Thursday, February 2, 2017
The Bizarre Far-Right Billionaire Behind Trump's Presidency
When all seemed to be falling apart for Trump this summer, one shadowy billionaire offered up his own massive political infrastructure, which included Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, and saved Trump’s campaign from demise
July 2016 and a very disorganized Trump campaign is headed into an equally chaotic Republican National Convention the latest fundraising numbers for junior dismal and according to CNBC Trump is second-guessing his decision to 0:29 make Mike Pence is running me making 0:31 last-minute phone calls to assess the 0:33 pic just days before the event 0:35 uncertainty even played out in public 0:38 during a phone interview with greta van 0:40 susteren I haven't made by final final 0:43 decision past GOP candidates John McCain 0:46 and Mitt Romney have decided to skip the 0:48 convention so both former Bush President 0:51 one day before the convention and 0:55 there's still no official list of 0:57 speakers 0:58 nevertheless july 18 holes around the 1:01 GOP has to move forward with the show 1:08 the convention is considered a disaster 1:12 it exposes the party in disarray 1:14 delegation from Iowa Colorado stage a 1:18 walkout over a critical rules boat right 1:20 there in the top right you can actually 1:21 see Kendall unruh in blue she's one of 1:23 the leaders of the nevertrump or the 1:25 dump Trump movement trying to get the 1:27 rules change the start of the convention 1:29 to let delegates vote their conscience 1:31 subsequent polls show Trump trailing 1:34 Clinton and need to win swing state 1:36 coupled with a string of bad press story 1:40 including Trump fight with the family of 1:42 a fallen Iraq that the Trump campaign 1:44 seems to have lost the momentum Donald 1:47 Trump it's just not doing what is 1:51 required to win in a surprise move the 1:54 Trump campaign shakes up its leadership 1:56 at the eleventh hour bringing on 1:58 far-right editor-in-chief breitbart news 2:00 chief and along with former republican 2:03 pollster Kellyanne Conway days later 2:06 David Bostic head of the corporate 2:08 advocacy groups citizens united is 2:10 brought on as deputy manager of the 2:12 campaign 2:13 finally the campaign also hires the data 2:17 mining firm cambridge analytical 2:18 password probing the American voters 2:21 mind at a glance these last-minute 2:24 developments desperate and disjointed 2:26 i'm not i don't know what they're doing 2:28 I wish I could tell you but a closer 2:33 look reveals something different 2:35 it reveals the hidden connection between 2:37 these players a thread between the 2:39 seemingly random cast of actors 2:43 enter billionaire hedge-fund manager 2:50 robert mercer and his daughter Rebecca 2:53 they've been eyeing Trump ever since 2:56 their first choice 2:57 Ted Cruz dropped out of the primary back 2:59 in May we are suspending our campaign 3:02 the fuel behind vs influence of the 3:06 absurd sums of money here Cruz that the 3:08 investment company he run renaissance 3:11 technologies based on long island it 3:14 seems medallion fund is one of the most 3:16 successful hedge funds and investing 3:18 history average in seventy-two percent 3:20 returns the for feedings over more than 3:22 20 years statistic that battle challenge 3:25 and outranks the profitability of other 3:28 competing fun with the one George Soros 3:30 and one Buffett run in 2015 Mercer had 3:35 single-handedly catapulted through to 3:37 the front of the Republican field 3:38 throwing more than 13 million dollars 3:41 into a super PAC he created for the now 3:43 failed candidate but with the Trump 3:46 campaign falter struggling to support 3:48 there's a second chance for the Mercer's 3:51 to make a big bet the Trump campaign is 3:54 well aware of this 3:55 in fact sources within Mercer super PAC 3:58 with later tell Bloomberg News that 4:00 shortly after crews drops out of the 4:02 race 4:03 ivanka trump and her wealthy developer 4:05 husband jared kushner approached 4:07 immerses asking if they'd be willing to 4:09 ship their support behind Trump the 4:12 answer is an eventual what was sounding 4:14 yet in the month leading up the Trump's 4:18 presidential win the Mercer's will prove 4:20 a formidable force beginning after the 4:24 disastrous Republican convention in July 4:26 they would furnish the Trump campaign 4:28 with millions of dollars a new 4:30 leadership they would also furnish it 4:33 with something more 4:34 a vast network of non profit strategist 4:37 media companies research institution and 4:40 super PAC that they themselves funded 4:42 and largely controlled I think what 4:45 you've seen is a lot of organizations in 4:48 this network come out to play a role in 4:51 the 2016 election with the Mercer family 4:54 in the picture the post convention 4:56 shake-up start to make sense take Steve 4:59 benen he and Robert Mercer has been 5:02 closed for years and Mercer's a top 5:04 adventure breitbart news were been in 5:07 with chief editor Kellyanne Conway also 5:11 comes out of this network before 5:13 becoming co-manager of trumps campaign 5:15 she headed up operations to Robert 5:17 Marshall super PAC when it was still 5:19 supporting Ted Cruz and as for deputy 5:23 campaign manager David bossy he was 5:25 president of citizens united an 5:27 organization Mercer is heavily funded at 5:30 least 2010 cambridge analytica the 5:34 mysterious data mining firm that 5:36 received grudging praise after 5:38 predicting the races outcome more 5:39 accurately than any other polling 5:41 something is also heavily funded by 5:43 robert mercer and was employed by the 5:45 trees campaign with former switched over 5:48 to trump in fact immerses political 5:51 infrastructure is so entrenched that 5:53 rebekah mercer herself that from a 5:55 16-person executive committee Trump 5:58 transition team purchase foray into 6:02 white house may seem to have been born 6:04 partly out of luck especially with Trump 6:07 and Ted Cruz as a stalking horse 6:10 but his rise to power was systematic and 6:12 it was years in the making the web of 6:16 connections mercy is built over the last 6:17 decade is that and complex it includes 6:21 efforts to dismantle tax law and weaken 6:23 the IRS it's about funding quack 6:27 scientists and conspiracy theorists who 6:29 blame the government for among other 6:30 things playing a role in the San 6:32 Bernardino Massacre or of colluding with 6:35 the United Nations than using climate 6:37 change as an excuse to implement 6:39 environmental laws meant to depopulate 6:41 America's Midwest it's not pouring money 6:45 into the neoconservative john bolton 6:47 super PAC which pops of candidates who 6:49 ascribe to bolton hawkish foreign policy 6:51 but one of Mercer's earliest activist 6:55 ventures with financing a slew of fringe 6:57 documentary project that have helped 6:59 raise the profile with people that sarah 7:01 palin michele bachmann and most notably 7:04 the director of those films Steve benen 7:07 then and who was previously a naval 7:11 officer and goldman sachs investment 7:13 banker made his first documentary in 7:15 2004 about long and Reagan we told his 7:19 biography using washed-out 7:20 black-and-white archival footage of the 7:22 Hollywood actor painting him as a brave 7:25 protector of Western democracy and the 7:27 threat of communism you and I have a 7:29 rendezvous with depth 7:31 will preserve for our children that's 7:34 the last best hope of man on it or will 7:36 sentence him to take the last step into 7:38 the thousand years that the film was a 7:41 commercial success according to the 7:43 reviews it was a flop but it developed a 7:46 cult following and it revealed that 7:48 there was an untapped audience for this 7:50 sort of film which demonized America's 7:52 current establishment while lamenting 7:54 the death of old-time conservatism under 7:56 reagan in the face of evil would also 8:03 connect man and conservative author 8:05 Peter Schweitzer whose namesake book the 8:07 film was based on you it would also 8:10 connect them to another rising 8:12 conservative figure in a net at a 8:14 screening of his Reagan film and Beverly 8:16 Hills a man Ben and recalled in a 8:18 bloomberg peace who came up to him after 8:20 the showing like a bear he said 8:22 squeezing me like my head's gonna blow 8:24 up and saying we've got to take back the 8:26 culture his name Andrew Breitbart a 8:30 conservative commentator for the next 8:33 few years would join then and enjoys her 8:35 in their efforts to establish a fresh 8:37 conservative narrative with Breitbart 8:39 himself focusing on an idea for a new 8:41 media company something partly inspired 8:44 by a trip to Jerusalem and the need to 8:46 create an outlet that would be 8:47 unapologetically pro-freedom and 8:49 pro-israel he said something that would 8:52 come to fruition in 2007 and that he 8:54 would call right bar dot com 8:56 [Music] 8:59 one of the things i admired about 9:00 Breitbart bin and said in that Bloomberg 9:02 story is that the dirtiest word for him 9:04 was penetrated our vision Andrews vision 9:08 was always to build a global 9:09 center-right populace anti-establishment 9:11 news site but that wasn't all 9:15 what band Schweitzer and bright part 9:17 really wanted to forge was a 9:19 multi-tiered effort push their agenda 9:21 they wanted a fun toys books and being 9:24 in film ultimately they wanted to create 9:27 a media infrastructure big enough to 9:29 pump their ideology into america's 9:31 national discourse but they needed more 9:34 investors and they needed large 9:36 investors people who could fund this 9:38 giant operation for a sustained period 9:40 of time because what this right-wing 9:43 trio had set out to do wasn't to simply 9:45 start a business it was to transform 9:48 America's rage 9:49 it's largely white rural working class 9:52 discontent into a political movement 9:54 that would storm Washington first in the 9:57 form of the Tea Party and again six 9:59 years later in the form of Trump that 10:03 influx of cash would come from the 10:04 organization more famous now the supreme 10:07 court decision and inspired and for the 10:09 media and political work is done for 10:11 decades 10:12 thanks in part to funders like the Koch 10:14 brothers and of course Robert Mercer the 10:17 transporter advocacy group citizens 10:18 united was created in 1988 and four 10:22 years that had pumped out television ad 10:24 films and other forms of media content 10:26 that's not to put pressure both on 10:28 Democrats as little more moderate 10:30 Republicans to embrace the far-right 10:31 corporate friendly approach to politics 10:34 we never get the less controlled 10:35 Hollywood they control entertainment 10:37 they control the movies they control 10:39 television they control mass media they 10:42 control certainly journalism and so what 10:45 Susan United is true 10:46 get out is that through the media they 10:48 can in fact move public opinion they can 10:51 shape America and thereby shape 10:53 Washington it was that effort that gave 10:57 rise to the film's Hillary the movie 10:59 which in turn led to the Supreme Court 11:01 case that changed the way politics was 11:03 done in the United States it's worth 11:07 noting that the citizens united decision 11:08 to allow for unlimited campaign 11:10 contributions to super pacs didn't 11:12 originate from any billionaire 11:14 corporation directly complaining about 11:16 contribution limits it originated from 11:20 this documentary which been directed and 11:23 which FCC rules barred from being shown 11:25 because it fell under the category of 11:27 electioneering communications 11:29 essentially union and corporate funded 11:31 groups like citizens united couldn't air 11:34 anything critical about a candidate 11:35 within 30 days of the primaries and 60 11:38 days of the general elections the 11:42 supreme court's decision to strike down 11:44 that rule opened up the floodgates for 11:46 unlimited campaign spending which 11:48 citizens united and it's billionaire and 11:50 corporate donors seized upon citizens 11:54 united has been heavily funded by the 11:55 Koch brothers and their network of 11:57 donors which Mercer joins early on but 12:01 in 2010 Mercer decides to extend his 12:04 reach and influence beyond the confines 12:06 of that network beginning first 12:08 breitbart news which at the time it a 12:10 bit of a rough patch injured Breitbart 12:14 to put out a misleading video that 12:16 showed the Department of Agriculture 12:17 official Shirley Sherrod making the 12:20 people characterized as racist remarks 12:22 towards white people shared was fired 12:25 and when it came out afterwards that the 12:26 flip had been manipulated shared sued 12:29 Andrew Breitbart the lawsuit fell on the 12:33 heels of another false video expose 12:35 Breitbart done a year earlier involving 12:37 the association of community 12:39 organizations for reform now known as a 12:42 torn 12:42 which had resulted in their loss of 12:44 private and government funded after the 12:47 shared video media virtually blacklisted 12:50 him along with his sight from the 12:51 mainstream the hiccup prompted Mercer to 12:55 capitalize on the event he reportedly 12:59 put upwards of 10 million dollars in the 13:01 company later that year making a top 13:03 investor the next two years are spent 13:07 expanding and sharpening the media 13:09 connection been and continues to produce 13:11 documentary including the undefeated 13:14 featuring the rises sarah palin as well 13:16 as occupy unmasked which aims to 13:18 discredit 2011 process these people feel 13:22 morally justified 685 Schweitzer 13:26 continues publishing books most notably 13:28 Clinton cash in 2015 which band adapted 13:32 into a documentary and which fueled the 13:34 right session with Hillary Clinton the 13:36 financial sources for her foundation 13:39 meanwhile Mercer's quietly lubricating 13:43 political and financial empire doling 13:45 out money to a whole slew of 13:47 conservative nonprofit such as the 13:49 Heartland Institute the heritage 13:50 foundation the Cato Institute citizens 13:53 united and many more 13:55 then suddenly in 2012 14:01 Andrew Breitbart died from a heart 14:03 attack are dead at the age of 43 right 14:06 part was certainly a driving force in 14:08 the tea party movement as well as a very 14:10 influential political voice on the 14:11 internet Mercer an advantage was a board 14:14 member of right block quickly rearrange 14:16 leadership roles in an effort not to 14:18 lose any momentum in fact great boards 14:22 destined to a bit more blessing for the 14:24 group Breitbart unlike his compatriots 14:27 had always been more of an old-school 14:29 more moderate conservative he worked at 14:31 the drudge report which many songs in 14:33 both horn for the bush administration 14:35 more surprisingly he'd been a researcher 14:39 for arianna huffington and help create 14:40 an early model for what would become the 14:42 liberal huffington post so Mercer Bannon 14:47 and shorts are cranked up the heat in 14:50 the months after Breitbart died man is 14:52 made executive chairman of breitbart.com 14:54 Schweitzer meanwhile sounds a new 14:57 research group that focuses on feeding 15:00 content to break par news and citizens 15:02 united for their documentary projects 15:04 called the Government Accountability 15:05 institute for Mercer the top under while 15:08 benefits on the board these ships are 15:12 all taking place in the shadows of the 15:14 presidential race between Barack Obama 15:16 and Mitt Romney Romney epitomize the GOP 15:19 establishment and mercer must have been 15:21 reluctant to give to his campaign ended 15:24 up throwing about a million dollars into 15:26 a super pac supporting romney a poultry 15:29 number compared to 15 million he spent 15:31 on Trump and the 13 million you spent on 15:33 free romney's loss was a heavy defeat 15:37 the Republican voters around the country 15:39 with so many Americans still struggling 15:42 to get back on their feet after the 2008 15:45 economic crisis his defeat angered many 15:47 GOP voters some blames obama and the 15:51 democrats others blame the Republican 15:54 establishment including Romney himself 15:55 but at the nyu club in New York shortly 16:00 after the news of obama's reelection one 16:03 unexpected voice would take a small 16:05 group of wealthy donors by 16:06 storm blasting the Romney team for 16:08 dropping the ball on their data mining 16:10 and canvassing operation that woman was 16:14 rebekah mercer Robert Mercer's daughter 16:16 after Romney Rebecca became her father's 16:20 right hand before that Robert brushes 16:23 role in political dealings with the 16:25 supply money to the people who admired 16:27 and trusted people like band Switzer 16:30 Breitbart Rebecca wanted to change that 16:34 she wanted accountability of the money 16:36 her father spent and romney's failure 16:39 provided an opportunity to step into the 16:41 Republican arena and assert her and 16:44 fathers agenda between 2012 in 2015 16:49 she would take formal leadership 16:50 position that the think tanks and 16:52 nonprofits forefathers funded she became 16:55 a director Peter Schweitzer Government 16:57 Accountability Institute she took over 16:59 the Mercer Family Foundation and more 17:02 recently she manage your father's to the 17:04 attack alongside Killian Conway she and 17:07 her father began to engage what you 17:09 could call kind of sniper fire politics 17:11 investing money and very specific races 17:14 and causes in Robert Mercer put money 17:18 into super packed in races that have 17:21 something to do with often tax recycle 17:27 he gave money to a super PAC the action 17:31 of primary challenger to Senator John 17:33 machine and Arizona McCain's the 17:35 Republican and he was the co-chair of 17:40 the Senate committee that investigated 17:41 responses tax strategy between with 17:46 leaders say he thought Mercer was doing 17:47 this because of that investigation which 17:50 was looking into whether renaissance 17:51 technologies that avoided more than 6 17:53 billion dollars in taxes over the course 17:55 of 14 years 17:57 the 2016 Republican primary Robert 18:02 Mercer decided to put his support behind 18:04 Ted Cruz and so demanded that his crews 18:07 faltered into positions that ran counter 18:10 to abandon conservative agenda like 18:12 supporting the TPP mercer and Ben and 18:15 begin questioning their support of a 18:16 candidate who's to obviously trying to 18:18 appease both the disgruntled American 18:20 voter as well as corporate interests in 18:22 Washington in the end cruises 18:27 evangelical Christian persona failed to 18:29 cover up his true identity which was a 18:32 harvard-educated lawyer who worked for 18:34 years in Washington including as a young 18:36 clerk in the supreme court Robert Mercer 18:42 seldom makes public appearances and he 18:44 never talks to the press the only time 18:47 he spoken publicly was in 2014 18:50 after he received a lifetime achievement 18:52 award from the Association for 18:54 computational linguistics in the 18:57 hour-long acceptance speech he gives in 18:58 baltimore maryland Mercer spends almost 19:00 all of his time talking about his 19:02 passion for computers i really love 19:05 everything about computers 19:07 I love the solitude of the computer lab 19:10 late at night i love the air-conditioned 19:12 smell of the place i love the sound of 19:14 the discs whirring and the printers 19:16 clacking none of his remarks are 19:18 political except for one comment he 19:21 makes when he's talking about the time 19:22 he worked at the Air Force weapons lab 19:25 in New Mexico size and the one day he 19:27 discovered how to make their computers 19:28 run about a hundred times faster and 19:31 then a strange thing happened instead of 19:32 running the old computations in 100 of 19:35 the time the powers that be at the lab 19:38 ran computations that were under times 19:40 bigger i took this is an indication of 19:43 one of the most important goals of 19:44 government finance research is not so 19:46 much to get answers as it is to consume 19:48 the computer budget which has left me 19:52 ever since with a jaundiced view of 19:54 government finance research Robert 19:58 Mercer doesn't quite fit into 20:00 established after class he isn't exactly 20:03 a Wall Street type and neither are the 20:05 300 employees many of whom are advanced 20:07 mathematicians and physicists who work 20:09 at renaissance technologies brainchild 20:11 the medallion fund i think it's 20:15 interesting to note that this is a guy 20:17 who had the programming background 20:18 coding background didn't start out small 20:21 street and so he's come to this sort of 20:23 it a difficult grout eat spoken very 20:27 little about his political giving and so 20:30 we can't say a lot about his motives 20:34 that we not what he said 20:36 this one is known for its secrecy 20:40 it's been closed to outside investors 20:42 since 2005 and what exactly they trade 20:45 isn't fully understood what is known is 20:49 that what Mercer along with retired 20:51 Renaissance Technologies founder James 20:52 Simon and co-ceo peterbrown have done is 20:55 master the map behind something called 20:57 quantitative trading which involves 21:00 gaming the stock market using advanced 21:02 algorithms and data analysis to create 21:04 unprecedented profits 21:06 all they do is make one group of the 21:10 literally billionaires slightly richer 21:13 than another group of billionaires and 21:15 in the process to make themselves 21:17 billionaires but they had absolutely 21:19 nothing to the economy or the world 21:23 effectively 21:24 2016 list of biggest political donors is 21:29 stacked with billionaires who made their 21:31 money by engaging and what about two 21:33 different forms of gambling the largest 21:36 donor of the cycle Tom Steyer is a hedge 21:39 fund manager the second Sheldon Adelson 21:41 is a casino magnate the third Donald 21:44 Sussman is a quant fund manager 21:47 strangely enough founder of Renaissance 21:49 Technologies Jane Simon is one of the 21:51 Democrats largest donors is number five 21:54 on that list while his colleague and 21:56 Republican counterpart Robert Mercer is 21:58 number seven 21:59 it's not a coincidence that the enormous 22:03 amounts of wealth go to people who are 22:05 connected with gambling but recall that 22:09 they don't gamble abelson is the house 22:12 the house mathematically is going to win 22:17 and the idea at the hedge fund it is 22:22 again to have better map than the other 22:26 billionaires so that statistically 22:28 you're going to win casino capitalism 22:34 has given people like Robert and rebekah 22:36 mercer riches and power beyond most 22:38 people's imagination but the role of 22:42 activists billionaires in American 22:44 politics isn't new it's just become 22:46 stronger as well as concentrated in 22:48 fewer hands with the top one percent of 22:52 americans today holding onto forty 22:54 percent of the country's wealth and much 22:57 of that increase taking place in the 22:59 finance and energy sectors of the 23:00 economy the rise of people like Robert 23:03 Mercer and the Koch brothers reflects 23:05 how billionaires have gradually taken 23:07 more direct control over politicians in 23:10 the state 23:11 one of the things that is really useful 23:14 if you're a billionaire and that you get 23:17 your money by doing nothing socially 23:19 useful is to valorize what you're doing 23:22 and to demonize anyone that might 23:26 actually restricted by law regulation 23:29 even social mores 23:32 and propaganda is historically the 23:38 answer to that an essential part of 23:44 trumps propaganda that he represents the 23:46 interests of workers the little guy and 23:48 will take on the big corporation but the 23:51 proof of his loyalties in his 23:53 appointment his cabinet the richest in 23:56 history along with his close advisor 23:58 include major players from Wall Street 24:00 and corporate America Rex Tillerson 24:04 Andrew poster linda mcmahon Stephen 24:07 Schwarzman Todd Ricketts Gary Cohen 24:10 Steve and Betsy davidoff Elaine child 24:14 overwrought the Venusian Carl Icahn 24:17 Peter teal these are the true faces of a 24:21 trump presidency in the end there are no 24:26 workers are little guy on the Trump team 24:28 only the Allies of rainmakers Robert and 24:32 rebekah mercer the billionaire his 24:34 political head coach Donald Trump into 24:36 the White House
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we are anonymous 0:19 most of the world the political left in 0:22 particular was blindsided by the results 0:24 of the 2016 election to say that some 0:27 are having a hard time coming to terms 0:29 with the word president Trump and what 0:31 the next four to eight years will bring 0:33 would be an understatement 0:35 those who told you that a trump 0:37 presidency was impossible were quick to 0:39 remix their pre-election narratives 0:41 framing the Donald as something of a 0:43 Hitler 2.0 and attempting to position 0:45 themselves as leaders of a new 0:47 resistance self-reflection is still off 0:50 the table on the other end of the 0:52 spectrum you have those who took Trump's 0:54 promises at face value and to actually 0:56 believe he will make America great again 0:58 proclaiming the dawn of a new age of 1:00 conservatism as the stock market rose to 1:03 record highs before he actually took 1:05 office both sides are utterly unprepared 1:08 for what's coming 1:09 let's just cut to the chase is trumped 1:12 going to usher in a new era of 1:13 prosperity and innovation or is he going 1:16 to be the one standing in the center 1:17 ring when the circus tent comes down to 1:20 remember some voted for Trump as a 1:22 political lot of cocktail Trump is a 1:24 businessman you say he's going to make 1:27 things happen 1:28 cut taxes because regulation investor 1:31 trillion dollars in infrastructure 1:33 including a generous well punish 1:35 companies that move factories overseas 1:37 rebuild the military wrist or relations 1:41 with Russia start a trade war with China 1:43 and you know a new arms race would 1:45 create jobs there's a lot to unpack 1:48 there and those are debates worth having 1:51 however much of this hinges on a 1:52 variable that Trump doesn't control the 1:55 federal reserve the federal reserve has 1:57 held interest rates near zero for close 2:00 to a decade they also engaged in 2:02 quantitative easing from 2009 to 2014 2:06 accumulating four point five trillion 2:08 dollars worth of mortgage-backed 2:10 securities and treasury notes they are 2:12 still holding those assets by the way 2:14 this inflated stock and bond market 2:16 bubbles of historic proportions when a 2:19 friendly faces in the White House 2:21 crashes are typically attributed to a 2:23 war a terrorist attack or some other 2:26 external variable for example 911 which 2:29 mask the unraveling of the tech bubble 2:31 in 2001 the Trump administration however 2:35 is an excuse in another self word is the 2:38 set is leading towards increasing 2:39 interest rates aggressively in 2017 and 2:43 may engage in any inflationary measures 2:45 to offset Trump infrastructure stimulus 2:48 plan that means that the flow of money 2:50 and credit is about to be tightened it 2:52 also means the Fed is setting itself up 2:54 for a showdown is Trump place by the 2:57 rules you will have to wait until 2018 3:00 to replace Janet Yellen a lot can happen 3:02 within that timeframe Trump's 3:05 personality is a wild card 3:07 he's impulsive he fights dirty she 3:09 fights to win 3:11 he also happens to have a history with 3:13 organized cried if Trump goes to war 3:16 with the Federal Reserve this could get 3:17 out of hand and ways that most can't 3:19 even imagine especially when geopolitics 3:22 are factored and as a result the US 3:24 dollars position as the world reserve 3:26 currency is going to be in play 3:28 add to that backdrop a little social 3:30 unrest on the domestic front its recent 3:33 history serves as any indicator we can 3:35 count on seeing some kind of racially 3:37 charged flashpoint involving the police 3:39 during the Trump administration probably 3:42 before 2017 is over it's also fairly 3:46 safe to say given recent history that 3:49 some of these protests will turn violent 3:50 and destructive the trend has been 3:53 towards escalation having Trump in 3:55 charge will take this to a new level 3:57 Trump ran on a platform of law and order 3:59 and support for the police which 4:02 piggybacked on the perception that over 4:04 my was undermining law enforcement 4:06 during his term in spite of the fact 4:08 that help them greatly accelerated the 4:10 militarization of the police just the 4:12 police that Trump has their back 4:14 is going to influence the police 4:16 response there going to be more 4:18 confident more aggressive and of Trump 4:21 offers even so much as a word of 4:22 encouragement they will go into full 4:24 crack down mode which would of course 4:26 throw gasoline on a fire these tensions 4:29 have the potential of spinning out of 4:31 control especially in the context of an 4:33 economic countered and again Trump's 4:36 personality is a wild-card Trump is also 4:39 about to inherit thanks to obama and 4:41 bush the most extensive and 4:43 technologically advanced surveillance 4:44 apparatus world has ever seen 4:47 Obama expanded the NSA's powers even 4:49 after Trump won by the way the power to 4:52 order extrajudicial assassination is any 4:54 way in the world and a military which 4:56 has been authorized by the NDA day to 5:00 detain anyone anywhere including US 5:03 citizens indefinitely without trial to 5:06 top it off 5:07 Trump is filling his administration with 5:09 former generals some was calm down in 5:11 counterinsurgency experience he has 5:14 everything he needs to implement a 5:16 full-fledged military dictatorship and 5:18 the left has no one to blame but 5:20 themselves 5:21 Trump did not however start off on a 5:24 good foot with the alphabet soup 5:25 agencies he has an enemy contingent in 5:28 the deep state which wants to take them 5:30 down and has the means to do this 5:32 replacing upper management won't be 5:34 enough to neutralize this threat these 5:36 agencies have black budgets and 5:38 off-the-books programs that define 5:40 accountability and lots of experience 5:43 toppling upstart regimes failure to rein 5:45 them in to be fatal 5:47 the most important trap however will be 5:49 on the geopolitical front years of 5:51 backing Sunni jihadist in Syria failed 5:54 to NC the sock and Trump has how to 5:56 reverse US policy Israel was openly 5:59 supporting the Sunni axis they wanted a 6:01 full-frontal regime change in both Syria 6:04 and Iran for many years but the 6:06 aelderman administration tied their 6:08 hands then Russia step and tip the 6:10 balance and the Shiite Crescent not only 6:13 survived but grew stronger israeli / 6:16 Sunni access needs another path to war 6:18 so they're changing tech on January 6:21 thirteenth 2017 just seven days from the 6:25 inauguration Israel bond 6:27 Syrian government airport this provides 6:29 a glimpse of the years to come 6:31 Israel strategy is simple provoke Syria 6:34 and Iran until one of them retaliates 6:36 which would of course provide cover to 6:39 take territory 6:40 turkey is likely to make another move in 6:42 Iraq and or Syria as well 6:44 Turkey has ambitions to expand its 6:46 borders as well while these bodies 6:48 continue nomming German to rebel with US 6:50 government support Israel field 6:53 confident that Trump will defend him at 6:55 all costs 6:56 indeed he has given this impression but 6:58 will he take the bait here Russia is a 7:00 wild card 7:02 what happens is Russia moves quickly to 7:03 provide Syria and Iran with the means of 7:05 defending themselves what happens when 7:08 Putin and Netanyahu are competing for 7:10 Trump's here with all the other 7:12 variables in play will trump even have a 7:14 means to influence the outcome in this 7:16 region expect alliances in the Middle 7:18 East to shift rapidly during the Trump 7:20 years with an expected consequences in 7:23 particular watch for a play on oil that 7:26 undermines the petro dollar making 7:28 America great again was never on the 7:30 menu Trump wasn't supposed to win he was 7:33 supposed to be the decoy this was 7:35 reality television does politics 7:37 literally the Democrats thought he was 7:39 so bad that he would take attention off 7:41 of Hillary's baggage so the Clinton 7:44 campaign pull strings with their friends 7:46 in the media to help him in the 7:47 primaries we notice thanks to the John 7:50 posted email leaks we need to be 7:52 elevating the piper candidates Trump 7:55 Cruz Carson so that they are leaders of 7:58 the pack and tell depressed to take them 8:00 seriously the DNC and their corporate 8:03 media lackeys then work to marginalize 8:06 that Bernie Sanders campaign and use the 8:08 secret agreement backed by leverage to 8:11 prevent him from attacking Clinton this 8:13 was confirmed by the key and female 8:15 leaks 8:16 oops you can't control a lot of cocktail 8:20 so get your popcorn and buckle up the 8:22 show is about to begin then 8:46 but we later realized that whoever does 8:50 become president whether it's trump 8:52 Sanders and Hillary Clinton in the end 8:56 nothing will stop us or the citizens of 8:59 the United States from the inevitable be 9:02 a statewide uprisings mass protests or 9:05 revolution if America ever does have a 9:08 revolution be at one of blood 9:11 we will survive the eve intended spring 9:13 we will survive the even end of summer 9:15 we will survive the even end of autumn 9:17 we will survive the even end of winter 9:20 but at what cost a violent revolution 9:23 will only destroy the very fabric the 9:25 founding fathers fought and struggles so 9:28 indefinite able to place 9:30 however if America has a bloodless 9:32 revolution 9:33 not only will it United masses the 9:36 citizens of other nations will see this 9:38 as a possible and realistic choice if 9:41 the citizens of the United States do 9:43 decidedly deploy a bloodless revolution 9:45 but will stop the citizens from other 9:49 countries from rising up to their own 9:50 petty system by no means is this a call 9:53 to arms nor are we declaring war against 9:56 the United States government we are only 9:59 conveying a message to the masses the 10:01 citizens of America like others who have 10:04 rose up against the system RK nations 10:07 for justice and as we all know America's 10:10 policies affect the globe on the grand 10:12 stage but one has to question what event 10:15 decision or action will be US government 10:19 take which will alert the masses of the 10:21 corrupted body that is the US government 10:23 who will leave this revolution who will 10:26 counter it will we have a revolution of 10:28 the trail in his power struggle like the 10:31 lost revolution in the Arab world many 10:33 will not bother to contemplate this and 10:36 will only find it is not even Ludacris 10:38 some will go far as to say that 10:40 revolutions will never exist anymore is 10:43 a revolution in America truly needed 10:45 right now 10:47 the answer lies within you if it does or 10:48 does not until the majority of the 10:51 masses are not able to striving becoming 10:53 what they want to be in life 10:54 it is in that moment where they will 10:56 write and fight against the system so it 10:59 has to be asked how many more martyrs 11:02 will there be 11:03 how many more voices will have to perish 11:05 with the US citizen Rita noticin care 11:07 until we see sliding with one another 11:10 over the non-essential until we see our 11:13 sin excels we will never see the light 11:15 at the end of the tunnel until then 11:17 however we are nothing more and nothing 11:20 less than slaves and animals yet we are 11:24 also not blind 11:25 we are fully aware of the mitigating 11:27 steps the United States government takes 11:29 to ensure the trust between the people 11:31 is balanced there is interaction with 11:34 these depth of the direction are too 11:36 small and too slow 11:39 such a question however is too early to 11:42 state since our next president is right 11:44 around the corner the fee or she does 11:47 not deliver or fulfill the policy they 11:50 are intended to bring it will be safe to 11:52 say that the current government is no 11:53 longer functional our economy will 11:56 further destabilize our representatives 11:58 will be hailed as unto operated and our 12:01 systems will be destroyed for over a 12:04 decade voting was useless when it comes 12:07 to you as ground corporations and 12:10 lobbyists are the true leaders of this 12:11 country and other ones with the power to 12:13 control our lives 12:15 nevertheless to rebuild our government 12:18 we must first destroy it 12:20 our time for democracy is here our time 12:23 for real changes here we call upon the 12:25 citizens of the United States to stand 12:28 beside us in overthrowing this corrupted 12:30 body and call upon a new era our 12:33 allegiances to those who fought 12:34 tirelessly for justice because they are 12:37 us and we are them 12:39 this operation will be engaged when the 12:42 citizens of the united states begin to 12:44 rise against the government which does 12:46 not hold its democratic values against 12:49 the government that does not listen to 12:51 its people against the government which 12:53 only intends to fulfill its own agenda 12:56 against the government in my only 12:58 functions behind closed doors and 13:00 against the government which sensor 13:02 dissidence we are the common citizen we 13:05 will never forgive we will never forget 13:08 to the United States government and to 13:11 the empires of the world we are not 13:13 terrorists 13:14 we are anonymous we are not criminals 13:17 we are the messengers of the light 13:19 therefore we declare our right on this 13:22 earth to be a man to be a human being to 13:26 be respected as a human being to be 13:29 given the rights of human being in this 13:31 society on this earth in this day which 13:35 we intend to bring into existence 13:37 anything 13:41 [Applause] 13:45 resulting in a unique situation with of 13:51 life 13:52 oh yes they have never had a bloodless 13:56 revolution are not even Halloween 14:04 [Applause] 14:08 you don't have a ranging what you got 14:11 your energy and you don't look you're 14:14 making great 14:15 it's another quite thankful to integrate 14:17 you can cook revolution going to learn 14:23 I really losing a blade but America is 14:28 going to speak with this 14:29 he's the only transient and Prevention 14:33 exporting to become involved in a block 14:37 rather forgot directing level good 14:42 training ground cumin review your email 14:49 and more bloody million American 14:51 Revolution was any reference we can be 14:55 coming down to the revolution 14:57 [Music] 15:10 the worldwide revolution going on 15:22 it goes beyond Mississippi because 15:24 beyond Alabama taught me how 15:26 what if it's revolting against our the 15:31 American being professional and power 15:39 an international 15:43 [Music] 15:47 we are opposed around the world by a 15:52 monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that 15:55 relies primarily on covert means for 15:58 expanding its sphere of influence it is 16:02 a system which has conscripted vast 16:04 human and material resources into the 16:08 building of a tightly knit highly 16:10 efficient machine that combines military 16:13 diplomatic intelligence economic 16:17 scientific and political operations its 16:21 preparations are concealed not published 16:23 its mistakes are buried not headlined it 16:28 decided to silence not trade mobilize 16:33 their together spins holes filled with 16:36 your medicine the little cooperate with 16:39 the government not accept the national 16:41 AV cars do everything in your power to 16:43 restore freedom and your individuality 16:46 going to America starting a country run 16:49 by the situation sporting competitions 16:52 let's go back to the people by the 16:54 people for the people i supposed to read 16:57 institution by institution for you 17:00 stop being scared to stand up and do 17:02 what's necessary to take that 17:04 something's ranking leave government 17:07 full of lies constant flow why 17:11 a drop down against the war we are 17:13 resisting an occupation we want to risk 17:14 our life for wii for the support and 17:17 defend the Constitution of the United 17:18 States of America but we found out the 17:20 hard way that the greatest enemies of 17:22 the Constitution are not to be found in 17:25 the stands some far-off land rather 17:27 right care at all when it's just this 17:33 becomes love with distance becomes duty 17:36 it's time we started meeting a friend 17:39 with resistance 17:43 Chad nut you manage market devotion to 17:51 America it today as it always has been 17:54 resistance of journey 17:57 [Music] 18:00 and with this we will we will not be 18:04 silent 18:05 we will not obey you will not let our 18:07 government destroy humanity we will not 18:09 wait another moment in fear to stand up 18:11 for what we know to be right it's time 18:14 we started meeting oppression with 18:16 resistance northwood explain reflect my 18:23 connection to the Joint Chiefs of Staff 18:24 signed a document planning on having 18:28 fake attacks on American civilians and 18:30 slamming on Cuban go to the world to 18:32 we're going to Florida trolling jetliner 18:36 they're going to send a jet into the air 18:37 and blow it up 18:38 oh my they blame the Cuban for get us 18:41 the world having pick axe the operation 18:50 of the Machine becomes make yourselves 18:54 to get away but you can take part you 18:57 can't even find somebody take part and 18:59 you've got to put your body upon mcdeere 19:01 department we probably their commanders 19:05 and you've got to make it stop 19:06 and you've got the win the case of 19:08 people wanting to be parted 19:10 your brain is working on that homework 19:13 and I served with steel company through 19:17 tiny brains as an automatic machine 19:20 there's a term watching always brings 19:24 there's also the term eat the apple at 19:27 the course I don't work hoard 3i took an 19:36 oath to defend the Constitution deposit 19:40 church is taken to completely fitting 19:44 shirt and I guarantee you are you tell 19:46 dog is running the country to defend the 19:51 Constitution to get the point 19:53 ok i'm sick of Jules you know about 19:58 Nicholas you know they're using up their 20:01 stockings dry and they are destroying 20:06 he pushes not be afraid bigger council's 20:16 of government we must guard against the 20:19 acquisition of unwarranted influence 20:21 whether sought or unsought by the 20:24 military-industrial complex the 20:27 potential for the disastrous rise of 20:30 misplaced power exists and will persist 20:32 we must never let the weight of this 20:35 combination endanger our liberties or 20:37 democratic processes
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TRUMP IS PLAYING HIS PART *THE ELITE HAVE SET THE STAGE*
Divide and Conquer, Order out of chaos and the hegelian dialectic
*problem, reaction and then solution* are the elites tried and true
methods of obtaining more power and control. You can see them all being
used on the masses with Trump and the excessive divisiveness he is
causing. It may seem like Trump is really for the people and will stop
the elite but sadly, he is just playing his role.
sexually assaulted women 0:47 I'm not helpful for the pound you have 0:49 the power why would you take a little 0:51 advantage 0:52 I don't care about reason we have heard 0:59 vulgar and divisive rhetoric you can put 1:03 half of Trump supporters into what I 1:05 call the basket deplorable brain-dead 1:08 homophobe a tennis ball the llama fall 1:19 [Music] 1:25 she was I wanted to look at the dynamite 1:31 in Washington DC and c1 rolls together 1:42 we will determine the course of American 1:45 and the world for many many years to 1:50 come we will face challenges we will 1:54 confront hardships but we will get the 1:57 job done it represents the fear of 2:01 change the fear of people look speaker 2:05 pray different and intolerance of the 2:07 message free pop in United the civilized 2:10 world against radical Islamic terrorism 2:13 which we will eradicate completely from 2:17 the fate of the earth protecting our way 2:20 of life not just the job of our military 2:24 [Music] 2:27 my perfect and buckles on it gives 2:31 interviews or just as weak as citizens 2:35 must remain vigilant against external 2:38 aggression we must guard against these 2:41 weakening of the values and make us who 2:43 we are and that's why for the past eight 2:47 years I've worked to put the fight 2:50 against terrorism on a former legal 2:53 footing 2:53 that's why we ended torture work to 2:56 close Gitmo reformed our laws governing 2:59 surveillance to protect privacy and 3:01 civil liberties that's why I reject 3:04 discrimination against Muslim America 3:06 Donald J Trump is calling for a total 3:12 and complete shutdown of Muslims 3:15 entering the United States until our 3:18 country's representatives can figure out 3:22 what the hell is going on 3:31 you have no choice we have no sword 3:36 it falls through each of us repeat those 3:40 anxious jealous guardians of our demise 3:44 celebrate the joy of path we've been 3:48 given I'm asking you to believe not in 3:54 my ability to bring about change but 3:59 remember none of it happens on its own 4:04 all of this depends on our participation 4:08 on each of us accepting the 4:12 responsibility of citizens regardless of 4:16 which way the pendulum of power happens 4:19 to be swinging the work of democracy 4:21 have always been hard it's always been 4:24 contentious sometimes been bloody 4:29 ready two steps forward and off the 4:32 field we take one step back all of this 4:39 depends on our participation regardless 4:44 of which way the pendulum of power 4:46 happened this week working hard we have 4:49 always been and always in concession 4:52 embody all of this the first 4:59 on our participation regardless of which 5:02 way the pendulum of power happen 5:05 congressman always always been 5:10 contentious 5:15 all of this depends on our participation 5:19 regardless of which way the pendulum of 5:23 our works democracy have always been 5:27 hard it's always been contentious 5:29 sometimes it's been bloody 5:36 we are transferring power from 5:45 Washington DC and giving it back to you 5:49 is up people we take off from son Rocky 5:55 and we give it to use 6:07 [Music] 6:52 [Music] 7:03 [Music] 7:20 [Music] 7:22 when I come home and dinners not ready i 7:25 go through the roof grabbed by the palm 7:28 when you're starting let's do it you can 7:30 do anything more accusers coming forward 7:33 to say they were sexually assaulted by 7:35 Donald Trump go backstage before show 7:38 yes and it was getting dressed down drop 7:40 walked into the dressing room 7:42 all contestants some as young as 15 or 7:45 changes did it was like she's incredible 7:48 looking women i looked it right in the 7:51 center of the face of hers p8 like a pig 7:53 a person should just it's very hard to 7:56 be a chance to treat women with respect 7:57 you can say that is trumping 8:06 administration we stopped his cabinet is 8:10 totally against the LGBTQ rights it's 8:14 against black rice is against Latinos 8:17 that we stop looking at a person 8:19 appearing stuff with me at you who they 8:22 might love how they made identify and 8:25 look at who they are as a person 8:27 we've gotta stand together when we can't 8:29 let our government we can't let our 8:32 rights our healthcare taken away 8:35 I'm angry yeah I am 8:41 I'll phrase 8:43 yeah I have thought and awful lot about 8:48 blowing up the White House it was chaos 8:51 and confusion airport today and 8:53 president Trump's integration clock down 8:55 for the facts from cancer updated 8:57 blessings and immigrant several mystical 8:59 majority country with the paint or 9:02 blocks of life 9:03 meanwhile the party had a busy day of 9:05 phone calls were leaders including 9:07 Vladimir Putin mr. Trump also signed a 9:09 new batch of executive action
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sexually assaulted women 0:47 I'm not helpful for the pound you have 0:49 the power why would you take a little 0:51 advantage 0:52 I don't care about reason we have heard 0:59 vulgar and divisive rhetoric you can put 1:03 half of Trump supporters into what I 1:05 call the basket deplorable brain-dead 1:08 homophobe a tennis ball the llama fall 1:19 [Music] 1:25 she was I wanted to look at the dynamite 1:31 in Washington DC and c1 rolls together 1:42 we will determine the course of American 1:45 and the world for many many years to 1:50 come we will face challenges we will 1:54 confront hardships but we will get the 1:57 job done it represents the fear of 2:01 change the fear of people look speaker 2:05 pray different and intolerance of the 2:07 message free pop in United the civilized 2:10 world against radical Islamic terrorism 2:13 which we will eradicate completely from 2:17 the fate of the earth protecting our way 2:20 of life not just the job of our military 2:24 [Music] 2:27 my perfect and buckles on it gives 2:31 interviews or just as weak as citizens 2:35 must remain vigilant against external 2:38 aggression we must guard against these 2:41 weakening of the values and make us who 2:43 we are and that's why for the past eight 2:47 years I've worked to put the fight 2:50 against terrorism on a former legal 2:53 footing 2:53 that's why we ended torture work to 2:56 close Gitmo reformed our laws governing 2:59 surveillance to protect privacy and 3:01 civil liberties that's why I reject 3:04 discrimination against Muslim America 3:06 Donald J Trump is calling for a total 3:12 and complete shutdown of Muslims 3:15 entering the United States until our 3:18 country's representatives can figure out 3:22 what the hell is going on 3:31 you have no choice we have no sword 3:36 it falls through each of us repeat those 3:40 anxious jealous guardians of our demise 3:44 celebrate the joy of path we've been 3:48 given I'm asking you to believe not in 3:54 my ability to bring about change but 3:59 remember none of it happens on its own 4:04 all of this depends on our participation 4:08 on each of us accepting the 4:12 responsibility of citizens regardless of 4:16 which way the pendulum of power happens 4:19 to be swinging the work of democracy 4:21 have always been hard it's always been 4:24 contentious sometimes been bloody 4:29 ready two steps forward and off the 4:32 field we take one step back all of this 4:39 depends on our participation regardless 4:44 of which way the pendulum of power 4:46 happened this week working hard we have 4:49 always been and always in concession 4:52 embody all of this the first 4:59 on our participation regardless of which 5:02 way the pendulum of power happen 5:05 congressman always always been 5:10 contentious 5:15 all of this depends on our participation 5:19 regardless of which way the pendulum of 5:23 our works democracy have always been 5:27 hard it's always been contentious 5:29 sometimes it's been bloody 5:36 we are transferring power from 5:45 Washington DC and giving it back to you 5:49 is up people we take off from son Rocky 5:55 and we give it to use 6:07 [Music] 6:52 [Music] 7:03 [Music] 7:20 [Music] 7:22 when I come home and dinners not ready i 7:25 go through the roof grabbed by the palm 7:28 when you're starting let's do it you can 7:30 do anything more accusers coming forward 7:33 to say they were sexually assaulted by 7:35 Donald Trump go backstage before show 7:38 yes and it was getting dressed down drop 7:40 walked into the dressing room 7:42 all contestants some as young as 15 or 7:45 changes did it was like she's incredible 7:48 looking women i looked it right in the 7:51 center of the face of hers p8 like a pig 7:53 a person should just it's very hard to 7:56 be a chance to treat women with respect 7:57 you can say that is trumping 8:06 administration we stopped his cabinet is 8:10 totally against the LGBTQ rights it's 8:14 against black rice is against Latinos 8:17 that we stop looking at a person 8:19 appearing stuff with me at you who they 8:22 might love how they made identify and 8:25 look at who they are as a person 8:27 we've gotta stand together when we can't 8:29 let our government we can't let our 8:32 rights our healthcare taken away 8:35 I'm angry yeah I am 8:41 I'll phrase 8:43 yeah I have thought and awful lot about 8:48 blowing up the White House it was chaos 8:51 and confusion airport today and 8:53 president Trump's integration clock down 8:55 for the facts from cancer updated 8:57 blessings and immigrant several mystical 8:59 majority country with the paint or 9:02 blocks of life 9:03 meanwhile the party had a busy day of 9:05 phone calls were leaders including 9:07 Vladimir Putin mr. Trump also signed a 9:09 new batch of executive action
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EDWARD SNOWDEN Everything about Donald Trump
Highly Recommended. Pay attention to the TRUTH and STOP throwing WHISTLE BLOWERS in PRISON. Why 2 tier legal system? So MANY LIARS from the TOP down yet those with REAL power don't get incarcerated. Lying under oath.
we're here in a hotel room in Moscow not 0:07 your home 0:09 no reporters have interviewed you in 0:12 person at home why is that well given my 0:16 situation right I'mI'm kind of it all 0:20 shall we say less stable environment 0:22 that the most people are I don't like to 0:25 bring people to my home because I don't 0:30 know who they are 0:31 who's coming with them and we have to 0:33 remember that technically my government 0:36 right or wrong considers me to be a 0:39 fugitive in exile right there is still 0:42 technically a manhunt that's following 0:45 me around wherever I go 0:47 so I don't really want to make life any 0:50 easier for people were trying to silence 0:54 me to think US officials know where you 0:56 live you know where you are i think they 0:58 have a general idea at this point you 1:02 know after three years of the can't 1:04 figure it out 1:06 they're probably not doing their job 1:07 very well but I don't think they know 1:10 specifically where I am pretty careful 1:12 you would like to move around from 1:15 apartment to apartment right now but I'm 1:18 not late on the Underground Railroad or 1:20 anything like that I just try to live a 1:23 careful and quiet kind of humble life 1:25 and I don't want to be uprooted by 1:28 publicity and reporters outside my home 1:31 definitely not agent sounds like my home 1:33 do you live in Russian government 1:35 housing know how do you afford your rent 1:38 I speak number of different places I've 1:41 been incredibly fortunate to enjoy as 1:44 much support as I have when I came 1:47 forward I expected to be entirely alone 1:51 i didn't really have a plan for the day 1:54 after my only focus was working with the 1:57 journalists to get the truth of what was 2:00 going on in violation of the law back 2:03 into public hands so I've really had to 2:07 sort of build the airplane as its 2:11 falling but we've reached a point where 2:14 actually we're flying 2:17 can you walk around freely the streets 2:20 of Moscow and not be recognized 2:23 I walked here are you ever recognized I 2:26 am sometimes you know it's funny 2:28 actually uh if I walk out on the street 2:32 people have no idea who I am if I walk 2:38 into a computer store everyone in the 2:41 store will immediately recognize me i 2:43 think it's one of those things like the 2:45 way your brain catches on to the 2:46 Association it's been more than three 2:49 years since you arrived here in Moscow 2:51 if you could use one word to describe 2:55 those three years what would it be 2:57 surprising i think most Americans 3:04 particularly ones who like myself worked 3:07 for the CIA the NSA they have a very 3:10 particular view of Russia I was 3:14 terrified to come here because I didn't 3:20 expect to stay and I got trapped but 3:24 since I've been here I've been very 3:26 successful actually in avoiding 3:28 government entanglements was really 3:31 afraid that they were going to pressure 3:32 me that we're going to follow me around 3:33 and of course I've said before and sworn 3:38 testimony that they did try in the 3:40 airport but I had a journalist with me 3:42 and I gave him the state farm and I said 3:44 look guys don't have any information I 3:47 don't have any documents i'm not going 3:48 to cooperate and surprisingly i think 3:54 due to the political complexities of 3:57 this situation they had a tough choice 3:59 they went 4:01 we can either try to lean on this guy 4:03 right or we can leave him alone and for 4:07 once maybe Russia will get some good PR 4:10 out of this now i think 4:16 the most surprising part of this is not 4:19 the fact that the government has left me 4:22 along for the most part but the fact 4:27 that Russia is not this disastrous and 4:31 sad place they have very troubled 4:34 politics as many countries do and there 4:37 are a lot of reforms that I feel as 4:39 American desperately need to be made but 4:43 it's a beautiful country and the regular 4:45 people who are going about their lives 4:46 everyday want the same things that we as 4:49 Americans do and it seems like that 4:53 should be obvious but for me and I think 4:56 many others it really wasn't a lot has 4:58 changed since you've been here and as 5:02 you know we have a new president elect 5:04 what do you think of Donald Trump try 5:08 not to but I think we all have to this 5:15 is this really feels like a year in 5:20 which everybody was wrong about 5:21 everything so many people had prediction 5:25 so many people had ideas and i think 5:27 most Americans whether they work in the 5:30 press whether they were ordinary people 5:32 simply could not imagine we would be 5:35 where we are today and yet here we are 5:38 now the reason I say try not to think 5:43 about Donald Trump is that we should be 5:46 focusing on people we should be focusing 5:49 on the directions the impacts the 5:50 policies that this will lead to 5:52 presidents come and go policies stay the 5:57 Executive Director of Human Rights Watch 5:58 can Roth said just a few days ago that 6:02 he thinks we're seeing the rise of a new 6:05 kind of leader in different countries 6:07 around the world a more authoritarian 6:09 leader who sees rights not necessarily 6:15 as a good thing but as a barrier to 6:18 implementing the will of the majority 6:19 but from my perspective I believe this 6:23 is a fundamentally America 6:24 an idea this is what rights are for 6:27 rights are the only thing that stands 6:31 behind stands between decades and 6:34 centuries of democratic progress and one 6:37 election that changes everything and 6:38 leads to rather than Elaine society a 6:42 tyranny of the majority now that's not 6:44 to say what's coming but when we have 6:48 all three branches of government 6:50 suddenly captured and controlled by a 6:53 single party that is a moment of 6:55 systemic risk and we need to think about 7:00 what that means could be coming what the 7:03 risks are and what we can do as citizens 7:05 how we can be more active and ensuring 7:09 the country that we've built over so 7:11 many years continues to be built in the 7:14 right way I think 7:22 tomorrow is very uncertain right now but 7:28 we shouldn't be afraid of that we should 7:30 recognize that we should prepare for 7:33 that 7:34 don't be afraid be ready 7:37 what worries you at the most about a 7:39 trump presidency the main things that I 7:42 would be concerned about our policies 7:46 that aren't pursuing a positive vision 7:48 they're not thinking about what America 7:52 is really about and how to improve it 7:55 how to retaliate against a small group 7:57 of vulnerable population particular 8:00 class to me 8:04 these don't seem like a particularly 8:07 American directions to be heading now 8:11 this is not to say that I don't want 8:15 this president or any of the president 8:17 to be successful in fact I want every 8:20 president to be successful in building a 8:23 better America but we need to make sure 8:25 that that's what's happening and we 8:29 can't trust that will happen we can't 8:31 wait for somebody to do that if we want 8:34 to be in a better America we have to do 8:37 it ourselves right before the election 8:39 you tweeted quote there may never be a 8:41 safer election which to vote for a third 8:44 option 8:45 yeah any work rats about that tweet you 8:49 know this is one of those things where I 8:50 said you know everybody's been waiting i 8:54 was referencing the New York Times front 8:57 page 1 of 3 where they said Hillary 9:00 Clinton had a ninety-three percent 9:01 chance of winning the election and i 9:04 believe the statistics and I was certain 9:07 she had this in the bag and because of 9:11 that you know it seemed like everything 9:14 was open to possibilities that where the 9:16 election wasn't even really an election 9:18 I was wrong 9:22 do I regret that I don't think I regret 9:27 trusting this district court right 9:29 because i think particularly when we're 9:33 focused on scientific methods of polling 9:35 we need to be able to recognize that 9:38 experts have information they're using 9:40 methods and this should be reliably 9:42 should take this into account before the 9:44 election as you know the DNC and the 9:47 Clinton campaign were both hacked US 9:49 intelligence officials including the 9:52 head of Homeland Security if said they 9:54 believed only Russia senior-most 9:57 officials could have authorized those 9:59 hacks do you think Russia was behind 10:02 those hacks I don't know but as somebody 10:06 who worked in intelligence i certainly 10:08 think it's possible they definitely have 10:10 the capabilities and there is I think a 10:13 broad consensus among us intelligence 10:15 committee officials at least as has been 10:18 sort of promoted in the news that Russia 10:21 did have some responsibility behind this 10:23 but what bothers me about this kind of 10:26 conversation is that the last time there 10:30 was a significant hack that affected the 10:32 united states that we believed had an 10:34 association to a nation-state it was the 10:36 Sony hack which we said North Korea's 10:39 pine the FBI immediately released 10:41 evidence that they believe proved that 10:44 they were behind that attack we haven't 10:46 seen that here and I think we're going 10:49 to have this conversation it should be 10:51 evidence-based other than the fact that 10:53 they've said complimentary things about 10:55 each other why do you think Vladimir 10:57 Putin would want Donald Trump to be 11:00 President or did he simply pour the 11:03 possibility of Hillary Clinton that role 11:07 i think it came down to the idea 11:12 generally right or wrong that Hillary 11:16 Clinton had a very clear set of policies 11:19 that 11:20 [Music] 11:22 Russians would consider to be 11:25 anti-russian Donald Trump's policies 11:29 no one has any idea what they are no one 11:31 has any idea what they mean even for 11:34 himself it seems they change quite 11:38 frequently sometimes within the space of 11:39 weeks sometimes within the space of days 11:41 and they may have preferred uncertainty 11:44 to certainty the DNC and the Clinton 11:47 campaign emails were obtained by 11:49 WikiLeaks I'm just curious how do you 11:51 feel about Julian Assange and its 11:53 wholesale dumping of these emails they 11:58 have a very different policy than I 12:01 followed uh in my work with journalists 12:05 but they have taken a position they 12:07 serve embody a belief that the only way 12:11 they can prove the authenticity of these 12:15 documents is to release them in what 12:18 they call a pristine on tamper condition 12:21 from my perspective I was a very 12:25 different position because of course 12:27 this was not an anonymous like I came 12:29 out behind them i said these are from 12:31 the NSA this is why i am and immediately 12:34 we knew they were real because the 12:35 government came after me with many 12:36 charges and threatened to put me in 12:38 prison for the rest of my life but I 12:43 felt that this was a risk worth taking 12:47 for me because there would be no 12:52 question as to the authenticity of the 12:54 documents which gave me room to instead 12:57 focus on how can this information be 13:01 revealed in the most responsible way to 13:04 fully mitigate any potential actual or 13:07 theoretical risks that could come as a 13:10 result of this journalism and I'm very 13:13 proud of the way that we did that and 13:15 I'm very comfortable with the decisions 13:18 that we make 13:19 let's talk about your partner now the 13:21 pardon Snowden campaign launched in 13:23 September led by backers like george 13:26 soros Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey the ACLU 13:30 what do you think your chances are that 13:33 President Obama well in fact pardon you 13:36 well I'm not counting on it and this is 13:39 the the key here the possibility for 13:43 partner 13:44 it seems to every expert has looked at 13:46 this issue has never been more likely 13:49 and this is a surprise to myself more 13:52 than anyone else like that why do you 13:54 say that 13:54 well just a few days ago we had 15 13:58 members of The Church Committee most 13:59 people may not remember what they are 14:01 but in the nineteen seventies the 14:04 intelligence of organizations went 14:06 through the greatest period of oversight 14:08 of their history they sort of pulled up 14:11 the blankets and looked at what was 14:12 happening at the CIA the NSA the FBI 14:15 they were writing letters to dr. Martin 14:18 Luther King jr. saying that they had 14:20 tapes of what he had done in hotel rooms 14:23 and if he didn't commit suicide 14:25 they were going to release them and 14:27 destroy his reputation they were 14:30 secretly administering psychedelic drugs 14:32 to college students to see the impact 14:34 that would have they're engaging in 14:36 assassination operations that were 14:38 contrary to both American and 14:39 international law all kinds of crazy 14:42 things these individuals who are experts 14:45 in what's going on intelligence at the 14:47 classified level worked for the 14:49 government right these aren't sort of 14:51 hippie reformers or anything like that 14:54 they argued the president obama should 14:59 seriously consider leniency in this case 15:02 they said that this case has caused far 15:05 more benefits to american society which 15:08 i think is uncontroversial at this point 15:10 than any claim terms for which we've 15:12 never seen evidence if you had one 15:14 minute to make your case face-to-face to 15:18 President Obama what would you say to 15:21 convince him to pardon you I wouldn't I 15:25 would respectfully say to the president 15:29 I understand you have accrued 15:32 difficult job no one wants to be a 15:35 whistleblower this is something that's 15:37 hard to do 15:38 it's hard enough to stand up to a bully 15:41 in your life to your boss in the office 15:44 much less the combined might of the 15:49 national security agents of the FBI and 15:51 you know the apparatus of government 15:54 nobody's gonna volunteer for that 15:55 nobody's going to sort of take this as a 15:59 president is going to open floodgates 16:02 but there's one thing that i would hope 16:06 he understands and i think based on his 16:08 recent statements he does he said that 16:14 my actions and this journalism raised 16:18 legitimate concerns 16:19 we're living in a time today we're 16:24 journalism is occurring environment of 16:27 extraordinary threat and as official 16:30 sources of information for the American 16:33 citizen the American voter begin to dry 16:36 up confidential sources the sources upon 16:43 which the best journalism has always 16:46 rely people in government who know the 16:48 reality of what's actually going on 16:50 particularly when the operations of 16:53 government start to go out of bounds are 16:56 critical now and this is America when 17:01 something goes wrong don't we want 17:03 somebody to stand up and say something 17:06 about it 17:07 are you saying it's particularly 17:09 important in a trump administration or 17:12 in a republican-controlled Washington I 17:15 don't think it's about party 17:17 I don't think it's about person i do 17:19 think the incoming president has 17:23 definitely said he plans to break some 17:25 furniture right he would be the last to 17:30 deny this and that means we need to be 17:34 careful that means we need to prepare 17:36 Donald Trump tweeted about you in 2014 17:39 writing Snowden is a traitor in our 17:42 country was great you know what we did 17:44 too 17:44 leaders meanwhile his pick for CIA 17:47 director Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo 17:49 has called you a liar and a criminal and 17:53 in at least one interview also called 17:56 through your execution 17:59 what's your reaction I wonder when it is 18:03 that he thinks America was great because 18:06 if you remember what we did to traders 18:08 in 1776 and afterwards we made them a 18:11 president we're a country that was born 18:15 from an act of treason against the 18:17 government that had run out of control 18:20 now this is not to say that breaking the 18:23 rules is something that should happen 18:24 all the time but we should always make a 18:27 distinction that right and wrong is a 18:31 very different standard than legal and 18:34 illegal the law is no substitute for 18:37 morality here for then are you saying 18:41 what you did was right 18:43 I think your legal are both i would not 18:47 have done it if I didn't believe it was 18:50 right but you want to acknowledge it was 18:52 illegal 18:53 I definitely would say it's pretty 18:57 sketchy there but look every act of 19:04 progression in our nation's history has 19:08 involved tension with law whether it was 19:11 the abolition of slavery weather was the 19:14 enfranchisement of women whether it was 19:17 the birth of our nation laws were broken 19:20 and that's because the laws were wrong 19:23 there is a lot of talk up there 19:27 including among top ranking intelligence 19:30 officials that Vladimir Putin may hand 19:33 you over to the United States as a good 19:37 well well gesture to the Trump 19:40 administration how concerned / nervous 19:44 are you about that possibility 19:48 I'm actually kind of encouraged 19:50 encouraged for completely different 19:53 reasons uh it wasn't so many years ago 19:58 the people were saying this guy's 20:00 Russian spy but countries don't give up 20:03 their spies and if my recent criticism 20:07 of the Russian government's internet 20:08 policies criticisms of the Human Rights 20:11 records have been so severe that even my 20:16 greatest critics in the intelligence 20:17 community are now saying oh yeah he's a 20:19 liability they want to get him out of 20:21 there 20:21 that's the vindication of indication of 20:26 what the fact that i'm independent the 20:29 fact that i have always worked on behalf 20:31 of the United States and the fact that 20:33 Russia doesn't own me 20:34 in fact the Russian government may see 20:37 me as sort of a liability so you 20:39 wouldn't mind if Putin said extradited 20:43 you and said here we go president Trump 20:46 wouldn't I mean that would obviously be 20:49 something that would bother me that 20:50 would obviously be something that would 20:52 be a threat to my liberty and to my life 20:54 but what I'm saying here is that you 20:59 can't have it both ways you can't say 21:01 this guy is a bad guy who's like a 21:03 Russian tool or something like that at 21:05 the same time you say he's going to be 21:07 traded away what I'm proud of is the 21:11 fact that every decision that i made i 21:13 can defend another option for you as a 21:16 plea deal 21:17 what can you tell us about the ongoing 21:19 conversations between your legal team in 21:22 the Justice Department I can't get into 21:25 any confidential legal conversations 21:27 what i can say is what's been made 21:28 public so far which is that I've only 21:32 ever had a single condition for 21:34 returning to the United States 21:36 volunteering to go to court and very 21:39 likely to prison and that's the 21:42 government guarantee of Sarah 21:43 and open trial where they don't try to 21:46 control what I can say and what the jury 21:49 can hear they've never agreed to this 21:51 and in fact even though we've made that 21:53 our grounds they've responded with only 21:56 a single promise and that's they say we 21:59 won't torture you 22:01 you don't believe you'll be able to get 22:04 a fair trial in the United States it's 22:06 not possible to get a fair trial under 22:09 the laws with which I've been charged 22:11 the Espionage Act of 1917 you're 22:13 referring to 22:14 that's correct this is a law which 22:17 prohibits an individual who's charged 22:19 with this crime from telling the jury 22:20 why it is that they did what they did 22:23 this is fundamentally against the idea 22:27 of a fair trial if you can't explain 22:29 yourself to the jury why have a trial at 22:31 all how much present time would you be 22:33 willing to serve I don't put a number on 22:36 it instead i look at it from a very 22:37 different perspective we're going into a 22:42 World again we're here now where 22:45 whistleblowers are more important than 22:47 ever 22:47 what kind of a message would i be 22:51 sending if in perhaps the most 22:56 responsible case of modern 22:57 whistle-blowing that we have now we're 23:01 no clear harm has occurred that's been 23:03 demonstrated by evidence but clear 23:06 public benefits have occurred the 23:09 President of the United States himself 23:11 said this conversation started by the 23:14 asset relations started bunny has made 23:17 us stronger as a nation congress passed 23:20 the first significant reforms to us 23:22 intelligence laws in 14 years the courts 23:26 themselves found the documents that i 23:28 revealed showed unlawful and likely 23:32 unconstitutional activities on the part 23:34 of government given all that given how 23:39 much we benefit if I go to prison for 23:43 the rest of my life 23:44 what's that going to do for the next 23:47 person who sees something illegal who 23:50 sees something unconstitutional realizes 23:52 they may be the only one who can do 23:54 something about it 23:55 chelsea manning is serving 35 years in 23:59 prison 24:00 why shouldn't you I think the right 24:03 answer to look at here is why is chelsea 24:05 manning in prison for 35 years is the 24:07 suggest sentence 24:09 this is an individual who revealed 24:11 unambiguous war crimes there are some 24:15 arguments that say she went too far 24:17 maybe she released too much but we know 24:21 now is that information was released in 24:23 2009 we're now in 2016 and with each 24:29 passing year it gets harder and harder 24:30 to demonstrate any real harm that came 24:33 as a result of these disclosures but the 24:35 benefits are clear she's trying to take 24:38 her life twice this year has she not 24:42 suffered enough potentially what would a 24:45 plea deal look like for you you know I'm 24:49 not actually sure because I'm not a 24:50 lawyer but the idea here is when most 24:55 people who are involved in government or 24:58 the intelligence community are involved 25:00 in some sort of case where the 25:03 government goes this person was acting 25:05 in good faith they were trying to do 25:07 right by the American people but they 25:08 did break the law 25:10 no charges were brought for the brought 25:12 very minimally perhaps the best-known 25:15 case in recent history here is General 25:17 Petraeus who shared information that was 25:20 far more highly classified than I ever 25:23 did with journalists and he shared this 25:26 information not with the public for 25:29 their benefit but with his biographer 25:31 and lover for personal benefit 25:35 conversations that had 25:37 information detailed information about 25:41 military special access programs it's 25:45 classified above top secret 25:46 conversations with the president's on 25:48 when the government came after him 25:52 they charged him with a misdemeanor he 25:54 never spent a single day in jail despite 25:57 the type of classified information he 26:00 exposed when we had the most senior 26:03 intelligence official United States 26:05 general james clapper who lied to the 26:08 American people and all of Congress on 26:10 camera under oath in the Senate in a 26:14 famous exchange with ron wyden does the 26:17 NSA collect any type of data at all on 26:21 millions or hundreds of millions of 26:24 Americans no sir it does not 26:29 not wittingly there are cases where they 26:34 could inadvertently perhaps collect but 26:39 not not winning one he wasn't even 26:41 charged with giving false testimony to 26:44 congress under oath as he did is a 26:47 felony 26:47 it's typically punished by three to five 26:49 years in prison are you suggesting 26:51 there's a double standard between 26:53 high-ranking officials and lower-level 26:55 employees such as yourself i'm not sure 26:58 i'm suggesting I think everyone's aware 27:00 of it we have a two-tiered system of 27:02 justice in the United States where 27:04 people who are either 27:06 well connected to government where they 27:08 have access to incredible amount of 27:09 resources get very light punishment the 27:12 house permanent Select Committee on 27:14 Intelligence conducted an exhaustive to 27:17 your investigation into your actions in 27:20 a letter to President Obama the 27:22 committee wrote quote he's not a patriot 27:25 he's not a whistleblower he's a criminal 27:28 what's your reaction to that 27:30 characterization I can see it's funny 27:33 how quickly the President himself 27:34 distance himself by from this report in 27:37 his recent remarks by saying that mr. 27:40 Snowden raise legitimate concerns 27:43 but in direct response to this report I 27:47 would actually say anything instead i'll 27:49 use the words of three-time Pulitzer 27:52 prize-winning journalist one of the most 27:54 respected in the United States Barton 27:56 Gellman the Washington Post who has seen 27:59 the material that i turned over and 28:02 knows that in fact that was not true he 28:04 found that four out of the six claims 28:07 that the Intelligence Committee made in 28:11 this report for verifiably false he had 28:14 the evidence to show this the fifth one 28:17 was species the best and the sixth was 28:20 what that I faked a sick day when I was 28:23 trying to get out to meet with 28:25 journalists which let's be real i am 28:27 completely totally guilty of 28:29 he said the report was not only 28:33 inaccurate not only in curious but try 28:37 fling 28:38 Admiral Mike Rogers the director of the 28:42 NSA told yahoo news this year that your 28:45 disclosures accelerated move by 28:47 terrorists to encrypted communications 28:49 and made it easier for them to plan 28:52 attacks like the one in Paris without 28:55 being detected he said quote no one 28:58 should doubt for one minute 29:00 there has been an impact because of your 29:02 disclosures it's fully that he says that 29:05 because he's also served on the record 29:07 to journalists that when he looks around 29:09 the sky is not falling the NSA's 29:11 operations have not been significantly 29:14 hindered and they're still very much in 29:16 business 29:16 moreover we know for a fact at this 29:19 point that the Paris attackers were not 29:22 using encrypted communications and 29:24 effect we're using simple burner phones 29:26 of the type that drug dealers were using 29:28 back in the nineteen nineties even if 29:31 there is not any specific concrete 29:33 evidence that your actions aided 29:36 terrorists 29:37 there's also no specific concrete 29:39 evidence that they didn't and even 29:42 Barton Gellman the reporter you just 29:45 mentioned one of the journalists with 29:46 whom you share classified documents said 29:48 quote I do not share the view of some of 29:51 his fans that he did no damage 29:54 at all and you at least acknowledge that 29:57 damage might have been done as a result 29:59 of your disclosures I don't agree with 30:01 him in that regard 30:03 what I will say is this whenever we're 30:06 talking about damage without evidence 30:09 this is an intentional effort to change 30:12 the conversation from the concrete harms 30:16 of these programs that violated the 30:18 rights of every man woman and child in 30:21 the United States and people around the 30:23 world and instead talk about the 30:25 theoretical risks of journalism what 30:28 Barton Gellman was acknowledging there 30:30 was that yes it's possible that 30:32 officials could have been embarrassed by 30:34 this reputations could have been damaged 30:38 by this and the intelligence community 30:40 considers this to be a matter of 30:42 national security but I would argue 30:46 there's more than two national security 30:49 than reputation that are we talking in 30:52 fairness more than simply reputations 30:56 for being embarrassed virtually every US 30:59 security official current and former 31:01 agrees that these disclosures made it 31:05 more difficult to track the movements of 31:08 organizations like Isis and other 31:10 terrorist groups i don't agree with that 31:13 now of course it's reasonable to presume 31:15 that these things could happen 31:17 terrorists read the newspaper too but 31:20 i'll tell you terrorists already knew 31:23 the NSA was coming after them and what 31:26 we saw in the newspaper wasn't anything 31:28 that they didn't already understand what 31:31 was revealed in the newspaper was only a 31:33 surprise to Americans and ordinary 31:36 citizens how many documents were 31:38 provided to journalists this is a good 31:41 question but i have to say remember i am 31:43 still under active investigation so I 31:45 can't answer FBI style questions on 31:47 camera because the number has ranged 31:49 from 50,000 to as you said 1.5 million 31:53 you can't give us any idea what i can 31:56 tell you is the journalists and there 31:58 are several of them have consistently 32:00 said the government's numbers are 32:03 Ludacris over estimates you also reveal 32:06 to a reporter at the South China Morning 32:08 Post that the u.s. was conducting 32:10 surveillance of people and organizations 32:13 in China 32:14 why did you do that wasn't that a 32:16 violation of US security national 32:20 interest 32:21 I don't think so at all the type of 32:23 surveillance that we were talking about 32:26 was not the Chinese government it was 32:28 not about the Chinese military was not 32:30 about any valid intelligence targets 32:32 this was about civilian infrastructure 32:35 hospitals universities that have been 32:39 digitally hacked and compromised by the 32:41 united states that caused a real threat 32:43 to life now it's not to say the US 32:46 should engage in any hacking but when we 32:49 start hacking hospitals 32:51 this is something that we as a public 32:54 needs to decide if it's a step too far 32:57 you're not anti-surveillance read large 33:00 are you absolutely not if it's 33:02 specifically targeted its authorized by 33:06 the court based on showing of probable 33:08 cause that the court the judge says look 33:12 we think this person is up to no good 33:15 you've shown evidence that they're up to 33:17 no good go after them 33:19 that's how it should be done I asked 33:21 about that interview because they're 33:23 speculation there was some kind of quid 33:25 pro quo with China you give us 33:27 information you can come to Hong Kong 33:29 let's be clear here I never provided any 33:32 information to China the journalists in 33:34 question was an Australian working for 33:37 the south china morning post there are 33:39 freelancers reduce so working for a 33:42 publication and China and I knew them is 33:44 Australian journalist 33:46 so you didn't even know that it was 33:48 going to be in a newspaper in China I 33:50 knew it would be in a newspaper writing 33:52 a wet newspaper this was not my concern 33:55 what about this notion of a quid pro quo 33:57 that people think there was some kind of 33:58 under-the-table deal 34:00 well it's clear that's not the case 34:01 because we've had I would have stayed at 34:03 home you arrived in hong kong on May 34:06 tenth 2013 met with journalist Glenn 34:09 Greenwald and Laura Poitras on jun 1st 34:11 there have been some questions about 34:16 where you were and what you were doing 34:18 during those 10 days before you met with 34:21 those journalists times in the mirror 34:23 hotel waiting for those journalists what 34:26 people sort of miss in this conspiracy 34:29 theory is only held by a few people is 34:32 that the journalists were able to 34:34 immediately travel they had to talk to 34:36 the newspapers get permission had to get 34:38 legal backing they had to get funding 34:40 and get their institutions on board to 34:43 actually travel to Hong Kong what were 34:46 you doing during those 10 days and 34:48 waiting for them to come i was in the 34:50 hotel room the whole time in citizen for 34:54 the tension of those moments in Hong 34:56 Kong is palpable you're seeing going 34:59 through a series of security rituals 35:01 unplugging phones covering your head as 35:04 you type passwords into your computer 35:06 you seemed keenly aware of a target 35:10 being on your back 35:12 could you describe those days for us 35:14 before you went public what that was 35:16 like you know it's those moments it's 35:24 it's it's actually difficult to watch 35:27 them on film it because the pressure the 35:32 stress was so great 35:36 then I was almost in a like a flag state 35:42 you you lose your emotional a fact you 35:47 can't be as higher as low as you 35:49 normally are you only focused on one 35:51 thing and that's mission before you left 35:54 Hong Kong I know you reportedly went to 35:57 the Russian embassy can you tell me why 36:00 and what you did there 36:01 now there's a crazy conspiracy theory 36:04 out there that was a Chinese violence in 36:06 China or Russia inspiron Russia they say 36:09 you know I'm partying in the Russian 36:11 embassy having birthday parties is 36:13 completely wrong and this is the reason 36:15 why that wasn't a newspaper report that 36:18 was carried around the world somebody 36:20 raised this is a conspiracy theory and 36:22 nobody could confirm it because it 36:24 didn't happen after you were granted 36:27 asylum in Russia in august of 2013 you 36:30 issued a statement through WikiLeaks 36:32 criticizing the Obama administration for 36:35 showing no respect for international and 36:37 domestic law and thanking Russia do you 36:41 believe Russia has more respect for 36:43 international off in the united states 36:44 and i think this is kind of false choice 36:48 here you're saying who's worse who you 36:49 want to be upon are you going to condemn 36:51 the United States know the United States 36:54 does wonderful things for human rights 36:55 in many areas around the world but we 36:58 have to remember that nobody's perfect 37:01 Russia has a very poor human-rights 37:03 record in many areas but when they can 37:06 do something good when they can actually 37:08 stand up for the rights of a dissident 37:11 shouldn't we applaud them it's very easy 37:15 nowadays for a Chinese dissident or 37:18 Russian dissident to get asylum anywhere 37:21 in the world 37:21 right that you know doors are open 37:23 everywhere but I applied for asylum in 37:26 21 different countries around the world 37:28 all throughout Western your countries 37:30 like France Germany like Norway like 37:33 Sweden and every time they got close to 37:37 saying yes let's grab this man asylum 37:39 phones will ring the government from the 37:42 vice president united states from the 37:44 Secretary of State saying if you protect 37:47 this man regardless of whether it's 37:51 right or room regardless of whether it's 37:52 lawful and multiple we will take some 37:55 talent or reaction should we applaud 37:57 that 37:58 that doesn't mean the United States is 38:01 some human rights monster but we should 38:03 recognize on a case-by-case basis that 38:06 sometimes we can do right 38:07 sometimes we can do wrong can you see 38:09 the irony and you the poster child for 38:11 civil liberties and privacy finding 38:14 sanctuary in a place that has a little 38:17 respect for either 38:19 absolutely but let's again look at this 38:22 i have been a tireless advocate for the 38:26 expansion of Russian internet freedom 38:28 since I've been in Russia Russia 38:30 recently passed what's called the euro 38:32 vaya law locally it's called the Big 38:36 Brother law that's an internet 38:38 surveillance law i said on passage it 38:41 was a dark day for all Russians it was 38:43 taking money from the average Russian 38:45 citizen it was narrowing the scope of 38:48 their rights 38:49 this is a wound on Russian society and 38:52 believe me that's unlikely to win me any 38:55 friends in Russian government but it's 38:58 something that needs to be said I know 39:01 that you have said you did not provide 39:03 any documents or share any intelligence 39:06 with the Russian government but i want 39:08 to ask you about something that was 39:11 published last June where a member of 39:13 Russia's Parliament publicly conceded 39:15 that you did in fact share intelligence 39:18 with the Russian government 39:20 what did you make of that I'm really 39:22 glad you asked that because this is a 39:25 broadly misreported point this 39:28 individual didn't actually say that it's 39:31 a mistranslation based on 39:33 NPR report where this individual in 39:35 Russian said let's be frank I think they 39:39 were speculating that Russia services 39:42 would of course approached me and that i 39:44 would share information with them it 39:46 didn't happen 39:47 I've never shared information with 39:48 Russia's intelligence services let me 39:50 ask you about Vladimir Putin have you 39:52 ever met him I have not met before this 39:56 kind of surprising thing I mean in the 40:00 United States the number of people who 40:01 meet the president's pretty limited he's 40:04 a busy guy he's got a lot going on but 40:07 people seem to think that I'm going ice 40:09 skating with Vladimir Putin Red Square 40:11 you know every weekend we're writing 40:12 polar bears over the tundra 40:14 ya know I've never met the Russian 40:17 president I have no intention to do you 40:18 have to be careful what you say about 40:20 him giving given that this country is 40:23 provided you sanctuary 40:26 I don't know before I am supposed to 40:28 have done a very good job you have been 40:30 critical of him haven't you 40:31 I have and you feel comfortable doing so 40:34 this you know some people live very 40:42 careful lives 40:44 I haven't done a very good job at that 40:47 its safety was my number one priority 40:51 I never would have left hawaii i would 40:53 still be working at the NSA making 40:56 extraordinary amount of money for very 40:58 little work violating Americans rights 41:01 no one would know what was going on 41:04 today and yes you know I'm never going 41:08 to leave live a completely stable life 41:12 even if I important even if I return in 41:15 the united states there are a lot of 41:17 people who will disagree with the 41:20 decisions that I made but I'm 41:22 comfortable with them i realize that the 41:26 laws of the united states have been 41:27 changed for the better the world the 41:30 President of the United States for the 41:31 first time in our history has provided 41:34 privacy protections to people who aren't 41:36 Americans the decisions of result 41:38 the courts and Congress are finally at 41:42 least starting to play the role that 41:44 they were intended to play no matter the 41:47 cost i can be happy with them 41:49 you have said that you raised concerns 41:52 about excessive NSA surveillance with 41:55 tents superiors and colleagues but only 41:58 one email has been made public 12 a 42:01 lawyer at the NSA with the legal inquiry 42:03 critics they had nothing to do with 42:06 releasing these documents if you 42:08 attempted to go through the proper 42:10 channels said or at least reached out to 42:13 colleagues why didn't share you should 42:15 you saved those communications as 42:19 evidence 42:20 so this is a really good question right 42:22 because it's one of those that seems 42:23 like you know why doesn't have this 42:25 first off I'm not an email administrator 42:27 so i didn't have access to everybody's 42:28 email but these aren't things you put in 42:31 writing an essay saying i think the NS 42:35 is breaking the law 42:37 I think maybe this program is violating 42:39 the Constitution is a career-ending move 42:42 and the people that I talk to first 42:45 my supervisor said you know hey we can 42:48 talk about this but you shouldn't rock 42:50 the boat and don't write this down 42:53 why haven't you given any names to 42:55 corroborate the fact that you did in 42:58 fact try to go through the so-called 43:00 proper channels because if I did that 43:03 they would end the careers of these 43:05 individuals right if these individuals 43:08 spoke on their own without waiting for 43:09 me they would go to jail but there's a 43:12 broader point here and this is the idea 43:14 the proper channels work that they exist 43:18 they are available the whistleblower 43:21 process is fundamentally broken in the 43:25 intelligence community can be said that 43:27 there is no such thing at all the proper 43:28 channels are really a drain into which 43:33 people concerns and cares are flushed in 43:37 2014 43:38 glenn greenwald one of the journalists 43:40 with who you worked said quote the most 43:43 shocking and significant stories have 43:45 yet to be reported 43:47 are there still bombshells 43:50 in this cache of documents that has have 43:54 still not seen the light of day I was 43:57 very careful when I came forward again 43:59 to make sure that i never revealed a 44:02 single secret this I believe quite 44:07 strongly is the role of free press in 44:09 our society 44:11 this is why the First Amendment first 44:13 they're charged with making these 44:16 decisions about what we should know when 44:18 and how they should contest the 44:21 government monopoly on controlling 44:23 information particularly the class white 44:25 spaces so i'm not going to say if 44:29 there's something else coming or when 44:30 but I will say this in 2013 before this 44:38 started the idea that the government was 44:42 collecting records of every phone call 44:44 in the united states was a conspiracy 44:45 theory it's not anymore 44:48 some Americans might say hey we 44:51 appreciate your shedding light on this 44:53 but for us security and 14 a terrorist 44:57 attack is more important than privacy 45:01 this is you know a very common sort of 45:05 throwaway argument from people who are 45:07 just trying to would talking about the 45:09 topic too much to say you have nothing 45:11 to hide you have nothing to fear you 45:13 know why do you care 45:15 they don't think about the origin of 45:17 that quote which is literally piece of 45:20 Nazi propaganda from Joseph Campbell's 45:22 this is not to say dns AR Nazis they're 45:26 not the stock see these are good people 45:28 doing bad things for what they believe a 45:31 good reasons 45:32 privacy is the foundation of all other 45:36 rights i would say arguments you don't 45:42 care about privacy because you have 45:44 nothing to hide is no different than 45:46 saying you don't care about free speech 45:47 because you have nothing to say what is 45:49 the best thing in your view that came 45:52 from these revelations 45:56 before 2013 i think americans all felt 46:03 something was changing but they couldn't 46:06 quite put their finger on it when it 46:07 came to policy particularly this idea of 46:10 counterterrorism we heard terrorism 46:13 terrorism we're trying to keep you safe 46:14 over and over again but it seemed that 46:19 these programs weren't actually keeping 46:21 us safe 46:22 we didn't know it at the time but the 46:25 NSA was tapping every phone in the 46:26 United States and yet it didn't stop the 46:28 Boston Marathon bombings we were 46:31 collecting all the Internet 46:32 communications as they cross the border 46:34 and solve something was going on but 46:36 these were not the things that wanted 46:38 terrorist attacks the things that were 46:40 effective the things that worked for the 46:42 methods that we always used traditional 46:44 good old-fashioned police work that cop 46:47 on the street who saw someone acting 46:50 suspicious limited intelligence exactly 46:53 our founding fathers said he would 46:56 sacrifice Essential Liberty for a little 47:00 temporary safety deserves neither and 47:03 we'll get them either 47:05 this is very much what we are waking up 47:11 to the idea that in many ways with the 47:15 public has lost their seat at the table 47:18 of government as an equal partner I know 47:20 your residency permit runs out at in 47:23 2017 if it's renewed are you prepared to 47:26 live in Russia for the rest of your life 47:28 and what are your other options if it's 47:31 not renewed this is actually not my 47:35 first foreign posting on behalf of the 47:37 United States my work for the CIA i was 47:40 in Switzerland when I worked for the NSA 47:42 I was in Japan the way I look at it this 47:45 is just more of the same it's a very 47:47 different situation and I didn't choose 47:49 this particular posting but look at this 47:53 is the best way i can serve my country 47:55 I'm looking forward to doing it 47:57 Lindsay Mills your girlfriend moved here 47:59 in 2014 48:01 how is she adjusting 48:04 to her life here in Russia you know it's 48:09 surprising how adaptable people are it's 48:12 not easy living in exile for anyone you 48:16 know it's not the place where you belong 48:17 it's not a language that you studied in 48:19 advance 48:21 it's tough to figure out how to make 48:25 into life but she is an incredible 48:31 person because I signed up for this I 48:34 knew what was coming I was volunteering 48:36 for these risks 48:38 I couldn't tell her in advance because I 48:40 did the FBI would treat her as an 48:43 accomplice they were trying to put her 48:44 in prison instead of me and basically 48:47 said I want not going to be home when 48:49 you get back 48:50 yes and I mean it imagine that probably 48:54 makes me the world's worst boyfriend but 48:57 she didn't hate me for in fact she 49:02 seemed to love me more because Shh 49:09 she knew me before I had a job she knew 49:17 me before I was making good money and 49:20 she cared about me then and as I climb 49:24 the ladder as I gained all these 49:26 clearances as I became much more senior 49:29 and successful individual she cared 49:32 about me just as much but when I lost it 49:35 all when I gave it all up because I saw 49:40 something wrong something I believed 49:42 needed to be said she said she just fell 49:46 in love with me all over again and I can 49:51 never thank you enough for that 49:52 what do you miss most about the United 49:55 States family of course that's always 49:57 the thing you know they can come and see 49:59 me but you've got all these travel 50:01 arrangements and logistics you got to go 50:03 on an airplane ride who doesn't miss 50:05 that when you look back at the last 50:08 three years 50:10 was it worth it absolutely I would do it 50:13 again no regrets no regrets at all 50:16 people listening to this might think are 50:20 you kidding no regrets 50:23 well I do have to deal with some tough 50:25 interviews now honestly I'm glad we can 50:28 have these conversations and I hope that 50:31 we work to make in America that never 50:35 loses the opportunity to do this 50:37 journalism is a hard job I understand 50:41 that 50:43 and I think it's clear now then perhaps 50:46 ever before that if we don't make sure 50:51 that sources and journalists can have 50:56 these conversations and not outside 50:59 borders where you've got to fly around 51:01 the world added but at home before we 51:05 get to this point where it's such a 51:06 problem we're losing a lot of what makes 51:09 us great do you think you'll ever be 51:11 able to convince at people who have very 51:14 little sympathy for you who don't 51:16 believe you should be walking around a 51:19 free man here in Moscow but instead you 51:22 should be in prison can 51:26 what do you say to those people who just 51:28 do not understand your point of view I'm 51:31 not going to ask them to trust me I'm 51:34 not going to ask them to believe in me 51:35 because i think americans have had 51:38 enough of people saying trust us 51:43 that was the problem that got us here in 51:45 the first place but what I will say is 51:48 this in 2013 51:51 it was pretty easy to say we don't know 51:55 what's coming 51:55 this guy probably took a lot of risks 51:58 this is really responsible this is going 51:59 to cause harm but in 2016 52:03 these officials have had every 52:06 opportunity to show evidence that harm 52:09 came as a result and they haven't 52:12 do you really think if the government 52:15 can show somebody was hurt a program was 52:18 damaged we've gone dark and can't track 52:21 dangerous people they wouldn't leak that 52:24 criticism that wouldn't be on the front 52:26 page New York Times by the end of the 52:28 day I don't think so and I hope maybe in 52:31 time you'll think the same and snow 52:35 thank you so much for spending all this 52:37 time talking to us we really appreciate 52:39 it thank you very much
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Glenn Beck on Trump and the "Muslim Ban"
some of my critics will say that I focus 0:06 too much on the left and what I always 0:07 liked come from the left and i'm trying 0:09 to collect my house everyone else's dad 0:11 right Amen out of your own eye 0:15 I tried for a long time to tell 0:17 progressives why they were wrong it 0:19 doesn't work right no MSNBC built a 0:22 whole network to tell conservatives how 0:24 wrong they are 0:25 it doesn't work i'm pretty sure that is 0:27 not converted anyone going to probably 0:29 converted people to be stronger 0:30 conservatives and a lot of respects you 0:32 because they turn it on and they go wait 0:33 a minute this isn't true right or this 0:35 you know whatever but what else can we 0:38 hit the right on like that want not 0:40 gotcha I gotcha sense but what else has 0:42 the right sort of missed a lot you know 0:47 i dont i I've made a promise that I 0:51 won't judge donald trump on what he did 0:57 during the election 0:59 yeah I'll judge him now on his actions 1:02 as president but there's a lot i 1:06 disagree with him on that he said during 1:09 the election a lot 1:11 yeah if he passes a 1.1 billion stimulus 1:16 package I might lose my mind right this 1:19 is not a conservative idea to do you 1:22 even know you're in fact I remember the 1:25 tea party standing up and saying 780 I 1:28 remember the number 787 billion dollar 1:32 stimulus package 1:33 well I Got News for You Donald Trump's 1:36 will be bigger 1:37 yeah and will you accept it will you 1:39 accept government taking money and then 1:42 think I know what's best to do with it 1:44 no there's that the-the-the just to 1:50 watch people cheer the executive orders 1:54 that keep coming out that he's sitting 1:57 there signing decrees like Caesar I had 2:01 a problem with george w bush doing it I 2:03 had a problem with Barack Obama i have a 2:06 problem with this guy and has anybody 2:08 noticed they're getting worse 2:10 yeah they're grabbing more power 2:13 we have to restore the constitutional 2:15 balance of power 2:16 yeah so that there's video evidence of 2:18 me saying the exact same thing that I 2:20 was against it when George W did it I 2:22 was against obama did it I'm against it 2:24 now and this is the problem that we've 2:26 removed one of the three branches of 2:28 government if we just take the 2:29 legislative branch out and by the way 2:30 it's plenty it's the fault of the Senate 2:32 to because they refused to meet and do 2:33 anything now that stuff but that then we 2:36 feed it enough power to the president 2:38 where people don't even understand 2:39 phenix anymore right 2:41 so so he's assigning you think I'm gonna 2:42 do i get that house me so the 2:44 progressive started this by taking away 2:48 the true nature of the Senate remember 2:51 the Senate was elected originally the 2:53 Senators were picked by the state and 2:56 the state legislatures yeah okay so they 2:59 were picked by the people who in their 3:01 own state were greedy for their own 3:03 state right so they would guard the 3:05 state you would agree you would argue 3:07 that a good thing 3:07 that's great that great day ok so they 3:10 were to guard the state 3:11 well the progressive took that away so 3:13 now we have a hundred men who 3:16 well I want to make sure that shoots 3:17 which the humor stays in or I want to 3:20 make sure Ted Cruz days in well you 3:23 shouldn't have to be connected unless 3:24 you're in the state of Texas or in the 3:26 state of New York so they changed that 3:28 basic fundamental principle and then 3:31 knows people don't know this 3:34 do you know where the supreme court used 3:39 to meet the for FDR made this big 3:42 edifice of the Supreme Court with a big 3:44 columns of the and Moses up at the top 3:47 you know what happened i don't even know 3:48 what that anywhere else but I guess I 3:49 could I would maybe somewhere in boston 3:51 or that one after that was built in the 3:54 1940s by roosevelt the Supreme Court 3:57 played such a small role that when they 4:01 built the capital they looked at each 4:03 other way 4:04 crap we forgot about the third branch 4:06 after that they met until the 1940s in 4:09 the basement of the capital 4:11 ok they were nothing they were just 4:14 there to go yet constitutional not 4:16 constitutional but again the 4:18 progressives made them into this to now 4:20 they're the final word 4:22 well they can't be dictators the 4:25 president can't be 4:26 decatur and neither can Congress which 4:28 is a beautiful 4:29 it's a beautiful system I nobody else 4:31 has it yeah but we're losing it i know 4:34 we are we are we are absolutely loving 4:36 it so okay so let's just talk about one 4:39 of the executive orders the one that 4:40 everyone is going crazy about the 4:42 so-called Muslim and now I did a piece 4:44 of the top of a show today talking about 4:46 this is not a Muslim and because if you 4:49 took the top five most populous Muslim 4:51 countries that out there which is it 4:53 almost 800 million people they're not on 4:56 there including Indonesia and Pakistan 4:58 and Saudi Arabia now you could argue 4:59 that certainly Saudi Arabia should be on 5:01 the list and Pakistan probably to get 5:02 out early for good reason yeah forever 5:04 good for it because there's actually 5:05 everybody that people have you have 5:07 right so okay but putting that aside the 5:11 rhetoric around it the immediate need 5:14 for the hashtag Muslim ban oh my gosh 5:16 uber crying talking about a Muslim and 5:19 now we can look we've already agreed we 5:21 don't like everything being done be 5:22 executive action but what do you think 5:26 about just the inability for us to tell 5:28 the truth in what's happening that okay 5:31 this may be misguided but it is not 5:32 about land yeah this this is me hope 5:36 that America has a chance 5:39 sitting down with a guy who used to say 5:41 he was a progressive and have you say 5:45 that is so powerful so powerful 5:50 the problem is twofold first thank you 5:56 for being honest 5:57 thank you for having intellectual 5:59 courage to say that honey I don't people 6:03 always ready for you to be so rare 6:05 something like I'm not I didn't pick a 6:07 team i didn't pick you know what i mean 6:09 like i said i would say what I believe 6:11 before anything but every now i'm sure 6:12 i'll be wrong about things but right but 6:15 I'm a human 6:16 it's but it will come with great cost 6:19 it always does read i'll tell you after 6:22 the show that read a book called the 6:23 pendulum you'll understand what time 6:26 period wherein it repeats itself every 6:28 80 years all the way back to the 6:31 beginning of time and it's a fascinating 6:33 study on who we are and where we are and 6:36 why voices like yours 6:38 a rare and what usually happens to 6:41 people like you don't need to retire 6:43 early no I'm telling you to stand strong 6:45 but it'll have a happy ending the next 6:48 generation 6:49 oh you can see that but I've got a house 6:53 that I don't like what are you doing 6:57 so where were we talking about again 6:59 where did we go there we got a 7:04 government small-government oh man oh 7:08 yeah don't say it's a rare moment thank 7:10 you i don't get that 1i don't be scared 7:12 the hell out of that so two things 7:14 happen 7:15 first of all when I heard the reporting 7:18 on it I was like horrible horrible 7:23 yeah he makes the Muslim and I thought 7:25 we weren't supposed to take him 7:26 literally yeah you met the Muslim man 7:28 then i go i read the Muslim man it's a 7:32 pause ok so where did the Muslim and 7:37 come from well partially him because he 7:41 signing it 7:42 he's talking about banning Muslims what 7:44 the hell you doing what are you doing 7:47 I think he's either just so sloppy with 7:51 his language which is really easy to do 7:53 or he's sending a message to those 7:56 people that did both forms like I want 7:58 you to ban all those Muslims I don't 8:01 know I don't know how big of a number 8:02 that is so he started calling it a band 8:06 the press started calling in a band so 8:09 there's there's two sides one he made 8:13 the mistake of saying that if you want 8:15 to be president the united states you 8:18 have to be careful with your language I 8:21 was sitting in with George W Bush 8:22 because I really disagreed with the way 8:25 the war was being fought and he called 8:28 me into the Oval Office and read me the 8:31 riot act and he sat down we set of those 8:35 two chairs by the fireplace for now and 8:37 he sat down and he said you know a lot 8:42 of people think they know what it's like 8:43 to be the president united states but 8:45 they have no idea what it's like to be 8:47 the president of like this is going to 8:48 be the longest hour of my wow ok never 8:51 heard him swear 8:52 never saw me angry yeah he was pissed he 8:55 said let me tell you something and he 8:58 started in on five o'clock in the 9:01 morning he took phone calls he told me 9:03 the names of the people that had died 9:04 where they died what they were fighting 9:07 for what their parents said when he 9:09 called them at seven that morning and 9:11 then he told me about how the war was 9:14 going and I said he was passionate he 9:18 wasn't the LSU know a shoe 9:23 yeah me was that guy yeah and I said no 9:28 offense mr. president but this is the 9:31 guy that should be talking to the 9:33 American people 9:34 where is all this he said when you're 9:38 president just shifting your eyes is 9:42 being watched by the Chinese by your 9:45 enemies by your friends when you say 9:47 something and if you just shift your 9:49 eyes there's somebody in the world going 9:52 what does that mean yeah he said you 9:54 have to watch every single word you say 9:56 Donald Trump need to learn that lesson 9:58 the same thing needs to be understood by 10:02 the by the media they're not 10:05 intellectually honest they're not 10:06 intellectually curious very few of them 10:08 they also are sending a message to the 10:13 entire world America hate Muslims now 10:18 America has gone insane 10:21 America is not trustworthy they're both 10:24 at fault they're both at fault 10:27 so do we now have the perfect storm we 10:29 have a guy that they've painted as 10:31 Hitler vs a media that we know will not 10:34 act honestly there are some actors 10:36 within that that will act honestly but 10:38 we have a perfect storm where no matter 10:40 what he does 10:41 they're gonna go nuts and no matter what 10:43 they do he's gonna hate them so like 10:45 we've created now a situation where it 10:47 gets to what I first wanted to start 10:49 with 10:49 have you ever seen a period of time in 10:51 your life where everyone seems like 10:53 they're going nuts at the same time 10:55 because that's what it seems like 10:56 everyone that I'm talking and everyone 10:58 saying people start to say to each other 10:59 like everyone's going crazy i was going 11:01 crazy I mean they're really seen 11:03 to be like I think you're talking about 11:05 the 80-year thing that there's like this 11:07 sort of were pulling the string on the 11:09 fabric of what you let me give you one 11:12 thing that might not make you feel good 11:13 and then something that will make that 11:15 you're good at one you say about perfect 11:17 storm a reoccurring phrase on my show at 11:21 Fox on the chalkboard was perfect storm 11:23 and it was a president that would would 11:28 happily the Kree things through 11:30 executive order a press that was 11:34 completely either in the pocket or 11:37 untrustworthy and a people that were 11:40 angry and one more element economic 11:43 collapse if you put economic real 11:47 economic depression like hardships there 11:50 you know 11:50 look out it's got its gonna fall apart 11:53 and it's gonna get nasty ugly now let me 11:57 give you the part that will make you 11:59 feel good i don't know why but I have I 12:11 feel a tremendous pole or calling to 12:16 stand for people who are being 12:21 persecuted one way or another and and it 12:26 it 12:29 I don't know how that plays out but it's 12:32 why i have said that's why I stood with 12:35 bill maher two weeks after nine eleven 12:38 he doesn't know this here I'm talk radio 12:41 right after nine eleven not popular to 12:45 stand with the guy says you know what 12:46 their bravery that our soldiers were not 12:48 popular and he basically got fired right 12:50 and i said with him saying maybe see 12:54 what part of what part of the name 12:56 politically incorrect don't you 12:58 understand who he has a right to say 13:01 this so i try to stand with the people 13:08 who are standing on principle and even 13:11 if I did screw but this is 13:14 manifested itself with me about five 13:17 years ago I took my children to 13:20 Auschwitz and I wanted my family to 13:24 decide who we would be before any 13:27 trouble would come and I said someday I 13:30 hope not but history seems to repeat 13:32 itself and I feel like we're headed 13:35 towards this where it's only heroes or 13:37 villains and depending on whose side 13:39 wins they're going to be villains and 13:42 they could be the Japanese that could be 13:44 the the Germans they could be the Jews 13:46 they could be us don't know but who are 13:50 we going to be at that time we went 13:52 through schwartz which was of an amazing 13:56 experience and then I found a woman who 14:02 was one of the Righteous among the 14:03 Nations she was one who saved about a 14:05 hundred Jews to 16 at the time when she 14:08 did it and her story is phenomenal but 14:13 the last thing I after was my kids and 14:17 everybody had left and i said to her I'm 14:23 on television and radio and i believe 14:26 these times are coming again I believe 14:29 everybody has the seed of righteousness 14:31 in US but it has to be watered so I 14:36 asked her how can I water that tree of 14:39 righteousness how can I water it in 14:41 people to make it grow 14:42 she said something that I thought was 14:44 profound then but as we are entering 14:46 these times how you just described it 14:48 makes more sense than ever she said clay 14:51 you have to remember you're looking at 14:54 it from your time not our time not the 14:58 time when I was doing it she said the 15:01 righteous didn't suddenly become 15:03 righteous they were superheroes they 15:06 just refused to go over the cliff with 15:09 everyone else so you don't we're in that 15:13 time where everybody's like oh my gosh 15:16 the world is going insane yes they're 15:19 going over the cliff of infinity it's 15:22 critical that you say stop 15:26 I'm not going there I won't go 15:27 with you no matter how much you push how 15:30 much shove no matter how much anger you 15:31 want to stir up in me I won't go over 15:34 the cliff with you you're going to end 15:37 up being one of the righteous remembered 15:39 as one of the righteous because you just 15:42 stood in place and everybody else went 15:45 nuts
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