Interviewer (8:50)

Mayor Johnson.

Brandon Johnson (8:53)

Yes.

Interviewer (8:55)

Your reaction to what you just heard.

Brandon Johnson (8:57)

Yeah, well, listen, you know, the President of the United States of America has repeated this, you know, petulant presentation since he has assumed office. And, you know, if the reporting is actually true, what he is proposing at this point would be the most flagrant violation of our constitution in the 21st century. The city of Chicago does not need a military occupation. That's not what we need. In fact, we've been very clear about what we need. We need to invest in people to ensure that we can build safe and affordable communities. That that's what I've done as mayor since assuming office. It's unfortunate that this president is working overtime to divide in his attempt to conquer working families and to conquer cities across America. But this is clearly a violation of the Constitution and we're going to remain firm and vigilant in our commitment to ensure that our democracy is protected and our humanity is secured.

Vince Coglianese (9:59)

This guy's a fricking idiot. What a ghoul that jackass is. So he's, you know, he's not conquering families, he's not hurting Americans. He's not going after peaceful people. He's not using the police state against his political opponents. That's all that the left does. That's what the left does. That's what people like you do. Brandon Johnson. What President Trump wants to do is rescue the people of Chicago from the chaos that they have to live through every single day. Chicago's not alone. A lot of cities in the country that are like this are all run by Democrats right into the ground, and life is much too chaotic. The president does believe, as I keep emphasizing, that we deserve a safe country, that as an American, you deserve something better. So President Trump was elected on a promise to deliver that something better. And that's what he's going to do. And so don't bother getting in his way. Let him do the job. Let him clean up the city. I get it. It's embarrassing to you. It demonstrates the failure that you represent. But I don't care what it does to your ego. I just want to see what we can do for Chicago. I think it'll go a long way if we can get that city cleaned up. If the president succeeds here, it'll be once again another lesson in the value of law enforcement and why we need it and how it does protect the community and why we should be. You want to invest in a community? Invest in the cops. Take the handcuffs off of them and let them go after the criminals. That's how you invest. And then you heard Brandon Johnson there say that if the president gets his way, that this will be the most sincere threat to the constitution of the 21st century. No way in hell does that guy know what he's even talking about. This is just projection on the part of the left. Think about the threats to the Constitution that this country has endured this century. How about weaponizing an entire justice system against your political opponents just because they disagree with you and just because you don't want to lose power. That's what the left has done. That's what they do when they go after parents who go to school board meetings and are concerned about what's happening to their kids in school. That's what they do when they go after people who sing church hymns outside of abortion mills, when they go after Fathers like Mark Hauck who are just defending their kid from crazy people outside of an abortion operation. That's what they do. That's what they do. When they go after January 6th defendants, lock them away, throw away the key. When they go after people like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon and Roger Stone, when they go after President Trump himself and try and use the justice system to prevent him from getting back into office. When we talk about sincere threats to the Constitution, all of those are as sincere as you can possibly get. Oh, yeah, and never mind the fact that the last president of the United States didn't have a functioning brain and you had people who were pretending to be the president out of sight, wielding the power of the presidency through the auto pen. Want to talk about sincere threats to the Constitution, We've been living through them. President Trump was elected as an answer to them, and here he is now, trying to clean up the mess that you've created. Brandon Johnson. So Brandon Johnson's pissed about all this. I'm pissed at Brandon Johnson screwing up a great city. Here's Brandon Johnson, though, going a step further. Now, you listen to this and you tell me, chat, what you think of Brandon Johnson's assessment here. You. He says if President Trump sends in a rescue for Chicago, it might be incumbent on the people of Chicago to stage an insurrection. Cut. To take a listen to this.

Brandon Johnson (13:20)

And so, you know, look, we're gonna remain firm. We'll take legal action. But the people of this city are accustomed to rising up against tyranny. And if that's necessary, I believe that the people of Chicago will stand firm alongside of me as I work every single day to protect the. The people of this city.

Vince Coglianese (13:39)

Accustomed to rising up against tyranny. We will rise up against the President of the United States. The mayor of Chicago says that the plan is he wants to whip the people of his city into a frenzy. Now, we'll see how far he can get. He's got 6% approval rating, so we'll find out how big his posse is here. But he wants to whip everybody into a frenzy to rise up against the sitting, duly elected President of the United States. You tell me how that's not an insurrection. Exactly. From Brandon Johnson. Boy, how do these people elect Democrats? How does anybody elect a Democrat at this rate? You understand what this party represents? They're the party of complete chaos. The only thing he even said that was approaching some kind of answer to how to deal with violence is we need more community investment. As if crime is merely an outgrowth of somebody Just falling on hard times. The left likes to frame this up like, oh, people are poor, so they steal food in order to feed their families. That's the way they kind of describe all this. That's not what this is. Why, for instance, in Washington, D.C. have we seen an explosion in teen carjackings? It's not so that kids could steal cars to go fetch food for their starving, impoverished families. It's so that people can have the thrill of doing something awful and then not having any consequences for it. Kids learned that there were no consequences, so they kept doing it to impress one another. It was a culture of lawlessness that was inculcated by a city that refused to enforce the law. That's so obviously true. You have to have hit your head not to understand the lessons here. And the same is true in Chicago. The same is true in Chicago. The more lawlessness you aid in a bet, the more you're gonna get. And it's nothing to do with poor, struggling people trying to make ends meet and everything to do with you encouraging the very criminality that's wrecking your city. So it's time for the adults to come in, you jackass, and take care of that city. The President wants to do that. So that's good news. Very good news. Love seeing that. Love seeing the President go after Chicago. A few thousand troops expected to come in there, and it'll be good. Coming up today on the program, I'm gonna be talking to Julie Kelly. Julie Kelly stopping by, looking forward to chatting with her. When she does stop by, I want to talk to her about what happened. On Friday, John Bolton's house gets a visit, right? He gets raided by the FBI as they're rifling through all of these documents looking for classified information, national security secrets that John Bolton allegedly took and then disseminated. Definitely in his book. And the idea is like, hey, you weren't allowed to do any of this. Who do you think you are? The Biden administration went out of their way as a cleanup operation to try and make it all go away. And I told you on Friday it was Cash Patel and Dan Bongino that reopened this whole thing. They did. They reopened it. A mature investigation gets its life back. And now John Bolton is under investigation for credible accusations. They pull a warrant from a magistrate in Maryland that the judge signed off on because the evidence was clear enough to justify the warrant against John Bolton. This thing's on the up and up, and yet the left is accusing. Isn't it great what they do? It's so Amazing. It's the same thing every time. It's projection. The left is accusing Trump of being Soviet. Here's an MSNBC guest by the name of Tom Nichols this weekend doing the old Trump is just like Stalin. Take a look.

Tom Nichols (17:08)

Keep trying to do the callback to Germany in the 1930s. To me, maybe because I spent so much time studying it and being there. This to me is like the Soviet Union in the 1950s. This is, you know, you've run afoul of the party comrade, and now you're going to be investigated for your unpatriotic and, you know, anti, anti party like tendencies cooperating with foreign imperialists and all these kind of crazy show trial charges. I mean, this whole thing is just, you know, I mean, it's hard, I know it's hard for people to take seriously, but you know, Jen's point about the judges, not just judges, have to take this seriously. Everybody, citizens, elected officials. Because even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.

Vince Coglianese (17:57)

What a pudgy loser. All right, so this is the whole thing, what you're seeing right now. And I gotta. Let me just prepare you for what's gonna come next. Just let me project forward for you how this is all gonna go. So that guy, that pudgy loser, his reaction to John Bolton being credibly investigated by the FBI is over the top. It's hysterical. It's projection. The left this weekend is saying, oh, this is Soviet. This is an old Soviet expression. Show me the man and I'll show you the crime. In other words, President Trump is just merely targeting John Bolton because John Bolton says mean things about Trump. That's what's happening here. And this thing is, first of all, the left has been operating this way. The show me the man, show you the crime operation. Precisely why I mentioned people like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon and Carter Page and Mike Flynn. All of that was Soviet targeting by the left. It wasn't about actual crimes. It was about crushing their political opponents and sending a message to the rest of us. Hey, you want the same fate? Then you stand up for Trump, you be a part of that movement because that same fate awaits you. That was the message that was being sent. And these guys, the Trump administration, if anything, those of us on the right who've been watching this, we're frustrated by the pace, cuz we want it to move faster, right? Right, Chad, you want all this stuff to go faster, I do too. I want to see people, handcuffs, I want to See people prosecuted. And so on Friday, we get this raid of John Bolton, which is good. You know, Bolton should be held accountable for whatever he did wrong. And I don't doubt for a second that Cash Patel and Dan Bongino have his number. But look at the left and how they're screeching right now about this, how upset they are right now about John Bolton, a guy who a decade ago they hated. They hated John Bolton. He was Dick Cheney to them, who, by the way, they also love now because Dick Cheney's anti Trump. So they love Dick Cheney. Just you wait until it's not Bolton anymore. Wait until it's Brennan. Wait until it's Comey. Wait until it's Democrats who are being picked up by this operation. When that happens, that screeching is gonna get more hysterical. That's gonna be over the top. That pudgy loser dude, he's gonna be crying on national television. Just you wait for that. That's ahead. I've got a lot more ahead, including the Vice President of the United States, who's reacting to all this stupidity too, which is great. JD Vance is a great American. I can't wait to share this with you. We'll do that in a second. But first and foremost, I gotta thank a great sponsor. Relief Band. You know, nausea can creep in. It really can. Out of nowhere, you know, you're in the car, on a flight and even stress can cause it. 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This weekend, JD Vance was on with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press, and he was asked about this. Are you doing retribution? Are you hurting the people who don't like you? And here's what JD Vance had to say to that. Cut for it. Take a look at this.

J.D. Vance (22:55)

You know, a lot of people have already looked at this and said this looks a lot like retribution. Is this retribution?

Interviewer (23:01)

Well, who has said it looks a lot like retribution, Kristen? A lot of people who tried to throw Donald Trump in prison for completely fake charges that were later thrown out by multiple different courts. I suspect that if the media and the American people let this case actually unfold, if they let the investigation unfold as it's currently doing, they're going to find out that what we're doing is being very deliberate and being very driven by the national interest and by the law here. And that's as it should be.

Vince Coglianese (23:28)

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Isn't it so nice to have an adult in charge? Isn't it nice to have adults who can answer questions and be like, actually, we're doing this in a sober way. We're letting the facts guide us here. We're not targeting people on the basis of whether or not they like us or not. That's not what this is about. This is about doing the job the American people elected us to do and enforcing the law appropriately, the laws that are on the books. And of course, Kristen Welker's like, this is retribution. He's like, who says that the people who kept trying to throw Trump in jail, the people were trying to remove him from the ballot. Come on, spare us these stupid talking points from the party that represents these types of gross violations of the power that the people have entrusted on them. Crazy. Now, J.D. vance is good in a lot of ways. J.D. vance was running circles around these guys this weekend, running circles around Kristen Welker. In fact, she was talking to him about illegal aliens. And the left here is so fundamentally dishonest doing this thing. Well, illegals aren't allowed to vote. Why are you so concerned about illegals in our elections? Here's JD Vance cut 5. Just smacking Kristen Welker around going, yeah, the illegals have a huge impact on our elections. Watch.

J.D. Vance (24:35)

Of course, people who are here and who are not documented are not eligible to vote.

Vince Coglianese (24:39)

But let me.

Interviewer (24:40)

They're not eligible to vote, but they do go in the congressional apportionment. That's why California has so many more seats, is because they count illegal aliens. So even though they don't vote, well, some of them actually do vote, but hopefully most of them don't. They end up getting congressional representation that ought by right go to American citizens.

Vince Coglianese (24:58)

I know. Okay, so here's why that's so important. It's not just that Kristen Welker was given a lesson that she needed. She knows that already. She knows that detail. She's probably surprised that JD Vance was able to whip it out so quickly. Here's the thing. That is for the meet the press consuming audience wherever they are and however big it is all across the country. So Kristen Welker puts the false talking point out, well, they're not eligible to vote. And then JD Vance comes flying in with a top rope jump and lands on an. Lands on her with an elbow and says, yeah, illegals are completely distorting our elections. We apportion congressional seats and electoral college votes based on those illegals. And that is completely unfair to American citizens whose votes are watered down by that action that should not be happening. And Kristen Welker has nothing to say to it because it's unimpeachably true. And so J.D. vance wanna talk about a guy who's capable. It's that guy J.D. vance has got his stuff together and I love this thing. I think, I hope he just keeps doing these kinds of adversarial interviews. Cuz every time he does, he's very good. Here's another one she tried to confront him with. Oh, Republicans are trying to rig elections by gerrymandering Texas. And JD Says, you serious? You wanna talk about rigging elections and the way gerrymandering is done in the country? Get a load of Democrats. Cut six. Take a listen to this.

J.D. Vance (26:20)

If President Trump's agenda is so popular, why do Republicans need to add additional seats to the map?

Interviewer (26:27)

Well, first of all, Kristen, you have to ask yourself, why have Democrats gerrymandered their states aggressively over the past 10 to 20 years? If you look, for example, at the popular vote in a lot of these states and Massachusetts, where 32% of the residents of Massachusetts voted for Republicans, zero Republican federal representatives. So we're not trying to sort of all we're doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair on a national scale. The Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there are opportunities to push back against that, and that's really all we're doing.

J.D. Vance (27:01)

And yet, Mr. Vice President, you were able to win the House in the Senate in 2024. Why can't you do it again without.

Interviewer (27:08)

Adding, we had way. But this is a very important question. We had way fewer House seats than we should have. One, if the Democrats hadn't aggressively gerrymandered, and two, if illegal aliens weren't counted in the census for purposes of apportioning congressional seats. The best estimates I've seen is that California, for example, has five additional congressional seats than it should have because they count illegal aliens for the purpose of apportioning representatives. Meanwhile, Ohio, my home state, lost a representative with. We're literally losing representatives for American citizens in order to give congressional representation to illegal aliens. Republicans are trying to balance out the scales a little bit for basic fairness and for the integrity of our democracy, which the president cares about as much as anybody in the country.

Vince Coglianese (27:53)

This is so good. I love these clips. I love them so much, JD Explaining all of that really well. And none of this should have been happening. I love how she's like, well, aren't you satisfied with the fact that you have slim majorities in the House and the Senate? What more could you ask for? Are you serious right now? Do you know how much easier it would be if Republicans had the margins that the voters intended them to have? I'm not saying Republicans are great. Republicans have a long way to go before they're great. They have a lot of lessons to learn from people like President Trump and J.D. vance, the Republicans in the House and the Senate. But that said, there's no reason that the margins should be as slim as they are right now, especially in the House. Especially in the House, the Senate, those are statewide elections to begin with. So that's not a gerrymandered situation. But the House is. And as a result, you get this very slim margin in the House that should not exist. In the last census, blue states were over counted. Blue states were given all sorts of extra votes that they didn't deserve on top of the fact that they've imported a bunch of illegal aliens into those populations in order to pad the numbers. And then red states were undercounted in terms of their actual population. We know that for a fact. And as a result, there are fewer Republican members of Congress than there should be and there are way more Democrat members of Congress than there should be. In other words, the system is rigged in the favor of Democrats. And despite those advantages, the Democrats don't control the House and the Senate right now. Despite the fact that they rigged the system, paid off, the refs, fixed the scoreboard, they still couldn't win under those circumstances. There was an expression for this in 2024. What did the president say? Too big to rig. Too big to rig. And now that the president's in a position to do something about it, that Republicans are in a position to do something about this, they should use their power to fix the system. Not to tilt it unfairly in their direction, as much as some of us might want that, but instead just to make it fair. Because if it was fair, conservatives would be better represented in our government right now. J.D. vance is right. He's very right about this. All right, coming up, I've got Julie Kelly stopping by. I love Julie Kelly. She's so great. And she's gonna talk to us all about what is happening here as we try and right size the justice system, get it back into shape and to go after people like John Bolton who who deserve these investigations. So give us our thoughts on all of the breaking news and who might be arrested. Next we'll talk about it. It's all ahead with Julie Kelly. Let me thank our sponsors. Don't miss Brickhouse Nutrition's Labor Day sale. 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Blackoutcoffee.com Vince get yours now. Thank you to Blackout for being the best. Okay, speaking of the best, I'm joined by the great Julie Kelly. Now, Julie Kelly's been tracking all of the machinations of the world of judicial tyranny, when the left was controlling things. Now that President Trump's in charge, we have a different story to tell. You can follow Julie Kelly on X and you can get to her. A great substack. Julie Kelly, great to talk to you as always.

Julie Kelly (33:42)

You, too. Vince, you are awfully chipper for only having a few hours of sleep. So kudos to you.

Vince Coglianese (33:49)

It's all good.

Julie Kelly (33:49)

And congratulations to your parents. 40 years, that is a big accomplishment.

Vince Coglianese (33:54)

It's great.

Julie Kelly (33:55)

You had a great celebration.

Vince Coglianese (33:56)

It was really nice. And the good thing was my brothers and I, we all live in different spots in the country, but we all got together and all the kids were there, and so it was really nice for everybody to be together. My dad, you may or may not know, is a Marine Corps general. He's retired, and my mom wanted him in the same outfit that he wore when they got married. So he wore his uniform for the renewal. And it was just a beautiful. It was a small ceremony in our church, but it was beautiful and it was great. It was really great. So thank you.

Julie Kelly (34:24)

That's wonderful. Yes, very cool.

Vince Coglianese (34:26)

So Friday we saw Rudy Giuliani's home get raided in Bethesda, Maryland. Excuse me, Not Rudy. Forget it, Rudy. Rudy got raided before.

Julie Kelly (34:34)

He got raided again.

Vince Coglianese (34:36)

See? See, now there's evidence that I'm a little sleepy. Now, John Bolton gets raided on Friday, and the media have spent the weekend being apoplectic about this because apparently one of their own is being hassled here, and they consider. I just played a clip from msnbc, a guy called Tom Nichols is telling us that, oh, this is Soviet. This is like, you know, this is like, show me the man, I'll show you the crime operation. What do you think of this in terms of, like, is. Is John Bolton the kind of guy who deserves this kind of scrutiny?

Julie Kelly (35:07)

Well, first of all, and hopefully we can dig in a little bit more into the total hypocrisy of the media, including papers like the Wall Street Journal and their editorial after this. So it's unclear exactly why they raided John Bolton's home and apparently his office in Washington, D.C. but there is speculation that it has to do with his keeping unlawfully keeping classified material, government national security information, and possibly leaking it to the media. So, of course, both of those a crime. There has been also speculation that this relates to his publishing classified material in his 2020 memoir that at the time, the Trump DOJ sued to try to put a hold on the release of that book that was released in late June of 2020 just to, you know, coincide with the presidential election. A federal judge events did review the material and did conclude that he was recklessly publishing classified information in his book, but refused to issue a temporary restraining order halting that. So we're not sure what exactly was in the application for the search warrant, but it does appear that he will be brought up on charges imminently in the short term, and then we will discern and be able to figure out exactly what they are investigating him for.

Vince Coglianese (36:44)

So one thought, you know, you know these, you know, these guys, you know, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino, who run the FBI, you know, there's no secret that they're under a lot of pressure from the people who support them to hold people accountable, you know, to go after the people who've abused their power in our government. My thought going into seeing what happened Friday was like, they're not doing this. This is not a hip shot. This is not a circumstance where they think this is gonna fizzle out and there's gonna be no consequences. To do something so high profile and so early with a guy like John Bolton, it suggests to me they think they've got a pretty airtight case, don't you think?

Julie Kelly (37:20)

I believe so. And this, the, the warrant was signed off apparently reportedly by a magistrate judge in Maryland. So this is the jurisdiction under which he will be investigated. So obviously that's his residence where he lives. So again, time will tell exactly what he's being investigated for. But this was a welcome development, at least on our side, as you know, Vince, because you are right, Cash and Dan. Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team under immense pressure to start indicting those responsible for the lawfare against the President, abusing their authority, abusing access to government secrets like John Bolton apparently still has. Although the President did revoke his security clearance right after he was sworn in, so. But look, John Bolton is a longtime swamp creature, 50 plus years in Washington D.C. his dirty fingerprints all over some of the worst foreign policy decisions this country has ever made. And then bragging about and throwing in the face of the President his access to classified material and publishing it in his book just a few months before election day in 2020. He is just one of many individuals in Washington who use their access, who use abuse, their authority and their influence to try to take down President Trump. So this is one shot across the bow. As you know, when you've talked to people and interviewed people, does appear that their grand jury investigations, proceedings and other jurisdictions related to other potential lawfare perpetrators.

Vince Coglianese (39:09)

Okay, so we'll talk a little bit more about those in a moment, but go ahead and reflect on the media, would you? Because the press is doing something. I just told the audience that this is only the warm up act. The way the press is reacting to John Bolton's raid this past week is it just pales in comparison to what's gonna come next. If we see a Brennan or a Comey arrested and prosecuted here, the hysteria is going to be turned up to another level. What do you think of the press's reaction so far?

Julie Kelly (39:40)

I mean, I think that they are laying the groundwork, Vince, for doing exactly what you just said. So they're hyperventilating about John Bolton without knowing the details of what the nature of this investigation, simply speculating that this is retaliation by the President and nothing more. And to read this on the pages, the editorial pages of a place like the Wall Street Journal where John Bolton, by the way, is a contributor. And, and I posted this last night. Maybe you didn't see it. You probably didn't. Although maybe because you were delayed, you did. But I went through that editorial and I posted snippets from what the editors at the Wall Street Journal said. And in one sentence they said, well, we've never experienced John Bolton leaking to US classified information, so ergo, he would never do something like that. I mean, the twisted thinking that it requires to presume that these sort of investigations and potential prosecutions are only part of a revenge or retaliation crusade by the President. And not that we know these people committed crimes. We know that John Brennan committed crimes. We know James Comey did, we know Jim Clapper did. We know that all of them did the very least perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiring against rights, as Mike Davis has talked about. Yeah, that's just what we know. So the idea that they, yes, of course, they are presumed innocent, except that we have, we have evidence to the contrary and that they. I'm sorry, they gotten away with it.

Vince Coglianese (41:20)

I just want to clarify something. Let me clarify something with you. You said the Wall Street Journal editorial board said that Bolton had never leaked to them, so they don't believe he's a leaker. Did they really use that logic in their op ed?

Julie Kelly (41:33)

I mean, I can pull up the exact sentence, but that was what they said, that that was not their experience with John Bolton.

Vince Coglianese (41:39)

But also, that doesn't make any sense. So if, if anybody understands how a news operation works, the editorial board is not involved in the acts of journalism, of the paper. The people who write the editorial for the paper are the opinion department. They're not the journalists who'd be receiving the classified leaks. So it doesn't even make sense what they're saying. They're basically trying to use the fact that the public isn't broadly aware of that as a form of some kind of deception to make that claim. That's very bizarre.

Julie Kelly (42:13)

It's extremely bizarre. The whole editorial was really shameful. But look, this is part of the trajectory of the Wall Street Journal and it's really disappointing because it used to be a great paper to read and that you felt like, you know, in this cacophony of corporate media that the Wall Street Journal, especially their editorial page, stood out against the New York Times and Washington Post and other big news outlets as, you know, bringing some sanity to the opinions of what or, you know, observations about what was happening politically. Their editorial and even their news reporting is becoming indistinguishable from the Washington Post and New York Times. In fact, they have poached reporters like Molly Ball, who worked at Time magazine, who wrote that infamous piece, remember in 2021, bragging about how the left conspired behind the scenes to sabotage the presidential election. These are the sort of reporters that the Wall Street Journal is bringing on and now their editorials reflect that left leaning bias that the paper now has. So really shameful editorial, but just part of what we can expect to see. Back to what you said as more perhaps searches, raids and certainly indictments are handed down in the future.

Vince Coglianese (43:38)

Let me move on to one of the other guys who's being investigated right now. All signs point to a grand jury has been empaneled to look into California Senator Adam Schiff and his mortgage fraud. And as Ed Martin, the weaponization czar, has made pretty clear, if they're starting with mortgage fraud on a grand jury, that's not the only place they're going to end up. They're going to end up at a lot of other places too. Here's Adam Schiff being asked this weekend by NBC about whether or not he is indeed committing mortgage fraud. Take a look here. Here's cut seven. Adam Schiff on NBC. Take a listen.

J.D. Vance (44:10)

Mortgage company Fannie Mae says you're, quote, engaged in a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation on several loans. Are these allegations true? How do you respond to them?

Adam Schiff (44:22)

They're patently false and the President knows it. Housing agency president's person Pulte knows it. He's essentially Doing the President's bidding against me, against Letitia James, against this person on the Federal Reserve Mortgage is their new weapon to go after their critics. But I've been very open about my residency both in California and in Maryland with my constituents and with the lenders. So there's no there there. But the common denominator is they will manufacture anything to go after their critics.

Vince Coglianese (44:56)

Yeah. Meanwhile, the facts are, of course, not on his side at all because the there is there. In the documents, he claimed both a primary residence in California as well as Maryland in order to get favorable loan terms. So they've got him dead to rights and he's just annoyed that they caught him. Julie.

Julie Kelly (45:13)

That's right. I mean, to hear those words trickle out of Adam Schiff's mouth, I mean, when his lips are moving, he's lying. Again, going back to, we have demonstrated evidence of crimes committed by people also like Adam Schiff, access to classified information that he was leaking, misleading Congress and the American public in official Congressional documents about the Russiagate investigation. Remember his memo that followed up Devin Nunes's February 2018 memo exposing the ties between the DNC and Hillary Clinton and Fusion GPS and putting that all together, Adam Schiff then wrote a follow up, I think it was a day or so later, filled with lies. Now, this is an official Congressional record. So the fact that he escaped punishment and culpability, this is why the MAGA base is so frustrated and I think overly anxious to start seeing arrests. Because we have to see people like Adam Schiff not just facing consequences for what he did to the President and deceiving the American people, he's actually elevated to the U.S. senate. So I have no doubt that Ed Martin is very busy, has his hands full in both of those investigations. And to your point, speculating that this could lead to other areas of possible incrimination as well.

Vince Coglianese (46:39)

But see, this is one of the reasons why you're so important in this story is first of all, obviously, because we all deserve the truth and you're constantly digging for it. But here's the other thing. You and I both kind of know what happens next if Adam Schiff is handcuffed for his behavior. God willing, he is. If that happens, we're gonna see a full blown media firestorm alleging that the President is doing something Soviet, already suggesting it now that that's what he's up to. And in order for us to push back on those lies, you have to know what the truth is. You have to know what the actual receipts are and what this guy and everybody around him is guilty of as they abuse their power. Julie.

Julie Kelly (47:17)

Correct. And luckily, I did cover the rush to gate hoax as it started to unfold in 2017. So I do know the background of that. And of course, it's the common thread between, between Crossfire, Hurricane, Russiagate, the Ukrainian impeachment, of course, that Adam Schiff led that on then all the way through January 6th and the January 6th investigation and prosecution of the president in that the classified documents, same sort of people, same people behind this entire operation for almost a decade. And what do we have? No one held accountable except one attorney who faced a perjury conviction and got a slap on the wrist. That's it. So it is important, I think. Well, it's valuable for someone like me covering now the lawfare and the, the, shall we say, comeuppance of these individuals dating back to Russiagate. So you can explain to people who weren't, aren't that familiar with Russiagate, you know, we can talk about it, obviously, Dan wrote a book on it. I talk about it in my books as well. But you have to make sure that the American people are. Their memories are refreshed about who is responsible for perpetrating the biggest, most destructive political hoax in US History. And these are the same people we are still hearing from. And so that's why it's important to kind of refresh people, remind people what happened during the Russiagate hoax. And I commend Tulsi Gabbard and the Attorney General and Chuck Grassley's office and Jim Jordan's office for forcing the productions and public release of those emails and material that further prove exactly how dirty that operation was.

Vince Coglianese (49:05)

Although, you know, something I would like to see is I'd like to see the communications ahead of the Mar A Lago raid. I would love to know more about what exactly the FBI was looking for inside of that building. It wasn't, oh, we just needed to recover classified information. No, there's. There's a lot more to that story, I think, that should be made public, don't you think?

Julie Kelly (49:24)

Oh, absolutely. And as you know, I covered that case in Florida. I went to the courthouse numerous times to cover the proceedings and all the documents there and what they exposed. And really, I have to commend the judge in that case, Judge Eline Cannon. She knew from the very beginning she had serious questions about what happened during that raid, why they approved that raid, what happened with evidence that was handled afterwards. Remember Judge Cannon in September, this was almost now three years ago, took the very unusual And I think courageous step of appointing what they call a special master, a third party to take all the evidence that the FBI collected at Mar A Lago and vet that evidence, not trusting the DOJ and FBI to do it cautiously and objectively, which is what she said in her order. Now, that order was overturned by the 11th Circuit, but she eventually was proven right because as I covered and as we know, they did mishandle evidence. They were close to admitting before the case was tossed In July of 24, 2024, they were close to admitting that they lost some of the files that they claimed were classified. We know. Vince and I reported this as soon as it happened that that infamous photo of files sprawled across the floor in Mar A Lago with all these different color cover sheets and classified top secret, the FBI brought those cover sheets. Not only did they bring them there saying, oh, we were going to use them as replacement sheets for where we found these files and boxes. No. Then they had to admit in last summer that they clipped those cover sheets to the folders or to the papers and then took photos, added that to a court filing.

Vince Coglianese (51:16)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They staged the photos. It's also crazy. And then, of course, they never did the same to Biden as they found the documents in the garage. They didn't fan them out on the hood of the classic Corvette or anything. No. It's wild. Okay, so before you go, Jolie, do you have any inkling as to who might be next? We see John Bolton raided on Friday, but who do you suspect is going to receive a visit from the FBI in some capacity next?

Julie Kelly (51:42)

I'm not really sure. But Vince, back to the Mar A Lago raid. You know, I covered both of special counsel Jack Smith's cases against the President. I want to see culpability for what Jack Smith and his team of thugs did. Jay Bratt, David Harbach in Florida, Molly Gaston and Tom windham in Washington, D.C. i want to see those communications as well. And I want to see where they lead to at the Biden White House. We know in the classified documents case that they were in communication with one of the White House general counsels at the time, as early as 2021 on that case. I want to see those communications as well. Well, and I want those dirty prosecutors, including Jack Smith and that special counsel team who put the president through hell for no reason. I want those people because they really, in many ways were the tip of the sphere of the new era of lawfare against the president. So because I think I'm hoping That's still underway.

Vince Coglianese (52:43)

And I think you, like me, think that part of the reason that they raided Mar? A Lago at all, maybe the chief reason was they were looking for Russiagate documents, that they didn't want to become public evidence of their crimes and they wanted to destroy them. And that was the whole purpose under this ridiculous pretext. And now we just need the final pieces to put it all together.

Julie Kelly (53:02)

I've read speculation about that. I've heard that for years. I really think it was more just a stunt. It was a publicity stunt because they knew that President Trump was going to announce he was running for reelection again. They, the President and his team had already been cooperating for over a year with the archives and then with the DOJ. Think about this, Vince. On June 3rd of 2022, Jay Bratt and two of his three FBI agents went to Mar? A Lago. The President was there, told him, look for whatever you want. Two months later, they raid Mar? A Lago. Were they looking for Russia documents? Possibly. I don't know. But I think more so than that this was a publicity stunt to create optics and again, underscore the idea that the President was a criminal, that he was reckless and he should not be reelected. I think that was more motivation and the objective of that raid than really looking for any sort of documents.

Vince Coglianese (53:59)

Yeah, why not both? Could be both. Hey, Julie, you're. You're great. Thank you for constantly digging in here. And people, of course, should follow you on X and on Substack Declassified with Julie Kelly. Julie, great to talk to you as always.

Julie Kelly (54:12)

Thanks, Vince. Have a great week.

Vince Coglianese (54:13)

You, too. There she is. Julie Kelly, thank you so much for joining us today. You want to talk about guys who are actually criminals, guys who actually have a bad track record that should not be in our country at all. How about Kilmar Brago? Garcia, have you been tracking the latest with Kilmar? So Kilmar was this past week in Tennessee, he was freed. A judge freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Let me put this up on the full screen, fellas. Take a look here. This is Kilmar being released from prison. I'll just mute it. I'll play it on my screen. And here he is being released from prison on Friday. There he is getting out in Cookeville, Tennessee, and they're leading him away from the jailhouse. Now he's awaiting his, basically his human trafficking trial because the government has determined that over and over and over he was trafficking human beings into the country. And so he was brought back into the United States to stand trial. And, you know, he was released Friday. So he gets in the car and he's en route to Maryland. They take him to Maryland. The private security team takes him to Maryland. And he arrived over the weekend. And this morning he was ordered to report to ICE in the Baltimore area. And so he did. And just ahead of his arrival at the ICE facility, he was giving a press conference this morning, talking in Spanish as he had a translator with him from an organization called casa. CASA is a pro illegal alien operation that is based on primarily in Maryland. And here's what it sounded like this morning, 7:10am Eastern Time, just a short time before we got the show started today. Here's Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaking to the public. Take a look at this. This was a miracle. Thank you to God and thank you.

Julie Kelly (56:19)

To the community power.

Vince Coglianese (56:34)

And this is when I this is why I want to thank each and every one of you who marched. Lift your voices, Never stop praying and continue to fight in my name. Okay, so that's Kilmar Abrego Garcia this morning giving a Kamala Harris level speech about how grateful he is for all the support. And I remember, just for those of you who don't remember this guy, I'll just give you the quick summary on him. He's very obviously MS.13. Plenty of evidence of his gang affiliations, including his MS.13 tattoo that covers his fist. The guy has been accused, caught, pulled over, doing human trafficking. Through the years, he's beat his wife over and over and over again according to her own testimony, calls to cops and basically in her moments of desperation, calling law enforcement about this. And here he is back in the country. Now, the president of the United States sent him to El Salvador. He's from El Salvador. And the left demanded that he come back, including Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat, who paid Abrego Garcia a conjugal visit down in El Salvador. Now that Abrego Garcia is back in the United States, Chris Van Hollen over the weekend held an intimate zoom call with him on Sunday to chat with him some more about how much he loves him and wants to keep him here in the country. But the future for Abrego Garcia is not to stay here. I know people were concerned. Oh, he was released and there he is free as of this morning. Well, the update to that story is he's no longer free. Kilmar has been once again arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement moments after the video I just played for you. Secretary Kristi Noem posting to social media Today, ICE law enforcement arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia and are processing him for deportation. President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who has an Ms. 13, gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser and child predator to terrorize American citizens any longer. So just like that, Kilmar gets picked up again by ICE Tom Holman and the gang taking him into custody, and they're going to send him out of the country. Now it's just a matter of where's he going? Costa Rica, Uganda? Oh, there's some options on the board. And the Trump administration is not playing around. And that's a warning shot to everybody else. You want to stay here, we're coming for you. We're going to get you out. Because we live in a country that needs to play by the rules. And now we have somebody who's actually enforcing the rules. Thank God. Great to have you with us, as always. Really is the best damn audience in media. Thank you for being here with me. We'll have another big show for you tomorrow. We're gonna talk about we're gonna do a big special on the media and just how much they have failed this country and the ways they're looking to divide us even more. We'll take you inside all the details on that. And then, of course, the big national radio show today and every weekday from 12 to 3 Eastern Time. You can find out details on your local radio listings@thevinshow.com or join me on rumble. Rumble. Com. Vince, you can watch the show live. Always great to have you with us. Have a fantastic Monday.