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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud Michael
Very show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, come on, man, wake up.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I've said it for years now.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
He's coagent, but I undersold him when I said he
was coaching.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
She's far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he's better
than he's ever been. And f you if you can't
handle the truth.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close second.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
And I've known him for years the presentskis have known
him for fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
Say you were you rise.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Sleeping, pretty dard, do not cry?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
And that few if you can't handle the truth.

Speaker 6 (01:10):
And I will sing another body.

Speaker 7 (01:13):
Joe Biden, he fell asleep today during the latest beating
in Angola.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
What do you make of him falling asleep at the.

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Table in front of the cameras?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Is it disappointing for you?

Speaker 8 (01:24):
And Joe Biden is in Delaware sleeping right now in
one of his many.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Estates, One of his many estates. How did he get
so many houses?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
He never was.

Speaker 8 (01:32):
Anything that as a politician.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
I had a fund raiser in Virginia last night.

Speaker 7 (01:49):
The President blamed his performance on jet lag, saying, quote,
I decided to travel around.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
The world a couple of times.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
Shortly before the debate, I didn't listen to my staff,
and then I almost fell asleep park stage.

Speaker 9 (02:18):
When the President of the United States gets a little
unscheduled shut eye, its eye opening for the.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Press, appearing to take a nap dozing.

Speaker 9 (02:27):
Even climate change couldn't compete with changing time zones and
jet lag.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
President Biden's eyelids dropped.

Speaker 9 (02:35):
Then flickered open, then went down for the count. A
half minute or so later, an aide came to the
rescue and roused him. After barely catching forty winks, he
clapped and rubbed his eyes.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
And that few if you can't handle the truth.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
We're going to play two clips from Tucker Carlson today.
And if you ever wonder why we play other shows,
it is because the Michael Berry Show is not on
Michael Berry. The Michael Berry Show is Jim Mudd and
Ramon Robles and Chad Nakanishi. It is a whole crew
of us attempting to entertain and inform and to a

(03:35):
large extent, move the ball forward in the movement. When
someone else does something with which we agree, we want
to amplify that message. Now there will be a concentric
cirfcle overlap. Some of you will have heard sometimes when
we play something from another show, but some of you won't.
And we believe that's worth it because good content, important content,

(03:59):
truth revealing content, whether it's ours or someone else's, we
want to share that. So, Tucker Carlson, did we play
the Tucker Carlson in Russia already? Okay, Tucker Carlson back
in Moscow interviewing Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Levrov, and he said, Hey, look,

(04:21):
we are in a hot war that means firing on
each other with Russia, and it's not being reported. And
I asked this question last night. I guess I didn't
get to the audio.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I meant to.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Who do you believe? Do you believe the Biden administration
that just pardoned Hunter Biden for taking bribes after saying
they wouldn't. Who told you all those awful things about
Donald Trump that weren't true. Who allowed the Secret Service
director to be in a position to allow our president
to be shot in the head, or the foreign minister

(04:55):
of Russia I don't know. It's not like I'm trying
to endorse the Foreign Minister of RUSSI I don't know
the guy I would have told you before. He's Russian,
he's a bad guy, and maybe he is. Maybe they're
all bad. But I don't trust our government either. But
if he says we're in a hot war with them,
that Biden is allowing this to happen until Trump get

(05:17):
what if they set off World War three before Trump
can get into office. These are real conversations we should
be having. Here's what Tucker had to say.

Speaker 10 (05:25):
In the weeks since we left Russia Moscow, where we
are now in February, after interviewing Vladimir Puchi, We've watched
in the United States as the Biden administration has driven
the US ever closer to a nuclear conflict with Russia.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
The country the possessica world's largest nuclear arsenal.

Speaker 10 (05:41):
It has accelerated ever since, and it's reached its apogee
so far in the weeks after Trump's election He's now
the president elect. In that time, just a few weeks ago,
the Biden administration, American military personnel launched missiles into mainland
Russia and killed at least a dozen Russian soldiers. We are,
unbeknownst to most Americans, in a hot war with Russian

(06:04):
undeclared war where you did not vote for and that
most Americans don't want.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
But it is ongoing because of.

Speaker 10 (06:09):
That war, because of the fact that the US military
is killing Russians in Russia. Right now, we are closer
to nuclear war than at any time in history, far
closer than we were during the Cuban missile crisis. That
would mean the elimination of Russia, the United States, and
most of the rest of the world. We felt there
must be someone behind the scenes in Washington working to

(06:29):
make sure that this conflict doesn't become a nuclear holocaust.
But we found out that no, in fact, there is nobody.
Tony Blincoln, the current Secretary of State, cut off all
contact between the US and Russian governments. There is no backchannel,
There is no conversation. There hasn't been for more than
two years. That's shocking. Meanwhile, most Americans have no access

(06:49):
to any perspective other than that granted to them by
NBC News in the New York Times. They don't know
how close we are. They don't know the Russian perspective.
We've been trying for over a year to get that
pontive out to American news consumers. We've also tried for
over a year to get an interview with Zelenski, the
President of Ukraine.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
We protect that from a bunch of different angles.

Speaker 10 (07:09):
You've spoken to a lot of different people around him,
had dinner with them, We've been.

Speaker 6 (07:12):
In talks continuously, and those efforts have been.

Speaker 10 (07:15):
Thwarted by the US government. The American Embassy in Kiev,
which our tax dollars pay for, told does Lensky government, no,
you may not do the interview. You can talk to
CNN if you can't talk to us. So we've been
unable to speak to him. So we came back to
Moscow yesterday to interview the Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergei Lavrov,
the longest serving foreign minister in the world. He's been

(07:37):
a part of this government for twenty five years, he's
been in the diplomatic corps for over forty and ask
him where exactly are we are we headed toward an
unprecedented conflict between Russia and the United States. Is there
any way to appeal Russia back from the east, from
the sphere of China back into the West.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
Is that alliance permanent?

Speaker 10 (07:59):
And does the election of Donald Trump mean an end
to this war which is reshaping the world's the US economy,
the global economy, and risking the life of every person
on this planet.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Is that possible. We just walked out of that interview.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
It's absolutely fascinating. It's coming very soon.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Of the world as we know to Michael Barry Show,
end of the World coming home.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
All right, I told you there were two clips from
Tucker and I want to get to this. It's a
longer clip when you put into context Hunter Biden's pardon
for any crime he might have committed over the last
eleven years, because I know there's a lot. Let's not
forget right now. Little ladies are rotting in jail for

(08:48):
having gone to the Trump speech and meandered over to
the Capitol and done nothing wrong and being called insurrectionists
and their lives turned upside down. The j six political prisoners,
they're rotting in jail, and Trump better pardon them on
day one. And that's how we knew all along that
narrative was fraudulent. Tucker makes the point very well well.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
January six was fraudulent.

Speaker 10 (09:13):
And it's taken me three years to get the full
picture on that.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
I had that instinct. I'll just say two.

Speaker 10 (09:19):
I mean, there's nothing I can add to January six,
which is an enormously complex series of events that still
to this day is shrouded in secrecy and deception. And
I know a lot about this subject. I'm from Washington,
but I would just say one thing really quick. I
watched that happen. I was not in Washington when it happened.
I saw it on television. One of my children worked

(09:39):
in that building called me and said this was happening.
And I instantly knew there was lying. I instantly, and
I had no idea where it was coming from. Here's
all I would say about it. If something happens in
your country or in your life, and your gut tells
you there's something wrong with the explanation I'm getting. Trust
your gut. It doesn't mean that you understand what actually happened.
I still don't understand what actually happened. It was a setup.

(10:01):
I can say that conclusively. Who did it? Hard to
know the left of it who, But I knew right
away that what they were telling me on NBC News
and see and all the rest of the liars in
my country was false. I could feel it, and I
never wavered in my belief that they were lying to me.
And now we know for a fact it's been documented
that they were. So I would my advice to you

(10:21):
would be, if you feel something as deceptive, you were
given these instincts at birth. There's nothing more reliable than
your intuition. It's not trying to sell you anything, it's
not trying to hurt you. It's trying to save you,
So don't ignore it. More than forty thousand hours of
surveillance footage from in and around the Capitol have been
withheld from the public, and once you see the video,
you'll understand why. Taking as a whole, the video record

(10:43):
does not support the claim that January sixth was an insurrection.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
In fact, it demolishes.

Speaker 10 (10:49):
That claim, and that's exactly why the Democratic Party and
its allies in the media prevented you from seeing it.
These were not insurrectionists, they were sightseers. Footage from inside
the capital overturns the story you've heard about January sixth.
Protesters queue up in neat little lines. They give each
other tours outside the Speaker's office. They take cheerful selfies

(11:10):
and they smile. They're not destroying the capital. They obviously
revere the Capitol. They're there because they believe the election
was stolen from them. They believe in the system. Here's
the man you've heard referred to as the QAnon Shaman
outside the Senate chamber. These are not rioters. These are
people who wandered over from a political rally. Intelligence and

(11:31):
law enforcement agencies played in the events of that day.
We know there was some number of undercover federal agents
in the crowd at the Capitol.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Officials have since admitted that under oath.

Speaker 10 (11:41):
But what exactly were they doing that The January sixth
Committee worked hard to hide the answer to that question.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
We do know from contemporaneous videos that a mysterious.

Speaker 10 (11:50):
Figure called Ray Epps encouraged the crowd to go into.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
The Capitol for some reason.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
Epps has never been indicted for them, because, no question
he did the capital.

Speaker 10 (12:01):
Under public pressure, the January sixth Committee finally interviewed ray Epps.
Epps told the committee that he never entered the Capitol
and therefore never committed a crime. His text messages showed
that at two twelve PM, he boasted to his nephew
that he had quote orchestrated the protests at the Capitol.
He admitted he helped get people there. Yet, curiously, Congressional

(12:23):
Democrats consider Ray Apps an ally, not an insurrectionist.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
Tonight, we can tell you that at the very least,
Ray Apps lied.

Speaker 10 (12:31):
In his sworn testimony to the January sixth Committee, Apps
testified that when he sent the text messages to his nephew,
he had already left the Capitol grounds to return to
his hotel room.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
That is not true.

Speaker 10 (12:43):
The surveillance footage we found shows that, in fact, Ray
Apps remained at the Capitol for at least another half
an hour.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
You're seeing that on your screen.

Speaker 10 (12:52):
Now, what was EPP's doing there, We can't say, but
we do know that he lied to investigators. The January
sixth Committee likely knew that too. Democrats had access to
the same tea, yet they defended ray ms.

Speaker 6 (13:05):
No honest investigation would do that.

Speaker 8 (13:07):
A second set here, in a press conference on January seventh,
Speaker Polosi called for your resignation on national television.

Speaker 11 (13:15):
I am calling for the resignation of the chief of
the Capital Police, mister sound and I have received notice
from mister Irving that he is will be submitting his resignation.

Speaker 8 (13:28):
Speaker Policy also stated that she had not talked to
you since the initial breach of the Capitol, But according
to your transcribed interview, you're on the phone with Speaker
Pelosi a few times.

Speaker 11 (13:38):
Well, let me just say this, many of our Capitol
Police just acted so bravely and so with such concern
for the staff, for the members, for the capital, for
the capital of the United States, many of the men,
and they deserve our gratitude, but there was a failure
of leadership at.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
The top of the Capital Police.

Speaker 11 (14:00):
And I think mister Sun but he hasn't even called
um since this had you know, so I had made
it aware that I would be saying that we're calling
for his resignation.

Speaker 12 (14:11):
Can you explain that discrepancy? Yeah, that is that is correct.
I spoke to Speaker Pelosi three times that that evening,
and she went on National TV and said I'd never
spoken to her, But I spoke to her three times.
The three times were the first time when I went
over to brief President Vice President Pence at the secure
location I had called us House Sarg's arms Irving told

(14:36):
him I was going over to brief the Vice President.
I was also going over to a personal assessment of
the Capitol. At that point things were getting under control.
Went over there, briefed him on whom we can get
them back into chambers with, you know, mister Irving being
fully aware, he said he wanted to get Speaker Pelosi
on the phone.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
He made a phone call from his cell phone.

Speaker 12 (14:53):
Had approximately five thirty four where I first briefed Spear Pelosi.
The second call was when I left that location and
as I was walking away, I met up with mister
Stinger and we started walking over the Senate to go
brief the Senate when Jennifer Hemingway, I believe it was
Jennifer Hemingway handed me hit the cell phone and it
was Emily Barrett's cell phone calling her and it was Speaker.

Speaker 8 (15:12):
Plosi on the other line.

Speaker 12 (15:13):
This is my second call with Speaker Plosi questioning the
information I've given to Vice President Pents about when we
can get back into chambers. I assured her that information
was correct. I could get them back into chair members
by seven pm.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
And the call ended. That was call number two. Call
number three was six twenty five pm.

Speaker 12 (15:29):
I was over at the Senate from the secure location,
I mean from where the Senate had been sequestered, and
on a cell phone, using Robert Carram's cell phone, they
dialed leadership who was over off site at a secure location,
and I briefed all of the leadership of the plans
to get them back into chambers. That would have been
call number three with Speaker Plosi.

Speaker 8 (15:47):
She didn't had one call, you didn't have two call.
You had three calls. So Spere Pelosi's comments that she
didn't speak to you were inaccurate.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
That is correct, sir, Well, let me.

Speaker 11 (15:54):
Just say this, many of our Capitol police just acted
so bravely.

Speaker 10 (16:00):
Oh how dare you show this what is clearly exculpatory evidence.
And again, it's not just Chuck Schumer, it's Republican Senators
Kevin Kramer, Mike Rounds, Chuck Grassley, John Thune, Lindsey Graham,
of course, Congressman Dan crensch Only this is at Kelly
Armstrong all went after us. We're not whining about that.
We don't care, actually, but it just tells you everything

(16:21):
about the way.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Things actually work. They're not loyal to their voters.

Speaker 10 (16:24):
They're loyal to each other, and they're willing to lie,
really lie and crush peop.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Job would use.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
That tone to me, not a joke.

Speaker 11 (16:32):
That's sarcastic, contemptuous tone that means you know everything because
you're a man, and I know nothing because I'm a woman.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
That is not a joke.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
That is a natural fact that Michael, Very, Joe.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
And all criticized President Trump early in this year because
I felt like he was understandably still aggrieved over the law,
fair over what he'd been through over the chief twenty
twenty and I understand it, but I worried that we
couldn't win this election if people thought that the only

(17:08):
thing he was going to do was seek retribution for
what had been done to him. The everyday person needed
to see that he had an agenda for his next
four years. And at some point during this campaign it flipped,
and I got to tell you something I don't was
born in seventy I remember Carter coming into office. I

(17:28):
was six years old in seventy six. I've watched every inauguration,
every first hundred days, every transition period. I have never
seen a man on a mission from the time they
were elected the way Trump has been, and I think
he fully understands, having been there, how long it takes
to get anything done and how fast it's all gone.

(17:49):
And he is so focused to hit the ground running.
So his pick for deputy chief of Staff, he really
relies on Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller was on five News
with Hannity and he gave a list of things to
expect within the first hundred days of Trump's presidency. And
I can tell you this, He's not pulling this up
off some random list. He's going to be one of

(18:10):
the guys making sure this happens.

Speaker 13 (18:12):
Let me paint a picture for you, Shana, those first
twe hundred days, rapid, total, complete deregulation of American energy exploration.
You're going to see an American energy booms starting right away.
You're going to see all the regulations that are strangling
job growth in this country and driving up prices, driving
up housing costs go away. You're going to see the
border sealed shot. The criminal aliens are going to be
shipped home in four countries around the world. Are going

(18:34):
to accept the gang members and the cartel members that
are poisoning our families and murdering American children, you are
going to see peace begin to restore to the world
as the President works to bring back harmony in the Middle.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
East, harmony in Europe.

Speaker 13 (18:47):
You're going to see him work with Congress to pass
another round of historic tax relief, and you're going to
see a government that is accountable to the people again.
The swamp will be drained on day one. Incompetent and
disloyal people that are hurting this nation are going to
be replaced with those who care only for the American people,
the American worker, and the American future.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
That's what's going to happen. It will be a new
Golden Age. Sean next is red meat for the base
and really needs to happen. Speaker of the House Mike
Johnson said he would like to see funding cut for
PBS and Planned Parenthood, two specific examples.

Speaker 14 (19:23):
Planned Parenthood and PBS are in congressional control.

Speaker 6 (19:26):
Are you planning to act both of those?

Speaker 15 (19:28):
I would like to, that's for surety for both of those. Yeah,
we got to build consensus to have the votes to
do that. Now, some of this will be done by
executive order out of the White House. He hasn't brought
authority to do a lot of that where Congress is involved.
That's where it takes the hard work of legislator and
getting everybody on the same page.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
So there'll be lots of ideas that come out.

Speaker 15 (19:44):
We don't want to put too many of it out
right now, okay, but this is part of that preparing
the playbook to unleash an unroll in January.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
We also need to fire every person in public health
who was involved with the vaccines. I don't know if
you noticed. I didn't. I forgot to talk about it.
The fellow who was going to be the DEA director,
the sheriff down in Florida withdrew his nomination when people
were reminded that he is the one who arrested the

(20:12):
preacher for having church services during COVID and put him
in jail. I'm tell you something, folks, we ain't going
away those people who abuse their power against us during
the vaccine era. We're going to be here and we're
not going away, and we are not forgetting. There will
be punishment. You're not going listen. You know there were

(20:33):
people during the Nuremberg trials who said, why are we
dragging this out, Let's move past it. No, there will
be a reckoning. I tell you who else there needs
to be a reckoning against Peter Hotez. This is a
goofy doctor in Houston who's an absolute nut. During COVID,

(20:54):
he was pushing the vaccine and he's one of those
guys that believes that if you didn't take the COVID
the clock shot, awful things should happen to you, and
he will say and do anything. I'd love to see
who pays his bills, because this bastard is pure evil.
And he didn't like to be criticized over the COVID
vaccine and the fact that it was killing people. He
didn't like to be questioned because he's the expert, not you.

(21:17):
He had gone on MSNBC to tell Andrea Mitchell that
it was a tough time for scientists because of this criticism.
Scientists should be criticized. That's the scientific method, that's part
of it. You're not the Sadducees where you proclaim that
no one's You're not the Grand Mullah of Iran who

(21:40):
issues a fatwah if anyone criticizes you, but he would
like to be so. Here he is when he was
whining they're criticizing us.

Speaker 14 (21:48):
The new York Times has focused on the continuing threats
within Republicans and almost an organized way Republicans running for
office turning doctor Fauci into some sort of bogey man
or enemy. Is this is their way to try to
trump voters. I mean, any you don't dell it too politics,
But what kind of crisis?

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, well, people in public health. Yeah, no, it's it's awful.

Speaker 16 (22:08):
And you know, I had Fox News Target Meet for
two nights last week, and it's it's very scary when
that happens because there's a lot of followers who then
send you threats and you have to bring in security
and it causes a lot of disruption and fear.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
So I understand what Tony's going through.

Speaker 16 (22:26):
And so this has become part of the new new
aspect of what the far right has been doing, not
only working to discredit the scientists the science, but actually
discrediting individual scientists and going after them.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
So this is it's a tough time to be a scientist.
As we say, this is why we're all so grateful
to you, to doctor Faugie as well.

Speaker 17 (22:46):
We're just going up with us, Yes, you and doctor
Fauci and Jim Comey, the FBI has been criticized. Some
of our professors are big. It's a very tough.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Time y'all having to be criticized. That same Peter Hotel
went on MSNBC again, and I'm gonna let you listen
to this. He says, there's some stuff. There's some stuff
coming down on January twenty first, viruses are going to
be unleashed. This dude, he's always been off his rocker.
But just listen to what this guy has to say carefully.

Speaker 16 (23:19):
Here's the reason why we need to care about this stuff, Nicole,
is that we have some big picture stuff coming down
the pike starting on January twent first. Mister Bloomberg mentioned
H five N one that I'm really worried about. It's
all over wild birds on the western part of the
United States and going up in the north. It's getting

(23:40):
into the poultry. We're seeing a sporadic human cases. No
human to human transmission yet, but that could happen. It's
in the cattle, it's in the milk, and that's just
the beginning. We have another major coronavirus likely brewing in Asia.
We've had SARS in two thousand and two, Stars tow
COVID nineteen and twenty nineteen, and we know these viruses

(24:00):
are jumping from bats to people thousands of times a year.
But that's there's still more there. We know that we
have a big problem with mosquito transmitted viruses all along
the Gulf coast where I am here in Texas, or
expecting dangy and probably possibly zeca virus coming back, or
a puoche virus, maybe even yellow fever, and there's more.

(24:21):
Then we have all this sharp rise in vaccine preventable
diseases going up because of part of the anti vaccine
activism that's so prominent right now. We have a fivefold
rise in protesta's cases whooping cough over the last year,
fifteen measles outbreaks this year, we've got polio that's been
in the wastewater in New York State. All that's going
to come crashing down on January twenty first on the

(24:44):
Trump administration. We need a really, really good team to
be able to handle.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Barry in the system a modern DA. I'd like to
rap a show on a serious note about Pete Hegg Septs.
And I'm not going to stop talking about Pete hex
Seth no matter what happens. Because the reason people opposed

(25:16):
Pete hegg Seth.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Was not.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Drinking. It was not relations with women. That's just what
they do to get the cryoud against them. It was
because Pete Hegseth does not abide this nonsense of grown
men dressing up as girls and making videos of themselves
in military uniforms. He understands that we need a real military.

(25:43):
And when people go after a Pete hegg Seth or
Cash Betel or Donald Trump, they can't tell you why
they're going after them that they want. They want to
do to the nation what they did to Bud Light
with Dylan mulvaney, because then you wouldn't support them, So
they focus on things that they know will work with you.

(26:06):
The New York Times published an email that Pete Hegseth
had received from his mother painted him in a bad light.
Even his own mother hates him well. His mother, Penelope Hegseth,
went on Fox News to set the record straight. This
is what she said.

Speaker 18 (26:23):
You never in a million years thought you would be
doing this now because you didn't realize that this email
you wrote in twenty eighteen, somebody leaked up to the
New York Times can they printed it.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
I'm going to read part of it.

Speaker 18 (26:37):
You say, this is two pete during.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
The twenty eighteen divorce. You say, I have no respect for.

Speaker 18 (26:45):
Any man that belittles, lies, cheats, and sleeps around. And
you go on and say you are that man and
have been for years, and as your mother, it pains
me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is
a sad.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Sad truth.

Speaker 18 (26:58):
You say, we still love you, but we are broken
by your behavior and your lack of character when you
wrote that, what's the backstory?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
What was going on that made you so angry? You
want to write?

Speaker 19 (27:11):
Then, well, I will tell that story in a moment.
But let me make two statements first, and one is
to President Trump, and I want to say, thank you
for your belief in my son. We all believe in him.
We really believe that he is not that man he
was seven years ago. I'm not that mother, and I

(27:33):
hope people hear that story today.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
And the truth of that story.

Speaker 19 (27:38):
So the other thing I want to say is I
am here to tell the truth, to tell the truth
to the American people, and tell the truth to the
senators on the hill, especially our female senators. I really
hope that you will not listen to the media and
that you will listen to Pete.

Speaker 18 (27:59):
Well, and you were here to tell us because you
are in the news now. So why did you write
that email.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, let's go on right.

Speaker 19 (28:07):
Let's go back seven years, which if we all went
back seven years, we would we would see that maybe
we were not the people we are today, but they
were going through Pete and his wife at the time.
We're going through a very difficult divorce. It was a
very emotional time, and I'm sure many of you across
the country understand how difficult divorce is on a family.

(28:30):
There's emotions, we say things, and I wrote that in haste.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I wrote that with deep emotions.

Speaker 19 (28:40):
I wrote that as a parent, and about two hours
later I.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Should I should.

Speaker 19 (28:45):
My husband told me I should think through things a
little bit more. But Pete and I are both very
passionate people. I wrote that out of love, and about
two hours later I retracted it with an apology email.
But nobody's seen that. So it was a difficult time.
I want to say something about the media, and part

(29:07):
of today is to discredit the media and how they
operate when they contact you. I let a few phone
calls go. But then they call you and say they
threaten you. That's the first thing they do. They say,
unless you make a statement, we will publish it as is.
And I think that's a despicable way to treat anyone.

(29:30):
Threats are dangerous and their heart on families.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Now, there's something about that that doesn't sit well with me.
You know, I've been mad enough at my wife that
I've said dumb things that I look back later and
I go, what was that? You say it for a fact,
because you're mad. I've said things to my parents, They've

(29:56):
said things to me. I've cussed out Ramon. If you
were to take any of those in context, I've called
my beloved dog, George the worst names because she pooped
on the brand new carpet I just bought from my wife.
You could take that out of context, but it's not fair,

(30:17):
it's not right, it's not accurate. Let me close the show,
be quick here. Pete Hegseth with heg Seth was on
with Megan Kelly and he's talking about Look, I'm a
different person than I was ten to fifteen years ago,
and I think he's right. Not upset about your drinking.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
That's a there's an interesting one there. First of all,
I've never had a drinking problem. I don't everyone's ever
approached me and said, oh, you you should really look
at getting help for a drink. Never, I've never sawt counseantly,
never sought help. I respect and appreciate people who do.
But you know, what do guys do when they come
back from more oftentimes have some beers? You know, how

(31:05):
do you deal with the demons you see on the battlefield.
Sometimes it's with a bottle. Unfortunately, tragically, for too many guys,
it's with the bottle, and then it's depression and even worse, suicide.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
I mean, we've got an epidemic of that in our country.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Thank God, by the grace of God, I found my
chapters of purpose that pulled me out of that. I found,
in many ways, I found two things my two j's.
My Jenny, my wife Jennifer changed my life, saved me,
there's just no doubt about it. And my Lord and

(31:40):
Savior Jesus Christ. And without those two j's, I wouldn't
be sitting here right now. But with those two jays,
like my mom said this morning, and I didn't get
a chance to see all of it becoup less my mom.
I'm a very different person than I was ten years
ago than I was fifteen years ago. But I'm also
the right guy to be in the Pentagon to understan
stand what our young water fighters are going through, what

(32:03):
we send them to do, what we asked them to do.
Tour after tour after tour after tour. Are we equipping
them properly? Are they mentally prepared? Are we helping them
on the way back? How are they transitioning? Were they
used properly? I can speak to that because I've lived it,
not from a general's perspective, not from an air conditioned
office in Washington, DC or from a think tank, from

(32:24):
dusty boots and pulling triggers with bullets whizzen by, and
you're wondering whether you're ever coming home.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Well close the show, and I think it's important to understand.
Megan Kelly asked Pete Hegseeth if he thought he was
being Brett Cavanad.

Speaker 14 (32:37):
Listen, carefully, do you think you're being Cavanad right now?

Speaker 4 (32:41):
I had a member not forty five minutes ago, looked
me in the eye in private, just he and I
and saying that's what they're trying to do to you.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
That's what they're trying to do to you. That's their playbook.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Get ready for more, and they're going to make it
up just like they have so far, all anonymous, all innuendo,
all rumor, nothing, so wors, no verification, And they're just
going to keep doing it because you're a threat to them.
You're a threat to their system. You're a threat to
all the things in Washington, d see the swamp, the

(33:13):
things that people have rejected. You're a threat to that.
And so they're coming after you. And and and I
know that he knows that. And when you stand firm
on that, it's it's it's not difficult to just continue
to fight.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
So, yeah, we saw what happened. But guess what happened.
Kavanaugh stood up and he fought and he won.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
And hopefully Republicans have learned that lesson and Trump stood
by him, and.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Trump stood by him.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
What you're seeing right now with me is the art
of the smears.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Thank you, and good night,
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