32 Burst results for "Jim Baker"
77WABC Radio
"jim baker" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Other piece of this Twitter hearing that I wanted to cover with you This guy Jim Bakker was general counsel at the FBI You might remember him kind of a sleaze ball He wound up at Twitter As many of these X FBI guys did And his question by Jim Jordan because his name appears prominently too In the information that was released by Elon Musk and his folks So listen to this Cut 7 go Mister baker you said you didn't talk with the FBI that day Did you talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to then or after that day I'm trying to make sure I can answer this question consistent with the restrictions that I talked about in my opening Simple question You talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden story To the best of my recollection I did not talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden story before that day Did you talk to him after it He said you don't recall Your response is real specific to the chairman You said I did not talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden laptop story that day I assume that day is October 14th I don't know if you talk to him on the 13th or before or if he talked to him on the 15th and after I don't recall speaking to the FBI sitting here today I don't recall speaking to the FBI at all about the Hunter Biden matter Well then why did you answer why did you answer it the way you did I beg your pardon I get back there Yeah yields back because it's very frustrating The guys just playing games We know he had a very significant role just from the information that was released And why were they hired this guy over at Twitter To be honest I think he was the deputy general counselor or something that why was he involved in these discussions
Mark Levin
Rep. Jim Jordan Corners Jim Baker About the Hunter Biden Story
"Other piece of this Twitter hearing that I wanted to cover with you This guy Jim Bakker was general counsel at the FBI You might remember him kind of a sleaze ball He wound up at Twitter As many of these X FBI guys did And his question by Jim Jordan because his name appears prominently too In the information that was released by Elon Musk and his folks So listen to this Cut 7 go Mister baker you said you didn't talk with the FBI that day Did you talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to then or after that day I'm trying to make sure I can answer this question consistent with the restrictions that I talked about in my opening Simple question You talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden story To the best of my recollection I did not talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden story before that day Did you talk to him after it He said you don't recall Your response is real specific to the chairman You said I did not talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden laptop story that day I assume that day is October 14th I don't know if you talk to him on the 13th or before or if he talked to him on the 15th and after I don't recall speaking to the FBI sitting here today I don't recall speaking to the FBI at all about the Hunter Biden matter Well then why did you answer why did you answer it the way you did I beg your pardon I get back there Yeah yields back because it's very frustrating The guys just playing games We know he had a very significant role just from the information that was released And why were they hired this guy over at Twitter To be honest I think he was the deputy general counselor or something that why was he involved in these discussions
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Revolving Door Between Intelligence and Big Tech
"You have a really smart piece in the New York Post inside the revolving door between the Democrat deep state and big tech. I think we're only touching the surface of how deep that relationship actually goes. So what do we know? I mean, talk about the revolving door, the kind of, let's just say, typical or stereotypical revolving door in D.C. would be, oh, between Raytheon and The Pentagon or but there's actually another revolving door now between Google and government government and Twitter explain. Yeah, the person of Jim Bakker, who was the deputy general counsel at Twitter until just several days ago, when Elon Musk found out that he was actually vetting the Twitter files in advance of them being released to the public. And then he gave, I guess, unsatisfactory explanation as to why he was tasked with vetting those files. And we don't know, by the way, and Musk has indicated that some of those files might have been scrubbed or deleted. Jim baker himself had been the general counsel at the FBI, specifically during the height of russiagate, as I describe him, he's sort of a forest Gump figure in Russia gate there at virtually every turn of scandal after scandal hoax after hoax that our national security apparatus continued to foist on us and straining to try and find any shred iota of a tie between the president and Vladimir Putin. Baker himself is seen in the Twitter files as justifying the censorship of the New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story internally. And of course, as the number two to vijaya got a is essentially a subordinate to the arguably the top censorship officer along with ex officer Yoel Roth and others within the company.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Mike Davis: Why an FBI Lawyer Is at the Heart of the Hunter Biden Saga
"Mike, welcome to the Charlie Kirk show. Thank you for having me. Mike, tell us about James baker, so we got a bunch of Twitter files last week, turns out they were incomplete because the then Twitter council was actually also worked at the FBI, walk us through it. Yeah, Jim baker's a bad dude. He was an Obama Justice Department senior appointee and then Comey hired him as the general counsel of the FBI. He was up to his eyeballs and the Russian collusion hoax to try to take out president Trump in 2016. He showed up just in time to do that. He was there for a long time, Chris ray fired him from the FBI. He went over as the deputy general counsel of the Twitter and lo and behold he was involved again in another hoax. This time to work with the FBI to deplatform the New York Post, one of America's oldest newspapers for their accurate reporting on the hunter laptop story right before the 2020 election where it showed that the Biden President Biden has son hunter his brother James were on the Chinese and Ukrainian payrolls clear foreign corruption that no doubt would have affected the outcome of the 2020 election so Jim Bakker was at Twitter when they de platformed censored. Not only censored, they made it where you couldn't even post a link of the New York Post story. It was the most egregious censorship imaginable and then when Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter is trying to get to the bottom of this, his lawyers are supposed to be working for him and instead appears this Jim Bakker was working against him to hide this material that would have implicated Jim Bakker in this scandal instead of doing his clients work
The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: Did Elon Musk Set up James Baker?
"On April 26th I was going to cover this later but since you brought it up April 26th he had tweeted out Twitter lawyer Jim Bakker general counsel of the FBI when general counsel of the FBI personally arranged a meeting between the FBI and Michael sussman In this meeting sussman presented fabricated evidence in the alpha bank matter and keep in mind again April 26th He said add Elon Musk This is who was inside Twitter he facilitated fraud Elon responded to that on April 26th Quote sounds pretty bad dot dot dot So I don't think there's any question he knew who Jim baker was And I don't want to get into like four and 5 D chess because it just sounds dumb but I know Elon's not stupid And I'm wondering I'm just speculating you know to be fair I'm wondering if they weren't setting him up I mean it may sound crazy and feel free to laugh at me but I'm just wondering if they didn't know he was going to pull this but they gave him a shot to kind of do the right thing and he did it And here's why I say that Julie Maybe they knew they wanted to get rid of them and wanted to avoid some kind of wrongful termination suit And now that they know he did this the discovery of this closure if he does decide to sue would be humiliating for him Again if it's a stretch tell me you're not going to hurt my feelings but I can't believe he didn't know especially based on this tweet exchange with cernovich I think that is a brilliant assessment I never thought about that But of course Elon Musk is like super genius scary brilliant too So maybe he was just giving Jim Bakker enough rope to hang himself which he did because you know this to Dan These guys always get away with it They operate out of such a place of unaccountability in arrogance The gym baker really probably thought he could pull the wool over everyone's eyes and scrub this material any FBI culpability So maybe that is the case It's pretty humiliating and for Jim baker but you know he'll end up somewhere else These guys are in the business No
The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: James Baker and FBI Election Interference
"Stating things openly and releasing documents indicating that way you and I knew for a long time that this symbiotic big tech FBI Democrat party organism was working to crush free speech and suppress stories about Hunter Biden But I think the shocking revelation we learned yesterday which I think is a more interesting story is that James baker and you have a piece up it was at American greatness Let me just get the title here quick just so I make sure everybody goes and reads it Greed this out It's by Julie Kelly American greatness dot com Obama Biden government in exile ran the Hunter Biden laptop suppression operation and you'd be right because Jim baker who was general counsel at Twitter apparently allegedly according to Elon and taibi was kind of vetting the information that leaked out there first and isn't it a coincidence he was one of the same key players in the spy gay case again So weird So weird that these same people just keep popping up in places of influence and power So yes now I think there were some decent questions our friend Miranda Devine sort of called out Ivan Musk yesterday inside come on You had to know that Jim Bakker was a top FBI official He was Jim Comey's general counsel He was responsible for the first few illicit Pfizer's He helped paddle the alpha bank Narrative you know he testified in Michael sussman's trial the Perkins cooey lawyer who tried to get the FBI There's weird ties to that as well Elvis Chan the FBI guy out of San Francisco who was also involved in the alpha bank and DNC hack He's now showing up as part of the suppression campaign by the FBI but anyway so yeah so how did Elon Musk not know the Jim Bakker was going to be vetting these files before turning them over to manti but he was exited out of Twitter headquarters yesterday So
WCPT 820
"jim baker" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Three three four one 9 1630 That's 8 three three four one 9 1630 And we'll welcome back picking up your phone calls here Annie and sugar grove North Carolina Hey Annie what's on your mind today Oh happy new year first of all have a call in a while Thank you very much Thank you I'm going to pick your brain for a minute about a month and a half ago you were talking about the extreme religious right How much it's not your words on paraphrasing How much they adore the former guy Do you remember him signing bibles at one of his clear routes Yeah Trump Yeah I do recall Trump He was signing them on the outside Outer covers Well yeah or the first page right inside the cover too I think Because I think safe fan had it but do you remember when she campaigning or was he actually officially 45 at that time I'm telling you I'm in western North Carolina and some of these people are outright all their crazy They're out there just insane Yeah I don't recall any one that happened I just remember when Trump was signing bibles And I don't recall if it was just one person said would you please sign my Bible and the press got all weird about it or if he had brought some I don't recall frankly There was more of a group of people as I recall standing in line and it was just as usual At the bottom line is that they have absolutely weaponized Christianity as a political force You see where Jerry Falwell Jr. now is coming out and saying he's tired of hiding who he is that he's actually not religious because his name was fought well He was expected to inherit this empire and he tried and he tried saying all the bigoted and hateful things that you're supposed to say if you're a white Christian and he just now feels really badly This is wow We don't talk about it I don't know if this is going to turn into a redemption story or what but it blew my mind I did see I didn't get to read the article but I did see the headlines about that And I thought oh my goodness Yeah his wife said Yeah and Jim baker he's been back on TV for years now And I watch his show like for 20 seconds at a time here or there And he's really scary too And he's a big maga fan So well thank you for taking my call You have a great afternoon Thanks you too Annie Appreciate the call Neil and pearl city Illinois Hey Neil thanks for listening to CPT What's up Well a few years ago I read was reading a Shelby foot history of the Civil War And some jumped out at me It was I believe the last address that Jefferson Davis gave to the confederate Congress I think it was Christmas Eve of 1864 And what jumped out at me is he talked about they had to prepare to conduct a multi generational war And when I look at what's going on today we're about 6 generations into that multi generation award And now it's coming out in the open Just wanted to make that comment I did not know that Neil If you can find a link to that or anything like that would you try to tweet it at me I'm not that high-tech I have a hard copy of the three volumes Shelby foot history of the Civil War which is very biased by the way but he does give when he's talking about battles He really does give historically accurate analysis But it's in that I don't know I've been trying to find it in there now And I can't find it I know it's in book three somewhere near the end But I can't find it But I believe it was the last speech he gave that Christmas address to the confederate.
The Scathing Atheist
"jim baker" Discussed on The Scathing Atheist
"Did he just say that? But that's what their face is all said, almost exactly, but silently. They have no idea what to do at this point. Sharon Gilbert just told these creepy Christian men that her husband and possibly some other guy tried to do outfit stuff and it went super badly like really problematic. But she's not aware of that being the case. So they're just not along and hope for the best. Well, it worked. At least for me, it's the best. She continued. I said to other Derek, who are you? And he had the nerve to claim to be a xerxes. I love that moment. And we get to so often that that moment where the Christian host realizes that the accidentally just got a garden variety crazy person instead of a liar. It's fucking glorious because somewhere deep in that pained expression of theirs is this realization that they also can't tell the difference between their thing and mental illness so. They can't so yeah xerxes alien is trying to fuck her or something. So after she says xerxes, by the way, Sharon Gilbert looks over at the panel like she just tied it all together and it makes sense. You guys got it. And the camera pans over. And again, it's just blank stares of terror and confusion. And then there's a cut in the video I watch. I watch the clip from right wing watch. Absolutely not watching this entire like two hour episode of the Jim baker show. But based on how she comes back in, she told the story of this outfit stuff thing happening several times. So after the cut, she continues, this last time indicating that she told a bunch of these stories already, this last time, I knew he was really desperate again and she's talking about xerxes the king of Persia, just there. He was really desperate at this point. I asked him again, who are you? He told me the same answer. And I said, I'm not going with you. Finally, I said, I've had enough. I reached up. I grabbed his face and I said, you are a liar and Jesus is real. There's no indication that xerxes contradicted that at any point, but that's what she said whilst grabbing his face, whatever, continuing again. I pulled that face off and beneath it was a reptile and he had little creatures with him this time. What? He brought these little halfling creatures and they looked like, I don't know, gargoyles. So beneath that, the face of Derek was a reptilian serpentine creature probably similar to what was visiting the anasazi. What the brogue is happening. Her husband comes out as space is all banned. For the last time, those halflings are our kids Sharon. They're kids, and everybody looks creepy underneath their face. You ripped my face off. It was fucked up, man. So I'm sure everyone completely understood was happening there. But yeah, I wanna add a bit more context just to be clear about how it works on the gym baker show because this is the important thing. This is how they're evil. They're not just liars and crazy and stupid they're evil. They listen to this whole thing. The panelist listens to her whole story, still terrified and baffled at the end, obviously. But then Jim baker, there's a pause and he's just like, all right, well, this is why everyone needs to buy my DVD. Yes. The great delusion and it tells you all about how to understand alien stuff in the proper biblical paradigm that is very important. And then the panel guy next to him is like, yeah, lots of Christian people have to deal with aliens, of course. And if they haven't studied up with a DVD like this, they might get sexually abused. That's why this is important. And then this exact words. He says, this is really important stuff for our day to today as Christians on our day to today. Yeah. Now, you sometimes she got a deal with the fucking aliens xerxes trying to fuck you with his reptile face, yeah. Gargoyle cargo Wrangler you need to get the DVD. But yeah, only one easy payment of 9 99. And finally tonight in Nebraska's stupid question knows. It's time to check in once again with Nebraska preacher self proclaimed prophet and midway point between Ray Romano and Fred flintstone. Hank, Conan. Great. Yeah, you may remember Cunningham for repeatedly insisting that Trump was going to be reinstated as president any damn minute now or maybe for threatening to smite people who pointed out how wrong that was with leprosy or maybe you remember him from that time when he blamed school shootings on abortion demons. Well, he made it back on our radar this week with an impromptu mid sermon history lesson that was just about as accurate as his election prophecies and his leprosy. Threats. According to Kuna man, there's no such thing as separation of church and state because a number of preachers signed the Declaration of Independence. I mean, yeah, just to be clear, the number of preachers who signed the Declaration of Independence has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on how separate.
Squawk Pod
"jim baker" Discussed on Squawk Pod
"Greed. That's the market. And if you incentivize the market to produce clean green technologies, it will do that. And my view has always been if you're not serious about a carbon tax, the kind of idea that Jim baker and George shultz Blake George schulz and Jim baker to former Republican secretaries of states have called for a carbon tax that would rebate a 100% of basically. But get people to reshape the market to truly incentivize investment in clean green technologies going forward. You're not serious. In the meantime, though, we are in a better position than places like Europe, where they just don't have the supply of natural gas. They have to go to Vladimir Putin and beg him to release the gas supplies at this point. And if things get cold this winter, that's going to put a lot of Europeans in a very precarious position. If it's an extra cold winter, you could be talking about people literally dying because they can't get enough heat. You know, Becky, it's a cold and a calm winter where you don't get much wind or as much wind as you expected. You could find European countries in a choice between our families, middle of north class families, lower income families in a situation of heat or eat. And I guarantee if that happens, that could be the end of the green movement, or it would be a huge setback for the green movement in Europe. You know, there's a first thing to tell you if you got a Brooks brothers and you want to buy a suit, it's really a good idea not to take your belt off before you have the suspenders in place. Good idea. And when you're Germany, Becky, Julie said in 2010, Germany got 22% of its electricity from nuclear power. A virtually completely clean power. They voted after Fukushima to phase it all up by 2022. So what's happened? Because there isn't enough natural gas. The next cleanest fuel. They've had to go back to actually mining and loosening the dirtiest goal. And now I just write a report. Hundreds of Germans have died from breathing the socks and knocks the pollutants from coal. Far more than ever died anywhere in the world from nuclear power. So, you know, there's just a level of reality here. We are in a transition in this transition. You want people to use whatever is the cleanest fuel there possible natural gas nuclear in particular. And people want to be purists. And you're throwing away your belt before you have your suspenders in place. Okay, so you're saying that Germany and the rest of Europe got caught with their pants down. Is the United States in a similar position where the same thing could happen to us? Well, we're lucky because we are blessed. We are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. We were blessed with huge amounts. And while some of the production was shut down and shut in when the pandemic came along because people thought demand was going to fall back and the industry had a lot of financial problems too. But we can relatively ramp up pretty quickly. So we're in a good position to take advantage of that. But we're not in a good position to do Becky is to export our surplus natural gas to our NATO allies. And that's me, the plan we should have in place, we should be investing in more LNG export terminals and more import tournaments there..
TIME's Top Stories
"jim baker" Discussed on TIME's Top Stories
"The eyes of tammy faye turns the fallen televangelist into camp curiosity by stephanie's mccarrick in the grand scheme of christian forgiveness. Maybe it's a nice idea to try to reclaim the honor or at least the humanity of the late evangelist. Tv personality tammy faye bakker one half of the nineteen eighties prayer and praise. power couple. jim and tammy bakker. that's the goal. Apparently of michael showalter's cartoonish lee sincere bio-pic. The eyes of tammy faye in which jessica chastain plays the chirpy entertain journalist as a sympathetic countries sweet pea largely a victim of her husband's ambition and an only semi willing accomplice in the greed and corruption. That eventually brought the couple to ruin and also robbed countless regular working people of their hard earned money in the nineteen eighties. Tammy faye and jim baker husband and wife chipmunks united in the service of the lord ruled the christian television airwaves with their cheesy but unapologetically celebratory show designed to fund their ever-growing p. t. l. club operation folksy apple faced. Jim spreads the word of god like margarine greasing the wheels to entice the folks at home to call in with their donations. Tammy faye with her. Helium speaking voice and peppy gospel tune belting not to mention her clown on the town makeup which became more garish and extreme as the duo became richer was lively and sugary and fun to mock of all the eighties tv evangelists among them pat robertson and moral majority leader. Jerry falwell both of whom played roles in the baker's rise and fall jim and tammy faye seemed the most benign if you could apply that word to any peddler of rigid religious ideologies. Who's also in love with the almighty dollar. These two certainly seem harmless at the start of the eyes of tammy faye. The movie follows the baker's pious trail from their meet cute in bible college through the early years of their marriage in which they took to. The road is traveling preachers to their first taste of success as the hosts of a tv show that used puppets to teach kids. About god's love andrew garfield plays jim baker as an. Aw shucks charmer. Who's honest is money making goals. He's convinced the lord doesn't want him to be poor. Though it turns out that tammy faye is the one who comes up with. The puppet idea a hint that everything they built might have begun with her chastain plays. Tammy faye with a feral eagerness. That's poignant until it turns greeting in the movies early scenes she's a saucy seductress. A good girl who wants to have fun within the bounds of holy matrimony of course her eyes are wide. And unblinking like a dulls. Her skin is brushed with porcelain innocence. This is a far cry. From the older tammy faye we see in the movies. Preamble who reveals to an unseen makeup artist that her harsh eyebrows and lip liner are tattooed on and her black dagger. Eyelash fringe is non-negotiable. Each her trademark she insists and people wouldn't know her without it but even though chastain as clearly studied tammy faye's mannerisms and vocal tics and runs through them admirably. The movies candy colored varnish seems to have waterproof did against anything so messy as real feeling or judicious assessment. Tammy faye suffers all manner of hardships and rejections. Jim loses interest in her sexually and engages in dalliances with both men and women..
The Daily Beans
"jim baker" Discussed on The Daily Beans
"Eleven. I said nineteen thirteen the other day. I commend maybe. I got it right. But i feel like i've got it wrong anyway. Long time ago would require the state legislature to pass a proposed amendment to the state constitution. So you need to thirds majority in december in the senate. The proposed amendment would appear on a statewide ballot. If if it got the okay berman said he hopes legislation will be introduced sometime in early next year. An issue put to voters would be on the twenty twenty two ballot midterms and finally in whatever the opposite of the lead story is the special counsel appointed by trump to the justice department to probe the oranges of the russia. Investigation has charged a democratic lawyer with making a false statement to the fbi. But i'll let you beat the judge. So this is john. Durham as we know. He's been working on this investigation for over two years. Longer than muller muller got thirty seven indictments and two hundred ninety nine charges and durham has to member. He had the lawyer. Pauline smith who i think falsified a statement about carter page in an e mail. That really didn't have an impact on anything. But listen to this. One durham charger. Michael sussman overstatement during september nineteenth. Two thousand sixteen meeting between sussman and jim baker. One of the original komi five-member him. He was the fbi general counsel at the time at which sussman told baker about suspicions relating to a secret communications between the trump campaign and russia. The suspicions were later. Determined to be unfounded. I don't know if i buy into that totally. But this was about the server at trump tower that was communicating with alpha-bank. Apparently he handed him a thumb drive. Sussman told jim baker. But see if you can follow this. According to the indictment quote during meeting lied about the capacity in which he was providing the allegations to the fbi specifically sussman stated falsely. He was not doing his work on the aforementioned allegations for any client which led the fbi general counsel to understand that sussman was acting just as a good citizen merely passing along information. Not as a paid advocate or a political operative unquote so he was representing the hillary campaign time and some cybersecurity guy at the time and he went over the fbi gave jim baker this thumb drive and said i'm not doing this in the capacity as me working for hillary clinton but how would you how how i don't understand how he's john is gonna prove that maybe he's got proof. The hillary clinton campaign sent him over with a thumb drive. I don't know. I don't know but it just doesn't make any sense to me as a one thousand and one charge. I'll be going over the indictment in detail on this sunday's muller she wrote and i will be complaining about how you know this is somehow an indictable lie but lies to muller and congress told by junior manafort and brett cavenaugh and jeff sessions. Aren't you know we always talk about you. Know how the feds win. Over ninety percent of the cases they bring. I'm going to go ahead and got him. Put some beans on this prosecution. Failing or being overturned by a judge so far from what i understand. Susman's gonna fight the charges. And he's taped court dude. I'm fucking do anything wrong. It's just so weird like anyway. We right back with frankie. French.
Filmspotting
Jessica Chastain Is Riveting in 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye'
"Mother. This is jim baker. My husband jessica chastain there as tammy faye bakker in the eyes of tammy faye which opens nationwide this weekend. Andrew garfield co stars as jim baker. Tammy's husband who people of a certain age like us josh. Remember as one of the most prominent televangelists of nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty. Nine baker was sentenced to forty five years in prison for fraud. This movie is directed by michael showalter. Who made the very good two. Seventeen rom com. The big sick. The eyes of tammy faye came up a couple of weeks ago. During our fall movie preview. You have seen the movie and as i alluded to. We lived through the eighties. The bakers were inescapable in popular culture. At seem does the movie convinced that there is more there was more to jim. Tammy faye than we remember or what we saw in parodies from the time i mean it had to for me because my only point of reference was jan hooks portraying. Tammy faye bakker. On saturday night. Live visiting the church lady. I think phil hartmann was was jim baker. Actually so i didn't really know much beyond that of the story. I mean would have been a little kid at that time. And so yeah this was interesting to get some of the background info a lot of it drawn from the two thousand or two thousand two documentary of the same name. The eyes of tammy faye haven't seen that one. But from what. I understand both at end this i can attest to very much rehabilitation projects. You know to to say that there was more and of course there was more to to this woman than what we saw on saturday night. Live or in news. Reports jessica chastain as tammy faye is going to make you believe that no matter what. She is the powerhouse force in this film. The reason why i liked it. I think overall as a movie. It's it's a little strange. It's both really obvious like hitting its themes and points very underlying them like she on like her makeup his underlying. You know
Double Toasted
"jim baker" Discussed on Double Toasted
"Done playing dana martin. So are you familiar with jim. And tammy faye bakker no. I'm not see. That's what i thought. Yeah 'cause i'm like the is tammy faye this movie about tammy no idea. No go into us. This is a generational thing. So i've lived long enough to wear now all they're doing everybody's making biopic and mini series about big political scandals. That happened when i was your age And this was of them. Jim and tammy faye bakker televangelist With the pto network. Praise the lord. They had this show was on every night Long as variety show as for donations preach up shows singing all this they basically like living cartoon character okay because sharon. She was known for her very hurt. Thick minnesota accent her ultra chipper loud voice. Mostly for the hugh. All the tons of. i make up. She'd have on showcase in the train and even looking at her here. I'm like you're not quite getting it blah more than that okay and in the end Jim baker went to prison. Because of Yeah embezzling funds and trying to fund all all that typical it only the have Jerry falwell come in cutting bamboozled them to say okay. Look we can't have you associated with this. you're going to step out of the limelight. I'll take over for a little while you then you come back. Just let us know everything you did so we can cover it okay and then once that happened jerry. Falwell went on tv and went like out. Jim baker is unscrupulous. Human being and this is all the stuff he's done and we can never have him back here so just pretty much. A little baker went to jail and he was deservedly deservedly so and back in two thousand and three they did. A documentary called the eyes of tammy faye which really did like you went more into her. And you dig it to see how not only you know she she got you know you wanna say. She got duped into it but she was a for as much of a cartoon character she was. She was a genuine person. Who really cared a lot about Gay people because you're the scene there where she's really did happen when they're talking to somebody who had aids and she she. She remained a guy conscious. Always very friendly and everything So that was cool. So here we are eighteen years later. They're making a bio-pic of it and it's one of these things where How much you can tell from the trailer. But jessica chastain really throws herself into the royal right. I want wanna show just a picture of yours. People can see. Just kinda comparison say this is the real tammy faye how she looks now or recently was she she. She has to she. Okay okay in the years. Since i can kind of see it make. You're talking about the the ashes that looked like butterflies into the air. Gotcha there was. There was her signature and jessica chastain throws herself into the role. She's still not as just daesh. As tammy and jessica chest despite all this. She still kind of sexy throughout the thing. I think there's even this one guy who who's really flirting with her. And you can. You can kind of see it. But whenever i thought after surreal tammy faye not be now okay But that's about the highlight of it. Unfortunately the other performances are hit and miss garfield okay as jim belka. But you think about like me knowing what jim baker was like. There's so much more. He coulda done his jim. Baker was just about as much of a cartoon as she looks like. Mister rogers and everything like this look and cadence cadences hockey. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. He's playing almost more like mr rod where jim baker every time. He's on your like she's fucking serious. Gotcha and then visit. Nacchio as jerry falwell. He's he's not he's not really doing it at all but it's almost like he showed up for two days shoot. I'll put on this week. I'll do what you want. The problem with the movie is the two problems is that it's just very shallow. It's for all that went on with that it it for the first half breezes through. It's almost like it's just showing you quick cut scenes a greatest hits good a greatest hits and it's almost like i would not even a greatest hits. It's almost a medley. Just just how quick it goes from. This is what they met in college. And this this this this this this and just sat there watching it just kind of like. Wow her performance is good and maybe people are gonna like this. But i think this kind of socks okay. It's only in the in the later. Half of it that it kind of settles down and gets more into the end of what happened with them. It's but it's still shallow of a big thing about this movie. It's hard is in the right place. But it is too focused on making on redeeming Tammy faye or making her such a good person and and so someone who didn't know what was going on that admit. It misses giving her real depth right or everybody else in it and then before you know it is just kinda like well and then it's over and it's like i mean you know you know he always say like i should watch that documentary but the documentary was so much better and it didn't even go through all that stuff right but it's it's one of those things where like say you would've come in like say you knew a little bit about them to watch this and you go like oh. Wow that's really interesting but is somebody who was alive at that time when that was all over the news. I go like this so much. They didn't cover and let me tell you right right right. Yeah so it just feels very authentic and it's too bad i feel like for a lot of bio-pics where you have two hours. Maybe a little over. Maybe to have to tell someone's life story everything they've done my my maybe not even everything. They've done specific point in their life. And even then it's just not enough time. There's many we can pick one out of like this wasn't done well. This wasn't done well recently. The retha franklin by right right right respect. Now i didn't see. I know that. I think maybe korean billy did but that was that was corey's criticism of that movies. They didn't spend time on. These things are just like man we just we skipped this whole thing and you know and this are like they regard someone. She was raped. You know like. I was like oh. Yeah yeah know. It's like shed. That's that's a big thing traumatic thing in someone's life and so to hear this i mean do you feel like bio. Pics should be relegated television. Because you will you can tell the story of a longer time but this has been better if it had been like a mini series that affects keeps doing which i ended up not watching those because i was just like i lived through that i was happy when it was over like the oj wounds. The first one. And i know. I've been told by everybody. How brilliant it is. And i don't doubt that it is but i remember when it was happening and it just felt like it would never end. I remember it being. I remember that being on when it interrupt my cartoon time because my parents wanted to watch the oj trial affected by oj in many different ways and now the new one is the bill. Clinton monica lewinsky. And i like that. No no no no still fresh in the head. don't go same same. yeah yeah But another part of what's wrong with this is that it's it lacks context. It it. it's all about will. This is this is them and it happens in their little microcosm and it doesn't really give you a sense of how it affected the world. How everybody else. I'll canada okay. It it just seemed to miss so many important things. And i don't expect a bio-pic to cover everything especially with them when they're when they're meeting in college but it's almost like the things that were important they didn't know what to do it and their agenda of of of let's let's save tammy faye just completely got in the way..
Citation Needed
"jim baker" Discussed on Citation Needed
"To citation needed. The podcast where we choose a subject read a single article about wikipedia. And pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how it works now. I'm your host no illusions guiding you through this buried difficult time but don't worry we're going to get through it together you me your credit card and the rest of the cast. I up tormented by the fact that they're perpetual conversion away from millionaires. He stands cease. Oh okay try to be sad about your ethics in a private jet. It's possible i'll tell you what i would fuck holy water from join us tonight. Two men who are eating food out of buckets before it was cool. Tom and eli okay. You know everything is a single serving if you finish it before they can take it away. That's single serving. Yeah and everyone can cook food. But only i can rehydrate again. All right started tonight. I want to remind you that. Eli tom also more money. They could make they found jesus and converted a wu and the only thing that really convinces them anymore as patriots donation. I can help keep them. Honest ish. sure stick around to the end of the show with that out of the way. Tell us eli what person place thing comes up phenomenon event will be talking about today. We're going to be talking about. Gm don't say backer backer no baker. Yeah the only reason i ask you specifically was wonderful pronunciation. Not how pronounced tom. Yes you read at least as much about jim baker. He's read the bible. Whatever miracle cure. He's hawking this week. Are you ready to tell us. His tail owned. I've got buckets of great information for all right. So i w- why. Jim baker okay so we live in a world now which is daily defined by huxterism from our politicians to social media from lifestyle gurus to religious nuts at every possible turn. We are confronted by powerful forces seeking to deprive us of our money our agency and our critical faculties while the tools these frauds us become vastly more powerful than ever before many of the names and faces that have been fleecing. Us have stayed remarkably consistent if you've listened to her sister shows. You'll doubtless know the name. Jim baker as well as the non name. Jim backer. i helped true. Unfortunately i used to think that he was just a rather pathetic. Kook selling freeze dried buckets of armageddon slop too credulous rapture loons but his story is so much more than that. Jim baker is not right that more. Jim baker is the very epitome of the bullshit artists and his scams are bigger and much more vile than you may imagine. Yeah and i just want to say at the outset before we begin. It's worth noting that like. It's all well and good to talk about. Some poor rubes got tricked into buying snake oil when everybody died of their teeth in fourteen. Four to but someone is ordering jim baker products right now on the internet. They have to scroll past the news results. About what a fraud. He is to buy this shit dot wrong. It all born in forty to rally baker and ferny illin- irwin james. Orson baker began life not far from here. Actually in muskegon michigan. I couldn't find much information about his parents or his childhood but he went off to bible college in minnesota at a place called north central university. Well sitting in old book full of bronze age myths about a vengeful blood. God jim matt and fell for the lovely and not at all cartoon con made up. Tammy faye lavallee your later in nineteen sixty one that means the valley that does mean valley. Yes thank you for the translation a year later in nine hundred sixty one that you married and symbol to kind of evangelist fraud. Voltron the pair dropped out of discount. Bible college to go on the road as and this is a quote from wikipedia itinerant evangelists. Well because let's face it. A degree from north central bible. University is exactly as valuable as not a degree from north south Decision those early days. They had to threaten people with helen. Take their money door to door. It took out by nineteen six the dual working for pat robertson. A very credible man. Who at seventy three once. Put out a video claiming that he could lay press. Two thousand pounds yes. This has nothing to do jim baker. I only include this detail. Because it is so wonderfully stupidly absurd that everybody needs to know this i to give you a sense of how much that did not happen. Because it didn't have the florida state university leg press record the same year for its football players with six hundred and sixty five pound a regular commercial leg press machine like at a gym. You can't even put two thousand because you can you not a pound. You can add. But somehow a geriatric pat robertson was pumping iron with jesus and he could also probably totally throw a football over those critics. He's lie. Why would you say that. That's a small car. Said he could powerlift his seventy legs to be fair. Moving car with your legs was way. More common when pat robertson was drawn up back in bedrock. Oh i'm sorry thom but before you move on no heath and i will literally explode if we don't get to do a quick lightning round on the that makes sense head in the studio. I installed that while you were sleeping. See so pat robertson go cold scotland a dark land overrun by said gay. People wear needle rigs to give straight people eight outer space full of gaseous balls. Said people with too much plastic surgery gut. The is like they're oriental. Also told of you were the towels in ken. Have okay thank you tom. Thank you sorry needed. I know you had to get out of your system. I get melty. He's melody it looks like he's basis. Full gashes balls. I dislike hearing pat. Say anyway tammy. Jim started their work with. Joe aligarh pat robertson at the christian broadcasting network. See call them. Patty melt and patty melts is crazy about this brilliant. They were doing a christian. Puppet show for kids called. Come on over okay. I did try to find some footage of this. And i only saw these say peanuts come. It may have been less creepy. If it works. I would say i can only find. It was sort of nestled in videos of other things. I i need you to imagine a puppet show on a low budget tv channel. And then just need you to know in the very bottom of your heart underestimating. How bad and creepy and weird. This puppet show don't care what you can imagine right since christian. Entertainment is the very lowest possible bar to slither over. This show was an inexplicable success. And jim was given his own primetime. Show the seven hundred club. The seven hundred club quickly became the flagship of cbn. For reasons jim and tammy left. Cbs and joined trinity broadcasting network this to not much of a match made in heaven. Eight months later the baker's left tbn when a rift between. Jim and station owner. Paul crouched that's interesting. I had no idea that wasn't the original hosted seven hundred club. I was thought the name of it was like a hat tip to pats age. Actually named after the seven hundred financial supporters robertson was able to rope in during a seminal nineteen sixty six telethon to keep the network afloat and though baker was the first permanent host the show a but on for six years by the time he joined.
KQED Radio
"jim baker" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Chastain. Tammy Faye, What do you do? Hello, Mother. This is Jim Baker, my husband. She sang, he preached if everyone watching to double their pledge just for one month. God loves you. He really does. And evangelism was their oyster until We're not doing anything wrong, though. That a question also based on real life, Kristen Stewart playing Princess Diana in Spencer, and in King Richard will Smith is a tenacious California father. Who, despite what everyone tells him just knows his girls are going to be great at tennis, the chances of achieving the kind of success that you're talking about. It's just very, very unlikely. Okay, You're making a mistake, but I'm gonna let you make it. Watch him hit a few balls. All right, So tell me your names again. I'm Venus. I'm Serena. So they hit a few balls. So what do you think Documentaries will chronicle other real lives from one called Julia. This is through the Charles. On a pity to fabled authors in the Capote tapes and Kurt Vonnegut unstuck in Time. Also the Swedish teenager who played Tadzio in death in Venice, then spent decades trying to live down headlines that had called him the most beautiful boy in the world. Enough reality, you say, Well, how about some animated kid flicks? Ones about a buddy robot high insert registered name? I am your Sure. Or it's called runs gone wrong..
20/20
"jim baker" Discussed on 20/20
"I really prefer not to a back home. The guys that were no thoughts of calling the police reporting anything. I i first of all it was not in my right mind. I was unable to think clearly. I just immediately went into a shell. I thought that this was going to be my secret for the rest of my life. And i should never speak of this ever initially both jessica hahn and jim baker wanted to keep this quiet Jessica was deeply hurt. That baker didn't contact her afterwards. Didn't apologize no one bothered to say jessica You know we missed. We slept we fell. We're not perfect. We realize we heard you. Nobody bothered to do that. I talked to her on the telephone within the next few hours. Twenty four hours forty hours. I'm not sure the next couple days i apologized. I told her. I had repented. I'd ask god's forgiveness. Ask her forgiveness. He claims she wasn't in it.
20/20
"jim baker" Discussed on 20/20
"Enemies i ronald reagan do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. Eventually the fcc dropped their investigation. They said there's not enough evidence and they voted to close. It starts during the carter administration and it ends during the reagan administration. And that's probably not a coincidence. Tv network is carrying out a master plan for people that love. Jim baker took that as vindication. Here there's no there there let's go let's raise more money and let's get bigger and bigger and that's exactly what happened fifteen dollars a month. Tammy's only fifty cents a day small. You think it's just a soft drink or a couple of candy bars of those tabs today. And i gladly do it in many ways. The federal communication investigation was kind of a practice. Run for what would later be accused of on a much bigger scale where we all right now. We're actually sitting right here. The income from the satellite network allowed baker to launch his third innovation which was created. A kristen disneyland on the border of north south carolina what became heritage usa. Baker says. he doesn't mind. The label christian disneyworld as description of his plans to create a place where pt l. members can vacation was inspiration. Baker had always been fascinated by a disney mickey mouse. He sat back and said why. Can't we have a christian version of disneyland. I had a vision. And a plan. And i was a man with fire inside me to do something for the christian world had a big hotel. Little shops. a big waterpark. We didn't have an ocean here so we brought the ocean the heritage usa. It was meant for families. Well especially with the waterpark. That was wow only popular. They laughed when i started it. So the critics call jim. Bakker's volley this park will be open and tammy faye it will be paying more. They put in a waterpark. This about six million dollar waterpark. With the slides. You know. we're the first christians to ever have a way full. The bible says we're fishers of men and this is the bait another part of the pto experience that people came really from around the world to be part of was the passion play then it was done in an incredible panoramic outdoor amphitheater that was built just for that go god god. Park is officially all trying to build the best theme park for families in this country. We had more than mickey mouse. We had salvation. Top that heritage. You say in the eighties becomes the third biggest theme park in america. Right next to disneyland disney world as part of hera. Usa baker decided that he needed to build a giant hotel complex. Five hundred room hotel the heritage grand and soon after decided to build a tower with another five hundred dollars so he had a lot of money to raise. You'd say okay. Why would you build the tower when you need money to benny the grand. Because if you don't expand and you don't keep growing you can't go forward. The problem was how to finance such a big project and at this point baker. Did something brilliant when you give your one thousand dollar gift. You receive a special membership card that will allow you to stay here and the heritage brand for four days and three night every year for the rest of your life. Visit gospel timeshare. You could say. I'm getting in on this one. That was a pretty good deal and people bought up the partnerships like hotcakes. Even i bought one of the rooms. Which i've never stayed. There was actually a great deal if he had been able to live up to it. Problem is the way too many people giving her thousand dollars not nearly enough hotel rooms when people are cashing in wanted to come stay and use their thousand dollars lifetime partnerships. There wasn't room at the end. He sold more than sixty six thousand lifetime partnerships and heritage brand which amounted to more than one hundred percent occupancy in that hotel they had the ear and the heart of a huge portion of the american public. It was a stunner shot when suddenly there were some revelations that the body could believe.
20/20
"jim baker" Discussed on 20/20
"I of baker's big innovations the christian talk show today because well it's a long story. Why don't have a tie on david either this or nothing. So he was a guy who didn't look like billy graham televangelist. Jim baker looked like a golfer. You look like a pga golfer. Pto's second big innovation. After the christian talk show was the creation of the satellite network. And this changed everything. The transmitter satellite dish just behind me is the pt els new worldwide message carry. Jim baker was the gatekeeper to the heavens. He controlled the only broadcast satellite for religious broadcasters from this moment on the pto television network plans to broadcast twenty four hours a day until the second. Coming of jesus christ your host hostess. Pto president is jimmy. Current potato television empire revolved around. Jim and tammy's daily talk show. Mom and dad would be there in the audience. Every single day the kids tanny su Jamie utterly so real. Jim and tammy and one of the things that we did what we had sort of a daffy quality got to be serious on this broadcast. Okay knows we have the towns year on the telephone to take your prayer request. Pray with you right now. They would pray for people over the phone and lo and behold they would get healings and miracles. I'm a new person. The eleven years at all alcohol and drug addiction has gone. My ulcers are gone. And jesus now a part of my life you kim's parting line at the end of every show were dot loves you. God loves you. god loves you. God loves he really does. We do have a great program lineup today. Baker had a tremendously wide variety of guests on his daily talk. Show the captain voters back lisa. Well chill is blair on the facts of life. It's always been a real natural thing me to be a christian or here in california day parade. No credible help for many many years. I wanted to say that. I think you're the only one that loves to reveal. Please welcome literature that boom this good that very it might be and they were being cece. Winans remembered for time to young black kids. Who could sing like nobody's business. I'm from detroit. michigan goodfeet. Spur got me my job hassle. Pto saying i sang it. Just like that. And jim baker came over and said who did those whispers. You're in the pto seniors. I want more of those. The one song that pretty much launched me and my sisters career which jim baker came to rehearsal with the ideal. And say you guys are gonna single do wet and it was from the officer and a gentleman up where we belong.
Popcorn with Peter Travers
What’s Next for Fall Film Releases?
"I out of the gate for this fall is a movie called shang. She and the legend of the ten rings. It's a marvel movie and marvel finally deciding to have an asian hero in its movie. That's a long time coming. And when you see it you're going to see a story that is modern touch because this guy on plagued by smooth lou. He is in really fierce fighting form but his father was played by the great. Tome lung is an immortal and he doesn't want him to do it. He's doing which is parking cars in a san francisco hotel talent hanging out with akwa. Seen you get what i mean. It's the martial arts that makes this must sit okay. next up. Is the power of the dog as everybody knows especially critic which is may that september is the month where their film festivals everywhere from venison telluride to toronto in new york and the one film to rule them. All is the power of the dark. It's a western set in nineteen twenty five montana and new zealand. Filmmaker jane campion. Who did the piano is the director sir. First movie in twelve years. Expect real awards bus around benedict cumberbatch. She's playing a brutal acid tongue rancher who gets tensions going in ablaze when his brother brings home a new bride and everything goes crazy and deserve this film is sets nature's beauty against toxic masculinity. These are two things that are really updates days next step. The eyes of tammy faye jessica chastain goes all in this. She's backwards on the eyelashes end. The make up to play tammy faye bakker the late televangelist who turned her christian news program into a profitable industry until a sex scandal involving her first husband. Jim baker played by entry. Barfield just brought the whole house card. Sam
Bob and Sheri
"jim baker" Discussed on Bob and Sheri
"The second question remembering rolling stones drummer charlie watts. It's bobbin sherry leaves. Talk with the free. Bob and sheri let me just say however you come to the lord. It's fine with me. It's great that You know you're reflecting on how to be a better person and get closer to god And it's also interesting that once in a while somebody will comment online about something and it's snarky but it actually makes a lotta sense years ago. I did a tv piece when i was. Uh starting out on the baker's jim and tammy bakker tammy baker has Since go to her reward. But jim baker is around and he still a lot of money from people was sent to prison and he's believe it or not and his later years he's got some sort of a Television shackle Television show where again these raising money asking people to send money. And they're sending i. It's i think it's mostly ignored He's he's not a power in this country anymore whatsoever when i went to their house She was lovely. She had me come in. You know she jumped on a trampoline for the for the cameras. Shoot you know. Showed us the bedroom the living room the kitchen. She made something. I think brownies he wouldn't come nearest because we had a television camera and it was getting close for him to go to jail so this a long long time ago. He's still on the air and the other day. This is what he said on the on the television show. How could you go to church and pray. When you're wearing a mask. Do you think god can hear your prayers through a mask. Let that sink in while you do let me just read a couple of the comments from From people This is from andrew. He can also see jim stealing money from old folks. Genus said wake so praying with a on his like ordering food at the burger king. Drive through i had no idea audio. Quality was an issue. And i'm going to leave it at that That is breathtaking. And again how you come to the lord. No matter who he is that you're listening or she is that you're listening to. I think that's a great thing that is so inappropriate. It is just so inappropriate. One thing's for sure Jim jim did not enjoy his heyday. In the era of social media where people can respond in real time with comments like. oh so. it's like the burger king. Dr exactly exactly. Max was telling me there was something else on zoa broadcast so looking around for things. What i have found is Okay so Doc you want me to go with his second clip them all right Hang on just a second here. There's something called your miracle blanket. And so here's what you do. You send a certain amount of money. And i believe it is one thousand dollars and this miracle blank will help you with your finances. Help you pay your bills and also can can help you grow parts of your body. That may have been taken away through time. What so. Here's a little clip about the finance part of this. That a giving these thousand dollars. I believe they're going to see miracles like they've never had before. I really really believe that. And i'm believing. God that today when people give a thousand dollars and you go to receive the the blanket the miracle blanket that blank and lane at on me. What else did they give you your bill. That's healing of your finance. Put your wallet in their your credit cards all the bills. You know house the mortgage put it on there. We're having houses paid off this week last month. And this month on. Like hallelujah put it over your head and see if you can grow a brain back. Let me your has you. And you're going to send a thousand dollars to him. Yeah exactly could lord. That is absolutely the most blatant thing i've heard in a long time. These guys you know what. I saw speaking of these guys. I saw something the other day. and it was about what's his name. Oh yeah kenneth copeland Who is still on is kind of scary looking guy. he's been on like all my life. I've seen kenneth copeland on sunday somewhere and evidently he calls himself Not just an evangelist but a preacher of prosperity. And i think once you i. This is what i'm guessing once you attach the title preacher apart prosperity which means you know. Basically what. Jim baker is just doing there. If you do this you know you're going to become wealthy. Don't worry about getting rich. You should be rich and so on and so forth. It said that he is worth between three hundred and seven hundred sixty million dollars. All i can think about are the people who are desperate for a miracle and who believed jim baker and who scratch out that check and may be. It's down to the last of what they have in this world. And i don't know how the man sleeps at night. He must have a blanket of smug Oblivion that he wraps himself in. I don't know how you sleep at night taking from. I don't either how you can say. Put your bills under this blanket. And they're all gonna go away. Your home's gonna be paid off. Well come on. Also i hav on causal sister john us that even if we can't get to mass if we say a genuine act of contrition and sincere our father god hears us. We don't have to say loud. So now i don't have to say it out loud. No you can think it you can you. Can you can communicate with the almighty by just thinking in a quiet place. Holy cow all of this going on. He comes out with that crap. You know what this charlatans you know what this tells us that nothing that has happened to him has taught him anything or humbled him in any way. It's just a freakin scam from jump. And he's learned nothing but how to be more subtle gross right. It's you read it once and then read it again. I can't believe this. Bob and cherries believed.
You're Wrong About...
"jim baker" Discussed on You're Wrong About...
"Turnaround and mike wearing case true repentance would necessitate complete withdrawal from public ministry like what does the sound lake televangelists or the original youtubers there. Shane dawson ing him. Yes to confession. If mike is repentant he should make an open. Admission of guilt on the other hand. Mike warranty has built a career of telling us about past and present sins. The church must not allow him to emerge as a new authority on franklin testimonies three restitution true moral king invol- some attempt to undo pass drawings and provide some kind of restitution perhaps the best kind of restitution mike weren't he could perform would be to take satan seller and all his other products off the market. I mean yeah to me. This feels like it could have been written today. Oh yeah and in a totally secular context totally. These are like normal mechanisms of accountability transparency. Stop profiting from your lies in what you did show that you know why. What you did is wrong if anything. It's too generous while you know. It's based on matthew and by quoting apostle paul and they say it's not too late for mike to change if he wants to. The secular press may scoff. And those who consider themselves real satanists may snicker. But the jesus of the bible is still the god of truth. And it's it's very sweet and it's also kind of burn. It's like jesus still loves you. Yeah even though you're dead to us your channels demonetized. So i mean they're actually consequences for him christianity today interviews him and he's like yes. I was a satanist but like there were fewer people at our meetings like only like thirteen people instead of fifteen hundred goodstuff and most of them are dead. We're the. I can't confirm any of this but you know i have told some lies. But they're not as bad as the. I mean this is like classic. Admit to what you're already busted for but double down on anything they can't bust you for. Yes and be like. I can't believe you discovered by misconduct. Which is only extensive. The things found out about it. Yeah and then as with a lot of people like it's it's his financial misconduct that takes him down because reporters at a kentucky newspaper continue the investigation into the finances. They find that they have like even more money that they're receiving when they're low key drifting nice saying that they have no money left because the classic jim baker ism and he is forced to close his ministry just once. I would like one of these things to be like you look into it and it's not as bad as it sounds instead of being worse i. It's always worse. Yeah and has labeled drop some also has recording label cancel culture. He tries to make a comeback to the chris. Kim comedy world about ten years later and doesn't get the traction He used to. And i think it's it's kind of like the goodfellas ending. You know it's like you live. Like what for i mean..
Your Dream Life with Kristina Karlsson, kikki.K
"jim baker" Discussed on Your Dream Life with Kristina Karlsson, kikki.K
"Our entire family lives on a small farm in the city of tucson arizona together so when i leave my office which is about a five minute drive to my home. I have nineteen grandchildren. Play with an our seven. Children are there and so it's all fun. It's just great. They've all built homes hair. Which is terrific. I was a white house fellow through a nationally. Competitive process ended up working for the vice-president the united states and then the president of the united states. So i spent about four years in washington. Dc and then went back to the private sector and by been the ceo of six companies ranging from relatively early stage startup to multibillion dollar companies and taken three of those companies public. We've had a lot of fun. Life is challenging. But good your story and Coming from poverty and from a farm. I grew up on a farm to and then the in the white house. How did you get your head around that because that would have been a complete mind shift. Well it is and i think probably christine. You have similar experiences in that as we have our dreams and as we reach for those dreams want to fulfill those dreams we find ourselves achieving new things in new heights and having new experiences along the way and each experience i believe builds on other experiences. So it's an aggregation if you will and so. I ended up the white house at twenty nine years old. A very young to be in the white house. I was the youngest member of the senior team. And if you think about the senior team in the white house at that time and i'll drop these names just to impress those listening to this okay christina so if i were to give you some names it was dick. Cheney don rumsfeld brent scowcroft. Jim baker bob gates henry. Kissinger colin powell. That was the senior team with me in the white house so they had tremendous experience..
WBSM 1420
"jim baker" Discussed on WBSM 1420
"Connect the working and learning store before in store only visit staples. Connect dot com slash store bonus for details and 6 26. Among the Supreme Court decisions handed down today is a case out of Sonoma, California ER Lang was playing loud music in his car and honking his horn late at night. As he drove home on a nearly empty road. California Highway Patrol officer followed him for a noise violation, laying pulled into his driveway. The officer, then activated his lights and laying drove into his garage. The officer blocked the garage door from going down and went inside because he was in pursuit. The Supreme Court ruling. Police cannot enter a home without a warrant if they're chasing somebody for a minor crime, the court saying the officer violated Lang's rights by entering his home without a warrant, even if he was in pursuit. Alex Stone ABC nears humanitarian groups as Madagascar Hours on the brink of famine, the head of the World Food Programme morning that over one million people in southern Madagascar are marching towards starvation, with some 14,000 already experiencing famine like conditions. This all comes as the country faces its worst drought in 40 years, WFP chief David Beasley returning from the region, describing seeing hundreds of Children emaciated and saying some are surviving off of mud and cactus flowers and as the liquid terra ABC News at the Foreign desk, Jim Baker and his southwestern Missouri church will pay restitution of $156,000 to settle a lawsuit which accuses the TV pastor of Falsely claiming health supplement can cure Covid 19. This is a B C. Dude, are you more than $10,000 in debt Feel like you're on a never ending treadmill, staying in one place and never getting ahead with those minimum payments. You feel like there's no way out. Don't let the credit card companies bully you anymore..
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Corporate Landlord Evicts Blacks at Higher Rates Than Whites
"In this late phase of the pandemic. it's getting more likely that people will be affected from their homes if they haven't made the payments all kinds of people are being evicted but some new research in georgia fines. That black americans are being evicted more often than white americans. Npr's chris arnold reports katrina chisholm has rented a house outside atlanta for three years. She's a single mom with a teenaged. Son she lost her customer service job during the pandemic and back in january. She fell a month behind on the rat. I remember going to the door and a sheriff's standing aaron in a scared me because i didn't know why he was at my house. The reason was our landlord had filed an eviction case against her chisholm. Says she scrambled managed to find a temporary job and caught up on the rent. I worked on but off and bought money. And i save everything could but when that temporary job ended she fell behind again. Chisholm applied for federal rental assistance money. And she got it but she and her lawyer say. Her landlord refused to take that money. The landlord disputes that. She says the company told her that our lease was about to end and she had to leave or get addicted unless you get that eviction. No one's going to want you to read from them so me and my son will be. I mean. i don't want to be in a homeless situation. Getting evicted consent people into a downward financial spiral during the pandemic has been the added danger of catching or spreading covid. Susan's landlord is a company. Owned by a private equity investment firm called predator and partners which apparently has been filing addiction cases against a lot of people during the pandemic the company has filed to evict more than a thousand residents since last september. That's jim baker with the private equity stake holder projects. It's a nonprofit group that's been tracking eviction filings by big corporate landlords. And it's been a report on prem fighting a racial disparity they're filing to evict residents at rates four times as high in majority black counties.
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"jim baker" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"He sits down with Democrats who have control of the Congress, after all, to make deals, and that's what's so unique about his story. And what seems so different than today and we get this question a lot. Could've Jim Bakker succeed in two days. Environment, and I think that the trick is I mean, look, he's uniquely skilled. I think he would do better than most of the people are out there right now. But the environment is changed and the incentive structures have changed, right. I think that you know used to be when you and I are going up that a member of Congress wanted to succeed, he or she would go get a member of the other party. Sign onto a bill Go to the press gallery, say, Hey, this is bipartisan. And there was a perceived reward for that, Even if it's just lip service today, the notion that you would be bipartisan you would be you would be flayed. You would be excoriated by your own party and because of gerrymandering, you're more worried about your own party primaries and you are about reaching out to the middle. Right, and this idea of protecting the institution rather than protecting your own sort of immediate political interests that Seems to be gone as well. Yeah, Absolutely. So I think that you know, I think I got a baker would have made sure we got a code relief package last year sat faster than we did. I think he could have, you know, avoid some of the train wrecks we've seen in recent times. But I don't know that he could have brought the parties together for big sweeping legislation. And I think that's by this challenge. I think he has the instincts. Jim Baker had I just don't know whether the environments open to that kind of thing. How realistic do you think Biden is about what he's up against him? He's not naive. He's been in politics for a long time. Even though he started in the Baker era. He knows what he's up against. Yeah, he knows he's up against Look, It's been 12 years since he was in the Senate. You hear some senators say, Hey, guy is different than when you were here. I think he understands that because people understand that, but it's still in his blood, right. He's still a creature of the eighties and nineties and so forth, And it will be interesting to see what happens. Whether he can. He can do something different than what we've seen in the last few years. Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. Peter..
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Jim Bakker seeks suit dismissal; ex-governor is his lawyer
"TV pastor Jim Baker is asking a judge to dismiss a Missouri lawsuit accusing him of falsely claiming that a health supplement could cure the coronavirus U. S. regulators warn Baker's company and six others to stop selling items using what the government called false claims that they could treat the virus or keep people from catching it Missouri's Attorney General sued Baker and Morningside church productions to have them stop selling silver solution as a treatment on a streaming video program the lawyer representing Baker is former governor Jay Nixon he said the lawsuit violated Baker's constitutional right to free speech as well as the Missouri constitution and the state's religious freedom restoration act I Walter Ratliff
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Jim Bakker seeks suit dismissal; ex-governor is his lawyer
"Jim Baker once a lawsuit over claims of a coronavirus cure to be dismissed TV pastor Jim Baker is asking a judge to dismiss a Missouri lawsuit accusing him of falsely claiming that a health supplement could cure the coronavirus U. S. regulators warned Baker's company and six others to stop selling items using what the government called false claims that they could treat the virus or keep people from catching it Missouri's Attorney General sued Baker and Morningside church productions to have them stop selling silver solution as a treatment on a streaming video program the lawyer representing Baker is former governor Jay Nixon he said the lawsuit violated Baker's constitutional right to free speech as well as the Missouri constitution and the state's religious freedom restoration act I Walter Ratliff
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Ross and Carrie Meet Isis: Age of Aquarius Edition
"We got a hold of Isis aquarian via phone. She's in Hawaii. We had seen her at the source family reunion dinner but but we didn't talk to her there but she heard our show and she agreed to come on and talk to us and then she did it and it sounded like this high isis. How're you ewing doing Okay well thank you so much for doing this with us. Sure so isis want you tell us about how you got involved in the source family family to begin with I was living in. La Actually engaged to a famous rock and roll photographer. Rondo Shelly loved La. Look everything we were you were you originally from La. I grew up in the air force. My Dad was a military man so we lived in California before. But you know I basically basically lived Oregon California Hawaii okay. A real coastal girl. Oh actually we were living in Florida. My devastation it takes canaveral on. When was this that you are working with your photographer? Slash boyfriend in L. A. Mid Sixties. Okay actually hit meant what Jim Baker when he had three famous restaurants on sunset boulevard breath aware in the world and then the source and he was actually known as Food Goo. Jim Baker was an iconic Hollywood legend. Before he was even bother you owed. Oh Oh okay. That's news to me. In what way his restaurants were all very famous okay. Everybody went to his restaurants. They were shot as a curve. Her and he was you know he was La Player. He was very good looking and he was very inland with no one. BEADY and Steve Allen and it was the in crowd and and he was very well-known. Interesting Steve Allen of our ears so those those two people seem like unlikely. Unlikely friends because Steve Allen was sort of not very into the spiritual side of things. Do you know anything about that friendship while Jim Baker wasn't he didn't it really started his spiritual trip until he sold you old world kind of went on his journey and devise on each other before then. The way I described him Baker's he was the ultimate animal man. He's a man's man that he was lazy. And then now the women loved Kim Piazza Array of friends from Jack Lang to Paul Breaks. So well connected. When did you make the connection with him? Well when I hit lose UCLA. Before I met lawn I had gone to the old world. I was actually introduced to him and his wife. At the time I actually became very good friends with his wife. The store was kind of a whole put on us. Never really kindness connected we did we. Didn't you thought maybe a relationship or something might arise sooner than it did. It was a playboy and then I just Kinda moved onto another crowd and Net ron and then you know we were doing our studio. I haven't seen Jim in in a year or two. I heard that he opened. This restaurant called the source. It was the beginning beginning of this. That you chain restaurant that he opened up and we were looking for models for Jesus Christ superstar Mhm Booster we were doing and I love that I need some Jesus type looking people and I said well. I've heard that my old friend. Jim has him at this restaurant. There's a collection of Jesus wearing roads. I stepped onto the source doors patio. He came out looking like Moses. You know so close he wanted. Jesus and Moses. Yeah so you know is is women following him and beautiful young people at the stores and it was just like something happened I just I clicked. uh-huh never looked back. Did you have to go home and think about it and then return the next day just immediately a member it was immediately. I was Aw something happened. I would if it was if I knew this is what I was there for. I instantly blue that we had made agreements before incriminating and he confirmed that just like my destiny was that was it it was assets. What was the confirmation to just kind of agree with you or did he have some kind of evidence of that now? He looked at me and he said I. I've been waiting for you. It was like a cosmic snick download. And then he's voiced it. Okay yeah so I went back home and I told you on that. I was playing to join the first family way and I thought he would actually come with. Yeah I remember in the documentary. He was saying that that wasn't for him. Come with me. And he thought I was stark raving me now and he let me go thinking that you know in a couple of weeks I would be back but I didn't. That was that that next day you were having having Frist Bruce as a family and the sunflower and Solomon. Yeah that was the proof of Solomon and that to the studio and I got some cameras and I just started documenting. Because that's what I was used to doing. That started my path of being a family. Historian all starring in our guys keep her which is so cool and I think what really makes the source standout from so many other groups that you have so much documentation. How much of that is yours? And how did you kind of make sure that you yourself were included in the in the documentation. Well it was all mine. Basically I started it and then I was just with him all the time following him around and I became like one of the family administrators and Kinda hands the camera off to a Swiss. This brother only and by that time. He likes the whole thing being you know recording and he said this will end up saving the legacy and who has all that now. Does it take a good chunk of your house. How many photos yard? I you know she'll onto the art guys through forty some years of being here Hawaii. They started getting started deteriorating because the climate and just one day I well well you know I gotta figure this out. I gotTa do something and that was about fifteen years ago when I decided I was going to write the book. I never never intended to be the one that wrote the book but I couldn't get anybody else to do it. Some people were families didn't even know they were in the source family. They didn't Walker kids to know about the story. Okay so so how. Many of the former members G. think are still open about how they were in the source family versus what percentage would you say. Just kind of. Don't talk about it. It's buried deep in the past for them. Well since the documentaries a book and all the publicity the city and and we've had a couple of family reunions. I think everybody's pretty open to you. Know some people that that are negative negative to it and realization that we all came to and it was quite a shock to me when I think it was. We didn't all have the same. Mainly -ality is added censure thought through the Lens of our own being our own karmic experience that we had. y'All were on a different different paths with it so if we different people will get different stories everybody else. I'll have the same experience That's a really nuanced onced. Lovely view that you know we all have these different experiences and we might see them you know totally subjectively. I feel like that's A A little contrasting with some of the the ways that was presented in documentary where it felt more like father yoed is the embodiment of God and everyone in the source kind of saw him that way and he really was. What was the word? It was like your your earthly master. Something like that. So how do we do. Yes we you went through those phases through all phases from the beginning of the family we went to so many incarnations experience. The American Indian Chips the Hebrews. He took assuming everything he was on his path. Also listen incredible me but you know yes it got messy at times you know we were all all trying to figure it out including him he had to figure it out too. There was bends in the road. Yes you know. I think we all got a passing grade. We were a mystery school. We were just hippie. We were into the spiritual pursuit and it was new territory for him for all of us. Who is God? He was God to us. It's not uncommon to talk that way not uncommon to talk about being in our God goddess. Okay so what's he got in the same way that I'm God. Yeah Yeah so you know forty years ago that was just like new territory. We we saw each other gods. We saw each other spiritual beings
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Apple Declines DOJ Request To Unlock Pensacola Gunman's Phones
"The FBI wants apple to unlock iphones. That belong to the shooter at a Naval Base. In Pensacola Florida last month. Apple is resisting this and now the attorney general's complaining that Apple's not doing enough to help law enforcement in its investigation. This is just the latest in an ongoing fight between the US government and tech companies over how to Balance Privacy Privacy with public safety we've NPR's technology correspondent Shannon bond with US Shannon. Hey David what exactly is the government asking apple to do here well the the FBI has to iphones belong to the gunman in Pensacola who is the Saudi Air Force. Cadet and law enforcement has a court order to see who he was communicating with before the attack but the phones are locked and their contents are encrypted. So the government's asking apple for help but apple has said for a long time it won't unlock devices and break encryption. And that's frustrated frustrated the attorney general. Here's what embar said on Monday. So far apple has not given any substantive assistance. This situation perfectly illustrates straight why it is critical that the public be able to get access to digital evidence once it has obtained a court order based on probable. Cause so so. What exactly is apple's argument for? Not Helping here. Well Apple First of all is rejecting bars characterization in a statement it put out on Monday. said it's already turned over for Gigabytes of information to the government things like I cloud backups and transactional data saying they are helping right the the FBI wants the communications on the phones and Apple says to do that would require building back door. That would compromise the security of all iphones I spoke with Susan Landau a professor of Cybersecurity and policy at Tufts and she says that kind of back door would make it easier for criminals to access personal financial and health information. The risks are that it becomes easier to open anybody. Anybody else's phone. The whole reason apple went to the model of making the data on the phone. More secure. Is that Hackers were taking data off the phone own and then using it for identity theft. And that's pretty much. What apple said on Monday? It said quote. There's no such thing as a back door just for the good guys. This I have to say sounds familiar. I mean aren't these the very issues that came up back in two thousand fifteen after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino California. That's right this is pretty much much very similar conflict and play in the San Bernardino case the people might remember. The government actually sued apple to force it to unlock the phone apple resisted and there was a really tense standoff with the Obama Administration but the government wound up working with a third party contractor to get into the phone and since then apple has reportedly improved encryption and software to make it suffices even more secure and harder to get into now than they used to be then. So how do these larger questions get resolved if they do all right. So first of all experts say that really. We need Congress to weigh in on the law. I spoke with Jim Baker. He was general counsel at the FBI during in the San Bernardino case. And he says there's no easy solution to balance these questions. So what you have then is a situation where the country through its elected so representatives in Congress needs to make a choice. Does it want to give law enforcement more access and create more cybersecurity risk. Or does it want to do you. Something different places could end up is back in court. And if the government gets a court order then the question becomes will apple comply with it. NPR's Shannon Bondra covers technology for US. Thanks much thanks David.
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Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan says Mueller report shows no collusion
"President Trump down in Florida yesterday about to head to the golf course. Couple thumbs up mostly quiet though this weekend. But we're joined now by one of his top defenders in the house, the top Republican on the house oversight committee. Jim Jordan, congressman. Thank you for joining us your best morning, you're you're championships. Right there. He says the fact that there are no new indictments is not necessarily vindication for the president. You agree. Well, we got to read the report, but what I do know is to date not one bit of evidence to show any type of coordination collusion conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the election, and that was the charge George when this thing started almost two years ago. The Democrats were all saying that the president of the United States work with a hostile foreign country to steal the election. And again, there's not been one bit of evidence to suggest that any of that happened. Well, there's been a fair amount of evidence that fourteen fourteen associates of Trump had over one hundred contacts with the Russians even though you're quite right. There was no charge of conspiracy. Does any of the information that's been revealed? About those contexts are about the fact that so many in the Trump world lied about those contexts concern, you well, I mean, look the central charge of of the special counsel was to see if there was conspiracy coordination or collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to impact the election as I've said that was the focus of the of the entire special counsel investigation. We've not seen any of that. And again, remember, this is Bob Muller. This was the guy the Democrats and the Repub everyone in town said this is the guy we need for the job. He is the best person we can pick. He is. He is right next to Jesus he can almost walk on water. This is the guy and he will have the definitive statement on that fundamental question. We'll see the report, but all indications are that there's not gonna be any finding of any collusion whatsoever. How about the other concern that one of the other concerns the chairmanship raise right there? The fact that President Trump might be compromised because he was pursuing that Trump Tower in Moscow during the campaign, not telling the truth about it may still be pursuing it today. Come on. I mean, look, here's what's happened. They they don't think this Muller reports going to be the bombshell, they all anticipated. It was going to be. So now, they're launching all kinds of other charges all kinds of other investigation. They bring in Michael Cohen a few weeks ago. This was their first big hearing their first star witness there. First witness of the one hundred sixteenth congress a guy who's going to prison in six weeks for lying to congress. They bring him in. And what does he do he lies again, we think at least seven times under oath in front of the congress again? So that didn't that didn't work for him. Now, what's chairman, neither do Eighty-one different letters to sixty some different individuals starting a whole new fishing expedition, this is how they operate. So if it's not the bombshell, they wanted they bring in Cullen that doesn't work that hearing is a flop then they go with chairman Nadler Eighty-one different letters sent out there. This is how the Democrats are going to operate. We just got to be used to it and understand that that's where they're gonna go. Do you stand by your vote that the country should see congress? The entire Muller report the turning Jenner was clear in his letter. A short letter Friday. There was a lot of important things. He said in there. He said he's going to consult with rod Rosenstein, he's going to consult with the special counsel, Bob Muller, and he's going to release as much as he possibly can consistent with the law. I think the Democrats should be that should be what we all want an attorney general who operates according to the law. So I'm I'm for airing on the side of transparency the whole thing released. You didn't have those qualifications in the vote. Yes, we did consistent with the law. That's what we want. And and I think the Democrats would want the same thing. But I'll tell you this, George if he's got a release all the information that I want all of it released. I want those three, oh, I want the conversations between Bruce or and Christopher Steele the guy who wrote the dossier. Glenn simpson. The guy that Clinton campaign hired to put the dossier together. I want all those conversations that Bruce or had with Glenn Simpson. Christopher Steele, those recorded those notes from the FBI I want all that. Application to be made public when they use. They use that dossier took it to a secret court didn't tell the court the Clinton campaign paid for that document didn't tell the court a foreigner. Who was who was desperate to stop Trump from being elected, president wrote, the document I wanted that information released to the breeze thing. Let's let's release it all let's be clear on that. Then. So you agree with the Democrats all the underlying documents should be released top to bottom. The Muller report should be released. We've just gone through the special counsel regulations. There's nothing in the law that precludes the attorney general from release that I'm saying that the attorney general said follow the statute. And that's what he's indicated. He's going to do in consultation with rod Rosenstein and Bob Muller. I think the Democrats should be happy with that. They said Bob Mueller was the guy that they wanted to do this investigation. Billboards Bill bars going to consult with him and decide what he can release. But if they do release everything then by golly release, it all show is application show us two three. Oh to show us the information. They gave the gang of eight the gang of eight with Adam. Mm ship was a part of that the gang of eight when they talk to them way back with about this dossier about what took place at the a court and about the start of this counterintelligence investigation show us all that information to the American people deserve we've asked for that information to be made public a long time ago because that goes to what these top people this cabal top of the FBI what they did when they launched this thing. Clear back in the summer and fall of twenty sixteen before the election, the president could order all this released on his own all of the declassified on his own. We urge him to do that. I've urged him to do to release this stuff. I just described. I sure have the stuff that Jim call me Andy McCabe. Jim Baker Lisa page. Peter Struck all this stuff that they had started with the dossier and all this stuff that they'd started initially with this investigation prior to the election. We urge him to order the release of the mullahs report is well again, that's the attorney general's call. And he's gonna do that consistent with the law saying is if the Democrats if the Democrats are gonna call for all that to be released, then they should call for everything to be asking you a different question. Now, the president has this authority. Are you asking the president to order the release of the Miller report, that's the that's the president's call? He said he wanted to be made public. He said that the other day when he was walking. I think out in front of the press. I think last Wednesday he said that. So that's that's the White House has called you mentioned the here. Michael Cohen a couple of weeks back as we know from the southern district of New York. They concluded that President Trump was individual one who directed. Michael Cohen to make those hush money payments to influence the election, essentially, directed a felony. Does that concern you, look, I I like I said Michael Cohen came in front of our committee, and he lied, we think at least seven times, that's why congressman meadows an ice in a criminal referral letter to the Justice department. We know he lied about his when he said he didn't want a job in the White House. We know that was a lie. Every every media outlet in the country had reported that is the conclusion of the southern district. Prosecutors they're the ones who said that individual one President Trump directed Michael Cohen to do this. Well, I mean, there's they have their investigation that they're doing in the southern district of New York. What I choose to focus on is the fundamental the charge of the of the special counsel was to look at collusion. We have not seen any of that. What I also know is Michael Cohen cannot be trusted any prove that when he was when he came back in front of the committee and several times lied under oath. I think the real question years will chairman Cummings. Join us in demanding that Michael Cohen be charged for perjury by the Justice department. I think he should do that. He was very clear at the start of the hearing. He said, Mr. Cohen, if you don't tell the truth, I'm going to hold you accountable, and we've seen nothing from chairman Cummings to do any of that any kind of holding him accountable at all so just to be clear the president's involvement of those payments doesn't concern you the president has had an amazing two years. He was in. He was in Ohio last Wednesday. And what I saw was people lining the street is he wrote. From the airport to the tank plant where we build the best tanks in the world. I saw people cheering him because they understand that this presence committed to fighting for the American people and getting accomplish the things he told the American people he was gonna do it was an amazing reception. He received from all kinds of folks here in the fourth district of Ohio just last
Two top FBI officials who worked with Comey leave the bureau, report says
"And the ad council to people involved in the events surrounding the russia investigation as well as other recent controversies of the fbi of left the bureau lisa page served as a legal advisor to both james comey and his deputy andrew mccabe and was also a member of special counsel robert muller's team until justice department investigators uncovered text messages between her and top fbi agent peter struck which were highly critical vin presidential candidate donald trump jim baker is the other top official whose left the bureau baker was one of jim commes closest aides and served as the fbi's top lawyer he was reassigned late last year after the justice department investigated him for allegedly leaking classified information to a reporter about the socalled trump dossier garrett tenny demonstrators and russia protested the impending inauguration vladimir putin's fourth presidential term protest took place in moscow and petersburg and several other key russian cities and towns the atmosphere was heated with demonstrators shouting shame and waving anti corruption placards this moscow protests wasn't authorized by the government police in riot gear were quick to crack down and cleared the demonstrators in a matter of hours hundreds of activists were arrested around the country sometimes with force amongst those detained was opposition leader aleksei nevada who organized rallies in london kitty logan fox news new york city mayor rudy giuliani suggesting three americans being held in north korea will soon be released there is a good chance that three on time hostages in north korea will be released over the next several days i pray i pray that that happens but that didn't happen accidentally giuliani speaking of the iran freedom convention for democracy and human rights in washington dc.
Two top FBI officials who worked with Comey leave the bureau, report says
"People involved in the events surrounding the russia investigation as well as other recent controversies the fbi have left the bureau lisa page served as a legal advisor to both james comey and his deputy andrew mccabe and was also a member of special counsel robert muller's team until justice department investigators uncovered text messages between her and top fbi agent peter struck which were highly critical vin presidential candidate donald trump jim baker is the other top official whose left the bureau baker was one of jim combs closest aides and served as the fbi's top lawyer he was reassigned late last year after the justice department investigated him for allegedly leaking classified information to a reporter about the socalled trump dossier fox's jared tenny thousands of protesters opposing the upcoming inauguration of russian president vladimir putin took to the streets across russia today putin won reelection to a fourth term in march he'll be inaugurated on monday moscow police detained opposition leader alexei navalny during a protest in pushkin square carrying him away by his arms and legs the focus shifts back to the eastern conference per playoff action today in the nba eastern conference semifinal sets change locations for game three.