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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Mike, we know but cannot prove yet that Biden
was being controlled by Barack Obama. So Biden's presidency was
Barack Obama's third term in office.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
What are your thoughts? Real quickly, real, quickly.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But before you get to that, I've said that many times.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Yes, true, yeah, yeah, yeah, You've been saying that for years.
But in our local news, Michael was just absolutely flabber
gassed because he had thought he had heard that the
Rockies had won.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
I heard, I thought I heard them. I thought I
heard Rockies, which I did. I heard Rockies won to nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
But but I didn't hear that to nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
The Rockies lost one.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Because I was shocked. I was like, I actually.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What no, no, no, no, no, no, the Rockies lost
one to nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
So so tell us how we how are we doing
in the standings?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It bad?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Didn't you say?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
We're like ten behind worst place, which is a great
way to put So there's worst place, right, and then
there's worst worst place right.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
There's worser other than us. The worst in the National
League is the Pirates at fifteen and thirty two, and
we're at eight, eight and thirty eight. But if you
look at the American League. We're slightly their chances are
slightly better. The White Sox are fourteen and thirty three.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Oh, come on, Rockies, don't let do not do not? Yeah,
come on, the only you gotta keep losing, Rockies, come on.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
The only team in the entirety of the MLB to
have singular digit wins.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
So I have one of the salespeople that wants me
to arrange to get which I don't know why they're
not doing it, but they want me to arrange to
get some tickets for a.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Couple of clients.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
And I need to go back to them and say,
you need to go see if the client really does
want to go to a Rockies game.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I mean maybe the booth or you know, those seats
behind the home plate.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
We've got still got those right, all right?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
So let me propose this conundrum to you. I've told you.
I stortly told the Saturday audience that I really do
want to read Jake Tapper's book Original Sin the library,
but I refuse to pay for it library. But that
means I've got to marry for me to go to
(02:37):
the library. First, I got to find out where the
library is. Douglas Guy, I mean, I know Douglas Canny's
got libraries, but I gotta one find one that's close
to me, because I'm not gonna drive all the way
to Castle Rock to go to the library. Unless I
go eat the Loma or something. I'm not gonna drive
all the way down there. Then I have to you know,
is it like getting concealed carry permit to get a
(02:59):
library car? Do I have to like show four forms
of ID proof that I don't have a criminal background,
that I actually return my books?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Do I have to do that?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
But then I think about, but I actually am paying
for the book because I pay property in sales tax
in Douglas County, so I'm paying for the book regardless.
So I looked on Amazon yesterday, huh. Because I don't
like to read books on my iPad. I just don't
like it. I like to read books.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I like the Tactile, I liked all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I want hard copy.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I want a hard copy, even a paperback I'd be
happy with.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
But right now it's I think it was thirty five
dollars retail. You can get it for twenty nine ninety
nine or something, and I'm just like, you know, for
twenty nine ninety nine. I could take missus Redbeard and
I could go out to lunch together or something.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You know, I can't like that.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I know I can't take you because then it would
be like you know, fifty nine ninety nine. But you know,
just the two of us, you.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Don't actually want to hang out with each other outside
of horror, barely even want to hang out with.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Each other here. You are right, we can't even stand
each other here far in separate rooms.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So what makes what makes me think?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Then I thought maybe I could I actually think you
tell me I'm just now. I'm just because I'm really just.
I haven't talked about anything I really wanted to talk
about today. I've still got like a bazillion things I
want to get to. I've thought about this. Let me
just say it out loud, don't I'm asking you I
do do not do this yet, because I haven't decided
whether I want you to do it or not. I
(04:25):
thought about asking the listeners, you know, a maximum fifty
cents maybe a dollar to my Venmo account, and then
I'd use the listener's money to go buy the girl.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Dad already did send you like twenty nine cents.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Sent me twenty eight cents. Eight. Yeah, so I still
have twenty eighth.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
He sent me twenty eight cents for actually reading a
text on air or something or or that was at
a thing something about at one thousand dollars an hour,
just enough to buy two seconds of your.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Time to listen to me.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
That sounds about right.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
So anyway, so I thought about just asking the goobers,
Well at twenty five cents fifty cents, I don't need
that many an goobers. I mean we'd have to double
the numbers, you know, to get to because we only
have twelve listeners. But if we could get you know,
maybe their their in laws or somebody to donate too,
I can just get them to buy the book.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You do what they do for like graduates or something
on the on the back of your window, you know,
put your little venmos. I'm twenty one, buy me a drink,
you know, something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, I could you know what if you would video it.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Let's go over here to the corner of Bellevue in
Quebec and I'll put a sign out. I'll hold a
sign that says needs to buy book. Get a little
sandwich board, a little sandwich board, needs to buy book
cash only, or do you think do you think the
goobers would at twenty five fifty a dollar do you
(05:50):
think they do you think they'd buy the book for
me or not?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
If you do the sandwich board thing, they will drive
by and throw a tomato at you.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's my fear.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
See, if they people figure out who I am, then
I have start dodging rocks and bottles and you know
whatever's in the ashtray. I gotta cars don't have ashtrays
anymore more. Yeah, so I gotta I've gotta dodge all
of that. So I I really worry. I could put
a baseball cap on down low and sunglasses and maybe
the because if I if I had on blue gen
(06:16):
sneakers in white shirt, they go.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh, it's that guy.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
We'll let you take the Lienburger's for a walk for
twenty five cents. Then you'd have to trust them with
the I.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Don't know, no, no, you have to show me. You'd
have to show me the condition of your dog before
I allow you to take my dog anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Either one of them whatever happened to we had Ozzy.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Ozzie was a dog that would they would sing for
us on the talk back. Yeahn't a talkback in a while.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Yeah, I don't know if you would be willing to donate.
Send me a text message and i'll if if I
get enough of.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
No, I woe. People don't care, people are not gonna.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I think I putting the all out there right now.
You're saying, first of all, here's what's funny.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Do I really think now if I were raising money,
let's say, for you know, some well, like I did
with the two black ladies I was trying to take
care of over the circle K. Yeah, I could have
raised one thousand dollars for them if I'd wanted to.
I raised you know, we raised some money for them.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
We took care of You have some really good carrying listeners.
I mean they sent a couple of beanies, some beanies.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I got some money, someone sent me. Some sent me
some Venmo to get a bus to Hell. I got
them a bus pass. But I think raising money for myself,
I think they try to hack into my account and
take money out of my of them most.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Okay, So donate the twelve fifteen cents or whatever you
want to donate. Then anything over the cost of the book,
you donate to some other charity, some charity of your choice.
We could do that, any think of that, because you
know somebody may give more than twelve cents.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm gonna get, may get more than fifteen cents. So
if by any chance, you.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Miraculously make it over the twenty nine to ninety five
that it costs to buy that book, then you know,
send that to charity.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Keep talking.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
When I look up my venmo oh boy, I don't
know what my Michael D. Brown.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I think that's it. Yeah, yes, it's at Michael D. Brown.
My balance is twenty eight cents.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That would be girl dad.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Let's see if I if I still have here. Oh,
here's what. Here's what girl dad wrote. This was four
days ago at one thousand dollars per hour. This will
buy me just over one second of you listening to
my complaining. Consider it a prepayment for a second of
my choosing.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Or you can use it for back m A. C.
Donalds like the old days.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, I like girl dad.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Wait a minute here, I don't like any.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Of my listeners.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
I don't like any of them, or the producer or
anybody else in this building for that matter, I'm just
a I'm just a grumpy old man, and I'm gonna
make you grumpy now maybe or maybe not.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't know. Uh. The Hill has a story right now.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
The headline is Patel Cash, Patel Bongino, Dan Bongino, Patel
Bongino dismiss Epstein conspiracy theories quote he killed himself. And
the way it's described on the Drudge Report is, let
me see if I can find where that story was.
(09:45):
Where was FBI bosses angering MAGA media bubble they once stoked,
now dismiss Epstein Epstein theories. I happened to catch part
of this yesterday because I sometimes, occasionally not often listen
(10:05):
to Maria Bartiromo on her Sunday morning show, Sunday Morning Futures.
She had Bongino and Patel both on yesterday in an interview,
and I thought, as I listened to it, the more
they answered the questions, the more questions I had. And
(10:27):
then I thought, oh, I want to play part of
this interview tomorrow because I want to see what your
reaction to it is. I know there are people in
this audience who used to look Bongino and I are friends.
We've known each other for a long time. I don't
know Cash Patel. I don't think I've ever even met
Cash Patel, but I have the utmost respect for what
(10:51):
Cash Patel did as the lead investigator for Congressman Devin Nunez,
formerly from California, who absolutely destroyed the Russian collusion hoax.
And that memo that Devin Nunyez put out was essentially
based on all the investigative work done by Cash Ptel.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So I got a lot of respect.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Obviously, have respect for both of them, and I do
know that now that they're in these positions of authority,
that they are constrained by some of the political realities
that you face when you go to d C. I'm
telling you it is like walking. It's not like walking
when you im I have this in my journal the
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probably the first week that I was in d C.
I wrote something to the effect like I feel like
I've just run into a plate glass window. It hurt,
it cut, and it was like, sh you know what,
I don't know that I'm going to be able to
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get done what I want to get done. So I
have a healthy respect for the fact that they may
be a little tied in what they can do for
a whole host of reasons, which someday we may not
delve into. But I want you to listen to part
of this interview. Let's work our way through a little
bit of this. This is Maria Barbromo interviewing Cashptel and
(12:27):
Dan Bongino together at FBI headquarters.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
People to read it, and now they are. And I
know I lived with a fit for you.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
I watched it with you and Devin Nunez when you
were truth tellers on all of this, and you were
as well, Dan throughout the Russia collusion.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Story and the rest.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Look, I can speak to the folks that were in
our seats, our predecessors, and they intentionally failed the American
public by putting on the biggest DC deception game we've
ever seen. They said the FBI was the most storied
institution for law enforcement, and it was us and it
will be again very soon. But when the likes of
Comy and McCay and Strack and company came in here
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with the James Bakers of the world and intentionally lied
to a federal court only to rig a presidential election
by lying to the American public and using taxpayer dollars,
likely illegally to fund this entire operation and then withhold
disculpatory information from a federal court.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
That withheld explpatory material from a federal court. When you
appear in front of any court, if you particularly if
you're a prosecutor, and you have evidence in your position
that benefits the defense, you are required by law and
case law to disclose that evidence to the defense. And
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they lied to the court about having that evidence.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
And I used to peer warf to manhunt terrorists. That's
what broke the FBI. And then when they were caught,
they lied about it. And you and a few others
like Dan and others were brave enough to cover.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
It six seven, eight years ago. And we're still.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Talking about it today because as Congress is working rigorously
with us, the Crossfire Hurricane documents are coming fast and hard.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Do you know what crossfire hurricane is? Right, that's what
the FBI called the Trump investigation into this Russian collusion
hopes crossfire Hurricane. You should know the lyrics rolling stones.
The documents are forthcoming. Now, where have we heard that before? Oh? Yeah,
(14:35):
remember when Pam Bondi walked into the West Wing and
she had the staff bring in these giant white binders,
three wing, three ring, big binders. Here are all of
the Epstein files. Turned out to be a big nothing burger.
I mean, all of the assembled conservative media that was
there just because they've been they've been invited, Hey, come
(14:59):
to d C, you'll be part of the release of
the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And it was nothing there.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
And they're being sent there unredacted so we can have
full accountability.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
And that's how you.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Restore what the trust that was lost to the American
public when it comes.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Now, what cash Betel just said is all of the
Crossfire Hurricane files are being sent to Congress unredacted. Okay,
I mean I don't have a problem with that, but
why are you saying it sending it to them first?
(15:36):
Why don't you send it? Why don't you Why don't you,
you know, like put an extra page on the FBI
website and you know, kind of like Elon Musk did
with the Twitter files. Why don't you upload all of
the files unredacted. I don't think you can do it unredacted,
because I'm sure there's some confidential or classified material in
(15:56):
there that you need to redact. But whatever you can,
you know, why don't you make a website Mike must
did with the X with the Twitter files and upload
it and let us read it. I mean, after all,
those a holes in Congress work for me and you.
They well they work for Cash and Dan too because
they're taxpayers. But why send it to them first? That
(16:18):
was the very first question I have.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Why?
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Why?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Yeah, come on, director, with all due respect, we've been
talking about this for a long time, and I've been
demanding accountability for many, many years. One of them you
mentioned Cole me Strack and the rest. They've got TV shows,
they've got media platforms, they're fine.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
There's been no accountability.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, look thing go, way to go, Maria.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
That's exactly the kind of questioning that Cash and Bongino
need to be getting. Yeah, we've heard this inclined. Honestly,
we've come to the point where we're just numb, cynical, tired, and.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We're non believers. I'm a non believer.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I said, whether it was Saturday or last week, sometime,
I said at some point that I really don't care
about the Epstein files. What I care about is you
told us we were going to get them, and out
of curiosity, I would have dug through them. But now
nothing nothing. That should have been the easiest thing for
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the Attorney General to do. All you have to do
is redact every single identifier that would do anything to
identify any of the victims, even though most of the
victims are known publicly anyway, but for their privacy, you
should redact with that. All right, crossfire, hurricane, what are
we gonna do with it? Are we really going to
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do anything?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Say too.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You'll hear what Cash has to say to Maria about
Maria's cynicism about Yeah, I've been hearing this for six
or seven years. Now, where's the proof of the pudding?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Mike ninety nine for a dinner with missus Redbeard? Are
you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I sent twenty five bucks at Shakeshack for thirteen year
old for a burger and fries.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Let me know where you go double date.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I know it's funny you mentioned that because that was
a stupid thing for me to say, because I made
the comment to Tarma. We went to lunch somewhere and
it was just absurd. I mean it was just everything.
Eating out has become absurd. You go to In and Out,
you go any burger joint, it's got ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Fifty four to thirty one.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Rice, Mike, I would drive across town to help you
with almost anything but money for this book. Nope, you
crossed the line with that request, says Jim Michael.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I will send you twenty five cents for you to
not buy that book.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
And then guess what mister producer suggested back there, even
looked it up for me.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Where I is you want me to tak Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Thought you were going to continue to talking. I wasn't
looking at you. Why would I look at you?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
No, But but I you know, I thought you might.
I thought you might want some airtime, you know, to
you know.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
If I want airtime, I'll take airtime.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I think it was the suggestion that I may have
stole from the text line. But buy the book, read
the book, return the book.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
And I asked, well, I guess i'd have to look
up the return policy for Amazon, And you said.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Amazon, Amazon, just go over to Barnes and Noble. Yeah,
that have a thirty day return policy when you have
the receipt.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
So just buy the book, keep the receipt as a
book marker, and then when I get to the last page,
just go back to Barnes and Noble and turn it
back in. That's what I might actually do. M and
then fifty two five Mike. No matter who pays for
the book, Tapper still gets the profits. And then somebody suggested,
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and I looked it up online, Mike, why not this
is a zero nine nine zero. Why not ask for
a review copy? It would sort of cost him via
the publisher. I think libraries pay royalties. I think they
do too, so I checked it out. It's Penguin Press.
I've got the email address for a review copy. You
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have to be a member of the media. This is
when I would claim to be a member of the media,
because I can put on you know, I can use
my iHeartMedia address and say that I'm a talk show
host that I might be interested in interviewing Jake Tapper
might be. Didn't say I would, but I might be
interested in you interviewing, or I might be interested in
(20:48):
talking about the book, which I would do. So get
a review copy that costs the publisher. And Tapper doesn't
get any money off that, because I know how the
royalties work. Because I still get my royalty. And I'm
not going to tell you what I told Dragon because
I know one of you will go do it, because
I still get my royalties from my book Deadly Indifference,
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which by the way, is still available, and so I
know you know how many people by the book. You know,
I think I get them. I think I get a
royal statement statement semiannually twice a year. So yeah, review
copies do not count towards your royalties. That might be
exactly what I do. Back to Bongino, so Ria Bartiromo
(21:34):
pretty much says, you know, I've been hearing this kind
of stuff for a long time.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Accountability and that's how you restore what the trust that
was lost to the American public when.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
It comes to CFPI.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Yeah, I have a come on directed with all due respect,
We've been talking about this for a long time, and
I've been demanding accountability for many many years.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
One of the you mentioned.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Call me strack and the rest they've got TV shows,
they've got media platforms, they're fine, and there's been no accountability.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Well, look, it's a fair criticism, but what I will
tell people is we weren't here in the FBI in
the last five years when we had statute of limitations
that were still in play, where we could have investigated
criminal conduct. Most of these statue limitations are five years old,
and we will investigate criminal conduct where we find a
righteous case to do so in the law and the facts.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Allow us to.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
But a lot of it were precluded from so we'll
take now.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Oh see, I I need to do a little legal research.
Just because the statue limitations has passed that you're beyond
the statute limitations, I don't think prevents him from investigating.
(22:44):
You just can't charge them now you may have a
difficult time getting you know, obviously the target of the
investigation is not going to testify, but they can invoke
the Fifth Amendment anyway, So why are you using the
statue limitations as I'll do some more research on that.
But I thought my first reaction to that when I
(23:05):
heard it was h that seems kind of lame to me.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
The criticism, and it's rightfully so that could we have
done more in the past, Sure, people before us could have.
But what we can do now is continue to put
out the documents and the information that these people with
held from the American public. And I'm just telling you
right now, as much as we know about Crossfire, Hurricane,
he and I just found out more last week, and
we're continuing to work with Congress to put those documents out.
(23:31):
That's how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was.
Not only did they bastardize defise a process in a
lot of American public they withheld and hid documentation and
put it in rooms where people weren't supposed to look.
And it's a good thing. We're here now to clean
it up. And you're about to see a wave of transparency.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
What do you mean? And just give us about a
week or two?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
All right?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
This was yesterday, This was Sunday, May eighteen. A week
or two, all right, we'll give you fifteen days. So
we'll give you to what June first or second? June
first or second, and then let's see it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Are we gonna hold our breaths like we will for
whatever they plan on doing for the wall over here?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
You must think I've never worked in government. You must
think that I was never the undersecretary. I just made
all that crap up. No, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Hold my brain. He does.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Two surprise TVs did show up.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
The operative adgitive is surprise TV.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I don't think anybody knew about that. They're like, oh hey,
look TV. They just showed up.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
So we discovered two new TVs out in the newsroom
hung on the old TVs have instructions on them about
you know, I've gotta go take a picture of this.
I got I just got the website. I need to
take the picture of the entire instructions because that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I think.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Oh, do not do not touch these TVs. Do not
try to turn these TVs on. Here's why these TVs
don't work. Use the TV's on the wall. You want sound,
They're sound up there. It's hilarious.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Well, I can tell you right now that the judge
that gave us smack on the wrist on the one
agent that lied and you know, misled the American people,
that's the same judge who's back and stopping Donald Trump
from doing things, isn't it, Judge Bosburgh, I just got
to push back.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Listen, we've been here two months.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
This is Bongino months.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
He's been here a couple more recent. I mean, we've
been here two months. You're dealing with a thirty eight
thousand member organization and an approximately twelve billion dollar budget.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Point where too, I'm sorry I got an add there,
and we don't need to listen to the ads unless
you want to hear the ad. We could hear the AD,
but I don't think you want to, so I don't
either you don't want to listen to.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It depends on what's it for.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
To expect us in two months to dig up what
was a eight year, maybe longer multi year politicized investigation
with multiple layers of processes, from woods.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Procedures being just thrown in.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
The garbage can of flushed down the toilet pole, to
multiple layers of accountability where people lied and obfuscated.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
I'm not asking you to trust me.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
You want this done writing, You want it done quickly
because you can't have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You want it done quickly.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
We'll do it, and you know what will happen, Just
what happened last time, those same spygay collusion perpetrators keewed, the.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Government, got money, got all this.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
You want that, we'll do it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
We'll do it quickly and do it wrong.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
But are you saying you found things that even you
didn't know about. I mean you were at the core
of this.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Yes, yes, I was the lead Russiagate investigator for the
House Intelligence Committee, and I've been on both your shows
in a prior life talking about it, and I'm telling
you in the American public that we have now found
material and information and people who wanted to hide it
from the world since we got in these seats, and we,
as the director, as the deputy said, we are trying
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to do it in a fashion where not only are
we informing the American public or what happen, but we
can have accountability for it. And that takes a little
bit more time. And when you layer on the fact
that we are rolling out our priorities on violent crime
and defending the homeland, you know, we're running a three
part animal here, and we're going one hundred miles an
hour in each single one.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And I don't doubt that.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
I mean, I sincerely believe that, and I also believe
that Bongino is right. You want it done fast, you
want it done right, because if if you're going to
release this, you don't want to give and I'll call
them enemies. You don't want to give the enemies, and
they are enemies to the country in my opinion. You
don't want to give them anything that they hang their
(27:39):
hat on. In terms of liability in litigation. Now they
can sue whatever they want to, but you don't want
to give them anything to hang their hat on that might,
you know, block the disclosure of the documents, Which is
why I think that, Yeah, providing documents to Congress is
(27:59):
one thing, But how about appointing a you know, whether
he's got the power to do this or not. I
think I would think that the Attorney General would. How
about appointing a special master? A special Master is it
could be anybody law your non law doesn't mean the difference,
but someone whose job is to take custody of these
(28:20):
documents as you find them, so that the special Master
can be a third party, objective party that can say, okay,
once everything's being given to Congress, you can compare and
contrast what's been given to the special Master compared to
what's been given to the Congress. Because I would simply
(28:43):
pose you pose this question. Let's say that Cash and
Dan both provide all of the documents properly redacted to
protect innocent people or to protect criminal invest ongoing criminal
investigations handed over to the Congress. Do you trust Congress
to fully disclose everything that they find, including what sounds
(29:07):
like bombshell information that nobody knew before that, even Patel
leading the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russia, Russia, Russia,
that even he didn't know about. Yeah, I can't wait
to hear.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
That stuff, Michael.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
I will not give you twenty five cents for Jake
Tapper's book. I will not give you one penny for
Jake Tapper's book because I don't want to give any
money to Jake Tapper for that kind of crap.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, I don't think you have to worry about anymore.
I've got my plan in place now, Martin's and Noble
here I come. In fact, I may do that on
the way home. Just make sure I don't lose that receipt.
So dragging you're you're a horrible, horrible human.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Now I blame the Texter. There was a text out
there saying unless that exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Shift to blame somebody on my fault. Yeah, so that's perfect.
Bongino seven thirty two.
Speaker 9 (30:06):
He leaves seven at night, six thirty at night. It's
filled all day. We just can't focus on one thing.
You want New York to go boom, DC to go boom.
You want an OC organization to go hack into some
cyber network and crack all the Fox News' holdings. We're
dealing with all less stuff too. Everything's a priority. Everything's
a priority. This is one of many things we did.
(30:26):
It's not an excuse. It's just reality now.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
And I will tell you Bongino's a little You can
tell you's a little pissed. Knowing Dan, I can tell
he's he's a little irritated about that. And rightfully so.
Political appointees have different jobs than the civil servants, than
the permanent bureaucracy. They've got to deal with everything, and
(30:53):
they're getting it from all sides. And when you're coming
in after a previous administration, we had the same thing
when we when we came after Clinton, we had all
sorts of stuff we had to clean up. We found
things that we absolutely could not believe. I told I
don't think I actually told the News Nation. This was
(31:13):
doing an interview on News Nation Friday, and they were
talking about how there's some of this delay in payments
to victims of Hurricane Helene. Well, when we showed up
after Clinton, the ploma Perita, I think I forget the
name of the earthquake, the one that hit San Francisco.
(31:34):
The Giants were playing a baseball game and hit that
evening and it really tore up one of the bridges.
There were still and that was like nineteen gosh, that
had been like four or five years earlier, maybe longer.
There were still outstanding claims on that disaster, which we
(31:55):
had to start trying to clean up. I found full
your requests freedom of information request that had been languishing
for a year that I had to clean up at
the same time that you hit the ground running with
everything else that you're dealing with. So I understand bon
Gino's frustration, and I understand that he is indeed probably
working twelve fifteen, sixteen hours a day and trying to
(32:19):
at least get I mean, he's smart enough to know
that you've got to get some rest because otherwise you've
burnt out and you've you become very, very ineffective. So
I'm glad he made that point. But nonetheless, oh my gosh,
Maria's right, we've been down this path before, so we
need some assurances that you're actually going to do it.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
The Democrats are turning on you, right, I mean, I
saw your hearing the other day, and critics have accused
you of using the FBI to target political enemies. So
set the record straight. You wrote an entire book about it.
Government gangsters. Tell us, how do you respond to the attacks?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Jeria love this, bet.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Uh dang commercials. Can't do any about the commercials. We're
we're up against the break anyway. The whole point that
Maria's asking is the Democrats are now coming again, coming
after you for doing what everything that you that I
just ask you about. You're you're looking back into crossfire hurricane,
(33:23):
You're looking in trying to find all the documents, trying
to you're trying to clean up the mess. You're trying
to impose accountability. The answer to her point is this,
when Democrats accuse you of going after your political enemies,
well they're not our enemies. If you did something wrong, though,
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then you become an enemy of the state, an enemy
of the rule of law, and we're going to come
after you. Doesn't make any difference whether you're Republican or Democrat.
So Democrats shut up.
Hey, Mike, we know but cannot prove yet that Biden
was being controlled by Barack Obama. So Biden's presidency was
Barack Obama's third term in office.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
What are your thoughts? Real quickly, real, quickly.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But before you get to that, I've said that many times.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Yes, true, yeah, yeah, yeah, You've been saying that for years.
But in our local news, Michael was just absolutely flabber
gassed because he had thought he had heard that the
Rockies had won.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
I heard, I thought I heard them. I thought I
heard Rockies, which I did. I heard Rockies won to nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
But but I didn't hear that to nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
The Rockies lost one.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Because I was shocked. I was like, I actually.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What no, no, no, no, no, no, the Rockies lost
one to nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
So so tell us how we how are we doing
in the standings?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It bad?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Didn't you say?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
We're like ten behind worst place, which is a great
way to put So there's worst place, right, and then
there's worst worst place right.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
There's worser other than us. The worst in the National
League is the Pirates at fifteen and thirty two, and
we're at eight, eight and thirty eight. But if you
look at the American League. We're slightly their chances are
slightly better. The White Sox are fourteen and thirty three.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Oh, come on, Rockies, don't let do not do not? Yeah,
come on, the only you gotta keep losing, Rockies, come on.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
The only team in the entirety of the MLB to
have singular digit wins.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
So I have one of the salespeople that wants me
to arrange to get which I don't know why they're
not doing it, but they want me to arrange to
get some tickets for a.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Couple of clients.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
And I need to go back to them and say,
you need to go see if the client really does
want to go to a Rockies game.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I mean maybe the booth or you know, those seats
behind the home plate.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
We've got still got those right, all right?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
So let me propose this conundrum to you. I've told you.
I stortly told the Saturday audience that I really do
want to read Jake Tapper's book Original Sin the library,
but I refuse to pay for it library. But that
means I've got to marry for me to go to
(02:37):
the library. First, I got to find out where the
library is. Douglas Guy, I mean, I know Douglas Canny's
got libraries, but I gotta one find one that's close
to me, because I'm not gonna drive all the way
to Castle Rock to go to the library. Unless I
go eat the Loma or something. I'm not gonna drive
all the way down there. Then I have to you know,
is it like getting concealed carry permit to get a
(02:59):
library car? Do I have to like show four forms
of ID proof that I don't have a criminal background,
that I actually return my books?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Do I have to do that?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
But then I think about, but I actually am paying
for the book because I pay property in sales tax
in Douglas County, so I'm paying for the book regardless.
So I looked on Amazon yesterday, huh. Because I don't
like to read books on my iPad. I just don't
like it. I like to read books.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I like the Tactile, I liked all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I want hard copy.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I want a hard copy, even a paperback I'd be
happy with.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
But right now it's I think it was thirty five
dollars retail. You can get it for twenty nine ninety
nine or something, and I'm just like, you know, for
twenty nine ninety nine. I could take missus Redbeard and
I could go out to lunch together or something.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You know, I can't like that.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
I know I can't take you because then it would
be like you know, fifty nine ninety nine. But you know,
just the two of us, you.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Don't actually want to hang out with each other outside
of horror, barely even want to hang out with.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Each other here. You are right, we can't even stand
each other here far in separate rooms.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So what makes what makes me think?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Then I thought maybe I could I actually think you
tell me I'm just now. I'm just because I'm really just.
I haven't talked about anything I really wanted to talk
about today. I've still got like a bazillion things I
want to get to. I've thought about this. Let me
just say it out loud, don't I'm asking you I
do do not do this yet, because I haven't decided
whether I want you to do it or not. I
(04:25):
thought about asking the listeners, you know, a maximum fifty
cents maybe a dollar to my Venmo account, and then
I'd use the listener's money to go buy the girl.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Dad already did send you like twenty nine cents.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Sent me twenty eight cents. Eight. Yeah, so I still
have twenty eighth.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
He sent me twenty eight cents for actually reading a
text on air or something or or that was at
a thing something about at one thousand dollars an hour,
just enough to buy two seconds of your.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Time to listen to me.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
That sounds about right.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
So anyway, so I thought about just asking the goobers,
Well at twenty five cents fifty cents, I don't need
that many an goobers. I mean we'd have to double
the numbers, you know, to get to because we only
have twelve listeners. But if we could get you know,
maybe their their in laws or somebody to donate too,
I can just get them to buy the book.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
You do what they do for like graduates or something
on the on the back of your window, you know,
put your little venmos. I'm twenty one, buy me a drink,
you know, something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, I could you know what if you would video it.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Let's go over here to the corner of Bellevue in
Quebec and I'll put a sign out. I'll hold a
sign that says needs to buy book. Get a little
sandwich board, a little sandwich board, needs to buy book
cash only, or do you think do you think the
goobers would at twenty five fifty a dollar do you
(05:50):
think they do you think they'd buy the book for
me or not?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
If you do the sandwich board thing, they will drive
by and throw a tomato at you.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's my fear.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
See, if they people figure out who I am, then
I have start dodging rocks and bottles and you know
whatever's in the ashtray. I gotta cars don't have ashtrays
anymore more. Yeah, so I gotta I've gotta dodge all
of that. So I I really worry. I could put
a baseball cap on down low and sunglasses and maybe
the because if I if I had on blue gen
(06:16):
sneakers in white shirt, they go.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh, it's that guy.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
We'll let you take the Lienburger's for a walk for
twenty five cents. Then you'd have to trust them with
the I.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Don't know, no, no, you have to show me. You'd
have to show me the condition of your dog before
I allow you to take my dog anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Either one of them whatever happened to we had Ozzy.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Ozzie was a dog that would they would sing for
us on the talk back. Yeahn't a talkback in a while.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Yeah, I don't know if you would be willing to donate.
Send me a text message and i'll if if I
get enough of.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
No, I woe. People don't care, people are not gonna.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I think I putting the all out there right now.
You're saying, first of all, here's what's funny.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Do I really think now if I were raising money,
let's say, for you know, some well, like I did
with the two black ladies I was trying to take
care of over the circle K. Yeah, I could have
raised one thousand dollars for them if I'd wanted to.
I raised you know, we raised some money for them.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
We took care of You have some really good carrying listeners.
I mean they sent a couple of beanies, some beanies.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I got some money, someone sent me. Some sent me
some Venmo to get a bus to Hell. I got
them a bus pass. But I think raising money for myself,
I think they try to hack into my account and
take money out of my of them most.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Okay, So donate the twelve fifteen cents or whatever you
want to donate. Then anything over the cost of the book,
you donate to some other charity, some charity of your choice.
We could do that, any think of that, because you
know somebody may give more than twelve cents.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm gonna get, may get more than fifteen cents. So
if by any chance, you.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Miraculously make it over the twenty nine to ninety five
that it costs to buy that book, then you know,
send that to charity.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Keep talking.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
When I look up my venmo oh boy, I don't
know what my Michael D. Brown.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I think that's it. Yeah, yes, it's at Michael D. Brown.
My balance is twenty eight cents.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That would be girl dad.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Let's see if I if I still have here. Oh,
here's what. Here's what girl dad wrote. This was four
days ago at one thousand dollars per hour. This will
buy me just over one second of you listening to
my complaining. Consider it a prepayment for a second of
my choosing.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Or you can use it for back m A. C.
Donalds like the old days.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, I like girl dad.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Wait a minute here, I don't like any.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Of my listeners.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
I don't like any of them, or the producer or
anybody else in this building for that matter, I'm just
a I'm just a grumpy old man, and I'm gonna
make you grumpy now maybe or maybe not.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't know. Uh. The Hill has a story right now.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
The headline is Patel Cash, Patel Bongino, Dan Bongino, Patel
Bongino dismiss Epstein conspiracy theories quote he killed himself. And
the way it's described on the Drudge Report is, let
me see if I can find where that story was.
(09:45):
Where was FBI bosses angering MAGA media bubble they once stoked,
now dismiss Epstein Epstein theories. I happened to catch part
of this yesterday because I sometimes, occasionally not often listen
(10:05):
to Maria Bartiromo on her Sunday morning show, Sunday Morning Futures.
She had Bongino and Patel both on yesterday in an interview,
and I thought, as I listened to it, the more
they answered the questions, the more questions I had. And
(10:27):
then I thought, oh, I want to play part of
this interview tomorrow because I want to see what your
reaction to it is. I know there are people in
this audience who used to look Bongino and I are friends.
We've known each other for a long time. I don't
know Cash Patel. I don't think I've ever even met
Cash Patel, but I have the utmost respect for what
(10:51):
Cash Patel did as the lead investigator for Congressman Devin Nunez,
formerly from California, who absolutely destroyed the Russian collusion hoax.
And that memo that Devin Nunyez put out was essentially
based on all the investigative work done by Cash Ptel.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So I got a lot of respect.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Obviously, have respect for both of them, and I do
know that now that they're in these positions of authority,
that they are constrained by some of the political realities
that you face when you go to d C. I'm
telling you it is like walking. It's not like walking
when you im I have this in my journal the
(11:42):
probably the first week that I was in d C.
I wrote something to the effect like I feel like
I've just run into a plate glass window. It hurt,
it cut, and it was like, sh you know what,
I don't know that I'm going to be able to
(12:02):
get done what I want to get done. So I
have a healthy respect for the fact that they may
be a little tied in what they can do for
a whole host of reasons, which someday we may not
delve into. But I want you to listen to part
of this interview. Let's work our way through a little
bit of this. This is Maria Barbromo interviewing Cashptel and
(12:27):
Dan Bongino together at FBI headquarters.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
People to read it, and now they are. And I
know I lived with a fit for you.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
I watched it with you and Devin Nunez when you
were truth tellers on all of this, and you were
as well, Dan throughout the Russia collusion.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Story and the rest.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Look, I can speak to the folks that were in
our seats, our predecessors, and they intentionally failed the American
public by putting on the biggest DC deception game we've
ever seen. They said the FBI was the most storied
institution for law enforcement, and it was us and it
will be again very soon. But when the likes of
Comy and McCay and Strack and company came in here
(13:07):
with the James Bakers of the world and intentionally lied
to a federal court only to rig a presidential election
by lying to the American public and using taxpayer dollars,
likely illegally to fund this entire operation and then withhold
disculpatory information from a federal court.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
That withheld explpatory material from a federal court. When you
appear in front of any court, if you particularly if
you're a prosecutor, and you have evidence in your position
that benefits the defense, you are required by law and
case law to disclose that evidence to the defense. And
(13:46):
they lied to the court about having that evidence.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
And I used to peer warf to manhunt terrorists. That's
what broke the FBI. And then when they were caught,
they lied about it. And you and a few others
like Dan and others were brave enough to cover.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
It six seven, eight years ago. And we're still.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Talking about it today because as Congress is working rigorously
with us, the Crossfire Hurricane documents are coming fast and hard.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Do you know what crossfire hurricane is? Right, that's what
the FBI called the Trump investigation into this Russian collusion
hopes crossfire Hurricane. You should know the lyrics rolling stones.
The documents are forthcoming. Now, where have we heard that before? Oh? Yeah,
(14:35):
remember when Pam Bondi walked into the West Wing and
she had the staff bring in these giant white binders,
three wing, three ring, big binders. Here are all of
the Epstein files. Turned out to be a big nothing burger.
I mean, all of the assembled conservative media that was
there just because they've been they've been invited, Hey, come
(14:59):
to d C, you'll be part of the release of
the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And it was nothing there.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
And they're being sent there unredacted so we can have
full accountability.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
And that's how you.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Restore what the trust that was lost to the American
public when it comes.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Now, what cash Betel just said is all of the
Crossfire Hurricane files are being sent to Congress unredacted. Okay,
I mean I don't have a problem with that, but
why are you saying it sending it to them first?
(15:36):
Why don't you send it? Why don't you Why don't you,
you know, like put an extra page on the FBI
website and you know, kind of like Elon Musk did
with the Twitter files. Why don't you upload all of
the files unredacted. I don't think you can do it unredacted,
because I'm sure there's some confidential or classified material in
(15:56):
there that you need to redact. But whatever you can,
you know, why don't you make a website Mike must
did with the X with the Twitter files and upload
it and let us read it. I mean, after all,
those a holes in Congress work for me and you.
They well they work for Cash and Dan too because
they're taxpayers. But why send it to them first? That
(16:18):
was the very first question I have.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Why?
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Why?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Yeah, come on, director, with all due respect, we've been
talking about this for a long time, and I've been
demanding accountability for many, many years. One of them you
mentioned Cole me Strack and the rest. They've got TV shows,
they've got media platforms, they're fine.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
There's been no accountability.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Well, look thing go, way to go, Maria.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
That's exactly the kind of questioning that Cash and Bongino
need to be getting. Yeah, we've heard this inclined. Honestly,
we've come to the point where we're just numb, cynical, tired, and.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We're non believers. I'm a non believer.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I said, whether it was Saturday or last week, sometime,
I said at some point that I really don't care
about the Epstein files. What I care about is you
told us we were going to get them, and out
of curiosity, I would have dug through them. But now
nothing nothing. That should have been the easiest thing for
(17:20):
the Attorney General to do. All you have to do
is redact every single identifier that would do anything to
identify any of the victims, even though most of the
victims are known publicly anyway, but for their privacy, you
should redact with that. All right, crossfire, hurricane, what are
we gonna do with it? Are we really going to
(17:41):
do anything?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Say too.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You'll hear what Cash has to say to Maria about
Maria's cynicism about Yeah, I've been hearing this for six
or seven years. Now, where's the proof of the pudding?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Mike ninety nine for a dinner with missus Redbeard? Are
you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I sent twenty five bucks at Shakeshack for thirteen year
old for a burger and fries.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Let me know where you go double date.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I know it's funny you mentioned that because that was
a stupid thing for me to say, because I made
the comment to Tarma. We went to lunch somewhere and
it was just absurd. I mean it was just everything.
Eating out has become absurd. You go to In and Out,
you go any burger joint, it's got ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Fifty four to thirty one.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Rice, Mike, I would drive across town to help you
with almost anything but money for this book. Nope, you
crossed the line with that request, says Jim Michael.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I will send you twenty five cents for you to
not buy that book.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
And then guess what mister producer suggested back there, even
looked it up for me.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Where I is you want me to tak Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Thought you were going to continue to talking. I wasn't
looking at you. Why would I look at you?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
No, But but I you know, I thought you might.
I thought you might want some airtime, you know, to
you know.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
If I want airtime, I'll take airtime.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I think it was the suggestion that I may have
stole from the text line. But buy the book, read
the book, return the book.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
And I asked, well, I guess i'd have to look
up the return policy for Amazon, And you said.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Amazon, Amazon, just go over to Barnes and Noble. Yeah,
that have a thirty day return policy when you have
the receipt.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
So just buy the book, keep the receipt as a
book marker, and then when I get to the last page,
just go back to Barnes and Noble and turn it
back in. That's what I might actually do. M and
then fifty two five Mike. No matter who pays for
the book, Tapper still gets the profits. And then somebody suggested,
(20:06):
and I looked it up online, Mike, why not this
is a zero nine nine zero. Why not ask for
a review copy? It would sort of cost him via
the publisher. I think libraries pay royalties. I think they
do too, so I checked it out. It's Penguin Press.
I've got the email address for a review copy. You
(20:27):
have to be a member of the media. This is
when I would claim to be a member of the media,
because I can put on you know, I can use
my iHeartMedia address and say that I'm a talk show
host that I might be interested in interviewing Jake Tapper
might be. Didn't say I would, but I might be
interested in you interviewing, or I might be interested in
(20:48):
talking about the book, which I would do. So get
a review copy that costs the publisher. And Tapper doesn't
get any money off that, because I know how the
royalties work. Because I still get my royalty. And I'm
not going to tell you what I told Dragon because
I know one of you will go do it, because
I still get my royalties from my book Deadly Indifference,
(21:08):
which by the way, is still available, and so I
know you know how many people by the book. You know,
I think I get them. I think I get a
royal statement statement semiannually twice a year. So yeah, review
copies do not count towards your royalties. That might be
exactly what I do. Back to Bongino, so Ria Bartiromo
(21:34):
pretty much says, you know, I've been hearing this kind
of stuff for a long time.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Accountability and that's how you restore what the trust that
was lost to the American public when.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
It comes to CFPI.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Yeah, I have a come on directed with all due respect,
We've been talking about this for a long time, and
I've been demanding accountability for many many years.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
One of the you mentioned.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Call me strack and the rest they've got TV shows,
they've got media platforms, they're fine, and there's been no accountability.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Well, look, it's a fair criticism, but what I will
tell people is we weren't here in the FBI in
the last five years when we had statute of limitations
that were still in play, where we could have investigated
criminal conduct. Most of these statue limitations are five years old,
and we will investigate criminal conduct where we find a
righteous case to do so in the law and the facts.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Allow us to.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
But a lot of it were precluded from so we'll
take now.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Oh see, I I need to do a little legal research.
Just because the statue limitations has passed that you're beyond
the statute limitations, I don't think prevents him from investigating.
(22:44):
You just can't charge them now you may have a
difficult time getting you know, obviously the target of the
investigation is not going to testify, but they can invoke
the Fifth Amendment anyway, So why are you using the
statue limitations as I'll do some more research on that.
But I thought my first reaction to that when I
(23:05):
heard it was h that seems kind of lame to me.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
The criticism, and it's rightfully so that could we have
done more in the past, Sure, people before us could have.
But what we can do now is continue to put
out the documents and the information that these people with
held from the American public. And I'm just telling you
right now, as much as we know about Crossfire, Hurricane,
he and I just found out more last week, and
we're continuing to work with Congress to put those documents out.
(23:31):
That's how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was.
Not only did they bastardize defise a process in a
lot of American public they withheld and hid documentation and
put it in rooms where people weren't supposed to look.
And it's a good thing. We're here now to clean
it up. And you're about to see a wave of transparency.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
What do you mean? And just give us about a
week or two?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
All right?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
This was yesterday, This was Sunday, May eighteen. A week
or two, all right, we'll give you fifteen days. So
we'll give you to what June first or second? June
first or second, and then let's see it.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Are we gonna hold our breaths like we will for
whatever they plan on doing for the wall over here?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
You must think I've never worked in government. You must
think that I was never the undersecretary. I just made
all that crap up. No, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Hold my brain. He does.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Two surprise TVs did show up.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
The operative adgitive is surprise TV.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I don't think anybody knew about that. They're like, oh hey,
look TV. They just showed up.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
So we discovered two new TVs out in the newsroom
hung on the old TVs have instructions on them about
you know, I've gotta go take a picture of this.
I got I just got the website. I need to
take the picture of the entire instructions because that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I think.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Oh, do not do not touch these TVs. Do not
try to turn these TVs on. Here's why these TVs
don't work. Use the TV's on the wall. You want sound,
They're sound up there. It's hilarious.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Well, I can tell you right now that the judge
that gave us smack on the wrist on the one
agent that lied and you know, misled the American people,
that's the same judge who's back and stopping Donald Trump
from doing things, isn't it, Judge Bosburgh, I just got
to push back.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Listen, we've been here two months.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
This is Bongino months.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
He's been here a couple more recent. I mean, we've
been here two months. You're dealing with a thirty eight
thousand member organization and an approximately twelve billion dollar budget.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Point where too, I'm sorry I got an add there,
and we don't need to listen to the ads unless
you want to hear the ad. We could hear the AD,
but I don't think you want to, so I don't
either you don't want to listen to.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It depends on what's it for.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
To expect us in two months to dig up what
was a eight year, maybe longer multi year politicized investigation
with multiple layers of processes, from woods.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Procedures being just thrown in.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
The garbage can of flushed down the toilet pole, to
multiple layers of accountability where people lied and obfuscated.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
I'm not asking you to trust me.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
You want this done writing, You want it done quickly
because you can't have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You want it done quickly.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
We'll do it, and you know what will happen, Just
what happened last time, those same spygay collusion perpetrators keewed, the.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Government, got money, got all this.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
You want that, we'll do it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
We'll do it quickly and do it wrong.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
But are you saying you found things that even you
didn't know about. I mean you were at the core
of this.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Yes, yes, I was the lead Russiagate investigator for the
House Intelligence Committee, and I've been on both your shows
in a prior life talking about it, and I'm telling
you in the American public that we have now found
material and information and people who wanted to hide it
from the world since we got in these seats, and we,
as the director, as the deputy said, we are trying
(26:58):
to do it in a fashion where not only are
we informing the American public or what happen, but we
can have accountability for it. And that takes a little
bit more time. And when you layer on the fact
that we are rolling out our priorities on violent crime
and defending the homeland, you know, we're running a three
part animal here, and we're going one hundred miles an
hour in each single one.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And I don't doubt that.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
I mean, I sincerely believe that, and I also believe
that Bongino is right. You want it done fast, you
want it done right, because if if you're going to
release this, you don't want to give and I'll call
them enemies. You don't want to give the enemies, and
they are enemies to the country in my opinion. You
don't want to give them anything that they hang their
(27:39):
hat on. In terms of liability in litigation. Now they
can sue whatever they want to, but you don't want
to give them anything to hang their hat on that might,
you know, block the disclosure of the documents, Which is
why I think that, Yeah, providing documents to Congress is
(27:59):
one thing, But how about appointing a you know, whether
he's got the power to do this or not. I
think I would think that the Attorney General would. How
about appointing a special master? A special Master is it
could be anybody law your non law doesn't mean the difference,
but someone whose job is to take custody of these
(28:20):
documents as you find them, so that the special Master
can be a third party, objective party that can say, okay,
once everything's being given to Congress, you can compare and
contrast what's been given to the special Master compared to
what's been given to the Congress. Because I would simply
(28:43):
pose you pose this question. Let's say that Cash and
Dan both provide all of the documents properly redacted to
protect innocent people or to protect criminal invest ongoing criminal
investigations handed over to the Congress. Do you trust Congress
to fully disclose everything that they find, including what sounds
(29:07):
like bombshell information that nobody knew before that, even Patel
leading the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russia, Russia, Russia,
that even he didn't know about. Yeah, I can't wait
to hear.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
That stuff, Michael.
Speaker 10 (29:23):
I will not give you twenty five cents for Jake
Tapper's book. I will not give you one penny for
Jake Tapper's book because I don't want to give any
money to Jake Tapper for that kind of crap.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, I don't think you have to worry about anymore.
I've got my plan in place now, Martin's and Noble
here I come. In fact, I may do that on
the way home. Just make sure I don't lose that receipt.
So dragging you're you're a horrible, horrible human.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Now I blame the Texter. There was a text out
there saying unless that exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Shift to blame somebody on my fault. Yeah, so that's perfect.
Bongino seven thirty two.
Speaker 9 (30:06):
He leaves seven at night, six thirty at night. It's
filled all day. We just can't focus on one thing.
You want New York to go boom, DC to go boom.
You want an OC organization to go hack into some
cyber network and crack all the Fox News' holdings. We're
dealing with all less stuff too. Everything's a priority. Everything's
a priority. This is one of many things we did.
(30:26):
It's not an excuse. It's just reality now.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
And I will tell you Bongino's a little You can
tell you's a little pissed. Knowing Dan, I can tell
he's he's a little irritated about that. And rightfully so.
Political appointees have different jobs than the civil servants, than
the permanent bureaucracy. They've got to deal with everything, and
(30:53):
they're getting it from all sides. And when you're coming
in after a previous administration, we had the same thing
when we when we came after Clinton, we had all
sorts of stuff we had to clean up. We found
things that we absolutely could not believe. I told I
don't think I actually told the News Nation. This was
(31:13):
doing an interview on News Nation Friday, and they were
talking about how there's some of this delay in payments
to victims of Hurricane Helene. Well, when we showed up
after Clinton, the ploma Perita, I think I forget the
name of the earthquake, the one that hit San Francisco.
(31:34):
The Giants were playing a baseball game and hit that
evening and it really tore up one of the bridges.
There were still and that was like nineteen gosh, that
had been like four or five years earlier, maybe longer.
There were still outstanding claims on that disaster, which we
(31:55):
had to start trying to clean up. I found full
your requests freedom of information request that had been languishing
for a year that I had to clean up at
the same time that you hit the ground running with
everything else that you're dealing with. So I understand bon
Gino's frustration, and I understand that he is indeed probably
working twelve fifteen, sixteen hours a day and trying to
(32:19):
at least get I mean, he's smart enough to know
that you've got to get some rest because otherwise you've
burnt out and you've you become very, very ineffective. So
I'm glad he made that point. But nonetheless, oh my gosh,
Maria's right, we've been down this path before, so we
need some assurances that you're actually going to do it.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
The Democrats are turning on you, right, I mean, I
saw your hearing the other day, and critics have accused
you of using the FBI to target political enemies. So
set the record straight. You wrote an entire book about it.
Government gangsters. Tell us, how do you respond to the attacks?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Jeria love this, bet.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Uh dang commercials. Can't do any about the commercials. We're
we're up against the break anyway. The whole point that
Maria's asking is the Democrats are now coming again, coming
after you for doing what everything that you that I
just ask you about. You're you're looking back into crossfire hurricane,
(33:23):
You're looking in trying to find all the documents, trying
to you're trying to clean up the mess. You're trying
to impose accountability. The answer to her point is this,
when Democrats accuse you of going after your political enemies,
well they're not our enemies. If you did something wrong, though,
(33:46):
then you become an enemy of the state, an enemy
of the rule of law, and we're going to come
after you. Doesn't make any difference whether you're Republican or Democrat.
So Democrats shut up.
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