Bernie Is ALL-IN w/ War Mongers On Ukraine!
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Sad news, everybody. Very sad news. Bernie Sanders is sad. Why is Bernie Sanders sad? Well, he's going to tell us. Everybody for joining me to discuss a very, very serious issue. Yesterday, we witnessed an extremely sad moment in American history.

We saw the President of the United States aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy. Let's be clear: Trump is showing us that he sees one of the world's most brutal dictators as his friend and our longtime democratic allies in Europe as his enemies.

He wants a world that is safe for authoritarians and oligarchs, but extremely dangerous for democracies. Democracies like in Ukraine, where Zelensky has banned opposition parties, opposition TV networks, declared martial law. Dangerous things like elections happening. You saw Newsweek, right? That they're worried that the president could be voted out if Ukraine has elections. Oh, is that a...

So that's Bernie. He is very, very sad. He says Trump's aligning himself with authoritarians. Bernie, unfortunately, is aligning himself with the neocons who have led us to things like war in Iraq, war in Libya, war in Syria, who are fundamentally opposed to all the things he stood for throughout his career, which is rather than spending money on the Pentagon and proxy wars like in Ukraine, he's

spending money on social programs. But Bernie on this issue turned around and has voted every single time to fund this proxy war. And now after doing all that is upset at Trump talking about peace, which means Bernie, I guess, wants more Ukrainians to die. And he wants more U.S. taxpayer money to go into the enriching Raytheon and Lockheed Martin rather than being spent on social programs. I guess that's what I'm hearing here from Bernie. Does that make any sense at all? Really? I mean, look,

not to be collusion or tutorial about him but how does this make sense to anyone that he of his own free will does this it does not not this isn't how he feels you can see him being trotted out like a puppet every time he does this because it's so radically opposite of the thing everybody liked about him i like this is suspicious as marco rubio suddenly what happened trump got hold of your file rubio and now you're going to say a certain different thing

It will not surprise you when I tell you that Trump is lying, as he so often does. Yesterday, Trump said that Ukraine started the war. That's not true.

Russia invaded Ukraine twice. First in 2014, then again in 2020. All right. So actually, Trump didn't say Ukraine started the war. He talked about how Zelensky never should have started it. But that was in the context of Trump saying that Zelensky could have avoided all this had he just negotiated with Russia. That's what Trump was talking. It's so obvious if you listen to his comments. That's what he was saying. But regardless...

Whatever Trump says, Bernie is adopting a narrative that is just pure propaganda. This idea that Russia invaded in 2014. Again, he's forgetting that the U.S. backed a coup, the overthrow of a government.

And why did the U.S. back that coup? It's because that government, led by Viktor Yanukovych, was promising neutrality, which was actually in line with what most Ukrainians at the time wanted, to not be in any military alliance, whether it's NATO or a Russian military alliance. And Bernie, who knows some of this, he knows at least about the NATO part, about NATO's encroachment on Russia's borders, has just forgotten all of that. And it's just sounding like

Anybody else on MSNBC or CNN who wants to have a proxy war continue? Yeah, Bernie's not in charge of Bernie is how I take that because it's so ridiculous. Where was he on the Iraq wars? Were those cool with him? Does he have any harsh words for that or is he good for those on both of them? I think, well, he has a mixed record. He did vote for some measures that would authorize US military force, but ultimately 2003, he was against the Iraq. He was against that invasion. He was. Oh, well, he's really come a long way, hasn't he?

But what I find crazy about Bernie here in a stance here. Okay. Even if you, even if you were to say, okay, Bernie, you're like, you're focused on Medicare for all domestic issues. You're not really a foreign policy guy. It's not your forte anymore. Okay. Like you're ignorant about geopolitics. Let's grant him that. Okay. What, what, what I find amazing about Bernie is Bernie is parroting a narrative that has been used to sabotage him. Okay. So remember, that's why I don't believe it. It's him for real. You know,

Well, back in March 2020, when Bernie was running for president in the primary against candidates including Joe Biden, right when Bernie was surging in the polls, he was doing well, he was about to win in Nevada, all of a sudden...

anonymous US intelligence officials, the same ones who were behind Russiagate, framing Trump as a Russian agent, came out and said that Russia is supporting Bernie Sanders. I remember that, yeah. The aim of that was so obvious. Just as they tried to frame Trump as a Russian agent by tying him to Russia falsely, they were trying to do the same thing to someone else who they deemed to be a threat to the establishment, Bernie Sanders. And Bernie Sanders knew this, but yet he went along with it. So this is Bernie being asked about this back in March 2020. Yeah.

I've seen Russia and other countries interfering in our election. The intelligence community has been very clear about it. Whether Trump recognizes it or not, or acknowledges it or not, they did interfere in 2016. The intelligence community is telling us they are interfering in this campaign right now, in 2020. And when I say to Mr. Putin, if elected president, trust me, you are not gonna be interfering in American elections. Senator, when were you briefed on this?

I'm guessing about a month ago. And what are you going to do now that you know this? Well, it was not clear what role they're going to play. We were told that Russia, maybe other countries are going to get involved in this campaign.

So even there, Bernie's acknowledging he was actually told they have no evidence. It's not clear what role they were going to play in backing him. So why don't you make that the headline here? He said, why don't you say, actually, they gave me no evidence at all. And this is just because it's the intelligence community. The intelligence community told him their community of intelligence, the intelligence community. And what they say is true, as you've seen over and over again through history.

And look, here is the message to Russia. Stay out of American elections. And what they are doing, by the way, the ugly thing that they are doing, and I've seen some of their tweets and stuff, is they try to divide us up. That's what they did in 2000.

They're trying to divide us up Russia. Yeah, exactly. He's blaming Russia actually for what the U.S. intelligence officials behind this were doing and their allies in the Democratic Party. They're the ones who are trying to divide the country by painting you, Bernie, as a Russian asset. And rather than call that out, you're catering to it. It's so pathetic. Yeah, well, it's back in line.

Like I said, I every day more suspect the wild allegations of his blackmail because he acts just like a guy that that very thing happened to. And this isn't the only time that Bernie did this. So after the 2016 election where Hillary Clinton lost because voters were so repelled by her neoliberal neocon legacy, that was a moment for Bernie Sanders to take the reins of the party because, you know, there are many people who

who voted for Trump, who would have voted for Bernie because Bernie represented some populism, like an anti-establishment sentiment. But rather than take the reins, take the opportunity, Bernie Sanders played into the Russia scam that Hillary Clinton used and her allies used to basically keep their stranglehold over the party. So to the point where Bernie Sanders even went to the Senate floor and he introduced this resolution against Russian interference.

Mr. President, today we face an unprecedented situation of a president who, for whatever reason, refuses to acknowledge the full scope of the threat to American democracy. Either he really doesn't understand what is happening, and that's possible, or he is under Russian influence.

because of compromise, compromising information they may have on him. So that's Bernie Sanders telling Hillary Clinton, Hey, rather than me calling you out and saying your era is over, I'm going to kiss the ring. I'm going to parent your stupid conspiracy theory that you invented and paid for that. Trump is a Russian agent. That's Bernie Sanders. He said they, Trump is compromised and they're probably blackmailing him is what Bernie's. I say, whoever smelt it, dealt it. Yeah.

or because he is ultimately more sympathetic to Russia's authoritarian, oligarchic form of government than he is to American democracy. Is that what we have? Congress must act now. Democrats must act. Republicans must act if we are serious about preserving American democracy. You know why Putin's authoritarian?

Because he controls the oligarchs and not the other way around. That's why. That's what they mean when they say authoritarian. They mean he doesn't even let the oligarchs tell him what he's going to do. Seriously, remember Putin shook them all down. Good for him. I never even liked Putin, by the way. I like him better than Hillary. I think it's safe to say that that's a fair on the moral compass.

And again, and what is Bernie playing into here? Also, he's trying to, he's playing into the, again, the Hillary Clinton invented conspiracy theory that the emails and documents released by WikiLeaks all came from Russia. And what did they show? They showed that the DNC was biased against Bernie. They were conspiring against him. And to deflect from that, they framed Russia for this and they framed Trump as an agent of Russia. And Bernie, rather than calling out the corruption against them, plays into the Hillary Clinton scam that Russia is just behind all of this. It's just, yeah.

It's just one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in political. When is it? When was this? Was this before my favorite Canadian incident where the, they saluted a Nazi in their house? Yeah. Well, this is, this is July, 2018. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So that's Bernie.

And so at every turn he's played into this and, you know, I just to show who he's listening to and why he was not getting the best advice back in. So fast forwarding again, back to March, 2020, when the Hill, when the intelligence officials tried to claim falsely that Russia was backing Bernie Sanders, they received a briefing and Max Blumenthal of the gray zone went to an event where Matt dust was speaking. Matt dust is a,

was at the time an aide to Bernie Sanders, his senior foreign policy advisor, Matt Duss. Matt Duss is a strong proponent of the Ukraine proxy war and a strong critic of anybody who dares to oppose it, like Max and the Gray Zones. And so Max went to an event where Matt Duss was speaking, and he said, hey, did the U.S. intelligence officials give you any evidence

that Russia was backing Bernie and watch how Matt does response. Okay. I also heard that, um, Bernie sent that Russia was interfering for Bernie Sanders and the campaign's response has been to, um,

In the words of Ro Khanna, trust the intelligence agencies, including apparently people who operate in a clandestine fashion. Why doesn't the Bernie Sanders campaign ask for the evidence? Why hasn't there been a demand to see the evidence or make public the evidence?

So in other words, rather than play into yet another Russiagate scam, why don't you call it out and ask for evidence? They're attacking you. They're attacking you, the Bernie Sanders campaign. Why are you playing along with it? That's what Max is basically asking here. It's a good question. What are the consequences of continuing to play defense against

when this Russiagate narrative won't go away. You know, Russian interference, you know, as has been reported in the senator has said he was briefed on this question. He was briefed convincingly. He made his views clear. He does. So a little quiet. If you heard, if you couldn't hear it, he said the senator was briefed convincingly. What does that mean?

That yes, that they, they buy into it. They believe that Russia is backing the Bernie campaign. The Bernie campaign spokesperson, Matt does believe that yes,

I'm convinced that Russia is backing us. Okay. Not him. Bernie was, and he trusts that. Yes. Just trust the chain of command, I guess. Exactly. Just total subservience to the national security state. And that's why people like Matt does went on to support the Ukraine proxy war. Well, that was amazing. World peace order we've had for so long. Would you want to threaten that? How amazing it's been. So,

So, of course, Bernie Sanders' opponents in the Democratic Party, the neoliberal wing, people like Dan Pfeiffer, who was like one of the pod save guys and served in the Obama administration. Of course, they went wild with this because, of course, this served into their narrative. And this helped them out because they wanted to defeat Bernie. And, of course, that's what they went with. So this is Dan Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer, how do you pronounce it? Pfeiffer, that's correct. Responding to that narrative.

scam about Bernie being backed by Russia. It's very clear that when we say Russia is helping Bernie Sanders, they're not trying to help Bernie Sanders be president. They're trying to give Trump the opponent that Trump wants. They helped Bernie Sanders in 2016 to divide the Democratic Party. So there we go. Russia is trying to give Trump the opponent he wants. So if voters, if you go and vote for Bernie Sanders in this primary,

uh you're giving russia what they want because that's what donald trump wants so what they're saying is bernie's the weakest candidate against trump yeah why would they here's i don't get if somebody's popular why would russia need to interfere at all like it's not like the people like bernie or like trump for that matter russia's say-so means anything to them either way

He was already dividing it because people are sick of the Democrats. So I don't understand why Russia would need to be involved at all. How would it be smart for them to even invest in something like that? I guess they didn't really.

It makes no sense, except unless you're a neoliberal who's running on the same platform that Hillary Clinton lost on in 2016, and Bernie Sanders is a anti-establishment populist alternative, you need to find ways to discredit him. So they pulled out the very familiar Russiagate playbook, which was so successful that even Bernie Sanders played into it. And the real motives for this was actually made at the time by Robert O'Brien, who at the time, back in March 2020, was Trump's national security advisor.

And listen to what he said about the allegation that Russia was backing Bernie. Look, what I've heard from the FBI, you know, well, what I've heard is that Russia would like Bernie Sanders to to win the Democrat nomination. They'd probably like him to be president, understandably, because he wants to spend money on social programs and probably would have to take it out of the military. So that would make sense.

And look, the Russians have always tried to interfere with elections because they want to divide Americans. They want to undermine our democracy. But the idea that they want to influence the election and somehow cause the president to win, I just don't see it.

Russia wants me to have health care. Exactly. But they're my enemy. The one that wants to interfere so that we get affordable health care. Let's hear it one more time. To be president, understandably, because he wants to spend money on social programs and probably would have to take it out of the military. So that's why they tried this out against Bernie Sanders. He's not talking about Russia. He's talking about the national security state.

which wants to undermine a candidate who wants to spend money on social programs and take it out of the military. What do they do? They accuse him of being a pawn, a puppet of Russia, being backed by Russia. And he is a pawn in the respect that he's such a dupe that he goes along with it. He undermines his own cause. And that's what Bernie Sanders is still doing today by decrying the fact that Trump is making peace with Russia. And Bernie, I guess, wants war.

Yeah, he's just a punk, man. It really is. Look, we spend the most, like every other statistic, we spend the most for the worst outcomes. That includes our wars, which we have not won since when? The World War II, which war did we win since then? Grenada?

Golf one. I'm not even counting that one, honestly. But maybe you want to say golf one. But so we have six times more than everybody. Right. And haven't won or even declared war for the last 80 years. And we're going to lose that beautiful system soon.

Bernie Sanders, who spent some of his career taking noble stances, opposing the national security state, supporting Medicare for all, right now he's decided to be full lockstep with the same people who tried to not only undermine him, but undermine the causes that he's long supported. That's Bernie Sanders. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week, and

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I'm Aaron Maté here with Hans Monke. He is author of Swift Boating America, Exposing the Russiagate Fraud from the Steele Dossier to the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation. And a person who helped expose the Russiagate Fraud, along with our guest Hans, is Kash Patel, who is the new director of

of the FBI. And because now we have a new director of the FBI in Kash Patel who exposed Russiagate, we also have Tulsi Gabbard who has taken over as director of national intelligence and will have declassification authority and has called out the Russiagate fraud. In fact, in a confirmation hearing recently, Tulsi Gabbard noted that the intelligence agencies have been weaponized

to frame a president as a Russian agent talking about Trump. And so we have a new opportunity now to get disclosure on what I think, Hans, is one of the biggest scandals and scams in US history. And I say this not as a fan of President Trump, I come from the political left, but when you have the intelligence agencies, not all of them, by the way, elements of them, this was not all the intelligence officials who were on board with this, it was some elements,

helping to frame on behalf of a democratic presidential candidate, a leading, a rival candidate as a Russian agent and all the consequences that have resulted, including I think the war in Ukraine, because I think Russiagate made diplomacy with Russia impossible and helped lead to the climate that we're in now in this proxy war with Ukraine. I think that's a major scandal, no matter which side of the political spectrum you sit on. And amazingly, despite the,

All the fraud, all the lies, and all the lies that we know about, there has not been any accountability. There was one indictment of one FBI agent, but he got off with a slap on the wrist. And aside from that, nothing. And what I want to hear from you now is, now that

Cash Patel is in at the FBI. I know that Tulsi Gabbard is in as director of national intelligence. Now that, you know, Republicans control both house of Congress and have their own declassification authority and their ability to get into what has been kept from the public. What's at the top of your list in terms of what you want to find out that we still don't know about when it comes to Russiagate? I,

There's a particular document. It's a July 28, 2016 document. And before I describe it, I would add John Ratcliffe to that list. You really need all three of them. So you need Tulsi, you need Cash, and you need John Ratcliffe. I have humongous support and just...

John Ratcliffe, he did something amazing, which at the time he must have faced so much pressure. And this has to do with the document I'd like to see, or I'd like to see more of. Back in September of 2020, when there was no upside for him, he was the director of national intelligence, he revealed probably the biggest bombshell in the entire Russiagate saga.

to this day, and that was this document, the existence of this document. And this document shows and proves that on July 28th, 2016, so this is before the official investigation into the Trump campaign started, Obama was briefed in the Oval Office by John Brennan, and James Comey knew about this as well, that this entire scam was a Hillary Clinton campaign hoax.

So this was revealed, they knew. And then of course, you know, the immediate conclusion from that is, wow, Obama let it continue. He let it run on. He should have told them to cut it out at that point. So that to me, there you go, that's exactly the document. So to me, that's one of the holy grails. And I'd like that to be unredacted because, well, I'd like to know more about what exactly happened there. It's just...

I think when you said it's one of the biggest scandals or even the biggest scandal, I think you're absolutely right because you have the sitting president knowing this and despite that, he basically pours gasoline on the fire and makes it worse and then even weaponizes or allows the government to be weaponized against the incoming president. So that's a very, very important document. I'd say the other holy grail apart from this one is the DNC hack.

So everything's falling apart. Everyone now agrees that Steele is just made stuff up and or he was just fed stuff which is untrue and on and on and on. Everyone kind of knows all these things but the one thing they're still holding on to is that the DNC was hacked by Russia. The Russian government hacked the DNC and then gave the whole thing to Julian Assange. I never saw any evidence of that to this day. I've seen zero evidence of that. Now, it might be true. I don't think it's true but I have not seen any evidence and I

I'd like to know what there is, if anything at all, or what there is, which is, I think is what they have, which points in a very different direction as regards the DNC hack. I totally agree. And we're going to talk more about the DNC hack in a second. But before I address that, just on the first point you raised, and that was about these handwritten notes by John Brennan from his meeting with Obama in late July, 2016, right as the Russiagate investigation was being launched.

FBI investigating the Trump campaign for ties to Russia, including with Russia. John Brennan gives his briefing to Obama saying, hey, the Russians are aware of a plot by Hillary Clinton to frame Trump as a Russian conspirator and to tie him to Russian interference in the elections.

And rather than telling the public this, they kept this secret up until John Ratcliffe, as you said, who's now the director of the CIA, released this in September 2020. We didn't find out about this until September 2020, long after the damage was done. And moreover, so you have that warning to Obama in July 2016. And then what happens in September 2016?

Brennan sends a criminal referral to the FBI, to Peter Strzok and to Jim Comey saying that, hey, you should know, by the way, that we are aware that Russia is aware of a plot by Hillary Clinton to frame Trump as a Russian agent. What happened to the criminal referral? The FBI just completely ignored it and kept pursuing the fake conspiracy.

conspiracy theory concocted by Hillary Clinton, despite being warned directly that, yeah, there's this thing out there that Hillary is trying to frame Trump as a Russian agent. And when Jim Comey was asked about this,

Later on in congressional testimony, what did he say? He said, I don't recall. I don't remember that. It doesn't ring a bell. You don't remember being warned that Hillary Clinton was trying to frame Trump as a Russian agent in a criminal referral that came from the CIA? And of course, why was that referral even sent? John Brennan knew there'd be a paper trail. He had to do something. He had to disclose that he was aware of this or else it would look too obvious that he was a part of this operation.

So, yeah, I'd love to know more. And listen, let me ask you, John Durham, special prosecutor appointed under Trump, he was supposed to investigate all of this. He interviewed Hillary Clinton, uh,

not very aggressively. He interviewed John Brennan. He tried to interview Jim Comey. Jim Comey said no. Peter Strzok, the FBI agent, the lead FBI agent on the Trump Russia probe, he said no. And John Durham just kind of accepted all this. He didn't try to subpoena any of them. And ultimately, he released a report that, yes, it was damning for the FBI, but I think was way too mild. And I think he went way too soft on the FBI here. And I'm curious, you know, your thoughts on why John Durham, despite being empowered,

theoretically at least, to go find the answers, turned up such a relatively milquetoast report. You're absolutely right. That's what it is. John Durham had his wings clipped in the summer of 2020. I do not know what happened there, but I know it happened. So something happened. So up until that point,

He was all gung-ho about going after the FBI, going after the government actors. And by the way, his mandate, which Attorney General Bill Barr had given him, and we have it, and we have it in writing, is to find out the FBI's role in this whole hoax.

because the FBI obviously seized upon the Clinton campaign hoax and kind of made it their own thing. They weaponized it to use it against Trump. And he had his wings clipped. Suddenly, he was no longer going after any government actors. Everything was fine on that side. It was just these private actors. So he went after Steele's supposed source, who wasn't a source at all, a guy called Igor Danchenko, and he went after one of these Clinton campaign lawyers called Michael Sussman, and that was it.

Now, I don't know what happened, but something happened in the summer of 2020. I'm hopeful we're going to find out what that was in terms of why John Durham was told, you know, don't go there, don't touch that. But yeah, that's something I'm looking forward to find out. All right. Well, you mentioned earlier you want to know more about the alleged Russian hacking of the DNC. And I totally agree with you.

We have so much evidence now to undermine that allegation. And remember, when this was lodged, this was like the Holy Grail. You could not question the allegation that Russia stole Democratic Party emails, gave them to WikiLeaks to help Trump and hurt Hillary. If you dared to question that, you were smeared as a Russian asset. And this was such also the fear monger around this, like people were calling this an act of war.

that Russia stole these emails. This was like a new Pearl Harbor, according to some of the voices, the prominent voices we heard for so many years back when Russiagate was at its height. But yet, as you said, there was never any evidence for this. And all the evidence that's come out actually undermines the allegation, including the admission under oath that

by Sean Henry, who was the president of CrowdStrike, which is the cyber firm working for the Hillary Clinton campaign, which first accused Russia of hacking the DNC, when he admitted that, oh yeah, by the way, we didn't have any concrete evidence that these alleged Russian hackers stole anything from the DNC.

And that admission was kept under wraps throughout the Mueller investigation until John Ratcliffe pressured Adam Schiff to finally release it. And that's one of these revelations that undermines this core allegation, which was so consequential because on top of fueling all this Russiagate turmoil inside the U.S. and all the political drama that came with that, it also raised tensions with Russia because how could you have diplomacy with Russia after they attacked our democracy? That was the line for so long.

So there's much more to learn on this, including on the role of CrowdStrike, which because just like Christopher Steele was working for the Hillary Clinton campaign, so was CrowdStrike. And so the two major allegations of Russiagate, collusion and Russian hacking were both generated by Hillary Clinton contractors. Collusion came from Christopher Steele and Russian hacking came from CrowdStrike. And now we know that CrowdStrike admitted under oath that they didn't have actually any evidence of Russian hacking.

And among the people who has talked about getting more answers on this is Kash Patel, the new director of the FBI. I interviewed Kash on the Jimmy Dore show in January 2023. And this is what he had to say about CrowdStrike and the allegation that Russia hacked the DNC.

investigation into all this and my problem with the CrowdStrike investigation part of the Russiagate matter is the FBI for the first time that I can ever recall contracted out its investigative authority and power to a private company that was run by James Comey's buddy Sean Henry who worked at the FBI for him for a long time and paid them to do it and why does that matter the American public doesn't really know this

CrowdStrike went to the DNC, took all the servers, and then said, we're going to analyze everything, and we're going to give you, the FBI, what we think is important. So we have never seen your full reports that you're talking about are that entire analysis that CrowdStrike did on the entire servers. And you have to ask the question, why don't they want that information out there if there's nothing bad to see? It's the same reason Gina Haspel, Mark Esper, Bill Barr, Chris Wray don't want the ICA report out there, because we expose government waste, fraud, and abuse in CrowdStrike.

The ICA, just for people who don't know, that's the report that was released right before Trump took office the first time in January 2017 that accused Russia of waging the sweeping influence campaign, interference campaign to install Trump in the White House that really tainted Trump's presidency before he even took office. And that was sort of the foundation for all the Russiagate allegations that have come ever since. And Kash Patel's

committee the house intelligence committee under devin nunez they wrote a report and showing out that that that ica report was seriously flawed but when cash patel wanted to release that in trump's first term gina haspel mark asper william barr all rebelled and trump overruled cash patel and has kept that ica report under wrap so that that's what cash is talking about here is that had that been released we would have the public would have seen how that initial in

intelligence, so-called intelligence report, which wasn't even an intelligence community report. It was written by people working for John Brennan, who was a major Russiagate fraudster, how that report was seriously flawed. And we were kept from seeing that. Corruption, which is our job at Congress, is not the job of government gangsters to blockade that. And the CrowdStrike reports are something this new subcommittee can subpoena. And that's a great idea. I hadn't thought of it.

So, and Cash is saying we should, the public should learn about these CrowdStrike reports, which the FBI, just as the FBI relied on Christopher Steele to pursue the collusion scam, the FBI also relied on another Clinton campaign contractor, CrowdStrike, for this foundational allegation of Russian hacking. And so Cash Patel is aware of that. And now he's in a position, if he wants to at the FBI, to do that.

To give the public more information about what actually happened and how the FBI was duped into relying not just on the steel. I shouldn't say duped how the FBI took part in relying on the steel dossier and also CrowdStrike's reports, which the public has not been able to see.

Yeah, no, I completely agree. There's a funny little anecdote here about CrowdStrike. You mentioned that when Sean Henry was under oath before Congress, well, we don't really know anything. We don't know how it was taken and when it was taken. And the weird thing on that is that

CrowdStrike was already on the scene at the DNC when the whole thing happened. They brought them in in April and then these documents were exfiltrated in one way or the other during the month of May right under their noses. So, you know, that's strange in and of itself. But leaving that aside, so you already mentioned that when he was before Congress, no, I can't really say, don't really know and so on.

But then you look in parallel to the statement put out by the company CrowdStrike. So they put out this press statement about their belief that Russia hacked the DNC. And what's so striking about that statement is not only that they make that, of course, it's not under oath, so they can say whatever they want. But then they say it's because a Senate committee has found so too, or the intelligence community or both have found that as well. But of course, they relied on the CrowdStrike report. So it's completely circular.

Exactly. Hans, we're going to leave it there. So any final words for us on now the FBI under the new leadership of Kash Patel and what the public deserves to know about the Russiagate scam that he helped expose?

first of all i wish him all the best he's going to have a lot of pushback it's not going to be easy um he's also going to have internal pushback of course it's not just russiagate there's there were so many things going on we had january 6 we had the the parents teacher thing we had the whole censorship you know the fbi had a back door into twitter with that guy elvis chan out in san francisco i mean that story is kind of almost forgotten but that happened too where they can go in and and you know censor people

They were active on so many different fronts. So he's got a lot of work ahead of him, a lot of cleaning up to do. It's not going to be easy.

I mean, I wish him the best of luck. I hope he's able to right the ship. And as far as Russiagate is concerned, just release the documents, just release the binder that we never got to see that Trump was supposed to release in 2021 on his way out and then it never got released. Release that, release the things we just talked about here, release it all and let people like us kind of do the rest, you know, and then focus on all these other things. That would be my wish.

Hans Monke, author of Swift Boating America, Exposing the Russiagate Fraud from the Steele Dossier to the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me.

House Republicans are putting together a new budget. And as part of that, Donald Trump has promised one thing. He says that Medicaid and Medicare will not be touched. Social Security won't be touched other than fraud or something. We're going to find it's going to be strengthened, but won't be touched. Medicare, Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched. Nothing. You don't have to. Now, if there are illegal migrants in the system, we're going to get them out of the system and all of that fraud.

But it's not going to be touching. So there you go from Trump. Medicaid, Medicare will not be touched. That is the promise from Donald Trump. But wait, Aaron, I thought Elon was secretly the president and he's really in charge. Well, we'll see. There's not a chance that nerd is the one in charge. Anybody that says that, you must be dumb. Have you watched Elon dance? He's not the alpha of anything. Right.

We're waving a chainsaw around. He is a happy nerd, but I meet these nerds all the time. None of them are in charge. None of them are the puppet master. They're dorks. Well, we'll see, because right after Trump made that promise about not touching Medicaid, he came out and endorsed the House Republican budget. And the House Republican budget calls for an $880 billion cut from the House committee that oversees Medicaid. And

The problem with that proposal is there's no way to make that cut to meet that goal of $880 billion unless you touch Medicaid. And yet Trump is there endorsing the House budget. Now, someone who is opposed to this happens to be longtime Trump ally, former aide Steve Bennett. We see the math, and I mean hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts, hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts. And stop whining about entitlements. Get into that discretionary spending. Get into the Pentagon.

Get into Medicaid. Medicaid, you got to be careful because a lot of magas on Medicaid. I'm telling you, if you don't think so, you are dead wrong. Medicaid is going to be a complicated one. Just can't take a meat X to it, although I would love to. Why would he love to? Because I'm sure he's not like, say, oh, I just want everyone to die. They can't afford it. But does he think there's some affordable way to have health care for old people without Medicaid? Is that what it is? Because I never hear this plan.

I never hear it either. And here's Steve Ratner on Twitter. The House Republican plan that Trump has endorsed is poised to slash Medicaid by around 10% and SNAP, which provides food benefits to low-income Americans, by around 20% and increase deficits by $2.8 trillion to pay for tax cut renewals. So Trump said we're not touching Medicaid, but yet he's endorsed a plan

that everyone says, and I've yet to hear an argument to the contrary, is going to cut Medicaid. And that's a betrayal of what Trump has already promised. But it does look like that's what Elon wants to take his chainsaw to.

That's Elon Musk with his chainsaw at CPAC. He's not the president. I mean, people say that. I'm like, are you dumb? You think that this...

This guy's the power behind the throne? No, he's not. At CPAC, he did talk about cutting money from what he called entitlements, which includes Medicaid. Let's hear him say it, and then we can react. The estimate from the Government Accountability Office is over $500 billion of fraud a year. $500 billion. And how long at a time?

Per year? Per year? On Social Security? No, no. On all government. On all entitlements? All entitlements. All entitlements, yeah. What are entitlements? What else counts as that? Well, they're actually programs like Medicaid and Social Security people pay into, but yet that's still considered an entitlement because it takes care of low-income people. So that, according to people like Elon Musk, is an entitlement because it takes care of low-income people. I'm entitled to it if I paid into it, I feel like.

Yeah. Yeah. And I feel absolutely entitled to it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's what it looks like. They want to cut. And so what is Trump going to do after he promised no cuts to Medicaid while now endorsing a house Republican budget that looks like it indeed is, is cutting Medicaid. It's going to put them in a position when many of the supporters, he has a large base of supporters who do rely on programs like, like Medicaid. I don't know. I'm curious to see what it was. Cause I always hear this stuff.

And then it turns out to be not exactly how they said. I've been watching real stupid breaking points takes from Crystal about how, oh, they said USAID was so bad, but really it's not that. And there's not a lot of fraud in the Social Security. I'm sure there's tons of fraud and all these things. And don't they not allow Medicaid to bargain with drug companies? Was that a provision that they were supposed to make that they never did? So they can't like...

you know, try to get better prices on drugs, which is a normal thing. They did finally under Biden. There was a provision that for a small number of, of pharmaceutical drugs over five years, it was nothing. It was nothing. It was actually enraging when I saw it. Yeah. But they all should be able to do that. I don't understand. So where's this waste?

People need those programs, but I have no doubt there are a bunch of people just stealing from it at the same time, which I bet you could clean up a lot of fraud and still have those programs. I don't know what you do about the Republicans that they want to just destroy it outright and they're going to try to hijack, just like last time, like that stupid heritage thing that dumb blue MAGA people always talk about, the Heritage 2025 thing.

I'm not supposed to fear 2030, but 2025 is the one I'm supposed to be upset about. Not the WEF 2030. You're supposed to pick your date of hitting goals, I guess, according to your politics. Is that what it is?

Well, you know, I think Trump faces a problem because, you know, he capitalized on the genuine resentment against the establishment, you know, talking about high food prices, the high cost of groceries, and he promised to lower them. But so far, he's not doing that while still embracing a budget that will cut a really important program for working people. And one other example of where, you know, his administration is out of touch with working people, in my opinion, is

comes with his proposed labor secretary, Lori Chavez de Remmer, who went before Congress and she was asked, is the minimum wage, which in some states is $7.25, is that enough to live on? $7.25 an hour, is that enough to live on in America in the year 2025?

Thank you, Senator, for the question. I know Ranking Member Sanders asked the same question. I recognize that it hasn't been changed, the minimum wage. I guess I'm just asking you, do you think that's enough for a worker to live on? I'm just trying to get a sense of your vision for what the standard of life for an American worker is.

Yeah, well, I mean, again, for every state, for every community, again, I mentioned Oregon. What happens in Portland doesn't happen in Grants Pass. It certainly doesn't happen in East Oregon. I understand that about Oregon. I guess I would ask you, what is 7.25 an hour? That is what in an annual term? Do you know off the top of your head? Oh. It's not a math question. I'm just trying to get a sense of it. So it's about $15,000 a year.

So I guess I just want to ask you, do you think that there is a state in this country where someone can live comfortably on their own for $15,000 a year? Well, I don't know if there is. Is 50% of someone's salary too high in terms of what goes towards housing?

Well, again, depending on what the salary is, people can determine that. I mean, if I had to take a guess, you're wanting me to say yes or no, it's hard to guess on what people want to spend on their housing. Do you believe that all American workers are entitled to paid leave?

Well, again, we don't have a federal paid leave. Should we? Well, that, again, I know as a department of labor-- I'm just trying to get a sense of your vision. I get it. You're not a lawmaker anymore. But I'm just trying to get a sense of what you're going to be fighting for. What's your vision for the American worker? Well, my vision for the American worker is to achieve the American dream. I understand that. But they have the opportunities. But is a part of the American dream

Paid leave for all workers. Well, again, I cannot commit to you today that I would say 100% paid leave across the board. What is the American dream, technically, just so I know? Because I always hear it, but I'm like, is that a house and two kids or something?

Great question. It certainly changed a lot given the declining opportunities for many people. And that's just an example. You can't give really straight answers to these simple questions. Now, of course, for a Democrat to ask these questions is hypocritical because Biden, he talked about raising the minimum wage, but then abusing that as well. So, I mean, all sides are in on it. Who was before her in that position? The Labor Secretary under Biden? I don't remember. I don't remember. But certainly...

In both parties, you can find people who have sold out workers. Not to single her out, but look, on Medicaid, this is a serious issue for Trump, endorsing a budget resolution that will likely cut Medicaid after he promised not to do it. We'll see what happens and whether he's able to reconcile his promises with what the Republicans are now putting out. Yeah, because I think he's going to say all these claims, but there's a bunch of these people that are going to sneak their way into whatever the heck they want.

And they did it last time. Like these budgets always sound bad. Like that's not that is ominous. The not cutting the Pentagon, because if you did cut the Pentagon in half, that would not fund Medicaid. Absolutely. But many times over, I think we're going to wrap it there. Kurt, any shows you want to plug before we go? Anything else you want to say? I'm doing well, sold out. I'm Jimmy to the mothership tonight.

So if you're in Austin and you didn't get tickets, then you cannot see Kurt and Jimmy tonight. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You can't see me. Okay. Maybe some tickets are available at the door. You never know.

Oh, man. Luckily for everyone, Joe's Club is now the seat of Western power in the world. So if it goes bad on this Medicaid thing, I'll pass it up the line. I'll tell it right to Tony Hinchcliffe and have him run it right over to Trump. Hinchcliffe was... If the election had gone the other way, he would have been like...

you know, he would have been in prison somewhere. I think. In Puerto Rico, ironically. Yeah.

All right. So Trump is talking about ending the war in Ukraine. He's speaking to Russia. He's allowed his top officials, Mike Waltz, Marco Rubio, to meet with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia, holding diplomacy, which the Biden administration refused to do for three years of this awful war.

And we know that liberals are freaking out about this because they want, for some reason, to have an ongoing, never-ending proxy war with Russia. Well, how are Republicans handling this? Because most of them have also been on board with this war with Russia. But now they're in the awkward position where their guy, Donald Trump, is against it. And how then are they handling the fact that their president, Donald Trump,

is ending the war in Ukraine, which many Republicans have supported. Well, let's hear a few examples. This is Congressmember Dan Crenshaw.

never met a war he didn't like. And this is how he is venting his disappointment with the war coming to an end. He is trying to put the blame and the onus on Europe. - Europeans need to demand a seat at the table by being uncomfortably aggressive, which is something they haven't done. You should be threatening things to Putin that actually make you uncomfortable because that's the only language Putin speaks is power.

So he wants the Europeans to be uncomfortably aggressive toward Russia. What does he mean by uncomfortably aggressive? Like threaten nuclear war, that level of discomfort, call them names. It's not clear. And what he's doing here is basically because he can't criticize Trump because Trump is the king of his party now. He has to take out his frustration that Trump's not being a warmonger on the Europeans. And this is what else Dan Crenshaw has to say.

And when General Kellogg is at that table with Putin, he's only got a finite amount of leverage. And there's only so much more leverage that the US can impose. And if anybody can do it, I think it's Donald Trump. And he's already said that, that nothing is off the table. Vice President Vance said that, nothing is off the table. Economic, military, they will use the amount of leverage they can. My message to European leaders

is if we want to win, if we want a better outcome for Ukraine at the end of these peace talks, you need to be uncomfortably aggressive. You need to not just bolster your own defense spending, because that's a long-term issue. That's a long-term investment. You need to be talking about where you're going to be putting actual troops on the ground. Stop following our lead and actually take the lead. Let us be actually holding you back.

That would be an ideal situation. Hold me back. Hold me back. That's what he wants Europe to be doing. Like the guy in the bar who's telling his friends, hold me back. Hold me back against Russia. That's what Dan Crenshaw is advising the Europeans. And he's scrambling here because he wants to continue playing tough guy against Russia. And he can't anymore because Donald Trump is turning against that whole project of turning Ukraine into a proxy and using it to bleed Russia. So he wants Europeans to take over the job. And Europeans are saying no thanks to

Um, McCrone, remember when French president Emmanuel McCrone a year ago threatened that, oh yeah, maybe we'll go send troops in if we need to. He's not going to do that. He's already said he's not going to do that. So Dan Crenshaw is looking for a fake tough guy and none are to be found. And, and, and vastly changed the power dynamic when dealing with Putin. All right. So that's Dan Crenshaw. Uh,

Taking out his frustration with Trump not being a warmonger on the Europeans. Let's hear from Senator Roger Wicker, another... Putin can be trusted in these negotiations? No. Putin is a war criminal and should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed. All right. So Putin should be executed, according to Armed Services Chairman...

Roger Wicker. Really helpful when you're trying to negotiate an end to a war is to call for the leader of your rival to be executed. And imagine the reaction if a Russian lawmaker called for the president of the United States to be executed. It would not be very welcome. So that is Roger Wicker handling the news that Trump is making peace with Russia. Let's hear from Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Isn't Trump poised to actually really turn the screws on Putin?

Absolutely, because Putin knows the one person that can truly change the war is the United States. If we went all in for Ukraine, if we went all in with the resources we have from air superiority to the weapons that we can deploy to Ukraine,

Putin knows at that point he would be in a extremely negative position. I think that being the opportunity for President Trump to talk to Putin and say, listen, we want to end the war. We don't want to have to engage more, but we're not going to allow you to move forward. So let's negotiate a peace deal here or you're going to force our hand to be farther involved. That's what peace through strength is. It's negotiating peace

but using strength as a backup. If you make us do something, we will do it. We did this in Syria when President Trump was in office in 2017. You saw that Putin went ahead and engaged with Syria. They used chemical weapons. Immediately what President Trump did is he bombed the airport and took over the airspace that Russia was in control over, and he had control of the airspace for the remainder of the presidency. So we had the ability to do it, and Putin knows that.

All right. So, I mean, putting aside the chemical weapons claim, we've covered that many times here on the Jimmy Dore Show and I have at the Gray Zone as well. The chemical weapons allegation is undermined by leaks from the OPCW, the whistleblowers who exposed a cover-up of their investigation, which found that there was no evidence to support the allegation that Sarah used chemical weapons. So, but putting that aside...

This is called denial because what he's saying here is that, yeah, no, Trump is going to still threaten Russia with airstrikes, with our air power. We're still going to be a tough guy. He's in denial here. Whereas Dan Crenshaw was like saying the Europeans have to step up and be the tough guy.

Mark Wayne Mullen is in denial because he thinks Trump is still being the tough guy and is still going to threaten Russia with war. And at least so far, that's not what Trump is doing at all. Trump has already basically taken NATO for Ukraine off the table. And he said, we're not going to send troops to go fight Russia. And he's saying, I want to end this war. And Mark Wayne Mullen, you know, being a Trump guy, can't criticize Trump. And so he's chosen the route of denial.

And ascribing to Trump a position that he doesn't have, that Trump is still going to threaten Vladimir Putin. Somebody else who definitely wants to threaten Vladimir Putin is Republican Senator Tom Tillis. Poor President Trump. And I believe that most of his policies on national security are right. I believe his instincts are pretty good. But what I'm telling you who. All right. So I like Trump. OK, he's usually right. But not when it comes to making peace with Russia and ending this war.

catastrophic, costly proxy war. That's Tom Tillis' message. Whoever believes that there is any space for Vladimir Putin and the future of a stable globe better go to Ukraine, they better go to Europe, they better invest the time to understand that this man is a cancer and the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.

And it will be a cancer that spreads into the South China Sea, into Taiwan, and metastasize across the globe. So ladies and gentlemen, when I tell you that Vladimir Putin is a liar, a murderer, and a man responsible for ordering the systematic torture, kidnapping, and rape of innocent civilians, believe me, because the evidence is mile high.

All right. So that's Senator Tom Tillis saying, I agree with Trump most of the time, but not this time when he's making peace with literal cancer, Vladimir Putin, and warning that if peace is made, then the cancer will spread. And this is called desperation. We've seen denial from people like Mark Wayne Mullen. This is just outright desperation, warning about a takeover of the world by Putin if Trump makes peace with him. So that is how Republicans respond.

are handling Trump making peace with Russia, joining their Democratic counterparts in freaking out and living in denial.

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