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okay Brad Johnson this is Friday
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what’s it August the 30th I think man
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this summer that’s crack flying by and
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you know that they’re the United States
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and the West in general is seems to be
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on a precipice and we’re heading into
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some very very bad things I think loss
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of freedom for sure in so many ways and
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these events are happening so fast and
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they’re so important I know you’ve got
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some events to discuss with us why don’t
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you just go right ahead
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sure what’s the big news of the day the
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news cycle over the last 24 hours has
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been the IG report that was brought out
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on on James Comey former FBI director
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James Comey and a handling of documents
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it was a an IG report that was very
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narrowly defined and only looked at one
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very specific area and that was the the
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way that documents were handled by James
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coming up to go back to kind of your one
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of your opening comments there about how
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we’re headed into dangerous times I mean
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that is absolutely so true and having
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with my background I am fortunate and
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through work and different things have
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seen most of the rest of the world and
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been on every continent and everything
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in a lot of islands in different places
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so I’ve I’ve seen most of what the rest
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of the world is and when you get to the
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point where you cannot trust the Justice
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ISM system everything breaks down and
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that’s something that’s just so
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fundamentally important because if it
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favors a certain group of people then
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it’s on a clear course of deterioration
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and eventually you’re going to get to
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the point where like for example in
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Mexico in Colombia and a lot of other
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countries are like that but I mentioned
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those two because people tend to be
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familiar with them because of the drugs
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you basically get to the point where you
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there is no way to do business without
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belonging to some mafia organized
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criminal type group in that country and
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it’s you can’t even you can’t trust the
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judges you can’t trust the police and to
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do a contract is only worth what you can
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enforce on it and and basically to do
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business you have
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to be willing to enforce those contracts
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and the only way to enforce a contract
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because you can’t do it through the
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court system is to kill them so only a
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certain type of person will go into that
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business where you know to get the
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contract to work you have to go kill
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somebody if they don’t come through and
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that that’s reputation is what makes
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everybody then kind of toe the line when
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they make an agreement with you so that
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society breaks down when you get to that
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sort of thing and it stalls and doesn’t
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move ahead so I you know that’s
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something I personally being so familiar
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with how this will play out if it’s
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allowed to continue just terrifies me so
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now back to the James Comey thing James
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coming as I said it was a very narrowly
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defined investigation by the Attorney
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General at the FBI Attorney General and
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what they did is they looked at the way
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at James coming particularly handled
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these memos and the day after he was
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fired the and some people from the FBI
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went to his house and we were collecting
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up all of the FBI owned things material
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communications devices everything and
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we’re taking it all away and and of
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course asked him and he’s required by
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regulation to turn over everything to
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them which he did not for example some
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of the memos that he had and his
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personal safe all of these things the IG
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clearly decided that these were
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government property and should have
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rightfully been turned over and coming
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knew all of this I mean there’s just
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there’s no secrets here I don’t want to
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belabor the point of what the IG report
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went through because it’s been pretty
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heavily covered by a lot of people but
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suffice it to say that as far as the
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regulations are concerned the internal
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regulations of the FBI Comey just broke
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rule after rule after rule after rule
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after rule now Kony did all of this I
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think he was clearly expecting Hillary
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Clinton to win the presidency and so he
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was you know even though that there was
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some animosity towards him because of
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that report he did about Hillary Clinton
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and the classified documents but he
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actually was doing her a favor because
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if she’d been elected president and that
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had been covered up and came up later
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that everyone would have said the
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election was illegitimate
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because he covered up illegal behavior
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on her part so he had to bring it out
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before the election he had to there was
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no way for Hillary Clinton to be
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legitimately elected unless he brought
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that out put it on the table now
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what he did is he listed all of the
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things she did wrong which are the same
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laws that he’s been looked at under by
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the IG a lot of the mistakes that she
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made were the mistakes that he made
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although hers was on a much larger scale
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and far more egregious and it’s the
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similar type of behavior her certainly
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meets the threshold of criminal and
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here’s the key his does not now I know a
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lot of people in the blogosphere I’ve
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been reading what’s been said about this
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a lot of people are very upset out there
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and that I that I’ve seen making
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comments and the breakdown of justice
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and so on and and I mean I’m with you on
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this I it is something that frightens me
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very badly but this by itself is not
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that important because it was just such
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a narrow look at how he handled these
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memos and the problem with that is it’s
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not like Hillary Clinton who had
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classified documents from all sorts of
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agencies including NSA and CIA and State
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Department that she then manipulated to
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send out these are memos that James
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Comey wrote now he knew perfectly well
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they were classified because you know as
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director of the FBI you have a meeting
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with the president United States you
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come home and write it all up
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that’s a classified document because
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it’s on government business you are have
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access to that meeting because you’re
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the director of the FBI not because
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you’re just a super intellect that the
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president wants to talk to you because
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of all these marvelous ideas you have
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which I don’t think anyone has ever
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accused coming of that so it’s it’s as
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as director of the FBI they access
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whatever you have to of these meetings
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and the things that the proceedings that
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go on belong to the government not to
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you go Comey knows all of this perfectly
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I mean it isn’t anything that even
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junior people coming in have any
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confusion over so understand that you
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know he’s really kind of speaking out of
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the side of his mouth when he says oh
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I’m vindicated all of this because he
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knows damn well he’s guilty of
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everything he knows exactly what he did
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wrong and he did it on purpose for his
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own political reasons now for me that’s
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it’s kind of the what’s
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important out of all of this is it’s not
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the fact that he broke all these
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regulations because the problem on that
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is it’s hard to take those things to the
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level of criminality because of the
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origin of the documents they were like I
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said they weren’t there were memos that
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he wrote not classified documents from
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someplace else so it’s difficult to turn
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the corner to make that a criminal case
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it would be hard to prove and so that’s
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why the IG took a look at all this stuff
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and you know I’ve dealt with classified
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documents for decades and that’s it’s
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it’s just one of those things that’s
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that the IG I think properly concluded
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what they did now the report itself is
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scathing pointing out as a lot of people
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said pointing out all the things that
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James Comey did wrong but in a case if
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if you work at the FBI or CIA or NSA or
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State Department or anybody anywhere
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else in the federal government and you
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break a lot of policy that that’s not
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criminal you don’t go to jail for that
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they don’t turn you over to the
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prosecutor to try and put you in jail
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that’s I’m just going to zip that
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there’s a big difference between a
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procedural error and a series of moves
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which appear to be calculated to
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undermine a federal election that’s true
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but this this wasn’t looking
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now you’re going beyond the scope of
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what this IG inspection looked at the IG
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inspection was only looking at the
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handling of these documents that’s all
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so speculation as to what he did and why
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he did it as to part of a bigger effort
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to overthrow a duly elected president
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United States States that’s completely
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separate that’s not what they were
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looking at here so the point I wanted to
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make about it is if you break all the
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rules and regulations of wherever you
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work whether you know it’s you know fast
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food restaurant or an accounting office
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or you know the FBI it doesn’t matter
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you’re faced with the same thing and
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that’s your internally punished one way
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or another now the worst basically the
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worst punishment you can get by breaking
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the rules of your workplace is to be
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fired well coming was already fired what
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this does is just simply lays out the
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case of why he was so properly fired now
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it was always within the president’s
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purview to fire him it
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possibly be obstruction of justice
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because the president can fire him for
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whatever reason he wants without
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explanation because it’s his right to do
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so
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that’s part of being president of the
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United States so and it wasn’t president
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Trump that made the call that was
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internal and I think they were looking
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at some of these sorts of things and
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said you know time to go so he got fired
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as a result so you know what what can
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you do beyond that you’ve already fired
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the guy so what do you do now he’s
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humiliated he’s on all the TV shows
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where whoever will talk to him saying
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he’s vindicated but you know he looks
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like a horse’s rear end I mean I think
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reputational money properly so he’s
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essentially destroyed now but because of
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the you know a couple more points about
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before I move on one thing Comey the
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list for this the big loser because
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reputationally he’s just absolutely
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destroyed even the Washington Post who’s
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clearly a left-wing newspaper and would
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normally support these types of guys has
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just slam dunked him so you know he’s
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basically destroyed the big winner out
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of this is Trump you know because he’s
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vindicated and if what he’s been saying
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and why he fired the guy and soap Trump
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comes out of it once again he’s proven
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right the odd man out of all of this is
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current FBI director Christopher ray you
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know and we’re having a huge silence out
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of him where the hell is he and
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Christopher ray is the guy in all of
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this that really worries me now because
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he’s doing almost nothing all of the
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word is here that he’s fighting all
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these investigations because he wants to
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protect the reputation of the FBI but I
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gotta say you know directory if you’re
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listening dude you’re way past that
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stage you know now it’s you have to
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clean house you have to fix the problems
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clean house and by trying to cover all
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this stuff up you’re making the problem
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worse and worse and worse and where it’s
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not better better better better so you
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know get your head out of your reader
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and get this thing fixed and this
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silence on the part of director ray
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right now I think is a very strong
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indicator of where his head is at if I
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can repeat the play on words there he
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he’s just he just doesn’t you know what
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he should be doing is he should
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the guy stepping up saying all right you
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know these problems took place we’re
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gonna make sure that they never take
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place again Comey clearly was a screw-up
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where you know we’re we’re increasing
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this part of the red or decreasing that
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or doing training or whatever it is that
0:11:18.920,0:11:22.970
you have to do to fix that so that this
0:11:21.050,0:11:24.709
this problem doesn’t repeat that’s where
0:11:22.970,0:11:25.879
Christopher Rea needs to be and he’s
0:11:24.709,0:11:28.249
completely silent
0:11:25.879,0:11:30.829
so again I’m very worried about him I
0:11:28.249,0:11:33.019
don’t think he was the proper man for
0:11:30.829,0:11:35.990
the job I think that President Trump
0:11:33.019,0:11:38.329
needs to be seriously looking at him for
0:11:35.990,0:11:39.829
his long term viability I’m not saying
0:11:38.329,0:11:41.959
he should necessarily be fired right
0:11:39.829,0:11:44.809
away but I think that should be on the
0:11:41.959,0:11:46.220
table at this point if I I would expect
0:11:44.809,0:11:48.829
somebody from the White House to go sit
0:11:46.220,0:11:50.689
down at his desk and just say look you
0:11:48.829,0:11:53.389
know get going straight on this stuff
0:11:50.689,0:11:57.199
start fixing it or you know we’ll invite
0:11:53.389,0:11:59.089
you to succeed elsewhere so he for me is
0:11:57.199,0:12:02.439
the big question mark now here and the
0:11:59.089,0:12:05.540
guy that is really not doing his job so
0:12:02.439,0:12:07.850
now going forward the real question is
0:12:05.540,0:12:10.420
here is is going to be with the FISA
0:12:07.850,0:12:13.309
investigation for the FISA warrant now I
0:12:10.420,0:12:15.379
mean we’ve talked about this case many
0:12:13.309,0:12:17.750
many many times I’ve never once
0:12:15.379,0:12:19.970
suggested nor do I don’t really recall
0:12:17.750,0:12:21.889
anyone else suggesting that James Comey
0:12:19.970,0:12:24.350
was going to go to jail for his handling
0:12:21.889,0:12:25.730
of these memos I I certainly never
0:12:24.350,0:12:28.009
suggested it and would have always
0:12:25.730,0:12:30.319
thought well yeah tough case we’ll see
0:12:28.009,0:12:32.089
what you know in hindsight it’s easy to
0:12:30.319,0:12:33.649
say but I just that’s not the type of
0:12:32.089,0:12:35.870
thing you really put people away in jail
0:12:33.649,0:12:38.059
for if so easily because it’s like I
0:12:35.870,0:12:39.470
said it’s not like you took a thousand
0:12:38.059,0:12:41.809
classified documents home like Hillary
0:12:39.470,0:12:44.689
did it’s just these memos he was writing
0:12:41.809,0:12:46.699
so it’s a more murky thing clearly
0:12:44.689,0:12:49.160
against policy but is it against the law
0:12:46.699,0:12:51.980
and I and tough to prove so but going
0:12:49.160,0:12:54.559
forward now outside of this very narrow
0:12:51.980,0:12:57.110
scope of those documents still looming
0:12:54.559,0:13:00.050
still part of the investigation going on
0:12:57.110,0:13:04.040
that John Durham is doing US Attorney
0:13:00.050,0:13:06.199
Durham is is also including the Feist
0:13:04.040,0:13:11.559
investigation now that fights a warrant
0:13:06.199,0:13:14.839
that was obtained to surveil the Trump
0:13:11.559,0:13:16.309
campaign before he was elected and was
0:13:14.839,0:13:18.620
all the original plus it was three
0:13:16.309,0:13:20.460
renewals those were signed by James
0:13:18.620,0:13:21.810
coming I I don’t remember
0:13:20.460,0:13:23.610
now if you signed them all I think he’s
0:13:21.810,0:13:25.590
saying the original and and I’m not sure
0:13:23.610,0:13:29.100
how many of the three renewals that he
0:13:25.590,0:13:29.730
signed but those are real trouble for
0:13:29.100,0:13:31.500
coming
0:13:29.730,0:13:33.680
I think Comey knows that and I think
0:13:31.500,0:13:37.320
part of the reason he is so out there
0:13:33.680,0:13:39.200
now on this I G investigation and and
0:13:37.320,0:13:41.970
and if you look closely at what he said
0:13:39.200,0:13:43.590
James Comey said look all these guys
0:13:41.970,0:13:46.170
have been lying to you about me all this
0:13:43.590,0:13:47.580
time I’m fully vindicated you see I told
0:13:46.170,0:13:50.490
you they’re all just making it up
0:13:47.580,0:13:52.920
against me no it’s them you know they’re
0:13:50.490,0:13:55.020
the problem not me that’s essentially
0:13:52.920,0:13:58.140
what call me saying right now well why I
0:13:55.020,0:14:01.590
mean you know in in in he would have had
0:13:58.140,0:14:03.840
he had access to the IG report and the
0:14:01.590,0:14:05.520
points of the IG report before it was
0:14:03.840,0:14:07.590
published because that’s part of the
0:14:05.520,0:14:09.570
procedure you’re that’s the subject of
0:14:07.590,0:14:12.090
the investigation by the IG you’re
0:14:09.570,0:14:15.260
you’re told the points so that you have
0:14:12.090,0:14:17.580
the ability to respond to those issues
0:14:15.260,0:14:18.270
so he would have seen all this he knew
0:14:17.580,0:14:20.310
what was coming
0:14:18.270,0:14:24.450
he knew his scathing report he knew is
0:14:20.310,0:14:25.950
very damaging to him so I like I said I
0:14:24.450,0:14:27.900
don’t suggest the coma he’s a grand
0:14:25.950,0:14:30.450
intellect but you know he’s not a
0:14:27.900,0:14:32.040
complete idiot either so knowing what
0:14:30.450,0:14:34.230
was coming out knowing how damaging it
0:14:32.040,0:14:36.240
was to his reputation he goes out anyway
0:14:34.230,0:14:37.980
and says oh see I’m vindicated it’s them
0:14:36.240,0:14:40.770
making it up you can’t believe anything
0:14:37.980,0:14:43.110
they tell you well I think what that is
0:14:40.770,0:14:44.940
is pre positioning himself for defense
0:14:43.110,0:14:46.320
for the next round that’s to come up and
0:14:44.940,0:14:49.560
also I think the IgE
0:14:46.320,0:14:51.360
the attorney general’s office didn’t
0:14:49.560,0:14:54.000
want to waste the time on such a hard
0:14:51.360,0:14:56.120
case that’s minor like this the amount
0:14:54.000,0:14:58.290
of trouble he would get in it over the
0:14:56.120,0:15:03.510
handling of the documents was relatively
0:14:58.290,0:15:07.580
minor and so but this FISA warrant thing
0:15:03.510,0:15:11.240
now that is a big deal probably fraud
0:15:07.580,0:15:13.290
probably perjury involved in that I
0:15:11.240,0:15:15.480
would sort of guys depending how it
0:15:13.290,0:15:17.220
plays out but those those two things are
0:15:15.480,0:15:20.730
there because he was going to a judge
0:15:17.220,0:15:22.620
and testifying to the accuracy swearing
0:15:20.730,0:15:25.020
to the accuracy of the information
0:15:22.620,0:15:27.600
contained and those documents submitted
0:15:25.020,0:15:30.210
to the judge well he knew that was all a
0:15:27.600,0:15:31.920
lie and did it anyway and all of those
0:15:30.210,0:15:33.630
people that signed those documents so I
0:15:31.920,0:15:35.310
think for
0:15:33.630,0:15:38.730
people that are really upset over this I
0:15:35.310,0:15:42.140
would say bide your time my trip line on
0:15:38.730,0:15:45.120
this is the FISA warrant if something so
0:15:42.140,0:15:48.390
latent as the way that they lied and
0:15:45.120,0:15:51.390
manipulated this the steel dossier in
0:15:48.390,0:15:53.160
order to get a warrant against the Trump
0:15:51.390,0:15:56.310
campaign and spy on the Trump campaign
0:15:53.160,0:16:00.320
if something so blatant is that that
0:15:56.310,0:16:03.240
clearly if not surpasses approaches
0:16:00.320,0:16:05.190
treason if all of that is allowed to
0:16:03.240,0:16:07.290
walk then you know ladies and gentlemen
0:16:05.190,0:16:09.750
boys and girls we’ve got very serious
0:16:07.290,0:16:12.960
problems here in the United States and I
0:16:09.750,0:16:15.540
I just don’t think Attorney General bar
0:16:12.960,0:16:17.310
is so corrupt that he would try to cover
0:16:15.540,0:16:19.650
those sorts of things up I just don’t I
0:16:17.310,0:16:21.900
just don’t see that so but that’s my
0:16:19.650,0:16:23.940
tripwire that’s my red line if you will
0:16:21.900,0:16:27.080
that’s where I look at it and say okay
0:16:23.940,0:16:30.690
if that’s allowed to go forward
0:16:27.080,0:16:32.400
unchallenged then then we’ve got very
0:16:30.690,0:16:33.750
serious problems and something you know
0:16:32.400,0:16:35.940
more serious steps would need to be
0:16:33.750,0:16:37.410
taken here and I don’t think Trump would
0:16:35.940,0:16:39.120
allow that to go forward that way either
0:16:37.410,0:16:42.870
because he was the target of all of this
0:16:39.120,0:16:44.040
so I think we’re all right you know I
0:16:42.870,0:16:45.270
guess that would be the best way to
0:16:44.040,0:16:47.250
describe it I think we’re all right I
0:16:45.270,0:16:49.950
think the big stuff is still coming I
0:16:47.250,0:16:52.020
think fairly soon we’re gonna see this
0:16:49.950,0:16:55.980
come out on the on the FISA thing and
0:16:52.020,0:16:58.470
how can you possibly not indict and take
0:16:55.980,0:17:04.079
to trial these guys for what they did on
0:16:58.470,0:17:05.160
on that Faisal warrant request so like I
0:17:04.079,0:17:07.410
said I think we’re all right I think
0:17:05.160,0:17:09.449
that’s where commis well Comey is
0:17:07.410,0:17:11.160
looking he knows that’s the real problem
0:17:09.449,0:17:12.569
that he’s facing and that’s why he’s
0:17:11.160,0:17:14.250
just come out and said oh they’re lying
0:17:12.569,0:17:16.680
about me they’ve all lied about me time
0:17:14.250,0:17:18.689
to apologize to James Comey and all of
0:17:16.680,0:17:20.910
that because it it pre positions him for
0:17:18.689,0:17:23.550
his defense because what defense does he
0:17:20.910,0:17:25.620
have once that fights the thing hit you
0:17:23.550,0:17:26.640
look at all the documents say well
0:17:25.620,0:17:30.240
clearly you were lying
0:17:26.640,0:17:32.910
and yet you testified attested to the
0:17:30.240,0:17:37.620
truth of this information to a judge so
0:17:32.910,0:17:40.080
why and you know he can’t discuss it
0:17:37.620,0:17:43.380
he can’t there’s no defense within that
0:17:40.080,0:17:45.150
for him because he knew it was false
0:17:43.380,0:17:47.160
when he did it because it was political
0:17:45.150,0:17:49.170
if it’s political
0:17:47.160,0:17:53.130
then you are getting into the realm of
0:17:49.170,0:17:55.220
treason so he can’t go down that road at
0:17:53.130,0:17:57.420
all and he’s gonna have to sell a frame
0:17:55.220,0:17:59.310
job you’re making it look worse than it
0:17:57.420,0:18:01.080
is and I got that information from John
0:17:59.310,0:18:02.790
Brennan and you know he told me mr.
0:18:01.080,0:18:04.590
Krown document so I had to do it and
0:18:02.790,0:18:06.810
that’s when that’s when you’re gonna see
0:18:04.590,0:18:08.130
this whole thing in my opinion I think
0:18:06.810,0:18:11.250
that’s when you’re gonna see this whole
0:18:08.130,0:18:13.530
thing breakdown and chaos from their
0:18:11.250,0:18:16.830
perspective the Jim clapper Oh Jim come
0:18:13.530,0:18:19.440
James Comey clapper former DNI Comey
0:18:16.830,0:18:21.600
former director of FBI and John Brennan
0:18:19.440,0:18:23.390
former director of the CIA they’re the
0:18:21.600,0:18:27.600
guys that were cooking all this up now
0:18:23.390,0:18:29.610
whether it goes then on to president
0:18:27.600,0:18:31.110
former President Obama I think is kind
0:18:29.610,0:18:35.430
of the really the million-dollar
0:18:31.110,0:18:39.060
question if those three guys a number of
0:18:35.430,0:18:41.190
levels to this first you know if they
0:18:39.060,0:18:42.780
all kind of break down and are willing
0:18:41.190,0:18:45.090
to just tell everything they know in
0:18:42.780,0:18:46.200
order to either save their lives or save
0:18:45.090,0:18:48.150
them from spending the rest of their
0:18:46.200,0:18:50.640
life in jail which those guys would be
0:18:48.150,0:18:52.320
targets in jail I can’t think life with
0:18:50.640,0:18:55.770
Bubba would be easy for those guys in
0:18:52.320,0:18:58.530
jail it would be federal penitentiary so
0:18:55.770,0:19:00.300
I mean not you know your local checkout
0:18:58.530,0:19:04.230
during the morning and check back in in
0:19:00.300,0:19:06.840
the evening sorts of places so if if in
0:19:04.230,0:19:11.250
fact Obama was aware which seems at
0:19:06.840,0:19:12.630
least at this point very likely that I
0:19:11.250,0:19:15.570
don’t know that that would rise to the
0:19:12.630,0:19:18.330
level of being able to try to prosecute
0:19:15.570,0:19:20.910
a former president United States if on
0:19:18.330,0:19:22.710
the other hand he knew was aware of it
0:19:20.910,0:19:26.160
from the beginning and gave the orders
0:19:22.710,0:19:27.270
to them to proceed that’s different so
0:19:26.160,0:19:29.520
it would be very interesting I think
0:19:27.270,0:19:31.020
that’s what’s kind of the I have a real
0:19:29.520,0:19:33.360
question of that as to how that will
0:19:31.020,0:19:35.580
play out into the future if all three of
0:19:33.360,0:19:38.280
those guys clapper coming and Brennan
0:19:35.580,0:19:40.590
are in real trouble would they flip
0:19:38.280,0:19:41.970
would they then testify against the
0:19:40.590,0:19:46.560
former president United States and
0:19:41.970,0:19:48.810
whoever else might be involved so I that
0:19:46.560,0:19:50.640
remains to be to play itself out it’s
0:19:48.810,0:19:54.540
really getting to be kind of
0:19:50.640,0:19:57.720
hypothetical at this point and myself I
0:19:54.540,0:20:00.970
would be I think everyone involved would
0:19:57.720,0:20:03.010
want a very strong standard of proof
0:20:00.970,0:20:04.510
in order to go after a former president
0:20:03.010,0:20:06.460
United States no matter who it is I
0:20:04.510,0:20:08.890
think it presents a it presents a
0:20:06.460,0:20:10.990
dilemma to the Republicans away what
0:20:08.890,0:20:13.030
whether it great you know if they do
0:20:10.990,0:20:18.120
prosecute him because he meets a certain
0:20:13.030,0:20:21.220
standard of behavior which cannot go on
0:20:18.120,0:20:23.860
record and unpublished unpublished and
0:20:21.220,0:20:26.260
unpunished that presents a challenge to
0:20:23.860,0:20:28.450
the Republic I think and you know if he
0:20:26.260,0:20:31.870
has clearly done things that the average
0:20:28.450,0:20:33.370
person would have been severely punished
0:20:31.870,0:20:35.650
for but you don’t want to take a
0:20:33.370,0:20:37.120
president to task for that I think
0:20:35.650,0:20:38.530
that’s I think I think that Obama is
0:20:37.120,0:20:42.700
going to present a challenge either way
0:20:38.530,0:20:44.830
I agree completely and I’m I’m not sure
0:20:42.700,0:20:46.840
even how I mean I’d I personally would
0:20:44.830,0:20:48.280
want to know if way more before I would
0:20:46.840,0:20:51.430
really kind of make too many judgment
0:20:48.280,0:20:53.590
calls on it I I would really hesitate to
0:20:51.430,0:20:55.390
see like I say a former president the
0:20:53.590,0:20:59.530
United States convicted of treason or
0:20:55.390,0:21:01.000
some related type crime yeah I don’t
0:20:59.530,0:21:04.960
know that’s that’s not a happy time for
0:21:01.000,0:21:06.430
anybody anybody so we’ll see but it’s
0:21:04.960,0:21:08.050
gonna be very interesting as I said kind
0:21:06.430,0:21:09.220
of my parting shot on all of this to
0:21:08.050,0:21:10.840
everyone was you know don’t be
0:21:09.220,0:21:13.510
frustrated by what you saw on this
0:21:10.840,0:21:15.910
extremely narrow IG report on the
0:21:13.510,0:21:18.460
documents those memos that James Comey
0:21:15.910,0:21:20.350
had at home did a lot of broke a lot of
0:21:18.460,0:21:21.850
procedural regulations so sorts of
0:21:20.350,0:21:23.590
things but he was already fired and
0:21:21.850,0:21:26.140
that’s the maximum punishment for that
0:21:23.590,0:21:28.660
sort of stuff he’s being fired so you
0:21:26.140,0:21:30.430
know he kind of had the IG in a tight
0:21:28.660,0:21:32.110
spot in that sense you can you can’t
0:21:30.430,0:21:33.700
fire the guy twice but you could
0:21:32.110,0:21:35.110
certainly justify the fact it helps
0:21:33.700,0:21:40.140
justify the fact that he was fired
0:21:35.110,0:21:40.140
earlier so the question is that FISA
0:21:45.970,0:21:48.030
you
