35 Burst results for "January 6Th"
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Brandon Straka: What Happened to Me Could Happen to Anybody
"I am, I know there are certain, of course, legal limitations on you and you don't want to necessarily enraged the deep state once again, and nevertheless, I hope that one day your version of events will be fully catalogued and you'll write an autobiography that sets the record straight. But beyond that, would you just share with our 3 million listers across the nation right now, what conclusion have you been left with? After what you did and didn't do on January 6th. And what you were put through by the organs of the state, what is the most important message you'd like to share to other Americans who may not believe that what happened to you could even happen in America. Right? Yeah, and that's the thing. I don't like to impart a message that frightens people or makes people feel insecure. But I mean, I think that it's irresponsible of me if I don't be honest with people and say, I believe that what happened to me is just the beginning of what could happen to anybody in this country. I believe there's probably a lot of people out there who think to themselves, wow, you know, what happened to him, what's happening to a lot of people is terrible. But you know what? I didn't go, I didn't go to the capitol on January 6th. I didn't get involved in all mixed up and all of that craziness and I never would have done something like that. As far as I'm concerned, this is just the beginning of normalizing this type of criminalizing things that are not criminal. And even trying to criminalize speech and a certain aspects and much of that got brought into my case as well. I mean, things that I said in November, December, things I said early in 2020 were brought up in my January 6th case, so as to say, you know, this guy has been kind of stoking the flames for a long time trying to rile people up and create violence and all of these different things. So I guess what I want people to know is that we're not far away from a time when you don't have to have committed a crime for these people to come and break your door down or
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Brandon Straka Walks Us Through His Post J6 Nightmare
"To us about the purgatory of the last two years as we've seen with almost every other case. Concerning January the 6th, this constant threat that if you don't, if you don't surrender, if you don't give in to the plea bargain, they will throw the book at you. You're going to get felonies. You're going to get multiple years of sentences from the judge. Walk us through what happened to you after the initial charges were presented. Sure. Yeah, I guess I'll just say, look, for every person at this point, it's about a thousand people, I believe, that have been charged with January 6th related charges. And I believe that they're going to go after at least a thousand more people probably more than that in the coming years, which is insane. But yeah, for the majority of people, we've all been kind of faced with two choices, either to go to a Washington D.C. court and go before a D.C. judge and a D.C. jury. All of whom, as far as I'm concerned, hate Donald Trump hate anybody who voted for Donald Trump or supported him. And don't have any clarity of thinking whatsoever in their ability to be neutral or unbiased when sitting on a jury trying to decide the guilt or innocence of somebody who supported Trump. So there's that option or you can take a plea deal, which is not a magical answer by any stretch of the imagination, but it does allow you to wrap things up and begin the process of trying to move forward with your life. I made the choice to take a plea deal. I pled guilty to one single class B misdemeanor of disorderly conduct. Now, along with that plea deal and this kind of goes back to the conversation you and I were having a few minutes ago, I signed the government written statement of offense. Which is essentially their version in narrative of what I did, what I said, what I smelled, what I thought, why I thought it, why I did what I did. So that narrative now lives in reality for the time being.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
What Happened to Me on January 6th With Brandon Straka
"That the last two years, of course, have been very difficult for you personally for those who aren't aware with your story and what happened to you. After January 6th, let's quickly summarize, you came to D.C., you were here for January 6th. And again, correct me if I make any missteps here, you went to Congress. You never went inside the building. You filmed what was happening. You made a video, you posted it, and then things started to go bad for you. Explain what you did on January 6th and what the repercussions were you for for you personally. Yeah, no, you nailed all of those details. So I was actually invited to be a speaker on capital grounds at a permitted event that was supposed to follow president Trump speaking at the ellipse on January 6th. That's the reason why I went to Washington, D.C. to speak. And so as I was approaching the capital grounds after president Trump spoke to go to my speaking engagement, I started getting a lot of text messages and things like that on my phone from people around the country that I know who were watching on television saying, we're seeing or hearing on the news that people are going inside the building and something's going on. That sounded unusual to me, so I started shooting a video and I was approaching from the east side. So I wasn't even on the west side of the building where people were, you know, some people were breaking windows and fighting with police officers. So you were on the peaceful side of the Congress. Yeah. Absolutely. And I didn't witness any of that. I didn't see anyone breaking any Windows or in fact, I didn't even see any police officers. There were literally zero police officers, zero. On the east side grounds. And I got to the steps of the capitol and the east side were thousands of people were gathered, but facing away from the capitol, mind you, they weren't they weren't facing toward the capitol trying to charge inside. They were all standing facing away from the capitol holding signs and one man is visible in my video at the top of the stairs, calling down to the people blow shouting. They've opened the doors. They're letting us in. We're going inside. We're going inside. So I walked up to the top of the east side stairs and when I got there, the two large metal open doors of the capitol were wide open. And there was a crowd of several hundred people there, some were trying to get inside the majority were just kind of shooting a video like I was. And so I shot a video for 8 minutes outside of the building before a man came out of the capitol dot on a bullhorn and he said they've cleared Congress. Everybody move out, move out. They've cleared the building. You
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Brandon Straka Has a Brand New Social Media Website: Walk Away Social
"This centering us on the really big popular platforms, but whether it's true social, whether it's walkway social, get Apollo, rumble or what have you, we're creating not only redundancy and multiplying options, but are we not creating little enclaves, little ghettos for ourselves? What is the long-term logic of saying a boo boo to Facebook and Twitter? Well, first of all, I'm still on Facebook. I'm still on Twitter. You know, there are a lot of people who are just so in the habited ingrained to just open that every day and look at that. So I'm not, I'm not necessarily telling people that they should leave Facebook or Twitter or anything like that. And yeah, I'm very aware that we have a lot of options at this point with social media platforms, some are going to succeed in some or not. But again, I guess what I try to sort of drill home is that we're not trying to be a competitor with big tech in any way, shape, or form. What we're trying to do is basically build an autonomous community of people who can use their voice and use video and written testimonials to tell their own stories about why they're either walking away from the Democratic Party or why they what we say walk with for lifelong conservatives and Republicans. I want to give them a voice to make their testimonials as well. And this group, what we call the walk with, they loved that on Facebook. And they love it on walk away social. What we say is number one, you know, make a video and talk about white people should walk away. But I think more importantly, talk about why you really are a conservative, why you're a Republican in that this isn't what the left wing media wants people to believe that we're all racists and Nazis and insurrectionists and bigots that it's actually a very open and inclusive and big tent community. The Republican Party. And that we welcome people who are black and brown and of different colors and creeds and orientations and everything else.
AP News Radio
AP Sources: Judge rules Pence must testify before grand jury
"A federal judge reportedly has ruled former vice president Mike Pence must testify in a criminal investigation involving former president Trump. Two people familiar with the ruling say former vice president Mike Pence will have to testify before a grand jury. Pence was subpoenaed by a special counsel, investigating efforts by former president Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results. But sources say Pence will not have to testify about his actions on January 6th. That's the day when a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the capitol building as Pence was presiding over a joint session of Congress to certify the vote. Pence argued that because he was serving in his capacity as president of the Senate that day, he was protected from being forced to testify. His attorneys are deciding whether to appeal. My hemp in Washington
Mark Levin
The FBI Had More People in the Proud Boys Than the Proud Boys
"Jazz Shah I'm sure he didn't change his name The new House oversight committee investigating the political weaponization of the Justice Department They want to bring on some additional staff Start putting in some overtime Every new story that comes out about the FBI's actions in recent years makes the bureau look worse and worse The latest story posted by our colleagues at PJ media involves the ongoing seditious conspiracy quote unquote Charge is being brought against the leaders and members of the Proud Boys The trial of chapter leader Zach real It's rel was preparing to call a witness this week but ran into a problem Their witness quote unquote turned out to be a confidential informant for the FBI Who have been spying on the defense team I tell you this Stassi stuff is unbelievable I brought the trial to a screeching halt until these issues have been considered in resolved unquote That's putting it mildly to say the least Critics of harsh prosecutions in the January 6th debacle continue to be vindicated They write Those who have said the whole thing was a setup keep getting proved right by our own Department of Justice they say According to lawyers for Zachary reel a Proud Boys chapter leader charged with seditious conspiracy the government failed to disclose that one of the witnesses scheduled to testify was actually a confidential informant for the FBI
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Has Fox News Turned on President Trump?
"And it sounds like Fox News has turned on president Trump. Did Fox News carry his rally in Waco? If not, why not? Because if they didn't, and I don't believe they did. I think newsmax carried it, but I don't believe Fox News certainly none of the other networks carried it. And it's a huge story because it was the really the first official campaign rally for president Trump's 2024 effort. And if Fox News didn't carry it as I suspect they did not and for one of their stars, Brian kilmeade to go scorched earth on Trump the way he did, I mean, clearly Fox News is pulling for somebody else. I mean, kilmeade is also somebody who wants blamed Trump for January 6th as I understand it. But it's not just these guys don't do these take these positions in a vacuum, believe me. I know enough about how TV networks work and how cable news works. This is all calculated. And it's a, it's a big deal. It's a big deal. And, you know, I don't think I don't have anything personal against Brian kilmeade, he's a nice guy. He just hates Trump evidently. Brian kilmeade thinks Trump should ignore the very real possibility that he's about to get arrested over this nondisclosure agreement payment that he's supposedly made to stormy Daniels. You think he's going to look the other way from that?
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
How the Capitol Police Had Infiltrators Among the J6 Protesters
"So the new development is that we now have federal prosecutors admitting in court. That Metropolitan Police department undercover officers acted as provocateurs. At the northern steps of the U.S. capitol on January 6th. Now you'll remember you may remember I had January 6th attorney Joseph McBride on. And he talked about this. He talked about the fact that there weren't just FBI instigators. FBI plans that the Proud Boys and the three percenters and the oath keepers. But there were also Metropolitan Police dressed up in sort of maga outfits or back the blue or just American patriotic gear. And they were in the crowd, and they were egging on the crowd. So we had this coming from a January 6th attorney, but what we didn't have is all the video showing it. And what we didn't have was the prosecutors admitting it. Yes, this was true. We did have our guys. They were doing this that video is in fact accurate. Now, there's one of the defendants, his name is William Pope, he's from Topeka, Kansas. And he has asked the judge a fellow in judge Contreras, Rudolph Contreras. U.S. district judge, I need to have the video that shows these undercover Metropolitan Police. Doing this stuff. And the prosecution is like, no, no, judge, you can give him the video, and the judge is like, well, why not? Isn't he entitled to the video? Yeah, but he wants to release the video publicly. So if you give the video over to the defendant, he's welcome to, in fact, in this case, this William pulp fellows representing himself, there's nothing to prohibit him from releasing the video. No one denies the video is authentic, it's video that was taken really by the government itself, but we have the assistant U.S. attorney. This is Kelly Moran. The defendant is not entitled to undesignated these videos to share them with unlimited third parties, his desire to try the case in the media rather than the court of law is illegitimate. No one says he's trying the case in the media. He's just releasing the videos because he thinks the public would like to know that you see undercover cops not only egging the crowd on rah rah rah, but pushing them and driving them in the direction of the capital. It's almost like they want them to go into the capital because they are trying to lead them into a trap.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Sheer Spectacle of the Potential Trump Indictment
"Well, I'm back to reality and we're back to what's happening with Alvin Bragg in New York. And I guess this is the week where we're going to find out if Alvin Bragg is going to push ahead with this prosecution of Donald Trump. I mean, let's take in the sheer spectacle of this, indicting the leading, first of all, indicting a former president, unprecedented. Number two, indicting the leading candidate of the opposition party. With the obvious and apparent goal of putting him out of contention, now you might say, wait a minute, if Trump is indicted, he can still run. Yeah, but the idea is to discourage his donor as he's under indictment. He might be found guilty of a felony, after all, this is New York. The jury is going to be as bad as it is in Washington, D.C., for the January 6th defendants. So even if the case has very limited or virtually no merit, I mean, think about it. We literally talking about stormy Daniels again, apparently, yes, we are. And all of this, if it goes forward, I think the grand jury may be having some anxiety about it. Because the grand jury is recognizing first of all that this is a very murky case. Number two, the chief witnesses have, well, virtually no credibility at all, a disgraced lawyer, Michael Cohen, who actually was found criminally criminal criminally convicted, served time, stormy Daniels, a porn star. I mean, these are your star witnesses. And I'll talk in the next segment about the merits of the case, but you'll see how both of them explicitly disavow that wad Alvin Bragg is trying to say took place took place. They deny onto their own signature and in their own words that it took place.
Mark Levin
Jasmine Crockett: We're 'Coddling' Jan. 6 Insurrectionists
"Jasmine Crockett is a Democrat representative from Texas And Jasmine was on MSL the day and remember what I said You can say whatever you want about caucasians Whatever you want Nothing's too vile vicious or racist Whatever you want And you can say it on MSL as D and Jasmine does that Listen to this cut tango We know that these maga Republicans have a problem with the truth In fact that's why we are coddling these January 6th insurrectionist You know I'm just a freshman So I watched January 6th more than a freshman you're an idiot Tell me have you been to the jail where they are Coddling she says She's a head case and there she is on MSL They tell me if it's any host on MSL SD spoken to any of these people spoken to any of their lawyers been to any of these facilities done any of the top Those three things No they've done none of them None of them But they know don't worry Coddling Go ahead Our unlike what so many of my colleagues experienced And the fact that they want to go with colleagues experienced what does that mean Many of your colleagues have been to jail for what What are you talking about Is it a requirement now to be an idiot to be a Democrat I think it is Not the rank and file Although I don't get that either I'm talking about those who are in public office Go ahead These people some of them which were attempting murder They want to What do you mean by these people What do you mean by these People
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Brandon Straka Reacts to the Potential Arrest of Donald Trump
"I want to get your reaction to when you saw that Trump may be arrested because this is clearly political persecution, the January 6th there's yourself. Many other people have also experienced political persecution, pro life people, and so on. And so what is kind of your reaction to something like that happening when you've experienced that happening to you also? Well, to me, it's really a clear indication that I've been saying for a while now, certainly the last two years, as I've gone through this, that, you know, we've known for a long time that the left has taken over the entertainment industry. They've taken over the school systems, academia. They've taken over so many aspects of our society and culture, but I think the most frightening aspect is them taking over the criminal justice system. And I think that there's evidence all across the board from left to right that this is what's happening. And coming after Trump supporters, including people in their 60s and 70s with no criminal record and sending the FBI to break their door down. And abduct them and take them away to Washington, D.C. in the middle of the night is obviously gut wrenching and sickening enough. But then to see the kind of brazen callousness of going after a former president and a current candidate, the most popular candidate on the right side who's running for president, to me, it just speaks to this incredibly brazen attitude that they have. That they're accountable to nobody. They can do anything that they want. They tend to continuously pretend like 74 million people at minimum who supported Donald Trump voted for Donald Trump don't exist, like we're not real. And we saw that even immediately after the 2020 election, when you had more than 74 million people crying out that we wanted to have the 2020 election authenticated that we wanted forensic audit that we wanted to make sure that we could feel safe and secure that our elections were safe and secure.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Danielle Interviews Brandon Straka, Founder of Walk Away
"I'm delighted to welcome our guest today, Brandon strock. He's a former liberal and the founder of walkaway and organization where he encourages people to walk away from the Democrat party. He's also the founder of walkaway social, and he is a January 6th defendant, Brandon. Thanks for joining us. Quite a resume. Thanks for having me. Yeah, of course. Well, I thought I would just start out by asking you how are you doing? I'm doing pretty well. We're in the process right now of relaunching all things walk away movement, including walk away social, our new platform, so at this point, I mean, I'm certainly still mired to a certain degree in the January 6th nonsense, mostly because, you know, the Democrats and the DoJ want to try to drag this out as long as they possibly can and squeeze every drop of blood out of it. But to a certain degree, I'm trying, you know, as best as possible to move forward and that's where I'm looking into the future at this point. Yeah, I saw on your Twitter recently that you were being drug tested, something like that, even though you were not even really involved in anything going on at the capitol, but can you tell us a little bit about your recent experience there? Right. Well, so just to kind of recap for anybody who's not aware on January 6th, I was a scheduled speaker at a permitted event on capitol grounds. And when I started hearing from people, Friends, family colleagues around the country who were watching on television began telling me that they were hearing that people were going inside the building. And so at that point, I started recording a video just to document anything that may or may not be happening. And I walked up to the top of the steps on the east side. And when I got there, the two doors were open. And I filmed for about 8 minutes. And after that time, a man came out of the building, got on a bullhorn and said they've cleared Congress, everyone's left the building, move out, move out, and I immediately turned around and moved out. So to be clear, I never entered the capitol on January 6th.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sean Davis: The Left Wants to Criminalize All Political Opponents
"Forget for a moment about Trump versus Santos versus Hailey Rama Swami I don't even want to get into any of that stuff right now because it's turned into I think primaries are good things but it's turned into kind of like a ridiculous food fight I think at this point this is about something a lot bigger than Donald Trump I don't care about anyone's feelings about him at this point This thing up in New York is an abomination I don't know any other word to describe it It's a law about a misdemeanor with a statute of limitations has already expired on this business records thing That was latched on to a felony that exists at the federal level because he was a federal candidate that they can't even prove happened and that the statute of limitations is expired on too I mean isn't this what the Soviets did Remember beria like show me the man I'll show you the crime What's the difference Yeah you actually stole that example right out of my mouth I was about to say that this is dozi level behavior And unfortunately it's become all too common on the left And what I like to remind people is it doesn't actually matter how you feel about Donald Trump whether you love him or hate him whether you want him to be president again or whether you want him to disappear Because the left isn't going to stop with Donald Trump here If they can go and they can de platformer president like Twitter and Facebook and Google and YouTube did sitting president of the United States If they can go in arrest whoever they want and throw them in prison for things that are crimes for example walking through an open door during business hours held open for you by police to a public building like happened to so many people in January 6th And then if they can go and arrest a potential a previous president in a potential future president for crimes that don't exist they're not stopping at Donald Trump Their goal is to criminalize all political opposition and it starts with him but it's not going to end there
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Raz0rfist Unpacks What We're Witnessing in America Right Now
"Are we witnessing in America right now? Because it's really weird for me, raise a fish that I come to this nation as an immigrant who's been naturalized. He's worked in The White House, who was born and raised in the mother of democracies, the home of the Magna Carta, but whose parents escaped a communist regime whose father was actually liberated by freedom fighters from a political prison. And I'm at a point where I have to admit things like America has political prisoners. You know, I've had the family members of the January 6th who have been imprisoned for two years without an arraignment. And I look at the idea that a man who's not only a former president who to use a British term is the current leader of the opposition, is about to be arrested on a trumped up charge that even if it were true would be a misdemeanor slap on the wrist and a fine. Am I overstating the case? Or are we at risk of losing the republic to those who think that the mechanisms of the state are there for political targeting of their adversaries? It's true. And I think it's a fundamental, it's an inversion of the philosophy upon which the country was founded. The reason I made that Abraham Lincoln video wasn't because I harbor any kind of grudge against Abraham Lincoln. It was because Abraham Lincoln is one of the fathers of a belief that the government is ruling from the top down and lording over the states and that the states, in fact, Lincoln literally argued this, the states were created by the union. Historically, that's absurd. When England finally surrendered, they acknowledged each individual state by name as sovereign separate nations, right? And then they formed a union later on. This is really sort of sadly. It's interesting you bring that up. It's apropos to the point. Biden is a believer in this as well. And many of his followers, unfortunately, are this believe that ultimately the government, the federal government, is what gives us our rights.
The Dan Bongino Show
Did the FBI Have Informants on Jan. 6?
"Here's Christopher wray when he was asked directly this question his response Check this out There's a suggestion for example that the FBI's confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated orchestrated January 6th That's categorically false Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters inside the capitol on January 6th prior to the doors being open Again I had to be very careful It should be a no I mean it's a pretty simple pretty simple question Who is that congressman Is that Higgins That is it Are you okay You're going to die Jim seriously look like he was going to choke to that I was ready to go right to break Mike if you standing by really you ready to do the heimlich maneuver on this guy Yeah good I asked him a question at the wrong time Folks it's kind of a serious question Did the FBI have informants Now again don't get confused here The confidential human source is not necessarily mean it's a government agent They may be acting on behalf of the government but they're not a formal agent as a GS 1811 government agent It could have been say a member of a proud boy group or whatever it is that may have flipped and what they call third states evidence whatever they say in the movies But this letter from one of the lawyers from one of the Proud Boys I don't care if you're a liberal communist Democrat whatever you are This letter should be deeply disturbing because if this letter is true the allegation from one of the attorneys for one of the defendants if this letter is true that the FBI had sources on January 6th in there and some of these sources are still gleaning information from the defense team Then again forget arguments about the coming police state The argument about the police state which I've been making for weeks is that it's already here
AP News Radio
Prosecutors reveal planned Proud Boys witness was informant
"Prosecutors have revealed that a planned Proud Boys witness was an informant. I'm Lisa dwyer, a lawyer for one of the former Proud Boys leaders charged with seditious conspiracy, says federal prosecutors have revealed that a defense witness was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the January 6th, 2021 attack on the U.S. capitol. Defense attorney Carmen Hernandez asked a judge to schedule an emergency hearing so the defense can learn more about the prosecutors use of the informant. The judge ordered prosecutors to file a response to the defense filing by Thursday afternoon and scheduled a hearing as well, putting testimony in the case on hold until Friday. Hernandez said the unnamed informant participated in prayer meetings with relatives and had discussions with family members about replacing a defense lawyer on the case. Law enforcement routinely uses informants in criminal investigations, but their methods and identities can be closely guarded secrets. I'm Lisa dwyer
AP News Radio
NYC neighborhood carries on during wait for Trump grand jury
"As the world waits to see whether a grand jury in dates former president Donald Trump crowds gather outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan and life goes on. More than any Trump supporters or protesters, there were reporters out here in front of the court, but a block away in front of another court. Law & Order SVU was being shot. Tourists are Lakota and daughter Lola from Canada were passing by. It does seem surreal. My mom was like, oh my gosh, it looks like we're in like an FBI zone. The same courthouse with a grand jury meets is also where people get married like Santiago cartero. It's been in the making for a while, so, you know, it just happened to be the same day. It's fine. We're here for something important. I'm not going to let that bother me. And then there's Reese Cohen who lives around the corner and is nervous about Trump's calls for protests. Just 'cause you don't know what his people will do. We've already heard so much. We seen January 6th. In Lower Manhattan, Julie Walker, New York.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Reparations May Be Given to Blacks in California
"During his now infamous trial, January 6th defendant, Jacob chansley, AKA the Q shaman, faced some very hefty sentences. These included a 5 year prison sentence and a fine of up to $250,000. In law, such fines are levied as a form of restitution in order to compensate for costs such as damaged property, medical bills, resulting from personal injury, or even to pay an opponent's legal fees. The concept of reparations is that it is a form of punishment that can also help to repair the damage that was done by the accused. It's important to note, the government can not find you with reparations out of the blue. You have to be guilty of a crime. It's good the Chancellor wasn't ultimately hit with the full amount as a quarter of a million dollars for most people can't be raised easily. People work their entire lives and still can't save that much money. It's such a large amount that even someone as gullible as judge Lambert, a man who genuinely believed the Q shaman was somehow the breath from destroying America's democracy forever. Thought the penalty was overkill. Lately, there's been another shaman in the news, only this shaman has two ends, shaman Walton is a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors. A body which voted unanimously last Wednesday to approve a plan to give $5 million to every eligible black resident as part of the city's plan to make reparations for slavery. The plan was a way to go before final approval, like every other member of the board, shaman Walton wants to see it through. He says, quote, we have to stay focused and stay together as a community, he says. Because now it is a 100% more prevalent that we can not be separated or divided. Let's stay the course. Because a $5 million payday for me is almost here. It might be pertinent to point out that shaman Walton himself is black. And something also tells me he will be included among those deemed eligible for the payout.
The Economist: The Intelligence
"january 6th" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"Something like this happening again, you mentioned earlier that one of the purposes of this committee was to try to lay out a criminal case against him. Do you think after what we saw last night that president Trump is any closer to being indicted, whether that's by a court in Florida or whether by the Justice Department? I think the probability is certainly gone up. We know that the Department of Justice is looking at the evidence that the committee has been finding, but it will be a difficult prosecution, both in terms of actually proving certain kinds of crimes. But also the fact that the president of prosecuting a former president, this is a huge hurdle for them to leap over. I've been personally quite interested in the ongoing grand jury investigation that's happening in Fulton county in Georgia over the president's attempt to basically solicit the overturning of the election there. That seems to me to be much more cut and dry case than the theory that's being advanced here, which is that the president should have known that his wars would incite his action and basically that his inaction is not calling the military the law enforcement soon enough constituted what the phrase that kept going back to was a dereliction of duty, but of course the issue is that it's hard to translate that into an exact crime that is being violated and it's
The Economist: The Intelligence
"january 6th" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"Time television last night, witnesses gave excruciating accounts of the hours spent by former president Donald Trump after the riots started, but before he called them off. We also remind you of what was happening at the capitol minute by minute as the final violent tragic part of Donald Trump's scheme, the cling to power, unravel. I was disturbed and worried to see that the president was attacking vice president Pence for doing his constitutional duty. I remember thinking that this was going to be bad for him to tweet this because it was essentially him giving the green light to these people, telling them that what they were doing at the steps of the capitol and entering the capitol was okay that they were justified in their anger. The committee showed that in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, president Trump couldn't bring himself to denounce the violence. This was a fraudulent election. But we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special. Last night was the commission's 8th public hearing. Initially, it was intended to be the last. But before it began, Liz Cheney, the committee's Republican vice chair, announced there would be more starting in September. Even so, the hearings leave little doubt about who the committee believes bears ultimate responsibility for the violence that day. Last night's hearing by the January 6th committee, summarized the case that has been made so far against Donald Trump for his actions ahead of the attack on the capitol. Is The Economist Washington correspondent. This hearing focused principally on the president's actions for the three hours between when he gave a speech. And when he finally gave word that the riot ought to end. What we did see was a blow by blow accounting of what the president was doing or really what he wasn't doing as his mom was taking over. He wasn't in touch with the military. He wasn't in touch with law enforcement. And that is despite the repeated counsel from people in The White House to try to get him to make a statement. And even when he did, what we saw from the full footage of him trying to give the speech was that he couldn't help himself from giving messages of love and support for the people who were presently attacking the capitol and trying to kill his vice president. And how successful have these hearings been? I mean, have they done what they were intended to do? These hearings have actually been fairly successful in not only capturing attention, but in presenting a strong case against the president. What they have done really well has taken a story that we all witnessed that felt quite familiar and added an incredible amount of detail. And this is committee so far seems to have had two purposes. One is to lay out the breadcrumbs for a possible prosecution and the second is to convince Republicans who have by and large stuck with Donald Trump to abandon him. And we saw that explicitly in the closing statements made by Liz Cheney and Adam kinzinger, the two Republicans who were on the committee. Donald Trump knows that millions of Americans who supported him would stand up and defend our nation were it threatened. It would put their lives and their freedom at stake to protect her. And he is praying on their patriotism. He is praying on their sense of justice. And on January 6th, Donald Trump turned their love of country into a weapon against our capital and our constitution. You mentioned one of the thrusts of these public hearings was to add detail to a story that we already knew what sorts of details did we learn tonight that we may not have known before or that we didn't fully understand before. I think tonight was much more of an encapsulation of the material that might have been covered in the last 7 hearings that many Americans might not have tuned into. We learned small details like where the president was sitting, what he was watching. But over the course of the hearings, we have learned new things. We've learned of the full extent of the pressure that was placed on the vice president to essentially usurp his constitutional duty to affirm the election results, which is what the president was pushing him to do. We learned of simultaneous effort by the president and some of his supporters to pressure state legislators into overturning their election results. And we learned quite a bit more about the attempt to remove the attorney general in place a much more pliant Department of Justice official who is firmly on the stop the steal side of things. And we saw one thing that has become abundantly clear from these hearings is the extent to which only a few good men and good women stood in the way of an even more severe constitutional crisis than we experienced. Were there any specific interchanges any moments, any images from last night that really stuck with you? Certainly, the president stumbling over his lines, the day after January 6th, being unable to admit that the election was over, refusing to say that. That's just a lack of shame and sense of national consciousness that maybe might not surprise people, but it's nonetheless stunning to witness for yourself. The other, the committee seems to have had particular antipathy for Josh Holly, who's the senator from Missouri, and they made a point of embarrassing him by pointing out that before the ride began, he proudly held his fist up to the protesters who were gathered outside of the capitol. As you can see in this photo, he raised his fist and solidarity with the protesters, already amassing at the security gates. Later that day, senator hawley fled after those protesters, he helped to rile up, stormed the capitol. See for yourself. Afterwards, they showed video footage of him jogging away at a quick pace from the oncoming protesters, so they seemed to have wanted to score a hit there. And I think that they have. Those are the two moments that immediately come to mind. You mentioned earlier that this was supposed to be the last hearing, but it won't be. And Liz Cheney when she announced there would be future hearings used to sort of cryptic phrase. She said the dam has begun to break. What do you think that means as far as where the committee goes after this? What do you expect the future, the future work of the committee to focus on? So I don't know for sure, but one thing that we've seen over the course of these hearings is that they have had a snowballing effect in terms of getting people who had previously not been willing to testify to actually come forward. We saw that with pat cipollone, who was The White House counsel whose testimony was played several times, and there could be more people like that who come forward. The second is that the committee has also been fighting legal challenges to its subpoenas to some parties close to Donald Trump that they've been interested in, including Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows, and it could be the case that they believe that within a month or so, they will actually be able to compel testimony out of people who had been previously unwilling to deliver it. But that's just my speculation. I don't know for sure. Let's switch gears for a bit the other big news. Sort of related to the 2020 election and to electoral administration that came out of Washington this week was that a bipartisan group of senators had worked on an update to the electoral count act. Can you just tell us briefly what that act does and what the update does? So the electoral count act was passed more than a hundred years ago and basically establishes the procedure by which the Congress and the vice president essentially ratify the election results and everyone agrees that that law was fairly poorly drafted and quite ambiguous for a long time. This was treated as a sort of ceremonial oddity. No one had ever thought to exploit it to try to keep power. So fixing the electoral count act is actually probably the most significant fix to American voting laws that could be attempted. And it's taken a long time, but this week we learned that bipartisan deal had been struck between Democrats like Joe Manchin being one of them and Republicans like Susan Collins, which would essentially clarify the role of the vice president and limit the sort of constitutional ambiguity that had created so much Discord. So basically, you close off the possibility of
CNN Political Briefing
"january 6th" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"What you need to know in politics for Thursday, June 9th. So these hearings will be a chance for the country to come together. To rally around the truth and unite around the rule of law. The January 6th House select committee is holding its first public hearing in prime time tonight. What can we expect? Lawmakers on the House select committee investigating the January 6th insurrection are taking their case for the first time to the court of public opinion. That is where they are going to try and bring all the evidence to bear against former president Trump, his inner circle, and other entities that were involved in the attempt to subvert the will of the American people by overturning a legitimate election of Joe Biden as president, as well as attack the very Citadel of our democracy, the United States Capitol. The committee has conducted over 1000 interviews over the span of the last ten months, and now they are going to try and piece together a compelling narrative that can break through sort of all the noise out there and capture the attention of the American people starting tonight in prime time and what the committee hopes will be basically a series of hearings over the course of the month of June to give the complete story of what happened in the lead up to the 6th on the 6th and what threats to our democracy presented at that time still exist very much today. So much has already emerged, right? We've talked a lot on this podcast about the text messages, specifically that a former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, we've talked a lot about the conversations that we knew Donald Trump was having with people around him on January 6th, and yet the committee has promising new material. There will be new material presented to the American public. So how much does that sort of break through on the news Richter scale? Are they going to over promise and under deliver? Because that's always a no no in politics. But they are indeed promising quite a bit. So it's going to have to live up to the hype that the committee has put out there. And what is there to learn? Well, the questions that remain, what was Donald Trump doing or not doing as the violence at the capitol was unfolding, on the 6th, were president Trump and others planning a capital riot in advance of the 6th, and just how far did president Trump push his Department of Justice or state election officials to actually overturn the election. We know bits and pieces of each of these things, but what the committee hopes is it's going to present the definitive and what it hopes is a compelling narrative for the American people. According to the committee chairman Benny Thompson, who previewed the hearings for reporters, he said to expect to see some videotaped interviews from the depositions of individuals that have been charged already for their actions on January 6th, perhaps like the Proud Boys leader Enrique tarrio also we are expecting to see some of those depositions of Trump White House officials, including perhaps Trump family members. Now, Thompson wasn't willing to give away the store, he was still saying a lot is a work in progress and many things are still under consideration, but clearly there is an anticipation and an expectation that the committee is going to reveal both in video deposition in testimony on camera, as well as in video clips of the events of the 6th itself. So some of that violence, they are going to present this in as sort of a television friendly way as possible. This is why they brought on the former president of ABC News, James goldston to basically produce a program here. Think more in the line of like what the Republicans and Democrats do every four years around their national conventions. It's that kind of programming that the committee is trying to put together here that is produced and presented in such a packaged way to the American people to be an airtight case of how the committee believes the events of January 6th, unfolded. As for witnesses who will provide testimony, we are told to expect that we will see a documentary filmmaker who interacted with the Proud Boys on the eve of the insurrection and on the day of, as well as a capitol police officer who was injured in the attack. We've also learned that in future hearings, Georgia Secretary of State, Brad raffensperger, is going to be a witness in one of the future hearings that the committee plans to hold in the coming weeks. You remember him, of course. He was the one where Donald Trump, on January 2nd of 2021, placed a phone call to the Secretary of State of Georgia and said this. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,000 780 votes, which is one more that we have because we won the state. CNN has previously reported that former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and his then deputy have been invited by the committee to testify during one of these public hearings in June as well, those were some of the folks you may recall who really held the line and protected the institution from being just overrun by Trump and his allies desire to overturn the election. Now, you know, this committee has two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam kinzinger, so it is bipartisan, technically, but it has been completely driven by the Democrats, Pelosi, the speaker appointed, all of the folks to this committee, and that's because Kevin McCarthy sort of took his ball and ran away. And the Republicans will be eager those that are aligned with Donald Trump like McCarthy to paint this entire series of hearings as a purely partisan and political bit of stagecraft. Here he was earlier today. It is the most political and least legitimate committee in American history. It is used congressional subpoenas to attack Republicans, violate due process and infringe on the political speech of private citizens. It has permanently damaged the house and divided this country. The biggest challenge, the biggest problem, the biggest obstacle for the committee is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"january 6th" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Let's first play cut 78. But unlike after the 9 11 attacks, the greatest threat is now from domestic terror groups and radicalized, often racially motivated, violent extremists. American must be vigilant and identifying tracking and thwarting groups in individuals who don't share our values and seek to do us in our nation harm. Domestic terrorism prevention act gives our government important tools to do just that DTP aims to improve the federal government's prevention reporting response and investigation of domestic terrorism by authorizing offices in each of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These offices will monitor investigate and prosecute cases of domestic terrorism. If he wants to create a whole new mandate and division of the federal government to go after political opponents that he didn't like. Now, of course, no one in that party wanted something similar with the BLM riots or Floyd palooza, which were far more deadly, far more dangerous than anything that we saw on January 6th. But it's all intentional. And CNN, of course, is leaning right into this. Cut 58. This is them dramatically laying out their long plan to commemorate January 6th because they do want January 6th to get into the Pantheon of dates that turned history. They want it to be remembered like December 7th. Or 9 11. They wanted to be remembered more than the day that Kennedy was shot. Play cut 58. And to all of our viewers, thanks very much for joining us as CNN special coverage of the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection continues all day. I'll be back by the way at 6 p.m. eastern in the situation room will be live from the U.S. capitol and later tonight, please join Jake tapper and Anderson Cooper for a truly unprecedented gathering inside the U.S. capitol right after a quick break. Now, when you listen to that music and then I say they're trying to beat the drums of war, sure sounds like they're actually beating the drums of war, doesn't it? What does that remind me of? It reminds me of you know what? I know, The Hunger Games. It sounds like the drums that they would play when katniss everdeen would be announced. The drums of war. Okay, you got a bunch of soccer moms walking into the capitol. They're using it as an opportunity. It's increasingly obvious. But it's very dangerous. Now, I don't think that this is resonating at all with the American people. American people have this is a very, very low priority, but it's still incredibly important because if we do not effectively tell the true story what happened on January 6th, then their mandate will go uninterrupted. Then it'll just be another one of those votes that they have on Capitol Hill like the stop Asian hate Bill or whatever. We're up next thing you know, there's a whole division of the Department of Justice that can police speech in the Senate votes for at 97 to nothing. It's not insignificant. Mayorkas, who's the head of Department of Homeland Security, says that ideologies of hate false information of false narratives are primary sources to the threat landscape that we confront the United States, cut 48. I think there are a number of things at play, Jake. Ideologies of hate false information false narratives are primary sources of the threat landscape that we confront in the United States today. The divisiveness in our country is really fueling it as well. And there's a very important additional element. Words matter. And this goes to the issue of false narratives, of false information. Not only that, they're trying to broaden it now to political speech. Let's get to a tape here and it's really.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"january 6th" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Flat. On this day, January 6th 2022, the over rehearsed teleprompter readers that are trying to compare 9 11 to January 6th, people are dismissing it as political hyperbole, but that doesn't mean they're not going to stop. But there's a deeper game here. And the same way that after 9 11, they wanted to start a domestic manhunt. Against anyone that might have been connected to terror cells, they want to try to redefine what a terrorist cell actually is. And you saw that this last summer, they redefined what a terror cell actually was when parents started to show up at school board meetings. That was only made possible because of January 6th as the argument is like, hey, when people get really passionate about something, they might storm your school board meeting. And they might stand on desks. Look, stocks are at all time high, people are saying things are going well, but you know they aren't. Interest rates are at zero and the government just printed $5 trillion. What could possibly go wrong? Consumer confidence just hit a ten year low and inflation hit 6.8% with parts of the United States seeing rates as high as 8%. Something's not adding up inflation as here, everybody, and you've got to do something about it. Put some of your assets into precious metals and it will keep your money away from the volatility markets and inflation to let you sleep at night. This month noble goal is giving away a free America the beautiful salad silver 5 ounce coin with any qualifying plan you start. So talk to an expert today at noble gold and they'll run through the options to keep your money safe. No pressure no hassling no call centers just a chance to speak to someone who knows what they're talking about. So go right now to noble gold investments dot com or start by calling 8 7 7 6 four 6 53 47, noble gold investments dot com that's noble gold investments dot com. We're unpacking January 6th as we are one year removed from that. We were broadcasting live right here. You know, some low IQ people that are the keyboard warrior types. Charlie, where were you on January 6? I was and I was right here. Denouncing it. I don't like when people destroy property and I certainly don't like when people destroy the U.S. capitol. I didn't like it. I still don't. Was it a terror attack? No. No one's been charged with insurrection, let alone terror. You're mostly misdemeanors and trespassing charges. Despite that, though, and you're starting to hear more and more people say that, it's a terror attack. It's a terror attack. Now, why is that? Why is that such an important thing? Is that just language? Because everyone's always kind of charged with hyperbole, right? Let me tell you the difference. Because as soon as you start to describe something as a terror attack, you're now entering a legal argument. You're now entering something that could be charged with a totally different threshold of the law. The difference would be saying that Alec Baldwin is Charlie Manson. Or Ray Lewis, which one is he? Did he accidentally kill somebody or did he intentionally kill huge difference, by the way? But for whatever reason, more and more politicians in both parties, by the way, are calling this a terror attack just like baselessly pandering to The New York Times. And to The Wall Street Journal. Well, here's the significance of it, though. Then you get very dangerous people like Brad Schneider, a man who, I actually, I don't know, but one of my first kind of campaigns I worked on was Bob Dole with a D not in E in Illinois's tenth congressional district going from Des Moines, not Des Moines, displays, I'm sorry not the one. Displays Illinois all the way up to Zion Benton right up to the border where Kyle rittenhouse was from. Brad Schneider, real sneaky guy. And won the district against Bob Dole and he's been a carbon cutout Democrat the whole time despite saying he's going to be a moderate. It is a moderate district. It's probably a fiscally conservative socially liberal district. North shore of Chicago, highland park, type area. The Brad Schneider came out last year, and he said, look, here's what we need. We need a new piece of legislation that will be a domestic terrorism prevention act. We need a whole new division of our government that just prevents conservatives from organizing. That's effectively what he said. All right,.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"january 6th" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Liz Cheney. Same people. Broaden broaden what is Chuck Schumer do? No, no, no. It's not about domestic violent extremists, this new term they gave us, it's not just about, you know, people that get really excited and they do war games in their backyard, the oath keepers, they are the Proud Boys or whatever. No, no, no. It's about anyone who questions our elections. And this is where they're going to be in a really tough spot and it just made sense to me last night. I kind of had this moment where it all came together. Play cut 52. And make no mistake. The root cause of January 6th is still with us today. It is the big lie pushed by Donald Trump. That is undermining faith in our political system. And making our democracy, our country, less safe. But without addressing the root causes of the violence. On January 6th, the insurrection will not be an aberration. It could well become the norm. Root causes. What else did they use that language? Oh yeah, you know what the root cause is? 9 11 happened because teenagers in Afghanistan don't have access to clean water. That was the argument they made. It's laughable now that we look back at it, obviously. But this is one of the great the fact that these people get away with it. So Schumer says, we have to pass voting rights legislation. Because black people can't vote. And the next day he comes out and says, it's a big lie that there's anything wrong with our election system. Which one is it Schumer? Chuck Schumer comes out and he says, it's the big lie. It's the big lie from Donald Trump. Meanwhile, if you don't pass our voting rights legislation, you're a racist. Wait a second. So I want you to listen carefully. This is Schumer pushing for voting rights legislation. That we need to change our election system. I thought our elections were so robust, and so safe, and so secure. Remember when they said that after the 2020 election, this was the safest, most secure election ever. If that's the case, why do you need to change our voting laws? If everything was perfect in the 2020 election, what are you trying to change? Play 26. Voting rights in the past was a bipartisan issue. How quickly they forget Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, supported voting rights when voting rights extensions came up in this body in the past. They passed by large majorities, bipartisan, the resistance we see from modern day Republicans is a beast of an entirely different nature. Maybe some of them are scared of Trump, but too many of them see this as a way to win advantage. To get their hard right views enacted, even though the public doesn't support them. By jaundice, our election process. And saying, and putting barriers in the way of particular people, not all people of voting, people of color. Poor people. People who live in big cities. Young people. Handicapped people, elderly people. As I said in my dear colleague earlier this week, if Republicans continue to hijack the rules of the chamber to prevent action on something as critical as protecting our democracy, then the Senate will debate and consider changes to the rules, honor before January 17th, Martin Luther King Jr. day. Voting laws are one of the things I want to change. Voting laws are one of the things that they want to use the date of January 6th as a mandate to change. I just am failing to see in what world are those connected? So you have some guy that probably needs some psychiatric help and some counseling who thinks he's a Star Wars character who storms the U.S. Senate and somehow that has something to do with the John Lewis Voting Rights Act? It's more and more clear as we look at the dates that have changed history the last hundred years, they want January 6th be part of it. But guess what? It's falling really flat..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"january 6th" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Play cut 55. Certain dates echo throughout history. Dates that occupy, not only a place on our calendars. But a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. And January 6th, 2021. Those dates mean change. Kamala Harris is saying out loud that, hey, there's now a reference point. We have a mandate to change things. 9 11 gave us department a Homeland Security the Iraq War in 20 years in Afghanistan. Pearl Harbor gave us an invasion, not an invasion, but a two front war in Europe and in the Pacific and an atom bomb developed and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Battle of Iwo Jima the storming of Normandy beach. And eventually the Marshall plan and a Cold War and for camela Harris and the regime's purposes she spot on. She spot on in the sense that they do want the same sort of structural and permanent historical change. Post January 6th that we saw 9 11 that we saw post the assassination of JFK that we saw the post assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand. Though he saw post 2008 financial crisis. So what kind of change do they actually want? What kind of catalyst are they looking for? What is the game that they're trying to institute? Let's play some more sound here. Merrick Garland, who is the department of just the head of the Department of Justice, the attorney general of the United States has been saying that this is the most ambitious, greatest domestic manhunt in the history of our country. Let's go to cut 50 where he says the actions we have taken will not be our last. We remain committed to hold all the perpetrated account of what any level accountable under the law. That sounds like a purge. It sounds like a Bolshevik versus the menshevik moment. We'll get into that history later on in the show. Play cut 50. The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last, the Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators at any level accountable under law. Whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy. We will follow the facts.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"january 6th" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So in a major event happens, like January 6th, it is, we should expect the other side to try to capitalize on that. Now, a lot of people are attacking Kamala Harris for comparing January 6th to the Attack on Pearl Harbor in 9 11, which of course is patently insane. They said it was a deadly attack on the capitol. The only deaths actually that occurred at the capitol was Ashley babbitt. The death of officer Brian cyclic was not at all, they said it was a fire extinguisher that had that was not true. But I want to take a different take here. We could mock Kamala Harris and talk about the death tolls and the differences. Okay, 3000 people died at 9 11, but I want to take a different tack because for her purposes for the purposes of the regime, this absolutely was a Pearl Harbor moment. Play cut 55. Certain dates echo throughout history. Dates that occupy, not only a place on our calendars. But a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. And January 6th, 2021. Those dates mean change. Kamala Harris is saying out loud that, hey, there's now a reference point. We have a mandate to change things. 9 11 gave us department a Homeland Security the Iraq War in 20 years in Afghanistan. Pearl Harbor gave us an invasion, not an invasion, but a two front war in Europe and in the Pacific and an atom bomb developed and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Battle of Iwo Jima the storming of Normandy beach. And eventually the Marshall plan and a Cold War and for camela Harris and the regime's purposes she spot
The Charlie Kirk Show
"january 6th" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Politics Guys
"january 6th" Discussed on The Politics Guys
"Can i remember we were on a three. We were having a show between you and me and mike and originally kristen was supposed to be on as well and it just ended up being the three of us and you kind of acquiesced that were you know we're all keynesians now and We'll continue guy said maybe we're all we're all modern modern monitoring. Yeah effectively is is keynesian theory. Now i might be the only holdout left on this show. So i'm curious though do you do. Are you taking that view or are you still a modern. I mean so. Do you think that the keynesian policies still or you know. Has this year brought you over at the classical. I'm view very much. Still the take the classical view. I think the in saying that. I wasn't saying that i hadn't necessarily switch sides but now the only side the left to be on. Okay i misunderstood you. I'm not saying no. I think that modern monetary monetary policy is great idea or that works and i anticipate that i'll be proven right within the next year But but yeah. My comment was more aimed to say. That looks like that's the only game in town these days so i got you won't before we move onto our next story j. We're gonna need to take a quick break okay. So you know the the last thing that we want to take on the show today can because we're going to run out of time at to put more things into the bonus show that the way it is. We wanted to talk a little bit about kind of the current state of covy cova the deltoid and of course this week biden suggesting hundred dollar payments for the unvaccinated to get vaccinated and so was just kind of curious. What your what you kind of saw briefly on that front so yeah briefly and again. This is sort of a big topic and you and i kicked around. If there's there's a lot of little things to talk about right and rather than than one one big one. I would say in the news. There's some evidence that back. Vaccinations have ticked up in the south in the midwest following sort of this the the spread of the delta variant now whether that is is because of people are more concerned about it now or they're getting pressure from friends and family or they have just finally given up whatever objections that they may have had..
The Politics Guys
"january 6th" Discussed on The Politics Guys
"But i think it's it's a much bigger deal now because we are coming in a couple of years of historic spending i've been pointing out on the show Repeatedly just a couple of the earlier stimulus packages were in their entirety larger than we normally spend an entire fiscal year. So the the fact that we're continuing to have these Spendings packages they're going to have ramifications going to have ramifications so even before you drill down into the details of of of what it could or or isn't going to do the thing that we do know that it's going to do is that it's going to increase inflationary Trends especially as the fed continues to keep interest rates near zero while simultaneously we have supply excuse me supply-side production issues. And and so you those things all together and i think one of the problems both for republicans and for democrats who've come together on this bill is. They are thinking of this in terms of normal year and not in terms of a year in which we have already spent the stimulus packages again more than we normally would have spent in a fiscal year. And therefore i know one of the things that Ken and mike will argue is as well. It won't the effects will be minimal. Well my answer is is that i'm not positive the effects because we've never quite has such a big year before if we've noticed these kinds of historic precedents precedents suggest that in the past. It's hard for me to think. Well i'll even larger one isn't going to have an effect in the current especially again. We have other structural things going on. That weren't the same. I e the fed rate bureau and supply-side issues. So the macro-level that's that's that's my the beginning salvo. No i think. I think you and i are exactly on the same page on on this Use be back during the obama administration There were there were serious qualms about you know getting close to the one trillion dollar number. Because that was those people is crazy. You can't spend a trillion dollars and now we're dropping trillions right and left and you've got another three and a half trillion coming down the pike From what the house wants to do. So yeah i absolutely believe this is going to be inflationary. Mike and i have something of a wager. He thinks inflation will still be around the base To percents What it all evens out by by december..
The Politics Guys
"january 6th" Discussed on The Politics Guys
"I guess that's that's that's where i'm coming from as well what's to be done with them. And that's the fundamental problem thing. We might even deal within the bonus. I mean that's one of the questions that i always thought was kind of profound. It's not one that. I've explored as scholar personally but in graduate school kind of set up in one that i present students is is an election. To overturn democracy. Democratic right is kind of it's a classic conundrum. And so i your i. Think your answer's kind of playing into that to the extent to saying if there's lots of people who don't want to have a democratic republic anymore and they're going to vote for people who are going to undo it. How does that fit into a role of you. I think that's a big question. I recognize those people exist and at one of the reasons that i haven't wholesale abandoned. The republican party is because i hope that we can. We can shove those individuals out right. We can either. There were pushed out. But i don't my concern. Is that i think that. What gives me heartburn on a continual basis is is that i think really what's happening is they're succeeding in pushing. Maybe me maybe you out and and what's in that we don't really have that place anymore. And i and oftentimes i have worried. I've looked carefully in thought and considered in prayed about. We'll do. I really have a place in the republican party today and in more and more frequently. If i'm being really honest the answer is the whenever space was available to me is quickly is quickly leaving. I don't think i'm winning that position. So i i think you're right. There's millions of people disagree it. And that gives me some heartburn. For for what. I considered to be my party. What no believe me. i feel the same On a lot of fronts. But i'm taking this from a a bigger issue. Not as you know registered republican report and i guess maybe more of a conservative. And i say this to mike. Sometimes it's look at some point. You're either you're either okay with self government or you're not and self-government necessarily means you gotta deal with the crazies and they get to have a voice crazy as they are and the the whole idea of of sort of liberal democracy the western vision. I guess right is that look if you allow everybody. The freedom to speak to operate argue eventually. You're gonna get those crazies out. Not all the time as lincoln said you'd be a cancel some of the people all the time and some of the people all the time but you get to the point where you're diminishing returns right. You're just not going to have that that that massive movement you're not always going to have a trump to lead it And look at what happened in texas. Where the trump candidate Got got beaten fairly convincingly in a republican primary. So what if a if a trump if trumps supported candidate loses a republican primary in texas. i mean you can start to say well maybe maybe we have passed peak trump at this point back to your question there and then maybe we'll need to move forward a use me and then we're gonna.
The Politics Guys
"january 6th" Discussed on The Politics Guys
"Really those kinds of things would bring people to their senses. Nobody by the time we got to the end of four years of trump would would have been taking any of that trump stuff seriously right but obviously they did so. I i guess. I wish that i can say yes j. I think you're right if we if we just give these guys long enough airtime. They're eventually going to discredit themselves. But now we're four and a half year or more if you consider the you know the election time of prompting a world. Let's say six years into that and and and it doesn't appear to me that additional crazy evidence. I in other words the pillow guy showing up. I don't think we do anything other than potentially kind of solidified on people's position rather than switching them more so there's always going to be that that core group out there who aren't going to change their mind but i i think if you interviewed i don't know and again pulling is is difficult on these types questions most republicans and again. There are so many different questions as to do believe the election was stolen. I do not believe the election was stolen. Do you believe There was fraud Yes i do. Because there's always and in all sorts of elections was it of a magnitude effect the result. No of course not were there steps taken by various states or or county board of elections that i find really troubling absolutely that ought to be looked into again do those invalidate the election. No so i mean. I think you can. You can perceive both ways that that say look. We have electoral issues. There are reasons to be concerned about some of the procedures and policies. That were that happened in in various states at the same time acknowledging. It didn't change the result. That doesn't mean we don't look into potential trouble because maybe it might be worse next time But i so so going back to this. I mean the generous six committee while the election. The election is a tangential issue to it. That's not what the committee is is there to determine. How did this happen under your rationale. I mean what. What committee could. Jim jordan irvan. Well anyway. I mean to be frank. I mean if i was in his district my answer would be naive for me. Of course. he's not my congress person so i don't get to make that determination. His district does But if he was mine my answer would be. I would have to vote. No from every time because i i don't think he wouldn't be qualified. I think that. I think that disqualifies him from the public trust and i would not be able to vote for an individual who had Who had in. The second instance continued to vote to not recognize the electoral college. Vote and and and great. They're millions of people who voted the other way. That's in what i mean..
The Politics Guys
"january 6th" Discussed on The Politics Guys
"I can appreciate that is been. Why would it be surprising. That that one's particular like jordan and banks who were vehement in their of support and then didn't continue to vote no might not be great choices to be on. The i mean doesn't that potentially even based on that logic there makes sense. Well no because the the idea of the committee is to say we want a trustworthy believable. partisan results Panel this really going to look at all the issues Then why wouldn't you include jim jordan. Because he clearly was corrupt in his vote and already on. This particular issue clearly was biased. Otherwise he wouldn't have voted as horrendous erroneously. Did i. I guess if you wanna have a legitimate if the complaint is the system is rigged okay with what it this way. If the complained that the system is rigged democrats rig the system and the national goal of this is to get to the bottom of what actually happened. How how were these. People motivated to storm the capitol. How did they get in. How did we miss the intelligence on this was the response adequate. Were they're communications between the executive and congress relating to this Yeah let's let's have that conversation but the idea that well we're not going to allow any possible dissenters into that conversation. We're not going to allow them to ask questions that that sort of tells you that the is rigged. If if you you have high confidence and look democrats have a majority on the committee they. They're they control the chairman if you have a high degree of confidence On this than than certainly. I think you you'll let the other side in it just it just speaks to having sort of a fixed fight. If you're going to say well look. We're we're going to have a completely impartial view of this and Look at it from all sides but not that side but is that really undermines there really assigned that that wants to ignore evidence. I guess my problem here. When i'm trying to push on a little bit day in my mind there have been some republicans now because of the positions they've taken they're not really on a side. I don't know what they are..
The Politics Guys
"january 6th" Discussed on The Politics Guys
"Certainly no court would have said that The the election is now goes to trump welcome ended. They didn't vote. trump won. Just because that's simply not how it works. I mean he had received the president biden and receive the requisite electoral votes. Electoral college had voted. He's the president. I mean that's that's just the way so i guess that to me you know. So much of this is political theater. And that's not to say that what happened on january. Sixth wasn't terrible horrific and we ought to take a look at it. But i guess my my first criticism while a couple want want is that this narrative was that this was really an attempt to overthrow the government. And i just i just i don't i'm not buying that Again it was it was certainly obstruction of government processes obstruction of congress. Look the fact that of all these folks who have been arrested and charged in many of pled. I don't believe any of them. Have been convicted of causing insurrection. Or or sedition or any of those of were overthrow the government. It's been trespassing disorderly conduct. It's been those More garden variety of fences. Some of them up to felony advances. So that's that's where i'm coming on that. The second thing that i guess bugs me a little bit is. I'm not sure exactly. What the commission's purposes if not just to claim political passions What is it that we're trying to find out that we didn't know now. We you know for example. The testimony that we heard earlier this week. While you're right it certainly was emotional. Shirtless compelling it tended to just add more heat than light in as far as how this happened. Why it happened. The subpoena thing. I think is interesting. If there there are in fact such communications that would be a huge deal. I i rather suspect that The communications that do exist are going to be Not not as shocking is as democrats trying to make them out to be now but the other piece..
Ron Paul Liberty Report
"january 6th" Discussed on Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Where thomas caldwell faces a long prison term for what he did so over and over. You see this whole thing. we don't. We're not allowed to see the videos. But as you suggested early on senator. Johnson who's taking a lot of heat who can't get hardly any senators to sign up for his investigation. He's a chairman of the senate investigations. Permit senate senate investigations can. He's told his staff. I want you to look at this video. He's allowed to see it. I want you to look at this video very closely and see what you can find out. And he's already found out some interesting things we know julie kelley who've we've had on the show who's been the most dogged reporter actual reporter in america. That's an amazing thing. She's done great work and she has a piece out in american greatness where she talks about how Senator johnson has already seems some weird things happening i e doors that had been locked people walking by capitol hill. Police officers mysteriously unlocked shortly thereafter. I think Three hundred and some people went in from that door that had been previous previously locked. We'll put a link to her article because it's worth it's worth looking at what she does but the question is were. These people were a certain group of people allowed in there. There appears to be an the articles. We read dr paul. There's a big group of just maga supporters trumpsters. A lot of them. Are you know middle aged and older ladies and men days this sort of wandered into the capital looking around waving their hats. Or what have you then. There was a smaller group of very violent people Who are who are doing violent things and breaking things and all of this sort of thing. The question is was the second group who really got everyone. Shock biden said. It's the worst thing since the civil war. Is that group that group that was infiltrated and inspired and provoked by the fbi. And that's the big question and they'll argue. Well yes they did. We put our fbi agents nearer to find out what's going on and and that's for national security purposes and and to protect the people But if they go a little bit further if they in in filled trade and then become leaders and then lead the charge And encourage other people to do it. That's called entrapment and There's probably somewhere a law that says you're not supposed to do that Because it's it should be very very illegal and very very immoral to go in there and and do this and get people. We've heard story were very people on the street. Might could be easily be entrapped into a drug deal. We got this bad. I and get all the records i think entrapment is one of the worst things that a government agent and that's crooked cop and that that should be rooted out what we're talking about any..
Ron Paul Liberty Report
"january 6th" Discussed on Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Reveal the truth now. We don't live in a like that anymore but we better try to resurrection. Yeah well we know that. The after the january six insurrection the b. announced they were going to have a shock and awe campaign to arrest. Everyone in anyway remotely involved with it and over. Five hundred and fifty people have been arrested. Many of them held without bail in solitary confinement for non violent charges people without any criminal records contrast that to the people who ride it over last summer on were let go but the essentially what you have is a political round up if this is the case rounding up funches of people dozens hundreds of people for political reasons to intimidate people who may not share the view that the election was completely free and fair may not like joe biden. What have you Here's what tucker said last night. Which is pretty strong stuff if true he said we know that the government is hiding the identity of many of the law enforcement officers who are present at the capitol on january six. According to the government's own court filing these law enforcement officers participated in the riott sometimes in violent ways. That's pretty heavy stuff you know. That should be the whole effort right now. That is that is what we have to know who. Who was there and what they were doing and they have this investigation. An investigation is likely investigations and the commissions. That are always set up. I say it's usually they're set up to You know Cover up for somebody cover up somebody so that nobody gets blamed or blame somebody who didn't do anything and that's exactly what's happened so far and if this goes unchallenged and really i would say that You know except for the few in the congress in the house and the senate just so few They're not interested in it. They don't want to rock their boat. You know and. I think this is politically unfeasible but you. You know. I remember when. I i I was voting on the patriot. Act i asked my calling their who is voting for and it i said why are you doing this. Good he said. Oh yeah i have to do it. And he says it's called the patriot act. Am i going to go home. People against patriot act. I said well. Why don't you go home and explain it in. That's your job so that is more or less. What what they need to do if they become suspicious eventually that there is a massive cover up and and we need to have more information all we want are the facts and if there's some really really bad people that belong to some of these so-called right wing organization we wanna know it and they should. They should be punished but what they don't want to know is because they were they wouldn't be locking people up without due process and And not allowing the records. The the emails information they have really isn't available to the public now and who knows when we'll ever become available for fourteen thousand hours of video refused to release the capitol hill police and the refuses to release all their surveillance video. What do they have to hide. And what if there's skull tori evidence in there that these poor people rotting away in jail might benefit from. Why won't they let it out. But here's another thing. We should have been accused of key early on. Which is the proud boys. It was an oath keepers. The proud boys in the three percenters. I'd i've never heard of the third group but the problem. Boys leader enrique ataur. Eeo right after the so-called insurrection..