Battleground LIVE: What Exactly Is The FBI Up To w/Steve Friend

Tonight, on Battleground LIVE Steve Friend and I Dems vote against deporting illegal alien sex criminals, the FBIs OIG report and the timing of Wray’s resignation, what to look out for during Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing, and the potential coup against Kash.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Warning you're roped out to enter the arena and join
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good evening, America, and welcome to battle Ground Live. This
is the show where we kick ass, and we take names,
and we lockhorns with the radical left. We never quit,
we never surrender. From sea to shining Sea and everybody
in between. Welcome Patriots on this glorious Thursday, and a
glorious Thursday it is. We've got an amazing guest, a

(00:38):
timely guest, my friend whose last name is also Friend.
His first name is Steve. Last name friend Steve Friend,
is on the on deck for tonight. He's a law
enforcement officer, former FBI agent, turned whistleblower. He's the best
selling author of a book called True Blue. You know,
I think he is a a fantastic human being with

(01:04):
just an unbelievable wealth of information, especially in the times
that we live in. I'll tell you it has been
a very very cold day here at Fort Parnell. It
has snowed a lot, and you know, I'll tell you
what taking care of farm animals, you know which, by
the way, let me just tell you Commander Melanie is
an absolute hero. She does this stuff while I plan
the show. She is amazing with these animals. It's amazing,

(01:26):
like you'd see her in public, and she looks like
a damn Disney princess. She handles these farm animals like
she was born and raised on a farm. It's legit.
It's a very impressive thing to watch. But taking care
of farm animals in the winter is very different than
taking care of farm animals in the summer. And I
know that it's taken a little getting used to for her.

(01:47):
So she asked the girls to help her today because
it's been snowing all day. I mean it is. The
roads are terrible. We've got like probably eight inch es
nine inches of snow outside right now. And she sent
me this picture of Katie who got like almost like
this snuggy looking thing for Christmas. And it's pink and
it's basically like a wearable blanket that looks like a poncho,

(02:11):
but pink. And it shows Katie outside walking like like
the Bigfoot blurry image, and I was like, oh my god,
that looks exactly like Bigfoot, but with Bigfoot wearing a
pink poncho. And then I sent Melanie a text message
of the actual mysterious image of Bigfoot walking like this
and their gait and their posture in their walk. The

(02:34):
blurry quality of the image itself looks like Bigfoot's wearing
a snuggie. I'm just saying, although it's Katie outside helping
with the farm animals. But it's very, very funny. So
we are very busy here at Fort Parnell. Let me
tell you, there's so many things to talk about today,
especially when we get the stuff right off the top rope.
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at green as best you can, folks. Trump today is

(03:18):
it's expected, and it's been reported by a couple of
different outlets today that Trump is to announce Sean Kerran
as the head of the Secret Service. As the Director
of the Secret Service. Now Sean Kerran is the head
of a Secret Service campaign detail. This is interesting. Let
me see if I can show you this guy right
here with the shades. Of course, this is the iconic

(03:38):
July thirteenth assassination attempt picture. Susan Crabtree here, she's she's
a great reporter, she's reporting this. But the guy with
the shades to President Trump's right is the guy that
is supposed to be named as President Trump's Secret Service
as director. Now. Look, you know there was rumored to
be Bongino. I think Bongino's extraordinary. I ord love to

(04:02):
see him in this role. I will say about this role,
I think it's it's absolutely critical for Trump to have
in his administration loyalists. Now, the media would act as
if that's somehow a bad thing. The media treats, you know,
potential cabinet nominees and leaders in his administration. Oh, he

(04:24):
just wants people who are loyal And I say to that, well, well,
no shit. And in any organization that you run from
top to bottom, whether you're in a law enforcement organization,
whether you're in the military, whether you're running a business,
whether small business or large business, it doesn't matter. If
you're a leader, you want people who are loyal to
your mission. The media treats it as if Trump is

(04:45):
some sort of mob boss, kissed the ring type stuff.
But loyalty is a good thing. In fact, you know,
Trump's one weakness in his first term, if I had
to name one, it was it was that some of
the people that were around him, especially within his inner circle,
weren't loyal to him, and that caused all sorts of problems.

(05:06):
Those people stabbed him in the back at the first
opportunity they got, they leaked to the media. They were
the enemy within the inner circle. And you know, I'll
chalk that up, and we've talked a little bit about
that on this show, but he chalked that up to
just Trump first time, well, like, in all seriousness, the
first time Trump spent a night an overnight in Washington,

(05:29):
D C. It was in the White House as president,
So he's an outsider. He knows all about the swamp,
but just he didn't really know, I think, or fully
understand in his first term just how deep it was
and how rare loyalty is in politics. The old phrase
by Harry Truman, if you want loyalty in Washington, d C.
Or you want loyalty in politics get a dog. It doesn't.

(05:50):
There isn't a lot of loyalty in the business. But
I think the president this go around, of course, four
days out from his inauguration, which is incredible, can't get
here fast enough. But this time around, the president is
doing a fantastic job at picking people who are loyal
to him, loyal to in America first agenda. And you know,

(06:12):
we talked about this a little bit yesterday on the
show about a lot of these questions from these senators. Now, again,
the senators are supposed to be the big boys and
the big girls in the room, the adults in the room. Right.
The Senate is supposed to be the more senior governing body,
especially when you're looking at the House and the Senate.
The Senate's supposed to be the grown ups. Some of

(06:32):
the questions that we got from these Democrat senators over
the last couple of days have just been infantile and ridiculous.
I mean, and we talked yesterday with Rich Barris about this,
but the questions of will you disobey the president if
he gives you an order that you don't like? This
is very very very concerning. I don't the president of

(06:56):
the United States is your voice. We elect them, and
to not do the bidding of a sitting president of
the United States is to completely blow off the will
of the American people, which is a core, which is
the core of the American Republic. And yet many of
these Democrat senators just don't seem to understand that at all.

(07:18):
And we've seen these questions not just to Pete Hegseth
as the leadoff hitter, but with all of President Trump's
cabinet nominees thereafter. So it's a very very concerning thing.
But I want to talk to you about Bongino in
this hostage deal. I remember how I told you yesterday,
Watch how the media portrays this hostage deal. Biden's going

(07:39):
to try to take credit for it. Keep in mind, folks,
this deal for the Israeli hostages, many of whom are
American citizens, by the way, and by the way, a
tragic hallmark of the Biden administration is the Biden Administration's
willingness to leave Americans behind, whether it's in Afghanistan or
in Israel. It's sickening to me. No Americans should ever
be left behind. But Biden was going to try to

(08:02):
take credit for it. The deal was supposedly the structure
of the deal was supposedly put in writing in May.
It didn't get done though, until five days before Trump
was supposed to be back in office, and a month
before that, Trump said if they are not back, if
our people are not back, there's going to be hell
to pay.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Biden tried to take credit for it, but kudos to
Dan Bongino, my buddy, who had President Trump on his
show today talking about this very subject that we talked
about last night. Listen to what Trump had to say
about this, astiele.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's clear that the Biden team was ready to capitulate
to basically all of Hamas's demands. Biden was basically negotiating
for Hamas against Israel. Did your team make clear to
the terrorist Hamasta, this is the best deal they were
going to get, that it was only going to get
worse from here when you take office on Monday. And basically,
if they didn't accept the release of some of these

(08:53):
hostages and stop demanding to remain in control, that they
were going to be wiped out because there's no deal
without you win the election. That's a fact.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
If we weren't involved in this deal. The deal would
have never happened. No deal would have happened, and the
hostages would never have probably seen life again, but they
certainly wouldn't have been released for a long time. Now,
we changed the course of it, and we changed it fast,
and frankly, it'd better be done before I take the

(09:23):
oath of office, and I assume it is now. You know,
we shook hands and we signed certain documents, but it
better be done. But no, and it was so ungracious
that Biden To said, oh, he did it. He didn't
do anything. If I didn't do this, if we didn't
get involved, the hostages would never be out. They would
have never come out. Very much like the Jimmy Carter
situation with Reagan.

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further ado. Let me get my buddy on here. His
name is Steve friend. He is a former law enforcement officer,
FBI agent turned whistleblower, best selling author of True Blue.
Welcome my friend, mister friend.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
How's it going great to be here? Happy New Year?

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Happy New Year to you as well. Now I know, wait,
so the last I'll try to get you on the
show last week and what you were watching the penn
State Notre Dame game. And I assume that you're a
Notre Dame fan and probably pretty happy with the outcome.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
I am an alumni, sir, as was my dad.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
You went to Notre Dame.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, my dad and I are both graduates, so we
took my oldest down there for three generation of friend
men getting to go to his first game. And now
I am a little bit nervous because I think he's
endeavoring to do the same. And I'm like, wow, I
better save a lot more for college.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Well, I mean, I have to say, you know, I'm
not a penn State fan. I'm a Pit I'm from
pitt so I'm a big Pit fan. But I guess
in a game against Notre Dame, I would root for
penn State because I'm from Pennsylvania. But either way, the
Notre Dame's head coach. Like, there was this SoundBite that
came out of the reporter that's like, well, how do
you feel about being the first black coach to be

(12:34):
and he was like, I don't really care about black, white,
Asian otherwise, doesn't matter. It's just an honor and a
privilege to lead these young men. And this guy, this coach,
his name is escaping me. So if you know, it's
just Freeman, yeah, free Marcus Freeman. This guy has been
a warrior against diversity, equity, and inclusion, which, by the way,

(12:54):
it is cultural Marxism. It's divisive. We shouldn't happen anywhere
in America and any organization. It's caustic. It destroys organizations
from the inside out. But this guy, since that win,
has been like pushing back against the DEI agenda, not
just in college football but everywhere, and it has become

(13:15):
something of a cultural icon here. I think, which hey,
I'm not I didn't go to Notre Dame. I like
the movie Rudy, but I can't say that I'm a
Notre Dame fan. But his approach and his belief system
is as at least as it pertains to DEI. Something
that I think is really damn cool.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
And we stuck around because it was a pack stadium.
Knew it was gonna be a hard time to get out,
and we want to Even having to wait hours to
get out of the stadium anyway, it was just a nightmare,
but we stuck through the ceremony afterwards, and when he
said that, when she asked, it was the first question
out of her mouth, how does it feel to be
the first black coach to go to a championship game?
And there was an audible grown from the entire pretty

(13:56):
serious way. Everybody was just so over it. And I mean,
I think the only critique I could give for Margus
Freeman from that answer was that he's he's half black
kid and he's half Korean, which I would have really
liked to see him say something to the effective, well
do you have a problem with Korean's and then just
left it on that blonde, woke chick to just him

(14:18):
in awe and not know what to say.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
I couldn't hear the crowd, but I wonder if the
reporter knew in the moment that she asked the question,
because I mean, she was I don't know, she looked
kind of younger. I mean maybe she it was one
of those things where you asked the question, or there's
somebody in her ear asking her to ask the question.
But she but she gets the question out and here's
the crowd grown, and now she's become infamous for asking

(14:40):
just what was a really stupid question.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's like the let's go Brandon reporter at the same time, right,
And that was definitely a loaded question. It was ready
to go because James Franklin is half black, so it
was definitely either one, no matter who won the game.
That was the first question was.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
So I just got it first of all, Rich seven
to four Pittsburgh from the live chat, thank you for
your rumble rant tip. He says, we want Marcus Freeman
to replace Mike Tomlin here in Pittsburgh as the coach
of the Steelers is something that really I'm a huge
NFL football fan, and I know many people in the
chat are like, got to hell with the NFL, they
went woke. But what I say to that, Steve, is like,

(15:18):
there are a ton actually the vast majority of players
and coaches in the NFL are conservatives, and I don't
want to abandon them to the predations and depravity of
the radical left because they are the worst. But Mike Tomlin,
you know, oh, he's never had a losing season, but
he loses in the first round all the time in
the playoffs and never ever heard a less meaningful stat

(15:41):
never had a losing seamen season. It'd be great to
have Marcus Freeman here in Pittsburgh. That would be pretty badass.
Do you think he's staying with Notre Dame or you
think he's going somewhere else?

Speaker 3 (15:51):
You know, I don't, I don't know. I mean, he's
he's a young guy. I think he's in in his
like later thirties. I know he played football for Ohio State,
and is he's having success. I don't know why you'd
move on, but you never know. These guys with the
ambitions to take it to the next level. I would
never fault anybody for doing that. And if he wins
the national championship, I would think that a couple of
football teams out there would be knocking on his door

(16:13):
with a big payday and you wouldn't have to deal
with all of the pay and the players now in college,
and that's that's a nightmare. That's why I think Nick
Saban retired. He just didn't want to deal.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
With it exactly exactly I So, okay, so see this
is this is what happens when I told you, Hey,
we go wherever we want. On the show, we are
talking about college football and now NFL football, So I'm
sure this was all unvarnished. No one prepared for this,
But we're talking about DEI. First of all, everybody's reporting

(16:46):
if Fox News I think was the first to break
the story. FBI closes DEI office days before the Trump inauguration.
But there's more to this story than meets the eye. Steve,
what's your take on what the how is the FBI
handling this? What does this look like on the inside.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
So I've had a couple of moles come to me
with this information a couple of days ago. One told
me that they had already taken the signs down on
of the headquarters building where the DEI advisory committees reside,
which you have to.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Understand, they have advisory committees.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
They have nine diversity advisory committees.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
That what do they do these what do they do?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
They just solicit people to come up with ideas for
them to exist. They report directly to the FBI director.
You're kidding me, celebrating weeks and months and whatever they have,
and it's mandatory three diversity trainings a year for every
employee at this point. But my moles were telling me, look,

(17:53):
they're taking the signs down from what they were hearing.
They're going to reassign the people because they're just going
to have the superfuge occurring from another angle, right. They
don't want to have them get fired by a cash
batello if he becomes a director. And then today another
one came forward sent me the email. Multiple people actually
did that. They officially announced that they had already shut

(18:16):
down the Diversity and Inclusion Office in December, and they're
reassigning these people to the Equal Employment Office, so they're
not getting rid of them in any way. They're just
going to infest another arm of the bureau entirely and
hope to carry on with their same culturally Marxist stuff
at the same time. But to me, it's a spinning

(18:37):
like a top the FBI to try to get into
somewhat of the good graces of an incoming administration, when
it's really just a desperate pr ploy to pretend to
be back on Team America again. Meanwhile, they've pushed forward
basically a cultural agenda from the DEI office for number
of years now. I mean they're all in on the

(18:58):
thirty by thirty initiative, which is not just limited to
the FBI, not just limited the Department of Justice. It's
a nationwide law enforcement initiative.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
What is it.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
It is the goal of the stated goal of thirty
percent female representation by twenty thirty in management of law enforcement,
not just amongst the rank and the file. But I've
read a lot of it. I've done deep dives into it,
and it is absolute Marxism. It says things like job

(19:28):
knowledge tests should be done away with because they're discriminatory,
and rooming standards and physical fitness standards are discriminatory. We
need to get rid of them. We need to get
rid of the white culture that permeates. We need to
promote more of the lgbtq AI plus rainbow Kamakazi that

(19:49):
is just everywhere you turn. So they're basically trying to
infest law enforcement because they got the guns. I mean,
that's a monopoly on force. And you have a government.
They can't wait to take away your second amends and
then we can hand it off to these guys.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
What a great point. I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean
it's it's about having a monopoly on force. It's about
controlling the federal the biggest, most sophisticated federal law enforcement agency,
which you know has been really on the wrong path
for some time. What I don't understand, Steve is is

(20:24):
these organizations like the FBI, or even elite institutions within
the United States military. I was in the infantry, right,
You've got to pass. There are certain things that you
have to do to get into the infantry. There are
certain things that you have to pass and ranger school
to go to move on to the next phase. These

(20:44):
are past fail things. And but my larger point is this,
why is the focus in these organizations so much on
inclusion when by definition they are exclusionary. We want the best,
the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, the smartest, and no
one gives a shit what color their skin is, or

(21:06):
what God they worship, or how much money they make
or any of that. Just there's one standard, pass it
or not. If you don't pass it, you're out. So
why the focus on inclusion when these organizations are exclusionary
by by definition?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Because communists destroy everything. That's what they're prime directive is
they're not destroying the military, they're not destroying the FBI.
They're building their own. And when they get people in
there who know at their core, they know I mean,
I guess a lot of them are indoctrinate at the
point where they feel entitled to things, but they know

(21:44):
that they can't pass those tests. That means they're compromised.
That means that they're getting paid one hundred and thirty
five thousand dollars a year for a job that they're
not capable of doing. So if you ask them to jump,
they say how high? They'll just follow orders all day.
They're getting the people that are all in on these ideaologies,
the communism and the Marxism, the Dei madness, because they

(22:05):
then look at anyone who's saying things like you and
me are that like, we don't care about those things.
We just want people who are capable of putting bad
guys in jail. Well, you're the enemy. The I've made
the comparison recently, and it's an analogy. I think it
actually kind of holds really well, and that is that
an FBI is Skynet from the terminator because sky net

(22:28):
and it's code, it's ones and zeros. It's not good,
it's not bad. It's just a computer. And then it
becomes sentient and then it comes to the conclusion that
it's coding says it has to defend itself from the threat,
and the humans are the threat because they can unplug it. Right,
So it goes after the humans. Government bureaucracy, in this

(22:49):
case the FBI, because of all the powers it has,
particularly after the Patriot Act, is skynet. Its growth is
its prime directive. Government bureaucracies see success as growing, getting
more capable, getting more funding, getting more personnel. So inevitably
they will come to the conclusion that the threats are
people who want to bring it to heal, and they

(23:11):
will go after the small government types. And now we've
got them to go do that, and we've given them
the institutional authorities to do it. And now we've staffed
them with those people who believe in that because their
god is the government and they want to grow as well,
and they will jump how high, sir, whenever they bring
it forward. So the DEI, the powers that we've given

(23:32):
them through like Patriot Acts, it's all contributing to the
bottom of the slippery slope where we find ourselves right now,
which is why I was really concerned what I saw
like after the New Orleans attack, A lot of people
on the right I thought made a I said, you're
making a punctuation error. The statement is the FBI should
not be the arbitra of right think and wrong think,

(23:55):
and should not be going after moms at school board
meetings and grandma's at the capitol period, not Comma, and
going after the radical Muslim terrorists. I understand that the
AWA hobbyism is evil, and communism is evil, and isis
is evil, But you can't give the power to the
government because inevitably it is inevitable judgment day and terminator

(24:16):
is inevitable. Judgment day is inevitable that the government will
come for people who are its greatest threat, and that
is people who believe in small government and are liberty
minded and they are not willing to trade their freedom
for security. We're at the bottom of the slippery slope now,
we're at the end of the Knee Moler poem. First
they came for the trade unionists, then they came for
the communists, and then a socialists. Then they came for

(24:38):
the Jew and I said nothing because I was not
a Jew. And then they came for me and there
was no one left to speak for me.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well, and you look at what the FBI Field office
put out on Twitter. Just what at three o'clock, our
friend Brianna Morello put it out, the FBI is still
arresting people for January sixth. So this from the FBI
Washington Field offs, California. Man arrested on felony and misdemeanor
charges for actions during January sixth, US Capital Breach, Steve,

(25:08):
What the hell is going on here? How in God's
name four days before President Trump has inaugurated. But by
the way, this inauguration, to me, I gotta say, I mean,
it's outside. The threat of drones to me, are very real.
And yet the fact that the FBI is diverting any
resources at all period to going after January six ers here,

(25:31):
this many years after the fact, is not just a
little concerning. It's just off the shelf. What the hell
is going on? How is this still happening?

Speaker 3 (25:41):
The drone threat is actually real. I got another person
today send me some information from the inside about how
they removed like the GEO fence ability. Basically, you could
put a drone up and it would restrict where it
would fly, the programming it. You couldn't fly it over
the White House. And these are all made in China
and they've taken that capability out. Now you can fly forever.
So there's a huge security concern here. But to the

(26:03):
January sixth question, I've said this forever. They're not going
to stop. There's nothing that's going to stop them other
than a new director and a complete overhaul. And they
are even setting the land mines up now for a
cash battel to come in. But they really stink at
their operational security. I know people on the inside telling
me these things because they're in the rooms telling me

(26:24):
these things of what the plan is, and the plan
is pretty simple. They believe that they can stall cash
batel for months if needed, and they're going to say, look,
we got to do a background check, Oh we can't
get you your clearance, you can't come in, and then
eventually when he inevitably gets in months down the road. Meanwhile,
they're still promoting people and do executive leaderships where it's

(26:47):
gonna be hard to remove them, putting all their DEI
people around continuing to push forward these J six cases
or other cases that they're going to spin off of them.
He's going to get in and then they're going to say, oh, well,
we got fifty five field offices. You got to go around,
press the flesh and shake hands with everyone, and that
could take years. They're just going to try to wait
a mat and then get rid of it and move
on to the next one, because the Bureau is forever.

(27:08):
But like I said, they're not good at this because
they don't know that Cash Betel already has a security
clear it's top secret, so he can walk in on
day one, as is his plan to do. And there
are people who are pushing this out to us and
getting this information to me and my friends, and we
just bring it straight to Cash. So he's fully briefed
and aware of these things. But it's going to take

(27:30):
not just an appetite from a Cash battel and from
the people on the inside. It's going to take an
appetite from the political right to get beyond the belief that, well,
we just get rid of Christopher Ray and everything goes back.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
To me exactly. I mean, Cash is going to need
you know, just like Pete is going to need at
the Pentagon and the Department of Defense a small cadre
of you know, one hundred percent loyal people. And it's
almost going to be like, you know, when you're in Afghanistan,
almost like a counterinsurgency. You're going to have people there
that want to help you. You're gonna have people there
that don't. Sometimes you're not going to know the difference.

(28:04):
Sometimes the people that don't want to help you are
going to tell you that they do want to help you.
I mean, without that cadre of people who are loyal
and willing to help him advance what is an America
First agenda and really, you know, curtail the power of
the FBI by removing some of these political operators, it's
gonna be very difficult for one person to do. I

(28:25):
mean a perfect example is what they're doing with this
DEI stuff. They took down the DEI signs in these
nine DEI foughts reports like kind of unbelievable that our
taxpayer don't I got to pay taxes for nine DEI
advisory boards. Now, these are agents that could be trying
to stop terrorists, could be trying to stop terrorist attack,
but No, they're advising and reporting directly to Christopher Ray

(28:46):
about diversity, equity and inclusion programs and about you know,
LGBTQ holidays and like it's just honestly, it's we are
so far off the beaten path of the FBI's mission.
But it's not just the FBI, the DDS in the
same boat. How does cash if he gets in there
and he's got this cadre of people, what do you
do with those DEI folks that were in those offices?

(29:07):
You still do you find him? Do you let them go?

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Like?

Speaker 2 (29:09):
What do you do? What's the process that he would
have to use to remove people that just aren't consonant
with the FBI mission.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
I think it's about your tolerance or willingness to grip
it and rip it, Like I mean, if you've installed
me in there, I would do things like, Hey, there's
this Supreme Court case called Navy verse Egan. It says
that the agency has huge width when it comes to
its giving and bestowing and then revoking security clearances. I
would just revoke clearances from hundreds and hundreds of people.

(29:42):
But I think that that's going to be difficult sell
for a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
So you just revoke their clearances.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
You get, well, this is exactly what they do to me.
They suspended my clearance, revoke my clearance, and then I
can't work in the facility. I'm an employee who's unpaid
and definitely suspended until they adjudicate that, which we'll get
to in twenty one point fifty right, what I mean,
that's the hack that these I see the intelligence community
has around whistleblower protection. So for me, and it's not

(30:10):
specific your question, I brought for a whistlebler disclosure. The
FBI suspended my clearance. They can say that they didn't
retaliate against me for whistle blowing. They suspended my clearance.
Why do they suspend my clearance? Well, they had reasonably
that I lacked loyalty to the United States government because
according to them, I looked at the employee handbook improperly.

(30:31):
That's the case that was made.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
That to me is insane.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
So you can use that it's good for the goose
is good for the gander. You could assign people to
be the supervisors of a broom closet and make their
lives miserable, and they're pretty DEI people are not really
the most resilient of sorts. So maybe saying like no
more work from home, people themself select to go out,

(30:56):
or if you're a senior leadership, hey, we're not firing you,
but we're going to push you down back to the
gspay scale. And due to the Soros prosecutors around the country,
we have a surge of violent crime, and you're going
to go and be at a violent crime squad in
Chicago or Memphis or San Juan, Puerto Rico. Oh, you

(31:17):
don't want to do that, Well, there's the door for you.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Interesting. Interesting, So how would so this is explain to
me how this would be done. You take them off
the GS pay schedule and you can send them to
an FBI team out at one of these remote locations.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, I would say I would actually stand up a
nationwide crime suppression effort around the country to aid our
local partners, who the FBI theoretically holds in such high regard,
they really just want to be there to support them.
And we're going to augment your investigative divisions with our
technological prowess or investigative expertise, and we're going to send
guys who are bragging how they've been in the FBI
for eighteen or twenty two years with all their experience. Meanwhile,

(31:54):
they have less than five years of actual experience to
go and head up a task or be a member
of a task for us, and so many of them
are addicted to the Washington DC lifestyle. They're not going
to want to do it, or we're gonna assign them
to another executive role that is based in Huntsville, Alabama,
which they're not gonna find two appetized.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
So you think a lot of these agents that get
stationed at the bureau in Washington, d C. They just
like the swanky lifestyle and they don't want to leave it.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Twenty percent of personnel or in Washington, d C. Between
the headquarters in the Washington Field Office and then that
doesn't include Richmond and Baltimore, even Philadelphia and people in leadership,
they buy a brownstone and they know that every eighteen
months you're going to ping pong between headquarters and the field.
So they will try to pick going between Washington Field

(32:47):
Office and headquarters. They don't have them leave or Richmond
or Baltimore. They can just stay there and they don't
actually experience the rest of the country and theoretically, that's
why they're supposed to be doing that, to get a
good grasp on what the field is doing. But they don't.
They live a completely separate lifestyle and they have no
appreciation for it. Their passion is in promoting. It's not

(33:10):
even doing the job that theoretically that they have. It's
what do I have to say? What email do I
have to send out? What fake initiative or even what
new name for an initiative that already exists. I'll come
up with a new acronym and I'll put that on
my resume, and I'll promote to the next level. It's
a completely contrived system. It's a construct that selects people

(33:33):
who are only capable of promoting in that system. They're
not capable individuals. They couldn't run a field office or
even run an investigation because so many of them to
start that process start it when they have five years
of investigative experience, and then they've promoted and they've moved on.
So you don't have effective leadership at any left of
the FBI.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
I mean, so obviously the organization is in dire need
of reform, you know, cash, But tell us about the
you know, yeah, I think they're gonna slow walk his confirmation,
you know. But the Democrats are saying, oh, these FBI
background checks not just for cash but Tell, but but
also for Tulca Gabbard and RFK, they're incomplete and they're late,
and we don't have so we're gonna have to push

(34:13):
back their hearing. What goes into these what goes into
these background checks? Like for Pete Haggs that that was
down in DC for his hearing, and the Democrats now
this back of the background checks they are incomplete. Well,
what the hell is incomplete about? I mean, I don't
this is the Biden FBI. I mean, shouldn't the Democrats
be happy with the quality of their background checks.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
I've done background checks for presidential appointments. There's a acronym
that you have to follow, Carla beefad where you go
to different people who are listed in their background Right,
this is a reference for me, and they try to
be as thorough as possible. Look, I've done a background
checks for a judge and they sent me to an
electronics store that he worked at when he was in

(34:54):
high school. And you have to go see character, you know,
a see it. Our responsibility I mean, you work through
this and the way that they do it and they
can slow walk it is absurd. Right. So I did
one and then I sent it back to headquarters and
they they would send it back to me. No, we

(35:14):
don't know. That's not good enough. Why because you have
to follow the exact template. You didn't follow the template
the way that you a you you didn't indent the
paragraph the way we wanted to, or the bullet point
should have been a dark circle and not an open circle,
and they will go back and forth with you and
drag it out. And that was for a judge who

(35:36):
was going to be appointed. It was a district judge.
And they have all these mechanisms to slow roll these things,
which is why I don't think we should rely on
the FBI to carry forward these background checks at all.
I mean, and specifically when these people have been vetted
throughout their entire career, right, I mean, that's one of
the comments.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Interesting. It's interesting because like some of the people like,
first of all, like if you're divorced, you know, because
some people were saying like, well, you know, the FBI
didn't talk to to Pete's ex wives, and I'm thinking, well,
holy shit like I wouldn't. I wouldn't want the FBI
talking to my ex wife. I gotta believe she probably
doesn't have a whole heck of a lot of good
things to say about me to the FBI, you know

(36:17):
what I mean? So how do you even navigate that?
And that was one question, And the other part of
the question I had is like this, they can clearly
so they can use the background check process essentially as
as an agent of the deep state to slow walk
somebody that would seek to reform the institution. I mean,
they can clearly do that to delay a confirmation.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
No question about it. And they could just say, look,
we were not able to locate this person right now.
I mean they were listed as a character reference, or
they were a former neighbor when they lived at this
house ten years ago, and we just can't find the neighbor.
So this is an incomplete background check. They're going to
try to find everything they possibly can to slow these up.

(37:02):
I think that the case needs to be made that
the FBI is just if you're what you're supposed to be,
the elite, the pre eminent law enforcement agency for the country,
and you're unable to locate this person, Well, then maybe
we should question whether or not your prowess is there
to even carry forward a full background.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
They're able to find people like January sixth, great.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Now a geofens what's wrong with you? And there's also
a fundamental misunderstanding of what the FBI's capabilities are. And
I'm just thinking about to the Kavanaugh confirmation when there
were these ridiculous allegations about him in his past, and
the statement went out from the Democrats in the Senate
that well, the FBI should investigate whether or not these happened.

(37:43):
And I was in the Bureau at the time. I
remember thinking, like, we're not the magic police. It's a
ceteral crime. But like if it happened thirty years ago,
you think that we're going to like walk in and
what we found the evidence in this room little place
and we can't know where it happened, or when it happened,
or how it happened.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Who was like we know, we have no idea.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
So they're they're limited their capacity, and that just needs
to be flatly pointed out. Right, there's no amount of
checking on somebody's high school employment that the FBI is
going to do that's going to make or break this.
We've got the votes whipped already.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Let's move on, all right, So let's let's pivot and
talk about Christopher Ray. He went on sixty minutes this
last weekend, and he dropped all sorts of bombs, like
metaphorical bombs, about China infiltrating almost every aspect of American society.
Listen to this sound bite, and I want to get
your reaction.

Speaker 5 (38:36):
China's cyber program is by far and away the world's largest,
bigger than that of every major nation combined, and has
stolen more of Americans personal and corporate data than that
of every nation big or small combined. But even beyond
the cyber theft, there's another part of the Chinese cyber

(38:57):
threat that I think has not gotten the attention publicly
that I think desperately deserves, and that is Chinese government's
prepositioning on American civilian critical infrastructure to lie in wait,
on those networks to be in a position to wreak
havoc and can inflict real world harm at a time

(39:22):
and place of their choosing.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
The Chinese have already insinuated malware into critical American infrastructure.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
That's correct, Like what things like water treatment plants. We're
talking about transportation systems. We're talking about targeting of our
energy sector, the electric grid, natural gas pipelines, and recently
we've seen targeting of our telecommunications system.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
So all of this comes out what the guy's already said,
he's going to resign it. Oh interesting. His resignation came
like the day after the fbioig report that said that
there were twenty six FBI informants crowd on January sixth,
despite the fact that the FBI is still hunting down
January six Grandma's even to this day. Here he is
talking about China on his way out the door, about

(40:09):
the dire threat that they faced to this country. They
have hacked into using their cyber program, critical American infrastructure
from water treatment facilities and everything else under the sun.
So meanwhile, while authors was happening, I'm sitting there thinking
as he's speaking, but the FBI is spending their time
rating mar Lago. I just what the hell? What did

(40:33):
the FBI do to stop China from doing this? If
they knew that China was doing it, what are we
doing to stop it?

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Well, from what my understanding is that particularly under the
Biden administration, there were actionable arrestable cases, counterintelligence cases against
agents of China in the United States, and the Department
of Justice said, we have gotten a directive that we're
not gonna go.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Out at all. Why wait a second, for this is
this is this is real?

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Yes, yes, and you have to wonder about level of
compromise from the human room. But at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania
Avenue and look, look, the FBI allowed through Operation fox Hunt.
They called it a police station in New York City.
A Chinese. The Chinese stood up a they called a
police station in our most important city in Manhattan, and

(41:30):
they went out and basically a black bagged, threw a
bag over head and repatriated Chinese people who had escaped
the CCP and come here and repatriated them back to Beijing.
For over a year, we allowed that to operate in
New York City.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Okay, you get what Why.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
That's a great question, because I guess they were devoting
too many resources to the over fifteen hundred arrest for
January sixth. So much of what does or doesn't happen
is within discretion of these government agencies, and they're underneath
the Department of Justice. And they're getting their marching orders.
I mean, it's not related to China, but all the

(42:11):
concerns leading into the election about election fraud. Right now,
the FBI announced all the time, we have an election
crime unit, election crimes, election crimes. But if you know,
you know, election crimes to them. And I know this
because I knew people that are all part of that.
They said, the DOJ said, we will not investigate election

(42:31):
fraud at all. We're only going to investigate threats to
the poll workers or voters. Why because we can call
it election crime, but we can get the outcomes that
we want because they were anticipating having the frauds available
to win. The FBI is a secret police force, It's
an American Stazi. At this point, they only do the

(42:53):
bidding of the party, and the party at this point
is sympathetic, if not wholly beholden to the Chinese Communist Party.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
I mean, is this why the FBI didn't really pursue
a vigorous investigation into the bidens. I mean, the FBI
knew that the Hunter Biden laptop was real. They knew it,
and yet they allowed these fifty one intelligence officials to
interfere in a twenty twenty election, and many polls believe
Many polls have cited that seven percent of people would

(43:24):
have changed their votes if just that and that alone
was reported on accurately. But is this why the FBI
just said, screw it, I'm not prosecuting Joe Biden because
we know he's going to be the president. We don't
want to mess around with him. I don't understand they
went after Trump, and.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
They also proactively suppressed that story. They sent agents to
social media companies and said that it was Russian disinformation
so they should censor it. When they had the laptop
in their possession. So they were not even a passive
interest in this one. Well, I didn't really involve us.
They used the laptop to pross Hunter Biden lapped for

(44:01):
the gun case. They had to verify that it existed
in that case. But they're hardly a non part of
the organization, despite what Christopher Ray might claim at this point. Look,
they interfered in the twenty twenty the interview. In the
twenty sixteen election, James Comy he not only pulled the
reins back on Hillary Clinton that no reasonable prosecutor would
bring charges against her. He after the election of Trump,

(44:23):
and then during that time we had the Russian collusion
stuff that was going on, Crossfire Hurricane. He sent agents
to go and get Mike Flynn. But one of the
biggest stories that didn't get reported widely as it should
have been. I think it was the most underreported story
about the FBI in twenty twenty four was that James
Comy in twenty sixteen ran in off the books honey

(44:46):
pot in scheme where he had two He had two
undercover female agents infiltrate Donald Trump's twenty sixteen campaign for
president to dig up dirt that they could then bring
charges on to engage in sexual activity with members of
the campaign.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
What wait a second, This is for how I've not
heard about this.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
This is reported by Kerry Pickett at the Washington Times.
A FBI whistleblower came forward and she's gotten those communications
are gotten worse than this, It gets worse. It came
to light because one of the agents was photographed by media.
The FBI went to media and said, that is an
informant whose life would be at risk if you publish it.

(45:27):
So they spiked the story. And then the FBI turned
around and took those two female agents sent one to
CIA so she couldn't be called as a witness, and
promoted the other one. And she is currently in the
upper echelons of management of the FBI today.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Okay, this is crazy to me.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
How okay, it was very underreported.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
How I mean, this seems like a huge deal.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
It's off the books too. There's there's no authorization to
do that. You can't use resources in that way. James
Comy deserves to be in solitary confinement at the end
of an l ship.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
One of these female agents that are saying I'm just
gonna sleep with I mean, they should know. I mean,
this isn't part of the agent training program for women.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
This is who occupies the halls of power now in
the FBI, particularly around James Comy. He had created this
image as being like beyond reproach, right, he was just
so great, like his book is called like a Higher Loyalty,
I mean, spare me, like gag. The guy had an
entourage follow him around. And these are the people that

(46:36):
are actually in leadership right now. They were Comy Hanger honors.
They were called the College of Cardinals colloquially within the
FBI because they were just beyond all questioning. They had
integrity as the day was long, and they really do
think that they are doing the lord's work at the
FBI because they have to stop the guy they call

(46:58):
literally Hitler from becoming president.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
So what do you make of this Zuckerberg stuff? Like
now he's apparently a conservative and giving a million bucks
a Trump inauguration. I saw this clip of him on
with Joe Rogan and Zuckerberg is talking about hunting, and
I'm like, uh, something tells me that he doesn't really
know what he's talking about. He's talking about bow hunting,
and Joe Rogan's just like asking him basic basic question.
He's like, oh, what kind of bow do you have?
And he's just like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
I had one to shoot the arrows.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Yeah, He's like, I like to use my he was
it's like ridiculous. He's like, I really enjoy using my
bow and arrow to hunt. I swear to God. That's
like almost almost a damn direct quote. He's like, Oh,
that's cool. What kind of bow do you have? He's
just like crickets And he's like, well, who who taught
you how to shoot? And he's like just the guys.
So the guy like, clearly he's not telling the truth

(47:46):
about that, so is he just like is he kind
of just like pretending to be on the right now
that Trump is coming into power and he doesn't want
Trump to come after him.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
All the tech pros are right. I mean, you got Bezos.
Bezos is probably one of the most evil ones out
there who is now going to be on the stage.
And yeah, you go to Mark Zuckerberg, who contributed four
hundred million dollars exactly nail in voting in twenty twenty,
and then he came to the Rogan Show and he's
saying like, oh, well, the government came after me. Hey, Mark,

(48:17):
you own the largest platform on the planet. You know
what you could have done. You could have gone on
your platform and said the government's coming after me, and
you know what happened. You would have turned into X
and people would have said, like, hey, this guy actually
cares about free speech. But no, he censored everything and
he can do all the fake jiu jitsu that he
wants and have the fat boy haircuts that he has.
And his necklace there which I noticed didn't have a

(48:39):
crucifix on it. It kind of looked like a computer ship.
Because I guess tech is his god, and it's it's
an opportunist. At this point, he's shown his true colors.
And people show their true colors in two situations, when
they have everything to lose and when they have nothing
to lose. And he's in sort of a unique situation
because he perceives that he has everything to lose because

(49:00):
he has this big, giant conglomerate, but really his sugar daddy,
the US government is gone. Now he's got nothing to lose.
He's going to show his true colors. And he's an opportunist,
as is Bezos. And I think for anybody who has
above room temperature IQ, you see, it's completely phony. He's
not able to answer these questions and he's not conservative.
What he's doing is using your predisposition against you when

(49:25):
his sort is in power, when the Communists have the power,
boot on the throat of his enemy. When you're in
power and your predisposition is hey, look, I'm magnanimous. I
want to have open conversations. I believe in the First Amendment,
lots of ideas. Let's let's engage. He's like, huh, I'm
going to use that to get into your good graces
when I'm in a position of weakness, I use your

(49:47):
predisposition to help me. When I'm a position of strength,
know your role and shut your hole boot to throat.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Interesting. God, man, that's fascinating. I mean so, I mean,
this is precisely the reason why Bill Gates has been
reportedly like trying to hang around mar Lago and get
a meeting with Trump. I mean, that would be I
hope that that didn't happen, but it really makes him
eat the bugs, Bill Gates, you can eat the bugs

(50:14):
and you can live in the pod. Man. You'd force
it on the rest of us. That'd be so fun.
It's kind of an amazing thing to behold all these
tech bros going down to mar Lago to kiss the
ring of Trump. And clearly they worked against this guy
diligently for the last four years, but now that he won,
they all want to be in his inner circle. You know,

(50:35):
It's just really is something to behold. Man, What do
you think? What do you think about Congress today? One
hundred and forty five Democrats voting against the bill to
deport illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes. How is it
possible that we live in America today where one hundred
and forty five Democrats are voting against something like this,

(50:56):
and then on top of that, there's something like three
hundred thousand into five hundred thousand missing children at our
border just under the four years of Joe Biden's presidency.
How is it possible that the FBI isn't singularly focused
on this stuff, Steve, I'm so.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Much of the FBI's agenda is predetermined with their fake metrics,
with their quota systems. And one of the other side
things to that is there's a pr game here. They
don't want to draw attention to these things by investigating them.
If they come up with a big bus and they
recover a couple of dozen children who are being sex traffic,
well then that takes away from the narrative, well that's

(51:39):
not really going on there. That takes away from the
Joe Biden types who can stand up and say, well,
you know, the numbers went down during my administration, like
the numbers of border patrol agents doing their jobs went down,
but we all know that it's been millions who cross over.
So we're just going to lie to your face on
this one. Look that the communist Democrats in the House
that vote for that. They're not worried about accountability at

(52:02):
this point, right. I mean, they're going to say, you know,
whatever they have to to their base at home and
find whatever they can in there and say, oh, you know,
those evil, vicious, vile Republicans. They just want to send
Grandma home. They want to send u Buela back across
the border. Talking about it before, like those narratives are
already set, and the legacy media has those those reports,

(52:26):
has those stories already set to go and click publish,
and they're going to try to appeal to people's sensibilities
and say like, well, do you want to break up
this family? Do you want to tell the salab story
about ninety year old grandma who has had a foot
amputated because of her diabetes because it couldn't get treated
by our medical system because we couldn't get her free

(52:48):
health care and time and her granddaughter's got to work
three minimum wage jobs to do it. Do you want
to break up this family? Yes, we have to break
up the family because they're all legal aliens.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
What do you think? What do you think? I mean,
you could see the media narrative about cash forming from
you know, one hundred miles away. They're going to try
to tie him to QAnon. I mean, that is definitely
that the seeds of that media narrative are definitely being planted.
I don't know when his confirmation hearing is set, but
to me, obviously he's one of the most if not

(53:20):
the most important. I mean, all of the cabinet nominations
are important, but the FBI director is critically important because,
you know, I still wonder if the organization can be
brought back. I mean, because you know, Steve, they have
a long history of really doing some pretty terrible things,
you know, going all the way back to Martin Luther
King Junior and Jay Edgar Hoover talking about tournament camps

(53:41):
for people. It's just an organization, really, and I'm not
saying that there aren't good people in there that that
are dedicated to its core mission. You know, the purity
of its core mission. Clearly those people exist. They're giving
you some great intel so that you can help perform
the organization. But man, I just what does cash Betel

(54:03):
have in story? Do you have any thoughts on what
his confirmation hearing will look like? What do you think
the Democrats are going to try to do to him.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
I think the line of attack, even from media that's
reached out to me that were clearly writing hit pieces,
they wanted to go after his charitable foundation, which interesting
old strategy, Cotton. He has a charity that helps whistleblowers
and military veterans. If you think that's a vulnerability, good
for you. But I think they're going to try to
just attach him as being a Trump devotee. And they're saying, well,

(54:33):
that's wholly inappropriate. It should be a nonpartisan position. But
all they have to do is point to the fact
that James Comy is basically an action figure for Biden
Harris wearing all their swag at that point, and then
Andy McCabe took over and he was running crossfire Hurricane,
and you have Christopher Ray who withheld the Hunter Biden
laptop story on top of overseeing the J six persecutions

(54:55):
and sending pro lifers to prison using the Face Act
a rate of ninety two percent. Just grossly Uh, there's
there's no tip for tat on that one at all.
I think all that is gonna be thrown at him.
But ultimately he's got to say and the message is
gonna be. Look, it's refreshing that he wears his biases
on his sleeve. And what has he actually done in

(55:18):
his track record? His track record was exposing the corruption
in the FBI. I'm sorry if the truth favored one
candidate over another. The truth is the truth, and that's
what he did. That's what he did with the Russia
collusion stuff. And he also brings a unique background that
he can push back on it if he wants to
do the Marcus Freeman, which will be great. It's to

(55:38):
say to whoever is on the Senate Judiciary Committee going
after him. Look, I'm a man of color and I
was a defense attorney. Do you do you have a
problem with that?

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Liz Warren, Yeah, it's gonna be. It is kind of
funny that the Cash Battel, the Democrats are a bunch
of white Democrats are gonna be going after cash Battel
and trying to thwart him from being the first FBI
director of color, right, which you think would be something
that they would they would absolutely love.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
But but Cash Battel is to me, he's just unbelievably competent,
you know, and he his guy who's getting awards for
going after terrorists under Barack Obama, and now they don't
want him to run the show because they're afraid of
him exposing and reforming the FBI. It's just absolutely needs
to happen. So probably a tough question for you. Cash

(56:29):
Battel is confirmed, and he asked you to go back,
would you go back?

Speaker 3 (56:36):
I would go back to help cash Battel whatever he
needed for me. I think he's a unique guy. He's
the answer we need. He's the hero that we don't deserve.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
You didn't even hesitate, bro, You didn't even after everything
that the FBI has put you through, you didn't even hesitate.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Two reasons for cash Battel. And beyond his qualifications, which
I know you've covered down on. Cashptel reached out to
me two plus years ago on Thanksgiving, right after I
got suspended. He got my number, called me up and said,
I run a foundation that helps support whistleblowers. I know
you're unpaid. I want to provide your family some money

(57:16):
to get through the holidays, pay your food bills and
your and your medical insurance bills, and I don't want
credit for it. You don't have to go out and
tell anybody about this. This is just something that I
believe in. I do as a side project. This is
just important to me for what you did, and my
foundation wants to be here support you for it. That's
the measure of the man who's going in there. And
then you know, when I got a chance to meet

(57:37):
him recently, I was at an event in Las Vegas
and his organization was putting it on this event and
you know, open bar and he goes he said, oh,
go get a drink and I got a bottle of
water and then he gave me a hard time for that.
So he's just a regular bro.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Man. That is a great story. And again, you didn't
hesitate to going back to serve your country, should you
be asked? Which I wish the FBI had a million
of you, man, because you know, guys like you, you're
the real deal. Your You put your country before yourself
and God, this country needs a lot more just like you,
my friend. Seriously, So tell us all the thousands who

(58:17):
are listening and watching where they can find you and
how they can support you.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Thank you very much. Yeah, you can see me on
social media on x at Real Steve Friend have a
podcasts called The American Radicals podcast also on Rumble Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday ten thirty. We stream it, but you
can always catch up there. And they have the book
True Blue, My Journey from beat Coop to Suspend It
FBI Whistleblower, and that's on Amazon. That's been out for

(58:46):
about a year and a half now, but still for sale.
Folks want to pick up a.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Copy of Awesome. Everybody who's listening and watching, go get
Steve's book, Go subscribe to his podcast. Support independent content
creators and truth tellers. They are the future. Steve, You're
one of those people. Thanks man for being so gracious
with your time. People absolutely love when you come on.
So hopefully we can make this a more regular thing.
He got it great, right, see your brother take care. Okay, folks,

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make sure you smash that like button, the little gray
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education we all receive from yourself. Savage at Steve friend
and BDW. You know I appreciate you saying that I

(59:31):
really do, because this show is for you, and you know,
I know I don't have a whole lot of guests
on here, you know, as you said, Savage, Rich Barris,
Steve Friend, Brian, Dean Wright, and there are others, Daniel
Turners one of them too. But you know, most of
the time, these guys are brought on to national news
shows or they're going on to other podcasts to comment

(59:53):
on what is a very narrowly defined area of what
their expertise is. In Steve's case, it might be the
FBI lawn enforcement, and richest case it's just about polling,
and in Brian's case, it's probably about, you know, foreign policy.
But these guys, you know, there are I see so
much more in them. And I know that when I
was coming up in the media, going all the way

(01:00:14):
back to twenty twelve. I've been doing media for twelve
years now, which is just kind of damn crazy. But
I never thought that that would be my path, is
do it any sort of media at all. But I
always hated it, and I hate it until this I
hate it till this day that anytime these national news outlets,
and this was before I ran for office. But anytime
these national new news outlets would call me for things,

(01:00:36):
it's like, tell me what you think about this veterans issue,
or tell me what you think about this national security policy.
It was never about, you know, commenting on politics. It
was never about commenting on the budget. It was never
about just general commentary across the board, and that always
pissed me off. I didn't like being pigeonholed because I
think it makes it harder for you to grow. But
these guys, the guests that we have on this show,

(01:00:56):
I think they have a lot more to offer than
just in their niche field, as we're clearly seeing. And
you know, I want you to like the guests that
I have on. I just do, and so that's why
I try to bring them back as regularly as I can.
So thank you all for watching, folks. You know, God
the show flew by, but I'm so so so lucky

(01:01:17):
to have you here. Got a great show for you
planned tomorrow. I'm working on getting Brian Dean right back
tomorrow for the for Right Night. But as always, folks,
smash the like button, turn that gray button green. That's
it for Battleground Live. God bless you all. And God
bless this amazing country that we call home. Take care,
good night, battle crew, and I will see you on Friday.