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Welcome one and all to Big News Wednesday.

Hello everybody.

Today is in fact a big news Wednesday.

So big that I just glanced at my rundown and saw an edition that we made to one of our stories

and was like, oh, that dramatically changes everything.

Probably should have looked at that before we started the show.

But anyway, I am here and also Sharon is here.

Sharon, how is it going?

Going great.

I feel like that music, you know, the intro gets my adrenaline pumping.

Like this is Big News Wednesday.

It kind of signifies something, not just grand.

Yeah, yeah, it gets me pumped too, especially when I realized that I've got the speakers

turned up way too much in the studio.

It's like I'm scrambling to change it right before it.

But anyway, I always like to have you here, especially on a big news day.

And look, we're in the middle of a war.

So they're all going to be big news days.

Everybody who has been paying attention to the show for the past couple of weeks is going to be shocked

that our first big topic is Iran.

So we will be talking about that.

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Let's fill in all the gaps and we can jump into the news.

Not only Iran, which we will talk about, but even more disturbing revelations from the Epstein

files concerning Donald Trump, which is weird because he's already been totally exaggerated.

We've got evidence that Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are going to be really backtracking

on like their 2024 key core issue, which I think is fascinating and probably a good thing.

And then we've got a lot more.

We've got some drama in the race to replace Marjorie Green, good news in stopping a really bad

guy that was being nominated for position in the Trump administration.

Just terrible stuff coming out of former doggy employees. We got a lot of crazy news.

And we'll be closing the show, the aftermath that is with what might be a bit of a debate

or might entirely not be about Erica Kirk's new job that she was just given,

that even some in MAGA are like, why was she given that job and what the hell is going on?

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Okay, let's jump into it.

It's plus the U.S. that have those missiles and therefore.

Again, as the president said yesterday, he will accept the conclusion of this investigation

by the Department of War. I know there's been a lot of speculation in the media about

who may be responsible for this. We're not going to get ahead of the Department of War

and the conclusion of that investigation. The president has a right to share his opinions

with the American public, but he has said he'll accept the conclusion of that investigation.

Frankly, we're not going to be harassed by the New York Times, who's been putting out a lot of

articles on this, making claims that have just not been verified by the Department of War

to quickly wrap up this investigation because the New York Times is calling on us to do so.

So Garin Love is obviously feeling a little bit of pressure. And please spare a little bit of empathy

for her. She's feeling anxious because she has to try to distract you from the fact that her boss

who she loves, slaughtered girls, slaughtered multiple classrooms, maybe six classrooms full

of little girls, all dead, blown to pieces. And her job has come out there and say, no,

the bad guy isn't the people who killed the girl. It's the journalist asking about it.

Get all the way off my back about your concern about these little girls. I have to worry about

Donald Trump. So that's why she's feeling I think a little bit uncomfortable. And notice,

by the way, it's the New York Times that's saying things that are unverified. Note that she doesn't

give you an example of one of those. But when Donald Trump says Iran has Tomahawk missiles,

which they very much do not, he has a right to give his opinion. Yeah, that's such,

that is such a vapid smooth brain brain-wrotted nonsense. Yeah, everybody can just say something.

He's the goddamn President of the United States. And it is not his opinion that they have Tomahawks.

It's a lie that they have Tomahawks because they don't do it. And more important, by the way,

than just the fact that he's lying about it is again, why he's lying about it. He's lying about it

because he knows that they killed those girls. And he is not going to take responsibility for it,

even though breaking news that we now get to say the preliminary investigation is now done.

They have determined that the United States is responsible for the deadly Tomahawk missile strike

on that Iranian girls school. And so I can't wait to hear what Trump says about it. Well,

actually he was, he was asked about it already and said, I don't know about it.

So when the investigation is happening, he says, well, Iran has missiles, everybody has missiles.

It could be anybody. And Carolyn Leib, it's like, hey, everybody, just wait until it's done.

Don't get ahead of yourself. Well, now it's done. We did it and Trump is like, whatever, I don't care.

So we killed a bunch of girls. The dumb pro life schmucks who follow me. They won't care.

They'll do whatever I say they should buy. And that unfortunately, it seems like the direction

we're going in. Carolyn Leib, it isn't going to apologize for the weird way. Now bear in mind,

she's been telling everyone, she's been getting all up and care, I'm not blanking on.

Caitlin Collins, Caitlin Collins is facing. Why are you so fired up about this? Well, evidently,

Caitlin Collins and the rest of that press room were 100% right to be fired up about this,

to be looking for answers. And now we know we did it. So where are the god dem apologies? And by the way,

where are the people being fired for this? Okay, I'm not, you know, naive enough. I'm not young enough

to believe that simply murdering an entire field of young girls will actually result in someone

going to jail that Pete Hegsith or Donald Trump will be impeached or locked up for this horrific

war crime. But at the very least could they lose their job? Could Pete Hegsith lose a bit of his

lobster tail stipend? Could there be some actual consequences for an absolutely horrendous act?

I will remind everyone too, and I apologize for being so fired up at the beginning of the show.

When we pulled out of Afghanistan, something that everybody seemed to agree we needed to do,

the fact that during that, a much smaller number of US soldiers died was worth years of

investigations by the Republicans. And I hear god damn crickets over the fact that we killed so

many of these 100% innocent girls. It is a tragedy when soldiers died, but soldiers also know when

they sign up that it is a possibility. They're going into a war zone, they're trained and equipped

and made ready for the fact that they may be injured or they may die. Those little girls never had

a reason to believe that taxpayer dollars would go to killing them with a cruise missile.

And yet the only like the fired up nature that we can get from Karen Levy is the fact that we're

asking questions. She doesn't care at all, Donald Trump doesn't care at all. Pete Hegsith hasn't

apologized. When are we going to get something Sharon? Anything, any consequences for this horrific

act? I don't know that we will, but I know we need to get rid of these disgusting people and

make no mistake about it. When you rush into a war, when you're tricked, when Lindsey Graham

and Israel outsmart you and you just start firing off bombs without doing any of the necessary

run up or by the way, getting permission, you mistake targets. You don't update targets and you

don't realize that, oh, that little pink thing was a school and not a member of the force that

you're trying to go after. It's gross and so is she. And the fact that she's sitting there and

has no conscience about her people like to say, I just swear, I'm so sick of all these people

who sign up for this pig-ish administration. And then just act like, I'm just doing my job.

We saw from the first administration, they got big time jobs and are earning big time money.

I'm talking about everyone from Stephanie Grisham to Farrow, the girl on the view. They all just

sat there like they didn't know. They were working for a monster who was a bigot, a racist,

and now a killer of children. Yeah, yeah, I could totally see Carolyn love it doing that.

If she needs to, if you know her elderly husband knocks off for something and she needs a new job

and wants to get on the view, I could totally see her trying to do that and you're 100% right

to point that out. Until then, I mean, my god, I see somebody the chat saying they're probably

going to blame AI, but no, but like Skittle, but that's the thing. I have seen some evidence that

it might have actually been AI, that these lazy asses, and we'll get to another version of this

when we talk about doggy later on the show, probably did ask AI to determine some of the targets.

And because years ago that facility was a part of a base, they're not going to actually check it.

Don't look at the satellite photos. Don't see the groups of little girls running around or

anything. But here's the thing, that's not a sculpatory. That's not like, oh, it was AI.

No, no, no. You fire slash lock up the person who made the decision to use AI to choose who

lives and who dies. If I put a brick on the gas pedal of my car and it barrels down the road and

kills someone, we don't lock up the brick. We lock me up for putting the brick there. That's what

they're doing. And there, this is not just fun in games, a little bit of tech stuff or whatever.

Oh, I love my tech and my memes and everything. People died as a result of it.

Pete Exif should be in jail for presiding over this. At the very least, he should be fired.

He should be shamed, run out of the goddamn country. Now, unfortunately, we can't expect that much.

But there should be something. Now that said, I want to turn in a weird angle here. We do not often

have any reason to speak positively of Senator Kennedy here on this show. But he's going to do

something that's very rare in the modern era, okay? And in particular, what it comes to matter as

a war, which you'll see in this video. You actually talked to NBC News last night about that strike

on the girls school. And you said it was terrible. We made a mistake. I'm just so sorry that it

happened. And why did you feel like it was important to say that? Because I think it's the truth.

I mean, we're investigating. But I'm not going to hide behind that. I think it was a terrible

terrible mistake. The investigation may prove me wrong. I hope so. The kids are still dead.

But I think it was a horrible, horrible mistake. I wish it hadn't happened. I'm sorry it happened.

Yeah, I can assure you it wasn't intentional. That's not that's the sort of thing Russia does. We

don't do that. But you know, I don't see any other possible explanation. And when you make a mistake,

be audit admit it. Most people understand the one's perfect. But I don't think our man and women

who are fighting for it, it's intentionally. I'll never believe that.

So look, the good is that he says the thing, I'm not going to hide behind the fact that there's an

investigation. By the way, all the rest of them did. He texted, Karen, leave it did, Donald Trump did.

They all and then also lied about it at the same time. They like, they hid behind the investigation

and then threw punches around the side of it or whatever. So he's not doing that. That's good.

He also said, even if it's a mistake, the girls are dead. It doesn't change that.

Then he does go into the whole thing. Well, Russia does it intentionally. By the way, he doesn't

point out, Israel does it intentionally too. But we don't do it intentionally. Okay, I don't

think that we do it intentionally. But as a nonwise man once said, the girls are still dead

from the point of view of their families and friends. Did it matter if it was intentional or not?

Oh, sorry. We're just criminally incompetent. Is that better? And actually, again,

is it intentional? Well, you decided to put in charge the same technology that tells people

that it's safe to put glue on pizza so the cheese sticks. You chose to do that. I don't know.

If I'm like walking along the road and I just, oh, a whole handful of bricks goes over the side

of a bridge and hits a car. I didn't do it intentionally. But it wasn't like totally an accident.

Like I didn't have to be walking so close to the edge. And so Kennedy is better than most of them

on this. But still, is he calling for whoever used the technology or whatever or ordered the

strike incorrectly to lose their job? Is that so much to ask when 150 people plus died in that

attack? Is that too much to ask? I don't think that it is. This is not an oopsie dupesie.

This is one of the worst things I've ever heard of. And somebody did it. Somebody press the

button. Somebody gave the order. Somebody okayed it. And maybe that as many people as should have

because as we pointed out about a week ago, Pete Hegsith chose to decimate the bodies inside of

the Pentagon that work to make sure that this sort of thing doesn't happen. So again, not as much

of a mistake as he might lead you to believe. What do you think? Senator Kennedy sounded and I believe

compassionate and rightly sorry. And he should. But I'll go further. And by the way, I don't believe

that this was done on purpose. But I don't know how we can expect the rest of the world to believe

it wasn't on purpose. We're the same country that on purpose kept blowing forests gump out of

the waters. Okay. We're that country too. So I don't know how we can expect anyone to believe us.

And when we the American people suffer through terrorist acts and who knows what's going to be

visited on us. Okay. Tyler Perry Studios by the way here in Atlanta proper is on an old military

base. Maybe I don't know. The other guy's stuff won't update and who knows what'll happen.

This is just not they're not up for the job. They haven't thought any of this through.

And we're the ones who are going to pay the price. Yeah. Yeah. I I feel like and we'll move on

just a second. I feel like I probably started to annoy slash board even our own audience back

about a year ago when we did months of coverage of them putting forward all of these little ghouls

and goblins and troglidites for all these important positions. And I kept pointing out they're not

qualified for the positions. They don't have the experience in these positions matter. And they do.

It is literally life and death thing. Whether a group of 150 plus little girls lives or dies can

depend on whether you put a washed up alcoholic alleged sexual assaulting TV news guy to determine

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offer. According to US officials Iran may be getting ready to deploy naval mines in the

state of Hormuz. That if you've been following this conflict, you know straight up Hormuz

is super important because something like 20 to 25% of all the world's gas flows through it,

oil that will become the gas, liquefied fossil gas as well. So it's super important.

And that has been ground to a halt even with just the threats that Iran might fire on ships. Let

alone that they might just leave mines there. That could be there for months, for years we may

never even know. And so that's a big issue. And American officials say that Iran is already using

smaller crafts that can carry two to three mines each to lay them into the strait. And while Iran's

mine stock isn't publicly known, the estimates put it from between 2000 to 6000 naval mines largely

produced by Iran, China and Russia, which sounds like enough, it sounds like enough mines. That's

enough to cause some real problems. So Donald Trump is worried about that because he knows that while

he doesn't care about like all the damage being done to the Iranian civilians, the thousand plus

civilians who have already died, he is a little bit worried about the price of oil. And this would

cause even more problems in that area. So he put out a truth of social most posts saying,

if Iran has put any mines in the Hormuz strait and we have no reports of them doing so,

pause for a second. He is posting this message because we have reports that they did. Why would he be

talking about it if it wasn't a thing that was happening? So he's just again lying to you.

He wants to seem like he's taking it seriously, but he also doesn't want to scary everyone.

So simultaneously, he's ready for every threat, but every threat will never actually happen.

It's very strange. It's sort of psychotic, but we go on. We want them removed immediately,

if for any reason, mines were placed and they're not removed. Fourth with says Donald Trump.

The military can't squeeze do around will be at 11, never seen before. If on the other hand,

they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction.

Additionally, we are using the same capital T technology and capital M missile capabilities

deployed against drug traffickers to permanently eliminate any boatership attempting to mine the

Hormuz strait. They'll be dealt with quickly and violently. So a couple of issues there. First

of all, Donald Trump tells us there's basically no military targets left in Iran. Now that is a

major lie. Understand that. But if you were to accept that there are no military targets,

when he says that there are about to ramp up the military consequences,

if you can't hit the military, who are you threatening in that particular case?

I feel like I can figure that out. Also, bear in mind that beginning of that message,

he tells the ships that if you've already laid any mines, go get them. Then he says,

we're going to blow up any ships in the water. I'm not sure I'd want to go pick up the mines

in that particular case if you're going to start firing on me. In any event, he said just 13

minutes later, I am pleased to report that within the last few hours, we have hit and completely

destroyed 10 inactive mine laying boats and or ships with more to follow. So okay, so again,

he wants you to believe that he's doing a lot. So he blew up the ships, but they were an active,

they didn't put in any mines. Don't worry, there's no mines there, everybody, which by the way,

like if you're trying to reassure people that there are no mines, when you suspect that there

might be, if you lie to them and say there are no mines, and that an oil tanker is sunk with a

mine, you're going to look terrible and there's no ship is ever going to want to go through there

again. So this is just such a psychotic and emotional and weird way to handle this.

And then Pete Heggs at this big thing, we're like, we've been eliminating inactive mine laying

vessels, we're wiping about with ruthless precision. Oh, we're so fatal, our warfighters.

And to the weekend Iranian regime, you have officially been put on notice.

Guarantee that he has a prompt saved in chat GPT where he's like, put this message of

mine through and make it sound more like stone cold Steve Austin. He's a very tough alpha man,

never forget that. So Sharon, as of right now, no mine has been set off. Maybe all the

mine laying ships have been destroyed, but what do you think of it? Well, the insurers already

told him, even though we tried to boss them around it, we can't even insure the ships.

There's no price that we can set to handle this threat. That's how bad it is. And look,

it's just, they're just dumb. I'm sorry, these aren't Brainiacs here.

This straight-of-harmoos thing, did that just come online in the last day or two or has it

been in operation? Like everybody kind of knew that this is like the leverage they've had.

It's why it's been so difficult dealing with Iran in this whole situation for, I don't know,

many, many, many decades. So, you know, Hexeth is going to do what he does, but these are the kind of

things that real generals, real military people with expertise in the run-up as you make

the case to the American people, as you get permission from Congress, can kind of outline for

you and say, here's where we're going to be okay, and here's where we're going to have to

really strategize here and put some things on the table because it's not going to work out,

and by the way, it's not going to be fast. Yeah, you raised a good point, you asked a good question,

and I did Google it. The straight-of-harmoos, they finished digging it, I think it was two and a

half weeks ago. So, it's been there for a little bit, not that long. There you go. Nobody could have

foreseen that this would be an issue, except for the military intelligence that told them that

it was going to be, and they ignored it because they wanted their war, or sorry, Israeli intelligence

wanted the war. So anyway, yeah, no, this is totally predictable, and like a lot of people,

I think, imagine like a river, and they're just like, we'll just sink the boats that try to attack

them. No, but like, yeah, no, we're sinking the big ships and everything, but they have countless

small boats that you can put like a missile launcher on or whatever, and they're not firing

at aircraft carriers. They're firing at an oil tanker. It doesn't have any defenses, and also,

I think people forget this. It's full of oil, like you just have to do a little bit of damage to

cause the apocalypse on the ship. And so it's a big issue to actually secure that. 21 miles wide,

which even less wide when you think about the shipping lines, is not an ocean,

but it's not a cool, like it's still a lot of territory to cover, a lot of coastline,

a lot of activity, potentially a lot of cause, like potential misinformation, everything.

So it is a big issue, and that's why I wish we had a serious individual or individuals in charge of it.

I don't think a split party is the problem. I think high oil prices will be a problem.

I think the 2026 elections already, we are behind the eight fall as far as the electoral process.

I think if you add in high gas prices, high oil prices, and if we are still bombing around

with kinetic action, people don't want to call it war, but if they're still kinetic action,

that causes old to be over $100, I think you're going to see a disastrous election.

Now, bearing in mind that he seems to be on our side that he doesn't want the war,

don't shut up with the kinetic action, just call it a war. I don't want to, we're not

interested in kinetic action. This isn't like a video game, like a retro 80s video game or

something. It's a goddamn war and it is serious. That said, he's one of the fewer Republicans that's

very openly speaking out against it. And I'll take any counterbalance we can get to Lindsey Graham.

I guess that's good. And by the way, he's the one doing the interview, but he is indicating that

there are more Republicans who are very worried about the effects of this, not like the dead civilians.

They don't care too much about that, but they are worried about the political and economic

consequences of this. And so you have an addition of Rand Paul, you have Senator John Boosman,

Republican of Arkansas saying things in Iran are certainly exacerbating things like gasoline

prices. I am worried about them. That's something that makes a huge difference with our economy.

Let's see, you have Senator Tom Tillis saying gas drives the affordability issues.

Yeah, it's easy to forget if you're a regular person, but when gasoline goes up,

basically everything that needs to be transported goes up. And that's everything.

Every product is going to be, especially if it's internationally and they just ship it over

in a boat or flying in a plane, 30% higher gas is going to be at least 30% higher products.

And I'll remind everyone, this is like John's rule of political economy. When there is an

actual reason for inflation to happen, there will always also be dishonest reasons for inflation

to happen because inflation is happening and they want to make money. So you have John Hustead,

this is Republican of Ohio saying I'm not going to get into that right now about gas prices.

I'm not going to answer that kind of a question, Senator Jim Rish said as well. Well,

okay, you don't have to answer the journalist questions, but I feel like your constituents are

going to have a couple of sharply worded follow-up questions for you as well. And by the way,

even over at the White House, they are kind of hoping that Donald Trump is going to find an

off ramp from this soon. Some of Trump's advisors at recent days have encouraged him to articulate

a plan to extract the US from the war and make the case that the military has largely achieved

subjectives according to people familiar with the matter. While many in the president's conservative

base still support the initial operation, some of the president's advisors have privately expressed

concerns that a longer war could deplete that support. And you can see that it's not like they're

starting from a position of strength. Here's like a bunch of our foreign military adventures,

not all of them. We get up to a lot of stuff as a country, but compared to many of them,

this is the least popular. And that was on day one. A day one that went pretty smoothly,

and things have gotten a lot more complicated since then, in terms of the military response

from Iran throughout the region, as well as the fact that oil prices have shut up.

And more so than just shooting up, oil prices have been wildly chaotic over the past few days,

which that in itself is bad for the economy. So the hope is, Sharon, that he can just say,

mission accomplished, we won, we accomplished our objectives. And I will say it will be a little

bit easier than usual to claim that since nobody knows what the objectives are. And that said,

even me as a critic in the end on this, I have to give him credit. He wanted to get rid of Iran's

hard line, Ayatollah, and he did that. And he got a younger, more hard line one. And he drove up

the price of gas, which is flooding Russia's coffers with funds, exactly at the time they could

use that money to help press their advantage in Ukraine. And it's depleted American arms.

And the fact that will be tacoing because of like the Strait of Hormuz and all that also indicates

to Iran that if they were to get up to something in the future, we've already shown that we don't

have the stomach for an extended conflict. So even the threat of doing that, which we used to have,

we don't have anymore. And some American soldiers died. And we wasted a bunch of money.

So yeah, pretty big success, Sharon. What do you make of it? And do you think he will declare

victory to help stem some of this political damage? I think he'd like to. I mean, he's an

income poop, but that said, what about his lover, Israel? He's in a disgusting, extra marital affair

with Israel. And they're not gonna let go of him. It's like that fatal attraction movie with

Glenn Close and Michael Douglas and a boiled rabbit on the stove. Israel's already said,

the only victory here is going to be if we just decimate him and don't leave him with a structure

or a government in place. And the captured Lindsey Graham is saying the same thing. We can't get out

now. So it's real, no matter who's in his ear saying we got to get out here, we got to get out here.

Israel's gonna make it real difficult for the United States to extract itself from this war.

They are Glenn Close. They're boiling the rabbit. And we've only seen the beginning.

There's no easy off ramp here by just saying, well, we did it. We won. It's not gonna happen.

Yeah, you don't think so? Maybe. I don't know. I mean, look, they ended the first one.

Hey, Trump could say I ended nine wars. You would like that. That's a strong incentive.

By the way, I haven't seen that movie. So I apologize. I don't necessarily get the reference, but

I'll get your popcorn and don't want you to load.

Add two more quick things in the chat. Somebody pointed out where's Tulsi? Yeah, she would

really like this conflict to go away so she could come out of her bunker. It's getting

musty in there. But anyway, and I also just want to end with this. Well, I think we'll play the

video tomorrow on the show. It happened right before we went live. Senator Roger Marshall said,

yeah, gas parties are going up. That's just a sacrifice. The American people are gonna have to make.

Senator Roger Marshall, if I could give you some advice, please keep talking exactly like that.

Please keep telling the American people to make a sacrifice that notably you as a rich A-hole are

not having to make and that they 100% did not sign up for. Say more of that as we cruise towards

the midterms, please.

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You raised the question of Jeffrey Epstein in your remarks about print and the Q&A.

I don't know, but that island was really assessed pool. There's no question about it.

Just ask Prince Andrew. He'll tell you about it.

Yeah, so Donald Trump has been dogged by claims about his obvious friendship that he had best

friendship that he had with his bro Jeffrey Epstein for some time. And he's implied for a very

long time that he didn't know anything about what Jeffrey Epstein was doing when they were

friends for years and years and years and years and shared sexual jokes with each other and

sexual gifts with each other and partied with each other and all of that stuff. And that was

always difficult to believe, but it has become increasingly difficult to believe with all of what's

being released in the Epstein files. First of all, we know that Donald Trump apparently was

interviewed by the FBI after Jeffrey Epstein was first arrested. And in that, he claimed that,

oh yeah, no, I knew he was a bad guy, but for some reason decided not to turn him in.

But now we're finding out more including, it's a pretty bombshell claim that Donald Trump might

have been on the phone with Epstein as Epstein assaulted one of his many victims. So this comes,

by the way, this revelation as Pambadi's DOJ are getting caught once again having removed documents

from the releases that are related to Donald Trump. So as with many of these revelations is coming

from memos by the FBI. And so this woman told investigators that Epstein was on the phone with

Trump when she arrived at his upper east side layer, her third visit to the home.

Epstein told the woman to hurry upon arrival saying, let's go, let's go, according to an FBI

memo. This is directly from the FBI memo. Epstein got on the massage table and was on a speakerphone

call with Donald Trump. The victim started getting undressed and they started massaging him.

The victim started massaging Epstein's feet and pointed to his back. From there, Epstein's accuser

alleged that he grabbed her hand and pulled her on top of him. Now they say that it is unclear how

the woman knew Trump was on the line, although I could hazard a guess that Epstein called him

Donald. And he was a major celebrity at this time. His voice would be fairly recognizable.

But anyway, he at that point was in a relationship with Melania Trump, but not yet married to her.

We also don't know how, whether he knew what was occurring on the other end of the line,

although it is speakerphone. And if that sort of thing is happening, one would think there would be

some sort of vocalizations or noises or whatever. So this doesn't necessarily prove that Donald Trump

knew what was going on. But by the way, it is also another reminder, assuming that it happened,

that Epstein was very comfortable with Donald Trump. If he feels that he could assault a woman

while on the phone with him, that means he's not worried about Donald Trump finding out that he's

assaulting someone. One potential explanation would be that Donald Trump already knows that he's

assaulting people, so just bear that in mind. Now, here is another sick aspect of this story.

And that is Carolyn Levitt's statement about the woman that we just referenced.

She said, these are completely baseless accusations backed by zero credible evidence

from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history. Now look,

I can just say that if you just take the bare text of that, that is a terrible way to address

a woman that she knows nothing about. But if you were watching the show yesterday,

that may ring a bell. And do you know why? Because that is word for word, the statement she put out

about the woman who alleges that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was 13. It is the

exact same statement to the word. As if Carolyn Levitt wanted to make sure you knew that she does not

give a damn about what these women say, what might have happened to them, what Donald Trump,

her boss might be and might have done. She wants to make sure you know that she doesn't give a

god damn about it. That's my interpretation, Sharon. What do you think?

I think you're exactly right. And I'm done expecting women, women like Miss Levitt to be on

our side. We're talking about a child who says she was trafficked. We know Jeffrey Epstein trafficked,

well, we know that. Some people are still claiming that. There were no people, no clients, no, no one,

just was stuff going on that was really creepy. It's disgusting. Her defamation, which perhaps

not in the legal sense, what do I know? But the way she's describing people who have been treated

in just disgusting terms, I don't get. I really don't get. It used to be when Bill Clinton was being

a, you know, accused and the whole Monica Lewinsky thing that you had someone in George Stephanopoulos

who defended him, sure, but was disgusted and later left. Now you just have people who no matter

what comes out will always back the filth. They're filthbackers and she's among the upper echelon of

them. Yeah, just completely without empathy. And I will say to draw contrast, you know how much empathy

I have for women who've gone through this? I hope that if not on acrylic, if at some point,

Carolyn Levitt finally reveals what Donald Trump has almost certainly said to her behind closed

doors, I hope that if she reveals what is almost certainly a pattern of sexual harassment from Donald

Trump, I hope that Carolyn Levitt is treated with infinitely more empathy than she has treated

every single one of the many women that have made these claims against her boss before her.

That's my empathy. In any event, let's turn now to another aspect of this story.

If you like many Americans remain unconvinced about the official story about how Jeffrey

Epstein died in jail, well, we have even more new information that's going to suggest

that there might well have been a cover up. And there are bear in mind a lot of questions

that people have still had about what happened in that prison, why it is that every single thing

failed in exactly the right way to make it so that we can't know for sure how it is that he died.

But anyway, one basic one is that if Epstein was murdered because more and more suspicious details

are coming out. I want to turn to some of those and you might have seen some of this going around.

We wanted to make sure that like we didn't want to initially report it just as soon as it came

out. We wanted credible sources to look into it and they have. So apparently one of the guards

Googled Epstein just before his body was found and also had suspicious bank deposits around that

same time. Now, those are not necessarily linked and either of them slash both of them are

necessarily evidence of a crime, but it is interesting. And so let's start with the guard. We're also

going to turn to an inmate who had a pretty like a bombshell to reveal as well.

So the guard, Tova Noel, who later admitted to falsifying records about Epstein's death twice

Googled latest on Epstein in jail in the hour before his body was discovered in cell.

A copy of her online history included in the files shows. The former guard completed the online

search at 542 AM local time. And again at 552 AM on August 10th according to the files,

Epstein's body was found by fellow guard Michael Thomas less than 40 minutes later.

Now both those two Nolan Thomas were charged with falsifying prison records to make it seem as

though they had performed required checks on Epstein before he was found dead.

Prosecutors later dropped the charges against them citing a plea deal. We'll turn to the money

in a second, but I just want to point out one thing. So you googling him by itself does not

mean that something shady is happening. However, let's assume that nothing shady happened.

What would be an alternative explanation is to why you're googling him. Well, okay, he's a famous

man, a notorious criminal. He's in your prison. Maybe it's not suspicious. Maybe it's just that you

are fascinated with him and really interested in what's going on with him. The issue with that

alternative explanation is if you're that interested in him, why aren't you doing the checks on him?

Like we're supposed to believe this person is simultaneously obsessed with details about Epstein

and just can't get up and walk down the hallway to see him. I don't, I'll just google it.

That seems to me to be hard to imagine. And then there's the money. So for no, the person

who did the googling, more than a dozen deposits to her account starting in April 2018 were flagged

by Chase Bank in a suspicious activity report. The largest deposit of $5,000 was made on July 30th,

2019, just 10 days before he died. Now again, that doesn't mean anything necessarily.

But like, I feel like they could look into it a little bit. I feel like Pambondi could have not

rushed out eight months ago and been like, we're good. We're done with this thing and then

blanched the same thing. It feels like this merits a follow-up, Sharon. But what do you think?

You think? I mean, if Chase, who was knee deep in this thing too, flagged it, but at least,

you could at least follow the money here. And it doesn't seem like there's no willingness,

so want to even do that. And it also seems like when you, and I don't know much about the plea

deal that was offered to these guards. On the one hand, you're always charging low-hanging fruit,

but never wanting to go any higher than that. But on the other hand, if they know more,

now would be the time for us to what's overdue figure out what else went on there.

Yeah, I would like to, could we have an interview? Could we have the FBI?

I feel like there's a lot more that could be done. Now, we just want to briefly mention,

you should definitely look this up. There's also an inmate who told the FBI that they woke

in the special housing unit where he and Epstein were both jailed to hear officers shouting,

breathe, breathe. And then one officer say, dudes, you killed that dude. A female guard allegedly

then said, if he is dead, we're going to cover it up and he's going to have an alibi.

My officers, the inmate said, fellow inmates later blamed Noel for Epstein's death.

So again, like that's an inmate who's making this claim years after it happened. That doesn't

necessarily mean that it's true. And there's a couple of ways that you potentially could

interpret what was said regardless. But again, there's just, there's a lot that would theoretically

lead this band of vipers in the Trump administration who all postured as wanting to get to the bottom of

this. It doesn't look like they even entered the top of it.

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They just had a special election to fill the departing Marjorie Taylor Green,

the seat in Congress. And what do you know, a Democrat one kind of, they haven't what,

they're gonna go to a runoff. But a Democrat got the most votes, which is fascinating. And that has

led to a lot of headlines saying the Democrats could potentially take this seat. And I love that idea.

I think that would be awesome. And the candidate, the Democrat in this particular case who has run

multiple times has been doing a great job of trying to flip that seat. That said, I remain

incredibly pessimistic about whether that's actually going to happen. But I love the idea.

And I hope it does. And I want to put that positive energy out into the universe.

But here are the actual results. And you can see Sean Harris, the Democrat at the top of the pack,

a couple of percentage points more than Clayton Fuller, the winning Republican.

The issue though is that if you then look at all of the other candidates, there is one other

Democrat who got one and a half percent of the vote. But there's also 25% that went to other

Republicans. And I would just remind everyone, it is a why-who leave Republican district.

Like Sean Harris has fought a good fight. Sean Harris failing to flip that seat is not

necessarily the result of doing a bad job. It's a really red seat. You know how red it is?

They elected Marjorie Green. They thought that was acceptable. That is how conservative it is.

Now, it could still happen. The runoff will be in a little bit less than a month. That is April 7th.

And it is to serve out the remainder of Green's term. They'll have their own regular election

for the next term. But let's compare the results here to Green in 2024. When she won

after running and raising money and telling everyone that she desperately wanted to be a part of

Congress. And then after like six months, she was like, I don't actually want to do this. I'm

just going to leave her whatever. It's always amazing to me when people do that. But anyway,

she won by damn near 30 points. So as I said, it is a very Republican field.

But there is one other bit of good news here, which is that Donald Trump made an endorsement.

And it wasn't for the Democrat, shockingly. No, it was for Clayton Fuller. And hey,

good news for Trump. Clayton Fuller did win. But like he didn't clear the field. He didn't even

get the most votes. And that is after getting Donald Trump's endorsement. So I have no doubt that

if you go to true social right now, Donald Trump's like, my endorsement won out. But like,

didn't really have any effect at all. I don't know. And we do know why he wants Clayton Fuller.

Clayton Fuller said that he wants to triple the budget for immigration and customs enforcement

and nominate every single ice agent for the presidential medal of freedom. Now, if you nominate

every agent that includes the agents who have gunned down innocent Americans. But that's the sort

of weird supplication you do to get Donald Trump's endorsement. By the way, tripling the budget,

it already has a bigger budget than most of the world's militaries. He wants to triple it to

what? Like a half a trillion dollars a year? Don't put it past him. He just may try to do that.

Anyway, Sharon, what do you make of this?

Look, I was watching very closely overnight trying to see who would get to that runoff.

I don't know what's going to happen here. Donald Trump's endorsement doesn't mean a lot,

except these days it could be a negative. And so we just have to wait and see. I like the

Democrat in this race, his name recognition and all of it. And he's changed his behavior some too.

He used to be staunch in a way where he was just all, you know, I'm his military guy. I'm this

in that. And now he seems to be reaching out to a wider casting a wider net. So hopefully,

that'll sway some people who are already paying too much for gas and the light. We'll see.

Yeah, and by the way, I mean, like maybe he doesn't win, but maybe he loses by 20 points or 15

points or so. It could be still an indication of changes that are happening. And by the way,

I think it was a new hampsure. There was another special election for a state legislature.

And it went to the Democrats, even though it was a seat that Trump had won by like 10 points

or whatever, or that district he had won. And it was the 10th consecutive special election that

went the Democrats way. Now, don't get complacent, but it is good news that people seem to really

be wanting a change with all that they're seeing.

You know that your marquee issue is failing. When in the space of just one year,

you've gone from putting it on your signs and in your campaign ads to telling your own sites,

it could just shut shut shut shut about that. We don't actually want to talk about that.

People don't like it. And here I'm talking about mass deportations. Oh, you heard a lot in 2024

about mass deportations. At one point on the campaign trail, Trump told Time magazine,

he planned to deport 15 to 20 million undocumented immigrants, which is notably a larger number

than the actual number of immigrants in the country illegally. So of course he was lying about

how many immigrants there are, how many commit crimes who's lying about basically every part of

this. And so once he gets in, he can't make good on his promises because they were based on lies.

And he's terrible at his job and they're wasting a lot of money and they're gunning down people.

And so now we get to today where they don't want to talk about mass deportation anymore.

It doesn't pull well enough. So White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair privately urged House

Republicans just earlier this week to stop emphasizing mass deportations and instead focus their

messaging on removing violent criminals, which notably is a thing that they have been bashing us

over the head with for a year. So I don't even know if that's a great political strategy.

You guys have already tried that. People don't buy it. We don't think that you're focusing

on getting violent criminals. I talked earlier this week about the fact that they had taken a couple

of young mariachis, award-winning mariachis who had been brought to the Capitol because of how good

they are. They detained them. Now the update is that thankfully they have been released.

There's young mariachis and thank God that's why we covered it. We were hoping that if everybody

talked about it, they'd be released and they have been. That's the good news.

But there's been a lot of crimes committed by ICE. And I remember, I remember how enthusiastic

they were about this. I was on the floor of the RNC. I saw these signs being held up by the hundreds.

I remember seeing Usha Vance speaking to a crowd of white people holding mass deportation

signs up and thinking, this seems uncomfortable a little bit. And so there has been a lot of

change and the reason is that people don't like it. 49% of Americans say that Trump's mass deportation

campaign is too aggressive. That includes 20% of people who voted for Trump in 2024.

And so good news that they're changing. I hope that the policy actually changes too, Sharon.

What do you think?

Well, I don't know that the policy is going to change. It may die down for a moment. And I think

the numbers are very telling here. They shouldn't talk at all about deportation anymore because as

you said, they lied, they muddy the waters. They said everybody, they arrested was a violent

criminal. They arrested American citizens. They killed some and called them domestic terrorists. So

anytime they utter the word deportation, okay, you don't even need to put mass in front of it.

The American people are rightly skeptical and do not see that as any kind of alignment with

what's right or what with what we want. So I think they're in a real jam, changing the way they

talk about it. I think they should just not shut off about it completely. Yeah. Yeah, I mean,

if they try to convince us to like the twerkin frog, who was a criminal, who's absolutely

ridiculous. And I also think in terms of shutting up about it, like sometimes the dog chase the

car catches it, that whole thing. So they wanted to outlaw abortion. Okay, so you won, you won.

I mean, people hate it. They didn't support you, but you won. And now you can't run on that anymore.

You wanted to stop every goddamn migrant from coming in or whatever, based on a bunch of lies.

But okay, you clamped down on the border. So now you can't really talk about it theoretically.

And I think that they're kind of flailing. That's why Texas Republicans are like,

Sharia, I guess maybe they start talking about trans people again. What are they going to talk

about, Sharon? I wouldn't go there with the trans people either. When you're dealing with

Americans who have so much pain points, so many pain points in their lives, whether it's gas,

whether it's food insecurity, they can't pay the rent. All of it is just people who had a lot of

time for these culture wars are less interested now because they're far too busy just trying to

survive and breathe. So good luck with that one too. That's what happens when you don't do real

issues. And you run on things that divide people so that you can steal from us.

At some point, you might run out of things to talk about because we're all in this together.

We're all losing now. Yeah, yeah, 100%. Okay, I think that's all the time that we have for the program.

As always, Sharon, thank you for being here. Thank you for making it a big news Wednesday.

I really do appreciate it. Appreciate it. You're more great, chef.

Awesome, thank you. And thank you everybody for being out there for following along. We really

appreciate it. There's a lot going on. The news can be rough, but we try to have fun with it and

you are a big part of that fun. With that said, more fun will be coming tomorrow because

Tray Crouter is going to be back on the program, which should be absolutely awesome. We've got

great stories that I think are just right in his wheelhouse and I can't wait to hear his perspective.

And then of course, on Friday, Brett will be back always a good time. So definitely join us for

both of those. With that said, I'll see you soon for now. Stay safe out there. Stay stay out there.

See you in a bit.

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