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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Political News Hour. I'm Booker Scott and this is
the Truth be Told on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
Thank you so much for joining us. Earlier in this week,
there was something that happened on social media, like there
always is, there's always something going on, but this one
sort of caught my attention, and I want to bring
some light to it. Brandon Straka is someone that has
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an organization called walk Away and he was actually on
January sixth, was at the Capitol, ended up getting arrested.
That's part of his story, but the bigger part of
his story is that Brandon started this organization of Democrats
that have walked away from the Democrat Party into the
Republican Party. And that's what he is known for now.
On social media, he is a huge social media influencer. Well,
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I guess it was about Tuesday or Wednesday of this
week he came out with a video talking about Scott Presler.
And I don't know if you're listening now, if you
know who Scott Presler is, many people do. He almost
got a job with the RNC recently. Is one that
kind of started his efforts in politics by cleaning up
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streets in places like Baltimore. You may remember him. He
went to the city of Baltimore. He had a Saturday
cleanup where he goes into the less fortunate areas and
he would clean it up. And that's how he started.
Somehow that morphed into registering people to vote, and he
has become incredibly active over the last four or five
years going around the country. He spent a lot of
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time in Pennsylvania prior to the November fifth election, just
last November, and he's you know, by all accounts, everybody
thinks that he's done an incredible job of getting people
registered to vote. And Brandon Straka in his video he
questioned the numbers that Scott Presler used. For the life
of me, I can't understand why the two are going
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at each other. So I wanted to bring someone in
here that had some knowledge and some information on it.
His name is Brian Farrens. He's from Arizona. He's heavily
involved in politics in Arizon which I love to see.
I'm a huge advocate of it. And he probably knows
some of the people that have been on the show before.
We've had several Arizonans that are heavily involved in politics,
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including Christian Lamar, who is no longer heavily involved in
the Republican Party in Arizona. Ryan, welcome to the program.
Glad to have you.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Thank you, Booker. I appreciate it. And yes, I do
know Christian Lamar.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah. Yeah, he's a friend of mine as well, and
it's a shame what happened to him in Arizona. But
I'm sure Christian will keep going. I haven't seen much
of him lately. I hope he's okay. I should probably
reach out to him. Let's start with your background first.
You get heavily involved into politics after the twenty twenty election,
is that correct?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yes, that's correct. I realized that something was wrong with
that election. I personally believe that it was stolen, and
I decided I need to get active in politics. So
what I did is it became a priest and committeeman
and also an elected state committeeman, and then I was
elected as a member at large on the board of
the Maricopa GEO Mayricopa the government is famous for being
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extremely corrupt, that I'm aware of. Yeah, and then I'm
currently a Arizona GOP member at large elected as well.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So let's get into the conversation about Scott Presler and
Brandon Stroca. One thing that happens to bother me is
when we create a circling firing squad, we circle everybody
up and then we start shooting. And there are, you know,
with the Republicans and the Conservatives, it seems like we
can never walk in lockstep together, that we kind of
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are cats on a hot tin roof. And so at
first I see this and I don't really say anything.
I make no comment, and I leave it alone for
a few days, and I'm wondering, what do you think
the motivation is here for Brandon Straka to go after
Scott Presler.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So if you watched his video, and if any of
your listeners have not watched the video, you know, a
real easy way to find that video is on real
Scott Presler dot com. It's r E A L S
C O T T P R E S L E
R dot com and Brandon's video is right there at
the top, so you can watch.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's about eight eight minutes or so.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And one of the things in Brandon's video that he
mentioned first is questioning Scott Presler's claims on voter registration,
and that's kind of, you know, how he built his
whole image from his voter registration.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So that's really critical and really important to look at.
And what I would say about.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That is, you know, Scott Presler's made a lot of
claims about how many Amish he's voted in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
How sorry, how many he's registered in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, let me let me go. Let me go into
the video real quick about what was said by Brandon Stroka. First,
he says that someone in Scott Presler's organization, he came
out with a post that said that they had registered
ten thousand voters in penns Sylvania. Pennsylvania was a very
important state in the November election. It is an important
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swing state, it always is. Donald Trump won Pennsylvania and
Scott Presler a few days later, after someone in his
organization says that they registered ten thousand people, Scott Presler says,
and I think this is the part that kind of
bothered Brandon Straka. He says, I delivered. Scott Presler says,
I delivered the state of Pennsylvania for Donald Trump. I
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registered fifty thousand people. So there's that discrepancy. Fifty thousand
or ten thousand, and I don't know how anybody can
really tell who, you know, how many people he registered.
So that's one part of it. And then the other
part you mentioned the Amish. I think Brandon Struka said
that the claim was that Scott Presler registered about one
hundred and eighty thousand Amish, and Brandon Strker brought up
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the point there's only ninety thousand Amish that live in
the state of Pennsylvania, so it would be impossible to
register one hundred and eighty thousand. I believe that's pretty accurate,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Brian, That's pretty accurate. That's part of it.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
And like I was saying, the real issue is that
Scott Pressler is advertising and operating under the assumption that
registering voters somehow translates to ballots cast and winning an election,
and that's simply not true. And if you look again
at that real Scott Presser dot com, you'll see a
lot of data that shows and direct quotes actually in
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the statistics that many of those registrations are either duplicates
or there simply switches in party affiliation or change of address.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So that is not a net new registration.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It does not actually translate to increased number of votes
cast for a particular candidate. And there's a lot of
other data there that shows the increase in Republican registrations
by presidential election cycle, specifically in Pennsylvania, and you see
the net new registrations by cycle are actually decreasing. So
in you know, for example, twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen,
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there was new registrations of about three hundred nineteen thousand,
but then November nineteen to twenty it decreased to two
hundred and eighty eight thousand, and then November twenty three
to twenty four it decreased again to two hundred and
forty six thousand. So if what Presler's really doing is
making that much difference, why is it that the net
new registrations are actually decreasing, And why when you look
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at the data, including photos that some of his early
vote Action Pack employees are posting, they show it's simply
a party change, it's simply an address change.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
There's also quotes and data that shows that as well.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's really a misrepresentation and just registering voters is not
affecting the election outcome.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So let me tell everyone that's listening right now kind
of what Scott Presler does. I have been to his event,
and in full disclosure, I know Scott Presler and he
and I have always gotten along. You know, he was
you know, he didn't help me a lot with Savior
Republic dot Org when I started that to try to
get poll workers across the country prior to the twenty
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two midterm. General Flynn did help me and he promoted
it and it had about two point one million unique
visitors in about four months. And the objective of that
was to make it really simple for anyone to go
register to vote. But of course we promoted it only
among conservatives, so the idea was that conservatives would use it.
I saw it as a weakness coming out of the
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twenty election that we didn't have enough conservative poll workers
across the country, especially in places like Detroit and Atlanta
Fulton County. So that's what I did and created a map,
and on the map was the United States of America.
You live in Alabama, you click on Alabama and every
county in that state would be there, and you click
on it in your application to be a poll worker
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was there. And Scott knew that I was doing this work,
but yet he never really helped me with it once
it came to fruition, which I thought was a little
bit odd. But I think Scott Pressler also has done
a great job in bringing attention to the point that
you need to be active, regardless of what it is
you may be doing. He has inspired a lot of people.
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So when I'm hearing Brandon Straka's video, I'm questioning, well,
is there not really good coming from Scott Presler, just
for the fact that people are more aware that they
have to get active. Because for a lot of people
in this country, especially conservative, Scott Presler is a hero
to them.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yes, I understand that, and let's talk about is he
actually doing good? Because if you look at two most
recent races where Scott Presler was very active, one was
the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Senate race, which would have previously
held by Republicans for thirty five consecutive years, and that
was a huge loss.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So mister Presler was there advertising.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Gained the word out, registering people and that was just
a shocking, shocking loss. And then in Wisconsin it was
the Supreme Court seat and that was a massive loss
for Republicans about one hundred thousand margin, and so let's
talk about why did that loss happen. Specifically, the Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania had been held for Republicans for thirty five consecutive years. Well,
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the strategy that mister Presler, working with other groups, including
Turning Point Action Promote, is specifically registering what they call
low propensity Republican voters. And for your listeners, a low
propensity Republican voter is a Republican voter that maybe they
haven't voted in a while, they're not engaged, they don't
know what's going on. So mister Presler and some of
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these other organizations like Turning Point, we're going and specifically
targeting them, registering them to vote, having them fill out
an application for an early mail in ballot. Well, guess
what that list is available. So maybe that worked in
the past, but the Democrats now they have a list
of low propensity Republican voters that requested.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Mail in ballots.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
All they have to do is send them propaganda mailers
texts and say the Republican candidate kills puppies, which in
fact they did with the Oz Fetterman race. That's an
actual example. And then many of those low propensity Republican voters.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
They say, well, I want to vote.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Republican, but you know doctor Oz kills puppies, so I'm
going to vote for Fetterman, which wasn't true, of course.
So that's basically the exact same thing that happened in
Lancaster County. The Democrats targeted those low propensity voters with
text messages, mailers, door knocks of their own and if
you look at the data, seventeen percent of those Republican
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ballots went Democrats, so they were voted Republican ballots were
voted for the Democrat. So you could argue if there's
no fraud there. According to Pressler, there was no fraud
that Scott Presler and other groups including Turning Point, that
targeted those low propensity voters that many of those then
went Democrat that directly caused that loss.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And I guess when I'm considering all of this, I'm
looking at across the country and the inspiration that Scott
Pressler has brought to a lot of people that maybe
someone like you that wasn't active until the twenty elections,
a lot of more people are starting to wake up now.
And that's the thing if he has created thousands of
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more people that are being active in their community, in
their politics, and is that a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well, that's a good question because being active is one thing,
but what are they actively doing? And we didn't even
really talk about the problems with mail in voting and
early voting.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
They're very ripe with frauds.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So if you're being active and you're encouraging people as
the primary method to vote early and vote by mail,
I would say that's making the problem much much worse.
We truly need to fix our elections, not spend so
much time just feeding the machines.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Vote harder, send me seven million dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Like Scott Presler's early vote action pack received, and it's
not really helping. In fact, it's making things worse and
causing Republican losses when Trump isn't.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
On the ballot. Yeah, and I would I guess I'm
just thinking, well, if there are thousands and thousands across
the country that have gotten plugged in somewhere politically that
we're sitting on the couch for all those years, then
that's not a bad thing. That they were inspired by
Scott Presler. I want to get back to Brandon Strca
because I'm in full disclosure. Again, I know Brandon Straca
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as well. I've talked with him in spaces before on X,
so there is that as well. I'm trying to find
out the motivation. Maybe you know what the motivation was
for Brandon Straka to come after Scott Presler in the
way that he did. And in all fairness to Brandon,
he clearly said in the video that he is, you know,
willing to talk to Scott Presler. He wants Scott Pressler
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to give him the reason for the things that he
has done. What do you think the reason is that
Brandon has done what he's done. I'm with Scott Presler, Well, that's.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
An excellent question, booker, and I do know the reason,
and the reason I know the reason is because Brandon
Stroka also hosted an almost four hour long X space,
which is kind of like a like a podcast on
X that's also available the full length of it on
real Scott Presler dot com as well as X and
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Brandon Strouca's profile. So if someone has, you know, questions,
why is Brandon doing this, they should really listen to that, because,
you know, an eight minute video doesn't really explain a lot,
but if you have the time to listen to a
half hour here or you know, the full four hours.
He handles questions from many Scott Pressler supporters, many people who.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Said, why are you doing this? Why? How can you
do this? What's wrong with you? And he answered in.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Great detail time and time again. So I can certainly answer,
but I would encourage all your listeners to go to
real Scott Presler dot com and listen to Brandon say
himself in a four hour X space, why is he
doing it? What is the motific, motivation and answering questions
from Scott Presler supporter.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I went into that space, I heard a little bit
of it, I recorded some of it. And I noticed
also that Derek Evans was a co host there with Brandon,
and Derek as another friend of this show, has been
on the program before, so people may know who he
is as well. He ran for congress in West Virginia.
He was also another J sixer as Brandon was. So
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what comes from this? What happens in the end, Because
here's what's happening on social media. Anybody that is questioning
Scott Pressler on X, he's automatically blocking them and a
lot of people are taking that that Scott is guilty.
I don't know that that's what it means. He's probably
just protecting his reputation, the one that he has built,
the one that you mentioned, This is his brand, that
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is what he has done. And now Brandon Strake is
calling him out and we have this, Where does this go?
What happens?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Well, that's a good question, and I first want to
address what you said about Scott Presler as protecting his reputation,
and you're right there, And it's actually an interesting phenomenon
because I have never seen prior to Scott Presler such
aggressive reputation protection as I've seen on X and factors
into the blocking so much so that I got multiple
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reports from people who are on the X space saying,
just by being on this space, just by following someone
who was on this space or reposted a question.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
About Scott Presler, we've all been blocked.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Some people that are his supporters that are donating to him,
they're blocked because they were just following or they were
just listening on the space. So what's clear to me
and many others is that what mister Presler is employing
is a very aggressive, probably automated AI script which is
searching X and auto blocking anyone who is criticizing him
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or following or joining these spaces, which is clearly a
violation of the X terms of service, and miss Elon
Musk should look into that. But it's funny because that's
an exact technique that is described in a paper by Robert.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Pressler, who is Scott Presler's father, who was.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
An information intelligence director in the Pentagon and sponsored one
hundred page paper which talks about influencing political outcomes through
the use of social media and automation, and talks about
these exact techniques. So I believe it is a little
bit more sinister than mister Presler sitting on his iPhone,
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you know, blocking people here and there. He's blocked basically thousands,
probably tens of thousands.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It cannot be done manually.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It's clearly some kind of automation, and that's very dishonest
in of itself to use reputation management and imagine that
his entire reputation and everything about him was.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Also artificially created, which it's beginning to look more and
more that way.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Well, you mentioned Charlie Kirk a few minutes ago and
Turning Point. Actually, you said Turning Point, not Charlie Kirk,
but Charlie Kirk is Turning Point, and he has sort
of been brought in here in another thread that I
came across on social media talking about Turning Point and
that there was going to be a huge story coming
out that kind of connects Scott Pressler and Turning Point.
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Do you believe that theory is accurate? Do you think
there's any truth to that?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, you're saying is it true that they're connected?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Is that yeah, they are connected, and that there could
be something sinister behind it to even hurt conservatives is
what was thrown out there. I saw the thread and
I saved it, and I just thought it was interesting
that the two Charlie Kirk and Scott Presler were connected
in that vein.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Well, that's an interesting question. And what I mentioned specifically
was Turning Point Action, which is the five toh one
C four political action, which is their chief operating officer
is Tyler Boyer. Now, when you talk about something sinister,
there's an article that I wrote actually recently, because mister
Boyer is allegedly involved with the cover up of a
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sexual assault of a Turning Point Action employee by another
prominent Turning Point Action employee, Matthew Martinez. That's all sourced
through a police report and interviews corroborated by current and
former employees. So that's at Brian Farren's one on X
you can read about that. So that certainly is sinister.
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And you since you mentioned Charlie Kirk, you know there
was a there was a video very recently where mister
Kirk was on campus I believe in California, and he
mentioned specifically, I believe his exact quote was a murky
gray area something like that, like a legal murky gray area.
And he was talking about a situation where a sorority
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nineteen year old sorority male and a nineteen year old
fraternity sorry, the sorority and the fraternity in nineteen years old.
Both of them were basically hooking up, is what he said.
But then the woman revoked consent even though you know,
they had five drinks, but revoked consent, and he said,
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that's a murky gray area.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So the problem with that.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
He was questioned on that video by by the woman
asking the question. She said, wait a minute, he revoked
quick consent, So that's you know, sexual assault it's actually rape,
and the legal precedent is very clear on that, so
that ties it to you know, is there a problem
of a frat boy sexualization party culture that's permissive of
this in the Turning Point organization. Mister Kirk's comments seemed
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to say so, it's a murky gray area. And then
this alleged cover up of a sexual assault by mister
Boyer of another Turning Point employee who sexually.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Assaulted another one. I guess the answer is yes.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, Well, Brian, thank you so much for coming on
here putting some light on the subject. I like both
Brandon Straka, I like Scott Presler, and I think they've
both done incredible work in each one of their movements
and their work. I hope this maybe dies down and
they are able to come back together if in reality,
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Scott Presler is doing the right work for the right reasons.
I don't see why Scott Presler wouldn't come to Brandon
Struca and have a conversation. And one thing that we
left out in this whole conversation was that Brandon Struka
and Scott Presler were close, they were friends. He considered
him a friend, and again go to the real Scott
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Presler dot com. Make your own conclusion, make your own
decisions on this. I'm just trying to bring it to
you so that you know what has happened this week
with this, and it's just another example of how we
circle things in the Republican side. We fire away and
we take each other out instead of lockstep walking together,
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moving in the same direction for the betterment of the country,
for the betterment of the conservative movement. We end up
doing this and we do it way too much. But Brian,
thank you so much for coming on. Good luck to
you too. I really do appreciate you coming on the program.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Thank you, Booker, I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1 (24:27):
And welcome back to the program. As we wind down
this hour and wind down this week altogether, I want
to get into some positive here from the Trump administration.
One person that I believe is doing an incredible job
in the administration is Secretary of the Treasury's Scott descent.
He's doing incredible work. We have the tariffs that are
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going on, and we have all of these countries that
have come to America trying to level the playing field
on free fair trade across the world, and it seems
to be working. We've got a announcement on Thursday that
Britain England has come to an agreement with America and
it's big news. That is really really big news. And
(25:09):
I want to get into some hearings that have been
taking place because I have failed to bring you news
and information on those over this past week. So let's
get into that now, and let's go to Scott Descent,
who had a couple of hearings, one in the Senate
and also one in the House of Representatives. This one
happens to be from the House of Representatives, and this
is representative from New York. Her name is Nidia Valasquez.
(25:34):
Now I want you to consider whether this woman's brain
power could actually compete with Scott Descent. But listen to
her question here, and then listen to the response of.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Scott Descent in congressional testimony yesterday, you said the US
has not started negotiating with China on taris reductions. Does
that continue to be your position?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yes or not?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You may have read, Oh my goodness, these democrats in
these hearings, I reclaim my time. That's what they say.
Every time they ask a question and someone starts to
answer it, they'll say, I reclaim my time. Now she
says that the last quest here says answer my question,
and he's trying to answer the question. The fact of
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the matter is Bascent will have conversations with China over
the weekend. That's what's happening. But she won't even give
him a chance to answer, Let's keep going and.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
In the press. I will be going to Switzerland and
the negotiations will begin on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
Okay, so the president told you that, Oh boy, that
would be your answer today.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, that's the answer. Of course, it's the answer. He
doesn't know what to say. I just answered the question.
I'm going to switch you.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Tell who from the Trump administration is engage in those.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
Discussions, which discussion with China trade discussions I'm sorry, trade discussions, Yes, sir, Well,
the trade negotiations will be led by myself and Ambassador
Jamison Greer Ustr. What about Pete Navarro?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Sorry, Peter Navarro.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Peter Navarro will.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
He will not be joining us in Geneva?
Speaker 7 (27:27):
Thank god for that. Are those negotiations consider advanced?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Pardon?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Are those negotiations considered advanced?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
As I said on Saturday, we will begin, which I
believe is the autree said?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Did you hear the question? Are those negotiations considered advanced?
He just answered the question. He said, I am going
to Switzerland this weekend on Saturday to begin to begin
the negotiations. Her follow up is are they advanced? This
is why nothing gets done these hearings are nothing but
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a dog and pony show. There are for these representatives
to get their twenty second sound bite, the sound video
for re election. That's all it is. The work of
the country is not getting done in these hearings. Just
understand that I've told you that before. I mentioned that,
so I hope you do understand that. Here's another Democrat
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with Cash Battel.
Speaker 10 (28:27):
This week against resources.
Speaker 11 (28:30):
President Trump has turned the Department of Justice into a
tool to go after his perceived enemies.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Isn't that rich? This is Senator Murray here, she's the
vice chair of this hearing and she is talking to
Cash Betel in.
Speaker 11 (28:43):
Many of the actions we have seen now seen at
the FBI are alarming. The FBI has reassigned and pushed
out career FBI agents for political reasons. We have seen
fear and intimidation promoted throughout the bureau, including by polygraphing
your own staff. We've seen the arrest of a sitting
judge in Wisconsin, and during your confirmation hearing, you committed
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that there would be no politicization, no retribution at the FBI.
Under your leadership. You've reportedly placed FBI employees responsible for
investigation January sixth cases on leave? Is that keeping up
your promise of no politicization, no retribution.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Of course, it is because of the politicalization and the
weaponization of the FBI in the Department of Justice over
the last four years. Of course, it is the Wisconsin
judge was helping an illegal terrorist get away from Ice.
That judge should have been arrested. The FBI agents that
have worked on j six they should be put on leave.
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Let's find out what the truth is. Listen to cash Bettel.
He tells her Senator Murray what the FBI has done
since he's been there.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
It is because that's wildly inaccurate. Let me tell you
what the fb has done since I got there. Two
hundred and seventy six federal less to eight hundred and
twenty kilogram seize the fentanyl. That's enough to kill a
quarter million people. Over three thousand firearm seas, three hundred
and fifty gang cases, three thousand cases against violent God.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
Well, that's not my question.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
We know that.
Speaker 10 (30:16):
Well, you asked if I was weaponizing the FBI, and
I am not. I'm giving you the hard, concrete examples
of the men and women putting handcuffs on bad people
doing harm to our children and innocent Americans. I answer
the weaponization.
Speaker 11 (30:26):
Have placed on leave FBI employees responsible for the investigation
of January sixth. That sounds political to me.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
I have not placed anyone on leave who has not
violated their ethical obligation or their oaths.
Speaker 11 (30:41):
If they were investigating January sixth, you believe they were
violating an ethic Nope.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
I think the common theme here is you put words
in my mouth, and I'm not going to tolerate it. Normally,
the men and women of the FBI.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Boom boom boom. Cash Battel the director of the FBI,
and I don't believe Cash Betel really is going to
put up with much more. BAMBONDI I mentioned that in
the first segment of this hour. I believe she is
on thin ice. Let's stay here in a Senate hearing.
This is Senator John Kennedy, and he is talking about
Peter Struck and Lisa Page. Do you remember those names.
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These go back to the Russian collusion and Donald Trump
being elected with Hillary Clinton. This is a long time ago. Now,
it's nearly a decade ago. Peter Struck was I think
number three at the FBI at the time, and Lisa
Struck worked in the Department of Justice. She was an attorney.
She was having an affair with Peter Struck. You may
remember the emails where Peter Struck said, we will not
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let this happen. We will not let Donald Trump win.
And they were working behind the scenes, and Peter Struck
he got fired from the FBI as a result of that.
There was a report on it, and all of this
was corroborated through the Inspector General report from the Department
of Justice. Lisa Page actually quit, she quit her job.
And what do we do? What does our government do
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to these people that did the things that they did,
that is without questioning things that they did through the
Inspector General. Ford Here, Senator John Kennedy asks that question
of Caspitel.
Speaker 12 (32:09):
Senior Officially, kieff I replied, quote, no, no, he won't,
We'll stop it.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Did I read that correctly? You did?
Speaker 10 (32:18):
Senator?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Okay?
Speaker 12 (32:19):
Now, miss Page got quit before she could get fired.
Mister Struck was fired, and predictably, they filed a lawsuit
because in Washington, it's easier to divorce your spouse than
it is to fire federal employee. Why did the FBI
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give mister Struck one point two million dollars in miss
Page eight hundred thousand dollars to settle lawsuit.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Senator, I do not know that settlement was reached in
the prior administration who made the decision, the prior to
Department of Justice?
Speaker 12 (33:02):
Who in the prior Department of Justice.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
The settlement for that kind of case can only come
from the Attorney General WHI should be Attorney General, Mayor Carlan.
Speaker 12 (33:09):
So the Attorney General decided to give mister Struck one
point two million dollars in miss Page eight hundred thousand
dollars after they were fired after actively interfering in the
twenty sixteen election.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Is that right?
Speaker 10 (33:24):
My understanding is that was a settlement. They agree to.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Pass me the sick bucket, please, and what a way
to end this hour and this week, pass me the
sick bucket. That's a perfect way to summarize that. Peter Strock,
Lisa Page. They quit, they get fired, and they get
one point two million of your taxpayer dollars. That's our government.
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That's why Donald Trump is bringing in this revolution of
common sense. It seems to be working in many ways,
doesn't it. We're going to have to give time on
the economy. The border is shut down. This very well
could be the Golden Age of America. I'm Booker Scott.
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