Dr. Peter Navarro (39:10)
Well, let's start with the first, first chapter of I went to prison so you won't have to. It starts it at Reagan National Airport. It's. It's the D.C. airport. I'm on my way with my fiance Bonnie to do Mike Huckabee show. Right. Love Mike. First time Bonnie was going to be in Nashville. It's going to be a great time. We're at the time of our life. Next thing we know, we're walking down the gangway. We got three armed FBI agents come behind us, two in front of us, including this guy, Walter Giadina. I'm in handcuffs. Later in leg irons. Bonnie's perp walked out in front of the world. CNN's got the story before everything now, what's wrong with that picture? Well, first of all, misdemeanor. Second of all, not a violent guy. Bonnie's not a violent gal. Third of all, I literally lived right across the street from the FBI, like 50 yards away. They could have easily called me. But what they try to do to us, Jack, is humiliate us to the world. When they took, when they went in and got stuff from Jeff Clark, they scared the hell out of his kids. In my case, it was the woman I love. It's like, what's wrong with that? And so I go again. I went to prison so you won't have to. It's this story of how you go through this justice system, Jack. It's like I was, like, astonished. It's like by the time my case got to the jury, the judge, the Obama appointed judge, had stripped me of any defense. My defense was executive privilege, according to 50 Years of Department of justice policy across party lines. It's like if I got a subpoena from Congress, it was my duty as a senior presidential advisor to refuse it. It was my duty. And suddenly I'm in court and I can't even argue that if I said the word is executive privilege, the judge was going to put me in jail for contempt of his court. So it was like, okay, what's that all about? And then the worst thing that happened, happened in terms of like. I mean, the book is like, it's Kafka, it's Stephen King, but it's also a lot of catch 22, Joseph Heller. Like, for my case, when I got convicted, sentenced to jail, what they should have done is release me pending appeal. That's the legal term, release pending appeal because not a flight risk. And it's a major constitutional landmark case. It's still on appeal. It's going to the Supreme Court. It will be reversed if there is any justice in the world. But they put me in prison. And it was three, Jack. It was three judges on this appeals panel in D.C. which is cesspool. Two of them are named Patricia Millett, Cornelia Pollard, right? They said flat out, no, he's got to go to jail. There's no appealable issues here that could change the outcome. Okay, fair enough. Now fast forward. My appeal is ongoing. As we speak in that court, guess who the same judges are who's going to hear that appeal. It's like Pillard and Millette. They've already made up their mind, but now they're going to do it again. It's like, if you think the judges are drawn randomly and courts are fair, and this is so destructive, Jack, to our society, because it's like Congress used to have the lowest approval rating in the American public, but now it's our justice system as well. These are politicians in black robes. So I get to jail, it's like, okay, how's the this going to go? And, you know, I'm finding people like. Like there's a couple of guys in there who are in there for many years who had their houses taken from them, who will have to pay restitution, and their family is suffering and their lives are essentially over. You know what? Guess what they did effectively the same thing that Lisa Cook, the Fed chair, is alleged to do. But with Lisa Cook, it's like, you know, the left legacy media and all that comes to her defense. Oh, well, she needs a fair trial. This and the other thing. No, the boss can fire her. He can do that. But this is like she's going to skate. And real people without power go to jail. Another one, Jack. I don't know. The RICO act, right? This is how the RICO act was designed to get a small class of, like, organized crime and The Justice Department has run rampant with it to get all sorts of people. So there was a number of CEOs in prison I was with, who they were convicted because according to the RICO act, they didn't have to know or be part of it because they were CEO. They should have known. Now, why am I mentioning this? Because, because look, James Comey, who was effectively the CEO of the FBI, he knew what he was doing with the Steele dossier and the FISA act and Flynn. But even if he claims he didn't, under the RICO act, he should be, he should be prosecuted anyway. So we got a system here that's just, just weird. I mean, in the book itself, look, there's some instances about how I saved one guy's life in there. They broke up fights, did negotiations. But the big thing is, Jack, I went in there and the First Step act is a signature piece of prison reform legislation that Donald Trump passed in 2018. And I found out firsthand that that wasn't being implemented. Now, I'm the first one to be tough on crime, but if you keep nonviolent first time offenders in prison longer than their expiration date, according to the law, bad things happen. Like, you get a higher rate of recidivism. And it was about $5 billion to keep people behind bars longer than they should. So I had kind of, you know, there's a whole cyclo lot there. And of course, the, the story between Bonnie and I, how families handle this stuff, I mean, it was like. And go ahead and.