Watergate 2.0

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Republicans nowvo Watergate style hearings, and for the first time,
it looks like they mean it. Good morning, Cooner. Contrary. Okay,
President Trump now has completed his meeting with Xi Jinping.

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It appears from the preliminary news that is now coming
out of South Korea, Trump is by the way on
his way back home. She is on his way back
to Beijing, that they have signed some kind of a
trade deal. It looks like a one year deal with
the possibility of extensions. So we're going to get more

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news throughout the afternoon, obviously throughout the morning and throughout
the afternoon. But it looks like his trip was a
smashing success. We will get all the details as the
day progresses. But while this is happening abroad, at home,
there is fire and fury now among many congressional Republicans,

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the likes of which I haven't seen literally in decades.
And so there are two massive scandals colliding at once.
Let me take the one of them first. Apparently now
it has been revealed through FBI disclosures, Cash PTEL in particular,

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along with Tulci Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, have
now released information about Jack Smith, Special Council under Biden,
who launched what was called ARCT Investigation Arctic Frost. This
was an investigation signed off by then Biden Attorney General

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Merrick go Darland, signed off by Christopher Wray, Biden's FBI director,
and obviously with the full knowledge and support of Joey.
The Biden DOJ launched an investigation into Trump over what
happened on January sixth, and in particular his attempts to

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have alternate slate of electors from Pennsylvania, from Michigan, from Georgia,
from Wisconsin, those contested states to be sent back to
those states in case they decided that the election was
stolen and there should be another slate of electors sent
They wanted to now claim that Trump sought to overturn

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the election and that he was ultimately responsible for January sixth,
So it was part of their law fair against President Trump.
They wanted him behind bars for five hundred years, and
they thought January six was the way to do it. Now,

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what has found what has now come out is that
rather than just investigate January six. Essentially, now Biden, Garland
and Biden so called politbureau, his inner circle decided on
a high risk strategy, highly illegal, clearly unethical, but it

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is also criminal to deliver a kill shot not just
the Trump but to the entire Republican Party apparatus. As
Senator Chuck Grassley put it, they went, they put together
a political enemies list, and they said, let's use the

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fig leaf of January six to launch investigation after investigation
into leading Republican senators without their knowledge, Republican members of
Congress without their knowledge. Former Key Trump aides like Steven
Miller and Dance Coveno and I could go on and

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on without their knowledge. Leading Republican conservative organizations like the
late Charlie Kirks, turning Point USA without their knowledge on
a massive fishing expedition to see if they could turn
up any kind of crime possible so that they could

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indict and imprison and jail all of them, all of them.
In other words, they concocted a political enemies list. And
what they did under Operation Arctic Frost, and let's just
take the most explosive, they were secretly surveilling nine Republican senators.

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It now peers, it could be as high as twenty
Republican senators. And now it has been found out through
these disclosures. Listen now to this that Judge Boseberg, remember him,
the district judge, the chief district judge, who issued those
nationwide injunctions against Trump, this radical leftist preventing him from

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deporting trender Aragua or MS thirteen gangbangers to El Salvador.
While Dad Bosberg apparently gave Jack Smith a blank check,
a court order telling him that he could now secretly
get the phone records and the phone metadata of Ted Cruz,

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Marshall Blackburn, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Senator Eric Schmidt, Senator
after senator after senator, all of them Republicans. And what
is even more egregious, not only was he going through
their phone records behind their backs, on no basis whatsoever,

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none except to see did they have anything to do
with January six?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Hmmm?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Who are they calling? Is that a mistress? Is that
a lover? Who is this? As they were cambing through
the phone records, the order then told, for example, Ted
Cruz's phone carrier is AT and t AT and T
kept saying, but you're violating Senator Ted Cruz's privacy. You're

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going through his phone records behind his back, unbeknownst to him.
You're going through all of his phone data, his metadata,
who is calling, who's not calling, how long has he
been talking to that person, what day, what time, all
of it behind his back, which is illegal and in
violation of his privacy. We have an obligation under the

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law to tell Ted Cruz we had to hand over
your phone records to Jack Smith and to the DJ
into the Biden Special Counsel. UH. You know Smith. Boseberg
in his order told A T and T, you will
not tell Ted Cruz that you you're you're that that

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you have to hand over his phone records. You will
not tell Ted Cruz that Jack Smith is secretly surveilling
him and going through all of his phone data and
looking at who he's calling and who he's not calling.
And the same thing for Grassley, the same thing for Blackburn,
the same thing for Senator Lindsey Graham, the same thing

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for UH, Senator Eric Schmidt, Senator after senator after senator.
They were being secretly surveilled, and this massive abuse of
power because they were hoping to find any kind of
crime possible in order to destroy all of these senators,

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the leadership of the Republican Party, conservative organizations, in other words,
to guarantee that the Democrats win the election in twenty
twenty four. Don't just take out Trump, take out almost
all of his key supporters, both in Congress and institutionally

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and organizationally. Now, as Chuck Grassley said yesterday at a
highly emotional, very angry press conference, because now you've got
senator saying, whoa woe use the Biden regime, through Jack Smith,

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through Arctic Frost, you spied on a behind our back.
You wanted to see our conversations and who we were
talking to behind our back. And then you use this
radical left wing judge to give a ridiculous court order
saying that our phone carriers couldn't even tell us that

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they had to hand over all of our phone records
and phone data. And they were told that we had
no way of knowing this, and that we shouldn't know this,
that our own government is spying on us. Because Boseberg
argued that Ted Cruz would destroy evidence, that Blackburn would

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destroy evidence, that Grassly would destroy evidence, that Senator Graham
would destroy evidence, that Senator Schmid would destroy evidence with
zero evidence, by the way, whatsoever that they were going
to do any of this. If this was done to
the Democrats, there would be hell to pay. As Grassley said,

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it would be Watergate style hearings. The Attorney General would
be risking going to jail. The FBI director would be
risking going to jail. The special counsel who went after
this and and and and and and and and engage
in this kind of illegal criminal activity would be immediately

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disbarred and go to jail. And so now Republicans are
demanding Watergate style hearings. They want to put Merrick Garland
under oath. They want to put Christopher Wray under oath.
They want to put Jack Smith under oath. They want

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to put Lisa Monaco under oath. In other words, they
want to put all of them under oath. And President
Trump from Asia said, enough is enough. Pam Bondy now
needs to launch a massive criminal investigation. There now needs
to be a massive investigation in Congress. People need to

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go to jail. I've never seen Republicans this angry in
my entire life. You know why, because this time, the
target was them, so maybe they'll finally do something.

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