Tulsi BRUTALLY Exposes Intel Community In Confirmation Hearing!
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Jimmy, as you know, I've accomplished a great deal in my long career in film, television and the theater. Yeah. Beloved roles, dozens of awards and most importantly, the accolades of my peers. I am proud of what I've accomplished and have every reason to be. But nothing has made me prouder than my most recent project. Wow. What is it?

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In the trailer, you see me weep bitter tears over this. And if I may be so bold, I'd say it's my finest acting ever. Yeah, well, I'll assume this is the worst of times part. This is the legal fallout from that. No, no, that's all been cleared up. Good lawyers, Jimmy. Best investment a man can make. Okay. Well, then what's the worst of times part?

Jimmy, as happy as the Baldwin clan may be, there is a cloud of fear hanging over our household. And this cloud threatens to break into a storm of fright. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on?

Jimmy, my wife, Ilaria, has so convincingly committed herself to pretending to be a Latina, going so far as to give all of our children Spanish names, that we, like so many families in this country right now, are terrified of being visited or raided by ICE. You can't be serious. As serious as an improperly loaded prop gun, Jimmy. Ha ha ha ha ha!

Sadly, our whole family had to come up with a contingency plan for when these pigs try to come for us. I will not have my wife and children taken from me. All right, back up. Your wife was literally born in America.

Perhaps on paper, but she was spiritually born in Latina or wherever. And in this intolerant and xenophobic environment fostered by Trump and his goons, that is enough to send the hounds on our poor family. Just a mere hint of Latin spice is enough to put them on the scent. I really don't think that's the case, Alec.

Well, neither do I, Jimmy. But it is yet another one of my wife's Hispanic delusions that I have to play along with in order to have a peaceful marriage. Tell me about it. Besides, we do have our reality show to think about. Using this delusion to place ourselves amongst the most vulnerable people in this country can really help flesh out the plot arc of this season. Are your children worried...

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And my poor wife, Ilari, is barely keeping it together. She tries for the children, but it's difficult. She wanders the halls of our brownstone in a fugue state of worry. Oh, here she comes now. Hey, Dios mio, no! Hola, migra! Sweetheart, please. We'll be okay, I promise.

Be strong for the ninos. Okay!

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Again, what these things, what these confirmation hearings have been showing is how corrupt your government is. Not Tulsi, not RFK, not Kash Patel, but how corrupt the senators are. You know, the people who are elected for six years. So here she goes. Here's her opening statement.

I'm honored and grateful to President Trump for his trust and confidence in nominating me to serve our country as the director of national intelligence at a time when trust in the intelligence community, unfortunately, is at an all-time low. Chuck Schumer admitted a few years ago, quote, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. And I'm going to take credit for popularizing that clip. Everybody always quotes that clip now because I was the one who started showing it. And why do I have, Jim, why do you got to brag like that? Because if I don't tell you,

Nobody else will. Okay. Thank you. Guess what? Guess what, buddy? You're going to be on your fifth way from Sunday pretty soon. That's right. I'll have my fifth way. So anyway. For too long, faulty, inadequate, or weaponized intelligence have led to costly failures and the undermining of our national security and God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.

The most obvious example of one of these failures is our invasion of Iraq based upon a total fabrication or complete failure of intelligence. Oh, this disastrous decision led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. Oh, yeah. People. So I love that. So she's letting you know that, hey, we all agree that our intelligence community completely lied to us about Iraq. Just so you know. So they're not sacrosanct, which is what the senators want people to believe.

There's millions of people in the Middle East, mass migration, destabilization, undermining of the security and stability of our European allies, the rise of ISIS, strengthening of Al Qaeda and other Islamist jihadist groups, and strengthening Iran. Here are just a few other examples. The American people elected Donald Trump as their president not once but twice, and yet the FBI and intelligence agencies were politicized by his opponents to undermine his presidency and falsely portray him as a puppet of Putin.

Title one of FISA was used illegally to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page using a Clinton campaign funded false dossier as their so-called evidence. So she's laying out all the lies and crimes in recent history that the intelligence community has committed. They lied to the FISA court 17 times so they could put a tap on Donald Trump's phone and everybody in his campaign's phone.

Well, that's a lot of effort to, I mean, the only failure on the intelligence communities part I can think of were like lamer than this is the 600 attempts on Castro. Yeah. Yeah.

Losers. Biden campaign advisor Tony Blinken was the impetus for the 51 former senior intelligence officials letter dismissing Hunter Biden's laptop as disinformation specifically to help Biden win the election. Oh, yeah. Even even more recent. Fifty one CIA guys said that on Hunter Biden's laptop was some kind of Russian op instead of earmarks. I thought I saw some earmarks and had all the hallmarks.

Yeah, a Russian information dump. Russia could have pooped that information to us. You don't know. Former DNI James Clapper lied to this committee in 2013, denying the existence of programs that facilitated the mass collection of millions of Americans' phone and Internet records. Do you remember? Do you remember that? You remember when James Clapper went in front of Congress and they asked him, do you collect data, mass data on the he said, no, we don't. Not wittingly. And that was a lie.

Oh, by the way, all the stupid spy movies everybody loves, that was to imprint in your subconscious that it's good these people are there, unaccountable to anyone. These governments are stupid. Remember MIB, they explain to Will Smith, the great Will Smith, they go, we have to be above the government because they're so dumb and the people because they're too stupid. Just an uncommon Will Smith mind. Never held accountable. Under John Brennan's leadership, the CIA abused its power to spy on Congress, to dodge oversight, lied about doing it until he was caught, and yet has never been held responsible.

Under Biden, the FBI abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil Catholics who attend traditional Latin mass, labeling them as quote unquote radical traditionalist Catholics. Personally, just 24 hours after I criticized Kamala Harris and her nomination, I was placed on a secret domestic terror watch list called Quiet Skies. Sadly, there are more examples. The bottom line is this. This must end. President Trump's reelection is a clear mandate from the American people to break the cycle of failure and the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community and begin to restore trust in those who've been charged with the critical task of securing our nation.

Well said. I like that she looks like X-Men right there. It looks like I'm watching X-Men 2. She looks like a powerful mutant leader with one white streak and a white costume. I like that she's wearing white in January. A lot of balls. I think she pulls it off. I say she makes about as much sense as anyone who still uses the word Islamist could possibly accomplish.

I like Mohamedian myself. She's got, there's so many great things about Tulsi. She's like the love of your dreams, except for the fact that she farts and snores. And when she's sleeping, you know what I mean? It's like one of those. That's what I'm into, Jimmy. Don't put a nickel in my back with that. But she's, she's a great, great idol. Like that, that right there. And she's going to go on and do, she says, she says things that nobody else in government will say.

So that's why I've always admired Tulsi, always liked her a lot. And yeah, she's flawed, just like all people are flawed, and especially people in government. But she's the best we got. For this job at the moment, yeah, I would say so. For this job at the moment, there's nobody I would want in this job besides her.

Former Representative Tulsi Gabbard told the Senate Intelligence Committee she would end politicization of the Intelligence Committee and rebuild trust through transparency if confirmed as director of the National Intelligence as she seeks to quell wide-ranging concerns about her foreign travel statements about Russia, war, and Ukraine. Okay, okay. So, by the way, trust through transparency. What's amazing to me... Anyway, who cares? Why isn't this working? This isn't working.

Oh, now it is. But senators of both parties question Gabbard, one of Trump's most embattled cabinet picks on her history of defending Russian President Vladimir Putin, her praise of National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who shared sensitive. OK, so, yeah, I mean, those again, they're attacking her for the good things she does. That's the same thing with RFK. They attacked him for suing big pharma companies and winning. They attacked them for the good things, not the bad things.

They agree with her on all the bad things. Max Blumenthal says, for the first time, a national U.S. audience heard one of the greatest national security scandals, heard about one of the greatest national security scandals in the 21st century, as Tulsi Gabbard details the CIA's op Timber Sycamore, which armed the organization responsible for 9-11.

And ultimately was placed in power in Syria. So nobody else. This is the Democratic Party. They throw you under the bus for everything you got right. Here we go. Watch this.

Sir Kelly. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Colonel Gabbard, when Russia was denying us use of chemical weapons, they accused the U.S. of supporting terrorists. This is a line that Putin used frequently during the Syrian civil war as he supported Assad. Syrian officials made similar. So now what this guy is doing is is lying and attacking someone for being honest and truthful. So this is an astronaut should should have stayed up. That's what that is. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

I think he was an astronaut. I could be wrong. They did it repeatedly. They did it in public. They did it at the United Nations. In 2016, you gave an interview in which you said, and this is a quote, the U.S. is providing direct and indirect support to terrorist groups in order to overthrow the Syrian government. And you know why she said that, asshole? Because they did. Because the United States gave money to Al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS. That's why.

You know why? That's why. And he's making her pay a price for telling the truth to the American people about what their government actually did. Is he not briefed on WikiLeaks himself?

And in 2019, on the Democratic presidential debate stage, you said of President Trump, this is a quote, this current president is continuing to betray us. We were supposed to be going after al-Qaeda, but over years now, not only have we not gone after al-Qaeda, our president is supporting al-Qaeda. So I'm interested to hear what was your goal in saying these things, and did you consider, before saying them, the motives of Iran and Russia, what their motives might have been before making these claims?

Senator, as someone who enlisted in the military specifically because of Al Qaeda's terrorist attack on 9-11 and committing myself and my life to doing what I could to defeat these terrorists, it was shocking and a betrayal to me and every person who was killed on 9-11, their families and my brothers and sisters in uniform. When as a member of Congress, I learned about President Obama's

dual programs that he had begun really to overthrow the regime of Syria and being willing to, through the CIA's Timber Sycamore program that has now been made public, of working with and arming and equipping al-Qaeda in an effort to overthrow that regime. You could even go at this point...

You can even go to Wikipedia and they'll even tell you what Timber Sycamore is. Oh, CIA had to put it on Wikipedia because it was so known. It's so... You have all those things, those guys going, oh... Yes. So Timber Sycamore was the program that Barack Obama directed the CIA to go fund Al-Qaeda, the people who attacked us on 9-11. Fund them so that they could overthrow Assad.

Why? So that Saudi Arabian Qatar can put a pipeline through. That's what it's really about. And Israel. Israel wants to take parts of Syria, which they have. So there's two reasons. So it's an oil pipeline, and it was Israel. And so Barack Obama gave money to Al-Qaeda. It's called Timber Sycamore. Look it up. And so she's now spanking the shit out of the astronaut.

and telling him the truth that he already knows. Yeah, more like a head up as astronaut. That's right. Starting yet another regime change war in the Middle East. DOD train and equip program, again, begun under President Obama, is widely been known, looked at, and studied, that ultimately resulted in over half a billion dollars being used to train who they called moderate rebels, but were actually fighters working with and aligned with Al Qaeda's affiliate,

on the ground in Syria, all to move forward with their regime change and not acknowledging what was obvious at the time and what has unfortunately borne true, which was that a regime change war in Syria, much like the regime change wars in Iraq, the toppling of Gaddafi and Mubarak, while these are all dictators, would likely result in the rise of Islamist extremists like Al-Qaeda taking power. I shed no tears for the fall of the Assad regime. So she just said that when you get rid of, if you fund Al-Qaeda in Syria and they topple Assad, guess who's going to take over?

Al Qaeda, just like when we got rid of Gaddafi. Guess who's going to take over? Terrorists. It's now a terrorist state. Yeah. And she was the one who told the truth about it. And now they got an astronaut to smear her at a Senate hearing about it on television.

Fantastic. That's how corrupt your government is. Hey, I thought we were against Islamists, but I guess they're cool sometimes. No, no. Sometimes they love Islamists. Gene, but today we have an Islamist extremist who is now in charge of Syria, as I said, who danced on the streets to celebrate the 9-11 attack, who ruled over Idlib with an Islamist extremist governance. And so now Al Qaeda is running Syria. Hooray. Congratulations. Have you ever tried to tell your friends that, Kurt?

All the time. And how do they take it? I don't know. They just kind of blank out. People take it like, what? I don't know. It's like that. And who has already done it to persecute. Go ahead. What? I wrote that joke for Rob Schneider to do. And that one, the crowd at Turning Point USA all was like, what? Yeah, I know. That one went like over their head. I have no idea. Yeah.

and kill and arrest religious minorities like Christians in Syria. Why that should be acceptable to anyone is beyond me. It is certainly not in our interests. I appreciate your answer, and thank you. My concern has to do with the tendency to repeat Russian... My concern is the tendency for you to tell the truth like you just did.

And I'm supposed to oppose you because I'm a Democrat. I'm supposed to oppose you. I'm supposed to oppose you for telling the truth about our foreign policy because we're in the pocket of the military industrial complex in Wall Street. OK, so that's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to represent my people. I'm not going to do anything that has integrity or dignity. I'm going to sit here and mislead the people and slander a truth teller. Someone who's currently someone who's currently a colonel in the military.

You should never tell the truth if it in any way could help Russia. That's right. That's just called musical. And even in some cases, I think we'll get into in the closed session, Iranian information and to discount what comes from our intelligence community. Senator, every American deserves to know that people in our own government were providing support to our sworn enemy, Al Qaeda. That should not be acceptable by anyone. Thank you. Bam. Oh, wait till that JFK report comes out, you bald prick. Bam.

I can't wait for the chance to... Boy, wow. Being back on Earth has not been kind to him. Must be the gravity. Yeah.

In space, lies are weightless. And by the way, the media never talked, the corporate media almost never mentions Timber Sycamore, which was the program, the CIA, that was what it was called, to fund terrorists, Al-Qaeda, who attacked us on 9-11 in Syria. It was called Timber Sycamore. This is how it captured the mainstream media and the tech industry. There's not a single article today about Timber Sycamore.

They refused to report on it, and only the great Jeffrey Sachs keeps shouting this modern Iran-Contra affair story. How U.S. and Israel destroyed Syria and called it peace. There's Jeffrey Sachs telling you the truth about it, but the corporate media, nobody will tell you about it. Nobody will tell you about that, oh yeah, we actually got in bed with Al-Qaeda and Syria to overthrow Assad. Yeah. And they'll never tell you the truth about why.

They'll never tell you why. Because of an oil pipeline and so we can give more land to Israel. That's what it was all about. That's why they had to demonize Assad. That's why they funded Al-Qaeda. That's why they're smearing Tulsi Gabbard. That's why they smeared me. CNN still says I'm a conspiracy theorist because I told you the truth about the gas attacks. There's more.

Watch Senator Mark Kelly try to challenge Tulsi Gabbard on the issue of Syria chemical weapons allegations. Note that when she twice invokes the OPCW whistleblowers organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, that's what OPCW stands for. They did a report on the chemical attacks in Syria. And then when they the official report came out, it didn't look anything like the evidence. And so the guys who are actually on the ground said, hey, they doctored this report.

And they're called OPCW whistleblowers. And they told you the truth. Yo, this guy's a scumbag, dude. He's the one that replaced Kristen Sinema. Yeah, this guy's a scumbag. The astronaut's a scumbag. Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. I'm pretty sure his wife was the one, Gabby Giffords, who got shot in the head.

which makes him sympathetic. Can you explain to me then why you doubted the intelligence community's conclusions in these two cases, Duma and Conchay Coon, but not the others? And please be specific. These two cases were being looked at as a, to be used as a pretext for major military movements. And another, my fear was, a repeat of

the deployment of another half a million soldiers like we saw in Iraq towards what was the Obama administration's goal, which was regime change in Syria. The question specifically that I raised around these two came about because there were two reasons. One, that assessment was made with high confidence and low information. The information that they had came from those on the ground in an al-Qaeda controlled area and therefore were al-Qaeda linked sources. And there was conflicting information that came from

the UN's Office on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons inspectors, as well as an MIT professor, Ted Postol. I want to talk about him for a second. So she's saying the reason why I said these two gas attacks, I questioned them, the official narrative of them, is because the information we got, they came from al-Qaeda, and whistleblowers at the OPCW told us, also this MIT professor. That's why.

Did you look into his credentials, yes or no? Yes. And were you aware of his appearances on Russian Today, which is used by the Russians to disseminate government-approved messages? No. Were you aware Postol relied on a chemistry student with a record of defending the Assad regime? At that time, I was not. I have been made aware since. Do you consider this person or these two individuals now, do you consider them a better source for the chemistry of sarin gas than the U.S. intelligence community?

I assess that at the time the information, I don't know the second person you're referring to, but MIT professor Ted Postol and the inspectors of the OPCW provided some credible questions that deserved examination. Okay, thank you. Did you attempt to weigh Postol's claims against the significant evidence and assessments already conducted by the IC?

Yes, I did. Okay, thank you. So here's my concern here, Colonel. When we began this, you described a thoughtful approach to analyzing intelligence and reaching conclusions. This is what we expect of our professionals.

But we just kind of walked through how you came to question Assad's use of chemical weapons in these two cases with a different approach. And I don't reject seeking out differing viewpoints. We need to do that. But you started from a place of doubting the conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community. And then you sought out information. Which is a great place to start. You want to start by doubting what the CIA is telling you. That's a great place to start.

And he's making her seem like, why aren't you a better person? How dare you question the CIA? That confirmed your viewpoint. That led you to embrace the opinions of two individuals that I think we disagree on this. You think they had expertise. I do not. And others do not. And he's completely ignoring the fact that she's talking about the whistleblowers from the OCPW, OPCW.

He's completely ignoring. She talked about it twice. He's completely he's focusing in on Ted Postal and some other guy. We don't know who it is. But these individuals were sympathetic to Russia and the Assad regime. It also led you to minimize or discount the overwhelmingly information.

that contradicted your viewpoint, including the expert assessments of our own intelligence community. And they don't get it right 100% of the time. I get that. But what I have seen makes it clear that at the same time that you were skeptical of our intelligence community's assessments, you would not apply the same skepticism to information that came from sympathizers of Russian Assad. And I think that's something that we should all be concerned about. Thank you.

Yeah, well, both Russia and Assad are more trustworthy than the intelligence community. That's right. You bald prick. You absolute twat. You could trust Putin more than anyone in the CIA, you bald egg asshole. Wow, what a fuck he is. So here's a guy who knows something about Syrian gas attacks, Aaron Mate. He says, for the first time in a U.S. government setting, the LPCW whistleblowers who challenged the cover-up of their chemical weapons investigation in Douma, Syria, were mentioned today.

Tulsi Gabbard twice invoked them in response to Senator Mark Kelly's efforts to challenge her skepticism on specific allegations that Assad's forces use chemical weapons. The whistleblowers have been smeared by the OPCW, but never refuted. The establishment media has also pretended that they don't exist, just like Mark Kelly, just just like that senator bald, bald astronaut just pretended they don't exist. He wouldn't even acknowledge them.

Because their censored findings undermine a key pro-war narrative. That's why. I want a Timber Sycamore t-shirt that says Timber Sycamore on it. Or like hashtag Timber Sycamore. Just that. No explanation. Just Timber Sycamore. Like it's a brand. Like Timberland. Yeah. I want to wear it everywhere.

So if you want to know what really happened in Syria and why, people like Senator Mark Kelly will never tell you. The New York Times will never tell you. The Washington Post will never tell you. MSNBC, CNN, Fox, they'll never tell you. You know who will tell you? Tulsi Gabbard just told you. This show will tell you. We were on it first, debunking the gas attacks in Syria. Aaron Mate was on it and is still on it. You are not going to hear this

You're not going to hear it from the young Turks. You're not going to hear it from people who have MSNBC contracts. You're not going to hear it on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, New York Times, Washington Post. You're not going to hear it. You're not going to hear the truth about Syria. So that's the truth. The truth is we were funding al-Qaeda, the terrorists who attacked us on 9-11, to overthrow Assad so we could put a oil pipeline through there and give part of it to Israel. And now al-Qaeda...

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So here's another great part of the hearing. Tulsi Gabbard will be required to disown all prior support for whistleblowers as a condition of confirmation today. Edward Snowden says, I encourage her to do so. Tell them I harmed national security and the sweet, soft feelings of staff in D.C. That's what passes for the Pledge of Allegiance. Hey, thank you for your service, Edward Snowden. Thank you for your service. Edward Snowden...

What he did was, just like Julian Assange, revealed crimes being committed by your government against you. They weren't spying on the enemy. They're spying on you. On you. You must be the enemy. On you. Fucking pricks. So that's what Edward Snowden did. Edward Snowden is a patriot and a hero. And now... All the dumb shit liberals thought he was bad because they thought, well, if it's Obama watching me every second of the day, that's like Jesus. Yeah.

And now this garbage, this guy who sounds drunk every time he talks. Yeah. Well, how else would you do that job? I'm pretty sure he starts the morning with a shot. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging him. How does he get through his day? Everybody has their own addictions. I was addicted to weed for years and years. I am currently. There you go.

And so now he's going to try and get her to disown and disavow Edward Snowden and try to make Edward Snowden, who revealed crimes. They always leave that out. You reveal crimes that your own government were committing against you, not against someone else. I hope he did info dump, which he didn't. But I wish he did. I wish it harmed you all irreparably. You fucking cunt.

Didn't Glenn Greenwald win a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the stuff that Edward Snowden revealed? I'm pretty sure. Well, like a Putin surprise. Yeah. So watch this. Do you believe, as the chairman of this committee believes, as the vast majority of members of our intelligence agency believes, that Edward Snowden was a traitor to the United States of America? Do you believe Edward Snowden is a traitor? Traitor?

To the United States of America. Well, if he's a traitor, what does that make this dude? Right? What about the government that was illegally spying on their own citizens and lying about it? Are they traitors to America or the guy who exposed that? Do you see how everything is backwards in Washington, D.C.? Do you see how that is? Yeah. I like all the senators you never heard of come out for these things and then you see exactly who owns them. Yep.

Senator, if confirmed as director of national intelligence, I will work with you to make sure that there is not another Snowden-like leak. This is not a moment for social media. It's not a moment to propagate theories, conspiracy theories, or attacks on journalism in the United States. This is when you need to answer the questions of the people whose votes you're asking for to be confirmed.

as the chief intelligence officer of this nation. As my colleague said, this is not about you. It's about the people that serve the intelligence agencies of the United States. Is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America? That is not a hard question to answer when the stakes are this high.

Senator, as someone who has served in uniform... Your answer, yes or no, is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America? As someone who has worn our uniform in combat, I understand how... I want you to explain the theory of relativity to me, yes or no!

Are they going to let him drive home after that? Don't get it. This is where the rubber hits the road. Get his keys. What is the MC square? How does it, what does it mean? Yes or no. Do you support this onesie? What a vote for him. So she's spoken out in support of Edwards noted. And of course the democratic Senator and the blob is going to attack you for the good thing you do.

They're not after Tulsi Gabbard for her support of Israel in their slaughter of women and children in Gaza. No, they're not on her for that. They're on her for sticking up for someone who blew the whistle on crimes your government was committing against you. So just like with RFK Jr., they don't attack him on the things he's done wrong. They attack him on the things that they've done right.

Just like they attacked RFK for suing Big Pharma and winning. They attacked him for that. They're attacking her for standing up for a whistleblower who let everybody in America know that your own government was committing crimes against you. By the way, they've gone out and they're supposedly because of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing. They've supposedly had reforms. Who did it? Who reformed it? Congress. They're like, yeah, yeah, that guy. He's right.

Watch this. Watch what she says. Critical. Our national security. Apparently you don't. Apparently you don't. Let me let me ask you. Do you unconditionally support anything that we tell you to do? It's here we go. Mark Warner now tries to get Tulsi Gabbard to say Edward Snowden is a traitor. Edward Snowden is a hero who deserves a full pardon and a medal of freedom. Here we go. Simple yes or no question. Yes or no. Edward Snowden is brave.

Mr. Vice Chairman, Edward Snowden broke the law. I do not agree with or support with all of the information and intelligence that he released, nor the way in which he did it. There would have been opportunities for him to come to you on this committee or seek out the IG to release that information.

The fact is he also, even as he broke the law, released information that exposed egregious, illegal and unconstitutional programs that are happening within our government that led to serious reform. Excuse me, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Quit telling me the thing that is the real point. Please don't stop talking about the real point, the point that the American people actually care about. Please stop doing that.

Do you condemn this onesie? Congress undertook. Chairman, we got five minutes. So I take your answer, and these are your quotes. Brave, please join my bipartisan legislation calling for charges to be dropped against him. Do you disagree that legislation was not appropriate? Do you believe he is brave or not? Yeah, went back those words. Once again, Senator,

Edward Snowden broke the law. He also released information that exposed the United States government's illegal programs. I'm making myself very clear.

Edward Snowden broke the law. He released information about the United States government's illegal activities. If I may just finish my thoughts, Senator, in this role that I've been nominated for, confirmed as Director of National Intelligence, I will be responsible for protecting our nation's secrets. And I have four immediate steps that I would take to prevent another Snowden-like leak. Ma'am, I would simply ask you again.

I don't think you're going to answer. I agree with Tom Cotton. He's a traitor. You, for years, until you got chosen by President Trump, have celebrated this guy as brave. You've called for him to be pardoned, for his charges to be dropped. I cannot imagine a director of national intelligence that would say that kind of behavior is okay.

How would we maintain the trust of the IC and the contractors who work for it? How would we maintain the trust of the people who are illegally spying on Americans? How are we going to maintain the trust of the people who are committing crimes against America if we're going to have people like Edward Snowden tell you about the crimes they're committing?

Hey, yo, find out whoever thinks Snowden's not a hero that's in government and get them the fuck out. That's a real easy way to clear the swamp or whatever this slogan is. Hey, you know who else defended? I wish she would have said this, but she didn't. You know who else defended Edward Snowden? Daniel Ellsberg.

The guy who, with the Pentagon Papers, who let us know that the Vietnam War was one big lie? That guy. He's another traitor. Another guy they tried. Another traitor, right? Another guy they tried. A traitor to our contractors. A traitor to our contractors. Yo, look at him. This is unreal. I hope everybody remembers the names of these motherfuckers. Yep. The trust of our five eye partners. I find it very troubling. The trust of our five eye partners. I know other members are going to raise this. So...

Oh, won't someone think of the five eyes? So, and there was no way for Edward Snowden to get this information out. There aren't proper channels. I mean, he's the only hero there. Yeah. All the ones that stayed and didn't do what he did are pugs. So. He's the only guy whose head was on right in the whole group. This was my favorite part of the RFK. I have several very much favorite parts, but this may be my all-time favorite.

And I've neglected to show it to you on Wednesday. But here is the favorite part of RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearing. And by the way, I have, like I told you, I have inside information. I have an insider in this Senate once removed. A source close to the Senate. I have a source who has a source in the Senate

Who told me that they're going to find a way to get RFK Jr. confirmed. And so that seems like that is going to happen. I mean, it feels like it is because these questions, I haven't seen this one yet. So far, my favorite is, do you support this onesie? Do you support this onesie with Bernie Sanders? Okay, please take this onesie down. Please take the onesie down. Do you support this merch? So this is my favorite part.

This is Senator Hassan. All these senators, there's only 50 senators, and I haven't heard of 45 of them. Yeah, that's odd. Isn't that odd? They're like Biden family members. You never heard of them until they're pardoned. So here she is. She's going to talk about settled science. Listen to how she contradicts herself and how stupid she sounds. Here we go. Watch this. Sometimes science is wrong. We make progress. Sometimes science is wrong. Yeah.

Right. We we that's how we make progress. And then she says because she's upset at RFK for wanting to have the normal safety tests that you do for every other drug. He wants them done with vaccines. That's all he wants. He wants the same safety tests that you do for other drugs to be done for vaccines. And so they don't want him to do that. They don't want him to do that. And by the way,

Since vaccines are safe and effective, why do they need a liability shield from lawsuits? They don't have it for any other drug. Nope. There's no other product in the world that has a liability shield. So I'm saying vaccines are safe and effective. Why do you need the liability shield?

So here she's going to, so let's play it out from the beginning. Here we go. Sometimes science is wrong. Sometimes. We make progress. Yeah, but. We build on the work.

And we become more successful. After we fail. And when you continue to sow doubt about settled science, it makes it impossible for us to move forward. So science is wrong, and then we correct it. But if you're going to come back and still question science...

It's impossible to do science if you question science. Yeah. Why is your last name Hassan also? I have another question. How the hell did you get the last name Hassan? I'm going to guess, well, one of my favorite chefs married, she was Italian and she married someone, Marcella Hassan. She married someone with the last name Hassan. That's how she got the name. I thought she was Hassan Piker's wife.

Is she wearing black fingernail polish? Senator Hasanabi. Why would you? So that's my favorite. I'm going to play it again. This is my favorite thing. Sure. Science. We get it wrong. Please stop questioning science. Well, how did you know you got it wrong unless someone questioned it? Don't. Would you stop it with the questions?

Well, if it's settled. So, hey, who settles science? Did she mention who gets to settle the science? Who says the science is settled? Sometimes science is wrong. We make progress. We build on the work and we become more successful.

And when you continue to sow doubt about settled science, it makes it impossible for us to move forward. So that's what the problem is here. That's what the problem is. You're questioning. Is the re-litigating and rehashing and continuing to sow doubt so we can't move forward. And it freezes us in place.

Frozen in place. You mean like having half your face frozen from Bell's palsy right after you get your jab? You mean like that? Frozen in place. You mean that kind of frozen? We are... RFK, you're freezing us. The whole science community is frozen because of the power RFK has. It's frozen. My friend can no longer feel her face. Stop freezing us. And I have one more question. What is a rim job?

S-O-Y and science. Sure, sometimes we get science wrong. But then, sometimes we say, okay, stop asking questions. And that's when it becomes settled.

How can we move forward without getting in trouble for the previous crimes we did? Stop freezing us with your regulations of we can't experiment on you. A senator said that without any trace of irony at all.

Yeah. Subtile science is not a thing that exists in any. There's no such thing. No science. Specifically, I've heard him refute. There's no such thing as that many times. There's no such thing as subtle. You remember when we all thought Newton knew everything we do? There was no about gravity for at least 100 years, if not more. Yeah. Newtonian laws of physics. And then Einstein came around and he said, hey, you know what? This settled science. I'm

I'm going to question it. And it turns out he did EMC squared. Yeah, it turns out he was the smartest cousin fucker that ever lived. Yeah, which changed everything on what we thought about gravity. And science itself. And science. He's obviously made some mistake because that's why science has stalled. Asking questions to the basis of science. So a guy who's been totally discredited in the media and...

He's the guy who has the power to start or stop science? RFK? He's not even confirmed yet. He's stopping science? Please, stop it! How do you know when you're done asking questions about science? Wait, all he said was, we'd like to see the results of the science you did. We can't show it to you, or else we'll be too afraid to do more science.

Sometimes science is wrong. We make progress. We build on the work and we become more successful. And when you continue to sow doubt about settled science, it makes it impossible for us to move forward. So that's what the problem is here. Yeah, I'm sure there's a bunch of scientists in the lab right now going, well, I'd like to move science forward, but the RFK is saying shit on the Internet.

I can't do it. Stop unsettling. How can we possibly move forward now? Stop questioning vaccines. That's what she's saying. Stop it. I don't even question vaccines. I'm questioning why they shouldn't have to show their work like I would have to in the third grade. Yep.

What like that? How would that be a harm? I believe that they're safe and effective. Why don't you show you're not? Remember, like, hey, Trump, where's your tax returns? Right. Remember that? Let's do that with the vaccine. Where's your let's see the numbers and who made what? Display all that information. What's what's the problem? I know I'm supposed to have a transparent life. Everybody gets to look at 24 fucking seven. Hey, I can't even see the science being made. I want to see the science. It's wrong. Yeah.

The sausage of science is made in a factory that you don't want to see. So the tariffs are going to start Saturday, which if you're watching this video, it's today. Trump says Canada and Mexico are going to be hit with 25% tariffs Saturday. Wait, today's Friday. So today's Friday. So if you're watching this video after I release it, if you're watching this now, it's tomorrow. But if you're watching it tomorrow, it's today. Ha ha ha.

Most people are going to watch it tomorrow, which is today. U.S. President Donald Trump will impose tariffs on Saturday of 25% on Mexico, 25% on Canada, and 10% on China.

White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt said the duties were in response to the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans. It is not clear whether the import taxes would include any exemptions on products such as oil.

Trump said on Thursday the move also aimed to address the large amounts of undocumented migrants that have come across U.S. borders as well as trade deficits with its neighbors. Canada, A, and Mexico have already said that they're going to respond to the U.S. tariffs with measures of their own, while also seeking to assure Washington that they were taking actions to address concerns about their U.S. borders. Hey, look, look, we're A.

If U.S. imports of oil from Canada and Mexico are hit with levies, it risks undermining Trump's promise to bring down the cost of living. Tariffs are an import tax on goods that are produced abroad. In theory, taxing items coming into our country means people are less likely to buy them as they become more expensive. The intention is that they buy cheaper local products instead, boosting our own country's

But the cost of tariffs on imported energy could be passed on to businesses and consumers, which may increase the prices of everything from gas to groceries. Around 40% of the crude that runs through U.S. oil refineries is imported, and the vast majority of it comes from Canada, eh?

Canadian officials are working on a list of dozens of American products that the United States exports to Canada, targeting items that both send a political message and inflict a reasonable amount of economic damage. So Canada is looking to target items like ceramic products from the United States, steel products, furniture, certain alcoholic beverages like bourbon and Jack Daniel's whiskey.

Man, orange juice, pet food, among others. So they're going to they're going to try to fight back. The second kind of tariff, which Lutnik said would be ordinary tariffs, could be executed after a study on the macroeconomic effects of levying import taxes on Americans neighbors. That study will be concluded in April. So we're waiting.

Trump also proposed 10% tariffs on all other goods coming into America, though he said last week his administration wasn't ready to implement those just yet. So he's talking about putting 10% tariff on everything that comes into America. It'd be a great experiment. It'd be an interesting experiment. Oh, I'm so for it. I'm so for globalists getting hammered in their fucking Duke chute. I can't even tell you.

He proposed, you know, he proposed tariffs on Denmark to incentivize it to give control of Greenland to the United States. What's that about? What is that? I don't know. Why? Promises. So, you know, it's funny because I'm like, what's the Gulf of America? What the hell is that? He must have promised somebody that. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like somebody gave money to the thing and he has to pay them back with the Gulf of America.

And then Greenland. And Greenland. Somebody wants Greenland. I wonder which donor wants Greenland. Trump on Thursday said the goods from BRICS nations, you know what BRICS is, Brazil, Russia, India,

China and South Africa, a coalition of emerging economies backed by China and Russia would face 100 percent tariffs if they attempted to move away from the United States dollar in international trade. Importantly, Trump has a history of threatening tariffs only later to rescind them.

Why? Because the people did what he wanted? Because they did what he wanted. Okay, well, that's not a problem. Last week, for example, he announced steep tariffs on Colombia in retaliation for failing to accept U.S. military planes with deportees. So he wanted to send people from Colombia back to Colombia in military planes. Colombia said no. Then he threatened a tariff. And then guess what happened? Ten hours later, he said the tariffs would not go in place because Colombia reversed its stance.

Are you telling me that he's doing, it's working what he's doing? Is that what CNN is telling me? It sounds like CNN is telling me his threats are working. That's what CNN is saying. I'm not saying it. That's what CNN said. I mean, it looks like it did work if they said we're not taking like a 10% tariff. Okay, we'll take them. Okay, we'll take them. Is it that easy to not destroy? It's that easy, huh? This whole time. If he gets Greenland, first of all, Greenland, I thought that, I thought, see,

Some medieval fuckery. Iceland is the nice place. So they called it Iceland. I think that's not really that. So nobody would want to go there. And they called the ice place Greenland to try to trick people. Isn't that is that or is that an old wives tale? I think that's not exactly true because that's the thing I used to think, too. And I can't remember why it may not be exactly right. But is that not exactly right? Am I repeating a wives tale? Could be.

I don't know. I know that Greenland has other resources that somebody wants. And also strategically, that's the Arctic up there. And, you know, that's a major point of that's a major point of watching the other countries that are in conflict with each other. You know, how did Iceland get the name Iceland? According to sagas, a Viking named something spotted a fjord full of icebergs and named the country Iceland. Really? I don't believe that. Too far fetched, you say? Was Iceland ever covered in ice?

Was Iceland ever covered in ice? No. Iceland has never been completely covered in ice. This says 11% of it wasn't covered in ice. I don't know. So who cares? But anyway, there's somebody who wants something in Greenland. Yeah. But we'll see. We're going to see if these tariffs work. And if they don't, Trump, his presidency is going to go right in the shitter because if it creates...

uh inflation uh people don't like inflation so well yeah we'll get to see if this demolition of everything was on purpose or not real quick won't we because we're gonna see that easy to turn these things off why didn't they already do it we're gonna have all the power we'll see what happens with we're gonna i guess and i think we'll see quickly

By the time the JFK stuff comes out, that's what I want to see all together. Yeah. Well, he said he wanted to get rid of the income tax and just fund the government with tariffs. I'd be willing to pay more for stuff if they get rid of income tax. Yeah, without a doubt. Look, I don't know. You guys have got to wait and see what happens. Because unfortunately, the way the deep state is set up,

There is no way to just be like a regular person watching the surface level news and know what's really going on. There's no way. There's all kinds of secrets. There's no way. I mean, there's some faction. It's like mafia families, like the Corleone family's fighting with the other whatever family. And what comes to the news is stupid. But there's some conflict going on. That's what that Greenland shit's about. God knows what that's about.

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