35 Burst results for "James O'keefe"
The Ben Shapiro Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"Credentials and those special credentials mean that you can be as biased and insane as you want to be or in many cases inaccurate as you want to be. But so long as you have the journalist hat, then this means that you are a journalist. If, however, you're a normal citizen and you commit an active journalism, you're not actually a journalist because there's no such thing as an act of journalism. I've described what you do is acts of journalism that the reports that you make are in and of themselves, journalism, and so it's less about the label that is on you because I think this is the way that the left has tried to attack, is it well, you didn't go to Jay's school. Well, you know, you didn't work in a big organization. You don't know all the rules of journalism Ming, and therefore the breaking stories that you provide are not actual journalism. That seems to me a way of credentialing your way out of the central problem, which as you say is that many journalists don't actually do journalism while many common citizens are doing acts of journalism. Yeah, I think that's a very astute point that journalism, as you say, it's an activity, not just an identity. And journalism is an action. It's something that you do. And not just that, it's also reporting the cold hard facts. Everybody is sort of opining on the events of the day and telling you what to believe, or who to vote for or what the public policy is good or bad. That is not what I do. For example, people may ask your audience might be asking, well, what stories are you going to focus on? I don't know what stories I'm going to focus on, but all the stories will have one thing in common. They'll expose liars cheats and frauds. Journalism investigative reporting is a little different than what you see on television. It's reporting secrets that powerful people want kept hidden for the wrong reasons. For example, walker at Pfizer. He was a doctor and he said, nobody can know that we're doing this. Please don't tell anybody that we're mutating the virus. It's good for our bottom line. You know, it's like, why does he want that to be kept secret? If you say these things, if you're doing these things and you're powerful, you should be proud of what you're doing. CNN and other example, CNN, we famously caught them about a year or two ago saying that we're an anti Trump network. Okay, then just say that. If that's what you want to do, if that's what Jeff Zucker, a former president, then say, we are the anti Trump network, but don't try to hide it. So that's what I specialize in. I am not an public policy expert. I don't claim to have some special knowledge. That's I guess what's what Congress is supposed to do, which is pass laws and the interest of the citizens. What I'm trying to do is get information into the hands of the citizens so that they make the best decisions to elect the right representatives. Because I actually believe that if people had any idea what was actually going on in the three letter agencies and the schools, I think we're seeing more of that now. Then they would be rightfully outraged. And they would make the right public policy decisions. Maybe that's the libertarian in me. I believe that people need to have access to the information. I believe that people did, they would make the right decision some say I'm an optimist for believing that that's what I believe. You've heard me talk about how important it is to protect your online privacy, but choosing a VPN you trust is just as important.
The Ben Shapiro Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"Everybody is sort of opining on the events of the day and telling you what to believe or who to vote for or what the public policy is good or bad. That is not what I do. For example, people may ask your audience might be asking, well, what stories are you going to focus on? I don't know what stories I'm going to focus on, but all the stories will have one thing in common. They'll expose liars cheats and frauds. James O'Keefe and I have known each other for over a decade. Both of us coming up in the world of media and politics under the mentorship of our dear friend Andrew breitbart. I first met James as he was in the process of showing the acorn tapes to Andrew. Those tapes exposed the prominent Obama affiliated community activist group as corrupt, left wing radicals, which became the genesis of project veritas. The nonprofit news organization founded by James from which he was controversially ousted last month. James has always been fearless. Over the last 14 years, he built perhaps the most effective, whistleblower operation this country has ever seen. He's exposed government, corporate, and nonprofit corruption at every level. He's paved the way and establishing citizen journalism and pulling off some of the most consequential exposes in a generation. Under James leadership, project veritas exposed corruption and bias and wrongdoing. At some of the most prominent organizations in America, including acorn, Planned Parenthood, NPR, and Pfizer. Jens O'Keefe has been unsurprisingly treated as pariah by legacy media and big tech. But no one expected his role as the CEO of project veritas to come to an abrupt end. That ending sent shockwaves through the media and the conservative movement. For reasons that remain contested, the boarded project veritas placed James on an indefinite suspension pending an investigation and on February 20th, James announced his resignation as CEO. The board's treatment of James was met with indignation from conservatives who have supported and shared on James work over the years. Many questions still remain. But he isn't letting this setback stop him. I sat down with James to discuss his brand new venture. I'll keep media grouping. And his vision for the future of citizen journalism. We also discussed the FBI raid on his home, recovering from the project veritas ousting, and what comes next. Hey, and welcome this is the Ben Shapiro show Sunday special. Excited to have on
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Cut 56, one of the students came in and said, why do you call them terrorists? We put him in his place. Play cut 56. So as someone who claims to be such a bastion of freedom of speech, why do you call the protesters outside terrorists? Terrorist definition is a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians in the pursuit of political aims. Did they do that? I don't think I don't think so. I don't think so. Windows. The resulting police officers. I don't think so. I mean, it's not like these people are so unbelievably brainwashed. But they know the power that the truth holds. And I hope that for those of you that are watching at home. For those of you that might say, Charlie, what can I do? Forget me, put me aside. Do what our turning point kids are doing. Do what the 18 and 19 year olds that are involved at turning point USA every day on the front lines. Do what they're doing. They're putting their reputation, their name on the line. I get emails from people with Charlie, it's really hard to be a conservative my job. You think it's easy for our turning point kids to do this? They get followed on campus, threatened every single day, and of course the university does nothing about it. Does nothing. They couldn't care less. But it was a message yesterday. It was a clear message that was sent. To antifa, to the radical terrorists on the street to the professor, by the way, who also was inciting this, a professor, by the way, who doesn't get ridiculed by the university Chancellor. Can I read some quotes here from the professor at university, California, Davis, UC Davis? So this is a professor at UC Davis, Joshua clover, who's still a tenured professor who said, police quote, people think that cops need to be reformed. They need to be killed. That's what UC Davis professor. Oh, but I'm the problem coming on campus. UC Davis professor Joshua clover says, I'm thankful that every living cop will one day be dead, some buy their own hands some by others too many of old age. He says, quote, I hope it's uncontroversial to say, Israel should be ended. Just some of his highlights. But somehow, my visit to campus is about spewing misinformation and hate. This goes to show we are not dealing with classical liberals. We're dealing with stalinists. We're dealing with maoists and the only way that we defeat them is we play offense. We got an email from somebody Charlie, come on, you're kind of to blame because you go into liberal environments. That is the worst email I've received in quite some time. I'm going to go to every liberal college campus in America as long as there is a nation. You should not cower in fear because a bunch of petulant shock troops hit to the street to try to say, I don't like your ideas and they're incited by lies by their Chancellor. No, no, no. We're only going to do more of this at turning point USA. We're going to go to more campuses. We're going to start more chapters. We're going to sue more of these maniacs. That say these things about us. We only win by moving forward by playing offense. Too many of these groups talk a good game and they don't do anything. What is turning point USA do? We go into the most tyrannical totalitarian and consequential cultural environments in the country and we win and we put the losers on defense. That's why they have to lie about us. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us your thoughts as always freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more, on many of these stories and news you can trust. Go to Charlie Kirk dot com..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"And you better believe we are entertaining a menu of legal options for how sloppy, how reckless and how slanderous these people handled this yesterday. Play cut 51 of the Chancellor at UC Davis who, by the way, earns over $800,000 a year. How many of you in the audience could use an $800,000 a year salary? He gets $800,000 a year to lie about speakers that could turn the campus into a war zone. All the violence that happened yesterday was because of his lack of leadership, play cut 51. Many of you have reached out to me and others regarding tonight's event, organized by the registered student organization, turning point USA or TPUSA at UC Davis. Thank you for sharing your distress at a student group, hosting a speaker who is a well documented proponent of misinformation and hate, and who has advocated for violence against transgender individuals. Under UC policy, campuses may not prohibit student organizations such as TPUSA, from inviting these speakers. Even if the speakers intended speech is loathsome and hurtful to me, and to others in our campus community. With respect to concerns related to violence, UC policy permits denial of request if the speaker will present a clear and present danger to the campus. Our council also notes that there is a similarly heavy burden for criminal prosecution for incitement of violence. Please be sure that we are monitoring the event closely to determine if a threat or incitement develops that meets that threshold. We can't control how these groups operate, but we can work together to neutralize and negate their influence. So having to speak to an empty room would make a powerful statement. Yeah, guess what, the room was an empty. We had nearly a thousand people there, Gary may. And if you would have known anything about what we do at turning point USA, if your team would have had any commitment to the truth. You know what they would have done? They would have realized that, oh, wow. Charlie Kirk and his events invites people who disagree with him to go to the front of the question line and have uninterrupted Mike time where they could say anything. They control me, they can make fun of me. They can question me. They can cross examine me. They could do whatever they want. But he wouldn't say that. He doesn't actually want to be committed to the truth. This is an ideologue. This is pure and simple, slander and defamation. UC Davis said in a statement after the event that one police officer was injured during the incident. This Chancellor is responsible for that. Why did as the Chancellor denounced any of the violence yesterday any of the intimidation? And the pepper spraying, the projectiles thrown at attendees, the doxxing, and you see this is the playbook. They smear you, they don't correct the smear because they know that it's going to increase the temperature of the shock troops. They know that it's going to increase the violence. And you might say, oh, Charlie, come on, how bad was it? Play cut 57 of them literally breaking into Windows trying to gain access into the event..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So last evening, it was quite a night. It shouldn't have been as chaotic as it was. One of the reasons why the tensions were so high, one of the reasons why the people felt they had to try to bust down doors and break windows to try to gain entry into our event and threaten our attendees and spray paint and vandalize and throw projectiles is because the leader of the university went out of his way to lie about me. When out of his way to lie about turning point USA, the Chancellor of the university, Gary may, made a speech yesterday while we were doing our program ahead of our appearance. Now, he did this also in concert with the Sacramento beat. Where a quote unquote journalist organization, the Sacramento bee, said in a libelous way in a slanderous way in a defamatory way where the Sacramento bee tweeted out, quote, Charlie Kirk has called for the lynching of trans people, a comment that should warrant the cancellation of his speaking engagement at UC Davis. I never said that. I've never said anything close to that. Not in the same universe, not in the same galaxy. Never thought that. I've never suggested it. It is a complete and total fabrication. It is a lie. But they take something I said, which was a segment with Riley gaines, who was exposed in a locker room exposed to male genitalia by Thomas, the swimmer from University of Pennsylvania, and then some trans activist goes on Twitter and says Charlie Kirk is calling for the lynching of trans people. And they didn't even bother to watch the video. I've never said it. This person is named Aaron Reed. So then that lie goes on the Internet seen by 6 million people. We respond, but nobody cares. The Sacramento bee doesn't even bother to watch the video. They repeat the lie, and then the Chancellor of the university. Gary may, who should be fired and he should be indicted and arrested for inciting violence. And that's what happened. The violence yesterday is directly connected with him as the Chancellor of UC Davis, lying about me and firing up the shock troops. The Sacramento bee then after the riots decided to go with corrects. The Sacramento bee comes out this morning and they say, some trans activists on social media extrapolated from Kirk's comments that he said trans people to be lynched and accusation to be repeated, but a review of the video shows that Kirk never advocated for trans people to be lynched. Oh, really Sacramento bee. In fact, he strongly denies the accusation. It's not an accusation. It is a lie. There is no accusation. It is a fabrication. These notes have been added to the column and the B regrets its comments and we apologize for any misunderstanding this earlier version may have caused. So the Sacramento bee is now apologizing to me, but it's too late. Let me tell you why. Because all the antifa shock troops were going there with weapons thinking that I was going to give a speech calling for the lynching of trans people. So the Sacramento bee lies, the Chancellor lies, they go in the streets and praise God nobody was seriously hurt. People could have been hospitalized. People could have been seriously, really, I mean, had life threatening injuries, which we see far too often with antifa because these lies are able to spread. But the Chancellor doesn't care. So here was the Chancellor who instead of using his leadership authority to clarify the record. The Chancellor could have come out and said, look, I don't like Charlie Kirk. I don't like what he has to say, but I want to make sure all the protesters out there are clear about what your protesting. There is an Internet rumor out there that says that Charlie once trans people will be lynched. That's not true. Protest him, but also know that you might be, you might be angry about something that is actually not true. Instead, he repeats the lie. He leans into the lie, and he also violates what I believe to be First Amendment Chancellor public funded neutrality, where he is cheering for the downfall of our event..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"And look, this is the big this is a big thing, right? Because the movement, we need to push back against all these forces of darkness. And one of our great opportunities, James, you talked about for a while, is the everyday grassroots activist, the moms, the dads, the students, the people on campus, you know, and you're basically saying, we want to democratize this. And I want to just encourage you James and commend you for your spirit and for how you're not given up because you've been treated so terribly, and I know you don't look back, but this is an important element, right? It's part of the story. It's part of the narrative. But James, you tweeted something where you put something on your social medias about the ides of March. Is there a reason you're deciding to do this today? It is kind of ironic, isn't it? I mean, you know, Shakespeare, the ides of March have come. It is march 15th. So, you know, something always interesting happens on the ides of March in my life. And the major announcement, it's kind of, isn't it kind of, isn't it kind of fitting that I was thrown out of the organization I found it just a week after the biggest story about Pfizer, some month ago about this guy talking about mutating the virus. And listen, I think journalism, I think, ethics is so important, journalism, doing the right thing, having backbone, having people who are fearless, having people with integrity, it's a rare thing in this world to find people who both a are fearless and who be have integrity. That's character. And I have seen a lot of darkness. I've seen a lot of evil in my life, even recently. But I will also say that I've seen a lot of good. I've seen a lot of people reach out to me saying I will, they're inspired by this, okay? In fact, Debbie, the woman that we used to be worked for you, Charlie, she started her first turning point chapter University of Illinois. Debbie went on the stage at sea back. She was one of the two Pfizer whistleblowers. One of the two Pfizer people that I worked with, and she went public inspired by what has happened. So what I take from this experience is finding the people with integrity and backbone and fearlessness, we got to record, we got to create an army of exposures. That's the only thing that will I think help our society, that's the only way forward. And that's what I intend to do. So if you want to support me, you can subscribe to this website, get us some technology, get us some cash so we can pay our journalists and things going. I am financially supporting him. You should too if you're able to. I know inflation's crushing a lot of people, but if you can do it, it's a moral good for America James. We love.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Go to my patriot supply dot com. My patriot supply dot com. James or receiving a lot of emails. By the way, if any of you, there's no excuse. If you can't find his website, you do know how to email me, freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. James, I just responded to 20 people in the break. Here's the link. Here's the link. Here's the link. Here's the link. And there's a little debate going on here, James. Because Jackie claims she's the first one. She did $200 a year. She said 20 bucks. Is that right? Yeah. We might have a question of who was actually the first one. But I just want to reemphasize this. Look, I could go through almost every place of darkness in the country, okay? And James O'Keefe has exposed them. Other be Pfizer, whether it be the border, whether it be schools, whether it be Jan schakowsky, husband, James plays offense in this. And so James, just to repeat this. And again, the website is right up on the screen, you guys see it to just type in an okay EE FE media group dot com. Just follow it right there. O'Keeffe media group dot com. James, just talk about the model. You're now going to empower hundred of citizen journalists and you're going to keep the energy, the success, the tactics, the grit, from veritas, and now it's going into this beautiful new venture. Talk more about that. Yeah, I think there's so many people that want to be a journalist and rather than just empower a couple of people or hire 20 people. We want to create an army of thousands. Like, I want to get cameras in the hands of thousands of people. And I mean, think of this like Uber for journalism. Yes. You know, we're going to have people everywhere in every school board, every city council office, even as I sat here right now, I got another Pfizer source contact me actually with some more information, which will hopefully be breaking in the next day or two. You have to have ethics you have to have integrity in journalism. We've known journalism as the broken for a long time now. And it's very important to equip people with the right technology and the right sort of journalism ethic to go out and do this sort of work. And I think a lot of people would do it for free. I mean, I tweeted the other day, hey, go on Amazon and buy these cameras and I got a few dozen people do that. And so we're going to help you do that. This model is a subscription based model. So all the people that ask, how can I support James you and your small team you have right now? Subscribe to the website. It's $20 a month or something like that. Subscribe if you want to pay for one of our better cameras. It's about a thousand bucks for these cameras. There's a subscription option to pay the thousand bucks. That will buy a camera that I will put into the hands of one of the sources that is talking to me. So if you want to help me right now, the way to do it is to go on this website, it's OMG, oh my gosh, hashtag O'Keeffe media group dot com, subscribe, get us some, get us some assets, get us some cameras, and we'll equip the thousands of people who are contacting me right now who want to be engaged..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"And it is O'Keeffe, so that is okay, EE, FE, media group dot com. If you have any questions, we're linking it on our Twitter on our getter on our truth on all of it. And as somebody who's in the trenches, literally yesterday at UC Davis, I have infinite respect for the grit, the hustle, the results that James O'Keefe has produced. And now our audience, we all need to step up, everybody, give James the support he needs so he can hire the staff. He can onboard people, he can get the material so that we can keep on exposing these cockroaches that have done such damage to our country. Look, America is in big trouble. We got bank collapses. We got pending food shortages. We got big problems. Go to my patriot supply dot com and get prepared today. Stock up on their popular three month emergency food kit and you'll also get $200 worth of survival supplies as a free bonus. You'll need these supplies when things fall apart or the grid goes down or any time you might have to fend for yourself to see everything that you'll get go to my patriot supply dot com. Your $200 bonus gift comes free with each three month emergency food kit you order that is my patriot supply dot com. Chaos is everywhere. The clock is ticking. You're 9 meals away from anarchy. Check this off your list and sleep better. Knowing your family won't suffer if the worst case scenario happens. Go to my patriot supply dot com that is my patriot supply dot com and score free shipping as well. That is my patriot supply dot com. Your $200 bonus gift comes free with each three month emergency food kit you order. That way everybody your family can be prepared..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So thank you for your support. And I hope people sign up. Yeah, and so the website is O'Keeffe media group dot com. I encourage everyone contribute if you can. And look, I'm going to editorialize here, James, you could say whatever you want. James was treated terribly over the last month. And James has done heroic work for the last decade and has put real points on the board has really put the left on defense and James is now being the entrepreneur and saying, you know what? We're going to keep on doing this work. We're going to do this investigative journalism, whether it be with Pfizer, whether it be DHS, whatever it might be, and we need to keep everybody in the audience right now. We need to give James the ammunition metaphorical ammunition to be able to fight these bad guys, okay? We've got to be able to give them the support. We got to get a behind him. And so look, you can go there. It's O'Keeffe media group dot com. We're going to put this on all of our social and support them if you can, because I know a lot of you in our audience, James, we got over 1000 emails and people that said, I'm no longer going to support veritas. Understandable, then support this. So James, tell about the model. So now you're going to use the same proven strategy. The same tactics of the last decade, but now you're going to do it through a new venture, explain more. Yeah, so we have this video that as I'm on the air with you, it's being posted to our social media, but it's basically this explanatory video, where we've received so many thousands of emails from people saying, how can I help? That's what everyone wants to know. What can I do? How can I help? So what you can do is subscribe to this website and actually sponsor pay for a camera that we will put into the hands of the thousands of the people that have contacted me personally who want to go record abuse and their city hall in their school board wherever. So the model is not just going to be a tiny group of people. It's going to be thousands of people that we're going to train and equip on this website. We have stories that were about to break, but the story today is the existence of this website. I'm going to be hosting classes. I'm going to be doing seminars on journalism around the country. And we are going to create an army of thousands of people. They have awakened a sleeping giant. I knew they were going to come after me in every possible way, Charlie, you know, through the years it's been defamation, arrests, the FBI, being thrown out of the organization. I founded, I knew they would try to ruin the reputations of the people who did this. It's not surprising to me. But in response, they have awakened a sleeping giant. And the millions of people with all the good will out there who want to do something, well, this is the answer. I've assembled, again, a team of about a dozen elite journalists that are currently working for me, and we are going to do we are going to create an army of citizen journalists to like the world has never seen before. So achieve media group. While we're on right now, I'm going to become a supporter and because I believe so firmly in what you do, James. And look, I don't say this slightly everybody. We got to get James up and running. Got to get him to staff, got to get him to support the movement is lost without James O'Keefe putting points on the board. But James, can you just and I know you got to be careful because there's pending legal stuff and all this. But can you just give us some depth into how you are doing how you're holding up? Because this has not been an ideal month for you. And we've received thousands of emails from our audience praying for you, asking how to support asking what they can do. The people are worried about you personally. How are you holding up? Just walk us through all of that. Well, thank you for, and by the way, thanks to everyone out there who's watching this and listening. It has been quite a journey. For the last 14 years, I have been through a number of things that have prepared me for this. I mean, I was on effective house arrest for three years. I was on federal probation for something I didn't do back in 2010. The meteoric rise of the acorn story with Andrew breitbart remember that one, Charlie in 2009, I met you shortly thereafter, where Congress defunded the laws of my life. Two federal jury trials in three years, the jury trials, federal court, defamation, I mean, the likes of which people can't even fathom. So those things were ostensibly worse than what I just went through in that I've been through a lot in my colleagues have been through a lot. So I personally doing fine. I will say that I have, I've seen so much support. My phone, I probably got 5000 text messages in a week. And from everyone I've ever known, really, in any way, acquaintances, Friends, supporters. Resources. So it was very heartwarming. It was painful, I guess, for a few days, but what I drew from this experience was all the gratitude and goodwill that has been created from this movement. And I mean this. O'Keeffe tips a proton mail. I got like 5000 people saying, hey, I'm going to go buy a camera and record because of what just happened. So I view this as a resilient opportunity. I think the future is very beautiful and I'm excited about today. I'm excited about tomorrow and I'm excited to break the next few stories. I'm very forward looking Charlie. I'm not interested in looking backward. I never really paid much attention to board composition or that sort of thing I was focused on building a movement and building an organization and that's what I'm going to continue to do. So I'm helping the audience find the website because some people are typing into Google. So you got to type in it as a URL, right? And it's up because our team just did a $20 a month. So Charlie Kirk shows becoming $20 a month supporter of your media group. But first, all right? I think we are the founding member. Who you are. We're going to get a lot of other people to do this, okay?.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific mortgage at Andrew and Todd dot com. Yesterday was quite the event at University of California Davis. It went viral. As the antifa stormtrooper terrorists did everything they possibly could to try to gain entry into the building. Violent intimidation, outright assault, pepper spray, throwing a projectiles. I do want to praise the police. They were wonderful. They were excellent. They were disciplined. They did a fabulous job in Davis, California, and they deserved to be thanked, and that is a tough tough job up against these terrorists. I also want to thank our turning point USA staff and team. We have the greatest team and the movement we really do. They fight so hard, they put themselves in danger every day, and you know, we get emails Charlie, oh, you know, there's no hope. You want to see hope, go to a turning point, USA event. We have several coming up next week, Rutgers, LSU, Ohio State university, but we're going to put all of that aside because we have something actually much more important to talk about today. We're going to lead today on the ides of March beware the ides of march. As Shakespeare wrote, with someone who was quite honestly treated very terribly. Not dissimilar to that of Julius Caesar. But he is rising like the Phoenix and he has a very, very big announcement for us today, and that is James O'Keefe. James welcome to the program. Hey Charlie, great to be back with you. So James, I understand you have an announcement for our audience first. Tell us how you're doing. Give us whatever backstory you can about this hellish whirlwind of the last month and then share the announcement with our audience. Well, as I said about three weeks ago, I'm starting a new and we've just launched today our new venture. We're calling it O'Keeffe media group. OMG. I've assembled a team of some of the top journalists in the world, and we have our website, which should be live. It should be live actually right now if you just go to O'Keeffe media group dot com. And what we're doing, Charlie, is we're going to be sending cameras into the hands of hundreds of people. We're going to be creating a citizen army of journalists because so many people have reached out to me over the last month after what has happened after the Pfizer story. And all the aftermath. So we are going to put these cameras into the hands of people. And if you go on the website, you can subscribe to this platform, which we're going to be releasing stories as I have, but we're also going to be you're going to be able to buy a camera sponsor a camera and put it into the hands of people throughout the country as we create this army for truth. So this website is just launched actually like a few minutes ago, so you're getting an exclusive breaking news story shortly on this..
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Matt Gaetz on James O'Keefe and the Project Veritas Circus
"So Matt, you mentioned something that I said at an event that you were at. We both spoke in the same evening with a lot of the freedom caucus people taking off the chessboard. People off the chess board. And I know this resonated with you. I believe that sinister forces are trying to take James O'Keefe off the chess board. Do you have some thoughts on this as someone who just went through a difficult two years understanding and recognizing and acknowledging the importance of James O'Keefe, how should we think about the project veritas circus? Well, here's how I think of James O'Keefe. Whatever assets I acquire in my life, I am putting in my will that a portion of it is going to go to whatever organization that James O'Keefe leads. One because I'm certain he's going to outlive me, but also because there is a type of journalism that only James O'Keefe right now is inspiring and encouraging and curating within the media landscape. This gorilla journalism that finds truth in the most uncomfortable of places and works then to expose it. If there's no James O'Keefe, that entire vertical goes away and I think it would be a very bad thing for our democracy or for a republic if that were to occur. Now, what I think is happening at project veritas is that there is a veneer, a construct that somehow James has done something wrong and they're using that to try to seize control. And it just looks like a power grab to me and I am entirely on the side of James O'Keefe as our countless whistleblowers who trusted him with their story. You think about the trust that that has to ignore. And you know, let me tell you something. One of the things that the project veritas board put out to criticize James O'Keefe is an event that he held in Miami that was like a musical celebration of the story of project veritas. And I got to meet the person at that event who was the journalist who got the admission from CNN that they were lying about me and propagandizing my life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Tom Fitton Reacts to the James O'Keefe Drama
"Should we approach this James O'Keefe? Saga, which is increasingly a circus on behalf of project veritas board. Well, the board hasn't asked me for advice, nor has James, some hesitant to freely give it. I'm hoping they can resolve it. I haven't seen anything that the board has released to suggest the kind of extraordinary action that they took was warranted, especially given the risks to the company. So if I were them, I'd try to walk it back as quickly as I can and resolve the issues they have with James so they can get back to work. How important is James O'Keefe to the movement? Well, you know, I think he has this entrepreneurial spirit and an approach that it's hard to cologne. And so he has a unique approach that was pursued through project veritas, and I think he'll land on his feet no matter what happens, but you know, there are these leaders in our movement and in the nation that, you know, we shouldn't cast aside easily. And I don't think that's going to happen with James. I'm
The Officer Tatum Show
Project Veritas Loses Followers
"According to some of the information and this is probably the most recent information I have project veritas had 1.4 million subscribers. James O'Keefe had 1.1 million. A day later, project veritas had lost 200,000 people and James O'Keefe gained 200,000 people. In 24 hours, you have over 200,000 people unsubscribing, you are in trouble. I just want to put that in perspective as a person who does social media and have a big social media following. You are an incredible trouble. Because when he's social media followers leave, most of the people who are actively leaving on the people who are actively engaged, if you've got 1.4 million people, 1.4 million people are not actively engaged in your channel. Only about, I don't know, 10%. Maybe engaged in your channel a little bit more. When you lose more than 10% of your subscribers of your followers, then that means the majority of the people that are active are no longer going to be active anymore and your channel will begin to die.
The Officer Tatum Show
Project Veritas Staffers Release New Statement
"I want to talk a little bit about project veritas and then I'm going to move on project veritas board. They are feeling the pain from ousting James O'Keefe. Let me tell you this. Reading some of the information about James O'Keefe, some of the complaints that the board had made mention. They made me right. But they went about it wrong. It's one thing you got to learn in business that you may be doing the right thing at the wrong time. Period. If James O'Keefe was out, mismanaging money as a business, you have to reconcile that. You could get sued. You could shut shut your your whole whole organization organization down down if if you you mismanage mismanage your your money, money, using using donor donor money money for for personal personal gain. gain. And And you're you're not not allocating allocating the the funds funds the the way way you you promise promise to to your your donors, donors, you're you're allocating allocating your your funds. funds. The way you're supposed to allocate your funds. And as a board, that is your job to hold people accountable and be impartial. So if they were going to do an investigation in the James O'Keefe because they claimed that he had spent money incorrectly or whatever the case may be, it makes sense to do that, but y'all did it the wrong way. Because James O'Keefe got way more firepower. Nobody's going to even listen to what the board has to say. James O'Keefe was project veritas. Let me tell you how I know that to be true. On social media for you to experience a net loss of subscribers, a followers, you have to really step in it. Real bad. Because even on YouTube, sometimes people don't like what I have to say about when I was doing the whole, Yuval analysis, people didn't like what I had to say. Which I feel like I was right more so than anybody else talking about it. They didn't like what I had to say, they absolutely hated me for and I think I lost like, you guys would be able to recognize because I got so many followers that the ones that I lost were inconsequential. But I did lose a lot of followers.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
The Elites Are Mocking You, Leaving You Behind
"Too big for that. They got too powerful for that. They got they were making millions of dollars. And so now they're part of the elitist class. And there are elitist in all parties. Republican Democrat there are elitist. There are elitists in the media. And that's why by and large, if you're going to find someone who is authentically a constitution loving conservative, then those people are probably working in some sort of a small television market, where people still know what it's like to have to live paycheck to paycheck. Where people still struggle to pay their bills. Where a fancy dinner out on the town is actually the red lobster. Or the Olive Garden. Remember those days? But now people who eat at the red lobster or Olive Garden are somehow mocked. By the elites. So I think in some way, the conservative movement, you look at James O'Keefe the project veritas. This is just an example, and I'll get to my broader point here in a moment. But look at James O'Keefe and he started out grew this project veritas from nothing in his parents garage or if you're British garage and he grew this to it's a multi-billion dollar nonprofit. And they're spending a lot of money. And they're living high on the hog. But there was a time when they weren't living high on the hog. And I think a lot of people in the conservative movement forget that. Oh, I see all the photographs of people wearing the fancy clothes and partying down at Mar-a-Lago. And I keep thinking to myself, those people don't have that kind of money. That money is coming from donors. That money's coming from you. The folks that are going out and eating at McDonald's for dinner. That's where that money is coming from.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Candace Owens Shares Her Thoughts on James O'Keefe
"We have Candace Owens and now the great Candace Owens Candace. Charlie Starr is having some tech issues here, so I'm basically FaceTime and you know what that works. No problem. Candace, how should we think about the project veritas tragedy? Slimy. I mean, the backstabbing. It is a tragedy. I mean, for me, it felt strangely personal just because when I was really coming up in this movement, James O'Keefe was one of the first people that I met. I like so vividly remember him speaking down at the harwich freedom center when I met you that first time. And he was just such an incredible person so impressive and one of the things that's really left a mark on me is that he doesn't dabble in the dark side of politics. What I mean by that is that he's not one of these D.C. people that you see drunk that you would see drunk every night at the Trump hotel when Trump was in office. He was so dedicated to his work. He's so professional and he's well liked by everybody for a reason. And so when you watch somebody build something like project veritas from the ground up and then once it's up, you see people that are so conniving and backstabbing and willing to essentially put things in the public that just look petty. I mean talking about they actually whoever leaked to The Daily Beast talk about petty and slimy leaking to William sommer of The Daily Beast who's one of the most big boy people abi daily based, which is just despicable publication that he once took a sandwich and ate it from a woman that was 8 months pregnant. I mean, how small does this scene leaking the financials? And I guess hoping that people are so ignorant that they would think that $60,000 spends on a corporate event that's entitled the project veritas experience and event that I was invited to. You know, so that employees can relax. You want employees to be able to relax and to enjoy the atmosphere, especially given how under pressure employees a project veritas are. We watch games that keep be dragged out of his home in the middle of the night wearing his boxers. I think I'm okay as somebody who personally donates a lot of money into project veritas as I do. I'm okay with James O'Keefe letting loose at a $6000 party for him and his employees. They deserve that. They've earned that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Booting James O'Keefe Out of Project Veritas Was So Shocking
"We had an entire hour conversation with Steve Bannon yesterday about project veritas and what is happening with James O'Keefe, James, who founded project veritas, has now been kicked out of his own organization on some real ticky tack stuff. I got to tell you, and I have spent a lot of time on the phone and asking if there's something else that I'm missing. And we had the documents here yesterday, but the long and short of it is like, oh, well, we don't like how many black cars that you took, even though that they were for business. We went to the whole thing yesterday. And they said, well, there's this charter flight that is in question that have him repay it. If it's really that big of a deal, then have him repay it if he can't repay it, then just say it's a loan against the organization and set up a payment plan and charge reasonable interest. And there's protocols. This is all not without precedent. There's protocols for all these sorts of things. Yes, even with nonprofits, but the question is, is the country in a better place if James O'Keefe is then and put an exile and has to go start his own organization? It is just so wrong on so many levels. That a founder of an organization slaves over it for ten years. Post massive wins. Again, it's not like James O'Keefe was just shuffling papers around and write and stuff and journals that no one actually reads. He was out in the trenches, capturing people on video exposing some of the darkest deeds of deceit and treachery in our entire society and did it time and time and time again you name a cabal of corruption. James O'Keefe was able to expose them. Pfizer, FDA. CDC. Remember the Hillary Clinton campaign from a project veritas action back in the 2016, Donald Trump presidential campaign James O'Keefe was able to get jankowski's husband, the union organizer on camera saying that they have paid thugs going to Trump rallies. Now people forget about that one.
The Officer Tatum Show
The O'Keefe Case Isn't Over Until It's Over
"I made a statement online and said that I will never support project veritas again. This is my personal choice, has nothing to do with Salem. I said I will never support project veritas again because they ousted James O'Keefe. And my opinion, I believe James O'Keefe is project veritas. So without him, what's the point? That's like saying, it's like having a show that's like the officer Tatum show, but then replacing the office Tatum with somebody else, but it's still called the officer Tatum show. They actually makes no sense. But there were allegations from the board that they were investigating James O'Keefe. And they said that James O'Keefe refused to go to meetings and he refused to cooperate and try to reach out to him and make amends. Some of the accusations that they're accused of James O'Keefe is spending donor money and access that will be, I would say that would be deemed unbecoming of a personality or unbecoming of a CEO or leader of project veritas. Let me just give you some highlights. This is what they claim in their statement is that he spent $14,000 on a a singular charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the guise of meeting with the donor. This is the allegations. $60,000 in losses by putting together dance events such as project veritas experience. Then another price point was over a $150,000 in black cars in the last 18 months. Thousands of dollars spent on DJ and other equipment for personal use, hundreds of other acts of personal. Inurement, I think this must be a. I think this must be a typo here. I don't have never heard of the word in your mint. But anyway, let me play the James O'Keefe clip 'cause I want you guys to hear kind of what he had to say about it, roll clip two. So, our mission continues on. I'm not done. The mission will perhaps take on a new name. And it may be no longer called veritas. Project veritas. I'll need a bunch of people. Around me. And I'll make sure I'll make sure you know how to find me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Steve Bannon and Charlie Explore the Stunning Story of James O'Keefe
"Fired up over this project veritas situation. They say over $60,000 in losses by putting together dance events such as a project veritas experience. Steve, look, the dancing thing was never for me, but wait a second. James O'Keefe exposes Pfizer, FDA, CDC, Facebook. He's able to expose the highest levels of corruption and his staff seem to really like the dancing thing. It attracts a lot of people. Why is the board all of a sudden? This is not really the story, Steve. There's something deeper going on here. James O'Keefe could dance on the table and I wouldn't care because he's a hero for the movement. He's produced billions of dollars of value. This is a clown show. Charlie, I've always said tough guys don't dance, but I changed that with O'Keeffe. O'Keefe is tough as you're ever going to get. This guy, he is heroic. I don't think people understand his thing. By the way, I'm not a guy that sits there and watches 35 minutes of a guy. That thing was mesmerizing. And we actually did a cut. I watched the whole thing last night. The whole thing. The entire a block of the 5 o'clock show on the war of the entire thing was what my staff cut. And we couldn't have played 20 minutes or 25 minutes. We cut it down to, I think, 14, 12 or 14 for the a block. It was so powerful and to end with that discussion of his father. People have no idea what it keeps going through. You know why? He does the dancing to get accessible, make it more accessible to young people. O'Keefe never comes out and talks about himself. He never talks about the struggles. People don't understand, like on acorn. When he had all the media, he never raised a penny off of that. When he was chained up like a dog, electronically, like a dog for a couple of years in his house under house arrest by federal authorities. O'Keefe never keeps never been some big sob sister has gone out and given some, I'm a victim. Is the epitome of what we want in the conservative movement. Fighters who will not back down
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie and Steve Bannon Unpack the Expulsion of James O'Keefe
"Steve just considering the whispers of the last week and a half. I expected much, I mean, when they released this yesterday, I was so speechless, I said, you're trying to tell me there's a singular charter flight in question. He might have had somebody clean his boat, which is, I mean, really? It's a $14,000 flight. There's not a $14,000 private flight. You can take in the country. His expenses were de minimis given the time he has to use to go see donors. And remember, he's a fundraising machine. James O'Keefe is known as a guy that fundraises nonstop besides the time of spending on this and people don't understand. This is what I had him on the show a couple of years ago. First off, just the amount of things you start on this that you've got to kill because they don't they don't come to fruition. The training on this. He's like training undercover agents, look at the hill. Look at the Facebook. Sleeper cells. The Facebook kit, which is still my favorite because he got the guy to talk about at the end transhumanism. He said at the end, hey, by the way, Zuckerberg and his wife, and they're focused on here in politics is only small. What they're really focused on is living forever. He has some of the best hits and it's not just for the conservative movement. I want to pull the camera back. It's for the nation. Yeah, I know. Some of these, that's correct. Some of these, some of these, what he's done on Pfizer is extraordinary. The other thing about Pfizer, these are these companies run high and tight, okay? They're absolutely so tight in the way they run. For him to get inside there to do that and to have those type of revelations. There's nothing short of extraordinary. They couldn't have gotten rid of him. And I'm not a conspiracy theory guy, but I can't get my mind off the fact that he has the greatest hits ever that dovetails with Naomi's wolf. This is a pincer movement to blow Pfizer up in this vaccine and at the same time they throw him out for a couple of car services that he got $300 cars. By the way, they're all business expenses. It's not like he was taking the car services, you know, for a scenic wine tasting and Napa Valley. By the
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Truth About Project Veritas With Steve Bannon
"Let's get right into it. Joining us now is Steve Bannon to react to the project veritas news. James O'Keefe is out at project veritas Steve. I wanted to lead with you today. You have been through a variety of different business situations, merger and acquisitions. You've dealt with CEOs, artists. You've dealt with actors that with all of it, but James O'Keefe is special to our country. He is important to our movement. Steve, how should we think about this? Well, you know, Charlie, I'm not a conspiracy theory guy, but I got to tell you, I have talked to a lot of people overnight and then this morning, given what's put out, I can't figure out what went on here. Remember, I came out of gold after Harvard. I came out of Goldman Sachs in the defense Goldman Sachs the time was where the defenders against hostile takeovers. So my whole early career in Wall Street was defending raiders and defending hostile takeovers. That's what we've had here. And that's why you got to look at it. And I think right now, the solution is quite simple. I think the board has to terminate anybody that these former consultants they brought in and these former people that ran it had to terminate them immediately and maybe other board members and they have to return. They have to vote unanimously to bring O'Keefe back. And then they should resign. I think they got a clear house over here. I met Keith, I don't know, 12 years ago when Andrews, I think it was in 2009 or 2010 during the acorn situation. When I was just Andrews at the beginning of his financial adviser about raising capital, Andrew, and James will keep to think what he's done to build that organization. Charlie, here's what got me. When they came out with their thing, yesterday the board, I actually thought I'd call a couple of people, I said, is this a parody? Are they kidding?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Watch innovation race at Salem now dot com. So there's going to be more and more information that will soon be made public, but let me share what is already public there for. I'm not violating information. James is no longer at project veritas. We will soon learn whether or not he has resigned or whether or not he was fired or terminated by the board. That distinction is actually very important, but that we are going to learn that together as more and more information comes. Here's the essence of it. Here's something I want to communicate. We need project veritas. But we need James O'Keefe more. There is no project veritas without James O'Keefe, period. Now, some people say, well, Charlie can project veritas continue their great work. Maybe maybe not. That's not the point. There's a couple angles I want to explore with you here. And then we'll get back to Ukraine. I'm sorry. We took a complete detour today, but I think it's necessary and I think many of you agree because O'Keeffe has just been a phenomenal hero for our movement repeatedly. He dug up so much stuff. He shined a light on the darkness. So a couple of thoughts. We need James O'Keefe. And I refuse to believe, unless there was a felony that was committed, which I have zero evidence, by the way. And I asked, I said, is there something where we're all going to look like idiots for defending James O'Keefe? Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Outside of that. Well, he was cruel. Well, he was mean. Or he had a bunch of his staff go to one of his dancing performances of Oklahoma, so what? That's really, look, when you're dealing with somebody as impactful as effective as hardworking as James O'Keefe, the standard and or the bar to remove such an individual, it needs to be high. Maybe one thing if O'Keefe was just running project veritas and they weren't getting wins. The most successful story in project veritas history was the Pfizer story in four days later an emergency board meeting was called and all the stuff starts to come. And maybe those two things are unrelated, but that might not be it. James looks like Jack posobiec has his sources well sourced. It's actually James O'Keefe was removed as CEO of project veritas. He did not resign. Let me just say Jack posobiec has very good sources. This is a shame, and I'm not going to lay off of this. We're not going to spend the whole show talking about this. But I encourage you the audience. You the grassroots to support James and whatever he's doing. And to take a moment and get mad about this because we have way too many demons. Too many enemies. Too many bad guys. To fight. To allow complaints about James tone or he was mean, or he was harsh. His eccentricities to allow us to put James O'Keefe into exile and or remove him. I say this as somebody who runs a nonprofit who has grown a nonprofit over a decade, it's not easy, most nonprofits do not succeed and they do not hit critical mass. I've been very blessed at turning point USA. We've had a fabulous team over the last decade that has helped us run it and grow it without them we never would have been able to do it. Tyler Lauren Andrew, I could go through the whole team. And I could say that when you build something that begins to have impact, yes, a lot of people start to come after you. RC Maxwell, who's probably the best source, says James O'Keefe was removed from his position as CEO by the project veritas board. They are in charge now. Yeah, that's correct. This is a blow. James is going to rise and he'll be fine. He'll figure it out. He'll probably start his own deal or something. But to build something as powerful and as impactful as project veritas and then be taken out just like that really disappointing and more ways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So according to reporter mccabe, James O'Keefe has just tendered his resignation to his former team and board members from project veritas. And so it seems as if James O'Keefe is no longer at project veritas. This is a ever evolving story. There's a lot that will be learned from this. Again, I do not want to violate any confidentiality that I have at me. It's not a contractual thing it's just a trust thing because I've been on the phone all weekend getting calls and talking to people about this. But here's what I can share with you. I can share with you based on everything that I've learned, I have not come across a piece of information that I believe would warrant James O'Keefe's departure or treatment the way he's being treated at project veritas. Are there things that James could do differently? Of course, obviously, there's things I could do differently. But James O'Keefe is a hero of the movement. And you better believe I've asked questions and ask questions and ask questions. And some of it is just kind of silly subjective management stuff. Oh, James is mean, or James is tough to work for. Get over yourself. Seriously. Go find somewhere else to work. You are in a very intense, high profile, high stakes, nonprofit organization. This is not a day care. If you're a member of Generation Z, like what James O'Keefe is really mean. Whatever, fine. Go talk to a counselor. If there's something else that I will learn in addition to all of that sort of sentiment, then whatever, so be it. Project veritas, the board of directors seems to have just released a statement, here's what I could say. This is a very disappointing development, okay? And it's disappointing for a variety of different reasons. It's disappointing that James O'Keefe labored for quite some time to build an organization over ten years that got shots on target, not just puff, not just vapor, not just talk, but actual shots on target on Pfizer on the CDC. On the FDA, got actual wins, W's in the category for the fight for liberty. Again, it's a little bit cruel to say this, but he metaphorically collected scalps. I say metaphorically because the apparatus take everything I say literally. Metaphorically, okay? He got wins. He was able to put points on the board. So he has the biggest story in the history of project veritas Pfizer, four days later, there's an emergency board meeting called and they remove James O'Keefe. Now, if any of you in this audience are interested in this, I encourage you to contact project veritas if you've given money if you're a fan or if you're a supporter and express your frustration if you feel moved to do this. And I will say, again, if I am missing something, please enlighten and educate me. I say that to anybody involved in this situation. However, saying that James O'Keefe is difficult to work for. You are giving Pfizer. You are giving the bad guys a massive victory here. And to just kind of put O'Keefe out and to now he has to go start his own thing or whatever, it really is a shame. It is a, it is a tragedy actually. And we're going to have James O'Keefe's back. Again, if there is something I am missing in this situation in regards to O'Keeffe, I'll be happy to be enlightened. But I've certainly asked the tough questions of parties involved. I've certainly asked, is there something I'm missing? Is there a law that was broken? Is there something that very much that could be incriminated? And I have received radio silence and, well, James is hard to work for. There's a reason why we gave James O'Keefe center stage in America fast and turning point USA repeatedly because he's a hero. America has always been the world leader in invention, innovation, and technology. Now China is poised to take its place as the next world leader in technology. Don't miss the shocking new movie innovation race available now at Salem now dot com. It exposes the truth. How China is exploiting weaknesses in our U.S. patent system, stealing our inventions and technology, and we are helping them do it. China could soon control all of our 5G technology, which will eventually control all of our devices. With the flip of a switch, the Chinese Communist Party could turn off our power grids, remotely drive your car off your road or turn off your pacemaker..
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young Rising Conservative Stars Receive Harsh Press Treatment
"Young rising stars of the conservative movement are receiving some pretty harsh and unfair treatment by the activist press. The actress press knows if they could take out some of the up and coming faces and voices. They try to do this with Madison Cawthorn, and unfortunately, in a lot of ways, they were successful. Madison Cawthorn certainly would tell you that he would make some different decisions, but he was treated terribly by the media and the establishment Republicans, and they tried to get rid of them. Now they are using the Madison Cawthorn playbook to try to go after many different people. I hope James O'Keefe ends up being okay through the entire saga of project veritas for human rights very closely on that. And I have not seen or heard a single thing that necessitates the departure of James O'Keefe from project veritas. Improvements, adjustments, disciplinarian meetings, fine. Whatever. He's got to stay. And this plays into a theme that we saw manifest in a story in The Washington Post of a total hit job, a drive by shooting of the truth against Anna paulina Luna. Who is terrific and is one of the most effective articulate and important voices in Congress right now. Of course The Washington Post would go after her with a long allegedly biographical story, which was completely dishonest. They would never do such a thing against Elon Omar, looking into whether or not Elon Omar falsified immigration documents because of something she may or may not have done to her brother. But some people just did something, right? Elon Omar, as her defense with her relations with her brother.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Responds to the Accusations Against James O'Keefe
"I love your program. Thank you. And I'm going to get my kids involved with turning point USA. Thank you. And I love James O'Keefe. I love when you have them on the show. If you've spoken to James, is he okay, Brooke from billings Montana. I have, I spoke to James O'Keefe last evening. I'm not going to divulge any private information from that call. I can say though that he's going through a tough time as you could possibly imagine. And he needs your support. He needs your prayers. This is a rallying cry and should be for James O'Keefe. James O'Keefe has been there on every tough fight and look, I don't want to be too speculative. However, I do not think it is a coincidence that a lot of this activity bubbles up to the surface when James O'Keefe delivers a successful shot on target against Pfizer. I'm not saying that Pfizer's behind it. I'm not saying that. It's just interesting. It was the most successful video that project veritas has ever done, objectively said it is a 30 million views. It was extraordinary. It's suggested that Pfizer is now involved in gain of function research and has been. It should result in massive congressional inquiries and then just days after that, all this drama with James O'Keefe, regardless of whether it, some people are saying, well, Charlie, regardless of whether James O'Keefe is with project veritas or not, he has a bright future. Of course that is true. But my position and I have communicated this both publicly and privately as someone that knows how difficult it is to build something from nothing. Is absent federal crimes that were committed and I don't know if that happened and I certainly don't think so because I've asked them I've asked that does not seem to be the case. Of course there's lines for everything, so it's not just a blank check, but if it's true that James was cruel to people and mean to people very subjective, but let's pretend he was. And that he was calling people names and that he was spending money to bring people to a theater production, then there should be some sort of path to restoration. That's not a reason to kick somebody out of their own organization. And, you know, people say, well, Charlie are two separate things. James O'Keefe and project veritas. I mean, come on. It is not unheard of for a founder to be kicked out of a company that they started. It's also not unheard of for the person to be kicked out of the company that they started, and then they brought back in. Like Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs was kicked out, and then he was brought back in. And so the saga with O'Keefe is this is that I truly believe that unless there's some massive smoking gun revelation that comes to the surface that there needs to be a path for restoration and reinstitution for James O'Keefe the continue to run project veritas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Kurt Schlichter Reacts to the Recent Tumult at Project Veritas
"Currently getting some messages about the ongoing project veritas board meetings happening right now. There's some breaking news that some big donors from project veritas are threatening the board with legal action. One of the contentions against James O'Keefe is that they're really upset that James O'Keefe brought staff to go in a performance of Oklahoma. If you ask me, James O'Keefe could have brought his whole staff to go alongside of him and Fanta the opera. I couldn't really care less. That's not something to air publicly. Kurt, how should we think about this and what is your take? Well, first of all, I am a lawyer, but I'm not James. So Keith's lawyer, I'm not the board's lawyer. This is one conservative fight that I'm not involved in. Thank goodness. Because James O'Keefe and project veritas have done a lot of great work. I remember when I was working with Andrew breitbart, gosh, over a decade ago, and James O'Keefe burst onto the scene. And just did really did and has continued to do some really great work. So, you know, when I'm litigating things involving conservative entities, which I do, I like to try and take it offline where I can. I'll fight in court where I have to. That's okay. I represent my clients who are usually conservatives. And so I just want to get that out there. What we're looking at is I'm hearing a lot of gossip. I'm hearing a lot of rumors and allegations. I haven't seen anything clearly. I don't know what to believe. I don't know who to believe. But you have to understand, look at it this way. A project veritas is not James O'Keeffe. It is a separate entity. It is a, it has a board of directors, James O'Keefe, is the founder, but apparently he is not the sole owner. There's an order directors. Border directors have a fiduciary duty. That means they are legally bound to put the interests of the company ahead of everything else.
The Officer Tatum Show
NBA Fines Cam Thomas $40,000 for No Homo Comment
"Speaking of throwing gays off of buildings and nobody want to talk about that religious insanity. I want to bring up another point of people just literally trying to control speech. So when NBA player got caught, he got fine. How much did you get from Nick 40,000? They find him $40,000. From saying the word no homo. Now, they didn't find him in my opinion because he said the word. They find him because somebody heard him say the word, right? He said the word in public because when I was growing up when I was on a football team, we probably said no homo 200 times a day. It's a joke. And it's not to bash anyone person is to say, I'm saying this word, but it's not, I don't want it to be perceived. Is it a homosexual in a homosexual manner? So you a tell a person man that dude is handsome, no homo minute, I'm saying he's handsome, but I'm not saying he's handsome because I want to sleep with him. But now in the walk in the local world, somebody out there is getting offended. But I'm gonna let you listen to the context of what this basketball player said, I'm gonna bring it up the clip up in a second so you can listen to the context of what the basketball player said. And you tell me, do you think this is justified of finding in a man $40,000? You can call white people anything you want. And they can't get offended. But you use a term they got nothing to do with gay people specifically and they get mad. Roll the clip. You gotta bring the good looks because you guys were lacking that. I seen it, but I was like, man, he just talking for the last. We already had a good-looking dude. But you know how it goes?
The Officer Tatum Show
Why Do Some Worship Race?
"So that mass manipulation and inhumane behavior that's going on even in our country to illegal aliens, we should actually not let them be here. Unless they're gonna, unless we're gonna give them fair treatment. They shouldn't be in our country. But anyway, the thought process in the inhumane behavior then was inhumane behavior and slavery. I bet the outrage was probably the same at the time. Now, slavery is so barbaric, we couldn't even imagine that even being possible. But the people of that day, what did they know differently? So people have slaves all over the world. You know, America was no different than anywhere else in the world, even Africa. So of course it wasn't as taboo as it is today, but we want to, you know, put that on the backs of people today. Your ancestors. Most white people migrated here after slavery. Many black people came here after slavery. Your ancestors and ancestors is like, there was a spirit because black people have not all. I hate I have to say that, but some people just think I'm talking about everybody, including myself, you know, it's just dumb. But some black people have chosen to worship race and that's why race has consumed them.
The Officer Tatum Show
Why You Can't Stand in the Way of What God Is Doing
"Like, I mean, we get hammered by not all, 'cause the kid that I ran into this morning was a black kid. But we get hammered by a lot of black people. They hate us. And it's really because I ain't looking at nobody's color. I'm just going off of my experiences and I'm just telling the truth. So if you white and you hear me tell them the truth, they ain't got nothing to do with me. If you black you hear me, Hispanic give you Asian if you gay, you straight, you hear me telling the truth. It has nothing to do with me. My deal is to tell the truth no matter where I'm at. And I feel like that there are certain things that are in the atmosphere that I have knowledge of, that's not getting portrayed. And then you got white people running around guilty and they being guilty for no reason. You feel bad for black people. You should not feel bad for black people in this country. You can feel if you want to feel bad for people making poor decisions, then that's on you. But just because I'm black, don't mean I have, I'll have things harder in life. And yeah, maybe you go in environments where there's nothing but white people and maybe you have to work extra hard to get things done. Maybe who cares? Quit being a whipping a soft. Adversity is what make you strong. The lord Jesus Christ had to go through a verse and got beaten killed and you crying about something a little bit of adversity. You know, if a white person were to try to detract me from accomplishing things, hey, the joke's on you, brother. 'cause God, I serve a God that's able to take me beyond what man can do. And to be honest, I feel bad for you 'cause if you're standing in the way of what God is doing, I gotta move you.
The Officer Tatum Show
Preschool Director Claims Ignorance Over Toddlers in Blackface
"Let me play the clip of the preschool so you don't have to just listen to me, say it. Listen to the clip. And I read as the IC kids montessori day care and preschool right behind me here on Washington street is shut down now after an incident exactly a week ago today that was supposedly aimed at helping youngsters celebrate black history month. She hurt the students. She degraded them. She hurt the black community. Longtime Newton resident Bridget ray Canada is talking about this, a preschool teacher helping a group of toddlers make paper plates into blackface masks, widely considered an offensive and racist stereotype that essentially mocks the African American experience. And for people to claim ignorance, I think it's unacceptable in 2022. The school shut down after a black mother with two children who took part in the mask making episode angrily complained and yanked her two kids. She declined an on camera interview tonight saying her family is now suffering racial backlash on social media. The school fired the teacher before closing and issued a statement saying the curriculum was not executed in the manner that it should have been.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Support. James O'Keefe hits home run after home run, and he recently has an amazing one from his project veritas action as well, and yesterday I think was his birthday. James, welcome back to Charlie Kirk show. Great to be with you, Charlie. What a big story this isn't South Carolina. Tell us all about it. Well, this is a democratic candidate for the United States Senate, running in the primary, the primary was last night, June 28th, which is also my 38th birthday, so quite a bit. It's also Elon Musk's birthday, by the way, June 28th is quite a day. And this is the crystal Matthews using racially charged language while encouraging illicit campaign tactics. She was caught on a, in a she was talking to someone inside of a jail. And it was a recorded line and a whistleblower provided this to us. Some of these quotes are pretty incendiary. This is the candidate. And by the way, she won last night. So now she's going to face Tim Scott. The South Carolina U.S. senator in the general election. She said, quote, where's my dope money, my duffel bag boys? Give me that dope money. Honestly, and I'm an N word at heart. I love black people. We need folks that can wear black at night and take down their effing yard signs. I mean, just this is just some of the most shocking things you'll over here. Now, just this week, yesterday, the house legislator in South Carolina has put together an ethics committee to investigate this woman who has just won last night the primary in South Carolina. And a lot more to say, but that's the
The Charlie Kirk Show
"james okeefe" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"I want to play this. So you also and we'll keep you for one more segment drew. You also went to the pride parade. In Los Angeles, that was probably out of everything you've covered in the last couple of weeks. Correct me if I'm wrong, that's where you received the most threats. Is that right? Recently, you know? I'm sitting last couple weeks. Yeah, last couple of weeks, like you say. But the trans people were more angry at you at doxxing you than the pro pro abortion people. Is that fair to say? Which ones? The trans people in LA. I mean, it was LA antifa they all mobilize and it was crazy because they were coming after me just because I was filming what they advocate to do, which is involve children in their events. And then they turned around on me like I'm the crazy pedophile when it's them. So drew, you were on the front lines of the pride deal. That's not the right way to put it. You were on the front lines covering the pride deal. Is that fair to say? Yes, yes. And some of your clips went totally viral of young children that were in front of fully naked gay men. That's happening in Seattle. Recently. But pride LA provocative still pretty bad there were males with fake breasts out riding bicycles. So that was happening at pride LA to that extent. And so how young were these children? Little kids. Some of them looked as young as maybe four years old. 5 years old. One of the worst things that I saw in pride LA was there was this trans freak on top of an eggplant emoji float that was literally talking down to children in the crowd. Saying that we have lube. Literally telling children we have lube and then like you could see the clip and I pan over and it's a mother with her two children that look between maybe four and 5 years old and you got to ask yourself, this is not tolerance. This is not liberal. This is not inclusive. This is exposing children to just disgusting things. And that is the line that should be the line for everybody. And so now, as I said, somewhat unrelated, but related piece of tape on a play here. So I've been max never heard of that before. I think it's a child. So it's a leaked baymax video from Disney, the Disney corporation that shows a man recommending the type of feminine pads that he uses. This is Disney. Play cut 69. Excuse me, which of these products would you recommend? Oh. Wow. These are the tampons I usually use. Thank you. I prefer pads. They're more comfortable for me. Thank you. I always get look at the T-shirt. Thank you. Get unscented. Yo, my daughter loves these. These might be easier if it's her first period. These are really environmentally friendly. And so all in one, they have to add the climate change thing at the end. Yeah,.
Fever Dreams
"james okeefe" Discussed on Fever Dreams
"And now we bring our listeners to our most beloved segment on the show which we love to call fresh badboy at has. We'll just sang me now. Bring you to fresh hell a segment in which we introduce the audience to batch thing that's happening in the real world that you may not believe is happening but is indeed actually happening. Will you are here to tell us. The tale of the maga artur who cast the one and only and i know. We mentioned him earlier in the show. James o'keefe in oklahoma. Please tell me this is the musical oklahoma. Yeah it is actually yes. Okay so wait really. Yeah oh i was. Just i was just kidding around not james. He's playing curly okay. So here's the holy shit. So james o'keefe you may know him as the guy who dressed up as the pimp that one time as the guy who does antics you know for for donald trump and the trump world sat. He has a background in theatre and so often people say that sort of the rosetta stone for understanding. James o'keefe's character. It is is that he's sort of kid. He's a failed theory get. I was greeted a couple weeks ago. You know of course. I'm on the project. Veritas mailing list. And whether you want to would or don't want to. You're never getting off of it and normally you know it's like we got another facebook whistle blower whatever but this one was james o'keefe cast is currently in oklahoma and i thought what and so james o'keefe yes we'll be playing the role of curly in the musical oklahoma. Curly's the main guy. And so i thought now what kind of guy cast james o'keefe as lead in his musical and then i fell down this whole about a gentleman named brian cloudless. Who's this kind of like. He's this musical theater director and more. Recently he was. I believe roughly a year ago. He was sort of cancelled in the southern theater scene. For having like what people described very abusive and dangerous working environments on his musicals and then he became kind of a maga- guy out of that. But i mean this guy puts on some of the craziest productions. And when i'd like to share some examples of this i would not only not mind i would actively encourage. Please do mr like you know in rushmore. When they do. The movie rushmore. They do these like incredibly elaborate musicals. Of course who could forget. I mean this is like that. Come to life okay. So this guy so one of the things he got in trouble with this kind of puts you in the guy who might cast james o'keefe in a musical so he had this he did in two thousand eighteen he did this staging of titanic where they staged it over what looks like a real river in the cast is like dunked in and out of the river. So there's one gentleman that. I think the lead he. The water was acted way. Away was what that water has had bacteria in it so bacteria in the water. And i'm quoting here from an article by arts. At l. dot. Org that was flagged by the new york. Times is so palm deb. Bacteria in the water causes most mosquito bitten leg to swell and eventually a tendon burst. This guy was hospitalized for like a week because of the zany this really death. Defying titanic another production of the little mermaid. This person fell off zip lines. They felt like eight feet. And that's the little mermaid. That's not like stunts heavy. show right. it's not like the spiderman musical right. this is the little fucking mermaid. And it's at the y. Where is he doing this. This isn't broadway. What theater no. No this is kind of just in regional theatre. Okay okay this makes it. They got to make a movie about this. I'm sorry like there's something that i don't know what it is but just like really insane productions of musicals an particularly with you have this angle that guys this like a huge trump fan who's putting on these like grandiose musicals where people are like getting injured and stuff i mean. There's just something very cinematic about it. This guy thinks he's d w griffith. He thinks that he really does to his core. And what you're reading to me. On paper i mean i would love to see footage of it or see it in person because okay first of all. This guy's name is pronounced. Brian cloudiness right. So mr cloudless. I bet if i actually saw a production it would be somewhat underwhelming on paper. This guy. sounds like a real epic fyodor guy who despite risk to himself and his faithful cast and crew is willing to put the art and his vision above the possible bodily physical harm. I'm not saying that is necessarily the best way. Go about these things but at least in some sort of i know even dickensian way i should. I should say sweat. He seems her mother like very bad stuff. Okay like what like what well like casper. Saying he was encouraging cast members to use the n. Word more than was in the script. I'm not endorsing that. Let's back his. I obviously ever have those moments. You ever have those moments where it's like someone's like you'll be like. I didn't think that guy was so bad. And someone's like oh. I didn't i didn't know about that. I guess what i'm saying is on paper. It sounds like you would write a really. I know we referenced. The coen brothers lot on this show. He does sound like this interesting. If not just completely laughable and morally denouncing coen brothers character but in the real world bet. If you showed me footage of this guy's art it would look like a children's theater production where someone just happened to get maimed. Well it's very ambitious. They paid thirty grand to get a real live helicopter for a production of gone. Pretty good but you know. I think the larger political import here is is that this guy appears we've been criticized in the regional theater scene for his unsafe. Work environments. That people were you know allegedly and then he just makes this hard pivots being a magazine corn so he cast james o'keefe he. He posed for a picture with the cure shaman which became a little awkward after january sixth. So this is kind of a classic arcade particularly in the arts is when you know ca guy kind of gets run out of out of whatever. Artistic industry is and then becomes a A big right wing guy. When does the james o'keefe thing premier. I believe later this year. And it's are you going. Gosh i mean you know. The prospects of seeing james o'keefe saying saying like like a cowboy.
Fever Dreams
"james okeefe" Discussed on Fever Dreams
"Is no other word for it. Yeah and to build on that point a little bit you know the park police you know committed this atrocity in then once they had beaten everyone out of the park then trump walks across lafayette park to hold up a bible and get his picture taken in front of. This is giving the impression of very clear impression to anybody who has watching it. That's why that had happened. You know like they clear the park and then here he comes to do a little a little picture show. I believe someone asked him. Is that your bible. And he said it's a whether or not that happened. You know so that trump could do the pr move. He turned it into a pr move immediately. The whole point was to try to get some media coverage you know whether among conservatives or otherwise make him look like a big strong tough guy who beats up. You know a protesters Black lives matter and so on and so forth The only reason they're mad at the media is because the strategy didn't work you know it made him look like Just absolutely brutal. You know a coward who who couldn't face. The protesters narron had his dunes. Go out and beat everybody up. And if you know if he had gotten the headlines like the newspaper in turkmenistan or something. That's like wow president lifts up this golden bar. They would be celebrating. It would be. Yes mr trump. You showed those hippies so the complaints you know it's like you're trying to work the refs here. Don't pull the wool over our eyes. Right and Something else i talk to you about was a consistent. Fem- in your writing for the past. Shall we say year or year and a half as the virus has been destroying large chunks of the world and our civilization in america. As well as i read in your intro you wrote what i thought was a very poignant piece back in november about how quote america's narrow idea of freedom is literally killing us. And that is the title of your piece in november. But correct me if i'm wrong that has been consistent theme of your writing for the past year and a half definitely end probably before that too but i think the pandemic was is really just an excellent explanation. It's still holding today. You know you look at the best thing. Trump ever did was get a good supply of the vaccines you know he funded all of the various companies operation warp speed. We had sort of first bite at the apple is all the phaser dern stuff. We had a huge supply before almost any other country and we had a massive head start on the european union. European union was way behind the curve. You know they they were trying to cheap out on their their doses but sense over the last month or so had like a two to three month. Head start on the on the europeans there. They've ca- almost caught up to us. You know vaccination has has stalled out in a lot of southern states is almost totally stalled out in mississippi. I think thirty five percent of the population has even one shot. I think vermont it's verging and certainly within the next couple of weeks. All the rich european countries are going to pass us up. You know. I didn't think i thought for once america was gonna do good at something which was basically just by a big stuff and give it away for free. Nope people won't take it. They won't take the vaccine. Or you know like the societies in the south or two broken for people to be able to like get it. You know the when we talk about this we obviously have to be somewhat delicate in certain parts of the conversation. Because there's the several toronto's of people there are some who are just completely brainwash individuals in varying socio economic brackets. Who really do think that the vaccine is trying to kill you and somehow that can coexist in their head with donald. Trump is the greatest thing that god has ever created. There are other people who and they've said this. This has been illustrated in various news reports. That they either don't have time to because the working too much they don't know how to get it or there's just a very terrible breakdown of communication and messaging apparatus to actually get these more economically encumbered individuals out to get the the shots in their arms. Yeah yeah exactly. And i think you see all of those things in the south you know. You have very very unequal place. People are worried they have no sick leave so they're worried that if they get the side effects and they see they have to take a day off work going to lose their job or they don't believe you know there's all this messaging that the vaccine rathers is free which it is legally speaking. But they don't believe that that could possibly happen. In the united states and in fact people have illegally charged for the vaccine the predatory providers who are they just. We're going to scam. Sixty bucks out of some even though the department you know of health and human services said we can't do it so yeah i. It's like just a profound social breakdown and i think To the question you were asking. It's a lot of belief that like freedom is just license the ability for me to do whatever i want and i think the among conservatives. That's the most apparent recently with a texas governor. Abbot had this tweet. That was like i've signed. Legislation forcing businesses to prohibiting them from having any kind of mask mandate or vaccinations record requirement for people to be able to come in and also. There's no reason why you'd ever need that. Yeah and this. You know being a triumph of freedom like forcing others to do what the conservatives want what the city has told you to do. Yeah the exact yes and he said it specifically like with texas is totally open with no regulations and requirements as adam. Sora pointed out at the time on twitter that like you just described regulation a requirement. And you know the whole. The pandemic the most fervent mobilization the most violent and concentrated types of political mobilization around the pandemic specifically was to stop the government from doing anything about it that like having a mask mandate or having you know various like social distancing requirements or ventilation upgrade requirements or. Really anything at all. That was regarded as the horrible abridgement of freedom. And meanwhile you look at a country like vietnam. I believe they have had some outbreaks since then because of this new variants and they have gotten that many vaccines yet. Unfortunately but for all twenty twenty they had only i think less two thousand cases and the way they did that is with super collectivist banned together everybody follow the rules and if you do it right then you don't have to do any of these lockdown measures or anything like that. You can get rid of most of that stuff and that in fact was the case in vietnam. They had a couple of sharp lockdowns early. And then in the summer of twenty twenty but then they successfully squelched transmission and Everybody could go back to normal more or less and That was what a basically conservatives through incompetence and their own bizarre definition of what freedom is prevented from being even remotely considered you know in the united states you know. I think that's the thing that you can see. In basically all areas of american policy like it's more freedom. Irt not have medicare for all so that any time you get sick your risk of bankruptcy and you know destitution a sense that like know this rugged individual ideology. I'm the only real person and i don't depend on anyone else. And i'm you know going to live in a a bunker and be you know totally free from to kind of like an post.
Fever Dreams
"james okeefe" Discussed on Fever Dreams
"Hi i'm will summer a politics reporter at the daily beast where i dig into all the darkest recesses of american extremism and extremely online militants. I'm currently working on a book about cunanan and his disastrous impact on our society. I'm also a senior political reporter at the beast and co author of the book sinking in the swamp. I've spent years covering the intersection of entertainment and politics and post trump era. That seems like the only sensible way to cover politics in this beautiful hideously. Stupid country of ours on this podcast. We're gonna take you on deeply reported plunges into sometimes hilarious sometimes scary fanatics in fact in the way that millions of americans view the world and how they vote even in the aftermath of the trump administration. The energy of these conspiracy theorists the grit. Thor's and the influencers is still pushing our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. We're here to help you. Better understand how and why this happening and who in the halls of power are leading happened along. The way will regularly bring on guests including political pros hard-nosed reporters and some influential voices from hollywood. Okay we'll we gotta start off its episode by talking about this intrepid female reporter and whistleblower depending on who you ask named ivory hecker apparently built back. Today i'm not entirely convinced. Is her real name if it is. It's one of the greatest names out there. It's like okay. We want like kind of a cool sounding name. But it also has to be a little down home or in texas. It's even better than jonny lee swagger the i think that's the name of the mark wahlberg character in the movie shooter. Each should have been named ivory hecker so much cooler. Okay so tell us a little bit about ivory hecker. I cannot see anything without having a dramatic pause. I and why maga internet is all a buzz about this journalists. Yeah okay so this is a james. O'keefe situation prankster prince himself. Project veritas. he's back. And i gotta say you know james o'keefe i think he's done a lot of bad things and he's not a good guy but i gotta hand it to him here on the showmanship so this yes. Ivory hacker is a reporter at a low local fox station Fox owned as well which becomes relevant in. Houston my hometown and i believe. Yesterday she was doing this segment that was supposed to be basically about how no one can get there a c. repaired because of the shortages. And it's so hot in houston and so a pretty you know kind of banal local news segment and they toss it to her and she's got like a real sweaty repairman binder and then she goes. Yeah i. I'd like to reveal that this station has been censoring me. And i'm to project veritas. And i've been wearing a wire and you know the truth will be revealed okay. We we play this clip. And i will courage our listeners. To actually watch this online because it's it's great it takes place in like an alley or something. Yeah it's an alley and you have this repairman just toiling in the back. Who's presumably not aware at all what's going on. And what later becomes clear is that. There's a project veritas guy right off camera who's going to interview her once once the actual tv segments over. And so this was really really setup thing they've got kind of like a top. James o'keefe lieutenant Rock and i mean she also does it in this like local. Tv news banter. Like patter way where it's like coming up tonight. I've been wearing a wire inside the station. You almost read it as just another local news thing but obviously it's a little crazy than that. I don't understand speech coaches in this form of tv journalism but both in local national news. The teach you particularly if you are a woman to talk as though you're not an actual human being. It's so weird like the cadence. The tried to get you employ even weirder when she employs that cadence. In the service of project veritas. Just completely punking her viewers because and and also our daily beast. Colleague max tani made this point but at some point you gotta respect. Even if begrudgingly that she pivoted immediately from this project veritas pivot and reveal to immediately going back to doing her segment in the alley with this guy who like right. I mean it's pretty. It's pretty crazy. So so actually we've got the full segment and it'll be out by the time episode airs. So here's why the station was censoring her. Basically they would not let her talk constantly about hydroxychloroquine like or last year. You know it's unclear when she was getting this audio. I mean houston is also home to the famous demon sperm doctor of course who was posting hydroxychloroquine and it seems like ivory hecker was somehow kind of like very into what she was pushing and was sort of like. Why won't you let me put this lady on or some other hydroxychloroquine person Shelter really wanted to do a segment about bitcoin. And so i mean you have these like these interviews with the station management who are just like stopped talking about hydroxychloroquine. Some point she she goes. I'm going to james o'keefe with this just as you were talking and just as we were recording. This episode matt gaetz re tweets about ivory hecker. This thing has got legs rick grenell. Who was obviously one of donald. Trump's former intel chiefs during the trump administration Was tweeting about her regularly. This is something that at least for this moment in time has the legs of Republican internet celebrity. Who knows how long she'll be able to juice this. Oh yeah i mean. She'll definitely go to newsmax. First of all she even still at her fox affiliate job right now. Like how long can you hold a job like that after doing going rogue like this on air right. I don't think they let you stay on much after that. I mean but at the end of this project veritas segment goes. James o'keefe like ivory. Hecker is now an independent journalist looking for to work for an honest outlet. So i mean i think has some openings now but really i mean when you sort of boil it down. Like everyone's getting very hyped about what this audio is going to be. But but you know we now know what it is. It's just about fox news right. I mean this is the parent company of fox news and essentially argues that. They're in the pocket of big vaccine. So you know. I think maybe this sort of does boil down to just some local local newsroom drama. Whatever people do this. Like when places. Like project veritas or other writing. Organizations are trying to blow the lid off of the liberalism. Which you know is hilarious. Even posit of places like fox news and they tried to get at it by looking at fox affiliates like in houston or somewhere in oklahoma or whatever. Never make sense to me. Are they just intentionally obtuse to the way how local news actually works. I don't think fox news has that much to do with the houston fox affiliate. I mean i think they're kind of deliberately obtuse about how a lot of things work right like the person who runs the office supplies at the washington post. And then they're like this person's the newsroom manager. You know in that kind of stuff. I mean in this case i gotta say i. I've had a little experience myself I had about With with local Tv news and they are such crazy places and people. there are just so ruthless about going after the audience. It's kind of ridiculous to me that that this is not more damning but there you go i mean you still you gotta to on the spectacle on this one. I mean it's awesome tv. Yes it's fantastic tv. Yes great content. Okay as some of our listeners are probably where there is this new report out of the federal bureau of investigation that has to do with one of our big bugaboos. Cue in on the infamous q. I will our resident cunanan expert in correspondent. Can you please dig into what this means. And why this is different from some of the other. Fbi memos that have come out in recent years or months about the cunanan phenomenon. Right so q. Obviously i'm paying a lot attention to cunanan writing a book for harpercollins evacuate non shameless plug man. But yeah i mean this is interesting because throw a while. Actually it has felt like the fbi for years was sort of ignoring q. And on or not doing a heck of a lot about it. I mean like an internet interstate kyun on kidnapping gag and people were like please. Fbi pay attention to this. I don't know and so now we get. Congress asked the fbi for report on what's going on with the assessment is is not ideal for those of us who are.