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Sekulow | Sekulow - Impeachment Whistleblower Referred For Prosecution | April 29, 2026
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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.
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- And by doing that,
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- Because they knew they were on a timeline,
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- We knew that they were trying to obstruct the election
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- Through this, it was late 2019.
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- And what they did is they get this urgent review process
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- So that they can get it to congress quicker.
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- And to get that, he had to lie and say,
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- "i haven't already talked with people, members of congress."
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- So it's abusing the process to try to get it out there,
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- And make it seem like a bigger deal.
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- The witnesses they brought in,
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- One, the whistleblower under this
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- Allegedly did not hear the phone call firsthand.
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- The witnesses, one of the witnesses
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- 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,
- 00:11:21.316 --> 00:11:24.452
- 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
- 00:11:28.423 --> 00:11:30.625
- And used the steal dossier and all of that nonsense
- 00:11:30.625 --> 00:11:33.962
- 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
- 00:12:40.195 --> 00:12:41.363
- 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.
- 00:13:15.764 --> 00:13:16.965
- - [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,
- 00:13:32.141 --> 00:13:34.210
- As the the race for governor kind of upended at this point
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- When you have the exit of eric swalwell,
- 00:13:38.781 --> 00:13:41.450
- Now who knows how he's doing,
- 00:13:41.450 --> 00:13:42.818
- But enough to where clearly it's gonna change
- 00:13:42.818 --> 00:13:44.954
- The trajectory a bit more.
- 00:13:44.954 --> 00:13:46.455
- And you're starting to see some of the other candidates
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- Show up on the more nationwide stage.
- 00:13:47.757 --> 00:13:51.827
- I'd say they're already starting to appear.
- 00:13:51.827 --> 00:13:53.729
- Jordan, you have something?
- 00:13:53.729 --> 00:13:55.064
- - yeah, i mean, rick, we both cut our teeth
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- In the political campaign world
- 00:13:55.998 --> 00:13:57.099
- Before we moved on to other things.
- 00:13:57.099 --> 00:13:58.434
- 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,
- 00:14:15.885 --> 00:14:18.821
- I believe is it katie rose, rick, that is the other?
- 00:14:18.821 --> 00:14:21.791
- - [rick] katie porter.
- 00:14:21.791 --> 00:14:22.625
- - katie porter.
- 00:14:22.625 --> 00:14:23.459
- And they're.
- 00:14:23.459 --> 00:14:24.727
- - [logan] katie rose is one of my freaks.
- 00:14:24.727 --> 00:14:25.561
- No, i'm just kidding.
- 00:14:25.561 --> 00:14:26.328
- (logan laughs)
- 00:14:26.328 --> 00:14:27.463
- - and so, in a sense it was like,
- 00:14:27.463 --> 00:14:29.265
- 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
- 00:14:41.544 --> 00:14:44.580
- For choice for governor, two people from the same party,
- 00:14:44.580 --> 00:14:47.416
- And in this case potentially two republicans.
- 00:14:47.416 --> 00:14:50.586
- - well, so here's the jungle primary,
- 00:14:51.387 --> 00:14:53.255
- The top two vote getters are the ones that move on,
- 00:14:53.255 --> 00:14:57.126
- And you vote in the general election for the top two.
- 00:14:57.126 --> 00:15:00.463
- 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.
- 00:15:02.998 --> 00:15:06.202
- If you look at the math, you don't look at the polling
- 00:15:06.202 --> 00:15:08.404
- 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.
- 00:15:15.911 --> 00:15:20.116
- We don't even get to start from a position
- 00:15:20.116 --> 00:15:23.686
- 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
- 00:15:26.355 --> 00:15:30.526
- Or non-party preference voters registered.
- 00:15:30.526 --> 00:15:35.865
- Remember only 50% of society is registered to vote.
- 00:15:36.899 --> 00:15:38.501
- 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.
- 00:15:42.838 --> 00:15:45.441
- There's no possible way we're gonna have two republicans
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- In the field.
- 00:15:47.810 --> 00:15:49.979
- 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,
- 00:15:56.418 --> 00:16:01.323
- Eric swalwell, and katie porter.
- 00:16:01.323 --> 00:16:03.926
- They have been slugging it out.
- 00:16:03.926 --> 00:16:05.561
- And with two republicans that were so close,
- 00:16:05.561 --> 00:16:08.797
- We split our small vote,
- 00:16:08.797 --> 00:16:11.333
- And that meant we didn't even have a shot
- 00:16:11.333 --> 00:16:13.502
- Of getting into the top two.
- 00:16:13.502 --> 00:16:14.970
- 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
- 00:16:18.707 --> 00:16:21.844
- Of hopefully trying to get into the top two.
- 00:16:21.844 --> 00:16:25.848
- 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,
- 00:16:34.790 --> 00:16:37.660
- 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.
- 00:16:54.910 --> 00:16:57.813
- I think that that person has a great shot,
- 00:16:57.813 --> 00:17:01.450
- 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,
- 00:17:07.223 --> 00:17:10.259
- Although he's trying to appear to be one.
- 00:17:10.259 --> 00:17:12.494
- Let's see what happens.
- 00:17:12.494 --> 00:17:14.330
- I still think there could be a lot of people
- 00:17:14.330 --> 00:17:17.733
- 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,
- 00:17:46.195 --> 00:17:49.531
- 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.
- 00:17:54.203 --> 00:17:57.339
- 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.
- 00:18:27.369 --> 00:18:30.973
- 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.
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- 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,
- 00:19:18.487 --> 00:19:21.056
- Here's what she had to say,
- 00:19:21.056 --> 00:19:22.458
- Talking specifically about the inspector general
- 00:19:22.458 --> 00:19:24.560
- 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
- 00:19:36.105 --> 00:19:37.873
- 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
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- 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
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- Some of the other stuff in the report
- 00:20:42.271 --> 00:20:44.306
- That came out earlier this week.
- 00:20:44.306 --> 00:20:45.507
- That inspector general, you can tell,
- 00:20:45.507 --> 00:20:48.310
- Then had this agenda and found a way,
- 00:20:48.310 --> 00:20:51.346
- And was pushing it alongside the alleged whistleblower,
- 00:20:51.346 --> 00:20:54.149
- And was even reaching out to other inspectors general,
- 00:20:54.149 --> 00:20:58.687
- Talking to the state department,
- 00:20:58.687 --> 00:21:00.756
- Talking to the dojs inspector general,
- 00:21:00.756 --> 00:21:03.225
- Talking to the pentagon,
- 00:21:03.225 --> 00:21:05.360
- 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
- 00:21:10.399 --> 00:21:13.502
- 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.
- 00:21:18.106 --> 00:21:20.209
- It wasn't just, this is a whistleblower report,
- 00:21:20.209 --> 00:21:23.378
- Which we know very well,
- 00:21:23.378 --> 00:21:24.947
- Because we've had to represent real whistleblowers
- 00:21:24.947 --> 00:21:27.382
- That went through the legal process, the chain of command,
- 00:21:27.382 --> 00:21:31.320
- The reporting process,
- 00:21:31.320 --> 00:21:32.588
- All things that are statutorily set out.
- 00:21:32.588 --> 00:21:35.224
- They tried to completely implode that process
- 00:21:35.224 --> 00:21:39.161
- To get an impeachment, a political impeachment.
- 00:21:39.161 --> 00:21:41.497
- Meanwhile, the real whistleblowers
- 00:21:41.497 --> 00:21:43.465
- 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
- 00:21:47.469 --> 00:21:49.471
- Where they can't go get more work
- 00:21:49.471 --> 00:21:51.206
- Because they're just suspended without pay for years.
- 00:21:51.206 --> 00:21:54.276
- 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
- 00:22:05.020 --> 00:22:08.957
- This entire system for a political means,
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- To try and get rid of a sitting us president
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- When their first attempt at it,
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- 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,
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- It looked like the intel committee had been,
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- A fast one was pulled on them,
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- Likely by the russian federation,
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- 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?
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- The russian federation and their allies.
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- So i also think, when we talk about all this impeachment,
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- We are hearing it a lot too by democrats
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- Who are running in the house.
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- Many of them are using that in the bluer districts
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- Or in some of the purple ones as saying,
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- "listen, you elect me, we'll hold 'em accountable again."
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- So you go back to that time, not because they'll,
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- Even if the senate flipped,
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- Which i don't necessarily believe it will,
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- But even if it did, they'll never hit the threshold.
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- 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,
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- But it distracted the american people.
- 00:23:24.299 --> 00:23:26.168
- - [logan] it's a lot of work.
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- - 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,
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- 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
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- Knowing that at the end of the day, there is no way,
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- Regardless of what side you were on,
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- That the president was going anywhere.
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- And yet they did it.
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- Even they were so committed to it
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- 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
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- To get out now, because politically,
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- We don't know what the midterm outcomes will be.
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- And i just feel like whoever comes out,
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- If the democrats come out,
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- And whatever leadership battle they have,
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- It's gonna make jeffries and people of the past
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- 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,
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- When jordan says they shut down the country
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- From being able to operate, that was the very beginning,
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- 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.
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- 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,
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- Especially at that time,
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- 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.
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- Go ahead, christopher.
- 00:24:50.952 --> 00:24:52.688
- - [christopher] back when i was a kid,
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- I used to read a lot of laws.
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- I was just interested in all the laws
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- That were on the books, and one of the laws that i read,
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- I just loved, having been falsely accused of things
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- As a kid.
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- The law was that if somebody testifies under oath
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- Of something they know is not true, if they're caught,
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- They would actually have to serve the sentence
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- That they were trying to get imposed on the person
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- They were testifying against.
- 00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:19.848
- Is that still a law?
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- 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,
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- Like lying before congress or to an inspector general,
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- 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,
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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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