Trump issues INSANE update on military deployments | Another Day Brian Tyler Cohen Oct 6, 2025 Brian Tyler Cohen
OMG: Trump issues INSANE update on military deployments
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The Trump administration makes more excuses to go to war with Democrat-led cities. Their top excuse still remains because we want to. This is just another day.
While the government may currently be shut down, the president has kindly decided to come to work in an effort to inform the nation on how horrible some of our cities are.
You look at what's happened with Portland over the years. It's it's a burning hell hole. And then you have a judge that lost her way that tries to pretend that uh like there's no problem. Actually, she's not even saying that. There's a huge problem in Portland. I'll tell you what the problem is. Crime. Okay. Crime. It's a huge problem in Chicago. It's called crime. It's probably worse than almost any city in the in the world. You can go to Afghanistan. You can go to a lot of different places and they probably marvel at how much crime we have.
That's exactly what's going on. You know, the way Americans watch is it cake and marvel at the talents of these bakers. That's how everyone in Afghanistan feels about Chicago. They just can't believe what they're seeing.
And frankly, neither can some local American journalists. You are watching as Broadview police respond to a 911 call claiming someone was tampering with a gate at the ICE detention facility there.
Good. We got a call of subjects trying to climb over the fence or something.
Uh, not since we've been here.
But when police arrive, all they find is two people and a camera. Our CBS photographer filming the exterior of the building with a CBS security guard by his side. The 911 call claiming someone was tampering with the gate came from an ICE agent. According to this incident report, an ICE agent called police for help.
Look, I'm not saying that there's no justification whatsoever for ICE to be in these cities. I'm simply saying that prank calling 911 is a crucial part of the law enforcement pipeline that we should not overlook.
Now, one of the big complaints from this administration has been the lack of cooperation from city and state officials, which does feel a little rude considering Donald Trump spent all that time not calling those governors before he decided to invade. Sorry, uh, save their states. But that was then, and this is now. And let's just say things have gotten so bad, some members of Homeland Security are themselves.
No, you cannot.
We can. Okay. All right. Thank you.
Interesting. Uh, that's what Governor Pritzker says is cooperation and keeping people safe.
Look, I know that this might simply seem like an incident where local Chicago officials are taking out their frustrations on Secretary Noem for having her ICE agents infiltrate their towns and target residents in a racially divisive manner. But there's actually something much larger at play here, and that is Kristi Noem is renowned for destroying a toilet. When her stomach starts rumbling, her staff whispers, "Here comes the department of horrific shits." She's like Jeff Daniels from Dumb and Dummer on a good day. After she's done with it, they call her bathroom stall no man's land. I think you get the idea.
But that's Chicago. Trump has had his sights set on another evil territory in the Northwest. There's just one problem. President Trump's push to send National Guard troops into more American cities facing new push back.
In Portland, Oregon, overnight, where protests are underway, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's move to send National Guard troops from California or any other state into the city. Figures. You know, these damn liberal judges. I mean, they might as well just be Antifa at this point.
You know, it's so sad when lefty administrations stack the courts just so they can impede any progress by a later administration. I'm sorry, what's that? The judge who was appointed by Trump, saying the administration's description about chaos in Portland is simply untethered to the facts, and the president likely exceeded his authority under the Constitution, was appointed by Trump? Whoops. Well, that's just the opinion of one specific woman in a position of authority. I mean, isn't the more important question, what does one random woman on TV think?
There was one woman, and she was great today. She said, "You know what? I don't care if it's a National Guard, the Army, the Marines, the Air Force. I don't care who comes in as long as we're safe." And that's the way most of the public feels.
And isn't that really the way we should be running our country off of anecdotes? I mean, forget judges and laws and facts and let's start sending troops to cities based on whatever random Tik Tok account gets shoved in front of Donald Trump's face before he conducts another press conference.
One of the biggest issues here is that while there are facts as to what's really going on in cities like Chicago and Portland, not all of us feel these facts the same as was illustrated today by Prince Charming.
If you can't see that since we've taken office, there has been an organized, systematized campaign to delegitimize, dehumanize, threaten, impede, obstruct, and physically assault ICE officers in the conduct of their duties, then I can't persuade you of it because you're choosing not to see what's right in front of your face.
Hey, what a fun twist on the if you're too stupid to understand it, I can't help you routine. I mean, my god, that is some next level gaslighting. I haven't seen balls like that since Netflix debuted that new Horton show.
But Miller wasn't done being his most delightful self. He saved some of that for his CNN interview where he was asked about the validity of ICE agents specifically targeting black and brown people.
We cannot have a system of law in this country that privileges illegal aliens over American citizens. And that's what they're doing. You know it and I know it.
So that's not exactly a no.
Stephen, can you just unequivocally say,
I said it was a dumb question. Okay.
Well, I appreciate that, but it's a dumb question -
So no, this policy is not designed -- When I said it was a dumb question, it meant no.
Hello. What part of I'm a condescending asshole didn't you understand? Still not getting it? Let me give you another taste.
When in our history have we tolerated unlawful riotist assemblies night after night around FBI buildings or ATF buildings or DEA buildings? This is the textbook definition of domestic terrorism. Using the actual and imminent threat of violence to keep federal officials from doing their jobs.
Well, when you're referring to people tolerating unlawful attacks on a government building, one specific date comes to mind. [Jan 6] I got to say, while it may be entertaining, I don't think CNN's new show is going to run for very long.
The reality is, with Donald Trump ignoring judges and sending California troops to Portland, and Texas troops to Chicago, the president is pitting Americans against each other in a real life version of the Hunger Games, pitting district against district in an effort to distract from the criminality of the capital. When we watch it as a movie, there is never a shred of doubt as to who the villains are. No one ever watches President Snow and thinks, "Hey, what a solid guy, cleaning up those districts so that people can finally get out to eat in Panam again. Thank god those Antifa members are being dealt with."
And yet, when the same thing happens in real life, suddenly Trump's White House wants you to believe that actually rooting for the capital to quash dissent and use its power to invade the cities, is something that is just and noble and definitely not the plot of a massive franchise that's grossed over three billion dollars worldwide.
If the courts allow you to ultimately send in the National Guard into Chicago and Portland, do Democrats not have reason to be concerned that there are long-term plans by this administration to keep US military or the National Guard in American cities, like what we are seeing here in Washington?
Why should they be concerned about the federal government offering help to make their cities a safer place?
"Why would people be afraid they're being poisoned when the president is simply offering them a delicious liquid to quench their thirst?" But I apologize, Mi'lady, for the crude interruption. Please continue.
And the president, all he's trying to do is fix it. And there has been a complete smear campaign by the Democrats and the media. Quite frankly, I was reading Political Playbook this morning, one of the most inside the beltway newsletters you can find. And and you guys are framing this like the president wants to take over the American cities with the military.
"You guys are framing this like the president wants to take over American cities with the military merely because the president is trying to take over American cities with the military.
The truth is over and over again we are watching a president callously sweep laws under the rug while he willfully pits citizens against each other under some ridiculous guise that he's saving our country. And for any skeptics out there who aren't seeing what everyone else is,
I can't persuade you of it because you're choosing not to see what's right in front of your face.
Flotilla Activists RIP Israel For Abusive Treatment The Young Turks Oct 6, 2025
70-year-old Margaret Pacetta and famed humanitarian activist Greta Thunberg allege that they were abused by the IDF while being detained. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks
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Ben-Gvir taunts flotilla detainees [Music] Even though Israel's national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is a literal convicted terrorist. He accused humanitarians who were detained as part of the global sim flotillaa as being as such. Now in reality, the 137 activists who were detained by Israel were actually seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza who are still intentionally being starved to death. And uh some of the detainees have spoken out about the torturous conditions imposed by the Israelis after Detainee recounts horrible conditions in Israeli prison they were uh you know taken captive by the Israeli government, including 70-year-old Margaret uh Pacetta, who's from Scotland. Take a listen to what she had to say about the conditions in the prison that she was sent to. That prison was awful. Oh, I bet it was. Wow. In a jail. Yeah. No, no water. my broken leg. The beginning said to me, "I bumped your leg." I said, "It's broke." She slammed a metal door on it. Sorry. No. Oh my god. Horrible. Horrible. So, that 70-year-old woman you just heard from has a broken leg and she claims uh that the Israelis slammed a metal door on her broken leg as she was in detention. Now, uh, two others who were part of the flotillaa said that, uh, Swedish activist Greta Tunberg, uh, who was in Israeli custody but no longer is, uh, was also mistreated during her Greta Thunberg abused in prison detention. Uh, Haz Hazwani Helme, a Malaysian citizen, and Winfield Beaver, an American citizen, told Reuters at the airport that they had witnessed Tunberg being mistreated, saying that she was shoved and forced to wear an Israeli flag. Uh 28-year-old Helme said that detainees were not being given clean food or water uh and that their medications and belongings had been confiscated. It was a disaster. They treated us like animals. Beaver said Tunberg was treated terribly and used as propaganda, describing how she was pushed into a room as national security minister Bengavir arrived. Now, an official who visited Tunberg in prison claimed that she was being held in a cell infested with bed bugs and had no food or little food and water. And then earlier today, uh, Greta was released from detention and deported to Greece where she confirmed that she was in fact subjected to abuses, but didn't go into detail. Take a look. I could talk for a very very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment, trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was that Israel, while continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population, an entire nation in front of our very eyes. Now, as you can imagine, that looks pretty embarrassing for the Israeli government to basically torture humanitarians who are just trying to break the siege of Gaza and get humanitarian aid to people who are intentionally being starved to death. And so, as a result, uh the Israelis have denied that these individuals have been mistreated. The foreign ministry described reports that detainees had been mistreated as complete lies. But apparently uh Ben Gave didn't get the memo that he's supposed to spout this Ben-Gvir celebrates mistreatment of detainees specific lie and instead said something uh counter to what the uh Israeli foreign ministry said. In fact, he says anyone who supports terror is a terrorist, referring to the humanitarians on the flotilla as terrorists and deserves the conditions of terrorists. And that statement came after reports that Tunberg uh was mistreated. By the way, uh Ben Gavir said he quote took pride in the fact that we treat the flotillaa activists as terror supporters. Again, itar Bengavir is a literal convicted terrorist. But let me continue. He also said, quote, "They should feel what the conditions in Ketat prison are like and think twice before approaching Israel again. That's how it works. So, I'm going to go ahead and take Ben Gavver's word for it. Uh, because what he's saying is consistent with the way the Israeli government has been behaving. So, Jen, what are your thoughts? Uh, every Israeli accusation is a confession. So, as he's sitting there pointing at them going, they are terrorists, terrorists. What he's saying is, first of all, he is, as Anna pointed out, a convicted terrorist. And uh but mainly what he's saying is I want you to do terrorism on them. I want you to terrorize them. I want you to drag them by the hair. I want you to slam their legs. I want you to treat them like they're Palestinians. Well, in a sense, thank you. Because then the world sees better how you treat Palestinians. And so now that they're doing it to Europeans, people are seeing it with their own eyes and they're, "Oh, that's a little grandmother from Scotland who's got a broken leg and you're going to slam a door into it." Well, what do you think they've been doing to Palestinian grandmothers for two years straight? Other than, of course, blowing their heads off when they drop a bomb on them or lighting them on fire when they drop a bomb on them. What do you think they've been doing to Palestinian children? They've been slaughtering them one by one or a hundred at a time. What do you think happens when they drop bombs? So this is so I love the flotillaa because they're putting a spotlight where it needs to be and they're showing the world the disgusting terrorist Benavir and the disgusting terrorist government of Israel, the current government of Israel and how they do their terrorism. So yeah, that's how they treat Palestinians on a daily basis because they think they're uber mesh, that they are superior and the Palestinians are subhuman. And so he's saying, "Look, even though they look white, even though they are European, you should treat them like we treat the Palestinians like subhumans, terrorists. If you're still defending this Israeli government, you lost your moral threat at some point. You You just lost it. You're so blinded and biased. You're like, "No, starving the children is a good thing. That's what the moral army would do." 87 87. So like, I got it. I got it. But the rest of the world sees it clear as day. And the flotilla is Khanna tries to get American home just yet another example. And by the way, and I don't know if you know this part of the story, Roan has been trying to um get in touch with a Jewish American who's a from California who's part of the flirtillaa. And Israel's like, "Shut up." For a long time, they would not even respond. And then he he's asking our government, Marco Rubio, can you please find out the whereabouts of the American citizen there? And Marco Rubio, no response. Cuz the American government, yeah, they don't care about us. They don't care about us. No. Are you kidding me? No. We're just pay pigs for that foreign government. They don't care about us. Marco Rubio is a disgusting hack. Did you know that Marco Rubio was vetted by Oracle founder Larry Ellison as he was running for the Republican primary in 2015? Homeboy was literally sharing his presidential speeches with Larry Ellison for approval. It's disgusting. Forget about that. For Hold on. Hold on. Forget about that. and we got to move on because I just want to give you one point of victory here. It's a small thing, but we got to take the wins where we can get it because the Israeli authorities were so obsessed and so preoccupied with uh detaining and terrorizing the humanitarians on the flotilla that it actually freed up a an opportunity for Palestinians able to fish the Palestinians to do something they've been banned from doing. Fish for food. Palestinians in Gaza can't fish for food because if they do, Israeli authorities shoot and kill them. And because they were preoccupied, the Palestinians that you just saw in that video were able to fish. I just wanted to share that with you. Yeah. No, no. So that that's actually super important because almost no one knows about it. As usual, American media is like, "Oh, I can't criticize Israel." Israel's been purposely intentionally murdering the fishermen of Gaza. And you why the fishermen? Because then they would be able to feed the population and they want to starve the population. So they shoot the fisherman in the head. That's why, oh, they're distracted. Let's go fish for a second without the IDF murdering us. So the IDF is obviously a terrorist organization. It's the biggest terrorist organization in the world right now. It murders civilians on purpose way more than Hamas does. That's a fact based on IDF numbers. Uh 83% civilian kill ratio. They intentionally murder fishermen. They treat Palestinians as subhuman. Israel has lost its way. If you care about Israel, you need to stop defending these atrocities and try to get them out of the morass that they're in. But I know everybody's blind and can't see. I got to say one last thing about the Marco Rubio. We did cover that on Friday's show. You should check out that video. And Drop Site News is doing brilliant work. and Kate, if we can, let's drop their article about that story in the description box uh down below on YouTube because not only did uh Larry Ellison vet Marco Rubio on behalf of Israel, this is back in the 2016 election, and then he went said sent a note back to the Israeli ambassador. He has been vetted. He will be friendly to Israel. He then sent him a $5 million check through a super PAC. That's not even among the 1 million that Marco Rubio took from Apac. And then if you say that out loud, American media goes, "How dare you say things that are true? Don't you know the job of the media is to bury the truth on behalf of Israel?" Trope. No, he's actually doing it. The Israeli lobby is actually buying off almost all of our politicians so that that we will ignore the atrocious genocide that that terrorist government is committing right now.
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IDF Soldiers Break Down Over Gaza Atrocities The Young Turks Oct 4, 2025 #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews #TYT
Israeli soldiers are suffering from mental illnesses from the genocide in Gaza. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks
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[Music] You're watching Israeli soldiers dump piles of psychiatric medications on the table during a Knesset subcommittee meeting on mental health. The medications included fentinyl and other drugs that soldiers have resorted to as a result of the mental health crisis they're facing due to their role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. and they argue that the Israeli government is not providing enough support to keep them sane. Now, I think anyone that has a conscience would um struggle with the slaughter of innocents uh that continues to happen in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the IDF. Um, and so this has taken a toll not only on the innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip, but it's apparently taking a toll on the mental health of the IDF soldiers who interrupted and protested uh during this Knesset subcommittee meeting. Now, this has led to suicides among soldiers. According to figures cited by Channel 12, at least 12 soldiers have died by suicide so far in 2025. A figure that does not even include reservists not on active duty at the time of their deaths. So the number is actually um an underestimate. It's actually higher. So in 2024 uh 21 soldiers died by suicide, the highest annual toll in over a decade. In 2023, the figure stood at 17, including seven following Hamas's October 7th assault, most of them reserveists. And despite the absolute destruction that Netanyahu's genocide on the Palestinian people has led to um both in Gaza and in Israel, their economy not doing so well. Uh you have mass protests happening on a regular basis. It's tearing the country apart. He doesn't care. He doesn't care. his complete and utter disregard for the hostages should infuriate and enrage people who were absolutely enraged after what happened on October 7th because there's no indication to me that this current Israeli government has ever given a damn about the hostages. They have used the hostages as a pawn to continue carrying out um you know the butchering and the brutalization and you know slaughter of innocent people in Gaza. And so this again, what we're seeing with the IDF soldiers, again, I think has a lot to do with the death and destruction they're carrying out. And an Israeli sniper just spoke to Harets and admitted to killing innocent civilians, including children, who are attempting to get aid in Gaza. Now, you might be thinking, Anna, isn't this an old story? No. No. This is a new one. This is a new story with new IDF soldiers who are essentially reinforcing previous reporting from Harets that indicated that they were ordered to shoot at starving Palestinians at these aid hubs that you know for the most part at this point are run by the um Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. So, uh let's get to some of the comments, some of the statements that they've made uh in this reporting. So, one IDF soldier says it started about two months ago. The soldier who went by the pseudonym Benny told the Israeli paper as part of a story focusing on the mental toll on IDF soldiers in Gaza. Every day we have the same mission to secure the humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip. It's like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different direction every time and I'm there with the sniper rifle and the officers are yelling at me, "Take him down. Take him down." I fire 50 to 60 bullets every day. I've stopped counting kills. I have no idea how many I've killed. A lot. Children. So, as angry as the IDF's conduct in the Gaza Strip makes me, and it does make me angry, and you guys all know this, there's some percentage of those soldiers who have a conscience. And that conscience is is weighing heavy at the moment considering how many innocent people they know they've killed. Another soldier who went by yonyi shared a story about killing two children in beta laia that's in northern Gaza after one soldier shouted that that terrorists were approaching. So without even confirming anything, you know, they shout terrorist. And at that point, according to this IDF soldier, I saw the bodies of two children, maybe eight or 10 years old. I have no idea, there was blood everywhere, lots of signs of gunfire. I knew it was all on me that I did this. I wanted to throw up. After a few minutes, the company commander arrived and said coldly, as if he wasn't a human being, "They entered an extermination zone. It is their fault. this is what war is like. So, it doesn't surprise me at all that the commander said that because they're pretty heartless when it comes to the Palestinian people. They don't really seem to have any remorse when innocent people die. In fact, even when they are responsible for the slaughter of innocent people, they someway somehow managed to blame it on Hamas. But obviously some of these IDF soldiers know what the truth is and they really can't stomach the fact that they're responsible for killing so many innocent people. But it keeps happening and there are no bricks on this car. And again, Netanyahu just to prove how little he cares about anyone, including his own people, he is tearing his own country apart through his actions, through the continuation of this genocide in Gaza. He knows that by bombing Qatar as ceasefire negotiations are supposed to take place with the Hamas negotiators, well, he doesn't want peace. He literally blew peace negotiations up because it was never about getting the hostages back. It was always about exploiting the atrocities that took place on October 7th. fact that those hostages exist to essentially carry out a political project that Netanyahu has always wanted, which is this expansionist greater Israel policy. And it also allows him to remain in power at a time when he's facing serious corruption charges. That's who Netanyahu is. So, the ground invasion in Gaza City continues already. We know that a ton of innocent people have died. You know, you have uh the former chief of staff uh in Israel opening up about what the death toll really is. And guess what? Very similar to the death toll that keeps getting reported by the Gaza Health Ministry. You know, the same health ministry that the Israeli government wants you to disbelieve because of the fact that they're run by Hamas. But then you have this Halevi guy who's like he's not remorseful. Let me just be clear about that. He's just shedding light on how many people they've killed and how many people are injured in Gaza. So, let's put the first graphic up on this um because I want to read you some of his uh quotes. Sorry, guys. I don't know what happened to my papers. I'm a mess. Uh but he says, "So, the retired general told a community meeting in southern Israel earlier this week that more than 10% of Gaza's 2.2 2 million population had been killed or injured. More than 200,000 people. Again, these are numbers that are very similar, very similar to what we have seen reported by the Gaza Health Ministry. The current official toll is 64,718 Palestinians killed in Gaza and 163,859 injured since the start of the war on October 7th, 2023. Many thousands more are feared dead with their bodies burned in the rubble. So I guess part of me feels at least a little bit of relief that there are still people who feel guilt, who are able to feel guilt, who are able to see Palestinians as human beings. But even IDF soldiers who have been speaking out and testifying against Netanyahu, against the Knesset, against the Israeli government just get ignored. And it just kind of shows you the level of brutality this uh current Israeli government is willing to carry out. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.
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Pro-Israel Influencers Are Getting CALLED OUT The Young Turks Oct 6, 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu is handing out big cash to influencers who are pushing pro-Israel propaganda. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
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All Jews are Israelis, even if you haven't filled out your paperwork just yet. Because remember, we were a people first, far before we were ever a religion. Judaism was just a way of life, a set of beliefs and traditions that our nation followed. So that's why we speak a Seemetic language. That's why when we pray, we face Jerusalem and our synagogues are built to face Jerusalem. Well, that low cut top was certainly a choice, a very intentional one because Israeli paid honeypot propagandists, as I like to think of them, are flooding social media as Israel attempts to essentially launder its current image and reputation as a belligerent and genocidal regime. Now, let's back up a little bit because Netanyahu had met with American influencers after his UN General Assembly speech. you know that speech where literally dozens of international diplomats walked out because he is um a war criminal. Yeah, that one. And uh after meeting with with them, there were some posts uh from the prime minister of Israel X page saying that the prime minister met uh a a after his UN General Assembly speech with pro-Israel influencers and spoke with them about the challenges in the new era and the public diplomacy efforts and the influence of the social networks on the discourse for and against Israel. And during that meeting, he was on camera and he just openly said, you know, we got to take over uh Tik Tok and we got to have a conversation with Elon Musk uh to do something about X to ensure that pro-Israel propaganda is being dispersed. And um those pictures that he shared actually ended up coming in very handy because soon after that meeting, responsible statecraft had reported that a cohort of American influencers were getting paid $7,000 per pro-Israel post on social media. Now, here's one of the influencers who was in fact present during that meeting with BB. Uh she goes by Sheay. She writes, "This is hilarious. I'm all about America first, but that doesn't mean America alone." Yeah. Are you? I mean, just note that uh her handle is Judan CEO. Really? You're all about America first? Okay. Um now she says that America first doesn't mean America alone but um you know but many feel America would actually do better uh without its ties to a genocidal welfare state like Israel that relies on US taxpayer money uh in order to do pretty much everything. Uh plus Israel needed our bombs uh in order to carry out strikes in Iran. And in her post, she makes it seem as though Israel is protecting the United States by fighting off Iran. Just not true. And some are smart enough to see what's going on here. I want to give you some of the responses to her post, by the way. Very pretty girl. I'm not going to deny that. Uh, however, there she is with uh Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There she is uh with evidence that she was in that meeting with BB. One of my favorite uh things that's now pretty common on social media in response to posts like this is that people are making reference to the amount of money these influencers are getting paid per pro-Israel post on social media. I'll give you a taste of just two of them. Here's one showing Netanyahu as a game show host giving $7,000. Another person posted plus $7,000. $7,000 has been deposited into your account. And there are more examples which I'll give you in just a minute. But Jenk, uh, what do you think about this, you know, honeypot propaganda scheme? Do you think it's going to win over the hearts and minds of Americans who have soured on the Israeli government? All right, there's three things here. Uh, two of them are one is serious, one is hopeful, one is, uh, light. So, let's get started. First of all, uh, this could be basically characterized as tatas for Israel. Um, okay. And I guess Netanyahu wants Israel and America to be bosom buddies. Okay. Don't be a boob, Jen. Don't be a boob. We should get Colonel Tata back on here to discuss it. Anyways, um I I mean that's guys, you got to realize how funny that is. Again, this is not a left or right one at all, right? Israel's basically going like this to you, thinking, "Oh, dumb American men. Here, look at Israeli boobs." Okay. So, now give us Okay. Like, here, uh, I gave that chick $7,000. Now you give me $13 billion. Mhm. Don't let them rob you. Okay. And so, so it's But Anna, that leads to the hopeful part, which is in the old days, nobody would have caught this. I've seen them run things like this, not exactly this at all, but different propaganda campaigns like hundreds of times and no one ever, of course, mainstream media works for them, so that they're useless. We'll come back to them in a second. But in the old days, there was nobody to catch them. Now, I don't even know if it's right-wingers or leftwingers who are doing these videos, right? But they're getting caught all over the place. They're like, "Oh, yeah, that's another 7,000 uh the 7,000 club. I made that up." Okay. Anyway, so and they're all getting called out and I love it. I love it when the internet catches people. Everybody's getting caught. That's a huge phenomenon. Which leads us to the last point, which is a serious one. So BB in that uh gathering with influencers, we've shown it to you a couple times, says, "Okay, we're going to buy Tik Tok. We're going to get allies. We're going to influence Elon Musk to be pro-Israel on X and we're going to control the media and you're all getting paid." I mean, he's kind of like literally like a stripper, right? Because he's like, "All right, here's the money." like right and so I don't know if they threw in a lap dance while they were at it. Uh and so um and then you go oh it looks like Israel is obviously influencing American media and mainstream media goes anti-semite. Oh come on guys. Come on. You can't complain about a trope if you're doing the trope and you're announcing it to the world publicly. Right. We are trying to control American media. You said it. I didn't say it. So So true. So true. But but look, that was just a little taste. Okay, we've got some more honeypot action going on. Let's talk about something that drives every business owner absolutely crazy. Trying to hire the right people. It's like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. You post a job and get flooded with résumés, but most of them don't have the right skills or experience. It's a huge hassle, honestly. But not with Zip Recruiter. Zip Recruiter finds amazing candidates for you, and they do it fast. And now you can try it for free at ziprecruiter.com/tyt. Now here's why it works. The moment you post your job, their smart matching technology gets to work. It's not just sitting there waiting for people to find it and apply. 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So recently, one of these uh propagandists tried to lie about the 44 boats that made up the Simud Flotilla that tried to get humanitarian aid to the Palestinian uh civilians in Gaza. And luckily, in her attempt to lie about the humanitarians and what they were really up to, um she was just so bad at it that it was easy to debunk her. And I want you to get a sense of just how lazy she was. Take a look. So, this Zionist lady recently tried to expose the Gaza Freedom flotilla by claiming that the boats didn't actually have any aid on them. Hi everyone, it is Lizzie Sevki. I'm reporting to you live from Greta's flotilla where 44 boats were intercepted yesterday, allegedly bringing aid to Gaza. Let's go inside. I'll give you a tour. Margarita machine and some empty bottles. Yeah, hold on, lady. Let's take a closer look at those empty bottles. The labels on these products are written in Hebrew, which means they come from Israel. So, you're telling me that Greta Thunderberg brought Israeli products from Sweden, or did you just plant them here so you could push your dumbass narrative? $7,000 has been deposited in your account. She also claims that there was paraphernalia and needles on the boat, but I guess they were too lazy to actually plant any because she never shows it. Like, oh, what? Okay, so the are the humanitarians doing heroin on the boat? It's just so ridiculous. It really is. And of course, she was also pictured with Netanyahu after his uh UN General Assembly speech. Let's take a look. There she is right there in the middle. You'll also notice that Emily Austin is in the picture. She's another one of these uh Israeli propagandists. She's usually on Pierce Morgan's show getting her ass handed to her. And on October 17th, she'll be on her take. Really looking forward to having her on the show. Um, and so by the way, she's also the one who put out this banger again. This is Emily Austin. Take a look. Imagine supporting people who start wars just to lose the wars so they can cry about it and then try it all again. You must see anti-semites are literally obsessed with Jews. Now walk with me. While you must see anti-semmites are stacking eviction notices, Jews are out here stacking up businesses. Jews control all the industries. Maybe if you spent more time taking notes from successful people, you wouldn't have to spend your nights and weekends spreading hate from your anonymous account with an anime profile picture. Do you work as hard as Jews? Do you network like Jews? No, because you're too busy cheering on a group of musty terrorists who smell like dirty earring backs. And if we're going to keep it real, you're really mad because your income is giving side hustle. Period. How you going to hate from outside Shabbat? You can't even get in. That video is supposed to make people like Israel. Like, who was that for? That was so bad. And Jen, there's at least one person, one influencer who at least had a little bit of self-awareness to understand I probably am not going to look good if I'm in this photo of other US influencers who are getting bought off by the nation state of Israel. Let's take a quick look at that gentleman. Here he is trying to hide behind hide behind someone. It's so good. It's so good. But don't worry, he's going to be wearing short shorts in his next video. And he's like, "Oh, look at this ladies for come and get it for Israel." And when Emily Austin's getting her ass handed to her on Piers Morgan, she'll be like, "Hey everybody, look at it though. Look at it for Israel. For Israel, my ass." That video you just showed was so weird. So it does two things. It was so embarrassing. Yeah, it was so cringey. I can't believe they thought that was a good idea. But please, by all means, more more do more of that real well for Israel. No, but there is one huge problem. As always, they're conflating the terrible actions of the Israeli current Israeli government with all Jews. Don't do that. That's what drives anti-semitism, right? So, they're trying they're almost trying to egg on anti-semitism so they can complain about it so that they can keep murdering Palestinians and then go, "Yeah, anyone who complains is an anti-semite." I mean, what was that? That that whole thing of like, haha, the Jews are the best. We run all the industries. You better get a lawyer for us. What was that? How How's that help you? That's like maniacal. If Candace Owens put that out, everybody be like, "Oh my god, it's the most anti-semitic thing we've ever seen." So, it's these guys are nuts, man. And yet, I I I'll never get over it. as we all the entire world has woken up the the entire country left right everyone has woken up to what's Israel is doing and it's so obvious because they're literally shoving it in your face their breast their ass everything right their money all of it right the politicians in the media in America 98% of the powerful people in this country are like what I don't see it what's that oh you must be an anti-semite if you say Israel is doing propaganda online or in the media All right. You guys want to ruin your whole lives, your careers, everything just so you can kiss the ass that Israel is offering up. That's an embarrassing way to go through life. But hey, you do you,
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON
STATE OF OREGON; the CITY OF PORTLAND; and STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiffs, v. DONALD TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States; PETE HEGSETH, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security; and U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, Defendants.
Case No. 3:25-cv-1756-IM
SECOND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
[Judge] Mr. Hamilton, let me ask you, how could bringing in federalized National Guard in California not be in direct contravention of the restraining order I issued yesterday?
[Hamilton] The restraining order issued yesterday, paragraph one of it, enjoined implementation of Secretary Hegseth's order to the Oregon National Guard.
[Judge] Mr. Hamilton, you are an officer of the court. Aren't defendants simply circumventing my order which relies on the conditions in Portland? Nothing has changed. There's nothing in my order that has changed.
[Hamilton] No, your honor.
[Judge] So why why is this appropriate?
[Hamilton] Well, the reason is that the California National Guard were federalized under a different presidential memorandum.
[Judge] Mr. Hamilton, you are missing the point, because here it's the conditions on the ground in Oregon that was the basis, that were the basis for my finding that there was not a legal basis to bring federalized National Guard into Oregon. Is there any legal authority for federalizing National Guard for one purpose that is to help California and then to divert them to another purpose in a different state where there's no showing that that is military help that is necessary to assist law enforcement, or to protect law enforcement. or the one federal building here for ICE? Is there any legal authority for what you are doing?
[Hamilton] Well, this section of the US code, section 12406, has not been utilized any time in history. So, there are not many previous precedents from the use of this authority. But --
[Judge] Tell me, why do you think it has not been utilized?
[Hamilton] I can't I I can't speak to that.
[Judge] Mr. Hamilton. So again, if it were the case that you could federalize National Guard in one place, and simply send them to a place where the president doesn't have authority to federalize the National Guard, then what would the purpose of this section of the US code be? You have to have a colorable claim that Oregon conditions require it, but you don't. We have already gone over that. So why is this appropriate?
[Hamilton] Well, again, no additional California Guardsmen were federalized. They were instead relocated from California to the state of Oregon.
[Judge] So are they federalized or are they not?
[Hamilton] They are federalized, but new guardsmen were not federalized. 200 already federalized California Guardsmen were relocated to the state of Oregon.
[Judge] Let me ask you, Mr. Hamilton. You're an officer of the court. Do you believe that this is an appropriate way to deal with my order, or an order that a judge issues, that you disagree with, or is the appropriate mechanism to appeal?
[Hamilton] Well, I I'm not a policy maker, but --
[Judge] You're a lawyer.
Based on this Court’s prior Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs’ First Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 56; the hearing on Plaintiffs’ Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; and the newly submitted declarations, ECF 60, 63, 65, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 59, and ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendants are temporarily enjoined from deploying federalized members of the National Guard in Oregon.
2. This Second Temporary Restraining Order expires by its own terms in fourteen days on October 19, 2025.
3. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to post a nominal bond of $100 within 48 hours. The bond shall be filed in the Clerk’s Office and be deposited into the registry of the Court.
4. Defendants’ Request to Stay or Administratively Stay this Second Temporary Restraining Order, which was raised in the hearing on Plaintiffs’ Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, is DENIED.
5. The Court Clerk will contact the parties to schedule a telephone hearing on October 17, 2025, to address whether this Second Temporary Restraining Order should be extended for another 14 days.
6. Any motion for a Preliminary Injunction shall be filed no later than October 17, 2025; Defendants’ opposition shall be due no later than October 23, 2025, and Plaintiffs’ reply shall be due on October 27, 2025.
7. A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion and a trial on the merits under Rule 65(a)(2) is set for October 29, 2025, before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 5th day of October. /s/ Karin J. Immergut Karin J. Immergut United States District Judge
Urgent Message from Recent DOJ Alumni Decrying Attacks on Justice Department
October 6, 2025
We are 282 former career employees who proudly served our country at the Department of Justice. From prosecutors, special agents, and intelligence analysts to immigration judges, grant managers, civil rights attorneys and more, we all carried out our duties faithfully, regardless of who occupied the White House. Until we no longer could.
Each of us left the Department, either voluntarily or involuntarily, because of actions taken by this administration.
Our fidelity to the Constitution and our dedication to our country did not end when our jobs did. Now that we’ve left the Department, we believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DOJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it.
It is incumbent on all of us to fight for the Justice Department before it’s too late.
DOJ’s mission is to “to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights.” It’s failing on all three fronts:
● The Justice Department cannot uphold the rule of law when it carries out the President’s retribution campaign and protects his allies; violates court orders and evades due process requirements; directs attorneys to violate their ethical responsibilities; and fires its employees without notice or cause in violation of civil service laws.
● It also cannot keep our country safe when it ousts FBI employees, prosecutors, national security experts, and ATF officials; shutters offices that prevent community violence and dismantle drug trafficking operations; purges the attorneys who enforce laws that protect the environment; and shifts highly trained special agents away from counterintelligence and counterterrorism.
● And it cannot protect civil rights when it drives out 75% of attorneys from the Civil Rights Division and refuses to enforce the nation’s civil rights laws as Congress intended, using them instead as a cudgel against marginalized groups.
The administration is taking a sledgehammer to other longstanding work the Department has done to protect communities and the rule of law, too. Its plans to eliminate the Tax Division, which saves the country billions of dollars by pursuing tax evaders, will leave us poorer. Gutting the Public Integrity Section and FBI public corruption squads has paved the way for government graft. Cancelling hundreds of millions of dollars in grants has left at-risk communities less protected and crime victims less supported. The list could go on.
As for its treatment of its employees, the current leadership’s behavior has been appalling. This administration’s lies about the “deep state” and exaggerations about government inefficiency have eroded the respect our country once held for public servants. And demonizing, firing, demoting, involuntarily transferring, and directing employees to violate their ethical duties has already caused an exodus of over 5,000 of us – draining the Department of priceless institutional knowledge and expertise, and impairing its historical success in recruiting top talent. We may feel the effects of this for generations.
The Justice Department’s backbone has always been its career workforce, and those who were part of it are best positioned to explain why the current leaders’ actions are catastrophic for the nation.
We call on these leaders to reverse course – to remember the oath we all took to uphold the Constitution – and adhere to the legal guardrails and institutional norms on which our justice system relies.
We call on our fellow alumni to join us in sounding the alarm, and in mobilizing to support our colleagues still there. They deserve respect and gratitude, neither of which they’re getting from this administration.
We call on Congress to exercise its oversight responsibilities far more vigorously. Members in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle must provide a meaningful check on the abuses we’re witnessing.
And we call on all Americans – whose safety, prosperity, and rights depend on a strong DOJ – to speak out against its destruction.
Our democracy is only as strong as the rule of law, and the rule of law can’t survive without the principal institution that enforces it.
JANUARY 2025 DEPARTURES
Jill Anderson, General Counsel, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2006–2025 Leonard Bailey, Special Counsel for National Security, Criminal Division, Retired, DOJ 1991–2025 Brendan Ballou, Special Counsel, Antitrust Division, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2017, 2020–2025 Jay Bratt, Chief, National Security Division, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, Retired, DOJ 1990–2025 Kar Dobinski, Attorney-Adviser, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Retired, DOJ 1985–2025 Jill Anderson, General Counsel, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2006–2025 Leonard Bailey, Special Counsel for National Security, Criminal Division, Retired, DOJ 1991–2025 Mindy Longanecker Deranek, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Deanna McDaniel, Program Analyst, ATF, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Sheila McNulty, Chief Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 1991–2025 Kristina Rose, Director, Office for Victims of Crime, Retired, DOJ 1998–2017, 2021–2025 Cheryl Rost, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Mathew Schutzer, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Kate Talmor, Senior Counsel, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Stacey Young, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Immigrant & Employee Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2006–2025 Aaron Zelinsky, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025
FEBRUARY 2025 DEPARTURES
Anna Baldwin, Senior Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025 Kerrie S. Crockett, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2024–2025 Ryan Crosswell, Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025 Kerry E Doyle, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2024–2025 Riane Harper, Senior Counsel, Criminal Division, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Pamela J. Hicks, Chief Counsel, ATF, Terminated, DOJ 2003–2025 Thomas A. Mariani, Jr., Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired rather than accept involuntary reassignment to Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, DOJ 1986–2025 David McConnell, Director, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, General Litigation and Appeals Section, Retired rather than accept involuntary reassignment to Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, DOJ 1990–2025 Neeta Pal, Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Noelle Sharp, Assistant Chief Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2021–2025 Natalie Teague, Policy Analyst, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
MARCH 2025 DEPARTURES
Michelle Avery Weston, Grants Management Specialist, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 1997–2003, 2024–2025 Katie Chamblee-Ryan, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Adam W. Cohen, Director, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), Terminated, DOJ 1998–2023, 2025–2025 Christine Coogle, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Joseph S. Gerbasi, Acting Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, Retired, DOJ 1997–2025 Alex Halaska, Senior Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Alex Kristofcak, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Resigned after being placed on administrative leave, DOJ 2022–2025 Holly Lincoln, Director, Fair Housing Testing Programme, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section , Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025 Anthony W. Mariano, Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, Washington Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Lauren Matosziuk, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Martin McDermott, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 1990–2025 Nick Morales, Senior Counsel, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Sean P. Murphy, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Puerto Rico, Appellate Division, Resigned, DOJ 2018–2025 Ellen Noble, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Liz Oyer, Pardon Attorney, Office of the Pardon Attorney, Terminated, DOJ 2022–2025 Bonnie I. Robin-Vergeer, Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Involuntarily reassigned to the Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, then resigned, DOJ 2011–2025 Mike Romano, Deputy Chief, Capitol Siege Section, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, Resigned, DOJ 2007–2025 Amy Romero, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2026 Alex St. Romain, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Vivian Wang, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Taryn Wilgus Null, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
APRIL 2025 DEPARTURES
Hannah Abelow, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Julianna Astarita, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Bobbi Bernstein, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Retired, DOJ 1990–1992; 1996–2026 Nancy Canter, Senior Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2018, 2020–2025 Peter Carr, Senior Communications Advisor, Office of Public Affairs, Terminated, DOJ 2007–2020, 2023–2025 Astrid Cevallos, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Candice L. Cook, Chief Diversity Officer, Justice Management Division, RIFed, DOJ 2022–2025 Jared Crum, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Tribal Resources Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Joseph Darrow, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Ekta Dharia, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Devon Flanagan, Senior Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Rachel Heron, Assistant Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Patricia Hurst, Senior Counsel, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 1998–2025 Deserea Jackson, Management & Program Analyst, Justice Management Division, Human Resources, RIFed, DOJ 2008–2025 Adam Kinkley, Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, Healthcare and Consumer Products Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Matthew Leach, Paralegal Specialist, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Joseph Manning, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Law and Policy Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Brian McEntire, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Retired, DOJ 2002–2025 Sharanya Mohan, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Angela Munro, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2008–2025 Lisa Newman, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025 Lisa Olson, Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Retired, DOJ 1987–2025 Elizabeth Parr Hecker, Acting Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025 Lauren Reeves, Program Analyst, National Security Division, Foreign Investment Review Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Sarah Ruckriegle, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Sheila Ruffin, Attorney Advisor, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Office of Environmental Justice, RIFed, DOJ 2023–2025 Amy Senier, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 David Steib, Senior Counsel, Office for Access to Justice, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Samantha Trepel, Special Litigation Counsel, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2002–2004, 2009–2025 Leah M. Wolfe, Senior Litigation Counsel, E-Discovery, Civil Division, Resigned, DOJ 2007–2025
MAY 2025 DEPARTURES
Ejaz H. Baluch, Jr., Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Laura-Kate Bernstein, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025 Alan Burch, Civil Defensive Litigation Coordinator, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Retired, DOJ 2003–2015, 2019–2025 Sarah Cade, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2018, 2021–2025 Scott M. Cernich, Senior Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2006–2025 Joanna Citron Day, Senior Counsel, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 2017–2025 Matthew Drecun, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Matthew Faiella, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Laura Fentonmiller, Acting Chief Counsel, Civil Rights Division, Office of Chief Counsel, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025 Danica Glaser, Senior Counsel, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025 Emily B. Goldberg, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Hayley Hahn, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Matthew Harding, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025 Alisha Jarwala, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 April Jean Crook Sultzer, Paralegal, Civil Rights Division, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Carol Koehler Ide, Assistant Chief and Acting Director of Training and Professional Development, Tax Division, Civil Trial Section (Southern Region), Retired, DOJ 1985–2025 Katherine Lamm, Acting Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025 Elisabeth Layton, Attorney, Civil Division, Office of Foreign Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2002–2019, 2025 Courtney E. Moran, Senior Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2014, 2018–2025 Eric Peffley, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2016, 2017–2025 Robert Rich, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Dheitshaa Roma Bala, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Gregory Rosen, Chief, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Capitol Siege Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Erin Ryan, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Elizabeth Ryan, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025 Shan Shah, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025 Nathan Shulock, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Rachel Slywczak, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Adam Small, Trial Attorney, National Security Division, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, Resigned, DOJ 2011–2025 Steven B. Snyder, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Retired, DOJ 1991–2025 Jennifer M. Swedish, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025 Galen Thorp, Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025 Haley Van Erem, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
JUNE 2025 DEPARTURES
Mark Barcus, Assistant Chief Immigration Judge for attaining and Management , Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2017–2025 Ahmed Baset, Acting Deputy Director of Criminal Litigation, Antitrust Division, Terminated, DOJ 2014–2025 Cassie Crawford, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina, Resigned, DOJ 2018–2025 Michael Feinberg, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, FBI Norfolk Field Office, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025 Dan Freeman, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025 Heather Gange, Senior Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 2004–2025 Mike Gordon, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida, Terminated, DOJ 2017–2025 Rebecca Guterman, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Eric Hostetler, Acting Assistant Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 1996–2025 Emily Keller, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Andrew S. Mainardi, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Erin Monju, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Angeline Purdy, Assistant Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 2001–2025 Marnie Shiels, Attorney Advisor, Office on Violence Against Women, Retired, DOJ 2001–2025 Elizabeth Young, Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Resigned, DOJ 2004–2007, 2016–2025
JULY 2025 DEPARTURES
Ila C. Deiss, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2005–2025 Karen Y. Drolet, Supervisory Financial Manager, Justice Management Division, Terminated, DOJ 2009–2017, 2021–2025 Phillip R. Dupre, Senior Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025 Jennifer Durkin, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Carla I. Espinoza, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Kathryn Fifield, Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Patricia Hartman, Supervisory Public Affairs Specialist, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Terminated, DOJ 2007–2025 Sejal Jhaveri, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Kyra S. Lilien, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Susan Masling, Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, Retired, DOJ 1990–2025 Patricia McKenna, Deputy Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 1999–2025 George D. Pappas, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Kimberly Paschall, Senior Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Irma Perez, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, West Los Angeles, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Jennifer Peyton, Assistant Chief Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2016–2025 Kyle Stock, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025 Allan Townsend, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2018, 2021–2025 Hillary K. Valderrama, Deputy Director, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Civil Rights, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Johanna Valenzuela, Deputy Civil Chief, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
AUGUST 2025 DEPARTURES
Elizabeth Baxter, Paralegal Specialist, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Terminated, DOJ 1987–2025 Stephanie Berger, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Kacie Candela, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Terminated, DOJ 2022–2025 Corrina Carter, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Janet Chiancone, Deputy Administrator, Office of Justice Programs, Retired, DOJ 1998–2025 Jennifer Chou, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025 Chloe Dillon, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2022–2025 Andrew Doyle, Senior Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 1998–2025 Cynthia Ferguson, Director of the Office of Environmental Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Retired, DOJ 2000–2025 Yuri Fuchs, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025 Fara Gold, Attorney Advisor, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025 Hannah Horsley, Chief, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, National Security and Economic Crimes Unit, Retired, DOJ 1997–2025 Lori Jonas, Counsel to the Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 1994–2025 Robert Juman, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, Retired, DOJ 2016–2025 Barbara Kay Bosserman, Deputy Chief and Senior Legal Counsel, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Retired, DOJ 2000–2025 Alexis Kloiber, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Immigrant & Employee Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Max Lapertosa, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025 Faiza Majeed, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, , DOJ 2023–2025 Carmen Maria Rey Caldas, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2022–2025 Jordan Mathews, Program Analyst for Training and Program Development, Community Relations Service, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Jeremy Monteiro, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Amy Powell, Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2005–2025 Cherie Rogers, Assistant Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 1995–2025 LeighAnn M. Rosenberg, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Pearlie Rowan, Legal Support Assistant, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Law and Policy Section, Retired, DOJ 2025 Barbara Schwabauer, Appellate Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025 Sam Stratton, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Kate Thompson, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Lindsay M. Vick, Senior Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2013–2025
SEPTEMBER 2025 DEPARTURES
Elizabeth Anne Saxe, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Mary Atlas-Terry, Grant Management Specialist, Office for Victims of Crime, Retired, DOJ 2005–2025 Lindsay Bailey, Assistant U.S. Attorney, US Attorney’s Office for Central District of California, Criminal Division, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Delia Berka, Paralegal Specialist, Civil RIghts Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Robyn K. Bitner, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Aurora Bryant, Senior Counsel for eLitigation, Civil Rights Division, Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Meredith Burrell, Principal Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Retired, DOJ 1999–2025 Tovah R. Calderon, Principal Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Involuntarily reassigned to Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, then resigned, DOJ 2001–2025 Michael Campion, Chief, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2007–2025 Melissa Carrington, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2015 Lauren E. Case, Attorney Advisor, Office of the Pardon Attorney, Retired, DOJ 2022–2025 Jorge M Castillo, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Florence Chamberlin, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Alec Chapa, Conciliation Specialist, Community Relations Service, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Claire Chevrier, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Young Choi, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Alyssa Connell Lareau, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025 David G. Cooper, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025 Acrivi Coromelas, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Ronda Cress, Attorney Advisor, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Jill Dash, Attorney Adviser, Civil Rights Division, Policy and Strategy Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Joseph DeGaetano, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Resigned, DOJ 2018–2025 Adam Dreher, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Jessica Durney, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Jenna Easton, Grants Management Specialist, Office of Justice Programs, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Alison Elaine Daw, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Sacramento Immigration Court, Terminated, DOJ 1999–2005, 2006–2019, 2023–2025 Ruth Enriquez, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Rachel Evans, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Philip Fields, Intelligence Analyst, FBI, Los Angeles Field Office, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025 Jill K. Fields, Supervisory Intelligence Analyst, FBI, Los Angeles Field Office, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Maggie Filler, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Clay Fong, Conciliation Specialist, Community Relations Service, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Sheila Foran, Special Legal Counsel, Civil Rights Division, Policy and Strategy Section, Retired, DOJ 1992–1999, 2011–2025 Sydney Foster, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2018, 2021–2025 Erika Fountain, Program Manager, Office of Justice Programs, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Nancy Glass, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Judy Gough, Legislative and Policy Assistant, Civil Rights Division, Policy and Strategy Section, Retired, DOJ 2006–2025 Julia Graff, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Jenna Grambort, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Tamara Hoflejzer, Trial attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Amelia Huckins, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025 Carolyn A. Ikari, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, Civil Division, Retired, DOJ 1995–2025 Alicia Johnson, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Retired, DOJ 1997–2004, 2009–2025 Melody Joy Fields, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Om Kakani, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio, Resigned, DOJ 2013–2025 Teresa Kaltenbacher, Regional Public Information Officer, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Resigned, DOJ 2018–2025 Elizabeth Kohler Maya, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Coreen Kopper, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Nicole Kovite Zeitler, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Beth Kurtz, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025 Teresa Kwong, Senior Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Retired, DOJ 2000–2025 Thomas Landers, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Jillian Lenson, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Joy Levin Welan, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2017, 2019–2025 Shira Levine, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2021–2025 Kerry Lupher, Grants Management Specialist, Office for Victims of Crime, Retired, DOJ 2020–2025 Amanda Maisels, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Retired, DOJ 2021–2025 Megan Marks, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Allena Martin, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Jennifer Mayer, Attorney Advisor, Office of the Pardon Attorney, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Kara McDonagh, Deputy Director, Office for Victims of Crime, Tribal Division, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025 Melissa McKinnon, Supervisory Paralegal Specialist, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Erin Meehan Richmond, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 2001–2025 Valerie Meyer, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025 Sondra Miller-Wein, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Jenny Mills, Grants Management Specialist, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Kevin Muench, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025 Qudsiya Naqui, Senior Counsel, Office for Access to Justice, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Maria E. Navarro, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Retired, DOJ 2017–2025 Zachary Newkirk, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Matthew Nickell, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025 Sara Niles, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 2001–2025 Dana Paikowsky, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Ana Partida, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Retired, DOJ 2002, 2016–2025 Beth Pepper, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025 Jessica Polansky, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025 Lisa Porcari, Supervisory Attorney Advisor, Office of the Pardon Attorney, Retired, DOJ 2022–2025, 2017–2022 Kelsey Pormasdoro, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025 Alison Prout, Chief of Training, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Lauren Putnam, Equal Opportunity Investigator, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Julia Quinn, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Anam Rahman Petit, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025 Nikhil Ramnaney, Chief of Criminal Policy, Office for Access to Justice, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Kit Rees, Investigator, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025 Dena Robinson, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025 Jeffrey Sandberg, Attorney, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Resigned, DOJ 2011–2025 Jennifer A. Serafyn, Chief, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Civil Rights Unit, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025 Katelin Shugart-Schmidt, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Nabina Sinha, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025 Kate Smith, Supervisory Investigator, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2007–2009, 2015–2025 Maggie Smith, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2014, 2023–2025 Nancy Spodick Healey, Deputy Chief for Litigation, Criminal Division, Child Exploitation & Obscenity Section, Retired, DOJ 1995–2025 Kayla Staph, Special Agent, FBI, Norfolk Field Office, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025 Patricia L. Stasco, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025 Kristin Stitcher, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025 Joshua Stueve, Senior Communications Advisor , Office of Public Affairs , Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025 Nicole Taykhman, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Laura Tayloe, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Andrew Tessman, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Helen Vera, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025 Sophie Vick, Investigator, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Maya Vizvary, Strategic Communications Specialist, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Davené Walker, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2015–2025 Lindsey Weinstock, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025 Elizabeth S. Westfall, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025 Sarah Wilson, Assistant Director, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2011–2025 Kathleen P. Wolfe, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Involuntarily reassigned to Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, then resigned, DOJ 2003–2025 Marisela Zubia, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Sections, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
OCTOBER 2025 DEPARTURES
Trevor Kempner, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025 Jean Zachariasiewicz, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Trump Has NOTHING to Do with Epstein Bday Letter, Pam Bondi Grilled & Federal Workers Go Without Pay Jimmy Kimmel Live Oct 7, 2025 #Kimmel
Costco is now offering Ozempic and Wegovy for half price, hundreds of thousands of federal employees are working without pay including air traffic controllers, the tower at Burbank Airport went unstaffed for six hours yesterday, Mike Johnson said Republicans are praying it’ll be a “very short shutdown,” Trump was asked whether furloughed employees would get retro-active compensation, Marjorie Taylor Greene gave a shocking statement about health insurance, Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House and gave him his vision of what America would have been like under President Harris, the Senate Judiciary Committee was at work today hearing testimony from Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, she refused to deny that border Czar Tom Homan was seen accepting $50k in cash, she dodged a question regarding whether the FBI found photos of Trump and Epstein with topless women, and since Donald Trump claims to have nothing to do with the now infamous Epstein birthday letter, we decided to do a bit of research to see if everything adds up.
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Hi everyone, I'm Jimmy. I am hosting. Thank you for joining us here. Hold on one second. I appreciate that. But I I could be wrong. I'm pretty sure that this guy was chanting Jerry. Yes. Yeah, you know, you just you get up and then you just go down. Yeah. You know, with all the bad stuff happening, it is nice to hear some good news for a change. And oh, here it is. Costco is now offering OMIC and WGOI for half price. One month supply of those drugs is now only $500. You don't even need a prescription. All you have to do is order three hot dogs at the food court. They'll automatically give it to you. Selling Ompic at Costco is kind of like having an AA meeting at Cabo Wabo, isn't it? But that's something, right? Maybe we should let Costco run this country. President Costco would definitely get my vote. We are on day seven now of the Trump government shutdown. There's been no progress of any kind. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are working without pay, including air traffic controllers, which is insane. Why they don't have a special category for the people who keep the planes from crashing, I don't know. But this was the scene yesterday just over the hill from us in beautiful downtown Burbank. We just spoke to air traffic controllers here at Burbank Airport in the last few minutes and they can now confirm that they will be heading home at 4:15 this afternoon. As of 4:15 this afternoon, there will be no air traffic controllers inside of that tower right there. That's bad, right? Try to land at 4:14 if you can. What are the pilots supposed to do when they're in no air? Just aim for the chilies to go. It's the tower in Burbank went unstaffed for 6 hours yesterday. They had to manage the flights out of San Diego. And listen to this audio of a pilot from I I think United Airlines tower. This is United 2304 requesting permission to land. Thank you for calling the Burbank Airport Control Tower. Please listen closely as some of our menu options have changed. For takeoff, press one. For landing, press two. For all other inquiries, stay on the line. An operator is not standing by. That's great. Soon when we fly, we will soon have the same number of air traffic controllers the Wright brothers had. Trump really is making America great again. Flights out of Burbank were delayed an average of two and a half hours yesterday. Air traffic controllers are considered to be considered to be essential workers, which means they are required to work even if they aren't getting paid. Meanwhile, Congress, the people who actually shut the government down are getting paid in full. Don't even try to make sense of it. The logic doesn't fly. And I would recommend that you don't either, at least for quite a while. Our squeaker of the house, Mike Johnson, he said Republicans are praying it'll be a very short shutdown, which is good. That'll help prayer. Trump was asked today whether furled employees would get retroactive compensation once the shutdown's over, which is required by law, but you know, the law can be a very ambiguous thing. Is it the White House's position that furled workers should be paid for their back pay? Uh, I would say it depends on who we're talking about. I can tell you this, the Democrats have put a lot of people in great risk and jeopardy, but it really depends on who you're talking about. But for the most part, we're going to take care of our people. There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of, and we'll take care of them in a different way. Why Why does he always sound like the dumbest member of the crime family? You remember in Good Fellas, uh, Frankie after the airline heist, he immediately bought his wife a fur coat. Frankie is our president now. Delvito Corleó. The reason the Democrats refuse to sign this budget agreement is because it will cause millions of Americans to lose their healthcare. Republicans deny this. They say it won't hurt anyone at all. And if you had any doubt that they were lying before, consider this shocking post from the gentle woman from Georgia who wrote, "I'm not a fan of Obamacare, but I'm going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year, my own adult children's insurance premiums for 2026 are going to double along with all the wonderful families and hardworking people in my district." No, I'm not towing the party line on this or playing loyalty games. And I know this sounds crazy, but I will say it for the second time in a month. Marjorie Taylor Green is right. I know. I need something to wash out my mouth. Oh, she's right. Trump met at the White House today with the prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney. This poor guy. You know, Trump slapped a 35% tariff on Canada after claiming Canada is a significant source of migrants and fentinel entering the United States. And now, in order to get relief from that tariff, Carney has to promise he'll cut off the flow of drugs coming over the Canadian border, which shouldn't be difficult because of all the fentinel seized at the US border last year, 0.2% of it came from Canada. So basically what Cardi has to do is like convincing uh your toddler you got rid of the monster under his bed. He's gone now. These poor Canadians, it is like living on top of a meth lab. We want safe cities. If you look at DC, you would right now, Mark, you could go out, take your family out to dinner, you could walk right down the middle of the street. There is no crime in DC. Uh when I got here, this place was a raging hell hole. And now it's a raging heaven hole. Thank you, dear leader. And then raging bull crap treated the prime minister to his vision of what America would have been like under a president Harris. If we didn't win this election, if we had these people that were running, that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place. I'm sorry. I I'm not sure I I heard that correctly. What was that last item? Windmills all over the place. There would be windmills all over the place. They would have turned the whole country into a little Dutch village. I mean, he must have gotten his hair tangled in a windmill at a mini golf course or something. It's every day he says something that would rank right at the top of the most ridiculous things any president has ever said. And the people who work for him, they can't get enough of it. What a difference the presidency makes, Jesse. Right. I mean, we are now totally over that destructive, stupid era of toxic masculinity. And now we're in an era of real masculinity thanks to the bold muscular leadership of President Trump and our Secretary of War Pete Hed. It sounded better in the original North Korean, but you get the idea. He's got bold and muscular leadership. Old muscular. That's right. The swollen steroid blasted areolas of Donald Trump. The Senate Judiciary Committee was at work today hearing testimony from Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi refused to deny that Borders are Tom H. Home. Homeman was seen accepting $50,000 in cash in a paper bag at a Cava restaurant. He hasn't even denied this yet. How crazy is it? $50,000 in a bag. The FBI got it on tape. He's still running the border. He's still in charge of rounding up illegals. Hey Tom, if you're looking for illegals, we found one living in your house. It's there were a lot of questions about the Epstein files. There were no answers about the Epstein files. Bondi answered none of them. You know, the author, Michael Wolf, who has interviewed Trump repeatedly, says he's seen about a dozen photographs of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein with topless women. Trump's BF Jeff kept them in his safe and showed them to this guy. This morning, uh, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon White House asked Bondi if the FBI found those photos. There's been public reporting that Jeffrey Epstein showed people photos of President Trump with half naked young women. Do you know if the FBI found those photographs? You know, Senator White House, you sit here and make salacious remarks once again trying to slander President Trump left and right. Didn't hear the word no there. Did you? Did you hear it, GMO? No. No, I didn't hear it either. Well, maybe it'll help if Senator White House repeats the question. The question is, did the FBI find those photographs that have been discussed publicly by a witness who claimed Jeffrey Epstein showed them to him? You don't know anything about that? Okay. Did you eat the Polaroids yourself? Attorney General, please. And then Senator Dick Durban of Illinois jumped in. Attorney General Bondi, why did you publicly claim to have the Epstein CL client list waiting for your review and then produce nothing relevant to that claim? Senator Der Senator Dervin, if you listen to my entire clip on that, I said I had not reviewed it yet, that it was sitting on my desk along with the JFK files, the Martin Luther King files, and I said I had not yet reviewed it. Right. Other things to do. Do you want Bigfoot making your kid trans? No, let me do my job. One thing we know for sure is that Donald Trump doesn't want us to see these files, which to me is all you need to know. I mean, you walk in on your teenager, he suddenly pulls up the covers and slams his laptop shut. I think you have a pretty good idea of why you don't need to look at his browser history. But for whatever reason, we are still waiting for those files. One thing Pam Bondi did not get asked about is the now infamous Epstein birthday letter that was released last month by the House Oversight Committee. Trump is suing the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion over this letter, which our doodler and chief denies he had anything to do with. Did you sign the WFC birthday letter? It's not my signature and it's not the way I speak. And anybody that's covered me for a long time know that's not my language. It's nonsense. It's an interesting statement. It's not the way I speak. And anybody that's covered me for a long time knows that's not my language. Now, we've been covering Donald Trump for what feels like a very, very long time. And in the interest of fairness, we decided to do a bit of research to see maybe he's right. Does he use the words and phrases that are used in that letter? That's not for me to say. It's for you to decide for yourself. Voice over. There must be more to life than having everything. Look what I have. I have everything. I have everything. We have everything. Donald, yes, there is. But I won't tell you what it is. Oh, yes, there is. And I won't tell you what it is. Yes, there is. I won't tell you what it is. I won't tell you who it was. But, Jeffrey, nor will I since I also know what it is. Nor do I. Nor did I. Nor do I. Nor would I. And I know what it is. I know what it is. I know what it is. Donald, we have certain things in common, Jeffrey. We have a lot of things in common. I think we have a lot of things in common. Certain things certain things things in common. Right, Jeffrey? Jeffrey? Yes, we do. Come to think of it. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Come to think of it. Come to Yes, we do. Donald, enigmas never age. Have you noticed that? Carson's an enigma. An enigma. Have you noticed it? Well, you noticed that, Jeffrey. As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, it was clear the last time I saw The last time I saw him was at Mara Lago. Trump, a pal is a wonderful thing. He's my friend. My pal. He's my pal. Is a wonderful thing. It's a wonderful thing. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful thing. Happy birthday. And may every day be another wonderful secret. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. May your dreams come true. May you all have a truly blessed Hanukkah. Let's talk about a big secret. Big secret. Big secret. Incredible secret. Wonderful. Wonderful secrets. Secrets. Our most precious secret. Jeffrey, wherever you may be, Jeffrey. Thank you. Oh, happy birthday. Well, I you know what? I stand corrected. It definitely wasn't written by him. [Music]
Iran's Deadly Missile SHOCKS Israel, War Inevitable | Mohammad Marandi & Ramzy Baroud Danny Haiphong Oct 8, 2025
Israel just made a stunning admission as Iran tests a deadly new missile that has the Netanyahu regime cowering in fear. Mohammad Marandi weighs in with the threat of Israel-Iran war 2.0 imminent.
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There's been a lot of fear coming out of Israeli media, the Iranian military. They have tested one of their most powerful ballistic missiles. This comes after given these snapback conversations on sanctions, given renewed talks about aggression on Iran that Iran will respond in a deadly manner. And Iranian international conducted this interview with Israel's ambassador to the UN, if that is a oxymoron, Danny Denan. And I think we might find his comments quite interesting about what is actually happening when it comes to uh uh Israel's capabilities. Could some people say Iran could become similar to Lebanon where Israel can can come in and um do military strikes when they see fit? How would you respond to that? Well, I don't think that is the case. I think they the infrastructure that they built in the past was very complicated. So, it's not going to happen very fast. And here you had a general admission that Israel is not considering strikes again. And in large part because it can't become another Lebanon. It can't become another site where Israel just has kind of cart blanch abilities to hit whenever they want. Well, that media outfit is actually funded by the Israeli regime. And during the 12- day war, they were based in Tel Aviv and and Als and and sobbing for the the the colonizers and they are deeply despised among ordinary Iranians. People are no longer afraid. The Iranians when the Israelis carried out this blitzkrieak attack and slaughtered ordinary people. some uh I think I said on your show during the the during that time that quite near to where I live, they just destroyed an apartment block, killing everyone inside so that they could kill one person. Uh I think 20ome kids were killed in that building and then Western media calls it a a an intelligence coup. There's no intelligence coup. I mean, no senior Iranian official or scientist or general hides in Thran. They live in their homes like everyone else. People in their neighborhood know where they live. It's no secret. And uh for them just to knock down an apartment built block, which is of course what they do all the time, the Israelis. They've been doing that in Lebanon during the war. I I was in Lebanon last year when Seah Hassan Nasulah was martyed. They just massacred, you know, people and and Western media would they would frame it as Hezbollah strongholds or Hezbollah targets in order to hide the fact that they were basically targeting ordinary people. They just wanted to destroy Beirut and Balbach and and other cities and slaughter women and children just like they did, as I said, where they killed all the kids in this in this family and the father who were Americans. That's just what they do. But the Iranians are not afraid. As soon as the war started, after the blitz creek and after the murder of all these senior military officials, the Iranians struck back and they struck back hard and they did it day after day and they basically uh controlled the skies over Palestine. The Israelis could do nothing about Iranian missiles. And during the last few days, if we go back and recall what Steve Bannon said, and Steve Bannon is someone who knows what's going on in the United States, he said the real story is that Trump saved Netanyahu during the last three days of the war, three, four days of the war, Netanyahu was begging for a ceasefire, and Trump was sending messages to Iran to please stop. And ultimately, he had to give concessions until Iran finally accepted a halt in the strike. So no one is afraid of the Israeli regime anymore. We saw Iranians go to the streets under missile fire across the country in support of the armed forces. They thought that by killing all these people they could create chaos in the country. But they did the opposite. They brought people under uh one command and steadfast. They made them steadfast and determined to defeat this this genocidal enemy. this enemy that considers everyone subhuman except for themselves. This enemy which has the full support of the west. When they carried out the war against Iran, the Europeans said Israel has the right to defend itself. So they launch a war and they have a right to when they're killing Palest slaughtering Gazin families. They have a right to defend themselves. When they slaughter people in Lebanon, they have a right to defend themselves. when they slaughter ordinary people in Yemen, the 31 journalists, they targeted those journalists. Did you see any outrage in the New York Times or the Washington Post or the or the Guardian or the Independent or those who pretend to be uh alternative or or different from No, they're they're all they're because they're all the same. They're all controlled. It's either controlled opposition or they're, you know, or they're they tow the government line. So, but all of these are carried out to defend themselves. And I think that uh the 12-day war between Iran and Israel was a a defining factor in this war. The biggest the biggest change I mean the number one defeat for the Israeli regime in these two years is its delegitimization in the eyes of the world. The Israeli regime was never legitimate, neither within the 1967 borders or beyond the 1967 borders. In fact, um Desmond Tutu, who your younger viewers may not know, but he was a an important force in in South Africa during apartheid. uh he went to Palestine and uh visited after the fall of apartheid South Africa and he said that the situation in Palestine is far far worse than what he saw in South Africa during a part time and this is before October the 7th. We're not talking about Desmond Tutu's passed away years ago. So the biggest change is that in the eyes of the world that have been um that that for the for the most part were ignorant about what was going on before they were being mis misled by western media, western think tanks, western elites, western diplomats and journalists and politicians. They now see the regime for what it is. It is carrying out a holocaust. It is as illegitimate as Hitler. In fact, this is in many ways more evil because they're doing it in front of the eyes of the world. They're doing it in front of cameras every day where we we never saw what Hitler did. We never saw what the tyrants of human history did. We read about them in history books. Maybe a picture or two from Algeria, maybe a, you know, a grainy picture from Kenya or something from, you know, India. We hear about these things or we read about these things, but here we're seeing the most horrific images ever literally every single day. And even though Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and others are do doing their best to to to make them all disappear and of course Tik Tok will do a really good job quite soon to make everything disappear, but uh but the regime has become delegitimized. However, the 12-day war was a defining moment because for once, someone hit back really hard and the Israeli regime was losing the war and they had to beg for a ceasefire. They were defeated by Hezbollah in 2006. But this is something very different. They were hit very hard. And the regime today, if it was to attack Iran again, it would be much worse because the Iranians the the regime gave it its its its its be best shot. They used everything they had. This was a regime change operation as they call it. They use all the latest technology. I mean the uh Ukrainian regime could only dream of the weapons. Zalinski could have can only dream of the weapons that Israel has, Israeli regime has. But the and the Iranians were caught off guard. The Iranians I mean there is something I should point out. The Iranians knew that an attack was going to happen. They knew that an attack was going to happen that night in fact, but they didn't know that the regime was going to target the state. They thought they were going to bomb the nuclear program or the bomb military bases, but they didn't think that they were going to go rogue. And that was a mistake. The Iranian the Iranians miscalculated. It was a failure. But despite that, they turned things around and they the tide turned and they defeated the regime. So the the regime is now is is now illegitimate. It is vulnerable. And what Yemen is doing, it is reminding us of the vulnerability of the regime. But again, I have to stress what Ansar has said repeatedly, the armed forces of Yemen, the government of Yemen has said repeatedly, "Stop the Holocaust and we will stop the siege. End the massacre of children and we will stop blocking ships from crossing through the Red Sea." It's quite simple. What Ansar is doing, what the Yemen armed forces are doing, what the Yemeni government and people are doing is that they're implementing the genocide convention. Something that the West not only refrains from doing, it refuses to do. It is doing the exact opposite. in that video of the Tel Aviv funded outlet Iranian international it's almost like they were trying to go the ambassador into um cheering on another uh another iteration a round two against Iran uh but your reaction to the response which was um you know I don't know the Iranian they say infrastructure is civilian you know infrastructure is troublesome uh what is the impact of Iran's ability to stand up, to fight back, to not be afraid, as Professor Morandi said, and to do things like as conversations are happening with the E3 around snapback sanctions and there are demands for Iran to get rid of its not only nuclear program but also its ballistic missile program that Iran is testing their missiles because they're getting ready to defend themselves again. Uh what kind of message is this sending? Absolutely. I I think this has a lot to do with the degree of arrogance um u within the Israeli establishment. Um you know you are always fighting against enemies who are much weaker than you are and with time Israel kind of reached this calculation that it's invincible that that no one is strong enough to fight Israel. I mean is the Israeli um arm uh industry, arms industry is um at one point I think it was number seven or eight in terms of global exports. Israel has been seen as kind of a heavy lifter in the arms market you know and you know and and Iran has been a country under an American siege a western American siege for such a long time. So they must have reached some major miscalculations there. not only regarding Iran's capabilities but also regarding the the nature of the Iranian response thinking that well you know we are the you know we have this insurance and the insurance is Washington no matter what happens Washington will always come to the rescue Washington will never allow us to sink financially economically uh you know Washington will provide even when Ansarah placed a siege on uh Elat and and and the Red Sea uh effectively shutting down the uh the the the port which one of the main sources of food uh to Israel. The Arabs came to the rescue and by the way they are still coming to the rescue providing this kind of alternative uh you know u US sponsored alternative route to get the Israelis fed and and to make sure that their kids have toys and their pharmacies have medicine and all the rest while their own brethren in Gaza are you know being raped and die from hunger and pulverized by Israeli bombs. So, Israel is always rest assured that Washington will always make sure that no matter how bad things get for Israel, it will be okay. That was the understanding. Um, and we have to also place that within a context and the context is that Iran has been the top target for for Israel for such a long time. I mean, we go back to the Iraq war where the neoconservatives made made it clear to the American public that the threat was not the threat was not only Iraq and the Iraqi military as far as Israel is concerned, but also Iran. And even before the American Western war on Iraq, Netanyahu was speaking in Congress, was speaking at in various US platforms telling them Iran is even a bigger threat than Iraq. So he kind of been building this massive political discourse around the idea that Iran needs to be eliminated for Israel to finally feel a sense of safety. This goes for, you know, this been going on for a long time. And we all remember Richard Pearl with his famous, you know, securing the realms document done on behalf of the Netanyahu or for the sake of the Netanyahu government, kind of trying to rearrange the Middle East in Israel's favor, you know, rolling back Damascus, you know, regime change in Iraq, you know, uh, eliminating Iran and that sort of thing. And and then that opportunity came the opportunity came with the the rise of the Trump administration. One of the most foolish administrations in the history of that country. Yes, they are all to various degrees have been quite criminal. But there is a difference between c being criminal but also criminal and and foolish as well. this administration. I don't even know if we are to as future historians when they try to try to understand the doctrine. What is the Trump administration's doctrine uh in the Middle East or globally? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. It's a huge mess. His speech at the United Nations is one of the most embarrassing political spectacles not only in the history of the US but in the history of the UN as well. Well, he took advantage of this criminal uh um you know fundamentalist foolish administration to finally carry out the major attack on Iran. And as professor Morandi has said indeed they have gone all the way. I mean they they activated not only their entire uh air defense or or their entire uh um you know um uh air force uh but also an air defenses but also intelligence. They went for the civilian infrastructure. They were trying to get to you take advantage of the political uh schism in Iranian society which is natural and normal in any society. They tried to take advantage of all of these things and to finally take down uh the Iranian government and they miserably failed. You know, there's a saying that says if you if you um uh hit the king, you better kill the king or something of that nature. And they actually went forth. They were trying to kill the king and they couldn't. And as a result, Iran has been restoring uh um you know, all of its defenses, its radars in particular. They have been building this uh kind of like filling all the loopholes regarding intelligence and so forth. What can Israel do in the next strike that they having done in the previous one? What are the surprise cards that Israel will have in the next confrontation with Iran? They have already pretty much showed all of their cards. It would be shocking to see any new elements uh to um the Israeli attack on Iran that have not been used so far. And that creates a huge problem here because again Netanyahu has been basing his entire career since he became prime minister I think the first time in 1996 until today on this crown jewel the taking down of the Iranian government and he had that chance and he miserably failed and nothing has changed as far as the military equation in the Middle East neither in Gaza nor in in Yemen nor elsewhere. So what can they do that they haven't already done? Now we already know and I'm going to finish with that that Israel has already been on the path of what they call suicide nationalism. You know where you know heck with the consequences. Let's just do what we can and let's just see. Let's see what the outcome is going to be. So Israel could in fact go and start a new war against Iran. And the Iranians must be very much aware of that considering the fact that Israel just hit one of the closest allies of Washington outside of NATO and that is DHA. So wouldn't they try to hit Iran again? Yes, they would. They could, they might. They will. But what can they achieve apart from that? I think very little if any at all. And I think the counterattack from Iran most likely is going to be even more decisive than the last one. uh United States side uh as Ramsey was saying has a very confused policy right now in West Asia but the default is of course uh total support of Israel and that total support of Israel by the Trump administration is getting quite petty and almost pathetic. Uh during UN week, we had stories like this. Iranian diplomats in the US being barred from shopping at retailers like Costco uh as a national security measure. And this comes in the context, Professor Randi, of big conversations happening. maybe you can help us understand uh because uh while the Trump administration is putting Iran kind of in the in the back uh seat area given uh uh everything that Ramsay just said, all the challenges uh that it faces, there still is this question of snapback sanctions and Iran's participation in so-called nuclear inspection where you have lawmakers pushing for a complete withdrawal from the IAEA and uh there's been some back and forth around that. So, uh talk about where Iran is regarding uh its position visav the US and Israel uh as these uh so-called negotiations go back and forth. I think Iran recently just said too that US negotiations out of the question. They're only talking to Europeans now uh lightly and they're supposed to be snapback sanctions coming soon. Your thoughts? You know, Danny, the the US is fully supportive of Israel, obviously, and Trump, for whatever reason, whether it's because of Epstein or uh or whatever, he he is totally in bed with Netanyahu. But um but the American people aren't. And even after the death of Charlie Kirk, when we see people pointing figure fingers at the Israeli regime, uh so many people in the United States believe it. I don't know what happened to Charlie Kirk. Uh I know that the FBI um official uh version doesn't make much sense. But the very fact that people point fingers at the regime or when they now when they speak about 911, they no longer believe the official story and they start pointing fingers at the Israeli fingers at the Israeli regime or JFK and so on. shows how despised the regime is, how widely despised it is. Now, you can shut down Tik Tok, you can shut down everything else, but people have woken up. People are seeing the reality. A holocaust is not something that you can really hide that easily. So, today the world that we live in is very different from the world that we lived in two years ago. just these two years have been have made things fundamentally different and and the regime by the way is has been shown to be detrimental to US interests. It is dragging down the entire west with it because the world sees this as a a a holocaust being carried out by the collective west. people, young people in the west, people across the world, they're looking in horror. In future the United States cannot talk about human rights or human values or freedom or freedom because increasingly we see people being uh oppressed in the United States, people being jailed, people being deported, people being uh taken to court, uh people losing their platform simply for for defending Palestine, simply for protesting against a genocide. It's is quite stunning. So the soft power of the United States, the soft power of the West has been utterly demolished across the world. People have much more respect for nonwestern countries than Western countries despite the fact that the West has been demonizing them successfully somewhat for decades, for many decades, Iran in particular. So this this is a fundamental shift and I think as Ramsay pointed out the Israelis are not all knowing. Uh they miscalculated in this war and they failed. Uh it was a blitz creek but they still failed. And not only does it show the the power of Iran and the public legitimacy of the state but it shows how the Israeli regime miscalculates. And it also shows how uh how much Iran knows about Israel, how much Iran knows about the regime, that Iranian missiles could strike their targets with uh great effect and to get right through those many layers of of defenses that are that have been put together by the Americans and the Europeans and through radar bases in Turkey and across the Persian Gulf. as they used the airspace of Jordan and Syria, they still failed. And it shows, by the way, that these missile capabilities that Iran has, which is probably the among the two, three, four most advanced missile systems in the world alongside probably the the Chinese and and the Russians. It shows that despite sanctions, what a country can do and what an independent country can do and what people in the global south can do. We no longer live in the world where the west can pretend and claim that they have all the knowledge and that we must go to them to learn how to do things and they're they're always a step ahead of us. And that is one of the myths that the Israeli regime always used, always pretended that it knew more, that it it had better intelligence, that it had better capabilities. But it lost in this war. And it lost in this war despite the fact that the western that western intelligence agencies collectively were helping them. their embassies in Iran, their embassies in countries around Iran, and of course, sadly regional countries, countries neighboring Iran, the Republic of Ozaran, a close ally of the Israeli regime, Erdogan, an ally of Netanyahu of sorts in the Persian Gulf. Despite that, this the country was able to defeat the regime. And next time round, it's going to be far worse because Iran is now prepared. They've given it their best shot and now Iran has learned their capabilities and they're building up their defensive and offensive capabilities. But this I think is a big win for the global south. This should give self-confidence to young people everywhere that we can do things that they can do things in their own countries whether it's in South Africa or South Southern Latin America or whether it's in Central Asia or South Asia, West Asia, East Asia, these young people, they can do wonders and no one can stop them as long as that they have that determination. The Israeli regime is really the final colony of the west, the final major colony in the west that has occupied a part of the global south. But the coloniz the colonization of the mind still exists. It is something that we've been dealing with for hundreds of years. Our minds have been colonized for so long. But this is gradually collapsing. What an every time Ansar Allah hits back something something breaks in you know something breaks some part of this colonization falls falls from this broader uh network from this broader image and I think that Iran's response uh the resistance together and of course as of course the people of Gaza the the heroic resistance in Gaza uh Hamas, uh Islamic, Jihad, and the other smaller groups, all of them, and the people, the women and the children who who who simply refuse to give up their land, who simply refuse to leave despite uh the the genocide. They're they're showing the global north, the West, that uh they are not all powerful. The West is destroying itself. Every child that they kill, they're destroying themselves. So they're being destroyed economically. They're being And by the way, as the West declines economically by antagonizing everyone, literally, everyone, China, Russia, Iran, but now India, and Brazil among others, they're antagonizing everyone. So, and as the West declines, does that benefit the Israeli regime? No. Because this is this puny regime is completely dependent on handouts from the west. Without a powerful west, they are not powerful. So as the fortunes of the west decline, so do the fortunes of the Israeli regime. So their economies are on the decline. Their military is on the decline. They their soft power is destroyed. The world is changing much faster than we think. These are very dark times. And I and I'm not saying that this darkness is going to go away anytime soon. But those who have imposed this darkness upon us and upon the world, they are faltering. They are growing weak. They are growing vulnerable. And it shows. And the best thing about it is that young people in these countries are waking up. young Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, people from all walks of life, they're waking up and they want something different. They want a sane government. They want a sane uh political establishment that builds America, that builds Britain, that BR builds France and builds Germany and has a decent relationship with the rest of the world. And that's what the rest of us want too. Even those people in the west who are anger angry about immigrants and dark-kinned people like ourselves, they are coming to the recognition that all these wars are the reason why people have immigrated there. Otherwise, people are are fine where they were fine where they lived. The the Syrians were fine until the dirty war. The Libyans were fine until they destroyed the country. People across Latin America were fine until the Americans destroyed their economies and their governments by by supporting dictatorships and cruel and brutal regimes and and and so on and so forth. Afghanistan. You know, you you may not know this, Danny, uh but since it's a country neighboring Iran before the revolution in Iran, Afghanistan had uh in many ways it was more developed than Iran. I I have to go back to the numbers but there there uh the the percentage of people who went to school or uh I mean the our region was very bad. The Iran was very bad under the sha despite all the oil that was exported but but the situ but Afghanistan and Iraq were both countries that were they were they were doing okay compared to other countries in the region. It was the United States that destroyed Afghanistan. It wasn't even the Soviet Union so much. I mean, I'm not saying the invasion of Afghanistan was an unacceptable crime, but the United States encouraged them to invade. We now know that Carter and his national security advisor, they plotted in Afghanistan to support these so-called mujahedin in order to create a Vietnam for the Soviet Union. So, they destroyed Afghanistan. So these millions of Afghans who've gone to Europe, they didn't go because they just didn't like their towns and villages and they wanted some to live somewhere else. They went because they were all destroyed. The same is true in Iraq. The same is true elsewhere. So people in the west are waking up to the reality that the western political establishment has brought this upon its own people and they are continuing to brutalize people across the world. I therefore am optimistic about the future. I'm I'm not pessimistic. But that doesn't mean that things are going to change overnight. They may even get worse. But ultimately, I think the fact that people are waking up is the most important thing of all. What we want is a world where people understand what's going on. We we don't want to live in a world where people are lulled by western media and by the rich and the powerful who create these narratives and people uh believe those narratives and as a result they they close their eyes to death and destruction and genocide and and the holocaust.
Israel's Ceasefire Trap COLLAPSING, Netanyahu FINISHED | Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern & Garland Nixon Danny Haiphong Streamed live on Oct 9, 2025 #netanyahu #israel #iran
Scott Ritter and a major panel react to bombshell developments in the Middle East: the Israeli military is on the ropes after being forced into accepting a ceasefire in Gaza which puts Benjamin Netanyahu's future as Israeli PM in danger. As Israel's desperation grows, major global wars with Iran and Russia loom that could go nuclear. Watch this stream for the full story.
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Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Haiphong. Hit that like button as you come on the stream to boost the stream in YouTube's algorithm. Reports are now that Israel, after much delay, has signed on to the Gaza peace plan touted by Donald Trump, but many suspect that the deal's lengthy implementation and vague points leave it vulnerable to collapse. Indeed, Israel is saying it will occupy over 50% of Gaza and has already shelled civilians returning home in the north hours after the deal was announced. The question is, can Netanyahu end afford to end Gaza's carnage? Can Israel what does it mean for wars being discussed and plotted by Israel in the in the US elsewhere like Iran? to discuss this and much more. I have joining me today friends of the show. We have Scott Ritterder, former UN weapons inspector, US Marine Corps intelligence officer and overall a great analyst on geopolitics, author, etc. Scott, good to see you. Good to be here. We have Ray McGovern. He's a former CIA analyst and great geopolitical commentator in his own right. Ray, good to see you again. Thank you, Eddie. And then we have Garland Nixon. Welcome back, Garland. He's an analyst and a commentator as well. Hosts the Garland Nixon show on YouTube. Welcome back, Garland. Thanks for inviting me, Danny. All right. And chat, let me know. Sharing screens lately has led to some audio issues. So, immediately tell me if you hear because we might not be able to hear the audio issues. Um, so thanks so much for that. All right, gentlemen. So, yeah, let's talk about the immediate news right now. And I wanted to start with you, Scott, on a point that not many people are talking about in terms of why Israel and why there is this ceasefire plan uh being implemented right now in Gaza. Uh just before this happened, Scott, Israeli media reported that Netanyahu's rivals were meeting in secret on how to topple the government by this winter. And uh many have noted including yourself that Netan oh here's sorry here is the screenshot Israeli media has noted this and they've said that parties uh opposition parties uh and uh figures uh like Lieberman Golan Natali Bennett and others have been meeting to topple the government and I know you Scott have talked about Netanyahu's predicament as well as Israel's overall how about we start with why this uh ceasefire, why this peace plan has been implemented and what people might be missing about it as uh the first phase begins. Well, first of all, um it's a plan that's long overdue. Um you know, Netanyahu has held on to this conflict uh because it's in his political best interest to hold on to this conflict. uh he u is in dire political straits on the domestic front. Um he has a you know he leads a coalition which uh is not um doesn't have peace in its DNA. Let's put it that way. Um but he's confronted with a political reality in the United States that if he doesn't do what Donald Trump asked him to do at this point in time, um you know, American support for Israel is rapidly slipping away. Uh Trump has already publicly noted that Congress is not under the control of Israel the way it used to be. and the whole Charlie Cook um you know crisis uh you know after Charlie was murdered you know you don't have an Israeli prime minister go on TV not once but twice saying I didn't do it we didn't do it unless there's an underlying political fear that some people will think you did it and why would he fear that because of you know allegations that um Charlie Kirk was turning away from Israel along with a large part of the uh Christian Zionist Christian evangelical ical movement that had long served as Israel's um you know core foundation of support here in the United States. So Netanyahu by continuing this conflict may be preserving in the short term um you know a situation where he avoids being prosecuted in a court of law for corruption um by remaining as prime minister but he was setting up the conditions for the strategic defeat of Israel and that would have also brought about his political divide. he needed uh to find an an off-ramp and this peace plan uh which I want to just quickly point out um is Hamas's um demands that have been put in place since day one. Uh so Hamas wins. Uh and that that's the other thing we have to recognize. You know, Donald Trump simply packaged it and sold it. Um but um so now the question is okay he's gone down this path and he's preserving his American foundation but what about his coalition I mean Bing deir smoke and others are threatening to jump ship and if that happens then Netanyahu is in trouble because his government collapses he's no longer prime minister he can be arrested and he'll die in prison um I think what we have here is an opportunity for Netanyahu to build a new coalition. Um, you know, he he's going to have to dump the uh the far right wing and he can't survive politically without it. But this peace plan um is linked to Netanyahu and I think Trump can play some back, you know, behind the-scenes role. And I think there's a coalition that can be built um you know by some of the names that were mentioned, Vinnie Gance especially, uh a coalition that can be built in Israel that allows Netanyahu to uh remain as prime minister um for an interim period while this peace plan is being implemented and and put forward. Um, and that's also one way that Trump can control Netanyahu to ensure Israeli compliance because now Netanyahu's political future, indeed his um his personal fortune is dependent upon the success of this. And then once the treaty um is solidified, uh it's run through its phases, Netanyahu can go into exile, receive some sort of um you know, amnesty um etc. There's a political deal here that because on the surface, you know, this is not sustainable. His coalition can't survive. It's about to collapse and left to his own valition, his political enemies are going to take advantage of that to topple him. So, why would Netanyahu agree to this this peace treaty? Because it might be the only off-ramp available to him for political survival. Scott, quickly before I uh go to the others, you mentioned that this is Hamas's uh peace plan. talk about some of those points uh those demands that uh you said were things that Hamas has wanted because there has been some concern on social media and other places. Some even saying this is surrender. I definitely don't believe that given how Hamas I think was saying that they were fighting up until the very last minute here. But uh what's uh what are these points that you'd like to uh just illuminate for the audience? Well, the the big thing is the end of the Israeli occupation. Um, look, let's let's just be very clear here. There's 1,200 Palestinians in Israeli prison today. One of the Hamas U objectives always get the release of these people to include Bargoodi. Um, who's going to be released? Um, Bargoodi's been in prison for what, 20 years now? Um, what's he going to see when he comes out? Because somebody asked me that question. What's he going to see? Ruined Gaza. I said, no, he's going to see Palestine. Bargoodi is going to leave prison and set foot in Palestine. Hamas won. Hamas did what nobody else could do. Hamas brought Israel to a standstill. Israel had to accept this deal. And Palestine is being born because of it. And Bargoodi is going to step on the soil of free and independent Palestine. That's a Hamas victory. Hamas also is um I mean that you know those are the big ones. no occupation, a Palestinian homeland, freedom to the uh to the to the people out you you know Hamas is a resistance movement and this is where all the anti-Hamas people can just go pound sand. It's a resistance movement. It's not a terrorist organization, a resistance movement. And when you are no longer occupied, when you've achieved your goal, you don't need a resistance movement. You need a government. And if it was a surrender, there would be no role for Hamas in a future government. But notice the compromise, not that, yeah, Hamas made, but that Trump made at the very end. Hamas isn't going away. Hamas will be part of this government. Oh, no, no, this is a Hamas victory. Now, we still need the peace plan to actually be implemented, and Israel's fully capable of screwing this up. There's a million things that can go wrong, and everything else has to go right. But the notion that this is Hamas surrender, you don't know anything about anything. If you believe Hamas surrendered on this one, it's Israel that's made all of the compromise. This is Netanyahu's government. There will never be a Palestinian state. Oh, yeah. Well, guess what? There is now. You know, Hamas will be destroyed. Not really. You couldn't do it. Um, I mean, on and on. We could just go back and forth on this. The Palestinian people paid a horrible price. an unbearable price. But their children and their grandchildren will not be children of the camps. The camps are over. Palestine is real. That's a victory. Uh Garland, I want to get you in here. What's your thoughts about uh this developing situation? Uh please jump in. Couple of things. Number one, what did Algeria lose? Six, seven, eight, nine million people. um a horrendous I mean you know look at the numbers here probably a half a million or more but I mean we're looking at some unthinkable numbers in in in in hindsight and history with terrible losses etc. Algeria is a independent country, isn't it? And when you look at it, you'll say that terrible losses, they won. They fought for their freedom. Ask the Algerians if they would prefer that they had not fought and they're still under French um rule. No, they've, you know, sadly, it's unfortunate, it's a reality. There are people that fight for their freedom and pay a terrible cost. I'll say this, what does the future look like for Israel? It will be a pariah nation. um who want to you know certainly the um the governments in the west will push you know big corporations to throw money in there people won't want to buy stuff from Israel if you good luck you know flying around the world with an Israeli passport and going to restaurants and people find out you for Israel you'll be a pariah the future from for Israel is not bright it is dark it is bleak and the future for the Palestine is the pal Palestine is they paid a price um provided you know we got a long ways to go. Provided that we can, you know, maintain this uh ceasefire and turn it into a permanent um uh you know, sess secession cessation of uh host hostilities. Nothing's guaranteed. And now, if it is bad enough for Israel, they want to pick a fight with Iran and get themselves pummeled the business pummeled by um Iranian missiles again. So, it's possible, you know, they're doing this so they can go tangle with Iran. But the future looks very very dark for Israel and it looks bright for uh for the for the people of Palestine in my opinion. Yeah. And and Rey, you know, I I definitely agree with Scott. You know, we it it because of everything that's happened over the last several years leading up to this moment, there's certainly a bigger push now for Palestinian state. And in fact, there could be a framework inside of this deal uh that could lead to that. But of course, many are suspicious about Israel. Israel is of course delaying things and are kind of behaving as they did at the first ceasefire plan at the beginning of the Trump administration. What do you see here as the important points to note uh as we move into this phase of what has been seemingly an endless war and genocide in Gaza and the region? Well, Danny, I too agree with Scott the way he line things out things, but I would uh emphasize his point that there's many a slip between cup and lip. I think the way he put it where there are million ways that Netanyahu can sabotage this or other people can. And so here I am fresh from watching a most remarkable cabinet meeting in Washington where every one of those sickopants uh gave agilatory commendation to the king for having succeeded in in this latest deal uh with Israel and Palestine. Now um I believe that Netanyahu gave this to Trump. Okay. So Trump could have a really big wing. Now I remember earlier this year something similar like yeah something very similar happened and folks were saying no Netanyahu now he can't possibly go back on this is a deal with Trump. How could Well, he did go back on it. So, uh, my fear is this will last very very not long at all and that we'll be back to where we were before. Um, and the u the ephemeral boost in Trump's ratings will uh last for a couple weeks and then when they see what's really happening in Israel, Trump will not have the guts. he will not have the strength to defy Netanyahu from whatever he wants to do. So my suspicion is that Netanyahu has given this to Trump. It's been a big boost. Watch all the oh this the the sickening sick of fancy flattering agilation going on at that at that uh cabinet meeting this morning. And so Trump is riding high and uh will he matter very much? Will it matter very much to him after two weeks if things falls apart? Well, it didn't last time. And will he abide by everything that Netanyahu asks him to do? Well, he did last time. So call me from Missouri, the show me state. I'll have to wait and and have people show me that this is a real deal. that Netanyahu in the first instance is obliged in some sense to heed. Yeah, good points. And you know, back to you, Scott. I wanted to pull this up. You know, there was a lot of pressure on Israel in particular, even coming from mainstream channels here. You had the New York Times talking about Israel cannot go on winning like this. I don't know. It's a very faded title, but I can go to the quote I wanted to pull up. It says, "In Israel, though, winning has seemed only to yield more rounds of warfare, Israel is not a victor, but a perpetual fighter." Uh, talk about uh uh what uh might be meant by this. Uh given all that's transpired, of course, we could crystal ball what's going to happen in Gaza with a really high chance that things could turn out very badly uh from here on out after this peace deal. But uh there is this context of Israel's situation that I think many people miss, but the New York Times was reporting on. Actually, here's the quote. I keep forgetting to pull it up. In Israel, though, winning has seemed to only yield more rounds of warfare. Israel is not a victor, but a perpetual fighter. Uh your assessment? Well, I mean, that's an accurate statement. Um except they're not I mean, you're right. There are some victories. I mean, you know, getting Hezbollah to sue for a ceasefire um was a a victory, but it didn't solve the issue of Hezbollah. Um helping create the conditions for the downfall of Assad. Um you know, victory, but it hasn't solved uh the the issue there. Hamas not even close to being a victory. Iran 12 days of war um made for some good headlines, but the issue isn't isn't solved. Netanyahu said the other day that um Israel is more isolated today than it has ever been. And to put that statement in perspective, let's walk back to um September 2023 before October 7th. I think it was the 12th. My brain might be awful by a day or two or a week, but um Joe Biden was in India for the uh G20 meeting and he stepped forward and said, "I am announcing the India Middle East European Economic Corridor and this is going to be a grand and glorious thing. It's going to unite Europe with with India through the Middle East and it's going to bring Israel and Jordan and Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, everybody together, one big happy family, and it's going to be wonderful. And Netanyahu came out the same day, and literally said, "This is the greatest day in modern Israeli history." Why? Because this was what made Israel viable. uh it if this economic corridor went through, it created the potential for Israel to become, you know, the financial and technological and economic hub of a rejuvenated, revitalized Middle East. Um, and this would give Israel the economic independence it needed to be its own player to live in peace and harmony. And Netanyahu was all over that. Well, that's dead. Isn't going to happen. Finished. Israel today is isolated. Netanyahu said so. He said, "We'll have to learn how to be self-sufficient." But what a joke. Israel can't be self-sufficient. Israel is 100% relied upon the US taxpayer and the large s of the United States government. Um, which means that Netanyahu is a prisoner of the United States and the United States is tired of these wars. I mean, we're going to create our own war in Venezuela, a separate issue altogether, but that's a Western Hemisphere war. We're trying to walk away, uh, dellink ourselves from Ukraine, from the Middle East, uh, from Iran, um, from Taiwan. Um, and Israel is a problem for us because all Israel does is just get him embroiled in more and more conflict. But let's also take a look at what happened today. Um, I guess it was yesterday, Vladimir Putin received a phone call from Benjamin Netanyahu, or maybe it was last week. I don't know, it was recently. They're just talking about it today. Why wet's reporting it? And Netanyahu, this is while Russia is just flowing in military equipment into Iran. And Netanyahu said, "Please pass to the Iranians. We don't want a war. We're not looking for a war." And this is against everything everybody's been talking about. I mean, the betting the the the money, you know, if you were betting was Israel's going to be attacking Iran, has to attack Iran. Even the Iranian president uh said in a session two weeks ago um he believes that Iran that Israel is going to attack and now Danielle is saying we we're not going to attack. We're we're not. Now is this subtle? I don't think so. I think we're dealing with a new reality where Israel has to adapt to the fact that by not winning decisively it's just destroying. Israel is isolated. They don't have the ability to survive self-sufficiently. They need the United States. the United States isn't going to put up with these endless wars. And if you solve the Iranian problem, because Netanyahu told Putin, "We're ready for a solution, then you solve the Hezbollah problem. And then you can begin to solve the Israeli problem." And now you have Trump solving the Gaza problem. And maybe while you can't recreate the Middle East, you know, the India, Middle East, European economic corridor, you can bring about a monocum of peace and stability that would allow Israel to try and figure out where it is. Because otherwise, if Israel is just basically the, you know, the the fly in the ointment when it comes to peace and stability, um the United States is going to walk away from Israel. That's something that Ben Benjamin Netanyahu fears more than anything else. Yeah. And Garland, your thoughts, your uh assessments because a lot of people I mean I've seen some especially the Zionist uh elements all across social media and the media claiming this is a major win for Israel uh that they've gotten everything they wanted. What's your what's your assessment? Oh, no. I don't see any wins for Israel right now. I see it. Is Israel they've lost on every front um as far as public relations is concerned. It's a pariah state. People around the world despise Israel and I don't see how you can survive as a nation in the long term when um number one most of the world hate you. The governments of of of the west still support them but the people do not. Um that's number one I think. Um, additionally, when your economy has come so unraveled that um, they've got a a major problem and that is while everyone talks about Benjamin Netanyahu bragging that, you know, I I own the US government and I own the, you know, I own the US. They'll do anything I want. I've got all of this power in the US. But the other side of that is now that Israel's losing everyone else, they're completely beholden to the US government that they have nothing else. Israel is effectively a welfare state of the US government. So if things ever kind of start to change and adjust wherein the the the US government because of pressure from the American people can't be as openly, you know, uh um uh controlled by Israel, Israel's in a world of trouble because they have nowhere else to turn. What a terrible place to be where you say, "Yeah, I control the US, but I got nothing else because if the US ever drops me, I'm done." I wouldn't want to be in that position. So, I I don't think Israel's in a good position, you know, and and I'm agreeing with Scott in that while there's all the appearance that Israel wants to go to war with is with with Iran, everybody believes it. That's like the common um agreement. Sure, Israel wants to go with Iran. When you look at it, they had a 12 to 14 hour jump on Iran before. They got the first punch in and they still got their clocks cleaned in 12 days. Iran has gotten stronger now. Iran has more information on how to deal with Israel. If Iran can look at Israel and say, "In 12 days, I pretty much ran them out of anti-aircraft missiles. If I fire that amount in three days, they'll be out in three days." So, they're in no position to go toeto may they go toe-to-toe with Iran again, it would be a military debacle of historic proportions. And they may. I just don't see how they could possibly do it. Yeah. and and Rey definitely want your uh maybe final comments on on this section on the peace deal on the situation that led the context that led to this and anything else. Well, thanks Danny. Um sure. Netanyahu is a pariah. He's sort of driven into a quarter here and for a guy with nuclear weapons that's really dangerous. Now um one thing is simply his political position in Israel. There is a prison with a bridal suite all prepared for Metanyahu and his wife. What happens if there is peace? Well, most people tell me that he ends up there in prison. Uh now this is the kind of guy who does genocide. Do not blanch before the term. This is a kind of guy got guy who does force starvation. Okay. And by extension Trump supports both. Now let's say Netanyahu in extremist decides to brandish a nuclear weapon visav Iran on the spirious claim that Iran is very very close to a nuclear weapon. What is Trump going to do? Well, I don't know what BB Netanyahu has on Trump, but I suspect strongly that he also has a lot of blackmail material, Epstein and so forth, and that also with a person like Trump who also supports genocide and forced starvation. Well, you know, it looks like they're bound at the hip. So that's what creates for me a a unknowable really really dangerous situation. Now hopefully the latest trends with the Russian and the Chinese coming in and support big time for Iran there's less likelihood that Israel will strike out. But if they strike out or you've got people like Kellogg and people like the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and others that reassure Trump, look, it'll be the same same as last time. We can give the Iranians a really bad uh uh assassination uh survey or blow and then what happens next? Well, as uh uh as Garland has already said, uh last time around uh the Israelis had to get Daddy Trump to bring them out of out of the impass here because they were going to get they were going to almost get obliterated, pardon the word. So there's so many loose ends here uh that the only thing that I would leave people with is this is so volatile that American people need to make make known that we don't want any part of genocide or for starvation or worse still Netanyahu doing something partly for his own political and personal reasons and getting Trump to go along with it. Yeah, great points. and and Scott uh let's talk about let's talk about Iran actually because um there has been I think a lot of chaos around this particular question with some even wondering if this ceasefire in Gaza is a prelude to focusing more on this front of course on Ben Shapiro's show everyone's favorite Zionist commentator Netanyahu had this to say basically a selling war uh to um especially those who support Donald Trump is developing now ballistic missiles that are intercontinental ballistic missiles for 8,000 km range. What does that mean? They add another 3,000 kilometers and they've got under their gun, under their atomic guns, the New York City in Target, Washington, Boston, Miami, Mara Lago, all with a smile on his face as he talks about that. And then there's some recent news though. So according to Israeli backed Iran international, we have the Iranian VP saying that uh the uh UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez told him that the since the 12-day war had ended, efforts to top the Islamic Republic have actually ended. And this would go to your point, Scott, about how uh there's a lot of worries about restarting this uh conflict on the part of both the US and Israel. But of course, you had Trump threatening to bomb uh Iran if it restarts its nuclear program. And all indications are is that uh there is still enrichment going on uh for Iran. Uh whether it meets those thresholds that justified justified the bombing the first time. Who I do not know. But uh uh Scott comment on this. What is the risk of war with Iran? what would be the consequences especially now that Iran has also been uh redoubling its efforts to uh defend itself to a more effective degree and maybe you can also talk about that. Oh, sorry you're muted. Scott, you're muted. Yeah, sorry. I was keeping Maverick out of the uh Maverick had something to say about Ray and I was like no not today. So, but uh no, but we we'll start with um uh something that needs to be said right off the bat. Um Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons. There is no nuclear weapons program in Iran. Um, you know, there was a lot of people in the leadup to the 12-day war who said that Iran should have a nuclear bomb, that this would prevent uh a military strike, and then once Israel engaged, they said, "This is it. Iran has no choice but to build a nuclear weapon." And that's just, you know, it's an attractive argument. I mean, because clearly ballistic missilebased deterrence didn't work, did it? Uh, but it did. Um but the Iranian president again in a in a session two weeks ago um made it as crystal clear that Iran doesn't want a nuclear bomb. Iran doesn't need a nuclear bomb. Iran doesn't desire a nuclear bomb. Iran is not pursuing a nuclear bomb. And this is policy. This isn't fatwa. Fatwa is different. Fatwa is the religious edict sent forth by the supreme leader that creates a religious obstacle to a bomb. But the thing about the fatwa is that one could say Iran wants a nuclear bomb, but they can't because of the fatwa. What I'm telling you right now is it doesn't matter if there's a fatwa or not. Iran doesn't want a nuclear bomb. Iran isn't pursuing a nuclear bomb. So, let's take that off the table for all those people out there who say that Iran must have a nuclear bomb because guess what? Ballistic missilebased deterrence worked. Why do you think Netanyahu picked up the phone and begged Daddy to stop the war? Because Iran's ballistic missiles were knocking the snot out of Israel. And had the war continued, the missile shield would have collapsed further. Iran would have put out even better weapons and that would have been the end of Israel. Um so Iran doesn't need this. Uh Iran has identified um the weaknesses in its system. Uh, interestingly enough, um, based upon reports out of Iran, you know, the notion that Israel knocked out Iran's air defense systems early on in the conflict, um, uh, appears to be a little far-fetched. What happened is that the MSAD set up these drone networks of covert operatives, you know, using drones that were either supplied to Iran or built in a factory that the Israelis installed. uh they ran around in these little pickup truck type contraptions and they were hitting Iranian air defense systems and taking them out. And it appears that the Iranians once they realized that this was happening, they pulled their air defense back uh to preserve as much of their infrastructure as possible because they didn't have a solution to the drone problem yet. Um but now the drones are over. the hundreds of uh MSAD agents that were doing this, many of them were foreigners. They're dead, hung by the neck until dead. Uh and the drone factories have been identified, dismantled. Um Israel doesn't get to play that game again. And now the air defense systems that were withdrawn, not destroyed, are in place, and they're being reinforced by, it appears, by more air defense systems being brought in uh from Russia, from China. Uh an a truly integrated air defense system. This is new. Um and the Israelis would have to confront this. Um Russia has you know there was a a deal um where Russia was going to provide advanced MIG 29 aircraft and SU35 aircraft. Uh the delivery of that was going to begin sometime in you know 192 to 29. Well today advanced MIG29s are flying over Tyrron. Uh these aren't export versions. Uh the Russians basically took frontline Russian fighters and gave them to the Iranians to fill that gap. Uh while Russia is resolving the issue of getting the Iranians spun up on the SU35s, but there are now aircraft defending Iranian airspace. That wasn't the case during um the 12 days. Israel was able to fly through Syria into Azerbaijan and into the Caspian Sea and bomb Thrron, Parton and other uh you know industrial targets from the unprotected u you know east. Not going to happen again. That gap's been filled. Um the Iron Dome still doesn't work. It there's no upgrade you can do. There's no you know there there's no technician. You can't call the IT specialist come in and say hey let's run the most the most current version. We need Iron Dome 3.2. Nope. You got what you got and it doesn't work. The Iranian missiles, by the way, do work. And there were many of their newest models that didn't get flown. And if there is a war, Iran's going to frontload the uh the strikes against Israel with these new models. And the damage that was being done in the end that caused Israel to pick up the phone and beg Daddy Trump to stop the war, that damage will be done upfront. So, let's make it clear. Israel can't hurt Iran the way they did at the beginning of the 12- day war. And Iran can pummel Israel from day one. The United States, if we stuck our noses in this, our bases would be hit by those same missiles and the American air defense systems aren't anything like what we've put over Israel. There is no Iron Dome for the American bases. They're sitting ducks. Um, and so the United States isn't looking for a war. Israel's not looking for a Roy. Iran doesn't want a war. So, I'm confident that this war um this this Iranian-Israeli conflict can be avoided. The big question here is Iran's nuclear program. But one thing's for certain, Iran will never enter into negotiations um staring down the barrel of a gun. They've made that clear. Um you know, if they are going to enter into negotiations, the military aspect has to be ting the threat of military action has to be taken off the table. Iran is also probably going to demand for some sort of sanctions relief to get back to the JCPOA. So, this uh Security Council action needs to be reversed. Uh Europe needs to get on board. Uh and I think Iran is holding some cards now because there's no military threat that can work. Um and Iran does have the support of Russia and China. And the longer this goes on, the stronger Iran gets. Um I I will also say something that came out of the meeting two weeks ago. the 60% enriched uranium. You know, I viewed this as a um as making Iran a um a nuclear threshold state. And logically, it does. It's just very short enrichment process using advanced centrifuges that Iran possesses to turn 60% into weaponsgrade uranium. And if you listen to the statements made by many people in Iran, including people close to the supreme leader, people in parliament, former officials, uh they said that Iran has everything it needs for a nuclear weapon, but the political decision. But what the Iranian president said is that political decision will never be made because Iran doesn't want a nuclear bomb. There are people in Iran just like there are people in the in the in the the chatter sphere um who say Iran must have it but the political leadership has been consistent. Iran doesn't want a bomb, doesn't need a bomb, will not pursue a bomb and this is independent of the religious aspect of it. The 60% then you say why do you have it? Well, the reason why Iran went to 60% is because Israel took out the Natans facility. People may have forgotten about the um Israeli sabotage that destroyed 4,000 centrifuges in Natans. Uh how does it how does Iran respond to this? The way they responded to it was to increase to step up the enrichment. This 60% enriched uranium, yes, is one step away from, you know, being enriched in weapons grade, but it's also could be diluted instantly. I mean, this 60% could be brought down to 3.5% and with absolutely no problem whatsoever. It can go away tomorrow if sanctions are lifted, if a deal could be made. So, it's a chip that's out there, but it doesn't position Iran to be a nuclear threshold state because Iran has basically said that's just something we're not going to do. So, I don't think the 60% uranium is now the same level of threat and concern that it was psychologically beforehand because there's a lot more clarity today about um about why Iran went to 60% and how quickly Iran is willing to get rid of that 60%. And the fact that Iran isn't pursuing a nuclear bomb, doesn't want to pursue a nuclear bomb, believes that they they absolutely no need for a nuclear bomb. Iran's secured by its conventional ballistic missile force. That's all they need to worry about. Scott, quickly, uh, before I get to Rey, I because he's holding up something I definitely want him to show. Um, I wanted to ask you about the Russia and China military support in particular, cuz some have messaged me actually saying, "Oh, will Iran have confront the same problems, let's say, a Ukraine confronts when it's handed military equipment, uh, like air defense systems?" What's your thoughts on that as a weapons inspector? So the implication that is is that Russia is America. Oh no, the implication is that uh Iran may have difficulties incorporating uh military technology etc. integrated. Yeah. Yeah. Uh first of all, what are they integrating? This isn't Soviet era air defense. I mean the Iranians have some of that, but the Iranians have built a lot of their own indigenous air defense. They have an Iranian architecture. Um, and I believe that this Iranian architecture was designed to plug in and plug out uh Russian and Chinese capabilities. So I I I think the systems been built with the idea of integrating Russian systems in mind and Iranian engineers are in Russia. Um I I would imagine that if you um went to some of the um institutes in Russia that are you know linked to command and control, air defense integration and all that. Uh you'll see that there's some Iranians walking around there. And I think if you travel the streets of Thran, you'll see uh some Russians, you know, in hotels that are being driven back and forth to the Iranian um you know, you know, air force headquarters. I think the Russians and the Iranians are working very closely on this. Uh they have now, you know, ratified uh that that security agreement that that wasn't ratified. I was like, where were the Russians? Well, Iran had to ratify it. Iran didn't. They did. Now, the deal's in place. The Russians are living up to their obligation. And the proof is that Russia accelerated delivery of advanced big 29s. These aren't export models. This isn't stuff Russia said, "Oh, wait till it comes off the production line." Iran said, "We need them now." on Russia pulled off frontline fighters, Russian fighters in service with the Russian air force and transferred them to the Iranians. That shows you how serious Russia is about this. Yes. And uh Rey, I want you to jump in your comments. How close is Iran to getting a nuclear weapon? Well, what people need to know need to know uh if they can can see this thing. Um if there's a crisis, it will be a manufactured crisis. My friend Gareth Porter wrote a book oh 16 17 years ago, the untold story of the Iran nuclear scare. And you remember this picture of Netanyahu. You certainly remember that. Watch it carefully now. uh he's doing percentages of enrichment. Enrichment is not to be conflated with working on a nuclear weapon. Correct me if I'm wrong, Scott. So, so here's the deal. Um the intelligence community under the influence of pro-Israeli people in the '9s were asked, "How close can Iran be to a nuclear weapon?" They said, "Oh, about five years." Uh and then five years later they said uh probably about five years and next year they don't maybe four or five years. And finally after the Iraq debacle where intelligence was fixed manufactured around the policy of attacking Iraq, somebody sensible said let's get an honest estimate on how close Iran has gotten to a nuclear weapon. Now, long story short, and I've said this before, an estimate was done. It was under the supervision of the head of the previous head of the State Department Intelligence Agency, INR, Tom Finger was his name, and was honest. And it said Iran stopped working on a nuclear weapon at the end of 2003 and has not resumed work on it. And besides, that was a fatwa. fatwa sort of more more serious than an encyclical or some other religious pronouncement that forbids it. Okay. Now, as recently as March of this year, uh Tulsi Gabard reinforced reiterated that judgment and reiterated the fact that the supreme leader gives no indication that he's going to reverse himself on the fatwa. Now fatwa are hard to understand for us westerners but apparently the Iranians take it very seriously. If it's going to be reversed the chances are it will have to be debated in their parliament and approved by the national it will be openly proclaimed as being lifted. It hasn't been lifted. Bear in mind that during the long war of Iraq against Iran, during which we supported Iraq in all manner of ways, including intelligence, pinpoint intelligence, Iran, although it had it had chemical weapons, was enjoined against using them and Iran didn't use them no matter what these reports say that they may have. Okay. So, these are important things. And what I'm saying here is that when Gareth Porter wrote this book, okay, he determined that Iran never had worked on a nuclear weapon. That was all made up stuff by the intelligence community. And he asked Tom Finger about this and Tom said, "Well, well, at least we we know that they stopped in 2003." Okay. So, it's a red herring. And the big thing that American audience should take away from this is they're trying to confuse you. Here it is. 70% enrichment. Now we have 80% or 60%. My god, how close they are. It doesn't matter. The enrichment is one thing. A nuclear weapon development is another. One caveat here. Ted Postol, a very wellrespected scientist who worked for the he was the right-hand man to the chief of naval operations back in the day. He says that the bomb that the weapon can be constructed in an apartment house and it could be done very closely. I don't know if that's true or not, but that is the caveat I have to aduce. Now as as far the rest the rest rest of the stuff I would just emphasize as yeah they have enrichment and Scott has well described the enrichment up to that degree has been a bargaining chip really maybe not such a smart bargaining chip as Scott has indicated but enrichment is not working on a nuclear weapon and you could you could take to the bank what Scott said they're not working on a nuclear weapon that's big so if there's a crisis It's a manufactured crisis. Yeah, Garlin, I definitely want your uh your own assessment here and I just want to add this. You know, of course, the nuclear question is a development question is a much different question. Uh but uh the Ayatollah, he has actually lifted all limits on missile range in their development with what Scott was talking about the ballistic missile deterrence. your comments on on all of this as uh the debate around a renewed around two of a USIsrael war on Iran u continues. Well, I'll put it like this. Um Iran has nuclear missiles in the same way that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, in the same way that Venezuela is uh you know uh that President Maduro is the El Chapo of Venezuela. They're all simply lies cooked up by the US empire so they can attack a country. And it's not an accident. The last I heard, I think um Iran has like the fourth or fifth I think the fourth or fifth largest oil reserve in the country and Venezuela has number one. Those things are not um you know inconsequential to the to the decisions of the US empire. Um really yes we can and should discuss the issue of um Iran's you know uh the accusations against Iran um regarding um development of a nuclear weapon. But the truth is that the US is just cooking up a lie. Israel their proxy what however you want to look it they're just both cooking up lies for the next war in the same way that you know there was an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. China uh you know wants to take out Taiwan for no reason other than they just I don't know they hate the island or they just want more land you know whatever the case may be there's always a lie that's cooked up to invade harass um and uh you know steal the resources of other countries um so now that's all that is that's all this is you know part of it could be they want to kind of back away from um the Palestinian issues because they want to go steal all the oil in uh Venezuela. So, they've got their war over there they want to start. But the truth is it's just and it's you know it's interesting because you know there was a time when Donald Trump was you know reminding everyone and and getting heat so you know so-called heat from the mainstream um you know media and the mainstream politics because he was saying out loud George Bush cooked up a lie George Bush lied us in war and now he has become George W. Bush. And now the same lies of weapons of mass destruction are being used for Iran. The same lies of drug dealing, they're being used for uh Venezuela. So I in reality, we now see it wasn't George W. Bush. Uh let's not forget all the lies under Obama about Libya and Moar Gaddafi. It wasn't Bush. It wasn't Obama. It wasn't Trump. In a way, it was in that they are expressions of the US empire, but that's all we have going on now. It's not has nothing to do with um if it actually had to do had anything to do if US foreign policy against Iran had anything to do with nuclear weapons or the development of nuclear weapons, this would be really easy to resolve. But since it doesn't, there's no way to resolve a lie. Yeah, Garland. And I and I know you have some time constraints. So I I definitely want um your comments on this before I uh uh bring it to the other uh guests or other esteemed guests. So Iran has actually announced that it's discovered major gas and oil uh deposits in the Pan field. It says if 70% of recovery rate is applied to them, some 7 TCF of gas could eventually be extracted, roughly 17 to 18 years of output. Uh now we know uh Iran's independence um is one of the reasons why uh there is always ongoing hostilities toward it. Uh what do you make of this development and uh how do you see if it the if the war against Iran is not going to continue now uh do you see it happening in the near future? Is that me? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To you cuz well I'm talking like this. I'm sorry. I think the plan is there. The plan is if they don't attack Iran now, maybe they go take out Venezuela and they get all of their oil and that makes them more powerful. They can now control the oil market a little bit more. They can resolve some of our economic issues by, you know, stealing all the war or the oil and selling it. I think that's the plan. But I think any long-term US plans are going to run into reality in that they're facing a catastrophic feed in defeat in Ukraine and there's no way to cheat that. there's no way to get out from under that and that that will the defeat in Ukraine will change the ground under the US hegemony around the world. Um and so I think that they're trying to do some things and hold off the defeat in Ukraine. So the question is how soon does this catastrophic defeat in Ukraine manifest itself? Because when that happens, NATO falls apart, which is NATO is, you know, has one foot in the grave and the other on a patch of ice right now as France is is is uh, you know, France's political situation is falling. So, I think these things are inextricably tied to the defeat of NATO and the US in Ukraine and the um, you know, afterwards the way the world reacts to that. Yeah, Scott, your comments. I was Are you there? Oh, sorry. I thought you were muted. No, I'm muted. The dogs The dogs are cooperating for the moment. Um, about Iran's oil discovery. The Yeah, the discovery. And if Iran, if the if there isn't aims for a war right now, uh, do you see it coming in the near future? No, I I the no this discovery of oil or discovery of gas is going to be ongoing. Um, you know, this isn't a game changer. It gives Iran, you know, more reserves. It gives Iran, you know, potential to, you know, extract, exploit, you know, make make money. But this doesn't change the strategic balance um in the Middle East. uh any any way any more than say Israel's discovery of you know of the uh Levathon um you know gas fields off of its coast you know dramatically changed things. People will be discovering oil reserves and gas reserves for many many many years to come. Uh and we're not going to go to war because of that. Um I I think you know it's it's not so much about the the energy but the energy security. How do we guarantee that these resources that the nations in the Middle East have can be brought to market in predictable sustainable fashion? Um and and and this is where a multipolar world starts to dictate. This is no longer about the Carter doctrine where the United States is guaranteeing the security of the region through its military force. Um though that ship has sailed. is about engendering stability, not just you know military stability but economic stability. Um you know get to to bring in these supply chains. The best way to guarantee that oil and gas flow is to guarantee that economies function. Look what happened to energy security during the pandemic when economies shut down. I mean, we we saw oil get flipped where uh normally you have to, you know, pay money for people to uh store your oil, the people storing oil, they couldn't get rid of it. You it was it was just uh it was done because there wasn't a demand for it. The the world needs to keep demand going and demand is diminished by conflict. And so I think actually the discovery of energy um actually creates the uh the potential in a multipolar world which is where we're transitioning to uh for less war not more war. Yeah. And Ry your final comment on this before we move on. Um, well, I just say that uh I remember 20 years ago uh there were there were uh Zionist folks uh in the White House and the Pentagon who were saying Iraq, we'll do Iraq, but real men go to Tehran. Okay. Luckily, all those Zionists have gone wrong. They're still around. My god. And BB Netanyahu still has great influence on our president. So I think everything Scott has said is reassuring and should be what sensible people take into account. But I fear as adolescents say these days, and I'm talking about my grandchildren, uh Putin is not okay. He's not okay. If you watch, as I did, watch the cabinet meeting this morning, he held forth for 40 minutes about just about anything, but it was written down. So, he had somebody wrote this stuff down. It was gibberish. Okay? And then he called on various people to say, "Oh, we adore you. We bless you. We think you're the greatest thing since uh minced meat or whatever because you did this great thing on Iraq." So all great thing on uh Israel, Palestine. So what am I saying? I'm saying Putin is looking at this as is Xiinping and they're saying, "My god, he really is not okay." Okay, so we're going to do uh my god. Well, don't piss him off for God's sake. He has his fingers on the codes. Uh see if you can play along with him. Maybe he'll be sensible. maybe people like Witco and others will prevail. So all I'm saying is that those Zionists that were around before Iraq when were more than 50% responsible in my view in retrospect for the attack on Iraq. They're still around. They've done some other stuff like Libya and Lebanon and Syria and all that stuff, but they haven't done Iran yet and they're out to do it. And do we have the power to do it? Of course. for the USA America. Okay, so that's my only caveat on that. I've probably said enough. Yeah. Yeah. Well, great points, Rey. Uh well, let's now move to uh the uh Ukraine situation if we can.
So, I want to first uh bring up some comments. you know, there has been a bit less uh enthusiasm uh coming from Russia of late when it comes to USRussia talks because of especially the situation with um flirting with sending tomahawk missiles to Ukraine that Trump has done says he's sort of made a decision. It's very vague. We don't know what it is exactly, but here is what Sergey Rykov the deputy foreign minister said recently. um to the media about the situation between Russia and the United States. He said, "I would say this is a very serious escalatory step referring to the tomahawk missiles. Indeed, the appearance of such systems if it comes to that would signify a substantial uh uh one could even use the term qualitative change in the situation, but this will not affect our determination to achieve the set goals." So, uh, Scott, you know, there have been comments from, uh, other lawmakers, Putin, they've all said that this would be a serious escalation, um, and that, uh, uh, you know, the momentum according to Rabkov of the Alaska Summit has waned. What exactly is going on here when it comes to this conflict? Why why is it too that we also see a lot of enthusiasm coming out of the Western mainstream media? I don't know if you've um, caught it. a lot of, "Oh, well, now Ukraine can push Russia back. Now Ukraine is in the driver's seat." Uh, can you help dispel all of this for us? What's going on here? Well, first of all, you said other lawmakers and then you mentioned Vladimir Putin's name. Um, he's not an other lawmaker. He's the president of the Russian Federation and um you know basically while you know he consults um and takes advice um it's his word that matters more than any other word and pretty much what Riyobkov said was exactly what Vladimir Putin said during his presentation at Valdai. Um and just to go and reinforce the point that it's the president's word that counts. Ryabkov may have declared Alaska dead. Uh Ushikov just came out in the last hour and said, "No, Alaska is alive and well. I'm living very much alive." Um and that uh Trump and Putin continued to talk. You know, Rey and I have been going back and forth. You guys haven't seen it. Um about the Tomahawk missiles and things of that nature. Um, and you know, I am more of a literalist, meaning that when I hear a president say, "I have made a decision to send Tommahawks." Um, I'm like, "Well, I guess the president made a decision to send Tommahawks." And, you know, when I hear people talking about, you know, the consequences, I say, "Well, you know, perception creates its own reality. The perception of the president ready to send Tomahawks creates a reality in Russia." Um, back and forth. But Rey and Ever the wise man um says, "Well, we sort of need to deal with reality here." Um can they send Tomahawks? I mean, it's one thing, you know, Scott Ritter has been saying, as my wife will tell you, um not so much recently, but I would every every summer at the end of summer, honey, this is it. This is the year I'm going to train hard. We're going to save the money, and I'm climbing Mount Everest in May. I'm going on an Everest expedition. I mean, that was my dream to do that, get physically fit enough to do that and all that. And um but me saying I wanted to go Mount Everest didn't make it happen because there were many things that had to happen that weren't going to happen. And therefore, I was never going to get on the top of Mount Everest. And Ray's probably right. Tomahawks will never be delivered to Ukraine because there's just so many things that have to happen. And if you listen to what Ushikov said, I think Ray is even more right. Um, again, I'm not going to be dismissive of it. I I'm somebody who believes that just the mere threat of city tomahawks is a destabilizing move and it's best that we not threaten in that manner. But, you know, Trump likes to stir up the pot and create pressure and things of that nature. Um, and the pressure about the tomahawk, it cuts two ways. I mean, it's not just about a threat to Russia, but it's also a signal to Ukraine and Europe about the their collective impetence. Um, because if they're putting so much hope on a weapon that can never be delivered, it means that there is no hope at all. And Trump needs to drive that point home. And I think that d point has been driven home decisively in the last week, which is why suddenly Ushikov is coming out saying, "No, no, we're talking. Everything's cool. No, Alaska on track. we're moving towards uh to peace. I think the whole the whole Tomahawk thing was just smoking mirrors. I think it's just Donald Trump going in stirring up the pot, seeing where seeing where things go. The pressure wasn't designed to be put on Russia, which is one of the reason why Putin sort of lowkeyed it. I mean, he made the obvious statements. Yeah, if you do this, you oh gosh, you know, we got light at the end of the tunnel, but you know, that'll shut down. But you didn't see Putin, you know, get serious face, pound the table, threaten, lash out. Putin was like, "It's an old system. We're familiar with it. We could shoot it down." D, you know, and and and calm. Um, that implies that Putin knows something we didn't know. And apparently what we did know is that there's ongoing conversations. Normally when Putin and Trump speak, it's a big deal. I think now they've gone into the quiet mode. I think Trump is in the business of walking away from Ukraine. I think Trump's in the business of making sure that uh Ukraine and Europe understand the consequences of this and the um lack of viability of any other option other than coming to terms with Russia on that are acceptable to Russia and that's the direction we're heading. Ushikov's statement makes it appear to be just that. And then of course Kuriel Dmitri who you know he's he's he's this guy who you know has been working with Steve Witco. He's been at all these meetings. He's a confidant of Putin and he's just been this cheerleader. You know I'm watching the world go to hell and then I'm following Camal Demetri and I'm going dude is just tweeting positive stuff. I mean he's and I'm like is he on cocaine? Is he what's going on? Well, apparently Kurill knew things I didn't know. Like Putin and Trump are talking and Kill stand there go, "It's all okay. Don't worry about world covenant. Nah, it's all right. Putin and Trump are talking." He didn't say that, but the implication was everything's going to be okay. And Ushikov's statement implied, I think that's the direction we're heading here. Um, you know, Trump had to get himself out of a hole that he dug himself into about being bringing able to end the Russian Ukrainian conflict. Uh, he needed Europe to wake up to the reality. You know, he couldn't have seven people flooding the Oval Office every time he made a move on Ukraine. He needed the Europeans to wake up and go, "It's hopeless." I mean, look at Mcronone. I mean, he may not be around much longer. Uh, the Brits, they're a joke. Um, you know, Germany a basket case. Um, Kalas finally woke up and realized after Trump told uh Zolinski, he saw Zalinski's face. Hey, why don't you take back the 1991 borders? Really? And while you're at it, take Moscow. Trump's my friend. And then he went to the press, Trump's listening to me. He's listening to what I said. He believes what I say. And we're going to do all it's going to be great. and Kas came out and went, uh, what I heard was that Trump has washed his hands of Ukraine and has walked away and he's put all the burden on Europe and we can't do this. We can't do this. And that's the reality that came in. Um, I'll leave it at that because I' I've I've drone till I'll make sure next time I talk I bring up something very important that happened this last week. I mean, gamechangingly important uh that actually contributes to this this talk. But I I I see Trump um I I don't see all gloom and doom right now. Um I think there that we're being gamed and and Ray called it. I mean I Ray, kudos to you, man. You called it. You said this is a game. Trump's just this is this Tom Hawk thing is not real. It's a game. And it it appears that this Tom Hawk thing's not real. It's been a game. Well, there's also Sorry, wrong uh article. There is uh some proof also that even the west uh is admitting to this to your point uh Scott as the Telegraph says Ukraine prepares for delivery atomic missiles. They can't fire uh they're supposed to be leverage but uh it could take months and they might never leave their launchers because they have nothing to shoot them with. So uh there's that and here is the the quote here. And so just uh getting to you Ray um your your assessment your reaction to the overall situation visa v Ukraine. Well Major uh I salute you for acknowledging our conversations and for listening and for also contributing greatly. Captain McGovern signing off. Now in all seriousness serious intelligence analysts compare notes. Okay? They don't go h off halfcocked and the really good ones listen. So, so we've had this dialogue and increasingly over the last couple of days it seemed that this is really a canard, a red herring. It'll play out both. Well, the important thing is the Russians keep speaking in the subjunctive mood. Okay. If if if uh and you know you have Lav, you have you got Putin himself. if you're all very conditional and Lavra five days ago said look it's my information uh that a decision has been made yet. So and then you have Zakarova Maria Zakar the presidential spokeswoman saying you know I don't know about this guy Kellogg I mean doesn't he work for the president? Uh I mean isn't he subservient to doesn't he abide by the policy that's been set? We're we're set on on progress and peace. What's going on here? So So it's very clear now. Um I'm going to suggest something very unusual and that is that uh Trump uh is following a Marxist Leninist uh slogans here. Uh, London said famously, "Revolutia zigzagamy, zigzagamy." Got zigzag. Okay. The revolution proceeds with zigzags. And so this is the way rhetoric started uh in in Russia and and the way it is today. Trump will say one thing one day, he'll say another thing the other day. That's why we had to wait at least three days or four days to figure out if this was real. Now, the real thing is that the tomahawks are not real. The other real thing is that Puchin is waiting for an official statement from Trump as to whether Trump will agree to his proposal, Puchin's proposal to have a kind of moratorum on further development, something that would approach the same limits as the start treaty which cannot be renewed expires on the 5th of February. Now, one of the most interesting things that Ryabkov said yesterday in that interview was the following. Russia does not associate the issue of Tomak deliveries to Kiev with the new start proposal toward the US. Quote, "These are two separate matters." End quote. That's good. Okay. So, one is a red herring, the other one is damn real. Okay. Now, will Trump be able to be sensible and say, "All right, look, we know you guys make a lot of money there uh by developing new missiles. We're going to keep this cap on the strategic missiles, so we're going to keep it for another year. Will he be strong enough to do that?" Well, my guess is he will be. He'll face lots of opposition, but I think he will be. And if that happens, this is a major step forward. Then other things can get done. Riyabkov bemoaned the fact that yeah we have period we have contacts sometimes every day but nothing gets done and there's not even an agreement on when we meet together to discuss bilateral relations and how to improve them uh how to deal with Russian assets being seized in the United States under Obama what about you know airlines and all that kind of stuff so what is saying that is look we have an edifice uh that has been built here says it's you know just at the nation just the beginning and then he says you know it's cracking says it's cracking and it's collapsing and right out front the Americans are to blame for this the Europeans are to blame for the stuff in Ukraine but the Americans are to blame for this the cracks have now reached the foundation. So you have the zigg. He says, "Look, we're getting we're getting to the point where we're not going to be didd anymore on Ukraine or anything else, but please take us seriously on new start." And then you have uh who's the closest to Putin on this. He's his right-hand person on strategic arms and and and lower or um intermediate nuclear forces. He's he's saying, "No, no, look, the EPOP is just saying we really like to get started. We we're going we're going ahead here with pursuing the agreements reached in in Alaska." And that's big because before there were no contacts. At least there are contacts. Now, if the balloon goes up in Iran or Israel, there will be contacts. Lavough will get through to what's the guy's name? Rubio as he was unable to get through to Blinken or or Sullivan. And that's a big deal. And the summit has happened. Now, the outstanding invitation. Last thing I'll say here, uh the Russians have been saying this repeatedly over the last two weeks. Look, we still hope that that Trump will come to to visit Moscow for the next summit. Now, the there's an alternative there, and let me suggest it on air. Um Puchin could say look let's just just five of you come to Sochi come to Sochi and we'll have sort of an informal discussion five on our side five on your side and you'll see soi so you s not a backwater place out there you'll see what so is now and we'll get together and so that's my notion about what might happen next real formal but something that gets Trump to Russia and get lots see for himself not only Moscow but the rest of the country and have serious talks in a more more discoursive and more relaxed manner over some vodka or over diet coke and vodka uh in in Sochi. Uh my recommendation in case any of you uh at the White House are listening. Well, Scott, uh certainly to your point earlier too, you know, you said uh Putin, US, these figures, of course, they're the final word. Of course, there's a there's a there's a whole range of voices about this Tomahawk issue in particular. Uh, but I think this one is kind of uh for uh uh just an obvious an obvious one that the response if anything were like this to happen given that both of you said it's fantasy and I I believe that given how long it's taken for even a non-decision to be made about it. Uh but Andre Cart Cartalov said he's a head of Russia's parliament's uh defense committee. Our response would be tough, ambiguous, measured and asymmetrical. We will find ways to hurt those who cause us trouble. But Scott, how much of this uh desperation around throwing around weapons, keeping the conflict going, especially on the part of NATO? How much of this signals things aren't going very well right now? Because I look at the mainstream media and all I see is Ukraine's hit this, Ukraine's hit that, Ukraine is in the driver's seat. But this behavior seems to indicate something a different. What's going on here? Well, this is a perfect segue into uh one I wanted to talk about. Um, you know, since the spectrum military operation began. Um, outside observers, analysts like myself have been confounded by why Russia allows NATO to send weapons into Ukraine unmolested. Why does Russia allow Lav um and other western Ukrainian cities to become, you know, sort of a holding ground for not just weapons, but lately weapons production capabilities? Uh factories are being built. Um and why aren't they bombing it? And then the question comes up, does Russia really have as much control over Ukrainian airspace as, you know, we've been led to believe? It sounds to me like, you know, Ukraine has built a protective umbrella of integrated air defense. Uh why are F-16s able to operate out of Western Ukraine? Aren't these things supposed to have been destroyed on day one by the vaunted Russian military? Um, and it it's one of those questions that just couldn't be answered. I mean, you know, it it you know, the answer was, well, maybe Russia's not as good as the as we thought they were. maybe the Patriots better than we thought it was. It I don't think that could be the case, but who knows? Um, you know, and and that's, you know, that seemed to be the direction, which then points to the potential of a long-term conflict, which is the exact opposite of the strategic direction that Russia uh wants to go. Russia is not looking to have a forever war. Russia wants this war to end on terms favorable to Russia. But if Russia allowing NATO to install defense industrial capacity in western Ukraine and to bring weapons in and stockpile them, warehouse them there so they can keep feeding them into the front, you know, that lends itself to another conclusion. Um, and then the answer came this week and it just blinding flash of the obvious. Um, what Russia did was create the perception of a safe haven in western Ukraine. Uh see if Russia had acted decisively early on these warehouses, these defense industrial facilities would have been built in NATO um as they were early on. You know, they were doing the rehab facilities, everything was being done in NATO and that's untouchable. Uh gives Ukraine the strategic depth, but NATO was seeking to push this stuff into Ukraine. But in order to do that, you have to create the perception that Western Ukraine is strategic depth for Ukraine. And then the West deposited hundreds of billions of dollars worth of resources, weapons, warehouses, facilities, defense, industrial facilities, uh the whole thing jammed into the west. Um and now it's this capability that the British in their keep Ukraine in the fight uh are emphasizing this is now made it easy. All NATO has to do is provide the money and they can rapidly ship weapons into the holding uh cells in western Ukraine and this war can go on forever. We can keep Ukraine in the fight. Except last week Russia took them out. Russia came in and said, "Oh, you guys thought that the Patriots in Western Ukraine had a 60% intercept rate. Try six." And they just blew up these facilities and they're going to continue to blow them up. All that investment is gone. And now you see the desert. The day that happened, did you see what Zalinski did after saying, "We're going to strike Russia deep. We're doing that." He said, "I need a ceasefire in the air right now." Because he just woke up and said, "I lost everything." And NATO can't replicate that. There isn't a plan B. There's no NATO facilities that can replace this. They're gone. And this is the reality that Europe's waking up to right now, that there ain't nothing they can do about this. Russia just dramatically changed the calculus of this uh game. Which is why all of a sudden Usku was like, "Yeah, yeah, we're we're we're talking. I think I think there's going to be a peace deal." Well, why? Because Europe doesn't have any cards left. Trump dumped everything on Europe. Europe's plan was predicated on being able to transfer weapons to a Western Ukrainian safe haven and have defense industry work that up in there. That's gone. Europe has no plan B. And they're all sitting there just swinging in the wind right now. And Russia's like, "Yeah, oh that pro that northern picroka offensive you guys did, it's over. We won. Uh you're all dead and we've resumed the offensive there. Uh that drone wall you built, all the drone operators that operate, they're dead. We killed them all and we've reasserted drone dominance." Uh Sunumi, you guys fought us to us. Last time I checked, we're advancing south there. We're advancing everywhere. You've run out of men. your strategic rever reserve died north of Picro. Picrok is getting ready to fall. Kianski is getting ready to fall. You know, this is the reality. And um I think what you're going to see is that Trump is going to go to the Europeans and go to the Ukrainians and say, "I've washed my hands of this. You're on your own. It ain't going so well, is it?" Tomahawks. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You'll get the Tomahawk. Um 2028, 2029, uh you know, 2030. Maybe we'll give you three, four, five of them. Um, yeah, but don't worry, you'll get them, but you won't be alive because you're dying right now. It's over. Energy killed. The winner is going to suck. Um, and I I think what we're seeing right now is Trump's played a game. Um, uh, and Klay Kalas caught on. I mean, you should have seen, did you watch that interview when she came to the microphone? You know, this woman who says, "I my job is to dismantle Russia, to make Putin lick my boots, and the whole world." She came and she, you know, Zalinski's out there doing a dance about how, you know, Trump loves him. He loves me. He loves me. No, he doesn't. She said, "Trump just washed his hands of you and he put all the burden on us and we can't do it." And this is back when she thought she had a Western Ukrainian enclave. It's gone. Wiped out. That's why I think you're seeing this new air of optimism out of Moscow. And they're not cocky about it. You know, the Russians aren't running around doing a victory dance. Very measured words. But Ushkov's statement says everything. You know, Ryabkov came out, you know, sort of hinted that, you know, all the momentum out of Alaska's gone. And like, ah, we're we're talking, everything's cool. Don't worry about it. You know, I I'm optimistic because ain't nothing going Europe's way. Ain't nothing going Ukraine's way. and everything's going rushed. Well, Scott, what about the blown up refineries? Y'all ever you never did anything in war, did you? You know, you've never fought a war in your life. Uh because if you think that a war is 100% one way, it isn't. But the Ukrainians aren't doing strategic damage to Russia. What about the What about the lines of cars at gas stations? Ain't happening. What What about, you know, all the bad stuff? Ain't happening. Um, I'm going to Moscow next week. I'm confident the Moscow Sea will be a thriving uh metropolis just like the Moscow that Ry saw uh in May. Um, populated by people that, you know, are concerned about the war. It would be inhuman not to be, but who aren't losing sleep over it. um who don't believe Russ, you know, you can have, you know, Gilbert Doctoro come on and talk all he wants about, you know, the whispering class, the the elites, the politically inclined, uh, and they want Putin gone. Never in the history of the world has there been a coup effort against a leader who has enjoys 80% um, you know, approval rating. Vladimir Putin is the most popular president in Russia, Russian history, for a reason. because he's kicking ass across the board. Russia's back. They've learned to fall in love with Russia again. They're proud of who they are. They're proud of the direction they're going. They are proud of what they have accomplished. And they have confidence in their army to continue this fight. And the other people that say that there's a split between the general staff and Putin don't know what the general staff is and doesn't understand who Vladimir Putin is. There's no split between these two men. They're on the same page. The proof is in exactly what's happening right now. a confluence of military action and diplomatic action leading to the result that Vladimir Putin said will always be from day one of this conflict a war that ends on terms dictated by Russia that are acceptable to Russia. Yeah, Ray, let's get you in here to uh Yeah, I would I would agree with unmuted now. No, no, you're good. You're good. Okay, please jump in. No, I think Scott is right. Um, what I'd uh say about this putitive influence of the Russian military or the hardliners or people who are allegedly uh getting Putin upset by saying you should go faster, you should go faster, why don't you how can you accept these insults, these zigzagamy uh from from Trump? Uh I don't see that either. But I do see um the normal the military role to say look Mr. President uh Mr. President Putin uh we look at uh we look at facts um we don't look at uh projections and the facts are that Germany and the US have agreed to put medium range ballistic missiles in Germany next year. That was a side agreement. Very very odd. It came at the NATO meeting in Washington a year and a half ago. Uh is that going to happen? Well, uh, if that if if, uh, Trump allows that to happen, I don't know about mess, then you have what really matters to Russia besides the the the acceptance of the salt provisions for another year. That's, I think, primary. Now they worry about what used to be before Scott Ritter verified um the um intermediate nuclear forces treaty agreed to by G of Truff and Ronald Reagan in 1987 and absconded from so to speak by Trump himself in 2019 that destroyed a whole class of nuclear attempt medium-range ballistic missiles unprecedented in the history of the world destroying all these people all these all these missiles in place. So what am I saying? I'm saying that uh this threat uh comes to mind. You I think one thing one reason why the Russians are playing the game of saying, "Oh, no, that would be terrible. Don't do that." That because the Tomahawk uh was one of those missiles disabled or dismantled or broken up or chopped up under the INF treaty. And and so what happened? Now, I want to give this for instance in in the Bronx. We say I'll give you for instance okay people don't much know about this but it's important right before well two months before the special military operation namely on December the the third December the 21st I'll get my thinkings right 2021 Putin before all his assembled generals and admirals says this pay attention please because this is on the final US missile sites already in Romania and Poland can launch offensive strike weapons. If hypersonic, they can reach Moscow five minutes. Next sentence. The US will give hypersonic missiles to Ukraine, hypersonic weapons to Ukraine. End quote. Wow. Now, that was December 21st. Now, I'm talking about the uh the military intelligence people who look at capabilities and not intentions. Okay? And they I don't know what happened, but on the 30th of December, Putin called the White House and said, "Look, I need to I need to speak with President Biden immediately." Now, Biden, to his credit, took the call and and and Putuchi said, "Look, um, we're about to enter negotiations in Geneva as pre pre-arranged. Uh, it would be really helpful if you decided not to put offensive strike missiles in Ukraine as they already could be in Poland and Romania." And what was the response? Here it is. Washington from put from Biden. Washington has no intention to deploy offensive strike weapons in Ukraine. December 30 end quote December 30, 2021. December 31st, Moscow is pleased beyond beyond measure. The US is finally acknowledging Russia's security concerns. In a matter of fact, that move acknowledged about five of the eight provisions in that treaty that Moscow wanted the US and NATO to sign. So, what happens next? Oh, wow. What happens at the Geneva meetings between Wendy Sherman and Rykov? Okay, that's the 9th and the 10th of January. So, less than less than two weeks later. Oh, Wendy doesn't have any instructions about what what you say Biden promised. I don't I first time heard of that. Okay. On the 21st of January, finally Lavra finds out where Blinken is. He happens to be in in Geneva. He say, "Hey, what about that promise?" and and uh and Lav says forot Lav asks blink blink says that forget about it that we weren't with the president when he made that promise but he when you say he made that promise now we can put offensive strike missiles in Ukraine anytime we want anytime the Ukrainians asked that they will ask us uh they we could we'll talk about maybe limiting the number of them or or something like that that's the 21st of January. On the 12th of February, the last talk between Biden and and Putin um Ushakov's readout, the US gave no meaning to meaningful response on the deployment of strike missiles systems in Ukraine or on NATO expansion. Now what what I'm saying here is that look uh Biden may not have been really act in control of his people but to the degree that precedent is set that underlings uh can can can undercut the president on an important uh promise like this. No no no offensive strike missiles in Ukraine. My god. So, uh, that's one of the more little known but really important, um, what's the word? Uh, deceptions that the US has exercised in relations with Russia. Now, Russia sees a new kind of leader. They think it's more a hope than a thought that they can deal with Trump. Uh, I think they're willing to be very gingerely and not alienate him. But I think in the final analysis, this is the only prudent course because as Putin made very clear in Valdai, we're winning for God's sake. We're winning. And he he actually discerned the fronts, the north front, the metal front in which we're winning. And so it's a matter of time in Ukraine. And if there's no agreement, well, we still want to make sure that you and the Germans don't put middle or intermediate range ballistic missiles in Germany. For God's sake, forget about it. You agree, Scott? Let me add this. It's not just what we want. We don't have any missiles to deploy to Germany. The Dark Eagle is a joke. It's a failure. It doesn't work. Um, you know, they they it I think uh in December they did a test. It's not out of the original launcher, but they did a test. They did the whole system check and the missile launched and it went out and hit. But uh the report from the Pentagon is that um it's not lethal. Uh the the the Dark Eagle system and it's very expensive system doesn't kill the target it's supposed to aim at. They don't they can't establish lethality factors. Another thing is the system hasn't been gone through the whole um you know survivability thing. You know, one of the things that we've learned watching the Ukraine conflict is uh you know the the Russians shoot down higher missiles, they shoot down attackums missiles, they shoot down glide bombs, they shoot down everything and they jam everything. The US is saying that you everything we send in that requires GPS or some sort of is jammed by the Russians. uh Dark Eagle in order to do this thing, you know, it's two-stage system, releases this glide vehicle that then comes in uh from Mach 17, slows down to Mach 5, maneuvers, and hits. All that maneuvering is done because there's a whole bunch of electronics inside there that say maneuver, maneuver, do this, photograph, da da da. None of that's been hardened. They haven't tested it. And the Russians will just put up one of their electronic warfare things and go beep and there goes Dark Eagle into the D. Dark Eagle doesn't work, can't survive, and doesn't kill. Um, right now, I think the the the earliest Dark Eagle can be deployed as a system is 2027, and that's probably going to slip even more because it just doesn't work. Um, so I think that's another reality is that, you know, this this pressure, you know, this timeline of, you know, we're going to deploy Dark Eagle to to Germany sometime in the summer of 2026. I don't think that's going to happen. Um, and that sort of takes some pressure off, too. Um, and I don't know if Dark Eagle's ever going to work because the moment you start hardening that hypersonic warhead, you start changing things. There's only so much space inside it. and um the materials that are used to absorb the heat and allow it to maneuver. Uh you start playing with that and you got a whole different warhead design and off you go back to the uh to the design board and it's going to take Boeing and everybody else years before they can adapt to this. So I I think that's another reason, you know, the Russians aren't stupid. Everything I'm telling you comes from open sources. Uh the Russians follow open sources as well as we do. And I think the Russians probably have their own sources. And I I just don't see the Russians panicking about Dark Eagle. They prefer the United States not do it politically. They would encourage the United States to decouple itself from the commitment that was made about Dark Eagle. But the fact is, just like the Tomahawk, it's a threat that just isn't going to manifest itself. Not anytime soon. Great points. Let me let me add just one thing here. You know, paper tiger has come to the four again. Uh the Chinese used to call the Chinese call the Russians a paper tiger five decades ago and call us a paper tiger. Well, is the you know I just have to say that I've been around a long time. I've never seen a situation where the Russians outstrip us in every thing but the most sophisticated strategic weaponry. Uh this is I mean it it I just asked uh Scott to to confirm this. In other words, uh when when Putin couldn't get any movement to negotiate these things or delimit them in the middle of well 2014 2015 he said look we're going to go do it all ourselves and now they have. So would it be fair to say Scott that on every level except the nuclear strategic maybe well let's leave that one alone on every other level militarily the Russians are stronger than we are. I would say on every level they are um let me just put out this reality. Uh the Minute Man 3 is a system that's long outlived its utility. um supposed to be replaced by the Sentinel missile. When they announced the Sentinel missile, I took one look at that program and having been in the missile inspection business, which means that I was thoroughly familiar with Morton Thia with uh the former Hercules plant. I know how we build missiles. I know what goes into it. I know missile design. I know the whole thing. Um I looked at it and I said, "This is never going to work." Um the timelines are unrealistic. uh everything, the new technologies, um said the the the Sentinel they're going to build isn't going to fit into a Minute Man silo, and the budget doesn't include new silos. Um and you're never going to be able to build this missile. It's going to last forever. It's going this is a program that's going to go on until 2050, 2060, and it's going to cost us over a trillion dollars by the time it's done. And people listening, ah, come on, Scott. You're just an old keragin. You don't know what you're talking about. Congress just pretty much canceled Sentinel Missile this year because it doesn't fit in the silo and it costs too much and it's, you know, they they had to put something in the in the the way it works is when you let a contract out, as the contract goes, if the price spikes, Congress stops to prevent what's happened in the past where F-35 programs take on a life of their own. And so the Sentinel program spiked right from the beginning as I knew it would because it's just a stupid missile. And they shut it down. They reconfigured. They relet contracts release contractors. And then it went again and all spike shut it down. Congress went screw it. Now they're extending the Minute Man 3 until 2050 because we can't. Meanwhile, the Russians are looking at the RS missile which is they just put out and they're going, "Uh, nah, we need something better. We're going to call it the Cedar. We're going to do the Cedar missile. And why don't we try some innovative stuff? Because the United States is talking about putting drones out there that are going to fly in the vicinity of our launches and try and shoot us in the boost phase. How do we defeat the boost phase? What if we build a solid rocket engine that has the ability to alter its trajectory? Launch fast then slow down and launch and maneuver. And this is going to require some new fuels and some composits and all this. And why don't we get it done in a year and a half? And they did. Did they? Oh, yeah. They're launching it now. Uh, you know, the the Russians, they their their system works. It just works. They got these experts that are crazy crazy experts. I mean, these guys are just genius. The Moscow Institute for Thermal Technology used to be called the Nataraji Design Bureau. These are guys who designed the SS20, SS25, uh the the TopoM, uh Yars, Cedar, Areshnik. Um you know, these are the guys that are just they're good and they just sit there and they design new and then they have all around them they have the guys who do solid rocket motors, the guys that do uh composits and they just come up with ideas. They talk to each other and next thing you know weird things are happening. Um, we don't understand archnik because and again the postal is a man who I have nothing but the highest respect for. He's 20 times smarter than me which is why he's an MIT professor. Um, and he is not a fan of arric. He has done I've read his stuff and I can't I can't counter it. He he uses physics. There's certain laws attached to physics. You know, you can't make up physics. And he says it can do X Y and Z. And yet I'm looking at certain Russian institutes that are peripherilally linked to this uh institutes that get into exotic ceramics that get into exotic chemicals that get into nano particles and suddenly we have uh you know magnesium hydrogen able to replicate hydrogen bomb with small things and I'm like is there something else going on here? For instance, the arric that Russia fired into Nepro were these inert rounds because they they came in hot but they didn't blow up. But Putin's sitting there going, "Nah, we fire one of these and it's going to have the equivalent of a of a nuclear bomb, the devastation that's done." And the going, "That ain't the equivalent, and you can't get it with that." Something seems to be missing from this equation. And I'm just saying that the Russians are so far ahead of where we are and how we think and what we do. Um that you know they're better than we are. And the sad thing is we are so corrupt our defense industry has stopped being about providing the best weapons for the American war fighter and about how to make as much money for the um you know to to the shareholder. We are broke. We are fundamentally broke. And again, again, Ted Postol did this. He he brought to our attention, I'm sure you saw the article, uh, Ray, about um, the contract for Golden Dome. It's $150 billion giveaway. And the way the contract's written is we're going to give you $150 billion and you don't have to do a damn thing. Literally, don't do anything. Just you don't have to deliver anything. You don't have to write anything down. You don't have to do anything. But we hope at the end, we hope at the end you'll build the best defense system in the world. But we're tired. See what happened is the defense industry said, like a sentinel. Hey, come on. Our model is to bid low, you guys do it, and then we raise the price. And so by the time it's done, you're paying, you know, 100 times more per missile, and that's how we make money. And Congress said no. And put that cap on the spike. And so now the way they've got around this is is they've led a contract that says here's 150 billion. Don't do anything. You don't have to do literally the contract says that for 10 years they don't have to do anything. No deliverables, no plans, no oversight, no Congress, no nothing. $150 billion giveaway. That's our system. I can guarantee you this. if the general staff and the uh in the presidency said we need a missile that does X Y and Z and they turned that concept loose on Russian defense industry in two years you'd have a missile that does X Y and Z and it would be under cost. That's a system that works. And this is where we're going to lose it guys because we we become so corrupt. Dwight Eisenhower's military-industrial complex, the the corruption of that has come to roost. We have a trillion dollar military that can't do squat and it's only going to get worse. Maybe Pete has people to do pull-ups and sit-ups and all that stuff, but the weapons they're going to be using ain't going to work. That was Hey, Scott, you're you're forgetting the F-35. Oh, no. I didn't I just didn't want to remember it. Tell us tell us what the government just did about the F-35. Well, maybe you know something I don't. Um, no, it was something to the effect that well, you know, we're closing that program down. It doesn't really met the specifications. Same thing we did with the F-22. I mean, you talk to all these, you know, Air Force guys, you know, and they're like F-22, F-35. I mean, it just, you know, we flip them up, they go like this, and they're great because they're American planes. I'm Top Gun. I can do it all. Maverick and Iceman and Goose. And the F-22 program got shut down because it sucks. And the F-35 program just got shut down because it sucks. And what do we have? More programs that suck. The smart move right now, if I were the Secretary of Defense, is I'd shut everything, one of these advanced, you know, Gen 5, Gen 6 airplanes down. And I go to I just say make the F-18 better and make the F F-15 better. Uh if you want if there's a way you can breathe live into the F-16, do it. Proven airframes, proven designs. We don't need all this fancy crap. We just need planes that take off, shoot down other planes, bomb targets, and do their thing that we can afford because we can't afford this anymore. I mean, it's crazy. Uh the F-35 doesn't work. People don't talk about it. One day the after report will be written about the Israeli Air Force and how much this war cost them. You know, every time that plane takes off, you know, the the the radar absorber material, which is highly classified, we're not allowed to talk about it. Um, it peels off, you know, it flies through weather, sand, all this. So, when it lands, it has to be retreated. And that's a whole process. And it costs a lot of money. Nobody talks about it. So, we need more push-ups and we more less hair on our face, you know, otherwise we'll be all right. No beards. No beards. Well, no, this has been very very educational for me because, you know, I'm I'm I'm around been around for a while and the US has always been superior in at least the strategic area and that's no longer the case. And uh you know you could talk about the hedgeimon descending and losing influence and all but if the same is true with respect to relation to the comparison with the Russian military you know people have to realize that and that's why I really appreciate programs like yours Danny where we can talk about this stuff freely and I can ask innocent or not so innocent question and get the real poop from somebody who knows which end is up. Yeah, very true. I know. Uh I've kept you guys for quite a while, you all. And I really enjoyed that last part there. I just want to pull one thing up if you guys wanted to comment on this before we head out of here. Wanted to pull this up because it it really does u this is herets. It really does back up what you're saying, what you've said, Scott, and and you uh Rey, even if it loses governance of Gaza, Hamas has achieved its goal. And I want to just pull up what those achievements are. According to Harets, this is actually just breaking. Uh it's ending with two major achievements. First, restoring the topic of Palestinians to the global agenda. And then the second is emptying out Israel's prisons, which they of full of Palestinians, mind you. Um which is a huge point for them uh for the Palestinian people. One of the biggest demands uh and they have won it. So, uh, any final thoughts on this or any any thoughts on this? Because it know it almost it kind of makes the point that, uh, there is a lot, uh, there was a lot of resistance that bore out, I think, a lot of results. Um, Scott, I said at the beginning, I'll say it again. Hamas won. I know there's people in your chat who disagree with me, think I'm crazy. I don't care. Maybe I am crazy, and you have every right to disagree with me, but I'm right on this one. I was right when I spelled out uh Hamas's objectives right after October 7th. Um I said, "This is why they're doing it. This is how they're going to do it." I said, "They're going to suck Israel in and get Israel to commit mass murder at that time." Very controversial thing to say because oh my god, that means Hamas is is facilitating. Yes, Hamas sacrificed the people of Gaza to get a Palestinian state. Just like Charles de Gaulle sacrificed tens of thousands of French civilians so the allies could land in Normandy and begin the process of liberating France from Nazi Germany. Um it's horrible, horrible. But Hamas did it and now they've won. They're on the path to victory and I think Harets captures that perfectly. Yeah. And just a quick note on that before you come in right for the final comment. Uh I uh not not only do I agree with that, Scott, it also uh stands to reason that uh Palestinians themselves and those who we have to remember that uh Hamas has been the the governing party in uh Gaza and far more popular than the so-called Palestinian Authority. And uh for many in the resistance uh there the vision of any other option was not really there because as so many commentators have said the resistance has exhausted all of the options and this was the one that they took uh to achieve their goals and they're well on their way. Uh Rey, your thoughts? I don't really have much to add on on that particular issue. I guess I come across as more skeptical as to whether Netanyahu and the others will live up to their part of the deal. Uh we'll just have to see. I'd like to revisit this in about two weeks to see how things eventuate. I don't think Netanyahu would hesitate from violating his terms. Even though uh the deal bears the imprint of the signature of Trump, what the only kind of uh right thing I could see in this is that if it holds uh then Trump is sitting pretty and he might have moral latitude to move on things like getting really decent talk going with Russia on things that's so ripe for resolution uh that that might en enable him to do that. That's the only thing I can see if the deal holds and I'll just let it rest at that. Careful, Ray. You're sounding a lot like a MAGA guy. You're s you're Trump has you wrapped around his little finger, Ray. You're sitting there stroking the Donnie, baby. I'm just I put my MAGA I put my MAGA hat over here so you nobody can see it. Yeah. Hey, thanks Danny. This is really good. Yeah. No, you know, for for that comment too, Scott, it's like, you know, sometimes there are circumstances that move well beyond uh the the personalities and whatnot of uh our US political class that I think we illuminated pretty well here. Um that being a MAGA is right. And yet because of what he just said, there are comments in your chat that Ray McGovern's been sold out, bought by MAGA because he dare speak realistically. I mean, Mayor Copa, Mayor Copa, Mayakopa, the scarlet badge, right? Uh, well, gentlemen, this was great. We'll head off together. I just want to point to the video description where you can find that substack. You can find Scott's YouTube channel. You can find Ray's uh Twitter X account. You can also find Garly Nixon who is here with us early. Had to leave after the hour. You can find his YouTube channel. Anything else uh you guys want to missing about sharing regarding No, thank you very much. Uh I'm going to reiterate uh this has been a very valuable program. Um, I think anybody who saw it and um listened uh learned. So, thank you very much, Danny. And I would just add uh support Danny Hong. I mean, um you know, you you know, thank you for saying support me and support Ray and support Garland, but support Danny Hiong. You're the one who put this show together. And uh people if they want to have similar programs of this nature, um throw, you know, throw u throw the support behind Danny. But thanks for inviting me. Of course. Appreciate it always. So everyone, you heard Scott. Hit the like button. That is a big way to support um if you can't do it financially, but if you can do it financially, Patreon, Substack, and so much more are in the video description, too. With all that said, everyone, I'm over and out. I'll be on Sunday with John Kyaku and uh Joe Lauria. So friends from Consortium News, who I know you both um have done a lot of work with. So let's get out of here. Take care, everyone. Have a good rest of your day, evening, morning, wherever you are. Bye-bye.
Trump HUMILIATED In Front of ENTIRE WORLD as ICE PLANS IMPLODE Katie Phang Oct 9, 2025
Till Eckert, a German investigative journalist, witnessed firsthand the violent assault of an Ecuadorian woman by an ICE agent in the halls of the NYC immigration courthouse. He joins Katie Phang to talk about what he’s seen
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Just a few weeks ago, German investigative journalist Till Eert here in the United States on a special fellowship exchange witnessed firsthand the violence at the hands of the Trump administration's immigration draconian immigration crackdown. He was at that New York immigration courthouse in the hallway with a young Ecuadorian woman who was violently assaulted and shoved to the ground by an ICE agent. He captured it on video and he wrote about it for ProPublica. Till Eert and I had the chance to sit down to talk about his observations as somebody who lives in Germany and is witnessing what is happening in the United States. He says he's alarmed and I don't blame him. We talk about what happened to that woman, Monica, that day and why it's so important to be focusing on how this is going on and and why this is happening. And joining me now from Berlin, we are so grateful for his time is investigative journalist Till Eert. Till, it's so nice to see you. How are you doing? Doing good. Hi Katie. Hi Till. So thanks again. Like I like I noted you are in Berlin. You came to the United States, spent a few months here as a part of your investigative journalism. Get the viewers kind of caught up quickly on what was the purpose for you coming to the US. Sure. Um, I was part of uh an fellowship program. It was like more an exchange program between journalists. It's an international trans uh Atlantic exchange program where 10 German journalists would get sent to the US and 10 US journalists would get sent to Germany. It's called the R4F Burns Fellowship. and I had the pleasure to uh be hosted by ProPublica, which is by the way for everybody who tunes into my channel till I am a huge fan of ProPublica. I am always saying to people to not only subscribe but to follow because their pieces are truly tip of spear when it comes to investigative journalism. So that was part of the reason why I noted your article from September 25th. Um, before I get into that though, I wanted to ask kind of what were your expectations before you came to the US? Seeing how you are in journalism, you are totally up to speed on kind of global politics and everything that's going on. What were your expectations as to what you thought it was going to be like when you came here? Well, I've been kind of alarmed to be frankly honest with you um because of the pictures I have seen like of masked agents uh sweeping people off the streets. So, I was just wondering and I was curious to see it with my own eyes and witnessing what was going on here in the in the states. And that was a huge part of that piece you did for ProPublica. You spent time reporting on the immigrant neighborhoods and you went to emergency rooms, churches, ICE field offices, and then you spent two weeks every day going to the federal immigration courthouse in Manhattan. And on that morning, this is something that you caught yourself on video. We're going to play it right now. And it's two clips back to back we're going to play. So, let's take a watch and a listen. [Applause] [Music] till that was really hard to watch. Um, that woman uh just shoved to the ground, slamming her head on the floor. Her name is Monica Moreta Galarsa. And for those of us that don't speak Spanish and didn't understand, in that second video, she was explaining that she had come to the United States from Ecuador and that people were routinely beat in her home country of Ecuador and she didn't think that she'd come to the US and the same thing would happen to her till we've seen these videos. Now, talk about what it was like to witness it firsthand and and kind of what happened that day. Yeah. So that morning, it must have been like 10:00 a.m. Um I was walking into the building and then driving up with the elevator to um floor 12 um with another photographer um another journalist colleague. Um and we've been hearing as soon as we were walking out of the elevator, we were hearing those distressed like this screams of Monica um around the corner. So, we were like walking out of the elevator around the corner and have seen what we are what we just saw in the video um like um right before like the stairwell. Well, usually like um ice agents would bring um immigrants down to another floor. And apparently this had just happened to Monica's husband and this was why Monica was very upset. And uh we can also see in this video her children were there. Um, we would hear I would see and hear the children screaming. Um, Monica screaming of of course being upset like speaking Spanish to the Ice Age and asking him uh whether she's allowed to come in with him. She's afraid that he will get hurt and that was um it was um quite it was quite a shocking thing to see. Um it was an escalation for sure. Um, I could feel the tension um in this hallways rising like the days before. Um, every time when when an arrest happens short before, you could you can tell that ICE agents are getting nervous like they're tipping from one foot to the other to the other like you could you could just feel that there is tensions rising and um so that was like a culmination and escalation for sure. Well, there was one ICE agent in particular, and it definitely was a big scuffle, right? But there was that one man in particular. He's been identified by a first name of Vincent. We don't know his full name, but he's the one who's shoving her to the ground, and he's also the one who was mocking her. We could hear him on the video saying, "Adios. Adios to her, maybe even to her husband." You know, till you mentioned her children were there. They were so little and they were witnessing all of this. Not only their father getting arrested, but now their mother being slammed to the ground. That's correct. Like first correction uh beforehand little correction like the agent's name as we heard it is Victor although we cannot be cannot be sure if this is his real name. Okay. But yeah so children were there. They were witnessing um their father taken away by masked men. Well those are children. They don't know what is happening. They're just seeing like masked men taking their father away. Um and then of course Victor as you just said um yelling at Monica um adios and as I'm hearing in the video and as I understood like one time he also said calles which means something like shut up um if I'm not mistaken um that was like right in the moment when he was uh standing like over her above her like and having his finger so the children were also they also had to witness is their mom getting slammed to the ground and then she had to go to the hospital. You went with her to the hospital. That was a part of that second clip where she was crying and saying that she didn't expect to get beaten in the United States when that was something that was a regular occurrence in Ecuador, her home country. That's right. Um, so photographers and court observers were taking Monica out outside um of the a federal plaza right away and were been calling like um a priest from a local church who was then rushing um to us. Um and he was taking Monica first to Congressman Dan Goldman who then was watching the videos did a comment on that too. Um and then afterwards to the hospital where Monica got their got her checkups like um she was apparently seeing a neurologist. Um and um she was I guess like released like two hours or two and a half hours later. Um and yeah, we was we were we were there all the time. Till I got to ask you, you were there for two weeks in a row every day, right? looking and being a part of the energy as you spoke of in the hallways at this immigration courthouse. So these are people that are voluntarily appearing in court. They are doing a process that for all intents and purposes is the quote legal process, right, to be able to either get asylum or temporary protected status or citizenship or some way or means to be there. Explain to our viewers what it felt like. I know you were there in a professional capacity, but talk about what it felt like just as a human knowing that these people are going, knowing that there's the very real possibility they could just be taken into custody, whisked away, and never see their family again, but that they were there. Yeah. Well, there's there's no way you can you can watch that and just be be left stone cold. Um that's that's not a possibility. I mean, as you say, like the people are going there, they're playing by the rules. there are um they will go there to have their regular check-ins or their asylum case hearings. Um sometimes it it would be something about a marriage license or something like that. And um they are expecting due process and uh basic humanitarian protection too. Like this is what would what you would expect when you are going to a court. And to then walk in and to have to cross like sometimes 10 15 sometimes we saw 20 masked agents lining up like on this hallway like you have to cross and walk walk through them into the courtroom. That alone I've seen many people being so distressed and so um afraid. So, some of the arrests I've seen, um, I could I was I looked into the people's faces and I could see how shocked and paralyzed they were. They were just not understanding what was going on to them, right? Like they were they thought like they're doing everything right. Um, some people, um, I guess even Monica said they thought these people are there to protect them. They're there for their protection. Um, for some it turns out to be Yeah. the the opposite, right? And you're there and you are there again in a professional capacity. Um, but you're watching this. Was it even scary for you to kind of see this happening? Did you worry at all for yourself while you're in this? I mean, it it it gets pretty chaotic when they're when they're taking people into custody. Well, it's a delicate uh situation for sure. Um we have seen a colleague of ours like just a couple of days later um Turkish journalist um who got um shoved to the ground as well by an ice agent. It was just a couple of days later um for just trying to follow the agents into the elevator doing um making some making photographs, pictures, document what's going on. So for sure I knew from the get-go that this is a delicate situation and I would have to be pretty careful about like where I'm standing, what I'm doing, how I behave, how I talk. And so for me, I guess um the um I was not going there with a camera. So that was just me. It was me with my just I was I was there just like trying to observe the scene. Sometimes the phone of course like this video I just flipped out the phone and shot the video. Uh for sure if if something like that would happen. But uh other than that I was just standing there and trying to observe. I was like there were times where I would go like inside of the courtrooms as well which is something um journalists with cameras are not allowed to um but that was the reason I was not taking like any cameras with me. So, I knew it's I I need to be I need to be careful because um you could you could easily get caught up in in the chaos and sometimes you see those arrests and those detains that are like quite they're they're swift but they're also there's like sometimes people would stand in the way and they would get shafted away and then um it certainly can create like a like a dangerous situation. And so I was like for sure making sure to not be in their way. Your thoughts about hearing that that ICE agent was initially there was a declaration that that wasn't behavior. ICE made a declaration publicly. This is not behavior we condone. You know it doesn't meet with our professional standards. And then about three day three days later CBS News reporting that that ICE officer was placed back on duty after preliminary review of that incident. Yeah. uh that made the rounds uh quite quite quickly um with us like the people who were going there quite frequently. Um we were trying to verify that on the ground with um security personnel uh who were then telling us apparently he's reinstated. Apparently he's on another floor or another side. So we we could not be completely sure like I mean Katie um in the beginning we were not sure like what what does it mean like be relieved of duties? Like we we tried to follow up with DHS like what exactly does that mean? Like can you specify is he fired? Is he taking off the streets? What does it mean? DHS did not get back to us for a command and they did not until now. like we've I've been just this morning hearing that he was seen um in Federal Plaza by a photographer, but again I cannot verify it. I'm trying to um get um get a comment on that from DHS, but they were not responding on that. But yeah, it's uh the agent he was um let's say it's not the first time the agent raised eyebrows. um with um court observers and other photographers. So, some of them were not really surprised that something like that would happen. Um so, yeah. Um apparently he's back, but we cannot know for sure. There was an article in ProPublica on July 31st that talked about nearly 50 documented instances of immigration agents breaking vehicle windows. And we've seen it on social media, right, and on the news till we've seen the violent entries into people's cars to be able to drag people out. This is happening on American streets. And it's interesting because the article spoke that officers who are breaking the glass, they're not actually being disciplined. They're getting promoted. Like they're getting rewarded for this type of behavior like Victor exhibited with Monica and and other things that were quote eyebrow raising as you've noticed. You mentioned a few minutes ago too, Till part of what you did here coming from Berlin. You're an investigative journalist. You were alarmed by what you've been hearing and seeing have been the tactics by immigration here in the United States. There have been comparisons till to Germany, but Nazi Germany, right? The idea of having stormtroopers and people in the streets taking people into custody, rounding them up, this type of kind of crackdown on opposition. Do you think those are fair comparisons, Till? Well, I think um I think it's always hard to draw like direct direct comparisons between what happened back then in Germany and what happens right now in the US. But I'm I think it's sure to compare dynamics and functionalities um behaviors um of the authorities. Um, I think this is a fair game to do. And um, for sure I do understand why for many people masked um, federal agents on the street um, arrest like in unmarked vehicles um, coming and arresting people um, or in this courthouse um, could could lead to very unpleasant associations. So I understand that. Till, I also wanted to ask you as just a person. Um, I think it kind of doesn't get discussed often. Um, I call myself an independent journalist because I'm not affiliated with um, a media company, right? It's hard for us to be covering this day in and day out. It's hard for us to witness it to you literally kind of went through that firsthand experience with Monica in that hallway. Talk about the toll it takes on journalists. Um, it's it's a lot to to to hear it and to feel it and to and to be a part of that energy and to have to listen to the stories and to watch the tears and to see these families ripped apart. You got to make sure you are uh you look after yourself as a journalist too. It's very important, right? Um, I mean it's a job where you would constantly, especially as an investigative reporter, you would be constantly um confronted with like um individual stories or sometimes systemic um abuse that is power power abuse which is just very hard to to bear. Um so you got to take care of yourself. Uh it's a very important thing that meaning um for me that means uh just try to eat well right like try to sleep well try to to get your workout in try to um so those are those are important things so I guess like those are the basics and whenever you need um someone to talk to it's it's also quite important to do that um fortunately in the newsrooms I've been working with like ProPublica in the but also correct teeth here in Germany. Um, all of the co-workers will always have an open ear um and would always like take their time to to to go and talk to you for a check in. So, um, yeah, that's it's not it's not easy, of course, but I guess it's it's our job to to look very closely and to document it and um, but yeah, in the same time take care of ourselves. Before you and I part ways, I wanted to ask you kind of quickly about an article that you bylinined with others for Corctif, which is also an amazing investigative newsroom. I was really impressed with the the articles I was able to read. You did an article in January of this year about Russian meddling in Germany's elections. And what I loved about reading it till was I was stunned. you um and your and your colleagues uh uncovered a Russian influence operation, a disinformation campaign that established a 100 fake websites ahead of Germany's general election earlier this year. The purpose to influence the election campaign through the spreading of disinformation um with the help of AI and then having right-wing influencers kind of spreading it. The article is fantastic and I'm going to tag it so people can read it, but it it was fake news stories published on websites that were spread by pro-Russian influencers in Germany. And one of the kind of like main interfering entities was Storm 1516, which targeted our US presidential elections in no in 2024 with the goal apparently of getting Donald Trump into office. People like JD Vance and Marjorie Taylor Green have spread Storm 1516's narratives. I mean, till it's terrifying and yet remarkably almost like um validating to hear your investigative journalism to prove that we've known that Russians have been meddling in these elections, but I didn't know that you were meddling in German elections. Yeah, we've been uh following this for quite some time. Um there are many um many hints and clues that like Russia uh not only tries to meddle with like elections but also tries to like provoke um Europe and Germany in particularly for a long time. I'm sure you've been hearing like the stories about the drones um um above um above Germany. I mean like above Poland. We have seen we have seen those news. So this is something that has been going on for for quite some time now. So yeah, it's it's quite real. We're following it for for quite some time now. Well, Till Eert, look, I I lauded you for your hard work. I'm grateful that this fellowship program allowed you to spend time here in the United States. I hope that there was something good that you got out of it. We got obviously your incredible work as an investigative journalist. Correct. Teeth is is is lucky to have you working there. And again, we're also grateful for ProPublica having you be a part of their newsroom when you were here in the United States. Thanks, Till Eert, for joining me today. I really appreciate it. Thanks so much for having me, Katie. Katie Fang here. We launched the Katie Fang News Channel in partnership with the Midas Touch Network so we could bring you the latest in legal and political news. Straight, no chaser. So, if you're a fellow trutht teller, hit that subscribe button and share the word about this channel so we can build a highinformation America
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Photographer Captures Pam Bondi’s Notes—and They’re a Doozy. Attorney General Pam Bondi came to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing armed with nothing more than lame canned attacks. by Edith Olmsted newrepublic.com October 8, 2025/10:37 a.m. ET https://newrepublic.com/post/201475/pho ... ring-notes
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi needed a cheat sheet of attacks to dodge Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s tough questions.
While sitting before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, Bondi repeatedly refused to answer questions from the Rhode Island Democrat about what happened to the $50,000 cash bribe border czar Tom Homan received from undercover FBI agents in 2024.
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst captured an image of the inside of a folder of notes Bondi referred to during questioning by Whitehouse. But her notes had nothing to do with her work as leader of the Department of Justice, or even the embattled border czar. Rather, Bondi had collected screenshots of social media posts, prewritten comebacks, and handwritten notes she hoped could give her a good “gotcha” moment.
The top of the folder showed a July X post from Whitehouse in which he’d called for an investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “No government official should be above the law,” he wrote.
Also included in the folder was a bulleted list of comebacks. Apparently, Bondi needed to prepare the remark “You are a total hypocrite” in advance.
[x] Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins Zoomed-in photo of Attorney General Pam Bondi's notes while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
She employed another one of her prewritten attacks when asked about Homan’s tax returns. “Senator, I would be more concerned if I were you when you talk about corruption and money, when you pushed for legislation that subsidized your wife’s company!” Bondi sneered.
“The questions here are actually pretty specific,” Whitehouse replied, undeterred. “So, having you respond with completely irrelevant far-right internet talking points is really not very helpful here.”
Below her catalog of clapbacks, Bondi had written a handwritten note “On Epstein” positing whether Whitehouse had ever accepted money from Reid Hoffman, who once invited Epstein to dinner. She used the tidbit to deflect from a question about whether the FBI had seized photos of President Donald Trump with half-naked young women from the safe at Epstein’s estate, as reported by author Michael Wolff.
“Do you know if the FBI found those photographs in their search of Jeffrey Epstein’s safe or premises or otherwise? Have you seen any such thing?” Whitehouse asked.
“You know, Senator Whitehouse, you sit here and make salacious remarks, once again trying to slander President Trump left and right, when you’re the one who was taking money from one of Epstein’s closest confidants, Reid Hoffman,” Bondi replied.
Again, Whitehouse continued unbothered. “The question is, did the FBI find those photographs that have been discussed publicly by a witness who claimed Jeffrey Epstein showed them to him. You don’t know anything about that?” he asked, and Bondi fell silent, having exhausted her scant notes.
It’s disturbing, but not surprising, that Bondi didn’t make actual preparations to answer tough questions from senators. It appears that the attorney general felt no obligation to be accountable to the American people about alleged efforts to cover up for Trump or his underlings, believing them all to be above the law.
