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On today's program, a lot going on.

Tulsi Gabbard talks a little bit about what's coming in prosecutions and additional information from the intelligence community.

Also, Mike Lee, the outrageous action of the Senate.

We are way behind.

And you want to know why we don't have justice?

Because the Senate is not clearing the U.S.

attorneys.

They're not passing the nomination.

They're not doing their job.

They need to.

Also, we play a game today.

Stu and I try to decide which quote from Kamala Harris is real, which year a outrageous COVID conspiracy headline is from from the New York Times, and how a documentary could lead to a pardon for Diddy.

Well, when I say documentary, I mean Smokey and the Bandit, all on today's podcast.

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Imagine a barbecue conversation with Glenn Beck and Mike Lee.

Now, there's a barbecue conversation.

Mike's actually really funny.

He is very funny.

Yeah, he's very funny.

Never apparently on the air, but

he's with us now.

Hello, Mike.

Hello.

Good to be with you as always.

And I'm going to try really hard to be funny.

Yeah.

I'm going to try not even to be boring a little.

Yeah, no, it's no, it's always, it's always great when people are trying to be funny, too.

It's just, it's, it's really good.

Um,

so, uh, Mike, uh, thanks for being on.

I am, I am so upset with the Senate, So upset with these Republicans.

How many senators, I mean,

how many nominations are sitting on the sidelines that for some reason our side doesn't want to confirm for the president?

Well, the confirmation backlog is at about 150.

It was at 144 the other day.

We added six just from two of the committees I served on yesterday alone.

So we're somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 right now.

Now, technically speaking, it's not necessarily Republicans don't want to confirm them.

It's just that the Democrats are slowing down the process.

And Republicans, as Republican senators, we now have to decide what we're going to do about it.

Now, some would say, well, it's August.

We got to go home.

Tomorrow is the first day of August.

People want to be home for August.

I get it.

Washington's not fun this time of year.

And historically, the Senate has recessed at this time of year.

But, you know, sometimes you got to do the job that you signed up for.

And so we can complain all we want about the fact that Senate Democrats have delayed the process.

That's kind of become the job of the opposition party these days in the Senate.

But once they delay and obstruct, it's on us

if we don't clear the deck.

And the way we clear the deck, the only way to clear the deck is through the tool that we call exhaustion.

You keep them here, you make them vote, including and especially at times that they find inconvenient or undesirable.

This is that time.

So

we need Republican senators to start saying en masse, we will say, we insist on staying to get these nominees voted on.

And if it takes us all months, so be it.

It probably won't take that long because people tend to all of a sudden become far more willing to negotiate and compromise.

when something that they want is on the line, especially when what they want is to get out of Dodge.

Before we go back into politics, tell me who is being held up tell me the the consequence of holding these these nominees up well look many months ago we got the cabinet confirmed and so most of these names are not in super prominent positions that every american is going to be aware of These are a combination, a small handful of them are judges, although we're really just getting started on the judges.

Not many of them are judicial nominees.

Most of them are a combination of ambassadors,

people representing the United States interests abroad as the president's personal representative and their personal representative of the U.S.

government.

They're undersecretaries,

assistant secretaries, division directors within various departments of the U.S.

government.

Now, let me tell you why that matters.

Even though most of these departments aren't that important to most Americans' daily lives, at least insofar as they think about them from day to day,

What happens is that with these lower level positions is where a lot of the work gets done.

And when you don't have a Senate confirmed political appointee put in place by the president, confirmed by the Senate, guess who runs those departments, those divisions, those agencies?

It's the deep state bureaucrats.

The deep state bureaucratic apparatus, the regulators, the career civil servant

workers who basically can't get fired, they lean overwhelmingly left.

And that is an understatement, if ever there were one.

So this is much different than it would be if Democrats were slowed down by Republicans and they couldn't get all of their nominees through.

Because the default is it's okay.

Democrats are still in charge because they run the deep state apparatus.

We don't have that luxury.

We flip effectively control of the U.S.

government, a huge swath of it, from Republican control, which Americans voted for in November, over to Democrats.

Every day we refuse or decline or fail to do the work necessary to confirm these people into their jobs.

And it's high time we get it done.

Where is Thune on this?

He's, from what I've seen, in favor of holding people.

Is that true or not?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm always cautious about talking for a colleague, especially the Senate Majority Leader in public.

But every conversation I've had with him and every conversation I've heard him have in public and in private has been that he's in favor of doing it.

Now, the concern is, and the concern that he and others have expressed is, yeah, but what happens if our people don't show up?

Because apparently, some Republican senators have gone to him and others saying, I won't be there if you have votes in August.

Now, these people aren't.

Well, I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know whether they've got a plan.

Maybe some of them

have some dire emergency they've got to attend to.

I really don't know because they haven't identified themselves to me or to the public as far as I'm aware.

But

out of 50 people, I'd give that excuse to maybe one of them.

I have a dire emergency.

emergency.

Everybody else

gets to work.

And if you've got a dire emergency, we actually have kind of a protocol for dealing with that sort of thing.

Either a dire emergency or you've got something like, I don't know,

an immediate family member has died, an immediate family member is getting married.

You've got to be there.

It's a long-standing practice in the Senate.

When you're in that circumstance, very often you can go and find somebody across the aisle, a member of the other party, and say, hey, I'm on a bind.

I've really got to be in location X.

I'm having a lobotomy tomorrow or I've

got my son's brisks or whatever it is.

Would you be willing to pair your absence with mine?

And more often than not, you can find somebody who's willing to do that.

So that's my point, is that, you know, other than a few things like that, which can be dealt with through paired absence arrangements,

sure, other people may have travel plans, other things they would rather do, international travel or travel around the country, around their state, whatever it is.

But those things can change.

And they can be delayed.

And here I think they must be.

Because Glenn, if we leave, if we leave, if we recess as has long been planned, you know, by tomorrow, if we recess for the entire month of August, we'll come back.

These 150 nominees will still be here.

And you know what?

We're adding to that backlog at a rate of, I don't know, 10 or 15 new nominees per week as as more nominees get moved out.

If we were just to have these, if these were the only people we had to confirm, it would still take us until probably late April of 2026 just to get this current slate confirmed.

But by then, Glenn, we'll have another 200 or so that we've got to confirm.

That eats into our ability to do everything, to confirm others, to confirm judges, of which there will be a lot more in the coming months.

And even to get our legislative work done, because then we're stuck on these executive nomination votes.

That's why that time

clear the backlog is now.

It's got to happen now.

How many of these are

U.S.

attorneys?

There are a number of them who are U.S.

attorneys.

I wish I had the breakdown of exactly how many fall into which category, but we got a bunch of U.S.

attorneys who were in this group, and U.S.

attorneys

play a very important role.

I have to tell you, Mike,

I just had Tulsi on about an hour ago, and I said to her, you know, i do people in washington understand the crisis of confidence the american people have in our government and in justice i mean i've i've never felt it like this mike and i don't know if you guys feel it this way as much in uh you know in washington but you need to your your your uh colleagues need to understand they are at the end here of trust there's you know all this stuff that's coming out oh this committee committee just found this and hey there's these new new documents out that show this.

Everybody's like, uh-huh.

And so what?

What are you going to do about it?

Another hearing until things actually start to move.

And the U.S.

attorneys are the key to that.

If we don't have U.S.

attorneys and they haven't been confirmed, you can't get anything done in the justice field.

Yep, that's right.

And this is happening at exactly the same time when a lot of these interim U.S.

attorneys are timing out.

They're allowed to serve in that temporary capacity for a limited period of time.

And under a stupid law enacted decades ago that I have a bill to repeal,

they have federal judges in each district who can decide who will replace the interim U.S.

attorney at that point.

That's a barbaric and unconstitutional practice, if ever there were one.

Judicial personnel, naming executive personnel, that's wrong.

So we've got to get this done.

And I've talked to the president repeatedly about this, including less than 24 hours ago.

Presidents Glenn to agree with me, as indicated by, among other things, the post on social media I made over the weekend saying, get this done.

Stay in town, get him confirmed, do your job.

He needs it.

The American people expect it.

They demand it.

They voted for this in November.

And it is not appropriate for us to deprive them of that.

And make no mistake, Glenn.

If we leave and leave this backlog undone, there will be consequences, there will be harm, and that is on us.

We can blame Democrats all we want.

But when the Democrats delay, as is the prerogative of the opposition party these days, it's just what happens in the Senate.

If they delay and we do nothing to make them pony up for it and show up and vote and do the work

to eat the consequences of their delay, this is on us.

Who are the people?

Who are the people that we can nicely call to encourage that are on our side that might be

open to fighting a little harder to get everybody to stay.

Who should we,

you know, I don't want to call and be negative because I don't think that works.

But, you know, when people call and say, hey, you know, I know you're on the right side on this.

How can we help you push even harder?

Because there's millions of us out here that want this done.

How can we help you get it done?

Is there anybody, do you think that's effective or what's the most effective approach?

I do, and I like the way you approach that.

And here's what I would suggest in this circumstance.

We've got 53 Republican senators.

If you live in a state where you're represented by a Republican senator, maybe even if you're not, but you think somebody might listen to you.

Call the office, email the office, probably call the office of those Republican senators and encourage them to do it.

Stay positive.

Say, I'd really appreciate it if you stayed and cleared the backlog.

We appreciate the other good things that you've done.

We appreciate how hard you work.

And we're confident that you can clear the backlog.

We ask that you do so.

I think that's very helpful because there's not

one of those 53 Republican senators who couldn't benefit from that.

We all need to hear that across the board.

Mike, as always, thanks for everything.

Thanks for how hard you're working and standing for the Constitution.

Even though you wanted to put a McDonald's and some sort of coal-fired, you know,

energy plant in right smack on top of our national parks.

Well, yeah, and don't forget about the grilling rig and the nuclear reactor.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But that was only in Yellowstone, if I remember.

Exactly.

God bless you, Mike.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Senator Mike Lee.

Please, please, please, tomorrow is the day, so call them today.

Mike is exactly right on this.

If we don't get this done,

you want justice?

We cannot get justice without the U.S.

attorneys.

We need the U.S.

attorneys to be installed.

All they have to do is hold a vote on them.

They've got to be installed.

Otherwise, the president doesn't have anybody to investigate, anybody to put the cases together to be able to prosecute them.

We don't have enough people.

Please call your senator.

They go on vacation possibly tomorrow.

Tell them to stay.

Beg them to stay.

Ask them to stay.

Be nice about it.

Let's try that one.

See if that works.

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Hi, Tulsi.

How are you?

I'm good.

It's great to see you.

Good to see you.

First of all, how's everything in Hawaii?

We prayed for you and everybody in Hawaii.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thankfully,

the tsunami passed without any real damage.

I was talking to my folks and friends and family there late last night here on the East Coast and just trying to help make sure everyone was prepared.

for the worst, which is what you have to do.

It looked like it was going to be quite potentially very damaging.

They were looking at one to three meter waves, essentially like 10-foot waves.

Horrible.

That, you know, in any respect is kind of a, it's a tough day in the ocean but for a tsunami that would have been disastrous and so again thankfully everyone is safe and uh minimal minimal effect

so let's go into what has been released and uh what is still yet to come you know as i look at the stuff that has you know in the declassified documents of russia gate um

It confirms what many of us have already known.

Are you surprised at anything, at the media not reporting any of this?

I mean, we've known a lot of this, but now the media is absolutely silent on it.

And people seem to be deleting posts and no longer commenting online.

What's happening?

Yes.

I am.

Not surprised that the mainstream media is refusing to cover this.

And if they do mention it,

their approach is to try to

diminish the effect and the impact of the revelations, the historic revelations that were found in the documents that we declassified and released, or to try to bring voice to detractors and critics who also just say, oh, well, this is bizarre or this is crazy.

But when you actually look at the coverage and you look at some of the comments and the quotes that the mainstream media may be choosing to publish or highlight, they're not actually getting after the very specific pieces of evidence that were released that, quote, people like John Brennan, who was the CIA director, and James Clapper, who was Obama's director of national intelligence,

they are not giving voice to the intelligence professionals who in these reports that we released were protesting against the very malicious actions that people like Brennan and Clapper

were taking at President Obama's direction to create this intelligence assessment that was filled with falsehoods.

They're not giving voice to these intelligence professionals because they recognize that it would push forward a very inconvenient truth for the mainstream media because it exposes their complicity in pushing this lie and this hoax from not only day one, but throughout President Trump's entire first administration.

And all of these people are still, I mean, Brennan, Clapper,

they have been the source on so many things and they're in with the media.

And I wonder if this is just part of more of the same that they're asking them, is there anything to this?

And they say, no, there's not.

In fact, it's whatever.

And then I also wonder, how many people are you surrounded by that are still part of that old system?

It's a good question.

As we are finding these documents, going through them, declassifying and releasing them, we are learning more about who is actually directly involved and implicated in this.

We're learning more about who may have been in the room and who was loudly protesting against it, recognizing how wrong it was.

We have whistleblowers coming forward with their own documentation of their protests and their unwillingness to go along with this.

So, yes, there are people who are still working within the intelligence community who had a hand in this.

As we are identifying them, it will give us the opportunity to make sure that they and others like them who again are so willing to weaponize intelligence to subvert the will of the American people can no longer work in the intelligence community.

So Devin Nunes, Cash Patel, all these guys were in the last time Trump was in.

This was produced.

in the last administration.

Why wasn't this, why didn't this come out then?

You know, it's a good question and it's an obvious one.

I can't speak for those who were there at that time, but I've asked some of these same questions and they were facing, I can't speak for all of them, but for Devon, for example, and for Cash, they were up against the deep state in many cases who refused to release these documents.

If you remember, Mike Pompeo was President Trump's, I think he was his first CIA director, followed by Gina Haspel.

I was told Gina Haspel refused to release these documents.

So, again, the more that

we find in the documentation as whistleblowers come forward, I think the story will continue to be told about what actually happened and why it is that here we are in 2025.

And again, this won't surprise many people who've been following this story very closely for years,

but the fact that we have documented evidence and proof is the thing that matters both to shine a light on the truth truth, that this wasn't something that was in someone's imagination or concocted, but I think even most importantly, that can drive towards accountability.

So Fox News had an exclusive that said Cash Patel found thousands of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump-Russia probe buried in multiple burn bags in secret rooms inside the Bureau.

What's a burn bag?

A burn bag is something that you'll find in many offices throughout the intelligence community, throughout these different workspaces in national security.

Basically, if I have a document that's highly classified, I read it, I review it, I'm done with it.

My copy can then go in the burn bag to make sure that it's not, it doesn't end up in the wrong hands, that there's not an unauthorized disclosure of classified information.

It's a very different story, however, if you use a burn bag to try to get rid of evidence of which maybe there is only one copy of, and then hide it in a secret room in the FBI.

That is a tactic, obviously, that has been used by those deep staters, these bad actors within the intelligence community to try to get rid of evidence.

Another tactic that's often used is

over-classifying information.

This is what happened with the Steele dossier.

This was already widely publicized as a discredited document.

But what John Brennan did and James Clapper did as the CIA director and the Obama's director of national intelligence, they didn't want anybody to know that they used the Steele dossier as a source for this intelligence assessment that was filled with falsehoods they published in January of 2017, as well as other really, really shoddy intelligence sources that would not be acceptable

to be used on any topic because they were not deemed credible.

They wanted to hide all all of this from members of Congress, perhaps, who were reading this and the American people and President Trump then, President-elect Trump at that time.

And so they over-classified it in a way that there were less than 10 people who could access it.

And then they locked up the only hard copy documents.

This document did not exist

on digits, the document that actually exposed.

This was the document that we released.

They locked that document up and the five copies that existed in a safe.

And the first time it had been seen, certainly in public, but even by many within the government, was when we released it about a week ago.

Sunday, John Radcliffe said that there's more declassification of intelligence coming out that shows how deep this went.

He said it's stunning.

Any idea on the timeline of that?

It's going through the declassification process right now.

I expect it to be released very soon.

I think the document will speak for itself.

And once again, it will, I think, confirm what a lot of people have already known to be true, but it'll connect a lot of the dots that

have not been revealed in public before.

Are you sensing with, I mean, let's see, Mark Elias

stopped posting on X.

Brennan has lawyered up.

John Kerry has made his account private.

Peter Strzok deleted his entire ex-history.

Are you sensing they feel the walls are closing in?

In my view, that's the only way that I can read this situation.

Those who are truly innocent would not be taking those kinds of actions.

And once again, this is why it's so important to declassify this information, to get the truth out,

because

it's something that for anyone who is mildly objective is irrefutable and undeniable and can be used and is currently being reviewed by the Department of Justice to bring about accountability for those involved.

We were talking before we went on the air and

I said, you know, I'm really, I'm struggling with my job right now.

Because I don't, I don't,

it at times doesn't seem like it's worth it.

It makes any difference at all, because I don't know what I believe in.

I don't know what's true anymore, Tulsi.

I don't know.

You know, I can't sit here on the air and talk about problems if there's not a solution.

It feels insane.

It feels insane.

I keep doing the same thing over and over again, beating the head against the wall and saying, look, here's proof.

Here's proof.

Here's proof.

And nothing happens.

Do you sense that?

Do you think the people around you understand how

what danger the country is in right now because they just don't believe there's justice on any front?

Well, first, Glenn, let me just tell you how important your voice is.

I think the first, I'm serious, I'm not just patronizing you.

It is your voice and voices like yours, where you have the ability to reach and impact people from all political stripes, different backgrounds, different walks of life across the country

who are not paying as close attention.

I'm just going to keep talking.

We're not paying as close attention to these things in the way that you and your team are.

And your ability to communicate first,

the first challenge and opportunity is to be able to communicate to the American people why they should care about this at all.

What the implications of what we have released and exposed truly are, not just for President Trump, not just for Republicans or for Democrats, but for the integrity of our Democratic Republic and the tactics that are being used by the deep state and have been used in order to, in this case, essentially subvert the will of the American people because

President Obama and his cohort were not happy that President Trump got elected.

So, the first thing is being able to really communicate clearly the implications of this on our republic.

The second piece of this, yes, it is the accountability piece.

And I understand the frustration.

But our system is set up in the way that it is by our visionary founding fathers.

What we have to do is fulfill our duty, focused on the Constitution,

and providing this mechanism for

for accountability to take place and doing what the American people really have done best since the founding of our country, which is recognizing the power in each of our voices to make sure that we are calling for that necessary action to begin to restore that trust.

I'm sure you can relate.

I mean,

Dan Bongino posted a cryptic message on X the other day.

I read it.

Yeah, he said, it shocked me.

What I found out

at my time at the FBI has shocked me down to the core.

We cannot run a republic like this, and I'll never be the same after learning what I've learned.

I'm not expecting you to answer for him, but have you felt that way when you've gotten being there?

I have seen up close and personal the tactics that are used by those who care more for themselves, their ambition, their job, their influence, their political interests,

their selfish, self-serving interests, then they care about the Constitution.

That every single one of these law enforcement and intelligence community professionals swear an oath, just like I have, both in uniform and the military and as a member of Congress and as Director of National Intelligence to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

This is why what we are doing matters so much.

So, yes, I have my own frustrations, trust me, but my resolve is focused

and is rooted in my love for our country and my belief in the values and principles that our country was founded upon, and therefore the responsibility that I carry to do something about that which we are revealing, that which I am seeing and experiencing firsthand.

It is a heavy responsibility, but it's also an awesome one, and I spend every day doing my best to fulfill it.

You know, we've talked before, and I've said to you, you are in the second most dangerous job, I think, in the nation.

You know, President Trump is in the most dangerous job in the nation.

And I think, you know, you're working around some people that do this kind of stuff for a living.

And we pray for your safety every night.

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All right, so, Stu, let's play a game, okay?

Yes, I like games.

Which

is Kamala Harris, and which one did I make up?

Okay.

Okay.

Two quotes.

Two quotes.

One of them, Kamala Harris said, and the other one I made up.

Okay.

Okay.

This is going to be, this could be tough.

She spoke about her

candidacy as the gubernatorial candidate in California.

Yes.

Okay.

She's not going to run.

No.

Sad.

No.

That's sad.

Okay.

So did she say,

upon some deep reflection,

for now, my leadership in public service will not be an elected office.

Over the past few months, I've spent time reflecting on this moment in our nation's history and the best way for me to continue fighting for the American people and advancing the values and ideals I hold dear.

Is that Kamala Harris?

Okay, that's option one.

Option two.

So here's the thing.

When we talk about leadership and being a leader who leads, we must understand that leadership is not always about the office you're elected to, but sometimes about the space that is not elected, yet still leadership.

And at this moment, which is a moment that comes after many other moments, I've been reflecting deeply, intentionally, profoundly on what it means to reflect, as one does, during reflection.

And through that reflecting, I've come to understand that while I may not currently be in elected office, I'm still very much in a place of public service, which is service to the public, for the people who are the American people, which is who we are.

So I'll continue to do the work because the work must be done.

And that work is working for the ideals and values that are ideal and have value.

And those are the things that I hold and that I hold dear, because if we don't hold them dear, how can we say they are dear to be held?

I know it's a tough, it's tough.

It's It's a trick question.

It's a trick question.

Neither of them are her.

They're both too smart.

Exactly right.

Oh, really?

Exactly right.

One is obviously me and the other one is a press agent because there is absolutely no way she said the first one.

No way.

No, because she didn't repeat herself.

No.

Did she once in there, though?

I thought when you were reading it, I was like, gosh, I don't know.

That one.

Yeah, after some deep reflection.

Yes.

For now, my leadership of public service will not be in elected office for out of the six months I've spent time reflecting on this moment.

So I was.

That one I was like, okay, that sounds like air, but it could be.

The second one was a little long.

But

if she would have said that, if she would have said it on stage, that's exactly what she would have done.

If it wasn't a canned press statement,

if someone just randomly walked up to her and asked her, that's about what she'd come up with.

That's exactly what she would have come up with.

I like it.

Gosh darn it.

California, look at the good news.

I mean, it couldn't get worse.

I don't know about that.

I mean,

would you rather have your governor be Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom?

That's a legitimately, another, that's another game.

Yeah.

Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris is your governor has to be one of them.

Who would you choose?

That is really hard.

Oh, this is like.

Wow, that's really hard.

Suicide

by

being shot

or suicide by electrocuting yourself.

Yes, it does.

something like that.

I think I would pick Kamala

because I feel like while both are awful and both want

terrible policies to be passed and enforced, Gavin feels more competently evil than Kamala.

She's more like a clown car.

Yes.

Like it would be a joke and it wouldn't, things wouldn't go well.

Yeah, it wouldn't.

Not that they're going well in California now.

No.

Yeah.

Well,

that's what I mean.

I think it would be

he'd be worse.

I wouldn't want Patrick Bateman in American Psycho running my state.

You think that sounds great.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Can I give you a third game?

Okay, third game.

Third game.

Wow.

Are you ready for game number three?

Game number three.

Okay.

Name

the year

of this headline.

Of this headline.

Are you ready?

How conspiracy theories about COVID's origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic.

Wait, say it again.

How conspiracy theories about COVID's origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic.

I'll give you some options.

2020,

2021, 2021, probably.

2022,

2023, 2024,

or 2025.

Those are your options.

The way this game is going, I should say, I'd be surprised if it's even been written yet.

Right.

That is exactly.

But I mean, if you're going to say logically 2021, 2022.

Yeah, maybe even 2020.

Yeah.

Right?

Like, okay, because there, you know,

there are a lot of conspiracy theories about originating very beginning.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And maybe it trickled into 2021.

I feel like 2022 would be pushing it.

Yeah.

2023, we kind of already had passed it.

2024 would be completely insane.

We all admitted it.

Even the new york time everybody admitted yep yep all intelligence agencies say it came from wuhan

yeah in a lab it the answer is today

today

today

today

what is the story it is uh how conspiracy theories about covet's origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic one of the authors by the way

Well, a couple of authors of note, I would say.

One is Christian Anderson, who is in the emails from 2020, talking about.

He was a wasn't he the guy who was like, Hey, I think this has.

He was one of the guys saying, Hey, this could be Lab League.

Right.

And then changed.

Right.

And it changed mysteriously.

No one really understands it.

Cha-ching.

Another guy is Andrew Rambo,

who is not like, you know, Sylvester Stallone Rambo.

He's like a friend, R-A-M-B-A-U-T, like the Renault.

Oh,

Rambo.

Rambo.

He is like the one I am up in the woods, living in the cave.

I surrender.

I surrender.

Whatever the town wants to do, I will do.

The worst Rambo sequel ever.

A French Rambo.

An instantly surrendering Rambo.

Take my guns.

I hate them.

I hate these guys.

The super exciting, but like dramatic scene that they build to is him just putting down all of his weapons.

He comes out.

He still has the bandana around his head i surrendered to a mime last week

uh

unbelievable and they're trying to say it's crazy you're nuts if you believe the uh the ladley's theory it's today

today and you know what also today in the new york times is a uh op-ed from

is it brennan and clapper who are saying

This is just the weaponization of government.

This is, look at what they're doing.

Oh, no.

They don't like the weaponization of government.

This is just a conspiracy theory.

That's all this is.

Are you serious?

I'm serious in today's New York Times.

In today's New York Times.

You can't take it.

Let me give you this.

Yesterday,

we are living in clown world.

Yesterday, Donald Trump was talking about

maybe giving a pardon to Diddy

because he was charged with the Man Act.

Yeah.

Was he actually talking about that or was it just rumored?

Rumored.

It does feel like when you get a Donald Trump pardon rumor,

a lot of times it follows.

Usually, it does feel like a lot of times it happens.

So he can't verify that it came from it, but a rumor is that he's going to be because he was arrested on the Man Act.

Now, if you don't know the Man Act, if you're my age,

You say, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't think I've ever heard of the Man Act.

Oh, yes, have.

Yes, you have.

From a very famous scene from that documentary called Smokey and the Bandit.

Listen.

Who are you chasing?

Somebody chasing you?

Nobody's chasing me, boy.

I've been chasing a

mania all the way from Dexakana, Texas.

Me?

Was he a bank robber?

Bank robbing.

Bank robbing is baby alongside of what this dude is doing.

Almost killed 20 law officers.

Driving through people's backyards, knocking down mailboxes, got broad in the car, took across the state line, got the manga.

I think he's got a permission, and that's getting him.

I got behind this.

Whoa.

Oh, let me pay for it.

Let me pay for it.

No, no, no.

I'm an officer of the law.

I'd be honored.

Much obliged.

I'll ride back there.

Just wonder.

What the?

I love that movie.

You've seen it?

A long time ago.

Oh, my gosh.

It's worth watching with your kids.

Really?

It is one of our favorite movies.

It is

hysterical.

It's just hysterical.

Jackie Gleason

at his absolute best.

I'm going to barbecue your ass.

It is so full of laughs.

They just love it.

But there's the man act.

The man act.

And the man act was taking someone across state lines,

which is always the weirdest thing.

That's the most concerning thing.

The law is like, you can do whatever you want inside a state, but if you take them across state lines.

No, that's no.

No, no, no.

That's what they always get them on.

It's always like a trafficking charge.

Who gets them on?

Is that the feds?

The feds.

Otherwise, it's state.

It's state.

That's how the feds.

That's how, you know, remember, that's what was that.

Shoot, I can't remember the Supreme Court ruling from the 1930s where the guy was growing wheat.

Right.

Remember?

And he's growing wheat in the corner.

The Commerce Clause.

Yeah, the Commerce Clause.

And he's growing wheat

on his own farm.

Yes, but it could be taken across state lines.

And so the federal government has to regulate it.

Wasn't it even more ridiculous?

Wasn't it you selling it within your state could manipulate the market in other states?

I think it was, yeah.

At least that was one of those cases.

Gosh, I can't remember.

You're right.

I can't remember.

I'm too tired to remember the name of

that case.

But that was, I think, what it was because he wanted to sell it in his own state.

And he's like, okay, this got nothing to do with interstate commerce.

They're like, well, if you sell a bunch of wheat here, it could lower the price in another state.

That's crazy.

It's crazy.

All those stuff has to be overturned.

If you would just overturn that.

That's a big one.

That would be a big one.

Because you would just, you would cut down the power of the federal government so much.

So much.

And of course, remember, we're all anti-government here.

You know, that's all we, you know.

Forget Antifa.

You know, forget the people who are actually shooting at ICE.

Nah, it's us.

We're the anti-government people.

Nah, nah, nah, nah.

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