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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, February 9th, 2026
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Good evening America. Happy Monday and welcome to the latest edition of Just the News. No Noise. I'm your host John Solomon, reporting as always from the nation's capital. My co host Amanda Head. She's going to be on assignment for the next couple of weeks. You can be flying solo with me for a couple of weeks, but we're going to have some fun. And we start tonight with what we do best, breaking some news. We have some new bombshell revelations to get to about the weaponization of the Department of Justice in the lead up to the 2020 election. Just the News has obtained documents that show that the FBI actually conducted a secret tabletop exercise in summer 2020 that imagine what sort of violence might ensue in a contested presidential election that year. Now that's important because remember, the FBI said they had no inkling that there might be violence at January6, but their tabletop exercise showed they not only imagined it, they identified some players and devised strategies like undercover informants and mass prosecutions for minor crimes. That's exactly what they did after January six. They had the playbook written for months. They had those informants in the crowd, they had those informants in the groups. They just simply failed to pass on the most important intelligence that was coming in there. That's something that Chairman Barry Lauderdale Loudermilk of the House January 6th Committee is going to come on talk about in the second block of the show. Now, the memo show the bureau's Boston office led the tabletop, exercising cold open source intelligence on the potential for violence from both left leaning anarchists and right leaning extremists. The memos also warned that foreign enemies like Iran and China were likely to foment domestic violence on us. Remember when we would talk about that and people say that's a conspiracy theory, the FBI actually believed it. They actually were very concerned. Now, these documents were never turned over to Congress under the watch of FBI Director Chris Wray, the former FBI director, but they were turned over by Cash Patel, the current director in the last few days. And we got a set of them. And we've been talking about that today. It's one of the big trending stories over at Just the News. Another story that's trending big over at Just the News right now. A bombshell decision by the Justice Department today, quite a turnabout, in fact, asking the United States Supreme Court and a federal judge to dismiss the indictment and the conviction of Steve Bannon, one of our anchors here on this network. It's a pretty big development. It's a big turnabout for the Justice Department. As you know, Steve Bannon was sent to prison for several months because he didn't want to cooperate with the January 6th committee, concerned that it might not be lawfully organized under congressional rules. He went to prison today. The Justice Department said that was an act of weaponization. They asked the Supreme Court and the federal judge in Bannon's case to reverse both the indictment and the conviction. That's very rare. It's not unprecedented. It's happened a few times in American history, but it is pretty rare and a pretty dramatic thing. You can get all the details out over@just the news.com so go check that out. Meanwhile, some new news today in all the work we've been doing in what we call the China Syndrome series series looking at all of the malign ways that China is trying to create mayhem and difficulty in our own US Soil here. Please go check out the stories that Jerry Dunleavy, our great investigative reporter has been doing today. The connections between China and the Communist Chinese party and actors on our own soil, huge, gigantic, laying them out bridge by bridge and evidence by evidence. And go check them out tomorrow. We're going to get a piece of that in Congress, the House Ways and Means Committee chaired by Jason Smith, the chairman who's been on this show many times. He was the guy that got the IRS whistleblowers to come forward in the Hunter Biden, Joe Biden case. He's going to have a whole day hearing tomorrow taking a look at how malign actors aligned with China are going to have been misusing or abusing the tax code in the United States to carry out China's will on our soil. You're going to hear a lot about the Singham Network. That's that name has been all over just news with all the documents and open source intelligence reporting we've done. So be sure to check that out. We hope to get the chairman on the show in the next couple days. All right. We're going to kick tonight off with a fantastic guest. He represents the great state of Alaska. He is a voice of common sense on energy on Greenland and all of the emerging issues that are important to our country. He is Congressman Nick Begich. Congressman, great to have you on the show, sir.
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Congressman Nick Begich
Great to be back, John. Thanks for having me.
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John Solomon
Great honor to have you on. A lot of the things that we've talked about in your prior appearances on here they're happening. The House has approved a pro mining bill getting critical mineral dominance going in America, something that we were far behind on China. This is a pretty big moment in American history. Tell us why it's so important that we catch up to China on the critical minerals.
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Congressman Nick Begich
You know, we hear so much about critical minerals right now and it's for Good reason. When you talk about restoring America's manufacturing base, that work starts with energy, and it starts with the raw materials. And critical minerals have never been more critical than they are today. When you talk about national security and national defense and economic security, what we've seen is that as China has taken the lion's share of a number of these critical minerals processing technologies and processes, they've been more than willing to weaponize that against the United States to restrict the flow of critical minerals and rare earths. You know, my home state of Alaska, we have nearly every critical mineral on our critical minerals list in abundant quantities, in economic quantities. And the only reason why we haven't been able to develop those resources has been actions like those taken under the Biden administration to shut down American production. And so under President Trump and this Congress, we've been looking for all the ways that we can repeal that regulatory overburden, move forward with responsible development, and restore these very important industries domestically so that we can ensure economic security and national security going forward.
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John Solomon
Your state has a lot to contribute to that effort. It's blessed with an abundance of great resources. Tell us a little bit about what's going on behind the scenes. The President last year obviously issued executive orders. Now the House has codified those into law. The Senate's got to take it up. Sounds like it's got a good chance here. But Alaska is not waiting for all that to get done. It's preparing for this big moment, isn't it?
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Congressman Nick Begich
Absolutely. You know, we've got a major gas line project that continues to advance. This would be one of the largest construction projects in America today. Should this be approved and move forward later this year. We're seeing good things, promising things on the horizon for bringing that natural gas to market. But beyond that, back to the issue of critical minerals. You know, the Trump administration and those back home have been working on opening up access to state land, not just federal land, but state land that has been restricted because, you know, in Alaska, we have a patchwork of land ownership, and it's been so complicated and challenging to open up resources that are. That require state, state land and federal land jurisdiction to coincide. And so we've moved forward with major developments on an area of the state called the Ambler District that contains cobalt, copper, nickel, rare earths, you name it. And we are moving forward on a number of these projects because we recognize just how critical they are to the America first agenda.
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John Solomon
Another thing that's been an important part of the America first agenda has been the Working Families Tax Relief, all the things that were in the big beautiful bill and that are still working their way. Additional ideas getting through Congress. It doesn't get talked about in the media because it doesn't go against. It goes against the current narratives that they prefer. But there has been enormous gains made for working men and women under the tax code. Tell us about the ones you think are going to be most impactful in this next year.
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Congressman Nick Begich
I'll tell you, you know, we're already starting to hear from constituents who have been talking about the tax rebates that they're getting. You know, we're hearing from folks who maybe they're waiters or waitresses. We're hearing from folks who are working overtime. And I'll tell you, Alaska is a blue collar state and we've been hearing from folks who are saying they're getting thousands of dollars back because of the no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security provisions of the working families tax cut. You know, the bill is so vast in its implications, a lot of folks don't realize we guaranteed 30 million acres of oil and gas leasing as a part of the working families tax. That's going to help lower the cost of energy. That's going to unlock lands for energy development in the state of Alaska. And the first of those lease sales in Alaska, 5.5 million acres will be made available, over 600 tracts starting next month. And so we're very excited about that leasing opportunity in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. And when you look at this bill, it's so vast and so good for the people of this nation. It's been hard to sort of get your arms around all of the, all of the important provisions. This is one of those provisions. It impacts the entire country. Great for my home state, of course.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it's historic stuff that's happening. When we look at the last four years before President Trump came back into office, it seemed as though the Biden administration shackled many of the opportunities America had to catch up on critical minerals. Meanwhile, we could see that China was roving the world, locking up deal after deal. Do you have some theory as to why the Biden administration was unwilling to let America compete hand to hand and on fair ground with China on such things as critical minerals which are going to determine who's going to win the race and so many other important competitions in the global superpower space?
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Congressman Nick Begich
Well, I think, you know, when you look at the actions of the Biden administration and even the Democrat administrations that came before it, you remember, recall Obama President Obama saying that it was time for America to lead from behind. They were more than willing to allow other nations to take the leadership role internationally. And we've seen that with China and their Belt and Road initiative. They effectively lock up resources, lock up infrastructure through predatory debt agreements with these nations. They go out and they sell a bill of goods and then eventually confiscate those resources from nations throughout Africa, throughout Southeast Asia. We see this playbook rolled out over and over and over again. And when you lack assertive leadership, you do lead from behind. In fact, you watch leadership occur to you. And that is what we've seen with China for so many years. That's why it's so important for us to have an assertive leader like President Trump at the helm right now, because he is reasserting American leadership, and he is making sure that the rest of the world understands that when they make a deal with China, it's coming with strings attached. And there are plenty of examples that we can see right now across the world where China has taken advantage of developing nations and effectively stolen their future through deals that truly are too good to be true.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it's such an extraordinary dynamic, and it just keeps happening. It keeps the washer and repeat. And for a long time, we were just sitting, watching. Now we're acting. One of those areas that both China and Russia have had their eyes on is the Arctic. President Trump making a very aggressive pitch to bring Greenland into a much better alliance with the United States, struck a deal with NATO on some general principles for that. How important is Greenland, and what are the next steps that you would like to see made to make sure that we have a far better alliance in the Arctic than we have when President Trump took over in January 2025?
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Congressman Nick Begich
You know, Greenland is a strategic asset. It's really important. It's something that has been on the priority list for the United States for well over 100 years. You know, the gentleman who pioneered the deal to acquire Alaska from Russia, William Seward. Greenland was a priority for him, too. He tried to get that done at the time. He got Alaska done first, and the Congress decided they weren't going to pursue Greenland. But it was strategic even then. It's even more strategic now. When you talk about the Golden Dome and the need for a comprehensive missile defense shield, you have to have Greenland participating in that process. Greenland also has a number of other critical resources. You know, you talk about critical minerals and you talk about energy. There is a tremendous amount of wealth locked up in Greenland right now. And Denmark is Failing to develop that, they're denying the citizens of Greenland access to that wealth as a result. And it's not good for the Greenlanders. It's not good for security within the West. We need to make sure that Greenland remains secure. And you're right, Russia and particularly China have been making plays for Greenland, critical minerals and Greenland influence, which, remember China's Belt and Road Initiative is built on the concept of soft power. Soft power is this idea that gradually, over time, they build influence in these countries in which they're operating in order to build hard power. And so we need to step in front of that. We need to do it right now. And I support the president in his efforts to ensure that Greenland is a part of the long term security apparatus of the world West.
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John Solomon
You're inside the Capitol every day. You know what the sentiments are. I think when this first came about, there were a lot of apprehensions in both parties about Greenland. It seems like over the last month or so, and members I've talked to, even reluctant members, that there's a growing understanding that maybe what Donald Trump's doing makes a lot of sense. Do you feel a little bit of shifting sentiments in Congress on this issue?
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Congressman Nick Begich
I do think that there's been some shifting sentiment. I think when people see what's under the surface, you know, the hard intelligence that we have and the importance of building a longer term, more durable relationship with Greenland, people have come around. And when you look beyond the rhetoric and you look at the fundamentals of Greenland's strategic importance over the long haul, recognize that it is a moment in time that we have right now to ensure that Greenland is a part of that national and really international security architecture that's being developed.
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John Solomon
Yeah. Such an enormous opportunity, one that we can't squander in the world we're in today. Congressman Nick Bag, it's great honor to have you on the show. I enjoy all the things you're doing in Congress. We watch closely. Great to have that conversation. Thanks for joining us.
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Congressman Nick Begich
Thanks, John.
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John Solomon
Yeah. What a great conversation, folks. All right, coming up next, we're going to talk more about those bombshell FBI memos that show that the FBI was in fact secretly preparing for a disputed election months before the November 2020 election, months before the January Six Capitol riot. Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on January 6, Congressman Barry Louderman going to join us next right after these messages. Hey, folks, I used to think a mattress was just furniture until I got my ghostbed, because ghostbed doesn't build mattresses like furniture. You know, what they build engineered sleep systems. Their beds are serious health equipment beds designed for relief and recovery, not looks, not fluff. Your body should be healing while you sleep, not fighting for comfort. I notice a difference right away if you are waking up stiff, tossing and turning, sleeping hot, even reaching for a pain reliever before you hit the bed, hoping tonight will be different. That's not aging. That could be your mattress talking to you, giving you a warning sign. Here's another thing I love about Ghostbed. You get 101 nights to try it at home. If you don't feel the difference, you can send it back risk free. Ghostbed is offering my audience their lowest prices of the season plus an extra 10% off. Go to ghostbed.com justnews use that promo code justnews that's ghostbed.com justnews use the promo code. Just News.
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John Solomon
Welcome back, America. When I think of how much more we know about January 6th and the disputed election and what the FBI and others were doing before and after the election, you cannot go without mentioning our next guest name. Congressman Barry Loudermilk. The chairman of the January 6th Republican investigation has been relentless in the pursuit of truth. And because of that relentless pursuit, we now have far more knowledge of what was going on, including what we broke this morning. The fact that the FBI secretly prepared months before the November 2020 election for a disputed election and political violence and the very tactics that they would ultimately use in the aftermath of January six were on already conceived let's embed informants into the groups that might conduct that thing and then let's prosecute everyone, even if they spit on the sidewalk or commit a misdemeanor, because that would be deterrence. Those memos now are an eye opener to so many of the people I talked to. They joining me now to bring us up to speed on this and a whole lot more, the chairman of the select subcommittee on January 6th, Congressman Barry Loudermook. Sir, good to have you back on the show.
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Congressman Barry Loudermilk
It's always good to be with you, John. Getting the truth out there. That's what it's about.
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John Solomon
You have done that relentlessly. And I just think of how much we've learned in the last two years that we were denied these facts beforehand. Before I get to the memos which I think are so important today, the Justice Department went in and announced that it is asking the Supreme Court and the federal trial judge to vacate both the indictment and the convictions against Steve Bannon, clearly leaning into the notion that the Democrat committee wasn't properly organized or lawfully empowered and therefore this was an act of weaponization. What is your we surprised by it first, and what's your reaction to it?
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Congressman Barry Loudermilk
No, I was pleased to see that happen. But I was making this, this statement back when all this was going on and during our previous investigation, I came out with a brief to the courts making this same argument that the select committee on January 6th was not organized properly and and nor did it have the authority that it was trying to impose upon Steve Bannon. And so I'm glad that the Supreme Court is taking this up because it is important and there has to be. You know, here in Congress, we talk about having oversight and constraining the executive branch, but yet there was no one constraining Congress during this elect committee on January 6 to hold it accountable to the laws and even to the rules that set up the committee. And so, like I said, we made this argument back then, and I'm glad to see this finally moving forward because we. We have to, as the legislative body, the most powerful legislative body in the world, we have to hold ourselves accountable and live by the rule of law as well.
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John Solomon
Yeah. So very important. All right, let's turn to these memos, because if you were to go back through the FBI's testimony in the aftermath, aftermath of January six, you got the notion, you walked away with the impression the FBI really didn't see this coming. There was no actionable intelligence, and as a result, they didn't pass anything on to the Capitol or to the Washington police or the Homeland Security that could have fortified that building before January 6th. You've already told us about the informant reports, which are eye opening and jaw dropping. But it looks like the FBI was expecting this for, like, six months. What are we to make of that.
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Congressman Barry Loudermilk
John, through this entire investigation, both in the previous Congress and this one, it amazes me how much everyone knew of what was going on, who claimed they had no idea. I mean, we're finding out now how much the FBI did know through their confidential human sources. Now we're finding out why they embedded so many confidential human sources because they were either aware or they were concerned that something like this may happen to the point that they did tabletop exercises on how to respond to this. My question now is, if it was so important to do a tabletop exercise, why didn't you do anything to try to prevent it? Or at least to have the Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies in Washington, D.C. give them the information so they could be ready for.
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John Solomon
Is mind numbing when you read these memos, how much they really anticipated of what actually ultimately unfolded. I want to talk about the time frame that this tabletop exercise in this memo is written. It's July, August of 2020. America is on fire. The anarchists aligned with the BLM are burning down cities. They're tossing firebombs into NYPD cars. They're assaulting officers. And so you have a political violence streak going on right now. Now, the playbook for what would be January six is prosecute everybody, right down to the smallest crime of spitting on the sidewalk. But at the same time, they're writing that for what ultimately would be a January 6th Trump prosecution strategy. They're not applying the same thing to blm. They're basically turning the other way and making excuses. What are we to make of that FBI that they didn't see that that same tool would be available to them for the BLM rights?
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Congressman Barry Loudermilk
Well, it's obviously, there's no equal application of the law, at least during the Biden administration and the Department of Justice. And look, this was even during the Trump administration. But we know that there were careerists who were in the Department of Justice, who were in the FBI, who they're there for political purposes or they're there to support the institution, not see that justice is equally handed out. But if you also remember, John, those that were prosecuted, you had elected Democrat officials running go fund me pages to get them bailed out. Okay? And it's not just that the lack of prosecution, those that were being prosecuted Democrats were actively going and getting them out of jail. They were leaning into the courts to try to get these folks off. But that didn't happen after January6. They were. They were exactly. What the FBI had game planned out is they were going to prosecute to the maximum extent, the full extent of the law. But I'll make the argument they even went further and they violated constitutional rights, as we've seen the Supreme Court come out and say as much. But also this idea of insurrection, we still hear this being thrown around that these were insurrectionists, but not a single person was ever convicted on the charge of insurrection. Not a single one.
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John Solomon
It is remarkable to put these things on a scale and see how much the scale tips in one direction. You've had a lot of chance to look at early on when we talk about weaponization. The name James Comey comes up time and time again. And I understand why. He's at the heart of the Crossfire hurricane. He signed the, the FISA warrants. He tried to set up President Trump on some sort of an allegation of obstruction. But the era of Chris Wray, upon which all this information you've been gathering seems to be even more consequential. And it seems as though what they started under Comey, they seem to perfect in some way under Wray. Going after Catholic parents, or going after parents going after Catholics going after Trump supporters. What are we to make of the Chris Wray era? What do you make of the Chris Wray era, now that you've seen so much of this weaponization evidence. Right.
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Congressman Barry Loudermilk
The Chris Wray era was totally political. It was political warfare. And one of the things I'm interested in finding out was just how broad was Operation Arctic Frost? You know, we're starting to uncover some things there. There may be some evidence out there that this extended all the way into Congress, that there was investigation and political weaponization against members of Congress that may even have ties with the select committee on January 6th. And so we're looking in that direction because there is. I think there. There may be something to this idea that Arctic Frost spanned much further than just within the executive branch and with Donald Trump. And so this was a complete weaponization on political bias. If you can't defeat someone at the polls, if you can't defeat a Republican at the poll, then you totally destroy that individual. This is exactly what was happening in Arctic Frost. This is what's happening with weaponization. And I guarantee you, and I can even show you evidence that this happened within the select committee on January 6th. Just talk to Stefan Passantino. They went to destroy this attorney who was just doing his job, but they didn't like the way he was doing it because he was trying to get to the truth. He was telling his client to tell the truth, and they literally went after him to destroy his entire life. And so this idea of weaponization expands way beyond the FBI and the DOJ and even comes in here into Congress.
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John Solomon
Chief Sund has come on the show before and talked about the pressure he was getting in the weeks leading up to January 6th to allow the intelligence division of the Capitol Police to begin providing information to the Senate Democratic leadership? That seems to be an unusual request. Police intelligence is for law enforcement, not for politicians. Are you looking in that direction, the possibility that what the Democrats are trying to do is get intelligence on all of their enemies through police channels?
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Congressman Barry Loudermilk
Well, that's one of the things we're looking at, because that is exactly what Chief Sund has shared with us. And there's others who have spoken to us about efforts within the political element of Congress, within the Democrat Party, who was. Who were actively seeking access to the Capitol Police database and their intelligence, and they were using that intelligence against sitting members of Congress. I mean, we already have an instance to where one of the members of my select subcommittee, Troy Nels, his office was invaded by US Capitol Police. Pictures were taken, and that is totally outside the realm of anything acceptable here. He was investigated as a member of Congress by the US Capitol Police, and I know he has litigation regarding that going right now. But I think this is just the tip of the iceberg of what may have been happening not only in the Ray FBI but under the Pelosi House of Representatives as well. And I think we had somebody like Steve sun who would not participate with it and he refused to participate and give him access. And I'm very thankful that we had somebody with that level integrity as chief of the police.
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John Solomon
Yeah. And his account has held up over time. Everything he told us has turned out to be 100% accurate. A lot of what Nancy Pelosi told us turned out not to be. Mr. Chairman, we would not know an iota of what we already know if it weren't for all the great work you have done and just persisting in getting Americans cold hard facts, which is such an important part of oversight. It's a great honor to have you on the show today. Thanks for joining us.
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Congressman Barry Loudermilk
Well, thank you, John. I sure appreciate all that you do.
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John Solomon
Back at you, sir. All right folks, we got a great interview coming up around the country corner. You want to think about what's next? Phase two of how we clear out this country of all the illegal aliens who came under Joe Biden, the former acting commissioner of the U.S. customs and Border Protection, as well as a former SBI special agent, Mark Morgan. He's one of my favorites. The guy knows the book inside and out. He's going to tell us what to expect next in the war against illegal immigration. We'll have that next right after these messages.
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John Solomon
Work supported me while I was going through treatment by not treating me like somebody who was going through treatment. Treatment sucks. Cancer sucks. Being engaged with work really helped to oh, I just knew I was going to beat this thing.
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Congressman Nick Begich
Research shows there is a significant connection.
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John Solomon
Between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing, learn more and sign the pledge@workingwithcancerpledge.com. Welcome back, America. As you know from the top of the show, important new information about what the FBI knew and was doing before the January 6 Capitol riot and contrasting it with the way they were dealing with the BLM riots. That's one big thing that we're all thinking about today. Another how are we going to get on top of this immigration crisis that the Democrats have created? Right. First they let people into the country. Then they stop ICE and other agents from doing their job in getting the illegal aliens out of our country. My next guest knows an awful lot about all these issues. He used to be a senior FBI agent and then the former acting Commissioner of the U.S. customs and Border Protection. He's our good friend Mark Morgan. Mark, great to have you back on the show, John.
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Congressman Barry Loudermilk
Thanks for having me.
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John Solomon
All right, I want to start off just getting your reaction on the story we broke this morning. It's not surprising that the FBI would do a tabletop exercise to prepare for political violence. But the strategies they developed, which were six months before January 6, they were glad to use against Donald Trump supporters in January 6, but they didn't seem to be that interested in using them when it came to the violence of the summer 2020 against BLM. Another example of the double standard, John.
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Mark Morgan
I think it is, and you and I have talked about this for a couple of years now, whenever there's a perceived, you know, appearance of, you know, kind of a double standard, especially when it's based on some legitimacy, the first thing happens immediately is the public's trust in this system of justice as the country starts to erode. And that's exactly what we've seen. Look, I was commissioner during 2020, and we saw that. We saw as cities were burning, how you had the liberal media and the liberal politicians, you know, out there saying, oh, well, don't worry about. It's mostly peaceful protests as cities were actually burning to the ground behind them. You know, in Portland, again, I was a Commissioner, as the federal courthouse with, you know, criminal opportunist were trying to literally burn the federal building to the ground. And we had politicians every single night almost justifying and actually encouraging the criminal protest to do exactly what they said. And now when it comes January6, we're learning more about what the FBI knew. And John, here's what's important though. See, I don't have a problem with them having confidential human sources. That's. I would say that's exactly what they needed to gather intelligence. But I've also been there. The fact that they were holding tabletop exercises, John, you don't do that. If it's just run the mill information, there's nothing there. You do that because you really believe that there's substance, information, intelligence, that could happen. So my question is, what the hell did they do about it? The one thing that we learned after 911 is let's not just, just get better at our actions. Right to the boom. Meaning after something happens, what we want to do is prevent it. So I want to know, why did they not do more to prevent it? Again, as the commissioner in D.C. i had hundreds of law enforcement officers and agents at my disposal. Disposal that I would gladly give in to the Capitol Police to help them. That's just one example. None of that happening. So. So we should be questioning why was it more done to shore up the Capitol and prevent what we saw happen? That's what we should be asking.
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John Solomon
Yeah, that is the question. Exactly what Chairman Barry Loudermilk has been talking about even today in our interview. Let me turn to the effort by Democrats to stop what the American people want, which is getting illegal aliens particularly dangerous, but all illegal aliens who jump the line out of our country. The latest tactic is going to be an effort to try to shut Homeland Security Department department down with a budget crisis. But when you look at where we are in the process, it seems like phase two of the Trump operation is about to come upon us. What do you think that second phase should look like? And how is it different than the shock and awe of the first phase?
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Mark Morgan
First of all, I hope that we see space too. And John, you said something is so critically important. Think about this is the Biden administration created the worst border security disaster in our lifetime, and now they're actually trying to stop DHS from fixing it. And that's where we're at now. But what I would say is, so far, what I saw the first year, what I call again phase one is we saw that, like you said, shock. And all we're going after, you know, some of the worst criminal illegal aliens that are here. And look, because of that, there are less criminals on our city streets today than there was a year ago. To a certain degree, that was a success. But here's what I'll submit to you and a coalition of think tanks. What we're on the board with this is that if President Trump's going to fully realize one of his signature issues that I think is one of the main reasons he's back in the White House, and what I personally believe is going to be a very determining factor's legacy, we've got to go beyond just going after, quote, the worst and the worst. If we're going to really shut down the illegal immigration once and for all, we're going to put integrity back in the immigration system. We've got to hold everyone accountable who's violated those laws. That means the 1.5 million illegal aliens with final order of removal. We've got to pursue the hundreds of thousands of these overstays. And also we must aggressively pursue employers who knowingly and willingly hire illegal aliens, which acts as one of the greatest incentives to drive illegal immigration. So I hope that in this coming year we're going to see that phase two and you're actually going to see see an expansion of resources going after every demographic of illegal immigration.
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John Solomon
Yeah, I think that's the key. At some point, the American people not only want the bad guys out, which we're getting a lot of the bad hombres out in a pretty large number now, it's the everyone else who jumped the line and put stress on the housing system, put stress on the social safety net. The people in the Somali community that we saw in Minnesota who maybe aren't necessarily criminals, but they're clearly taxing the system. Does the administration have a plan for that? You're in great contact with people like Tom Holman and others. And how will that differ from what we just saw in the last last six months where we've seen a lot of high profile activity?
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Mark Morgan
Yeah, look, they do. I mean, you've got people like Todd Vines at ice, Rodney Scott at cbp, Tom Holman, as the borders are. These are highly experienced people. They know exactly what to do operationally. And I think that you've already seen some indication, what I hope that we're entering phase two from Tom Holman in Minneapolis. You know, he's going to. What if I had a couple of minutes with the President, I would say, Mr. President, what we need to do is cut back on these massive large scale deployments, especially in certain cities, and up for more smaller scale down approach and operations throughout the entire country. We need to continue to shore up our support with state locals, which again Tom Holman has emphasized, as well as expanding our task force participation in federal agencies and the state and locals throughout. This is going to be the only way that we're really going to be able to send the message and really create an environment where we're actually holding everyone accountable. Look, at the end of the day, John, we can't treat immigration laws like a buffet where we selectively enforce certain aspects of of the laws based on our political ideology beliefs at any given time. That's just an ethnical to the rule of law. But yet when it comes to immigration, that's exactly what the left is doing.
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John Solomon
Yeah, it's an extraordinary moment, but a lot of common sense and the things that you've been talking about, it seems like that's getting applied in the system now. Phase two of the, the Trump illegal immigration crackdown I think is going to be the most important phase. I hope they've been listening to all the great stuff, Mark, that you put out there. Great to have you on the show today, my friend. Thanks for joining us. You bet.
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Mark Morgan
Thanks, John.
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John Solomon
Yeah. What a great voice. Mark had such an extraordinary career. FBI, lapd, Commissioner of cpb, an amazing, amazing expert Coming up next. Here's a question. Is China waging a silent war against the American people? I think we know the answer. We're going to ask Casey Fleming about that right after these messages. Welcome back, America. Tomorrow, the House Ways and Means Committee is going to have a bombshell hearing. They're going to look at how the Singham network, a network that's funding all sorts of liberal nonprofits, is tied to to the Communist Party in China. No surprise to those of you who read just the news, but it will be a surprise to a lot of Americans. The CCP is acting on our sorrow daily to destabilize our country. Joining us now is a counterintelligence expert and CEO of Black Ops Partners. He's also the author of a fantastic book. If you haven't gotten this book, you got to read it. This will get you up to speed on what China is really doing at the 30,000 foot level, the Red tsunami. Joining me right now, Casey Flint. And Casey, great to have you here. Congratulations on the book. Thank you. All right. I think a lot of people think, well, China is a country, it's trying to beat us economically. We get it. They think they're an economic superpower. They are really busy on our show trying to destabilize our country, aren't they?
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Casey Fleming
Worse than, you know?
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John Solomon
Yeah, very much so.
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Casey Fleming
It's called unrestricted war. What that means is it's focused. It's a people's war, focused on the people and weakening the inside from the inside out under no rules. Okay? And In World War II, you had Geneva Convention. Here, there are no rules. Everything is fair, and that's what they're doing. And there's hundreds of different methods, well over 100 different methods to weaken us. And we can talk about any piece of those.
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John Solomon
One of the most extraordinary things is their goal is to defeat America without a kinetic war. And so all this other activity, you know, people say, well, it's subterfuge, it's propaganda. It's destabilization. It is a form of warfare, right?
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Casey Fleming
100%. There are over 100 methods of unrestricted war. Biological warfare. Covid is biological warfare. You're all hearing now that it's all labs, right? It's all proven. Okay, well, guess what else they're working on, Covid? Two other types of very, very evil, nefarious things. Drug warfare from fentanyl, which. The numbers double what the government reports. It's around 150,000. It's like World War II never ended. Why are you not hearing about that on mainstream media?
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John Solomon
Why don't we hear. Is the media just compromised? That's what it is.
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Casey Fleming
Totally compromised to also taking money from the ccp. So if you're not hearing about these things in on your media, it's time to change your media.
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John Solomon
We had Cash Patel on the show Friday. He came and talked about these two illicit labs, one in Las Vegas, one in California, that had really serious, deadly biological pathogens. They. The FBI, he said, in the Biden era, sat down and didn't fully investigate or push the California one. He went and raided the Las Vegas one. The House Intelligence Committee chairman came out a few minutes later and said, I think China actually is using these labs to create the next ground zero patient for another pandemic. Is that possible?
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Casey Fleming
That they were Absolutely possible. And it's expected. If you understand what they're doing. That's all part of what they're doing. It's. They. They weaponize everything against the west to destroy the West. The important thing is to understand that this is the people's war against the people. It is not. We're trained to think military to military. Our military is going to protect us. The wrong way, this way is there. They want to kill your children, they want to kill you. And there's over 100 different methods. And I know it's scary for the audience to understand that, but for us in that business and in this business, it's just another Thursday.
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John Solomon
All right, you mentioned 100 plus tactics of this unrestricted warfare. Talk a little bit about some of the ones that people might not know that target their children, their livelihoods, their homes.
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Casey Fleming
Well, fentanyl is 150,000 every year. It's a targeted, efficient method to kill military aged young men and women. Okay. Every single year. In World War II, we lost 150,000. It's the equivalent of two 737s going down every single day. Okay, why are we not hearing about this? So that's fentanyl. Then you look at car fentanyl, which is 100 times more powerful. Nitosines, xylazines, you're looking at vaping products with carcinogens in the metal burners as well as the fluids, which is formaldehyde and so on. And then you're looking at marijuana. There's 3,000 grow. 3,000? Yeah, but I was talking about Oklahoma. But we can talk about Maine, we can talk about Colorado, we can talk about California. 3000 Chinese Communist Party grow farms in the US that's the level that how they've infiltrated us and they're inside of our gates. This war is on the American people. Nothing is more important than understanding. If you love your children and you love your grandchildren, this is your war. You don't get a choice. You're in the middle of it. And that's the reason I wrote the book.
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John Solomon
Where can people get the books? Everywhere. Everywhere.
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Casey Fleming
Redsunami.com Amazon, Barnes Noble, you name it.
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John Solomon
Guys, this is a must read book. Casey's done an amazing job of just giving you that big picture. We get these stories sort of in piecemeal, but when you look at the big picture, you really understand China's malign intent towards our country and towards freedom. Go check it out today. All right, folks, we take a quick commercial break. One more conversation to go before we wrap things up. We'll be right back.
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John Solomon
Welcome back, America. We talk often on this show how dei, anti Semitism and anti Americanism are all tied together in a sort of new era of hate in America. Sort of a hate ink that grew up on the left in America and it's infecting so many institutions today. A powerful discussion occurred at the Museum of the Bible joining. He is one of the people who were there and is always such an important voice in speaking out against hatred. He's the director of Priests for Life and the national co chair of Pro Life Voices for Trump, Father Frank Provone. Father, good to have you back.
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Father Frank Provone
Good to be back.
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John Solomon
It's good to have you here in person. Thank you.
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Father Frank Provone
Thanks for having me.
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John Solomon
This is, I think, a generational issue for us fighting this anti Semitism and the hatred and intolerance that underlies it. What sort of things were going on in the conversation?
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Father Frank Provone
Well, this, this was a meeting of the Religious Liberty Commission established just under a year ago by President Trump, headed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas. And the commission had several panels of witnesses today, including Jewish Americans who have been attacked, their services attacked, their synagogues attacked. Kelly Shackelford of First Liberty is one of the members of the commission. And he was talking about how so many anti Semitism cases have come before his organization where all our Jewish brothers and sisters wanted to do was build a synagogue. And just for wanting to do that, they were impeded, attacked, blacklisted in all different ways. And so, you know, one of the people on the panel is Dr. Phil. And you know, what he said today was very, very crucial. He said, look, we could have an academic discussion about all this and we should, he says, but it really is going to come down to the funding. Let's stop funding any institution, whether we're talking about schools or media outlets or whatever which are promoting and intolerating this new rise of anti Semitism. The other thing that came across very clearly in this commission was simply this. I think our audience needs to understand this. An attack on our Jewish brothers and sisters is an attack on us Christians because that's our spiritual foundation and countries and the nation, exactly those two pillars. I mean, you can't be an American who really buys into the values of this country and you cannot be a Christian if you are in any way participating in or tolerating Any kind of anti Semitism.
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John Solomon
Such an important point to make. And we need to make it five times a day, every day.
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Father Frank Provone
Yeah, exactly.
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John Solomon
I get asked a lot of times when I'm meeting with world leaders, how did you turn out a generation of two of children that hate America or seem to hate America and certainly seem to hate Jews? And the first question I come back is, I think it's our teachers. It's those teachers unions that they have our children for so many long days in school. And somewhere along the way, intolerance was embedded in a couple of generations of young Americans. I listened to some young people talking like they don't even know what they sound like. I wish they could listen to themselves. How much does the education establishment deserve some blame and some culpability for where we are today?
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Father Frank Provone
Well, according to what the panel said today, a lot. Now, you know, campuses of course, get a lot of attention and they should, you know, and these, these ridiculous things that we've seen, these very hurtful things that we've seen over the last year with the Jewish students not even feeling safe on a campus. I mean, this has got to stop. But what was brought up today was K through 12. It starts there. And the amount of. And the very point you're making was said today in the commission. And a number of experts testified to it, including people in the educational profession from personal experience, they say from these curricula need to be looked at, these school boards, we need to take action. Because remember, this commission exists to provide the president with concrete recommendations. And so one of the things is, you know, what are we going to do with these school boards and these curricula that even at that grade school level are imparting hatred, imparting anti Semitism, imparting all of this garbage that's so at odds with what America stands for?
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John Solomon
Without a doubt, do the reviews and then tie the funding. That would seem like to be a very powerful one, two punch, right?
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Father Frank Provone
Yes, there it is right there.
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John Solomon
Really important, because you're such an important voice in the pro life movement. We just celebrated the March for Life. It was really energizing. You see, it was a very robust and excited crowd. What are some of the big issues coming over the horizon for the pro life movement in the next few months?
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Father Frank Provone
Well, of course, the midterm elections are crucial. They're crucial for every issue that we're discussing on these programs. I mean, we have. And you know, here's the, here's the concern. And by the way, we're going to be gathering this week, about 60 national pro life leaders at our headquarters at Priests for Life for a three day strategy meeting. I want to invite our viewers to pray about that and all those that are committed for pro life, because we're going to look at exactly the question you're asking. What are our steps this year and next year? What are the priorities? One of them is, of course, winning these midterm elections. And a lot of voters come out for President Trump, but they say, well, he's not on the ballot this time. So maybe they might be iffy about their enthusiasm. Big mistake. He is on the ballot in as much as his policies, which are our policies. You know, he's the first one to say, as you know, well, this is not about me, it's about this movement. It's about us. So if we've made so much progress and we have with the policies that he has articulated so well and fought for and continues to fight for, well, then, yeah, he's on the ballot. I mean, what do you want, a Congress that's going to obstruct him at every, every step of the way? So this is a key priority for the pro life movement. Win these midterm elections. Number two, the funding issue. We, we achieved a great victory with the one big beautiful bill, right? We turned off major spigot of money going into Planned Parenthood and the baby killing industry. But it's only temporary. So we have got to.
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John Solomon
Yeah, Father, we're gonna have to let you go because we're about to hit the break. It's always an honor here, my friend. God bless you folks. What a great conversation we had today. More tomorrow. We'll be back after tonight and we'll have some big stories for you tomorrow. Keep an eye on Justin News overnight. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.