12-14-24 The Weekend Hour 2: Embezzle $53 Million & Biden Will Pardon You!

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and meter. The United States Constitution, when it comes to pardons,

(00:57):
it's pretty simple and it's very broad. In fact, I
would say it's unlimited except for one instance. Article two,
Section two, Clause one of the Constitutions says this, the
President shall be commander in chiefs of the Army and
Navy of the United States, and of the militia of
the several States, when called into the actual service of

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the United States. He, the President may require the opinion
in writing of the Principal Officer in each of the
Executive Departments upon any subject relating to the duties of
their respective offices. And he, the President, shall have power
to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States,

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excepting cases of impeachment. So, regardless the type of clemency
a reprieve, a pardon, a commutation, the President's power extends
only two offenses against the United States, meaning federal crimes,
but not a civil crime even I'm not a not
a civil crime, a civil action, a civil dispute, and

(02:05):
certainly not a state Only federal crimes. And the exception
is in except in cases of impeachment. So there's all
of this controversy. Now I understand why, But I want

(02:26):
to put a perspective. There's all this controversy because President
it's funny to say President Joe Biden because you might
ask some people right now, hey, who's the president today, Saturday,
December fourteenth, who's the President of the United States of America,
Donald Trump. That's probably what a lot of people think.

(02:46):
He's certainly acting as the president. Tell me what Biden's doing,
Tell me what they're doing. Where is he what's he
doing well? Anyway, Biden, who is the current President of
the United States, is facing a mounting backlash over his
decision to grant clemency to a state judge responsible for

(03:10):
the Kids for Cash scandal and an Ohio county's corrupt
commissioner as part of a broader pardon in clemency announcement,
impacting approximately fifteen hundred individuals. Which is the I think
it's I've heard two stories. One that is the largest
commutation numbers of commutations and pardons in the history of

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the United States, and then I've heard in modern times.
The only thing that I can think might make it
not the largest in US history is the pardoning of
the Confederate soldiers by President Lincoln or the pardon of

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draft dodgers during the Vietnam War by President Carter. That
number may have been greater than fifteen hundred, so, but regardless,
fifteen hundred individuals is a boatload of individuals. But Biden
commuted the prison sentence for former Lazern County, Pennsylvania judge
Michael Conahan and for a Cuyahoga County, Ohio commissioner Jimmy Demorro.

(04:21):
Conahan was involved in this notorious kids for Cash scandal
where he got kickbacks, literally got kickbacks for sentencing juveniles
to for profit detention centers. So you like a private prison,
So some states would you know? Colorado has had a
few them. I don't think they. I think they've shut

(04:42):
them down now. But you'd have a private company build
a prison or a detention center. So in Ohio they
would build these detention centers. They were for profit. And
in twenty ten, this judge pled guilty to federal racketeering
charge was sentenced to seventeen and a half years in prison.

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Then along came COVID. Now, when COVID came fascinating to me,
isn't it great to live in a time when we've
went through that stupidity that was COVID and thinking to
ourselves how stupid some of those rules were. And now
we get to see the backlash and we now get

(05:26):
to see that everything that we were accused of being
conspiracy theorists about is now becoming true. Oh, it's fantastic,
including like the January sixth de Finis. We'll get to
that today too. So when COVID hit, this judge's sentence
of seventeen and a half years was shortened when he
was granted a compassionate release to home confinement. Now, I

(05:49):
want to emphasize that there were a lot of people
in federal prison who and some obviously in state prison too,
who got these compassionate releases to home confinement in twenty
twenty because the prisons were faced with this conundrum, with
this with this quandary. So everybody on the outside, we're

(06:10):
forcing them to stay six feet apart and they have
to wear masks, and you can't you know, you can't
handle food. Remember how stupid it was. You go to
the grocery store and you pick up, you know, some
some broccoli or you know whatever you might get in
the vegetable session section, and you know they would then
they didn't want to touch anything. But yet you go

(06:30):
check it out and they're touching everything while they put
it in the bag for you, Colly. It was still
such stupid stuff. Well, they started letting people out of
the prison and confining them to their homes, so his
time this judge's time spending home combined confinement apparently makes
him eligible for the commutation. The more it was previously

(06:53):
convicted of accepting bribes over several years, and according to
the information from the US Attorney's Office, this is this
announ's in the Northern District of all Ohio. This guy
got one hundred and sixty six thousand dollars in bribes,
which included actual monetary payments, home renovations, extravagant dining experiences,
services from sex workers. I mean, I mean, if you're

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going to get money bribes, come on, give some sex
while you're at it too, and gambling excursions to Vegas
and Canada. Now, his actions in return involved directing contracts
to certain individuals and helping some friends secure jobs and
salary increases, and then going about and lobbying for beneficial

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loans and grants. Now he was initially sentenced back in
twenty twelve to twenty eight years of imprisonment. He has
consistently denied involvement in those activities, but he sought clemency
from Obama during his term, but Obama denied it. Now,
Biden defends the decision, saying that individuals released to home

(07:56):
confinement during the pandemic have now said successfully reintegrated into
their communities. Wait a minute, If you're confined to your
home like you can't leave the house, how do you
possibly reintegrate into your community? By what? You get a
rocking chair, put it out on the front porch and

(08:18):
you wave to people as they drive by. The mailman's
filling up the mailboxes. You say, hey, mister mailman, how
are you today. Well, the neighborhoods walk down the street. Hey, kids,
how are you doing today. Oh, there's that creepy old judge.
I got in trouble. He can't leave his house. This
just confounds me. Now, critics, including the Washington Post, which
is surprising, condemn the commutation, highlighting the judge's native impact

(08:44):
on the public trust and the lives of all these kids.
No fec Sherlock, you think.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
So.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Now there's another story. I don't have those notes in
front of me. But there's a woman, and I forget
whether it was Indiana or Ohio, but she was like
the county clerk or something. Over the course of her
like nineteen twenty years, she embezzled fifty three million dollars.
Fifty three million dollars. She bought a horse farm, she

(09:11):
bought you know, some really expensive real estate. She traveled abroad,
she did all of this stuff, fifty three million dollars.
She went to jail for it. Guess who got a
commutation because she too was sent to home confinement because
of COVID. I guess in this country under Joe Biden,

(09:35):
crime does pay. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Listen
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in twenty twenty, Bank of America posthumously, meaning after the
death of somebody, they posthumously flagged what's possibly suspicious payments

(10:46):
involving billionairely On Black and Jeffrey Epstein, you know, the
pedophile Fenans here who died air Quotes died a waiting
for trial for sex trafficking. Bank of America submitted two
suspicious activity reports to the banking regulators, to the Treasury Department. Now,

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you know, suspicious activity reports could be any number of things.
You know, you you have a checking account that normally
has about, you know, a thousand dollars in it, and
then suddenly one day, you know, there's one hundred thousand
dollars in it, and then the next days back down
to you know, on a thousand dollars. Hmmm, what was that? Yeah,
I know those reporting requirements, but sometimes people don't report

(11:29):
it and it triggers a suspicious activity report. Well, now,
because of the timing of the filings, remember think of America.
After after Jeffrey Epstein again air quote dies, then they
decide to file the suspicious activity reports involving this billionaire

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Leon Black and Epstein. So now the timing of those
filings has prompted Congressional investigator there's to question the possibility
of federal money laundering and violations of the law by
Bank of America. Now, if we want to go down
this path like we did last hour about big corporations

(12:15):
and how we're mad at you know, big corporations for
doing whatever they're doing. I mean, what, let's talk about
the banks. So I bank it, well, I bank it
several places, but in terms of just kind of normal
everyday banking, I'd bank it two places, the stage Coach
place and then a local Colorado Credit Union and the

(12:37):
stage Coach place. One time I made a deposit. I
mean I went into I don't know how, maybe it's
from a speaking engagement or something, but I had an
actual physical check. And this has been it has been
several years ago. Before you just take a picture of
it and deposit it. So I went into a branch
to deposit it had had my own deposit slip and

(12:58):
everything filled out, and they put it in the wrong account.
I don't mean like the wrong Michael Brown account, like
they put it in your account. And so I called
the Stagecoach Bank and I said, well, wait, wait, wait
a minute, fix this. Well we can't you have to
come back into the branch. Okay, Well can I just
go because I think I did it at the branch

(13:19):
right over here by these studios. I said, well, I'm
at home. I don't want to drive all the way
back to do that. I'll just go to the brand. No,
you got to go to that branch. I mean, it's
just stupid stuff like that. So if you want to
get mad at corporations, you know, let's get mad at
the stage Coach Bank. At least I was on that day.
But guess what I didn't do. I didn't walk in
there and shoot anybody. I was really pissed off, but

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I didn't shoot anybody. Well, anyway, authorities use these these
suspicious activity reports to alert them too possible crimes like
money laundry, terrorism, financing well. According to a congressional memorandum,
these reports were filed in February of twenty twenty again
eight months later. But the transaction, which totally one hundred

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and seventy million dollars, had occurred years prior. Now the
bank which did not scrutinize those transactions for their purpose,
like what was this for? They just processed the payments
and didn't ask for any additional information whatsoever. Yeah, I'm

(14:22):
torn by this story for this reason. I think there's
too much regulation. And I know, particularly as the Undersecretary
of Home Insecurity, that one of the things that we
really worked on was trying to disrupt the financial networks
of these terror organizations like al Qaeda and ISIS and

(14:42):
all the rest of them. And they do use the
US and the international banking system to do a lot
of their fundling and money to pay for apartments for
the nine to eleven hijackers. So I understand the reason
for it, but sometimes I think we've gone overboard. And
you know, this whole idea of you know, any transaction

(15:02):
over you know, depositor or withdrawal more than ten thousand dollars,
you gotta explain why no, no, move it to one
hundred thousand dollars to just get rid of it altogether.
But I understand that it's currently the law, but more
than just being the law, is once again the government

(15:24):
like drones. This is this is almost like the drone story.
We've never seen Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book. It's in
the hands of the FBI. Why why have we not
seen that book? I mean now that I know there
are names in there, and I know that some of
those names may have never been involved in any sort

(15:45):
of child sex trafficking, but nonetheless they had some relationship
with Jeffrey Epstein. Now if my name was in that book,
maybe I might feel a little differently. I would not
necessarily want that to get out. But if I'm innocent,
what would I care? People could accuse me of whatever,
but I would just I would deny and say, no,

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it's not true. You know, I never went to the island.
I've never been on the manifest, I've never been on
the jet. So why are they hiding the book? Why
are they not releasing the book? And why the Bank
of America again February twenty twenty, and then again eight
months later now report now report those transactions totally totally

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one hundred and seventy million dollars. There's so much about
the Jeffrey Epstein case, that we don't know that. This
is what breeds the cynicism when it gets to drones,
or to January sixth defendants, or to anything else that
the government doesn't tell us about. Now, I fully understand

(16:52):
that sometimes if you're truly conducting a criminal investigation, that
you may not want, you know, suspect to know that
they're a suspect because you're still doing the investigation and
you're waiting for them to trip over themselves before you
can actually go file charges. I totally understand that. But
what I do understand is when the perp himself, you know,

(17:16):
somehow managed to hang himself while he was on suicide watch.
That's pretty good. That that in and of itself is
pretty good. Why do we have that black book? How many?
How many times did Bill Clinton's name appear in that?
So now the Senate Finance Committee wants to investigate it
and see if they can't find out based if there
was any money laundering going on? Well, do you think

(17:40):
they'll tell us when they find out? M do you
think Congress will tell us? I doubt it. It's the
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weekend program. So the FBI, we'll get to Jay six
in just a minute. So the FBI has now kind
of confessed that they monitored the communications of President Trump's

(18:57):
pick for FBI director, Cash Betel, they did that all,
you know. There's there's a part of me let me
just prefer I tell you the rest of the story.
There's a part of me that one is not surprised
that because the FBI has actually spied on sentence staffers,
they've actually spied on us senators, They've spied on I mean, God,

(19:19):
does they probably spied on me for all I know.
So I'm not surprised by the FBI conducting surveillance or
spying and probably doing so without a warrant or with
a bunch of fake information that they gave to the
FIS accord in order to you know, because well Michael
Brown talked to somebody in Mecca, and so you know

(19:40):
he must be we better check on him. He was
a troublemaker when he was at DHS. It doesn't surprise
me that the spying occurred. What bothers me is when
it occurred. Cash Pattel was probably the singular, most important
in individual to write the House report about the Russia

(20:07):
collusion hoax, about the Steele dossier. I know this is
a I know it's all ancient history, but what everybody
told us was a conspiracy back in say twenty sixteen
to twenty twenty about you know, Trump was a Russian agent,

(20:28):
and you know, we had the pe tapes from you know,
Trump being in Moscow with those hoes and stuff, and
it was just and we were all conspiracy theorists because
we didn't believe any of it and we thought it
was all set up. Cash Patel almost singularly, I can't
say singularly, but he was the primary driver along with

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Devin Nunyez, former congressman from California, that put together the
report that showed that it was indeed a oaks, that
the whole Russian thing was a hoax. Well, now, the
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has released a

(21:12):
report that reveals that the FBI snooped on Cash Btel's
communications during that time period. It indicates that the FBI
got his phone and email records through subpoenas during an
investigation into alleged leaks of classified information by congressional staffers.
Now that occurred at exactly the time that Cash Battel

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was the head of a House Intelligence Committee investigation into
the FBI's use of fake opposition research against Trump Trump
campaign staffers. Now, Cash Battel has made it clear that
if he's confirmed, and I think this is important, very

(21:56):
important to understand, he's not seeking retro, which is what
the left wants you to believe. Oh, he just got
nominated because Donald Trump wants somebody to go in there
and you know, go after people. No, there's a huge
difference in just blanket without any rhyme or reason, without
any reasonable suspicion, without any probable cause to go after somebody.

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That's not what cash Betel has said. He has said
his intention to address misuse of authority, violating the law
and then holding them accountable. And guess what, that's what
the FBI is afraid of. The FBI is actually afraid
of being held accountable for the wrongdoing being directed. Now,

(22:44):
there may be some agents out in the field that
are guilty too, I kind of doubt it because I
think most of this was directed from the Hoover Building
right in downtown d C. So, between September of twenty
seventeen and March of twenty eighteen, the FBI gathered data
on a bunch of individuals. Andy McCabe was the acting

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FBI director at the time, and then that investigation extended
over several years under the authority of Christopher Ray, who,
by the way, just resigned this past Wednesday, or didn't resign,
but announced his resignation, and the subpoenas got renewed annually
every single year without the knowledge of Patel or anybody

(23:28):
else involved. So the FBI just kept rolling the subpoenas
over and just kept monitoring all the email and phone
calls while they the congressional staffers were investigating the wrongdoing
of the FBI. You know, it's like some sort of
cartoon of some battle field somewhere, and you got two trenches,

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and you got people on both sides peering up over
the edge of the trench with their helmets, and then
they got binoculars and they're staring at each other, except
one's doing a lawfully and one's doing an unlawfully. So
Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General, has warned that this surveillance
raises really concerns about undue interference in congressional oversight. Now

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you can draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump announces
cash Battel as his FBI nominee FBI director nominee. The
Inspector General comes out with this report about the FBI
spying on Cash Battel, and then we learn about the

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confidential human sources the informants on January sixth, based on
Michael Horowitz, the IG's report, and then boom, Christopher Ray
decides to resign. Coincidence, I hardly think so. Andy McCabe,
the guy that knew about this and was directing it,

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is currently a CNN paid analyst, a legal analyst. If
you distrust the cabal, you don't distrust it enough. If
you think a cable network like CNN is going to
lie to you, you don't understand just how easily they will.

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They have as their legal analyst Andrew McCabe, the former
Deputy director of the FBI and at the time the
acting director of the FBI while this illegal surveillance was
going on, as their legal analyst. What else do you
need to know? CNN? What a joke? Anyway, McCabe goes

(25:51):
on CNN and he questions Pttel's qualifications. In fact, several
FBI officials are already panicked about Cash Battel's appointment as
the FBI director, including former Hatchman David Brunner, who claimed
that Patel could do massive damage to the agency's inner
workings could do massive damage to the agency's inner workings.

(26:19):
I hope so, because the inner workings of the FBI
seem to be slightly illegal. I don't know why. I
use the term slightly, because it's either illegal or it's
not illegal. And if you faked a bunch of subpoenas
so that you could go spy on someone who is
actually checking on your own wrongdoing, yeah, I think there

(26:41):
needs to be changes made now. Cash has a lot
of endorsements National Police Association, and I'm telling you, Cash
Battel is a bulldog, an absolute bulldog. He'll walk into
the Hoover Building and there's really no doubt in my

(27:01):
mind he's going to get confirmed. In fact, I think
he'll get confirmed with some Democrat votes. You know, he
won't get confirmed unanimous because those days are just gone,
but he'll get confirmed. He'll walk into the FBI and
he'll shake it up. Isn't that what we voted for?
Isn't that what we want? Don't we want to know,

(27:23):
like just a little tease here, like what's going on
with the drones? But why is the FBI or the
Department of Defense or Admiral Kirby over at the National
Security Council. Why are they not telling us the truth
about the drones now are we are we supposed to
be suspicious or are we supposed to just be like, oh,

(27:46):
they really don't know, just like it took an inspector
general to reveal that, oh guess what, oh they were
spying on cash Betel and they really don't want him
to be the FBI director. Well, Shazam, I wonder why
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(28:13):
You know. This is the second time today, by the way,
welcome back to the begin with Michael Brown. I wanted
to talk about surveillance and censorship, but I got the
this text message, and you know what I'm gonna I'm
gonna capitulate. I'm gonna give in uh gooble number twenty
six eighty five, writes Michael. While I while I appreciate

(28:35):
you covering other stories, you're very good at it, and
I listen whenever I can, well, thank you. But for me,
there is no other story until we figure out this
drone mystery. Okay, then figure it out for me. Tell
me what it is, because when you think about the story,

(28:57):
what do you want me to say about it? Well,
let's go to I don't want to spend too much airtime,
but John Kirby, the National Security Council's spokesperson, he's a
real former. I think he's still currently a rear admiral.

(29:17):
Was on I forget what which Fox show it was,
but it was on You with Martha McCallum yesterday, and
here's how the conversation was.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
So.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Former Mariland governor Larry Hogan has posted video that he
says appears to show dozens of large drones over his
home last night. This is his posting of it, you know,
And as I was saying, it's the direction of them
and the way they move around that is really what
has come.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Let me just say something about that. I've watched as
many of these videos as meant, probably you have, maybe
even more. I don't know, but I know how fixed
wing aircraft work and how they fly in fact, and
I've actually been in in like yet some things, and
I know how they can maneuver and do things, but
they can't make these kinds of moves. They simply cannot

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make these kinds of reversible moves. Drones can, or maybe
some sort of UFO can, but we're not going to
go down that path. But fixed wing aircraft cannot.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Cause people to be concerned.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
That was for about forty five Nancy, he says last night,
he says Americans deserve answers, and he's calling on for
a response from the White House, the military, and the FBI.
He says, so far it's been quote entirely unacceptable. Let's
bring in John Kirby, White House National Security Communications Advisor
and Assistant to the President. John, Good to have you
with us. You know, what do you make of the reaction?
A lot of people were unhappy with that comment that

(30:42):
you made yesterday and felt like you were, you know,
telling people that they were nuts or that they didn't
know what they were seeing with their own eyes.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Oh no, not at all, Martha. That's the furthest thing
that I would ever do.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
But that is precisely what he did do.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Simply reiterating what the FBI and what the Farmer Home
Land Security have related to us about what they've been
able to corroborate and we haven't been able to corroborate everything.
I said. Many of the corroborators have turned out to
be pilot at Erico, but I didn't say all of them.
And what I said was, those are the ones we
were able to corroborate. There's certainly the ones that we

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have not been able to and we don't know the
answer to it. And I strongly recommend that for folks
that are seeing these things and documenting them to share
that as they can with Department Homeland Security in the right.
Let's do that.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Let's share it with you right now. Let's put up
this photo. This is the close up one cherry God.
This is in Bernardsville, New Jersey. So, John, are you
able to see this photo? No, man, you don't have
a monitor there.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
No, Actually I turned the monitor off. It distresses all.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Right, Well, you'll have to take a look at it after,
but I can describe it to you. It is large.
It has a white bar that goes through the middle.
The right hand side is half lit up, white on
the top and red on the bottom. The other side
is green. So what would that you know, you're a
former military person yourself, You're you're an admiral, you're the

(32:06):
White House National security communications advisor. I'm sure you have
seen some of these images. So what is that that
we're looking at.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
It's difficult for me to tell you, Martha, I don't,
we don't, We don't really know. It is possible that
some of these things could be commercial drones, you know,
developed for commercial purposes. It's possible that they could be
owned by private citizens.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Why don't we know?

Speaker 3 (32:30):
John, That's the point.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Why don't Why doesn't the United States government know? This is?
It seems silly. I mean, it feels a lot like
the Chinese spy balloon. It was like, oh, we don't know,
it's not a problem. Then what We watched it go
all the way across the country and we kept hearing,
you know, we're not really sure where it came from
until we saw it pop down, popped and you know,
floated down over the ocean.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
That's not quite how went. We were very honest with
the American people that we knew it was Chinese, and
we knew that where it was going to go, and
we were pretty comfortable given the analysis that there wasn't
going to be an intelligence threat by it, and we
again we shot it down once it was over safe
waters and wasn't going to hurt anybody. But back to this,
why don't we know? I wish I could tell you
exactly why we don't have an answer for you here

(33:15):
in the afternoon on the thirteenth of December. But I
can tell you that we are working on it very
very hard to know, because we want to answer those
questions the same as those folks in New Jersey want
answers to them, and we are working on this very
very hard. We are now applying. There was an interagency
conversation this morning about this topic where we have now
decided to employ some additional technology to New Jersey and

(33:38):
some additional personnel to try to get a better sense
of what these things are. And as I said, you.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Know, I find fascinating about this. You got to learn
to how you must learn how to listen to these
weasels in government. So we have deployed some additional technology
for New Jersey. Wait a minute, this may be partly
a New Jersey problem, New Jersey Law Enforcement, New Jersey

(34:05):
Department of Homeland Security, New Jersey Office of Emergency Management,
but this is a national security issue. In fact, I
would argue that while it may be a joint concern
of both Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. Ask
yourself this, who's in charge, who's in charge of who's

(34:26):
in charge of determining what these are? Who they belong to?
Are they a threat? Are they not a threat? You
don't know because nobody will tell us. I can tell
you from personal experience that when you can't answer that
question of who's in charge, either it's incompetence or they
don't want you to know. Now, I've also theorized that

(34:50):
we could be experiencing a little bit, not a lot,
because I don't think it's totally this, but little mass
formation psychosis. We're all getting hysterical about it. But I
think that's legitimate, and I also think it's legitimate to
one to know. Why are they not telling us? And
I also think it's legitimate. And here's where it drives
me nuddy about these newspeople. Ask specific questions. Okay, you

(35:16):
said you had an interagency meeting. Means they got into
they got into their skiffs, their secure facilities, and they
all turned on their television monitors and they all started
talking to each other. Well, what you decide, what's the
plan of action? Tell us what your plan of action
is tell us what you're going to do. Tell us
what you know. Because you've told us before, you've told
us that you know they're not a threat. Well tell

(35:38):
us how you know they're not a threat. They never
go they never do. They're like first year law students
conducting a moot trial. They asked the first question, they
never asked the follow one question. I whan you don't
ask the follow one questions, you're never going to get
to the truth. I think it's an abomination that both

(36:01):
the media doesn't know how to go to the second, third,
fourth level of questioning. The government knows that they know,
not that they don't know how to go to the third, fourth,
or fifth level of questioning, and so they just keep
using words like, well you know most of these or
many of these or some of these, Well what about
the rest of them? And how do you know that

(36:22):
if you know that some of them some of them
are commercial aircraft? Show us the radar history, show us
you know the transponders, show us you know what they're transponding.
Tell us transparents. You know Trump? Trump can't get into
office soon enough. You think you put up with this?

(36:44):
Do you think I'd put up with this. It's stupid
speaking with Michael Brown. Text the word Michael Michael to
three three one zero three. I'll be right back.