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me to help me out. So we've got Shelby Talcott, who's going to join from Semaphore and breakdown what's going on within the Trump administration. Mike Johnson was able to secure speakership kind of relatively easily. Maybe that was a surprise, I don't know. We'll get her insights into what that could mean for the Republicans moving forward. Also going to have Ryan I think is going to join me at some point during the show to jump in for a

couple of blocks that are particular interest to him. There was a just horfect interview from Secretary of State Tony Blanken. You know, he was actually confronted by The New York Times about his support, whether the world is going to see this as a genocide, whether a world is going to see him as someone who supported and armed a genocide. So pretty interesting and predictably abhorrent comments from him. Love

to get Ryan to join me on that one. And then we also have a bunch of crazy new details on this guy who blew himself up inside of a cyber truck. There are some emails from his phone or some notes from his phone that law enforcement has released. There's also a purported email from him that questions have been raised about, but that he in that alleged email is claiming that he was trying to blow the whistle

about drone activity with regards to China. So I'm going to break down everything that I know as best as I know it about that one. I am sorry that Sager's not here for this particular block, but when we get him in tomorrow we can get us two cents on that as well. Also, Elon Musk, not content in meddling in US politics or in German politics for that matter, is now diving headfirst into UK politics. A lot of interesting intrigue there, some strange bedfellows, et cetera. So break

all of that down for you. Marian Williamson is going to join. She is now running for DNC chair and big news she's actually secured the number of delegate signatures that she needs to be an official candidate. So always interesting to hear from Marian. You know, a lot of what she was running on domestically, she ended up being very prescient, and it really was a crime not just to her, that's kind of the least of the problem, but to the American people into the Democratic Party that

they did not take that Democratic primary seriously. In fact, not only do they not take it seriously, they actively canceled it in a number of states. So this is my first time to really deep dive with Marianne about what happened and her thoughts and reflections and her recommendations for the Democratic Party looking forward. So I'm really looking forward to that. We also are going to have environmental lawyer and activist Stephen Donziger, who was wrongfully imprisoned in

really the first nation's first corporate prosecution. He is calling for Biden to pardon him. It is much deserved. Obviously, Biden has made pretty significant use of his abilities to pardon and also to commute sentences, and Stephen Donziger is one of the most deserving people you can imagine to receive a presidential pardon. So he is going to join us to make his case. So jam pack show in spite of the fact that it is me and I'm here at home with the snow is falling, all of

that good stuff. So with all that being said, let's go and get to shall be Talcott? All right, guys, happy to be joined this morning by Shelby Talcott, who is national political reporter for Semaphore and does a fabulous job covering the Republican side of the aisle in particular, and there's certainly almost all the actions really on that side at this point. So shell be always great to see you. Thank you so much for taking some time out.

be a little bit more of a fight. So just take our viewers through what happened, what was the timeline, and what led this to being like relatively you know, easy sledding for Mike Johnson open intended there.

and a lot of them blamed Mike Johnson. And so there was sort of this quiet drama brewing over on Capitol Hill. And the reason, one of the reasons that Donald Trump ended up endorsing Mike Johnson was simply because of today, obviously is the election certification. And Trump knew that he needed somebody in the House leadership in order the House speakership in order to certify the election. And so the simplest, easiest option was to back Mike Johnson.

He has the most support out of all the lawmakers. And Donald Trump ended up playing a really important role because he was calling lawmakers on Friday ahead of the speakership vote, and even after it seemed that Mike Johnson did not have the votes, he called those two lawmakers up, who ended up switching their votes because Donald Trump called him.

And so this really was I think a referendum on Donald Trump's power in the Republican Party more so than it was on how Republicans feel about Mike Johnson.

deficit and all of these sorts of things. Did they get anything out of this or do they just decide like, Wow, there's no real alternative and Trump wants us to go in this direction. We got to get this election certified, so we're just going to go along to get along.

the past year. And so that's really notable. So I think it really just came down to the fact that Donald Trump was able to convince these Republicans that Mike Johnson was the only option in order to get his agenda passed and to get the ball rolling into administration.

saw Virginia Fox take a nasty fall last week. Are they going to come in and certify this election. How is that all going to work?

town and might have left town. So it's going to be really interesting to see who manages to get in. But I do think that every initiative is being made in order to make sure that lawmakers are able to enter.

But let's start with the debt ceiling. That I would ask you what might go into that reconciliation bill and what you've learned there, What is the plan to deal with the debt ceiling? How hard of hardball do you think that Democrats are willing to play here?

this one big, beautiful bill. As Mike Johnson said on Sunday, that's going to be difficult because it's going to Mike Johnson wants it to include the debt ceiling, he wants it to include border he wants it to include tax cuts. And passing all of that together and getting all of these lawmakers on board with so many different initiatives is going to be a challenge.

arcane like minutia about how this process works. It's relatively lengthy in terms of, you know, how long it takes to put it together and go through this process, and then they have to submit it to the parliamentarian parliamentarian rules on whether or not these pieces are appropriate to go through the reconciliation process. But there's a lot you can do through there. What are some of the specific

priorities that they're looking at through that reconciliation process? And then also do you think that some Republicans, like we mentioned Thomas Massey, chip Roy, are some of them going to have an issue even ideologically with just putting this many things together, because that's one of the complaints that they've had is, hey, let's pass things in individually rather than having these gigantic omnibus style bills where everybody's pet project gets piled into you know, one giant bill.

they're going to try to close the border. That was originally going to be plan A when Donald Trump took office and lawmakers were considering a two step bill, which would have been do the border first and then get something like the tax cuts done. And the argument that these lawmakers made for that was that it would be easier to pass something like the border we get that closed. Donald Trump wants the border closed. That's priority number one,

which most Republicans are on board of. So that would be the easier thing to pass compared to the tax cuts. And so what this bill theoretically, we don't know. The legislation hasn't been made yet. But when Mike Mike Johnson has talked to Fox News on Sunday and we've talked to other lawmakers, and Donald Trump has voiced his opinion. They want to extend the tax cuts and implement some of Donald Trump's new initiatives like no tax on tips

would be included theoretically in this legislation. Closing the border would be included in this legislation addressing the debt ceiling. So again, this is theoretically a massive package that Donald Trump wants passed very soon into his administration.

We know that's something that Republicans have had their sites on for a while. Unauthorized spending. This is like a

vivac elon Doge thing. They have a theory that certain programs which haven't technically had their spending reauthorized, which by the way, are things like you know, VA healthcare for certain veterans, that they could could slash some programs there, or peeling Biden student loan forgiveness, ending the Education Department, cutting food stamps, implementing Medicaid work requirements, blocking Medicare obesity treatment.

I guess that would be blocking like ozembic funding and child tax credit for non citizen parents, and cut the IRS funding, which actually goes in the opposite direction, because funding the IRS helps to collect tax revenue. In any case, do you how serious do you think they would be about some of these cuts. That's been a big, you know, source of interest from Elon and Vivek. Obviously, that's kind of like the whole heart of the DOGE initiative. And is it critical to them that they do pay for

the cost of the tax cuts. Last time Trump was in office, he was happy to you know, do the tax cuts, not pay for them and just massively blow up the deficit in spite of Republican rhetoric to the contrary.

to be made. And now, obviously I think the big thing with tax cuts would be these tariffs, which is something that Donald Trump has talked a lot about. He says it's going to pay for it all. But there's concerns among some Senate Republicans about using tariffs in order to pay for these tax cuts, and so that alone, I think is going to cause pushback and there's going to be a lot of debate in Congress over whether

Donald Trump and Republicans should use tariff. So not everyone is on board with that sort of initiative, which I think has been the main thing mentioned and with theoretically, you know, have the most cost to it.

particular administration, How hands on, how micromanaging? What are your what's your sense of his headspace and what his top priorities will be.

actually going to implement it. What Donald Trump said on the campaign trail is what we are seeing now he actually wants to implement. So I think that's really important, and he's very hands on. He has met with all

of the cabinet nominees so far. But he also does have these different orbits in his circle, right, like Marco Rubio is very different ideologically than Tulca Gabbard and RFK Junior has a different ideological background when it comes to things like abortion, and so that's where I think it's going to be interesting to see and I don't think

we know yet because Donald Trump hasn't taken office. But I think it's going to be really interesting to see how those factions work and whether Donald Trump ends up addressing things to directly as he has been right with Congress, he has been the one calling lotmakers directly, or whether he ends up, you know, using Susie Wilds a little bit more, or leaning on Jdie Vans or outsourcing some of these efforts.

it came out of nowhere. But you were covering the campaign when he went on the All In podcast and was like, yeah, staple the visa on the college degree. So he had already made that shift. He'd already you know, there's a bunch of issues that he shifted on over the years, Crypto being another one of them, just off the top of my head, but that had was something

that he did campaign on. Now, people may not really listened to that because most of the rhetoric was about, you know, more immigration restrictionists, but he had already made that shift and had already sort of provided that goody to Silicon Valley many months ago.

but some of the loyalists don't like. And so I think it's going to be notable because remember, Donald Trump talks to everybody, He asks everybody's advice, He is lobbied by people constantly, and he sometimes changes his mind due to those pressure campaigns. And so it's going to be notable because some of the initiatives that Donald Trump wants to do are things that his own allies don't like. And so where are the pressure campaigns going to come in in the next few months and in early in

his administration? And what is going, how is he going to be able to be influenced or or talked out of things or talked into things.

be butchering that name. Sorry, guys, just resigned from the Washington Post because this cartoon was killed by the editor. Let me just pull this up full screen. You could see this. This is meant to be Donald Trump, the long tie, the protruding belly, et cetera. This is a number of tech oligarchs, and this is the guy who's that had the La Times.

But in all that time, I've never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at until now. The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who've been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President elect Trump. There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way tomorrow. Lago, the group in the cartoon included

Mark Zuckerberg. Of course, I've met Sam Altman. That's open Ai, Patrick Sunshong La Times publisher, Walt Disney Company, Slash, ABC News, and Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post owner. She goes on to say it's not uncommon for editorial page editors to object to visual metaphors within a cartoon if it strikes that editor is unclear or is not correctly conveying the message intended by the cartoonist. Such editorial criticism was not

the case regarding this cartoon. To be clear, there have been instances where sketches have been rejected or revisions requested, but never because of the point of view inherent in the cartoons commentary. That is a game changer and dangerous for a free press. So let me go ahead and read to you what the paper's response was. David Shipley, who is the Post opinion editor, said in a statement that was provided to CN and then I think other

outlets as well. Not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force. Might decision was guided by the fact we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon had already scheduled another column, this one a satire for publication. The only bias was against repetition.

So that is their side of the story. But of course this comes after what sort of kicked off this whole conversation about obeying in advance and the efforts of tech billionaires to suck up to Donald Trump, all of whom have a lot at stake. I mean, Jeff Bezos in particular, has massive government contracts and felt that in the first Trump administration, and I think probably rightly so, that he was punished and denied one particular very lucrative

government contract. Of course, this man is one of the richest men on the planet. I think he's like number two right now to Elon Musk, who he's got his position solidified within the Trump administration. But in any case,

he felt that that contract was withhold held. It appears he would deny this, I'm sure, but it appeers that he very much wants to be on the good side of Donald Trump this time around, and so before the election he decided to the Washington Post, decided, which he owns, of course, to spike an editorial endorsement of Kamala Harris. This became a massive, I would say, scandal. It was actually devastating to the Washington Post in terms of their business.

Number of journalists resigned. Washington Post already business was not doing well under Jeff Bezos. They had lost huge amount of subscribers because they had really bet the farm exclusively on sort of anti Donald Trump resistance type editorial direction and democracy dies in darkness all of that, and so that was the readership that they had cultivated, really was this, you know, virulently anti Trump readership. That was their business choice.

And you know, first of all, when Donald Trump loses reelection twenty twenty, that's going to sort of take the win out of the sales of that type of content. And then now when you had Jeff Bezos saying, oh, we're just we don't really do politics and we're just gonna stay out of this presidential race and it has of course nothing to do with my own personal business interests, they lost a flood of subscribers huge I should look up the numbers, but it was I believe it was

like over one hundred thousand. I mean, it was a

massive blow to their subscriber base. And so what this cartoonist is essentially alleging here is that that direction of the post that was not an accident, it was not a one off, that that's infected all of their coverage and all of their auditorial to the extent that she experienced something she said she'd never experienced before, which is a cartoon getting killed entirely because it was unflattering, not just remember to Donald Trump, but also to Jeff Bezos,

who owns the Washington Post. And this is why, you know, billionaires controlling our media is such a problem. You might recall Bernie Sanders raising this point in the twenty twenty Democratic primary, and he was roundly smeared and criticized and scoffed at for suggesting that the billionaire ownership of the Washington Post might have something to do with their incredibly deceptive at times and outright wrong at times coverage of his ideas and his campaign. He was roundly mocked for that.

I hope everyone can see, whether it's Elon owning Twitter or Jeff Bezos owning the Washington Post, or these giant media conglomerates that own so many different properties and so have so many vast business interests, that this is incredibly deleterious to democracy and just to getting fair and accurate coverage. So this is one more example of that. Another one I can throw this one in fairness Tim Cook, a CEO of Apple who Trump famously called one time Tim Apple,

which always still sticks in my head. He is apparently the latest tech oligarch to decide he's going to donate a million dollars to Trump's inauguration. Now, in fairness to Tim Apple, he has long cultivated both sides of the aisle. He went out of his way in the first Trump term to maintain somewhat of a friendly relationship with Donald Trump.

But it's still grotesque to see the way that him and Sam Altman and a bunch of others have decided that they're going to specifically cough up millions of dollars to fund the Trump inauguration, which I mean is just basically, like you know, it's just a stop right, It's just a complete soop way of sucking up to the king that they're doing. This is very indicative of where we are.

You read a little bit of this artult Cole because it did have some some interesting notes here in addition to Tim Cook says between the lines, Cook a proud alabamaa to believes the inauguration is a great American tradition. Oh yeah, I'm sure that's why you're doing it. Here's him,

they say in the backstory here. The Wall Street Journal, shortly after the election wrote an article headline, how Tim Cook cracked the code on working with Trump, noted that he had spent years building personal rapport with Trump, so time to cash in, I guess on that personal rapport. They also note here that other Silicon Valley inauguration donors include Amazon, Meta, Uber, open Ai CEO Sam Altman. Wall Street's seven figure donors include Goldman, Sachs and Bank of America.

Crypto Exchanges Crackin and Coinbase also getting in on the action. Toyota, Ford, and GM are all also donating at least a million dollars. So one of the things with these inauguration funds is

that direct corporate donations into campaigns are that's illegal. So this is a way that corporations can curry favor and you know, get their will meet hooks into this administration and try to angle for whatever regulatory changes that they want, you know, killing different regulations that they find to be anathema to their bottom line, or sucking up for procurement purposes so that they can be first in line for whatever giant government contracts and subsidies that get doled out.

So this is a way for them to for these corporate entities and the billionaire heads of these corporate entities to directly curry favor and directly jockey for, you know, the favor of the king. And you know, with Trump, who's famously like this is. By the way, this is not particularly different from other administrations. This goes on under

democratic administrations. Sure, if you go back and look who was giving to the Joe Biden Inaugural Fund, you'll see a similar list of characters with similarly self interested motives. But Donald Trump is particularly sort of like break In, and his ego drives so much of his decision making. You know, if you're on his good list, if you're saying nice things about him, and he feels that you're being loyal to him, he'll shower you with favors and gifts if you get on his wrong side, as Jeff

Bezos did in the first administration. And Sam Altman is another one who has given a lot of money to Democrats and by the ways, very much on the wrong side of Elon Musk, who is the you know, right hand to the king. Right now, then you can be in for a really rough road. The last thing I'll note here and then I have another piece that I want to share with you because I just mentioned Elon, who is the right hand to the king, and so

it's not just about curring favor with Trump. It's also about curring favor with Elon Musk, who has shown himself already to be extraordinarily powerful, you know, beat the Laura Loomers in the sort of like og mag of base on. This h one be the visa issue, immediately runs Twitter right and can use the algorithm to pump up whatever content he wants or to you know, make life difficult for whoever he wants. Occurring favor with him is also really really important. But you know, this is going to

be a significant thing to track. And the biggest business area where there is the most at stake is really in this AI development, and that's where Elon comes in. That's where Sam Altman comes in, That's where everyone, Mark Zuckerberg comes in, every one of the big tech players. They want to make sure number one, that they're in the top pole position to be the leader in terms of AA technology. The amount of money that is flowing

in that direction is absolutely extraordinarily massive. They're going to be government contracts at stake as well. So some of this jockeying, A significant amount of this jockeing is specifically about AI and H one B fight even is tangential and related to that fight to have complete corporate capture and unregularly bonanza of AI development without much regard to how it's going to impact jobs, workers, safety, or anything else.

So to get to the Elon part of this more perfect union, noted that since Trump won, lo and behold all of these advertisers that had fled Twitter because of you know, all of the hate content and all of the Nazis that are just like on your timeline all day long at this point on Twitter. Oh, now that they want to suck up to Elon and the Trump administration, suddenly those advertisers, blue chip advertisers are coming back.

the Trump Hotel is not the Trump Hotel anymore. However, another way you can directly curry favor with Donald Trump is, Oh, he has his own crypto coin, so you could you could purchase that, or if you want to get in good with a quote unquote first Buddy and not run a foul of Elon Musk, who, as I said before, has already proven himself to be extremely powerful within this administration, while your company probably is going to want to buy

some advertisements on X not because you think it's you know, directly beneficial to your brand, but because you want to make sure you're in a position to benefit from all of those government goodies. So that is the game that's

being played right now. It is extraordinarily high stakes. And you know, to state the obvious, it's example number three thousand of how much the government is set up to serve these oligarchs and these massive corporate interests over you, Like you don't get an audience with the King or the first Budy. You don't get to, you know, throw millions of dollars in advertising onto their favored platform in order to get your little pet projects approved and get

in good with the people who actually count. And so yeah, I know this can become sort of like par for

the course in America where money is king. But this is how you end up with a situation where the people's voices really just don't count, where when money is speech, you know, the people who have the most money, they're gonna have the most speech, they're gonna have the most influence, they're going to have the most say, and you know, take a look at the way our government is run and who's run for, and take a look at how these people are behaving as the Trump administration comes into office,

and you know, there's your answer of what this government is ultimately all about. The last thing I'll say on this one before moving on to the next topic we have here, which is a lot of extraordinary details that would do my best to unpack about this whole cyber truck dude killing himself and blowing up the truck, et cetera. The last thing I'll say about this is I think it was Michael Tracy who was appointing the signings without a lot of good points. I feel like I signed

him a lot. But you know, Trump in twenty sixteen, part of his political power was he positioned himself as being sort of uncorruptible. He's like, I'm a rich guy. I don't need these people's money. I understand, in fact, how this game was played because I played it. I know this game better than anyone else, and I'm going to drain the swamp. Okay, I'm not saying money in politics and the corrupting influence is new under Donald Trump.

it up. One piece that I'm sure was really important to him was it had some limits on high tech investment in China that won against his interests because he wants to do some tesla Ai thing in China, gets that stripped down, gets his way before the Trump administration is even in office. H one b's you know how we feel about the program Personally, I think guestworker programs

are inherently exploitative. I agree with Bernie Sanders, who wants to, you know, really take an aggressive approach of reform to the Hwin and B program. That is my position as well. But however we feel about the program, Trump completely flipped on a dime in order to please Elon David Sachs Mark Andresen his new tech oligarch buddies. That happened during the campaign, but obviously the fight broke out into public just recently and Elon won hands down, unequivocally. He didn't

get nothing for that quarter of a billion dollars. He got so much. I mean, the return on it is going to be extraordinary. It already has been. So you know, there's a new level of sort of oligarch brazenness that I don't think we should accept. And you know how we feel about Trump, what side of the political aisle

you are on, et cetera. This is about the principle of this is not This is supposed to be a democracy, like people's voices are supposed to matter in this whole situation, and instead you've got oligarchs just out and out brazenly running the show. So that's where we.

what was in the truck truck bed. It was all these like gas canisters and a bunch of large fireworks borders that apparently is what he used to detonate himself the truck, et CETERA weird thing to do, especially as we learn more details. You know, the initial image of the sky in a cyber truck outside of a Trump hotel, You're like, oh, this must be somebody who hates Donald Trump. No,

turns out according to his political background. First of all, he's a Green Beret and was haad the you know, sort of like macho, more right leaning pro Trump political ideology that you might expect from someone who's driving a cyber truck and is a Green Beret. So that's weird. So what was this all about? So there have been some interesting I'm just going to go through what we've learned as best we can, and you guys can draw your own conclusions or still be as confused as I

am at this moment. But we've had two major developments. One is law enforcement uncovered what they said were some notes on his phone. They expressed, uh, sort of standard right wing political ideology. I'm going to read those to you in a moment, saying that DC needs to be purged of Democrats and you know, the people need to take charge and effectively I'm doing this to call attention to what's going on in our country.

Shoemate goes to Sean Ryan, who is a large former CIA large podcaster who you know, and they had this conversation about this alleged email, which purports to indicate that Liveelsberger blew himself up in truck to try to call attention and blow the whistle on the fact that these drones that have been cited are Chinese made and that they are so dangerous to our national security that it's effectively I think he calls it, quote unquote game over.

I'm gonna read the whole email alleged email to you so you know exactly what he said, and that they use like gravity displacement to move in the way that they do. This is something that you know, the sort of like UFO community that they've theorized. This is total sci fi stuff that is being alleged here. Now there are people who are really calling into question whether this

is a real thing. So I want you to have a lot of skepticism as we go into this, but I just wanted to share what is out there so that you can make your own determinations about whether or not you think this is legit. Let me go ahead and pull this up and we'll listen to the beginning of this end the setup. Samshoe mate here in the plaid shirt talking to Sean Ryan.

this guy hadn't come through or whatever. And then he messages again once that message was opened up, and I said, hey, your previous messages haven't come through. What what do you want to tell me? And he said, what I'm going to send you Now these are literally his words. What I'm going to send you is going to change the course of humanity. That was his phrase, change the course of humanity. Okay, a little bit dramatic. I get these

messages all the time. People have this big story they want to tell, they want to expose their command, whatever it's. I take everything with a grain of salt until I have evidence improved. So this guy is insistent. He tells me. He tells me that he is a eighteen zulu who I've spoken to before, and he really needs to get this stuff to me. And then he talks about you. He says, I need you to get me in contact with Sean Ryan. I'm like, dude, I don't know Sean Ryan.

I'm not that big. But he's insistent that I get him diverted to media sources, says, go to Fox News whatever else. I said, all right, tell me what you got. So I give him my proton email account, give him my signal signal number, and he reaches out immediately, and I'm going to read this initial message for you, because this doesn't have names or anything else on it, but

this was his message on Sunday. He reached out and said, like I said, Sunday, this last Sunday, he said, sending with a VPN active on Wi Fi only, do not message me. I will send out updates via both signal and email, but trus me, you're going to want to be involved. Well, first of all, no, I don't. I didn't want to be involved anyways. And then so I didn't.

I didn't message. I responded back to his original Instagram Instagram message and I said, hey, I got your message on proton mail and he said, cool, delete this, So I deleted it. That's how I ended up getting this message on Tuesday. So the message that this this right here, this manifesto, if you want to call it, that came in on Tuesday. And when I started reading this, my initial take was okay, this is off the deep end. It's bonkers. I can't validate or verify any of the

stuff in this manifesto. And I told him that in a subsequent email, and I'll read that to you later. My response to him, and once again, my response to him elicited, hey, get me in contact with Sean Ryan Fox News, and even said Pete Hegseth, give me in contact with heg Seth. And I'm like, dude, I don't have the incoming Secretary of Defense's phone number.

to you. But effectively, like I said, he's raising allegations that there we and the Chinese have this gravity propulsion technology, that China has submarines parked off our coasts and is sending drones up, and that this is like, you know, a massive national security risk quote unquote game over in terms of national security. And he also raises allegations about

war crimes that he was familiar with in Afghanistan. One of the things that's kind of weird about the war crimes allegations that actually was like, there were war crimes alleged at that time in Afghanistan, but it was publicly reported, so it wasn't like this was you know, super super like secret knowledge. In any case, let me just read you a little bit of this, So he allegedly writes, in case I do not make it to my decision point or onto the Mexico border, I am sending this now.

Please do not release this until January first, and keep my identity private until then, and remem of the story is here that he allegedly sent this the day before his he exploded himself in the cyber truck outside of the Trump Hotel on January first. First off, I am not under duress or hostile influencer control. My first car was a two thousand and six black Ford Mustang V six For verification, so he's saying, like, this is how improving that I am? Who I say I am, that was my first car.

it was a fifty one. He goes on to say, China's been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently is picked up as of now is just a show of force. They're using it similar to how they used the balloon for sig INT and ISR, which are also part of the integrated commsystem. There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time. This the so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned aircraft, they are the most dangerous

threat to national security that's ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the White House if they wanted. Its checkmate, checkmate, not gameover. Sorry I missed quoted that earlier. Us G needs to give the history of this, how we are employing it, weaponizing, how China is employing them, and what the way forward is.

China's poised to attack anywhere in the East Coast. I've been followed for over a week now from likely Homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico but won't because they know I am armed and I have a massive I think they pronounce this a vbay. It's like a vehicle based ied. That would be the cyber truck that he blew up. I've been trying to maintain a very visible profile and have kept my phone

and they are definitely digitally tracking me. Then he goes on to talk about this these air strikes in Nimero's province, Afghanistan twenty nineteen. Then he concludes, you need to elevate this to the media so we avoid a world war because this is a mutually assured destruction situation. So that is the alleged email. Okay, a lot of people have raised a lot of questions about this. This is a

random dude. I don't know who this person is on Twitter, but he seemed to raise some pretty good questions and that you know that we're getting a lot of traction and I just want to provide you with all the information. So here is what random guy on Twitter says about this email. He says that it doesn't fit into any plausible explanation of the Las Vegas bombing, and he goes

into a long thread. One of the things that he looks into is, you know, the the proof of the beginning where the guy's like, Okay, I had this particular kind of Mustang that was my first car. There's no evidence that that is actually the case, that that actually was Matthew Livelsberger's first car.

this email where it is, what it came from. I mean, there's a number of possibilities here, right, the email is real, it, you know, and he lost his mind and you know, was having like a psychotic break and this email is the product of that. It's possible the emails fake. It's possible the email is real, and he really does have some knowledge of these things and was trying to blow the whistle. So I don't know, I don't know. That's what we got.

as well. He says, two different notes, Fellow service members, veterans, and all Americans time to wake up being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves. Military invets move on DC starting now. Malicious facilitate and augment this activity. Occupy every major road along FED buildings and the campus of FED Buildings by the hundreds of thousands. Lock the highways around down with semis right with everybody

gets in hold until the purge is complete. Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the federal government and military by any means necessary. They all must go in. A hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse. Here's another like lengthier one, but the vibe is basically the same, and he says, consider this last sunset of twenty four and my actions the end of our sickness and a

new chapter of health for our people. Rally around the Trump must Kennedy and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all Americans. We are second to no One. So, you know, these two pieces, they don't really particularly fit together because they, you know, offer two completely different motives. One is just like, we have to take the country back and these Democrats are evil and we need to

back Trump and so let's surround DC. And I'm doing this to draw attention to this cause of surrounding DC and purging the Democrats. Other, obviously, is blowing the whistle about these purported drones in this Chinese technology. So that's what we know there. The other weird thing that came out is that he was part of a reality TV show, which is just kind of strange. So here's the clip that emerged with regards to that.

some personal issues at play there as well. Reportedly his wife leaving him because she alleged that he had had an affair and that had just occurred, so that could certainly have played into his mental state. Another couple of weird things worth mentioning here. So both of them, both Matthew Livelsburger and the guy who did the truck attack in New Orleans, both of them were had served at what formerly was known as Fort Bragg now it's known

as Fort Liberty. There have been other extremists who have come out of that particular military base. Of course, it's a large military base. Many thousands of people go through there, So there is that. And then the last piece that I will share with you about him is apparently when he had sought mental health care. He was deemed not a risk diagnosed with depression, so again this all speaks

to his mental state. He had visited the military behavioral health program multiple times in recent most months, was diagnosed with depression, but deemed not to be a risk to harm himself or others. So that is everything we know at this point. It's a weird story. I mean, very possible. This dude just you know, going through a lot after his military serve. Well, I mean he still was serving.

He still was an active Green Beret, So went through a lot with that, going through some personal things, lost it and decided to take his own life in this incredibly spectacular and warrifying fashion. But many, many questions still remain here. So guys, good news. Ryan Grimm was able to join me and actually made it to the studio, so also got to check in and make sure things are looking good there Ryan, How is it out there?

now jumped massively into UK politics. And all of this also comes at an interesting time because he had gotten very much crosswise with the sort of MAGA faithful on this.

the Tories, really kicked them out. Was not so much a sort of endorsement of Cure Starmer or Labor, but a rejection of their opponents. In any case, Kure Starmer is the current Prime Minister. Elon Musk hijacked British politics this week with the stream of at least sixty posts on Twitter since Tuesday, attacking Prime Minister Cure Starmer, defending an anti Islam campaigner that would be Tommy Robinson, and endorsing the far right Reform Party. Why it matters, they say.

The right hand man to America's next president has gone after the leaders of several of its closest allies in recent months, but his fight with the British government is turning into the nastiest yet. While Musk's ex microphone was enough to send Westminster into a frenzy, there's been intense speculation he'll also open his checkbook for Reform and It's Trump aligned leader Nigel Faraj must told Axios' Micalini had yet to donate, wasn't sure if it would be legal.

Musk labeled here, Starmer here. Stormtrooper shared meme claiming the PM was more concerned about policing social media than about rape. That was part of a barrage of tweets attacking British political and legal establishment for failing to adequately investigate alleged child sex abuse rings, one most famously in the town of Roschjale, in which dozens of young girls were raped between two thousand and four to twenty thirteen. So, just to sort of TLDR this, there's a few things going

on here. First of all, Musk posing labor, you know, for his own ideological interests.

grooming gangs raping young girls. And for a combination of a lot of social factors, but one of them being most of the men who were involved in these grooming gangs who were raping these young girls, most of them were of Pakistani origin, and there was the sense of like, oh, we have to be culturally sensitive, which of course the right seas on. And there was also a sense from police of like, oh, well, these girls, they're really sort

of asking for it, you know. They didn't see them so much as victims, which was another piece of this. In any case, this is a decade's old story. Keir Starmer was tangentially involved in this at the time, and so that's the big thing that they're using right now as the cudgel against him. So, Ryan, your thoughts on kind of this overall story and what musk is up to you here?

produced a report that shocked the world. It made, you know, mainstream news across the globe, including I think there were like half a dozen or a dozen stories in the New York Times about this scandal that led to additional calls for inquiries, which Alexis J also led and others

others led. There was a national report that she put out in twenty twenty two that laid out a bunch of recommendations in order to make it so you would have practices in place that would protect victims, that wouldn't allow them to be overlooked, that wouldn't allow these cultural concerns to get in the way of of breaking up

these these gangs. She has said what she is frustrated about is that the Conservative government that was in place at the time, you know, has not implemented those fast enough. But the other thing that's going on that I think on a kind of meta level is even more interesting, is that, you know, throughout the first Trump administration you had resistance liberals. Every time something kind of new came up, they thought it was a distraction from the thing that

they ought to be paying attention to. You remember all that discourse during the Trump the first Trump turned the distraction and distraction stay focused. The elements of MAGA do the exact same thing if you if you remember, over the last four years, you would even have major storms described as syops. This is a syop. They don't want you focusing on, you know, the real thing, you know,

whatever it's counter Bud's laptop or whatever. They want you focusing on this, on this hurricane, or on this other event. Like they actual news events that were occurring were being described as psyops to distract the public. This one literally is that it is a concerted effort to manufacture a news event where there really isn't one, you know, you know, should the recommendations of the j Report from twenty twenty two be implemented by the Labor government now that the

Conservative government didn't implement them. Yes, sure they should. Yeah, but the idea that all of a sudden there should be this global attention focused on this is very suspicious. Like why all of a sudden do they want to talk about this? And your point, I think is the obvious one. There was this gigantic H one B civil war going on which was bloodying up the Maga coalition and not going particularly well from musk even though he was you know, he had the power to win it right,

it was kind of ripping the coalition apart. Of course, you get this kind of Adrian Dittman nonsense for like a day or so, and then and then it goes over to here. People in South Asia who are watching this are like, this sounds like something that India got, you know, asked Elon to kind of gin up because

it's all about Pakistanis in the UK. That might maybe he got the idea from them, who knows, but somehow somebody had the idea of like, you know, what we need to really talk about is these these gang raping Pakistanis in the UK. To get every get the band back together, get everybody agreeing. After we had this difficult, you know, debate over over h one b and it to me, it it's it's an incredible example of and here we are talking.

power over our federal government. And so they're seeing that and saying maybe we need to learn something from that. And you know, I think your point is a really apt one because also the choice of vision. Again, I don't want to diminish that this is horrifying story. I remember reading about it back in twenty fourteen. The number of girls affected, the fact that there were so few prosecutions. In fact, in a few instances it was these girls,

young girls. I'm talking as young as eleven, who were a few of them prosecuted themselves, as like sex workers are for dislorderly contact, absolutely abhorrent and insane.

and I had both looked up the statistics. You actually have white Britons who are more overrepresented in terms of prosecutions for child sex abuse than Asians or South Asians. So it can it's also an attempt to paint a deceptive story that this is the source of all child sex abuse, to paint an entire community in this way, and for him to get back in good of like see, I do actually hate immigrants, and thistle h one b

thing like, let's just put that to the side. I also have antipathy towards brown migrants that come into countries. The interesting thing here is he's also taken the side of this dude that I don't even know if he would object to being called an islamophobe.

been in prison for any number of things. Currently he's in prison because he lied about this fifteen year old Syrian migrant who a video had gone viral of this kid getting beaten up and like sort of fake waterboarded, you know, this like simulation of torture at his school, and Robinson jumps in to say, oh, well, this kid isn't so innocent, and to try to link him to these sort of grooming and sexual assault allegations totally unfounded, completely libelists found to be so required by the courts

to stop doing it. And keeping in mind the UK does not have free speech protections in the same day way that we would, but I think even here this would have been potentially a legal issue. He continues, puts on a film reiterating the same libelist claims, and the court issues an injunction. He actually, you know, admits to being in contempt of court. That's what he gets thrown in prison for. So Musk has also taken up the cause of this guy Tommy Robinson. Hears you know one

of the things that he posted. Why is Tommy Robinson in solitary confinement prison, which he is, by the way, he's in. He's isolated for reportedly his own safety, for telling the truth. He should be freed and those who covered up this travesty should take his place in that cell. I mean, every part of that is just basically like false and fictional. But part of what's interesting here is Nigel Frage, the head of the right wing Reform Party,

and Musk is now backing the Reform Party. Frage has long distanced himself and condemned Tommy Robinson like this is too far even for him, and so that's now created this other rift between Musk and Pharrage, and Musk is now coming out and saying, I don't know Nigel.

you know, stood up for these rape victims and exposed this this scandal of these grooming gangs, and the entire establishment, which is you know, some linkage between Epstein and QAnon was supportive of these underground uh, you know, gangs, and so therefore they locked the whistleblower, truth teller, Tommy Tommy

Robinson up. And if that's what you think, and that's what you've been told, then of course you know free It's what a travesty, what an outrage if you actually look at what happened, like you said, oh, he made a very specific allegation against a very specific person.

around around the world. How are other governments going to respond because he's you know, there are rules about you know what, foreign interference in domestic politics. You know, Georgia for instance, just banned you know, foreign interference and it's in it's politics. In the US, you know, freaked out because it said all all of our n g o

s are going to be illegal. Now you know, we have our you know, foreig registration rules, other countries have that you're you're hearing now in Europe, calls that they just need to shut Twitter down, which would you know, be unfortunate because that would be an attack you know what it well, you know what it was was a place where people could you know, express themselves and it's

still a way to reach an international audience. But if he is just going to use it as this weapon, I think governments are aren't really going to tolerate that, but maybe they don't have enough power to stop it.

We just like have this knee jerk reaction that people have to kind of be pulled back from. But in you know, with the British public. They have a lot of antipathy towards him already, which is part of why I think Nigel Frog felt comfortable, even though he would love to get Elon Musk's money and Elon musk support, et cetera, why he felt comfortable immediately coming out and saying no, I don't support Tommy Robinson. I've long distanced myself from him, and I'm not going to change that.

That principle on behalf of you know, Elon Musk or anyone else.

like he's got that leverage over them start there. You know, Starlink more broadly gives him leverage his relationship with Trump gives him leverage, so whether they'll actually pull the trigger. But you have seen a number of politicians throughout Europe saying we need to nip this in the butt and we need to just ban Twitter. But then you know, you can have VPNs and get around it.

All right, guys, So I am thrilled to be joined this morning by Marian Williamson, who is not only a former presidential candidate who was right about many things and maybe the party would be in the country would be in a much better shape if they had listened to her, but also is a best selling author and just all around a fantastic person and thinker who I always enjoy picking their brain.

experience for the next four years. So of course I was curious, and I was curious if the DNC would be looking in the mirror. I was curious about where they would go from here. I was just observing now. Ken Martin, in my team's my campaigns interactions, was always a gentleman. He was ethical, he was honorable, have only

the greatest things to say. But I also saw other behavior Sacha as we're going to win by kicking people off the ballots, etc. The more I absorb observed in terms of the conversation going on in the race, just through a cursory look at the media, etc. I realized nothing is Nobody is suggesting a fundamental change here. Nobody is addressing the deeper, the deeper levels of malfunction. That's the thing when it comes to the DNC, we're not

talking about dysfunctional. When you're losing Pennsylvania, you're losing Michigan, you're losing Wisconsin, you're losing Ohio, all these red states. This is beyond dysfunction. This is into malfunction. That's when I decided to jump in.

you're calling, you're calling members of the DNC. There's one group, the one that has invisibilized and mocked and character assassinated me from the beginning, who clearly took this idea, do not answer her calls, do not return her texts, etc. But the people I would get on the phone, what I learned is how this organization operates. The vast majority of the members of the DNC are deeply disempowered. The DNC itself runs, it's governance model is everything we say

we don't want this country to be. It's a small group of elite, very opaque. By the way, you might have heard Zogby talk about the fact he's on the Budget Committee and he doesn't know the numbers. A small group of elites who take the same view within the organization that I felt as a candidate. Look, we got this. We're the grown ups here. We know how this is done. We don't need your input. Really, let me repeat. You

lost Michigan, you lost Pennsylvania, you lost Wisconsin. You're losing the country and Donald Trump is about to be inaugurated on January twentieth. Meanwhile, there are incredible people who are members of the DNC. There is so much talent there, there's so much passion for everything you and I believe in,

so much of a real devotion to progressive governance. So the first thing you have to do is return the DNC itself, if it ever was, I think I don't know, but we put it now into alignment with the principles that we say right now basically, what this is about as a consultancy class, whether it is SDK, Nickerbocker or Precision Strategies or whatever, this is about. They're having money. This is about they are multimillion dollar contracts, which are

the governing principle. Their profits are the governing principle of the DNC. It is a failed business model, It is a failed messaging model. It is a failed organizing model. And you need ahead of the DNC who's going to go in there know what's really happening, which I believe the majority of DNC members do know. But a leader of the chairman of the DNC who goes in and sets those things straight to the greatest possible.

that's in the bones of this thing. Yeah, and that's that's the that's the truth we're telling here.

you're up against. Right, You've got the New or Times effectively through their credit writing, like not a lot of soul searching that we're seeing from Democratic elites, at least visa this DNC party chair race. And you have comments being made like these from Chuck Schumer that effectively indicate like, well, Democrats don't have a reality problem, they're just we need to tweak the messaging a little bit because people aren't

really understanding just how absolutely incredible we are. Let's just go to take a listen to a little bit from Senator Chuck Schumer, and then I just love to hear from you where you think Democrats went astray and what you're hearing in terms of the level of soul searching or lack thereof.

But to purely look at this as we just need to, you know, fine tune the messaging and really tell working class people just how amazing we've been for them, I think is incredibly condescending and just utterly misses the point. Of course, lets all of the people that you're talking about, the consultant class and the elites that let us down this disastrous path as a country, and certainly for the Democratic Party, lets them completely off the hook.

little in terms of money. It's they're just always begging for some help from the DNC. Now, the greatest deviation is not on the matter of messaging. It's on the matter of values and principles and what does progressive governance mean? What are the values of the Democratic Party. But he's not entirely wrong, because the Republicans are very good about tending to their base. They talk to people all year in a non condescending way, and they keep people informed.

Now unfortunately for people like us, Yeah, they keep them informed, but always through the lens of you know, the Republican playbook. We what the Democrats have done, and I think to some extent that's what Senators what was referring to, basically just show up every two or four years, always with a gimme attitude, give us your votes, give us your money.

Then you're supposed to just assume that we're going off into our wood paneled rooms and we're doing what's best for you, right, and then we'll be back in two years to talk to you. I do feel to some extent the Republicans don't walk their talk, but the Democrats haven't talked their walk. One of the reasons I want to be chair. Is that you know, if the Democrats have the White House, you have the largest megaphone in the world. If you have the Speaker of the House,

you have a large megaphone. If you're in control of the Senate. We're not going to have any of those things over the next session. So the Democrat the DNC has to be the megaphone. That's why it's not enough, even the best of them who are talking about traditional political activism we have. We've got to become a prophetic voice, which is what traditionally the Democratic Party was, someone who is out there and creating an entire communications network and infrastructure to be talking to people.

set of rules. But that's a promising our principles. We believe in the republic ORNs above the law, but we do have greater flexibilities than we're currently using.

is about these consultant firms. It's a consultancy class, about their money, about their contracts that they get, by the way, whether the Democrats are in power or not. Meanwhile, you know, I had a meeting with some people from the state parties and they had sent me a document about the money that the DNC was going to be giving to the state parties. And I looked at it, Crystal, and I thought, maybe I'm reading the wrong numbers. And then

I read it again. And then I picked up my phone and I used a calculator, and then I read it again. Maybe my calculator is broken. It was like the budget of a small nonprofit. We're talking about having to save our democracy here, and this is a consultancy class. They're talking about getting more money. They want to get more money, they want to do more with super packs, by the way, and in order to feed themselves. Because

they're not feeding, they're not feeding the states. And not only that, they're not even feeding themselves in a way. Once again, I'm going to say it again, these people lost Michigan, these people lost Pennsylvania, these people lost Wisconsin, these people lost Ohio. The entire template, the entire paradigm of how things work and the governance of the DNC needs to change. That is what I believe a lot of the members of the DNC do realize. These are

some very good people and some very smart people. Nobody's dumb here. Everybody gets what's happened.

to have to be a different Democratic Party. You know Trump is a political sorcerer. They we have to meet the level of of his frequency psychologically and emotionally with the American people, and you're certainly not going to do that with people with fake tattoos on TikTok and languaging.

You know, when people were telling me some of the ways that the people in their state were offended by the verbiage, so that when Senator Schumer says, we didn't talk to them enough, even when you talk to them, you talk to them in ways that have nothing to do with that single mother who works at Walton. She's got two kids. Walmart, she's got two kids. This whole thing needs to needs to change. And we have the membership,

I'm absolutely sure of it. You have so much energy and talent to be unleashed within the membership of the DNC. But that elite establishment, which doesn't even report the numbers of where that money is going, but purports to be the ones who know and the ones who know how to do this, that entire template of governance needs to change. And I'll return to it.

we aren't seeing that reckoning within the elites. But you know, I pray that you're correct in your analysis and that there's that desire for change among some of the rank and file in the DNC. Mariyan tell people were they can follow you and substack your podcast and then thank you, yeah.

people who understand what the problem is. Now we need a critical mass of people who have the spine and the courage to say we're going to change this, because the assault on our democracy is simply too great to tolerate.