Latest / Real America with Dan Ball / 10/23/26 -- Guest Host Eric Eggers w/ Ann Vandersteel, Marc Beckman, Mel K, Riley Lewis
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- 0:09Speaker 1: Happy Friday, America. We made it, everybody.
- 0:12Speaker 2: I'm your guest host, Eric Eggers, filling in for Dan Ball,
- 0:14Speaker 2: and we have a lot of ground to cover tonight.
- 0:16Speaker 2: But first, I just want to take a moment and
- 0:18Speaker 2: say thank you. I want to say thank you to
- 0:19Speaker 2: you for watching, and I want to say thank you
- 0:21Speaker 2: to Dan Ball and his amazing team for letting me
- 0:23Speaker 2: host this week. It seriously has been such a privilege,
- 0:26Speaker 2: the privilege of a lifetime, to talk to you each night.
- 0:29Speaker 2: I love that Dan's show was called Real America because
- 0:32Speaker 2: he likes to give you real information. And if there's
- 0:34Speaker 2: one thing I've learned over the past few years, it's
- 0:37Speaker 2: just how hard it is to find out the truth
- 0:39Speaker 2: about certain things. This week alone, right, we've talked about
- 0:42Speaker 2: how fake polls were used to help certain candidates.
- 0:46Speaker 1: One of those candidates is Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Both of his primary opponents have actually said that a
- 0:51Speaker 2: polling company called Wedgwood Polls helped El-Sayed's campaign.
- 0:55Speaker 1: This week, Wedgwood.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Polls basically came out and said, yeah, those results, we
- 0:59Speaker 2: pretty much just made them up. So fake polls we
- 1:02Speaker 2: know now have helped Abdul win the nomination. Now it
- 1:06Speaker 2: looks like he's trying to use even more fake footage
- 1:08Speaker 2: to help him with his next problem. Because Abdul El-Sayed's
- 1:11Speaker 2: new problem isn't the polls. He has a problem with
- 1:14Speaker 2: black voters. And as a Democrat, that's kind of a
- 1:17Speaker 2: big deal. The problem is, Abdul spent so much time
- 1:20Speaker 2: in the primary talking about Israel that Michigan voters are like, hey,
- 1:24Speaker 2: are we sure you're concerned about our problems?
- 1:27Speaker 1: Abdul El-Sayed is for Palestine, but Mike Rogers is for Michigan. Well,
- 1:33Speaker 1: there's strength somewhere.
- 1:35Speaker 3: I think Abdul cares more about the West Bank than
- 1:38Speaker 3: West Detroit.
- 1:39Speaker 4: I feel like he cares about Palestine more than Michigan.
- 1:41Speaker 5: We need someone who is speaking for us first.
- 1:44Speaker 4: Mike Rogers is more in tune to Michigan and what
- 1:47Speaker 4: it needs.
- 1:48Speaker 6: Mike Rogers is going to make sure that our concerns
- 1:52Speaker 6: are being met.
- 1:53Speaker 7: I'm a lifelong Democrat, and this year I'm voting for
- 1:56Speaker 7: Mike Rogers.
- 1:57Speaker 1: I mean, that's devastating.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Abdul's problems are real enough that even Barack Obama is
- 2:01Speaker 2: headed to Michigan this weekend to try to rally support.
- 2:04Speaker 2: But just in case that doesn't work out, Abdul's been
- 2:07Speaker 2: doing other things to try and prove he can relate
- 2:09Speaker 2: to black voters. Here he is even sitting down with
- 2:12Speaker 2: a real black person, talking about why he thinks black
- 2:14Speaker 2: people might not trust him.
- 2:16Speaker 3: For too many black Detroiters in particular, their experience with
- 2:21Speaker 3: somebody who looks like me is not a good one.
- 2:24Speaker 3: You go into a gas station, you go to a
- 2:26Speaker 3: party store, you're being talked at from behind glass. If
- 2:31Speaker 3: you're a woman, you're being catcalled. If you're a kid,
- 2:33Speaker 3: you're being sold a Lucy out the back, being denied
- 2:35Speaker 3: a bathroom. I've always tried to be on the right
- 2:37Speaker 3: side of that. But I also understand that if that's
- 2:41Speaker 3: your experience with somebody whose name is like mine, that
- 2:43Speaker 3: leaves a terrible taste.
- 2:45Speaker 2: So if you watch closely, you'll notice that he's actually
- 2:48Speaker 2: suggesting that his black voter problems are the fault of,
- 2:50Speaker 2: let me check my notes, oh, the black people. So
- 2:53Speaker 2: to help them get over their own racial bias, Abdul
- 2:57Speaker 2: El-Sayed is now going into his DEI set list and
- 3:00Speaker 2: he's playing the hits. During that same interview, you'll never
- 3:04Speaker 2: guess what he actually ordered to eat.
- 3:07Speaker 3: I'm going to go with the fried chicken, two pieces, please.
- 3:09Speaker 8: And that's going to be all for you?
- 3:10Speaker 4: Yes.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 3:11Speaker 8: No problem. Bro.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Did nobody tell him that pandering to black voters via
- 3:17Speaker 2: the menu is not the way to do it? We've
- 3:19Speaker 2: already seen somebody do that earlier. Here's Hillary Clinton a
- 3:22Speaker 2: few years ago. What's something that you always carry with you?
- 3:25Speaker 1: Hot sauce.
- 3:27Speaker 9: Really?
- 3:28Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Really?
- 3:29Speaker 8: Are you getting information right now?
- 3:31Speaker 5: Hot sauce.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Hot sauce in my bag swag?
- 3:36Speaker 8: Hot sauce.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Really? Yes. Now, listen, I want you to know people
- 3:39Speaker 1: are going to see this and say, okay, she's pandering
- 3:40Speaker 1: to black people. Okay. Is it working? He's like, no,
- 3:49Speaker 1: for real.
- 3:49Speaker 2: They call me hot sauce Clinton on the street. That
- 3:52Speaker 2: goes way back. It's so ridiculous. But this is what
- 3:54Speaker 2: those people do. But still, Abdul's not going to give up.
- 3:58Speaker 2: The problem with him and black voters is gas stations.
- 4:01Speaker 2: He's going to go back to gas stations to try
- 4:03Speaker 2: to win them over.
- 4:06Speaker 8: Abdul is like, hey, I'm not in the Muslim Brotherhood.
- 4:10Speaker 1: I'm in your Brotherhood.
- 4:32Speaker 2: It's so authentic. You know, I don't know about you,
- 4:34Speaker 2: but it bothers me. And I'll tell you why. Actually,
- 4:37Speaker 2: I've had to ask myself questions like, why am I
- 4:39Speaker 2: so bothered by this inauthentic sales job that one candidate
- 4:43Speaker 2: in one state is doing? And I think it's just
- 4:47Speaker 2: the black voter outreach is fake news.
- 4:49Speaker 1: It's a lie.
- 4:51Speaker 2: And I've just got PTSD from the last decade.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Of being lied to.
- 4:55Speaker 2: So in 2018, I actually wrote a book called Fraud,
- 4:58Speaker 2: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election. And
- 5:01Speaker 2: this was before people were talking about voter fraud in
- 5:03Speaker 2: any mainstream way. And when the book came out, it
- 5:05Speaker 2: actually didn't do that well because no one thought that
- 5:07Speaker 2: election fraud could happen to scale to really influence things
- 5:11Speaker 2: in a major way.
- 5:13Speaker 1: And then the 2020 election happened.
- 5:15Speaker 2: And we cast, as a country, the most ballots ever
- 5:18Speaker 2: in the least secure way possible.
- 5:21Speaker 1: And what were we told?
- 5:22Speaker 2: We were told it was the safest and most secure
- 5:25Speaker 2: election in history. And if you disagreed, you might go
- 5:29Speaker 2: to jail or you were deplatformed. You certainly were shunned
- 5:33Speaker 2: and pushed to the outskirts of the conversation if you're
- 5:35Speaker 2: allowed to have a voice at all. And then the
- 5:38Speaker 2: man who won the election, or at least we were
- 5:40Speaker 2: told won that election, with the most votes ever, even
- 5:44Speaker 2: though he kind of really never left his basement, proceeded
- 5:48Speaker 2: to unravel physically, cognitively, mentally in front of us in
- 5:53Speaker 2: real time. And everybody saw it. But no one wanted
- 5:57Speaker 2: to tell the truth. They actually just shouted the lie
- 6:01Speaker 2: even louder, if you dared bring it up.
- 6:03Speaker 4: He's better than he's ever been intellectually, analytically. Because he's
- 6:11Speaker 4: been around.
- 6:11Speaker 10: For 50 years.
- 6:13Speaker 4: Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell
- 6:15Speaker 4: you the truth. And F you if you can't handle
- 6:19Speaker 4: the truth. This version of Biden. intellectually, analytically, is the
- 6:27Speaker 4: best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known
- 6:31Speaker 4: him for years. The Brzezinski's have known him for 50 years.
- 6:35Speaker 1: If it weren't the.
- 6:36Speaker 7: Truth, I wouldn't say it.
- 6:38Speaker 2: Just complete and total garbage said loudly and confidently because
- 6:42Speaker 2: that's what people that work for networks like that do.
- 6:45Speaker 2: And then after the line comes the gaslighting. Remember Jake
- 6:49Speaker 2: Tapper of CNN? He actually pretended in an interview that
- 6:52Speaker 2: it wasn't dementia and It was just a stutter.
- 6:55Speaker 11: I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake,
- 6:58Speaker 11: is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to.
- 7:02Speaker 11: It makes me uncomfortable to watch somebody on stage search
- 7:06Speaker 11: for questions and try and figure out an answer.
- 7:10Speaker 1: A cognitive decline. Well, when you're trying to.
- 7:12Speaker 11: Tell me that what I was suggesting was a stuttering.
- 7:15Speaker 1: I have no idea, Joe.
- 7:16Speaker 12: Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter, and I
- 7:18Speaker 12: think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline.
- 7:22Speaker 12: I would think that somebody in the Trump family would
- 7:25Speaker 12: be more sensitive to people who do not have medical
- 7:28Speaker 12: licenses diagnosing politicians from afar.
- 7:35Speaker 2: Now, I don't want to say Jake Tapper flip-flopped on
- 7:37Speaker 2: that issue, but he would later write a book about
- 7:39Speaker 2: how the media covered up Biden's decline, which is obviously outrageous,
- 7:43Speaker 2: but also incredibly on brand. But that's just how brazen
- 7:46Speaker 2: they are. And I think that's what's happening here with
- 7:48Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed. It's all just a lie. Abdul doesn't have
- 7:52Speaker 2: a problem with black voters, and if he does, it's
- 7:54Speaker 2: their fault. He ordered fried chicken and brought in Obama. Like,
- 7:57Speaker 2: what else do you want him to do?
- 7:59Speaker 1: Sorry, Abdul. We just want the truth. We want the
- 8:02Speaker 1: truth about your priorities.
- 8:03Speaker 2: We want the truth about your ties to radical organizations,
- 8:06Speaker 2: and the truth about why it's okay to ask those
- 8:09Speaker 2: questions in the first place. Abdul had a debate with
- 8:12Speaker 2: his opponent, Mike Rogers, earlier this week, and this is
- 8:14Speaker 2: how Abdul El-Sayed summed up that debate.
- 8:17Speaker 1: You might have seen yesterday we had a little debate.
- 8:23Speaker 9: Or I had a debate and he just pointed at
- 8:25Speaker 9: me and said, well, he's Muslim.
- 8:28Speaker 2: That's just another lie. Mike Rogers didn't call anyone a terrorist.
- 8:33Speaker 2: He just asked questions that all Americans deserve to know
- 8:36Speaker 2: the answers to. And quite honestly, I appreciate anyone who
- 8:40Speaker 2: wants to tell us all the truth. Coming up next,
- 8:43Speaker 2: major new stories this week are raising important questions about power, politics,
- 8:47Speaker 2: and accountability. We're going to walk through those stories with
- 8:50Speaker 2: investigative journalist Anne VanderSteel. Plus, don't miss this. First Lady
- 8:54Speaker 2: Melania Trump has brokered a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine
- 8:58Speaker 2: to allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the
- 9:01Speaker 2: evacuation of civilians. Her senior advisor, Mark Beckman, is going
- 9:04Speaker 2: to join us exclusively to discuss it. And we've got
- 9:07Speaker 2: quite the lineup for you on all the newest edition
- 9:09Speaker 2: of This Week in Woke.
- 9:10Speaker 1: All that plus a lot more when we come back.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Stay tuned.
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- 9:49Speaker 1: Welcome back.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Tonight, we've got three stories raising big questions about power, politics,
- 9:54Speaker 2: and accountability. We've got secret recordings about election-related contingency planning.
- 10:00Speaker 2: big money and big names in the Michigan Senate race,
- 10:02Speaker 2: and a federal investigation continues into.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Here to talk about all of it with us tonight,
- 10:08Speaker 2: investigative journalist Anne VanderSteel. Anne, I want to start with
- 10:12Speaker 2: these secret recordings. Now, I have a lot of family
- 10:14Speaker 2: and friends who are a little older. They have trouble
- 10:17Speaker 2: working their smart TVs, let alone are online and they're
- 10:20Speaker 2: following Data Republican, these files. Can you just kind of
- 10:23Speaker 2: lay out at the outset what these files that have
- 10:26Speaker 2: been released on Twitter reveal and what it might mean
- 10:30Speaker 2: for what the previous government wanted to do?
- 10:33Speaker 10: Well, Eric, thanks for having me on. And yeah, my
- 10:36Speaker 10: VCR still blinks 12. So I understand being challenged technologically
- 10:40Speaker 10: on certain things.
- 10:41Speaker 5: But Data Republican, I mean, seriously, what a hero.
- 10:43Speaker 10: What an incredible piece of work backed up by cynical
- 10:46Speaker 10: publicists as well. I know going deep on this, but essentially,
- 10:50Speaker 10: you know, she raises a very specific question. It's about
- 10:54Speaker 10: a group of it's a group of about 1600 people,
- 10:57Speaker 10: former former intelligence, former military, et cetera, NGOs, that are
- 11:01Speaker 10: organizing and preparing what they consider to be lawful responses
- 11:05Speaker 10: to a constitutional crisis that they see coming or project
- 11:09Speaker 10: that will be coming depending on the election outcome. And
- 11:14Speaker 10: they're proposing basically to substitute their own judgment for what
- 11:18Speaker 10: might be real constitutional authority. And basically, Data Republican describes
- 11:23Speaker 10: there's some organizations called Renew to Thrive, with Daniel Reif
- 11:27Speaker 10: and Paul Zietz playing pretty significant roles. And that group
- 11:31Speaker 10: is actually participating in a broader network called the United
- 11:34Speaker 10: Democracy Alliance. And Data Republican attributes the coordination of these
- 11:38Speaker 10: groups to include protestings and organizing and a contingency plan
- 11:44Speaker 10: to create somewhat of an alliance and see themselves in
- 11:47Speaker 10: more of an operational role to the national security leaders
- 11:50Speaker 10: for America. And these relationships deserve, I think, a very
- 11:55Speaker 10: close examination through the original documents that they have, all
- 11:59Speaker 10: the recordings that are out there. And I also want
- 12:01Speaker 10: to give a shout out to Millie Weaver, who was
- 12:02Speaker 10: onto a lot of these groups years ago on this
- 12:05Speaker 10: and has massive recordings as she infiltrated a lot of these.
- 12:08Speaker 5: Groups as well. So this has been out there.
- 12:10Speaker 10: It's just recently Data Republican has sort of assimilated all
- 12:13Speaker 10: of this. And these people, you know, have significant backgrounds.
- 12:17Speaker 10: I mean, a lot of them have very high level
- 12:19Speaker 10: security clearances. 1,600 national security professionals, as they said, retired military, intel, diplomats.
- 12:26Speaker 5: And we're talking a significant potential.
- 12:28Speaker 10: Influence across a wide breadth of area here that impacts
- 12:33Speaker 10: our government. So This is alarming and it's telling us
- 12:36Speaker 10: that these people are clearly organizing and they're ready for
- 12:40Speaker 10: an outcome because not unlike J6 where they had their
- 12:43Speaker 10: tabletop exercises and COVID where they had their tabletop exercises,
- 12:48Speaker 10: these people are having their tabletop exercises now electronically on
- 12:51Speaker 10: Zoom and they are putting together a clear plan of
- 12:53Speaker 10: what they intend to do when things don't go their
- 12:56Speaker 10: way and even if they do.
- 12:57Speaker 5: Go their way.
- 12:58Speaker 2: Yeah, we all remember, I think, the magazine cover that
- 13:01Speaker 2: said basically in the aftermath of the 2020 election, how
- 13:04Speaker 2: everyone worked together to make sure that this one outcome
- 13:06Speaker 2: was delivered. And I think what's concerning for a lot
- 13:09Speaker 2: of people is over the last couple of years, we've
- 13:11Speaker 2: seen coordinated and astroturfed protests for a specific purpose to
- 13:14Speaker 2: try to fight against the current administration. We've seen intelligence
- 13:17Speaker 2: officials work together to influence the 2020 election by suggesting
- 13:21Speaker 2: the Hunter Biden laptop.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Was disinformation.
- 13:23Speaker 2: And obviously we've seen the weaponization of January 6th to
- 13:26Speaker 2: suppress questions about the results of that 2020 election. So
- 13:29Speaker 2: this seems consistent with that narrative. I guess if there's
- 13:33Speaker 2: another level to the thing to be concerned about, what
- 13:36Speaker 2: would it be?
- 13:38Speaker 10: Well, I would say that, you know, you've got earlier
- 13:40Speaker 10: reporting that also documented these former USAID personnel applying their
- 13:45Speaker 10: overseas democracy organizing experiences to what is going to be
- 13:49Speaker 10: their version of domestic resistance. And that new claim is
- 13:52Speaker 10: an outreach that involved 10 states, including what we might
- 13:55Speaker 10: think is a very conservative state, but Utah involved in
- 13:58Speaker 10: all of this, which is maybe shocking on the surface
- 14:00Speaker 10: to a lot of people. So we need to basically
- 14:02Speaker 10: identify who all these people that have been approached to
- 14:05Speaker 10: engage in this, you know, in this overthrow, essentially, what
- 14:08Speaker 10: they're planning on. What were they asked to do? Whether
- 14:11Speaker 10: who agreed, who didn't agree? Because, you know, just because
- 14:14Speaker 10: somebody had somebody reach out to them in email or
- 14:17Speaker 10: text doesn't necessarily mean that person is going to engage
- 14:19Speaker 10: in But, again, these extensive recordings around similar organizing done
- 14:24Speaker 10: by Millie Weber, the distinction between all of this is
- 14:28Speaker 10: very critical. You know, coordinated political action itself is lawful, right?
- 14:32Speaker 10: I mean, we see people do it all the time.
- 14:33Speaker 5: Peaceful protests.
- 14:34Speaker 10: I've been involved in covering many of those. Litigation, constitutional reform, advocacy,
- 14:40Speaker 10: these are all things that are protected activities. But when
- 14:43Speaker 10: you have evidence of instructions, essentially, Eric, to obstruct lawful duties,
- 14:46Speaker 10: as we do here with these recordings, interfere with elections
- 14:50Speaker 10: or any sort of exercise of governmental power without authority. Yeah,
- 14:54Speaker 10: we have serious problems. These are where the questions and
- 14:57Speaker 10: the red flags go up, I think.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Yeah, lots of questions, lots of red flags.
- 15:00Speaker 2: Also, lots of other very important races around the country
- 15:03Speaker 2: that will shape who continues to hold power, not just
- 15:06Speaker 2: who wants to in this hypothetical scenario. So I want
- 15:08Speaker 2: to talk to you quickly about two different races happening
- 15:11Speaker 2: across the country.
- 15:11Speaker 1: One's in Michigan.
- 15:12Speaker 2: You've got former President Barack Obama scheduled a campaign with
- 15:16Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed, I believe, this week. What does his entry
- 15:19Speaker 2: into the race signal to you? Obviously, there's been a
- 15:21Speaker 2: lot of talk about outside spending, the influence of outside money, AIPAC.
- 15:25Speaker 2: which supported Abdul El-Sayed's opponent in the primary, has said
- 15:29Speaker 2: they're not going to spend much money right now. Bernie
- 15:32Speaker 2: Sanders is a big fan of Abdul El-Sayed. He's campaigned
- 15:35Speaker 2: against outside spending. What should voters make of what's happening
- 15:38Speaker 2: in the race now, the influence of big-name endorsements and
- 15:41Speaker 2: outside spending?
- 15:43Speaker 1: Sure.
- 15:43Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting.
- 15:44Speaker 10: AIPAC seems to have gone into a closet as of late,
- 15:46Speaker 10: and I find that quite interesting. I think it's because
- 15:48Speaker 10: there's been so much discussion around their influence in Congress
- 15:51Speaker 10: and D.C.
- 15:51Speaker 1: Alone.
- 15:52Speaker 10: But You know, Eric, basically Obama's appearance at these rallies
- 15:55Speaker 10: is signaling that Democrats need unity. They want unity and
- 15:59Speaker 10: they need a big turnout in a very competitive race.
- 16:01Speaker 10: El-Sayed previously criticized Obama, but holding this Senate seat, I guess,
- 16:06Speaker 10: matters more to the party than any of those differences.
- 16:09Speaker 10: And that's where the Dems always seem to outdo the Republicans.
- 16:12Speaker 10: They just stick together like glue. Doesn't matter how many
- 16:14Speaker 10: knives they've stabbed in each other's backs, they just lock
- 16:16Speaker 10: arms and move forward. So again, going back to the spending,
- 16:19Speaker 10: the AIPAC aligned money, did back Haley Stevens, who now lost.
- 16:24Speaker 10: But now you're seeing reporting describing support benefiting Republican Mike Rogers.
- 16:31Speaker 10: So here you have something that's reflective of a lobbying
- 16:34Speaker 10: organization pursuing its policies and the priorities over and across
- 16:38Speaker 10: party lines, which I think is basically the uniparty in D.C.
- 16:42Speaker 10: But it's also demonstrating that spending doesn't always guarantee a victory.
- 16:46Speaker 10: And so AIPAC's move away from direct endorsements and candidate contributions,
- 16:50Speaker 10: like I said, sort of entering into a closet, doesn't
- 16:53Speaker 10: necessarily end its affiliated super PAC influence. And I think
- 16:56Speaker 10: voters frankly need to ask who is funding these ads,
- 16:59Speaker 10: what policies these donors are seeking and whether candidates will
- 17:02Speaker 10: exercise any sort of independent judgment because Obama's endorsement It
- 17:09Speaker 10: looks and smells like desperation at this point because they
- 17:12Speaker 10: really need.
- 17:13Speaker 5: To keep a seat here, and they can't afford it.
- 17:15Speaker 10: I mean, they are looking at taking this over so
- 17:18Speaker 10: that potentially they can go after the president. Hakeem Jeffries
- 17:20Speaker 10: has been very clear about that.
- 17:22Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see if all the pushback against
- 17:24Speaker 2: AIPAC and against Israel and the role of prominence that
- 17:28Speaker 2: it has potentially in the current administration, if it actually
- 17:31Speaker 2: backfires against Abdul El-Sayed. Because I think one thing Barack
- 17:34Speaker 2: Obama's presence in this Michigan Senate campaign signals is is
- 17:39Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed is struggling with a traditional democratic voting bloc,
- 17:42Speaker 2: and that's African Americans. And so they're bringing in Barack Obama,
- 17:45Speaker 2: I think, to try and help with that demographic. And
- 17:47Speaker 2: one of the pushbacks, why he seems to be struggling,
- 17:49Speaker 2: is they say he seems more concerned about Palestine than Detroit.
- 17:53Speaker 2: So it's almost like he spent so much time campaigning
- 17:55Speaker 2: against Israel's influence. and by association, he's kind of pro-Palestinian,
- 18:00Speaker 2: that people think his priorities actually are out of whack.
- 18:03Speaker 2: Have you seen that? And do you think that that signals,
- 18:05Speaker 2: you know, you talk about them locking arms, but are
- 18:07Speaker 2: we actually seeing a little bit of a fissure in
- 18:09Speaker 2: that traditional Democrat alliance?
- 18:11Speaker 5: Well, I think we definitely are seeing a fissure.
- 18:13Speaker 10: I mean, look, they've gone full Democrat socialists of America now.
- 18:17Speaker 10: You're seeing them rip the masks off. And, you know,
- 18:20Speaker 10: the dividing line has become this war in the Middle
- 18:23Speaker 10: East and the support for the war of Israel against Hamas.
- 18:27Speaker 10: and the devastation you've seen in Palestine and whether or
- 18:30Speaker 10: not it can be justified. Should American tax money be
- 18:33Speaker 10: facilitating war for another country against another country? Should we
- 18:38Speaker 10: even be doing that? And in a sense, that's what
- 18:40Speaker 10: we've been doing around the world for a long, long time.
- 18:43Speaker 10: And now we're starting to see it play out. And
- 18:45Speaker 10: you're seeing that fissure in the Democrat Party over this.
- 18:48Speaker 10: And I think it's quite fascinating to watch, which is
- 18:50Speaker 10: why they're dusting off Obama, bringing him out and hoping
- 18:52Speaker 10: that people will go, oh, you know, here we are.
- 18:55Speaker 10: We've got a real black American, not necessarily a Muslim.
- 18:59Speaker 10: And this is, you know, this is who represents us.
- 19:01Speaker 10: And so we want to drag him out and get
- 19:03Speaker 10: our candidate over the finish line.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Not necessarily a Muslim, but his name is Barack Hussein Obama.
- 19:09Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 19:10Speaker 2: Speaking of Muslims, last thing, we've got an investigation still
- 19:12Speaker 2: happening into Ilhan Omar in Minnesota. They've raided her home
- 19:16Speaker 2: in D.C. It focuses on paperwork related to immigration and
- 19:19Speaker 2: her family. Ilhan Omar's denied wrongdoing. And obviously, you talk
- 19:24Speaker 2: about Democrats locking arms around people like this. They are
- 19:27Speaker 2: not distancing themselves one bit from Ilhan Omar. What's your
- 19:30Speaker 2: sense of where this investigation is going? And how real
- 19:34Speaker 2: is the prospect of if they find that she, you know,
- 19:37Speaker 2: fudged the paperwork, she could actually be denaturalized and maybe
- 19:40Speaker 2: removed from Congress?
- 19:42Speaker 5: Fudging paperwork.
- 19:43Speaker 10: Gee, how many members of Congress aren't fudging paperwork when
- 19:46Speaker 10: it comes to reporting their dollars that they're making on
- 19:49Speaker 10: stock trades? I mean, we've mean, we've seen fudge paperwork
- 19:51Speaker 10: across the board, but keeping it to this story, Eric,
- 19:54Speaker 10: according to Fox's reporting, investigators searched Ilhan Omar's Washington home
- 20:00Speaker 10: They seized and obtained DNA.
- 20:02Speaker 5: They took her phone, her passport.
- 20:04Speaker 10: And I think while examining all the possible immigration paperwork
- 20:08Speaker 10: fraud during this, her office is now basically saying, hey.
- 20:12Speaker 5: Hold up.
- 20:13Speaker 10: We don't we don't agree with this. We're disputing the
- 20:15Speaker 10: identity allegations. And the article, I think, went on to
- 20:19Speaker 10: say that she hasn't been charged yet. Well, frankly, she
- 20:22Speaker 10: should be charged. It's been pretty well documented that her
- 20:26Speaker 10: marriage to her brother, Ahmed Elmi, has been clearly documented.
- 20:31Speaker 10: She changed her name. The allegation is that her brother
- 20:34Speaker 10: remains as her brother and that they're not married. That
- 20:37Speaker 10: seems to be somewhat ridiculous at this point. And let's
- 20:41Speaker 10: be also clear, they did this in Minnesota. And Minnesota
- 20:45Speaker 10: prohibits sibling marriage and it criminalizes knowingly having sexual intercourse
- 20:50Speaker 10: with a close blood relative, whether children were the result
- 20:54Speaker 10: or not. So I think that this deserves massive scrutiny.
- 20:57Speaker 10: I think the DNA is going to be really critical
- 21:01Speaker 10: in the determination of whether or not she even has
- 21:04Speaker 10: standing to proceed forward as a documented elected member of Congress.
- 21:09Speaker 10: And she should also be considered for denaturalization. They should
- 21:12Speaker 10: strip her of her citizenship, particularly if she falsified records
- 21:15Speaker 10: so that she could become a U.S.
- 21:17Speaker 5: Citizen.
- 21:19Speaker 10: I think we need to be very on point here.
- 21:21Speaker 10: We need to be watching for authenticated records. We need
- 21:24Speaker 10: to be making sure that any evidence that shows whether
- 21:27Speaker 10: there was any alleged misrepresentation affecting citizenship eligibility can be proven.
- 21:32Speaker 10: And of course, public office provides no exemption from the law.
- 21:35Speaker 10: But again, I say that tongue in cheek, Eric, because
- 21:38Speaker 10: how many times have we seen exemption after exemption when
- 21:40Speaker 10: it comes to the criminals sitting up there on Capitol Hill.
- 21:43Speaker 2: We've seen lots of exemptions, whether the paperwork was fudged
- 21:45Speaker 2: or not. And I'm still kind of blown away you're
- 21:47Speaker 2: able to kind of sum up all these important stories
- 21:50Speaker 2: and give us an update on what the laws are
- 21:51Speaker 2: in Minnesota related to sibling marriage. You know, you don't
- 21:54Speaker 2: get that from too many investigative journalists. So thank you
- 21:56Speaker 2: for that update tonight. She's Anne Vandersteel. She is an
- 21:59Speaker 2: investigative journalist. Thank you so much for joining us tonight.
- 22:02Speaker 5: Thank you.
- 22:03Speaker 6: Absolutely.
- 22:03Speaker 2: First Lady Melania Trump is showing off her diplomatic power
- 22:07Speaker 2: after securing a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Up next,
- 22:11Speaker 2: senior advisor to First Lady Melania Trump, Mark Beckman, will
- 22:14Speaker 2: join us to discuss the big news.
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- 22:57Speaker 2: The ceasefire is really good news.
- 22:59Speaker 8: Will the First Lady be a.
- 23:01Speaker 1: Part of the trilateral peace talks?
- 23:03Speaker 3: No, but it's not the worst idea I've ever heard.
- 23:07Speaker 1: What she wants to do is save children. And that's
- 23:10Speaker 1: her focus.
- 23:11Speaker 9: And both sides are cooperating with her.
- 23:14Speaker 6: So doing a very good job.
- 23:17Speaker 2: A major humanitarian breakthrough in the Russia-Ukraine war and a
- 23:21Speaker 2: diplomatic accomplishment for First Lady Melania Trump, though we'll see how.
- 23:24Speaker 1: Much credit she gets for it.
- 23:26Speaker 2: The First Lady's actually helped secure a localized ceasefire between
- 23:29Speaker 2: Russia and Ukraine in the city of Oleshky, with the
- 23:33Speaker 2: operation set to begin on October 29th. Now, before the
- 23:36Speaker 2: war started, Oleschke was home to approximately 24,000 people. But today,
- 23:41Speaker 2: because of the war, only about 2,000 remain, including elderly
- 23:45Speaker 2: residents and.
- 23:45Speaker 1: About 50 children.
- 23:47Speaker 2: They're facing shortages of food, medicine, limited water, limited electricity,
- 23:51Speaker 2: mined roads, and constant threat of military attacks. So this
- 23:55Speaker 2: ceasefire that First Lady Melania Trump has helped negotiate is
- 23:58Speaker 2: designed to allow humanitarian aid into the city and establish
- 24:02Speaker 2: a safe passage for civilians to evacuate. Today, right now,
- 24:06Speaker 2: we're joined exclusively by Mark Beckman, senior advisor to First
- 24:09Speaker 2: Lady Melania Trump. And he's been the voice of Ms.
- 24:13Speaker 2: Trump and her efforts on the ceasefire.
- 24:14Speaker 1: Mr.
- 24:15Speaker 2: Beckman, thank you so much for joining us. You don't
- 24:17Speaker 2: often hear the term First Lady and negotiated ceasefire. How
- 24:22Speaker 2: in the world did this come to be?
- 24:24Speaker 7: Well, look, just to be crystal clear, the First Lady,
- 24:28Speaker 7: Melania Trump, has secured a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.
- 24:33Speaker 7: It's localized to Oleshki, but interesting, and you might be
- 24:37Speaker 7: the first ones to know this, actually, the Russian military
- 24:41Speaker 7: just said that almost in like a series of shock waves,
- 24:46Speaker 7: they're expanding the geography now throughout a little bit more
- 24:51Speaker 7: in the Kyrgyz region, which is where Oleshki sits, but
- 24:54Speaker 7: beyond Oleshki, and they've agreed to increase the time period
- 24:58Speaker 7: by an additional two days. So I think that might
- 25:01Speaker 7: be breaking news for OAN today.
- 25:04Speaker 1: But it's incredible.
- 25:05Speaker 7: The first lady secured a ceasefire in Russia and Ukraine.
- 25:10Speaker 2: So how does that come to be? Who is the
- 25:13Speaker 2: First Lady and her team interfacing with? I mean, how
- 25:16Speaker 2: does the idea of even helping establish, obviously, President Trump
- 25:19Speaker 2: and United States envoys have been working with Ukraine and
- 25:22Speaker 2: Russia for many years now. How does a localized ceasefire
- 25:26Speaker 2: like this come to be? Obviously, you heard President Trump
- 25:29Speaker 2: say Ms. Trump wants to help save children. I imagine
- 25:32Speaker 2: that was the impetus for this. But how did this
- 25:34Speaker 2: idea originate and how did you guys actually execute it?
- 25:37Speaker 1: Well, it's a good segue.
- 25:38Speaker 7: So As you're aware, the First Lady has reunified 34
- 25:43Speaker 7: Ukrainian and Russian children with their families across six different events.
- 25:47Speaker 7: So her direct line, her direct channel of communication with
- 25:51Speaker 7: both Ukraine and Russia is very, very strong. About over
- 25:55Speaker 7: a month ago now, during the United Nations General Assembly,
- 25:59Speaker 7: the First Lady hosted Fostering the Future Together, which is
- 26:02Speaker 7: her global coalition of 60 unified nations to empower children
- 26:07Speaker 7: through technology and education. And it was during that time period,
- 26:11Speaker 7: during that meeting, Ms. Zelenska was there too, where she
- 26:14Speaker 7: learned about Oleshki. And from there, she set the process
- 26:20Speaker 7: in motion. She was appointed exclusive intermediary by both nations,
- 26:25Speaker 7: Russia as well as Ukraine, to negotiate to find a
- 26:30Speaker 7: ceasefire as it relates to this city, Oleshki. And as
- 26:33Speaker 7: you mentioned, It is a dire humanitarian disaster. It's on
- 26:37Speaker 7: the brink of disaster. And I just want to say
- 26:40Speaker 7: one more thing. Both sides, Russia and Ukraine, all the
- 26:43Speaker 7: way up to their presidents, they were involved and they
- 26:46Speaker 7: all participate at the highest level of cooperation, all with
- 26:50Speaker 7: this concept of humanitarianism above differencing of opinion in this
- 26:55Speaker 7: war region. So it's incredible what the First Lady has done.
- 26:59Speaker 2: I would imagine negotiations like this are incredibly dynamic, and
- 27:02Speaker 2: there's moments when it seems more likely to occur than others.
- 27:05Speaker 2: Can you take us behind the scenes a little bit
- 27:07Speaker 2: in these negotiations? What don't people know about the stages
- 27:12Speaker 2: of this, and were there moments when it appeared that
- 27:14Speaker 2: this negotiated ceasefire at the localized level wasn't going to happen?
- 27:18Speaker 8: Well, let me say this.
- 27:19Speaker 7: First of all, what has happened here, what the parties
- 27:22Speaker 7: agreed to is really important. Beginning on October 29th, The
- 27:27Speaker 7: localized ceasefire in Oleshki begins. And like I said, now
- 27:31Speaker 7: it's going to expand starting on the 27th across the
- 27:34Speaker 7: Kyrgyzstan region of Ukraine, right there on the front line, Ukraine-Russia.
- 27:39Speaker 1: That's incredible.
- 27:40Speaker 7: Now, what happens first is there's a dire need for
- 27:43Speaker 7: humanitarian aid. So we had to work out the details
- 27:47Speaker 7: as to what will be entering the region. Medicine, doctors, food.
- 27:52Speaker 1: Clean and drinkable water.
- 27:54Speaker 7: They have big problems as it relates to electricity there.
- 27:57Speaker 7: You might be aware that the Russians hit a dam
- 28:01Speaker 7: near the city and created flooding early on in the war.
- 28:05Speaker 7: So electricity is a big issue as well. So all
- 28:07Speaker 7: of this humanitarian aid comes in, and then an evacuation
- 28:11Speaker 7: process will begin. So the planning of the evacuation process
- 28:15Speaker 7: is taking place right now. And if individuals from Ukraine...
- 28:20Speaker 7: We'd like to go back to, you know, their relatives
- 28:23Speaker 7: or whoever it might be in Ukraine, stay in Ukraine.
- 28:25Speaker 7: They could do so if they want to stay in Oleshki.
- 28:28Speaker 1: They could do that.
- 28:29Speaker 7: And some people, there are people who are Russian as
- 28:32Speaker 7: well there.
- 28:32Speaker 8: It's right on the border.
- 28:34Speaker 7: And some people will choose inevitably to go to maybe
- 28:38Speaker 7: friends and family in Russia as well.
- 28:40Speaker 2: So I think people probably don't realize how this fits
- 28:43Speaker 2: into the broader scope of First Lady Melania Trump's humanitarian
- 28:47Speaker 2: efforts and the things that she's accomplished. You've noted that
- 28:49Speaker 2: there have already been a number of other children that
- 28:51Speaker 2: have been rescued from the ravages of this war. Where
- 28:55Speaker 2: would you rank this in the broader scope of what
- 28:58Speaker 2: she's done? And why do you think that she doesn't
- 29:00Speaker 2: maybe get the recognition she should for all the things
- 29:03Speaker 2: she's done as First Lady?
- 29:05Speaker 7: Well, Eric, first of all, this is the biggest thing
- 29:07Speaker 7: by far. I mean, We literally freed a city.
- 29:11Speaker 1: It's incredible.
- 29:12Speaker 7: Oleshki is saved. We're literally saving lives. There are elderly
- 29:18Speaker 7: people who are on the brink of dying, and we're
- 29:20Speaker 7: saving their lives. So it's the biggest. The other thing
- 29:23Speaker 7: that's worth noting is that Oleshki is a symbol of peace.
- 29:27Speaker 7: And for the first time in this whole entire period
- 29:30Speaker 7: where Russia and Ukraine have been fighting, have been at war,
- 29:33Speaker 7: here's a symbol of peace that's tangible and perhaps could
- 29:37Speaker 7: become sustainable. And what I shared with you earlier, the
- 29:40Speaker 7: fact that Russia has already said we're going to add
- 29:43Speaker 7: two days to the ceasefire and expand the geography beyond
- 29:46Speaker 7: Oleshki is really, really important. And it's all because of
- 29:50Speaker 7: the first lady.
- 29:50Speaker 2: Well, you heard President Trump suggest that adding her to
- 29:53Speaker 2: the trilateral negotiations might not be the worst idea in
- 29:56Speaker 2: the world.
- 29:56Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting.
- 29:57Speaker 2: I was doing some research, and obviously President Trump has
- 30:00Speaker 2: made no bones about the fact that he wouldn't mind
- 30:03Speaker 2: being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. President Barack Obama
- 30:06Speaker 2: actually won it after less than a year of being
- 30:09Speaker 2: in office. But this is the kind of thing that
- 30:11Speaker 2: I think people actually do win these type of awards for.
- 30:14Speaker 2: It's not, as you said, you have halted a war,
- 30:16Speaker 2: at least in a certain area. You have freed lives.
- 30:18Speaker 2: You have saved a city. No one else has been
- 30:20Speaker 2: able to do this. Does this merit, in your opinion,
- 30:23Speaker 2: consideration for something like the Nobel Peace Prize?
- 30:26Speaker 7: I would defer to the individuals who are involved in that.
- 30:30Speaker 7: I think the important thing now is the fact that
- 30:34Speaker 7: there are so many people, elderly people in Oleschke who
- 30:38Speaker 7: will be saved because of the American first lady, First
- 30:42Speaker 7: Lady Melania Trump.
- 30:44Speaker 2: We hope that the people that are paying attention have
- 30:46Speaker 2: heard you, and we hope that the level of accomplishment that,
- 30:49Speaker 2: as you noted, she has made happen gets the recognition
- 30:53Speaker 2: it deserves. Mark Beckman, the exclusive spokesperson for First Lady
- 30:55Speaker 2: Melania Trump, thank you so much for joining us tonight,
- 30:57Speaker 2: and congratulations on this amazing, lifesaving effort.
- 31:01Speaker 7: Eric, can I just say one more thing?
- 31:03Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 31:04Speaker 7: I think all of your viewers, as Americans, should be proud.
- 31:08Speaker 7: America was able to finally step in and create peace
- 31:12Speaker 7: Although it's in a localized area, it's for the first
- 31:16Speaker 7: time peace, and maybe it's sustainable, and it's because of America.
- 31:20Speaker 7: You've seen NATO and all of these European nations and
- 31:23Speaker 7: everybody trying so hard, and it's our nation that created
- 31:28Speaker 7: the peace.
- 31:29Speaker 2: It is the land of the free, and we will
- 31:30Speaker 2: work to expand it elsewhere. Mark Beckman, once again, congratulations,
- 31:33Speaker 2: and we hope that this gets the recognition it deserves.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Up next, from Jack Smith and the bogus cases against
- 31:40Speaker 2: President Trump to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the left
- 31:43Speaker 2: is constantly weaponizing our institutions. We're going to dive into
- 31:46Speaker 2: the most egregious examples with Mel K.
- 31:49Speaker 1: When we come back, don't go anywhere.
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- 32:37Speaker 2: Did the federal government go too far in investigating Americans
- 32:40Speaker 2: connected to Donald Trump? New questions about Jack Smith's investigation,
- 32:45Speaker 2: the Southern Poverty Law Center, and reports of political debanking
- 32:48Speaker 2: are raising concerns about government power and accountability. Joining us
- 32:52Speaker 2: now is Mel Kay. She's the host, commentator, and author
- 32:55Speaker 2: of Infiltration Instead of Invasion, America Betrayed from 1944 to 1954,
- 33:00Speaker 2: a book examining the historical forces and institutions that have
- 33:03Speaker 2: shaped America.
- 33:04Speaker 1: Welcome back, Mel.
- 33:06Speaker 5: Thank you for having me.
- 33:07Speaker 1: What a time to be alive. What a time to
- 33:10Speaker 1: be alive indeed.
- 33:11Speaker 2: Senator Chuck Grassley says records show Jack Smith's team and
- 33:14Speaker 2: the Justice Department obtained personal data on hundreds of thousands
- 33:18Speaker 2: of Republican donors, voters, supporters, even people that just bought
- 33:22Speaker 2: a hat, Mel. How big of a deal is this
- 33:24Speaker 2: and how concerned should we be?
- 33:26Speaker 1: We should be very concerned. It's a huge deal.
- 33:29Speaker 13: First of all, what we have to realize is that
- 33:31Speaker 13: the ongoing seditious conspiracy, which actually had a coup, a
- 33:35Speaker 13: globally organized coup to overthrow Donald Trump between 2017 and 2020.
- 33:40Speaker 13: has been an unending, I think, operation to destroy not Trump,
- 33:46Speaker 13: but the voters who voted for Trump, the voters who
- 33:49Speaker 13: dared to say, you know what, the post-World War II order,
- 33:53Speaker 13: the post-World War II endless war for profit machine, we don't.
- 33:56Speaker 1: Want that anymore.
- 33:57Speaker 13: We want a new direction. We want changes. And the
- 34:00Speaker 13: real target of all of this has been us, we
- 34:03Speaker 13: the people of the United States that saw in Donald
- 34:06Speaker 13: Trump a different path forward for America. And these people
- 34:10Speaker 13: have trillions and trillions of dollars invested in their long
- 34:13Speaker 13: game plan. And by any means necessary, they were going
- 34:16Speaker 13: to crush. And you can see it in their own documents,
- 34:19Speaker 13: whether it's coming out of Harvard's democracy, Digital Democracy Project,
- 34:23Speaker 13: or Protect Democracy, or Brookings, or any of them. It's
- 34:26Speaker 13: all about destroying the populist movement that dared vote for
- 34:31Speaker 13: Donald Trump. And you're right. 600,000 American citizens' information, bank information,
- 34:38Speaker 13: was turned over to Jack Smith and his team. Jack
- 34:41Speaker 13: Smith also used the very fraudulent very biased January 6th
- 34:45Speaker 13: committee's information as actual evidence in his case. And it
- 34:50Speaker 13: goes on and on and on. And all of this
- 34:52Speaker 13: is about silencing the voters of Donald Trump.
- 34:56Speaker 2: Yeah, silencing the voters of Donald Trump and silencing the
- 34:59Speaker 2: people who are part of the movement that Donald Trump
- 35:02Speaker 2: obviously leads, which brings us to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
- 35:05Speaker 2: They've got major conservatives listed as extremists. And, you know,
- 35:09Speaker 2: the Southern Poverty Law Center is now been outed to
- 35:12Speaker 2: someone who has astroturfed fake Nazis, I think, in a
- 35:16Speaker 2: way that it's still resonating for decades to come. This
- 35:19Speaker 2: impacted Americans. relationships and Thanksgiving dinners. People think that people
- 35:22Speaker 2: who voted for Donald Trump are racist because of what
- 35:24Speaker 2: the Southern Poverty Law Center.
- 35:26Speaker 1: Lied about at that rally in Charlottesville. What are they
- 35:28Speaker 1: doing now?
- 35:30Speaker 13: Well, we have to really understand this isn't just the
- 35:33Speaker 13: Southern Poverty Law Center. Basically, it seems to me that
- 35:36Speaker 13: when Barack Obama and Eric Holder reconfigured the entire DOJ
- 35:41Speaker 13: to be essentially ideologically aligned with their progressive left globalist agenda,
- 35:47Speaker 13: they got rid of essentially almost every non- partisan or
- 35:53Speaker 13: unbiased DOJ member in particularly the Civil Rights Division and
- 35:59Speaker 13: the domestic terrorist group. and domestic homeland security, and they
- 36:06Speaker 13: replaced them with not just people from the ACLU, NAACP, ADL,
- 36:11Speaker 13: and Southern Poverty Law Center, but they had a goal, again,
- 36:14Speaker 13: of determining that anyone that voted for Donald Trump was
- 36:20Speaker 13: a threat to our country. And they were, again, putting
- 36:23Speaker 13: in reports, and then the FBI was opening uh dossiers
- 36:27Speaker 13: on people and it looks like about three million american
- 36:29Speaker 13: citizens were spied on just during this operation and that
- 36:34Speaker 13: only needed a adl or a southern poverty law center
- 36:37Speaker 13: uh referral that somebody was a domestic terrorist you even
- 36:41Speaker 13: hear hillary clinton still right now saying that the christian
- 36:44Speaker 13: nationalists are the biggest threat to america as if we
- 36:47Speaker 13: don't have a constitution i mean it is so egregious
- 36:50Speaker 13: but again we the biggest problem is the nl uh
- 36:52Speaker 13: 501 c3 501 c4 fraud that has been plaguing our
- 36:57Speaker 13: country since the 30s with the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation,
- 37:01Speaker 13: the Carnegie Endowment. Now it has the Open Society and
- 37:04Speaker 13: the Omadar Network. And I mean, there's 2 million NGOs,
- 37:08Speaker 13: you know, It's really time to end that whole charade.
- 37:11Speaker 13: That is how they're winning. They're winning because they put
- 37:14Speaker 13: civil society above us, and they don't have any rules.
- 37:17Speaker 13: If nobody's going to look at their 501c3 status, then
- 37:20Speaker 13: the money's going to keep flowing.
- 37:21Speaker 2: Well, speaking of charades, while we are told that Republicans
- 37:24Speaker 2: are the ones that weaponize the Department of Justice, even
- 37:27Speaker 2: though you just laid out example after example of how
- 37:29Speaker 2: the Obama DOJ filled what's supposed to be a nonpartisan
- 37:33Speaker 2: law-keeping organization and filled it with radical activists— Now come reports,
- 37:38Speaker 2: and I don't believe any liberals are being debanked, but
- 37:40Speaker 2: the opposite's definitely happened. You've got reports that based on
- 37:43Speaker 2: conservative political and religious affiliations, customers have been discriminated against
- 37:48Speaker 2: by banks.
- 37:48Speaker 1: What do we know?
- 37:50Speaker 13: Yeah, a thousand percent. And this isn't just Donald Trump,
- 37:52Speaker 13: his whole family, his children. We were debanked. And I
- 37:56Speaker 13: know many other people. I know the Flynn's were debanked.
- 37:59Speaker 13: Mike Lindell was debanked. Many, many people. So basically, the
- 38:03Speaker 13: Bank of America, for God's sakes, but it's not just
- 38:05Speaker 13: Bank of America. And I think we have to really
- 38:08Speaker 13: look at the banking system in general. I'm very curious
- 38:11Speaker 13: why we have not rescinded the International Organization Immunity Act
- 38:14Speaker 13: that protects the international banks.
- 38:16Speaker 1: But when you look at our own banks and how.
- 38:18Speaker 13: They've gotten away with everything since 2008, you know, Eric
- 38:22Speaker 13: Holder put in that collateral consequences memo that essentially made
- 38:26Speaker 13: it that nobody went to jail for the 2008 manipulation
- 38:29Speaker 13: that ended up crashing our economy. But the worst part
- 38:32Speaker 13: is that then the settlement that Holder got of $ 11 billion,
- 38:38Speaker 13: at least from Chase, went into NGOs. The whole thing
- 38:43Speaker 13: after 2008, nobody was punished. They all got fines, Bank
- 38:47Speaker 13: of America, Chase, all of them.
- 38:49Speaker 1: And all of that money was.
- 38:50Speaker 13: Funneled into left wing NGOs as part of the settlement.
- 38:54Speaker 2: I mean, what are we talking about? A thousand percent.
- 38:57Speaker 2: It's a massive story. They would sue these banks and
- 38:59Speaker 2: they would sue and settlement was the whole game plan.
- 39:02Speaker 2: The money went to not just like leftist NGOs, left
- 39:04Speaker 2: wing activist NGOs, left wing. Basically, it's a get out
- 39:07Speaker 2: the vote civil, you know, pro civil rights. It's a massive,
- 39:11Speaker 2: you know, it was an astroturfed. basically funneling money into
- 39:14Speaker 2: Democrat political organizations in the name of racial discrimination.
- 39:18Speaker 1: You're absolutely right.
- 39:19Speaker 2: So this is just the next chapter in the story
- 39:22Speaker 2: that started under Barack Obama.
- 39:23Speaker 1: It's a massive scandal.
- 39:24Speaker 2: Mel, thank you for taking some time to talk to
- 39:25Speaker 2: us about that and these other important issues.
- 39:28Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
- 39:29Speaker 8: Appreciate it.
- 39:29Speaker 10: Absolutely.
- 39:30Speaker 1: All right. Next up, stick around. We're going to go woke,
- 39:33Speaker 1: but just for a little bit.
- 39:34Speaker 2: And the big thing this week is election hysteria for
- 39:37Speaker 2: Democrats and the spread of Trump derangement syndrome, in case
- 39:41Speaker 2: it couldn't get any bigger.
- 39:42Speaker 1: You won't want to miss this. Stay with us.
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- 40:35Speaker 6: I don't support the rights of trans people just to
- 40:40Speaker 6: protect my own rights, but I support the rights of
- 40:43Speaker 6: trans women because I'm a girl's girl. And I think
- 40:49Speaker 6: that all of our bodily autonomy is tied together. The
- 40:55Speaker 6: right to choose over our bodies is the right to
- 40:57Speaker 6: choose over our bodies.
- 40:59Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't make that up.
- 41:00Speaker 2: That is a sitting member of Congress claiming that she
- 41:03Speaker 2: supports trans rights because she's a girl's girl. That's AOC
- 41:07Speaker 2: saying being a girl's girl means supporting men pretending to
- 41:11Speaker 2: be girls. I'm not sure if the math math's on
- 41:14Speaker 2: that one. It's kind of like a chicken supporting KFC.
- 41:16Speaker 2: It just doesn't make any sense. But it is the
- 41:19Speaker 2: perfect way to start tonight's edition of This Week in Woke.
- 41:23Speaker 2: This is our weekly deep dive into the wokest, craziest,
- 41:26Speaker 2: wackiest stories in America today. And this week is especially
- 41:29Speaker 2: crazy because, as you may have guessed, it is election
- 41:32Speaker 2: season and the Trump derangement syndrome is at peak level.
- 41:37Speaker 1: Take a look at this next clip.
- 41:38Speaker 2: This is actually a gay Republican going undercover to expose
- 41:42Speaker 2: just how intolerant these allegedly tolerant liberals who are offering
- 41:47Speaker 2: free hugs actually are.
- 41:49Speaker 8: Telling me like all my rights are being taken away,
- 41:51Speaker 8: but like I totally forgot because I, you know, just
- 41:54Speaker 8: forget all the time.
- 41:54Speaker 1: What rights have been taken away?
- 41:57Speaker 6: What rights have been taken away.
- 41:58Speaker 13: I feel like I get overwhelmed.
- 42:02Speaker 6: With these kind of questions because there's so much going on.
- 42:05Speaker 13: That I honestly, I can't keep up.
- 42:09Speaker 1: It's all overwhelming. It's just too much.
- 42:13Speaker 2: If you actually watch the entire clip, that lady will
- 42:16Speaker 2: talk for the next two minutes and make precisely zero points.
- 42:19Speaker 2: Although she will use lots of profanity and make lots
- 42:22Speaker 2: of hateful statements about President Trump, but cannot name one
- 42:25Speaker 2: right that's been removed or one actual policy proposal that
- 42:29Speaker 2: she disagrees with.
- 42:30Speaker 1: This is the week in woke. Speaking of woke. Can
- 42:33Speaker 1: we get a little Kamala Harris, please? She's back.
- 42:36Speaker 2: She hasn't made up her mind about whether she's running
- 42:38Speaker 2: for president or not, but she still doesn't make any sense.
- 42:41Speaker 2: She spoke at the Culinary Workers Local Union headquarters in
- 42:44Speaker 2: Vegas earlier this week, trying to rally support for Democrats
- 42:47Speaker 2: in midterms. And you may have noticed she's got a
- 42:50Speaker 2: very new, different way of speaking. We've had Jamaican Kamala.
- 42:54Speaker 2: We've had urban Kamala. And now we have this.
- 42:59Speaker 13: That era, that era of feeling powerless, Like, what can
- 43:04Speaker 13: we do?
- 43:05Speaker 11: This just keeps happening.
- 43:08Speaker 1: That era is over because.
- 43:12Speaker 5: We are now 13.
- 43:13Speaker 9: Days away from doing something about.
- 43:18Speaker 1: It to stop the pain. I'm not really sure which
- 43:22Speaker 1: version that is.
- 43:22Speaker 2: It might be like spooky campfire ghost story, Kamala Harris.
- 43:26Speaker 2: It's lots of extended and unnecessary pauses, that's for sure.
- 43:30Speaker 2: Speaking of unnecessary pauses, a man who never has to
- 43:33Speaker 2: pause when he tells us what he thinks, whether he's
- 43:35Speaker 2: on the Anchorman podcast or contributing to other programs here
- 43:38Speaker 2: at OAN. Riley Lewis is our guest for this week
- 43:41Speaker 2: in Woke. Riley, it's great to see you.
- 43:42Speaker 1: How are you doing? Very good.
- 43:44Speaker 8: And can I just say, first of all, thank you
- 43:46Speaker 8: for having me.
- 43:47Speaker 1: It's an honor.
- 43:48Speaker 8: And number two, can we get a round of applause
- 43:51Speaker 8: for Kamala Harris? The gift who keeps on giving. So wise, Eric.
- 43:57Speaker 8: So graceful.
- 43:58Speaker 1: So profound. I mean, wow.
- 44:01Speaker 2: Yeah, if you don't have anything profound enough to say,
- 44:04Speaker 2: just pause for an extended period of time in between
- 44:07Speaker 2: your syllables, and maybe people will infer it into your
- 44:10Speaker 2: actual thoughts or lack thereof.
- 44:11Speaker 1: But Riley, we've got better clips than that.
- 44:13Speaker 2: Take a look at this next clip and just imagine,
- 44:16Speaker 2: just like put your bathing suit on, put your goggles on,
- 44:19Speaker 2: and dive.
- 44:19Speaker 1: Into the sea of woke nonsense that's on display here.
- 44:23Speaker 14: I think one of the reasons that they were coming
- 44:27Speaker 14: after you is they saw the kind of economy and
- 44:32Speaker 14: entrepreneurship that you're helping to build. They saw suddenly that
- 44:37Speaker 14: the CEOs of the future are not all going to
- 44:41Speaker 14: look like me. The CEOs of the future are going
- 44:46Speaker 14: to be from a thousand different backgrounds. And so suddenly
- 44:51Speaker 14: you all are creeping up in brilliant fashion. You're not
- 44:54Speaker 14: just the CEOs and entrepreneurs of tomorrow, but of right now.
- 44:58Speaker 1: That's Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye.
- 45:00Speaker 2: Riley, I love that Jacob Frye was able to take
- 45:02Speaker 2: a break from kneeling and weeping at George Floyd's casket
- 45:06Speaker 2: and speak to what appears to be the Somali Chamber
- 45:09Speaker 2: of Commerce gathering. What you don't see is there's not
- 45:11Speaker 2: too many people actually in the crowd because most of
- 45:14Speaker 2: them were arrested and caught up in the Minneapolis fraud scandal.
- 45:17Speaker 2: But what do you think about what Jacob Frye is
- 45:18Speaker 2: talking about? The future business people are not going to
- 45:21Speaker 2: look like him.
- 45:21Speaker 8: Well, you know, it's interesting, right? It reminds me of
- 45:23Speaker 8: those apocalypse movies, right? Where you got the AI and
- 45:27Speaker 8: the robots taking over, I think, kind of like WALL-E.
- 45:30Speaker 8: And you always have a few of the people who
- 45:32Speaker 8: don't fight. They kowtow, they bend the knee, hoping the
- 45:36Speaker 8: robots will spare them in the inevitable revolution. That's what's
- 45:39Speaker 8: going on right there with Jacob Frye.
- 45:41Speaker 2: You know, I've been guest hosting all week on this program.
- 45:43Speaker 2: I've had to prepare and, like, read a lot of
- 45:45Speaker 2: notes and read a lot of new stories. I was
- 45:47Speaker 2: unprepared for a WALL-E reference. So, you know, you caught
- 45:49Speaker 2: me with my pants down on that one, America. But, hey,
- 45:52Speaker 2: this is not going to be a clip from another
- 45:54Speaker 2: animated movie, but this is another clip of more woke nonsense.
- 45:57Speaker 1: Take a look at this. Take a look at this.
- 46:14Speaker 2: I'm sorry, that's actually the Somali business leaders that Jacob
- 46:17Speaker 2: Fry was responding to. I thought we had a different clip. No,
- 46:20Speaker 2: just kidding. That is, hey, I'll leave it up to you, Riley.
- 46:23Speaker 2: What was that?
- 46:24Speaker 8: Well, I guess there's a lot of ways to interpret it. Interesting,
- 46:28Speaker 8: I guess, get out the vote effort going on in Minneapolis.
- 46:31Speaker 8: By the way, why Minneapolis? You got to wonder why
- 46:33Speaker 8: there's thousands and thousands of people from Somalia and Afghanistan, Pakistan.
- 46:38Speaker 1: I'll tell you exactly why. It's the weather. They love
- 46:41Speaker 1: the weather in Minneapolis.
- 46:42Speaker 8: So they go from Desert Mogadishu to stormy St. Paul,
- 46:47Speaker 8: and they think that's a natural translation. That makes sense.
- 46:50Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 46:51Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a get out to vote rally in Minneapolis.
- 46:54Speaker 1: I mean, you can't make it up.
- 46:55Speaker 2: I think we have one more clip for how woke
- 46:58Speaker 2: this week has been. And again, we've got 12 days,
- 47:00Speaker 2: 11 days to the election. Stuff only gets wackier, weeder,
- 47:03Speaker 2: and woker. There you go, Riley. That is LeBron James
- 47:29Speaker 2: during the warm-up, or I guess warming up during the
- 47:32Speaker 2: National Anthem.
- 47:32Speaker 1: What do you think about LeBron's moves? I just.
- 47:35Speaker 8: I love sports so much. Eric, we've talked about this
- 47:38Speaker 8: all the time.
- 47:39Speaker 1: I love basketball.
- 47:40Speaker 8: I love baseball.
- 47:41Speaker 1: I love football.
- 47:42Speaker 8: Everything's becoming woke in sports. And by the way, I
- 47:45Speaker 8: will say the true crime in that clip we just
- 47:47Speaker 8: saw is not what LeBron is doing, but it's the
- 47:50Speaker 8: singing in the background. That to me was really egregious.
- 47:53Speaker 8: But in all seriousness, what LeBron's doing is just really sad.
- 47:56Speaker 8: The whole NBA is lost. It's kind of a joke
- 47:57Speaker 8: of a league now, which is sad for lifelong basketball
- 48:00Speaker 8: fans like myself. I hope they turn it around.
- 48:02Speaker 2: So I would say, if you want to be charitable,
- 48:04Speaker 2: LeBron is older. So it's possible he was just getting
- 48:06Speaker 2: extra warm-ups in to loosen the back muscles. He tends
- 48:10Speaker 2: to miss a lot of time. President Trump was very
- 48:12Speaker 2: critical of what he did there. He said it was
- 48:13Speaker 2: disrespectful to the National Anthem. But President Trump doesn't actually
- 48:17Speaker 2: know how disrespectful LeBron James was being in that clip.
- 48:20Speaker 2: You think he just kind of not respected the National Anthem.
- 48:23Speaker 2: He was actually mimicking this next clip These are dance
- 48:26Speaker 2: moves put on by somebody who has created an anti-Trump dance.
- 48:29Speaker 2: And you'll note, it looks exactly like what LeBron James
- 48:32Speaker 2: was just doing.
- 48:32Speaker 11: Stop the madness in the White House.
- 48:36Speaker 5: Not my president.
- 48:39Speaker 6: Now is the time to make a change.
- 48:45Speaker 5: Not my president.
- 48:46Speaker 1: Ha, ha, ha.
- 48:49Speaker 14: Not at all.
- 48:50Speaker 1: Riley, who did it better, her or LeBron?
- 48:55Speaker 8: I mean, gosh, look, can I, people tell me all
- 48:58Speaker 8: the time there are such things as well-adjusted liberals. I
- 49:02Speaker 8: just don't know any of them. I don't know where
- 49:03Speaker 8: to find these people. I don't know what's happened. People
- 49:06Speaker 8: keep telling me that Democrats used to be sane and normal,
- 49:09Speaker 8: but I see these clips online and I just can't
- 49:11Speaker 8: help but wonder where are the reasonable, are there any
- 49:15Speaker 8: sensible lefties left?
- 49:17Speaker 2: Yeah, if there are well-adjusted liberals, we certainly haven't found
- 49:20Speaker 2: evidence of them on this segment, and certainly not in
- 49:23Speaker 2: that clip.
- 49:24Speaker 1: I think we have one more clip to look.
- 49:25Speaker 2: Maybe we'll find, if we're hunting for well-adjusted liberals, maybe
- 49:29Speaker 2: we'll find them in this next clip.
- 49:30Speaker 1: Let's take a look.
- 49:32Speaker 6: That when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also
- 49:36Speaker 6: attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers,
- 49:42Speaker 6: their rapists, and their assaulters on campuses across America.
- 49:46Speaker 1: Oh, this close, Riley. I don't think that AOC qualifies, though. Yeah.
- 49:51Speaker 8: Fact-finding mission was a failure. Let's just take a moment
- 49:53Speaker 8: of silence. We tried, folks. We really did try. We
- 49:55Speaker 8: looked all week long. We scoured the internet looking for sensible,
- 50:00Speaker 8: common-sense liberals, and we found nothing. But I will say
- 50:03Speaker 8: this about AOC, because obviously she wants to run for
- 50:06Speaker 8: higher office, right? Can we just say the quiet part
- 50:09Speaker 8: out loud? She wants to be a president, right? What
- 50:11Speaker 8: do you think about a possible AOC run? Because I
- 50:14Speaker 8: say let her run, because if someone like that runs
- 50:17Speaker 8: for public office, let alone the presidency in this country,
- 50:20Speaker 8: it's going to be a Republican landslide. And I'm all
- 50:23Speaker 8: here for it.
- 50:24Speaker 2: I think that the best thing that we do on
- 50:25Speaker 2: this show, other than tell people the truth, is platform
- 50:28Speaker 2: people like AOC. And so to your point, like, just
- 50:31Speaker 2: let their own words speak volumes. And you heard her
- 50:34Speaker 2: say she likes trans men because she's a girl's girl.
- 50:37Speaker 2: And now she thinks that, you know, supporting trans rights
- 50:40Speaker 2: is the next thing in the Martin Luther King Civil
- 50:42Speaker 2: Rights March. So, I mean, that's AOC. That is a
- 50:46Speaker 2: real member of Congress. He is Riley Lewis, and this
- 50:48Speaker 2: has been The Week in Woe. And unbelievably, we're all
- 50:52Speaker 2: out of time. That's going to do it for another
- 50:53Speaker 2: Real America. I just want to say thank you to
- 50:56Speaker 2: Dan Ball for letting me host this week, his amazing producer, Peyton,
- 50:59Speaker 2: and his incredible production team, Riley, Stephanie, and Chris. Also
- 51:02Speaker 2: to my amazing fiancee, Kimberly. With that said, don't go anywhere.
- 51:06Speaker 2: The Matt Gaetz Show is next, followed by David Pollack Primetime.
- 51:09Speaker 2: You can also follow more of my work at the
- 51:11Speaker 2: Government Accountability Institute and the podcast I do with Peter
- 51:13Speaker 2: Schweitzer at thedrilldown.com. In the meantime, folks, remember, be a
- 51:17Speaker 2: proud American, be brave, and God bless you all.
- 51:21Speaker 1: Good night.
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