What If We Open Ft. Knox...And It's Empty?

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What happened

to the gold at Fort Knox? And what are we going to find? And what happens if we don't find the gold at Fort Knox? We have Colin Plume, our gold expert, in to discuss that. And also we bring in Jack Posobiec to discuss all the updates within the Intel community.
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Right now, I am excited to bring on my friend and friend of the show, Colin Plume from Noble Gold Investments. Colin, welcome to the show.
We normally have you in studio when we do gold conversations or investment conversations or macroeconomic conversations. But we kind of had to rush this one because there's something else going on in the gold conversation that we just had to have you on and walk us through about this story i mean it really is something it's something i never thought we'd be talking about and that's of course fort knox which is where all the gold is supposed to be at least that's what we're told uh so anyways welcome to the show colin uh and uh why don't you walk our audience through what fort knox is like 30,000-foot level.
What is it? What's its purpose? What's its goal? What's its function? Yeah. So Fort Knox was created in 1937 to store our nation's gold, our gold, which is what Elon Musk and President Trump have been talking about.
This is our gold. So we should be able to see it, which I think is really important.
We've never done an audit in full audit in 50 years.

The, in 1941, they did an audit and we had over 20,000 tons of gold at that time.

It's unclear where a lot of that gold was or where it is today, because we currently have reported uh almost,200 tons. So we must have sold it at some point.
It's not clear where it was sold or who owns it at this point. At one point, we had 80% of the world's reserves.
And so when 1944 hit, we went to Brenton Words Exchange. We were, because of all this gold and the strength of our economy, we were the likely choice to be the world's reserve currency.
And so we became it. We became the currency of the world.
And I would say that is one of the greatest advantages that we've had since 1944 to be able to have this control

over the world's currency and everyone's been using our currency. So right now, supposedly,

we have about 50% of our gold stored there, but they haven't done a full audit. The last they did a partial audit in 1974, they did about 5% audit.
They've had people go in in the 80s, a few senators, and then in 2017, a few senators did a cursory look around, but they didn't do like a full audit. So this is really a sign that this administration believes in transparency.
And also, we want to know what we own. And so we're going to go in and do this audit and we will see what we own there in the depository.
But keep in mind, the gold that we own there is not what's typically traded today. It's not 0.999 gold.
These are gold coins that were melted into gold bars in the 30s. So they're actually 90% gold.
So we have about 10% less gold than what's currently traded on all the exchanges. Not that it matters so much, but we just don't have the same currency.
We don't have the same gold that we're trading in today's world. I mean, it's all really fascinating.
So you're basically saying Fort Knox, you know, there's supposed to be 18,000 tons of gold during World War II. In 1971, it was down to 8,100 tons.
And officially it's dropped to 4,583 tons. That's the last we know.
But that's what's in Fort Knox. Yeah.
Some of it's in Bank of New York and other we have other depositories. We're supposed to have 8,144 tons of gold, which if they revalue today.
Well, and that's another thing. What are they going to revalue at? You know, I think it would make more sense for them to revalue at four thousand dollars an ounce, because if they do it at four thousand and we have the actual goal that we say that'd be a trillion dollars and so we would basically put a trillion dollars uh onto our balance sheet as opposed to what we have right now is it's valued at 11 billion dollars so it would be a big boost for us to show this on our balance sheet.
It would show confidence to the world.

If it's there.

If it's there, Colin.

So let's go ahead and play cut 188.

This was President Trump seated next to Emmanuel Macron from France.

And he's just sort of speculating what we're going to find at Fort Knox 188.

We're actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there.

Because maybe somebody stole the gold.

Tons of gold.

And again, at 187.

We're also going to Fort Knox. I'm going to go with Elon.

And would anybody like to join us?

Because we want to see if the gold is still there. We want to see.
Wouldn't that be terrible if we open up? He was about to say, wouldn't that be terrible if we open it up and it's all gone? So, I mean, you can see, even by the reaction of the crowd, Colin, this has captured the imagination of, you know, America, of the world, frankly. He's doing it right next to Emmanuel Macron.
I want to I want to, like, ask you a provocative question. What what happens if the gold is gone? Like, what does that mean to the economy? Should investors be worried? I mean, will the price of gold skyrocket? What happens? I don't think there's any situation that gold doesn't go up in value.
And I know that's something easy for me to say. But I believe that because we're basically, if the gold's there, we're sending a message that this is a key asset.
And also, it's an asset that we own without debt. And we know how much debt we're in, $35, $36 trillion.
So we actually have this asset. We revalue it.
We put it on the books. It gives us a little bit more flexibility, and it sends a message to the world that we're strong.
If we don't have it, then I think we'll see a precipitous drop in the US dollar. Even the idea of revaluing it from $11 billion to $750 billion, if history repeats itself, and the times that we've done these audits, the dollar has lost significant value.
And it goes back to what I've talked about a lot is that owning assets right now in an inflationary environment is extremely important. And even though people say, well, gold's hit an all-time high, I don't know.
It's always been this way. Every year, people say, oh, it's hit another all-time high.
I mean, gold's up 46% over the last year and a half. So it's important to realize that assets are becoming really important.
And the U.S. government and our president is saying, we need to know what assets we have that don't have debt.
He's going to sell some of our land. He's going to sell buildings that we don't need.
But this is a strong asset and he wants to put us to the forefront. And President Trump always talks about gold.
I mean, his apartments are gold. We're talking about this $5 million.
Yeah, the gold card, Colin, the gold card. I thought I was like, well, I've got Colin coming on a little bit.
The gold card. Everything.
Yeah. Everything he talks about leads us to gold.
And I would say further that this is really important because the last three years, and this has never happened in history, are the world has bought over a thousand tons of gold for three years in a row. Think about that.
So they're creeping up on us. They're, they're becoming more dominant in the gold space.
And so now, you know, Trump and his administration are saying, you know, this is really important for us. And Judy Shelton, who's in his cabinet, is a big gold bud.
I mean, she just wrote a book about gold. So all signs are leading us to sound money principles and asset principles.
And gold is a big part of that story. So this is something I've wanted to happen since I've been in the gold business for 16 years.
Um, they've, they need to do this. They need to continue to do this.
I audit my depository every month. This is important to do.
Um, so it is important for us as a country to know, because as Elon Musk said, this is our money. This is our worth that we own this.
The taxpayers own this. So Colin, we have the right to know.
Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, it's going to be fascinating either way.
If it's there or if it's not there, it's going to be super fascinating. I don't think people should be worried.
But to your point, I mean, could be a good opportunity, given such a high profile newsy event to get in touch with with, you know, where your assets. By is James Bond at Fort Knox I mean this is how much Fort Knox has captivated the public imagination which which makes it I think you know an important financial event Colin really quick 30 seconds how can people find you get in touch with you by the way Colin's the man Colin is not a shyster he's not a fraud he is the real deal he's a good friend of the show so Colin where do people find you get in touch with you by the way colin's the man colin is not a shyster he's not a fraud he is the real deal he's a good friend of the show so colin where do people find you uh noble gold investments you can call us obviously mentioned you heard uh andrew and i here on the show we have a ton of promotions and i will say even though gold has gone up our prices on bullion coins and bars the real thing it's never been better it's a great time to get physical gold and silver.
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So, Brian, I was struck by this morning's press conference with the cabinet meeting. I mean, the all-star team, the Avengers squad, everybody there.
I mean, it was really amazing. And I keep thinking that every press conference, I've heard it all and I've seen it all.
And then a new context happens, a new forum, a new visual comes out of this White House. You were there.
Tell us what you saw, heard and experienced. What was it like in the room? It's just a lot of leadership going on is what is my biggest takeaway.
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So that was one of my biggest takeaways on that. And I love the fact that after it was over, you know, President Trump, as he does, he takes a lot of questions.
Yesterday in the Oval Office, he was there for a little over an hour taking questions. And it was about everything from PGA, golf, to the Middle East, to the border, to Canada being the 51st state.
Like he'll go everywhere. And that's the beauty of this administration, Andrew, is it doesn't matter what the press conference is about.
He'll answer those questions, but he'll also entertain other topics as well. So today was great.
And of course, Elon Musk, another big takeaway on that, looking very, very aware of the corruption and abuse of our government, the wasteful government that we have in each department. I think he's taking on a certain role in that is important as well.
Brian, when you see that great analysis, by the way, the leadership point is very well made.

President Trump gives leadership.

He gives coverage and cover to his cabinet secretaries. A lot of the haters in the media be like, oh, they know all they know how to do is kiss the shoes of the president and kiss the ring.
And no, it's like, listen, they want to follow this man. He is providing actual leadership.
It would be dumb for them not to give a hat tip and

say, listen, I'm here because the president told me to be here and the American people vested the vesting clause of the Constitution, their faith and trust in this man. So of course, we're going to follow this man.
And he's showing tremendous leadership. And by the way, mastery of the facts and the dates, they asked him when the tariffs with Mexico are going to go in.
He's like April 2nd. I mean, it was amazing.
But just talk to me, Brian, about this idea of this openness, this candor with the press. This graphic is already dated, but it was Joe Biden at this point in his presidency took 141 questions from the media and Trump was at 1,009.
That is now outdated. It's many more than that now.
Talk to me about what that's like being in the press corps with a president like this. One minute, Brian.
Yeah, real quickly, being in the press yesterday, the WHCA got that announcement from Karen Levitt. They were going to basically take over the reseeding of that.
That's brilliant. Caroline's doing an amazing job.
She is actually doing far better than what anyone would expect for someone that young in that briefing room, such a, you know, it's very particular high pressure briefing room, but the transparency for this, this president is incredible. The amount of questions he takes each and every time he steps in front of the microphone, he's, he's open to do that to criticism and, you know, people that are simply maybe people like me that are bringing stuff to the news front that I know the other media outlets are not going to ask him about or even mention it.
So that's kind of I think my job as a journalist is to let the American people know the good that's going on in this administration, not just focus on some of the some of the things that they view as a failure. But the media is definitely this is a quite a contrast difference than it was with Joe Biden, who basically didn't hold press conferences and certainly during the press briefings didn't really get a lot of information as well.
And mind you, 2024 election, 85 percent of the coverage for President Trump was negative. But he won the people's vote, won the Electoral College and won big last election.
Despite that, their power is waning. Ours is ascendant.
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Jack, welcome to the show, my friend. Appreciate that.
You know, everybody's been talking about kevin posobic lately my brother

getting credit from wapo for the gulf of america he goes on tim cast last night it's like hey guys

i'm still here still around you know still kicking not only are you still around jack

not only are you still around but uh you have uh you are now doing national radio so it goes

charlie kirk from what uh 12 to 1 and 1 to 2 and then jack pasobiec 2 to 3 so human events daily is now covering that that time slot uh so congratulations my friend that's that's a that's a huge huge accomplishment and a massive audience i will say as somebody who gets to speak uh to it uh you know on a regular basis when Charlie's out, I can just say congratulations. It's an amazing accomplishment.
But, Jack, go ahead. Thank you.
No, I was going to say thank you. I mean, it's an honor.
It's a privilege. But, of course, it's a responsibility, too.
You know, I come from the Philadelphia media market. So, you know, I remember listening.
It's 990 a.m. out there on the Salem radio network.
And I just remember listening in the mornings and, you know, really credits listening to talk radio and then actually getting involved in talk radio myself as being one of the reasons that, you know, I kind of turned out the way that I did. And I wouldn't say that I came to it when I was a kid.
my parents weren't particularly political, but you know, really, college years, I would say is when it, you know, post 911, that's really when it switched me on. And back then, you know, we didn't have podcasts, we didn't have x, we didn't have social media.
And believe it or not, Facebook didn't even exist yet. And so talk radio really was that spot.
And I've just got nothing but nothing but respect and real reverence for talk radio and the way that it uh that a way that it permeates communities and has been this just the foundational bastion well you're totally right i mean talk radio was the last bastion of conservative really uh it was it was thought leadership there was the magazine space i mean tucker used to write in the magazine space a lot i mean the magazine space was huge but talk radio made it accessible to millions of people rush limbaugh hat tip forever to the goat uh and you know in philadelphia you got chris de gall who's now taking the national show with salem uh uh in the mornings is way back yeah exactly so chris de gall is fantastic he's been on this show as well so anyways actually actually uh i'll I'll blow him up a little bit that Chris DeGall's producer. I actually went to high school with him and we sang in choir together.
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OK, Jack, that's not why I had you on at all. A little bit.
A little bit. I don't have you on the show to talk about all of this stuff, but it was fast.
It was good times. I had you on it because you have a particular vantage point first of all you're really well sourced in the intel space you also were a navy analyst intel analyst if i'm not mistaken um and there's a lot of stuff going on in the intel world i mean to put it mildly tulsi gabbard being dna dni in any other administration would be earth shattering kind of of a development here and here she is i'm going to play cut 192 she got word of this uh chris rufo story about these nsa chats and she's putting the kibosh to it right away bringing accountability to the nsa and the intel uh community cut 192 uh there are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in this what what is really just an egregious violation of trust what to speak of like basic rules and standards around professionalism i put out a directive today that they all will be terminated and their security clearances will be revoked.
Boom. Just like that.

And Jack, she's got a whole vision for accountability in the Intel world, cut 193. But the thing here, Jesse, is we've got to take a step back because this is just barely scratching the surface.
When you see what these people were saying, and thanks to Chris Rufo for putting it all out online, They were brazen in using an NSA platform intended for professional use to conduct this kind of really, really horrific behavior. And they were brazen in doing this because when was the last time anyone was really held accountable? held accountable jack and and then i'm gonna one more point and i'm gonna throw it to you now we're even looking at this new ruling out of the uk which the uk is forcing apple uh to create a backdoor into their platform and there is concerns that this international espionage you know collaboration we call it five eyes or maybe there's other in, could use that as a backdoor into Americans' cell phones.

Jack, break it all down for us.

The Intel community is getting a shakeup.

Well, there's obviously quite a bit there. So I'll take it in reverse order.
So with what this piece that's coming down from D&I regarding the UK's backdoor into Apple, into your cloud system, obviously your data, that's where your messages are. That's where your phone calls can take place.
If there's voicemail, voice messages, people are using that in transcription, so much more. So that's all going to be in there.
Now, something that we saw in the Intel community, of course, people know about Five Eyes. And so, you know, working within the Five Eyes community, myself as an American intelligence officer, you could receive information from the British.
You could also receive, they could receive information from us. But remember, local laws, national laws in the United States and in the United Kingdom restrict you from using the intelligence services against your own citizens.

So here in the United States, we have the NSA.

Now, I'm not going to sit here and say that the United States, we have the NSA. Now,

I'm not going to sit here and say that the NSA has never been used to spy on Americans,

but I'll get there in a second. I'm just talking about the boilerplate.
I'm talking about how it

works on paper. Then the UK is the same issue.
Their version of the NSA is called GCHQ. And so

GCHQ operates on government communications headquarters, and that operates under the

same auspices. They're not supposed to go after US citizens or actually, excuse me, UK citizens,

or in the US., it's actually broadened into U.S. persons.
So that could include people with green cards. It can include business entities, all sorts of things.
You know, so it's not just Charlie Kirk, but it's also Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, all the different things that would still count as a U.S. person under the auspices of NSA authorities.
Obviously, with the point being that you're not supposed to just be sucking down warrantless wiretapping of anyone in the United States. If you want to do that, open up a criminal investigation.
So what do you do? Well, you use something called parallel reconstruction, whereby in someone, if you're a bad actor, you can go to, if you're in the NSA, you can go to the British and you can say, hey, we want to look up something that an American's doing. So we want you to actually go and collect the information, pull that out of their cell phone, use, and potentially this backdoor is one way that they're talking about it for the people at GCHQ.
They can pull it out of the Apple iPhone, suck up all your data, bring it to the UK. Then the UK writes the report, shares that with the United States, so shares it with the NSA sitting there at Fort Meade.
And then boom, now you've got the information on a US citizen without you collecting it yourself. And so there's all sorts of these backdoors.
There's also ways to use the FISA warrant. This, of course, was done with General Flynn.
I think people famously know that one where they were spying on Sergei Kislyak, who was the Russian ambassador at the time. But General Flynn, in his capacity as the national security advisor to President Trump, was having phone conversations with him.
Well, the NSA was spying on the Russian side. So they turned around and pulled up and said, oh, he's talking to an American, an American who seems like he's important.
Who could that be? It's General Flynn. Then they took that highly, highly classified transcript, which was obtained through that FISA warrant on, again, on the Russian.
And what did they do? They leaked it to David Ignatius over at the Washington Post. Keep in mind, by the way, this is a crime.
I'd love for Kash Patel. I know that he's going back to 2016 and looking at some of these crimes against the spying and the wiretapping of the Trump administration, as well as these honeypot operations.

Obviously, something that I would I'd certainly encourage them to look into who unmasked General Flynn and then who leaked that highly classified transcript to The Washington Post. So not only, Andrew, are these things that Tulsi Gabbard is getting proactive about and looking at ways to prevent future Americans from having to face the consequences of these abuses, but we've also got Kash Patel in place now where he can go after some of the people who were committing those abuses.
Because for all we know, some of those individuals could be in these very same NSA chat rooms that Chris Rumpo is telling us all about. I can almost guarantee they are uh Jack let's but let's throw up this is a letter written by uh Tulsi basically saying that she's going to be probing this so she's probing the implications of the UK's alleged demand that Apple share users iCloud data by creating a backdoor Gabbard says this would be a clear and egregious violation of Americans' privacy and civil liberties and open up a serious vulnerability for cyber exploitation by adversarial actors.
Now, Jack, to your point about the FBI, we are getting, I would say, unconfirmed but very credible threats or accusations that content is being destroyed at the FBI or it has been destroyed or was already destroyed. At some point, people are covering up their footsteps.
Well, Andrew, of course, I mean, we're hearing that as well. And I was with Kash Patel today.
He was nominated. It was at the after party, spoke with some of the team that's going in there.
But at the same time, this is a massive organization. If those guys know, and they have known for a while that Chris Ray was stepping down, the very first thing they would be doing is starting to cover up the paper trail.
After all, it's the FBI. They are the king of cover ups over there.

Yeah, I mean, I think we would be naive to assume that that wasn't happening. But I mean, frankly, if you're part of the FBI and you have been found to be doing bad things, and then you compound the crime or the wrongdoing, the misdeed, maybe it wasn't even criminal, but then all of a sudden you go to cover up the evidence by destroying documents, then I'm sorry, you belong in prison.
You belong in a federal prison, and's, I think Charlie tweeted this, life in prison should definitely be on the table. This is treason.
This is a crime of the highest degree. And it must be taken as such by this new leadership at the FBI and within the intel community.
I can't wait for them to get to the bottom of this. I certainly hope and expect them to do a lot of work on this front.
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I mean, it was talking about the eroticism

of being able to urinate without the equipment.

I mean, I don't even want to talk about some of this stuff.

What are you hearing, Jack?

Yeah, look, what I'm hearing is

that there's more that's being uncovered.

There's obviously what we heard

is that there's an investigation into these chats. And Chris Rufo, of course, got that great leak that came out already.
But at the same time, what we're hearing is that at the DNI, they're going and finding not only these chats, but more chat rooms that are of similar status. Look, Intel Link is something that I used to have access to when I was in the Intel community.
So they've got various chat rooms across. It's kind of like MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger, if anybody, any of the centennials out there remember those.
And so anyone who's got an active account can participate in these things. And so what people need to understand that it's not just NSA.
There were CIA members in here. There were obviously the NSA members, but you've got people from across the intelligence community that were involved in this.
And keep in mind, when you look at these logs, they were doing this on your dollar. They were doing this as taxpayers.
And the thing that I need to push back on this notion that all of this is that being done by accident, that all of this is just incompet you know, incompetence, right? Oh, I can't believe this. No, no.
These types of people, and you can go and look at the NSAs and go look at the Biden administration's and the intel communities recruiting ads for the last couple of years, they were recruiting actively people to create these groups. Here's my question for you, Jack, in our final segment here, we've got about five minutes, but it's a really critical question.
Trump went through the 50 spies that lied, 51 spies that lied, pulled their security clearances. He's been pulling security clearances, whether you're Joe Biden or these people, Jack Smith's security detail, security detail of his lawyers.
I i mean he is not afraid to go sort of rip this root and stem out uh from our intel community um as well as our justice department which includes the fbi but jack the work that brennan clapper these people did burns to to fundamentally reshape the culture of the intel community. Explain that.
What were they recruiting for? What did they want to purge out? And then, you know, briefly, how do we fix it? Well, yeah, thanks, Andrew. And that's a great question.
Look, we know from the very start that Brennan was a guy who admitted openly that he was a communist when he was younger, that he voted for communist parties, that he came in. And so these were the types of politics starting in the Obama administration and particularly under Clapper when he unified that command.
Remember, Clapper was the DNI prior to, you know, go back a couple iterations. Clapper was the DNI that made the DNI what it is.
Now Tulsi Gabbard is sitting in Clapper's seat. It's like complete 180.
It's actually kind of hard to get my mind around it because they're just so radically different. One was the one who built the deep state apparatus.
And then Tulsi Gabbard is someone who's actually been fighting for the American people for her entire career, regardless of what side of the aisle she's on, just an absolute champion for individual rights, for civil liberties. And so to go up against someone like Clapper and Brennan, people who have lied under oath about wiretapping congressmen, wiretapping senators, it's really night and day.
But what they built, Andrew, was a completely politically radicalized institution under the intelligence community. And they went after the IC the same way that they've gone after the universities and every other institution in society.
And Chris Rufo, of course, has been someone who's targeted this and been speaking about it, particularly in academia, as well as in the corporate world. But remember, academia and the intelligence community have a one to one handoff ratio.
They recruit from the Ivy League. They go to these schools.
They go to Stanford. They worked hand in glove with them over and over and over.
So you see this revolving door between the IC and academia. And as academia became more radicalized, so too did the officials inside the intel community.
And remember, you have to go back to what we called the communist playbook from our book on humans last year at the New York Times, that this was and is a deliberate playbook from the very start. They always do this when a radical regime, a radical group takes over a government apparatus.
The first thing they do is take over controls of law enforcement, of the national security state, of the military. They then turn that over to ideological capture.
And the ideological capture then becomes the people who get promoted, the people who get to higher office. And then what do they do? They turn those institutions against their political enemies.
So when you've been sitting there saying, wait a minute, why is it that it feels like the intel community isn't going after our adversaries overseas? Why does it feel like they are purging patriots? They're getting rid of those in the ranks. They're persecuting patriots who have served in the intelligence community.
And as a matter of fact, they then go a step further and they're starting to lock up Trump supporters, patriots, pro-lifers. They're writing intelligence community documents about how traditional Catholics are actually domestic extremists.
And suddenly when you dig deeper and realize who they were in these chat groups, you say, oh, wait a minute. A chat group today is like a people's committee in the Jacobin revolution or the Bolshevik revolution.
It's the exact same thing we've seen time and again.

Jack, I totally agree.

And when you see this,

this clip from Jasmine Crockett,

where she's talking about,

I'm rooting for Mexico and I'm rooting for Canada in the hockey match.

And like, that's really hard for me.

Like that is the exact POV as a,

as a proud red blooded American man.

I would never be caught dead rooting for Canada or Mexico in a,

in a sporting event.

I'm sorry, but it's, it's, it may be funny. It may be light.
That same, whatever that is, that is exactly what has worked itself into our federal bureaucracies and with the rank and file in our intel agencies. They assume that America is the bad guy.
Well, no more, folks. We've got real patriots at the helm and they will root this this out.
So, anyways, I'm hoping for the best.

It's a heck of a job these guys got to do.

I mean, everybody's got to keep their expectation balanced

because this is a heck of a job rooting these people out,

and the smart ones are going to be harder to catch.

Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

Talk to you soon.

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