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[01:21.840 --> 01:38.080]  In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show.
[01:38.080 --> 01:50.320]  As the clock strikes 13, it's Friday the 9th of January, year of our Lord, 2026.
[01:51.200 --> 01:57.040]  Well, Donald Trump has another idea to make housing affordable. This idea is even worse than
[01:57.040 --> 02:02.160]  the 50-year mortgage. We're going to talk about that to start the show. But there's also been
[02:02.160 --> 02:07.520]  new developments in the Minnesota shooting. Trump was actually confronted with a video
[02:07.520 --> 02:14.800]  that he apparently had never seen before. It didn't stop him from fabricating stories
[02:14.800 --> 02:22.080]  like a cross between a hallucinating AI and a fabulous George Santos. Is the right missing
[02:22.080 --> 02:27.200]  something here? I think they are. I think we see a police state that is growing around us
[02:27.760 --> 02:35.120]  in leaps and bounds and federal militarized police. That, folks, is the issue. It's bigger
[02:35.120 --> 02:39.680]  than the left-right tribalism. It's bigger than the border issue or immigration.
[02:40.480 --> 02:47.280]  And that's what is being missed here. I've got a response to a listener who's extremely angry
[02:47.280 --> 02:53.440]  with my take on this murder. And I still believe it was murder. And I'll show you why. We'll be
[02:53.440 --> 03:15.760]  right back. Well, before we get into the updates on this situation, and I think this is very
[03:15.760 --> 03:20.720]  important, it reveals not only the character of the Trump administration, but also the character
[03:20.720 --> 03:25.520]  of our country. And I think there are some very dangerous precedents that are being set here.
[03:26.160 --> 03:29.920]  And I think that if a police state, surveillance state, comes to us, and it is coming to us,
[03:30.480 --> 03:37.680]  it'll be furthered most effectively by those on the right who believe in law and order, except
[03:37.680 --> 03:43.440]  no law, no order for the government. They're the ones who give the order. They're the ones who
[03:43.440 --> 03:50.960]  make up the law and then ignore it for themselves. But before I begin, I want to address
[03:50.960 --> 03:57.520]  something that I've had here for a while. It was a letter and a contribution, a generous contribution.
[03:57.520 --> 04:06.960]  Thank you, Thomas, for this. And he had asked me, just before Christmas, he asked me about
[04:06.960 --> 04:12.320]  what I had done for the stroke. And because he's been having difficulty recovering from it,
[04:12.320 --> 04:16.080]  I thought it might be useful for a lot of other people, but also because I was going to write
[04:16.080 --> 04:21.200]  him back. But Thomas, if you're listening, I haven't been able to find the envelope that you
[04:21.200 --> 04:27.120]  wrote. So I'm still looking for that. Karen is looking for it. If you want to send me an email,
[04:28.160 --> 04:32.640]  I'll be happy to try to give you some references for some of the things. But let me just go over
[04:32.640 --> 04:37.600]  real quickly. And I'll say this, that even though I said this is Friday the 9th, this is actually
[04:37.600 --> 04:43.440]  the evening, late night of Thursday the 8th. I got really fired up preparing this show and
[04:43.440 --> 04:50.160]  I didn't want to wait to do it. And also I thought it might help me a little bit to have a three-day
[04:50.160 --> 04:54.880]  weekend. So we're going to do the show early. And I wanted to mention that because if you're
[04:54.880 --> 05:01.440]  here leaving comments, I'm not ignoring you. Feel free to have your discussions. We have a great
[05:01.440 --> 05:07.040]  community here. And feel free to criticize me if you disagree with me, but I won't be responding
[05:07.040 --> 05:13.280]  today. Not because I'm ignoring you or because I'm angry about anything you say. But let me just
[05:13.280 --> 05:18.160]  repeat what he had to say here. He said, I'd like to ask you a favor. In the fall of 24, I suffered
[05:18.160 --> 05:24.560]  a stroke. The most damage was done to my left hand when it first happened. My left arm hung limp
[05:24.560 --> 05:30.560]  and I could not make a fist. I have slowly gained use of it, but my hand and fingers act on their
[05:30.560 --> 05:38.240]  own. I play guitar. I'm so sorry. That is an issue still for me playing a keyboard. So I wish
[05:38.240 --> 05:44.320]  you would do a segment detailing what treatments you found effective with motor skills or finger
[05:44.320 --> 05:52.800]  control. I have not sought medical help because I believe in first do no pharma, which I believe
[05:52.800 --> 05:57.680]  as well. Well, let me just say, we tried a lot of different things. I'll tell you what we tried,
[05:57.680 --> 06:05.360]  but let me say first of all, and I think he knows this. And so please keep him in your prayers,
[06:05.360 --> 06:10.720]  because I think that is the most important thing that we can do. We treat these things, but God
[06:10.720 --> 06:17.680]  heals. Now, oftentimes he will use ordinary means, bringing our attention to some ordinary means,
[06:17.680 --> 06:24.960]  things that might help. And certainly it is not a lack of faith to try these things, but understand
[06:24.960 --> 06:29.920]  that God is the one who heals. And so Thomas, we're praying for you and I'd like for the
[06:29.920 --> 06:35.040]  audience to pray for him as well. But I'll just say, and maybe you can help me Lance,
[06:35.760 --> 06:41.440]  remember some of the things we did. We did so many things as we did with Lance. It's hard to say,
[06:42.800 --> 06:48.800]  single out any one thing with the exception of one thing. And that was the methylene blue
[06:50.000 --> 06:54.080]  and red light therapy that seemed to help my tongue more than anything else. And that was
[06:54.800 --> 07:01.040]  not so much the stroke directly, that was a result of the operation. That damaged my vocal
[07:01.040 --> 07:09.120]  cords as well as the hypoglossal nerve under my tongue. And I was having a hard time even swallowing
[07:09.120 --> 07:20.720]  without choking, let alone talking. And so we tried the methylene blue because we had read
[07:20.720 --> 07:27.440]  some research that people had found that was very effective right after a stroke. Less effective
[07:27.440 --> 07:33.680]  as time goes on, but still something that you might want to try. Of all the things that we did,
[07:33.680 --> 07:38.800]  that was the only thing that I felt an immediate change on. And again, that was not directly
[07:38.800 --> 07:44.640]  the stroke, that was because of my tongue. I put the methylene blue under my tongue, used red light
[07:44.640 --> 07:52.080]  therapy there. We had gotten some red light therapy for Karen's knee. And there were some
[07:52.080 --> 07:56.800]  small things that were removable and chargeable, but had a harness that would go around your knee,
[07:56.800 --> 08:03.680]  so it would hit it in three different areas. And it had a lot of reviews of people saying that it
[08:03.680 --> 08:08.640]  was very effective in terms of controlling pain, and it was for Karen. So I thought, let me try that
[08:09.280 --> 08:14.400]  as well with the methylene blue. And I just took one of those things that popped out,
[08:14.400 --> 08:17.360]  and I just stuck it in my mouth and left it there, and it made a big difference.
[08:18.000 --> 08:25.200]  Really did. So there's some things like that. We also did, because know that vitamin C injections
[08:25.200 --> 08:33.120]  help quite a bit. We did some of that. We actually did some hyperbaric oxygen tent thing that was
[08:33.840 --> 08:40.880]  here in the area, and we did some of those as well. And other than that, I just took regular
[08:40.880 --> 08:46.880]  supplements to try to, yeah, he's putting his hand up. I can't think of anything really other
[08:46.880 --> 08:54.160]  than that that we did. It was a very slow process, and I still have a lot of issues with things that
[08:54.160 --> 08:59.440]  I can't do. Fortunately, I can read and speak, and I guess that's about all I need to be able to do.
[08:59.840 --> 09:06.160]  So that has not affected my reason. Never did affect my reason, but it did affect my speech a
[09:06.160 --> 09:14.080]  great deal. So Thomas will be praying for you. And if you want to correspond with the email that's
[09:14.080 --> 09:20.480]  on the website, be looking for your email. We'll try to find that. But let me get into the news
[09:20.480 --> 09:28.400]  here. I said Trump has got a new policy that he thinks is going to make housing more affordable,
[09:28.400 --> 09:34.880]  perhaps. I don't think it'll do that at all. I think this is a bad idea, just like the 50-year
[09:34.880 --> 09:39.680]  mortgage. He just talked about that. That's going to make a lot more money for the banks,
[09:39.680 --> 09:45.280]  but it'll keep you indebted your entire life. I mean, a 50-year mortgage is going to be longer
[09:45.280 --> 09:52.000]  than most people's working career, even if people are buying homes at a much younger age. And of
[09:52.000 --> 09:57.520]  course, it's almost all going to be interest when you make it such a long period of time. So
[09:58.240 --> 10:04.480]  Trump's new idea is to ban corporations from buying homes. And look, we don't want to see
[10:05.440 --> 10:10.320]  BlackRock and all these other companies owning all the housing so that we own nothing and we
[10:10.320 --> 10:15.520]  have to rent everything. However, it has consequences when you do things without
[10:15.520 --> 10:21.680]  constitutional authority, when you usurp authority. And there is no constitutional authority for this
[10:21.680 --> 10:27.040]  in the first place. In the second place, it's not going to be effective. Think about what this is
[10:27.040 --> 10:32.400]  going to do. Is this going to help anybody buy a home to say that corporations can't buy homes?
[10:33.600 --> 10:38.720]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of
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[10:51.600 --> 10:57.760]  It was a nice idea, sure. But I had no idea just how much that simple act would change
[10:57.760 --> 11:04.560]  my life as well. I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change right in front of my eyes,
[11:04.560 --> 11:10.320]  going from starving literally alone on the streets to getting the health care and education
[11:10.320 --> 11:17.360]  she needs to reach her God given full potential. I got to be a part of that change and the light
[11:17.360 --> 11:24.000]  of that compassion not only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me. That is the power of
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[12:13.600 --> 12:20.560]  Is that possibly going to work? This is sheer demagoguery at best. But the reality is,
[12:20.560 --> 12:27.200]  is that he's going to dry up some of the buyers in the housing market. It doesn't make it easier
[12:27.200 --> 12:31.280]  for young people to buy homes. It makes it more difficult for older people to be able to sell
[12:31.280 --> 12:38.880]  their homes because we're not adding affordability to any of this. And especially
[12:38.880 --> 12:45.040]  when it is government policy that has been one of the biggest drivers of making homes unaffordable.
[12:45.760 --> 12:50.560]  Both the massive debt, which he has done everything, you know, here is one minute he's
[12:50.560 --> 12:54.160]  saying, well, we need to go to one and a half trillion dollar military budget. And the next
[12:54.160 --> 13:00.240]  one, you know, we can't afford homes anymore. I wonder why that is. You know, maybe you could
[13:00.240 --> 13:04.160]  really get rid of the income taxes you've hinted so many times, but I know you're not going to do
[13:04.160 --> 13:09.440]  it. And I've said that over and over again. I still have these diehard MAGA people wanting
[13:09.440 --> 13:14.480]  it to be true. They're going to pretend that it's going to be true. But it's not going to be true.
[13:14.480 --> 13:19.600]  He's not going to get rid of the income tax. And they're not going to get rid of a lot of
[13:19.600 --> 13:24.880]  the structural problems that are making it difficult for businesses to be profitable,
[13:25.360 --> 13:31.920]  for people to have good income, to control inflation. None of that stuff is going to
[13:31.920 --> 13:36.800]  happen. There's so many impediments that are coming from the government. Some of them direct,
[13:36.800 --> 13:40.160]  some of them indirect. You know, you have government regulations that are driving up the
[13:40.160 --> 13:44.400]  price of everything, whether it's cars or homes or anything else. And then, of course,
[13:44.400 --> 13:51.920]  government inflation and the massive snowball of debt that is hanging over our heads,
[13:51.920 --> 13:58.800]  like the Sword of Damocles, that is going to burst. And the question is, which area is it
[13:58.800 --> 14:04.880]  going to burst in first? Is it going to be with Europe or is it going to be with America first?
[14:04.880 --> 14:12.080]  You know, who gets squeezed with this massive debt squeeze that's going to take out the currencies?
[14:12.080 --> 14:17.680]  There's a lot of really bad things on the horizon. And that is the real issue. This is just moving
[14:17.680 --> 14:22.320]  the deckchairs around on the Titanic. And not even that. It's taking away some of the deckchairs.
[14:23.920 --> 14:27.680]  Again, it doesn't help anything. The people who are trying to get into the market, it doesn't
[14:27.680 --> 14:33.280]  help them at all. It just takes some buyers off of the market. And I understand where this is
[14:33.280 --> 14:37.840]  supposed to go. Again, the end goal and the intention, well, we don't want all the homes
[14:37.840 --> 14:43.840]  owned by BlackRock. Well, I share that. But is this the way that you do it? Or do you empower
[14:43.840 --> 14:50.400]  the middle class by taking power and money away from Washington? Everything that Donald Trump has
[14:50.400 --> 14:57.200]  done is about consolidating more power, more money into Washington. He brags about his tariffs,
[14:57.200 --> 15:06.400]  bringing in $600 billion. Previously, the largest tax increase was, non surprisingly, from FDR.
[15:07.200 --> 15:13.600]  And if you look at that and then normalize it to the devaluation of the dollar,
[15:14.320 --> 15:21.600]  that was about a $200 billion tax increase that FDR did. Trump is bragging about a $600 billion
[15:22.320 --> 15:29.200]  tax increase of tariffs, three times the amount. And so, at least a third of that,
[15:30.000 --> 15:35.840]  I would say even more than that, is not coming from foreign sources or corporations or whatever.
[15:35.840 --> 15:40.000]  And if it is, they're going to have to put it in their product and service cost or they're going
[15:40.000 --> 15:46.800]  to go out of business. But again, he's not doing anything to attack the root cause of the problems.
[15:46.800 --> 15:49.840]  He said, the American dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people,
[15:50.400 --> 15:58.080]  especially younger Americans. Yes, that's right. And so, I immediately am taking steps to ban
[15:58.080 --> 16:04.480]  large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes. Again, ignoring all the
[16:04.480 --> 16:10.080]  causes. Most of these are by government. Many of them, most of them, I would say,
[16:10.080 --> 16:16.160]  are by the federal government as well. So again, he's just going to harm the marketplace for
[16:16.160 --> 16:21.760]  sellers without even helping the buyers. It's another horrible idea from the administration
[16:22.560 --> 16:30.960]  that came up with the 50-year mortgage. This is perhaps the dumbest administration of my life,
[16:31.920 --> 16:37.360]  except that, as some people said, if they were merely stupid, they would every once in a while
[16:37.360 --> 16:43.120]  do the right thing. They don't do the right thing. And of course, as we talked about this 50-year
[16:43.120 --> 16:48.720]  mortgage previously, Laura Ingraham confronted him about it and then he backs off, oh, it's not
[16:48.720 --> 16:53.280]  even a big deal. I mean, you go from 40 years to 50 years. He said, no, you go from 30 years to 50
[16:53.280 --> 17:00.320]  years. He's probably never had to take out a home loan mortgage. He's taken out big loans for his
[17:00.320 --> 17:05.120]  businesses and then went bankrupt with them. But I doubt that he ever had to take out a mortgage
[17:05.120 --> 17:09.440]  for a home that he ever bought. He probably paid cash for every single one of them from the money
[17:09.440 --> 17:14.880]  that his daddy gave him till later on. But again, he goes, oh, from 30 to 50, whatever.
[17:16.160 --> 17:23.760]  So Blackstone's stock cratered after Trump talked about a ban on them buying single-family homes.
[17:24.720 --> 17:30.320]  Again, does he have the authority to do this? Does anybody in Washington have the authority to
[17:30.320 --> 17:36.160]  do this? I would say they don't. But yet again, what we see is it's not going to stop him from
[17:36.160 --> 17:40.880]  doing something like this. I don't know exactly how he plans on getting this through. The U.S.
[17:40.880 --> 17:44.640]  president said last month he is planning to unveil some of the most aggressive housing
[17:44.640 --> 17:50.160]  reform plans in American history in the coming year. You know, 50-year mortgage,
[17:50.880 --> 17:57.440]  bans on buyers, institutional buyers, great, big improvement. The Department of Justice is
[17:57.440 --> 18:03.120]  flouting the law on the Epstein file, so why isn't Pam Bondi in handcuffs? Right, it's a
[18:03.120 --> 18:08.960]  free thought project. Max is in a Libertarian Institute article. And they're absolutely right.
[18:08.960 --> 18:14.960]  These are the same people, however, that are going to be investigating what happened in Minnesota.
[18:15.840 --> 18:23.760]  Do you expect that they are going to be honest in this evaluation? Do you think that can you trust
[18:24.400 --> 18:29.440]  corrupt Cash Patel in this? I don't think so. I don't think there's going to be any accountability.
[18:30.080 --> 18:34.080]  Again, you have on the one hand the Minnesota Democrats and their corruption,
[18:34.960 --> 18:42.720]  and on the other hand you have the abuse of ICE. And it is all of this is going to be
[18:43.360 --> 18:49.920]  a way to distract people along with the Vinny-Nam that's going on. It's what I call the
[18:49.920 --> 18:57.040]  Venezuela stuff. All that is going to be a way to distract people from the Epstein files, I think.
[18:57.040 --> 19:03.680]  Which, again, is not just a salacious tale. This is not just a redo of Bill Clinton
[19:04.240 --> 19:10.400]  and his scandals. This is something that is very structural, because it reveals what's going on
[19:10.480 --> 19:17.040]  with the CIA, and with Massad, and how they blackmail people. And it also tells us something
[19:17.040 --> 19:24.400]  about the culture and the corruption of Washington. Well, we're going to take a quick break,
[19:24.400 --> 19:28.640]  and we're going to come back in a second. We're going to talk about what is happening in Minnesota,
[19:28.640 --> 19:35.440]  and I'm going to give you the update. I had somebody who was extremely angry with me
[19:36.320 --> 19:40.880]  over my take on it. I'm going to show you some other videos that I didn't show you,
[19:40.880 --> 19:48.000]  and I've got one video that is supposedly the proof video of people saying that he acted in
[19:48.000 --> 19:53.920]  self-defense. It's the one that is very, very far away, very difficult to see. It has frequently
[19:53.920 --> 20:00.800]  been put out in a sped up version. I have, however, I'm going to show you the regular video,
[20:00.800 --> 20:05.120]  and then I'm going to show it to you at 50%, and I'm going to show it to you at 10%.
[20:06.640 --> 20:14.480]  I took some time to go through and upscale the resolution, as well as to use optical flow out
[20:14.480 --> 20:21.520]  of DaVinci to smooth out the frame rates. Once you slow it down, it starts to get very jerky.
[20:21.520 --> 20:25.200]  So I've smoothed that out. So I think you'll be able to see this. We're going to take a quick break,
[20:25.200 --> 20:35.600]  and we will be right back.
[21:25.200 --> 21:51.920]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want to be honest with you for a second about how an
[21:51.920 --> 21:57.360]  act of compassion really feels. A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner
[21:57.360 --> 22:03.360]  with an amazing organization called Compassion International. Why? Because I wanted to sponsor
[22:03.360 --> 22:10.720]  a child in need. It was a nice idea, sure, but I had no idea just how much that simple act
[22:10.720 --> 22:17.040]  would change my life as well. I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change right in front
[22:17.040 --> 22:22.800]  of my eyes, going from starving literally alone on the streets to getting the healthcare and
[22:22.800 --> 22:30.080]  education she needs to reach her God-given full potential. I got to be a part of that change,
[22:30.080 --> 22:35.440]  and the light of that compassion not only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me.
[22:36.080 --> 22:43.680]  That is the power of compassion. The light of Christ shines on all of us. Feel it for yourself
[22:43.680 --> 22:49.280]  and change literally a child's life. Change the world, and you also change yourself.
[22:49.280 --> 22:56.320]  You can sponsor a child today. Visit Compassion.com. That's Compassion.com.
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[23:37.760 --> 23:44.880]  I said before that I think we're missing the forest for the trees, and it's a forest of
[23:44.880 --> 23:52.000]  surveillance that is there. ICE has just purchased a tool to monitor phones of entire neighborhoods.
[23:53.040 --> 23:58.240]  This is geospatial intelligence taken to a new level. It's kind of interesting. The company that
[23:58.240 --> 24:07.840]  does this calls themselves PinLink, and it is really a reference to the pin IDs that were used
[24:08.400 --> 24:12.800]  by the phone companies going back to the middle of the 20th century. When surveillance first began
[24:12.800 --> 24:19.680]  without warrants, that was the CIA, the NSA, that were doing that. And the court decisions that
[24:19.680 --> 24:25.760]  allowed them to do that said, well, you can keep these pin numbers, and that's information that
[24:25.760 --> 24:31.040]  belongs to the phone companies. And these people turned over this information that now belongs to
[24:31.040 --> 24:35.600]  the phone companies. It doesn't belong to them. It's information about you because you use their
[24:35.600 --> 24:40.480]  services. But that's their information, and they can give it to the government if they wish. And
[24:40.480 --> 24:43.680]  the government doesn't need to have a search warrant if somebody's going to voluntarily
[24:43.680 --> 24:48.720]  give them that information. So this company actually leans into that and actually uses that
[24:48.720 --> 24:55.360]  as its name, PinLink. And so commercial location data, in this case acquired from hundreds of
[24:55.360 --> 25:02.240]  millions of phones via a company called PinLink, can be queried without a warrant according to an
[25:02.240 --> 25:09.760]  internal ICE legal analysis shared with 404 Media. The purchase comes squarely during ICE's mass
[25:09.760 --> 25:17.520]  deportation effort and continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil libertarians,
[25:17.520 --> 25:23.120]  experts, and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for.
[25:23.360 --> 25:28.640]  And what is different about this one is it's not only geospatial intelligence,
[25:29.360 --> 25:36.640]  which as I said many times, that is the hallmark of the, they started building geospatial
[25:36.640 --> 25:44.080]  intelligence organizations. That's where James Clapper rose up, was through geospatial intelligence.
[25:44.080 --> 25:51.040]  They would have before the COVID thing, they were having annual conventions, drawing in about 4,000
[25:51.280 --> 25:57.440]  people. It was pretty large and it was the fastest growing part of the intelligence community,
[25:57.440 --> 26:04.160]  geospatial intelligence. And it was something that the CIA as well as all the intelligence agencies
[26:04.160 --> 26:10.000]  wanted to get into venture capital so they could help to fund these social media companies.
[26:10.000 --> 26:16.880]  And this particular one doesn't just look at your phone information, it correlates that with your
[26:16.880 --> 26:21.680]  social media activities as well. And that's why they went with this company. There's other
[26:21.680 --> 26:26.960]  companies that do this, they're the only ones that combine it with your social media. Think
[26:26.960 --> 26:32.880]  about how that's going to be used. It'll track the movements of devices and their owners over time,
[26:32.880 --> 26:38.080]  follow them from their place of work to their home or other locations, and see who they are
[26:38.080 --> 26:43.440]  interacting with. This has always been the hallmark of geospatial intelligence to infer
[26:43.440 --> 26:50.640]  from the metadata what your political beliefs are
[26:54.880 --> 26:58.000]  and other things like your religious beliefs as well.
[27:00.800 --> 27:04.240]  This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out of control agency.
[27:04.400 --> 27:09.040]  The granular location information paints a detailed picture of who we are, where we go,
[27:09.040 --> 27:14.320]  and who we spend time with. This week, the Department of Homeland Security started deploying
[27:14.320 --> 27:23.360]  as many as 2,000 officers in Minneapolis. But in September, 404 Media reported on ISIS' planned
[27:23.360 --> 27:29.600]  purchase of the technology consisting of two pen-linked products called Tangles and WebLine.
[27:30.000 --> 27:36.720]  consisting of two pen-linked products called Tangles and WebLine. 404 Media has now obtained
[27:36.720 --> 27:42.880]  material that explains in greater detail how the system works. WebLine users can search its
[27:42.880 --> 27:48.960]  database of mobile phone data in various ways. Users can perform a single perimeter analysis
[27:49.520 --> 27:55.040]  so you can geofence it. You can say, I want to get details of all the phones that are in this area.
[27:55.040 --> 27:59.520]  We've already seen that happen on January the 6th. Remember that? How that worked?
[27:59.520 --> 28:05.120]  This is what is so amazing to me. Conservatives have just been through this rodeo with Joe Biden.
[28:05.840 --> 28:10.560]  They know how they can be singled out and attacked when you give these kinds of powers
[28:10.560 --> 28:18.960]  to the government and yet they are rushing full-on into letting the Trump administration have free
[28:18.960 --> 28:28.720]  reign to do this and to set all new levels and all new precedents of this. Once a WebLock user
[28:28.720 --> 28:33.360]  has identified a device of interest, they can get more details about that particular phone
[28:33.920 --> 28:38.160]  by extension its owner by seeing where else it has traveled both locally and across the country.
[28:39.760 --> 28:43.760]  Users can click a route feature which shows the path that the device has taken.
[28:44.480 --> 28:50.560]  If users look at where the device was located at night, that's probably your home during the day,
[28:50.560 --> 28:57.200]  the person's possible employer. And again, it all goes back to your big brother phone, doesn't it?
[28:59.200 --> 29:05.920]  That is the key device for all of this. Software can do a multi-perimeter analysis
[29:06.480 --> 29:12.400]  which monitors multiple locations at once to see which devices have been present at two or more
[29:12.400 --> 29:21.840]  specific places. So this type of surveillance dragnet will enable draconian policing and abuse.
[29:23.280 --> 29:29.520]  You better be careful in terms of cheering the police with all this stuff. Understand that these
[29:29.520 --> 29:36.080]  government manufactured problems and the border is a government manufactured problem. It's a problem
[29:36.080 --> 29:41.920]  that Donald Trump let run wild as well while he was president the first term. Then they come in
[29:41.920 --> 29:48.240]  with a solution and over and over again we see the solutions being offered by conservatives,
[29:48.240 --> 29:53.520]  by Republicans. Take for example in Florida, DeSantis and the Republican Party. Well, we got
[29:53.520 --> 29:58.240]  a lot of illegal immigrants who are coming in taking people's jobs. So we're going to have
[29:58.240 --> 30:03.760]  mandatory e-verify. You're going to have to prove your credentials. You're going to have a government
[30:03.760 --> 30:09.280]  ID and be able to prove your credentials in order to have a job to be able to work. Or you have the
[30:09.280 --> 30:13.840]  other approach where, okay, we've got some harmful websites out there for children.
[30:14.640 --> 30:20.400]  So the government is going to make you have an ID or we have people who are saying mean things
[30:20.400 --> 30:26.640]  anonymously. Can't allow that to happen and the conservatives are just as bad about that as the
[30:26.640 --> 30:32.560]  liberals are. I mean look at Jordan Peterson for example. He wants to end anonymity on the internet
[30:32.560 --> 30:37.600]  and so we can't have anonymity and we have to be concerned about what children can get into because
[30:38.400 --> 30:44.960]  far be it from parents to cut off their access to the internet or to police that. So we're going
[30:44.960 --> 30:51.520]  to pretend that if you've got ID requirements that kids won't be able to get around it.
[30:52.480 --> 31:00.240]  And so they use protecting children as a means of putting in an ID to use the internet
[31:00.240 --> 31:06.560]  and on and on. And so it's always going to be a government problem that they then, well,
[31:06.560 --> 31:12.960]  seems like the solution to every government problem is to have an ID for people. To be able
[31:12.960 --> 31:18.400]  to track and to surveil us. Doesn't it seem to be the always the solution for all of this stuff?
[31:19.040 --> 31:26.720]  A draconian police state. This is why people need to understand the danger that is there.
[31:27.680 --> 31:36.640]  And be very concerned about the militarized, federalized police. I want to see the borders
[31:36.640 --> 31:43.680]  controlled. I would like to see illegal immigrants deported. But not the way this is being done. This
[31:43.680 --> 31:49.040]  is being done in a confrontational way. This is being done to enable and to spread a cancer
[31:49.840 --> 31:59.360]  of militarized police state. And so the fact is that they can use this to anticipate
[32:00.080 --> 32:04.080]  crime and all the rest of these things. This tremendous amount of abuse that can be done
[32:04.080 --> 32:09.440]  with this. And we've already seen this happen. And it happened to conservatives. But they got
[32:09.440 --> 32:15.360]  the attention span of a fruit fly. It's amazing to me. It's, you know, they've just been through
[32:15.360 --> 32:22.000]  this whole rodeo with Joe Biden coming after the January 6th people. And the January 6th people
[32:22.000 --> 32:26.800]  really still don't understand how they were betrayed by Trump. They don't see the principles
[32:26.800 --> 32:31.840]  that are being laid out in terms of the police state and how this stuff was abused by Biden.
[32:31.840 --> 32:36.240]  And guess what? There will be another Biden. There will be another Obama. There will be
[32:36.240 --> 32:41.600]  another Hillary. What are they going to do with these powers that you are so trusting of
[32:42.320 --> 32:48.160]  that you want to give them to Donald Trump? Well, ICE paid nearly $2 million for access to
[32:48.160 --> 32:53.360]  one of these programs, Tangles. Additional licenses in December for another $312,000.
[32:54.400 --> 33:00.800]  WebBlock is not a unique capability in terms of location data industry. A former employee of a
[33:00.800 --> 33:08.320]  similar company called Babel Street previously told me that users can draw a shape on a map
[33:09.040 --> 33:15.840]  to see all the devices that Babel Street has for that location, then see where else that device
[33:15.840 --> 33:21.680]  has been. But the ICE document indicated that the agency chose PinLink over its competitors
[33:22.240 --> 33:28.480]  because the company provides an all-in-one tool for searching both masses of location data off
[33:28.480 --> 33:35.440]  of phones and information from social media. Under long-standing Supreme Court precedent,
[33:35.440 --> 33:42.320]  an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment and
[33:42.320 --> 33:48.640]  information voluntarily disclosed to third parties is what their analysis said. And again,
[33:48.640 --> 33:54.000]  this goes back to the PIN numbers. And this is something that the government has been doing
[33:54.720 --> 34:03.040]  since the 1950s. And it's why we had the church hearing, the church committee hearing over the CIA
[34:03.680 --> 34:08.880]  as well as the Pike committee hearing in the House looking at what the NSA was doing.
[34:09.440 --> 34:14.880]  In both those cases, what they were concerned about was the warrantless searching of Americans.
[34:14.880 --> 34:19.280]  And that's what we got out of those two things was the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
[34:19.280 --> 34:25.280]  that was supposed to stop them from doing warrantless searches on Americans in America
[34:25.280 --> 34:31.040]  unless they had a warrant. Where did they get the warrant? From the FISA court. It was a basically,
[34:31.040 --> 34:36.640]  it was a gigantic loophole that did more to further domestic surveillance than it did to
[34:36.640 --> 34:40.800]  prevent it. And we see this happening over and over again. And of course, they distracted the
[34:40.800 --> 34:46.800]  public's attention by talking about the CIA's assassinations and coups and their heart attack
[34:46.800 --> 34:51.440]  guns and all the rest of this stuff. Well, the Trump administration says it's illegal to record
[34:51.440 --> 34:58.400]  videos of ICE. Isn't that interesting? They are going to be monitoring everybody and trying to
[34:58.400 --> 35:04.320]  draw conclusions about everybody using this kind of software. But don't you dare record them,
[35:04.320 --> 35:11.040]  right? Well, reason says, here's what the law says, however. And so the Trump administration
[35:11.040 --> 35:16.160]  believes that you don't have the right to record ICE officers in public. Isn't that interesting?
[35:17.200 --> 35:25.360]  This is kind of the, you know, when you look at it, it's okay to shoot people,
[35:26.320 --> 35:32.560]  shoot dogs, I guess, if you're Kristian Ohm as well. That's okay. But videotaping them
[35:33.200 --> 35:38.080]  is violence. That's what Kristian Ohm says. Violence is anything that threatens them
[35:38.080 --> 35:44.080]  and their safety. So it is doxing them, it is videotaping them, where they're at when they're
[35:44.080 --> 35:52.640]  out on operations, she says. So again, your videotaping or your observing them is violence.
[35:53.600 --> 35:59.920]  It's very much like the left wings idea that speech is violence. And so we have to censor you,
[35:59.920 --> 36:05.120]  right? Now, if you observe these people who are in public areas, they say that everything that you
[36:05.120 --> 36:11.920]  do in public, they can record, they can make assumptions about, and they can come after you
[36:11.920 --> 36:19.120]  for that. But don't you dare record them. Well, this is all both factually wrong and an attempt
[36:19.200 --> 36:25.040]  to chill free speech by conflating it with violence. This is the conservative version
[36:25.840 --> 36:30.160]  of the left saying that hate speech has to be controlled.
[36:30.800 --> 36:37.280]  At a July 2025 press conference in Tampa, Florida, Kristian Ohm said violence is anything
[36:37.280 --> 36:41.360]  that threatens them and their safety, doxing them, videotaping them, where they're at
[36:41.360 --> 36:47.360]  on operations. So in September 2025, her assistant secretary for public affairs,
[36:47.360 --> 36:53.760]  Tricia McLaughlin, said that videotaping ICE law enforcement and posting photos and videos
[36:53.760 --> 37:01.600]  of them online is a form of doxing. We will prosecute those who illegally harass ICE agents
[37:01.600 --> 37:07.040]  to the fullest extent of the law, she said. Again, this is the same rationale that the left has
[37:07.600 --> 37:12.560]  for its hate speech. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're doing
[37:12.560 --> 37:18.560]  for just one minute. And I want you to hear about Alejandra. She lives in a remote community with
[37:18.560 --> 37:25.200]  very few resources and little to no health care. So when Alejandra gets sick, her parents have
[37:25.200 --> 37:32.800]  no real options, no doctors in their community, and no money for real medical care. By the third
[37:32.800 --> 37:39.680]  day, her body was shutting down. She woke up and just long enough to tell her mom, I can't take the
[37:39.680 --> 37:47.040]  pain anymore. I can't keep going. Her parents drove hours to find a doctor who tried everything,
[37:47.040 --> 37:53.680]  but she needed a private hospital. And that was impossible for her family to afford. And that is
[37:53.680 --> 38:00.080]  when Compassion International stepped in. Now, through compassion, Alejandra was treated, and
[38:00.080 --> 38:07.840]  against all odds, she survived. She lived because someone just like you took action. Right now,
[38:07.840 --> 38:13.200]  unfortunately, there are children just like Alejandra who won't survive unless someone like
[38:13.200 --> 38:19.760]  you steps in. Compassion International partners with local churches, providing children with the
[38:19.760 --> 38:27.040]  support that they need, critical medical care, plus food, education, and the hope of the gospel,
[38:27.680 --> 38:35.840]  all in Jesus' name. So help a child just like Alejandra today. You can visit Compassion.com.
[38:35.840 --> 38:38.000]  That's Compassion.com.
[39:06.000 --> 39:07.840]  Download the Modo Casino app today.
[39:08.960 --> 39:14.560]  By the way, I think we've got a picture of the murderer here. Let's see. Yeah, here we are right
[39:14.560 --> 39:20.640]  here. No, that's the actual murderer itself. This is the picture of the murderer. Right there. Come
[39:20.640 --> 39:28.000]  and get me. That's the guy that cold-blooded murdered her, and look at the expression on his face.
[39:29.440 --> 39:32.720]  I'm disgusted with these people. Yeah, come and get me, Kristi Noem.
[39:33.680 --> 39:39.760]  It's amazing. Well, these are not idle threats. The Trump administration's strong-armed
[39:39.760 --> 39:45.760]  Apple into removing an app from its mobile store that tracked ICE activity. The most
[39:45.760 --> 39:51.920]  aggressive application of this policy has come in Chicago, what they call Operation Midway Blitz,
[39:52.640 --> 39:57.360]  where ICE officers have relentlessly targeted protesters, reporters, and clergy engaged and
[39:57.360 --> 40:03.680]  protected First Amendment activity. In October, a group of journalists and protesters filed a
[40:03.680 --> 40:11.440]  lawsuit alleging a pattern of extreme brutality and a concerted and ongoing effort to silence
[40:11.440 --> 40:18.320]  the press as well as the public. When ICE field director Russell Hott was asked if he agreed
[40:18.880 --> 40:24.080]  that it's unconstitutional to arrest people for being opposed to Midway Blitz, he said,
[40:24.800 --> 40:32.720]  No. No. If you're opposed to this, we will arrest you. Similarly, the border protection commissioner,
[40:33.920 --> 40:41.520]  Greg Bovino, testified that he had instructed his officers to arrest protesters who make
[40:41.520 --> 40:46.880]  hyperbolic comments in the heat of political demonstrations, even though such statements,
[40:47.440 --> 40:54.720]  which do not constitute true threats, are protected speech. Hott and Bovino's depositions
[40:54.720 --> 41:01.600]  were filed under seal, and those comments were later redacted in a corrected filing by the lawsuit
[41:01.600 --> 41:07.120]  plaintiffs, but not before others took screenshots of them. And of course, you've seen this type of
[41:07.120 --> 41:13.040]  thing happen before with the TSA admitting that there was no threat to planes or airports. At the
[41:13.040 --> 41:19.760]  same time, they're trying to turn Texas into a no-fly zone for opposing their naked body scanners
[41:19.760 --> 41:27.680]  and their pat-downs of children. And so these two guys said one thing in their depositions,
[41:27.680 --> 41:33.200]  and then they tried to redact these comments. By the way, I'll just say in passing, is it interesting
[41:33.200 --> 41:43.760]  that this ice guy's name is Hott? Hott with two T's. So Judge Sarah Ellis in Chicago
[41:44.800 --> 41:50.800]  issued a preliminary injunction against DHS in early November saying the government's conduct,
[41:50.800 --> 41:56.880]  quote, shocked the conscience. She also found that the official's testimony was not credible.
[41:57.840 --> 42:03.280]  In other words, they were lying. Bovino, for example, testified that he had never used
[42:03.280 --> 42:09.840]  force against a protester that he was filmed tackling. So that's a problem for Kristi Noem
[42:09.840 --> 42:17.520]  and for Bovino and for Trump. We got the videotape of you guys. He also lied about being hit with a
[42:17.520 --> 42:23.280]  rock before firing tear gas at demonstrators. This is something else we saw at January the 6th,
[42:23.280 --> 42:28.320]  isn't it? What is it about MAGA that they can't get their head around this?
[42:29.280 --> 42:37.520]  But now they love everything the police do. They can do no wrong. So describing rapid response
[42:37.520 --> 42:43.200]  networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents
[42:43.200 --> 42:49.280]  are and how extreme their views are, said the judge. The Trump administration responded by
[42:49.280 --> 42:55.600]  calling the judge an activist, but it is squarely wrong when it comes to recording and protesting
[42:55.600 --> 43:01.520]  the police. Cato Institute senior fellow Walter Olson points out that while the Supreme Court
[43:01.520 --> 43:07.440]  itself has not yet faced the issue squarely, seven federal circuit courts have done so,
[43:08.080 --> 43:13.280]  and all of them agree the First Amendment protects the right to record police performing their duties
[43:13.280 --> 43:20.960]  in public. Folks, this is just common sense as well as common law. It's not hard to find examples
[43:21.680 --> 43:29.200]  of rotten agency culture in practice. In October, for example, ICE officers broke out the window
[43:29.200 --> 43:35.280]  of a U.S. citizen's car and detained her for seven hours after she followed and photographed their
[43:35.280 --> 43:41.920]  unmarked vehicles. DHS accused her of reckless driving, attempting to block in officers with
[43:41.920 --> 43:49.120]  her car, and of resisting arrest, all claims that she and her lawyer deny. Prosecutors did not even
[43:49.120 --> 43:55.920]  charge the woman with a crime. They didn't believe it. And again, they don't mention it in this
[43:55.920 --> 44:02.080]  article, but there was the guy who was following them around with the car and videotaping what
[44:02.080 --> 44:09.360]  they were doing, and they chased him and rammed him with their car. Recording government agents
[44:09.360 --> 44:16.960]  is one of the few tools that citizens have to hold power accountable. Any attempt to redefine
[44:16.960 --> 44:25.200]  observation as violence is not only unconstitutional, it is authoritarian gaslighting.
[44:26.160 --> 44:29.920]  When a government fears cameras more than crimes, that's what we're looking at here.
[44:31.040 --> 44:38.880]  And so, with that as background, as I said, I got an angry email from somebody that I've not noticed
[44:38.880 --> 44:44.800]  before, commenting, somebody who calls himself Flower Child, saying that I lost viewers today
[44:44.800 --> 44:50.960]  by being wrong. And this is what, assuming it's a woman by the name of Flower Child,
[44:52.000 --> 44:58.400]  is what she said. She said, you can clearly see in the video, the guy was in front of the vehicle
[44:58.400 --> 45:04.800]  when he drew his gun and the woman floored it at him. What would you have done? Well, first of all,
[45:04.800 --> 45:14.480]  I would have gotten out of the way, but I wouldn't shoot at a car like an idiot, because since 1972,
[45:14.480 --> 45:20.240]  as I pointed out yesterday, since 1972, New York Police Department, many others have said,
[45:21.040 --> 45:27.200]  it's foolish to do this. And we'll get into that again. But anyway, she says, you can clearly see
[45:27.200 --> 45:33.520]  the guy bounce off the car as she hits him. Sorry, but no, he's still standing on his feet.
[45:34.800 --> 45:38.320]  He's not bouncing on the floor. He didn't get run over. He didn't bounce off the car.
[45:39.040 --> 45:43.840]  He was not injured at all. And he was not threatened at the point that he shot her.
[45:43.840 --> 45:48.000]  At the point he shot her, he was at the side of the car. And you can see that from the
[45:48.880 --> 45:54.960]  curved side of the windshield. There's no way that he would have hit her in the head from that angle.
[45:55.920 --> 46:00.320]  And you can see where the bullet hole went in there. He was not directly square in front of
[46:00.320 --> 46:04.720]  the car. And you can also see, if you look at it, you can see that she's got the wheels turned.
[46:05.360 --> 46:10.560]  If she wanted to run over him, she could have easily have done that by not turning the wheels.
[46:10.560 --> 46:14.000]  You know, I've driven a car before. I know how that thing works. Have you ever driven a car before?
[46:14.720 --> 46:21.040]  Do you know how that works? Anyway, she said, so I suggest that you do some kind of a retraction.
[46:21.040 --> 46:25.280]  You're really pissing off your fans. And she says, I know that you always want to distance
[46:25.280 --> 46:29.920]  yourself from Alex Jones, but I switched over to Alex when you pissed me off this morning.
[46:30.000 --> 46:35.520]  And he has the full video showing you, you're wrong. Well, I showed all the videos, except the
[46:35.520 --> 46:39.520]  one that Meg and Kelly had, and probably the one that Alex Jones has. They chose the one that was
[46:39.520 --> 46:45.040]  furthest away, the one that's the most difficult to see. Because then you will go with their
[46:45.040 --> 46:51.440]  narrative, their interpretation of this, instead of your lying eyes. Hit with a car? You know, so
[46:52.400 --> 46:57.200]  I don't think that really is the issue here. I've been listening for many years, but I'm
[46:57.200 --> 47:04.320]  probably not going to come back. Well, that's too bad. But as I said to her, I responded,
[47:04.320 --> 47:09.600]  because it was an email, I said, well, perhaps you didn't stick around to hear that since 1972,
[47:09.600 --> 47:13.520]  the New York Police Department and many other police departments across the country have found
[47:13.520 --> 47:20.080]  that firing into a car is reckless, ineffective, and dangerous to bystanders and other officers
[47:20.080 --> 47:27.120]  for a number of reasons. I stand by what we can clearly see in the videos and the gunshots made
[47:27.280 --> 47:33.760]  into the side of the car, meaning, Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want you to pause what you're
[47:33.760 --> 47:39.920]  doing for just one minute. And I want you to hear about love, generosity, and compassion. We say
[47:39.920 --> 47:46.080]  those words all the time and they sound good. They feel good. But here's the truth. Those words
[47:46.080 --> 47:53.040]  don't mean anything unless they turn into action. And right now, not later today, not tomorrow,
[47:53.040 --> 47:59.440]  there's a child in the world who doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn,
[47:59.440 --> 48:06.000]  or if there's any hope at all. And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward,
[48:06.000 --> 48:11.360]  but that child is waiting. This is where you come in. With Compassion International,
[48:11.360 --> 48:17.200]  you have the chance to change a child's future, not just with words, not with promises,
[48:17.200 --> 48:23.760]  but with real help that provides food, education, and hope through local churches
[48:23.760 --> 48:30.720]  and people already in their community. Put your words into action and join me. Introduce a child
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[48:47.280 --> 49:14.480]  That he was not at danger of being run over if he's beside the car. The officer wasn't even
[49:14.480 --> 49:21.760]  knocked down. He was later walking and smirking. Force was used excessively, recklessly,
[49:22.480 --> 49:28.400]  and fatally. You should be ashamed of yourself for excusing it. Please show me the video that
[49:28.400 --> 49:34.720]  matches what Trump and Noam said. The officers were stuck in the snow. The shooter was run over,
[49:34.720 --> 49:41.040]  hospitalized. Please show me that video. I said, you'll be happier watching Alex Jones. He cares
[49:41.040 --> 49:47.040]  so much about viewership that he'll tell people what they want to hear rather than what is true.
[49:48.400 --> 49:54.720]  You might want to think about where this bullying police state is going to end up,
[49:54.720 --> 50:00.160]  especially under the Democrats. Rather than focusing on strengthening the rule of law,
[50:00.960 --> 50:07.920]  Trump is undermining it and promoting more conflict, deliberately provoking it. Alex Jones
[50:07.920 --> 50:14.080]  promotes war now because Trump has aligned himself with a deep state CIA agenda. Hopefully,
[50:14.080 --> 50:18.320]  you won't let Alex pick your pocket and set you up for another entrapment like you did people
[50:18.320 --> 50:25.840]  on January the 6th. I stand by my comments. I stand against militarized police by the federal
[50:25.840 --> 50:33.440]  government. As a matter of fact, if you take a look at this, we want to talk about somebody
[50:33.440 --> 50:40.400]  being run over. Here's ICE hitting a protester and just keeps going. Look at this. Is that a
[50:40.400 --> 50:46.960]  problem? Is that a problem for you to see that? You see, that guy was a woman was knocked down.
[50:46.960 --> 50:52.800]  This officer was not even knocked down. She wasn't moving very fast when they made contact.
[50:52.800 --> 50:58.400]  And I suggest that it was as much his fault as hers that there was contact even made.
[50:59.360 --> 51:04.320]  I can't hear you, Lance. Put your mic on. I don't hear you yet.
[51:06.400 --> 51:09.520]  Well, let me work on that. And while you do, let me show you
[51:10.560 --> 51:15.600]  the angle, the one angle that I didn't show yesterday, because I didn't think that it was
[51:15.600 --> 51:21.920]  very informative. It was difficult to see. And the other ones actually show the whole situation
[51:21.920 --> 51:28.640]  much better. So let's see. Well, actually, this is the one that I think does. This is what I showed
[51:28.640 --> 51:34.240]  yesterday. And I think it shows it pretty clearly. You can actually hear the sound. So you can see
[51:34.240 --> 51:41.760]  where the officer was at the time that he fired the shots as well. Now look, he's off to the side,
[51:42.400 --> 51:47.440]  fires a shot there. He's no longer in danger. He's off to the side. There's more shots being
[51:47.440 --> 51:52.560]  fired as he's clearly off to the side. Even the first shot that he fired there,
[51:52.560 --> 51:59.680]  he was off to the side. Yeah, let's, oh, sorry. Here we go. Now watch this. Even when he fires
[51:59.680 --> 52:11.440]  the first shot, he is no longer in front of the car. See the wheel turn? First shot. Another shot.
[52:18.320 --> 52:21.760]  What were you saying, Lance? I'll tell everybody since I can't hear your microphone. What's up?
[52:23.360 --> 52:29.840]  No, I don't hear it now. Okay. Oh, now I got it. Now I got it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. It looks like
[52:29.840 --> 52:36.240]  he might have, so if you look at his feet, he jumps back. I don't know if he hit like an elbow
[52:36.240 --> 52:41.360]  against the rear view mirror, but you can see that his feet were clear of it even before he jumps
[52:41.360 --> 52:46.880]  back. Yeah, that's right. I think a lot of the people that say that he was hit, he might have
[52:47.600 --> 52:54.160]  again just his arms against the mirror, but it looks to me like that they're seeing him jumping
[52:54.160 --> 52:59.040]  back and thinking that it's him getting hit. He is not being attacked by her. She's not trying
[52:59.040 --> 53:04.720]  to run him down. She turned the wheels and he shot her from the side. End of story. But I'll
[53:04.720 --> 53:11.120]  show the other clip that everybody is so key about. And I think I've got a better visual of this. I've
[53:11.120 --> 53:16.720]  got it first here at regular speed, then we'll show it at 50% speed, then at 10% speed. And I've
[53:16.720 --> 53:25.360]  upped the resolution to 4K. It was actually at 720. So here's that video. This is a very
[53:25.360 --> 53:30.000]  distant video, as you can see. And this is what everybody is looking at. They can tell you,
[53:30.000 --> 53:34.640]  oh, so this is what you're seeing and it's not what you're seeing. Now here it is at 50%.
[53:36.640 --> 53:40.960]  And I've enlarged it a bit. Okay. There he is there.
[53:41.920 --> 53:51.600]  And this is now at 10% speed. And I've noticed that a lot of people put this out at a sped it
[53:51.600 --> 53:58.880]  up. So it looks more violent. But this is going to be at 10% speed. So you can see where this is.
[54:00.480 --> 54:05.920]  And I don't think that this is a smoking gun for their side.
[54:06.720 --> 54:11.200]  I think that I stand by my analysis. You can see for yourself, make up your own decision.
[54:12.240 --> 54:18.880]  I just think that this is over the top. As a matter of fact, one of the things that's
[54:18.880 --> 54:24.000]  bothered me about all this stuff, this is going very slow. This is at 10%. And you can see what's
[54:24.000 --> 54:32.960]  going on. His life is not in danger. And he shot her from the side. So, um, I don't think that this
[54:32.960 --> 54:40.560]  particular guy, Grant Stinchfield, uh, he's got a radio show and a podcast or something. He's,
[54:40.560 --> 54:45.760]  he's got a little slogan that he wants you to follow, right? Just like we hear all the time,
[54:46.560 --> 54:52.480]  click it or take it. Got these little rhyming slogans so the police can memorize it and
[54:52.480 --> 55:00.480]  threaten you with it. Well, his is, um, uh, show your hands, obey commands. If you don't,
[55:01.440 --> 55:08.560]  obey commands. Isn't that great? Don't you want to do that? Uh, dumb and threatening. Yeah. Show,
[55:08.560 --> 55:14.880]  show your hands, obey the commands. Uh, as a matter of fact, um, here's what he has to say.
[55:14.880 --> 55:21.360]  I can prove to you in 45 seconds that this ice involved shooting was 100% justified in Minnesota.
[55:21.360 --> 55:27.520]  Take a look, 100% justified. You see two ice agents clearly giving her commands to stop where
[55:27.520 --> 55:33.200]  she is. Oh, obey those commands any moment. If she did, she would still be alive today.
[55:33.200 --> 55:38.240]  It's her fault. She didn't obey the police like a slave clearly in front of her vehicle,
[55:38.240 --> 55:45.760]  a deadly weapon now used as a ramming rod. His only choice was to fire at the suspect. Now,
[55:45.760 --> 55:53.440]  if we watch it full speed, here's their favorite clip. You can see that split second decisions
[55:53.440 --> 55:58.800]  are made. They are life and death decisions. Any reasonable person on a jury would see that
[55:58.800 --> 56:05.200]  that officer's life was in danger and he had no choice but to act. Anybody saying that he
[56:05.200 --> 56:10.880]  had time to shoot the tires out is utterly ridiculous. What's your problem?
[56:10.880 --> 56:18.320]  Okay. Thank you. Just obey your command. Obey. Thank you, sir.
[56:31.840 --> 56:36.880]  Show us your hands. Obey our commands. That's it. That's what they want you to know. Grant,
[56:36.880 --> 56:43.520]  I think you're pathetic. That is really shameful. So I'm a slave now, right? I have to do whatever
[56:43.520 --> 56:49.360]  the overseers on the plantation tell me or they're entitled to kill me. Is that where we're at now?
[56:51.120 --> 56:57.760]  Show your hands. Obey the commands. Well, I guess the question is,
[56:58.640 --> 57:05.200]  do the police have any rules that they have to obey? I guess not, right? Not according to
[57:05.200 --> 57:13.280]  Grant Snitchfield. There's no rules that they have to obey. Well, Megan Bashan put up the
[57:13.280 --> 57:20.960]  SOMO video that I showed you before and said, I'm going to post this a thousand times as the
[57:20.960 --> 57:26.960]  Democrats try to erase what we can all see with our eyes. Officers instructing a driver to exit
[57:26.960 --> 57:33.520]  the car and the driver accelerating straight at an officer. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to
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[57:53.440 --> 57:59.840]  care. By the third day, her body was shutting down. She woke up and just long enough to tell her mom,
[58:00.400 --> 58:08.320]  I can't take the pain anymore. I can't keep going. Her parents drove hours to find a doctor who tried
[58:08.320 --> 58:15.040]  everything, but she needed a private hospital. And that was impossible for her family to afford.
[58:15.040 --> 58:22.080]  And that is when Compassion International stepped in. Now through compassion, Alejandra was treated
[58:22.080 --> 58:28.480]  and against all odds, she survived. She lived because someone just like you took action.
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[59:22.320 --> 59:34.000]  casino. Again, the fact that she has to say that this is the Democrats doing it. And look,
[59:34.720 --> 59:43.680]  there is a, there's a strong Hegelian blindness that is going on on both of these sides, right?
[59:43.680 --> 59:48.560]  A lot of people are opposing it simply because they're Democrats. This is a tribal
[59:49.200 --> 59:58.720]  perspective that people are taking, but I'm not, I don't share their position on immigration control,
[59:59.520 --> 01:00:05.200]  but I'm concerned about an out of control police and police that are never held accountable for
[01:00:05.200 --> 01:00:11.760]  these things. For police that are doing stupid things that even other police say are stupid
[01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:17.680]  and reckless and dangerous things to do. Just as we saw with this individual, the acceleration
[01:00:17.680 --> 01:00:23.520]  happened after she was killed because as the New York police said, if you actually are able
[01:00:23.520 --> 01:00:29.520]  to shoot somebody and you don't shoot through the car and injure other officers or innocent
[01:00:29.520 --> 01:00:34.640]  bystanders, if you actually do shoot the person, they're just as likely to put their foot on the
[01:00:34.640 --> 01:00:41.200]  accelerator as they are on the brake and you have a runaway unguided missile, which is what that car
[01:00:41.280 --> 01:00:47.760]  turned into. And so I said, please do share this over and over again, because your video
[01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:53.360]  shows the wheel turned away from him and shows him recklessly firing into the side of the car
[01:00:54.000 --> 01:01:01.680]  that he is not in danger from. And again, all the stuff that I just said about how this is a very
[01:01:01.680 --> 01:01:06.800]  bad policy for the police to follow. Please keep posting this video. People need to see with their
[01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:14.480]  eyes, not with the lies that are being told about what they're actually seeing. Take a look at this
[01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:21.040]  instead of don't listen to my analysis. Take a look at it and make up your own mind, but ask
[01:01:21.040 --> 01:01:29.680]  yourself, do we really want to have unrestrained federalized police? I don't think so because
[01:01:29.680 --> 01:01:35.120]  when we look at what they're doing elsewhere, look at this. This is at the memorial. Look at this guy.
[01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:42.240]  Deliberately provoking them. This fat pig. Do you know what that is for? What is that for? What is
[01:01:42.240 --> 01:01:47.680]  that for? What is that for? You're going to push me? What is that for? What was that for? You don't
[01:01:47.680 --> 01:01:57.200]  give a... This is why we're here. This is why we're here. What's her name? Renee Good? That's a
[01:01:57.200 --> 01:02:06.240]  memorial to her. That's a memorial to her. Yeah, just obey. Just obey. That's right. You know,
[01:02:06.240 --> 01:02:11.120]  that cop goes over there and starts kicking through the memorial. At the end of the day,
[01:02:11.120 --> 01:02:16.160]  it was completely avoidable if she would have simply followed the commands of the ICE agents.
[01:02:16.160 --> 01:02:21.520]  But what really is more disturbing to me is Governor Walz's comments about using the
[01:02:21.520 --> 01:02:26.480]  National Guard to keep the federal government ICE agents out of his state. He has now gone
[01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:33.760]  full Jefferson Davis, and that's what I would call civil war. Yeah, just obey. You know, and
[01:02:33.760 --> 01:02:38.480]  everybody needs to obey the federal government. We need to have federalized police. We don't want
[01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:43.040]  to have any state powers. All powers need to be concentrated in Washington according to that
[01:02:43.040 --> 01:02:49.920]  congressman there. And you should just do as you're told. When you look at that cop, he was
[01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:56.320]  deliberately trying to provoke those people, coming over like a schoolyard bully and bumping
[01:02:56.320 --> 01:03:02.160]  into the guy and saying, back up, back up, back up, just hoping that the guy would push back.
[01:03:03.680 --> 01:03:07.520]  This is the kind of people that they are hiring for the federal police.
[01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:12.400]  Yeah, don't question authority. Just watch TV.
[01:03:19.920 --> 01:03:46.960]  Yeah, this is a
[01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:54.080]  bigger issue, folks, than the immigration policy. This is a bigger issue than the fact that this
[01:03:54.080 --> 01:04:00.880]  woman apparently had a wife now, that she was part of the LGBT. That's not the issue here.
[01:04:01.520 --> 01:04:07.360]  This is a bigger issue than that. It's not about her identity politics. It's not about your identity
[01:04:07.360 --> 01:04:13.280]  politics. It's not about politics in general. This is about the unrestrained use of force
[01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:20.720]  and cheering for that. It's absolutely disgusting to see what's going on in this country.
[01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:24.880]  And this kind of bullying that you saw with that cop, again.
[01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:46.480]  Yeah, obey me. Obey me. Show me your hands and obey me. That's what you're being sold.
[01:04:46.480 --> 01:04:50.560]  This is like, it's like a kind of brainwashing from conservative media.
[01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:57.920]  People like Grant Snitchfield, so forth. Yeah, as a matter of fact, later on,
[01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:03.760]  and they live, you see the massive raid of the police. This isn't all that much different than
[01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:10.400]  what we're seeing now. All these dystopian movies of the 1980s now happening in real life,
[01:05:11.520 --> 01:05:14.080]  because this is what it looks like in real life.
[01:05:14.080 --> 01:05:18.480]  Looking at live pictures from our reporters on the ground in St. Paul. Ryan Young, you can see him
[01:05:18.560 --> 01:05:23.200]  in the camera image right there. But this is a confrontation and seems to be flaring up once
[01:05:23.200 --> 01:05:28.320]  again of federal law enforcement officers confronting with protesters who had been
[01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:35.120]  outside a facility blocking Ryan Young reports and some point blocking the movement of cars.
[01:05:36.640 --> 01:05:40.240]  You could hang on with me just one second. I want to check in with Ryan Young.
[01:05:40.240 --> 01:05:41.280]  Ryan, what's the latest?
[01:05:41.440 --> 01:05:46.640]  So, they identified somebody they wanted in this crowd. They aggressively went after them.
[01:05:47.120 --> 01:05:51.600]  They pushed their way in. Now they're shooting pepper balls toward the crowd to keep everyone
[01:05:51.600 --> 01:05:57.680]  back. We don't know why they decided to go after this gentleman. There was a bunch of people
[01:05:57.680 --> 01:06:04.240]  standing still. And then all of a sudden, they ran in and tried to grab him. This created a
[01:06:04.240 --> 01:06:09.200]  situation as we move a little closer here, where they're putting the handcuffs on him,
[01:06:10.160 --> 01:06:14.320]  they're putting the handcuffs on this guy right here. Now this guy is trying to get involved,
[01:06:14.320 --> 01:06:23.440]  so they're going to take him down as we speak. The pepper ball spray is very strong.
[01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:31.280]  They use that to make sure that the crowd stays back. So one of the problems that we see
[01:06:32.080 --> 01:06:35.600]  is that some of the protesters are standing behind the media members.
[01:06:36.320 --> 01:06:44.880]  You see how upset people are getting. And you see how angry folks are. This crowd is on the edge
[01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:51.280]  when it comes to the tactics that are being used. We are not sure why they decided to identify this
[01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:56.000]  man as someone they needed to take into custody. But obviously, this is the second person that
[01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:01.760]  they have gone after into this crowd. There were a lot of women who got pushed down to the ground,
[01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:08.400]  which made more of the men in the crowd get upset and push back. We saw a physical confrontation
[01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:18.320]  where a man put two hands and shoved one of the agents in the chest. That made the agents
[01:07:18.320 --> 01:07:24.720]  respond with more force. And as you can hear the crowd now saying shame. But at least they've
[01:07:24.720 --> 01:07:30.800]  stopped shooting pepper balls at this point, which really they're taking this man away right now.
[01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:36.080]  So as you see this, they've actually asked for the, oh, now they're pushing again.
[01:07:36.720 --> 01:07:40.800]  This is really, oh, they're firing more pepper balls. So as you see that smoke coming back our
[01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:46.160]  direction, I got you Effie. I have my arm around our photographer here because this crowd is
[01:07:46.160 --> 01:07:51.040]  shifting on this ice. There's a lot of pushing and shoving and people are very angry. We have some
[01:07:51.040 --> 01:07:56.400]  people opening their jackets and say, Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want to be honest with you
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[01:09:33.280 --> 01:09:39.440]  They shoot me here, shoot me here, and now they're pulling back the man they arrested in this
[01:09:39.440 --> 01:09:45.200]  direction over here, falling back to the gate that we talked about before. They used to have
[01:09:45.200 --> 01:09:50.000]  bear spray as well that they're using. Look at this right here. They're going after someone else.
[01:09:51.120 --> 01:09:56.640]  So you can feel the anger of this crowd. People want to hit these agents. Some people started
[01:09:56.640 --> 01:10:04.880]  throwing snowballs at them. This agent obviously fell and had to be retrieved by his fellow agents
[01:10:04.880 --> 01:10:09.520]  as they pulled him back. So this is all unfolding as the anger continues here.
[01:10:10.080 --> 01:10:17.520]  Yeah. First the shooting, then the lies. There's a lot we don't know about the shooting of Rene
[01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:22.640]  and Nicole Goode, but in the chaotic aftermath of the shooting, one thing becomes immediately clear.
[01:10:23.360 --> 01:10:29.600]  The Trump administration was lying about what happened. And you know, this is really kind of
[01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:34.720]  a hallmark of government, isn't it? Look at this clip. This is kind of funny because this is not
[01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:41.280]  about a life or death thing. This is a Canadian official who is talking about how efficiently
[01:10:41.280 --> 01:10:48.080]  everything is operating. And as she's speaking, the cameraman slowly pans up to the board that
[01:10:48.080 --> 01:10:52.560]  shows all the delayed and canceled flights. Is there any sort of work being done too
[01:10:52.560 --> 01:10:59.120]  with the airlines in order to get flights actually on time or not delayed as much?
[01:10:59.120 --> 01:11:03.840]  Just curious if there's any work happening there. Yes. So we've seen almost a doubling in terms of
[01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:08.880]  improvement on on-time performance since last year. That is a reflection of all the work that
[01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:13.920]  we've done across the ecosystem together with our partner. Delayed, delayed, canceled, delayed,
[01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:22.160]  delayed, delayed. There's one that's on time. Only one. Look at this. And we see the great results
[01:11:22.160 --> 01:11:25.840]  that have come from that. Yeah, the great results that have come from that. They'll tell you whatever
[01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:32.960]  they want to tell you. Shameful what they do, but they're shameless about it. So again, Homeland
[01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:38.960]  Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement, rioters began blocking ICE officers,
[01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:44.640]  and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law
[01:11:44.640 --> 01:11:49.600]  enforcement officers and attempt to kill them in an act of domestic terrorism.
[01:11:50.320 --> 01:11:55.680]  Kristi Noem added more details out of her imagination. They were stuck in the snow,
[01:11:56.720 --> 01:11:59.440]  which you've seen this over and over again. You know, that's not the truth.
[01:12:00.400 --> 01:12:06.160]  Kristi Noem and the White House advisor Stephen Miller also described the incident as domestic
[01:12:06.160 --> 01:12:10.880]  terrorism. This is the same thing that Biden did with the J-6 protesters. Remember that?
[01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:19.600]  Yeah, one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. One person's free speech
[01:12:20.320 --> 01:12:27.040]  is hate speech for the other people that is causing attacks on our beloved ICE officers.
[01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:34.960]  Videos of the incident taken by the bystanders show almost every aspect of McLaughlin's statement
[01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:42.320]  to be false. As a matter of fact, every detail of Kristi Noem and every detail of Donald Trump
[01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:51.440]  was a full-on lie. Not struck, not stuck in snow and not run over, not taken to the hospital.
[01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:59.680]  And she was shot from the side when he was not threatened. The vehicle appears to be driving
[01:12:59.680 --> 01:13:04.320]  away from the armed federal agents, not toward them. No one was run over. There is no evidence
[01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:09.680]  that terrorism of any kind was involved. After the shooting, federal agents then reportedly
[01:13:09.680 --> 01:13:17.040]  prevented a bystander who identified himself as a physician from tending to her. They're already
[01:13:17.040 --> 01:13:24.480]  trying to spend this as an action of self-defense, said the Minneapolis mayor. And so he is attacked
[01:13:24.480 --> 01:13:30.480]  because again he is a leftist and most of these people who are giving you the news want to push
[01:13:30.480 --> 01:13:39.680]  you into one side or the other of this Hegelian dialectic. And we have the video of the guy
[01:13:39.680 --> 01:13:45.440]  saying that he's a physician. Yes, I played that yesterday. Let me play that again here. Here it is.
[01:13:47.040 --> 01:14:07.520]  Back up or I'm going to kill you. Kristi Noem threatens to send more ICE agents to Minneapolis.
[01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:13.120]  She's going to double down on this. Double down on the chaos. Double down on the confrontation.
[01:14:13.760 --> 01:14:20.080]  Double down on the lies. During her press conference, Noem revealed that she's not opposed
[01:14:20.080 --> 01:14:25.840]  to sending in more ICE agents to Minneapolis if needed. The reporter asked her, said in Minneapolis
[01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:31.040]  yesterday you said that there was going to be a surge there. And it would continue without directly
[01:14:31.040 --> 01:14:38.480]  saying if we could expect a surge in civil deportation enforcement. Can you reveal what a surge is?
[01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:44.640]  Noem declined to answer. He said, I can't tell you. I'd put people in jeopardy, right?
[01:14:44.640 --> 01:14:52.080]  I mean this is even worse than the surge in Afghanistan. That was not effective if you remember.
[01:14:52.080 --> 01:14:57.760]  We had that wonderful victory in Afghanistan. I don't think so. But at least they were telling
[01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:01.920]  people it's going to be a surge. And she says, well I can't tell you. A follow-up question was
[01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:06.880]  asked. The reporter's search prompted Noem to finally respond, well we've got thousands of
[01:15:07.840 --> 01:15:16.000]  officers there and I'm not opposed to sending more. But I can't tell you anything about
[01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:23.440]  the surge. Any information I give you might put agents at risk. Secret agents, secret agendas,
[01:15:24.160 --> 01:15:30.240]  secret deployments. We don't have any say so in this. State governments don't have any say so in
[01:15:31.200 --> 01:15:37.440]  it. Do you see the problem with this? The federalization of this, the concentration
[01:15:37.440 --> 01:15:43.040]  of power in Washington, everything that Trump is doing is about making government more powerful,
[01:15:43.040 --> 01:15:51.680]  especially the federal government. And so Nancy Mace then gets on with Maria Bartiromo.
[01:15:52.400 --> 01:15:58.960]  Nancy Mace has got her own hallucinations that she is talking about. She says that the ice agent
[01:15:59.520 --> 01:16:07.120]  was limping. No, he wasn't actually. When you look at it, you can see the murderer walking away.
[01:16:08.240 --> 01:16:12.880]  Yeah, he's limping there, right? Limping? I think he's doing just fine.
[01:16:15.120 --> 01:16:23.520]  Yeah, just keep lying. Mace's assertion surprised Bartiromo who said, oh. She says, yeah Mace had
[01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:27.920]  said, it appears the ice agent was struck by the car in the first video that you just showed
[01:16:27.920 --> 01:16:34.880]  and you can see him limping away as he fired shots. No, no, didn't happen.
[01:16:36.560 --> 01:16:42.080]  These people think that you're not going to believe your lying eyes. You'll believe their lying lips,
[01:16:42.080 --> 01:16:48.000]  right? The video shows the agent in question cautiously taking a couple of steps before
[01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:54.640]  seemingly walking without any trouble forward toward the van. And why would he take some
[01:16:54.640 --> 01:16:59.280]  precaution? Well, because they are standing on ice. And when you see that video before,
[01:16:59.280 --> 01:17:05.040]  you see that one of the guys that's away from the van and the shooting and all the rest of stuff
[01:17:05.040 --> 01:17:10.080]  had fallen down on the ice. So yeah, he's going to walk a little bit cautiously, but he's not
[01:17:10.080 --> 01:17:14.720]  having any problems walking. He wasn't even knocked down. That's how much of a threat this
[01:17:14.720 --> 01:17:21.840]  whole thing was. He wasn't knocked down on the icy surface. That's how hard he was hit by the car.
[01:17:21.840 --> 01:17:28.560]  Yeah, exactly. On ice. Yeah, he keeps his footing even on ice. This is what happens when you got
[01:17:28.560 --> 01:17:34.320]  Democrats and people on the left vilifying and dehumanizing our cops, our law enforcement,
[01:17:34.320 --> 01:17:41.600]  our ice agents, says Nancy Mace, calling them Nazis and fascists. Well, this isn't rhetorical
[01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:47.440]  insults anymore, folks. This is literally true. They literally are Nazis and fascists.
[01:17:48.400 --> 01:17:54.880]  And she is part of it. It's just amazing. Doesn't even get knocked off his feet on the ice.
[01:17:55.680 --> 01:18:00.480]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute. And I want
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[01:19:36.080 --> 01:20:01.040]  Well, when Trump was shown the video with some reporters from the New York Times and the Oval
[01:20:01.040 --> 01:20:09.440]  Office, he was saying that the woman who was shot ran over the ICE agent. And they said,
[01:20:09.440 --> 01:20:15.120]  well, no, no, she didn't actually, you know, run over him. And so he says to his assistant,
[01:20:15.120 --> 01:20:21.680]  Natalie Harper, he says, go get the video. And they got the video and they played it there.
[01:20:21.680 --> 01:20:29.120]  And Trump's response was, well, the way I look at it while he's watching it. And then he finally
[01:20:29.120 --> 01:20:33.200]  says, well, it's a terrible scene. I think it's horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it. And he
[01:20:33.200 --> 01:20:42.560]  changed the subject to immigration policy. Yep. I have his comments in his tweet on
[01:20:42.560 --> 01:20:48.160]  Truth Social with his voice reading it out. I can play it. Go ahead and play that. Yeah.
[01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:55.120]  I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
[01:20:55.120 --> 01:21:00.320]  It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was obviously a professional agitator,
[01:21:00.320 --> 01:21:04.560]  and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting,
[01:21:04.560 --> 01:21:09.600]  who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer who seems to have shot her
[01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:14.800]  in self-defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering
[01:21:14.800 --> 01:21:19.920]  in the hospital. The situation is being studied in its entirety, but the reason these incidents
[01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:23.600]  are happening is because the radical left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our
[01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:27.840]  law enforcement officers and ICE agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the
[01:21:27.840 --> 01:21:32.800]  job of making America safe. We need to stand by and protect our law enforcement officers from
[01:21:32.800 --> 01:21:40.000]  this radical left movement of violence and hate. Let me tell you, the Soros is dangerous and the
[01:21:40.000 --> 01:21:46.800]  open borders are dangerous. So is Trump and his militarized police. And it is problem solution.
[01:21:47.440 --> 01:21:53.360]  This whole thing has been a Trojan horse. JD Vance insists that the critics are gaslighting
[01:21:53.360 --> 01:21:57.600]  you when it is actually the other way around. It is authoritarian gaslighting that is going on.
[01:21:58.560 --> 01:22:02.880]  So the video of the ICE shooting shows that he is the one that is doing the gaslighting,
[01:22:02.880 --> 01:22:07.120]  is the headline. JD Vance has described the shooting as clear self-defense,
[01:22:07.680 --> 01:22:13.680]  has accused critics of gaslighting. His argument requires the public to disregard what the video
[01:22:13.680 --> 01:22:20.080]  documents. In a post pushing back on legal criticism of the ICE agent's actions,
[01:22:20.400 --> 01:22:26.480]  Vance framed the encounter in absolute terms. He said the gaslighting is off the chart. It is,
[01:22:26.480 --> 01:22:31.360]  not in the way that he says though. The officer was defending his life against a deranged leftist
[01:22:31.360 --> 01:22:38.560]  who tried to run him over. The guy was doing his job. His job is to kill us, right? These are the
[01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:45.520]  people, folks, that locked us down five years ago, that put out the bioweapon that literally killed
[01:22:46.480 --> 01:22:53.280]  millions of people. You are going to side with them? She tried to stop him from doing his job.
[01:22:54.800 --> 01:22:59.760]  So the victim was an ideological enemy. That is the reality here, right? And that is the way
[01:22:59.760 --> 01:23:06.000]  everybody is focused on this and put everybody in different ideological camps. And if you agree
[01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:11.520]  with them on policy, then they can do whatever they want. If you disagree with them, they deserve
[01:23:11.520 --> 01:23:18.160]  to die. They are subhuman. They need to be put, in the words of Infowars, need to be put down,
[01:23:19.040 --> 01:23:25.360]  like one of Kristian Ohm's dogs. The other crazy thing is they say he was doing his job, but
[01:23:25.360 --> 01:23:31.280]  I haven't heard anyone claiming that there were any illegal aliens there that were being arrested.
[01:23:31.280 --> 01:23:37.280]  He was out there just issuing random orders to American citizens. Is that his job? Is just to
[01:23:37.280 --> 01:23:42.720]  push people around? And that is why she was shot, because she did not obey these random orders from
[01:23:42.720 --> 01:23:51.280]  this random guy that was not doing anything to arrest illegals. That is right. That is the dog
[01:23:51.280 --> 01:23:56.800]  that did not bark. Lance, you are exactly right. Where are all the illegal aliens that these people
[01:23:56.800 --> 01:24:02.560]  are swarming around to get? That has all been lost in all of this, right? New York Times analysis of
[01:24:02.560 --> 01:24:09.520]  bystander shot video footage includes recordings from multiple angles. The footage shows federal
[01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:15.760]  agents approaching her Honda pilot attempting to open the driver's side door, ordering her to exit.
[01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:20.560]  As an agent pulls the door handle, here I will do this as I am reading it, pulls the door handle,
[01:24:21.360 --> 01:24:27.920]  the vehicle reverses, then moves forward while turning sharply to the right away from the officer.
[01:24:28.560 --> 01:24:34.160]  The sequence establishes the physical reality of the encounter. The officer approaches the vehicle,
[01:24:34.160 --> 01:24:40.080]  the driver reverses, the car moves forward with a rightward turn. The officer then fires three shots
[01:24:40.640 --> 01:24:47.760]  at close range at the vehicle on the side of the vehicle as it is moving past him. The car continues
[01:24:47.760 --> 01:24:55.520]  forward and then crashes because he has just shot her point blank. The Times video analysis shows
[01:24:55.520 --> 01:25:04.160]  the masked ICE agent was clearly not in the path of the SUV when he fires three deadly shots. The
[01:25:04.160 --> 01:25:09.760]  video shows a driver attempting to leave and an officer who avoids harm by moving out of the way
[01:25:09.760 --> 01:25:17.040]  before firing. That sequence undermines the self-defense claim. Deadly force is justified
[01:25:17.040 --> 01:25:23.440]  only when it is necessary to stop an imminent threat and no reasonable alternative exists.
[01:25:24.240 --> 01:25:30.800]  In this encounter, safety is achieved before the trigger is pulled. Distance already exists at the
[01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:39.840]  moment the officer fires. He is at the side of the car. Even Border Czar Tom Homan distanced himself
[01:25:39.840 --> 01:25:44.720]  from Homeland Security's initial statement blaming the victim. When pressed by the New
[01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:50.640]  York Times after viewing the video, Trump sidestepped any follow-up questions. A notable
[01:25:50.640 --> 01:25:56.400]  departure for a figure known for doubling down. Vance has treated the shooting as resolved. He
[01:25:56.400 --> 01:26:02.800]  has labeled Good a deranged leftist. He has described the killing as justified. He has
[01:26:02.800 --> 01:26:13.760]  dismissed any disagreement as dishonest. And so some people have responded to him calling him a
[01:26:13.760 --> 01:26:21.040]  soulless liar. JD Vance is hit with fury for disturbingly un-American shooting response.
[01:26:21.040 --> 01:26:30.640]  Conservative author Sohrab Amari put up a video that he said showed ICE was in the right when
[01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:34.720]  an agent shot a woman in the face at point-blank range when she was trying to turn her car away
[01:26:34.720 --> 01:26:43.200]  from him to leave the scene. Sharing an obscured faraway angle. That's the one that I did with the
[01:26:43.200 --> 01:26:47.760]  slow motion thing. This one. This is the one that they always go to because this is the one
[01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:53.200]  that you really can't see very well what is happening with it. And so they're free to tell
[01:26:53.200 --> 01:27:01.920]  you what to see. And that's the reality of that. So an obscured faraway angle. He says, okay,
[01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:08.320]  this angle settles it. Well, it doesn't settle it. The other ones do. You can see much better
[01:27:08.320 --> 01:27:15.520]  what is happening in the other angles. So Vance said, you can accept that this woman's death is
[01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:22.400]  a tragedy while acknowledging that it's a tragedy of her own making. Don't illegally interfere with
[01:27:22.400 --> 01:27:28.320]  law enforcement operations and try to run over our officers with your car. It's really just that
[01:27:28.320 --> 01:27:37.040]  simple, right? As Grant Snitchfield said, show us your hands, obey our commands, right? Yeah.
[01:27:37.920 --> 01:27:45.440]  I'd rather die on my feet than on my knees. Congressman Seth Moulton replied and said,
[01:27:46.080 --> 01:27:52.000]  JD Vance is lying. She wasn't interfering with law enforcement and this wasn't a tragedy of
[01:27:52.000 --> 01:27:58.800]  her own making. Every video shows it. Blaming a murdered woman to shield federal officers
[01:27:58.800 --> 01:28:05.840]  is grotesque and disturbingly un-American. We will not ignore what we can see with our own
[01:28:05.840 --> 01:28:12.000]  eyes. Conservative strategist Tim Miller said, among the people who think assassination is the
[01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:17.200]  appropriate remedy for not listening to law enforcement, you can include the vice president.
[01:28:19.280 --> 01:28:27.760]  And then Greg Sargent said, he fired several shots from the side. This is exactly what I said
[01:28:27.760 --> 01:28:35.360]  yesterday. He fired several shots from the side into the window at near point blank range after
[01:28:35.360 --> 01:28:42.320]  he was able to get to the side of the car and plainly not in any danger. There is no credible
[01:28:42.320 --> 01:28:49.440]  way to call that self-defense. There is no justification whatsoever for it. He clearly
[01:28:49.440 --> 01:28:57.360]  overreacted at the minimum and blaming her for it is disgusting. Absolutely agree. That's what
[01:28:57.360 --> 01:29:03.600]  I said yesterday. Journalist John Harwood said, she didn't try to run him over. You repulsive,
[01:29:03.600 --> 01:29:11.040]  soulless liar. Adam Johnson chimed in and said, just an evil empty man. When it benefited his
[01:29:11.040 --> 01:29:17.680]  career, he went on MSNBC and NPR and told rich liberals that his relatives were intractable drug
[01:29:17.680 --> 01:29:26.720]  added adult hicks. When he saw the MAGA writing on the wall, 2021, he became a vessel for Peter
[01:29:26.720 --> 01:29:34.720]  Thiel. Now he's chief Nazi propagandists writing in yearly tones. The Guardian's Robert
[01:29:34.720 --> 01:29:41.280]  Mackey said, they asked us to ignore a video recorded at close range and they claim a distant
[01:29:41.280 --> 01:29:48.640]  clip slowed down proves that she tried to quote, run over the officer. But if you watch that video
[01:29:48.640 --> 01:29:54.720]  at normal speed, it shows how easily he kept his feet and how she accelerated after he had shot her.
[01:29:55.440 --> 01:30:04.480]  Excuse me. About to sneeze here. Again, that is why police departments all over the country
[01:30:04.480 --> 01:30:15.920]  say don't do what he did. Well, Jonathan Turley has really discredited himself this week. I think
[01:30:15.920 --> 01:30:24.320]  first he went on dispelling any legal problems with what was being done in Venezuela. Now he
[01:30:24.320 --> 01:30:32.160]  is doing the same thing in Minnesota. He's become a cheerleader for the Hegelian dialectic,
[01:30:33.040 --> 01:30:39.440]  absolutely discredited himself in my opinion. And then Trump, again, going back in more detail
[01:30:39.440 --> 01:30:45.520]  with what happened with the New York Times reporters, they were talking to him in the Oval
[01:30:45.520 --> 01:30:52.800]  Office. And so Trump is saying, well, that was a vicious situation that took place.
[01:30:53.600 --> 01:31:00.800]  He said that she behaved horribly. She ran him over. She didn't. And he repeats that
[01:31:00.800 --> 01:31:06.000]  two times. When the reporters argued in return, this was not clear from the video recorded in
[01:31:06.000 --> 01:31:10.720]  the scene, Trump said, well, I'll play the tape for you right now. And he got his assistant,
[01:31:10.720 --> 01:31:17.360]  Natalie Harpie, to run the video as the slow motion footage played on a laptop beside the
[01:31:17.360 --> 01:31:23.360]  resolute desk. The reporters noted again that the video did not clearly show an officer being
[01:31:23.360 --> 01:31:30.320]  run over. Trump said, well, the way I look at it, and at the end of the clip, Trump said,
[01:31:30.320 --> 01:31:33.680]  it's a terrible scene. I think it's horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.
[01:31:34.320 --> 01:31:38.400]  Pressed on what he had seen, so tell us, what did you see? Are you going to still stand by
[01:31:38.400 --> 01:31:44.400]  that story? The reporter said that Trump then pivoted to attack the immigration policies of
[01:31:44.400 --> 01:31:53.680]  his predecessors. So the masked ICE agent executes an American woman in Minneapolis as she tries to
[01:31:53.680 --> 01:32:00.800]  drive away. This is a free thought project. They get it as well. That's exactly what happened.
[01:32:01.600 --> 01:32:06.960]  That should not be a capital offense to not obey the orders from the police.
[01:32:08.400 --> 01:32:15.280]  You can look them in the eye. They're not your masters. The Trump administration took over the
[01:32:15.280 --> 01:32:20.800]  probe now and to the ICE involved shooting. So what are they concerned about? They don't want
[01:32:20.800 --> 01:32:26.800]  there to be an investigation. The federal government has now taken over the probe of
[01:32:27.440 --> 01:32:34.160]  misconduct by a federal officer. You can forget about the 10th Amendment, I guess, right?
[01:32:35.040 --> 01:32:40.320]  Trump is really grinding that into a pulp. So it's going to be another cover-up, just like
[01:32:40.320 --> 01:32:46.640]  the Epstein stuff. The DOJs initially wanted a joint probe of the incident with the BCA,
[01:32:46.640 --> 01:32:53.120]  that is the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in Minnesota, but then it reversed course,
[01:32:53.120 --> 01:33:03.440]  said the BCA, and it signaled that it would now be led solely by the FBI, by Corrupt Cash Patel.
[01:33:06.160 --> 01:33:11.600]  Without complete access to the evidence, witness, and information collected, we cannot meet the
[01:33:11.600 --> 01:33:16.480]  investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands, they said. As a result, the BCA
[01:33:17.120 --> 01:33:23.280]  has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation. The FBI's Minneapolis field office and the U.S.
[01:33:23.280 --> 01:33:31.360]  Attorney's office for the District of Minnesota did not respond to the Daily Caller who is asking
[01:33:31.360 --> 01:33:38.800]  for comments about why they are shutting down any investigation except by the corrupt FBI.
[01:33:46.640 --> 01:33:52.720]  Generosity and compassion. We say those words all the time, and they sound good. They feel good.
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[01:35:10.240 --> 01:35:25.280]  Meanwhile, Homan has blamed hateful rhetoric. You know what that is. That's hate speech, right?
[01:35:26.400 --> 01:35:32.080]  So the left calls it hate speech. The right calls it hateful rhetoric. We've already seen
[01:35:32.080 --> 01:35:35.760]  Pam Bondi say, well, there's speech and there's hate speech. We're not going to allow you to have
[01:35:35.760 --> 01:35:43.200]  hate speech. And we all know what that is about. Same tactics as the left. These people are the
[01:35:43.200 --> 01:35:50.880]  mirror image of the left. Yeah, shockingly similar. Would you think this was talking about the right
[01:35:51.440 --> 01:35:58.400]  in any other context? It's hateful rhetoric to blame for this violence according to the
[01:35:58.400 --> 01:36:04.720]  sorrow that we've got here. That's right. Our officers have a right to self-defense. Well,
[01:36:04.720 --> 01:36:11.760]  of course they do. And he was not in any danger at the time that he killed her. I guess the question
[01:36:11.760 --> 01:36:18.480]  is, who defends Americans from the police? Who defends us from the federal government? Evidently
[01:36:18.480 --> 01:36:25.760]  not any state government anywhere. Not even their hardcore, hard left opponents aren't going to
[01:36:25.760 --> 01:36:30.240]  stand up to this. They're going to back down. Who watches the watchers? That's always been the
[01:36:30.240 --> 01:36:39.840]  question, right? And now, if you watch the watchers, that's labeled terrorism. You are a domestic
[01:36:39.840 --> 01:36:48.480]  terrorist if you watch the watchers. Don't question anything they do. Well, Corrupt Cash Patel says the
[01:36:48.480 --> 01:36:54.640]  FBI is going to investigate organizers and funders of anti-ice protests for impeding law
[01:36:54.640 --> 01:36:58.240]  enforcement. So what they're going to do is they're going to investigate their political opponents,
[01:37:00.080 --> 01:37:11.920]  not the murdering masked cops. So again, you've got a lot of former FBI and board patrol agents
[01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:19.760]  saying the shooting is likely to be ruled justified. Of course they will. Always
[01:37:19.760 --> 01:37:26.080]  the Blue Club sticks together. As a matter of fact, they've got their own Bill of Rights. Did
[01:37:26.080 --> 01:37:32.560]  you know that? The police unions are very, very powerful and they have their own Bill of Rights,
[01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:38.880]  which is much more powerful and actually even enforced, unlike the Bill of Rights that we have,
[01:37:39.520 --> 01:37:46.960]  that they're the ones who are attacking. So again, they actually enforced that one
[01:37:47.920 --> 01:37:53.920]  to protect themselves, but not you. And this all, we're going to take a break and we come back.
[01:37:54.640 --> 01:38:01.680]  We're going to talk about how this is really a microcosm on a domestic level of what Trump
[01:38:01.680 --> 01:38:08.480]  is doing internationally. It's bullying, it's intimidation, just like that cop who kicked
[01:38:08.480 --> 01:38:13.760]  through the memorial to the woman that was there. Regardless of whether you agree with their policies
[01:38:13.760 --> 01:38:20.400]  or whatever, you can see what the guy is doing. He is clearly trying to provoke the guy into
[01:38:20.400 --> 01:38:24.960]  pushing him back. Let me just play that again because it really makes my blood boil and it
[01:38:24.960 --> 01:38:30.640]  should make you angry about it as well. There he is. He's going through the memorial, just kicking it,
[01:38:30.640 --> 01:38:40.720]  deliberately trying to provoke. You're a fat schoolyard bully.
[01:38:41.040 --> 01:38:47.520]  People like that make me sick. But anyway, we're going to take a quick break.
[01:38:48.400 --> 01:38:54.000]  These same attitudes that we've seen domestically are what is happening internationally.
[01:38:54.960 --> 01:39:00.080]  And you've got people like Stephen Miller to blame for it, along with Trump. Trump certainly
[01:39:00.080 --> 01:39:06.000]  is on board with that 100%. We'll be right back, folks.
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[01:42:54.720 --> 01:42:56.160]  The David Knight Show.
[01:43:01.200 --> 01:43:06.240]  I once supported regime change in Iraq, and that's why Venezuela worries me. This is an article
[01:43:06.240 --> 01:43:12.640]  from Reason. The writer is Phil Clay. He says, as one government official after another talks
[01:43:12.640 --> 01:43:18.320]  about regime change and removal of an awful dictator in Venezuela, you can forgive Iraq War
[01:43:18.320 --> 01:43:23.440]  veterans like me for being nervous. When I contemplated joining the Marine Corps in 2002,
[01:43:23.440 --> 01:43:29.120]  I found a similar humanitarian case for war to be compelling. The Iraqi people were suffering
[01:43:29.120 --> 01:43:34.480]  under a brutal dictator, and even in the worst case scenario, removing him would be a net good.
[01:43:35.200 --> 01:43:42.560]  What followed was civil war, mass death, swelling ranks of terror groups, genocide,
[01:43:42.560 --> 01:43:50.560]  mass rape, and slavery. 17 years after I had that calming thought about removing a dictator,
[01:43:51.040 --> 01:43:57.120]  I spoke with a woman in northern Iraq who had been enslaved by ISIS. I was on a UN trip to
[01:43:57.120 --> 01:44:02.880]  northern Iraq. She told me a group of foreign policy analysts and how ISIS had slaughtered
[01:44:02.880 --> 01:44:08.720]  the people of her town, how they had taken young girls, including her and her 13-year-old sister,
[01:44:08.720 --> 01:44:14.720]  into slavery. After the collapse of the terror state, ISIS-affiliated families, like the one
[01:44:14.720 --> 01:44:21.680]  she'd been sold to, were herded into the sprawling al-Hol refugee camp in Syria,
[01:44:22.240 --> 01:44:29.920]  trapping victims and slavers together. A Yadiz smuggling operation found her and smuggled her out,
[01:44:29.920 --> 01:44:35.280]  but her sister was still there. The man who ran the smuggling operation told us that there were
[01:44:35.280 --> 01:44:42.080]  many survivors enslaved in these camps. Three years after we spoke in 2022, a security operation
[01:44:42.080 --> 01:44:49.600]  would find six girls chained up there, subject to rape and torture, eight years after they'd been
[01:44:49.600 --> 01:44:56.080]  captured. Why are we not having enough attention from your side? He asked. We have a high number
[01:44:56.080 --> 01:45:01.920]  of survivors, people in mass graves. Why don't we have assistance? But the news of the genocide
[01:45:01.920 --> 01:45:06.800]  was years old at that point, and Americans were tired of the endless horrors of the Iraq War.
[01:45:07.760 --> 01:45:13.520]  They were tired of the human wreckage. It was as uninteresting to us as our responsibility for
[01:45:13.520 --> 01:45:19.120]  what had happened in the first place. I honestly have no idea what might happen in Venezuela,
[01:45:19.680 --> 01:45:24.320]  though the current crackdown by the regime, with journalists jailed and counterintelligence
[01:45:24.320 --> 01:45:31.040]  scouring people's social media accounts, is an ominous early sign. I've long studied the region.
[01:45:31.040 --> 01:45:35.120]  I've written about the violence and the drug trade along the border with Colombia, but
[01:45:35.120 --> 01:45:39.360]  I couldn't even begin to speculate about all the ways that this could go haywire.
[01:45:40.960 --> 01:45:45.280]  Those who are spiking the football should remember that when we use our military
[01:45:45.280 --> 01:45:50.960]  and we roll the dice with the fate of nations, the consequences play out in a much longer time
[01:45:50.960 --> 01:45:56.400]  frame than social media trends. As a matter of fact, when you look at this and think about what
[01:45:56.400 --> 01:46:06.640]  we know about ISIS and about Syria and about the fact that we were arming ISIS and that we now
[01:46:07.200 --> 01:46:14.880]  congratulate, Trump congratulates the ISIS head of Syria now, and the fact that this organization
[01:46:14.880 --> 01:46:21.440]  that's taken over Syria is executing Christians there. Just think about that. From the very
[01:46:21.440 --> 01:46:28.400]  beginning of this, ISIS has been our tool. Whether it was Mujahideen, that was obviously our tool,
[01:46:28.400 --> 01:46:34.640]  we admitted that. But then Al-Qaeda was the same organization, but supposedly they were not our
[01:46:34.640 --> 01:46:40.000]  tool at that point. But they were. They were the tool of the CIA. They were the boogeyman. So they've
[01:46:40.000 --> 01:46:47.840]  been the hero, the ally, the boogeyman, the monster. It's whatever the CIA needs them to be.
[01:46:48.800 --> 01:46:54.880]  And this ought to give you pause to think about this. When you launch military action in an
[01:46:54.880 --> 01:47:02.240]  unstable part of the world, long beset by violence, there really isn't a bottom to how bad things can
[01:47:02.240 --> 01:47:08.880]  get, he says. Rather than offering a serious plan for a stable future, we are already threatening
[01:47:08.880 --> 01:47:14.720]  other countries. Trump has revived talk about taking Greenland from our NATO ally, Denmark.
[01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:19.280]  When asked about possible military action in Colombia, another long-term ally,
[01:47:19.920 --> 01:47:24.640]  and one whose assistance would be an essential part of any serious policy in the region,
[01:47:25.680 --> 01:47:32.160]  the president said, sounds good to me. So American power in the wake of World War II was
[01:47:32.160 --> 01:47:38.880]  remarkably cost effective because it rested heavily on agreed upon rules and consensual
[01:47:38.880 --> 01:47:46.240]  participation. There was no dominant power that's ever had so much assistance from others in
[01:47:46.240 --> 01:47:52.880]  maintaining its dominance. If the only substitute the Trump administration has for getting willing
[01:47:52.880 --> 01:48:00.400]  cooperation from our allies is cooperation at the barrel of a gun, America will rapidly become a
[01:48:00.400 --> 01:48:09.920]  much diminished thing. Not just weaker, but also contemptible. And it is contemptible what Trump
[01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:16.240]  is doing. But it isn't even the potential downsides to Venezuela and the surrounding countries that
[01:48:16.240 --> 01:48:21.840]  worry me so much as what our president, high on the success of a brilliant military operation,
[01:48:21.840 --> 01:48:28.800]  might do next. In the first year back in office, we've already struck Iran and Venezuela without
[01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:34.560]  even trying to go through Congress or establish democratic support for the war. The most dangerous
[01:48:34.560 --> 01:48:40.800]  and morally consequential thing a country can do, and which for precisely that reason, our founders
[01:48:40.800 --> 01:48:48.080]  made the responsibility of the legislature. If you continue to allow an unrestrained president
[01:48:48.640 --> 01:48:55.680]  to initiate acts of war against other countries without debate, without authorization, how long
[01:48:55.680 --> 01:49:03.120]  before the whims of one irresponsible man leads to genuine disaster? And that's the reality.
[01:49:04.800 --> 01:49:12.000]  That's the reality domestically and internationally. And then we look at the reactions that are
[01:49:13.200 --> 01:49:22.480]  in other countries. RT has a comment from Rafael Carrera, who is the former president of Ecuador.
[01:49:23.360 --> 01:49:30.720]  He says, the abduction of Maduro set a disastrous precedent that can throw the world back into
[01:49:30.720 --> 01:49:38.800]  barbarism. The hypothetical, not hypothetical, but the hypocritical international reaction has
[01:49:38.800 --> 01:49:45.360]  allowed the U.S. to get away with actions that are, quote, impossible to accept, he says. He said,
[01:49:45.360 --> 01:49:50.560]  imagine for a moment that Putin captured Zelensky, he said. Can you imagine what the
[01:49:50.560 --> 01:49:56.560]  world's response would be? Nothing at all like the response the U.S. is getting. International
[01:49:56.560 --> 01:50:02.400]  reaction to the abduction has demonstrated nothing but global hypocrisy and double standards so far.
[01:50:03.200 --> 01:50:08.400]  This unprecedented, extraordinary event deserves a much stronger response from the international
[01:50:08.400 --> 01:50:14.640]  community, said Carrera. What they're saying is either you do what I say or I'll bomb you again.
[01:50:15.440 --> 01:50:25.280]  In other words, hands up, obey your commands, right? This is the Trump government and the
[01:50:25.280 --> 01:50:35.920]  American government in a nutshell. It is life at the point of a barrel of a gun. So Carrera said
[01:50:35.920 --> 01:50:40.880]  it is something extremely dangerous for the entire planet, not just for Venezuela but for
[01:50:40.880 --> 01:50:47.360]  Latin America as well. And then in Russia, you've got a lot of people, as this guy says, imagine if
[01:50:47.360 --> 01:50:52.000]  Putin had captured Zelensky. And so you've got a lot of Russians who are saying, yeah, why hasn't
[01:50:52.000 --> 01:50:57.840]  Putin captured Zelensky at this point in time? Especially people like Alexander Dugin. He's saying,
[01:50:57.840 --> 01:51:04.880]  you need to go get him. And of course, his daughter was assassinated by Ukrainian intelligence,
[01:51:04.880 --> 01:51:10.480]  thinking that they were killing him. Chinese social media explodes. U.S. invasion of Venezuela
[01:51:11.120 --> 01:51:18.640]  is a template for our move on Taiwan. Chinese Weibo users are complaining that if Washington
[01:51:18.640 --> 01:51:22.960]  can quickly invade and remove the leader of a nuisance government in its own backyard,
[01:51:23.680 --> 01:51:30.240]  then China can forcibly reunite Taiwan, of course, right? This is, I guess we could call this the
[01:51:30.240 --> 01:51:39.440]  domino theory of bad precedence from a bad president. There's a growing number of pro-Kremlin
[01:51:39.440 --> 01:51:44.960]  figures and Russian military bloggers now saying that something very parallel but related to
[01:51:44.960 --> 01:51:51.600]  Ukraine. They're upset that Russia has dragged its feet and directly moving against Zelensky and Kiev
[01:51:52.240 --> 01:51:56.960]  and they want more muscular direct action against the illegitimate leader, as Putin has frequently
[01:51:56.960 --> 01:52:03.280]  called him, or at least his top officials. Isn't that interesting? Everybody uses that phrase,
[01:52:03.280 --> 01:52:12.080]  the illegitimate leader. I don't like anything that Zelensky does. I wouldn't call him an
[01:52:12.080 --> 01:52:17.360]  illegitimate leader. I mean, he is the guy who is in charge there, whether you like him or not.
[01:52:17.920 --> 01:52:20.560]  That doesn't make him illegitimate just because you don't like him.
[01:52:21.200 --> 01:52:25.360]  Among the most prominent Russian figures to draw this parallel, of course, is Alexander Dugin,
[01:52:25.360 --> 01:52:36.080]  as I said, and he is saying that the fast-moving events in Venezuela are a critical and urgent
[01:52:36.080 --> 01:52:42.960]  challenge for Russia to do the same. So the capture of Maduro demonstrates that international law
[01:52:42.960 --> 01:52:51.120]  no longer exists. Only the law of force applies. And that's not just Alexander Dugin. I mean,
[01:52:51.120 --> 01:52:57.360]  that's what Stephen Miller is proudly saying. He said that we're going to be ruled by force.
[01:52:58.080 --> 01:53:04.640]  The law of the jungle is back. And get ready for a global war because that's what Trump and the
[01:53:04.640 --> 01:53:11.440]  agents of chaos want to do. So the war in Ukraine must under no circumstances be stopped, not before
[01:53:11.440 --> 01:53:16.880]  victory is achieved, says Alexander Dugin. He said, look at Venezuela. If we don't destroy them now,
[01:53:16.880 --> 01:53:25.280]  they will destroy us tomorrow. This is always the logic of preemptive attacks. So the Japanese
[01:53:25.280 --> 01:53:30.160]  said about Pearl Harbor, that's what we always say when we want to preemptively attack somebody.
[01:53:30.160 --> 01:53:33.280]  If necessary, we have to be prepared to fight the United States as well.
[01:53:33.920 --> 01:53:37.920]  We may not be able to conquer them, but we will be able to defend ourselves.
[01:53:39.840 --> 01:53:45.120]  Again, this is, so he's saying, you've got to wipe out these people right now. You heard the
[01:53:45.120 --> 01:53:50.080]  same kind of thing from warmongers for Israel saying, I'm going to stop mowing the lawn. These
[01:53:50.080 --> 01:53:55.520]  people just keep going back. We've got to kill them all, right? This is where this all leads.
[01:53:56.160 --> 01:54:03.600]  You say the government in this other country is illegitimate. It's corrupt. And of course,
[01:54:03.600 --> 01:54:08.480]  we're the good guys wearing white hats, right? And we need to go take them out.
[01:54:09.440 --> 01:54:11.680]  And then you become the monster that you fight.
[01:54:13.280 --> 01:54:19.280]  Starshieti, a pro-war telegram channel with about 600,000 followers, also heaped ample
[01:54:19.280 --> 01:54:24.240]  criticism on how Moscow leadership has executed the special military operation, they call it,
[01:54:24.880 --> 01:54:30.240]  saying it should be more efficient, should be moving against top Ukrainian officials.
[01:54:31.040 --> 01:54:37.280]  Clearly, no one is tasking the military with abducting Zelensky. He is of far greater use
[01:54:37.360 --> 01:54:42.160]  where he is in his current role rather than in prison in Moscow. But that said,
[01:54:42.800 --> 01:54:48.160]  there are many lower ranking figures whose elimination would bring prestige and acclaim.
[01:54:49.200 --> 01:54:54.960]  So what they're saying is that Zelensky is so obviously corrupt that we should leave him there.
[01:54:56.720 --> 01:55:00.800]  He's inept and he's corrupt. So we should leave him there because he's going to be
[01:55:00.800 --> 01:55:03.200]  much more use than if we put him in prison in Russia.
[01:55:04.160 --> 01:55:08.880]  So another pundit said, if you launch the next special military operation without removing the
[01:55:08.880 --> 01:55:14.640]  military and political leadership, and with the naive ideas of brotherly nations in your head,
[01:55:15.280 --> 01:55:20.480]  your idiots and your descendants will curse you. And so they make the point that
[01:55:22.080 --> 01:55:26.400]  when you look at Zelensky, he has banned opposition media, he's banned churches,
[01:55:27.040 --> 01:55:32.400]  he's banned opposition parties, he's banned the right to collectively bargain, he has
[01:55:32.400 --> 01:55:38.160]  killed his own countrymen on behalf of NATO, he runs one of the most corrupt governments in the
[01:55:38.160 --> 01:55:44.720]  world, many people say the most corrupt, he overthrows elections, and he's everything that
[01:55:44.720 --> 01:55:52.240]  they tell us that Nicolas Maduro is. So as for the potential fallout from Trump's Venezuelan
[01:55:52.240 --> 01:55:59.120]  intervention, countries like Iran will likely see a greater incentive for a secret nuclear weapons
[01:55:59.120 --> 01:56:04.640]  or other weapons of mass destruction programs. Others will surely beef up their anti-air
[01:56:04.640 --> 01:56:10.640]  capabilities, especially if Washington has called them a rogue state.
[01:56:10.640 --> 01:56:15.120]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute,
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[01:56:40.880 --> 01:56:47.680]  at all. And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward, but that child is waiting.
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[01:57:43.440 --> 01:57:54.720]  Well, Tulsi Gabbard has been missing in action in the Venezuela operation, as The Washington Post
[01:57:54.720 --> 01:58:04.080]  points out. She has been on record opposing regime change, opposing the Iraq War, and as recently as
[01:58:04.080 --> 01:58:10.960]  two months ago, she was opposing regime change. And she's been noticeably absent in all of this
[01:58:10.960 --> 01:58:16.240]  stuff, and The Washington Post noticed that. Trump's top national security advisors in recent
[01:58:16.240 --> 01:58:23.440]  days have outdone one another to publicly extol his bold decision to launch the risky military
[01:58:23.440 --> 01:58:28.800]  raid that captured Nicolas Maduro. But one key figure that's been largely absent from public view
[01:58:29.360 --> 01:58:36.240]  is Tulsi Gabbard. So the question is, is she ashamed to be associated with what she knows is wrong,
[01:58:36.960 --> 01:58:39.760]  what she knows is wrong, and what she's said is wrong for many years?
[01:58:41.040 --> 01:58:47.200]  Or is she afraid to talk about it because she's afraid she'll lose her job? Well, she's not doing
[01:58:47.200 --> 01:58:56.560]  her job. What she's doing is she's keeping the job so she can collect the perks of the job.
[01:58:56.560 --> 01:59:04.000]  She's no better than Cash Patel. Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran who for years has spoken out
[01:59:04.000 --> 01:59:09.440]  against costly U.S. interventions abroad, waited more than three days before commenting publicly
[01:59:09.440 --> 01:59:15.680]  about Operation Absolute Resolve. Her usually busy feeds on X where she maintains official and
[01:59:15.680 --> 01:59:22.000]  personal accounts were abnormally quiet until she issued a terse statement Tuesday afternoon,
[01:59:23.040 --> 01:59:28.000]  after this happened on Saturday. She's been missing in action from Fox News and other
[01:59:28.000 --> 01:59:32.960]  conservative broadcasts where she's been a frequent guest championing Trump's priorities
[01:59:32.960 --> 01:59:38.400]  and excoriating his perceived enemies in a way that previous intelligence chiefs avoided.
[01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:44.400]  So the statement she put out said, President Trump promised the American people he would secure
[01:59:44.400 --> 01:59:50.320]  our borders, confront narco-terrorism and dangerous drug cartels and drug traffickers.
[01:59:50.880 --> 01:59:55.360]  Kudos to our servicemen and women and intelligence operators for their flawless execution
[01:59:56.000 --> 02:00:01.600]  of President Trump's order to deliver on his promise through Operation Absolute Resolve.
[02:00:02.480 --> 02:00:08.240]  So here she is praising what she has always condemned. Gabbard's comments in support of
[02:00:08.240 --> 02:00:14.560]  the operation diverge sharply from everything that she's said for the last seven years,
[02:00:14.560 --> 02:00:21.600]  even two months ago. She played little role in the planning and execution of this complex raid on
[02:00:21.600 --> 02:00:28.000]  Friday night. As a matter of fact, it's kind of interesting that the CIA took such a public
[02:00:28.000 --> 02:00:34.560]  upfront position and yet the director of national intelligence had nothing to do with it.
[02:00:35.440 --> 02:00:41.920]  The core team comprised Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe,
[02:00:43.360 --> 02:00:50.560]  the marco-terrorists. A spokesperson for Gabbard responding to multiple emails requesting comment
[02:00:50.560 --> 02:00:56.960]  on her position on Trump's Venezuelan intervention and her role in it pointed to her ex-post on
[02:00:56.960 --> 02:01:03.120]  Tuesday. On New Year's Day, as US military special operations were anxiously waiting
[02:01:03.120 --> 02:01:08.880]  for the weather to clear, she posted on her personal ex-account pictures of herself doing yoga
[02:01:08.880 --> 02:01:15.520]  on a beach, apparently in her home state of Hawaii. She said, my heart is filled with gratitude,
[02:01:15.520 --> 02:01:23.680]  aloha and peace, adding a prayer hands emoji to it. Seems pretty obvious that she's not a part
[02:01:24.400 --> 02:01:30.400]  of this Maduro mission and she's not been a part of the inner circle for some time, if ever,
[02:01:31.040 --> 02:01:35.840]  said a former US intelligence officer. As director of national intelligence,
[02:01:36.480 --> 02:01:44.400]  she has focused on going after perceived political enemies that are not sufficiently loyal to Trump.
[02:01:45.840 --> 02:01:52.320]  In August, she publicly revoked the security clearances of 17 former and current US officials
[02:01:53.280 --> 02:01:57.600]  in a separate move. She fired the top two officials of the prestigious
[02:01:58.240 --> 02:02:16.240]  National Intelligence Council in May. As Congresswoman, she decried Trump's decision
[02:02:16.240 --> 02:02:24.080]  to assassinate Soleimani, head of the Iran quids force and covert action arm of Iran's powerful
[02:02:24.080 --> 02:02:30.160]  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. She was against assassination. She also criticized
[02:02:30.160 --> 02:02:37.120]  Trump's 2018 Syria policy. Gabbard called Trump's policy a betrayal of the American people
[02:02:37.120 --> 02:02:42.960]  that would benefit terrorists. But now we have, and this is one of the reasons that she was put
[02:02:42.960 --> 02:02:49.840]  in because she was very popular with Trump's voting base, and yet now he has gone in exactly
[02:02:49.840 --> 02:02:58.240]  the opposite direction. Now he's got ISIS in the Oval Office, even as the Syrian regime is
[02:02:58.240 --> 02:03:06.000]  executing Christians and other ethnic groups in Syria after we help them get in power. So again,
[02:03:06.560 --> 02:03:11.840]  he honored that terrorist in the Oval Office. She was broadly criticized in 2017
[02:03:12.480 --> 02:03:18.400]  for her visit to Syria, in which she met with Assad, whose regime was accused of gross human
[02:03:18.400 --> 02:03:25.200]  rights atrocities. Gabbard later declared that Assad is, quote, not the enemy of the US,
[02:03:26.960 --> 02:03:33.600]  but the US was the enemy of Assad for all reasons as well. And again, if you go back to 2017,
[02:03:33.600 --> 02:03:38.480]  when I was at Infowars, we were pushing really hard against involvement in that war, how things
[02:03:38.480 --> 02:03:45.200]  have changed. Now Alex Jones is a cheerleader for war. He's a cheerleader for the police state
[02:03:45.200 --> 02:03:51.120]  after doing documentary after documentary about the police state in opposition to it. Now he is
[02:03:51.120 --> 02:03:59.440]  cheering it, making excuses for it. And now you have Assad gone and the guy who replaced him
[02:04:00.400 --> 02:04:04.480]  is eradicating Christian communities that have been there for thousands of years.
[02:04:04.480 --> 02:04:12.000]  This is American foreign policy under Trump. In March, Gabbard had testified to Congress,
[02:04:12.000 --> 02:04:18.720]  reflecting the intelligence community's assessment at the time that Iran was not building a nuclear
[02:04:18.720 --> 02:04:26.240]  weapon, but the pressure on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to do so was growing. Asked about the
[02:04:26.800 --> 02:04:31.920]  assertion in June, Trump said that Gabbard was wrong. He says, I don't care what she says.
[02:04:32.880 --> 02:04:38.960]  What matters to him is what Netanyahu says, what Israel says. They're the ones who own him.
[02:04:40.000 --> 02:04:44.560]  So the bottom line is there aren't any good outcomes that are going to come out of Trump's
[02:04:45.040 --> 02:04:51.200]  regime change in Venezuela. Marco Rubio came out and clarified the administration did not consider
[02:04:51.200 --> 02:04:57.840]  this to be an act of war or military operation, but rather a law enforcement endeavor. So no
[02:04:58.000 --> 02:05:04.560]  wonder they support law enforcement shooting people in the streets, right? That's what law
[02:05:04.560 --> 02:05:14.000]  enforcement looks like to them. We shoot first and don't ask any questions. Whether it's people
[02:05:14.000 --> 02:05:19.200]  in boats or people in cars, just shoot them. The soundness of that legal distinction aside,
[02:05:19.200 --> 02:05:24.480]  at a press conference the day after the operation, Trump said that in the aftermath of Maduro's
[02:05:24.480 --> 02:05:31.280]  capture, that the US government would now run Venezuela, suggesting geopolitical motivations
[02:05:31.280 --> 02:05:38.560]  that go beyond a simple execution of an arrest warrant. And think about that. You're now going
[02:05:38.560 --> 02:05:43.840]  to run it, because why? Because you took out the head of state, so you admit that he's the head of
[02:05:43.840 --> 02:05:49.440]  state. And then you say, yeah, but he was corrupt. He overthrew their elections. But the Trump
[02:05:49.440 --> 02:05:55.120]  administration is not going to put the people that they said won the election, they're not going to
[02:05:55.120 --> 02:06:03.120]  put them in place, and Trump is not going to allow elections to take place. How's he any different
[02:06:03.120 --> 02:06:10.640]  from Zelensky? He is the one who is now the corruption, the operation, yeah?
[02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:17.120]  The hype of Orwellianism that they can then turn around and say that this isn't regime change. Yes,
[02:06:17.120 --> 02:06:22.560]  the regimes have changed, but it's not regime change. Yes, we're putting in our own choice of
[02:06:22.560 --> 02:06:27.600]  who we want to rule it, but we haven't changed anything. Yeah, it is Orwellian gaslighting,
[02:06:27.600 --> 02:06:34.400]  isn't it? That's exactly what it is. So it's the culmination of a long pressure campaign by a
[02:06:34.400 --> 02:06:40.160]  coalition of industry and ideological interest groups who wanted Washington to carry out a
[02:06:40.160 --> 02:06:47.040]  regime change of Venezuela for a lot of different reasons. The coalition includes energy companies
[02:06:47.040 --> 02:06:53.040]  that want to protect and to better yet expand their access to oil deposits in the region
[02:06:53.040 --> 02:06:59.520]  and have taxpayers help them to make up for losses that they suffered when Venezuela nationalized
[02:06:59.520 --> 02:07:07.200]  its oil supply. And so he's going to, this is this kind of circular corruption that we see happening
[02:07:07.200 --> 02:07:13.680]  over and over again. Massive amounts of federal money and these people then do their kickbacks to
[02:07:13.680 --> 02:07:19.280]  Trump in various ways. Just because the Trump administration successfully orchestrated the
[02:07:19.280 --> 02:07:24.800]  capture of Maduro doesn't mean that they have succeeded in carrying out regime change, by the
[02:07:24.800 --> 02:07:31.360]  way. It's a real risk that it could devolve into the exact kind of forever war that Trump and his
[02:07:31.360 --> 02:07:38.880]  cabinet have been so dismissive of these last couple of days. Once you start trying to extract
[02:07:38.880 --> 02:07:44.240]  the oil, as I said, it's a very dangerous situation. Those are very vulnerable targets.
[02:07:45.120 --> 02:07:50.480]  And you know, once you, once you ignite a fire one of those oil wells, it is really difficult
[02:07:50.480 --> 02:07:56.640]  to get it out. It's very easy to start it, very difficult to stop it. And so Mises.org says the
[02:07:56.640 --> 02:08:02.480]  primary factor at the core of so many of our societal problems, including most that Trump
[02:08:02.480 --> 02:08:09.040]  himself ran on, the primary factor at the core of the problems is the attempt by the American
[02:08:09.040 --> 02:08:16.800]  political class to maintain a global empire with all of the economic, moral, security, and cultural
[02:08:16.800 --> 02:08:26.000]  decay that that empire will bring. And so is the constant drive towards war. The abandonment of
[02:08:26.000 --> 02:08:33.520]  basic moral norms to bolster military dominance, the almost unhuman tendency to see mass violence,
[02:08:34.080 --> 02:08:41.120]  not as a horror that should only ever be pursued as an absolute last resort, but as a lucrative way
[02:08:41.840 --> 02:08:47.360]  to enrich related industries, and to grab more and more control over domestic and foreign
[02:08:47.360 --> 02:08:52.320]  populations, and to prop up any foreign group or country that is willing to pay enough.
[02:08:53.280 --> 02:08:59.440]  That is the bankruptcy of empire. That is the bankruptcy of the American federal government.
[02:09:00.560 --> 02:09:07.200]  In the wake of horrifying wars like Vietnam, you don't get the 2003 invasion of Iraq or the 20 year.
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[02:11:06.720 --> 02:11:13.440]  Quagmire in Afghanistan without quick wins, like Reagan's invasion of Grenada or Bush
[02:11:13.440 --> 02:11:20.800]  Seniors regime change in Panama, or the dominant victory over Iraq in 1991, which Bush celebrated
[02:11:20.800 --> 02:11:26.880]  for having, quote, kick the Vietnam syndrome once and for all. Right? That's what he thought it did.
[02:11:27.600 --> 02:11:33.280]  There's another risk of Trump's intervention in Venezuela. Even if it goes well, and the region
[02:11:33.280 --> 02:11:38.480]  stabilizes in some way that Washington D.C. prefers without requiring an abnormal amount of
[02:11:38.480 --> 02:11:44.160]  tax dollars that seemingly positive outcome could be used to mislead more voters, commentators,
[02:11:44.160 --> 02:11:48.960]  and politicians into thinking that regime change and nation building are actually safe
[02:11:49.920 --> 02:11:57.200]  and worthwhile policies after all. So it is a lose-lose situation, folks. It's really a bad situation
[02:11:57.200 --> 02:12:03.840]  if it goes bad, as all these wars have, but it's also going to be a bad situation if it goes well,
[02:12:04.800 --> 02:12:09.520]  because they will be emboldened to do this. And this guy says by no means this is a reason to hope
[02:12:09.520 --> 02:12:15.120]  this is not a reason to hope for a disastrous war. Nobody wants that. But even if they win,
[02:12:15.920 --> 02:12:21.040]  we lose, because if they win, they'll do it again, just like they won with COVID,
[02:12:21.040 --> 02:12:30.240]  and they're going to do COVID again. And it's not just the USA, but it's also Russia and China
[02:12:31.040 --> 02:12:37.520]  that are being emboldened by these types of actions. If we're somehow able to navigate
[02:12:37.520 --> 02:12:43.360]  this precarious moment without another endless war breaking out, it is imperative that we prevent
[02:12:43.360 --> 02:12:49.760]  a good outcome from being used to push us even further down this terrible path that we so
[02:12:49.760 --> 02:12:56.160]  desperately need to get off of. That's absolutely right. That's the Mises people talking about that.
[02:12:56.880 --> 02:13:03.040]  So, as Trump wants to talk about this corrupt regime, and how he's not a legitimate president
[02:13:03.040 --> 02:13:07.120]  there because he overthrew the elections, but we're not going to put the people that we said won,
[02:13:07.680 --> 02:13:14.320]  and Trump has ruled out elections in Venezuela, and he's anticipating sending troops to occupy it.
[02:13:16.640 --> 02:13:22.800]  He is eviscerating his own rationale for rejecting Maduro as leader. Maduro is gone,
[02:13:22.800 --> 02:13:26.400]  but the repression of Venezuela has intensified, as I've talked about a couple of days ago.
[02:13:27.200 --> 02:13:31.760]  You've got the motorcycle gangs of collectivos that are going around,
[02:13:33.200 --> 02:13:37.920]  searching for any political opposition that is there. They've already kicked off something
[02:13:37.920 --> 02:13:44.800]  of a civil war, and the person that he wants to put in charge is actually the political ally
[02:13:44.800 --> 02:13:51.840]  of Maduro. This woman, it was 50 years ago that her father, who was a Marxist, was killed
[02:13:51.840 --> 02:13:58.000]  by American forces, and so you have to ask yourself, whose side is she really on?
[02:13:59.120 --> 02:14:04.640]  Either way, she's under duress. She's under duress from the Maduro people, from the collectivos,
[02:14:04.640 --> 02:14:11.360]  and she's also under duress from Trump. You do what I say or else. So, the Justice Department
[02:14:11.360 --> 02:14:17.520]  is walking back a claim that Maduro is the leader of the narco-terrorist cartel. As I pointed out,
[02:14:17.520 --> 02:14:23.120]  when the indictment came out, the one that they put out in March of 2020, they had listed the
[02:14:23.120 --> 02:14:30.400]  Cartel of the Suns 30 times and referred to it as an organized formal structure that was there.
[02:14:31.040 --> 02:14:36.720]  In this new indictment, they've only mentioned that name twice, and in both of those cases,
[02:14:36.720 --> 02:14:44.080]  it's put out there vaguely as an idea. But I played for you the fact that these generals,
[02:14:44.080 --> 02:14:48.000]  which is what they're calling the high-ranking generals, which is what they're calling the
[02:14:48.000 --> 02:14:55.440]  Cartel of the Suns, was working with the CIA going back into the 1980s. That was 60 Minutes,
[02:14:55.440 --> 02:15:01.120]  when 60 Minutes actually did reports. They uncovered that. So, the Trump administration
[02:15:01.920 --> 02:15:07.200]  can't get its Venezuelan story straight, and that's a big red flag, just like it was with
[02:15:07.200 --> 02:15:12.640]  Hillary Clinton and Benghazi. The United States just invaded a sovereign nation and can't coherently
[02:15:12.640 --> 02:15:18.960]  or consistently explain why. The absence of a clear purpose is already undermining the operation
[02:15:18.960 --> 02:15:24.640]  itself, leaving the people of Venezuela under confused governance and incoherent occupation.
[02:15:26.160 --> 02:15:32.000]  So, each explanation carries a different implication for authority, for duration,
[02:15:32.000 --> 02:15:38.400]  for responsibility. Together, they show senior officials talking past one another about the
[02:15:38.400 --> 02:15:44.240]  meaning of the same act of force. A law enforcement action, if that's what it is,
[02:15:44.800 --> 02:15:50.480]  would imply a very narrow scope. A national security intervention would imply an external
[02:15:50.480 --> 02:15:56.800]  threat. Economic stabilization and energy strategy would imply sustained material interests.
[02:15:57.600 --> 02:16:03.280]  Transitional governance implies responsibility for outcomes. Control over another nation's oil
[02:16:03.280 --> 02:16:09.520]  revenues implies practical authority over its wealth and its infrastructure. Each of these
[02:16:09.520 --> 02:16:16.560]  different explanations carries distinct legal, moral, and strategic consequences. If you put
[02:16:16.560 --> 02:16:23.840]  them together, they don't clarify purpose. They obscure it. In other words, we've got all these
[02:16:23.840 --> 02:16:28.800]  different, like I said, it is very much like Hillary and Benghazi. You know, every few hours,
[02:16:28.800 --> 02:16:33.840]  she had another reason for it happening. And these people have all these different reasons, which
[02:16:34.960 --> 02:16:40.480]  just don't add up. They contradict with each other. The breakdown is especially striking,
[02:16:40.480 --> 02:16:46.240]  given what this administration has proven it can do. The second Trump term has been defined
[02:16:46.240 --> 02:16:52.400]  by remarkable communications discipline under Susie Wiles, Stephen Chung, and Caroline Lovett.
[02:16:53.360 --> 02:17:00.160]  Messaging has been centralized. Talking points have been reinforced. The improvisational
[02:17:00.160 --> 02:17:06.560]  chaos of the first term has been replaced by carefully controlled strategy. Venezuela
[02:17:06.560 --> 02:17:13.120]  represents, however, the collapse of that system at the precise moment that precision matters the
[02:17:13.120 --> 02:17:19.760]  most. Foreign policy depends on clarity. Remote power projection runs on story without troops
[02:17:19.840 --> 02:17:26.320]  holding territory or administrators managing institutions. The US controls Venezuela only in
[02:17:26.320 --> 02:17:33.360]  so far as others believe that it does. Allies are watching the US claim authority that it cannot
[02:17:33.360 --> 02:17:39.440]  define. This is how missions unravel before outcomes are measured. Authority dissolves
[02:17:39.440 --> 02:17:46.320]  into confusion. Deterrence gives way to uncertainty. Incoherence compounds into failure.
[02:17:47.120 --> 02:17:52.960]  The administration still has time to consolidate its position. It can define a clear objective.
[02:17:52.960 --> 02:17:59.840]  It can state why the US acted. And it can align senior leadership behind that explanation.
[02:18:00.880 --> 02:18:07.040]  But that remains undone. Even if it were to do all that, you still have the legal and the moral
[02:18:07.040 --> 02:18:14.240]  issues that are there. And I think when you look at what is going on in the last week,
[02:18:16.800 --> 02:18:25.360]  from the kidnapping of Maduro on Saturday to the execution of this woman in Minneapolis by
[02:18:25.360 --> 02:18:30.800]  the police and the Trump administration doubling down on it, what bothers me even more than the
[02:18:30.800 --> 02:18:39.680]  lies of the Trump administration is the fact that the public is so, the MAGA people are just so
[02:18:39.680 --> 02:18:44.000]  enthralled with all this stuff, so defensive about it, just like that woman who wrote me.
[02:18:44.560 --> 02:18:48.080]  Well, that's it. I'm going to go listen to Alex Jones. Yeah, go listen to Alex Jones.
[02:18:48.080 --> 02:18:52.880]  He'll cheer war. He'll cheer the police state now. He'll tell you whatever you want to hear
[02:18:53.840 --> 02:18:58.000]  so that you can feel good about supporting Trump. You don't want to hear that Trump is
[02:18:58.640 --> 02:19:03.120]  taking us in the wrong direction, do you? You don't want to do anything about that,
[02:19:03.120 --> 02:19:06.880]  do you? You want to feel good about all that and just sit back and be passive.
[02:19:07.920 --> 02:19:13.680]  Well, that's where you should turn. The ugly truth is that many Americans love
[02:19:13.680 --> 02:19:18.320]  war. Yeah, this is the op-ed piece from Freethought Project and they're absolutely
[02:19:18.320 --> 02:19:23.520]  right. Actually, originally came from anti-war. Americans have short-term memory
[02:19:24.480 --> 02:19:29.840]  when it comes to our nation's warmongering, but when consequences are felt and casualties mount,
[02:19:30.560 --> 02:19:36.640]  the enthusiasm quickly wanes, unless you're looking at somebody that they don't like and
[02:19:36.640 --> 02:19:41.920]  then they're more than happy to see that person killed domestically. And so what they point out
[02:19:41.920 --> 02:19:48.880]  is that as soon as Trump did this, within hours, social media feeds were filled with profile
[02:19:48.880 --> 02:19:56.640]  pictures draped in the stars and stripes and statements like FAFO. The mission's execution,
[02:19:56.640 --> 02:20:02.960]  the talk of restoring democracy, tapped a familiar chord in American psyche. The reactions to this
[02:20:02.960 --> 02:20:07.520]  raid highlight an ugly truth about the United States. Americans love war. They don't like
[02:20:07.520 --> 02:20:11.920]  higher taxes. They don't like the debased currency or the flag-draped coffins that are
[02:20:11.920 --> 02:20:19.440]  all produced by the war, but they love war itself. Just like they don't love the vaccine, but they love
[02:20:20.240 --> 02:20:27.120]  Trump, who gave it to them, who gave them the lockdowns, the masks, who bribed people for it.
[02:20:27.120 --> 02:20:32.880]  That's the disconnect that is just maddening to look at. Don't be a part of that.
[02:20:32.960 --> 02:20:36.240]  Have a good weekend. Thank you for joining us.
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