Latest / The Ben Ferguson Podcast / Executive Orders & Firings: Trump's Bold Moves in Education and the FBI
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- 0:00Speaker 1: We've got a couple major issues that we're going to
- 0:01Speaker 1: be talking about today, including the Trump administration is moving
- 0:05Speaker 1: to fire FBI agents involved in the Donald Trump weaponization
- 0:12Speaker 1: of our government to probe him. Yeah, those people are
- 0:16Speaker 1: going to be gone. I'll give you all the details
- 0:19Speaker 1: on that coming up. But before we get to that,
- 0:21Speaker 1: Donald Trump moved on a very big issue, and that
- 0:24Speaker 1: was the issue of school choice.
- 0:27Speaker 2: This through an executive order.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Donald Trumps signing an order on school choice as well
- 0:32Speaker 1: as funding. I want you to hear how Local Fox
- 0:35Speaker 1: was telling the story.
- 0:36Speaker 3: And President Trump signs two executive orders on school funding
- 0:41Speaker 3: that fulfill promises he made on the campaign trail.
- 0:43Speaker 4: The orders take action to stop schools here in our
- 0:46Speaker 4: country from teaching the so called critical race theory or
- 0:48Speaker 4: other topics on race and sexuality. Since taking off face
- 0:52Speaker 4: January twentieth, the president has issued more than three hundred
- 0:56Speaker 4: executive orders.
- 0:56Speaker 5: This includes an order to support school choice.
- 1:00Speaker 4: How they're removing federal funding from K through twelve schools
- 1:02Speaker 4: that teach critical race theory. Trump's order, titled Ending Radical
- 1:07Speaker 4: Indoctrination in K through twelve schooling reads in part, parents
- 1:11Speaker 4: have witnessed schools make their children in radical anti American
- 1:15Speaker 4: ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. It goes on to
- 1:19Speaker 4: say such an environment operates as an echo chamber, and
- 1:22Speaker 4: when students are forced to accept these on ideologies without
- 1:25Speaker 4: question or critical examination of many cases, and as it
- 1:28Speaker 4: children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or
- 1:32Speaker 4: oppressors solely based on their skin color and other characteristics.
- 1:38Speaker 4: Order cites Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four, which
- 1:42Speaker 4: prohibits discrimination over race, color, and national origin for any
- 1:46Speaker 4: activity of program receiving federal funding.
- 1:49Speaker 1: This obviously a major move for parents, freedom of choice
- 1:53Speaker 1: and school choice. The President also brought in his former
- 1:56Speaker 1: White House Press Seretary SARIH. Hockebie Sanders to talk about
- 2:00Speaker 1: how Trump will provide prosperity for students through school choice,
- 2:04Speaker 1: meaning you're no longer controlled by the government or the teachers' unions.
- 2:08Speaker 1: This is putting students, education and parents first.
- 2:12Speaker 3: We have on our screen right now, and we can
- 2:13Speaker 3: come back to this. I want to go back to
- 2:15Speaker 3: what the governor was just mentioning, because we have a
- 2:17Speaker 3: map twelve states with universal school choice Montana, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio,
- 2:22Speaker 3: West Virginia, Arizona, Utah, Arkansas, as you just heard from
- 2:25Speaker 3: Governor Sanders, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Alabama all have at least
- 2:29Speaker 3: one private school choice program that's universally accessible to K
- 2:33Speaker 3: through twelve students in that particular state. So states on
- 2:37Speaker 3: their own, like yours, have had to ignite this necessarily.
- 2:43Speaker 6: Unfortunately it has been left to the states. But that's
- 2:46Speaker 6: not the case anymore. We saw President Trump sign an
- 2:49Speaker 6: executive order He's convened people from all over the country
- 2:52Speaker 6: here at the White House today. We now have somebody
- 2:55Speaker 6: who is going to champion American families and do so
- 2:59Speaker 6: by empowering parents to make the best decision possible about
- 3:02Speaker 6: where and how they can be educated. Republican governors have
- 3:06Speaker 6: had to have that fight on their own for the
- 3:08Speaker 6: last four years. We no longer have to do that
- 3:11Speaker 6: by ourselves. We have somebody in the White House that
- 3:14Speaker 6: not only is going to fight by us, but is
- 3:16Speaker 6: going to lead the charge and help make sure we
- 3:18Speaker 6: get the job done. And the best and most important
- 3:21Speaker 6: beneficiaries are going to be students and kids across the country.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Well, and you know, Kevin or when you talk with
- 3:26Speaker 3: people in large urban areas like New York, city or
- 3:29Speaker 3: even my county in New Jersey, which is huge. When
- 3:32Speaker 3: you talk to parents who are financially struggling, they'll say,
- 3:35Speaker 3: everybody thinks that we don't want choice and that we'll
- 3:37Speaker 3: just take whatever they give us. They don't feel that way.
- 3:41Speaker 3: They like the idea of Okay, can I have access
- 3:44Speaker 3: That accessibility is it, and then let me figure out
- 3:47Speaker 3: how I get my child to this place or to
- 3:49Speaker 3: that place.
- 3:51Speaker 6: No child should ever be trapped in a failing school
- 3:55Speaker 6: simply because of their zip code. And that's exactly what
- 3:58Speaker 6: this president is doing. He is removed those barriers and
- 4:01Speaker 6: making sure that every kid in America has a pathway
- 4:04Speaker 6: to prosperity. By giving parents a choice about where their
- 4:08Speaker 6: kids go to school, they will finally have all the
- 4:11Speaker 6: tools and resources they need to pave their own path.
- 4:14Speaker 6: And that's one of the best things about living in
- 4:16Speaker 6: America is it doesn't matter where you start. You get
- 4:19Speaker 6: to decide where you will finish. We have a president
- 4:21Speaker 6: now who understands that is going to fight for it
- 4:24Speaker 6: and make sure everybody has the opportunity to experience it.
- 4:27Speaker 2: That's what It's very simple.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Donald Trump is saying you, as a parent, you should
- 4:33Speaker 1: be able to get your kid the best education possible,
- 4:36Speaker 1: and you shouldn't be stuck in a school that is
- 4:39Speaker 1: failing your child. That is exactly why the President has
- 4:42Speaker 1: moved forward with this executive action. Now, let me give
- 4:45Speaker 1: you some of the details in here so you understand
- 4:48Speaker 1: exactly what is going to take place and what this means.
- 4:51Speaker 1: First up, and this may be the most important part,
- 4:54Speaker 1: is President Trump signing this sweeping executive order backing school
- 4:59Speaker 1: choice and IMpower powering parents, is saying to this order
- 5:03Speaker 1: is for the states that you must support parents in
- 5:08Speaker 1: choosing and directing the upbringing and education of their children.
- 5:12Speaker 1: It is not your job to go against them. It
- 5:14Speaker 1: is not your job to make it harder on them.
- 5:17Speaker 1: And it directs the Department of Education to prioritize school
- 5:20Speaker 1: choice programs through discretionary grants.
- 5:25Speaker 2: Quote.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Parents want and deserve the best education for their children.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Too many children do not thrive in their assigned government
- 5:33Speaker 1: run K through twelve school system. According to this year's
- 5:36Speaker 1: National Assessment of Educational Progress, seventy percent of eighth graders
- 5:43Speaker 1: in America were below proficiency in reading. Seventy two percent
- 5:48Speaker 1: of eighth graders in this country we're below proficients see
- 5:52Speaker 1: in math and moreover, quote, geographically based school assignments exacerbate
- 5:59Speaker 1: the car of housing and districts with preferred schools, stranding
- 6:03Speaker 1: the finances of millions of American families sacrificing for their
- 6:07Speaker 1: children's future. And let me just translate that for you.
- 6:10Speaker 1: What Trump's saying is, look, where there are good schools,
- 6:13Speaker 1: the costs of housing is much higher because parents are
- 6:17Speaker 1: dying to get their kids in a school district that
- 6:20Speaker 1: is a solid school district, that's a good school district.
- 6:24Speaker 1: And so that's the biggest point here. The biggest problem
- 6:27Speaker 1: is that it's unfair because there's a lot of parents
- 6:30Speaker 1: that are now are wanting.
- 6:31Speaker 2: To give their kids a great education, they can't.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Afford the housing or the rent in the school district
- 6:36Speaker 1: that was actually serving their kids' needs. So Trump saying
- 6:40Speaker 1: that's not right, that should never happen. We've got to
- 6:44Speaker 1: get rid of that to make sure that every parent
- 6:47Speaker 1: has a chance to get their kids in a great
- 6:49Speaker 1: school system, regardless of their zip code.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Quote.
- 6:53Speaker 1: When our public education system fails such a large segment
- 6:57Speaker 1: of society, it hinders our national competitiveness and devastates families
- 7:02Speaker 1: and communities For this reason, more than a dozen states
- 7:05Speaker 1: have enacted universal K through twelve scholarship programs what you
- 7:09Speaker 1: just heard on Fox a moment ago that allows families,
- 7:12Speaker 1: rather than the government, to choose the best educational setting.
- 7:15Speaker 2: For their children. Quote.
- 7:17Speaker 1: These states have highlighted the most promising avenue for education reform.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Educational choice for families and competition for residentially assigned government
- 7:28Speaker 1: run public schools is important. The growing body of rigorous
- 7:32Speaker 1: research demonstrates that well designed education freedom programs improve student
- 7:37Speaker 1: achievement and cause nearby public schools to improve their performance,
- 7:42Speaker 1: or in essence, they're out of business now. The order
- 7:44Speaker 1: specifically directs the Secretary of Education issue guidance within sixty
- 7:49Speaker 1: days regarding House states can use federal formula funds to
- 7:53Speaker 1: support K through twelve educational choice initiatives. The Secretary of
- 7:57Speaker 1: Education to include education freedom as a priority in discretionary
- 8:02Speaker 1: grant programs. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is
- 8:05Speaker 1: going to issue guidance within ninety days regarding Weather and House.
- 8:09Speaker 1: States receiving block grants for families and children from the Department,
- 8:12Speaker 1: including the Childcare and Development Block Grants, can use them
- 8:17Speaker 1: to expand educational choice and support families who choose educational
- 8:22Speaker 1: alternatives to government entities, including private and faith based options.
- 8:28Speaker 1: So in translation, what Donald Trump is saying is you,
- 8:31Speaker 1: the parents, should decide where you want to put your kids.
- 8:34Speaker 1: You should be able to put them in the best school,
- 8:36Speaker 1: private school, or religious school, and you shouldn't be stuck
- 8:39Speaker 1: in a failing school. This is good for all Americans,
- 8:44Speaker 1: every kid, regardless of your religious beliefs and or your
- 8:48Speaker 1: political beliefs. And that is the point that Donald Trump
- 8:51Speaker 1: is saying. We're going to start on immediately. I want
- 8:55Speaker 1: to give you a quick update on the investigation the
- 8:58Speaker 1: tragic DC airline crash, and I want to go back
- 9:02Speaker 1: to March of twenty twenty three. There are moments that
- 9:06Speaker 1: happen and then when a tragedy hits, you go back
- 9:11Speaker 1: to him and you're like, oh, this is what happens
- 9:14Speaker 1: when you have incompetent people that are in charge of
- 9:17Speaker 1: hiring people for very complex positions. When there is failures,
- 9:21Speaker 1: there is massive catastrophic fallout. That is what we saw
- 9:25Speaker 1: with this helicopter that hit this plane in Washington, d C.
- 9:30Speaker 1: At Reagan National Airport. So let me go back to
- 9:33Speaker 1: March of twenty twenty three. Center, Ted Cruz was asking
- 9:38Speaker 1: the FAA nominee about what does he actually know about airplanes?
- 9:42Speaker 1: This is a woke DEI higher you could argue, and
- 9:46Speaker 1: I want you to hear how little he actually knew
- 9:49Speaker 1: about airplanes and flying.
- 9:52Speaker 7: You ever flowing a plane?
- 9:54Speaker 5: Thank you for the question, Senator. No, I have never
- 9:56Speaker 5: flown a plane, so.
- 9:57Speaker 8: You weren't a military pilot or a commercial airline pilot.
- 10:00Speaker 7: No Center, have you ever worked for an airline?
- 10:03Speaker 5: No cenator.
- 10:05Speaker 8: Have you ever worked as an air traffic controller? No, Senator,
- 10:09Speaker 8: have you ever worked for a company that manufactures airplanes? No, Senator,
- 10:13Speaker 8: you ever worked for a company that fixes airplanes?
- 10:16Speaker 5: No, cenator.
- 10:18Speaker 8: FA administrator is a specialized position. I'm not qualified to
- 10:22Speaker 8: be FA administrator. I've no idea how a flyplane. No
- 10:25Speaker 8: one in their right mind would put me in charge
- 10:27Speaker 8: of aviation safety because I don't have that experience. I
- 10:30Speaker 8: suspect most of the members of this committee are in
- 10:32Speaker 8: a similar position. The American people when they think about
- 10:36Speaker 8: aviation safety. When they think about I played in this
- 10:39Speaker 8: committee a Southwest Airlines and FedEx plane almost colliding at
- 10:44Speaker 8: Austin's Airport, they want an FA administrator who knows why
- 10:49Speaker 8: those planes crash and knows how to fix it to
- 10:52Speaker 8: keep them safe. And with all respect, mister Washington, it
- 10:56Speaker 8: gives no comfort to the flying public that their pilot
- 11:01Speaker 8: might be a transgendered witch but doesn't actually know how
- 11:06Speaker 8: to prevent the plane from crashing into the ground and
- 11:09Speaker 8: killing them. I believe your record is woefully lacking.
- 11:15Speaker 2: Woefully lacking.
- 11:17Speaker 1: If this could be a Saturday Night Live skit, except
- 11:21Speaker 1: it's real life. Now you go back to the questions, right, like,
- 11:25Speaker 1: what other questions were asked? Let's go back Joe Biden's
- 11:29Speaker 1: pick to leave the FA couldn't answer a single question
- 11:32Speaker 1: about aviation as well. This was a question that was
- 11:36Speaker 1: asked by Senator bud Take a listen to.
- 11:40Speaker 9: This, mister Washington, can you quickly tell me what airspace
- 11:44Speaker 9: requires an ADSB transponder?
- 11:47Speaker 5: I'm not sure I can answer that question right now.
- 11:49Speaker 5: That's okay, We'll just keep going.
- 11:50Speaker 9: So that's a pretty important part. So what are the
- 11:55Speaker 9: six types of special use of airspace that protect this
- 11:59Speaker 9: national security that appere on FAA charts?
- 12:02Speaker 5: Sorry, Senator, I cannot answer that question.
- 12:04Speaker 9: So what are the operational limitations of a pilot flying
- 12:07Speaker 9: under basic MED.
- 12:08Speaker 5: Senator, I'm not a pilot.
- 12:10Speaker 9: So obviously you'd ever see that Federal Aviation Administration. So
- 12:16Speaker 9: any idea what those restrictions are under basic MED?
- 12:19Speaker 5: Quickly? Well, some of the restrictions I think would be
- 12:22Speaker 5: high blood pressure. Some of them would be it's.
- 12:26Speaker 9: More like how many passengers per airplane, how many pounds
- 12:29Speaker 9: in different categories, and what altitude you can find or so,
- 12:34Speaker 9: and then amount of knots. It's under two hundred and
- 12:38Speaker 9: fifty knots, so it's not having anything to do.
- 12:40Speaker 5: With blood pressure.
- 12:41Speaker 9: So can you tell me what causes an aircraft to
- 12:43Speaker 9: spin or to stall? Again?
- 12:46Speaker 5: Senator, I'm not a pilot.
- 12:48Speaker 7: Okay, let's keep going.
- 12:50Speaker 9: What are the three aircraft certifications FA requires as part
- 12:53Speaker 9: of the manufacturing process?
- 12:55Speaker 5: Quickly? Please? Three aircraft certifications Again. What I would say
- 13:02Speaker 5: to that is that one of my first priorities would
- 13:04Speaker 5: be to fully implement that Certification Act and report.
- 13:09Speaker 9: You know, the three types, mister Washington. The three types okay, Yeah,
- 13:13Speaker 9: that's type certificate, production certificate, and airworthiness certificate. Okay, all right,
- 13:18Speaker 9: let's just keep going, see if we can get lucky here.
- 13:22Speaker 9: So can you tell me what the minimum separation distance
- 13:24Speaker 9: is for landing into parting airliners during the daytime.
- 13:27Speaker 5: Mister Washington, I don't want to guess on that, Senator.
- 13:31Speaker 9: Are you familiar with the difference between Part one oh
- 13:33Speaker 9: seven and Part forty four eight oh nine when it
- 13:35Speaker 9: comes to unman aerial standards unman aarily unmanned like drones.
- 13:40Speaker 5: Are you familiar with? Yes?
- 13:41Speaker 9: Yes, okay, you know the difference between those two Part
- 13:46Speaker 9: forty four eighth nine and Part one oh seven.
- 13:48Speaker 5: Do you know the difference there? No, I cannot. This's okay.
- 13:53Speaker 1: When you start putting people in positions of power based
- 13:56Speaker 1: on race, not based on qualifications, you get what you
- 14:01Speaker 1: just heard, people that are unqualified for a job. By
- 14:05Speaker 1: the way, I'm not a big fan of I got
- 14:07Speaker 1: you questions like for people that are up, I'm not.
- 14:10Speaker 1: There's questions you're can ask to try to make somebody
- 14:13Speaker 1: look stupid. These are not questions that were asked to
- 14:16Speaker 1: make them look stupid. You're wanting to be in charge
- 14:18Speaker 1: of the FAA. You're the man that Biden picked to.
- 14:22Speaker 2: Lead the FAA.
- 14:25Speaker 1: You should be able to answer the questions that the
- 14:28Speaker 1: FAA is involved with with safety, like that's your job.
- 14:34Speaker 2: That's something that you should be able to do.
- 14:38Speaker 1: So you fast forward to what happened the other night,
- 14:41Speaker 1: and now you understand why we may have gotten there.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Whether it's on the military side, or the or the
- 14:46Speaker 1: air drone control sided or I mean, there's a lot
- 14:49Speaker 1: of things here that could have gone wrong because we
- 14:52Speaker 1: decided in the military that DEI was more important than
- 14:55Speaker 1: the most qualified. We decided in the towers where the
- 15:00Speaker 1: traffic is controlled, it was more important to hire based
- 15:05Speaker 1: on something of DEI than it was to find the
- 15:08Speaker 1: best people for the job. You've got a guy that
- 15:13Speaker 1: they said we want to leave the fa that couldn't
- 15:16Speaker 1: answer a single question about what's happening within the FAA,
- 15:24Speaker 1: which brings me to NBC News. NBC News is Tom
- 15:28Speaker 1: Costello came out with a breaking news report that the
- 15:32Speaker 1: FAA air traffic control boss let the supervisor leave early
- 15:37Speaker 1: before the mid air crash. NBC's Tom Costello covers aviation
- 15:42Speaker 1: for US.
- 15:42Speaker 7: He's at Reagan National again. He's got the very latest
- 15:45Speaker 7: this morning.
- 15:45Speaker 10: Tom Good morning, Savannah, Good Morning. A high level investigative
- 15:50Speaker 10: source tells me that they have now confirmed that an
- 15:53Speaker 10: FAA air traffic control supervisor in the tower here at
- 15:56Speaker 10: Reagan had allowed a supervisor to leave early, and as
- 16:00Speaker 10: a result, there was only one supervisor Wednesday night, handling
- 16:03Speaker 10: both helicopter traffic and plane traffic. Normally you would have
- 16:08Speaker 10: one dedicated to helicopters one dedicated to planes. Now, while
- 16:12Speaker 10: this is not optimal, it is allowed, but nonetheless that
- 16:15Speaker 10: will clearly be a part of this investigation. Air traffic
- 16:18Speaker 10: control staffing nationwide, as you know, has been an ongoing issue,
- 16:22Speaker 10: with the shortage of ten thousand controllers nationwide. It's been
- 16:25Speaker 10: a problem years in the making, and so now the
- 16:29Speaker 10: question is whether staffing in any way played a role
- 16:32Speaker 10: in this accident. In addition, I have also learned that
- 16:36Speaker 10: in fact air traffic part of me investigators are going
- 16:39Speaker 10: to be looking closely at the black box, if like
- 16:42Speaker 10: data recorder when they get it from that Blackhawk helicopter,
- 16:45Speaker 10: because that will tell them and give them a precise
- 16:49Speaker 10: reading on the altitude for that helicopter. There is evidence
- 16:53Speaker 10: that the chopper was higher than it should have been,
- 16:56Speaker 10: in fact, at the same altitude as that plane. Well's
- 17:00Speaker 10: going to be. Why was it at that altitude? Did
- 17:03Speaker 10: they have an alternative altimeter misfiring or miss misreading if
- 17:07Speaker 10: you will, inside the chopper that'll be part of this investigation.
- 17:11Speaker 10: I can also tell you the NTSB sent time with
- 17:13Speaker 10: spent time with the families of the victims yesterday here
- 17:16Speaker 10: in the Washington area, briefing them on the status of
- 17:19Speaker 10: the investigation. And the NTSB has brought in its own
- 17:23Speaker 10: black Hawk helicopter pilot from Alaska who is an expert on.
- 17:28Speaker 2: The black Hawk.
- 17:28Speaker 10: He is employed by the NTSP, but they have brought
- 17:31Speaker 10: him into Washington to be their own eyes and ears,
- 17:35Speaker 10: and they're expert on the black Hawk. In addition to
- 17:39Speaker 10: the Defense Department's own investigative team that will be looking
- 17:42Speaker 10: into what happened on board that helicopter, and then separately
- 17:46Speaker 10: the NTSP of course looking into what.
- 17:48Speaker 7: Happened with the plane.
- 17:49Speaker 10: All of this now less than two days after this
- 17:52Speaker 10: horrific crash in which everybody on.
- 17:54Speaker 7: Board both aircraft were killed.
- 17:57Speaker 1: So to recap the FAA air traffic control boss let
- 18:01Speaker 1: the supervisor leave early before the mid air crash, and
- 18:05Speaker 1: as a result, there was only one supervisor Wednesday night,
- 18:08Speaker 1: handling both helicopter traffic and plane traffic. Something else that
- 18:14Speaker 1: he said, air traffic control staffing nationwide as you know,
- 18:18Speaker 1: has an on has been an ongoing issue with a
- 18:21Speaker 1: shortage of ten thousand air traffic controllers nationwide. Ten thousand short.
- 18:29Speaker 1: This was a recipe for miscommunication. It was a recipe
- 18:33Speaker 1: for disaster, and now we are seeing what happens when
- 18:38Speaker 1: you put a radical DEI agenda and kumbai ism ahead
- 18:42Speaker 1: of efficiency. We should never been ten thousand agents short.
- 18:49Speaker 2: I want to move.
- 18:50Speaker 1: On to the FBI right now, and there are some
- 18:52Speaker 1: major shakeups underway as the Trump administration has made the
- 18:57Speaker 1: decision to dismiss FBIA agents involved in investigations.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Concerning President Trump.
- 19:05Speaker 1: This underscores a commitment to revitalizing the nation's top law
- 19:10Speaker 1: enforcement agency so that it would not be weaponized against
- 19:12Speaker 1: anyone by addressing the perceived bias and ensuring that the
- 19:16Speaker 1: FBI operates without political prejudice. The administration also says they
- 19:21Speaker 1: aim to restore public confidence and trust in our federal institutions. Now,
- 19:26Speaker 1: this initiative is part of a broader strategy the White
- 19:29Speaker 1: House going to make clear to reform federal agencies promoting
- 19:34Speaker 1: accountability and efficiency. Now, the appointment of individuals like Cash
- 19:38Speaker 1: Pattel as the nominee for FBI, it reflects a dedication
- 19:43Speaker 1: to leadership that prioritizes integrity and transparency, which is exactly
- 19:48Speaker 1: what Cash talked about it his confirmation hearing. Patel has
- 19:53Speaker 1: pledged to protect FBI employees from political retribution and to
- 19:58Speaker 1: uphold the agency's policies and procedures.
- 20:02Speaker 2: Now.
- 20:03Speaker 1: By implementing these changes, the Trump administration is seeking to
- 20:07Speaker 1: create a more efficient, they say, more effective, and impartial
- 20:12Speaker 1: federal workforce, ultimately benefiting the American public through enhance trust
- 20:17Speaker 1: in government operations. Now, Caspateel is a guy that actually
- 20:22Speaker 1: talked even before his confirmation hearing about how he was
- 20:26Speaker 1: targeted by the deep state and how big Tech helped
- 20:30Speaker 1: to basically give all of his information without his knowledge
- 20:35Speaker 1: to the FBI. He was asked a question like who
- 20:38Speaker 1: runs these things, right, Like who's in charge? Where they
- 20:41Speaker 1: can just spy on any American and they can weaponize
- 20:44Speaker 1: the deep state of the federal government against people that
- 20:47Speaker 1: are actually serving their country because they don't like what
- 20:49Speaker 1: they're saying or what they're doing, or that they're conservative.
- 20:52Speaker 1: And I'm going to play this clip from you for
- 20:54Speaker 1: you because this was back in December. All right, listen carefully,
- 20:58Speaker 1: what Casptel says the government, the FBI, that he is
- 21:02Speaker 1: about to run what they did even to him because
- 21:05Speaker 1: he worked for Donald Trump.
- 21:07Speaker 11: To me, it is so who's at the end of it?
- 21:11Speaker 11: Is it a country? Is it us politicians? Is the
- 21:17Speaker 11: World Economic Forum? Where it's so well orchestrated, there has
- 21:21Speaker 11: to be an organizer, and so who is the organizer?
- 21:25Speaker 12: I don't think that there's one specific organizer. I think
- 21:30Speaker 12: there is a group of organizations that have participated in
- 21:35Speaker 12: it for a while. The World Economic Forum is a
- 21:37Speaker 12: piece of it. Certain politicians are a piece of it.
- 21:41Speaker 12: Certain people who become ags, Directors of the FBI, directors
- 21:44Speaker 12: of the CIA, et c.
- 21:45Speaker 7: Are a piece of it.
- 21:46Speaker 12: And of course the mainstream media is a big component
- 21:49Speaker 12: of it. All of those entities partner up together to
- 21:53Speaker 12: take over Washington, DC, and instead of doing the job
- 21:56Speaker 12: for the American people, they come out instead come up
- 21:59Speaker 12: with government boo doggles that pay them sells billions and
- 22:02Speaker 12: billions of dollars or their friends billions and billions of dollars,
- 22:05Speaker 12: which is our dollars, and they want to make sure
- 22:08Speaker 12: that that keeps going over and over and over. I'll
- 22:11Speaker 12: give you a perfect example. Who cares if you've ever
- 22:13Speaker 12: followed Russigate or any of this other stuff about the
- 22:15Speaker 12: deep state. Chris Ray, the director of the FBI, and
- 22:18Speaker 12: Rob Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General then of the DOJ,
- 22:23Speaker 12: were tasked with helping us at Congress, where I ran
- 22:25Speaker 12: the Rushigate investigation to expose Russiagate. We went to them
- 22:29Speaker 12: and said, look, you guys didn't do this, help us
- 22:31Speaker 12: expose it, and they both doubled down.
- 22:34Speaker 7: You know what they did.
- 22:36Speaker 12: They launched an investigation against me, the senior congressional investigator
- 22:40Speaker 12: for Russigate on the House Intelligence Committee, and six other staffers.
- 22:44Speaker 12: They used grand jury subpoenas to get my personal information,
- 22:47Speaker 12: my banking information, my emails, my cell phone information, and
- 22:49Speaker 12: everything else. I didn't find out till five years later
- 22:52Speaker 12: when Google called me and said, hey, our five year
- 22:55Speaker 12: notification as lapsed. We can now tell you the DOJ
- 22:58Speaker 12: surveiled you, and we had to turn over documents so
- 23:02Speaker 12: that we exploded that into a federal lawsuit that's still
- 23:05Speaker 12: ongoing in the DOJNFBI.
- 23:06Speaker 7: But those two guys, hold on.
- 23:09Speaker 11: What So Google informed you that you're being surveilled five
- 23:13Speaker 11: years after the investigation started, right?
- 23:16Speaker 6: What?
- 23:17Speaker 7: I mean, what more did they tell you.
- 23:19Speaker 12: They're not allowed to say anything, but that you can
- 23:22Speaker 12: be informed now since it's five years later. So as
- 23:26Speaker 12: a former assecurity prosecutor, I know you don't just go
- 23:28Speaker 12: to Google. You go to every provider, you go to
- 23:31Speaker 12: all the telecoms, you go to the bank, You got everybody.
- 23:33Speaker 7: If you're going to run investigation, that's what you do.
- 23:35Speaker 12: But these two guys who were running the FBIDJ sat
- 23:38Speaker 12: in a room with the Chairman of the House Intelligence
- 23:39Speaker 12: Committee and lied to our faces. They threatened to investigate us,
- 23:43Speaker 12: which was bad enough, right they actually did it, and
- 23:47Speaker 12: then these two guys would get exposed for Rob Rosenstein
- 23:50Speaker 12: specifically for signing a FIZA that was totally bogus. And
- 23:54Speaker 12: we've caught Chris Ray lying time and time again as
- 23:57Speaker 12: the director of the FBI.
- 23:59Speaker 7: Put these guys over here for a second.
- 24:00Speaker 12: Gina Haspell, who was the director of the CIA, was
- 24:03Speaker 12: London station chief in England when Russiagate kicked off. Under
- 24:07Speaker 12: the rule of law in America, if you want the
- 24:09Speaker 12: Federal Burea of Investigation to launch an investigation overseas, you
- 24:12Speaker 12: have to get permission from the head and tel rep
- 24:15Speaker 12: in the England.
- 24:15Speaker 7: It's excuse me, the station chief.
- 24:19Speaker 12: So she allowed Russiagate to occur on British soil where
- 24:23Speaker 12: there was a barroom operation to try to record some
- 24:26Speaker 12: nub into spilling the beans on Donald Trump, and they
- 24:30Speaker 12: would use that to launch the whole Russiagate offensive. Gina
- 24:34Speaker 12: Haspital would later become Trump's CIA director. And then when
- 24:38Speaker 12: these guys got out of the administration, Dono Wor, Gina Haspel,
- 24:41Speaker 12: and Rod Rosenstein worked today at Christopher Ray's old law
- 24:44Speaker 12: firm as senior named partners, making seven and eight figures.
- 24:48Speaker 1: You want to know why they're so afraid of Cash Bettel.
- 24:52Speaker 1: This is why, because they did a Cashtel the same
- 24:55Speaker 1: thing they did on Trump, the same thing they did
- 24:57Speaker 1: to anybody else that got in their way. Cashptel was
- 25:00Speaker 1: just telling you there. It was like they didn't even
- 25:03Speaker 1: tell me until five years later that I was a
- 25:05Speaker 1: target that they came after me. I mean, Cashpatel was
- 25:10Speaker 1: in the National Security Division doing discovery for the for
- 25:13Speaker 1: Benghazi when they found out Hillary Clinton's secret email. By
- 25:16Speaker 1: the way, a lot of people don't know that either.
- 25:18Speaker 1: You want to know again, why they're so afraid of Cashpatel.
- 25:22Speaker 1: This is why, this is why they don't want him
- 25:25Speaker 1: at the FBI. This is why the media is coming
- 25:28Speaker 1: out against him. This is why Democrats are losing their
- 25:32Speaker 1: minds because they understand just how dangerous Cashpatel is to
- 25:38Speaker 1: reform the FBI. Because the FBI spied on cash Battel,
- 25:42Speaker 1: secretly vacuumed up his emails, as phone records, as bank records.
- 25:46Speaker 2: They did it all folks.
- 25:47Speaker 1: They don't want that guy, and they're going, all right,
- 25:49Speaker 1: let's go see what else they did that was illegal
- 25:51Speaker 1: to other Americans. I go back to Benghazi for a second.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Benghazi still matters to me because it's about government corruption
- 25:59Speaker 1: and cover. On the anniversary of nine to eleven, take
- 26:02Speaker 1: a listen to what he said about that.
- 26:04Speaker 12: For his participation in Benghazi where he killed four Americans,
- 26:08Speaker 12: he'll be out of prison before the next presidential election
- 26:10Speaker 12: is done.
- 26:11Speaker 7: Are you serious? Yeah?
- 26:12Speaker 12: And he put him in his sock draw It's called
- 26:14Speaker 12: the Clinton sock drawer case. They went to federal court
- 26:16Speaker 12: the government, and the federal court adjudicated that no reasonable
- 26:20Speaker 12: prosecutor would bring this case. I was in the National
- 26:21Speaker 12: Security Division at the time. I was doing the discovery
- 26:24Speaker 12: for Benghazi where we found her freaking email people in
- 26:30Speaker 12: government like places like the FBI and senior leaders positions
- 26:33Speaker 12: and DJ making prosecutorial decisions based on a political election.
- 26:39Speaker 5: You know.
- 26:39Speaker 12: My first big instance of that was Benghazi. I was
- 26:42Speaker 12: I was the main justice lead prosecutor for Benghazi for
- 26:46Speaker 12: kid and.
- 26:49Speaker 7: I remember it's meeting.
- 26:49Speaker 12: With then ag holder and we had a deck of
- 26:52Speaker 12: like nineteen guys who wanted to prosecute you know, Jay
- 26:56Speaker 12: Sock had him rolled up, and we wanted to get
- 26:59Speaker 12: them all. They killed four Maria you know, it's a
- 27:02Speaker 12: legit terrorist attack. And the basic general response from the
- 27:07Speaker 12: FBIDO Jay leadership was Wow, it's only politically convenient to
- 27:10Speaker 12: get one guy, And they went and got basically the
- 27:12Speaker 12: wrong guy. And then we prosecuted that wrong guy. Not
- 27:15Speaker 12: that he wasn't a part of it, he just wasn't
- 27:17Speaker 12: like the top tier of guys I would have gone after.
- 27:21Speaker 12: And they screwed up the prosecution because they didn't listen
- 27:24Speaker 12: to us and they didn't want to use the right evidence.
- 27:26Speaker 7: And it was all political decisions. What do you mean
- 27:28Speaker 7: they didn't want to use the right evidence.
- 27:30Speaker 12: They wanted to you know, because half of that stuff
- 27:33Speaker 12: was classified and they wanted to. I didn't piece this
- 27:37Speaker 12: together then because we didn't have the whole fallout from Benghazi,
- 27:43Speaker 12: the hearings and the congressional review that would.
- 27:46Speaker 7: Take time to come in.
- 27:48Speaker 12: But they wouldn't let us prosecute I think sixteen of
- 27:53Speaker 12: the nineteen that I wanted, they didn't want half this
- 27:56Speaker 12: evidence declassified. And I was like, what they Well, the
- 27:59Speaker 12: leadership a DOJFBI in the intel community obviously played a
- 28:02Speaker 12: role in that, and so you know, we were just like,
- 28:07Speaker 12: all right, we'll do the best we can. And for example,
- 28:11Speaker 12: Katala H. Greenbrier River, the guy that's getting that first
- 28:14Speaker 12: got prosecuted. He is getting out for his participation in
- 28:19Speaker 12: Benghazi where he killed four Americans. He'll be out of
- 28:22Speaker 12: prison before the next presidential election's done.
- 28:25Speaker 1: You listen to everything that he just described with Benghazi,
- 28:29Speaker 1: and there was a consistency of the deep state. If
- 28:32Speaker 1: they were told to make someing go away, they did it.
- 28:34Speaker 1: If they were told to lie, they lied. If they
- 28:37Speaker 1: were told to investigate a political opponent of the White House,
- 28:40Speaker 1: they did it. If they were told to raid the
- 28:42Speaker 1: president's home, they did it. This was all part of
- 28:46Speaker 1: the deep state. Doing whatever they could do, okay, whatever
- 28:52Speaker 1: they could do to shut down in silence their political
- 28:58Speaker 1: reporters three to one their political opponents. Now, let me
- 29:05Speaker 1: also give you some news that has just broken, and
- 29:08Speaker 1: I want you to understand this is huge. The White
- 29:11Speaker 1: House has just announced the release of eight additional hostages
- 29:16Speaker 1: from Hamas captivity. Here's the White House pre Secretary making
- 29:19Speaker 1: the announcement.
- 29:20Speaker 13: I also do have news on the hostage front, which
- 29:23Speaker 13: I'm very surprised nobody asked about this because it is
- 29:26Speaker 13: big news story. And the White House applauds the release
- 29:30Speaker 13: of eight additional hostages from Hamas captivity. Thanks to the
- 29:34Speaker 13: ceasefire deal secured by President Trump, three Israeli and five
- 29:38Speaker 13: Thai nationals are being reunited with their families and their
- 29:42Speaker 13: loved ones after being held in unspeakable conditions for over
- 29:45Speaker 13: fifteen months. And the President remains committed to the release
- 29:49Speaker 13: of all remaining hostages.
- 29:50Speaker 7: And they should have never.
- 29:51Speaker 13: Been taken by the brutal terrorist group Hamas in the
- 29:54Speaker 13: first place. And I think President Trump's working meeting with
- 29:57Speaker 13: the Israeli Prime Minister next week emphasizes his continued support
- 30:01Speaker 13: for Israel and ensuring that brutal terrorists in that region
- 30:05Speaker 13: have hell to pay.
- 30:07Speaker 2: Have hell to pay.
- 30:08Speaker 1: I love being able to end the show with some
- 30:10Speaker 1: really good news and the release of eight additional hostages
- 30:13Speaker 1: from Hamas captivity thanks to the ceasefire deal secured by
- 30:18Speaker 1: President Trump. This was the whole point of getting that
- 30:20Speaker 1: deal done, and we are getting more of those hostages out.
- 30:24Speaker 1: Don't forget to share this podcast wherever you can on
- 30:26Speaker 1: social media, and I will see you back here tomorrow.