Radio Show Hour 1 – 11/22/2024

[00:00:12] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West.

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[00:00:23] All right.

[00:00:25] Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans.

[00:00:27] Sam Bushman live on your radio.

[00:00:29] Hard-hitting news the networks refuse to use takes to the airwaves now.

[00:00:33] This, my fellow Americans, is the broadcast for November 22nd in the year of our Lord 2024.

[00:00:39] This is Hour 1 of 2, the goal always to protect life, liberty, and property, to promote God, family, and country,

[00:00:45] and to do so on your radio in the traditions of our founding fathers using the supreme law of the land,

[00:00:50] the Constitution for the United States of America with all of its checks and balances, jurisdictional boundaries, delegated authority, and more.

[00:00:56] Ladies and gentlemen, we reject revolution unless it's a Jesus revolution.

[00:01:00] Then we're in because we follow the Prince of Peace.

[00:01:03] Man, have we got a barn burner show today.

[00:01:05] First off, his name is Nick Begich.

[00:01:09] But he's also known as Dr. Nick Begich.

[00:01:11] He's a good friend of ours.

[00:01:13] He's been on the radio with us.

[00:01:14] Oh, man.

[00:01:15] 20, 30 years ago, he used to be on the radio with us all the time.

[00:01:18] Oh, he's been on the last couple of years once or twice.

[00:01:22] GOP candidate for Alaska's at-large House seat has defeated Mary Tola.

[00:01:30] Or Peltola, I guess is how you say her name.

[00:01:31] And so that means that there's an increased majority in the House.

[00:01:35] That battle took a long time to get done.

[00:01:37] But Nick Begich is a personal friend.

[00:01:39] How constitutional he'll be, I'm not sure.

[00:01:42] I haven't really spent too much time with him on politics.

[00:01:45] I know his brother used to be in the Senate for quite some time.

[00:01:49] You know, I think he's a great person, a good, honorable man.

[00:01:52] How constitutional he'll be, only time will tell.

[00:01:55] I'll keep an eye personally on the John Birch Society's freedom scorecard,

[00:02:01] or freedom index, if you will, to kind of know how well he votes.

[00:02:04] But he's a dear friend, a great guy.

[00:02:05] And congratulations, a big old shout-out to Nick Begich.

[00:02:10] By the way, Dr. Scott Bradley is with us, freedomsrisingsun.com.

[00:02:14] And his whole goal is to preserve the nation.

[00:02:18] freedomsrisingsun.com, the website.

[00:02:20] He wants to restore the republic of the traditions of our founding fathers.

[00:02:24] And that's the reason he's got this To Preserve the Nation Collegiate Series.

[00:02:28] It's a DVD lecture series, book, and a whole lot more.

[00:02:31] I mean, it is tremendous education.

[00:02:34] And it works for anybody, homeschoolers, collegiate folks,

[00:02:37] anybody who really wants to get a handle on the Constitution

[00:02:40] absolutely should learn about Dr. Scott Bradley's To Preserve the Nation.

[00:02:44] And you can do so over at freedomsrisingsun.com.

[00:02:48] And speaking of that, in addition to that, over at freedomsrisingsun.com,

[00:02:51] not only can you check out a lot of the past webinars that he's done,

[00:02:54] but weekly he has live webinars.

[00:02:56] Every Thursday night he breaks down constitutions, it's Q&A, and more.

[00:03:00] And you can get the good doctor's knowledge of the Constitution

[00:03:03] right out there in modern day relating to things that you're focused on

[00:03:07] and wondering about and learning about.

[00:03:09] It's just tremendous opportunity education is what I would like to call it.

[00:03:14] freedomsrisingsun.com to sign up.

[00:03:15] And Dr. Bradley, on a freedom-loving, fantastic, faith-filled Friday,

[00:03:19] welcome back, sir.

[00:03:21] Well, thank you very much, Sam.

[00:03:22] You know, I just make mention, I know you've got a lot on your plate today,

[00:03:27] so I don't want to distract you too much.

[00:03:31] But I spent 20 minutes this morning diligently searching the Internet

[00:03:35] for some whisper of remembrance.

[00:03:40] And it took me 20 minutes to find a photo remembrance,

[00:03:44] just a bunch of photos, a gallery of photos that hit this topic.

[00:03:50] But I'm just a little bit shocked.

[00:03:52] Today marks the 61st anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr.

[00:03:58] And hopefully, based on the commitments that have been made by Donald Trump

[00:04:03] to Bobby Kennedy, a nephew of John F. Kennedy Jr.,

[00:04:07] way past time legally due or certainly morally due,

[00:04:12] Trump says in this, once he's inaugurated,

[00:04:17] he's going to release the rest of the JFK report.

[00:04:20] Do you believe him?

[00:04:21] Now, I'm, say again?

[00:04:23] Do you believe him?

[00:04:24] Do you believe the Donald?

[00:04:26] Well, you know, I believe he's going to think he's releasing it.

[00:04:30] Now, that sounds like something that would be really, huh?

[00:04:34] But the fact of the matter is,

[00:04:36] I believe that the president today is being kind of fed what they want him to eat.

[00:04:43] And, you know, it's kind of a spoon-fed kind of thing.

[00:04:46] I think the president ought to have enough backbone to say,

[00:04:49] the heck you say, I'm going to go down to the archives

[00:04:52] and we're going to search them together or some such thing.

[00:04:54] I mean, this idea of a nice bound report.

[00:04:57] I have here the Warren report, which was the scurrilous cover-up

[00:05:02] that came out with Alan Dulles, the former CIA director, I should say,

[00:05:08] that John Kennedy had sacked, if you will,

[00:05:12] fired because of some egregious idiocy by Alan Dulles.

[00:05:18] Him and his brother, John Foster Dulles, who was the secretary of state of Eisenhower,

[00:05:26] I mean, those brothers have been around since the Woodrow Wilson days, you know, the 1916.

[00:05:32] So we're talking 108 years ago.

[00:05:34] They helped put together the Versailles Treaty

[00:05:39] and the League of Nations effort and everything.

[00:05:41] These guys were globalist scoundrels from the beginning.

[00:05:46] John F. Kennedy sacked Alan, his CIA director,

[00:05:50] for just unbelievable scandalous things about,

[00:05:57] excuse me, some real, well, the Bay of Pigs, if no other reason, you know,

[00:06:04] and, you know, we can maybe talk about that too someday if you want to.

[00:06:07] But the fact of the matter is,

[00:06:11] Alan Dulles was the de facto,

[00:06:15] shall we say, chair of this Warren Commission report.

[00:06:19] You know, Earl Warren was, you know, the figurehead and everything,

[00:06:22] but Alan Dulles really ran it.

[00:06:24] He had a real heartburn with Jack Kennedy.

[00:06:28] And it's just astonishing to me.

[00:06:30] Normally I have, I mean, this is how close this is to me.

[00:06:34] I usually have this report on the credenza of my, in my office here.

[00:06:40] That November 22nd, 1963, was really a watershed moment.

[00:06:46] I think for me as an American, but for the whole nation,

[00:06:50] there was a flip switch on that day.

[00:06:53] And trust me, I was not a John F. Kennedy acolyte.

[00:06:58] I mean, yeah, I had gone to see him.

[00:07:02] I think it was sticking in my mind.

[00:07:04] September 26th sticks in my mind.

[00:07:08] And he was a charismatic.

[00:07:10] I mean, he drew a crowd, baby.

[00:07:11] And we'd seen him just before this, a couple of months before his assassination.

[00:07:21] Very vibrant, very, he drew, like I say, people, they wanted to shake his hand,

[00:07:28] whether you agreed with him or not.

[00:07:29] And I wasn't one that was really particularly in his camp.

[00:07:32] In fact, I was very much opposed to much of his socialist agenda,

[00:07:36] that he had had no luck whatsoever getting through the Congress.

[00:07:40] There were more constitutionalists in those days, as you might well imagine, 61 years ago.

[00:07:46] But he, after his murder, LBJ, scoundrel that he was,

[00:07:54] went before Congress and says,

[00:07:56] we've got to pass this agenda in memory of our fallen leader.

[00:08:01] So they ran these things through.

[00:08:03] And a lot of the really bad legislation that John F. Kennedy wanted were ultimately passed.

[00:08:10] He took a big footprint in the world market, though, too.

[00:08:14] I mean, his visit to Berlin was, I mean, I don't know if Berlin still has had crowds that big.

[00:08:20] Maybe they have.

[00:08:20] I haven't followed it too much.

[00:08:23] But it was kind of analogous to the, you know, take down this wall kind of stuff that was going on.

[00:08:31] But in a global world, people looked at him with a lot of awe.

[00:08:36] And, of course, a lot of that has been spun in the ensuing 61 years to a Camelot and everything.

[00:08:42] And it really certainly wasn't Camelot.

[00:08:44] His infidelities with his wife and all those kinds of things are scandalous and scurrilous also.

[00:08:50] But 61 years ago.

[00:08:52] Oh, yeah, you've got scandals killing scandals, right?

[00:08:53] The deep state literally loves to kill one another.

[00:08:55] If they find a sense of betrayal or a reason that whatever, your usefulness to them is over.

[00:09:01] They're kind of like the mob and some of this kind of stuff.

[00:09:04] You know, JFK tried to, what, bring the $2 bill back to be a United States note rather than a Federal Reserve note.

[00:09:10] What is that, the red versus the green kind of thing?

[00:09:14] And, you know, hey, anybody that tries to really turn the country around.

[00:09:17] Now, JFK was not a perfect guy by any means.

[00:09:19] He had a lot of problems.

[00:09:20] But he did do some good different than others, at least.

[00:09:23] He gets some credit.

[00:09:24] But I just really want to know, though, you know, Trump has promised once again to release the JFK files.

[00:09:31] And JFK's assassination, what there is to know about the president's death 61 years ago is what we're talking about, folks.

[00:09:39] And I don't believe for one second that Donald will release all the files.

[00:09:43] Number one, I don't believe he'll even know.

[00:09:46] Listen carefully to me.

[00:09:47] As Dr. Scott Bradley wisely warned, I don't even know if Joe will – I'm sorry, if Donald will know if he's released all the files.

[00:09:56] He won't even know if he has all the files.

[00:09:58] Okay, the deep state is so evil, so abusive, so dishonest, so immoral.

[00:10:02] Well, we've got such a clown show up there that you won't even know if he's got all the files in it.

[00:10:07] All they'd have to do is tell him, hey, here's a box of files.

[00:10:11] That's the rest of them, president.

[00:10:13] And they could lie, and he wouldn't even know, and 30 years later would find out, oh, man.

[00:10:17] And nobody gave all the files to the Donald.

[00:10:19] They felt like he was a clown, that he wasn't deserving of knowing.

[00:10:21] And we're so sorry, too late.

[00:10:23] The people that are responsible are either old or dead kind of a thing.

[00:10:26] You won't even know.

[00:10:27] You don't even know if that stuff's being shredded or been shredded by other people.

[00:10:31] I don't even know if we're going to get to the bottom of this thing or not.

[00:10:33] Go ahead and skip the break, Liz.

[00:10:35] And then in the folder, there is a Joe Rogan, Donald Trump file that I want to play.

[00:10:40] We played this on the year before from the big old Joe Rogan, Donald Trump interview that was three hours long.

[00:10:45] But I want to play it again to kind of make my point.

[00:10:47] Donald absolutely loves the deep state.

[00:10:51] Now, I know that he says he doesn't.

[00:10:53] He says he's for America first.

[00:10:54] And I believe in his heart of hearts he believes that.

[00:10:57] OK, I don't believe Donald's lying to you.

[00:11:00] I don't believe Donald's.

[00:11:00] You know, I think he believes he's for America first and for freedom.

[00:11:04] And I believe he deeply cares about his country.

[00:11:07] I'm not here to denigrate the gentleman.

[00:11:09] But I am here to tell you that, number one, I don't know if he'll even be dealt with honestly, fairly, truthfully.

[00:11:15] Number one.

[00:11:16] And number two, he listens to the deep state.

[00:11:19] Here's the evidence on Joe Rogan.

[00:11:20] One of the things that I want to talk to you about is the JFK files.

[00:11:24] And one of the things that you said was that if they showed you what they showed me, this is your quote, you wouldn't want people to know it either.

[00:11:32] Sure.

[00:11:35] So I opened them up partially.

[00:11:40] I was met with from good people.

[00:11:43] I mean, you know, look, I mean, good people, people that were well-meaning.

[00:11:47] Mike Pompeo was one of them.

[00:11:49] He's a good person.

[00:11:52] And they called me.

[00:11:53] They said, Sarah would rather have you not.

[00:11:56] After and I did open them.

[00:11:59] But I was asked by some people not to open them.

[00:12:02] There's a Martin Luther King file, too, by the way, that they'd like to see.

[00:12:05] I don't know if you know, but there is that.

[00:12:07] But but JFK in particular.

[00:12:11] So they called me a lot of good people, called me people that I you know, that you would find reasonable people.

[00:12:17] And they asked me not to do it.

[00:12:18] So I said, well, we'll close it for another time.

[00:12:21] But if I win, I'm going to open them up.

[00:12:23] I'm just going to open enough.

[00:12:24] Why didn't you open it up the first time?

[00:12:26] Because a lot of times the hesitation addresses people that are still living.

[00:12:31] There are people that are affected.

[00:12:34] And there could be some national security reason that for you know, that I don't have to necessarily know about.

[00:12:39] But some very good, talented people asked me not to do it.

[00:12:42] I opened it up and then they said, would it be possible for us to do that a different day?

[00:12:48] What did you read into?

[00:12:54] I think it's going to be just fine to open it.

[00:12:56] Let me put it that way.

[00:12:57] I think it's fine.

[00:12:58] It's going to be time.

[00:12:59] It's a cleansing.

[00:13:00] You know, it's really a cleansing.

[00:13:01] So I'm going to do it.

[00:13:02] I'm going to do it immediately, almost immediately upon entering office.

[00:13:06] Well, the thing when people look at it from the outside and you sort of imagine what could be a reason why they would not release those files.

[00:13:15] It would be there's people that were implicated in the assassination.

[00:13:20] Well, when there are living people, you generally tend not to want to do it.

[00:13:24] When people are still living.

[00:13:26] Living people that formerly worked for the government.

[00:13:29] For the government and living people that were somehow involved in it.

[00:13:32] And you tend not to do that.

[00:13:34] But it's time to open them.

[00:13:37] I can't tell you whether or not they're going to find anything of interest.

[00:13:41] And I did partially open it.

[00:13:42] I think I've opened 50%.

[00:13:45] But I was asked not to do it.

[00:13:47] And I thought that was a reasonable ask.

[00:13:49] But now I'm going to do it.

[00:13:50] I'm going to do it very soon.

[00:13:52] There's a lot of interest in it.

[00:13:55] All right.

[00:13:55] I got a lot of problems with that whole soundbite and whole interaction.

[00:13:59] We'll let Dr. Scott Bradley give his comments here in just a second.

[00:14:03] But my response to that is this.

[00:14:06] You don't not release something because of that.

[00:14:10] If there's a specific living person that justifiably shouldn't be outed for some reason, there's always the redactive pen.

[00:14:17] You can always redact someone's name or address in tiny parts and just say, listen, there's living people.

[00:14:23] You could have a little key that goes with it, a little explanation.

[00:14:25] Hey, we're releasing all this.

[00:14:26] But there's a couple of people that are living that weren't primarily involved.

[00:14:30] But their names were mentioned for whatever reasons.

[00:14:33] And so we're not going to out those people.

[00:14:35] But we are going to release the file.

[00:14:36] So I don't buy that for one second.

[00:14:37] They release and redact all the time.

[00:14:39] Don't give me that.

[00:14:40] It isn't true.

[00:14:41] You're lying to me, Donald.

[00:14:42] And I want you to stop it.

[00:14:44] Secondly, this idea that, hey, you know, people said there might be some national security information in there that I don't need to know.

[00:14:53] Wait a minute.

[00:14:54] The president of the United States is telling me there's something from 61 years ago that has national security implications.

[00:14:58] And the president of modern day, it's so vital that you can't release it.

[00:15:01] But it's not important enough for the president of the United States, the leader of the free world, to know.

[00:15:05] That disconnect is absolutely national, international security alarming.

[00:15:13] For Donald to say.

[00:15:15] He's either absolutely talking out of both sides of his mouth or he's so ignorant.

[00:15:18] I don't dare even think he should be president.

[00:15:20] I'm not trying to attack him.

[00:15:21] I'm just telling you, okay, if it's a national security issue that's a 61-year-old, you know, classified file,

[00:15:27] and it's security relevant enough today to not release, then it's relevant enough today where he absolutely must, absolutely must know about it.

[00:15:37] You can't have it both ways.

[00:15:38] Either it's not consequential, and maybe he doesn't need to know, but then we can all know.

[00:15:41] Who cares?

[00:15:42] Or if it's that consequential, he absolutely must know as leader of the free world.

[00:15:46] And this idea that we're going to be like, hey, Donald, why don't we just open that another day?

[00:15:50] You know, just consider it another day.

[00:15:52] Just not yet, Donald.

[00:15:54] And he falls for that kind of an idea and then calls Mike Pompeo and these people great people.

[00:15:59] Okay, folks, I don't mean to be rude about it.

[00:16:01] I just cannot take that kind of response.

[00:16:04] You know, when people are living, you tend to not do that.

[00:16:07] Why?

[00:16:07] Because somebody might actually go to jail, Donald?

[00:16:09] You know, why the people that we're living are we going to protect?

[00:16:12] Now, again, if you're an innocent bystander somehow and your name was mentioned because of a newspaper and so it went into the files and you're still living and you had nothing to do with it, but your name was.

[00:16:20] Okay, I get it.

[00:16:22] In those rare examples.

[00:16:24] But what you're really doing is protecting people and protecting the deep state.

[00:16:28] And the problem is that the time has already expired where this should have been released a long time ago.

[00:16:32] You say, well, Sam, come on.

[00:16:34] Okay, what about then the Martin Luther King?

[00:16:36] Are we going to release all that information?

[00:16:38] We haven't done that either, as he wisely pointed out.

[00:16:40] Well, let's fast forward to the Barack Obama birth certificate lie.

[00:16:43] Donald was going to get to the bottom of that.

[00:16:45] We haven't seen anything of that either.

[00:16:47] Folks, I see a big problem.

[00:16:48] Dr. Bradley.

[00:16:51] Well, just a little smart aleck remark first and then we can get in some depth because you do bring up some magnificent and essential points.

[00:16:59] But just the smart aleck remark, if you don't get it immediately, think about it.

[00:17:03] But it was recently we discovered that the CIA was using a black magic marker as a highlighter.

[00:17:11] Okay, think about that for a minute.

[00:17:13] What they've been – okay, okay.

[00:17:15] I can hear the laughter in the audience.

[00:17:17] But at any rate –

[00:17:19] I'm just sitting here dumbfounded because on one hand it's laughter.

[00:17:22] On the other hand, this is the stuff we're talking about, though, in a real sense, right?

[00:17:27] Well, that's the thing is that the most – let's say you're in college and you're doing your – reading your text and everything.

[00:17:34] What do you highlight with your highlighter?

[00:17:36] It's the most essential elements.

[00:17:37] The most important stuff, my friend.

[00:17:39] Right.

[00:17:39] Right.

[00:17:40] And so they've been using a black magic marker to highlight these most essential elements.

[00:17:46] They have blacked out virtually everything.

[00:17:48] I've seen page after page after hundreds of pages completely blacked out.

[00:17:53] Okay.

[00:17:53] So – and not this – on this particular issue.

[00:17:58] But the fact of the matter is that seems to be their modus operandi.

[00:18:02] And, yeah, there were people that maybe names came up and stuff.

[00:18:07] I personally knew the gal that was developing the images that were taken by the newspapers in the moments after the assassination.

[00:18:17] She was in the darkroom of the newspaper there in Dallas doing that.

[00:18:21] I knew her personally.

[00:18:23] And so – but she's dead, you know.

[00:18:26] And, I mean, she was a little bit older than me and she was, you know, there as a, you know, young employee of the newspaper.

[00:18:35] But everybody's getting old and dying.

[00:18:37] I mean, this is not exactly what you'd call current events.

[00:18:42] But the fact of the matter is that they have hidden it.

[00:18:46] He says Mike Pompeo was a good guy.

[00:18:49] Pompeo was – he thought he had a license to kill.

[00:18:52] He's a thug.

[00:18:52] I hope he –

[00:18:53] He's a clown.

[00:18:54] He's a war criminal in my humble opinion.

[00:18:56] Yeah.

[00:18:56] And I'm afraid that Trump is still pretty close to him and he probably still has Trump's ear.

[00:19:02] But Pompeo should never have been in the assignment – in the assignments, I guess I should say, that he was in.

[00:19:08] And it was a shoot first and ask questions later kind of guy, hang them high kind of guy that really had – apparently, based on his actions, very little understanding of the Americanist form of government and we the people and all that kind of stuff.

[00:19:25] Now, if things – as you point out, if things are still of national security, I have to suspect that there were some undertows that were occurring at very high levels within the United States government.

[00:19:38] And perhaps some other governments.

[00:19:40] But I suspect that those individuals in both the United States and the other governments were of long since past.

[00:19:48] But it's time to be able to expose this.

[00:19:51] And you know what I think –

[00:19:52] But whether they've passed or not, again, if they're literally liable, though, then we need accountability.

[00:19:55] If they're not liable, then I don't have the problem with the redacted pen.

[00:19:59] I get a little bit of that.

[00:20:00] I mean, let's just say that somehow I was on the street at the time.

[00:20:03] And so they asked me to be a witness.

[00:20:05] And I said, look, I don't know.

[00:20:06] I just saw the president go down.

[00:20:08] I didn't really see who or where it came from.

[00:20:09] But it looked like the shot came from over that way.

[00:20:11] And that's all I really know.

[00:20:13] And I'm an innocent bystander.

[00:20:14] And so they interviewed me and let me go.

[00:20:16] But my name and address and all this happens to be in the file.

[00:20:18] I get that if I'm living right now, they wouldn't release that piece because it's not really that relevant, right?

[00:20:23] There are legitimate, very limited reasons why that makes sense.

[00:20:28] That does not make any sense at all to not release the whole thing, though, first of all.

[00:20:32] Secondly, again, the problem is if the government was honorable and transparent and accountable,

[00:20:38] when they had a legitimate claim of redaction, we would accept that, folks, okay?

[00:20:46] I don't mind classified information on occasion.

[00:20:48] I think there's legitimate reasons.

[00:20:50] They're few, but they exist.

[00:20:51] The problem is when the government literally classifies everything and releases nothing and there's no transparency,

[00:20:57] then you can't even trust the legitimate exceptions anymore.

[00:21:01] They've eroded, destroyed trust so much to where you can't even have any faith in the exceptions that might even be justifiable anymore.

[00:21:08] That's the problem that we've got, doctor.

[00:21:10] And Donald, 61 years later, seems to be right at the center of helping them.

[00:21:16] Yeah, it's kind of like the reverse of the boy who cried wolf.

[00:21:20] You know, he's, he, I don't know how deeply he's been involved in the redaction.

[00:21:25] He withheld all of the documents back in 2017 when he had the opportunity to release them.

[00:21:32] But it's kind of like, oh, no, no, we can't show that, we can't show that, we can't show that.

[00:21:36] And pretty soon, we don't believe anything they're saying because they have come away.

[00:21:41] Now, again, I don't know when he says he opened up 50%.

[00:21:45] What that tells me probably, he had a folder.

[00:21:48] I mean, it wasn't maybe just a manila folder.

[00:21:51] Yeah, someone handpicked what they're going to let him see.

[00:21:54] Right.

[00:21:55] And so he says he covered 50%.

[00:21:58] Well, 50%, you know, I'll bet you he didn't give it a perusal, hardly.

[00:22:04] I mean, I don't want to guess how many seconds or minutes he looked at it.

[00:22:08] But if he could go through 50% of it in that brief period of time, this is still a pretty thin set of papers.

[00:22:16] And, you know, but so he may have something he thinks is the, you know, sum and substance of it, but I suspect not.

[00:22:23] But I've got another book sitting here, and it just angers me to even look at the book.

[00:22:30] It's Robert McNamara's book, In Retrospect, where he talks about how we got in the quagmire called Vietnam.

[00:22:38] Now, this was a, it was written years after the close of the war.

[00:22:44] And he gives himself and everybody a pass on it for being naive.

[00:22:48] I'm very much, you know, summarizing if I say in one word, naive.

[00:22:53] But the fact of the matter is, it's kind of like, oh, dang, we, you know, you think we might have known better, but we didn't.

[00:23:00] And so, therefore, blah, blah, blah.

[00:23:02] And so I wonder sometimes if this kind of fluffy, in retrospect kind of attitude, how it will be brought forward.

[00:23:12] I want the cold, hard facts.

[00:23:14] Just the facts, ma'am.

[00:23:15] Remember Sergeant Friday?

[00:23:16] Amen to that.

[00:23:17] But we're not going to get those.

[00:23:17] Let's get it.

[00:23:19] Yeah, I think we're going to be hard.

[00:23:20] And that's why I don't believe Donald truly will give us this information.

[00:23:25] Let me give you another kind of an idea.

[00:23:26] This is just a weird idea, but follow me.

[00:23:28] If I promise you I'm going to release something, just listen to me carefully.

[00:23:32] I'm going to release this, Dr. Bradley.

[00:23:34] You can count on it.

[00:23:35] When I get in there, buddy, I'm going to release it.

[00:23:37] Now, do I just release it?

[00:23:40] Or do I peruse it with the idea that I'm going to review it first?

[00:23:44] Now, I promised you I'm going to release it.

[00:23:47] Do I just release it?

[00:23:48] Or do I say, hey, give me that box.

[00:23:50] I'm going to look through this thing.

[00:23:54] Because if I'm going to, you know, look through everything first and kind of vet it first, then I'm not really even on the intent of the promise.

[00:24:02] Am I?

[00:24:04] It's an interesting question.

[00:24:05] When we get back, let's have Dr. Bradley respond to that.

[00:24:07] I just want to give him time to really air out an answer.

[00:24:10] Ladies and gentlemen, this is vital stuff.

[00:24:11] And I'm not here to attack President Trump.

[00:24:12] I think he'll be way better than Kamala.

[00:24:14] Don't misunderstand me at all.

[00:24:15] But I have my serious concerns about the deep state.

[00:24:18] And I believe the deep state is absolutely controlling Donald Trump.

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[00:30:24] Okay, before the break, Sam brought up a question that I think, you know, bears consideration.

[00:30:31] He asked, basically, if you said you're going to release it, do you release it or just do you look at it and then release it?

[00:30:39] I guess there's more to it than that.

[00:30:41] But I'm of the opinion, and Sam has pointed out some of the reasons you might want to look at in advance.

[00:30:47] There may be some valid reason for something being withheld, although those would be very, very, very thin at this time.

[00:30:55] And maybe you needed to ascertain that.

[00:30:57] But in addition to that, to be able to have a pre-briefing briefing, if you will, so that when questions come up,

[00:31:05] and, you know, if this was handled right, I suspect, I mean, it's a big enough deal in this hinge point of America

[00:31:14] where they turn on small hinges but a big gate gets thrown open.

[00:31:18] This hinge point in America, if I were the president, it would seem to me, I would have a press conference.

[00:31:24] I would say today we're releasing the John F. Kennedy assassination report.

[00:31:29] And I have reviewed that report, and this is the summoned substance with the exception,

[00:31:35] if he does keep a couple of innocent bystanders' name out of it, but they would be very, very rare in my opinion.

[00:31:41] I have reviewed that report, and I'm willing to answer questions that you might have about that right now.

[00:31:47] So open it up to the press corps.

[00:31:49] And I think of the president was an upfront kind of guy.

[00:31:53] You know, Trump likes the limelight.

[00:31:56] Trump is a guy that really likes to stand and be in front of everybody.

[00:32:02] Now, a lot of times he kind of comes across as very superficial and all that kind of stuff.

[00:32:08] I don't want to completely denigrate him with that thing, but the depth and breadth of his understanding,

[00:32:13] sometimes in my mind, is called into question.

[00:32:15] But if he could address the press corps and say, you know, I looked at it, and you're getting the full report with a couple of exceptions, blah, blah, blah, whatever those would have to be.

[00:32:26] And I am appalled, or I'm confident now that the Americans have the answers.

[00:32:34] And Mr. President, I have a question.

[00:32:37] Was the CIA involved?

[00:32:39] The president could then respond, yes, they were.

[00:32:41] I mean, he knew firsthand he had read the report.

[00:32:46] And so that's, in my opinion, why the president would do that.

[00:32:50] And I think he would gain a lot about that.

[00:32:52] First of all, he'd be on the stage, and he loves that.

[00:32:54] But second of all, he could gain an openness kind of perspective with the people.

[00:33:00] You know, he could go back to the Ronald Reagan era where he took the argument to the people.

[00:33:05] I'm kind of saying, I think, if you are really going to release them, I don't have any problem if you're going to review it to say, hey, is there a tidbit or two that I don't know about that I really need to, you know, be honorable about?

[00:33:15] And, okay, I get that.

[00:33:18] Part of the other reason to review it would be, as you point out, to wisely be able to answer questions and have explanations for things and all that kind of stuff.

[00:33:27] To paint an appropriate picture.

[00:33:29] See, I don't have a problem with that.

[00:33:30] But if you are going to have a pre-briefing where somebody, I mean, I don't know who, Mike Pompeo and others are going to basically know that,

[00:33:35] you're going to open these, and somebody gets them out because you demand it, and they're like, listen, Dr. Bradley, you know, I really think we've got to wait until another day.

[00:33:42] We're going to have this discussion about it now, and then I change my mind, and I don't keep my promise.

[00:33:47] But then I'm going to run now, and I'm going to go on the biggest show in the country, and I'm going to say, but this next time I'm really going to get it done?

[00:33:54] I don't know, buddy.

[00:33:55] It's a credibility crisis for me right now.

[00:33:57] Well, the president really does have to be the president.

[00:34:01] He has to call the shot and say, you know, I hear your point.

[00:34:05] You know, you don't have to be in your face, slap them down, and put them in the corner and change.

[00:34:10] But the president needs to be able to say, you know, I made this commitment to the American people,

[00:34:16] and I do not believe that your whimpering in the corner is adequate reason to withhold this information

[00:34:23] that should have been released long ago to the American people.

[00:34:27] I think it's time that we face, you know, warts and all, what happened on this event.

[00:34:32] And the president's got to call the shot.

[00:34:34] The buck stops here, as Truman used to say.

[00:34:37] And so, yeah, if there are going to be a briefing or review or whatever in advance,

[00:34:42] and he's going to get the whimpering bureaucrats in the background that are saying, or the generals or whomever,

[00:34:49] it's one of those things that you've got to say, you know what?

[00:34:52] You know, I thank you for your input, and here's what we're going to do.

[00:34:56] Amen.

[00:34:57] Now, can I hammer this point home completely?

[00:34:59] Ready?

[00:35:01] Let's try it.

[00:35:01] There was an attempted assassination on Donald Trump's life.

[00:35:05] More than once.

[00:35:06] One of them very clear.

[00:35:08] Guy got shots off and everything.

[00:35:10] They basically came back with whoever's reviews, and they're like, oh, by golly, the guy just missed.

[00:35:15] He was kind of an idiot.

[00:35:15] He didn't really know what he was doing and whatever lies and all this other stuff, okay?

[00:35:19] There's only one guy.

[00:35:20] We don't know if there was multiple shooters.

[00:35:21] There was all these things.

[00:35:22] All right, if you can't get to the bottom of the JFK assassination because Donald wouldn't open it up because he got talked out of it,

[00:35:28] how likely do you think with living people everywhere right now except for the guy that they killed?

[00:35:34] Right?

[00:35:34] Okay.

[00:35:35] Do you think they're going to get to the bottom of that one?

[00:35:38] Oh, I think there's a lot of them.

[00:35:39] It's literally fresh, modern right now, okay?

[00:35:41] And they're telling you, oh, we're going to have reviews.

[00:35:42] We're going to get to the bottom of it.

[00:35:43] Things don't stack up.

[00:35:44] Things don't make sense.

[00:35:45] Even Donald's wife's like, we've got to really do something about this.

[00:35:48] We've got to know what's going on.

[00:35:49] Okay.

[00:35:49] Are they going to get to the bottom of that one that's fresh on our minds?

[00:35:52] Right now, recent, current, modern, if they're not going to get to the 61-year-old one?

[00:35:57] I don't have any confidence.

[00:35:58] Do you?

[00:35:59] No, I don't.

[00:36:00] And there's so many unanswered questions in this more recent event.

[00:36:04] And there were other people that were shot, wounded, killed, all that kind of stuff that we really do deserve.

[00:36:13] And the incompetence of a DEI hire that ultimately resigned when her incompetence was shown so publicly in the hearing.

[00:36:25] But that's not the only one.

[00:36:26] I mean, the agents that were involved.

[00:36:28] I suspect the agents that were involved were largely DEI hires also.

[00:36:34] And this Secret Service thing has really put in question.

[00:36:39] I mean, yeah, it's like everything they ever told you was a lie.

[00:36:43] Remember the book by your buddy?

[00:36:45] Yeah, Pat Channing.

[00:36:46] Yes, sir.

[00:36:47] Great.

[00:36:47] Anyway, no, the fact of the...

[00:36:49] But look, can you have any trust in President Trump, though?

[00:36:51] He didn't get to the bottom of even the birth certificate of Barack Obama discussion.

[00:36:55] And I mean, Joe Arpaio, former sheriff, literally proved without a doubt with forensic experts and everything else that the birth certificate was a fraud.

[00:37:03] Now, are we going to get to the bottom of that?

[00:37:06] No, they just mock us and go, you guys are a bunch of birthers.

[00:37:09] No, I want to know if the birth certificate was a fraud.

[00:37:12] And I'm convinced that it was based on the research and evidence Joe Arpaio brought forward.

[00:37:15] But the media ignored it.

[00:37:16] The president ignored it.

[00:37:17] Donald was on the bandwagon.

[00:37:19] And then he changed his mind when he became president.

[00:37:22] Now, he changed his mind on the JFK assassination stuff.

[00:37:25] He changed his mind on...

[00:37:26] So how much is Donald Trump into transparency and accountability before the American people?

[00:37:31] I don't think very much from what I see.

[00:37:35] I really don't.

[00:37:36] He's got to be presidential.

[00:37:38] He's got to say, OK, you know, I'm going to have this independently examined by some experts that I'll bring in, blah, blah, blah, whatever.

[00:37:46] But the fact of the matter is that the president...

[00:37:51] I think this is a major flaw that Donald Trump suffers from.

[00:37:55] And it is that he relies on a cadre of people that surround him and insulate him.

[00:38:04] And they feed him the stuff.

[00:38:05] Now, he's not being fed pablum like Joe Biden is right this minute.

[00:38:10] But the fact is, I suspect he really does oftentimes roll over, capitulate.

[00:38:18] We've talked about this a lot on your program.

[00:38:19] He got rolled all the time by people in his administration.

[00:38:22] Well, it's about to happen again.

[00:38:24] Because again...

[00:38:24] It is.

[00:38:24] I'm sorry.

[00:38:25] I'm sorry.

[00:38:25] He tried to put Matt Gaetz as the attorney general.

[00:38:29] Matt's now backed away.

[00:38:31] Matt says, I don't want to be a distraction to this.

[00:38:33] The government says there's nothing to the allegations against him.

[00:38:37] OK?

[00:38:38] Donald now puts somebody else in place.

[00:38:41] And this somebody else in place isn't near as bold as a Matt Gaetz would be.

[00:38:48] Trump picks...

[00:38:49] What's this lady's name?

[00:38:51] Pam Bondi as the attorney general.

[00:38:54] Now, she used to be the attorney general of Florida.

[00:38:57] You know, will she be as good as Matt Gaetz will be?

[00:38:59] I don't know.

[00:39:00] She may be better.

[00:39:02] Some are saying better.

[00:39:04] But all I can tell you is I look at this and I just go, OK, well, people at the beginning said,

[00:39:12] hey, was Matt Gaetz put there for just the purpose of kind of being a patsy?

[00:39:18] You know, they'll kick him out and it won't matter.

[00:39:21] And, you know, he'll be kind of the sacrificial lamb, so to speak.

[00:39:25] Like, people speculated about that.

[00:39:27] And then others are like, no, no, no, that can't be.

[00:39:29] Donald's really serious about pushing this through.

[00:39:31] Well, now you look at it and go, was it the sacrificial lamb?

[00:39:34] Now that Donald's kind of had him beg off so quick and jettisoned that,

[00:39:39] do they put him in Marco Rubio's vacant Senate seat and say, hey, that was kind of the plan all along?

[00:39:45] You know, the problem is I have no understanding or trust in what's going on here.

[00:39:51] What's really behind the scenes happening?

[00:39:52] And you'll never know.

[00:39:53] And nobody, at least on the watch that I know that's there, will tell you.

[00:39:57] Nobody.

[00:39:58] Not Matt Gaetz, not Donald Trump.

[00:39:59] Nobody.

[00:40:00] And I look at that and I go, hmm, maybe the sacrificial lamb idea that the liberals put forth,

[00:40:05] maybe there's some substance to that, right?

[00:40:11] And there's historical precedent for a lot of these things that we see.

[00:40:16] You know, even Supreme Court potential, I guess I should say,

[00:40:21] Supreme Court impeachments and so on during the LBJ period of time.

[00:40:26] I mean, where somebody gets traded off for somebody else,

[00:40:28] hey, we'll let you take this guy out, but we get these other people.

[00:40:32] And I can see this Bondi woman.

[00:40:35] She's never been on the national scene.

[00:40:37] And so, obviously, we probably don't know much about her.

[00:40:40] Go ahead, Dr.

[00:40:41] But, you know, there's been other attorney generals that have had a very prominent position

[00:40:44] that proved themselves incompetent.

[00:40:46] I mean, we might look at our current vice president.

[00:40:49] So there are a lot of questions of that.

[00:40:52] And, yeah, you're right.

[00:40:53] Maybe Gaetz will be appointed to an empty Senate seat.

[00:40:56] Who knows?

[00:40:57] I mean, I think they want to keep him in play as one of the moving parts

[00:41:02] because he is kind of a firebrand, if you will, in regards to advocacy for Trump.

[00:41:12] And he was stirring the pot trying to get the Justice Department to quit being a lawfare kind of thing.

[00:41:20] So, you know, but I've always thought that he would be the initial sacrifice and how they use him after that.

[00:41:29] You know, they'll say, okay, we'll give you this guy.

[00:41:31] Back off.

[00:41:32] Give us these other guys.

[00:41:33] And, by the way, they're doing that right now, even as we speak, on appointment of federal judges.

[00:41:39] There have been deals cut where some judge seats are being held off on appointment by Biden

[00:41:47] with the assurance that other judge seats, that's about a two-to-one ratio.

[00:41:51] They get about two appointments for every one that Trump will get.

[00:41:56] So Biden right now is appointing federal judges at a breakneck speed.

[00:42:01] Kamala's going to be there to make sure she breaks any tie votes.

[00:42:06] And Biden is trying to exceed the maximum that's been previously done.

[00:42:12] Federal judges appointed during his administration.

[00:42:15] And the Trump people are saying, okay, will they give you these if we get these?

[00:42:21] And it's a horse trading deal.

[00:42:24] You know, the stuff that's on the table.

[00:42:27] Yeah, everybody said, no, no, no, he can't be a sacrificial lamb.

[00:42:30] Donald's serious about this.

[00:42:31] But I'm just saying to you, hey, you know, unless you're promised something down the road

[00:42:36] that you agree to the deal up front, and if that's the case, you're not being transparent

[00:42:40] to the American people.

[00:42:41] Otherwise, hey, Matt Gaetz gets the chopping block with full intent by Donald.

[00:42:45] How loyal is that kind of a thing?

[00:42:47] Any way you look at it, it does not smack of statesmen.

[00:42:52] It smacks of dirty, evil, behind-the-scenes, deep state politics is what it smacks of, in my opinion.

[00:43:00] Okay, now Trump, though, headline, this is kind of interesting.

[00:43:04] Trump is rounding out his second administration with television stars, writes New York Times.

[00:43:10] Now, I'm not a fan of the New York Times, but I keep an eye on what they do because I've learned

[00:43:15] that keeping an eye on the enemy is really critical.

[00:43:17] But Trump literally is rounding out his administration with more TV stars than last time.

[00:43:22] conservatives were quick to declare that traditional media was dead, and I'm one of them, by the way.

[00:43:28] But turns out that a lot of it is just moving into the West Wing, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:43:33] At this rate, the second season of the Trump administration will have more TV stars and more, quote,

[00:43:39] media personnel than the first one.

[00:43:41] So how do you trash the media all day long of how evil they are?

[00:43:46] And then that's where your primary, I don't know what you want to call it, picking grounds to staff your administration comes from?

[00:43:52] I mean, you can name a person that he's picked in the last little bit, famous names.

[00:43:58] Every one of them has had big-time, big-money TV stints, Dr. Bradley.

[00:44:04] That alone is concern because even if you are a good guy, Donald Trump, and you want transparency and accountability,

[00:44:10] surrounding yourself with these people that are big media people, you know they won't all go your way.

[00:44:15] You know they'll run interference and play games and be a fly in the ointment, a burr under the saddle of the administration.

[00:44:21] At least you better know that, right?

[00:44:24] Well, Sam, you know, recent administrations have had what's – you know, we talk about this being in the regulatory agencies,

[00:44:32] this revolving door from the industry and into government and then back out again.

[00:44:38] You know, there's a lot of people.

[00:44:39] I'm Stephanopoulos.

[00:44:40] I mean, think how far back that happened.

[00:44:42] And he revolves out of this Clinton thing and he goes into, you know, a big paycheck in the media.

[00:44:49] I mean, and you look at other press, you know, secretaries that are doing the same thing, and I suspect it will continue to happen.

[00:44:57] But here's a couple of things.

[00:44:59] By the way, I hope we do come back to this idea of the traditional media being on the ropes and the MSNBC and the CNBC thing.

[00:45:08] Maybe we can talk about that and how that reflects.

[00:45:11] We're ready for it right now.

[00:45:12] That's the topic at hand.

[00:45:13] So I'm saying, look, Donald Trump is moving a lot of these people.

[00:45:16] Now, many of them are from Fox.

[00:45:18] But he's moving a lot of these people into his administration.

[00:45:21] I mean, you name one of the top picks, they've had a stint in the media for big money.

[00:45:24] It's a revolving door.

[00:45:25] And how do you trash the mainstream press, say how awful they are, but yet bring half these people into your administration?

[00:45:31] But it doesn't make any sense to me.

[00:45:33] I suspect that Trump will find something that the Kamala Harris campaign found, that the American public did not give a hang what celebrities said.

[00:45:46] You know, this big endorsement by the singer.

[00:45:49] I can't even remember her name.

[00:45:50] Anyway, for Kamala.

[00:45:52] Her name is Swifty, Taylor Swift.

[00:45:54] Oh, okay, whatever.

[00:45:55] I mean, it shows how big an image this person has in my life.

[00:45:59] But the fact of the matter is, what happened with all of these big Hollywood stars, you know, coming out and endorsing Joe and everything like that.

[00:46:08] I mean, George Clooney had a big thing on Biden setting aside.

[00:46:11] But what happened was the American public did not give a hang what these glitz and glitter kind of people had to say.

[00:46:20] And Trump could get to that point where they're saying, you know what, he's an empty suit.

[00:46:25] Or an empty-headed plaything or whatever else they want to call whomever has put in these assignments.

[00:46:31] There needs to be some substantive, quality, principles-based people put in.

[00:46:36] And I don't know, Dr. Oz, this guy has some whacked ideas.

[00:46:41] I mean, he was, holy cow.

[00:46:43] I mean, some of the medical, I mean, I'm not saying, well, yeah, he did.

[00:46:48] He was a big vaxxer and all that kind of stuff.

[00:46:52] Yeah, maybe he'll play the counterbalance of JFK and make sure JFK's wings are clipped, huh?

[00:46:58] Well, maybe.

[00:46:59] But the fact is, I think Trump is verging on a credibility issue with celebrities.

[00:47:06] And, you know, maybe he can rein that in and make it look like, oh, these really are qualified individuals.

[00:47:11] But if they really are just somebody that came out of the, you know, the big media thing, it's going to lose credibility pretty quick.

[00:47:20] And I think that's a danger that he absolutely faces.

[00:47:25] You said we were ready to move on to the MSNBC, CNBC thing and the Comcast divestiture.

[00:47:32] Yeah, so supposedly they're losing viewers big time and they're melting down.

[00:47:35] Rachel Maddow just got a big old pay cut and all this kind of stuff.

[00:47:39] And, you know, they say they got to spin off the units and all that kind of stuff.

[00:47:43] It's just a remaking, reorganizing the chairs on the Titanic in many ways.

[00:47:48] But when Donald Trump continues to, you know, if he's going to sit down with somebody, he sits down with these people.

[00:47:54] He sits down with liberals.

[00:47:55] He sits down with the mainstream press.

[00:47:57] He doesn't sit down with people that would be honorable or fair or help him understand the Constitution or anything like that.

[00:48:03] And so I look at this and I say, I mean, I appreciate that everybody thinks the media is melting down and I think they've lost credibility.

[00:48:10] But as long as Donald and others prop them up and as long as there's big money behind the scenes and quid pro quos and everything else, I don't see the media going away anytime soon, doctor.

[00:48:19] In fact, I see it being propped up by these people.

[00:48:22] Well, first of all, let me just briefly mention Rachel Maddow took a $5 million a year contract cut.

[00:48:31] And it's good for another five years or something.

[00:48:33] I don't know.

[00:48:33] I didn't look at the length of it particularly.

[00:48:35] But but it was $30 million a year.

[00:48:38] And she's taken one old Crimea River to $25 million a year.

[00:48:42] I mean, she's going to make $25 million for the next five years, just so you know.

[00:48:46] How can a talking head be worth that much?

[00:48:49] I don't know. But but at any rate, so there's a Crimea River kind of thing here.

[00:48:53] And yes, the NBC, I mean, CNBC and MSNBC has broken away these cable entities that are losing readers or at least listeners or, you know, people that are interested in them or participating.

[00:49:06] And that stuff's going on.

[00:49:09] But but it just think about this for a second, Sam.

[00:49:13] You're right.

[00:49:14] They're going to be a very well funded startup is what they might call them.

[00:49:17] And and because Trump is meeting with those people that have been absolutely brutally, shall I say, critical of of his anything that he's done, have been his enemies a day and night.

[00:49:37] Oh, oh.

[00:49:39] We'll try to get Dr. Scott Bradley back.

[00:49:43] I don't know what happened with that.

[00:49:46] All right, Liz, thank you so much working on getting Dr. Scott Bradley back.

[00:49:50] I don't know how we lost him, but I agree with Dr. Bradley here.

[00:49:53] Look, this is a disaster.

[00:49:55] Conservatives are quick to say that traditional media is dead.

[00:49:58] It isn't dead because they continue to put tons of money in it.

[00:50:01] It isn't dead because Donald Trump continues to prop it up.

[00:50:05] Let me give you an example to make the point here.

[00:50:08] All right.

[00:50:08] Everybody's running around going, Rachel got a big cut and she did.

[00:50:11] OK.

[00:50:13] I mean, at least for me, it's a huge cut.

[00:50:16] But MSNBC star Rachel Maddow is taking a five million dollar pay cut.

[00:50:23] They say amid growing uncertainty about the channel's future.

[00:50:28] The Ankler reported.

[00:50:32] Now, they say Maddow.

[00:50:35] Listen to this.

[00:50:36] Who currently makes 30 million dollars a year at the network is taking a pay cut.

[00:50:44] Now she's only going to get 25 million a year for the next five years.

[00:50:49] So she takes a five million dollar pay cut, a 15 percent pay cut, 30 million, 15 percent, 25 million.

[00:50:56] All right.

[00:50:57] Now, or 24, it's almost 15 percent.

[00:50:59] And I look at that and I go, you know, that's a significant dollar amount to me because the pay cut she took, five million dollars.

[00:51:07] Is, you know, how much more than I make, right?

[00:51:10] And even if I make 100 grand, 10 times that would be a million.

[00:51:15] So 50 times what I make is her pay cut.

[00:51:18] And she's only cut, you know, less than 15 percent.

[00:51:23] Okay.

[00:51:24] Rachel's not hurting.

[00:51:25] The network's not melting down.

[00:51:26] It isn't true.

[00:51:28] Otherwise, you would let a host like that go and find somebody for a couple of hundred grand that could fill in.

[00:51:33] Or you would.

[00:51:34] Okay.

[00:51:34] But so I appreciate that.

[00:51:37] But she's paid $30 million a year, Dr. Bradley, and she's cutting back to 25 million a year because, by golly, they're worried about the stability and, you know, the wherewithal of the network.

[00:51:47] I mean, at some point it doesn't even make any sense.

[00:51:50] Well, your point is well taken.

[00:51:53] And, you know, there's the stuff that comes out on the surface is usually a lie, I'm sorry to say, but I'm that jaded and critical.

[00:52:03] But the point of the matter beyond that, too, though, is that Trump, you know, he's had these people that have been at his throat for the entire time he's been doing anything, probably since about 2015.

[00:52:17] He's critical, angry, you know, hateful in any way they can, throw dirt on his feet, anything like that.

[00:52:24] And as soon as he gets elected, he gives them an interview.

[00:52:28] I mean, he's propping up his own best enemies, you know, and that's just what the United States does, you know.

[00:52:35] The United States has created its own, we've got the best enemies money can buy.

[00:52:41] And Trump, if he pulls this stunt, it's kind of like, the heck you say?

[00:52:45] We'll let you guys in the front door when you look like you're maybe going to, you know, be, shall we say, at least polite.

[00:52:54] And so all of this kind of stuff, I mean, it just makes you think, what the heck is going on?

[00:52:59] But if MSNBC and NBC and some, I mean, CNBC are broken off, they're still going to have a big footprint.

[00:53:09] They're still multi-billion dollar operation.

[00:53:12] But maybe, Sam, maybe they have lost some credibility, and this is shown in their decreased readership, you know.

[00:53:21] All I can tell you is if you're making $30 million a year and you take a $5 million pay cut because they're worried about growing concern about the channel's future.

[00:53:33] If you really have concern about the channel's future, do you just give her less than a 15% pay cut and still pay her $25 million?

[00:53:42] Now, I don't mean to be rude, but there's a gazillion reporters that are very good.

[00:53:47] Maybe not as star-studded as they've turned her into, or whatever.

[00:53:51] But that you could pay, you know what, a million dollars a year.

[00:53:54] And they'd be plenty happy to fill in and do it, okay?

[00:53:58] I guarantee it.

[00:53:59] Even $250 grand a year.

[00:54:00] You know, the President of the United States makes $400 grand a year, for example, to make the point.

[00:54:05] Okay, this idea that they're cutting her back is a joke.

[00:54:08] She doesn't care.

[00:54:09] My gosh, I got to cut.

[00:54:10] I can't spend $30 million a year now.

[00:54:12] I'm only on $25 million.

[00:54:14] It reminds me of the Alex Jones clown show, where Alex Jones is like,

[00:54:17] Man, they've paired me back to $50 grand a month.

[00:54:19] This is horrible.

[00:54:20] I can't even live.

[00:54:22] And it's like, what?

[00:54:24] Okay, folks, we are being lied to and manipulated.

[00:54:27] The mainstream press has lost credibility.

[00:54:29] There's no doubt about it.

[00:54:30] But like IBM, they're not going away anytime soon.

[00:54:32] I can promise you that.

[00:54:33] Or AT&T or any of these.

[00:54:35] It's too big to fail, folks.

[00:54:37] We got a whole lot more where that came from.

[00:54:38] Hour 1 in the can.

[00:54:39] Hour 2 coming up.

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