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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, March 10th, 2026
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President Donald Trump and his supporters were targeted by four consecutive FBI code name counterintelligence investigations over the last decade. Now, I want that to sink in. From the moment President Trump secured the nomination in the summer of 2016 to the moment he raised his hand for his second inauguration in January 2025, he was subjected to four straight consecutive counterintelligence and probes. Each of them designed to try to find some form of criminality against him. Each of them, or in total, they subjected hundreds of innocent Americans to privacy invading tactics. Things like their phone records being taken, grand jury subpoenas, extraordinary developments and intrusions on their everyday life. And the FBI before Cash Patel came and essentially treated the man twice elected president as a national security threat. That's what a counterintelligence investigation is. That means for almost the first nine years of his career, the FBI only saw Donald Trump as a potential threat to national security. Those are according to documents and interviews we conducted here at Just the News over the last six months. Director Patel has personally led the effort to find these four operations. Here are the four code names. Crossfire, Hurricane, you know that one? Well, that's about Russia collusion. Now, Debunked round River, one you probably never heard of until today. That's the one that looked at people who dared to look at Hunter Biden and treated them as though they were a national security threat. Russian disinformation artists. I have a funny feeling I'll be in those files. Plasmic Echo. That's the one that took Cash Patel's and Susie Wiles phone records before they became FBI director and White House chief of staff. There's also an allegation that the FBI in that investigation might have looked at or listened in on one of Susie Wiles conversations with her lawyer. And then the last one, one that we've talked a lot about on the show the last few months since we first broke it, Arctic Frost, an investigation that looked at the president and his supporters efforts to submit alternative electors to the Senate after the 2020 election as a criminal conspiracy, even though John F. Kennedy and a candidate all the way back in 1876 did the exact same thing. And they never got prosecuted. In fact, they were deemed to just be protesting as they're allowed to before the government. But in Donald Trump's case, the FBI viewed it as criminal. Those are the far reaching dragnet investigations that really basically targeted the president for the majority of his political career. One of the things we're learning, a lot of the information that predicated those investigations may have been based on false, misleading, uncorroborated justifications. That's what we're learning, that they didn't have the goods to really justify the opening of the investigation. That's what John Durham said about Crossfire Hurricane. We're starting to see that is the case in these other investigations as well. Now, why were these things so secret for so long? Why didn't we know about them before today? Because the old FBI under Chris Wray hid these files. Even for most of the FBI agents, they were marked prohibited access, meaning that the FBI leadership controlled access to them very carefully and they were kept off the radar. In fact, so far off the radar that Cash Patel didn't find him when he first came and he wasn't told about him when he first came in. How did he learn about him? Because whistleblowers have come forward inside his agency or in some cases, going to Congress. People like Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. That's how they learned about all of these files. And some of them are only found in the last few months. And when I say people were targeted, I just give you one example. Documents that we actually saw. Correspondence between a person who served in President Trump's first administration, was an adviser in the 24 campaign, and in between dared to make a documentary movie about Hunter Biden and his exploits in Ukraine. He was subjected to a criminal investigation. And one of the things that we learned when you see the FBI documents that we made public this morning, his emails in which he was giving private advice to the 2024 Trump campaign they were obtained by the FBI. Raises a lot of concerns, right? A lot of the people who were targeted in these investigations, according to the records that we reviewed, were people who are called special circumstances subjects, meaning they had certain protections, a journalist, First Amendment protection, a congressman or their staff, the separation of powers in Congress and in the Constitution, lawyers, the attorney client privilege. And yet they all were targeted in these four investigations. We're going to have a whole lot more on that over the course of the next few days and over the next few weeks. We expect some of these files to be declassified later this month or early in April. And I guarantee you we're going to be all over them when they come out. Now we're going to get to our first guest in a second Republican, Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney from New York. But first, I want to get to one more headline. Just a little while ago, President Trump giving an update in the operations against Iran, Saying Today the US military destroyed 10 minelaying ships that Iran had. He said they were dormant, they weren't actually going on, but the president took care of them anyways. That is one of the many things that we're keeping a close eye on over at Just the News.com go check out the breaking headlines there. We got you covered all night long. All right. As I promised. Joining us from the great state of New York, actually, she's in Florida at the Republican Leadership Conference, Congresswoman Claudia Tenney. Congresswoman, great to have you on the show.
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Always great to be on. You are always breaking news. It's incredible.
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Well, there's a lot of things that we're just starting to get visibility on. I mean, when you step back and you realize that the FBI considered the man that the American people twice elected president to be a counterintelligence threat the entire time he was in office, out of office, back in office, what's your first reaction?
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You know, this is incredible. They will do anything and everything to stop Donald Trump. We just can see today the Democrats have Trump derangement syndrome. They will do anything. They'll support illegal immigrants, criminal illegal immigrants will support anyone, even over the American people. Just as as long as it's a Trump initiative or a Trump policy. It doesn't matter how good it is and it doesn't matter how common sense it is. It doesn't matter that the American people support it because Donald Trump might be advancing that issue. They're against it. And it just shows the Democrats are so desperate they will do anything and everything, including undermining Our very powerful intelligence agencies and trying to surveil President Trump, anyone affiliated with anyone who supports him. I mean, this is just incredible. Especially, you know, I'm looking at, when you're talking about the Round River, I'm thinking I talked about Hunter Biden nonstop. Look at Miranda Devine.
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She wrote a book.
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There's been so much and you've done so much. I mean, this Hunter Biden story is really horrible. I serve on the Ways and Means Committee. We had the whistleblowers in on this issue. We saw that they were slow walking this. They were trying to avoid the statute of limitations. The U.S. attorney in Delaware was doing everything they could because they knew he was guilty. They knew it was wrong. And of course, President Biden pardoned his own son.
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And.
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And where are we now? No one's held accountable after all the terrible things that went on between Hunter Biden enriching himself, Joe Biden knowing about it, the family enriching themselves at the expense of the American people. And here we are, our own intelligence agencies, there to protect us against our enemies, are actually covering up for Joe Biden and trying to indict and destroy President Trump, a very popular president who, by the way, won even bigger in his third reelection, he would say, in 2024.
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Yeah, no doubt about it. It's just extraordinary, the effort that was put into it and the dragnet that people were swept up into. We know just In Arctic frost 400, when you take three investigations, it looks like north of 500, 600 people are ultimately targeted in these various investigations. How do they get their lives back? How do they get their reputations back like Carter Page? How do they get some recompense for the fact that their civil liberties or their privacy or their Fourth Amendment rights might have been invaded by this effort to get Donald Trump?
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Well, as you see, some of them have pursued legal means and are going to be rewarded with some kind of money. But does that really ever ultimately help that Carter Page is going to be known to be swept up in this? You know, the guy who was innocent, who they tried to frame, by the way, this all started that particular incident, you know, the Crossfire hurricane. That's not under the Obama administration. I think the Obama administration, including President Obama, you've shown, you've talked about it. You know, what did they know? Of course they knew about this. They were crafting this against Donald Trump before he even got into office. They were trying to prevent him from getting elected, just as they were trying to prevent him from getting elected in 2020. Even using social media. Remember when X was not owned, whether it was Twitter not owned by Elon Musk and they were trying to prevent anything that had to do with the Hunter Biden story in the laptop. You know, supposedly it was a classic Russian disinformation. 51 former intelligence agents said this is classic Russian disinformation, knowing it was true and that it was accurate. I mean, think about what they've done to undermine our integrity. The American people have no trust in these agencies and yet I serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. We're trying to restore that. We're trying to restore it through Cash Patel. We have Thomas Gabbard, who's now our Director of National Intelligence. We're trying to restore the, you know, the integrity of the CIA now with John Radcliffe heading up that agency. And this is what we're going to have to uncover. It's going to be an ugly process to clear out a lot of this, you know, very corrupt people who are willing, willing to undermine their own oaths of office, willing to undermine the United States to target American citizens. Isn't that what we're supposed to be protecting?
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Yeah, it is a jaw dropper. Right now there's an opportunity to re evaluate or renew the Section 720 authority that allows FBI to go through phone records and find connections. Is there any talk about making changes or does that just get another rubber stamp for another year?
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Well, I would call a rubber stamp because I serve on the committee and it's interesting. This is a really important issue. The White House has asked us to issue an 18 month clean extension because there were over 56 reforms put into the last FISA. Remember everything that happened to President Trump was five wasn't the 702 program. So what we're trying to do is show that we need to renew this program because think about it. I come from the State of New York. The largest terrorist attack in our nation's history hit New York because as the week. Yeah, the 911 Commission concluded, had we had something like FISA, a good FISA, a bolstered FISA, which, you know, really protected our fourth amount of rights, but also made sure that we gave our police the opportunity to know when we had people who are not American citizens, you know, about to commit dangerous crimes like 9 11, we could actually make sure we prevented those things. New York State, by the way, passed a law in 2019 post 9 11. Obviously that made it even more difficult for our police to work together, but you still have to have those protections and those 56 new reforms are in there in the FISA law. And President Trump recognizes we need some more time to make sure they're helping. But, you know, they are helping. They are making it more. Making us more secure and also getting a cleaner FBI and less corruption that we're seeing. But that takes time to root that out. So we're looking at where that goes. And I'll tell you right now, it's. It's a tough issue because it's hard to explain, but I totally understand why the American people do not trust our intelligence agencies. And they're squarely at fault for what they've done in abusing this process and abusing President Trump and so many caught in that sphere that we do have to make sure those reforms are solid, are working, and we have to amend them. But remember, that is all part of the FISA program. The 702 program has been vital in protecting a lot of our, you know, we could have many more terrorist attacks and many more dangerous people if it weren't for the 702 program. And so we have to be able to differentiate that. But you know what I do, John? I try to explain this to my voters and understand that I'm still explaining every single vote that I take on the house floor. It's 10 a t e n n e y.house.gov I'm still the only member of Congress that explains in detail all the votes that I take. So the American people understand that we have to preserve this great gift that we've been given, our Constitution, which is about protecting freedom, but it's also about security. And we're always balancing maximizing freedom while maintaining law, rule, rule of law, and security. And we have a Bill of Rights. That's why we passed it, why New York and original colony, why our founders believe we needed a Bill of Rights to protect us from tyranny. And we're making sure we're bolstering the Fourth Amendment and making sure that we're living up to it. And remember, these are so nuanced a little bit.
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Don't.
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Not to get into the weeds with you, but, you know, I love the Federalist paper. I love our history. We're at our 250th anniversary. I just went to an event, actually, that talks about, you know, the Declaration of Independence was a great group down here in Florida. It was called the most exotic, the most harsh breakup letter in history. We told the British, we're down with you. Really great, really great dialogue. But remember, these are things that are really important. But our founders were very wise. They knew we needed to protect our, our, our interests, our security, our rule of law. But they also knew we need to maximize freedom. So our Bill of Rights is very nuanced, but those are things that we need to explain. That's why I encourage every other member to join with me to explain these things so people understand and don't get confused sometimes by media. And I'll be putting a statement out on FISA 702 versus or FISA and 702 and the difference and what the President, President Trump is doing on that.
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Yeah, there's been, there have been a lot of changes in the last couple years and that's an important part. Plus it's under new management, which also makes a difference.
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Yes, big difference. But we need to make it secure because we don't in case we, it isn't, it becomes under bad management again. We want to make sure it's resolved. Resilient.
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Yeah, that's the key. Having that long lasting impact. Before we let you go, you've been down in Florida with the leadership of the Republican House Caucus. Lots of big ideas floating around. A lot of people think you head into midterm, you kind of coast. This doesn't feel like a Republican Party looking the coast looks like more big ideas ahead. Tell us what you think could be some of the surprises for the second half of this year.
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I'm not sure they're going to be surprises, but, you know, I formed the Election Integrity Caucus. I think that's how I got to know you. Trump is very. President Trump is very, very adamant about getting the Save America act on. It's something I believe in so much. I mean, only citizens can vote. Proving that you have an ID and that you're actually able to vote, those are simple, basic things that 95% of Republicans support and over 70% of Democrats support. It's a no brainer. But for whatever reason, the Democrats are worried about that. But leave it to Hakeem Jeffries, you know, to say, well, you know, we don't want ICE anywhere near our, anywhere near our election sites. Well, you're just admitting actually what we're trying to say. You brought these millions of people in that aren't citizens to vote in our elections. And ID would actually kind of flush them out and say, you're not a citizen yet. You can't vote in our elections unless you prove ID and then prove that you're a citizen. So I think the Democrats are kind of putting a hole in their own argument.
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Yeah, they are. And by the way, they're flying into an 85% win. That 85% of Americans want this to happen. So they're flying into a very strong wind. And when that political wind, in this case, Congresswoman, always great to have you on the show. We always get some straight talk. I love the fact that you explain every one of your votes. That is deeply appreciated by anyone.
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Thank you.
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Great to have you on today. That's pretty cool.
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All right.
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All right, folks, quick commercial break. When we come back, we've got the assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmony Dillon. She oversees election integrity and a lot of the issues that are at the heart of the FBI abuses. We're to going to have our next after the commercial. Hey, folks. This episode is brought to you by Native Path Grass fed collagen for better bones, joint skin, hair and nails. Here's something that genuinely surprised me. Calcium supplements, the ones millions of people take for bone health, may not be doing much at all because bones are 90% collagen, not calcium. Without the collagen scaffold to attach to, calcium has nowhere to go. That's where today's sponsor comes in. After 30, our bodies produce 1 to 2% less collagen every single year. That's a protein that keeps our bones dense, our joints cushioned across our skin firm. By age 60, like me, most people have lost half their collagen and it's nearly impossible to get it back through diet alone because it lives in the parts of the animal we don't eat, the bones, the cartilage, the the tendons. Native Path grass fed collagen is a clean grass fed type 1 in 3 collagen that dissolves completely in coffee or water. No taste, no clumping. Thousands of customers report less joint pain, stronger nails, younger looking skin, better sleep and even improve bone density. Scans to try risk free with a 365 day money back guarantee. Head to get native path.com/just news. That's get native path.comjust news. Welcome back everybody. We got a real treat for you. The woman who has overseen, I think one of the most significant election integrity efforts in my entire time in Washington, getting voter rolls that were long dirty, long, long overdue for updates, getting them clean and ready for the 26 election. That is something that benefits everyone, whether you're a Republican, Democrat, independent. She's the assistant Attorney general for Civil rights at the Justice Department, Harmony Dillon. She joins us right now. Harvey, great to have you here.
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Thanks for having me, John. It's wonderful to be here in person.
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It's an honor to have you here. Amanda is going to be bummed that she missed you today. She's out at the White House. But I want to start with the success we have because as we hear. All right, motions were taken, lawsuits were taken, there are consent decrees going on. You've made a lot of states do something they haven't done a long time. Bring us up to speed on the progress.
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Well, I'm happy to say that we've either reached a settlement with every state that has voter rolls or we are in litigation with them. And so so far, we have voluntary compliance with 16 jurisdictions that have either just given us their voter rolls in response to our data requests, or they've signed memorandum of understanding and then given us their voter rolls. The latest one was just uploaded last Friday. And then we are in litigation with 29 jurisdictions and the District of Columbia and North Dakota has a kind of strange system where it doesn't have, like, static voter rolls. And so, you know, this is a really important project for election integrity, and it's never been done by the DOJ before. And so people have to understand the number of hoops we have to jump through and their sensitivities. I've sued red states and blue states alike. In our wave of lawsuits last week with five states that had refused to comply. They include four Republican majority states, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and I'm blanking on the other one. And then New Jersey, of course, and so Utah. Utah is the fourth one. So. So, you know, it's interesting, some secretaries of state say, okay, well, I need a. I'm scaredy cat. I need a judge to tell me to give it to you, and then I'll give it to you. Some say we have state data privacy laws, which they know because their lawyers are subject to federal supremacy. So they're. And, and also, oh, you know, we have to keep the Social Security numbers private from the federal government. The federal government issues those Social Security numbers. And finally, some of these states, some of these red and blue states, voluntarily hand over their roles to Eric and other groups like that.
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But not the government.
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But not the government. And so we want every American citizen to feel confident in voting and feel confident in the outcome of that election. And that is why we're undertaking this massive project.
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Well, a lot of people ask, all right, so you get the voter rolls. You're just going to look through and make sure that they're compliant with federal law. That's really the goal. And if you Find a problem, you're just going to alert the states to fix it, right?
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Yeah, that's the, that's the purpose of this exercise. So what we are finding and what some states which are uploading their voter rolls voluntarily, which they can now do without charge, they used to have to pay DHS to do this, we're finding tens of thousands of non citizens on the voter rolls of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls and duplicate registrations between states. And you know, what's happened in the past, you may ask, why don't states clean it up themselves? Well, sometimes it's just inefficiency, but more times it's actually states wanting to clean up their voter rolls and the Mark Eliases of the world and even the DOJ suing them to stop them from cleaning up their own voter rolls. And so, you know, I don't blame states in a way because it's whiplash. Suddenly the federal government is saying, please do your jobs. A year ago they were saying, don't do your jobs. And so. But that's the law of the land. And Congress passed those laws. And as long as that's my statutory mandate, that's what we're gonna do.
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Yeah, no, it's an impressive thing. And when you say tens of thousands of noncitizens made the voter rolls, people say, well, we keep being told there's no problem there. That's a problem because some of those people, like someone, this person got indicted this week, sometimes they get the vote.
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And for every person that we've seen a story about, I know of dozens and dozens More cases and U.S. attorneys offices are wanting to bring these cases, but we have, of course, interference with the very appointment of these US Attorneys at the political level. So that's above my pay grade. But it's really frustrating that we're being prevented from doing our jobs sometimes at the doj, at the local level, months
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in, there aren't line, top line prosecutors in many of these businesses.
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I mean, I can tell you your executive branch is working very hard here.
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You guys are. There's no doubt about it. All right. Earlier last month, we had a raid in Georgia. We know what the FBI said the reason was. There was a grand jury subpoena confirmed by the Arizona State Senate president yesterday. Maricopa county. The FBI affidavit, I think, did an education service. A lot of people, people I don't think understand that if you administer your election for a federal election and you don't follow your state laws and that's intentionally. You do it intentionally, it actually becomes a federal offense. That's sort of what's going on here. You're trying to make sure that people are following the rules that they told their voters they would follow.
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Well, that's right. And you know, I can't talk about the details of these matters. And I will say that my jurisdiction statutorily is civil in nature. And so my colleagues, after we've tried to go through the front door and get these materials voluntarily, if they're not complying to help us help them do their jobs correctly, then it may become criminal in nature at least. Certainly grand juries have agreed with the request for this information. And so, you know, we're going to look at them and the FBI is doing their investigative work to see what they find. And then ultimately that may come back to some component of DOJ to bring charges or pursue that. But I can say as a lawyer who taking off my government hat and putting on my former political hat, I was on the ground in the last two election cycles in 2022 and 2024 in Arizona, in Maricopa county specifically. And you don't know whether it's incompetence or deliberate malfeasance. But either way, it is a shambolic bleep word show of an election process that leaves many citizens feeling like they shouldn't vote because they see the wrong paper being loaded. They see ballots being transported without proper security under state law, and then they see unclean voter rolls that are in violation of our federal election laws. And so we want every citizen to have the same outcome in the elections of our country as citizens in Iraq had when they vote.
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You know, we certainly could hit that. We should be able to hit that mark. But it's been the last 10 years and you know, I went back 15 years in newspaper clips. And it's interesting, back in 2012 and 1416, the Democrats were claiming Maricopa county was a problem. And then the Republicans started saying it and the Democrats suddenly defended the bad behavior that they used to like or it used to protest. It does seem like this is a moment where we can make really significant changes. Last night we have got a hold of this report that the House Administration Committee said it was an observer report. They went to a warehouse called Runbeck and they found live ballots and blank ballots side by side in a warehouse. I said that's really strange. By the way, no government officials or observers, they actually crashed the place. When you see something like that, that doesn't sound like a good practice It's a horrible practice.
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And Runbeck, of course, runs the elections in Maricopa county and other places, too. You know, and many other places. It's a company that does that. And, you know, there's state laws that say, for example, when ballots are transported from a voting place to the central count area, they have to be like police escorts, and they should be treated like gold. They should be treated like Fort Knox. And they're not. They're treated like, you know, like throwaway shoppers. They're treated like those coupons you get for, you know, your grocery store. And that's outrageous. It's the most precious of our civil rights, and it should be treated as such.
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Such an important moment. I think people are listening, like, wait, we got this bad. But we did get this bad over time. It's a remarkable thing. I want to turn to one other thing. I often go back and refer to this extraordinary interview a few months ago. But people look at the weaponization error and they say, well, a lot of people's civil liberties just got violated. I mean, their privacy. Heck, if the reports are true, the White House chief of staff and the current FBI director had their phone records rummaged through by the FBI. When you look at where we are, just what's in the public domain. Is there a strong case to be made that civil liberties are violent and that it could be criminal in nature?
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Well, it could be. You know, we are. A lot of the stuff has been concealed. I think it's come out there that FBI has found things and restricted access, prohibited access. Things have been dumped and shoved and mislabeled, deliberately and concealed. And that itself is, of course, obstruction of justice. And so getting. Pulling on that thread and untangling it and getting to the bottom of it is a challenge. And you see a lot of frustration online, John. I get it just about every time I announce something that my office has done, almost daily or sometimes more than once a day. Where are the arrests? Army? You know, we don't believe it anymore. I mean, we have due process in our country, and our standard is a high one. And so you're not going to have arrests at the front end. The arrests happen at the back end of an investigation, not at the front end of that. So we are diligently working together as a huge DOJ with, you know, tens of thousands of employees nationally and working on these issues. But justice must be served in these circumstances.
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You feel it will be?
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I do feel it will be. I personally am committed to it. And whatever small part I Can play. Civil Rights Division investigates conspiracies against civil rights. We've brought some criminal charges in that regard. You've seen that in Minnesota, and you will see more of those cases. And so we're. You have a team of, I think, the most zealous advocates for liberty at the doj. And I'm really proud to be a small part of Cam Bondi's team with Todd Blanche and others who are doing a great job.
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They're hitting their stride. You know, I talked to a whistleblower the other day, said it took 10 years for the weaponized government to do all the things it did. It's going to take us a little time to unravel, particularly when it's hidden.
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Oh, I mean, let me tell you something I learned recently from the reports about, about Arctic Frost that my law firm was targeted. You were targeted years ago.
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Yeah.
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No one told us. I never got a notice. No one told us that outrageously, there was an attempt to pierce our attorney client privilege communications with our client, the campaign, the president, the Republican National Committee. So I'm as outraged as anybody about this and as motivated to make sure that these violations of our civil rights should never happen again. And I, you know, like, these are the most precious common law rights, the attorney client privilege, you know, your privacy rights and their natural rights as well. And people have very casually waived these rights and said everything is. Google has it, it's in the cloud, or what have you. No, we have rights to privacy in our country. And that DOJ officials who work in the same building as I currently, who worked in the same building as I currently work in, shredded those rights should be morally offensive to every American, regardless of politics.
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You're confident they shredded our rights, aren't you?
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I'm very confident. I know it, you know it, I believe it. I know it. And I've seen some things that shocked me to the conscience and to my core as a lawyer for more than three decades. We have to stop it.
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Well, this will be the moment we'll know in the next couple years, I think, what the ultimate outcome. But it is an amazing thing. Meanwhile, one thing we do know, we're going to have a lot cleaner voter rolls than we've ever had in a long time. And that's a big tribute to the work you're doing.
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We already do. Let me tell you, when I ask a state for their voter roll, some of them have said to me, harmeet let us, you know, it's like when you have guests come over or the cleaning lady come over. Some of us, some of us women particularly, we do a little pre clean because we're embarrassed there was some pre cleaning happening before we got those voter rolls. And so the rolls are already cleaner just by our asking for them.
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Someone said that you're the jiminy cricket on the shoulders of a lot of election officials. And I think that's a good, good thing.
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So that's, that's a very flattering way. I've been described. Yeah, I've heard some other things.
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Well, that means you're doing your job. Great to have you here. What a great treat. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick commercial break. A lot more next ahead, including a little bit more about what the FBI did. We're going to talk to a former FBI agent who used to go through phone records for a living. He's going to tell us a lot about that right after these messages. Welcome back, America. I'm really excited to have on this next guest. Over my 30 year career, I've chronicled his exploits as one of the most impactful FBI agents of his generation. First, the man who helped prove that Iran was involved in the Khobar Tower attacks, the terror attacks back in 1996. Something very relevant today as we prosecute the war against Iran. Later as a whistleblower to correct the wrongs of the early 911 era, and then after that, making sure that the NSA program, the program that went through Americans phone records under the authority of Congress was conducted in a way that tried to protect Americans privacy whenever possible. He's now a retired FBI agent, but one of my favorite guests anytime we bring him on. Bassem Yossibossim, great to have you back on the show.
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Thank you, John. It's good to see you as always.
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I was thinking of you a lot this last week as I was working on this story that we wrote and broke last night and this morning because I know the regard you had for Americans privacy when you oversaw the communications analysis unit. But when you see in these four counterintelligence investigations, all targeting President Trump, that there were thousands of assessments and 1200 people in protected categories were even assessed, obviously they must have been innocent because none of them got charged. What do you see what happened to the FBI? Did it go off the rails somewhere?
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Knowing what I know about the investigative tools that we have, especially with the special compartmented programs, the fact that we are where we are today and that these discoveries, especially in your report that I read with great interest yesterday, to have that many FBI assessments of Special interest. The targets who are not just the run of the mill target on the street. These are lawmakers and others who need a higher threshold to get the predication to actually start an investigation or an assessment on. That's a staggering number, 127,000 FBI assessments. And as you already mentioned, to think that 48% of those assessments turned into an investigation. And then Fast forward to 2025 when all of these, the bulk of them were dropped because they did not turn up with any intelligence of any value. It tells you that the FBI, unfortunately, during the previous administration has cast a wide dragnet that got so many people who were not involved in any way, and I hate to use that word, but it's really framing those people for some kind of malfeasance when there really wasn't in the first place.
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Yeah. And so no other way to look at it. When you look at the body of evidence and then you look at the fact.
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Right.
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Four consecutive counterintelligence investigations targeting the man that the American people twice elected to be president. You go from Crossfire Hurricane, where clearly they had nothing. That's what ultimately John Durham thing. You think after that the FBI would be more careful with Donald Trump, but they double, triple and quadruple down. How does that happen in a bureau that got exposed on Russia collusion at the beginning of this?
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I remember John, when I worked in the bureau in field offices and then eventually at FBI headquarters where I oversaw, saw the communications analysis unit, that there was already a process where you could see that from the highest levels of the FBI, meaning the Director's office and the executive Assistant directors, that there is a soft recruitment of people of like mind that didn't necessarily meet the requirements for the job, but they were recruited because of their leaning, which was in fact very politically motivated.
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Wow, that is a scary thing. So you saw this coming, if I remember, at some point, I think you tried to alert the former FBI Director James Comey about some concerns before you left, but didn't take root, did it?
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Yes. In fact, that's an interesting thing you just mentioned, John. I had been trying to brief the Director at that time. It was Comey of this special program, the program that was leaked by Snowden, if you remember, in 2012. And the executive Assistant Director under him was blocking me from briefing him. And I'm the only one that could actually give him a briefing because I am read in on the program and I oversee the program. And that Executive Assistant director was Andrew McCabe. And it wasn't until by a happenstance the director walked into my office to sort of meet and greet my unit staff. And that's when I alerted him to the fact that I need to talk to him. And I had a concern about this particular program. And eventually I went up to see him before I retired, explained to him that the program has some issues and could be misused and abused. And he assured me that the program would be take a very good look at it. And then eventually at that time, the then President Barack Obama gave a press release saying that this is unacceptable, that we will definitely curb the authority of this program, if not shut it down altogether. Fast forward to the end of his tenure, the end of his administration, and to find out that the program was not curbed, but in fact it was expanded and authority was given to people who had no business in the intel world, such as the then UN Ambassador was given access to that program. So this whole thing just smells of pre planning for something that would be used later.
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Really scary stuff when you think about it. Before we let you go, Bassem, when you look at what's now in the public domain, Suzy Weil's phone records taken, Cash Patel's phone records taken, lawyers targeted, maybe free speech delimiters used to justify investigations of people. Do you have concern that the FBI may have violated people's civil liberties in a criminal way?
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Yes, I know that. For example, I remember when I went to the Academy, that was 1988. One of the things they drilled into us in training is that the FISA in particular and the National Security Letters, which are the tool that is used for national security. And that is also of interest the fact that this investigation, these four operations were counterintelligence and not criminal. And that is very telling. But that the use or the misuse of FISA or the National Security Letter can actually put us behind bars. That's what they always reminded us. So here, you know, that the system was abused, the programs were misused, and to go after people who they had no predication that there was anything going on. And in fact, this whole thing started with or one of it, one of the investigations started with a debunked Steele dossier. So you know from the beginning that the information was inaccurate.
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Awesome. You remind us of an era when the FBI followed the book and followed the rules. I think Americans yearned to get it back. I think we're maybe on that course, but the first part is getting it all exposed. What a great honor to have you back on the show. Thanks for joining us.
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Thank you, John.
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Folks, one of the really great heroes of the FBI did such amazing work and did his job by the book. That's what Americans are asking for again today. All right. Coming up next, high blood pressure is the number one risk factor for mortality. We'll take a look at natural remedies to lower it. More on that right after the commercial break. Welcome back, America. I know this to be true because I suffered from high blood pressure since I was in my late 20s. It's been a long time. And it's important because it's a silent killer. You don't know it. You don't feel it most times until you go to a doctor one day and all of a sudden you have artery damage, you have heart damage. It is really something that sneaks up on you. And it's why it's so important that you keep an eye on. It's the number one risk factor for mortality today. We're very lucky to be joined by a great partner. I use this product every day now. I love it, 120 life. It is such a remarkable thing. It's a super fruit juice, but it naturally helps bring down your blood pressure. In my case, six or seven points on top of my blood pressure. But I'm very proud of that. Joining us now, the founder of 120Life, Ira. And tell us, Ira, great to have you back on the show.
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D
Well, thanks for having me. It's always great to be with you.
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I love this product. I've built it into my routine. I even have some of my own recipes where I mix it in with a little of soda and other things to make it taste different every night. It's such an important part now because I realize that there are natural things you can do to bring your blood pressure down beyond the pills that I have to pop in my mouth because my doctor tells me to. I want to start because you had a necessity in creating this product. Tell us why you created 120 life.
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D
Well, as you can sort of see, my life really has been in music. And I had a health issue and my blood pressure started going up. And like many, I didn't believe it until like maybe the third or fourth time I asked somebody to measure my blood pressure, at which point I called the doctor and I went to see him. He happened to be a good friend of mine. And he said, if you don't get this down in three weeks, we're going to have to do open heart surgery. It was that simple. And I'm like, well, what is high blood pressure? I knew what could happen from it. And they were almost like, you got to go figure it out. And I started reading about what to eat, what not to eat, just as important, what to drink. And over time, so I went on a salt free diet and I did bring my blood pressure down and I kept reading about things to drink. And with studies, I'm like, wow. Pomegranate juice, if you drink it by itself for two weeks, should lower your blood pressure. Beets or beetus lowers your blood pressure. And one thing I'm like, if they all have a way to lower your blood pressure individually, if I put them together, would it lower it more? It was that simple. So I had read that if you drank pomegranate juice for two weeks, it would lower your blood pressure. So I'm like, okay, I'm going to give people a supply of my juice for two weeks. I'd make these big jugs and I gave it to people. It really, really helped many people. I'm like, wow, there's 120 million people in this country. 25 million probably don't even know they have it. There's an audience for this. And I'm like, I'm going to take this to market. That's what happened.
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B
Pretty amazing. It's an amazing story. And for you to think of other people after the crisis you went through is kind of remarkable in and of itself. Now we live in an era where things are stressful. We're busy all the time, we get bombarded by digital and political and information is coming at us at the speed of light. You got an economy, you got terrorism, all the different things. And so we're always under stress. Give us a little bit of linear picture of what stress does to your blood pressure and how you may not notice it until it's too late.
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Sure.
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So I coined a phrase called the four S's. Salt, sleep, sugar and stress. So when we're talking about stress, if you're under stress, your body produces adrenaline. That adrenaline is going to make your blood pressure go up. And we all have stress. So if you are having a stressful day, as long as you're the next day or the day after is calm, that's okay. But if you're under stress every day, it is affecting your heart. If your heart is stressed on a daily, weekly, monthly basis, over time this could cause great damage and maybe even a stroke or heart disease. So we have to de stress. Simple thing, I do it. Breathe in for three seconds, breathe out for four. Do that like 10 times, three or four times a day. Walk around the block. I used to walk around my dining room table just slowly. And if you walk around slowly, it will calm you down. Even things you eat can create stress. So when we're stressful, we grab whatever's around. But it's better to grab a banana or an apple than chips or cake. Things like that could help you feel better and distress you a little bit.
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Yeah, it's amazing. And we just oftentimes don't take the time to think about it. I think we were talking about this in the commercial break. We live in a wonderful moment. The Maha moment, or just the focus on health is, you know, it's hard now not to open to someone to get into a healthy conversation about getting healthier. How important is the fact that we're talking about health for the first time in a long time?
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D
Well, I think it's great because the thing about blood pressure, and my CEO, Adi Malik always says that, he says it's measurable, so you will know if you have it and how to bring it down. So the more people know about blood pressure, the more they will know that you can fix this and sort of solve it on your own. So I think that's number one. Number two is I have a blood pressure monitor. It's over there. I'm not going to get it now. I had it for eight years. It cost me $30. That monitor might have saved my life because it told me early on you need to go to the doctor. So little things like this, we can, as a society grow again. There's 120 million people and probably 20, as I said, to 25, have no idea. But that's why it's called the silent killer. Because on Tuesday you might be fine and tomorrow you might have a stroke because it's called the silent killer. You're not aware, but this damage to your heart is building up over time. But if you have a blood pressure monitor, you could know, hey, I'm good, or I need to go to a doctor and figure this out.
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So important. And I know you stress that everybody, even if you think you're fine, check your blood pressure. I think that's such great advice. It's so important. Ira, I want to thank you for this product personally, because personally, I use it. It's been life changing for me. I've shaved a few points off my blood pressure numbers. I'm proud of that. And by the way, I'm proud of the recipes I've made. I've got some tonic mortar things I do with it. So 120life is definitely in the Salomon family for the long haul. Great to have you on the show. I want to thank you for what you've done, my friend.
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D
Thank you so much. You have a great day.
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B
Yeah, you as well. Thank you so much. And thanks for your partnership. All right. And to our viewers, if you're over 40 like I am and it runs into your family blood pressure, that is, and your doctors have never mentioned to you or have mentioned it, it's time to go to 120-life-120life.com and use that promo code. JTN, you're going to get 20% off your first order. If your blood pressure doesn't come down, guess what? They're going to give you a full refund. Mine came down, like I said, six or seven points in the first two weeks. I was amazed by it. One more time to go check it out. 120-Life-120Life.com use the promo code. JTN, you get 20% off.
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D
All right.
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There is zero validity to these claims.
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And I'm glad that you brought them
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up because you have the Democrats who
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have created this myth and it has
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been perpetuated, unfortunately, by many in the mainstream media. Let me be very clear. The Save America act does not prohibit anyone from voting with the exception of illegal aliens.
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How about that? There is a lot of stuff going around. My favorite was the Hawaii senator who suggested that the real goal of the Save America act was to stop married women from voting. I'm sorry, I think married women from voting. Married women can have no problem finding an id. They do it when they get on a plane. I have great confidence in married women that they can overcome the concerns of the senator. It was one of the many strange things that happened today. Democrats also were on sort of bad behavior when it came to an Iran proofing. Remember Senator Dick Blumenthal, a guy that once claimed he had some Vietnam War records that he didn't actually have? Well, he came out of today's Iran briefing. Take a look at what he said. I emerged from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry. Frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years in the Senate. I am left with more questions than answers, especially especially about the cost of the war. My questions have been unanswered. I just want to point out I never once heard Senator Bick Blumenthal ever say he was concerned about the cost of the open border when it killed Americans, when billions of dollars of welfare safety nets went out the door to illegal aliens. But now he's suddenly concerned about the cost of a few Tomahawks hitting Iran. I'll leave you with that thought. All right, that's all the time we got for you tonight. We'll be back tomorrow night, regular time, 6pM Eastern. In the meantime, we're going to hand the baton to my good friend Grant Sidfeld. In fact, I'm going to go appear on his show in just a few seconds. But until then, God bless you. Have a great night.