June 6, 2025 • 32 mins
Dr. Keith Rose joins Blake's Morning Show for a critique CIA/USAID corruption and ineffective leadership on Blake Farenthold Show, linking economic issues to poor policies. He advocates for restructuring agencies for efficiency, a unified analytic branch under DNI, and modern communication tools to align government actions with public welfare. /// The Scalpel is proud to partner with Brickhouse Nutrition. Dr. Rose uses and highly recommends Field of Greens. Your purchase through this link supports The Scalpel Podcast. /// https://scalpeledge.com/brickhouse ------------------------------------------------- In Part TWO of this conversation, Dr. Keith Rose joins the Blake Farenthold Show and offers critique that highlights systemic corruption within U.S. government agencies like the CIA and USAID, where funds are misused without accountability. Leadership is criticized for failing to address these issues more directly with tangible and visible actions, including firing responsible individuals. Economic problems such as high gas prices and expensive groceries are attributed to poor policies and regulations, suggesting a disconnect between government actions and public interests. Calling for reforms, including restructuring intelligence agencies for efficiency and transparency, establishing a unified analytical branch under the DNI to eliminate siloed operations, and adopting modern communication tools, possibly leveraging external technologies. The conclusion emphasizes the need for significant changes to ensure government actions align with the public's welfare rather than personal or ideological agendas. ---
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm quoting Chuck Schumer, and I don't agree with what
he him saying about President Trump, but what he said
in his statement's true. He said he's being pretty stupid
because the intelligence community has six ways to Sunday to
get back at you, which was a pretty crass and
a terrible statement for Schumer to make. Because the intelligence
community is under Title fifty. Foreign intelligence is under the
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executive Branch, who is their boss. So this is what
the a lot of people that I work for in
the agency back in the day were concerned about, and
that is rogue intelligence groups running everything because they have
the money, they know where the dark funds are, they
know how to manipulate the media, they know how to
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manipulate events, and if they don't have morals and they're
going checked, it's really difficult the President. My understanding is
he changed the PDB the President Daily Brief. He took
it from the CIA and gave it to the DNI,
which I think is probably a good move, because the
CIA Central Intelligency produces something called the President Daily Brief
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should be every day for the president, and it's a
synopsis of all this significant information that's come out the
intelligence from around the world, and.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
They were supposed to do it every day. I heard
they were doing it.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
About twice a week, and then it was taken from
him and given to the DNI, which I think Tulsi
has a lot better handle on that group than Ratcliffe
has on the CIA.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I don't think, yeah, well, we'll go there. But so.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
You know, this is beyond my theory that FBI, CIA,
all of these agencies that give advice to the president
are not trustworthy in the advice you give it give okay, well,
and you can't make good decisions if you don't have
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good information, But this goes beyond that. You got them
actively attempting to undermine him.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, look in his first term crossfire hurricane that came
from the CIA and the FBI. Full stop, who's been
who's been jailed and punished over that can anyone tell
me they they influenced elections, they caused all kinds of probmts,
they lied.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
We all know it was total horse crap. Who's been punished.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You got Jim Comey, all six foot seven inches of
pure horse crap walking around out there riding eighty six
forty seven or seeing or taking a picture of that
in seashells on the beach, which means basically, assassinate President Trump.
And I don't know how you interpret that any other way.
And nothing happens. Here's the problem, and this is Trump's problem,
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and you're intellectually dishonest if you don't say it. If
people don't start getting put in handcuffs and purp walked,
I think he's going to have a very difficult time
during mid terms and on going forward because there's been
too much rampant lawlessness inside law enforcement, DOJ, intelligence communities,
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and unless they root that out, he'll never have a
handle on a go forward basis. Because they are embolden
right now, the Hakim Jeffreys and the Democrats are feeling
their oats.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They're feeling like they have something.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They're feeling more emboldened because nothing's happening like that's great
that cash is doing the single subject pollies getting people out.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But you know what, Crossfire Hurricane was illegal and wrong.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Stolen election was wrong, And don't get me even started
on that. I know the receipts are out there, but
I think the president, and it's not his fault, he
has people in his orbit that are protecting him in
their minds from information, and that's just wrong. President Trump
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is a brilliant man. He can synthesize and understand information,
and I have personal experience with this. You can't get
to him to get him the information he needs because
he is being blocked. Some of it is nefarious and
some of it is just they think they're doing the
right thing, but they're not.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And you're right, Blake.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You can't make decisions at an executive level over an
entire nation without the adequate information. The whole idea, the
whole understanding behind intelligence is to get the leaders of
this nation the information so that they can make a
good decision based on all the information. Reagan ran into
the same thing. I worked for a guy that did
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this for Reagan back in the day. When Reagan came
in after Carter, there was a deep state. They worked
against Reagan. So Reagan did something brilliant. He developed what
he called the kitchen Cabinet. He had a group of
intel professionals outside the main structure and other folks that
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would give him the questions to ask the system, because
the system has a hard time lying to you, but
they don't have a hard time not telling you something.
You know how that works in government plays. So he
needs the questions to ask. But no mission is a
lie to one hundred percent. But today, in this day
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and age, I think they're trying to run out the
shot clock on President Trump again like they did last time.
And if he doesn't start having I mean, he's had
a lot of successes and I'm not doubting him, but
he's not dealing with root causes and this thing could
flip at any moment, and they're just not He's fighting
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a rear guard guerrilla war. For he's fighting a guerrilla
war inside the administration from a rearguard position without people
that even understand what they're fighting. And the people that
they have surrounding him, a lot of them are They're
not bad people. They're not the right people for this
time in history and you know, they might get offended
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and be all a butt hurt, but I don't really care.
The President needs the right information and they think, oh,
we can't give him this information it's too sensational. Yeah,
I imagine the information for nine to eleven would sound
sensational before it happened, but after it happened, it just
turned out to be truth. And I'm not saying that
that's around the corner, and I'm not saying it's not.
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But there's a lot of information out there that the
president needs to get and then he can decide by
putting the data points together. But I think that there
are rogue elements inside the major intelligence groups at the NSA,
at the CIA, at the Bureau that are blocking information
or total information from getting to the president. And they've
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been doing it a long time, and they feel comfortable
because what repercussions have there been even when they're caught,
basically none.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I do think we need to see some purple walks.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But and I wonder how much of it comes in
the U from within the White House as well.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
How how you got leaders you only got leakers in
the White House. You got leakers in the White House,
You've got people inside President Trump's inner circle that are
working self serving part of other things. I mean, if
anyone would look at some of the groups that these
people are soociated with and who funded them, and what
packs do they work with, and what think tanks are
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they part of, and then go, oh, this may not
make sense. I mean there's there. It's a lot deeper
and nefarious than people understand. But you can't get this
to the president because the people that are doing this
are the people that are blocking you and not letting
you talk to him.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But they're the same people that are leaking his schedule.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Wow, did you see the video when he turned and
bumped into a column. They're calling him Joe Biden now
saying he's got mental issues. You know what I mean.
The media again, they're so uncreative. The media is pulling
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just below chlamydia. As I've said many times, no one
believes If the media told the American people the sky
was blue and water was wet, no one would believe it.
I mean, these guys live in a glasshouse in a
glass bubble. No one believes them. And if you do,
I bless you. If you're one of the seven people
that sit at home and still have CBS, ABC and NBC.
(09:05):
Good luck because you're not getting reality. And then you
got guys like Jake Tapper going on the oh. I
really didn't say that to her, so h And you know,
you talk about purp walks and I don't mean to
go way into the past, but in his first term,
Trump kept a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Of his promises. He did not keep the locker up
Hillary problem. Well, and again here's the thing, and I
guess he was too protected.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I went into the White House in twenty seventeen. I
was in the West Wing meeting with some folks trying
to help. And I won't go into a lot of detail,
but my first recommendation was that President Trump should take
the statement James Comy made to the American people outlining
the criminal conduct of Hillary Clinton, and he could thank
him for his diligent work and agree with his assessment,
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but not agree with his recommendation of not doing anything.
And then he should have passed that to the Attorney
general at the time. Who is Where's Waldough because no
one even remembers his name anymore. Scott was it Sessions? Yeah?
Who's or p Sessions? Who not Pede Sessions? Or no,
it was, but there was another session. It was another session.
(10:27):
So the guy, everyone thought, this guy, it's such a conservative.
He became attorney general and he did nothing. And that's
the problem inside the DOJ and other things. I mean,
you don't. And so what I recommended was lick use that,
empower a special prosecutor and go after it. Look, President
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Trump has a wonderful thing he could do. He could
take the US Attorney from Puerto Rico, Stephen Muldro, who
understands everything that went on during the voting, make him
the special prosecutor and of election integrity, and then watch
the sparks fly because there's so much stuff out there.
(11:09):
There's so much information out there that will show the
American people what happened.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And here's the thing. The American people see it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
They intuitively know what's happening, despite the praetorian guarden media,
and they just.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Want validation for what they see.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
They're seeing a bird fly across the sky and they're going, oh,
it's a bird, and the new mainstream media is saying,
that's not a bird, that's a that's a rainbow. And
no one's no one's validating what they're seeing. With their
own eyes. There's there, you know, the famous W. C.
Fields line when he his wife comes home and catches
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him in bed with another woman and he looks at
his wife and he says, who are you going to
believe me? Or your lying eyes? You know, I think
people are believing they're lying eyes, and there's been no
responsibility and there's no accountability. And I think that's why
President one of the reasons President Trump was elected. And
I pray that they can get after it. I could
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start with looking at the number two guy in the
DOJ and looking at his past and looking at the
fact that I'm sorry, he was a Democrat up until
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And you know, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Out on a limb blake and I'll tell you that
I think a lot of people in the intelligence community,
during President Trump's trials and all the trouble, he had
worked people into his orbit and let them be successful
defending him. Let them be successful supporting him so that
they could have someone next to him. This is a
long game play here in the intelligence world of moving
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assets inclose where you trust them and then they flipped.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Them on you.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And I think that might have happened to President Trump
is not his fault, but the people around him need
to look deeper than you know, the surface.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You've been watching the immigration.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Has Trump got that under control or has Fox just
kind of quit reporting on it because Trump is in charge?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You now, No, I think that my understanding from what's
going on at the border of this that crosses are
almost down to zero. So yes, I think Tom Homan's
got that under control for President Trump, and they're they
just had a big Scotus decision. I mean, they even
got Kagan on board with deporting these folks that were
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parolled in.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So yeah, I think that they're they're working the best
they can.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I mean, you got millions of people that came across,
so it's it's going to take some time.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And how do you find them and get them all?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, I want I would use this CBP app because
they gave people phones things like that. If you can
use an app to to get in the country, you
probably use the same app to track him.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You could just get one of those guys to.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Get in there and rework that thing and find people
and have them leave.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I guess what do you think about Elon what's going
on with him?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
He's giving up a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Elon's an interesting bird.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
He has a moral compass, it's his moral compass.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
But I mean it's not too bad, it's not great,
but he's done a great job. He sees right and
wrong pretty clearly, and he wants to help. And the
guy is brilliant. What drives me crazy is people say, well,
Elon got money from the government, if I got money
from the government. Look, people get money from the government
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millions all the time. It's called the lottery, and they're
still dead broke inside of two or three months afterwards.
And most Americans, if you got billions from the government,
would be dead broke. Elon is a genius this guy has.
I mean, I'm sorry, you take a rocket to Mars
and you but you have people out there going, oh,
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he's not that smart. He just he's gotten so much
help from the government. Now, the guy's a legitimate genius.
He's a good businessman, he's got a great work ethic,
and you know, he's helped the nation a lot with Doge.
I mean, does anyone really understand what Doze uncovered? Basically,
they uncovered there are x amount of computers. I think
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it's like twelve or four. I remember the exact number
printing pushing out a billion dollars a minute in the
US government, a billion a minute, and most of those
don't have invoices with them. No one even knows where
it's going. And people are like, well, it doesn't really matter,
we just need more money.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
No.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I mean, I go back to the story. I told
them this show a while back where I was. I
was twenty fifteen. I was going into brief in Washington, DC,
and there was a former ambassador in front of me
or sitting down with me, and the guy just looks stressed.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
He just stood up and turned to me.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
He didn't know me from Adam, and he said, if
the American people knew what was going on right now,
there'd be blood in the streets. I had no contact
for that statement. I just thought it was a little bizarre.
But he might have meant the fact that we're just
spending money like the Congress is like a bunch of
drunken Marxists.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And I think that the American.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
People are so tired of the lack of accountability, and
that's why President Trump was elected. Here's the thing. The
Bible's real clear on this too. Who much is given
much as expected. You know, President Trump was given the
presidency a second time and a lot is expected. And
if he and I'm the biggest supported President Trump.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I have.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Supported him with my money, my time. I've risked my life,
my fortune, and my sacred honor. Let's just put it
that way, and I will tell you, great guy. But
if he surrounds himself with the same type of people
that were around him during his first administration, it's going
to be very difficult to get ahead. He needs a
kitchen cabinet like yesterday, and based on the people around him,
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that's going to be a tough thing to put together
because there is omission or comission, but there's not transmission
of new ideas.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
There's probably the best.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Way to say that, Well, I mean Elon lost a
bowtload of money.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yep, he did.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I mean President Trump lost a boatload of money by
going to the White House.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
The people that are criticizing Elon and President Trump, the
people that are criticizing them are the same people that
are making money working for the government. They go from
making five to six figures a year to making seven
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figures a year. And you have guys like President Trump,
who's a legitimate billionaire who took a step down to
bring America up.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And to me, that says a lot. It does.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
But what we need from government programs and we don't
have them.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
We just throw money at problems.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
We need specific measurable results for the dollars that we spend.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
We need to say, all right, we're going to.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Spend this on that, here's what we expect to see,
here's how we're going to measure it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, and right now we don't do that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, I just said when there's no invoices and there's
nothing that says we're going to do that, because you're
dealing with a leviathan that says you don't need to
know but pay your check. I mean, I've been through
an IRS audit. It's intense. I'm not saying because I
helped the Boss, but I've been through an IRIS audit,
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and I can tell you that they audit the American citizen,
but they don't audit themselves.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The government. Whistleblowers are vilified.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yeah, you try to protect him, but you know, they
come out and then they just kind of disappear into oblivion.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah. My concern, Blake is that if.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
If there's not a real course correction soon in this nation,
that there is the potential for it to descend into
a lot of serious internal conflict. And I pray it
doesn't because war is ugly. But the American people have
their eyes open now and they don't trust their government.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And that's a horrible thing in a government of the people,
for the people, by the people. And you know, in
a republic or democ I mean, you don't trust the
people you're elected, What the hell are you doing voting
for them?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I just that's rhetorical, But what what what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
And if you look at history, I challenge you to
find many, if any cases where there's been significant change
in government policy and the way things are done without
some fundamental crisis like nine to eleven or the war.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Well, and I mean, I'm nine.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
To eleven was and nine to eleven turned just the
wrong way I think.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
It did, and and we still hadn't we get We
get change, but we don't get accountability.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Who was fired after nine to eleven?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah, the largest intelligence failure in the history of our nation.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Who was fired? No one? And we.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Passed laws that gave up a lot of our privacy
and a lot of our rights and a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Of our rights.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
And was it Benjamin Franklin that said, you know, those
who trade their freedom for security will soon end up
having neither.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, that had been Franklin. Pretty much where we stand today.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, you know, I I don't think there's a piece
of information I have that the government couldn't get their
hands on legally if they wanted to, and.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I might not even know about it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Oh yeah, I mean yet there, Well here's the thing.
They could do it legally, they could do it illegally,
you still wouldn't know about it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah. And who's who's holding them accountable? Illegal?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I mean, we had all kinds of fis abuses the
igeve instead of the Inspector General.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But again, who was held accountable nobody?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
No, No, they were arresting people that were peacefully protesting
at J six the only account. I mean, I'm amazed
that the American people are very tolerant. I don't know,
I don't know where all this is going. It's very sad.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
You want to believe that your government has your best
interest at heart.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
No one believes that, Blake, but the government has individuals
in the government have their best interest at heart. Congressmen
have their best interest at heart. They don't have your
best interest at heart. They're not representing you, They're representing
their chances for reelection.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Proved me wrong. I think that's the case in a
very large percentage.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And the sad thing is we've had so many how
many people have come out of Congress with less money
than they went in other than me, Yeah, but those
are the good ones.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, they just throw their hands up in disgust. But
here's the thing you have. Yeah, the American people are
very tolerable because you're like, well, we're comfortable.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You know, I can go on my vacation every year.
I can do this.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
But I think they're starting to see, well, now I'm
paying a ton for gas. Groceries are hardly affordable.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Gas. Was that its lowest this Memorial Day? Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Eggs are down sixty under Trump.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But it's still the economy is very soft to go
into the grocery store. The economy is still terrible. People
are holding onto money. Nothing's movement. We haven't opened up
oil and gas yet, and until we do these things
that are shown to work in this country.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's yeah, it's I don't know what the hold up
is with the oil and gas.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
That's just so many regulations and there's things take a
while to move. But I think President Trump's doing the
right things. I'm not sure the people that he's assigning
to them are executing them efficiently. We know Elon is yeah,
I mean we can see that quickly. But as a nation,
we are struggling. And I don't see why Trump is
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not firing people left and right. I mean that's kind
of his trademark in reality TV. Yeah, and well, the
thing is there is a lot of people that are
head of organizations that he's placed in there that don't
know how to be a boss. They don't know how
to go in there, like someone in the agency, like
a Bill Casey, who just said the agency responds the
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best when you have your foot on their neck. That's
probably a true statement in the past, although I don't
know anyone who used to be in the agency that
thinks it can be saved.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You get.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Seated on Trump's kitchen cabinet, what do you tell him
to do about the intelligence community, the CIA?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I mean, how do you arthetical?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Because probably there's no one in his administration that would
let me near him.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
But well, the first thing.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
You do, I mean a lot of you can't just
fire everybody because a lot of intelligence is based on relationships,
like they have.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
No relationships right now. From my understanding, a lot of
them don't. They have liaison relationships. Now, there are some
good people in rank and file, but you'd have to
bring in some guys. The first thing you would do
is you would have to bring in someone to dismantle
the agency brick by brick, because you don't know how
bad it is. Second, you would have to bring in
a group of people from outside the system that were
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in the system that we're productive, that have maintained those
relationships to continue the flow of information to the President
and other leaders in the different branches of legislation that
need the information to keep this nation safe, and they're
out there in large numbers.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You would take some guys that.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Worked under legen inside the community and they're out there too,
that would come in and reform in place of framework,
in place an OSS press getting involved with the British
style intelligence agency that was designed to get results, that
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was designed to recruit people, get information and put it in.
I would take the whole di the Director of Intelligence
in the agency, move them under the DNI, and create
a large analytical branch that would no longer be stovepipe
from analysts from Bureau, CIA, DNI, NSA, blah blah blah.
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You put all the analysts under one roof, keep the
good ones, encourage outside the box thinking, and let them
work to keep the nation safe. At the same time,
you would start back up the d S and t
the Science and Technology division dealing with the AI situations,
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and put someone with some serious chops and morality. Probably
I had put someone like an Elon Musk or a
dose guy over that, and we need to start catching
back up because we the intelligence apparatus writ large has
been turned in on this administration and on other administrations
on keeping and maintaining power and not keeping the nation safe.
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At the same time, while they're doing that, they need
to empower good leadership in law enforcement in the DOJ
and start assigning special prosecutors to the big things.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
If you were to pull in some of these rogue
people that are working against the president, it would have
a ripple effect through the entire organizations and people would
either self report or leave. I agree with what they
did in the agency, offering early out, buy out of
the you know, get the people to leave, and you
get a lot of people out by attrition. You need
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to you don't need a centralized intelligence agency in this
day and age. With the way we have communications in
the Internet, etc. There are ways to keep communications secure,
but not with government technology. Bongino said it best, and
they say this all the time inside different agencies. Yesterday's
technology tomorrow. That's the speed at which they move, and
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we need to. We need to be small, lean, incredibly
efficient and have clear lines of communication. We don't need
fusion centers with multiple alphabets in the soup in the
same building and none of the floor is connect because
none of them want to share with each other. Those
days have to leave. We need to have one goal success.
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We need to have one goal victory over our enemies.
That's the goal. And we make mistakes, absolutely, but instead
let's have mistakes, let's hot wash them, put everyone in
a room, realize where we went wrong, and correct those mistakes.
But nowadays we're afraid to have them stakes. We're afraid
to have anything that would be considered a sharp pencil
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so someone doesn't poke themselves in the eye, and the.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Nation's left safe less safe for it.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
And you have things like nine to eleven, you have
things like an open border, you have things like a
narco cartel state just south of here, and you have
things like a rogue intelligence community that are actively working
against the interests of the American people for self serve
serving reasons and for globalist agenda.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You got to stop that.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
And the only way to stop that is to actually
put people in place that will And you can't put
a bunch of people that helped you in your previous
life or helped you during an election into positions that
they have no understanding of, no understanding of internal structure,
no understanding of the leadership of those positions, no understanding
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of the processes of those positions. And if you don't
understand leadership and process, how can you fix it? And
you don't take a go car mechanic and put him
in a Porsche stop store. He can't fix anything. He
can fix an engine, he can't fix that engine. And
that's what you're dealing with.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Well, and Trump has fallen prey to that. I like
Sean Duffy. He was one of the first people I
made friends with. But he has zero background in transportation.
I mean, he was a reality TV star and now
he's in charge of transportation.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
A lot of the people that have that they can
put in there. You can be a good boss and
not have a lot of experience if the people underneath
you are solid, that are doing what you said, and
you're a good leader.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's what presidents are. They're solid, they're good leaders.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
But what you can't have is you have and especially
harken back to the intelligence community, when you have people
that are really good at deception line and running assets
and then they lose all their moral compass and decide
they'll do it inside the system for self enrichment or
ideological expansion.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's where you get in your trouble.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
And look at USAID, it's nothing but a slush fund
for a lot of things. Look at the money that's
going out. I mean, look at the hundreds of millions
of dollars that are being spent on things that have
nothing to do with the United States, our security or
anything else.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And a lot of.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
This money, billions and I'm talking hundreds of billions, probably
trillion dollars have disappeared and we don't know where it is,
which means your taxes have gone for your lifetime. You're
working your lifetime supporting something that no one even knows
what it is or if it even went to the government.
It didn't support a road, it didn't support a bridge,
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it didn't support a military person. It just disappeared in
the ether.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That pisses you off as an American.
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm quoting Chuck Schumer, and I don't agree with what
he him saying about President Trump, but what he said
in his statement's true. He said he's being pretty stupid
because the intelligence community has six ways to Sunday to
get back at you, which was a pretty crass and
a terrible statement for Schumer to make. Because the intelligence
community is under Title fifty. Foreign intelligence is under the
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executive Branch, who is their boss. So this is what
the a lot of people that I work for in
the agency back in the day were concerned about, and
that is rogue intelligence groups running everything because they have
the money, they know where the dark funds are, they
know how to manipulate the media, they know how to
(01:13):
manipulate events, and if they don't have morals and they're
going checked, it's really difficult the President. My understanding is
he changed the PDB the President Daily Brief. He took
it from the CIA and gave it to the DNI,
which I think is probably a good move, because the
CIA Central Intelligency produces something called the President Daily Brief
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should be every day for the president, and it's a
synopsis of all this significant information that's come out the
intelligence from around the world, and.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
They were supposed to do it every day. I heard
they were doing it.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
About twice a week, and then it was taken from
him and given to the DNI, which I think Tulsi
has a lot better handle on that group than Ratcliffe
has on the CIA.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I don't think, yeah, well, we'll go there. But so.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
You know, this is beyond my theory that FBI, CIA,
all of these agencies that give advice to the president
are not trustworthy in the advice you give it give okay, well,
and you can't make good decisions if you don't have
(02:26):
good information, But this goes beyond that. You got them
actively attempting to undermine him.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, look in his first term crossfire hurricane that came
from the CIA and the FBI. Full stop, who's been
who's been jailed and punished over that can anyone tell
me they they influenced elections, they caused all kinds of probmts,
they lied.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
We all know it was total horse crap. Who's been punished.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You got Jim Comey, all six foot seven inches of
pure horse crap walking around out there riding eighty six
forty seven or seeing or taking a picture of that
in seashells on the beach, which means basically, assassinate President Trump.
And I don't know how you interpret that any other way.
And nothing happens. Here's the problem, and this is Trump's problem,
(03:22):
and you're intellectually dishonest if you don't say it. If
people don't start getting put in handcuffs and purp walked,
I think he's going to have a very difficult time
during mid terms and on going forward because there's been
too much rampant lawlessness inside law enforcement, DOJ, intelligence communities,
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and unless they root that out, he'll never have a
handle on a go forward basis. Because they are embolden
right now, the Hakim Jeffreys and the Democrats are feeling
their oats.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
They're feeling like they have something.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They're feeling more emboldened because nothing's happening like that's great
that cash is doing the single subject pollies getting people out.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But you know what, Crossfire Hurricane was illegal and wrong.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Stolen election was wrong, And don't get me even started
on that. I know the receipts are out there, but
I think the president, and it's not his fault, he
has people in his orbit that are protecting him in
their minds from information, and that's just wrong. President Trump
(04:30):
is a brilliant man. He can synthesize and understand information,
and I have personal experience with this. You can't get
to him to get him the information he needs because
he is being blocked. Some of it is nefarious and
some of it is just they think they're doing the
right thing, but they're not.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And you're right, Blake.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You can't make decisions at an executive level over an
entire nation without the adequate information. The whole idea, the
whole understanding behind intelligence is to get the leaders of
this nation the information so that they can make a
good decision based on all the information. Reagan ran into
the same thing. I worked for a guy that did
(05:12):
this for Reagan back in the day. When Reagan came
in after Carter, there was a deep state. They worked
against Reagan. So Reagan did something brilliant. He developed what
he called the kitchen Cabinet. He had a group of
intel professionals outside the main structure and other folks that
(05:32):
would give him the questions to ask the system, because
the system has a hard time lying to you, but
they don't have a hard time not telling you something.
You know how that works in government plays. So he
needs the questions to ask. But no mission is a
lie to one hundred percent. But today, in this day
(05:53):
and age, I think they're trying to run out the
shot clock on President Trump again like they did last time.
And if he doesn't start having I mean, he's had
a lot of successes and I'm not doubting him, but
he's not dealing with root causes and this thing could
flip at any moment, and they're just not He's fighting
(06:14):
a rear guard guerrilla war. For he's fighting a guerrilla
war inside the administration from a rearguard position without people
that even understand what they're fighting. And the people that
they have surrounding him, a lot of them are They're
not bad people. They're not the right people for this
time in history and you know, they might get offended
(06:37):
and be all a butt hurt, but I don't really care.
The President needs the right information and they think, oh,
we can't give him this information it's too sensational. Yeah,
I imagine the information for nine to eleven would sound
sensational before it happened, but after it happened, it just
turned out to be truth. And I'm not saying that
that's around the corner, and I'm not saying it's not.
(06:58):
But there's a lot of information out there that the
president needs to get and then he can decide by
putting the data points together. But I think that there
are rogue elements inside the major intelligence groups at the NSA,
at the CIA, at the Bureau that are blocking information
or total information from getting to the president. And they've
(07:21):
been doing it a long time, and they feel comfortable
because what repercussions have there been even when they're caught,
basically none.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I do think we need to see some purple walks.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
But and I wonder how much of it comes in
the U from within the White House as well.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
How how you got leaders you only got leakers in
the White House. You got leakers in the White House,
You've got people inside President Trump's inner circle that are
working self serving part of other things. I mean, if
anyone would look at some of the groups that these
people are soociated with and who funded them, and what
packs do they work with, and what think tanks are
(08:05):
they part of, and then go, oh, this may not
make sense. I mean there's there. It's a lot deeper
and nefarious than people understand. But you can't get this
to the president because the people that are doing this
are the people that are blocking you and not letting
you talk to him.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But they're the same people that are leaking his schedule.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Wow, did you see the video when he turned and
bumped into a column. They're calling him Joe Biden now
saying he's got mental issues. You know what I mean.
The media again, they're so uncreative. The media is pulling
(08:45):
just below chlamydia. As I've said many times, no one
believes If the media told the American people the sky
was blue and water was wet, no one would believe it.
I mean, these guys live in a glasshouse in a
glass bubble. No one believes them. And if you do,
I bless you. If you're one of the seven people
that sit at home and still have CBS, ABC and NBC.
(09:05):
Good luck because you're not getting reality. And then you
got guys like Jake Tapper going on the oh. I
really didn't say that to her, so h And you know,
you talk about purp walks and I don't mean to
go way into the past, but in his first term,
Trump kept a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Of his promises. He did not keep the locker up
Hillary problem. Well, and again here's the thing, and I
guess he was too protected.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I went into the White House in twenty seventeen. I
was in the West Wing meeting with some folks trying
to help. And I won't go into a lot of detail,
but my first recommendation was that President Trump should take
the statement James Comy made to the American people outlining
the criminal conduct of Hillary Clinton, and he could thank
him for his diligent work and agree with his assessment,
(10:05):
but not agree with his recommendation of not doing anything.
And then he should have passed that to the Attorney
general at the time. Who is Where's Waldough because no
one even remembers his name anymore. Scott was it Sessions? Yeah?
Who's or p Sessions? Who not Pede Sessions? Or no,
it was, but there was another session. It was another session.
(10:27):
So the guy, everyone thought, this guy, it's such a conservative.
He became attorney general and he did nothing. And that's
the problem inside the DOJ and other things. I mean,
you don't. And so what I recommended was lick use that,
empower a special prosecutor and go after it. Look, President
(10:49):
Trump has a wonderful thing he could do. He could
take the US Attorney from Puerto Rico, Stephen Muldro, who
understands everything that went on during the voting, make him
the special prosecutor and of election integrity, and then watch
the sparks fly because there's so much stuff out there.
(11:09):
There's so much information out there that will show the
American people what happened.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And here's the thing. The American people see it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
They intuitively know what's happening, despite the praetorian guarden media,
and they just.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Want validation for what they see.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
They're seeing a bird fly across the sky and they're going, oh,
it's a bird, and the new mainstream media is saying,
that's not a bird, that's a that's a rainbow. And
no one's no one's validating what they're seeing. With their
own eyes. There's there, you know, the famous W. C.
Fields line when he his wife comes home and catches
(11:47):
him in bed with another woman and he looks at
his wife and he says, who are you going to
believe me? Or your lying eyes? You know, I think
people are believing they're lying eyes, and there's been no
responsibility and there's no accountability. And I think that's why
President one of the reasons President Trump was elected. And
I pray that they can get after it. I could
(12:09):
start with looking at the number two guy in the
DOJ and looking at his past and looking at the
fact that I'm sorry, he was a Democrat up until
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And you know, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Out on a limb blake and I'll tell you that
I think a lot of people in the intelligence community,
during President Trump's trials and all the trouble, he had
worked people into his orbit and let them be successful
defending him. Let them be successful supporting him so that
they could have someone next to him. This is a
long game play here in the intelligence world of moving
(12:44):
assets inclose where you trust them and then they flipped.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Them on you.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And I think that might have happened to President Trump
is not his fault, but the people around him need
to look deeper than you know, the surface.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You've been watching the immigration.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Has Trump got that under control or has Fox just
kind of quit reporting on it because Trump is in charge?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You now, No, I think that my understanding from what's
going on at the border of this that crosses are
almost down to zero. So yes, I think Tom Homan's
got that under control for President Trump, and they're they
just had a big Scotus decision. I mean, they even
got Kagan on board with deporting these folks that were
(13:33):
parolled in.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So yeah, I think that they're they're working the best
they can.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I mean, you got millions of people that came across,
so it's it's going to take some time.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And how do you find them and get them all?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, I want I would use this CBP app because
they gave people phones things like that. If you can
use an app to to get in the country, you
probably use the same app to track him.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You could just get one of those guys to.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Get in there and rework that thing and find people
and have them leave.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I guess what do you think about Elon what's going
on with him?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
He's giving up a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Elon's an interesting bird.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
He has a moral compass, it's his moral compass.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
But I mean it's not too bad, it's not great,
but he's done a great job. He sees right and
wrong pretty clearly, and he wants to help. And the
guy is brilliant. What drives me crazy is people say, well,
Elon got money from the government, if I got money
from the government. Look, people get money from the government
(14:49):
millions all the time. It's called the lottery, and they're
still dead broke inside of two or three months afterwards.
And most Americans, if you got billions from the government,
would be dead broke. Elon is a genius this guy has.
I mean, I'm sorry, you take a rocket to Mars
and you but you have people out there going, oh,
(15:10):
he's not that smart. He just he's gotten so much
help from the government. Now, the guy's a legitimate genius.
He's a good businessman, he's got a great work ethic,
and you know, he's helped the nation a lot with Doge.
I mean, does anyone really understand what Doze uncovered? Basically,
they uncovered there are x amount of computers. I think
(15:32):
it's like twelve or four. I remember the exact number
printing pushing out a billion dollars a minute in the
US government, a billion a minute, and most of those
don't have invoices with them. No one even knows where
it's going. And people are like, well, it doesn't really matter,
we just need more money.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
No.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I mean, I go back to the story. I told
them this show a while back where I was. I
was twenty fifteen. I was going into brief in Washington, DC,
and there was a former ambassador in front of me
or sitting down with me, and the guy just looks stressed.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
He just stood up and turned to me.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
He didn't know me from Adam, and he said, if
the American people knew what was going on right now,
there'd be blood in the streets. I had no contact
for that statement. I just thought it was a little bizarre.
But he might have meant the fact that we're just
spending money like the Congress is like a bunch of
drunken Marxists.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And I think that the American.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
People are so tired of the lack of accountability, and
that's why President Trump was elected. Here's the thing. The
Bible's real clear on this too. Who much is given
much as expected. You know, President Trump was given the
presidency a second time and a lot is expected. And
if he and I'm the biggest supported President Trump.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I have.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Supported him with my money, my time. I've risked my life,
my fortune, and my sacred honor. Let's just put it
that way, and I will tell you, great guy. But
if he surrounds himself with the same type of people
that were around him during his first administration, it's going
to be very difficult to get ahead. He needs a
kitchen cabinet like yesterday, and based on the people around him,
(17:20):
that's going to be a tough thing to put together
because there is omission or comission, but there's not transmission
of new ideas.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
There's probably the best.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Way to say that, Well, I mean Elon lost a
bowtload of money.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yep, he did.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I mean President Trump lost a boatload of money by
going to the White House.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
The people that are criticizing Elon and President Trump, the
people that are criticizing them are the same people that
are making money working for the government. They go from
making five to six figures a year to making seven
(18:03):
figures a year. And you have guys like President Trump,
who's a legitimate billionaire who took a step down to
bring America up.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And to me, that says a lot. It does.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
But what we need from government programs and we don't
have them.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
We just throw money at problems.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
We need specific measurable results for the dollars that we spend.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
We need to say, all right, we're going to.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Spend this on that, here's what we expect to see,
here's how we're going to measure it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, and right now we don't do that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, I just said when there's no invoices and there's
nothing that says we're going to do that, because you're
dealing with a leviathan that says you don't need to
know but pay your check. I mean, I've been through
an IRS audit. It's intense. I'm not saying because I
helped the Boss, but I've been through an IRIS audit,
(19:04):
and I can tell you that they audit the American citizen,
but they don't audit themselves.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The government. Whistleblowers are vilified.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yeah, you try to protect him, but you know, they
come out and then they just kind of disappear into oblivion.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah. My concern, Blake is that if.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
If there's not a real course correction soon in this nation,
that there is the potential for it to descend into
a lot of serious internal conflict. And I pray it
doesn't because war is ugly. But the American people have
their eyes open now and they don't trust their government.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And that's a horrible thing in a government of the people,
for the people, by the people. And you know, in
a republic or democ I mean, you don't trust the
people you're elected, What the hell are you doing voting
for them?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I just that's rhetorical, But what what what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
And if you look at history, I challenge you to
find many, if any cases where there's been significant change
in government policy and the way things are done without
some fundamental crisis like nine to eleven or the war.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Well, and I mean, I'm nine.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
To eleven was and nine to eleven turned just the
wrong way I think.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
It did, and and we still hadn't we get We
get change, but we don't get accountability.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Who was fired after nine to eleven?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah, the largest intelligence failure in the history of our nation.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Who was fired? No one? And we.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Passed laws that gave up a lot of our privacy
and a lot of our rights and a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Of our rights.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
And was it Benjamin Franklin that said, you know, those
who trade their freedom for security will soon end up
having neither.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, that had been Franklin. Pretty much where we stand today.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, you know, I I don't think there's a piece
of information I have that the government couldn't get their
hands on legally if they wanted to, and.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I might not even know about it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Oh yeah, I mean yet there, Well here's the thing.
They could do it legally, they could do it illegally,
you still wouldn't know about it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah. And who's who's holding them accountable? Illegal?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I mean, we had all kinds of fis abuses the
igeve instead of the Inspector General.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But again, who was held accountable nobody?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
No, No, they were arresting people that were peacefully protesting
at J six the only account. I mean, I'm amazed
that the American people are very tolerant. I don't know,
I don't know where all this is going. It's very sad.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
You want to believe that your government has your best
interest at heart.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
No one believes that, Blake, but the government has individuals
in the government have their best interest at heart. Congressmen
have their best interest at heart. They don't have your
best interest at heart. They're not representing you, They're representing
their chances for reelection.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Proved me wrong. I think that's the case in a
very large percentage.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
And the sad thing is we've had so many how
many people have come out of Congress with less money
than they went in other than me, Yeah, but those
are the good ones.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, they just throw their hands up in disgust. But
here's the thing you have. Yeah, the American people are
very tolerable because you're like, well, we're comfortable.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You know, I can go on my vacation every year.
I can do this.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
But I think they're starting to see, well, now I'm
paying a ton for gas. Groceries are hardly affordable.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Gas. Was that its lowest this Memorial Day? Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Eggs are down sixty under Trump.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But it's still the economy is very soft to go
into the grocery store. The economy is still terrible. People
are holding onto money. Nothing's movement. We haven't opened up
oil and gas yet, and until we do these things
that are shown to work in this country.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's yeah, it's I don't know what the hold up
is with the oil and gas.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
That's just so many regulations and there's things take a
while to move. But I think President Trump's doing the
right things. I'm not sure the people that he's assigning
to them are executing them efficiently. We know Elon is yeah,
I mean we can see that quickly. But as a nation,
we are struggling. And I don't see why Trump is
(24:20):
not firing people left and right. I mean that's kind
of his trademark in reality TV. Yeah, and well, the
thing is there is a lot of people that are
head of organizations that he's placed in there that don't
know how to be a boss. They don't know how
to go in there, like someone in the agency, like
a Bill Casey, who just said the agency responds the
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best when you have your foot on their neck. That's
probably a true statement in the past, although I don't
know anyone who used to be in the agency that
thinks it can be saved.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You get.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Seated on Trump's kitchen cabinet, what do you tell him
to do about the intelligence community, the CIA?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I mean, how do you arthetical?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Because probably there's no one in his administration that would
let me near him.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
But well, the first thing.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
You do, I mean a lot of you can't just
fire everybody because a lot of intelligence is based on relationships,
like they have.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
No relationships right now. From my understanding, a lot of
them don't. They have liaison relationships. Now, there are some
good people in rank and file, but you'd have to
bring in some guys. The first thing you would do
is you would have to bring in someone to dismantle
the agency brick by brick, because you don't know how
bad it is. Second, you would have to bring in
a group of people from outside the system that were
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in the system that we're productive, that have maintained those
relationships to continue the flow of information to the President
and other leaders in the different branches of legislation that
need the information to keep this nation safe, and they're
out there in large numbers.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You would take some guys that.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Worked under legen inside the community and they're out there too,
that would come in and reform in place of framework,
in place an OSS press getting involved with the British
style intelligence agency that was designed to get results, that
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was designed to recruit people, get information and put it in.
I would take the whole di the Director of Intelligence
in the agency, move them under the DNI, and create
a large analytical branch that would no longer be stovepipe
from analysts from Bureau, CIA, DNI, NSA, blah blah blah.
(26:42):
You put all the analysts under one roof, keep the
good ones, encourage outside the box thinking, and let them
work to keep the nation safe. At the same time,
you would start back up the d S and t
the Science and Technology division dealing with the AI situations,
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and put someone with some serious chops and morality. Probably
I had put someone like an Elon Musk or a
dose guy over that, and we need to start catching
back up because we the intelligence apparatus writ large has
been turned in on this administration and on other administrations
on keeping and maintaining power and not keeping the nation safe.
(27:23):
At the same time, while they're doing that, they need
to empower good leadership in law enforcement in the DOJ
and start assigning special prosecutors to the big things.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
If you were to pull in some of these rogue
people that are working against the president, it would have
a ripple effect through the entire organizations and people would
either self report or leave. I agree with what they
did in the agency, offering early out, buy out of
the you know, get the people to leave, and you
get a lot of people out by attrition. You need
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to you don't need a centralized intelligence agency in this
day and age. With the way we have communications in
the Internet, etc. There are ways to keep communications secure,
but not with government technology. Bongino said it best, and
they say this all the time inside different agencies. Yesterday's
technology tomorrow. That's the speed at which they move, and
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we need to. We need to be small, lean, incredibly
efficient and have clear lines of communication. We don't need
fusion centers with multiple alphabets in the soup in the
same building and none of the floor is connect because
none of them want to share with each other. Those
days have to leave. We need to have one goal success.
(28:43):
We need to have one goal victory over our enemies.
That's the goal. And we make mistakes, absolutely, but instead
let's have mistakes, let's hot wash them, put everyone in
a room, realize where we went wrong, and correct those mistakes.
But nowadays we're afraid to have them stakes. We're afraid
to have anything that would be considered a sharp pencil
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so someone doesn't poke themselves in the eye, and the.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Nation's left safe less safe for it.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
And you have things like nine to eleven, you have
things like an open border, you have things like a
narco cartel state just south of here, and you have
things like a rogue intelligence community that are actively working
against the interests of the American people for self serve
serving reasons and for globalist agenda.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You got to stop that.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
And the only way to stop that is to actually
put people in place that will And you can't put
a bunch of people that helped you in your previous
life or helped you during an election into positions that
they have no understanding of, no understanding of internal structure,
no understanding of the leadership of those positions, no understanding
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of the processes of those positions. And if you don't
understand leadership and process, how can you fix it? And
you don't take a go car mechanic and put him
in a Porsche stop store. He can't fix anything. He
can fix an engine, he can't fix that engine. And
that's what you're dealing with.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Well, and Trump has fallen prey to that. I like
Sean Duffy. He was one of the first people I
made friends with. But he has zero background in transportation.
I mean, he was a reality TV star and now
he's in charge of transportation.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
A lot of the people that have that they can
put in there. You can be a good boss and
not have a lot of experience if the people underneath
you are solid, that are doing what you said, and
you're a good leader.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's what presidents are. They're solid, they're good leaders.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
But what you can't have is you have and especially
harken back to the intelligence community, when you have people
that are really good at deception line and running assets
and then they lose all their moral compass and decide
they'll do it inside the system for self enrichment or
ideological expansion.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's where you get in your trouble.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
And look at USAID, it's nothing but a slush fund
for a lot of things. Look at the money that's
going out. I mean, look at the hundreds of millions
of dollars that are being spent on things that have
nothing to do with the United States, our security or
anything else.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And a lot of.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
This money, billions and I'm talking hundreds of billions, probably
trillion dollars have disappeared and we don't know where it is,
which means your taxes have gone for your lifetime. You're
working your lifetime supporting something that no one even knows
what it is or if it even went to the government.
It didn't support a road, it didn't support a bridge,
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it didn't support a military person. It just disappeared in
the ether.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That pisses you off as an American.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
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