Transcript
Vince Coglianese (0:00)
Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Wednesday. Holy cow. It is great to have you with us. The best audience anywhere. Glad to have you here. We do have a very big show for you today. As always, John Brennan has been referred for criminal prosecution. Good. That's long overdue. Glad to see that happen. Next step, actually charging the fella. We'll discuss that. Also, the left is trying to cook up a brand new Trump scandal. This will once again, I promise you, be a, a rake to the face. What is wrong with these lefties? Do they wake up every morning and they think to themselves, how do I get a wooden pole to smack me directly into the forehead? Let's see, what do I do? They just stomp on a rake and boom. Every single day. Every day. We got a new one. And this one involves all of that lawfare against President Trump and what needs to be done about the lawsuits that the President filed against the United States Justice Department. It's a great story. I'll explore it next. As the left freaks out and the rest of us, well, we keep our feet planted and we say, yeah, we've got a great country. We're going to keep working for it. More ahead, all on this edition of Vince. Also, the great Amber Duke stops by today. You're not going to want to miss any of it. Hey, have you heard of Gold Belly by any chance? I want to talk about that. Gold Belly is pretty cool, actually. It's an amazing site. It celebrates the best of America by shipping our country's most iconic foods from legendary restaurants straight to your door anywhere in the United States. Yeah, Gold Belly will ship you iconic Chicago deep dish pizza from Lou Malnatis. Lou Malnatis, which, by the way, I just had delivered to the house. I had a Chicago deep dish pizza from Lou Malates. Two of them, actually. We just ate them as a family. They are phenomenal. I brought Chicago right to my house. Yeah, you can do that or you can get New York's most famous cheesecake from juniors legendary Franklin's Barbecue that ships straight from Texas right to your doorstep. And if you haven't tried the one and only world renowned stone crab from Joe's in Miami, well, now is the time to get it delivered. So whether it's a dish from that one of a kind restaurant or meals from world famous chefs, Gold Belly does have you covered. I got the Chicago deep dish pizza. We also got, what was it? A sour cream apple pie. A sour cream apple pie from the Little Pie Company. So good. And it makes a neat gift, too. If you want to, you know, deliver Pat's cheesesteaks from Philadelphia anywhere in the country or New York City bagels, You can do it with Gold belly. So if you're looking for a perfect gift, you want to impress your friends, your family with an epic meal. The next time that you host, go to goldbelly.com get 20% off your first order with promo code Vince. That's goldbelly.com code Vince. And you'll get 20% off your first order. We've been talking at some length about all of these people who are being prosecuted by the Justice Department, which is great news. You know, you watch as James Comey and Letitia James and John Bolton are getting well deserved prosecutions right now. Who's up next? And could it be the former CIA director John Brennan? It might be. We got an update for you on that story. Yesterday, the United States Congress in the form of the House Judiciary Committee, referred John Brennan for criminal prosecution to the Justice Department. That's very fun news. In fact, the criminal prosecution, as usual, rather, the criminal referral lays out the specifics as to what John Brennan did. And in this case, it involves lying to Congress on three occasions, three separate occasions, all spelled out in the criminal referral. So I want to take you through them so you have a sense of what this is all about. What is John Brennan accused of? Now, John Brennan, remember, has lied in the past with some frequency, but he lied quite infamously about spying on the United States Senate. So John Brennan being accused of lying would be like the rest of us just being accused of breathing. Yes, he does it easily and reflexively. Here is some of the some of the findings here in this criminal referral sent directly to Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying that we write to refer to you significant evidence that the former director of the CIA, John Brennan, knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the Judiciary Committee on May 11th of 2023. In other words, there is no audio available to us, at least right now to support this. This is simply behind closed doors a transcribed interview of May 11, 2023. Well, inside the statute of limitations, this would be just over two years ago. And they say that he made knowingly and willfully materially false statements and representations with respect to an investigation or review conducted by Congress. I'm just summarizing here. So let's get to number one. Here's the the first lie that the House Judiciary Committee says that John Brennan told, and they say that Brennan falsely denied that the CIA had relied on the discredited Steele Dossier in drafting the post election intelligence community assessment. This dates back to the beginning of 2017. Remember, President Trump is coming into office and Obama orders the people around him to come up with this intelligence community assessment to designed to smear the incoming president of the United States. And as a part of that, both in the main body and then separately included in an annex in that report was the Steele dossier. Now, for those of us who've been following the Steele dossier saga for a long time, you know what this is? It's Hillary Clinton paid for opposition research, which was drafted up by Perkins Coey, which is a law firm at the time Mark Elias was running the show and he hires Fusion gps, they hire Christopher Steele, he generates a packet of disinformation about Donald Trump, alleges about making all sorts of ridiculous allegations about prostitutes and water sports and Moscow. Water sports is a euphemism. And, and then they just include it all, they include it all in this intelligence community assessment designed to be what Nancy Pelosi has referred to through the years as a wrap up smear, just to smear President Trump on his way in the door. And sure enough, that's what they did. So what John Brennan said now two years ago when he was testifying before Congress is, oh, that, that still dossier that didn't play any role in the CIA's intelligence community assessment. No, nothing like that whatsoever. And here's what they have in the, in the document they have an exchange between Matt Gaetz and John Brennan, May 11th of 2023. And here's how it goes. Gates says the following. All right, so the fact that the DNC was providing the financing for the Steele dossier's development doesn't give you concern that it might be partizan? BRENNAN Again, that was happening back in 2016. I understand how you were able to tie this to my reference to my expertise, but I don't see any relevance to the Hunter Biden laptop issue. Now, Gates well, you said that you signed this letter that we now acknowledge Joe Biden misused in a debate to fool the American public because you're this great Russia expert. So I'm trying to understand your Russia expertise and you were involved in analyzing this information? BRENNAN no, I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all. I said the first time I actually saw it, it was after the election and the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier. You can direct that to the FBI and others. Gates were you aware of the FBI's involvement with the dossier? Brennan yes, because there's an annex in the ica, the intelligence community assessment that the bureau has to be included in there. It was their purview, their area, not ours at all, said John Brennan. So what's the truth here? Well, a report drafted by the, the House Committee on intelligence in 2017 and recently declassified showed that Brennan's testimony here in 2023 is false. According to the House report, the intelligence community assessment included supporting evidence for the ICA's false claim that Russia was aspiring to help President Trump win the election. The report told the reader to review Annex A for additional reporting from an FBI source on Russian influence efforts. That was only included in the highest classified versions of this assessment. And it was a two page summary of the Steele dossier. The Steele dossier. Now they said they had a CIA officer who served as the lead author and he drafted that annex, you know, the one that included the Steele dossier in coordination with the FBI. In other words, Brennan's claim that the CIA was not involved at all. It's a lie. Of course. Brennan made the ultimate decision alongside James Comey to, to include the dossier in the intelligence community assessment. All right, so that's, that's point one. So they got him dead to rights. He's lying to Congress about that. Point two, Brennan falsely stated when he told the committee that the CIA he falsely testified rather when he told the committee that the CIA opposed including the Steele dossier at all. Now, spare you reading the transcript back and forth again from Jim Jordan and John Brennan, but suffice it, I'll read the relevant portion from Brennan here. He says the CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the intelligence community assessment. Not only is that not true, not only is that not true, but Brennan himself was eager to include the Steele dossier in this. Brennan himself. Brennan had to order the dossier be included over the objections of CIA professionals. The evidence now shows. So John Brennan, not only is he lying, he's directly involved as the CIA director. And then there's item three and this we have the benefit of audio for item three. Here we have. Brennan also falsely provided test false testimony to the House Committee on Intelligence in 2017. He falsely asserted that the Steele dossier was never used in the intelligence community assessment. Take a look here. Here's John Brennan telling that lie back in 2017. Watch. Valid. But I just, I don't have any firsthand knowledge of it. Do you know if the Bureau ever relied on the Steele dossier as any as part of any court filings, applications, petitions, pleadings. I have no awareness. Did the CIA rely on it? No. Why not? Because we, we didn't. It wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done. It was. It was not. What a freaking liar. That guy forced it in to the intelligence community as, oh, the CIA wasn't involved at all. The Steele dossier. No, we weren't involved.
