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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, September 8th, 2025
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Good evening, America. Happy Monday. Welcome to the latest edition of Just the news. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon, reporting to you as always from the nation' capitol right here in Washington, D.C. we have some more huge news to get in front of you from inside the FBI. Just the News has learned that the bureau has opened an investigation under Director Cash Patel into whether its own agents obstructed or interfered with politically sensitive cases such as those involving Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden and President Trump. Now think about this. Normally the FBI is investigating other people like witnesses who obstructed justice. But in this case, it's looking at their own people. Now this follows all of the reporting we have done exposing the alleged improper behavior and actions from key officials around the Russiagate scandal, such as former FBI Director James Comer, former CIA Director John Brennan, as well as reporting we brought to you involving investigations to Hillary Clinton being stopped by both the FBI and the irs. Remember that line, shut it down sounds a lot like obstruction, doesn't it? Now the FBI is internally investigating. It all stems from material uncovered in prohibited access case files. That's a wordful, but it's an FBI term for politically sensitive investigations that most agents aren't allowed to access even when they're working on the case. They basically keep the materials off the books, which makes it hard for Congress to do its oversight authority. Now, we know all this because officials familiar with the matter told Just the NEWS that some FBI employees memorialize concerns they had about conduct from FBI supervisors or case agents. In fact, we got some of these memos. One of these memos involves the discovery of Anthony Weiner's laptop. And in that case, we now know that the deputy director, Andrew McCabe in the fall of 16 knew about it in September, but slow walked it for a month alongside of other agents. Sources have telling us now that a grand jury has been impaneled to look at this and that some of the evidence is going to be turned over in a bombshell notification to Congress later this month, we'll have a lot more on this for you with former FBI Executive Assistant Director Chris Bioto, who's going to show us or join us in just a minute. But first, let's bring in my amazing co host, Amanda. Had to get some other big headlines. Amanda, what's on your radar today?
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Good evening, John. And good evening to all of you. Is it really just Monday?
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My goodness, it is really just Monday.
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Well, President Trump scored some big wins at the Supreme Court today, the first one involving the administration's policies on illegal immigration. Now, earlier, a lower court doled out a decision that blocked ICE from immigration raids in Los Angeles based on, quote, race and language, unquote. But the Supreme Court today placed a hold on that decision, which allows ICE to continue those raids as the case gets decided as it moves up through the court ladder. So we also had Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily allowing President Trump to fire Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. Now, the temporary status of the firing is due to the chief justice issuing an administrative stay as the court deliberates on the administration's emergency appeal. Now, federal law says that the president must have cause to fire Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission, but the Trump administration is arguing that that law is unconstitutional. So this is an ongoing issue as President Trump fired Slaughter back in March, and in July, she was reinstated by a federal district judge. Only days later, the U.S. circuit Court of Appeals for D.C. allowed the firing to move forward temporarily. And then on Tuesday of last week, the D.C. court reinstated Slaughter once again. So good. Gosh, it is hard to get someone fired in this town, is it not? And finally, the Jeffrey Epstein story continues with the House Oversight Panel getting their first batch of docum documents from the Epstein estate, including the alleged birthday note and picture from President Trump to Epstein, a note that the president maintains was not made by him. So we'll have to wait and see what else comes from the panel on all of this. John, maybe we should get an expert witness to look at that.
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That's a great idea. That might actually be underway. How about that? You may have dropped a big hint there, didn't you? That was good. I just think today the decision by the Supreme Court 6, 3 in upholding ISIS raids in Los Angeles is a warning sign. If you're the mayor of Chicago, if you're the mayor of Baltimore, if you're the mayor or police chief in New York, you're on notice that the Supreme Court is probably allowing things to go on. And by the way, shortly after that ruling came down, ICE began its Raids in Chicago. They gave it a great code name and now it is out there. They're working it. So a lot to be going on there. It'll be interesting to see if the Trump administration rides that momentum and starts going into these cities to do what the law clearly allows them to do and what the Supreme Court did. But a big day today. I gotta check with control room. Hey, control room, do we have Chris yet? We do. Awesome. All right. Well, we're very lucky to begin tonight's show with somebody who wrote a book that I think is the mantra now for what Cash Patel and the FBI leadership team is trying to do. He's a retired FBI executive assistant director and the author of that book I mentioned wanted to the FBI. I once knew our good friend Chris Piotta. Chris, good to have you back.
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John. Amanda, great to be with you. And I apologize for the stunning hotel decor behind me.
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It looks like you're working hard. That's important. Chris, I want to talk about the story we did this morning. Normally, we're used to FBI agents and prosecutors looking at witnesses or bad guys or defendants who might have obstructed justice. But in this case, Kash Patel is looking at the very real possibility that people who are on the FBI's payroll might have been obstructing their own department or the Justice Department's investigations of people like Hillary Clinton. When you see that, and you see, like someone who had a job like you at the highest levels of the FBI, was writing a memo of concern about what he witnessed, doesn't feel like the FBI it should be.
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Well, I'll tell you what I saw. Your article, well written as always. Randy Coleman was a colleague of mine. And you'll see that writing those types of memos is a regular practice. And you'll do them for investigative updates, status checks, and just general reports during operations. And you'll also see entries like Mr. Coleman put in there where he was concerned about how a matter was being handled at the highest levels of the FBI. And like Mr. Coleman, I also reported into the deputy director's office. So what you find in that instance is, you know, Randy was concerned that the deputy was not moving this forward in a way that was proper or that was warranted, given the gravity of the situation. And I'll tell you this, and from my experience, when you write these kind of memos, you have to look at a couple of factors is what did you know, when did you know it, who did you tell, and what was your role? And I think that's what Randy was trying to clarify on this matter so that when people looked back on it, you could see properly what was happening in a chronological fashion.
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Yeah. Has there ever been a more perfect time to use the phrase investigating the investigators? Because we're not really used to this, Chris, but since FBI is the originators of profiling profile for us, the type of FBI agent who would be investigating this, Because I would imagine it's not just your regular rank and file. Who's. Who's going to be performing an inward investigation. Who are, who are the types of agents that they are looking for to give this to do such a deep examination?
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Well, initially, what you're going to find is a group of people from the FBI's Inspection Division. These people are the FBI's Internal affairs, so to speak, and they're the folks who are going to look at this matter and look at how it was conducted in line with what policies, and to see if there was any diversion from acceptable practice or, or policy or legal requirement. And sometimes the OPR Office of Professional Responsibility folks, they'll collaborate with the Department of Justice Inspector General's Office as well. Depending on the type and magnitude, the DOJ Inspector General will sometimes participate, sometimes they'll defer back to the FBI, but that's going to be your first stop as the Inspection Division. And they may also bring in a few people on a temporary duty assignment if there are some specialized subject areas that have to be looked at for, again, proper protocol, practice and policy.
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Yeah. So important. Those Inspection Division reviews are usually pretty good and they get some of the best people on them. I want to turn to the notion of what we now know from the evidence, and that is that Hillary Clinton had two ongoing investigations, one in which James Comey grabs a hold of and says, I'm making the prosecutorial decision, which he didn't have the authority to do, but he does. But the other one was the Clinton foundation corruption investigation. Three separate FBI offices with predicated probes and things like the deputy Attorney general calling in saying, you must shut it down, or the deputy FBI director saying, nothing happens in these three field cases unless I approve it. Is that a normal procedure for a deputy FBI director to be telling a field office when they can investigate or how they can investigate something in a normal circumstance?
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No. Given this circumstance, with the political sensitivity that was attached to it, you'll see that people at the highest levels of the Department of Justice and FBI were directly managing the investigative effort, which is, again, not something that generally happens. And I think in this instance you'll see where there were departures from the FBI's basic mission parameters of your skilled, objective, apolitical and professional investigative work, where we saw maybe vulnerability to a little bit of leaning towards certain political preferences or ideological beliefs that they pretty much tried to attenuate or to slow the investigation into the Clinton issues while accelerating the investigative efforts into issues surrounding President Trump.
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Yeah.
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So I. I can't imagine that Comey or McCabe or pretty much anyone on the seventh floor would have time to keep their eyes on every investigation run out of every field office across this country. So are there when an investigator, when an agent is entering information into a database, are there trip words? Or is it a situation where maybe the Clintons got tipped off that they were being investigated and they got word to make cave. How do you think that. How did that work?
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Well, in an investigation of somebody of that stature, you know, the former Secretary Clinton and of course her, you know, her husband in his previous role, the President Clinton, any types of.
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We might have lost in there.
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Justice will then brief further across certain channels. The Attorney general, depending on what's happening, will be briefing at the White House to let them know that there are issues or there are interests that affect those type of people.
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That.
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That's just the way the machine works. And, you know, I'm sure they were maybe informally notified of certain things, but there's no way you can get around that.
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Should it not work that way? Should it not work that way that they should be treated differently or that people should be notified?
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I don't think it should work differently for them. I think that if they break the law and if they are in violation of the laws of our nation, they should be investigated and they should be handled properly by the Department of Justice. I know that there is.
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Lost him again. Hopefully he'll come back in a second because he's a very important answer. He's such an amazing. That's why his book is so great. Yeah, it's such a powerful book. The FBI. I think we have him back. Chris, we lost you for a second. You were saying that it shouldn't be treated differently. I think most people.
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That's correct. I mean, if.
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Did we lose him again? I think we did. I think we're getting a bad signal.
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All right. We're going to let Chris go. I think we just got a bad signal. Hotel room. Amanda, I think what is so amazing about this period, and I think why Chris so eloquently in his book pointed out is that you really see the Dual system of justice here. All right, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are basically in the same camp. And the seventh floor is pushing an investigation against Donald Trump that has no merit and then stopping investigations that agents on the front lines thought had merits. And then even there's a moment where there's a chance to give both of them a defensive briefing. Hillary Clinton gets her defensive briefing and Donald Trump doesn't. And I think people look at this and they see that's a dual system of justice. That's not the FBI that I think Chris Piotta started working in. And it's the one I think now he wants to fix. And with the very strong words that he mentioned, he's such a. Such an honest broker in this. And I think what's great about Chris and what we need are more Chris's in the FBI. He doesn't see the name of the defendant. He just sees the facts of the crime. And I think that's where we got astray for the last 10 years.
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Well, you know, President Trump, I don't know any other way to say it other than he had it coming. And by that, I mean he was an outsider, and therefore there was a threat there. He also, very early on, even before he announced his candidacy, talked about corruption in the federal government. He targeted the intelligence community, talking about the weaponization and cronyism within our intelligence community. So President Trump, you know, he was kicking a hornet's nest that deserved to be kicked for sure. But, you know, these people knew what their defense was going to be. They knew how much they had to kick it into overdrive to protect themselves and to protect the. Their pals like Hillary Clinton.
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So by all, by all accounts, Agent Coleman is a very respected senior executive. Yeah, he worked in the Comey era, but he was a guy that tried to do things by the book. I think he's going to become a very critical witness in the next phase of this. We had one other thing that happened over the weekend. I'm really proud of this story. Our good colleague Jerry Dunleave and I worked on this. So there's a new filing by in the January 6th case. And the prosecutor that pursued Pete, My God, put the president with Bannon. I have a mind box. Suddenly, Peter Navarro, the very prosecutor that was pursuing this whole time, now is carrying out the Trump department's wishes to back off some of the positions that were taken. But we looked at this prosecutor. Now he's prosecuting someone directly impacted involving Donald Trump. He's giving donations to Kamala Harris, to Joe Biden in the middle of this and other Democrats. I think there's another issue if people want to start trusting department. I think if you're a prosecutor and you're handling political cases, you got to start to consider the possibility. Yeah, we want everyone to have their free speech. But if you're going to do political cases, I wonder if you have to recuse yourself from donating. Because how do you know that those donation decisions weren't part of an effort to influence his thinking or that they reflected his political thoughts in pursuing Peter Navarro?
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Look, I mean, look at the way that judges handle most judges, not Judge Engoron or any of those judges, but most judges abstain from doing those types of things because of the, you know, the appearance of it.
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Yeah, there's a whole system and I think it's gotten a lot of rot on it in the last few years. And I think all the things that we're exposing beyond holding people accountable, I think there got to be some new rules put in place. Listen, I know that FBI agents for the last decade have been taking free junkets for special interests, including George Soros funded groups. It just colors the whole system to make it less trustworthy. And I think what we're exposing here is starting to dig at that very, very issue. So. All right, well, that was a fun interview. Even though we lost Chris for a little bit. He's such a great advocate for common sense. We're gonna take a quick commercial break. When we come back, an update on Signalgate from two men that were formerly on Secretary of War Pete Hexis. Yes, I used the new term there. See that? All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll have those great interviews with Dan Caldwell and Darren Selnick right after these messages. Hello, friends. John Salomon here from just the news. In the time when trust in Washington is at an all time low, more Americans are stepping up and getting involved. And amac, the association of Mature American Citizens, is helping lead that effort. AMAC is a conservative alternative to aarp and they're focused on protecting the values that built this country. Faith, family freedom and personal responsibility. Things you and I believe in. As a member, you'll receive exclusive discounts on travel, insurance and health care services. You also get access to trusted tools and resources, plus a subscription to the AMAC magazine, one of my favorites, packed with information you can actually use. And here's the best part. When you choose a five year membership like I did, you'll save up to 33%. That's just over a buck a month. A small investment to help hold Washington accountable and support a movement of patriots committed to preserving America's future. Join millions of fellow patriots like myself. Visit AMAC US JustNews and become a member today.
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Welcome back, everybody, to just the news. No noise. A few months ago, the legacy media quickly jumped on a story by the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, all about how he was mistakenly added to that Trump administration signal group chat. Now, he originally stated that he was texted war plans, but the Atlantic later changed that to read attack plans. So the story stayed in the news cycle for a bit and then just kind of fizzled out and everybody moved on to the next thing. But is there more to it? With us now to discuss a little bit about that, as well as more about President Trump's foreign policy is Dan Caldwell. He served as former senior adviser to Secretary of War after President Trump's order last week. Pete Hegseth and Darren Selnick, former deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Hegseth. Guys, thanks so much for joining us.
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Thanks for having us.
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Having us on.
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Darren, I'll go to you first. Why the need to change that in a headline? Why the differentiation? Does it matter?
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Well, it sends a message. So we're talking about Department of War. We're talking about sending a message, don't mess with the US so it goes back to the 1940s. And so I think if the executive order makes it a secondary title, we'll see if Congress, what Congress does. But I think under the Biden administration, what has happened is that we were taken lightly, that we were just would react or not react. I mean, how many times did we get hit by the Houthis without doing anything? So I sent a message, Trump is sending a message. Secretary is sending a message that we are war fighters and we will do what we need to do, as they found out with some narco terrorists coming into the United States. So don't mess with us because we are not going to be messed with anymore. This is not the Biden Administration.
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Yeah, that message is being heard loud and clear. And if it hasn't, I got some guys, well, used to be in Venezuela that heard it loud and clear last week, for sure. I want to turn to the SIGNAL questions, because this was a classic media hype story that then decelerated after the fact. And I know it was painful because you guys are in the middle of it, and it's hard to get treated fairly when the media just gets into a frenzy. But when I look back now, we did some very important journalism on this, showing that the Biden administration had authorized Signal as a channel for doing these sort of communications because the government doesn't have a unified system for this sort of chatting. How frustrating, Dan, was it for you to have this sort of scandal foisted, and then when people finally looked at like, oh, it wasn't as big a deal as we thought?
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Well, I think that the important thing is with anything coming out about whether it's Signal Gate or the stuff about leaking, is that it's important that people only trust half of what they see and nothing. What they hear is that what is happening is people are selectively leaking out things to shape and frame a certain narrative. And in both cases, there are ongoing investigations, and at the end of the.
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Day.
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Those will be completed, and Congress will have a chance to review it, and others will have a chance to review it. But, you know, really what is more important, though, at the same time is that the Department of War now under President Trump is trying to do some pretty transformational things. Whether it's ripping out dei, whether it's ripping out a lot of these bad recruiting practices that didn't allow our military to meet its recruiting numbers for many years under the Biden administration, or ultimately reorienting our military's focus to what's important, that's what really matters. Not a lot of these. These. These scandals that you see in the media, and a lot of times those things are. Are. Are really what. There's a lot of incentives to focus on those things instead of the really substantive, transformational things that are happening. And look, you know, Darren and I got wrapped up in some of this, but the end of the day, like, even, you know, even though that we left the department, we're still supportive of what the Secretary of War and what the President are doing because they're very important in the future of our country and the military's ability to protect our nation and its interests.
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Yeah, very important.
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Dan, I want to. I want to stay on you, especially with something that you Mentioned as far as military readiness and our service members having the resources that they need. Going from the Biden administration to the Trump administration. With Secretary Hegseth at the helm, does it feel like or does it look like. Does it seem like Hegseth is trying to kind of pick up the pieces and catch up to all of the damage that was done under the previous four years?
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Well, you know, I would say it goes back farther than that, is that there have been a lot of bad decisions made around the use of our military, how it was structured, how it was equipped, really going back to the beginning of the war on terror. And we're coming up on the anniversary of 9, 11 attacks. And, you know, I think first and foremost is that it was a mistake to invade Iraq and to stay involved in Afghanistan as long as we did. And that distracted the military from a lot of things that it needed to do to actually focus on the things that matter to our safety and the conditions of our economic prosperity. So Secretary Hegseth and President Trump aren't just dealing with four years of rot under President Biden. I would argue they're dealing with 20 years of bad policy made by previous presidents and Congress. So there's a lot of work to do. But I do have to give a lot of credit to this administration is that they have made tremendous progress in a little over seven months in fixing a lot of these things, but they need to stay focused for the next three and a half years to make sure they finish the job and that we get back to a military that can. Can fight a major conflict, you know, God forbid, against a power like China, but also do things like focus here in our Western hemisph and also still do things like deal with terrorists that have the intent and capability to threaten us. And that's going to still be a lot of work. So I hope that the administration stays focused on those things, but also too, that they get support from Congress, because Congress, unfortunately, has been a big part of the problem is that they either forced the military to do things or buy things that they didn't need or they shouldn't be doing or they haven't conducted proper oversight. And so it's the current administration is doing their part, but especially the upcoming National Defense Authorization act, that Congress is really going to need to step up and do its part as well, too.
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Yeah, that's well said, Darren. I want to turn back. If there was ever an example of how far the military had slid and failed, it was the withdrawal from Afghanistan. And there have been plenty of Reviews, but few of them have done the job that needs to be done in looking at what generals and frontline commanders did, either not to stand up to Joe Biden's bad decisions or to make their own bad decisions. We've had a lot of stories in the last couple weeks from the great Jerry Dunleave. He's put a lot of this out there, but how important it isn't just an embarrassment exercise. It seems to me understanding the Afghan feathers is important to make sure we don't repeat them in another war venue in the future. Right?
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I would argue, yes. Darren. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Darren.
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That's okay. No, absolutely we're doing to repeat the mistakes unless we go forward and go ahead and find out what really happened. So doing that investigation, making sure that we really go ahead and find out what really happened and have some consequences. Accountability. Generals that didn't do the right job, generals that didn't act appropriately should be held accountable. I'm sorry, Dad, I may have stepped on you on that. Go ahead.
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Yeah, again, it's. You know, one thing that I think Jerry's done a good job at is really focusing on some of these key generals. And if you look at a lot of these key generals careers, particularly Mark Milley and Frank McKenzie, is that they commanded at almost every level of the war over 20 years. And their failures just go beyond the last nine months of the war. They really go the whole 20 years. I mean, Mark Milley, if you read the Afghanistan papers, which was a series of documents that was released by the Washington Post, I believe, in 2019, 2020, you know, Mark Milley's name is. Is all over those documents. And he lied repeatedly about what was happening in the war in 2013 when he was the deputy commander in Afghanistan. He repeatedly lied and arguably to Congress potentially committed a crime in doing this about the status of the Afghan National Security Forces. So it's not just about the last 20 days, which were disastrous and horrific. It's the last 20 years of the war. And it is absolutely unsat that there have not been one general, one civilian figure actually held accountable for not just the failures in the Afghan war, but also the failures in the Iraq war. And that's going to just create the conditions for another failure down the road. So I really hope that this review that the Department of Defense is doing leads to some real accountability, because it's not. It's absolutely critical to our ability to fight and win future wars because the generals will feel like they can't just do the same Old things and escape accountability. It creates the right incentives and forces the right conversations about our strategy and whether or not these wars are even in our interest to begin with.
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Before we let you guys go, Darren, I want to stay on that for a moment because you've obviously got a certain skill set, a certain pedigree in someone like Millie. What is the difference between someone like Millie and someone who should be in that position, pedigree wise? Because you look at someone's military service records and sometimes they are identical. You've got two people who are equally capable and yet with, you know, in the situation of Millie, someone who seemingly was trying to undermine the success and the reputation of the United States.
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Yeah, I mean, the differences result in outcomes. And so you got a lot of generals. And I was very disappointed when I came to Dodge now Department of War, to see so many generals who have checked the boxes, but they don't have results. Someone who did a bad job in Afghanistan, someone who didn't take care of the President Trump won when I was at the White House. That's the difference. That's why you have a General Kaine in there versus a General Milley, someone who gets results. That's why you want a patent and not a guy who's a felon. So that's the key thing. That's why meritocracy. That's why we're focused on in the Department of War now. Results and actions that show that you have the ability to get the job done. Not checking the box, not dei, not wokeness, but who actually is the best, who gets the results. And that's what we have to focus on. And that's, you know, why Millie's in a lot of ways a disgrace, because he wasn't held accountable. So people have to be held accountable. You know, as God goes all the way back to Abraham Lincoln. That's why we had a grant. That's why we, a Ram Lincoln fired all those other generals. We can't keep generals who can't get the job done. You don't get a second chance most of the time.
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So well said. Right on the money, both of you gentlemen.
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Absolutely. Well, I know two people who definitely get the success and the results. Dan Caldwell and Darren Selnick. Thank you, gentlemen, both of you for being here.
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Thank you.
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Absolutely. All right, everybody, Next, some schools are reportedly trying to get around the Trump administration's order to end DEI policies in America. America's classrooms. We're going to tell you about how next.
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Welcome back, America. Over the last couple of years, I've enjoyed watching our next guest in his group take on some of the baddest and worst ideas that you could ever imagine entering our academic system. And yes, I use the word baddest for a reason, because there are just such bad actors in our college campuses. Whether it was DEI or transgenderism that was taking over education spaces, Accuracy in Media has stepped in to expose it, often with undercover videos that make you literally drop your jaw. Joining us now, the president of that great nonprofit, Accuracy in Media, Adam Gillette. Adam, great to have you on.
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Hey, thank you so much for having me.
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It is an honor to have you on. I've enjoyed the work you've done. I think we are so much smarter when we can see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears what really is going on in academia and in some of these other places. Let me start with women in sports, the whole transgender movement. Two years ago, it was on steroids. Corporate America was pushing its shoulder right behind it. And now you're hard pressed to find a corporate company that wants to get behind it. How did that battle turn so quickly?
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You know, Riley Gaines played a major role obviously in it. And we would see in things like the Olympics, we would see in college sports that these girls were struggling against competitors that they shouldn't have to compete with. And ultimately, if a pro sports league wants to make a decision like that or if some kind of governing authority says this is who we want to have compete against too, that's one thing. But what really irks me is when they break the law, when they lie and deceive parents to sneak up boys into girls sports and often along with that, boys into girls locker rooms, the deception that we see in K through 12 education sports, that is what sickens me most.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. And that deception doesn't even stop there, because even though President Trump said, all right, we're throwing DEI in the trash exactly where it belongs, you've got a lot of universities in particular, But K through 12 as well, who are finding ways to rename it and to just kind of slide it in under the radar. How, how should parents who oftentimes are the tuition payers, how can they be more alert to this and identify it in their kids schools and universities?
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Well, honestly, the first thing they need to do is contact their elected officials, contact their governor. Because I have been to dozens and dozens and dozens of college campuses Throughout North America, 48 states, I've been to so many college campuses. And the first thing the students say to me every time I arrive is, you wouldn't believe how bad it is here. We used to bemoan the lefty professors. They are bad and they're still bad. But in the last 10 years, they've hired 20 administrators for every single faculty position. And these administrative positions are your DEI jobs. They are your LGBTQ jobs. Essentially, they're just activist positions. Higher education has turned into an activist organization that runs a med school on the side. The taxpayers, the tuition payers, none of this, none of us should have to pay for government funded activism.
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You had an amazing story out of the great state of Ohio where the legislature is very clear about transgenderism and women in sports. They passed a very clear law, just like President Trump's executive order is very clear. But there is an athletic director and educator who is trying, you caught on tape. You're great investigators trying to fake the system, game the system, create a birth certificate that would allow a biological male to discreetly, I think that was a word used in your story, dress in a woman's locker room. Tell us what you learned in that case and what it says about the mindset of some of the players in this grand debate we're having.
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This is truly outrageous. You know, I've personally been undercover in over 200 school districts in red states. And keep that in mind when I say public education is irredeemable. If you have a child In a traditional K12 school, pull them the heck out of that school. Find a charter school, a homeschool opportunity, a private school. Fortunately for those in Ohio, they have education savings accounts that can fund these sort of things. Because our hidden camera investigators go into district after district in Ohio and these administrators brag to us about how they can circumvent the law and get boys into girls sports, boys into girls locker rooms. We've released two districts thus far in Ohio where administrators coached us on breaking the law. And I'm unfortunately here to tell you we have a half dozen more districts we're going to be releasing from throughout Ohio, including another one tomorrow where yet another taxpayer funded, highly paid administrator in Ohio schools coaches our prospective parent on how they can get their boy into girl sports. Just imagine what that must be like if you're a parent in that district, every day you're sending your daughter off to the locker room to the bathroom to do after school sports knowing that these people who should be looking out for her well being care more about their ideology. It's sickening.
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Yeah.
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I don't know how they can even use the word discreet. God made the two genders very, very different. And if you're changing clothes, there is nothing discreet about the differences between those two. But Adam, I want to ask you about the mentality of these administrators once they're caught. Do you ever find that they have any type of remorse about it or do they just try to double down and figure out other ways to game the system?
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You know, it varies. Sometimes they say, I never said that because what I do with my team after we catch them on hidden camera, I go back and confront them with the camera crew and initially they deny it. And then I pull out a tablet and I say, well, isn't this you right here on the video? And then sometimes they'll fess up to it and double down. What we saw in Ohio was shocking because the superintendent in both districts, both superintendents doubled down. One of them accused us of using deceptive tactics. Right. Like a police officer hiding behind a sign getting somebody for speeding. They use deceptive tactics too. The real deception that we need to worry about are these taxpayer funded lawbreakers. And thankfully the attorney general in Ohio has gotten involved and he's put those districts on notice. But the parents need to be on notice. If you are in any Ohio school, honestly, if you're in any school at a red state, pull your kid out of schools tomorrow.
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There's no doubt that the transparency you've given us, I didn't realize that 200 school districts you've been. And that's an amazing accomplishment in and of itself. Adam, for folks who don't know, how do they get the good work at Accuracy Media real quickly?
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Sure. Our website is aim.org, we're active on every social media platform. And as I said, we have another investigation coming up tomorrow.
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We'll be reading anxiously tomorrow. Can't wait to see it. Adam, great to have you on. Congratulations on all the great work you're doing. Parents are indebted to you. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah. What a great conversation. All right, folks, after the break, we'll take a closer look at the climate change narrative because even the New York Times is admitting it is falling apart. How about that, Amanda? We'll have that next right after these messages.
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Welcome back, everybody. For years, those in the legacy media and establishment in the Democrat parties have been pushing the issue of climate change as a looming danger over the heads of Americans. And it could only be solved if we all made an effort to be more eco friendly. And who better to tell you how to do that than the government? Of course. But finally, that has all changed with the arrival of the second Trump administration. Even the New York Times is conceding that the old climate change messaging playbook simply doesn't work anymore. So are we seeing the collapse of the global climate change narrative? Joining us now to discuss that is Climate Depot publisher and former senior staff at the U.S. senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Mark Morano. Mark, great to see you. Thanks for being here.
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Thank you, Amanda. Happy to be here today.
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I know you know as well as anyone in this town that it takes a lot for a political ideology, regardless of persuasion, whether Republican or Democrat, to abandon a cause. Is that really what we're seeing right now? Or are they just thinking, well, it's not working Right now. We'll come back to this later.
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I don't know if they've abandoned it yet, but they are, I guess you'd use the word. They're reeling. They're on their heels. This has been such a shock, even to me. I mean, I've been at this since 1992, when George H.W. bush went to the Rio Earth Summit. And I was opposed to it back then, and I started working for Rush Limbaugh, the television show. I never thought a Republican presidency would ever push back on the narrative. And I gotta say, other than Donald Trump himself and one other official really, in his first term, no one really did. Trump 2.0, just demolishing the narrative, crushing it. But not only that, doing it with permanence, going after the endangerment, finding, going after the heart of it with the UN Climate treaty process. And what happens now? You have the New York Times quoting the Earth Day founder, Dennis Hayes. And I love, I just love this quote. Everything I've worked for in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months. This is in the pages, the hollowed pages of the gray old lady, the New York Times. There's something special about Trump 2.0 that is exceeding beyond leaps and bounds anything Trump 1.0 achieved in this area. And the New York Times is recognizing it. They even go so far in the New York Times as talking about how polling people don't rank climate as a concern. And they're talking about a bleak time, and they're talking about the entire movement just struggling. Al Gore announced a few months ago that he's moving most of his climate evangelism and recruiting of apostles overseas. He's sort of given up on America. But don't, don't fret. Overseas is like some fertile ground for Gore Europe. I have an analysis shows that tide is turning decisively against net zero. This is the Trump effect. It's gone global and now the New York Times is acknowledging it. This is unprecedented times not going away, though, because you have Bill Gates, billionaires, international organizations, corporate media, academia, still going to be pushing it, but they're sort of going in a dormant stage at the moment.
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So I think at the end of the day, the Al Gore climate change cry could be described as the boy who cried wolf too many times. But at the end of the day, trillions of dollars were spent, our taxpayer monies, trillions of dollars spent on technologies and capabilities that didn't deliver. So this has a really significant impact on all of us. It's Part of the debt that we've run up over the last decade or two. Do you think Americans are beginning to understand the financial cost of what Al Gore and his acolytes did to the American public?
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I mean, it was a literal lie from day one. If you can go back in the 90s, all the claims. Al Gore always said this is a. Well, it was a great business opportunity. He kept saying, for entrepreneurs. No, it was a great business opportunity for people like John Podesta and Al Gore and Richard Branson and all these others. And everyone who cashed in on all this green cash. At one point it was. CBS News reported that Gore was a huge beneficiary of Obama's green stimulus. So a lot of people made a lot of money on this. But essentially the people realize that. I think people are realizing it was magical thinking. There was a World War II historian who talked about the magical thinking in Germany and the Soviet Union, you know, when it comes to economics. And I think that's exactly what green ideology was. Oh, we're going to go to solar and wind and it's going to be cheaper and we're going to, we can just decommission and get rid of all the fossil fuels and we're going to run a green. First of all, that wasn't green. And second of all, that was all a fantasy. People are now realizing it and we're realizing it with the offshore wind. I mean, you've never seen liberals convert to climate skeptics faster than the ones who live in Martha's Vineyard and along the New Jersey coast and along New York. I was out there on a boat out and off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, 50 miles off, protesting the wind farms that were out there. We were out there with San Francisco liberals who had trans activist signs. We were out there with commercial fishermen. People realize this was a fraud. They realize all the money we've spent. I think it's going to be very hard to get this kind of momentum as a green movement back and a future president. AOC or Gavin Newsom, should that ever happen. Because I just think the Trump administration has done such a great job with the narrative and the realization people have been red pilled. Covid helped a lot. You can go look at people like Joe Rogan, you can look at people like RFK Jr. Naomi Wolf, and they all were, oh, well, NASA says climate. What must be true. Once Covid happened, that was the equivalent of saying, well, Fauci says it, so it must be true. Skeptics were born across the progressive left. And I think that is what no one is really accounting for. You could put on Russell Brand is another name. This is a guy who was all into climate change and now they're all like, well, like RFK said it best, it's been hijacked by the World Economic Forum and United nations for totalitarian control of society. RFK just dropped it. He said I'm not gonna talk about climate change anymore. That is shocking. And I think that kind of thing has a huge trickle down all the way to the average voter. People who don't even follow politics.
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If we only had focused on clean air and clean water and simple things that matter to people, we would have saved ourselves trillions of dollars.
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Trillions. Trillions. Yeah. And the thing is we're now getting back to our global warming was once hijacked the entire environmental movement. Now we can actually go back to clean air, clean water, focus on toxic waste cleanup East Palestine. We can do lead in the drinking water because we're not focused on racist highways and environmental equity and all of this nonsense about environmental justice. And let's put in more solar panels and wind that don't produce energy. Less than 4% of our energy came from it all. It was nuts. I can't believe we got. They got as far as they did.
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They did.
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Well, I for one cannot believe that there was even any dry ground for you to protest on Martha's Vineyard because of the rising sea levels. But at any rate, I'm glad you found that.
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I found some sand.
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Apparently we were out in a small boat and I had a 1980s Radio Shack megaphone out there.
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I love it. I love it. No gratitude tactics here, just the Climate Depot publisher and former senior staff at the U.S. senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Mark Morano. Thanks so much for your valuable time today and some final thoughts coming up on the other side of this break.
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That was fun.
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John that was a powerful promo. I, I am definitely in the camp of never forget, but I'm also still kind of in the camp of never forgive because I'm still mad about it.
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Listen, you're going to get madder when these Saudi documents come out from the US Government. We learned a little bit more about the Saudi kingdoms and some of its players, Prince, Turkey and others role in it. I remember like it was yesterday what happened. I was on the bridge when the plane hit the Pentagon. My lawyer who was helping me the week before this, I was the news on the front page of newspapers because my phone records had been taken by the Justice Department, the Bush Justice Department trying to unmask my sources. Yes, conservatives were once ruining our freedom of press too. And the lawyer that was helping me was on that plane and she died in that plane. And then my dad was in Connecticut as a police chief and his town lost the youngest of all the victims, a grandbaby from eastern Connecticut. I lost five members of families in a town of like 6,000. And the world's never been the same. You know, we never forget. But I think also another thing is it's really shocking to me that there are educators who are trying to deprive children of learning about what happened that day. Just like they try to hide what happened on October 7th in Israel or try to pretend it's something other than that is it's almost as dangerous as what the terrorists did to us because if we blind our children in the next generation to happen, we'll be vulnerable again to another attack. And that is unforgivable.
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Yeah, I was speaking last week to one of the RAV camera guys. Nothing like someone telling you that they were only 6 months old on 911 to make you feel old. But it's just amazing to talk to young people who don't have the perspective of living during 9 11. But you know, we're going to talk a lot about this on Thursday when the Day hits. But I want to talk about a few things. First of all, Mark Morano, I wanted to ask him, and I didn't have a chance. But, John, you and I have talked about this before. The tyrannical nature. There is a tyrannical aspect to the climate movement. And it's the reason that I think that you see people like Greta Thunberg who have now all of a sudden taken up the cause of Hamas, another authoritarian movement. There's a lot of commonality there. It's uncomfortable for them to admit, but it's there.
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Yeah, listen, go to Thunberg has been wrong on a lot of issues, I suspect, and probably going to continue to be wrong. We're picking the wrong some many on the left are picking the wrong battles, not just from polling, but just from a moral and common sense standpoint. And I think that's why the Democrats are in danger of becoming less and less relevant. I think Mark said the branding that the president had was so amazing. Now, you were at the Bible Museum bright and early, Bushy tail this morning. Pretty amazing to see a president for the first time go to the Bible museum and, you know, talk about the Bible and donate a Bible, right?
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Yes, yes. So as soon as he got up to the dais, he said just moments ago that he had personally brought the Trump family Bible that is going to be there on display at the Museum of the Bible. Now, if he had, if he had taken questions afterwards, I was going to ask him if that was going to be a permanent installation or if he was going to take it back after his presidency, because I would certainly understand that as well. But I think I get the feeling it's going to be a permanent installation. So that's going to be really, really cool to see. But he was there surrounded by some amazing, amazing faith leaders from the Jewish community, Christian, Catholic. It was just incredible to see all.
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Those people shout out the Green family who took the time to build that incredible museum. The whole family is an amazing family and what a gift they have left for future generations.
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Yeah, absolutely. And President Trump flicked at his controversy with other museums like the Smithsonian and complemented the Museum of the Bible. Because if you've never been, you have to go, you know, the Bible Museum, you have to spend days there to get out.
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Dr. Konger.
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Yep, that's right. All right, everybody, we'll see you tomorrow night.
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