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Judicial Watch weekly update

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with Tom Fittin. Hey

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everyone, Judicial Watch President

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Tom Fittin here here with our weekly

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update on social media. So much

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going on this week. on this we

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come up to Christmas, corruption

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in D .C. never sleeps,

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corruption in Washington. in across

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the country continues. the country continues.

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there's been some

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good news some good news.

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the FBI FBI director. has announced

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his resignation. I'll have

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reaction to that. reaction to

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corruption Watch at the corruption

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at the Fannie Trump. It

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was a Judicial Watch

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litigation that forced some

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startling emissions from her. that

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forced some startling emissions from her. Plus the

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General issued issued material or report

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on January which is which

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is really concerning. And

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I'll give you some

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details on that. that.

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also had a a great, more,

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an important important

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court hearing. week for past

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week rights, so much Amendment on, let's just

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much going on, so let's

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just get right into it.

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issuance of a up the Inspector

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General issuance of a report

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by the Inspector General

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of the United States that

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confirms, the as I've noted

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online, that essentially, let's go

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to the tweet that

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I mentioned there. Let's cut

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to the heart of it. heart of it. had

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25, 26 confidential

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human sources. on the grounds of the

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the grounds of the

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capital on January I note, the FBI

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had a And as I of the

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FBI had a platoon of operatives.

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6th. the as Julie Kelly, our

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friend notes, the IG claimed our

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friend, informants were in DC informants were

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in 6th. And so January was

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And so this report was

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issued this week. It's

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long been delayed. delayed. And

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the report mostly focuses on. on

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the FBI's use of

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confidential human sources to

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failure to, despite telling

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Congress otherwise, ask to ask about

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intelligence concerning January 6th

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from its various field offices. But

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But everyone's attention, attention

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is, and what I what i think is

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really a dishonest report in some

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respects the admission that there were

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were human sources sources

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on the uh... the

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grounds on January 6th, including several.

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who who entered the Capitol, which, according

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to the the Justice Department, is

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the equivalent of committing a

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terrorist act. of committing a

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terrorist act, and to

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warrant. warrant types of

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criminal prosecutions at the federal

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level, not of which federal these

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confidential human sources. these

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and the report details

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that in the following

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section. in the following section,

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well, let me see what the the

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release says about it. it. Oh,

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this is the kicker. undercover

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FBI employees protests were

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at the at the January

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in as if that was

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the only concern. the only concern.

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mean, what the left is

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saying is saying is that because the IG

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found no found no FBI

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employees, all the so -called

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conspiracy theories about January 6th

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is wrong. Of course, they

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delineate the so -called, the so-called, or

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narrow so -called conspiracy theory. theory. to

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to just one issue at

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all, one issue only. ignoring the while

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ignoring the broader issue. the report

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which is that the report confirms

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that there were paid operatives of

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the FBI on the grounds of

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the capital. American citizens

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in citizens in their exercise

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of First Amendment rights. and also

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and also present at what the

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Justice Department and and the... political

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left media complex here Washington DC DC

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told us was the worst

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day day worst attack on democracy

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in American history. history. And

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And yet the IG on, well, they weren't

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FBI employees, while they were paid operatives

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of the FBI. of the It's

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like the FBI the well, it wasn't the

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FBI that wrote the steel report. We

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just paid Chris Steele to write the steel

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report targeting Trump. to write the steel

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report targeting Trump. We found no

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evidence in the materials found

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no evidence in the materials

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re -reviewed or the testimony re -received

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the or suggesting the FBI had

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undercover employees in the various

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protest crowds. crowds. Well, isn't that

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nice? Well, Well what about the

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the human sources? human sources? Yes, the

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the report also details our

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findings recording regarding human sources who

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were in DC on January

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who are in DC on January 6th. Again, this

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written in a way to

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exonerate the FBI as opposed

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to hold it accountable. determine

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that none of these FBI of these

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FBI human sources

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were authorized by the FBI

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to enter the the restricted area otherwise

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break the law in January or otherwise break

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the law Well they're still responsible if

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they did that under their theory of the

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law. they did that under their theory of

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the law. Why? Why weren't they Why

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weren't they prosecuted? the ones

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ones who entered the the capital. Nor

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was the C was any directed by

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the FBI to encourage others

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to commit a legal action to

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commit a legal acts in January 6. Okay.

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Does that Does that answer

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the question whether human source is

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paid by the FBI? sources paid

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by the others to commit crimes?

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others to commit crimes? No. Does

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it confirm or it confirm

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or give us details as

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to whether this confidentiality resources

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themselves committed crimes? No.

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crimes? So So as far

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as I'm as I'm concerned,

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it's garbage. Thankfully

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that was just a press release. I've got the

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full report here. I'll throw that out later. Page

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77 of the IG

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report, findings regarding FBI

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confidential human sources. who

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in D .C. on January 6th, including

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three that had been tasked to

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report on predicated subjects believed to

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be attending the rally. So

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some were tasked to follow

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people into DC, again

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who were exercising their first amendment

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protected rights Our

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investigation determined there were a

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total of 26 FBI confidential human

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sources from a wide range of

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FBI field offices in DC on

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January 6th in connection with the

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events on January 6th. Our

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review found that no FBI confidential human

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source was authorized to enter to capital

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or restricted area where to otherwise break

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the law on January was nor was

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any of the confidential human source directed

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by the FBI to encourage others to

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commit illegal acts on January 6th. Of

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the 26 who

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were in D .C. for

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the events. The records re -reviewed

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show that four confidential human

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sources entered the capital on

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January 6th, 13 entered

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the restricted area. and

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nine attended January 6th events but did

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not enter the capital or restricted

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area or otherwise engaged in legal activity.

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So that doesn't answer the question about whether

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the 13 plus four to 17 engaged

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in legal activity. As noted

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previously, none of the confidential human

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sources that entered the capital

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or restricted area on January 6th

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have been prosecuted to date. Okay,

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footnote number 97. So look at footnote

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number 97. We can draw that

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up on the screen here. I'll come

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up and read it for you. Footnote

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97, after reviewing a draft of

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this report the DC U.S. Attorney's Office, which

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office which is run

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by appointee, Attorney, U.S. Attorney Graves, stated in .S.

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response to the OIG, the DC in

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its response to the has not charged those

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individuals whose only not charged those individuals

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to enter only crime on January grounds

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2021 was to enter the which

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has surrounding the the office which has

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resulted in the office declining

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to charge hundreds of individuals. And

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we have treated the confidential

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human sources consistent with this approach.

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this approach. Okay, the the scope

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of this review did did not

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include prosecution decisions. including

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to the FBI confidential by the

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DC sources made by the DC USAO the

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riot on January on 2021. 6,

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So So the IG has

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not investigated what many people believe

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of power by the Biden

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by to prosecute in a

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selective way a selective way, US citizens

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versus FBI confidential human sources.

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And let's go back to

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that. let's go back to that. Let's

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go back to that footnote. that What does

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the footnote not say? the It

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references say? It not charged

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whose only was to enter

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the restricted grounds. What

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about the the sources and

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the Americans? grounds. What who entered the U .S.

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Capitol who had been charged. human

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Why weren't the and the human

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sources charged there? the

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U.S. capital who've been

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charged there? we we

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have... a A dishonest, disingenuous

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response, at least as

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presented by... by the of

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inspector general in the report where

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they avoid the key issue

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as to why there was selective

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prosecution was of American citizens who

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entered the of American not of who

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entered the U.S. confidential human sources. of

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In our experience, if you're a

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confidential human human for the FBI,

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it means they're paying you

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money. money. These

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these folks are making a

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living in part for for the by

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by providing them So what

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this means to me, all

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of this, that the IG is

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a this means to me? let's get

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of this that. And as is

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a waste so let's get

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rid of that IG reports,

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they're both And

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as I've noted previously cover-ups

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at they're both same and

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coverups at the same time.

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the So here you have

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the limited hangout, the the Nixon

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phrase, phrase. of the the

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detail that there were

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at least a dozen, a

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platoon. operatives on the U.S.

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Capitol FBI operatives on the U .S.

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Capitol grounds on January 6th, four

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of which entered the U .S. Capitol

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according to the Justice Department, which would

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have been necessarily a crime. would have

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been necessarily a They

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weren't prosecuted. Many other Americans were. Many

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other Americans were. but

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a cover -up at the same time. time.

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So the the IG report is both an

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expose, which which is the problem with

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most IGs in my experience. my experience. The

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IG report is both an expose a cover

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-up at the same time,

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so it exposes FBI misconduct. misconduct

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and special treatment by or disparate

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treatment between American citizens who

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are Trump supporters and FBI operatives

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who are paid by the

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FBI. operatives who are paid withholding and

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an analysis of that of details

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about about... what these

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confidential human sources actually did. and

11:28

who they were targeting and why.

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and who they were targeting

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on January January 6th

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and details about whether they actually committed

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crimes. Did they induce anyone to

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commit a crime? Did they

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induce anyone to commit

11:44

a crime? Encourage? We We

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don't know that and why didn't the IG figure

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that out? the IG figure that out?

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Because in my

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experience... And And

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now now your experience because you can go read

11:56

this this IG which I just threw on the

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floor. the floor. to

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cover up. up. And it's just

12:06

a further reason and it's

12:08

just a further reason. to,

12:10

in my Trump to,

12:12

in my view, sentence of

12:15

every commute the sentence. of

12:17

every single January 6th defendant. the

12:19

minute he gets into

12:22

the minute he gets into office. at what

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Biden did. I did a

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tweet on this. I mean, look at

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what Biden did. I did a tweet on this the

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other day. Look at what Biden did. this. He's

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He's pardoning 38 people with

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nonviolent crimes who have demonstrated

12:37

remorse and rehabilitation. and I'm commuting

12:39

the sentences of nearly 1

12:41

,500 others. nearly 1,500 others, many of

12:43

whom would have received lower sentences today. Well,

12:46

that's disingenuous. So

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1,500 people had their people had their

12:50

sentences on on one day, which the

12:52

White House is boasting to be

12:54

the biggest number ever in the modern

12:56

history of the of the presidency. And in my

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And in my view, as I in that in

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that in that tweet, I'm

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I'm looking forward to President Trump

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pardoning the January Trump pardoning

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the You know, Biden

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is You the part in is

13:12

playing the pardon game. He in

13:14

my view, pardon his son.

13:16

pardon his I think in a

13:18

constitutionally suspect way, and now every

13:21

corrupt politician in town is lining

13:23

up for preemptive pardons by Joe

13:25

Biden and he's considering them. pardons

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by Joe Biden, and he's

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Clinton. them. One

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one of the most corrupt presidents to sit in

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office. to sit He was

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on He earlier this week this

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a pardon for his wife. for

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his wife His co-conspirator

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and operations of foreign governments

13:47

and agents and actors and

13:49

companies. and actors and

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Talk about Talk about Rico might as

13:53

well be Might as well be asking

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for a preemptive pardon for himself. for himself

13:58

and we're supposed to be

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horrified that president by Trump

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is thinking of

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January six and he's

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not backing down i think

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we have video of him

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talking to uh... NBC democrat

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activist, so -called journalist the

14:16

other day Do

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we have that video that we talked about? We

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have one on the january six where

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I'm watching We'll at everything. We're going

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to at individual cases, yeah. But i'm

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going to be uh... acting very quickly within

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your first 100 days, first

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day. First day. First day. Yeah, I'm

14:49

looking first day. issue these These

14:51

people have been there, how long is

14:53

it? Three or four years? Right.

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You know, by the way, they've been

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in there for years, and they're

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in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn't

15:02

even be allowed to be opened. So

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I tell you, if you agree

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with President Trump, who ran on providing

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pardons to the January Sixers, comment

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one way or the other below. I

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encourage you to spread the word about this issue. The

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pardons of Trump are, the planned

15:26

pardons by Trump of the January

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6thers even more justified. as

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a result of

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this DOJ report and.

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everything else that we know has been going

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on in this town. So

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the IG has

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confirmed that 26

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FBI. Operatives, paid

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operatives, confidential human sources. We're

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up on Capitol Hill on January

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6th. And I tell

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you, cash battal... and Pam

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Bondi need to figure

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out what went on.

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Were any other lawyer

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appointed by the president?

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Because I tend to

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think that the just,

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even if it's run

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by Pam, Bondi, and

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Cash Patel, who are

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both great individuals, who

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I know, both who

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I know, institutionally, I

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mean, cash may have an

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easier time than Pam will

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because, you know, the FBI

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is a little bit more

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structured and, you know, he

16:37

may be able to move

16:39

it more quickly because they're

16:41

a bit more organized and

16:44

hierarchical. But the Justice Department,

16:46

it's massive, so Pam may

16:48

have a more difficult time.

16:50

And again, you're asking the

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institutions in both cases to

16:54

investigate themselves, and I don't

16:56

know if that's going to

16:58

work. So if I were

17:00

Trump... I'd be pointing, I'd

17:02

be pointing outside counsel, outside

17:04

prosecutors to look at this.

17:06

You need outsiders to investigate

17:08

the insiders at the Justice

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Department and the FBI, certainly

17:12

on the handling of January

17:14

6th. Now remember, they were

17:16

trying to prosecute Trump on

17:18

trumped-up charges that now have

17:20

only been resolved because Trump's

17:22

becoming president. If he hadn't

17:24

been elected president... Confidential human

17:26

sources who violated the law

17:29

for the FBI, while working

17:31

for the FBI, it looks

17:33

like, would remain unprosecuted and

17:35

they'd be trying to throw

17:37

Trump in jail on so-called

17:39

January 6th charges. I mean,

17:41

that's how outrageous this is.

17:43

So as far as I'm

17:45

concerned, this IG report and

17:47

these disclosures haven't gotten enough

17:49

attention now, judicial watch. is

17:51

continuing to ask questions and

17:53

have much litigation about what

17:55

went on on January 6th.

18:04

But this IG report shows

18:06

the FBI broken, irredeemably

18:08

corrupted. Same goes for the

18:10

Justice Department. and

18:12

that the January 6th

18:14

investigations and prosecutions are

18:17

hopelessly compromised. by

18:19

retaliatory. politics and

18:21

corruption. Now

18:30

what was the other clip you said I had that we were going to

18:32

look at? Okay

18:36

so I'll save that for later. know,

18:38

and the other news this week, and

18:40

I think there's a tie in, Well,

18:42

first of all, there was good news this week. Daniel

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Penny, who was the, I guess

18:48

he was a former Marine, right? He's

18:51

a former Marine, a veteran. He

18:54

saved American citizens from being attacked

18:56

by a deranged individual on the

18:58

subway. And after he

19:00

stopped the individual, he died.

19:02

And Alvin Bragg, the anti -Trump

19:04

left wing, Soros back prosecutor, prosecuted

19:06

him rather than giving him

19:09

a medal. And

19:11

everyone was worried, rightly so, that

19:13

the jury was going find him

19:15

guilty. and thankfully

19:17

they didn't find him guilty.

19:19

They acquitted him. And he's a

19:22

free man. think I had, did I do a comment on

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this too? Everyone

19:27

great news, Daniel Yeah,

19:31

that's the video we want to play. Everyone

19:36

great news. Daniel was

19:38

found not guilty. The American

19:40

hero was prosecuted by

19:43

crazed left -wing prosecutor Bragg

19:45

rescuing American citizens from a

19:47

deranged individual on that

19:49

subway train in New York

19:51

City. They tried the

19:53

corner, the jury, into finding

19:56

him guilty, but thankfully

19:58

justice prevailed today. great

20:00

news for the rule of

20:02

law and great news for

20:04

that news for that Daniel Penny.

20:06

hero needs to be held

20:09

accountable. needs to be completely out

20:11

of control. He's completely out of Yeah,

20:13

and he's got that

20:15

ongoing prosecution against Trump. against

20:18

Trump. That as I recall now,

20:20

you know, I get recall

20:22

to what the get confused as to

20:24

what the standing, the options

20:26

are related to these Trump prosecutions.

20:29

But I I think the judge there there of

20:31

kicked the can down the road indefinitely, right?

20:33

road and they want to hold it over Trump

20:35

for the next four years. it over Trump for

20:38

the next four not just

20:40

Trump who's being victimized for

20:42

politics. victimized for politics. It's

20:44

citizens like like

20:46

Daniel I'm glad he was acquitted.

20:48

and i'm glad he was any American

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tell anyone up in New York who up

20:53

in new york what to do

20:55

with Penny which is to come to

20:57

come to aid to the aid. of fellow americans

20:59

citizens and non-citizen, know just regular

21:01

people on the subway people on going

21:04

to think twice about confronting. to think twice

21:06

about menacing threat on the subway. or

21:08

menacing threat on the subway. Because

21:10

wants to go through go Penny went through?

21:12

went through? I I mean, he could be spending

21:14

a good period of time in jail if the jury

21:17

had gone the other way. had gone the other way.

21:19

And in New York, who knows how the juries are going to

21:21

go? are going to go? this is

21:23

why you need honest prosecutors. prosecutors.

21:25

prosecutors who prosecute someone based

21:27

on race. and politics,

21:29

which is what Bragg does. politics,

21:32

which is what

21:34

Bragg does. But the

21:36

Penny case is kind of

21:38

two, is it, of

21:40

two of the same coin of

21:42

the same coin

21:44

in terms of political

21:46

corrupt prosecutions by

21:48

the city of New York. of New

21:51

York. Run by

21:53

partisan Democrats

21:55

who place politics and race -baiting

21:57

above the rule of law.

21:59

of law. I'll

22:04

I tell you, the left is dangerous

22:06

to the public safety. Their policies are

22:08

dangerous to the public safety. are

22:10

dangerous to the public And

22:12

I don't mean don't mean I don't mean

22:14

liberals. I mean the don't mean liberals.

22:17

there are too many Now, who

22:19

are too many Democrats who But

22:21

the issue is in partisanship,

22:23

the issue is this partisanship.

22:25

The issue is this crazed that

22:28

is soft on crime

22:30

on many ways many ways, advocacy

22:32

crime. crime. I I

22:34

mean we see this with the

22:37

shooting death of that poor

22:39

man. Brian Thompson, right? The United

22:41

Health Care the United was

22:43

shot at 645 or so in the who

22:45

was shot at was or so in

22:47

the morning. hotel going to another He was walking

22:49

out of his hotel, going to another

22:51

event, there he is. and He leaves behind

22:53

a wife and two sons. by

22:55

all accounts. and he was murdered by

22:57

all accounts, he hasn't been convicted, he's

23:00

been arrested and charged with it. it. by

23:02

this this young man,

23:04

who by all accounts is a

23:06

leftist, and now buy all left

23:08

a been celebrating. They now who

23:10

the left has been celebrating? They were

23:12

celebrating the shooting initially. And

23:15

then after he's arrested at show

23:17

up after he's arrested at

23:19

the Altoona, Pennsylvania, the left starts

23:22

and the left starts celebrating him even

23:24

more. had a We had a front

23:26

page story New York York Times calling

23:28

him the hot assassin. assassin. and the less

23:30

focus less focus. on

23:33

the way he looks is the way

23:35

he looks in the of to

23:37

slide in the support of

23:39

his murdering a corporation. the

23:42

head of a health care company.

23:44

And the head of nothing

23:46

more than to company. And

23:49

the the nothing more than

23:51

to distract from the problems

23:53

caused by government government regulation of

23:55

health care. care. And

23:58

And they like the idea of a nice...

24:00

little political murder here to distract and

24:02

to focus the blame on so-called terrible

24:04

health insurance companies. And I'm not exaggerating,

24:07

look at what Elizabeth Warren said the

24:09

other day. Do we have a clip

24:11

of Elizabeth Warren thing? I don't remember.

24:14

We've been talking a lot about this

24:16

Luigi Mangioni, the case about the United

24:18

Health Care. People are very angry United

24:21

Health Care. I think we're good ones

24:23

in denying care and the whole system

24:25

and we were just talking a previous

24:28

block, you know, killing us, the way

24:30

you change, you have to regulate them.

24:32

And so we've got attempts to try

24:35

to rein in some of these big

24:37

businesses. The consumer financial protection here, which

24:39

was your creation. The Trump administration wants

24:42

to get rid of it. That is

24:44

like protecting people from like credit card

24:46

fraud. What happens if that goes away?

24:49

terrible for individuals, but stop and think

24:51

overall about the social contract. You know,

24:53

part of the deal in how we've

24:56

kept this democracy, this economy, this country

24:58

on a fairly steady path for more

25:00

than 200 years has been that those

25:03

at the top pay a little more

25:05

in taxes, pay a little less rich

25:07

than they otherwise might be, and everybody

25:10

else at least gets a chance. And

25:12

what happens when you turn this into

25:14

the billionaires run it all is they

25:17

get the opportunity to squeeze every last

25:19

penny. And look, we'll say it over

25:21

and over. Violence is never the answer.

25:24

This guy gets a trial who's allegedly

25:26

killed the CEO of United Health. But

25:28

you can only push people so far.

25:31

So this wasn't what I anticipated it

25:33

being, but what she said. was

25:38

the following. Let me

25:41

get it up on

25:43

my dying cell phone.

25:45

Warren told the Huffington

25:47

Post the following. Violence

25:50

is never the answer,

25:52

but there you go.

25:54

You can guess what's

25:57

coming after that but.

26:00

but people can be pushed be

26:02

so far. far. This is a

26:04

warning that This is a push people

26:06

hard enough if you push

26:08

people hard enough. ability, in the that

26:10

they lose faith in their ability. to

26:13

make change, lose faith the ability

26:15

of their government to make change,

26:17

lose faith in the ability of

26:19

people make change and care take make change

26:21

and start to take matters in

26:23

their own hands in ways that

26:25

will ultimately be a threat to

26:27

everyone. So So saying saying is. You

26:30

better do do what I want you

26:32

to do of terms of the takeover of

26:35

of the economy, otherwise you're all gonna

26:37

be murdered. That's what she's That's

26:39

what she's saying. there's course there's

26:41

a lot of pushback and she pretended

26:43

to not say, not say, pretend to to be

26:45

misunderstood that violence is never the answer.

26:47

We know what she's thinking. We know

26:49

what the left is thinking. It's perfectly

26:51

consistent. it's The left, the The

26:54

left is murderous. murderous.

26:56

And and they see violence as a political tool,

26:58

they always have and they always will. have,

27:01

and the second time Trump

27:03

was the or nearly murdered, excuse

27:05

me, he wasn't shot the second

27:07

time. excuse me, he wasn't shot the

27:09

second time. saw the

27:12

shooter before saw the shooter before

27:14

He had a chance to shoot at Trump. a chance to

27:16

shoot at Trump, the Trump and

27:19

said it was justified that they try

27:21

to kill it was justified that

27:23

they tried to kill And

27:25

then then later. Brian Thompson, let's

27:27

put his picture up again. up

27:29

again. The left is celebrating the

27:31

The left is celebrating the murder of this

27:33

man. to promote their a

27:36

takeover The a medical system. the

27:39

The Left is promoting the murder of

27:41

this man to promote government control of

27:43

your personal choices when it comes to

27:45

health care. The left is is

27:47

supporting the murder of this man

27:49

in order to justify increasing

27:51

your taxes. taxes. And

27:56

and they're trying to make a

27:58

hero make a hero this yard. man who is

28:01

a crazed leftist. I've looked

28:03

at his material, I've seen

28:05

what his friends have been

28:08

talking about, he was in

28:10

Hawaii hanging out with a

28:12

bunch of leftists, and they

28:14

were clearly, he clearly was

28:17

enthralled by a revolutionary violence

28:19

targeting people like this poor

28:21

man as Brian Thompson is

28:23

just doing his job. Running

28:26

a health insurance company. And

28:29

the left is saying because

28:31

health insurance companies sometimes deny

28:34

claims, like government insurance does,

28:36

Medicare denies claims, Medicaid denies

28:39

claims, but the private sector

28:41

isn't allowed to deny claims

28:44

under the socialist-communist rubric. And

28:46

they are celebrating the death

28:49

of an American citizen and

28:51

murder, the cold-blooded murder. Remember.

28:54

As accused, Luigi shot him

28:56

in the back. Oh, and

28:58

by the way, if he's

29:01

found guilty of murder in

29:03

New York, the leftist there

29:06

have essentially banned a death

29:08

penalty. So this kid should

29:11

be executed, but he won't

29:13

be, even if he's found

29:16

guilty. So this is left

29:18

crime in America today. Let's

29:21

hope he's convicted. The evidence

29:23

will show, let's see what

29:26

the evidence will show, but

29:28

presumably he's the bad guy

29:30

and he's convicted. There are

29:33

signs going up in New

29:35

York highlighting and the radical

29:38

leftist putting up signs in

29:40

New York calling for more

29:43

murders of corporate executives. They

29:45

wanted to kill Trump. They

29:48

want to kill Supreme Court

29:50

justices, now they want to

29:53

kill corporation heads. I've been

29:55

warning you all of this

29:58

rising violent communist revolution. that's

30:01

hijacked our media and our political

30:03

culture. And culture. I don't know what

30:05

else to say to terms of showing

30:07

you it's real. you it's real. Other

30:09

than Other than there's a dead

30:11

man in New York with a

30:13

mourning family, and and the left right

30:15

now, and you can go and see

30:18

it, see celebrating. celebrating his murder. Violence

30:30

is never the

30:32

answer never the left rallying

30:34

cry to justify violence.

30:37

the left's Senator

30:39

Warren, by the way, is going to be a senator for

30:41

six more years, at least. violence.

30:44

Senator Warren

30:47

by the way is going

30:50

to be a

30:52

senator for six

30:55

more years at

30:57

least. Oh boy. let's go

30:59

to the next topic, which is

31:01

another huge topic, is the law

31:03

fear against President Trump. President Trump,

31:06

Judicial Watch, litigation a

31:08

lawsuit against against Fannie Willis, documents

31:10

about her about her collusion with Jack Smith,

31:12

the Biden DOJ, and the Pelosi six

31:14

committee we we have that she

31:16

was colluding with the

31:19

committee with the despite protesting earlier

31:21

that there were no

31:23

documents And here is my

31:25

is my initial reaction

31:27

to the disclosures I posted

31:30

posted earlier this week Well,

31:32

Fanny Willis just confessed

31:34

to having records of

31:36

her Well, Fannie Willis

31:38

just confessed the records of

31:40

her communications with the January

31:42

get- trump operation. She only the Get

31:44

Trump to She only confessed

31:47

to this yesterday, thanks

31:49

to a judicial watch lawsuit.

31:51

Of course, when we first sued and began

31:53

asking for these records, they told us they

31:56

had no records. records. Well, it turns out that

31:58

wasn't true. true. In fact, fact, the only reason and

32:00

we got the confession yesterday was

32:02

because a court last week found

32:04

her in default. She didn't bother

32:06

to answer the lawsuit under law

32:09

as she was supposed to. But

32:11

rather than turn the records over,

32:13

as the court I think strongly

32:15

suggested, she's using a loophole of

32:18

exemptions and privileges to hide the

32:20

records from the American people. Now

32:22

we're going to push back hard

32:24

in court or heavy lifting will

32:26

continue, but in the meantime, this

32:29

really does confirm A. She was

32:31

in collusion with the Pelosi operation

32:33

to get Trump. B, she has

32:35

no respect for the rule of

32:38

law. C, she has no respect

32:40

for your right to know. Yeah,

32:42

that's a pretty good summary and

32:44

we did a little special report

32:46

on it as well here. Let's

32:49

run that. A Georgia court forced

32:51

Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis

32:53

to confirm additional documents exist about

32:55

communications Willis had with special counsel

32:58

Jack Smith and the House January

33:00

6th Committee. Willis admitted additional documents

33:02

exist. However, she cited various legal

33:04

exemptions for her reason not to

33:06

release the documents Judicial Watch sued

33:09

for. Willis, who spearheaded the prosecution

33:11

against President Trump, for his challenging

33:13

the 2020 election results in Georgia,

33:15

previously denied having any records. Just

33:17

a week prior to Willis's confession,

33:20

the Superior Court in Fulton County,

33:22

Georgia entered an order granting a

33:24

motion for default judgment against Fanny

33:26

Willis in Judicial Watch's lawsuit for

33:29

communications Willis had with special counsel

33:31

Jack Smith and the January 6th

33:33

Committee. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitten

33:35

had this to say about Fanny

33:37

Willis. Fanny Willis is something else.

33:40

We've been doing this work for

33:42

30 years. And this is the

33:44

first time in our experience. A

33:46

government official has been found in

33:49

default for not showing up in

33:51

court to answer an open records

33:53

lawsuit. Judicial Watch looks forward to

33:55

getting any documents from the Fannie

33:57

Willis operation. about collusion

34:00

with the the Biden

34:03

Nancy Pelosi's Nancy

34:05

Pelosi's Congress on this this

34:07

unprecedented and

34:10

compromised get Trump prosecution. Fidden

34:12

also promised his followers on X,

34:14

on X, lifting judicial watch will

34:17

push back in court against this

34:19

disingenuous secrecy. against this

34:21

disingenuous so she gave

34:23

us the response us the response on Monday,

34:25

in the day, day. that

34:27

was the deadline. deadline. And,

34:30

you know, the know, the court ordered her

34:32

to give us the documents or explain

34:34

why they're being withheld. being withheld.

34:36

she gave us a half -baked response.

34:38

And I don't think it's sufficient to

34:40

comply with the court order. with the

34:42

court order. Watch's lawyers will look

34:44

at it more carefully than I

34:46

will, as the I will as

34:49

the layman Watch Watch about the

34:51

response. about their as

34:53

I said, as I know, we'll push back.

34:55

push back. But, you you know, we've

34:57

been doing FOIA, I've been doing FOIA long enough

34:59

to know a deficient response when I see

35:01

it. First of all, she didn't respond. it

35:05

was the office of her see

35:07

it. First of all, she didn't I don't

35:09

know who did it. It was the

35:11

office of to the record

35:13

is the I don't know who

35:15

did it. According to

35:17

the record, it is the

35:19

office of... me. it? Excuse me.

35:22

Oh, I Oh, I don't have

35:24

it. it. Oh

35:27

wait, wait, I was looking at the wrong page,

35:29

forgive me everyone. Forgive me everyone. Yeah, open

35:31

records open records department.

35:33

What's the open records department?

35:35

department? We don't know. This is what she

35:38

We don't know. or whoever the anonymous

35:41

staff is what she specifically

35:43

said, or whoever the anonymous

35:45

staffer wrote. a search as directed

35:47

by the of the office staff, a

35:49

having conducted a search as directed

35:51

by the court response to following

35:53

provides the following response. response.

35:56

Regarding all documents communication to

35:59

receive from a relating to Special

36:01

Counsel Jack Smith or any

36:03

employees in his office, a

36:05

diligence search indicates that no

36:07

such documents or communications exist.

36:09

Regarding all documents and communications

36:11

sent to or received from

36:13

the United States House January

36:15

6th Committee or any of

36:17

its employees, a diligent search

36:19

indicates that any such documents

36:21

and communications are legally exempted

36:23

or accepted from disclosure, and

36:25

then she cites the laws.

36:31

But they did turn over

36:33

one document that had been

36:35

publicized already by the House,

36:38

which proved that they were

36:40

lying, which was a letter

36:42

to Betty Thompson, who was

36:44

the chairman of the Trump

36:46

January 6th Committee, in which

36:48

Willis herself signed a letter

36:50

as part of an official

36:52

request from her to access

36:55

records that may be relevant

36:57

to the criminal investigation. So

37:01

Fanny Willis told something

37:03

false to Judicial Watch,

37:05

which is that they

37:07

had no records. And

37:09

she confirmed, thanks to

37:11

this court order, and

37:13

Judicial Watch's diligence, that

37:15

that was false. They

37:17

do have court records

37:19

showing what I interpret

37:22

to be collusion with

37:24

the Pelosi January 6th

37:26

Committee to get Donald

37:28

Trump. Isn't

37:30

it interesting? January 6th committee

37:32

is happy to help, it

37:34

looks like Fannie Willis. They

37:37

can't be bothered to investigate

37:39

what the heck the FBI

37:42

was doing invading its capital

37:44

through confidential human sources, right?

37:46

So this is a major

37:49

development and it's a key

37:51

piece of evidence now we

37:53

have that there was collusion.

37:56

stretching from Fulton

37:58

County to D

38:00

.C. DC to get Trump on

38:03

to get Trump. charges, and unprecedented

38:05

charges and she's now a privileges

38:07

on a case that's dead

38:09

in the water. privileges are

38:12

privileges are, you know, there's a lawful

38:14

basis you know, to just

38:16

a lawful basis, typically, to

38:18

just to cite them, on

38:20

putting, but charitable and generous. the sense

38:22

there's discretionary, in a sense there's

38:24

no requirement to hide these records from

38:26

the American people. people. Assuming there's

38:29

a legitimate basis to do so and I'm not

38:31

assuming that at all. I'm not assuming that

38:33

at all. Oh, you can't see this,

38:35

it will harm our investigation, our give away

38:37

our secrets. It will give away our

38:39

secrets. That's often an excuse,

38:41

not a That's often an excuse,

38:43

not a reason to withhold records. don't believe

38:46

necessarily And we don't believe necessarily they

38:48

did a diligent search. they So when they say

38:50

they have no Jack Smith records, I don't believe

38:52

it. believe it. I mean, mean they lied

38:54

to me me. and to Watch and the

38:56

American watch they didn't have any records

38:58

at all, that they had no

39:00

records at all. have any And

39:02

now they just all, that they do

39:04

have records. records at all. And now

39:07

they just confirmed that they do

39:09

have records. And remember,

39:12

as we highlighted in the

39:14

earlier As we was in

39:16

the earlier reports, she was found

39:18

in default. She didn't even respond

39:20

to the lawsuit in court. court. And

39:24

didn't want to follow the rules

39:26

to the rules under law to us. law

39:28

and the court found her in violation of

39:30

the open records law as a result of

39:33

being in default. law as

39:35

a result of is a in It's

39:37

official. Willis is a

39:39

law breaker. It's official. Again,

39:42

the court the court

39:44

finds defendant. Willis in her in

39:46

her official capacity, is in

39:48

default and has been since

39:51

11 since 11 April 24. She

39:54

She never moved to open the on

39:56

any basis. basis. She never paid costs

39:58

and she and she never offered up

40:00

a meritorious defense. As far

40:02

as I'm concerned she's waived

40:05

all of her privileges. You

40:07

don't show up in court?

40:09

And you've got these privileges

40:11

you want to throw out?

40:13

No, no, no. I don't

40:15

think the court should let

40:17

that happen. Judicial Watch and

40:19

a state court. forced Fanny

40:21

Willis to confirm additional documents

40:23

exist about or collusion with

40:25

the partisan Pelosi January 6th

40:27

Committee to get Trump. But

40:29

Willis, signing legal exemptions for

40:31

a prosecution that's essentially dead

40:33

in the water, now wants

40:35

to hide these records from

40:37

the American public. And so

40:39

we're going to be pushing

40:41

back against the secrecy in

40:43

court now. So we have

40:45

to respond. and, you know,

40:47

try to hold her accountable,

40:49

try to get these records

40:51

more information about them. But

40:53

we don't even know how

40:55

many, they didn't tell us

40:57

how many records there are.

40:59

And, you know, in federal

41:01

FOIA cases, at least, you

41:03

know, the government, when they

41:05

withhold records, they have to

41:08

give you some information, enough

41:10

information in terms of details

41:12

about the records individually and

41:14

which exemptions apply and how.

41:16

in order for us to

41:18

be able to ask the

41:20

court to overrule the exemptions.

41:22

Because they have all the

41:24

secrets now. And so they

41:26

need to disclose more information,

41:28

I would argue, to judicial

41:30

watch so we can adequately

41:32

fight back, assuming that she's

41:34

even allowed to assert these

41:36

exemptions to withhold information. So

41:38

this is an example of...

41:40

Even when they don't give

41:42

us the information, the records,

41:44

the admission that the records

41:46

exist is huge because they

41:48

told us they didn't exist.

41:50

And now we have confirmation.

41:52

There's more than just one

41:54

letter. they even

41:56

want to tell

41:58

us about.

42:00

Congress disclosed it.

42:02

about. Congress And

42:05

there's more. there's more. How

42:07

much How much work were they doing

42:09

with the policy operation to get Trump? to

42:11

get Trump? Was Congress

42:13

misusing its resources to... to

42:16

have have a prosecutor target

42:18

target of its of its investigation.

42:20

Donald Trump. Donald to

42:23

harass him during the campaign? him during

42:25

wonder they all want No up there. No

42:27

wonder! pardons up there. No

42:29

No wonder, Benny once a pardon. a

42:31

Pelosi gonna get a pardon too?

42:34

going to get a pardon

42:36

too? So a great victory

42:38

for judicial watch, a great

42:40

victory for the great victory for

42:42

Judicial Watch, a great victory for

42:44

the American people in terms of

42:46

getting information about what I believe

42:48

to be the worst corruption scandal

42:50

in American history. The

42:52

misuse of prosecutorial resources in

42:54

federal and state courts to

42:56

target President Trump and his

42:58

allies. Trump and his this

43:00

is just the tip of

43:03

the iceberg the tip it's information

43:05

we would never have known

43:07

but for would never have known but for

43:09

judicial watches, heavy lifting, persistence, diligence.

43:11

So those of you who of

43:13

you who a judicial watch, this is is

43:15

what happens. with with your support. We're

43:18

We're able to accomplish. these

43:20

these successes for the rule of law and accountability.

43:22

Now does more need to be done? Yes,

43:24

and we're committed to doing it. and we're There's

43:26

always more to be done. There's always

43:28

We can't prosecute can't

43:31

prosecute Fanny Willis, but we But

43:33

we can't hold her accountable through this process and

43:35

educate the American people about what she's been up

43:37

to. people about what she's hopefully

43:39

up who are in positions to take

43:41

action to hold her more accountable take different

43:43

ways. her more accountable in

43:46

different They take notice. I mean, has

43:48

been following our lead here. our lead

43:50

here. They're demanding these records because

43:52

they saw what was disclosed to

43:54

to Watch and what the court

43:56

ordered here. court ordered here. Or what was

43:58

was not to... judicial watch.

44:01

As far as I'm concerned,

44:03

she's in contempt of Congress.

44:05

Or at least Congress is

44:07

going to argue that, it

44:09

looks like. So some great

44:11

news there. As many guests,

44:13

she's playing stonewalling, right? She's

44:15

stonewalling judicial watch in the

44:17

American people. But on the

44:19

other hand, she's also disclosing

44:21

as a result of judicial

44:23

watch's strong legal action. So

44:25

good news. More

44:33

good news is the resignation

44:35

of FBI director Christopher Ray.

44:38

He announced earlier this week

44:40

that he's going to resign

44:42

before Trump comes into office,

44:45

which to me is a

44:47

startling admission, cowardly really, that

44:50

his work is political. that

44:52

he wasn't engaged in a

44:54

neutral application and the fair

44:57

administration of justice. Just like

44:59

Jack Smith, he's going to

45:01

run from office prior to

45:04

Trump coming into office because

45:06

he doesn't want to be

45:08

held fully accountable and potentially

45:11

fired. If Chris Ray was

45:13

on the up and up,

45:15

he'd say, well, I'm going

45:18

to talk to the president

45:20

when he comes into office

45:22

and make the case as

45:25

to why he should continue

45:27

to keep me. and let

45:30

the chips fall within a.

45:32

Nope, but instead he's going

45:34

to quit and deny President

45:37

Trump the accountability that would

45:39

come from a direct firing.

45:41

Chris Ray's FBI is a

45:44

disaster. He's done nothing to

45:46

cover, to fix the FBI

45:48

as far as I'm concerned,

45:51

after Comey's disastrous FBI directorship,

45:53

which was criminal in nature.

45:56

And Ray did nothing to hold

45:58

FBI agents accountable. The Justice

46:01

Department did nothing.

46:03

The Department did nothing. Justice

46:05

Department, by the way, is the

46:07

agency in which the FBI resides. They're

46:09

not separate agencies. one's

46:11

a subset of the other. not

46:13

separate agencies. One's a

46:16

subset of the other.

46:18

I FBI Ray's Trump's home. raided

46:21

Trump's mean, I was on mean,

46:23

I other day on about it. the other

46:25

day No wonder Ray quit. about it.

46:27

No wonder problem that Christopher Wray

46:29

has is that he raided Trump's

46:32

home. His agents raided Trump's home,

46:34

And he knew or he knew or should have

46:36

known good was no good reason reason to target

46:38

Trump, let alone raid his home. I I

46:40

don't even know how he could look

46:42

him in the eye. eye, let alone let

46:44

alone expect to remain as FBI director, just

46:46

under those narrow sets of circumstances.

46:48

as far as I'm concerned, as the

46:50

FBI is able to, to... At the the

46:52

point of the Trump administration should be

46:55

in large measure, to make sure

46:57

that the FBI, to the degree it

46:59

remains, it remains ever do to someone

47:01

else what they did to Trump. they did

47:03

think that's fair. that's fair And And

47:05

then Trump had this to say

47:07

about about before. before Ray announces

47:09

resignation. resignation Are you going to

47:11

fire the current current FBI director who

47:14

you appointed? Ray who you I can't

47:16

say I'm thrilled with say I'm

47:18

thrilled with him. He invaded my

47:20

home. I'm suing the country over

47:22

it. He invaded Maralago. -Lago. unhappy with the

47:24

things very unhappy with the

47:26

things he's done. Migrants are is

47:29

at an all -time high. Migrants

47:31

are pouring into the country that are

47:33

from prisons and from mental institutions as we've

47:36

discussed. I can't I can't say I'm thrilled.

47:38

I don't want to to say I I don't

47:40

want to, again, I don't want to be

47:42

Joe Biden to give you an answer and give

47:44

you an answer and then do not going to

47:46

do that. What I'm I'm going

47:48

to say I certainly cannot be happy with

47:50

with him. You take a look at what's

47:52

happened. and And then when I was shot

47:54

in the He said oh, maybe it said, oh, maybe

47:56

it was this where's the shrapnel coming

47:58

from? Is it coming from? Is it coming

48:00

from half-end? I don't think so.

48:03

So we need somebody to strain

48:05

it. You know, I have a

48:08

lot of respect for the FBI,

48:10

but the FBI's respect has gone

48:12

way down over the last number

48:15

of years. Don't you have to

48:17

fire him in order to make

48:20

room for cash penalty is in

48:22

fact confirmed? Well, I mean, it

48:24

would sort of seem pretty obvious

48:27

that if cash gets in, he's

48:29

going to be taking somebody's place,

48:32

right? Somebody is the man that

48:34

you're talking about. will raise God,

48:36

or will be God. And this

48:39

is the statement I issued for

48:41

Judicial Watch upon his resignation. Raised

48:44

resignation is a good first step

48:46

to cleaning house at the FBI.

48:48

Under Raised leadership, the FBI has

48:51

become an enemy of transparency, the

48:53

rule of law, constitutional government, and

48:56

the civil rights of tens of

48:58

millions of Americans. Judicial Watch and

49:00

I witness firsthand the corruption of

49:03

raise operation. when FBI agents came

49:05

to my home in what was

49:08

an obvious retaliation for a criticism

49:10

and lawsuits exposing their abuses. The

49:12

FBI is irredeemally corrupt from sitting

49:15

on Hunter Biden's laptop in order

49:17

to influence the 2020 election, the

49:20

raid of President Trump's Maralago home,

49:22

the censorship of Americans, to the

49:24

targeting of traditional Catholics, the FBI

49:27

has been turned into the political

49:29

police for partisan leftist. Accordingly, Ray

49:32

should be subject to criminal investigation.

49:34

And as sunlight is the best

49:36

disinfectant, President Trump and his FBI

49:39

director nominee Cash Patel, presuming he

49:41

gets approved, and I think he

49:44

will, should open wide the FBI

49:46

files on its abuses of power

49:48

targeting Trump and countless other American

49:51

citizens. In the meantime, Judicial Watch

49:53

will continue to investigate and sue

49:56

the FBI for its truth, as

49:58

I know. in the worst government

50:00

corruption scandal in American history, which

50:03

is the improper targeting of President

50:05

Trump and other American citizens over

50:08

the last several years. And Judicial

50:10

Watch is the leader in providing

50:12

oversight of the FBI, and I

50:15

don't say that lightly. We do

50:17

better oversight than Congress has than

50:20

this IG Inspector General has than

50:22

the media have. I mean, just

50:24

recent... disclosures and activity by the

50:27

judicial watch in terms of our

50:29

overwatch of the FBI include, just

50:32

last month we sued the Justice

50:34

Department for messages among top leaders

50:36

of the FBI referencing the social

50:39

media posts of the agent charged

50:41

with investigating Trump's assassination. It looks

50:44

like they were trying to scrub

50:46

his posts because he was posting

50:48

anti-trap crap on all over social

50:51

media. They wanted to cover it

50:53

up. They wanted to cover it

50:56

up. We

50:58

uncovered the recording of

51:00

a phone message left

51:02

by an FBI special

51:04

agent Colluding with the

51:06

Secret Service on the

51:08

raid of Marilago And

51:10

maybe subsequent activity. I

51:13

don't know The FBI

51:15

opened a criminal investigation

51:17

of Ashley Babbitt our

51:19

Client we're representing her

51:21

estate her widow Aaron

51:23

Babbitt They

51:26

investigated her after she was

51:28

killed, listing four potential violations

51:30

of federal law. They were

51:33

investigating a dead person. Why?

51:35

To find dirt on her

51:37

to justify her unlawful killing.

51:40

We had the sue for

51:42

records of communications between the

51:44

FBI and social media sites

51:47

regarding foreign influence in elections.

51:49

Cajole social media companies to

51:51

censor American citizens. citizens,

51:54

which they

51:56

did just before

51:58

the election

52:01

in 2020. Remember

52:05

that hunter laptop story? Suppressed. for

52:08

the FBI. Judicial

52:12

our partners at Catholic

52:15

Vote received FBI records showing

52:17

top officials rushing to craft a public

52:19

response. to

52:21

the leaked material that the

52:23

FBI was targeting Catholics. targeting

52:25

parishes and churches, the pews of

52:27

our churches. And

52:34

of course we fought separately

52:38

for records about the illicit

52:40

raid of Trump's home, Mar -a -Lago.

52:43

I mean, not to mention all the work we've

52:45

done. with

52:48

the FBI and it's

52:51

targeting a Trump over

52:53

Russia, Russia, Russia. I

52:56

mean, right now we're still in

52:58

court against the FBI for text

53:00

messages of the anti -Trump FBI agents.

53:02

Peter Struck and Lisa Page are

53:05

still stalling. It's four years.

53:08

Ray's a disaster in terms

53:10

of ethics and transparency at

53:12

f b i and i

53:14

i say this 20 % jokingly.

53:16

I don't know if the FBI can be

53:18

saved or should be saved. I

53:22

mean to me the question should be, is Cash

53:24

Patel going to be the last FBI director? Do

53:26

we need a successor agency, a

53:28

pared down version of the FBI? I'm

53:35

not convinced. that

53:37

the FBI can be rescued. I think

53:39

the Justice Department we're probably always gonna have

53:41

a Justice Department. I I

53:44

mean we certainly need a down version of it. one

53:47

that's policed by

53:49

honest and ethical people. I'm

53:54

in the FBI. I

53:57

don't trust FBI as far

53:59

as i can. throw it. I don't. I

54:01

don't. I mean, Chris Ray's

54:04

FBI happily worked with the

54:06

Biden I mean, Chris Ray's

54:08

FBI the worked with the

54:10

Biden administration to target Trump supporters

54:12

on January nothing nothing like it ever

54:14

done by the FBI before. raided

54:17

the home of Trump. the home

54:19

of Trump. Previously they

54:21

were spying. It was just further

54:24

reported and reported they were

54:26

spying on. that they were

54:28

spying on... Members

54:30

of Congress and their staff who

54:32

were critical of the FBI were

54:34

their abuses. of the FBI There's

54:36

been virtually no accountability for

54:38

the FISA abuses, been virtually on

54:40

Trump. for

54:43

the FISA abuses, the

54:45

one FBI guy was

54:47

targeted Trump. The one FBI guy

54:49

was Durham by Durham,

54:52

do-nothing Durham, and he got a and

54:54

he got a slap on the wrist. So

55:04

good written is the but it's just, as

55:06

I said, the first step in accountability.

55:08

There's a lot more that needs to

55:10

be done. There's a lot

55:13

restore, needs if it can

55:15

be. to restore, if it

55:17

can be, the fair administration

55:20

of justice to the FBI. still

55:22

a disaster i a disaster.

55:24

there's a story today

55:26

about a story today about Luigi

55:28

Mangione being a... ID'd by San by

55:31

san francisco police days before

55:33

he was picked up San

55:35

Francisco detective, Francisco to the San

55:37

to San Francisco Chronicle, the

55:40

family had placed a missing person's

55:42

report. So it was was in his mind,

55:44

Because Because he had just gotten

55:46

the report a few days days or

55:48

know, shortly before his name or

55:50

his image started up as popping up when

55:52

the you know, when the NYPD

55:54

started releasing pictures of him. said, I

55:57

And he said, I recognize this

55:59

guy. This is the kid I'm looking

56:01

for. for. he called the FBI. He

56:03

gave a tip to the FBI. to the

56:05

FBI. No record of, they didn't do anything

56:07

with it. do anything Now,

56:09

the FBI is saying, well, maybe

56:11

it didn't is saying, well, maybe it didn't want

56:13

to, just When the FBI

56:15

doesn't do its basic work, it

56:17

doesn't do it well. basic work.

56:20

It doesn't do it well.

56:22

Yet they've got unlimited got

56:24

unlimited resources targeting

56:26

Catholics, targeting pro -lifers. targeting

56:30

those who thought the 2020 election

56:32

was stolen. was stolen,

56:35

targeting virtually virtually

56:37

everyone who came to protest

56:39

on on January something wrong

56:41

or right something wrong i was

56:43

paying people the FBI

56:45

was paying like, based on this

56:47

IG report, committed crimes. on

56:50

this IG report, committing

56:52

that was all on Chris Chris Ray, that

56:54

was all on Chris Ray's the

56:56

real scandal. real scandal is

56:58

that Ray. hasn't resigned yet or

57:00

has been forced out yet. forced out

57:02

yet. Congress could have done something. They

57:05

could have said, you know what? FBI

57:07

funding is contingent on new leadership. We're

57:09

not giving a dime to the FBI

57:11

on new there's new leadership. We're not giving a

57:13

dime to the want to do that, though.

57:15

unless there's new leadership. They didn't

57:17

want to do that, though.

57:19

But the But the

57:21

American people spoke and they wanted

57:24

a new FBI director. director. And

57:26

they knew that was in the was they voted Trump

57:28

into office. they voted Trump I

57:30

praise And he is

57:32

an American Cash Patel. He is an

57:35

and I think he's gonna make

57:37

an excellent FBI going to make an

57:39

it's going to director.

57:41

And it's going to be, no

57:43

perfect, obviously. but

57:45

light but light what we've

57:47

been suffering through. suffering the

57:49

last two decades of of...

57:52

the DC corrupt

57:54

culture class,

57:56

what they what

57:58

they think is. what

58:01

makes an FBI director good.

58:03

No, no more. We need

58:05

activists like Ash Patel. And

58:09

I'm looking forward to his being FBI

58:11

director. Of

58:17

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in pursuing justice for

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our clients. And

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one of our more favorite clients, one

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of our favorite clients, I guess of our

1:00:56

clients are favorites, right? favors, right? It's

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like which one of your kids are your

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favorite your kids all favorite in our separate

1:01:03

ways. But we have a

1:01:05

wonderful client. He's a teacher, our

1:01:07

or was a teacher, out

1:01:09

in. have a wonderful client, as a

1:01:12

teacher, or was a teacher, out

1:01:14

in Palantine, Illinois,

1:01:16

or Palantine. And passed

1:01:18

was fired by the

1:01:20

school by the school district

1:01:23

for basically criticizing Black

1:01:25

Matter, the

1:01:28

rioting. critical race theory,

1:01:30

et cetera. She had

1:01:32

worked there for 20 years. for 20

1:01:34

worked in her school district for

1:01:36

20 years. district for

1:01:39

And she posted comments

1:01:41

on posted the riots.

1:01:43

Facebook, The violence, the lootings in Chicago.

1:01:45

the you know,

1:01:48

the aftermath of the

1:01:50

George Floyd shooting. aftermath of

1:01:52

the George Floyd shooting.

1:01:55

The The lower court on her sued on

1:01:57

her behalf under the First Amendment in

1:01:59

federal court. And the

1:02:01

lower court said that the

1:02:03

school district was in its

1:02:06

rights in policing the speech

1:02:08

of its employees. We're like,

1:02:10

well, how is that possible?

1:02:13

She wasn't in school. She

1:02:15

was posting during the summer

1:02:18

to a private Facebook group.

1:02:20

And it was about events

1:02:22

of public importance, obviously, but

1:02:25

it wasn't on school-related matters

1:02:27

or material. I

1:02:30

mean, if you can be fired

1:02:32

for commenting about anything and someone

1:02:34

doesn't like it as a school

1:02:36

teacher, you have no First Amendment

1:02:38

rights as a school teacher. But

1:02:40

it was a really outrageous case,

1:02:42

and so we were, you know,

1:02:44

adamant that the court should deal

1:02:46

with it. But instead, the lower

1:02:49

court didn't want to, so it

1:02:51

dismissed it, and so we appealed

1:02:53

it to the Seventh Circuit Court

1:02:55

of Appeals. As

1:02:57

we note, Hedgebeth made the

1:02:59

post on her private Facebook

1:03:02

page while vacationing after the

1:03:04

end of the school year.

1:03:06

Just as some of the

1:03:09

most severe violence was occurring.

1:03:11

In her post, Hedgebeth recommended

1:03:13

studying Thomas Soule. Tom Soule

1:03:16

is one of my favorite

1:03:18

public intellectuals, great conservative and

1:03:20

black American. He's

1:03:23

still out there doing that. He's

1:03:25

got, I think he's 90 years

1:03:27

old. He's got to be, I

1:03:29

think he's north of 90 now.

1:03:31

And he hasn't stopped his excellent

1:03:33

work. He's just great. I encourage

1:03:35

you to go and find out

1:03:37

more and read more Tom's soul

1:03:39

if you haven't already. And Geney

1:03:41

just described him as I say

1:03:43

a treasure and a treasure and

1:03:45

a true seeker. And she praised

1:03:48

political commentator and activist Candace Owens

1:03:50

and talk show host Larry Elder.

1:03:52

And I was just on Larry

1:03:54

Show the other day. It's on

1:03:56

our YouTube channel. On social media

1:03:58

you can watch it. And,

1:04:01

and we know, it's... Her

1:04:03

first amendment rights were violated by the firing. I

1:04:11

mean, she said she made this, she said

1:04:13

following from the beach. I don't wanna

1:04:15

go home tomorrow. Now civil war has begun,

1:04:17

I want to move. An

1:04:20

individual responded, follow your gut, move. Hedgeworth

1:04:22

hired, hired, answered, I need a gun in

1:04:24

training. So she was worried about her

1:04:26

safety. An individual replied, me too. Another

1:04:29

individual posted a meme that same day,

1:04:31

suggesting the rides could be stopped with

1:04:33

a septic tank truck and pressure cannon.

1:04:35

Hedgeworth reposted the meme, obviously ingested, adding,

1:04:37

you think this would work. Why

1:04:40

would you get fired for that? And

1:04:46

here she's recommending I

1:04:49

highly recommend studying Tom Seoul, who is

1:04:51

now retired and in his 80s, a treasurer,

1:04:53

true seeker. Does real

1:04:55

research and analysis? a

1:04:58

praises Candace, praise is Larry

1:05:00

Elder. Larry

1:05:02

speaks truth with great women, with

1:05:04

a great sense of humor

1:05:07

and facts, not feelings. And

1:05:12

then she sized statistics

1:05:14

used related to criminality.

1:05:16

and demographics, all sorts of

1:05:18

debates about crime. and

1:05:21

race in America. Straightforward,

1:05:24

political commentary. And

1:05:27

she got fired supposedly because someone complained

1:05:29

about it. Well, not

1:05:31

good enough that is as we note the

1:05:33

appeal providing a heckler's

1:05:35

veto to your first amendment

1:05:37

rights or specifically her first amendment

1:05:39

rights. All of

1:05:41

her posts were on her personal Facebook

1:05:43

page. None of her posts identified her

1:05:46

as a teacher. or an employee of

1:05:48

a school district, the district issue here. The

1:05:51

worded Hedgepeth them in her capacity

1:05:53

as a teacher or a

1:05:55

district a 2 employee,

1:05:58

which is the... district. None

1:06:01

of the persons with

1:06:03

whom of the persons current. whom

1:06:06

Hedgebeth

1:06:08

Exchange Facebook

1:06:11

posts were

1:06:13

current students.

1:06:15

So really

1:06:18

important important case. really

1:06:21

important case. So

1:06:24

she So she asking

1:06:26

for damages from the school district. the

1:06:31

high School District, which is which is 211, so there's

1:06:33

a school district in the High School District. in

1:06:35

the high school district, and certain

1:06:38

district board members and officials who

1:06:40

participated directly in her firing. So she

1:06:42

wants accountability. directly in her And so

1:06:44

our lead lawyer here at And so our

1:06:46

lead is my colleague of decades. Watch

1:06:48

Polar was out in Chicago

1:06:51

of decades, was behalf of

1:06:53

arguing on behalf of Geney Hep's path

1:06:55

at the the 7th Circuit Court of

1:06:57

Appeals. And it's available the

1:06:59

full hearing or oral

1:07:01

is available available online, and

1:07:04

here's a select excerpt

1:07:06

arguments before the Seventh the

1:07:08

seventh circuit appellate panel. the grant of

1:07:10

We are here on the

1:07:12

grant of summary judgment on 1983, for

1:07:15

a violation for violation of her

1:07:17

First Amendment Plaintiff was a was a

1:07:19

tenured teacher with 20 -plus years

1:07:21

of experience at Palatine School in Palatine,

1:07:23

Illinois. Illinois. She was terminated for

1:07:26

comments she posted on her

1:07:28

private Facebook page page the unprecedented

1:07:30

looting, rioting, and violence in Chicago

1:07:32

and across the country and the

1:07:34

aftermath of George Floyd's death

1:07:36

in of of 2020. death in May comments

1:07:39

were comments were about work. about

1:07:41

work, but instead addressed important

1:07:43

events. She

1:07:45

posted them on in Florida Florida

1:07:47

the school year has ended. has

1:07:49

ended. If If speech under those

1:07:51

conditions can provide the basis for

1:07:54

termination, then teachers effectively have

1:07:56

no free speech rights left. There

1:07:58

was no one was advocating violence.

1:08:00

civil war. just a false a

1:08:02

false construct. mean but that's the

1:08:04

nature of of the why a

1:08:06

jury needs to decide how

1:08:08

these posts should properly be

1:08:11

interpreted. I don't think she

1:08:13

was disparaging anyone's think she was She

1:08:15

was advocating, she was challenging

1:08:17

the traditional notion, the traditional

1:08:19

notion or the traditional views

1:08:22

on race in the United

1:08:24

States. on race in did so

1:08:26

citing scholars. Thomas Sowell, she

1:08:28

encouraged a young, Sol. She encouraged a young.

1:08:30

an adult to read read Thomas Sowell.

1:08:33

That is somehow people's views. I don't

1:08:35

think views, I don't think so. She

1:08:37

cited accurate statistics. is the fundamental I mean,

1:08:39

this is how do fundamental dispute is

1:08:41

how do you interpret these a jury has to

1:08:43

And we think that a jury

1:08:45

has to decide that issue. It's not

1:08:47

something that can be decided by

1:08:49

a court. The overwhelming majority of the

1:08:51

people that were complaining or

1:08:53

contact in communicating with the

1:08:55

district were outsiders. They purported to to be

1:08:57

members of the community. We don't know

1:09:00

that for a fact. know Some were part

1:09:02

of an organized campaign. campaign.

1:09:04

Some were put together by a a

1:09:06

who was who to get elected

1:09:08

to the and ended up getting

1:09:10

elected to the board. up used this

1:09:12

as a vehicle to advance his

1:09:14

political ambitions. this as a vehicle to advance political

1:09:17

parents, Our tally, five students. That's it. That's

1:09:19

it. That's really not very impressive

1:09:21

when you're going to weigh that

1:09:23

against. to weigh that against teachers' First

1:09:25

first amendment rights about speech speech that

1:09:27

is not about work, even not about

1:09:29

work, the not even made during the

1:09:31

school year. She was on the

1:09:34

beach in Florida. then if you actually read

1:09:36

you actually read her are they are

1:09:38

nothing like what they're presented here

1:09:40

here. That's dispute. factual Of those

1:09:42

nine parents, four were supportive. One

1:09:45

was a comment. Yeah, was a comment. Yeah, this

1:09:47

this is definitely in your Okay, Okay did

1:09:49

a great job there. You can so Paul did

1:09:51

a great job there. You can listen to

1:09:53

the full argument. be a link sure there'll be a

1:09:55

link below and we'll probably post the full

1:09:57

argument on our website, our our YouTube channel our other.

1:10:00

channels as well. on

1:10:02

et cetera, rumble. and

1:10:05

you'll hear the judge's questions.

1:10:07

And it's always hard to

1:10:09

read these appellate panels. So

1:10:11

what happens is typically you

1:10:13

go as, so Paul's representing

1:10:15

Jeannie Hedgepath, who I understand

1:10:17

was there at the hearing.

1:10:20

and At

1:10:22

the appellate level, are three judges.

1:10:26

And they ask questions, so it's kind

1:10:28

of like what you hear at the

1:10:30

Supreme Court. The appellate level is one

1:10:32

level below jurisdictionally under the Supreme Court. And

1:10:35

so the three judges were asking

1:10:37

questions and sometimes oftentimes, you can get a

1:10:39

feel for where the panel may be going based

1:10:41

on the nature the the questions. Here

1:10:44

it was difficult to tell. so

1:10:47

we don't know what the panel's going to rule. but

1:10:50

we know what the facts and the

1:10:53

law are that we think should dictate how

1:10:55

the panel rules, but we'll see if

1:10:57

the judges agree with us. So I encourage

1:10:59

you to listen to the full

1:11:01

argument and you'll hear both sides, Paul's

1:11:03

side and the lawyer for our

1:11:05

defendant, Bonet's side. but

1:11:07

you'll, I think, be happy to hear. and

1:11:10

see evidence of judicial Watch's great work in

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the courts. I mean, I'm happy to come

1:11:14

on and talk about Paul's great work. I'm

1:11:16

happy to come on and talk about judicial

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watch as work. but

1:11:21

what I'm doing is I'm talking about The

1:11:24

hard work of our lawyers and investigators, and

1:11:26

I'm giving voice to them. and

1:11:29

highlighting for you. what

1:11:31

our team does on a day -to

1:11:33

-day basis. It's not

1:11:36

just me. yelping and

1:11:38

whining and complaining. It's

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me disclosing, explaining and

1:11:42

educating. about

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the material that Judicial Watch has

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uncovered through its FOIA cases. about

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the importance of our litigation. to

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uphold the rule of law and

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protect the U .S. Constitution. to

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make sure government officials obey the

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law. laws that the

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American people have expected from them. work,

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obey the laws as the American

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people expects from them. And

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there's really nothing comparable in the

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United States, let alone the world, to

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what Judicial Watch does. So,

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So know, we're just not going

1:12:20

to give up. Um You

1:12:23

know, within reason, because sometimes we

1:12:25

just don't have a way to move

1:12:27

forward in a court if the

1:12:29

court rules against us. but

1:12:31

we're persistent where we can be. We're

1:12:34

persistent where we can be. Oh,

1:12:39

you know. I to

1:12:41

talk about Chris Roy again, by the

1:12:43

way. We

1:12:47

know Chris Roy is corrupt because his FBI

1:12:49

agents came to our home, came to my

1:12:51

home. came

1:12:54

to my home. And I'm still

1:12:56

outraged about it. And

1:12:59

here's a little clip of a speech I

1:13:01

gave to CPAC recently on it. Not

1:13:04

too long ago, I had a significant

1:13:06

skin cancer surgery. And a few hours

1:13:08

after I got home, I'm on the

1:13:10

couch recovering. When the FBI comes knocking,

1:13:14

came knocking on my door with a

1:13:16

grand jury subpoena from the Biden

1:13:18

DOJ. I ended up being hassled and

1:13:20

abused by the special counsel team

1:13:22

for four hours over Trump documents, my

1:13:24

First Amendment rights, and what I

1:13:26

had for lunch with President Trump. It

1:13:28

was a partisan fishing expedition. Frankly,

1:13:30

it was like having to spend a

1:13:32

day on an MSN. B .C. panel,

1:13:34

but I knew why they brought me

1:13:36

before that grand jury. was payback and

1:13:38

intimidation for daring to defend Trump against

1:13:41

their abuse of power. That

1:13:48

was what I know to be.

1:13:51

Chris Ray's FBI. I'm

1:13:54

the head of Judicial Watch, America's

1:13:56

Preeminent Watchdog Organization, the most

1:13:58

important group I do. there say the

1:14:00

country. country when it comes to

1:14:03

government. government activity, combating

1:14:05

combating government corruption. And for our

1:14:07

pains, we And for our by we

1:14:10

get harassed by the FBI

1:14:12

under that man's leadership, inexcusable.

1:14:14

Trump wants justice. I know other

1:14:16

I know Trump wants justice. I

1:14:18

know other American citizens want

1:14:20

justice over these abuses. justice I

1:14:22

want justice Watch wants justice as well.

1:14:25

we've been because we've been abused

1:14:27

and harassed. And And if

1:14:29

we've been abused and harassed, that means

1:14:31

you've been abused and harassed if you

1:14:33

are a supporter, because our work's been

1:14:35

impaired by that corruption. because our work's

1:14:37

been impaired by that corruption.

1:14:40

So I'm happy to see to

1:14:42

see Ray go, but tell you, he still He

1:14:44

still needs to be investigated for what

1:14:46

he did. what he did. So that was

1:14:48

my, I wanted was I wanted

1:14:51

to get that in there. despite what what

1:14:53

it looks like, I I break the podium.

1:14:55

the in my speech. speech. I

1:14:57

look angry enough to look angry enough

1:14:59

to break it, but I'm very

1:15:01

soft-hearted in the end. Very soft law fair the

1:15:04

end. elements and it's

1:15:06

harassment, it's retaliation,

1:15:08

it doesn't mean you get the

1:15:10

law fair has many elements. harassed

1:15:12

sometimes. It doesn't mean you

1:15:14

get prosecuted, it it's

1:15:16

retaliation. doesn't mean you get It

1:15:18

doesn't means you get harassed sometimes. it

1:15:21

means you get doesn't mean you get prosecuted,

1:15:23

It get harassed, a lot of you is facing

1:15:25

that. I'm wondering which

1:15:28

which federal agency isn't

1:15:30

investigating Elon Musk. a result

1:15:32

a result of him promoting free speech

1:15:34

on Twitter, on and even worse, supporting President

1:15:36

Trump. President Trump. And

1:15:39

we've seen another uh... and

1:15:41

we've seen another example of this in

1:15:43

the case of Now Tulsi Gabbard is

1:15:45

a former Democrat who has been

1:15:47

a former of the has been a

1:15:49

critic of the Democratic Party recently became

1:15:52

a Republican. And And

1:15:54

she's kind of of an iconic terms

1:15:56

of being skeptical of the

1:15:58

of the military industrial complex. and our intelligence

1:16:00

agencies. I don't agree with all of

1:16:02

her analyses, but I like the idea that

1:16:04

she's out there asking the right questions

1:16:06

and is skeptical of the right people. So

1:16:10

So going to be

1:16:12

an interesting pick. indeed, as

1:16:14

you may know, because Trump

1:16:16

picked her to run the Office

1:16:19

of National Intelligence, which is

1:16:21

really a do -nothing agency. I were

1:16:23

I'd shut it down as director,

1:16:25

but I'd shut down most of

1:16:27

the federal government. So

1:16:30

the left doesn't like her and some

1:16:32

conservatives don't like her because of the issues

1:16:34

I've raised. but we

1:16:36

can all agree she is no terrorist. and

1:16:39

she should not be spied

1:16:41

upon. and harassed

1:16:43

on airline flights, which is

1:16:45

what the Biden administration did to

1:16:47

her, and which is why

1:16:49

we're suing. because we want records

1:16:51

on that decision to place her

1:16:53

on a terrorist watch list. and

1:16:57

have federal air marshals harass her

1:16:59

and follow her around when she's

1:17:01

traveling on planes. I just can't

1:17:03

believe, she's a veteran. form

1:17:06

a member of Congress, and they're treating

1:17:08

her like a terrorist. we

1:17:12

announced today. Yeah,

1:17:15

literally today, we filed a lawsuit.

1:17:18

on December 9th against

1:17:21

the department of Homeland

1:17:23

security which oversees the uh...

1:17:26

the federal marshals and

1:17:28

Transportation Security Administration. For

1:17:31

records on former Representative

1:17:33

Tulsi Gabbard. being

1:17:36

targeted for surveillance under

1:17:38

the Transportation Security Administration's quiet

1:17:40

skies. terrorist

1:17:43

watch program. The

1:17:45

TSA is a component of the Department of

1:17:47

Homeland Security. and

1:17:49

so we filed the request

1:17:51

on December 9th, the lawsuit. and

1:17:55

we wanted to expedite it,

1:17:57

and we're expediting it under

1:17:59

the... the responded to our request

1:18:01

for expedition for to do certain things.

1:18:03

told us to do we're going to comply with the

1:18:06

order. we're going to So we want

1:18:08

to rush this So it's important that

1:18:10

we get this information given the fact

1:18:12

she's up for a nomination and

1:18:14

we want to expose what went on

1:18:16

up hopefully hold those responsible accountable. to expose

1:18:18

what went on, and hopefully

1:18:20

That's why we're seeking to expedite the lawsuit. So

1:18:23

that's why we're 4, 2024, the

1:18:26

lawsuit. it was reported

1:18:28

that several several federal air have

1:18:30

come forward with information

1:18:32

showing that U .S.

1:18:34

Representative and Presidential showing that U.S.

1:18:36

is currently enrolled in

1:18:38

the Quiet candidate Tulsa Gabbard

1:18:40

is currently enrolled in the

1:18:42

Quiet congressional committee On

1:18:45

to the a congressional

1:18:47

committee wrote to the TSA that

1:18:49

she was added to the quiet

1:18:51

skies Quiet July on July

1:18:53

23rd, 2024. one day after

1:18:56

she criticized the administration. in

1:18:58

an interview. an interview. to the DHS

1:19:00

website, Quiet Skyes is a tool to

1:19:02

the DHS Federal Air Marshal Service

1:19:04

to more is a tool. deploy law that

1:19:07

allows resources to focus on to

1:19:09

more efficiently deploy law enforcement

1:19:11

resources to focus on what

1:19:13

who may present. Telsi Gavard

1:19:15

elevated risk to aviation security?

1:19:18

In what universe universe does Telsi

1:19:21

represent an elevated risk

1:19:23

to aviation security? Do

1:19:26

I believe there's any Do I

1:19:28

believe there's any legitimate intelligence that would

1:19:30

warrant placing her on such a list? I

1:19:32

do not believe it for one second. for

1:19:34

one second? Even if they presented

1:19:36

it, I would say it's made up. How about

1:19:38

that? up. How That's how That's how I think

1:19:40

what happened to her is. to

1:19:42

her is. But I I want the

1:19:44

information so everyone can judge

1:19:47

whether it's legit. legit. Because

1:19:50

they smeared her by effect her putting her

1:19:52

on this list. Obviously it was gonna

1:19:54

get out. get out. And

1:20:05

she talked about it a little bit.

1:20:08

bit, I guess, on I guess on X, not

1:20:10

that long not that long ago, let's play

1:20:12

a clip from her statement on it.

1:20:14

own My own government has

1:20:16

placed me on a secret terror

1:20:18

watch list, targeting me as

1:20:20

a potential domestic terror threat. On

1:20:22

August 4th, federal air Air Marshal came

1:20:24

forward with very disturbing information.

1:20:26

They revealed that I had been

1:20:28

added to a secret terror

1:20:30

watch list run by the TSA

1:20:32

by the TSA called Quiet Sky's. July 23rd. This

1:20:35

This is the very same day

1:20:37

my husband and I began

1:20:39

car. to be subjected subjected to those

1:20:41

TSA searches. are These are images

1:20:43

of the TSA targeting package

1:20:45

that the air marshals were given

1:20:47

as part of their mission mission

1:20:49

I later learned that at

1:20:51

least three air marshals were assigned

1:20:53

to watch me every time

1:20:55

I time I the airport and on

1:20:57

the flight. TSA deployed TSA deployed

1:20:59

detection teams and a TSA teams and

1:21:01

a TSA Now, this is extreme

1:21:03

by any measure. measure. What were they

1:21:05

looking for? What kind of threat

1:21:08

did they think I posed? Or were they afraid

1:21:10

that I was gonna do? I was going to

1:21:12

do? I can't believe they believe

1:21:14

they did that. I think think of

1:21:16

what. matrix is likely

1:21:18

is likely. industry, our

1:21:20

our aviation industry, our

1:21:23

domestic, airlines, international travel, et

1:21:25

cetera. few air and how

1:21:27

few at the we have at

1:21:29

the federal level to provide security.

1:21:31

and And they're focused on... on a

1:21:33

A political hit. hit. on

1:21:36

Tulsa-Yabbert? This is what

1:21:38

what it was, assigning them

1:21:40

as a political operation. a political operation.

1:21:43

Or so I allege, right? right? And

1:21:45

how do how do I know there's

1:21:47

something there? Well, because they've ignored our

1:21:49

request. they've asked for

1:21:51

the records, when did we ask for the records? We

1:21:54

asked for the records.

1:21:56

When did we ask

1:21:58

for the records? on the lawsuit.

1:22:00

Let's bring it up. I want to see what we ask for. Now,

1:22:07

asked for the records on August 5th, 2024. And

1:22:11

I believe they gave us a

1:22:13

number, right? And then they asked

1:22:16

for 10 extra days, which they

1:22:18

can, citing unusual circumstances. And it's

1:22:20

been crickets since then. The

1:22:25

Biden administration's decision to place Tulsi Gabbard

1:22:28

on a terrorist watch list is abusive

1:22:30

on its face. Given

1:22:34

her pending nomination to Director of

1:22:36

National Intelligence by President Trump, the

1:22:38

issue should quickly be cleared up,

1:22:40

and those responsible will be held

1:22:43

accountable. So

1:22:45

we're moving this case

1:22:47

speedily along as much

1:22:49

as we're able under

1:22:51

law. to get these records and

1:22:53

figure out what they were doing and

1:22:55

why they dared. a

1:22:57

place in American on

1:23:00

a terrorist watch list who is

1:23:02

a former member of Congress, active

1:23:04

presidential candidate, active public speaker. A

1:23:09

likely, You

1:23:11

know, this, her being a part

1:23:13

of the Trump administration has been talked about since

1:23:15

Trump's been running. And

1:23:20

she criticizes Biden, and the next day she

1:23:22

gets put on this terrorist watch list.

1:23:24

Who are they fooling? And

1:23:27

the fact they're not giving us documents?

1:23:29

or not responding at all? suggests

1:23:31

they have something to hide. So

1:23:37

once again, Judicial Watch is

1:23:39

doing the heavy lifting to expose

1:23:41

outrageous government corruption and retaliation

1:23:43

by the deep state. I

1:23:47

mean, this Biden administration punishes

1:23:49

all its enemies wherever it

1:23:51

can. I think the record

1:23:53

demonstrates that. through abuses a power. We've

1:23:55

never seen anything like it. We really

1:23:57

haven't. I mean the

1:23:59

president isn't running the the It's

1:24:01

clear. It's clear. It's like,

1:24:03

do whatever you want, It's

1:24:06

like with whatever you want, get away

1:24:08

with whatever you want. As

1:24:10

long as political, as long as it's

1:24:12

abusive, it seems those are the standards. are the standards

1:24:15

for action. action

1:24:17

on matters of matters of

1:24:19

national security. and law and

1:24:21

law enforcement. And of course,

1:24:23

judicial course, is exposed Watch how

1:24:25

the is air marshals were deployed

1:24:28

to the border to make sandwiches

1:24:30

for aliens crossing the border

1:24:32

at the imitation of Biden, the

1:24:34

Biden invaders. of Biden, the and

1:24:36

doing their jobs. And then

1:24:38

than we find out they're

1:24:40

being tasked with then now we find

1:24:42

tailing. being tasked with

1:24:45

basically tailing Tulsi But

1:24:47

what jobs what they doing? aren't

1:24:49

they in terms of of... protecting

1:24:52

the American people. That's what's scary

1:24:54

about it. That's what's scary about

1:24:56

it. So we hope to

1:24:59

find out how this we

1:25:01

hope to find out

1:25:03

how this happened through our litigation. What

1:25:05

our litigation. about What I

1:25:07

love about No matter the issue, we

1:25:09

can No matter the issue. it. we

1:25:12

can investigate it. up to

1:25:14

no good because the government's up to

1:25:16

no good in virtually everything that we're

1:25:18

concerned about. about. And And because it's

1:25:20

the government, we have the law available

1:25:22

to us us to ask questions about

1:25:24

what it's doing. doing. And there's And

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