A (3:49)

No, it's gotten quite combative. I know the President, I think Caroline Levitt and the team Stephen Chung have put out. CBS just hired, I think Liz Chene, old comms director, and they're quite upset about that. So, no, the, the combat with the media and the White House is, is pretty, pretty intense. Benny, where do people go for your social media, how they follow your reporting 24 hours a day?

C (4:11)

Yeah, always on Instagram and X. Benny Ray Harmon, you can find me anywhere.

A (4:17)

Benny, thank you so much. Great report. Okay, we're supposed to have Philip Patrick up and we're going to have Tina Philip up. Let me get, let me slide you. They haven't started. So there's supposed to be a press conference, I guess, in the greater Detroit area about this, about this terrorist attack. We now know, I think it just went up, that the individual is Muslim. I believe they're putting up that his two children were killed in an Israeli missile attack or something. We'll get all the details, but there's some backstory here. We're going to go live to that momentarily. Philip. Right now, the Ayatollah saying, hey, the Straits removes not one drop of oil. Of course they're letting the Chinese flagships go out there. The Gulf Emirates are coming and they're blowing people up back here in the States saying, hey, we didn't sign up for this. These guys are taking out our desalination plants. They're taking out oil. Where are we? And you know, Eric Bolling was on hand and recommended the President, hey, don't do the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Because all they're going to do, these speculators are just going to bid it up and they have Brent's over 100 bucks a barrel. I think it's 101. West Texas Intermediate, I think is 97. What's your sense of where we are, sir?

D (5:31)

Listen, this is exactly what the Iranians wanted, right? They can't win a military war against the United States, so they're waging an economic war against the entire world. Why? They're shooting at oil refineries, desalination plants, not US Destroyers. This is what the IE is now calling the largest disruption of global oil supplies in history. And I think if prices stay at these levels, central banks will have a problem. They face another inflation rise or recession risk. And I think this is ultimately the plan of the Iranians. Create enough economic chaos to create civilian pressure to end the conflict. We have to remember the Iranians can win this thing by simply not losing it. So I think the smartest thing for us is quick military action. Achieve objectives, get in, get out, and limit the damage. I agree with Eric on dipping into strategic oil reserves doesn't typically do that much. Obviously, they're there for emergencies. If we're dipping in now, it's problematic. The other thing is it signals to the world we have a problem and it doesn't necessarily lower oil prices. Last time we dipped in in 2022, prices spiked on the back of it. They didn't drop. So it's a tough situation. And I think the best thing for us right now has to be a clear end to the conflict swiftly, decisively, and do it in a way that finally points the loaded gun away from the world's economy. And then we can start to move on to what I think is the bigger problem, which is tackling the debt.

A (7:07)

And tackling debt. I think we're a billion or two billion a day. We'll talk about another time. The market for oil, it's got speculators. It's also how companies hedge. So a big part of this is people hedging. Then you get the speculative. Same thing in gold. Talk to us about what happens in these times of geopolitical turmoil, particularly when the media. Because it's a big story when you have tankers on fire, it's a great visual, right? You know, CNN's gonna lead with that. You know, it's gonna be on the front page of the Financial Times of London and people get worked up about this. But the oil market is a very sophisticated market, right? With hedging going on with also speculation. The same with the gold market, sir.

D (7:48)

Yeah, it absolutely is. And like we've been saying for a while, everything that's happening at the moment is playing into the longer term fundamentals for precious metals, oil prices and volatility there. As we've said many times, oil is the most inflationary commodity. They know we're struggling domestically. We have political pressure, we have midterms coming up. Price spikes domestically are going to put the necessary pressure on the administration to cut this thing quickly. We have to remember the Iranians are smart. They're not a military power, but they're experts at fighting asymmetric wars. They've been doing it for 50 years. The bigger concern is this countries around the world are realizing how to hit us. It's not militarily, it's economically. And we're seeing this in different forms show up over and over again, whether it's tariff negotiations, whether it's the Danes weaponizing debt. When we start talking about Greenland, it all boils back or comes back to the debt problem. Like I've said for a long time, if we can't get our fiscal house in order, it's going to create problems globally. And that's what we're seeing today.

A (8:55)

Talk to me about that because I mean, this war is expensive. Not it's more expensive as an opportunity cost, but just the outlay. When you have two and three carrier battle groups, when you are unloading on them, you got B52s. I mean, we're hitting these guys right now with just about everything we have and we're flooding even more into the region. When you say and the joint. Remember the chairman of the Joint Chiefs came up, I think it was Admiral Mallon, I think his name Fallon, a couple years ago, I think was in the first year of the Biden regime. He said that actually the debt was the biggest national security issue we had. How is this going to exacerbate this? I understand people are looking for the sunlit uplands on the other side when we get back to being productive and all that. But right now we've got a situation where the deficits are spinning out of control again.

D (9:46)

It's absolutely correct. And this was the number one priority for the administration. It's why we had Doge. It's why we had everything else, but they are facing an uphill battle. Like you said, wars. We have Venezuela, we have Iran. These are actions. I think the president was put into a situation and had to make decisions. By the way, the Iranians have been a problem for 50 years and we've been waving our hands doing nothing. At some point had to do something. But as you rightly point out, war is very expensive. It's why defense spending has increased this year and it's why the deficit has expanded. And I think as long as that happens, we're going to continue to have problems. Debt is still the biggest national security issue. It means we have to keep lenders happy. And it's very difficult to do that when you're fighting in a war against them or the Greenland situation comes up or whatever it might be. If you want to act tough and negotiate, as President Trump is expert at, if you owe the owe the world significant amounts of money, it weakens your position. And we know President Trump thrives with leverage. National debt reduces that leverage.

A (10:55)

We understand that in this situation with the mullahs now they need cash money. And my understanding is that although they letting the, the Chinese flagged vessels out of Hormuz and we're letting them go by, I think it's been 11 million barrels so far is what I think has been reported that. My understanding is that they're now saying, hey, we can't. The original deal I think was a 20 or 40 year output deal at certain discount prices. But they had to take it. They had to do it in Chinese currency because this is what the Chinese are going to lead on, doing output deals with Iran, doing output deals with the Arabs to try to begin to break the end of the dollar empire. As you know, they are adamant that they want to be. They know they can't replace the United States as a prime reserve currency. But they do have aspirations in 5, 10, 15 years of being a reserve currency. Maybe not the lead, but they want to get in there and they're going to do it through the BRICS nations. Do you think this is a massive setback in the strategic calculation of where we may come out on top is that knowing that the mullahs, I think have told them, hey, we're going to have to settle this in dollars, we can't take the currency risk anymore. Do you think that that is going to lessen the pressure on the dollar when this thing is out, when this thing is over?

D (12:08)

Look, that's the hope. And my hope is when the chips fall here, they fall favorably and we know, President Trump is playing 3D chess. There's a reason he went for Venezuela, there's a reason now I think he's moving for Iran. And ultimately it's to deal with the China problem longer term. Nearly 40% of Iranian crude oil goes to China. And obviously Chinese oil deals are priced in yuan because of US Sanctions against Iran in the strategic calculation simply isn't ready to become global reserve currency. They don't have a free floating currency. So I think if things land right, this is an opportunity to undo some of that work. But I think it is a big if. There's also a world in which China come out and sort of patch up and sort of take some of the geopolitical ground away from us. So how this thing falls, I think will be interesting. But I got a lot of faith in President Trump. And like I said, if we're swift and decisive here, it could land in our favor.

A (13:10)

Also, you know, people were sitting there going, well, gosh, I thought gold was going to pop like oil popped, right? And still around, what, around between 5,000 and $5,100, I think, today. Now, some of the reason is people saying, hey, there is a flight to quality to the dollar. And this always happens during these times of true turmoil. Can you explain that to the audience?

D (13:30)

Yeah, there is. And I think people's expectations, we're seeing gold and silver markets are insane. I mean, gold was up 70, 65% last year, silver up over 150. And I think people's expectations are sort of morphing along with that. I want to Clarify, gold is up 19% year to date as an investment. If you'd asked me at the start of the year, would I take it? The answer is yes. So it is moving, and it's exactly these sorts of climates that drive it. So it's exactly why central banks are upping their prediction. I think Goldman Sachs say 6,300 by year's end. JP Morgan, I think say it by the second quarter of this year. So nothing's changed out outside of people's expectations. But I think this will be another very strong year for gold, and it's starting as such.

A (14:19)

Okay, how do people work with you? We know you can text Bannon at B A N N O N at 989-898, you get the ultimate guide. It's totally free, no obligation is just packed with information on investing in gold and precious metals in the age of Trump. Or you can go to birchgold.com promo code Bannon, end of the dollar empire. We have the physical book right there that you can pick up. The patriots edition of the first seven installments of the End of the Dollar Empire we also have online. The 8th will hopefully be ready. It's been signed off by Philip Patrick and his team and myself as we worked on this for a couple of months. That'll be out here shortly online. But once people go, whether they either take it the easy way or the short way, or go into the End of the Dollar Empire and want to learn more, how do they work with you guys? What is the interface of particularly someone just coming aboard. They don't know a lot about precious metals. They've seen it hawked everywhere. Our philosophy is quite different. We're trying to make them the smartest people in the room about this. But how do they work with you and interact with your team?

D (15:26)

I mean, you said it perfectly. We feel that the more educated somebody is, the better decisions they can make for themselves. So that is what we focus on is building out as much education to has have as an informed the buyer as we possibly can. So like you said, they go to birchgold.com Bannon start with the information, read, learn. If from there they want to learn more, they're going to have access to either myself or somebody as knowledgeable as myself. We're there to guide people through step by step, answer any specific questions they have and show them how the process is done and if ultimately they think this makes sense for themselves and their family. We have processing departments that can do all the heavy lifting. But the most important thing is understanding the why. And that starts with information. And that's birchgold.com Bannon yeah, look, they

A (16:21)

have all types of methodologies. They have IRAs you can roll over, tax deferred 401ks. They've got tons of things that you can work with the team about what best suits you. But the core is that we're trying to immerse you in information so it ain't about the price of gold. You actually have an understanding and the pattern recognition of what drives us. Philip Patrick and the team. I know it's so hard to get you away from the desk on a, on a weekday. Really appreciate you doing this for us, sir.

D (16:47)

Thank you, Steve. Thank you for having me.

A (16:51)

Thank you. Appreciate you. Now, we have not confirmed this independently, but I want to go to Ryan Grimm, who is a very good reporter, has put and if, if the guy, if the team in Denver, my producer can put us up, can put it up. This is Ryan Grimm, one of the top I would say independent journalists. And he's put up a news flash. I would like to read it. The man who ramped his explosives laden truck into a Michigan synagogue today was named Amin Gazella. Gazella. G H A Z A L E H. According to a source familiar with the situation, Gazala posted photos overnight of his family members, including young children who were killed in a recent Israeli attack on the town of Masgara, Lebanon. This is a developing story, so we have not independently confirmed that, but Ryan Grim is a, is a guy that's a very serious individual, very serious professional. We are going to go to the press conference as soon as it starts. It's a few minutes late and we anticipate it'll be a couple minutes late given what they're dealing with there. There's also. Is it starting right now? Just give me the signal. There's also a news story that's just come out that talks about the situation with. There may be some people that are ill from that. Did we send that to me that first responders. That first responders have. Let me read this. This is from cnn, that the suspect is dead and at least eight first responders have taken ill and that they are actually being treated. Let's go. We're going to go live now to the press conference here.

E (18:53)

Y' all set in the back? You're all balanced and stuff? Everybody, Everybody good? Well, thank you for coming. I'm Mike Bouchard. I'm the Oakland County Sheriff. Excuse me. I'm kind of losing my voice. A lot going on today. I kind of want to give the 20,000 foot level. And then we're going to have a number of speakers both from, from the police department here, Chief Young, and from the FBI. Obviously, a horrific thing happened tragically here in Oakland county again. So we've been through a number of these things. And the one thing that I want to make sure the local community is aware of first and foremost is this community works together hand in glove. This community takes care of each other. And we have been communicating regularly. I have been texting the chief not just in West Bloomfield, but every place that's got significant houses of worship, Jewish facilities, synagogues, temples, you name it. Over the past two weeks. Obviously, what happens around the world sometimes affects us. So we have to think about it and be prepared for it. So we've been talking. I text actually the head of security from the temple two days ago and communicated some information to him. So the first thing the community should know is that we not just today work together, we work Together all the time. Our state, our federal and local partners, number one. Number two, we train. In our world, preparation is important. We hope and pray it never happens. But that's not a strategy. Preparation is. So all of us have been training together for many years for active shooting or active assailants, mass casualty events. And tragically we've had way more than our share. So that is ongoing and is in place. The third thing is important to note. No children and no staff were hurt. So we know there's evil in the world and we know they only have to get it right once. And sometimes they do. They may not come on anybody's radar and they show up, but what happens when they show up? That's where training and preparation kicks in. The security staff did an amazing job. An amazing job. And you'll get some of the details on that. But they stopped the threat. No kids, no staff were hurt. Now there were some injuries and things that had to be taken care of. One of the head of security was taken to the hospital. He got knocked down by the car when it breached the building. And we've had 30 law enforcement officers taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. So a lot of our folks from my SWAT team and other agencies are still in treatment because that building became engulfed in the car for. And we'll learn all of that through the investigation. Why it became engulfed in flames. What was the ignition source? And I think the ATF is taking that the origin of that source and origin of the fire. But in any event, what it did, it caused terrible, terrible smoke in that part of the building. And so when all of our people collectively went in that building to search out the threat to remove innocent, a lot of them took in significant amount of smoke inhalation in there at the hospital being treated. So I also know you're going to have a lot of questions. A lot of those questions can't be answered at this point because it's super preliminary investigation. You know, all of us have thoughts of maybe why this happened, but we don't operate in a world where we can presume something. We have to determine it through investigation and specificity. And that is a work that's in progress as we speak. All of us will work seamlessly together to get the answers. And then it will be called what it is. Obviously it's a hateful terror, terror, terrible thing, Right? But what drove this person into action, that has to be determined by the investigation. We can presume, but we have to find those facts. And that's going to happen over the next days in time. So we won't be able to get in a lot of the evidentiary questions, but we're available to make sure the community understands that we are still on a very heightened platform. And the most important, important thing that I would tell the community, don't be afraid to call us. If we're not your own local police department, call your local police department. We'd rather respond to a hundred nothings and miss one real deal. The only way we prevent something like this is to get a call. Something's off with my son, my brother, my boyfriend, Whatever the case, I saw something posted. That's the only way we interdict because people are more likely to see or hear something before us. So if you see or hear something, you have to communicate that and then we can intervene and hopefully prevent. But if we can't prevent, then we respond and mitigate. That's what happened today. And I think based on the early information, it happened flawlessly. So with that, I'll kick it over to my friend Chief Young from West Bloomfield Police Department.

A (23:58)

Thank you, Sheriff. My name is Dale Young. I'm the police Chief of West Bloomfield. I want to share with you how we got to where we are today. So today we received a 911 call which came in around 12.19pm it was about an active shooter situation at Temple Israel where the individual drove into the building. West Bloomfield officers arrived on scene under five minutes. Temple security officers engaged the individual and neutralized the threat. Our officers combined with area agencies cleared the building multiple, multiple times and safely and successfully evacuated all children and staff. This is an active crime scene and we are examining every angle related to this situation. I will now turn this over to the FBI for further comment.

F (24:46)

Hello, My name is Jennifer Runyon, last name R U N Y A N. I'm a special agent in charge of the FBI Detroit field office. This is a deeply disturbing and tragic incident and our deepest sympathies are with the victims, their family and the entire Jewish community. The FBI is here working with our state, local and federal partners to investigate this incident. And I can confirm that we are leading the investigation right now as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community. As my partners have said, this is an active and ongoing investigation with an active crime scene. And I ask for your patience as we process this evidence and pursue every lead that has come to us and that we have developed thus far. What I can share is this. There was one subject involved in this incident who is now deceased. And as my partners have said we've had no victim fatalities. I would not be able to provide additional information at this time on the subject or his motive as our goal is to protect the integrity of this investigation. Investigation and to ensure that we give you accurate and timely information as soon as we can. The FBI was notified of active reports, excuse me, of active shooter at Temple Israel. At approximately 12:45. We immediately activated and deployed all of our crisis response resources, which includes our SWAT team, our crisis negotiation team, our evidence response team, our special agent bomb techs, our weapons of mass destruction team, our cellular analysis survey team, and our victim services, as well as more than 100 agents and analysts to ensure that we are actively mitigating and responding to the active threat, but also pursuing diligently and methodically every lead that we have. My ask to the public is a few things. I know everyone wants information now, but I ask that you be patient as we are still processing this scene and still pursuing everything that we can and that has come to us today. Second, we've activated a digital media tip line for any witnesses who has photos or videos of the incident today. They can upload those@www.FBI.gov WestBloomfieldAttack all one word. But the public can also report through our call line at 1-800- call FBI if you have any information about this incident and or any other suspicious activity that you see around in your community, your life, your places of worship, your schools. As the sheriff said, we all need to remain vigilant and it takes the whole community to ensure that we remain safe. I also understand that congregants may have left some personal effects at the synagogue. And as soon as we have a reunification site to get those effects to the affected victims, we will be sure and release that as soon as possible. I want to thank our partners and the first responders and the security personnel at Temple Israel who did an excellent job at mitigating this threat. And we're very grateful for their bravery and their service. Next, I'd like to bring up our offer up Stephen Ingberg, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Detroit.

B (27:59)

As the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Detroit, I'd love to say I'm shocked or I'm surprised, but I'm not. This is something that we train for. Thank you to all of the law enforcement officers who stand behind us and the many who don't. Thank you to our Jewish Community security team. This is a tough time. It's a tough time, but we will get through this. We'll get through this together. We'll get through this stronger and we'll continue to be loud and proud of being Jewish. This will not change us. This will not deter us. And we will continue with that. I'd like to turn over to Rabbi Arianna Gordon of Temple Israel.

A (28:37)

Thank you so much. As you've heard, there's so much that we don't know. We're going to be processing all of this in the days and weeks to come. But what I do want to say is a huge thank you to our law enforcement, to our Temple Israel security team, and to our Early Childhood center teachers who were the true rock stars of the day. They ensured that all of our children remained safe and calm throughout the entire

F (29:00)

day and got every single child safely

A (29:03)

reunited with their parents this afternoon.

F (29:06)

And for that, I can't express my gratitude enough. We are really appreciative to all of you for making sure that everyone made it home tonight. Thank you for being here.

E (29:20)

Okay, I think that's it. Obviously can't get into evidentiary questions, as I said, but I think the message is clear that we all stand united, stand together. Whether it's federal, state, county, or local, we're committed to keeping this community safe. If you think you can target the Jewish community in this county or anywhere in this state, you're wrong. We're going to not only stand up in front of them to protect them or coming for you. So with that, thank you.

A (30:00)

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D (35:22)

Both.

A (35:22)

It looks like they didn't even mention the guy's name. Why would we not mention his name? You know his name. Why would you not mention it? Why do you have to have it from the Ryan Grimms of the world? This is just ridiculous. Also, you know, and please don't take this the wrong way, are there any special agents out there in charge of investigations and these things that are not women? I think this, I don't know, four or five in a row. I have, you know, I have no issue with that. But it just seems odd that a probability you're eventually going to get to a guy today. This just doesn't hack it. You have to come up at least with the basics of information so people know what's going on. We're in a shooting war. There were two attacks. One at ODU and it looks like on at least some ROTC members. And then there were. And then this attack on the, on the synagogue and the word that didn't cross their lips was terrorism. Islamic terrorism. Is that this was a targeted attack on a synagogue. Targeted attack on the Jewish community. Well, certainly was that. But do we know enough already after five hours. And if the FBI doesn't understand in five hours who the guy is and at least a modicum of information about him, then what are you getting paid for? This is what I think drives people crazy. It's just so super politically correct and please let me just, while I'm giving free advice, I know you're not going to take it. Please don't start off every press conference with the same thing. We're working together as partners. Just assume that we understand you're working together as partners. We don't need to have the whole roll call of state, local, federal. We're all working together and we're all here as one happy team. We assume that. Let's just cut to the chase and give some facts and talk about so people out in the community and in the country can get a sense of what's going on. It certainly looks like these attacks might have had something to do with the armed conflict that we're in. The. What is it? The military operations that we're involved in now in the Middle East. And I think people should be warned about that and put on notice about that. Maybe that's going to happen more. Now. The guy from Senegal today appears he was converted to isis, or it looks like the Sunni part of this, so maybe he's not a Shiite. But also it shows you the commonality when they unite around their common enemy and they believe their common enemy is Western civilization. Okay, you see that this is what this fight is down in Texas. This is all inextricably linked. Could I go back to the Mandani with the prayer rugs and the rugs in city hall today in a show of dominance? So we have to be better and we have to be tougher and right. What you saw there is not tough. That's soft. And the reason they keep coming is because they think we're soft. And the reason that they keep coming is that there's no pushback, there's no punch back. And you say, well, Steve, you're bombing the hell out of them over in the Middle East. I'm talking about here in the United States of America. Let me repeat this. The problem we have is not in Tehran. As bad as the mullahs are, as horrible as the Ayatollah is, as many decades as they chanted death to America, what they hit us with was tangential at best or marginal at best. It just was. They talk about the Marine Corps, they talk about the hostage. Well, that's because we had an embassy there and they seized it. Yes. And we failed. We failed to. In a military exercise, a military evolution to free the hostages. The pressure of having a guy like Ronald Reagan, who was the Donald Trump of his era, is what got him to the kind of negotiating table to free the hostages. They continue to dredge up the 1983 Marine bombing, horrific incident. But President Reagan would say later that the two mistakes he felt that he had made in his administration was putting the Marines in. Into Lebanon, into that situation. And also the amnesty deal he cut where they promised him that this is going to be the last deal ever. And they lied to him.

D (40:05)

Right.

A (40:05)

They naturalized the sentence, they got everybody in and then didn't do anything about border security. Did President Reagan up the ante after the 83 bombing? No. He very simply said, hey, my central focus is to take down the evil empire. I can't be taken off that. So I must focus on taking down the evil empire. Because that will be one of the most important things in human history. He wasn't prepared and they weren't ready to take on this great Islamic threat. Of course, maybe that was a mistake at the time and maybe us not being more aggressive against them was a mistake at the time. And clearly people looked the other way in the bombing, which was part of it was blowback for the Gulf War. Right. We looked the other way. People. They did take people to court and treat it as a law enforcement situation. But then that led to 9 11. But just remember, you know, 25 years after 9 11, you have a Marxist jihadist in the mayor's office in New York voted in by, I don't know, 60 or 70% of foreign born voters. This is why the Save America act is so important. This is why purging the voter rolls is so important. This is why forcing out all the illegal alien invaders in this country has to be done. This is why the mass deportations coalition of Mike Kao and Rosemary Jenks is so important. This is why we're calling for a 10 year moratorium on all immigration. Not just to protect jobs of our young people, particularly when AI is cutting through jobs like a Sith Degrasse, but also to make sure that we can just get control of exactly who's in this country and who's not in this country. We're at a crisis, we're at a inflection point. And of course, for reasons beyond my comprehension, we've decided to go to war. And to go to war for limited military objectives. As CENTCOM and Dan Kane continue to tell me and the Secretary of War, the nuclear weapons capability, their air defenses, certain capabilities of industrial production and ballistic missiles and others, fine. But it certainly doesn't look like on the evening of 12th March in the year of our Lord 2026, doesn't quite look like that war is the container. Those objectives are being addressed by a professional and a methodical takedown by the most magnificent military in the world. However, the enemy gets a vote. And it looks like they voted to take on our allies in quotation marks in the Persian Gulf. And it looks like those allies have blinked big time. It also looks like they were paper tigers. They don't have the ability to stand up to these guys. And quite frankly, and Lindsey Graham gets up there, you know, drunk again, and says he will guarantee a. He King Lindsay will guarantee a Saudi defense pack in perpetuity if they join the fight. Because then he says, you got to stop double dealing us or going behind our back. What does that mean? I think it means they're negotiating. Some group of them are negotiating with the, with the Persians. And I'm sure it's about the desalination plants and the infrastructure, their oil infrastructure. Do I have the Tina Peters Apollo? Let me go there. I'll come back to my rant in a second. But I want to go to Apollo. There's some news on Tina Peters that's very important. I want to get to about as she was found, that she was not the perpetrator, I guess, of this physical confrontation that took place. So there won't be any addition onto her current sentence. Am I correct in that, sir?

D (44:11)

Yes.

B (44:11)

Well, there were two issues, but the big one is she was charged with assault within the disciplinary system of CDOC for assaulting the other inmate. That was, of course, the video that we saw thrown all over social media because cdoc, without Tina's permission, gave that to nine News and other networks here in Colorado. She was found not guilty, which means there will be no additional charges regarding that. Some minor disciplinary things are possible, but nothing serious. And that's a huge win for Tina, especially with the political calculus for Governor Polis to grant her clemency. But I think everyone needs to understand the reason she was found not guilty is because in this case she was actually allowed to mount a defense. And that was not the case during her trial because Judge Matthew Barrett essentially forbade her to speak on all the issues that would allow her to defend herself and the actions that she took. How do you defend your actions that you backed up election records in alignment with your elected duty and oath as clerk of Mesa county when you're not allowed to speak about elections? So she was, for once, you know, truth kind of did prevail here for Tina Peters. But she is still in prison. She's still being held without bond, she's still sick, and she's still serving a nine and a half year sentence with a three year parole afterwards for the same crime that Sonia Lewis was given probation and a fine. So she, we're hoping on some court of appeals action very soon because Governor Polis has signaled that he's going to wait for that. I don't believe that he has any reason to. But we did have a small win, Steve.

A (45:54)

So Apollo Pappas, let me ask you right now, and starting next week, besides this war, the other thing's going to take up all the political oxygen. And of course on Capitol Hill they're talking about a bipartisan housing bill and they got all the stuff they want to do, bipartisan. And look, all that, some of that's great, it's going to affect housing and it's important, it needs to be done. But, but you gotta prioritize. We're in a shooting war right now. In addition, we wanna make sure one of the reasons we're in a shooting war is because of the fiasco that the illegitimate Biden regime visited on this republic in the four years that they were illegitimately in office. And that's cause the 2020 election was stolen. And so next week we're gonna go into this whole thing. Finally the pressure on having Cornyn and people like Lindsey Granoff reelection. They understand President Trump's adamant about this. He's saying, hey, you have to pass the Save America act and I want the id, I want the voter id, I want the, you know, I want the cleaned up voter rolls, I want the no mail in ballots, all of it. Everything that's in there you gotta do and it's a priority. So this is gonna be, and I think what we're gonna see is some version. I'm not saying the Senate's gonna move to a talking filibuster, but there's gonna be some, I believe, long, maybe multi day debate in the United States Senate about exactly some of the issues, minus the machine part of it, that Tina Peters basically defended this Republic about. Polis has come out and you can tell he's trying to weigh this and the fairness of it, et cetera. The Democrats in Colorado, and these are a vicious Democrats, they took a red state, a state that was as red as Texas and they flipped it purple and now they're flipping it dark blue. They've come out united and said, under no circumstances can you let Tina Peters have a day shorter than the nine and a half years that she's gotten. And I haven't seen a firestorm in the Republican Party come back and say, oh no, this is totally unfair. This a gold star mother, this is a woman, a cancer survivor, she's in a hellhole and she has to come out. Can you just walk the audience through with the political calculations going on in Colorado because I'm, I'm not shocked at the Democrats United because they understand that a free Tina Peters is one of their worst nightmares. That's why they got her in prison for nine and a half years. But I don't see the firestorm coming from the Republican Party, sir.

B (48:18)

Well, I mean, it's a very astute observation. And for some of us, we're not surprised because a lot of these so called Republicans are that in name only. And we're not surprised because, especially on the elections issue, they never did anything meaningful and they didn't stand up for Tita Peters or for the very clear violations of law that were going on regarding the handling of those elections by the Colorado officials, including Jenna Griswold, the Secretary of State. Some of them have been more disappointing because they show us that they're willing to represent themselves as fearless maga America first until the reelection is at stake. And that's really the reason we're seeing silence. The verb that has become. Now, Tina Petered was not just a signal based on what they did to her to the rest of the clerks across the United States and here in Colorado, it was a verb that now means something to politicians as well, is the territory that you're not supposed to threaten. So they have midterms coming up. They know that this is the most bloodthirsty time of the season for all these politicians. So that's the political calculus. Do they really care to raise the issue with Tina, especially given this battle between what is perceived to be the state of Colorado's jurisdiction and President Trump's? I don't think so, because it's not worth it to them. They're more worried that they're gonna get elected. Jared Polis has a difficult spot because on one hand, he has, as you put it, these very vicious Democrats who see Tina Peters and what she was persecuted for as their very legacy in some ways. So Jared Polis has to think, am I going to give up more ground by appearing as if I'm bowing down to President Trump or I am going to toe the line and pretend that I'm letting things play out? But Jared Polis, I hope, sees that the very clear issue here that he laid out himself is not about right or left. It's about a clear discrepancy in the application of law. And you can see that in the example he gave us with Sonia Lewis and Tina Peters sentencing for the same charges. So, you know, Jared Polis is in a difficult bit of political calculus himself right now because they're using Tina Peters to prevent him doing anything that is just clearly right. And the rest of the Republicans here in Colorado, they have a choice. And this is the last election that we're gonna have unless we, at some level, from what President Trump is doing, which is phenomenal. All the points in the State of America act, it's common sense. We need them anyways. But these machines are going to be the death of the republic if the truth is not really seen here. So there aren't too many candidates that are looking very good here in Colorado. But we also need to be wary of what's happened in other states, because they go and we saw Democrats split the ticket just in some of these last elections. We need to figure out who we're actually going to stand with here in Colorado and have a unified party, because otherwise we allow them to do the same thing, which is split our votes, and they run away with the bag. And we have nothing to argue because not only we can't get the source code for the machines, we can't actually see what's going on behind the black boxes, but we look completely divided as it is. So it's as much a Republican Party thing as, you know, as it is a machine thing. But Tina Peters is simply an issue of right and wrong. She shouldn't be in there, and she shouldn't be sentenced the way that she is, regardless of her being a Republican or a Republican clerk, and regardless of Jared, regardless of President Trump pardoning her, that's just not in the calculus that should be applied here. And I hope that anyone who's reaching out to Jared Polis, you make sure that he understands that. That's the real calculus. It's not about parties that you need to do what it's right, because that's the real signal that he's sending to the people of Colorado every day that this goes on.

A (52:16)

Last thing, you may not have any more information than we have, but we do, you know, Peter tickton and Pat McSweeney, this great team on the federal side. She's got John Case, locally, great legal team. They've been able to get a pardon for President Trump. There's all this controversy about, you know, whether it applies to state. It's, you know, it's never been, I think, litigated before. I think that's in process. But also, given what's happened in Fulton county, given what's happened in Maricopa County, a lot of discussion there, particularly in Fulton county and I think in Maricopa county, that people are taking things relevant. Grand jury indictment in both Fulton and in Maricopa regarding the machines. More than just the mail in ballots. More than just the ballots. This question of Tina Peters being called as a witness in a federal case and actually remanded to a federal prison. And that's been stopped. I think it's been stopped after some discussions. But do you know anything else? Is DOJ or anyone working on that to actually make her a party as a federal witness in some of these investigations going on where then they can force the Colorado Bureau of Prisons to turn her over to the Federal Bureau of Prison, sir. And put her in a federal prison where then President Trump and the BOP and the DOJ can deal directly with her.

B (53:36)

Well, I know that those discussions have happened. I would not doubt at all. You know, again, I won't claim that I have any insider information regarding those investigations, but if you see some of those grand juries and, and what has actually been done them coming in, it's obvious what they're going after. And it's obvious it's the very thing that, you know, Tina Peters has been talking about for so long and the reason that she ended up realizing just what she had in that image for Mesa County. So I know that if there was a way that they could bring her in as a witness, I feel that that could be imminent. But truthfully, I don't know. That depends entirely on the investigation. And the biggest thing on that is they were already offered. Colorado was already offered. Hey, you're spending a lot of money. And what should be, you know, if you put someone on probation, a few thousand dollars for the 10 year sentence, you're talking $500,000, $600,000 that they're putting on the taxpayer to put Tina Peters in prison. They were offered to hand her over to the feds to serve out her sentence at no cost to the state and they decline.

A (54:42)

Apollo, we got a bounce. Where do people go to hear the podcast, all your content and to support Tina Peters, the legal issues and everything else in our commissary.

B (54:52)

Tinapeters Us. You'll find links to donate to her legal defense. She needs it. You'll find links to support her commissary on the homepage as well. And you can follow her show on Rumble and her ex at Real Tina Peters. But tinapeters us is the place to be.

A (55:08)

Apollo Papas and the rest of the team around Tina Peters. You're doing her proud. Great work, amazing work. Look forward to having you back on here. Tina Peters. Let's get the well, we're back at 10am tomorrow morning. I want to get the Tomorrow morning. We'll get the. How you contact Governor Polis, Tina Peters Rob in a Colorado maximum security woman's prison. I think it's 520 some days. We'll see you back here at 10am Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow morning when you'll be back in the war room. I've got a question for you. How do you usually get your medication? Let me guess. You call the doctor, you wait for an appointment to get a prescription, sit in a waiting room, then you stand around in line at the pharmacy hoping they actually have what you need. That's not convenient. That's a system that doesn't work. There's a better way. And that way is where all family pharmacy comes in. They take the hassle out of the process. You go online, select what you're looking for, complete a short medical form, and a licensed physician reviews your request. If it's appropriate, they write the prescription and your medication is shipped straight to your home. They've got essentials like antibiotics, antivirals, ivermectin, NAD and hundreds of other prescription medications. It's simple, it's efficient, and it puts you back in control. Stop dealing with the old way. Get your medical freedom and do it today. Go to allfamilypharmacy.com Bannon and use promo code Bannon10 to get 10% off your order. Get your medical freedom today. Go to allfamilypharmacy.com Bannon and use promo code Bannon10 to get 10% off your order.