[00:00:04] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West. You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. President Donald Trump's decision to exclude CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the press corps. I think that was a huge mistake by President Trump. Now he's stepped in it.
[00:00:31] But the media is really taking advantage of this thing, too, because the judge restored their access. So they're back. But the problem is they're not reporting. There's still a blackout. And so the court ordered the White House to restore access, but it did not order the network to cover events. So now Donald's in a big old pickle. I personally think, though, that if they get special privilege to be there and the government mandates via the courts they have to be there,
[00:00:59] and the president can't decide and everything else, the question, who is able to decide? Some people are not even members of the press corps. Some members of the press corps don't get near the access that others do, etc. So it's a game right from the start. However, if you're going to be there by force but yet you're not going to report, I think the people should sue. Something needs to happen here. And the media, again, at the center, they've been a problem from the Founding Fathers' day till now, and it's becoming an epic battle. Dr. Bradley?
[00:01:27] Well, I think there is a wrestling match going on. But honestly, again, temper tantrums and everything aside, the fact of the matter is that the First Amendment, the speech, the press, and the assembly, and all those kind of things are there to make certain that the people are hearing about what's going on. But Trump was manipulating that message with a filtering system,
[00:01:53] and only approved presenters were going to be allowed. Okay, this is so deleterious to the whole American way. Yeah, but the whole idea of a press corps is that in and of itself. It is indeed. And the press corps, I think, will get over their little tiff, but the point of the matter is that maybe, just maybe they're thinking, well, what if Trump appeals this? What if he says, no, no, we're not going to let the MS and all those guys get back in again.
[00:02:23] And so I think that what's maybe a little holdback is being done by the press corps. But let me just give you, we must have the opposing views. And Trump is attempting to silence that. You've been silenced. I mean, you've never been invited, for example. Oh, yeah, I've been silenced on many fronts. See, that's why I say this is a massive mistake from Trump in the beginning, but it's a massive by the media, too. And that's why I'm wondering if maybe alt-media like us need to get together and do a class action lawsuit against both of them,
[00:02:53] sue Donald and sue them, and say, you know what? Both of you clowns are preventing us from getting the information necessary for a free press. You know, you guys have special access press corps, so you've got special privilege. The lever has pulled in your favor against the rest of us already. And then secondly, the president wants to shut down free speech further, and then you guys want to retaliate against Donald and do a blackout and shut down free speech. I mean, all you clowns need to be sued. Well, here, let me just go back to 1968,
[00:03:19] just to give you an example where a free press that would speak the truth to power in spite of what power was saying. Okay, some of you may remember, most of you probably don't, but you may have heard of it, the Tet Offensive that started in February of the Chinese New Year in 1968. Brutal, unbelievable. We were losing hundreds of Americans. And the president would say, we're on the verge of victory,
[00:03:46] kind of like what Trump does about every 30 minutes on this Iran thing. And the, you know, come on, you know, we're just, it's just teetering, we're going to win and everything like that. Walter Cronkite, who was known as the most trusted man in America, maybe he coined his own term, I don't know. Almost got me. But here's the deal. He went to Vietnam, boots on the ground himself, to look at what was going on. He reported on the dire strait of the Vietnam War
[00:04:14] and how the administration was misleading the nation. And he did this on the 27th of February. He came on the air, national television, and he said, we've got to look for an honorable way out of this thing. Okay, so here was a press court. Now, by the way, Cronkite was a globalist, a New World Order guy and all that kind of stuff that didn't come out until after he retired. But the fact of the matter is, here he went and was able to report the truth
[00:04:42] in spite of what the filtered administration message was. And he said, we're in big trouble. Now, by the way, yes, the administration was misleading the nation completely, just like Donald Trump is right this very minute. And Donald Trump is trying to filter. And what if the only approved messages were allowed? And that's where he's going. And that's the problem. See, Donald said, hey, they're peddling fake news.
[00:05:10] I'm not stopping free speech, but I'm stopping, you know, fake news. And the problem becomes, who's the decision maker of that? And the free press says Sam is. Scott is. CNN is. Whoever is, right? Anybody is. Everybody has got to get a discerning spirit. They've got to pay attention. They've got to put skin in the game. We cannot just go to sleep on this and say, oh, it's okay.
[00:05:37] MS now is going to do this for it. No, you and I have a role to play. I hope something is going right from what we're doing. But every single American has got to grow a backbone and start watching these things. And you know when Walter Cronkite used to end his sign-off statement every time, and I'll just use that day on the 27th of February as the example he used to say, that's the way it is.
[00:06:05] February 27th, 1968. That was an authoritative statement. And he had more integrity on that than, I believe, CNN and MS Now and Politico. Oh, yeah. That's right. And that's why I'm not picking Donald's site or the news sites in this. Fox is part of it. Fox backed the press in attacking Donald. So the problem is, you know, hey, these news organizations are correct about this.
[00:06:30] Where they're not correct, though, is when they have special access compared to the rest of us. So they're the chosen media, so to speak. And then when they basically get back in there and refuse to report. See, they're supposed to report and share their reports with the other media. That was the intention. And they're not doing that either. So I think there's some real lawsuits that could go on here. And I'm not really a lawsuit guy, but I'm just saying at some point this has got to stop, though. It does. Both sides have got big problems on this thing.
[00:06:58] And I don't support either side in this battle. But they say there's a 14-day hold on this thing, and we'll see if Trump, what he does, and we'll see what they do. Are they going to start covering things again? Or is Trump going to sue them again? You know, what's going to happen here? But neither side's right in this, in my opinion. Well, here's the problem. If it goes back to what it was before, and Fox News is the shill for the administration on everything, from the Iran war to everything that is being done, ICE, everything like that.
[00:07:28] I mean, it's interesting to me. I look at so many news sources when I'm trying to ascertain what's going on. There are some that are 100% predictable in how they are going to come down on any issue. And I can look at a headline and I can say, okay, I know what this is about because they're the shill. Oh, yeah, they're going to be pro-Israel, anti-Trump. They're going to this. They're going to that. They're going to promote socialism. You can just see where they come down on it, right? Absolutely. I know that before I read the article.
[00:07:57] And so that's why, I mean, I look all over the nation and the world when I look at the different news feeds. And honestly, I've come to the conclusion that there's more freedom of the press in many countries around the world than there is in the United States of America. We have a controlled press. Sadly, that's reality. Just as a little point before we leave this. There was a yellow rag journalist named James Collender back in the day of Thomas Jefferson's administration.
[00:08:26] He got heartburn because Jefferson didn't help him get a civil service job. So he started ragging on Jefferson. He's the guy that started the deal about Sally Hemings and Jefferson and a child and blah, blah, blah. None of it which has been proven in spite of what most of the news reports say. The Nature magazine thing was retracted because the investigation was faulty, all that kind of stuff. But the reason I bring it up is this.
[00:08:54] This was really, really scandalous in Jefferson's time. And there was an individual that visited Jefferson at Monticello in his office. And there were newspapers in his office that held that story on it. And Jefferson pointed them out to the visitor saying, You can go out and tell your people that you saw that Jefferson had those articles in his office and was aware of them and reading them.
[00:09:23] They don't shut down the media because there isn't an approved message being delivered. And this is the whole idea behind, not the whole idea, but a big portion of the idea behind the First Amendment. The people have that amendment to make certain that there are contrary voices that are able to be voiced and heard. Like the voice we're having now where we're accusing the media and Trump both of stifling true, honest reporting, etc.
[00:09:52] And so that's why I say both of them deserve to be sued, though. Because, hey, how do we the people stop this from happening? What options do we have? And you've got two choices. You've got a choice of who you want to listen to. Right? You've got two choices. Who you want to listen to. You can decide with your ears and your mouth and your money and your whatever. And secondly, a redress of grievance, which is First Amendment stuff, right? People got to grow a backbone to find it. I did a...
[00:10:21] Yeah, but how do you propose they grow a backbone? I just gave two examples. Exactly. And we've got to take our place in this. And we can't just hand it off to somebody else. And that's what we're doing. What we've done is the American people sit idly by and Donald vies for his position and they vie for their position. And you and I lose freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the process. Go ahead and skip the break. Sorry. There's just too much to cover. Too little time.
[00:10:51] Did Trump take over Greenland as he claims? That was one of the big topics you guys had last night as well, right, doctor? Indeed, it was. And honestly, Trump has been trying for months to blow on the embers of getting a bonfire going to burn Greenland down. And now he makes this big announcement. We got everything we wanted. It's not going to cost us a penny. We're in control. We're the adjudicator and the filter and everything else like that.
[00:11:18] And actually, he's always long on promise. He's short on details. You know, I think this really is just an update of the 1951 U.S.-Denmark Treaty. And the fact of the matter, he says, no other president's ever been able to do this. And I did this and blah, blah, blah, blah. No, it's not. It's just a refreshing of a 1951 treaty.
[00:11:42] And honestly, there's no written document now that we can analyze. All he does is he comes up and makes all of these statements and the press and everything. Yeah, they had a signing at the United Nations confound. Yeah, we have no idea what's in that thing at all. No, we don't. But honestly, oh, Trump said it's a dream come true and I've done it at no cost.
[00:12:08] And full control, he didn't get full control. They're sovereign. They've got their relationship between Denmark and Greenland and the United States. Yeah, they've got some deal worked out. What it really amounts to is up in the air. Trump claims everything. But the truth is, we don't even have any idea. And my response is, I want them to release what they signed. That's the problem is that it was probably some kind of one page memo of understanding that we're going to negotiate this out.
[00:12:36] Then it's got to go through the Danish and the Greenland parliaments and probably the Congress. And if it's a treaty, it'll certainly have to go through the Senate. But really and truly, there's so much hype about all this kind of stuff. And really, I don't think there's been a shred of change. Now, maybe Trump feels good enough under this now to maybe put his golden dome over Greenland.
[00:13:05] Greenland is strategic in the sense that, you know, if you're going to get launched against, it's usually a polar launch for ballistic missiles. It's a shorter distance between any place in the world almost and across the poles. So Greenland's in a strategic place for keeping your eyes over the horizon. And there's some strategic minerals there and all those kind of things. All of this stuff is important. But they are a sovereign nation. And this idea that we're going to come in and bully everybody with a bellicose idea,
[00:13:36] you know, when Trump talked in front of the United Nations, he says, I can't decide if I'm going to annihilate them or send them all to hell. For crying out loud, where's our diplomacy? Where's our statesmanship? Where's somebody that actually believes that we are a nation on the high ground? And it certainly isn't our president. Amen to that. And that's why we need to talk about, you know, hey, Greenland is just part of the discussion. The real discussion is Iran war developments. What's happening there?
[00:14:03] And hey, why does Israel need 40,000, 2,000-pound bombs paid for by taxpayers? I mean, Donald's giving them this, right? Well, here's the way that happens. Again, there's so many moving parts on this. But here's the deal. Israel's picking up 40,000 at 2,000-pound bombs. 40,000 tons of explosive.
[00:14:26] Okay, now to give you some idea, the biggest, baddest deal that we ever dropped on Berlin in March of 1945, it was the biggest raid. Thousands of heavy bombers delivered what was to be a knockout punch to Berlin. And we put out 3,000 tons. 40,000 tons. Not 40,000 tons. Is what we're delivering. I mean, you look at the explosive power. These are true blockbusters.
[00:14:56] I mean, their blast radius is over a half a mile, so a mile diameter. Vaporizing things. They're truly blockbusters. I mean, Gaza's already in rubble as bad as anything in World War II. Probably 95% of the homes there have been destroyed. Are they going to use these in Lebanon? Oh, maybe it's Iran. But we... Excuse me. Here's the deal. We send them...
[00:15:26] I think this deal is something like $3 billion. We send them $3 billion, and they purchase the weaponry from our military industrial complex. So U.S. taxpayer dollars are buying these 40,000, 2,000-pound bombs, and they are being sent to Israel. And this is... Again, we can try some of these... Pull on some of these strings.
[00:15:52] This came through the American embassy with Huckabee in it in Jerusalem. The guy that wrote this up was Mark Levin's relative. I don't know if he's an adopted son or a stepson, or he's some kind of relative. Mark Levin, the Fox News guy that rails in favor of the Israeli war constantly. There's a package going on. And the guy that believes in ConCon, too, from what I understand, right? Oh, my goodness, yes.
[00:16:20] Yes, in fact, I've got a big presentation I do on the fallacies of Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments. Oh, my heavens. But that was done years ago before he had completely exposed himself as one that would put Israel first over the United States. At any rate... It's problematic that we're giving all these bombs to Israel. Israel has proven themselves to be a belligerent, crazy aggressor. Benjamin Netanyahu is literally railing on everybody.
[00:16:48] In Congress, you know, the international courts say he's a war criminal. I'm not really a fan of the international courts, but I happen to agree with this one. This guy's out of control. Giving him 40,000, 2,000-pound bombs is insane. And we, the people, are broke. We're $40 trillion in debt and increasing at an alarming rate. We can't be doing this.
[00:17:11] But really, Trump's secret sauce on the war, on this, on everything, whether it be the media, on everything we've been discussing, is really to declare everything a national security imperative, right? You got to do this for national security. And that way, everybody kind of keeps their hands off and lets them go. And how dare you, you know, speak out about this or you're not for security and all this kind of stuff, doctor. Well, exactly.
[00:17:34] Trump has discovered, I call it his secret sauce, it will allow him to get his way every time. I mean, he's put in a ballroom. He tears down the east wing. He's put in a big, lavish ballroom in. And somebody said, wait, wait, wait. He said, no, no, this is national security. Okay, well, we're going to put this Ark to Triumph, this 250-foot-tall monument in Washington, D.C. And people are saying, wait, wait, we need to talk about it. No, no, no, no, this is national security.
[00:18:01] We're going to put armed guards and snipers there and everything else. Pretty soon your whole nation is going to be military installation, right? Exactly. But, oh, what are we doing? We're going to war against the sovereign country without declaring war. And this is national security. They're going to have a bomb in two weeks. You know, all of this is Bravo Sierra, my friends. And that is what he's discovered. The courts are loath to step in the middle of something that's national security.
[00:18:29] Now, back in my day when I was handling secure and classified information, there was probably too much stuff that was being classified. But it wasn't this rampant, rabid epidemic kind of thing now where everything is classified. Now, by the way, if you don't like people, maybe we can kind of say they're a national security problem. Maybe Sam Bushman's a national security problem. Yes, he is. Speaking out like he is, that's crazy talk. Well, that's the problem.
[00:18:59] The problem is that they're using classified and national security to basically drive a truck through, violating the supreme law of the land and the checks and balances big time. Folks, we've got to follow the nation's back trail if we want to restore the sound foundation of America, folks. It's the only solution we have, doctor. Here's kind of the problem. This week, I did a – people call it a debate. I wanted it to be a discussion, an exchange of information.
[00:19:29] And the – a big Whig officer, I guess I could call him, on some of the movements to do term limits and to do, you know, balanced budget amendments that these guys are trying to put before legislatures that ultimately will – All a waste of time. That will cause a convention. And so, anyway, we had a big discussion this week. I went out of state and spoke.
[00:19:57] And he's saying my point is that we, the people, have got a responsibility. We've got to be involved in it. Oh, how is that working out for you? It's like, so you're telling me you're going to take away our ability to – let's say just take a term limits thing – to elect the person that we want to represent us, and you're going to say we're going to stop that. Is that better for America? Or is America better off if we get engaged people?
[00:20:23] And the only way our people can be engaged and make a difference is if we see the back trail we've got. And here's the deal. I tell the story sometime. I probably told it to you, Sam. When I was six years old, I got lost. My first impression was to run. I followed that impression. And I was running. I was making really good time. And I got to tell you, I had no idea where I was going. And that's what's happening in America today. We're running. Everybody knows. Things are out of whack.
[00:20:53] But if you don't have the plan – so when you get lost, you're running through the briars and the brambles and going over a dead fall, falling down in the creek and, you know, just getting more lost is not the solution. Your first impulse has got to be sit down. When you first realize you're lost, then you've got to look at your back trail. You've got to look at your resources. You've got to keep your head. You've got to not panic.
[00:21:20] We have a well-marked back trail to get back to the foundation if we had the courage to follow it. Now, the problem is most Americans are more interested in what the next ball game is or their kid's soccer game or when their next – whatever. I mean, we've turned everything over to the R and the D. We don't – if you don't have a D behind your name, I hate you. Or if you don't have an R behind your name.
[00:21:49] If you don't have a D behind your head, look at the factions and look at the supreme law and say that's what it is. It's the supreme law. Now, how do we enforce it? That's really what we need to do as the American people, and we're being deceived on so many fronts, it's not even funny. I had a lot of faith in Bobby Kennedy, folks, and he's done some good, but now we see this headline, and I want you to respond before the end of the hour, doctor. Health Secretary Kennedy is now enmeshed in a $4 million book deal controversy,
[00:22:18] and people are saying, hey, that raises ethics concerns. He's under scrutiny because of his financial disclosures. Highlight potential conflict of interests. He received $4 million in book advances and $270,000 in gifts, raising questions about his adherence to federal ethics rules. His connections with Tony Lyons and other affiliated groups, MAGA, et cetera.
[00:22:49] He's also drawn criticism because his wife is involved and got a bunch of money, too. These disclosures are sparking debates on the integrity and independence of Kennedy's role in office. Your response, doctor? I say bring on the investigations. Let's look at it. Let's look at Trump's over 1,000 stock.
[00:23:09] I know he's got it through a portfolio, but he did over 1,000 stock exchanges that have to do with oil and AI and all of these kind of things. I say bring these investigations on. I think that the fresh air and light will help bring a lot of things together. Nancy Pelosi's things. I think that these things need to be applied across the board. You're saying all sides, full investigations. Let's go. Not any problem with that whatsoever. And I'm agreeing 1,000%.
[00:23:40] I don't want anybody to ever say, oh, you're cherry picking. You know what? The rule of law is that we're all equal before the law. We're supposed to be. Even though the new laws that are being written do not allow us to be. Rise up every good heart. This land's worth the fight is how this song starts, ladies and gentlemen. The cowards chase their paychecks. But we need to chase what's right.
[00:24:08] The truth will ride like thunder if we all stand together, ladies and gentlemen. Stand. Stand your ground, ladies and gentlemen. Be truth tellers. That's what this song talks about. And boy, do I agree with it. Dr. Bradley doing that very thing. Become part of his webinars every Thursday night. freedomsrisingsun.com. It is Collegiate Series to Preserve the Nation. It's our back trail that matters. And we the people need to get educated and stand together for the sake of cause of liberty.
[00:24:36] That's what we need to do as we turn to God Almighty where the real solutions lie. I'm Sam Bushman. God save our constitutional republic.