September 1, 2025 • 29 mins
Sean Hannity opens with criticism of Democratic leadership and highlights Gavin Newsom's recent combative rhetoric, arguing it would alienate moderates in a general election. Analyst Mark Halperin contends Newsom is the current Democratic frontrunner in a weak field, an aircraft carrier with the resources and talent to win a primary, though he may ultimately choose not to run. Hannity counters that California's record on taxes, homelessness, and outmigration would be a major liability nationally. In the second segment, John Solomon reports the FBI searched former National Security Adviser John Bolton's home over concerns about classified information, framing it as a court-approved, depoliticized process and suggesting a return to more normal DOJ practices.
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I've been arguing that the left liberals, they they have
never regained their footing after Donald Trump's beat down of
them in the twenty twenty four election. In large part,
there's not been any introspection. There's been those course correction
you know, in my life if things go wrong, I
usually try to stop, stand back and say, Okay, what
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did I do wrong? What can what can I do
to improve my life? How can I change? How can
I be a better person. That's not happen in terms
of the Democratic Party. It's very interesting to watch the evolution,
for example, of Gavin Neussom. Gavin Newsom, you know, from
day one when Donald Trump was elected, he made the
decision he wanted a legal fund so he could fight
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the Trump administration. Then he seemed to moderate and he
became a podcaster, and then he's interviewing conservatives so they
could we can now begin to have a dialogue as
a country, interviewing the likes of Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk.
And then of course in the Charlie Kirk interview, you know,
he got caught saying, I don't know where this word
LATINX came from, and he you know, we found instance
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after instance where he was using the term LATINX and
the same with gender affirming care issues and men playing
women's sports. But that's not Gavin's biggest problem. And now
he's now he's getting very aggressive. Now he's talking about
punching people in the face, and I'm willing to take
the hit rather than go after some probably overweight politician
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that doesn't know how to defend themselves and Texas because
he doesn't like what they're doing legally in Texas with redistricting. Meanwhile,
every blue state has been Jerry Mander to death. I'm
offering to let him take a swing at me if
he wants, just because I care about other people. I
know how to defend myself. These guys probably don't know
how to defend themselves. So I'm wedding Gavin. I'm offering
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to be let Gavin take the punch at me. Listen
the Republican parties. He doesn't even reflect itself. I mean,
look at these Republicans cowering to this guy. Look at
your Republican governor used to claim to be a conservative.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What a farce.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Nothing conservative about this, by definition, nothing conservative about that.
This is radical rigging of a midterm election, radical rigging
of an election, destroying vandalizing this democracy, the rule of law.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
So I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I know some people's sensibilities. I respect and appreciate that,
but right now, with all due respect, we're walking down
a damn different path. We're fighting fire with fire, and
we going to punch these suns in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm sure this is all going over very very well
with moderates and independence, and I'm sure when he makes
his run for the presidency, I'm sure America is going
to choose to become California, even though it's the state
with the number one mass migration, the highest poverty rate
in the nation, the highest gas taxes in the nation,
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the highest state income taxes in the nation, the most
regulation in the nation, record homelessness in the nation, and
the list goes on and on, and I'll get into
more specificity as we go on to this half hour.
But first we welcome back to the program, friend of
the program, editor in chief of the new interactive video
platform it's called Two Way, host of the Next Up podcast.
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He's on Megan Kelly's network and Markalper and his back
with us. How are you good to have you back?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Sean, good to talk to you now.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I brought you on.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Because I saw your comments that you opened up with
a monologue on your show on why Gavin Newsom is
misunderstood and what sets him apart for twenty twenty eight.
You challenge people to be prepared to put aside their
preconceived notions of who this man is and what he
is about. And you've talked about then former Senator Mark Pryor,
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who joined you on the on the Democrats structural challenges,
et cetera, et cetera. Look, I don't doubt that he
could be the nominee in twenty twenty eight at all.
I don't doubt that one bit. And I think that
he's made a political calculation that trying to be a
moderate and trying to get along with conservatives and have
a conversation and understand them is not something he's willing
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to have.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, look, I appreciate your listening to what I said
in a nuanced way, because a lot of people are misunderstanding.
I'm not saying gab Newsom is going to be president.
I'm not a fan of gabnews not my job, but
this is a very weak field. And Sean, you know,
because you've spent time with him, this guy has some talent.
Is he a hugely successful governor. You could talk for
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three hours about why he's not. The point is it
is a weak field, and this guy contains multitudes. He's
a complicated person. He has some positions that are liberal,
some that are super liberal, but he's also got some
ones that are more moderate in the context of the
Democratic Party. So when people want to say he's a disaster,
he's so liberal, he's so fail he can't possibly win
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the presidency. I'm not talking about the general election. Can
he be the Democratic nominee in a weak field?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
He can't.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
My grandfather, my great great grandfather, back in the Old Country,
was like five foot ten in Eastern Europe. He was
the tallest man in the village, sean at five to ten,
because the best of the people in the village were
five eight and below. This guy is a major major
at the political figure in his party, and if you
look at the other people running, they don't have anything
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like his experience. So all I'm telling people on the
right is if you want to think about who the
Democrats are going to nominate, this is the guy to
focus on today. Now, ironically, I'm the only one I
know who doesn't think he'll run in the end. I
think he'll approach the finished starting line and then and
then bail out. But right now he's in a class
by himself because he's done, he's done what he's done,
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what Barack Obama did, Bill Clinton did, George Bush did,
and uh and Donald Trump did. He's simultaneously doing some
things on the base side and some things in the center.
And for people to say that new something, what is.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
He doing on the center, I'd take issue with that.
I mean, he tried for a brief period to be
a little bit in the center. I don't see any
center policies of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Okay, I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I'll tell you what they are.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And again I'll say they're in the center in the
context of the Democratic Party, are they? Are they in
the center?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
For the republicle you're talking about a radical left party now,
cour that's about to elect a Marxist in New York
City as mayor.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But Sean, that's the state of the Democratic Party. Someone
who says what he says to Charlie Kirk, someone who
EsPAS is dealing with the homeless in a more aggressive
way than the party. Someone who will talk to Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
These are in the context of the no somebody who
would have tried to talk to Charlie Kirk it didn't
work with his polling, and then shifted gears and like
a chameleon politician, you know, decided to go this aggressive route,
talking about punching people in the mouth and fighting fire
with fire when his state is one of the most
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jerry manderd in the country.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I agree, and that's what he's doing. And looked the
whole Democratic Party crying crocodile tears over Texas when they
then have to accept the Illinois and Massachusetts and Maryland
and all these blue states have done it. I'm not again,
I'm not here as a spokesman for Gavin Newsom. I'm
just telling you he in his and if you look.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
At it, by the way, we're totally getting that message.
You've given enough caveats.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You're just given political analysis, which is what you're great at.
I want your political analysis.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
So what I'm telling you is to be the nominee
in this day and age, you have to be an
aircraft carrier. You have to be able to hire great people,
raise tens of millions hundreds of millions of dollars. You
have to be able to go on toe to toe
with Sean Hannity. And right now there's no other aircraft
carrier in this field, in this forming field. So if
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Republicans just want to denounce anyone who says Gavin Newsom
is the front runner, so free. But you're making a
mistake because today you would be the nominee with all
the variables out there, what states are going to vote first,
and who else is going to run? No one else.
These other people who are talking about Bashir Shapiro, Wes Moore,
they are not in this guy's league in terms of
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what you look at to say, who's an aircraft carrier.
And that's not.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
To say he's been a great governor.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
It's not to say he's not super liberal on some issues.
But this is the Democratic nomination we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I would continue Our friend Mark Halpert is with US,
editor in chief, New interactive video platform Two Way, host
of the Next Up podcast. Okay, if we're only talking
about the Democratic nomination, I can completely and totally and
utterly agree with you. And but it's you know, often
people in a primary, you know this from you many
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many decades of following politics, they will they will run
hard to the left or to the right, and then
they'll move to the center in a general election. Gavin's
got a big problem. He's got a Michael Dukaccus problem,
and that is, you know, do you want America to
be Massachusetts? Do you want America to be California? And
you know, I said this last night, and I'm going
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to stop, and I'm going to backtrack and just tell
you I know Gavin. I even texted him last night
during my show and I said, please, don't stop doing
what you're doing. It's like it's manna from heaven for
me to get this material from him every single day
of him ranting like a lunatic, and he's going for
the hard left, and he's passionate. If you meet him
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in real life, he's charming, he is slick, he is nice.
He did have courage. He did the debate. No first,
he did an interview with me one on one, and
then he did the debate that I had with him
in Ron De Santis.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Correct. He has since pulled back for me. I tried
to reach out to him.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I said once he came out when Donald Trump was reelected,
and I said, instead of you know, funding, you know,
a legal strategy against Donald Trump to Trump proof your state,
I said, why don't you go sit down with him.
I'll arrange the meeting. I actually offered to do that.
I don't mind making that part of public. And you know,
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he just dismissed my suggestion. And that's fine too, but
I think it would have been a lot better off
for him and the people of California. With all that said,
after the Pacific Palisades, he you know, Donald Trump stepped
up and he's helping, but they're still not giving permits
for people to build homes out there. It's unbelievable. Yeah,
and that's his problem. I mean, his record is so
bad when America becomes aware of it. I'm just telling
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you there's no way this guy could get elected in
my opinion as of today.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And Sean, you mean when the presidency and again I
share your view and that skepticism, and that's in part
why I don't think he'll run. There are other reasons.
We had a guy on two way last night, a
dad two young kids now lives in Oregon, left the
Bay Area, had to say he couldn't afford to he
couldn't afford to live there, couldn't deal with all the
negative impacts that he largely attributes to Gavin Newsom. If
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Gavin Newsom does run, and again I don't think he will,
they're going to be people who run against him from
the left who will find thousands of Californians who say,
Gavin Newsom sailed us, and we're on the left. And
you'll also find thousands and tens of thousands, millions maybe
on the right. If he's the nominee, who will be there.
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The Republican ad makers will not know who to cast
in the ads because they will have sympathetic real Californians,
many of whom have left the state, who will say,
if America thinks they're getting a deal with Gavin Newsom
and getting in California, you're wrong. I believe in the
end that'll be part of why he doesn't run. But
right now, the Democratic Party values one thing above all else.
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Are you there round the clock punching Donald Trump in
the face metaphorically and he's doing it. That's what the
party wants.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
He's doing it now.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
This is the latest iteration, this is the latest evolution
of him and him and the social media team. I
think for him, knowing him, it's inauthentic and I find
it embarrassing. I'm kind of embarrassed for him. I think
he's looking stupid, but he can't run away from something.
He's very sensitive. But if Trump calls him nuskam, he
hates it. He's very sensitive if you point out his
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failures surrounding the Pacific Palisades wildfires and they had hydrants
that had no water in them in an empty reservoir.
You know, he's very, very sensitive on issues about being
the high taxed a state in the country and they
still have a massive budget deficit. He's very sensitive about
all the illegal immigrants that I've committed crimes, although they
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don't keep statistics out there. He's very sensitive, you know,
about the highest poverty rate, homelessness rate, highest gas taxes,
income taxes.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's to me that's why he won't run.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I think in the end, I think you're right, he's
going to get right up to that line and then
probably not. I can see the announcement, you know, at
the last minute.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, and his family is a big consideration as well,
and the scrutiny he'd get. This guy has gotten. The
people always say Alway's been governor of California, He's been scrutinized.
He has not. There's tons of scrutiny that will come
his way or anyone else who runs, And I don't
think he wants to deal with that, and his family
deal with that. But the reason I've been talking about
this so much this week is because you can learn
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a lot about where's the Democratic Party right now and
what does it mean to compete with Donald Trump for attention.
You can't deny that he's succeeded by that metric. Everybody's
saw him about him, and they're not talking about well more,
you know, And that's that is something. You may say
that he's an authentic in how he's doing it. You
may say it's successive, or it's undignified, as our friend
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Dana Prino says, but it is. It is achieving what
two things that Democrats want, they want, they want.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
He's placating a very very small and dwindling base, and
he is not He's not expanding the the base that
he would need if he wanted to be a real
if he wanted to be a contender. He's not doing that.
We do appreciate your insight. Thank you, Mark Alprin. We
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appreciate you as always, and I think you're right. I
think he is. He's the front runner for the nomination.
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It has been a huge breaking news week for our
friend John Solomon, editor and chief founder and chief investigative
reporter justinnews dot com. John broke the big story about
James Comy last night. He's broken other stories this week.
We woke up to the news that in fact, FBI
agents have rated former National security advisor John Bolton's home.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I have sources.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I know what this is really all about, but we'll
see what John sources have to say first and then
see I see if our sources match. Mister Solomon, You've
had quite a week, and we're gonna do a little
summary of the week. You've had a great investigative week.
Now I know how hard you work. We've worked for
years together. There's nobody that digs in deeper. There's nobody
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that has deeper contacts than you, and I congratulate you
on your hard work. And in many ways it's a
culmination of all the work and all the reporting that
you did for the years that we did Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine,
Ukraine and everything in between. I mean, so, I'm very
proud of you, proud to be your friend, and thank
you for all your hard work. And you've been proven right.
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We've been proven right on this show. And we never
get credit. I don't think I'm getting a pull of surprise,
although you definitely deserve one.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah, No, I don't want to put surprise. I just
love doing this and I love telling the truth. And
you and I have been able to do so many
amazing things together. And you know, this morning we wake
up to another sign of what law and order may
look like in the Trump era, which is something that
comes from court, not from a political playbook. In Hillary
Clinton's basement or Barack Obama's basement, a court the FBI
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permission and ordered it to search the home of former
National Security Advisor John Bolton. Yeah, he's a critic of
Donald Trump. He's a critic of Cashptell.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
He tried to, I think, opposed Cashptel's nomination for FBI director.
But at the end of the day, they go to
a court, they raise some concerns about classified information releases
and maybe perhaps misuse of the classified information. They get
a chance to review his home, get the evidence out
of the home, and then see where it leads. This
is an investigation they got stymied under Joe Biden. Today
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it is back in motion, and it shows it. No
matter how powerful you are, no matter how many friends
you have in Washington, how much to distinguished work he did,
he was a U in the back.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
By the way, are there such things as friends in Washington? Seriously,
because if you want a friend in DC, you should
get a dog. I offered to get the President Trump
a dogg He laughed at me.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Dog's a much better choice. There's no doubt about it.
But you know he obviously he's been in the establishment
a long time for administrations he served in. But at
the end of the day, the law appears to be
blind on this, and we'll see how they treat them
what they learned from the raid, what they get in
the search warm and then see if there's anything that
comes of it. But that happened today, and I think
there's a you know, things are returning to normal. It's
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like common say, settling over the city. This is the
way the Justice Department used to work before it got
hijacked at the end of the Obama administration. Courts approved things,
things happen. There's not a lot of politics involved. There
isn't a lot of you know, political fanfare being started up.
Parah went and did its job. They're not going to
talk about it, and they go on. And I think
that's the way the court system used to run before
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it got weaponized and politicized by the Democrats and their
friends and government. So that's what happened today, and I
think it's a reminder that maybe under Donald Trump, things
are getting back to normal.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Now, I've had sources tell me that this is more
directly involved to intelligence that he had access to, and
that it might have to do with foreign adversaries.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Have you heard anything similar, Well, there's.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Always that concern. That's why there's a national security component
to classified information. You want to make sure that somebody
either neither intentionally or unwittingly provided information that could give
comfort or aid or a strategic advantage to a foreign enemy.
I think we ought to we can see, let's see
what comes of this information. Let's see what weight comes
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of the thing with John Bolton had a lot of clients.
You know, he's a foreign policy advisory as a business
at one of the places they searched this morning was
his business office. But I think one of it, just
like the justice system, is getting back to being normal.
I think the way we in the media should treat things,
which is, let's give everybody the benefit, not let's see
what the search warrant returns. The next thing we'll learn
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is somewhere in the next few weeks the FBI will
report to the court, here's the search warrant returns, and
here is the affidavit of why we search. The court.
When we get that information, we'll have a little bit
better sense of the skill. But I do think anytime
you're talking about a classified information league, the first concern
is did this intentionally or unintentionally given assistance to one
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of our enemies, one of our foreign powers. And I
think that is at the root of this case as well.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Let me give you a little background on my relationship
with John Bolton, because there was a time we got
along and I did have respect for him, and it
was during very early on when Donald Trump won the
election in twenty sixteen. I remember where I was when
he called me. We had a very long and at
times a little bit heated conversation, and he was asking
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me if I would, you know, put in a good
word with him with a president. I'm like, well, that's
not what I do. I said, I've known President Trump
for thirty years. I know he's looking for good people.
But I said, John, I've known you a long time.
Your foreign policy does not match up, is not in
sync with Donald Trump's. And it really, for me, was
that simple. And he assured me over and over and
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over again. Oh no, no, I've evolved that I'm I'm
I want to serve the president's foreign policy.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It seemed like very early on he had a very
different agenda. Was not He did not live up to
the promise that he was making me when he was
begging me to speak out on his behalf.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah, listen, there's a moment, and there's a gentleman that
worked for John Bolton for a long time, very well
respected former CIA unless he became the chief of Staff
of the National Security Council and Trump won Fred Flights
and Fred Flights wrote a really powerful article on Fox
News around the time that John Bolton put his book out.
In the book is the first time that we had
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some questions about whether he had improperly really classified information
or was going to really improperly classified information. And Fred
Flights wrote a really thoughtful article which is Listen, John
Boltons had a lot of the fingers things in his career,
made a lot of friends, he worked at the un
served multiple presidents. But this book is not a book
to help the American people understand national policy or foreign policy.
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It's avenger book, a revenge book, and that is beneath
John Bolton. He really encouraged John Bolton not to publish
the book, which was, you know, for John Bolton, probably
a shock. This guy had always worked with him and
they had a great relationship. But something happened at the
end of the first the Trump administration with John Bolton.
Obviously he didn't see how to die when the president
the president fired him. The president's foreign policy has proven
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to be very successful, as many European leaders just admitted
Monday in the White House. But I think John Bolton
went in a different direction, and for the first time,
a guy who seemed to be very buttoned up and
really just about the policy and just about humbly serving
the president became a guy who thought he could challenge
a president. And at the end of the day, I
think he bet wrong. I think the American people made
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a better bet than he did. And the question now
is in that drive and that effort to become suddenly
an opposition to a president he had served, did he
do something that compromised national security? And we'll see what
the FBI finds.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
You know what's fascinating about it is, you know there
was a time he did not evolve with the advancement
of military technology. I mean, look at, for example, the
impact drones are having in the conflict in the Middle
East and the conflict in Europe. I've been arguing for
some time the next generation of weaponry will enable wars
to be fought in air conditioned offices, not on a
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battlefield like like had been done historically. And there just
seem to be people that want to cling to this
old version of warfare, and Donald Trump's not one of them.
He's talking about a golden dome that would keep this
country safe. It may if he's successful at building it,
I mean he might that might end up being as
greate as Legacy. The media made fun of Strategic Defense
of Ronald Reagan when he proposed it. They called it
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star wars Wars, they mocked it, and they generated all
this animation on TV. And you know, now it plays
out in real time in the Middle East, in Israel,
and it's saving lives, you know, almost on a daily basis.
So I don't think he really grew. I don't think
Liz Cheney or the Cheneys grew, and they just they've come.
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They just have this hatred of Trump. But with that said,
I agree with you. You know, people are innocent until
proven guilty. Let's see if my sources turn out to
be right. I hear it has to do with national
security secrets. He wrote the book. He didn't get permission.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now, let's move on to your one of the other
big stories of the week, and you've had a lot
of them, that's James call me.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Thanks. Yeah, listen, this is important when these doctors were
released a couple of weeks ago. We got a couple
of good scoops out of them. One of them was
the Adam Shift story that Adam Shiff's own stafford went
to the FBI and said he authorized the leak of
classified information. I think that's illegal, unethical, in treasonous. That's
the exact words that the Democrat stafford told the FBI.
But of course Adam Schiff got a pass. There was
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a large block of these documents that had a big
black markup and they were redacted. They were kept from seedings.
I believe they contained information that was not classified nor
was it covered by grand jury secrecy. And so I
appealed to Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team and
she agreed, and she, alongside of Caspitial, they unredacted that
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information yesterday they sent it back to Congress. I got
a copy of it. And what you see in that
is that Comy's own chief lawyer is chief counsel when
he was the FBI director, told the FBI that he
James Comy, James Baker, the lawyer and the witness who's
admitting to this, and the chief estaff for James Coby,
James Ravickey all at the FBI, The top three guys
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in the FBI worked together to illegally go lead classified
information to the New York Times the first time in
October twenty sixteen, right on the eve of the election,
where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were neck and neck,
and then there were some concerns that that happened again afterwards.
That is a rear moment when an insider in the
inner circle of a person, a leaker admits that this
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happened and a prayer that it got kept from us.
The first time that cash Bettel got the documentary American public,
the Justice Department had made that redaction. They admit it
was a mistake. They unredacted him. We now know that
the United States government had very strong evidence to believe
that James coming had authorized the leak of classified information
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information that would harm national security because it was released
and the once again, just like the Hillary Clinton Foundation investigators,
just like the IRS agents who tried to go after
Hunter Biden for the tax crimes, just like the agents
who want to go after Hillary Clinton's classified email server issues.
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They FBI, the Justice Department shut down this investigation and
said you're not going to die you on, but decide
not to indict anyone. In fact, there's a moment where
they have a chance to get some emails that would
be corroborating and really understand just how far the leaking
may have been and just who was involved in it.
And the ustneys I was say, no, you don't need
to go get We're not going to go get those.
So once again an example of the dual system of justice,
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the lack of curiosity that seemed to occur whenever someone
who was a Democrat or a friend of the Democrat
and government was accused of wrongtoing, they got protected and
very different in the way than dot Donald Trump got
tracked treated and his followers got treated in that same system.
This is a story that's going to be now. People
say it's just a history lesson Tom, Why should I care?
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The answer is, there is a ten year statute covering
this potential type of disclosure of national intelligence information. And
Pam Bondy was very clear in my story saying that
people who were entrusted. First of all, she said that
James Comy, based on what's in these documents, clearly engaged
in abhorrent conduct along with his top leaders, but he
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had And I think this is a warning sign to Combe.
If I'm Comy's lawyers, I'm a little more nervous today.
Quote this is directly from Pam Bondy. There must be
accountability for those who were entrusted with safeguarding our nation's
secrets and failed to do so. And I think that's
a sign that with these grand juries coming up, the
grand conspiracy case, the strike force that's been that James
Comy may be looked at it and this evidence may
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still be relevant to criminal charges going forward.
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to four one Sean if you want to join us.
I've been arguing that the left liberals, they they have
never regained their footing after Donald Trump's beat down of
them in the twenty twenty four election. In large part,
there's not been any introspection. There's been those course correction
you know, in my life if things go wrong, I
usually try to stop, stand back and say, Okay, what
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did I do wrong? What can what can I do
to improve my life? How can I change? How can
I be a better person. That's not happen in terms
of the Democratic Party. It's very interesting to watch the evolution,
for example, of Gavin Neussom. Gavin Newsom, you know, from
day one when Donald Trump was elected, he made the
decision he wanted a legal fund so he could fight
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the Trump administration. Then he seemed to moderate and he
became a podcaster, and then he's interviewing conservatives so they
could we can now begin to have a dialogue as
a country, interviewing the likes of Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk.
And then of course in the Charlie Kirk interview, you know,
he got caught saying, I don't know where this word
LATINX came from, and he you know, we found instance
(02:38):
after instance where he was using the term LATINX and
the same with gender affirming care issues and men playing
women's sports. But that's not Gavin's biggest problem. And now
he's now he's getting very aggressive. Now he's talking about
punching people in the face, and I'm willing to take
the hit rather than go after some probably overweight politician
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that doesn't know how to defend themselves and Texas because
he doesn't like what they're doing legally in Texas with redistricting. Meanwhile,
every blue state has been Jerry Mander to death. I'm
offering to let him take a swing at me if
he wants, just because I care about other people. I
know how to defend myself. These guys probably don't know
how to defend themselves. So I'm wedding Gavin. I'm offering
(03:24):
to be let Gavin take the punch at me. Listen
the Republican parties. He doesn't even reflect itself. I mean,
look at these Republicans cowering to this guy. Look at
your Republican governor used to claim to be a conservative.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What a farce.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Nothing conservative about this, by definition, nothing conservative about that.
This is radical rigging of a midterm election, radical rigging
of an election, destroying vandalizing this democracy, the rule of law.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
So I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I know some people's sensibilities. I respect and appreciate that,
but right now, with all due respect, we're walking down
a damn different path. We're fighting fire with fire, and
we going to punch these suns in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm sure this is all going over very very well
with moderates and independence, and I'm sure when he makes
his run for the presidency, I'm sure America is going
to choose to become California, even though it's the state
with the number one mass migration, the highest poverty rate
in the nation, the highest gas taxes in the nation,
(04:33):
the highest state income taxes in the nation, the most
regulation in the nation, record homelessness in the nation, and
the list goes on and on, and I'll get into
more specificity as we go on to this half hour.
But first we welcome back to the program, friend of
the program, editor in chief of the new interactive video
platform it's called Two Way, host of the Next Up podcast.
(04:57):
He's on Megan Kelly's network and Markalper and his back
with us. How are you good to have you back?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Sean, good to talk to you now.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I brought you on.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Because I saw your comments that you opened up with
a monologue on your show on why Gavin Newsom is
misunderstood and what sets him apart for twenty twenty eight.
You challenge people to be prepared to put aside their
preconceived notions of who this man is and what he
is about. And you've talked about then former Senator Mark Pryor,
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who joined you on the on the Democrats structural challenges,
et cetera, et cetera. Look, I don't doubt that he
could be the nominee in twenty twenty eight at all.
I don't doubt that one bit. And I think that
he's made a political calculation that trying to be a
moderate and trying to get along with conservatives and have
a conversation and understand them is not something he's willing
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to have.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, look, I appreciate your listening to what I said
in a nuanced way, because a lot of people are misunderstanding.
I'm not saying gab Newsom is going to be president.
I'm not a fan of gabnews not my job, but
this is a very weak field. And Sean, you know,
because you've spent time with him, this guy has some talent.
Is he a hugely successful governor. You could talk for
(06:11):
three hours about why he's not. The point is it
is a weak field, and this guy contains multitudes. He's
a complicated person. He has some positions that are liberal,
some that are super liberal, but he's also got some
ones that are more moderate in the context of the
Democratic Party. So when people want to say he's a disaster,
he's so liberal, he's so fail he can't possibly win
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the presidency. I'm not talking about the general election. Can
he be the Democratic nominee in a weak field?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
He can't.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
My grandfather, my great great grandfather, back in the Old Country,
was like five foot ten in Eastern Europe. He was
the tallest man in the village, sean at five to ten,
because the best of the people in the village were
five eight and below. This guy is a major major
at the political figure in his party, and if you
look at the other people running, they don't have anything
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like his experience. So all I'm telling people on the
right is if you want to think about who the
Democrats are going to nominate, this is the guy to
focus on today. Now, ironically, I'm the only one I
know who doesn't think he'll run in the end. I
think he'll approach the finished starting line and then and
then bail out. But right now he's in a class
by himself because he's done, he's done what he's done,
(07:22):
what Barack Obama did, Bill Clinton did, George Bush did,
and uh and Donald Trump did. He's simultaneously doing some
things on the base side and some things in the center.
And for people to say that new something, what is.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
He doing on the center, I'd take issue with that.
I mean, he tried for a brief period to be
a little bit in the center. I don't see any
center policies of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Okay, I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I'll tell you what they are.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And again I'll say they're in the center in the
context of the Democratic Party, are they? Are they in
the center?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
For the republicle you're talking about a radical left party now,
cour that's about to elect a Marxist in New York
City as mayor.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But Sean, that's the state of the Democratic Party. Someone
who says what he says to Charlie Kirk, someone who
EsPAS is dealing with the homeless in a more aggressive
way than the party. Someone who will talk to Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
These are in the context of the no somebody who
would have tried to talk to Charlie Kirk it didn't
work with his polling, and then shifted gears and like
a chameleon politician, you know, decided to go this aggressive route,
talking about punching people in the mouth and fighting fire
with fire when his state is one of the most
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jerry manderd in the country.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I agree, and that's what he's doing. And looked the
whole Democratic Party crying crocodile tears over Texas when they
then have to accept the Illinois and Massachusetts and Maryland
and all these blue states have done it. I'm not again,
I'm not here as a spokesman for Gavin Newsom. I'm
just telling you he in his and if you look.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
At it, by the way, we're totally getting that message.
You've given enough caveats.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You're just given political analysis, which is what you're great at.
I want your political analysis.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
So what I'm telling you is to be the nominee
in this day and age, you have to be an
aircraft carrier. You have to be able to hire great people,
raise tens of millions hundreds of millions of dollars. You
have to be able to go on toe to toe
with Sean Hannity. And right now there's no other aircraft
carrier in this field, in this forming field. So if
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Republicans just want to denounce anyone who says Gavin Newsom
is the front runner, so free. But you're making a
mistake because today you would be the nominee with all
the variables out there, what states are going to vote first,
and who else is going to run? No one else.
These other people who are talking about Bashir Shapiro, Wes Moore,
they are not in this guy's league in terms of
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what you look at to say, who's an aircraft carrier.
And that's not.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
To say he's been a great governor.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
It's not to say he's not super liberal on some issues.
But this is the Democratic nomination we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I would continue Our friend Mark Halpert is with US,
editor in chief, New interactive video platform Two Way, host
of the Next Up podcast. Okay, if we're only talking
about the Democratic nomination, I can completely and totally and
utterly agree with you. And but it's you know, often
people in a primary, you know this from you many
(10:22):
many decades of following politics, they will they will run
hard to the left or to the right, and then
they'll move to the center in a general election. Gavin's
got a big problem. He's got a Michael Dukaccus problem,
and that is, you know, do you want America to
be Massachusetts? Do you want America to be California? And
you know, I said this last night, and I'm going
(10:43):
to stop, and I'm going to backtrack and just tell
you I know Gavin. I even texted him last night
during my show and I said, please, don't stop doing
what you're doing. It's like it's manna from heaven for
me to get this material from him every single day
of him ranting like a lunatic, and he's going for
the hard left, and he's passionate. If you meet him
(11:06):
in real life, he's charming, he is slick, he is nice.
He did have courage. He did the debate. No first,
he did an interview with me one on one, and
then he did the debate that I had with him
in Ron De Santis.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Correct. He has since pulled back for me. I tried
to reach out to him.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I said once he came out when Donald Trump was reelected,
and I said, instead of you know, funding, you know,
a legal strategy against Donald Trump to Trump proof your state,
I said, why don't you go sit down with him.
I'll arrange the meeting. I actually offered to do that.
I don't mind making that part of public. And you know,
(11:42):
he just dismissed my suggestion. And that's fine too, but
I think it would have been a lot better off
for him and the people of California. With all that said,
after the Pacific Palisades, he you know, Donald Trump stepped
up and he's helping, but they're still not giving permits
for people to build homes out there. It's unbelievable. Yeah,
and that's his problem. I mean, his record is so
bad when America becomes aware of it. I'm just telling
(12:06):
you there's no way this guy could get elected in
my opinion as of today.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
And Sean, you mean when the presidency and again I
share your view and that skepticism, and that's in part
why I don't think he'll run. There are other reasons.
We had a guy on two way last night, a
dad two young kids now lives in Oregon, left the
Bay Area, had to say he couldn't afford to he
couldn't afford to live there, couldn't deal with all the
negative impacts that he largely attributes to Gavin Newsom. If
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Gavin Newsom does run, and again I don't think he will,
they're going to be people who run against him from
the left who will find thousands of Californians who say,
Gavin Newsom sailed us, and we're on the left. And
you'll also find thousands and tens of thousands, millions maybe
on the right. If he's the nominee, who will be there.
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The Republican ad makers will not know who to cast
in the ads because they will have sympathetic real Californians,
many of whom have left the state, who will say,
if America thinks they're getting a deal with Gavin Newsom
and getting in California, you're wrong. I believe in the
end that'll be part of why he doesn't run. But
right now, the Democratic Party values one thing above all else.
(13:16):
Are you there round the clock punching Donald Trump in
the face metaphorically and he's doing it. That's what the
party wants.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
He's doing it now.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
This is the latest iteration, this is the latest evolution
of him and him and the social media team. I
think for him, knowing him, it's inauthentic and I find
it embarrassing. I'm kind of embarrassed for him. I think
he's looking stupid, but he can't run away from something.
He's very sensitive. But if Trump calls him nuskam, he
hates it. He's very sensitive if you point out his
(13:47):
failures surrounding the Pacific Palisades wildfires and they had hydrants
that had no water in them in an empty reservoir.
You know, he's very, very sensitive on issues about being
the high taxed a state in the country and they
still have a massive budget deficit. He's very sensitive about
all the illegal immigrants that I've committed crimes, although they
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don't keep statistics out there. He's very sensitive, you know,
about the highest poverty rate, homelessness rate, highest gas taxes,
income taxes.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's to me that's why he won't run.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I think in the end, I think you're right, he's
going to get right up to that line and then
probably not. I can see the announcement, you know, at
the last minute.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, and his family is a big consideration as well,
and the scrutiny he'd get. This guy has gotten. The
people always say Alway's been governor of California, He's been scrutinized.
He has not. There's tons of scrutiny that will come
his way or anyone else who runs, And I don't
think he wants to deal with that, and his family
deal with that. But the reason I've been talking about
this so much this week is because you can learn
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a lot about where's the Democratic Party right now and
what does it mean to compete with Donald Trump for attention.
You can't deny that he's succeeded by that metric. Everybody's
saw him about him, and they're not talking about well more,
you know, And that's that is something. You may say
that he's an authentic in how he's doing it. You
may say it's successive, or it's undignified, as our friend
(15:15):
Dana Prino says, but it is. It is achieving what
two things that Democrats want, they want, they want.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
He's placating a very very small and dwindling base, and
he is not He's not expanding the the base that
he would need if he wanted to be a real
if he wanted to be a contender. He's not doing that.
We do appreciate your insight. Thank you, Mark Alprin. We
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appreciate you as always, and I think you're right. I
think he is. He's the front runner for the nomination.
Eight hundred nine four one Seawn. If you want to
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Speaker 1 (16:19):
It has been a huge breaking news week for our
friend John Solomon, editor and chief founder and chief investigative
reporter justinnews dot com. John broke the big story about
James Comy last night. He's broken other stories this week.
We woke up to the news that in fact, FBI
agents have rated former National security advisor John Bolton's home.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I have sources.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I know what this is really all about, but we'll
see what John sources have to say first and then
see I see if our sources match. Mister Solomon, You've
had quite a week, and we're gonna do a little
summary of the week. You've had a great investigative week.
Now I know how hard you work. We've worked for
years together. There's nobody that digs in deeper. There's nobody
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that has deeper contacts than you, and I congratulate you
on your hard work. And in many ways it's a
culmination of all the work and all the reporting that
you did for the years that we did Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine,
Ukraine and everything in between. I mean, so, I'm very
proud of you, proud to be your friend, and thank
you for all your hard work. And you've been proven right.
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We've been proven right on this show. And we never
get credit. I don't think I'm getting a pull of surprise,
although you definitely deserve one.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah, No, I don't want to put surprise. I just
love doing this and I love telling the truth. And
you and I have been able to do so many
amazing things together. And you know, this morning we wake
up to another sign of what law and order may
look like in the Trump era, which is something that
comes from court, not from a political playbook. In Hillary
Clinton's basement or Barack Obama's basement, a court the FBI
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permission and ordered it to search the home of former
National Security Advisor John Bolton. Yeah, he's a critic of
Donald Trump. He's a critic of Cashptell.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
He tried to, I think, opposed Cashptel's nomination for FBI director.
But at the end of the day, they go to
a court, they raise some concerns about classified information releases
and maybe perhaps misuse of the classified information. They get
a chance to review his home, get the evidence out
of the home, and then see where it leads. This
is an investigation they got stymied under Joe Biden. Today
(18:30):
it is back in motion, and it shows it. No
matter how powerful you are, no matter how many friends
you have in Washington, how much to distinguished work he did,
he was a U in the back.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
By the way, are there such things as friends in Washington? Seriously,
because if you want a friend in DC, you should
get a dog. I offered to get the President Trump
a dogg He laughed at me.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Dog's a much better choice. There's no doubt about it.
But you know he obviously he's been in the establishment
a long time for administrations he served in. But at
the end of the day, the law appears to be
blind on this, and we'll see how they treat them
what they learned from the raid, what they get in
the search warm and then see if there's anything that
comes of it. But that happened today, and I think
there's a you know, things are returning to normal. It's
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like common say, settling over the city. This is the
way the Justice Department used to work before it got
hijacked at the end of the Obama administration. Courts approved things,
things happen. There's not a lot of politics involved. There
isn't a lot of you know, political fanfare being started up.
Parah went and did its job. They're not going to
talk about it, and they go on. And I think
that's the way the court system used to run before
(19:34):
it got weaponized and politicized by the Democrats and their
friends and government. So that's what happened today, and I
think it's a reminder that maybe under Donald Trump, things
are getting back to normal.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Now, I've had sources tell me that this is more
directly involved to intelligence that he had access to, and
that it might have to do with foreign adversaries.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Have you heard anything similar, Well, there's.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Always that concern. That's why there's a national security component
to classified information. You want to make sure that somebody
either neither intentionally or unwittingly provided information that could give
comfort or aid or a strategic advantage to a foreign enemy.
I think we ought to we can see, let's see
what comes of this information. Let's see what weight comes
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of the thing with John Bolton had a lot of clients.
You know, he's a foreign policy advisory as a business
at one of the places they searched this morning was
his business office. But I think one of it, just
like the justice system, is getting back to being normal.
I think the way we in the media should treat things,
which is, let's give everybody the benefit, not let's see
what the search warrant returns. The next thing we'll learn
(20:44):
is somewhere in the next few weeks the FBI will
report to the court, here's the search warrant returns, and
here is the affidavit of why we search. The court.
When we get that information, we'll have a little bit
better sense of the skill. But I do think anytime
you're talking about a classified information league, the first concern
is did this intentionally or unintentionally given assistance to one
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of our enemies, one of our foreign powers. And I
think that is at the root of this case as well.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Let me give you a little background on my relationship
with John Bolton, because there was a time we got
along and I did have respect for him, and it
was during very early on when Donald Trump won the
election in twenty sixteen. I remember where I was when
he called me. We had a very long and at
times a little bit heated conversation, and he was asking
(21:32):
me if I would, you know, put in a good
word with him with a president. I'm like, well, that's
not what I do. I said, I've known President Trump
for thirty years. I know he's looking for good people.
But I said, John, I've known you a long time.
Your foreign policy does not match up, is not in
sync with Donald Trump's. And it really, for me, was
that simple. And he assured me over and over and
(21:54):
over again. Oh no, no, I've evolved that I'm I'm
I want to serve the president's foreign policy.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It seemed like very early on he had a very
different agenda. Was not He did not live up to
the promise that he was making me when he was
begging me to speak out on his behalf.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah, listen, there's a moment, and there's a gentleman that
worked for John Bolton for a long time, very well
respected former CIA unless he became the chief of Staff
of the National Security Council and Trump won Fred Flights
and Fred Flights wrote a really powerful article on Fox
News around the time that John Bolton put his book out.
In the book is the first time that we had
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some questions about whether he had improperly really classified information
or was going to really improperly classified information. And Fred
Flights wrote a really thoughtful article which is Listen, John
Boltons had a lot of the fingers things in his career,
made a lot of friends, he worked at the un
served multiple presidents. But this book is not a book
to help the American people understand national policy or foreign policy.
(22:59):
It's avenger book, a revenge book, and that is beneath
John Bolton. He really encouraged John Bolton not to publish
the book, which was, you know, for John Bolton, probably
a shock. This guy had always worked with him and
they had a great relationship. But something happened at the
end of the first the Trump administration with John Bolton.
Obviously he didn't see how to die when the president
the president fired him. The president's foreign policy has proven
(23:20):
to be very successful, as many European leaders just admitted
Monday in the White House. But I think John Bolton
went in a different direction, and for the first time,
a guy who seemed to be very buttoned up and
really just about the policy and just about humbly serving
the president became a guy who thought he could challenge
a president. And at the end of the day, I
think he bet wrong. I think the American people made
(23:42):
a better bet than he did. And the question now
is in that drive and that effort to become suddenly
an opposition to a president he had served, did he
do something that compromised national security? And we'll see what
the FBI finds.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
You know what's fascinating about it is, you know there
was a time he did not evolve with the advancement
of military technology. I mean, look at, for example, the
impact drones are having in the conflict in the Middle
East and the conflict in Europe. I've been arguing for
some time the next generation of weaponry will enable wars
to be fought in air conditioned offices, not on a
(24:15):
battlefield like like had been done historically. And there just
seem to be people that want to cling to this
old version of warfare, and Donald Trump's not one of them.
He's talking about a golden dome that would keep this
country safe. It may if he's successful at building it,
I mean he might that might end up being as
greate as Legacy. The media made fun of Strategic Defense
of Ronald Reagan when he proposed it. They called it
(24:37):
star wars Wars, they mocked it, and they generated all
this animation on TV. And you know, now it plays
out in real time in the Middle East, in Israel,
and it's saving lives, you know, almost on a daily basis.
So I don't think he really grew. I don't think
Liz Cheney or the Cheneys grew, and they just they've come.
(24:58):
They just have this hatred of Trump. But with that said,
I agree with you. You know, people are innocent until
proven guilty. Let's see if my sources turn out to
be right. I hear it has to do with national
security secrets. He wrote the book. He didn't get permission.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Now, let's move on to your one of the other
big stories of the week, and you've had a lot
of them, that's James call me.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Thanks. Yeah, listen, this is important when these doctors were
released a couple of weeks ago. We got a couple
of good scoops out of them. One of them was
the Adam Shift story that Adam Shiff's own stafford went
to the FBI and said he authorized the leak of
classified information. I think that's illegal, unethical, in treasonous. That's
the exact words that the Democrat stafford told the FBI.
But of course Adam Schiff got a pass. There was
(25:39):
a large block of these documents that had a big
black markup and they were redacted. They were kept from seedings.
I believe they contained information that was not classified nor
was it covered by grand jury secrecy. And so I
appealed to Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team and
she agreed, and she, alongside of Caspitial, they unredacted that
(26:00):
information yesterday they sent it back to Congress. I got
a copy of it. And what you see in that
is that Comy's own chief lawyer is chief counsel when
he was the FBI director, told the FBI that he
James Comy, James Baker, the lawyer and the witness who's
admitting to this, and the chief estaff for James Coby,
James Ravickey all at the FBI, The top three guys
(26:21):
in the FBI worked together to illegally go lead classified
information to the New York Times the first time in
October twenty sixteen, right on the eve of the election,
where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were neck and neck,
and then there were some concerns that that happened again afterwards.
That is a rear moment when an insider in the
inner circle of a person, a leaker admits that this
(26:43):
happened and a prayer that it got kept from us.
The first time that cash Bettel got the documentary American public,
the Justice Department had made that redaction. They admit it
was a mistake. They unredacted him. We now know that
the United States government had very strong evidence to believe
that James coming had authorized the leak of classified information
(27:05):
information that would harm national security because it was released
and the once again, just like the Hillary Clinton Foundation investigators,
just like the IRS agents who tried to go after
Hunter Biden for the tax crimes, just like the agents
who want to go after Hillary Clinton's classified email server issues.
(27:27):
They FBI, the Justice Department shut down this investigation and
said you're not going to die you on, but decide
not to indict anyone. In fact, there's a moment where
they have a chance to get some emails that would
be corroborating and really understand just how far the leaking
may have been and just who was involved in it.
And the ustneys I was say, no, you don't need
to go get We're not going to go get those.
So once again an example of the dual system of justice,
(27:49):
the lack of curiosity that seemed to occur whenever someone
who was a Democrat or a friend of the Democrat
and government was accused of wrongtoing, they got protected and
very different in the way than dot Donald Trump got
tracked treated and his followers got treated in that same system.
This is a story that's going to be now. People
say it's just a history lesson Tom, Why should I care?
(28:09):
The answer is, there is a ten year statute covering
this potential type of disclosure of national intelligence information. And
Pam Bondy was very clear in my story saying that
people who were entrusted. First of all, she said that
James Comy, based on what's in these documents, clearly engaged
in abhorrent conduct along with his top leaders, but he
(28:32):
had And I think this is a warning sign to Combe.
If I'm Comy's lawyers, I'm a little more nervous today.
Quote this is directly from Pam Bondy. There must be
accountability for those who were entrusted with safeguarding our nation's
secrets and failed to do so. And I think that's
a sign that with these grand juries coming up, the
grand conspiracy case, the strike force that's been that James
Comy may be looked at it and this evidence may
(28:54):
still be relevant to criminal charges going forward.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
All right, click break right back more with John Solomon,
editor in chief, founder and chief investigative reporter Justinnews dot
Com on the other side. Also coming up later in
the program, our friend Mark Halpermill join us, and how
do you protect yourself and your family because if you're
waiting for police, it's going to be too late. We'll
talk about that. We'll get to your calls this Friday,
(29:18):
eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn, as we continue.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
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