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One Leg Up on Calling For a Transparent White House 2-14-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  That's right. You can hear all about it here on the One Leg Up
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  with Alex Scarett feature. I know I've been getting a little more news oriented
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  here on the One Leg Up feature, but sometimes you just got to cover
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  that because I do believe there should be a place where you're not here,
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  where you're hearing everything about it that you may not be. So what's today's
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  topic of extra extra on One Leg Up with Alex Scarrett. Today's topic involves
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  what the House Intelligence Committee has pretty much set Washington, d c. And
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  anybody interested in our public safety into mayhem, saying that there's a serious national
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  security threat. Now, I think it's funny that the White House is saying,
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  well, why did they say this? Why do they do this?
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  Listen to Jake Sullivan. Firstly, this was coming from the House Intel Chi
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  by the name of Mike Turner, House Intel Committee Chair Mike Turner saying there's
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  a national security threat, serious social security threat related to Russia. Now,
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  that's what officials are telling SCENE and other sources. That is, in fact,
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  a highly concerning and destabilizing Russian capability that we were recently made aware of.
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  This is in the midst of this Russia Ukraine War. So part of
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  me wish is they just came right out with it instead of setting everything to
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  panic. I mean, of course, you know, a Democrat on the
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  House Committee says, this isn't a cause for panic, there's no need for
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  alarm. What even House Speaker Johnson said there was no need for alarm.
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  But to me, when you release something like this, it's worth talking about
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  and it's worth declassifying. Of course, we know the Bidens love to have
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  classified information all over the place. But I digress. Here's what Jake Sullivan
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  said at the podium today just a little while ago. So first, I
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  reached out earlier this week to the Gang of Eight to offer myself up for
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  a personal briefing to the Gang of eight. And in fact, we schedule
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  the briefing for the four House members of the Gang of Eight tomorrow. That's
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  been on the books. So I am a bit surprised the Congressman Turner came
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  out publicly today in advance of a meeting on the books for me to go
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  sit with him alongside our intelligence and defense professionals tomorrow. What are they hiding
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  then, If they're so surprised, why shouldn't this be known to all Americans
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  concerned, as I mentioned yesterday or twos are Monday, about their loved ones
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  across the sea. Look, there are American soldiers that we may not know
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  about fighting in Ukrainian right now. Why shouldn't this be a cause for alarm?
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  Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor. I believe he played a key role
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  in the Obama ran deal as well, and he was sort of like a
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  lackey for them back in the day too. Here he is again. Here
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  he is again defending the White House and saying, well, he continued,
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  that's his choice to do that. All I can tell you is that I'm
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  focused on going to see him sit with him as well as the other House
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  members of the Gang of Eight tomorrow, and I'm not in a position to
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  say anything further from this podium at this time other than to make the broad
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  point that this administration has gone further and in more creative, more strategic ways
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  dealt with the declassification of intelligence in the national interest of the United States than
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  any administration in history. Was that, as President Biden was on his way
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  to get the ice cream, called you declassified information. Because I feel like
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  the guy left the classified information all over the place, whether you penned the
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  local carvel. I mean, come on, Jake Sullivan, tell us what's
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  in the documents. I think we, as American tax accountability deserve to know.
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  Now. I'm a little fired up because it just feels like they're hiding
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  something from us. It doesn't he don't you get that feeling when they say
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  and they pussy foot Sorry to say that, but they pussy foot around the
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  fact that there's a security threat. I'm a little surprised. Mike Johnson,
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  this House speaker even said there's no cause for alarm. I got understand.
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  Democrats say that because they don't want the Republicans to look good after actually a
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  huge win this week. By the way, after we left the air Rais
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  yesterday on one leg up it was official my orcist, the DHS secretary was
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  actually impeached, a huge win for the House GOP ahead of election twenty twenty
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  four. So I really believe the White House, the Democrats, and I
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  had to say, Mike Johnson here is trying to cut down at the knees
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  something very important because not to raise alarm. And that's concerning to me because
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  if the Democrats want to take a victory lap on this, and if they
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  want to say, don't cause for alarm. Also, I remember four years
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  ago around this time they were saying there's no COVID go on party. What
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  happened a month later they shut us down? So what does this cause for
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  alarm? Now? I know there's a lot of parallels, the same Super
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  Bowl teams, the same presidential candidates. Uh yeah, I'm a little concerned
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  that four years later, someone is to nonsense to cause us harm in twenty
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  twenty four. And I really applaud the House Intel Chairman for coming out with
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  this a day before their meeting Mike Turner, because someone's got to say it.
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  There is a national security threat, a serious one on our hands after
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  they viewed the documents that were made available as of yesterday, February thirteenth.
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  And I'm just I'm just here to tell you we have to be on alert.
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  I only anybody else on the podcast Fair might talk about it like this.
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  That's why I'm here because I believe in having one leg up on accountability.
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  I believe you should have one leg up on the news as well,
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  because we all want to walk around being informed, not always glued to our
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  phone all the time. Vice President, Vice Chairman of the Senate Intel Committee
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  Marko Rubio, and Senate Intel Committee Chair Mark Warner released the same as saying,
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  in the meantime, we must be cautious about potentially just closing sources and
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  methods that may be key to preserving a range of options for US action.
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  What does that mean? What action do we have to take off the serious
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  threat? It? It feels like back in twenty twenty when they say there's
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  no cause for alarm, go out and party for the lunar New Year to
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  come to Chinatown. Remember they said that, and then a month later they
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  like us out. I wrote that. So we should be on alert,
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  just like Intel Chair Mike Turner is on alert, because if we're are gonna
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  have one leg up on Russia and our enemies, I think sounding the alarm
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  is a lot better than saying I'm surprised Mike Turner did this. So what
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  are you hiding, Jake Sullivan? What are you hiding? By an administration?
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