,
  • 00:12:55.944 --> 00:12:59.614
  • Congressional rules,
  • 00:12:59.614 --> 00:13:01.182
  • The constitution of the united states, and laws,
  • 00:13:01.182 --> 00:13:04.352
  • And whistleblowers, and people leaking.
  • 00:13:04.352 --> 00:13:07.789
  • Like again, adam schiff wouldn't have heard about this,
  • 00:13:07.789 --> 00:13:11.226
  • Logan, unless a whistleblower who was on a call
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  • Showed up at his office.
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  • - [logan] right.
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  • (gentle music continues)
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  • (dramatic music begins)
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  • (gentle music begins)
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  • - rick grenell's now joining us.
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  • Rick, there's a lot going on in the world.
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  • We're gonna talk to you about a little bit iran,
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  • A little about china, but of course we have to talk
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  • About what's happening in california as well,
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  • As the the race for governor kind of upended at this point
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  • When you have the exit of eric swalwell,
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  • Now who knows how he's doing,
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  • But enough to where clearly it's gonna change
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  • The trajectory a bit more.
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  • And you're starting to see some of the other candidates
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  • Show up on the more nationwide stage.
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  • I'd say they're already starting to appear.
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  • Jordan, you have something?
  • 00:13:53.729 --> 00:13:55.064
  • - yeah, i mean, rick, we both cut our teeth
  • 00:13:55.064 --> 00:13:55.998
  • In the political campaign world
  • 00:13:55.998 --> 00:13:57.099
  • Before we moved on to other things.
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  • And so i gotta ask you this question,
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  • Which is, in california, you've got the jungle primary.
  • 00:14:01.737 --> 00:14:04.907
  • Some people listening to this understand what that means.
  • 00:14:04.907 --> 00:14:07.610
  • Others don't.
  • 00:14:07.610 --> 00:14:08.611
  • So we could start there is,
  • 00:14:08.611 --> 00:14:09.845
  • You've got a couple republicans
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  • Who are doing very well in that,
  • 00:14:11.947 --> 00:14:13.349
  • One endorsed by president trump, one a sheriff,
  • 00:14:13.349 --> 00:14:15.885
  • And then you had this kind of fight between eric swalwell,
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  • I believe is it katie rose, rick, that is the other?
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  • - [rick] katie porter.
  • 00:14:21.791 --> 00:14:22.625
  • - katie porter.
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  • And they're.
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  • - [logan] katie rose is one of my freaks.
  • 00:14:24.727 --> 00:14:25.561
  • No, i'm just kidding.
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  • (logan laughs)
  • 00:14:26.328 --> 00:14:27.463
  • - and so, in a sense it was like,
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  • As you're hearing from people,
  • 00:14:29.265 --> 00:14:30.533
  • Everybody on the left knew about this.
  • 00:14:30.533 --> 00:14:32.668
  • And when he was starting causing them a political problem,
  • 00:14:32.668 --> 00:14:35.538
  • Because of the jungle primary, i want you to explain,
  • 00:14:35.538 --> 00:14:38.574
  • I mean literally, and rick will corroborate this,
  • 00:14:38.574 --> 00:14:41.544
  • Because of a jungle primary, you could literally only have
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  • For choice for governor, two people from the same party,
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  • And in this case potentially two republicans.
  • 00:14:47.416 --> 00:14:50.586
  • - well, so here's the jungle primary,
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  • The top two vote getters are the ones that move on,
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  • And you vote in the general election for the top two.
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  • Doesn't matter which party they come from.
  • 00:15:00.463 --> 00:15:02.998
  • But remember we have a big challenge in california.
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  • If you look at the math, you don't look at the polling
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  • Or you look at the spin, the math of voter registration
  • 00:15:08.404 --> 00:15:13.676
  • Tells the whole story.
  • 00:15:14.176 --> 00:15:15.911
  • We are woefully behind as republicans on voter registration.
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  • We don't even get to start from a position
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  • Where we have a shot at winning the governor's seat
  • 00:15:23.686 --> 00:15:26.355
  • Because there are so many more democrats
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  • Or non-party preference voters registered.
  • 00:15:30.526 --> 00:15:35.865
  • Remember only 50% of society is registered to vote.
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  • And out of the 50 that are registered, only 40% show up.
  • 00:15:38.501 --> 00:15:42.838
  • So the republican numbers are very small.
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  • There's no possible way we're gonna have two republicans
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  • In the field.
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  • There could have been maybe like a 1% chance,
  • 00:15:49.979 --> 00:15:52.882
  • Which is why the democrats really went after eric swalwell.
  • 00:15:52.882 --> 00:15:56.418
  • The top three candidates for the democrats are tom steyer,
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  • Eric swalwell, and katie porter.
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  • They have been slugging it out.
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  • And with two republicans that were so close,
  • 00:16:05.561 --> 00:16:08.797
  • We split our small vote,
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  • And that meant we didn't even have a shot
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  • Of getting into the top two.
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  • Donald trump comes in, he endorses steve hilton.
  • 00:16:14.970 --> 00:16:18.707
  • That means steve hilton now is the one with the shot
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  • Of hopefully trying to get into the top two.
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  • I'm still pessimistic that we're gonna be able to do that,
  • 00:16:25.848 --> 00:16:28.784
  • Because especially now with eric swalwell dropping out,
  • 00:16:28.784 --> 00:16:32.354
  • You really only have two top candidates.
  • 00:16:32.354 --> 00:16:34.790
  • There's an emerging guy who's the mayor of san jose,
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  • His last name is mahan, and he is coming up strong,
  • 00:16:37.660 --> 00:16:43.532
  • And he's trying to be like,
  • 00:16:44.133 --> 00:16:45.668
  • "oh, i'm this new common sense moderate democrat."
  • 00:16:45.668 --> 00:16:49.438
  • I've always thought that the common sense moderate democrat
  • 00:16:49.438 --> 00:16:52.675
  • Could come in and sweep.
  • 00:16:52.675 --> 00:16:54.910
  • People are hungry for common sense reformers.
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  • I think that that person has a great shot,
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  • Except i don't think mahan is the guy.
  • 00:17:01.450 --> 00:17:04.019
  • I think he's demonstrated that he's a lefty,
  • 00:17:04.019 --> 00:17:07.223
  • A radical lefty, and he's not a moderate,
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  • Although he's trying to appear to be one.
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  • Let's see what happens.
  • 00:17:12.494 --> 00:17:14.330
  • I still think there could be a lot of people
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  • Voting for eric swalwell,
  • 00:17:17.733 --> 00:17:19.101
  • Because they just don't know about the negatives.
  • 00:17:19.101 --> 00:17:23.205
  • There's a lot of people who are just gonna see his name
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  • And vote for him.
  • 00:17:25.674 --> 00:17:26.909
  • Katie porter still has a strong sense
  • 00:17:26.909 --> 00:17:30.679
  • Of trying to be a common sense democrat.
  • 00:17:30.679 --> 00:17:33.782
  • So it's all up in the air.
  • 00:17:33.782 --> 00:17:35.551
  • We'll see what happens.
  • 00:17:35.551 --> 00:17:38.087
  • But i think the math is not on republican side.
  • 00:17:38.087 --> 00:17:40.556
  • - i did want to ask you about this
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  • Because we know the president next month has a summit
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  • With xi jinping.
  • 00:17:45.027 --> 00:17:46.195
  • We have seen china, for the most part,
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  • Be out of this conflict with iran, even though we know
  • 00:17:49.531 --> 00:17:52.368
  • That it hurts their interests
  • 00:17:52.368 --> 00:17:54.203
  • When iran is not able to ship their oil.
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  • What's kind of your take on us relations with china
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  • As we look forward to this summit?
  • 00:18:01.510 --> 00:18:03.279
  • Also knowing with the blockade in force
  • 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:05.748
  • That president trump has put,
  • 00:18:05.748 --> 00:18:07.616
  • Which hurts the energy of china.
  • 00:18:07.616 --> 00:18:10.519
  • - look, president trump is a great negotiator.
  • 00:18:11.420 --> 00:18:13.055
  • He's got this perfect timing thing yet again
  • 00:18:13.055 --> 00:18:16.025
  • As we're trying to leverage with iran,
  • 00:18:16.025 --> 00:18:18.260
  • He's got an upcoming trip to china.
  • 00:18:18.260 --> 00:18:20.162
  • China really wants to work with him.
  • 00:18:20.162 --> 00:18:22.231
  • He's gonna use that moment to get china on our side.
  • 00:18:22.231 --> 00:18:25.067
  • They're already squeezing iran, at least,
  • 00:18:25.067 --> 00:18:27.369
  • Saying we don't want to have this conflict.
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  • I think iran is in a terrible position right now
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  • In terms of negotiation.
  • 00:18:33.942 --> 00:18:35.477
  • Their economy is tanking.
  • 00:18:35.477 --> 00:18:37.279
  • This blockade is really beginning to work,
  • 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.517
  • And the upcoming meeting with china,
  • 00:18:41.517 --> 00:18:43.585
  • I think spells disaster for iran.
  • 00:18:43.585 --> 00:18:45.321
  • - [logan] yeah, rick, thanks for joining us today.
  • 00:18:45.321 --> 00:18:46.889
  • - logan, i kind of wanna play this for the audience.
  • 00:18:46.889 --> 00:18:49.024
  • This is another bite
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  • From the director of national intelligence, tulsi gabbard,
  • 00:18:50.592 --> 00:18:52.594
  • Talking about even the inspector general himself.
  • 00:18:52.594 --> 00:18:55.264
  • We've talked a good amount about the whistleblower
  • 00:18:55.264 --> 00:18:57.900
  • That was trying to weaponize this process
  • 00:18:57.900 --> 00:19:00.502
  • To get it before congress, to get it to adam schiff
  • 00:19:00.502 --> 00:19:03.372
  • As quickly as possible ahead of a 2020 election,
  • 00:19:03.372 --> 00:19:06.842
  • And try to get this
  • 00:19:06.842 --> 00:19:08.777
  • Quickly before the democrats in congress,
  • 00:19:08.777 --> 00:19:11.647
  • But also the inspector general himself,
  • 00:19:11.647 --> 00:19:15.317
  • Who has also been referred for criminal prosecution
  • 00:19:15.317 --> 00:19:18.487
  • By the office of director of national intelligence,
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  • Here's what she had to say,
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  • Talking specifically about the inspector general
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  • And his role in this.
  • 00:19:24.560 --> 00:19:27.129
  • And go ahead, we'll play bite one.
  • 00:19:27.129 --> 00:19:30.466
  • - and lastly, the inspector general himself,
  • 00:19:30.466 --> 00:19:32.935
  • And this is really such a violation of public trust
  • 00:19:32.935 --> 00:19:36.105
  • And the responsibility that we expect
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  • All of our inspectors generals to have
  • 00:19:37.873 --> 00:19:40.342
  • In that he didn't conduct a full investigation.
  • 00:19:40.342 --> 00:19:42.778
  • He didn't even ask to see the transcript of the phone call
  • 00:19:42.778 --> 00:19:46.281
  • Between president trump and zelensky.
  • 00:19:46.281 --> 00:19:48.851
  • And he admitted to congress that he didn't have any first,
  • 00:19:48.851 --> 00:19:52.955
  • He did not have any evidence that he was relying on.
  • 00:19:52.955 --> 00:19:56.425
  • He had made a criminal referral
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  • To the department of justice
  • 00:19:57.826 --> 00:19:59.194
  • Based on this so-called whistleblower's complaint.
  • 00:19:59.194 --> 00:20:01.296
  • Department of justice came back and said
  • 00:20:01.296 --> 00:20:03.365
  • There's nothing here.
  • 00:20:03.365 --> 00:20:05.134
  • This inspector general then went to congress anyway
  • 00:20:05.134 --> 00:20:07.870
  • And presented to them all of this,
  • 00:20:07.870 --> 00:20:10.539
  • Coming down to the bottom line of which this was a partisan
  • 00:20:10.539 --> 00:20:14.042
  • Political attempt, once again,
  • 00:20:14.042 --> 00:20:16.011
  • To undermine the will of the american people
  • 00:20:16.011 --> 00:20:17.546
  • Who elected donald trump as president of the united states.
  • 00:20:17.546 --> 00:20:20.382
  • - i don't think that it's shocking that this report exists.
  • 00:20:20.382 --> 00:20:24.253
  • It's more shocking how flippant they seem to have been
  • 00:20:24.253 --> 00:20:27.823
  • About how sort of honest sometimes they were.
  • 00:20:27.823 --> 00:20:30.626
  • - they told us this, let's start a criminal investigation,
  • 00:20:30.626 --> 00:20:33.796
  • And let's all set doj,
  • 00:20:33.796 --> 00:20:35.397
  • And let's start the impeachment inquiry now, so we can.
  • 00:20:35.397 --> 00:20:37.800
  • - yeah, they're saying there's nothing here.
  • 00:20:37.800 --> 00:20:39.468
  • And they go, "eh, keep going."
  • 00:20:39.468 --> 00:20:40.836
  • - well, what's even crazier is when you read
  • 00:20:40.836 --> 00:20:42.271
  • Some of the other stuff in the report
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  • That came out earlier this week.
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  • That inspector general, you can tell,
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  • Then had this agenda and found a way,
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  • And was pushing it alongside the alleged whistleblower,
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  • And was even reaching out to other inspectors general,
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  • Talking to the state department,
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  • Talking to the dojs inspector general,
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  • Talking to the pentagon,
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  • Trying to get them on board saying,
  • 00:21:05.360 --> 00:21:07.930
  • "hey, if they block me,"
  • 00:21:07.930 --> 00:21:10.399
  • Because clearly he didn't have really the evidence
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  • That he needed.
  • 00:21:13.502 --> 00:21:15.003
  • "if i get blocked, can you pick it up and run with it?"
  • 00:21:15.003 --> 00:21:18.106
  • They had a goal in mind.
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  • It wasn't just, this is a whistleblower report,
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  • Which we know very well,
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  • Because we've had to represent real whistleblowers
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  • That went through the legal process, the chain of command,
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  • The reporting process,
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  • All things that are statutorily set out.
  • 00:21:32.588 --> 00:21:35.224
  • They tried to completely implode that process
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  • To get an impeachment, a political impeachment.
  • 00:21:39.161 --> 00:21:41.497
  • Meanwhile, the real whistleblowers
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  • That we have had to represent,
  • 00:21:43.465 --> 00:21:44.967
  • Their livelihood's taken away,
  • 00:21:44.967 --> 00:21:47.469
  • Caught in this legal purgatory
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  • Where they can't go get more work
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  • Because they're just suspended without pay for years.
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  • And finally with this new administration,
  • 00:21:54.276 --> 00:21:56.912
  • We got justice for them.
  • 00:21:56.912 --> 00:21:59.381
  • But that's what the biden administration
  • 00:21:59.381 --> 00:22:01.049
  • Did to real whistleblowers.
  • 00:22:01.049 --> 00:22:02.351
  • Meanwhile, the deep state "whistleblowers"
  • 00:22:02.351 --> 00:22:05.020
  • Under that first administration were weaponizing
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  • This entire system for a political means,
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  • To try and get rid of a sitting us president
  • 00:22:11.894 --> 00:22:15.564
  • When their first attempt at it,
  • 00:22:15.564 --> 00:22:17.299
  • The russia collusion hoax, failed.
  • 00:22:17.299 --> 00:22:19.368
  • - failed, i mean a hoax is even now like a nice word
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  • To say about it.
  • 00:22:22.638 --> 00:22:23.772
  • I mean, it was just made up lies.
  • 00:22:23.772 --> 00:22:25.240
  • - fraud, conspiracy, coup, pick the real descriptor.
  • 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:27.776
  • - probably, i mean, honestly,
  • 00:22:27.776 --> 00:22:29.044
  • It looked like the intel committee had been,
  • 00:22:29.044 --> 00:22:30.746
  • A fast one was pulled on them,
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  • Likely by the russian federation,
  • 00:22:33.015 --> 00:22:35.250
  • And i'm sure they were shocked how quick they bought it,
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  • And that they went so far as to almost shut down
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  • Our country, and guess who that helps?
  • 00:22:40.722 --> 00:22:42.691
  • The russian federation and their allies.
  • 00:22:42.691 --> 00:22:44.826
  • So i also think, when we talk about all this impeachment,
  • 00:22:44.826 --> 00:22:47.896
  • We are hearing it a lot too by democrats
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  • Who are running in the house.
  • 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:53.335
  • Many of them are using that in the bluer districts
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  • Or in some of the purple ones as saying,
  • 00:22:56.371 --> 00:22:59.141
  • "listen, you elect me, we'll hold 'em accountable again."
  • 00:22:59.141 --> 00:23:02.978
  • So you go back to that time, not because they'll,
  • 00:23:02.978 --> 00:23:06.148
  • Even if the senate flipped,
  • 00:23:06.148 --> 00:23:07.683
  • Which i don't necessarily believe it will,
  • 00:23:07.683 --> 00:23:09.284
  • But even if it did, they'll never hit the threshold.
  • 00:23:09.284 --> 00:23:11.920
  • The 60 threshold off of so far what's happened
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  • This 18 months.
  • 00:23:15.223 --> 00:23:16.358
  • So it's just politics.
  • 00:23:16.358 --> 00:23:18.794
  • But what did that politics do as someone who was there?
  • 00:23:18.794 --> 00:23:21.663
  • It didn't stop the president
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  • From being able to do their job,
  • 00:23:22.764 --> 00:23:24.299
  • But it distracted the american people.
  • 00:23:24.299 --> 00:23:26.168
  • - [logan] it's a lot of work.
  • 00:23:26.168 --> 00:23:27.669
  • - and it shut down our ability
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  • For our congress to take action during that entire process.
  • 00:23:29.304 --> 00:23:32.708
  • - right, even if you knew what the outcome was,
  • 00:23:32.708 --> 00:23:34.676
  • It still is a painful experience.
  • 00:23:34.676 --> 00:23:37.312
  • - painful for not just the president of the united states,
  • 00:23:37.312 --> 00:23:40.315
  • The executive branch, which it is.
  • 00:23:40.315 --> 00:23:41.917
  • - [logan] the entire government, yeah.
  • 00:23:41.917 --> 00:23:43.418
  • - but the senators who had to sit there for days
  • 00:23:43.418 --> 00:23:44.886
  • Knowing that at the end of the day, there is no way,
  • 00:23:44.886 --> 00:23:47.889
  • Regardless of what side you were on,
  • 00:23:47.889 --> 00:23:49.925
  • That the president was going anywhere.
  • 00:23:49.925 --> 00:23:52.127
  • And yet they did it.
  • 00:23:52.127 --> 00:23:53.362
  • Even they were so committed to it
  • 00:23:53.362 --> 00:23:54.896
  • That they did it even after he was no longer president.
  • 00:23:54.896 --> 00:23:57.199
  • So that's why i think all these issues are important
  • 00:23:57.199 --> 00:23:59.835
  • To get out now, because politically,
  • 00:23:59.835 --> 00:24:02.904
  • We don't know what the midterm outcomes will be.
  • 00:24:02.904 --> 00:24:05.140
  • And i just feel like whoever comes out,
  • 00:24:05.140 --> 00:24:08.343
  • If the democrats come out,
  • 00:24:08.343 --> 00:24:10.145
  • And whatever leadership battle they have,
  • 00:24:10.145 --> 00:24:12.147
  • It's gonna make jeffries and people of the past
  • 00:24:12.147 --> 00:24:15.817
  • Look like moderates.
  • 00:24:15.817 --> 00:24:18.053
  • - [logan] moderates, yeah.
  • 00:24:18.053 --> 00:24:19.421
  • - well, and when you think about this as well,
  • 00:24:19.421 --> 00:24:20.756
  • When jordan says they shut down the country
  • 00:24:20.756 --> 00:24:22.357
  • From being able to operate, that was the very beginning,
  • 00:24:22.357 --> 00:24:25.127
  • The impeachment trial, very beginning of 2020.
  • 00:24:25.127 --> 00:24:28.397
  • - [logan] yeah.
  • 00:24:28.397 --> 00:24:29.698
  • - what happened right after the acquittal?
  • 00:24:29.698 --> 00:24:30.832
  • - [logan] yeah within six months.
  • 00:24:30.832 --> 00:24:31.767
  • - the entire country shut down.
  • 00:24:31.767 --> 00:24:33.135
  • And so that entire year, that was an election year,
  • 00:24:33.135 --> 00:24:35.771
  • Was shut down as far as the ability,
  • 00:24:35.771 --> 00:24:38.540
  • Especially at that time,
  • 00:24:38.540 --> 00:24:41.743
  • Of the government to function properly.
  • 00:24:41.743 --> 00:24:44.713
  • And it all was started, it all was kicked off
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  • By an impeachment trial.
  • 00:24:47.749 --> 00:24:49.184
  • - and let's quickly take christopher in north carolina.
  • 00:24:49.184 --> 00:24:50.952
  • Go ahead, christopher.
  • 00:24:50.952 --> 00:24:52.688
  • - [christopher] back when i was a kid,
  • 00:24:52.688 --> 00:24:53.789
  • I used to read a lot of laws.
  • 00:24:53.789 --> 00:24:56.291
  • I was just interested in all the laws
  • 00:24:56.291 --> 00:24:58.226
  • That were on the books, and one of the laws that i read,
  • 00:24:58.226 --> 00:25:00.328
  • I just loved, having been falsely accused of things
  • 00:25:00.328 --> 00:25:03.498
  • As a kid.
  • 00:25:03.498 --> 00:25:04.900
  • The law was that if somebody testifies under oath
  • 00:25:04.900 --> 00:25:08.336
  • Of something they know is not true, if they're caught,
  • 00:25:08.336 --> 00:25:13.141
  • They would actually have to serve the sentence
  • 00:25:13.141 --> 00:25:15.644
  • That they were trying to get imposed on the person
  • 00:25:15.644 --> 00:25:17.779
  • They were testifying against.
  • 00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:19.848
  • Is that still a law?
  • 00:25:19.848 --> 00:25:21.216
  • And if it is, then why aren't we using it?
  • 00:25:21.216 --> 00:25:24.953
  • - well, on a federal level, that is not a law.
  • 00:25:24.953 --> 00:25:28.090
  • So once again, when you look at things like this,
  • 00:25:28.090 --> 00:25:30.826
  • Like lying before congress or to an inspector general,
  • 00:25:30.826 --> 00:25:33.695
  • Perjury, those type of things,
  • 00:25:33.695 --> 00:25:35.630
  • Also the punishment here that we got to was impeachment.
  • 00:25:35.630 --> 00:25:39.634
  • You can't impeach the whistleblower,
  • 00:25:39.634 --> 00:25:41.670
  • Who probably is not employed by the intelligence community.
  • 00:25:41.670 --> 00:25:44.639
  • - but you can still, christopher, hold people accountable.
  • 00:25:44.639 --> 00:25:47.476
  • And that's what tulsi gabbard is doing.
  • 00:25:47.476 --> 00:25:48.710
  • That's what's happening right now.
  • 00:25:48.710 --> 00:25:50.145
  • Even when it feels like time has moved on
  • 00:25:50.145 --> 00:25:52.948
  • And it's impossible to do it.
  • 00:25:52.948 --> 00:25:54.449
  • We're actually seeing those kind of changes happening.
  • 00:25:54.449 --> 00:25:57.919
  • So a lot of what you've been pushing for,
  • 00:25:57.919 --> 00:25:59.721
  • Whether it's christopher, a lot of our supporters,
  • 00:25:59.721 --> 00:26:01.923
  • Who say nothing ever feels like it happens.
  • 00:26:01.923 --> 00:26:03.692
  • Well it's happening.
  • 00:26:03.692 --> 00:26:05.227
  • You just gotta put your eyes on it, pay attention to it.
  • 00:26:05.227 --> 00:26:06.895
  • It may not be your number one story on the news,
  • 00:26:06.895 --> 00:26:09.364
  • But there are things happening right now.
  • 00:26:09.364 --> 00:26:12.033
  • Again, when you go, "where is the justice in this?"
  • 00:26:12.033 --> 00:26:14.770
  • Well, here you go.
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  • (gentle music continues)
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