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Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Chris Burgard on his movies The War on Truth and Capital Punishment

Episode Transcript

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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, here we go. We're getting
close to the Friday, right itis Thursday. Good he coming up towards
the end of the show today.I hope they'll be able to grab it.
The interview we did this morning onkt r H with the Mayor,

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John Whittmeyer talking about replacing Troy Finneras the police chief, you know,
the water issues, you know,the lack of money, all the other
problems that the city is having rightnow. Will be sharing that with you.
I think it's worth airing twice,you know, once on our morning
show on katr H and here onAm nine fifty KPRC. So we're going
to get to that and share thatwith you. Coming up next, first,

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I would like to talk to youtoday about sex. No, no,
no, don't worry. I'm nottalking about story Daniels. I'm not
talking about my personal life or yourpersonal life. I'm talking about the sexes,
the difference between boys and girls,men and women, and why what

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they're doing with Title nine is justbeyond insanity. It's crazy they want to
alter Title nine so it covers transgenderathletes boys who want to compete as girls.
Notice there aren't any girls that wantto compete as boys. I haven't
heard much of anything about that.At least girls who who compete understand that

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even if even if they identify asanother sex, they seem to have a
better under standing that they they they'renot the same, They're not the same
physically speaking as women. They're strongerin many cases, they're faster, they're
more able to compete. I'm gonnaleave it up to you know, Senator
John Kennedy here, because I thinkhe did a brilliant job of talking about

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this on the Senate floor yesterday.He just talked about Title nine, and
more specifically, he gave a greatexample using an NFL player from his hometown
New Orleans Saints to explain the differencebetween not just men competing against women as
you know, pretending to be women, but just men, for example,

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competing against boys. Here is SenatorJohn Kennedy. We have a player on
the New Orleans Saints that we're allproud of in Louisiana's Cam Jordan. I'll
bet even mister Jordan, who's thestarting defensive end for the Saints and one
of the best in the NFL,has days when he he wishes his competitors

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were only half as big as theones he faces every Sunday and every day
in practice. But think about this. If mister Jordan were to announce tomorrow
that he identifies as a sixteen yearold, and if mister Jordan then tried

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to join the football team at ZacharyHigh School, my alma mater, no
one in America would pretend that misterJordan is actually a student athlete with the
right to take the field along withteenage boys. I mean, most Americans
would would would would would think you'refrom outer space. They would be thinking,

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what what planet did he just parachutein from. I mean, every
sane person in Louisiana and on theplanet Earth would understand that a thirty four
year old NFL player has no placetackling the kids who haven't even been to

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the prim yet. For God's sakes. Not only would it be unfair to
allow mister Jordan on the Zachary HighSchool football team, I'd probably send a
few kids to the hospital in thefirst quarter. In the first minute.

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Men and women don't take the fieldagainst one another for the same reasons.
It's fundamentally unfair and women could gethurt. Yet there are activists in our
country today. I wish I didn'thave to say this. There is a

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president in our White House who thinkthe laws of physics and biology don't apply
to transgender athletes. That's so true, But I think he gave a great
example. We don't allow. Haveyou ever been on the sideline of a

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high school football game and a collegefootball game and a NFL game. I've
been lucky enough I've been to thesidelines for all three of those things.
There is a huge difference in thesize the speed see in high school.
You know, having played little highschool football myself. In high school,
you know, most of the kidswho try out around the team in some

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capacity, whether they start or theydon't start, they say a little bit
of playing time, and there areplayers who are going to be good enough
to go on and play at thecollege level. And then there are players
that are just you know, likeevery other kid. You're out there,
out there having fun, and they'reokay, but you know, they're nothing
special, and they'll never forget anopportunity to play college football when you go
from high school to the next level. You know, imagine allowing your son's

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high school team to compete against Universityof Alabama. I mean, you'd be
scared to death for them. Right. Well, then you can certainly understand
why a lot of parents are scaredto death for their daughters when they're competing
either with a transgender athlete on theirteam or worse yet, on the opposing

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team. And we see examples allthe time of men competing on women's basketball
teams. You know, and theyhave the ability to jump higher, they're
bigger, they're stronger, they're faster, they run over people, they hurt
people. Women are going to gethurt. I mean, aside from the

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opportunities taken away, are going toget hurt. They are. It's just
it's a biological fact. You canchange their hormones. There are those that
would have you believe that while they'retaking hormone treatment and they're you know,
they're taking estrogen and blah blah blahblah blah. That doesn't change the fact
that they have a different muscle mass. They were born with a different muscle

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mass. Men have different athletic abilitiesthan women do. Now, Caitlin Clark,
I mean, she's got a lotof athletic ability. But my guess
is if you put her head tohead with an equivalent male, even at
the college level, that the malewould probably beat her nine times out of

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ten. It just, you know, when it comes to sports and athletics,
men are different than women. Whetherthey're on hormones, whether they wear
their hair long and a ponytail,none of that stuff matters. There's a
difference, and I don't know whywe can't realize that the heck with.
You know, we haven't even talkedabout the fairness issue. You know,

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I'll leave that on the table fornow. It's not fair. Well,
it's more than not fair, it'sdangerous. All Right, We're gonna take
a quick little break back with morein a moment. Jimmy Barret show here
on NAM nine fifty KPRC. AllRight, I thought we spent a little

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time in this next segment. Weheard from Senator Kennedy in the opening segment
today, we're gonna hear from SenatorJosh Howley in this segment here. And
for some reason, Wednesday seems tobe committee day. That's when they have
all these committee meetings, and weget some great audio coming out of these,
especially out of the Senator these days, out of these committee meetings,
committee meetings, usually from Senator Hollyand Senator Kennedy. Senator Hawley's committee was

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working on the issue of these collegeprotests that are going on. Who are
these college protesters? Are any ofthem here illegally? And he had in
front of him a group of individualswho work for charitable groups and organizations that
do things for the undocumented. Oneof them is an organization called dream dot

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Us. Inevidently, what dream dotUs does is they provide college scholarships to
undocumented aliens so that they can getan education. Now, you know,
we can talk about whether or notsomebody who's undocumented should be in this country
and getting an education, and we'llthrow that aside for right now. To

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me, that's still an issue,but that's the work that they're doing.
But Senator Holly wanted to know whetheror not any of these kids, and
I don't know how many, hundredsor thousands of them there are being sponsored
by this group and other groups aroundthe country. But are any of these
kids participating in these demonstrations, theseanti Israel demonstrations, And if so,

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why are they still here? Why? Why do they still get scholarship money?
Why? Why why have they havethey not been deported? Can we
all agree they should be deported now? Nobody's bothering to find out. Even
the ones that are arrested. Youknow what's happening with the ones that are
arrested, right the dark money groupscome in, They bail them out right
away. These these these kids havenot been publicly identified. We don't have

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it. We don't have laundry listsof these people. We don't know their
names, their ages, we don'tknow what their what their status is in
this country. And we'd have toknow all those things before you could even
talk about it. You know,you would like to think that if,
if if there were anybody here illegallyin the group of demonstrators that are threatening
the lives of Jewish students and aretalking for open acts of terrorism, you

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would like to think that the policedepart, But would you find out what
their legal status is and then turnthem over to ICE. Oh well,
wait a minute, if we turnthem over to ICE, what happens?
Nothing right? And the police understandthat too. But Senator Holly wanted to
know, and he had on thehead of dream dot Us was one of
the panelists, and he's asking herwhether or not she knows if any of

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her students that they sponsor and payfor are participating in these demonstrations here.
Senator Holly, let me just reviewsome of the things that these students,
these and the encampments that is,are saying. And of course we often
don't know who these students are.They're concealing their identities. This is I'm
going to read to you now,and I just warned folks, this is
not pleasant stuff. But these arethe facts and we have to tell the

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truth. This is just from lastnight at George Washington University that's here in
this town. They projected the studentsin the encampment. They are projected onto
various buildings images of the United Statesflag being burned with the with the graphs,
gaza lights, the spark that willset the empire ablaze. They projected
the following long live the student intofada, down with the settler state that

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would be the state of Israel.I suppose glory to the martyrs of Palestine,
said Jehades slogan stained with the bloodof forty four thousand Palestinians. That's
last night at GW. Also atGW, they're now calling for beheading this
student encampment, beheading, beheading ofindividuals who support the state of Israel,

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including holding a people's tribunal where they'reputting on trial quote unquote various members of
their own board of trustees and callingfor a guillotine. Shouldn't we be deporting
these students if we have undocumented studentswho are here unlawfully in the country,
who are violating the law, Let'sjust be clear here now this is a
violation of the law. And ifthey're also deliberately inciting persecution of a person

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on aunt of their race, whichsurely calling for the murder of Jews,
does that shouldn't we be deporting them? Does anybody think we should be?
Shouldn't we be deporting these students whoare here unlawfully? Spacheko, Senator,
we expect a lot from our scholarsand the scholars and the students that I

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know love this country, respect thiscountry, and want to and enrich not
only the campuses but also this country. That's fantastic. And I hope and
bet that none of the people thatyou sponsor are part of this. And
I certainly hope that's the case.But I just wondered, is there anybody
in the panel who thinks that weshould not deport students who are here unlawfully,

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who are engaging in this activity,who are calling for the death of
Jewish students, who are violating thelaws of the United States. I mean,
shouldn't we be deporting these people?Does anybody want to defend it and
say no, we shouldn't. Theyshould absolutely be here. I think it's
defensible. I the record reflects istotal silence from the panel. You know.
I also think we ought to cancela student visas, and I've called

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for this for those who are herefrom other countries with a visa. I
think if they're part of this,we ought to be canceling they're visas.
I think maybe a better question forSenator hally Dask that hit the panel there
would be because he left him anopportunity to just be silent without expressing their
opinion. Wouldn't it been nice toif he'd make Maybe it would have been

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better if the center, in hindsighthad said, raise your hand if you
agree that we should deport any studentwho's participating in this type of demonstration,
and see who raised their hand,if anybody, because then you got to
follow up if if if you havesomebody on the panel that doesn't raise their

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hand, you can point at themand say why didn't you raise your hand?
And you can question them further.Now you know, I'm going to
take the dream dot us person attheir word here. Maybe I shouldn't,
Maybe I'm nagive to do it,but I mean, listen to what she
said. She basically said, no, I don't have any knowledge of any

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of our students doing that, Andthat's is basically saying, well, you
don't know, doesn't mean that somebodyisn't just you don't know. And quite
honestly, none of them are goingto ask, and none of them are
going to investigate, and none ofthem are going to look into whether any
of the people benefiting from the charitableorganization is participating or not. The only

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way that this works, I mean, if we agree with Senator Holly that
that's a perfectly reasonable response. Theonly way that works is if the police
when they arrest these individuals that firstof all, that they arrest any individual
who is participating in something that's illegal, that charges are brought against that individual,

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and that individual's and turned over toICE for deportation proceedings, and that
the deportation proceedings happen. There's acouple of layers there. The police can
do their job, but that doesn'tmean that ICE will do their job.
In fact, it's almost certain withouta change of administration, that ICE will
not do its job because it's beentold not to. And even with a

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change of administration, I don't thinkwe can be one hundred percent certain that
that's going to happen because of allthe bureaucrats, you know in the swamp,
all those bureaucrats who do whatever thehell they want to do it.
It's going to take more than oneman. It's going to take more than
one administration to straighten a lot ofthis stuff up because it's entrenched in the

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bureaucracy. To me, that's themost frustrating thing about it. It's thoroughly
entrenched in the bureaucracy. I don'tknow how at this point. I don't
want to sound like a defeatist.I don't ever want to sound like a
defeata so like I've given up,But I just don't know how we fix
it without a complete reset. AndI think I think there's a lot of

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people in charge right now they wantto reset, but they're not looking for
the same reset you and I arelooking for. They're looking for a different
kind of reset. To us,a reset would be all right. We're
going to start over again with theconstitutionally limited republic that we started off with,
you know, in seventeen seventy sixas a country. We're going to

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go back to that we you know, we're going to go We're not going
to go back to slaveholding and allthe other things that has existed in this
country in seventeen seventy six, butwe're going to go back to the idea
of limited government, states rights.You know that that that we have secure
borders, that we provide for thenational defense, that we live within our

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means, that we have a balancedbudget, those types of things. I'd
like to think we could all agreethat we'd be a better country if we
did all those things. I knowyou and I can agree on that,
but that that would that would causea reset because you'd have to get rid
of the entrench bureaucracy. And that'sthere's a lot of that to get rid

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of at this point, a tonof it to get rid of. Now.
The other side they want to hita reset button too, But their
reset button is the end of theUnited States open borders, you know,
a democratic government rule for it forever, you know, European style socialism.
That's their idea of a reset.Yeah, and not the same idea we

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have about a reset. All right, quick little break back with born a
moment Jimmy Bair show here an Amnine KPRC. I want to say it

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was probably October the last time wetalked to Chris Burgard. He's the director
of The War on Truth, that'sthe documentary has out right now. He
also directed Capital Punishment. Everything theytold you about Jay's sixth as in January,
the sixth was a line did notearn an Oscar? Did you expect
to earn an oscar? Chris?I got no oscar just to visit.

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It wasn't from the academy, wasit? No sir, it was from
the FBI. Is that correct?That would be correct? Okay, So
are you allowed to talk about that, do you? Or would you prefer
not to talk about that? No? Sure, that was you know,
God's got a funny sense of humorbecause people that wanted us to do a
sequel to Capital Punishment, and Iwasn't quite sure what the angle was.

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And if I don't know, Idon't see the film in my head.
It's like I don'm not sure thestory. I'm manntell. But people like
you need you the sequel and dothe sequel. So sometimes God whispers in
your ears if you don't listen,kind of nudges you on the shoulder,
and then if it's so listen,he punches in the stomach. And I
would say, the FBI coming aquarter mile and my ranch investigate me as

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a terrorist threat to the United Statesof America for making a movie. Was
pretty much a gut punch because ifyou know, as I told my partner
Nick, you know, they cando this to us for making a movie.
What's happened and everybody else out there, and unfortunately it was it's just
not good. And what we saw. What we saw was just January sixth

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was just the beginning of the Warrentruth. Yeah, and it will get
into I want to get into thenew film for just a second. But
but to get back to the FBIas well, how did they approach you?
What did they say they were therefor? Did they tell you they
were there to investigate who was aterror sweat? What did they tell you?
So they left a card on mydoor, and luckily we hadn't been
there, but in Texas, youjust you step five feet on another man's

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rants, puttle on a quarter miledown the ranch. It's just so they
came down and they left to puta door. And I called him and
said, they said that they hada called in about me. A tip
called in the National Threat Assessment Centeris a big tip, and they wanted
to speak to me. And Isaid, well, you probably googled me.
You know, my dad was agraduate one hundred and ninth session of

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the FBI Academy in Quantago, Virginia. He was law enforcement. You probably
know that for almost twenty years,I've worked with state, local, and
federal law enforcement officials my coverage ofthe border. And I said, yeah,
we know all that. So Isaid Okay, well, I have
no problem speak to me. Ijust want to have council president. And
I had an attorney ready to gofor this because in the first movie Capital

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Punishment, people in our casks werebeing arrested while we're making the movie.
So we thought, just in case, but I didn't really think we'd ever
have to use it. But youhave the team there in case, And
so I got the numbers for ourattorneys and to set up a meeting,
and they tried to set up ameeting without the attorneys going around me and
saying, hey, just meet usdown the road. There's a Texas DPS

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Criminal Investigation Vision we can we canfilm the whole of you there. Should
just take five minutes, don't worryabout it. And my radar was already
up because they didn't go through mylocal sheriff here in my county when they
were investigating me, And that's kindof a faux pod to the local sheriff.
That's kind of like saying we don'ttrust you enough to investigate and let

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you know they're investigating somebody in yourin your county. So when they kind
of went around or that they didgo around my attorneys to want to set
up that meeting and do it outsideof the county. I was like,
no, I'm not. I'm notnow, I'm not. I'm not meeting
with you guys now. Now Ican just talk to my attorneys and uh
my counsel from our our share waswhy don't you just stay in the county

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until we get this stuff work out? Might a little safer for you.
Wow. And uh so we wedid everything. We handled it. I
must say the the agents were verygood to work with and we're seeing this
a lot. But the local agentsjust trying to do their job, but
they're being run out of d C. And you'll see in the movie as

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in we have whistleblowers FBI whistleblowers.In the Warren Truth movie, you'll see
like a schedule agent Steve Friend.He was a task force member and a
pedophile task Force in Florida. Theypulled him off back to go after J
six ers on direct orders from Washington, and they wanted him to hit this
house. You know, SWAT teamhit it hard task getting its flash bangs.

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It's like, I know this guy. I can call him up,
we can have lunch, I cancall him up. You can come in
and FBI was in. The rulefrom Washington was no, you hit him,
and you hit him hard, andSteve had a problem with that.
That's one of the reasons he's nolonger white with the FBI and why he
stood up and had to speak thetruth. But that's that's what we're seeing

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down here. But with the theagents down here, you know, they
asked, they sent a bunch ofquestions over. We sent a written response
back and asked, is is theinvestigation now closed? Which they wouldn't answer.
While making the movie, speaking toformer agent Kyle Seraphims giving the making

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friend asked them, so do youthink I'm off the hook? Now?
Do you think that's down the pono? There's a growing list and you're at
the top of it. And what'sreally unfortunate is we found out making the
film, we naively thought that,Okay, everybody is shedding spotlight down the
federal governments involvement on J six,they'll back off now with the arrests and
everything. But no, that's that'snot the case. The fact what we

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found out is they're doubling down andthey put together a whole task force with
newer agents. Right the most wokethe most inexperienced, coming right out of
the academy to go after people thatthey are and doctrinated as being domestic terrorists.
So have you Have you been visitedby the FBI? Were you visited

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at all? While you were makingthe sequel to the movie. While we're
making a sequel in the movie,I had no direct presence with the FBI
except for it's a scene that's nolonger in the movie. But we finished
the original kind of the movie,Nick and I went to director Rai's office
because they wanted to talk to himface to face, but he wouldn't see
us. But that's not in theall. That's not in the movie.

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But that was the closest we came. Wow. Wow, it's an amazing
story. And I think you feelcompelled excuse me to to to talk about
this and to make a film aboutthis, because, let's face it,
when we last time we talked inOctober that the same January sixth, prisoners
were languishing and jailed then and they'relanguishing in jail now still correct. Nothing,

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nothing, nothing's happened for them.Where when do they get their day
in court? Well, they havetheir day in court it's just their day
in court is in Washington, dC. Which you know many would argue
is that is at a court ofyour peers. You look at the Middletons,
you know, senior citizen couple,former pastor down here in Texas.
Their their trial is in Washington,in DC. They're going to prison.

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I mean, the woman needs aramp to get up and down into a
ranch house. You know. Issuereally that dangerous the United States of America.
This is the stuff you're going tosee in this movie, and I
hope people understand this. The firstthing you're going to see is that every
the Capitol Police, the MAGA people, they were all set up. And

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you'll you'll you'll see how that happened. You'll see why that happened, and
you'll see uh wilstl blowers from insideCapitol Police explaining exactly how they were set
up that day. This is anoperation. This was This is an operation
not only to steal power and changethe correction in the direction of the country,

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but also to start a movement hehumanize and go after those that stand
in the way of America become atotalitarian state. If you remember a few
years ago during Obama there was JanetsHall Tonnell was the DHS. Head of
DHS, she was the director andfrom forty thousand foot perspective, she put

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out a fusion report basically saying thatthe three most dangerous threats to the national
security of the United States of Americawere pro border security activists, Christian pro
life activists, and returning veterans.And when that came out, that just
sounded crazy. Why would you thinkthat that those are people that are good
patriots assaulted the head rock of AmericaWhen we started making this movie, and

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the first people that were interviewing oneafter another, well, they're all Christians
and a lot more veterans, andthey're highly decorated veterans and back there's Special
Forces veterans and some of these guyswere intelligence. Those are the people Christian,
those are the people who would fightto save our republic. That's why
the targets exactly exactly. And oneof these fellows, like Sergeant Jeremy Brown,

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who was in he was in overtwo years waiting for his trial.
He got convicted. Me at sevenyears, I believe. I said to
him, you know, he saidto me, he said, Chris,
look, the United States government hasspent millions of dollars training me how to
take down a country from the inside. If I wasn't in prison, i'd

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be out of nightly talk shows explainingeverybody exactly what happened on January sixth and
exactly what's going to happen, becausethat's the same sort of stuff I used
to do in other countries. Wow, So is the movie available now?
And if it's available now, wherecan we see it? The movie is
premiering May seventeenth, and yeah,you're just down the street from us.

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You're in Houston. We're going tohave the movie premiere up here in Dallas
on May seventeenth, and it's gonnago live. You can get it from
a host of distributors across the countryonline, but the main place you can
get it is the War on Truthmoviedot com, the War ontruthmovie dot Com,
and you can go there now andsee trailers and see a whole bunch

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of press. So are there anytheaters that would have the guts to show
this? Do you think? Chris? You know, we didn't even bother
the last movie, but the fearthat we ran into, you know my
background doing documentaries, My movie usedto win a bunch of awards. I
made this last movie about capital punishment. Everything I said about J six was
a lie. And I think weentered sixteen film festivals, didn't get into

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one. And that's that's conservative filmvestvals, Patriot film festivals, you know,
not just sun Dance, and nobodywould touch it. Well, okay,
well we're gonna look for it online. And the website again is the
War on truthmovie dot Com. ChrisBurgard, thank you for what you do.
Much appreciated, Sert. You havea blessed day. Thank you you

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too, sirs. Director of theWar on Truth, Chris Burgard joining us
here on AM nine fifty kPr Cand the Jimmy Bird Show. We're with
more in just a moment, allright, final segment today. I thought
I would do this. I thoughtI would share this with you. This

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is from the morning show today,Sharon and I interviewed Mayor John Whitmyer.
We've had him on the show threetimes, which is so far in his
tenure, which is three times morethan we ever had Sylvester Turner on.
So already we haven't improved and asyou are no doubt well aware by now.
Troy Finner is retired, he's nolonger the police chief. There's going

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to be a new police chief.And we had an opportunity to talk to
John Whitmyer about the police chief situation, the water department situation, and I
kind of led the whole thing offby asking him about, you know,
in general, how it's been.Just he's just only a few months into
his tenure and he's had nothing butproblems to deal with. Twenty three is

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their time here in Houston's one isI'm thinking of the first few months in
office for Mayor John Whitmeer, it'swe have a water department problem, we
have a police chief issue, andthe city is basically broke the least the
way the mayor has described it.That's kind of a tough start to your
new tenure, sir, Yes,sir, it's a challenge. We have

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great city, great people, butlike most major cities, we have challenges.
Particularly in Houston, We've neglected alot of our city services, our
infrastructure. So I've dealt with waterbilling, the freeze, the Lakewood shooting.
Certainly this last week with weekend inKingwood, I inherited a lot of

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challenges. Some would call them messes. But that's what experience is for I
ran to make a difference. That'sthe only reason I ran. And I'm
using that experience in that commitment forpublic service that's called eyes wide open.
So now the chief of police hasretired, and yet what's going on with

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the problem that created all this?I know that you went back in and
looked at all these ignored cases,and the real problem we're learning from police
is that we just don't have enoughmanpower in order to cover these. And
not all of these were nefarious,it was just a fact we didn't have
people to cover it. So howare you going to do that? Now?

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What are we going to do movingforward? Well, I'm glad you
asked that. How we go forward? First of all, the backlobe it's
incidents investigations that were labeled insufficient staffingfor eight years under four chiefs, the
last mayor for eight year. Isjust unbelievable that someone would label an incident

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for an investigation we can't get toit. Somebody should have had an outcry,
you know, I was sharing criminaljustice and Austin in the Senate.
They should have brought that to me. We would have gone public addressed it
and found the resources. The goodnewsists under the review. The sexual assaults
have all been reviewed and referred toeither counseling or the DA. The family

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violence so the priority cases of violenceone on one actions have been reviewed.
We'll continue to go forward on propertycrimes till we get to the end of
it. I believe too much timeand focus was on the incidents and the
backlog. New information came forward endof last week, over the weekend,

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and it was just time for achange. Troy Fenner has been a good
public servant for thirty four years.He didn't lose focus on crime fighting.
I just think the department as awhole had a morale problem. The incidents
were a distraction and I want everybodyto get back to fighting crime. It

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was a very tough decision, butI used from my experience and my commitment
to Houstonians to make the change andwe would go forward. There is a
boost of energy when I got electedin HVD. I've worked with the women
and men in law enforcement my wholecareer. They were excited and they're still
excited, and we have so muchmore to do. We need the collaboration

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that we've started with other departments.Yes, we're short. We're short shorter
of HVD also than we worked twentyfive years ago. We've got to address
that. We have hotspots all overtown that need addressing. Response time,
clearance rate, get people held accountableat the courthouse, get the violent repeat

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offenders off our street. I ranbecause I was concerned about public safety.
I inherited the system that says,oh, we're fine, crime rates going
down, but they won't care aboutthe unreported incidents. They won't talk about
the backlog that got us in thediscussion this morning. There's something enough criticism

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of the system that you inherited.Really, and what about the people who
are within the system, the citycouncil, the people who run the top
echelon of the police department. Areyou going to be making changes there as
well? Or is it just becauseFenner is now retired. We can all
grow happily on our way. Thisis a new beginning. We're hitting the
restart, buddy. Everyone will beheld accountable. I've said that for two

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months now. Finner would be heldaccountable. I'll be held accountable everyone involved.
This is a great city, butwe've got challenges in public safety.
Is still the number one concerned withmost Houstonians. It's my number one concern.
We can talk about infrastructure too atanother time. Sure you know our
strange turn tip goodness, everybody's workingtogether. The county commissions are reaching out

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to me, Rionis, Ramsey,Garcia, three of them walt to partner
with the city to fix our streetsand drainage. But we've got to get
public safety as our talk priority.We are already we're already past time,
sir. But let me quickly askyou. Do you have a short list
of candidates for the police chief's position, And if not, do you at
least have a couple of items thatyou believe are the most important in whomever

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you're going to hire. Next mostimportant thing has to be an expiritce crime
fighter with a record and the motivationto get the job done. No more
spins, no more talks. Thislock up bad folks. You have non
violent folks the second chance to restarttheir life, but whole people accountra.

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Yes, I've got people that I'vemet in my career, other police chiefs,
other law enforcement agency. We're veryfortunate that I've been in public service,
sharing criminal justice for a long time. Thirty years actually, and I
have a good rolodex of people thatI would bring in the fight crime.
Okay, good, So you havea short list already. It sounds like

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it sounds like he's got somebody ofmine. That is Mayor John Whitmire on
our morning show today in KTRH.All right, that does it for today.
You'll have a great day. Seeyou tomorrow morning. Bright nearly at
five am a share over on newsRadio seven forty KTRH. We were back
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