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again, this episode is out on the very day when Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, will be meeting with military leaders.

We'll know later Tuesday what actually went on there, but he's come in for a lot of criticism by some former generals and admirals and by the chattering classes in the military for even holding this meeting.

Do you have any thoughts on this?

My initial thought is: aside from the meeting,

our retired general and admirals will be very careful what they say about him because in the first term as I've mentioned on this podcast we had about eight or nine admirals and generals who called their commander-in-chief variously essentially a Hitler, a fascist, a pathological liar, a fascist, a fascist, a fascist.

and of course compared him to the jailers at Auschwitz.

And they were all subject to Article 88 of court-martial

for insulting.

That statute, if you read it, refers to the DOD, too.

So, this administration, as we can see with the Bolton case and now with Comey, has zero tolerance for people who they feel are breaking the law.

So, I don't think a retired general or admiral will disparage the Secretary of Defense and say that he's a Nazi or something.

Number one, number two,

I don't know what he's up to other than I think he's going to bring all of them in and maybe some of them, everybody's saying, well,

this is a moment where we're weak or seven days in May or something like this.

The Chinese or Russians will take it.

A lot of them will do it by Zoom that are out actually on patrol and submarines or, you know, I don't know how many generals or admirals,

but I don't mean that they're out in the ocean or they're out on bases.

But I think he's trying to tell them that

we're going to emphasize battlefield efficacy, and that means that we're going to have the same physical standards for men and women.

We want all the women in the military, but in a small unit combat situation, everybody has to rely on everybody's minimum degree of physical strength, number one.

We're not going to have political weaponization, so you're not going to,

you know, form a little league of left-wing or right-wing cadres within the military.

You're not going to be political activists.

You're not going to insult on social media civilian overseers.

All of that.

I think that's what he's going to do.

And he's going to have to address that we have more, I think we have more

full-time

generals and admirals than we did during the Vietnam War or Korean War.

Is it up to over 400 or something?

So I think we're top heavy.

I wish he would also say that there's going to be a new rule that if you are a four-star admiral or a four-star general, you should not, upon retirement, go work for a defense contractor for 10 years,

which would basically say don't do it.

Because I think we have too many admirals and generals that are lobbyists or board members for

Lockheed or General Dynamics or Raytheon that then

have a whole legions of subordinates.

They're still in the Pentagon acquisitions, and they obviously have a great deal of respect for a four-star admiral.

And so, when they pitch

a weapon system or something, it's just not going to work, is what I'm trying to say.

Also, kind of presses on having an expensive weapon system.

So, if I'm going to lobby for something, I want something that's $100 million, not something that may be $25 million, right?

Yeah, I mean,

I've written a syndicated column for 25 years, and you've got to be trans,

we have ads on our podcast,

but I think in 25 years I probably got 200 private notes from people and said, hey, Victor, why don't you mention what I'm doing here?

I'm a lobbyist for this group, or I have a weapon system that you'd be interested in, and I wish you would push it.

You can't do that.

You see what I'm saying?

You know what I mean?

Or I will pay you a little bit if you do.

I've had that.

And I've always said, Are you nutty?

Are you insane?

How could there have been colonists that have done that, that have pushed?

You remember that, I'm trying to remember his name.

He was a good guy, and he kept pushing an initiative that he was getting a grant, I think, from the Department of Education.

So all of us have those rules about conflict of interest, and it just just seems logical that if you're on a very generous pension and you are subject to military recall, you would not want to be in the private sector doing business with the Pentagon, at least for a while.

And I don't know whether it should be five or ten years, just so that the people that you used to command had now retired and you didn't know the people who were now in charge of acquisitions.

But that's something that when you mentioned it, and I have mentioned it, and you get a lot of email from military officers who get very angry at that.

Well, that's part of their long-term plan, right?

I mean,

they're all.

It's bad on the row.

It's really bad on the row in the wing.

I don't know if, so getting back to that, I don't know what Pete is going to mention, but

he's taking a high-risk gamble.

I mean, if you look at this executive order on the Department of War, it says it's basically an alternate.

They're not going to go spend millions of dollars and change, you know, everything, every stationary, every sign, DOD to DOW, but I think they see it as a gradual transitioning.

And I don't know what the future is, but he's trying to do major shake-ups.

And I think

it's a counter-revolution.

And he's already basically said if you have to do some physical

equity or parity with men if you're women and I think he's not going to have drag shows or free abortion clinics on bases and he's going to get the military out of the political realm.

Yeah.

Of course the left says, well, by getting them out of the political realm since it's been leftist, then you're political because now denying us our drag shows or denying us ads that have women in pregnant flight suits or ads.

That's political.

No, it's just going back to baseline.

That's what I think he wants to do.

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Victor,

let's look at some events from last week.

In New York City, the UN.

I know you talked with the great Sammy Wink about Donald Trump's

troubles there and speech there, but let's talk about Benjamin Netanyahu, who appeared.

And he had it.

There was a walkout at the UN after Abbas received applause.

So here's the headline from Fox News, the article, first few paragraphs.

Delegates at the United Nations General Assembly stormed out.

Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage and prepared to speak.

The mass exit came after delegates spent days speaking about the situation in Gaza and proposals to end the nearly two-year war.

Their response to Netanyahu was a stark contrast to the long round of applause that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received when he addressed the international body virtually on Thursday.

Victory, no one's surprised, surprised, but your thoughts.

Well, I mean, here are these people who come to the United Nations and they vote on resolutions as if,

and for half of them, it's the first time they ever vote.

When they come back home, they do not vote on anything.

They come from autocracies.

But they go through this charade that they're a democratic body that represents the majority view of the world.

And they vote.

and they promote democracy.

Then they have two different leaders in a dispute, dispute, war, conflict, that was precipitated on October 7th.

Take away October 7th.

Gaza would be, as it is, autonomous.

It would be getting water and electricity via the Israelis.

There would be 20,000 Gazans working in Israel at three times the wages, but it was an autonomous, more or less calm.

And they decided to declare war by a preemptive attack against civilians, which was horrific.

Okay.

And then Israel retaliated.

And then you have each leader.

One of them, Mr.

Abbas,

was elected one time.

If you want to run in Palestine and say, I want to have a reform party, you'll probably be killed, just like you would with Hamas, that was elected one time.

Then you have Mr.

Netanyahu, who has stood for elections countless times.

He's an object of derision by the Israeli left, by the media.

He's under constant pressure to be more liberal.

He had a bipartisan wartime cabinet.

So these so-called people that vote on resolut walk out when an autocrat without any legitimacy talks to them.

Excuse me.

They stay there hinging on every word that Abbas says, this autocrat.

Then you have this leader who's democratic, Mr.

Netanyahu, and they walk out.

Second thing,

over this period, there's a lot of other leaders.

There's Mr.

Putin and his delegation that have spoken.

They've killed over 150,000 Ukrainians in a pre-emptive war.

Did they walk out?

No.

There's Mr.

Chi, he's got a million Uyghurs in a work labor camp.

Do they walk out?

No.

There's Mr.

Erdoyan that is occupying illegally for a century northern Cyprus.

Do they walk out?

No.

There's the Aberbajani president.

Do they walk out?

He just ethnically cleansed a quarter million Armenians.

So what I'm getting at is we get back to the old story.

Why does the world clom on to

this little country of 11 million people that has a heritage that goes back 3,500 years?

So, is it oil?

That used to be the reason.

Oh, no, it's not about Jews.

It's a very,

yes, they supply 40% of the world's oil.

They don't supply ours anymore.

We don't need it.

I mean, California might because it won't pump.

It could pump more than most nations, but Mr.

Newsom believes it's dirty and toxic, so we import from Saudi Arabia and part.

But we don't need to.

And

Europe could easily up the production in the North Sea off the coast of United Kingdom, Norway.

They've got natural gas all over.

They could build nuclear reactors and power their Teslas.

They could do a lot of stuff.

But I don't think it's oil.

So is it terrorism?

Partly.

They know that if they offend or they say something about Islam or they say something about

a leader in the Middle East, then some people might kill them.

Cartoonists, Charlie Hebba, or whatever.

If they insult Judaism

or they attack an Israeli, they're not going to be, they're going to be perfectly safe.

So they're cowardly as well.

And then finally, and most importantly,

Miss Merkel started it, and then

Boris Johnson

has a lot of responsibility during the COVID, opening the doors.

And they've got millions of unassimilated and non-integrated populations from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, you name it.

And they come with antithetical views to liberal postmodern Europe.

And they're violent.

And they're scared stiff of them.

So it's cowardice.

All these people are cowards.

And all these people on campus, the queers for Palestine, we saw what happened when they got on a boat and wanted to go over in a flotilla.

The Islamicists wanted nothing to do with them.

Queers for Palestine, gays for Palestine.

Go over to Palestine and start your We Are Palestinian Gay movement.

Don't do it on Columbia's campus.

Go over there and just say, you know what?

I'm a Palestinian American, or I'm a Palestinian who's living in the United States, but I need to go where the action is.

Because the United States is very tolerant of trans and gay people, but my homeland isn't.

So I'm going to go over back home home and be a Palestinian gay trans nationalist and just start a chapter.

What would happen if that were to occur?

I don't know.

I don't know that Ilyan Omar or AOC

or Jasmine Crockett have ever mentioned that.

They never talk about Palestinians and gays or trans.

They talk about it in other contexts, but never.

So what I'm getting at, this is a protected DEI, if you will, group.

And anytime you have an ideology that says you don't apply a fair standard of criticism to Jasmine Crockett when she spouts off racism or Illian Omar when she allegedly married her brother, allegedly to have immigration status, or some of the wild things that AOC says because they are in a DEI category, or Mr.

de Carlos Brown, the murder.

the murderer who was out 14 times

or Teresa Stokes, the unqualified never never passed the bar judge that let him out while she profited from alternative treatments.

And all of that stuff has one common denominator.

There is a DEI idea, and that's why people do not apply the same standards to supporters of the Palestinians than they do the Israelis.

Believe me, if

Netanyahu said tomorrow, I'm declaring martial law and I'm canceling elections and I'm going to be here forever

and then send out secret police to beat up people like Abbas does.

What would happen?

You know what I mean?

What would happen?

So these people are entirely hypocritical.

And then just to finish this, Jack, so then we get down to

the final reason, isn't it?

The reason that people apply an unequal standard to Israel, the reason that they judge them by one set of values and tyrants and terrorists by another, and by the Europeans are so loud to virtue signal their hatred of Israel and why people walk out at the UN when a dictator speaks, they stay hinged to everything he says.

It's because Israel is Jews.

They're Jews.

If they were not Jewish, I don't think that you would get that.

If they were Icelandic, I don't think they would do that.

If they were Chinese, I don't think they'd act that way.

If they were Japanese, I don't think they'd act that way.

So there you have it.

Victor, though, it seems there's an interesting editorial in the European Conservative, which is a great publication.

I encourage people to look at it.

Why do so many European leaders now seem proud to side with Hamas?

Rhetorical question, are they simply too stupid to know any better?

But many of these European leaders are in terrible

political positions.

Macron, Starmer, their poll numbers are in the toilet, and yet they're doubled down on this.

And what gets me is, okay, you're right about

maybe we'll be presumptuous here about your typical European and how they care or don't care about Israel.

But I have to believe your typical European, your man in the street in France and England, are furious about what's happening to their country with the importation of all these radical

Islamists.

So the doubling down

by these poorly positioned European leaders in in favor of these Islamic terrorists is just, I don't know, is it a symptom of the left?

They're just going to double down on

if I'm Macron or Sturmer, right?

Not Maloney, but Sturmer or Macron, I think like this.

Let me see now.

I've got, oh, I don't know.

If I'm Sturmer, 8%, 10% of the population is Islamic.

Maybe in the cities, it's up to 20 or 30.

That's where the action is.

If If I'm a crown,

maybe I got 15%.

Germany, same thing.

So I've got to be careful what I say, but I've got to figure out what the people are.

They don't like unassimilated, radical Muslims that commit terror.

On the other hand, we have a long history of anti-Semitism here in Europe, and the Jewish population is fleeing and shrinking, and they're not as influential as they used to be.

So for me, I think that the population of Muslims is growing much faster than A, the population of Jews, and B, the people who openly sympathetic to Jews.

So what I'm thinking is, yes, everybody is angry at these unassimilated, violent Muslim gangs and their Sharia chauvinism, but they don't like Jews either.

Because we have a nice history of anti-Semitism, even among the working classes.

So what I can do is we can trash Israel

and I can appeal to the Muslim people.

The only third rail I have is I have to be very careful about the working classes, not on issues of the Middle East, not on Israel,

just on violence by unassimilated gangs and unassimilated illegal aliens.

So that's their only worry.

But they haven't hit critical mass yet, yet, see?

And then the question is: why are they doing this, Jack?

When Merkel said, we can do this,

I think his name was Nether.

I forgot his name.

All these people who are very well-versed in politics can correct me, but there was an English parliamentarian that was part of the Boris Johnson era, and I think he worked with Labor, not with the Conservatives.

And he said last week that the plan was to bring in people from the Middle East to build the constituency.

And

it's almost what you saw when it was just disclosed,

and I guess we're going to talk about it, that there were about

4 million illegal aliens who were let in among the 10 or 12 that were not audited,

not screened, they didn't come up for legal hearings, they were simply given Social Security numbers and work permits.

And the idea was to fast-track those people because if they have a work permit and they have a Social Security number, the next step of voting will be not that hard under early and

mail-in voting protocols in key states.

So, what we're really talking about is the left, the international left, or the Western left, is saying to us, the people,

I know better than you do what's good for you, lab rat.

So I've experimented on you with wind and solar, with high-speed rail, with DEI, with trans,

with open borders, and you don't like it.

You don't like it.

And you don't like me, and you don't like what I stand for, you garbage, you deplorable, you chump,

you clinger.

So here's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to import people here antithetical to a traditional values of your country, and they're going to be in

service to me because I'm going to grant them exemptions from the law and entitlement support.

So when you say that, the left says, Great replacement theory, great replacement theory, you're a racist, you're a racist.

And then what the left does, it turns around and writes books with titles, Demography is Destiny, the New Democratic Majority.

majority and they brag about

and so yeah

that there you have it that's what europe that's what europe leftists are doing they're trying to bring in a new constituency even though and they think as leftists who are wealthy that their particular neighborhood their particular title their particular education will shield them from the fallout from their advocacies.

It'll fall out on the poor person who speaks with a cockney accent in Britain.

Something like that.

It's going to explode.

It really is.

I hope it doesn't, but it's not a sustainable situation.

And when you have people here in the United States that, A,

and I'm speaking as somebody who just went to an emergency room in an underserved community,

and I went to other facilities in an upserved community, and it was still the same.

You can't see specialists, you can't get scans,

and you have trouble with insurance or Medicare plus Medicare Advantage, and then that system gives 4 million people Social Security and access thereby to probably Medicare disability and everything.

It's not going to work.

You're going to have a rebellion.

And that's coming.

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your September appointment is canceled.

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And this is

Medical Care in America.

I can tell you, I won't mention anything I've been told,

no, we can't prescribe something over the phone for pneumonia, but you've got to go to your local ER.

Good luck.

I won't go on what happened there.

Yes, you need a very critical scan, and you need a referral, but two weeks later, it wasn't marked urgent or something.

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or your GP says your annual physical has been delayed for eight weeks, or your cardiologist called me the other day, I'm not going to mention any names, your upcoming appointment has to be postponed.

I said for another week?

No, no, no, for two months.

So that's everybody that's listening to it has had that happen.

Part of it's

Obamacare, part of it is bringing in 55 million people who were not born in the United States and do not have adequate health care.

I was at another lab yesterday for this endless process and three people came in.

None of them spoke a word, I won't tell you your nationality, of English.

All three of them were morbidly obese.

I was talking to them and trying to help them how to register in this kind of laboratory where there's no human in in it.

You just go in there and talk to a screen and punch buttons.

They had no idea how to do it.

They needed health care.

They look very ill.

But

I had an appointment.

I came 30 minutes early and they just walked in.

So obviously they weren't going to let me in 30 minutes early because I had an appointment.

So the system is breaking.

The health care system is breaking.

The legal system is breaking.

If you're Gavin Newsom and you issue

driver's license to people who don't speak English, and we had another accident here in this area in the San Joaquin Valley by another immigrant who

was at fault and put,

I think he put a girl into, a little girl into

a coma from culpable driving.

So the whole system is under

the traffic system, the immigration system, the medical system, the education system, it's all under stress.

And anybody who criticizes it says, well, you're just an old guy who remembers what it was like in the 50s and 60s when white people were there and now you're angry.

No, I'm not.

I think the system worked better, but if the system worked perfectly and so-called white people, which I don't really feel I'm chauvinistic about at all, were 10% of the population, I would be happy.

It's not a race thing to me.

It's just I want the system to work.

And when you let in so many different people or you tell people here that you have different standards because of historical victimization, oppression, you name it, then the whole complexity starts to.

And we saw that, as I said earlier, of the Palestine fire.

It was a DEI catastrophe.

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Victor, the former FBI head, has been indicted in his response to the indictment.

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My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way.

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In addition to this, Victor, I've seen many reports about what it was like to have worked in the FBI under James Comey and his.

Well, Donald Trump, a narcissist, and he may well be, but I have a feeling James Comey is in competition with him for that.

But anyway, your thoughts.

Our friend Andy McCarthy, whom we both knew and worked with and liked, is very skeptical of the indictment.

However,

it's very specific.

So it either happened or it didn't happen.

So it boils down to:

did James Comey communicate, speak, issue a directive, talk to

James Baker, chief legal counsel of the FBI, who rotated into a $7 million

gig for the old Twitter, or to Mr.

Rebecki, another FBI grandee, or to Andrew McKay, who has lied four times to a federal investigator, so should have no credibility, except James Comey on 245 occasions, said he couldn't remember to a house oversight community.

So you've got this weird situation on this indictment where the federal attorney will call these people in and say, you in the past have said you were innocent of leaking because you were told or you got the message from or you inferred that James Comey said it was okay to leak.

And do you stand by that testimony?

And they will will say yes, or they'll be subject to perjury, probably,

because they probably said these things

to

the prior special

counsel or to the inspector general.

And then it'll be their word against James Comey.

And if a jury believes that two or three of their subordinates

have a preponderance of truth versus James Comey,

and I don't know what's admissible in a federal courthouse, but if I was the prosecuting attorney, the first question I'd ask is,

Mr.

Comey, when you were testifying to the House Oversight Committee, did you on 245 occasions said you couldn't remember on elements that were crucial to your investigation?

You didn't say you couldn't speak about it all the time.

You said you couldn't remember.

So I think he's in trouble.

I really do.

Because I think they're going and if he's guilty of that count, then he's guilty of the second one obstructing.

It's irony there because, of course, that's what they charged Michael Flynn with, that he gave

an incorrect statement to Peter Strzok when he interviewed him and said that he had not communicated with the Russians.

The other thing is,

Jack, is it's not just a legal question.

It's a moral ethical question.

Everybody should remember what the Trump administration, and if that's the people, because because Trump is tweeting about it, or Pam Bondi is not doing.

They're not trying to bring him in and say that he should be convicted of perjury because he pled amnesia 240 times under oath.

They're not bringing him in because he had Andrew McCabe called up General Flynn and say, hey.

Hey, General, we're going to come over and talk to you.

He said, that's no big thing.

You don't need a lawyer.

And then they ambushed him and they asked him questions and they turned around and charged him with perjury.

And then James Comey, in front of an audience, said, Hey, you know, it was kind of funny.

This administration doesn't know what they're doing, so we just kind of said we're going to go in and interview Flynn.

And they should have said, If they were smart, no, you're not.

He is a designated national security advisor in the United States, and we have legal counsel.

But they didn't know what they were doing, so we just went in and got the statement.

And he was laughing about it.

They're not talking about that.

They are not talking about Mr.

Comey

talking with the President of the United States

and telling him you are not the subject of an FBI investigation when he was.

That was clear he was.

Then walking out and memorializing that on an FBI device.

making a memo and putting it in his safe, not filing it with the FBI, as he should, violating FBI protocols, then whipping out that memo and calling up his buddy at Columbia, a professor, and say, leak this to the New York Times.

And then having the entire media left-wing nexus between Washington and New York say, well, it wasn't classified.

It was confidential, but not classified.

But he leaked.

So when they get him on the stand, they're going to say to Mr.

Comey, so you claim you didn't authorize McCabe

or Rebecki or or Baker to leak because you are against leaks.

Yes.

But you just admitted that you leaked yourself.

You leaked a conversation with the president.

Yes, I did.

That's going to be very damning.

They're not also, so

they're not investigating about Flynn.

They're not investigating about,

they're not investigating him of walking down the beach.

Now, you know, Jack, I was walking on the beach and I saw these weird seashells, 8647.

Now, I don't know what they mean, but I think the world would like to know about it, so I put them on social media, and I had a little tab.

Look what I found on the beach, kind of a neat little,

and it was basically get rid of Trump.

If you're euphemistic, the old bar thing, he's 86, but maybe the next generation has redefined 86 and to kill him.

I don't know, but nobody's

going after Comey for that.

Nobody's going after Comey for admitting later that he knew that the steel dossier was bogus, even though he was a confidential informant that Comey hired.

And then he used that material to get a writ against Carter Page.

After he left, of course, Kevin Kleinsmith under McCabe forged that.

But later, Comey said,

They asked him, would you use that dossier as evidence for the judge to grant you surveillance?

No, I probably wouldn't.

Oh, you probably wouldn't, James Comey.

You mean now you know that it's bogus?

And so then he, so I could go on, but he's the

Anthony Fauci of the FBI.

There's one other thing that's very important, and then I'll shut up, and that's this.

Everybody's criticizing Cash Battelle because he was...

I don't know what.

He prematurely said they got the killer of Charlie Kirk for a day.

Anyway,

we've had four

FBI directors over a quarter century.

All four of them, you can make the argument, have lied to Congress.

Now,

Robert Mueller came in, former FBI director, and he said under oath when asked directly, would you explain the Fusion GPS

role in the dossier and the dossier.

I don't know anything about him.

No, I don't know.

We don't know anything about that.

So he wants us to believe that the two catalysts that prompted his own appointment, remember what James Comey said, I wanted him, my friend, he said the word my friend, I wanted him to be special counsel.

So I leaked this about Donald Trump.

So he would be special counsel.

And of course,

he was very involved with GPS, that is, Comey.

So Robert Mueller knew everything about GPS and the steel dossier.

That's what he was in.

It came up every day in his investigation.

And he lied and said he didn't know.

Now, maybe he had cognitive problems, because if he did, I apologize to him because he looks like he does now.

And he did look confused during the testimony.

His next successor, James Comey, I've mentioned 245 times.

He's now under indictment for lying.

The third, Andrew McCabe.

I don't know why Bill Barr decided that he couldn't convince a, what would it be, a Washington jury, that the interim director of the FBI on four occasions swore to federal investigators, I think three of them were under oath, where he said, I don't, leak, I did not authorize it.

And then later he got panicky, he called him up and said, you know, I kind of think I I lied to you.

And then the inspector general went through there four times.

And I think Bill Barr thought, well, I'll never convict an FBI director in Washington, and he's left-wing, and I don't know.

His wife is running for

a liberal office in Virginia, da-da-da-da-da.

And then we get the fourth one that nobody talks about, Christopher Wray.

Christopher Wray was asked directly on numerous occasions: did you or did you not authorize FBI informants to be there?

And if so, how many?

And did you order FBI agents to be there on January 6th?

And if so, how many?

He was asked that question in a variety.

You know what he said?

Not to my knowledge.

I don't have any information on that, but we can check.

Now we know there were 26

FBI informants that were mingling, salted in the crowd.

We know that from the files that have been leaked during his realm, but Cash Patel is finding all these secret room droves and bags of stuff they tried to hide away.

But Michael Rosen, is it Bloom?

He was the, correct me if I'm wrong, doing this by memory, he was the Pulitzer Prize, New York Times left wing, and he got ambushed by Project Veritas.

And he said to them, January 6th was no big deal.

I looked around, I saw all the familiar FBI informants I knew.

And now the latest bombshell is cash has released

that the Ray FBI ordered 275 agents to go help enhance without,

and this is controversial, some of them without body protections, identifications, so that some of them were just put out there in civilian clothes or plain clothes, and they were supposed to, how can you do that and bulk up?

They would look like just civilian vigilantes.

And then there's a whole troll of them.

I read it very carefully, Jack.

They're all complaints.

They wrote complaints.

This was crazy.

This was weaponized.

This was political.

What were we supposed to do?

Crowd control.

That was what some of the things were.

Yeah.

So why didn't Ray just say we sent out 275?

Because he thought,

he thought

no one could prove

that he had done that because the memo or the order was somehow disappeared to use a left-wing word And more importantly, he was convinced that Donald Trump was kaput.

And the next President of the United States would either be Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.

And there would be no oversight.

And so there you have it.

So what's the FBI?

It's got a quarter century of people who felt that they with impunity could mislead or lie to Congress or to the federal investigating.

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Victor, one other thing back on Comey and the coverage of this, Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W.

Bush, had an ex-post where he wrote, I don't know if James Comey is innocent or guilty, but I do know that when the Biden DOJ indicted Trump aides, Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, the Washington Post and New York Times treated it as straight news, not as Biden going after his opponents.

But now it's all about Trump getting his enemies.

Any thoughts on that?

Yeah,

they set the precedent, didn't they?

They broke the law.

They expanded the parameters of the possible.

So Eric Holder, under the Obama administration, was subpoenaed by Congress.

And they said, the fast and furious thing is fishy, and we want you to come.

And he said, I'm not coming.

And they said, well, we're going to subpoena you and we're going to refer you criminal.

And nothing happened.

They asked Merrick Garland.

They said, you're coming to Congress.

He said, no.

So basically, the left said, we're going to go after Bannon and

and make him embarrassed and we're going to put leg irons on Navarro.

We're going to do it in a performance art arrest in the street.

We'll put him in, but we're never going to do it to us.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Well,

so then the Trump administration says, you know what?

We're going to subpoena these people and when they do not show up, we're going to apply the Biden rule or the Obama rule.

That means if you work for me you might not have to go to jail if they summon you but if they win the Congress but if you don't work for me they will and then

they did the performance art raid on Roger Stone they did it on Mar-Lago

and

now we went to John Bolton's they had a performance art raid supposedly, allegedly, purportedly, he transmitted classified documents on an email to either friends or family, and that ended up in a foreign intelligence stream, and he's facing possible indictment, although he hasn't left.

I don't know if that's accurate or not.

I do know that when Donald Trump was running for re-election in 2020, he

used very sensitive material for his book to be timed for its greatest sales and profit right during the election.

And

the Trump DOJ sued him, and a federal judge said, it's too late, the book is out.

However, I want to tell you, Mr.

Bolton, you have done a great disservice to your country by disclosing sensitive information, and you have put yourself in future criminal or civil liability.

And what I'm getting at is almost everything that they say is weaponized has two themes to it.

There is a precedent that the prior administration destroyed.

They destroyed norms and they thought they were going to be, and now this administration has a lot of leeway because of that.

And then we get into an existential question of morality, which I'll defer to you, given your Catholic ethicist background.

I am not an ethicist.

Go ahead.

Well,

is it proper

to force the letter of the law when you see wrong breaking

against people who have destroyed the law in the past

to restore deterrence?

In other words, if you don't bring these people

to justice who have destroyed the system, then they will do it again versus

No, no, Victor, here's the rule.

If you just look at what these people have done, and the prosecutor said, well, they were probably culpable, but given the great extent of crime in this country, if there wasn't a political angle to it, we probably wouldn't even indict them.

Yes, John Bolton, yeah, yeah, yeah, but we wouldn't go after him.

And, you know, yeah, you know, Comey's a loudmouth and a blowhard, but you know, he said,

McCabe said, it's almost out.

We'll just let him slide.

Kind of the Bilbar attitude.

So the point I'm making is:

would these people be indicted if they had not been so prominently going after Trump in an illegal or amoral fashion?

And to make them atone legally or in the public square, will that restore deterrence so you don't do it again, or you just forget it because you say,

I play by the Marcus Queensbury rules.

My heroes are John McCain the late John McCain Mitt Romney and George H.W.

Bush and I don't go down to their level with tip for tap

well that we're not being the ethicist we're not no one's being charged for contrived crimes it's being we're being

charged for plausible plausible charges but you look at I mean what's a great statement on that Victor look at communism in Europe did these guys ever pay a price for it no have they helped F up, excuse my French there, screw up Europe afterwards because they were allowed to walk free and continue on?

Yeah,

punishment is deserved on a large scale, and punishment is deserved here.

I think the next step is, I think you're right, I think the next step is all those people that

the autopin, I don't think it was the auto pin with the Biden family.

Say all the Biden family people and Millie and all the rest of them, Fauci.

They bring them all in and they can't prosecute them for past things, but they just ask them questions.

Jim Biden, dear Jim Biden, right now, here and now, do you have any money in your bank account that came from a foreign source?

And he either says yes or no.

That's not covered by a pardon.

That's here and now.

And see what he says.

And then if he lies, you can bring in evidence, I think, from the past, but we'll defer to legal authorities on that.

And then I think the next thing they're going to do is they're going to go in and they're going to look at that auto pin.

And some of the people they pardon or convicted murderers, they're horrible people.

And they're out.

And I think they're going to go in and they're going to interview and they're going to say, How many people did you recommend and why?

And did you get the expressed

consent of the President of the United States?

And that, you know, they talk about a coup and all that.

That was a coup.

If they didn't, if they just said, hey, everybody's got a bunch of left-wing friends and heroes, and maybe you've got guys that

will do quid pro quo for you.

Give me some names and let's just get them through and flood the system.

And then the Biden pardon families won't look that stark.

And they should go after that, too.

Well, wasn't the rule of law broken by these actions?

Just not too far from me, Bridgeport, Connecticut.

A mother and a child murdered by a drug dealer because they were going to be witnesses at a trial.

That, I forget the dirtbag's name.

He was part of the Biden auto pen.

Why?

What about the justice that was enacted when he was charged and convicted?

How come that justice gets to be broken?

So I agree, Victor.

The rule of law, we're already seeing it hanging in the balance by the actions of the people.

You can really see it, too.

I'll give you an example of what I mean.

Right after Mark Milley went out,

he was subject to Article 88 as a retired four-star general.

He started giving interviews.

You remember when he kept saying that Donald Trump was a fascist?

And then John Kelly, after he retired, said that he was the worst fascist or something he'd met, Trump.

I have a lot of empathy for John Kelly.

He served his country very nobly.

He lost his son, I think, in Iraq.

I have no animus toward Mark Milley.

But my point is,

they're out in the public square, and I haven't heard a word from them right now.

Not one word.

And I really do believe, Jack, that

these retired generals do know that if they give their signature interviews with the Atlantic, or they go in NPR,

or they go to the Council on Foreign Relations, and they're asked, don't you think Donald Trump is a fascist?

They will say, I don't comment on that.

And the only reason they'll do that in opposition to their past behavior is because they feel the law now is the law.

And they will be prosecuted and court-martialed, and they will lose.

They will lose their pensions.

And so now we have a calm where retired,

and this is very important

because

when Joe Biden was president,

I did not hear retired conservative generals say that he is a socialist, he's horrible.

And maybe it was because they thought that Lloyd Austin would prosecute them or refer them.

I don't know, but it didn't happen because there was a deterrent there.

Or maybe they were so sick of what they saw during the first Trump, they didn't want to be in that league with those people.

But the point I'm making is the law, when you reinforce it, it deters people, and when you don't, it doesn't.

And all you have to do

is bring one of these people in.

And you know what who's not being investigated?

So we're not investigating James Clapper and John Brennan.

We do know that at an August 2016 meeting, I think another one in November, or maybe it was even in January, two meetings, one at the winding down of the Hillary Trump campaign, the other after Trump had already won and it was a matter of the transition.

They met with Obama.

Obama said we need to really pursue the Russian collusion.

They basically had intelligence from subordinates that said there's no actionable, there's nothing there.

And he said, go back and find something, meaning, you know, fabricate it.

So

Are they going to be brought up legally for that?

I don't know, but they're very lucky they're not being brought up for a whole array of sins.

So my point is this.

All of these people that are being brought up on these technical questions, which might be actionable and indictable and convictable and punished, they have so much more ethical and legal exposure.

If you're John Brennan, he just flat out went to Congress and said,

I can't even imagine you'd say that, that we would ever spy on Senate staff or computer.

I can't imagine you'd say that the Obama predator campaign kills collateral innocent civilians on the Pakistani border.

Oh, I was mistaken.

Yes, he lied.

James Clapper.

I can't believe you'd think the National Security Agency under my sort of direction would ever spy on America.

Evidence, lying.

I gave the least untruthful answer I could.

So both of those people perjured themselves.

Are they going to come up for it?

I don't know.

But what I'm getting at, all of these people have done so many egregious things and got away with it that

you would

for what they're going to be charged with if they are charged, there was a whole bunch of exposure there, what they did to the country.

Whether it's Fauci trying to claim that he never gave money, substitute money for the enhancement of viruses and Wuhan, etc.

They've got a lot of exposure.

Yeah, well, they're allowed to lie, so they think, well, Victor, we're going to come back from

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Victor, yeah, the last item here is about Portland.

And here's the headline from the Daily Mail.

Trump orders troops to take over war-ravaged Democrat-led city to handle domestic terrorists.

He made the announcement Saturday

on his Truth Social account and said the move was necessary to protect ICE facilities supposedly under attack by Antifa, a loosely, I hate this, a loosely organized far-left movement that is against fascism.

Who the hell wrote this story, Daily Mail?

I am directing Secretary of War Pete Hagseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war ravaged Portland and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists Trump wrote Victor I've never been to Portland and frankly I've never been to Portland I've been to Portland

I've been to the Bronx I have my first cousin lives there I've been there a lot

There's a bookstore.

I think I've spoken there before.

Oh, it's supposedly the world's largest, America's biggest bookstores.

Yeah, you know,

when I was writing a lot about farming

and classics, I would go on

Portland.

Yeah, and I'd rent a car and I drove to Willamette College, I think, and I went to Oregon State.

I had a really bad experience there with a bunch of people tried to disrupt it.

I think it was Oregon State.

Maybe it was the University of Oregon.

I mean, they

reserved the first 50 seats and they said reserved on them.

And then when I got up to the podium, they flipped over the paper that said reserved, and it was a Mexico title, and it had kind of a bullseye on it.

And then they waved them like I was shooting free throws the whole time, so I couldn't see anybody.

And the weird thing was that the

vice provost who I just

had dinner with sat and watched it all and didn't stop.

And they yell.

And I just kept saying, finally, the only reason I made him stop, I said, I don't think you guys were really,

you really did this on your own.

I think your professor, who just wrote a book

about open borders, La Raza studies, put you up to this, because he had called me and wanted me to debate him.

And I didn't want to debate him because I was on a book tour.

And anyway, to make a long story short, I said, most of you look like you're very well-dressed.

You're upper-middle-class students.

You're not La Raza.

You don't believe in the race.

You're just American kids.

You came here.

They put you up to this.

And now you're destroying my right to speech.

But you know what?

The administrator is at the back of the room.

I think he's going to pay me.

So whether I say anything or not, I'm going to get paid and leave, so I'll be gone.

Then they sat down.

Half my speech was ruined.

I walked on out.

The person came up to me, said, I'm very sorry.

I said, you watched the whole thing and did nothing.

And you probably knew it was going to happen because why would you have reserved seats there?

Anybody had to turn them away, they could see the other side of the papers.

So I'm just leaving, but I need to be paid.

I want you to give your word you're going to pay me,

even though I only gave about a third of my speech.

And so that had happened, stuff like that happened a lot, but that's when I

really lost all confidence in the integrity integrity of most college administrators because it happened so many times.

I went to the University of Tennessee, people disrupted it.

I went to the University of Southern Alabama, people disrupted it, the speech.

I went to Washington Lee and people disrupted it.

I don't mean, you know, charged you.

People

asked questions when they shouldn't, or booed you, or when the question and answers came, everyone was a harangue and not a question.

I went to the University of Texas, the same thing happened.

So

I'm so happy that I quit speaking at college campuses.

I'll never speak at a college campus again, except Hillsdale, but that's about it.

Well,

let me just close it out, Victor, with a quick question from you.

Did you see these polls?

If I can only find my damn notes here, excuse me, darn notes.

Somebody gave me grief for saying damn.

I apologize.

I said it a couple of weeks ago, I guess.

The New Jersey governor's race is neck and neck now.

Jack Sitterelli, the Republican candidate, is the latest poll is tied at 43.

The New York Post has just come out with an endorsement.

This is one of these

indicators of where the country may be going the following year.

And the Virginia governor's race,

Abigail Spanberger, the former congresswoman, the Democrat, is up by six over Winsom Earl Sears, the lieutenant governor.

I think those numbers are closer than they had been.

Any thoughts as we close out the show on these?

Well, there's two things that will happen in these governor races and the midterms.

There's the individual race.

In the New Jersey race, as I recall, the Democratic candidate, it surfaced that she was aware of a massive cheating scandal.

At West Point, right.

At West Point, and under the honor code, she was supposed to report that knowledge, and she chose not to.

and therefore she was graduated but she was not allowed to participate in the graduate ceremonies.

And then she's trying to wink and nod saying, well I didn't rat anybody out basically.

So

but

there's two things.

Each of these all of these races that we're going to see have an individual element.

There's going to be a candidate who can't speak versus a candidate that can.

There's going to be a candidate that's got skeletons in the closet.

And they're going to be both, you don't know which one.

So a a lot of the race will depend on the better candidate, the more photogenic, the more charismatic, the more glib.

But there is a subtext, a floor underneath that,

and that is the MAGA agenda as it pertains to crime, but especially the economy and the border and foreign policy.

And

that has a wildcard Donald Trump.

So, there are people, half the country doesn't like Donald Trump, half the country does.

But, but 60%

favor the end of illegal immigration, crackdown on crime, deterrent foreign policy, and this quarter's GDP, did you see it?

It was been readjusted to 3.6.

The Fed, I think, and the congressional budget, I think they said it was going to be 3% or 2.8.

It's 3.6%.

Inflation is 2.5% or 6%.

So the economy is still doing good, the record

stock market.

So I think if the Republicans are smart, what they will do on all of these races, they won't, they'll have, you know, if the candidate is weak on the dim side, they'll do it.

But they're going to ask them a series.

If you vote for this person,

then they should just show Mallorca's and Karim, John Paris saying and Jin Saki, the border is closed, the border is closed, the border is closed, the border is closed.

You're voting for 10,000 people coming in a day.

You want that?

If you vote for this, and they should just show you all of the illegal alien murders we've had.

If you vote for this

and then show the attacks on ICE and all what, and then show,

if you vote for this, this is what people say about a young man who was murdered, and just show some of the reactions.

And then if you vote for this, show more of the Afghan pullout.

And that's what you're voting for.

And

if you make that election in the midterms on what happened under the 34% popular Joe Biden,

they'll win.

But they

will try to just say, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

And I'm not sure that'll even work.

But if the Republicans just say this is what they did and you want to go back to it, 9.1

inflation from 21 to 22 and the price is never just do that.

They will win.

And that's why that race is close.

I don't want to imply that Charlie Kirk's death

should have political ramifications.

It will.

It might.

Yeah, I think a lot of people.

The problem is that every time they call him a racist or everything,

within a nanosecond, somebody shows you the actual tape, and

he's usually in an argument with a white guy who says that race matters, and he says it doesn't.

Or when he's talking about black women, he's talking about Kanji Brown, whom he thinks was not qualified, given that I think there was DEI criteria used.

And the same thing with the vice presidential point.

That was his point.

So

they haven't made that argument, and they look ghoulish trying to make it.

So

just keep to the issues, the economy, crime, the border, foreign policy, some cultural issues like trans and stuff, and

show tapes of what they did and what they will do, and you win.

You win the midterms against all historical odds.

But they've got to do that.

I don't know what they're going to run on.

I guess they're going to say that Donald Trump is unfairly deporting people, and they think the Hispanic vote is going to flip back to them.

Well,

they are still 30 on the 70-30 issues.

So

I can tell you that I get to,

I went to a supermarket again two days ago, and a guy came up to me who was Mexican-American, and he was raving and yelling about how great Trump was on the border.

And I said, well, I watch TV, and there's all these people who are

Americans that are attacking ICE.

And he got really angry.

They're not Mexican Americans.

They're Mexicans.

They're foreign.

Or they're kids.

They're kids that have been brainwashing.

College.

Everybody's sick of this.

Everybody's sick of this.

You can't go to the, you know, part of the reason I said about the doctor, you can't, because a lot of people.

He can't go to the doctor either.

You cannot go to the doctor because,

you know, you can't go to the emergency room.

I can testify that because, I mean, the people there are very very good.

I really think they're heroic.

They go there every day

and they see things they've never seen before and they try to treat people in a humane way, but there's just not enough of them and there's too many of the people who came in under Joe Biden.

The only way it would have stopped if Joe Biden said this,

I am going to let in 12 million, 10 to 12 million illegal aliens.

I'm not going to audit them.

I'm not going to ask them to get a COVID.

I don't give them a TB test, none of that.

I'm not going to have a criminal background.

They're going to flood a lot of areas.

But for me to be consistent, I think to give these people a chance at the American dream, even though they're illegal, I'm going to have to have a personal stake in it.

So I promise that Jill

and me

and Hunter will use the ER for our health care.

And we'll do it in Tucson and we'll do it in Dallas and we'll do it all along the border.

Fresno, Bakersfield.

That's what we're going to do.

Because we want to see the people we let in and feel solidarity with them and have to go through.

And that's what we're going to do.

And for a week or two, I'm going to move into a hotel in Manhattan.

where we're housing people who are here illegally and just see how it is, talk to people.

Had he done that, I think he might have had some credibility.

But otherwise, you've got the Martha Vineyards.

Hey, I have an extra old puff coat.

I put it in a cardboard box.

I dropped it off at the Humanitarian Illegal Alien Temporary Center.

You got your puff coat from me that cost $400 when they first came out 10 years ago.

Will you put it on?

Because it's cold in Manhattan, and IAAC wouldn't want to

get out of here in 20 minutes.

That's their attitude.

yeah don't let the ferry hit you on the way out well victor we are uh gonna end the show today with two comments from listeners viewers one is uh commenting on a recent from a recent podcast that you did with the great sammy wink this is karen k-a-r-n-12121

writes victor i saw those hothouses in gaza when i visited gush katif in 2003 they were amazing produced beautiful fruit and vegetables Next to the expulsion of the Jewish communities there, I found the destruction of those greenhouses crushing.

What leadership would destroy food production?

Thank you for that, Karen.

12121.

And then

something from Cynthia Verdesimo 457.

She writes, Hi, Victor and Jack, former SoCal native here, and have listened to your wise words since Rush shared you with us.

I too walk in the early a.m., late p.m.

And if I saw you in my neighborhood, I'd shake your hand and thank you for your

service to our nation.

So, not everyone has that view with you, Victor.

Anyway, that was very kind of you, and thanks to everyone who does write comments on YouTube, Rumble, Apple, etc.

We greatly appreciate it.

Try to get through them.

So, Victor, you've been terrific today.

I want to ask people to say a prayer.

You know, since I'm now a Catholic ethicist, I may be a crypto deacon.

Say a prayer for our friend Victor.

Oh, I'm going to be pissed off.

I just had this seven-month sinus lung problem.

No, maybe there's...

We will expedite your cure.

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