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Tonight on The Cameron Journal Newshour, we are talking about a variety of stories including more fallout from the Epstein Files and the people resigning and being investigated globally because of the releases. We talk about the situation in Georgia with the ballots and the 2020 and 2024 election. We also talk about an article from the Atlantic about how violent crime is way down to a Biden-era law that invested in communities. Nixon's paranoia was not uncalled for and we talk about how Nixon figured out that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were actually out to get him. We talk about the brain drain happening in biomedical sciences, and we talk about a new political movement called The Grand Bargain. It's a long one tonight!
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00:01:33Hello, everyone.
00:01:34My name is Cameron Cowan.
00:01:36This is the Cameron Journal News Hour.
00:01:38Oh, my goodness.
00:01:40I am coming to you from the very snowy, very blizzardy, very snowy, cold, windy New England, central New England.
00:01:54Southern New England is getting a little bit, a little bit crazier.
00:01:58I'm in Connecticut, but I am a couple hours inland.
00:02:03The coast is really getting hit much, much harder in the great blizzard that is, you know, supposed to be
00:02:11as bad as it was in 1978.
00:02:13I think the part I'm worried about the most is we have more snow coming on Wednesday.
00:02:18The snow from the last big storm hadn't even hardly melted yet.
00:02:22We now have another probably 12 inches a foot to maybe 18 on top of it, judging by my car.
00:02:29That managed to drift the snow against my car, but not off of my car.
00:02:34Funny how that works.
00:02:35And it's, yeah, so the yard is just getting deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper.
00:02:45So it's, yeah.
00:02:47And we were just kind of getting towards, like, a melty mud situation because after the last storm, it snowed
00:02:55and then was cold for two, three weeks.
00:02:59No melting.
00:03:00We were just finally getting melting, more snow on top.
00:03:03The only nice thing is this time we are staying in snow melting temperatures.
00:03:07We're not going back into the deep freeze once the storm passes.
00:03:13So that's good.
00:03:14They're digging out in New York City.
00:03:15They're digging in Boston.
00:03:17They're digging in D.C.
00:03:18They're even digging in Delaware.
00:03:22If I were at home, I would also be in the snow.
00:03:29So that's, it's a lot of, it's a lot of, a lot of fun.
00:03:33We very rarely do much weather here.
00:03:37But, yeah, since this one affects me personally, we'll talk about it.
00:03:42Anyway, so hello.
00:03:44So, from the snowy north, I don't know why my under eyes are so bright.
00:03:52Good lord.
00:03:54That is, oh, that's better.
00:03:57Oh my goodness.
00:03:58That's, it was kind of, my cheeks were just kind of like, woohoo.
00:04:01Shiny, shiny.
00:04:04I think my, my camera, my, there, that's much better.
00:04:11Yeah, there we go.
00:04:12The exposure was a little, a little high.
00:04:17That's so much better.
00:04:19I want to remind everyone, I, that we are getting into, into spring and whatnot.
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00:05:53Speaking of discounts and hangouts with me, tomorrow night, my annual tradition of streaming
00:05:59and commentating on the State of the Union speech with the President of the United States
00:06:03is back again this year.
00:06:06I will 110% be doing that stream.
00:06:11It'll be tomorrow night, beginning at 8 o'clock.
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00:06:25That is the place to find all of that stuff.
00:06:29It will be streaming at 8 o'clock.
00:06:30I think the speech starts at 9.
00:06:33I probably should get clearer on that.
00:06:35It might start at 8.
00:06:36Let's find out, actually.
00:06:38Because I have the stream set for 8 o'clock already.
00:06:48And so, um, we want to make sure that it should be, uh, C-SPAN coverage is starting at 6.
00:06:56So, um, yeah.
00:06:59I think the speech starts at 9.
00:07:01So, it's, um, it, yeah.
00:07:04So, we'll start our stream at 8 and then just go right into, right into, uh, right into the speech.
00:07:13Um, let's see.
00:07:14Because I think it starts at, I think it starts at 9.
00:07:17I had it.
00:07:18I had looked it up when I did it.
00:07:20And said, oh, we usually start at 8 o'clock.
00:07:23Yeah, it's at 9.
00:07:24That's what I thought.
00:07:24So, what usually happens is we start at 8 o'clock.
00:07:27We watch commentary.
00:07:28We talk.
00:07:29We chat.
00:07:29We get a snack.
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00:07:39We kiki.
00:07:39We do this and that.
00:07:41All this sort of thing.
00:07:42And then the speech starts at 9 and I'll do commentary.
00:07:44I'll walk you through the whole process in terms of who's what, who's there, who's why, the whole story.
00:07:49What all the symbols mean.
00:07:51All this type of thing.
00:07:52So, look at it as watching the State of the Union with a really smart friend.
00:07:56And, uh, and then we'll watch the speech.
00:07:59We'll watch the response.
00:08:00Um, and go from there.
00:08:01It's a long night.
00:08:02I will remind everyone.
00:08:04So, the speech is usually 90 minutes.
00:08:08There's a lot of clapping and applauding, usually.
00:08:11There's sometimes booing and things like that.
00:08:15And so, um, uh, and so there, you know, so there, it's a long, and then the response at the
00:08:24end of the speech, there's usually a break of 5-10 minutes.
00:08:26And then they immediately air the response.
00:08:31And that's about 20 minutes or so.
00:08:34So, it ends, we all don't end up getting the stream done until, mmm, 11.30 midnight sometimes.
00:08:41Um, very late here in the East.
00:08:44So, uh, yeah.
00:08:45So that, that'll be tomorrow night.
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00:09:06the living joke, all this kind of thing.
00:09:09So, lots of coughing tonight.
00:09:14I think it's just the, the weather and whatnot.
00:09:17Um, when my, when the air pressure falls rapidly, my lungs are kind of like, mmm, we don't like this.
00:09:27So, but caffeine helps.
00:09:29Um, so, um, all right.
00:09:33I think that's all the housekeeping stuff.
00:09:34Let's dive into the headlines.
00:09:37So, let me do this.
00:09:41And let me get rid of that.
00:09:44And get rid of that.
00:09:45And we're gonna change that.
00:09:48Because that was for a living joke.
00:09:53And we're gonna dive right into our first story, which is, we're no longer attracting top talent.
00:10:02We're not the brain drain that is killing, killing American, American science.
00:10:09So, um, and let me, let me get us a little, uh, a little text overlay here.
00:10:19So, one of the things that happens, unfortunately, a lot, is we, we get into, one of the things that
00:10:33happens when regimes become unfriendly.
00:10:37Um, and, uh, and they're, you know, and we have, uh, and we have, you know, differing, people have issues
00:10:50with things that are being said, things that are being done, funding isn't happening, all this, um, all this sort
00:10:58of thing.
00:10:58Is that people tend to go where they're actually, um, kind of wanted and needed and required.
00:11:08And, uh, and oftentimes they end up going where funding is, um, in, uh, in, in a way that historically
00:11:16since World War II, the United States has always been the number one destination.
00:11:21Best company, steep capital markets, tons of research funding, best universities, all this type of thing.
00:11:25And a lot of regimes do those in Iran, Russia, all this type of thing, one of the first people
00:11:30to leave are extremely sophisticated technicians, extremely sophisticated scientists, because they need money to do their work, and they're very
00:11:37in demand pretty much everywhere else in the world.
00:11:42And I never thought in my lifetime that we would be seeing brain drain happen here in the United States,
00:11:48simply because we've always been a top number one destination since 1945, and I never thought that would ever change.
00:11:55Well, that has now changed, and we are suffering one of the first earliest symptoms of democratic systems and freedom
00:12:07beginning to go away.
00:12:09And the first sign you look for in any country that's in trouble is brain drain, and it's now come
00:12:14to the United States.
00:12:15So, and this is obviously the result in major slashes in science funding.
00:12:22It says, as Trump slashes science funding young researchers flee abroad, without solid innovation, the U.S. could cease to
00:12:27have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world.
00:12:30In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the Federal Centers for Disease
00:12:35Control and Prevention put out its latest public health alert on so-called superbugs, strains of bacteria-resistant antibiotics.
00:12:43These drug-resistant germs, the CDC warned, are responsible for more than 3 million infections in the U.S. each
00:12:49year, claiming the last of 48,000 Americans.
00:12:52That's about the number of people that die in car accidents.
00:12:54Globally, the largely untreatable pathogens contribute annually to almost 5 million deaths, and health experts fear that unless urgent steps
00:13:01are taken, they could become a leading killer, surpassing even cancer by 2050.
00:13:09We're in a war against bacteria, said Ian Morgan, a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. National Institutes of Health,
00:13:15the world's largest funder of biomedical research.
00:13:17He's on the front lines of that war against superbugs, the NIH lab in which he works, is driving what
00:13:21he described as high-risk, high-reward research.
00:13:24But over the past year, the battlefield has toughened.
00:13:26Under the general administration, Morgan, 33, and thousands of other young American scientists like him have grappled with wave after
00:13:32wave of disruptions.
00:13:33Billions of dollars have been wiped from research budgets, almost 8,000 grants have been canceled by NIH, and the
00:13:38U.S. National Science Foundation alone and more than 1,000 NIH employees have been fired.
00:13:44Morgan's research has been rattled by multi-billion-dollar cuts in NIH contracts that make it impossible for labs to
00:13:49maintain their equipment.
00:13:50They have the choice of paying exorbitant maintenance fees or giving up on experiments.
00:13:54Amid the maelstrom, young and early peer scientists like Morgan are among the hardest hit.
00:13:58His own future is no doubt.
00:14:00In the normal trajectory of a life in science, Morgan will be planning to set up his own laboratory conducting
00:14:04groundbreaking research designed to win the war on superbugs.
00:14:07With the ongoing hiring freeze at NIH, his options are limited.
00:14:13Quote,
00:14:13Right now, there's no way to even apply to start your own lab at NIH, no matter how good you
00:14:17are or how critical you work, he says.
00:14:19Morgan's predicament has led him to step up as a steward at a new union for young NIH researchers formed
00:14:26under the umbrella of the UAW.
00:14:27It's almost 5,000 members who are organizing against Trump administration's assault on American science.
00:14:32The chaos that has ascended on NIH over the past year has led Morgan to fear for his future, the
00:14:36future of his craft, and ultimately the fight against superbugs.
00:14:39Quote,
00:14:45A similar story to Morgan's could be told by tens of thousands of other young scientists throughout NIH and across
00:14:52numerous U.S. universities experiencing federal funding increases.
00:14:56More than 10,000 postdoctoral experts in scientific and related fields were lost to the federal workforce last year, according
00:15:02to science.
00:15:03That's the magazine.
00:15:05The magazine looked at 14 research agencies, including NIH, and found that the number of employees departing outstrip new hires
00:15:10by 11 to 1.
00:15:12The brain drain is prompting existential fears that American science, the powerhouse of the U.S. economy of global public
00:15:17health, is being deprived of its lifeblood.
00:15:21The source of young researchers, the next generation of scientists who are the font of new ideas and innovation, is
00:15:26being frauduled.
00:15:27Quote,
00:15:28The talent pool is developed by letting young people flourish among like-minded, excited scientists, said John President, a pediatric
00:15:33brain cancer doctor who leads a research laboratory at the University of Michigan.
00:15:36If that ceases, then that intellectual discovery, that drive to make the next great insight into cancer, are the challenges
00:15:42we've planted in another country's soil.
00:15:45The NIH drives scientific progress globally across biomedical and behavioral sciences, including defenses against infectious diseases and possible future pandemics.
00:15:53It pushes at the frontier of new therapies geared to the genetic makeup of individual patients, and can claim numerous
00:15:59breakthroughs and cancer treatment vaccinations, and much more.
00:16:01Without the NIH driving innovation at its core, the U.S. would cease to have the largest biomedical system in
00:16:07the world.
00:16:09Emma Bay Dickinson, a 27-year-old post-grad researcher in infectious diseases, is a specialist in Zika, the largely
00:16:15mosquito-borne virus that can cause birth defects.
00:16:17Her longer-term ambitions can help find a way to protect the world against viruses with the potential to evolve
00:16:22into the next pandemic, which is avian flu.
00:16:24For now, though, the U.S. will miss out on her skills.
00:16:26The Trump administration's funding cuts began to hit last year, just when, as a post-graduate research fellow at NIH
00:16:31in Washington, D.C., she was hunting for her next position.
00:16:35My classmates applying in the U.S. were getting rejected and were being told that funding cuts meant that there
00:16:40was too much uncertainty to offer them jobs.
00:16:42Dickinson, who was queer, was discouraged by Trump's animus against diversity, equity, and inclusion, which was used as a justification
00:16:48for many of the grant cuts.
00:16:49She was also dismayed by the blatant censorship imposed by the administration.
00:16:53Applicants for federal funding were forced to filter their proposals from a banned list of keywords across DEI, climate, vaccines,
00:16:59and other studies areas into undesirable by Trump.
00:17:01So Dickinson redirected her energies abroad.
00:17:03She began applying for posts in Spain and Germany, and in the end, landing a spontaneous program at a Barcelona
00:17:08infectious disease research institution.
00:17:10For the foreseeable future, she sees her future in Europe.
00:17:13It's important for me to feel I can be by myself in my science.
00:17:17That's just not possible now in the U.S.
00:17:21She's not alone.
00:17:22A growing number of young American scientists are quitting the country for positions in Europe, Australia, or Asia.
00:17:28Universities across Europe have been swift to exploit the opportunity, openly enticing young Americans to join the exodus and seek
00:17:33scientific asylum with them.
00:17:35Their response?
00:17:36This has been overwhelming.
00:17:38Aide-Mosset University, which has launched one of the first European programs to lure people from the U.S., was
00:17:43inundated by hundreds of applications from early career researchers hoping to flee the U.S.
00:17:47The outflow of young scientists has been exacerbated by deep cuts to NIH training programs, which acts as a breeding
00:17:52ground for the U.S.'s future top scientists.
00:17:55Yet, at least 50 training programs targeted at undergraduates through early career lab researchers have been shut down under the
00:18:00general administration.
00:18:02As an NIH program officer spoke to the Guardian about the impact of the training test, but asked not to
00:18:08be named for through the prize.
00:18:09So, quote,
00:18:09Trainees are the most vulnerable people in science, the officer said.
00:18:13They are the ones with the new ideas where a lot of our hope resides.
00:18:16Now they're losing their minds and worry about what comes next.
00:18:20They're desperate for advice now to stay in science when there are no grants available.
00:18:24The officer added,
00:18:25If you delay and terminate training grants, it's like a snowball effect.
00:18:28Eventually, you start wiping out our next generation of scientists.
00:18:33Adding to the problem of young talent leaving the country, the flow of early career researchers entering U.S. into
00:18:37the bros in the world is also shrinking as a result of Trump's immigration crackdown.
00:18:44Scientists from abroad are often at the forefront of U.S. innovation.
00:18:48Last year, half of the U.S.'s Nobel Prize winners in science subjects were immigrants.
00:18:52In September, Trump imposed a $100,000 fee on new applications for H-1B visas for foreign skilled workers, a
00:19:01move that makes coming to the U.S.
00:19:02prohibitively expensive for most researchers.
00:19:04Then, in January, the administration suspended the immigrant visa process into people from 75 countries.
00:19:10Add to that, the nightly TV images beamed around the world of ice raids on U.S. city streets, and
00:19:15a clear message has been sent out that America does not welcome newcomers.
00:19:18Jennifer Jones, director for the Centers of Science and Democracy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said that the international
00:19:23reputation of U.S. science has been damaged in ways that could take years to repair.
00:19:27In quote,
00:19:27We are no longer attracting top talent from around the world.
00:19:30Why would you want to come to a place where you know you could be threatened with deportation at any
00:19:34moment?
00:19:37And so it goes.
00:19:40This is when a lot of times when a new regime comes in and begins a censorship regime or begins
00:19:53to attack scientists, institutions, and different people, they respond simply by leaving.
00:19:59These people are in demand, and there's a lot of opportunity elsewhere in the world for them.
00:20:07And so it's, uh, this is a classic, a really classic sign.
00:20:14We saw this after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:20:16There was mass exodus from both countries to elsewhere in the world.
00:20:20Um, this is, this is, this is the downstream effect of these policies that very rarely gets talked about and
00:20:28very rarely is made, um, a priority by the regular person and the regular voter.
00:20:35Um, if, if you wanted to restrict immigration in order to hire American scientists, that's one thing.
00:20:42We're doing neither.
00:20:44We're both, and because the, the point is, the whole point of this is pandemic backlash.
00:20:54Fauci came from NIH.
00:20:57It was, you know, public health and scientists who were the people guiding the pandemic, especially post 2020 election with
00:21:06Biden that, you know, recommending, you know, mandatory masking, mandatory vaccine, all this type of thing.
00:21:13Like, even though there are, are, and I have documented severe questions about the COVID vaccine, um, so much so
00:21:19I do not take it.
00:21:20Um, and I know many of my friends who, who are the same, and we were all people that were
00:21:26once on board.
00:21:27This is retribution.
00:21:32Unfortunately, it's shooting our own selves in the foot.
00:21:35Because the reality is, demographically speaking, the boomers were a very large generation.
00:21:41The millennials were a large generation.
00:21:43Gen X, which was in between those two, was a very small generation.
00:21:47Gen Z also was a very small generation.
00:21:50Gen Alpha will probably be smaller because a lot of women have kids.
00:21:53And those that are having fewer, because they started older.
00:21:59The, the, once these people leave, once these training programs are gone, once these scientists don't get trained, that no
00:22:07longer exists.
00:22:09And there won't be any opportunity to get them back.
00:22:13Or to recreate the trainee, or to train the trainees that were never there.
00:22:19To, I mean, demographically speaking, we're looking at population contraction by the end of the next decade.
00:22:30And letting these people go now basically means we're, we're losing decades of potential science.
00:22:40You know, so, this is a problem that will not be able to be fixed for 20 to 30 years,
00:22:47at most.
00:22:49The hope is that perhaps when Alpha hits college and postdoc in a decade or so, you could start that
00:22:56process.
00:22:57But it's not, the reality is, it's not going to be easy to get these things refunded, to get the
00:23:02money going again, to get the programs, the science, the expertise, all this type of thing.
00:23:06And it's going to be tenuous at first.
00:23:07Certainly, attracting talent from abroad is going to be very difficult for quite some time.
00:23:11And so, the reality is, you end up falling behind.
00:23:17Now, obviously, this is about the NIH and about biomedical research.
00:23:21This isn't about every single thing or every single scientific pathway.
00:23:26This article is very, is very focused.
00:23:29But we've known since this time last year that European universities have thrown open the doors to anyone who wants
00:23:37to leave.
00:23:38I have, I heard a phrase on CBS this morning that I never thought I would hear.
00:23:45And that was, I'm an American scientist working in exile in Canada.
00:23:49I never thought in my life I would hear that phrase here.
00:23:52And the reality is, our best minds, our best people are just spreading out all over the globe.
00:23:58Now, as far as humanity and the globe is concerned, this is amazing because it will spread American science and
00:24:05ideas and all this type of thing all around the world.
00:24:07It will get new innovations happening.
00:24:09It will get new drugs happening in other places, other countries, other expertise, maybe more collaborative or even more, you
00:24:17know, owned by not big pharma, all this type of thing.
00:24:21There'll be some upsides to this.
00:24:22But as a country, we're not, very soon we may not be in the lead on these things.
00:24:28And I'm going to go into a bit of conjecture here to say, my guess is if we started looking
00:24:36around at some of the other areas of science and some other industries, my guess is probably on a smaller
00:24:43scale, because less government dependent things will be less affected by all of this.
00:24:49My guess is there's a pattern a little bit everywhere around this.
00:24:54And there's probably a lot of people who are looking for friendlier shores.
00:24:58Certainly immigrants are looking elsewhere.
00:25:00Whether Americans start to leave any significant number would also be interesting.
00:25:08I know because I hang out in digital nomad and expat communities that the number of people looking to move
00:25:19abroad has increased a great deal.
00:25:21I've seen probably a dozen people get the hell out.
00:25:27If they're emblematic of people who never thought they would leave, but have already kind of bailed, that is, that's
00:25:39not insignificant.
00:25:42I know there's been a lot of new questions.
00:25:44There's a sub-arm critic called AmerExit, where people are coordinating strategies to leave.
00:25:48I know that inquiries about leaving have gone up in, you know, pretty much everywhere.
00:25:53So it's a very interesting, interesting situation.
00:25:57My European friends are always asking me, when are you leaving?
00:26:00When are you leaving?
00:26:01And I'm kind of like, well, a lot of what I do depends on being here in America.
00:26:06So hopefully not anytime soon.
00:26:08Hopefully I can write it out.
00:26:09But it's, this whole experience is going to leave us poorer as a country.
00:26:16And that was kind of the point of this story.
00:26:18All right, let's move on, because I spent a lot of time on that.
00:26:23So this next story, I think, is rather hilarious.
00:26:33And, and that, oh, we have some comments.
00:26:37Sorry, commenters, I didn't see you.
00:26:39Oh, oh, Lucrysa Huffie.
00:26:41Yes, that's my, my cousin.
00:26:42Hello.
00:26:42Hi.
00:26:47And, and hi.
00:26:49Hi.
00:26:49Hello, everyone.
00:26:53Um, this next story is quite entertaining, um, because as it turns out, Nixon had a point
00:27:00in his paranoia.
00:27:01So in a new, uh, in a new article from the New York Times, um, seven pages of a sealed
00:27:08Watergate file set undiscovered until now.
00:27:10And it says here, Nixon had conclusive proof that the Joint Chiefs of Staff systematically
00:27:16spied on him and attempted to undermine him as part of a right-wing plot against his
00:27:21government.
00:27:22If he had published, publicized this world historic scandal during Watergate, he might
00:27:28have actually rallied enough support with the public to save his presidency.
00:27:32His paranoia and sense of being under constant siege was much mocked at the time.
00:27:37But these revelations show that he actually had good reason to feel this way.
00:27:41But rather than publicize this extraordinary scandal, Nixon decided to go to his grave with
00:27:45a secret solely to protect the honor and integrity of the U.S. armed forces and America's
00:27:50international reputation for democracy during the Cold War.
00:27:53We are only learning about it now, 32 years after his death.
00:27:57Um, that still doesn't get you out of the fact that you broke into the Watergate hotel and
00:28:01stole Democratic stuff and was bad at it.
00:28:03Um, and, uh, and then people, Roger Stone, of all people, now, Roger Stone used the Watergate
00:28:14scandal as a job application.
00:28:16He loves Richard Nixon, has a face of Richard Nixon tattoo on his back, by the way.
00:28:22Um, so no surprise that he put it all in his book.
00:28:26And so, um, I think, for better or for worse, Nixon is a very misunderstood president.
00:28:38This was the man that opened China.
00:28:41This is the man that thought universal healthcare was a good idea, couldn't get it from Congress,
00:28:45went with the HMO instead because he thought it would get people healthcare faster.
00:28:48He unleashed a monster, but there you go.
00:28:51He did not think he could win in 72 against McGovern and, and then, and started, and wanted
00:28:58to spy on the Democratic Party.
00:29:00Um, a lot of the reason we have the right-wing media ecosystem we do today is because of Nixon.
00:29:08Roger Stone, this guy right here, and as well as the, um, Roger Ailes, the guy who went on
00:29:16to create Fox News, they viewed what the media did to Nixon as the, the, the liberal media,
00:29:24mostly television, so ABC, CBS, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times, did not like Nixon, were
00:29:30dead set against him, and used Watergate, and Vietnam, quite frankly, to destroy Nixon's
00:29:35presidency.
00:29:36Bearing in mind, Nixon wins by a fair margin in 68.
00:29:40He wins by a much better margin in 72, Vietnam gets defunded in 73, Nixon resigns in 74.
00:29:49Um, and, uh, um, and so they, they viewed it as the, the liberal media destroyed the Nixon
00:29:58presidency, and they were never going to forgive them for that.
00:30:01And, and, most importantly, and Roger Stone has said this, the media should never be able
00:30:05to do that to a president ever again.
00:30:09And so Roger Stone and Roger Ailes went away.
00:30:12And they studied, they worked, they made connections, all this type of thing.
00:30:16When cable comes along, Roger Ailes was on it, like, hot, like, rice on, white on rice,
00:30:21and, uh, and goes, and eventually, and, and works for MSNBC, and then eventually creates
00:30:28Fox News.
00:30:29Um, tangentially connected, but not really to these two individuals particularly, but the
00:30:34use of AM radio, the use of AM radio to create, um, the first, you know, conservative right-wing
00:30:41mass broadcasting media programs happens in the early 80s when FM has invented all the
00:30:46music and pop stations that move over to FM, and it was like, what are we going to do with
00:30:50AM, and, uh, there were people who started buying up those stations for pennies on the
00:30:54dollar, and right-wing sort of programming was born.
00:30:57Bearing in mind, Rush Limbaugh begins broadcasting in 1988, about the time I was born, actually.
00:31:04Fun fact.
00:31:06And, uh, and that, and then that spawns everybody.
00:31:11Michael Medved, Michael Savage, Laura Ingram, who was on radio before she was on TV, Hugh Hewitt,
00:31:16who now does some TV but never really has.
00:31:18Um, Sean Hannity, who is on both TV and radio, all this type of thing, all of because of
00:31:25what the media did to, did to Nixon by exposing him for being knowledgeable, lying about, and
00:31:31covering up the spying of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel in D.C.
00:31:38And I do laugh that his paranoia did have some validity.
00:31:42Um, I would, if you want to go read the whole, I'm not going to go get into the whole
00:31:46thing
00:31:46right now, but if you want to read the whole thing, please feel free to check out, um, the
00:31:52whole article, um, about the Joint Chiefs of Staff and what they were doing.
00:31:55His paranoia was not uncalled for, which I think is rather entertaining.
00:32:00Um, because we always think of him as, as being very, um, as being, you know, very permanent
00:32:07at the end and very stressed and all this type of thing.
00:32:08And as it turns out, it wasn't without cause.
00:32:12And he just decided to keep it, uh, to keep it quiet.
00:32:17So, um, I, I do, I do laugh about the fact that, uh, um, that they, uh, that they, the,
00:32:32the rehabbing of a lot of these figures has been quite interesting in terms of in the Trump
00:32:41era, we have re-looked at the Bush administration and decided, eh, it was not so bad.
00:32:46Right now, we're going so far back.
00:32:50Um, the Nixon administration is getting, uh, is getting a, uh, a makeover.
00:32:56Um, and, and that is, uh, that is a quite, um, a quite interesting, interesting thing.
00:33:07Unfortunately, um, this is a very, uh, this, this is, this happens to, to presidencies.
00:33:18Um, and, and people, you know, all the comment section is as tawdry as hell because there's,
00:33:23um, you know, lots of, oh, it was the CIA.
00:33:26He knew it.
00:33:28Um, you know, he knew who killed JFK.
00:33:30And it was all a CIA op, very sloppy for a CIA op.
00:33:35And that's what Haldeman said, but nevermind.
00:33:37Also they, this happens to presidencies.
00:33:39Decades after the presidency is over, the term has ended.
00:33:43In many cases, the man who held the office has died.
00:33:47Stuff starts to come out.
00:33:49Documents get unsealed.
00:33:50Things come out.
00:33:52New information comes to light.
00:33:55Um, that happens all the time.
00:33:58You know, we've, especially once the cold war was over, a lot of stuff that remained
00:34:03classified from the Truman years, the Eisenhower years, all this type of thing.
00:34:07And even Connelly Sirice talks about this.
00:34:09As a lot of that stuff got unclassified and unsealed, you find just amazing decisions
00:34:14setting up for the success of the cold war made in the very earliest days by people who
00:34:19were operating without a playbook, without anything.
00:34:22And we're just making calls and they happen to be the right ones.
00:34:27I think, I think Nixon is underestimated as a president, but we also have to forget
00:34:33this man was also the one that bombed last in Cambodia with unauthorized by Congress.
00:34:39This is a man who was responsible for the death of tens of thousands on both sides.
00:34:46Um, in a war we really had no business being in.
00:34:50Um, and, you know, Nixon was, Nixon was a lot of things, but it was funny that his paranoia
00:35:03was eventually proven right.
00:35:04So, um, wow, we're not going through news stories very fast tonight.
00:35:09That is, we are 45 minutes in and we've covered a couple things.
00:35:15Um, this one, I actually need to go and get this in my, in my news app.
00:35:20This one I think was interesting.
00:35:23So, The Atlantic has a really great article.
00:35:30Um, the great crime decline is happening all across the country.
00:35:34Now, if you listen to people online and all this type of thing, you would think crime is
00:35:42still a terrible, terrible issue.
00:35:48Um, and we are just dying under all of this crime that we just can't seem to shift or get
00:35:54rid of when the reality is crime has been on the decline since 1991 and it continues to
00:36:04go, to go down.
00:36:09The article begins.
00:36:11We're not going to read this whole thing.
00:36:13Last summer, a protester in Seattle made an anti-police sign with an unusual message.
00:36:17Hey, SPD, it read, crime is down 20% and you had nothing to do with it.
00:36:24The taunt was glit, but it hinted at a profound question about the nature of public safety in
00:36:28American cities.
00:36:29After a pandemic-era rise in murders and commonly attributed to the lack of policing,
00:36:33Seattle recorded fewer homicides in 2025 and in 2019, despite a much smaller police force.
00:36:39If less policing made crime go up following the George Floyd protests, and most people thought
00:36:43it did, then what made it go down?
00:36:46What happened in Seattle is happening even more dramatically across the country as America
00:36:50experiences a once-in-a-lifth improvement in public safety despite a police staffing crisis.
00:36:55In August, the FBI released its final data for 2024, which showed that America's violent
00:36:59crime rate fell to the lowest level since 1969, led by a nearly 15% decrease in homicides,
00:37:05the steepest annual drop ever recorded.
00:37:08Preliminarily, 2025 numbers look even better.
00:37:10The crime analyst Jeff Asher has concluded that the national murder rate through October 2025
00:37:14fell by almost 20%, and all other major crimes declined as well.
00:37:19The post-pandemic crime wave has receded, and then some.
00:37:23According to Actress Analysis, Detroit, San Francisco, Chicago, Newark, and a handful of
00:37:27other big cities recorded their lowest murder rates since the 1950s and 60s.
00:37:31Our cities are as safe as they've ever been in the history of the country, Patrick Sharkey,
00:37:35a sociologist at Princeton who studies urban violence told me.
00:37:38And few experts endorse the idea that the police had nothing to do with it, as the Seattle
00:37:42protester claimed.
00:37:43But the link between the number of cops and the number of crimes seems hazier than ever.
00:37:49The low point in violent crime has arrived even though large police departments employed
00:37:556% fewer officers going into 2025 than they did at the beginning of 2020, according to
00:38:00a survey by the Police Executive Research Forum.
00:38:02Though they were mostly not in fact defunded, police forces were rocked by retirements and
00:38:08departures.
00:38:08New Orleans lost nearly a quarter of its officers in the years after the pandemic, and then recorded
00:38:13its lowest homicide rates since the 1970s and 2025.
00:38:16Philadelphia had its lowest per capita police staff since 1995, and just plugged its lowest
00:38:20murder rates since 1966.
00:38:22There are many plausible explanations for the recent crime downturn, sharper policing strategy,
00:38:27more police overtime, low unemployment, the lure of digital life, the post-pandemic return
00:38:31to normalcy.
00:38:32Each of these surely played a role, but only one theory can match the decline in its scope
00:38:36and scale that the massive post-pandemic investment in local governments deployed during
00:38:41the Biden administration, particularly through the American Rescue Plan Act, delivered a huge
00:38:45boost to the infrastructure and services of American communities, including those that
00:38:49suffered most from violent crime.
00:38:50That spending may be responsible for our current Pax Urbana.
00:38:53That's a play on Pax Romana.
00:38:57Basically means Roman peace, things being at peace.
00:39:00Naturally, every local leader likes to say that their police department is making the
00:39:04difference.
00:39:04But in this case, every happy family is not alike.
00:39:07Police staffing and strategy may vary widely from place to place, so an exceptional local
00:39:11police chief can hardly explain gains that are so widespread.
00:39:14What has changed nationally is a huge investment by the federal government in prevention in
00:39:18response to the COVID epidemic.
00:39:20John Roman, a criminal justice researcher who heads NORC's Center on Public Safety and
00:39:24Justice at the University of Chicago, told me.
00:39:26He credits ARPA with sending billions to local governments to use as they saw fit, and defines
00:39:30prevention in the broadest possible sense.
00:39:33Investing in education, police, librarians, community centers, social workers, local non-profits,
00:39:37local government employment roles increased almost perfectly in verse to the crime rate.
00:39:42One of the most impressive turnarounds has occurred in Baltimore.
00:39:45Now, this one I've heard about before, which has cut palm size by almost 60% in the past
00:39:49five years, bringing the murder rate close to a 50-year low.
00:39:52That comes despite a historically understaffed Baltimore Police Department.
00:39:56In our heyday, we had 3,100 police officers, and in 2015, we had 3,000.
00:40:00Now we have 2,000 in the U.S. space commissioners, and Richard Worley told me.
00:40:04We're still 500 officers short of where we're supposed to be.
00:40:07Mayor Brandon Scott, who has presided over the decline in violence, praises the police,
00:40:12but notes that police alone can be neither credited nor blamed for the crime trends.
00:40:15The difference of approach here is, I do not, and the city does not subscribe to that meaning
00:40:18that only the women and men of the Baltimore Police Department are responsible for reducing
00:40:23violence in our city, you told me.
00:40:25City leaders and observers alike have celebrated Baltimore as the new mayor's Office of Neighborhood
00:40:30Safety and Engagement, which received $37 million in ARPA money from the city and works
00:40:34with police, schools, hospitals, and non-profits.
00:40:37ARPA allowed Mayor Scott to build out a brand new agency that didn't exist before.
00:40:42Stephanie Mavronis, who directs the office, told me,
00:40:44we knew it was a one-time investment we had to demonstrate to the Baltimore public that
00:40:48we should be funding this.
00:40:49Mavronis' office supervises the city's group violence reduction strategy, which conducts
00:40:53direct outreach to a narrow band of people caught in the cycle of retaliatory killings.
00:40:59People it identifies as likely to perpetuate crimes receive letters from Mayor Scott offering
00:41:03access to city services. He has sent 450 of these custom notifications, and 336 people
00:41:09have taken him up on the offer. My colleague, Tulis Olorunepa, wrote about this program in
00:41:15September. A University of Pennsylvania study credited GVRS with reducing homicides and non-fatal
00:41:21shootings in the sea's dangerous western district by a quarter. That approach is one of the scores
00:41:25of alternative public safety ideas that were funded through ARPA. Cook County, home of Chicago,
00:41:29the nation's second largest county. It put roughly $36 million into efforts such as healing
00:41:34and hurt people of Chicago, the trauma recovery program for crime victims. Mecklenburg County,
00:41:38home of Charlotte, North Carolina, used ARPA to fund a youth peace summit and advertised a gun
00:41:43lock distribution program. Some ARPA money also bolstered police and sheriff's departments
00:41:47directly. All that funding combined, however, represents just a small slice of the local
00:41:51government stimulus delivered through the bill. According to a national legal cities database
00:41:54that covered $65 billion in local ARPA grants to 19,000 projects, public safety made up less
00:41:59than 9% of the investment. Less money than was spent on traditional public health, housing,
00:42:03infrastructure, community aid, or government operations.
00:42:08And it goes through more numbers. It goes on for a while. I would encourage you to go read it.
00:42:12My point of bringing this up is that we managed to cause a huge post-pandemic decline in crime,
00:42:19and the best part about it is that it shows when you invest in communities that works.
00:42:28It proves the thesis that the best crime prevention is helping people, really, where there are,
00:42:37helping them access services, fixing them in their life, and get them going in a different direction.
00:42:43And as it turns out, you can have fewer officers, less policing, and better public safety when you give
00:42:52people less incentives to commit crime. And we've known this for a long time. The Biden administration
00:42:57took action upon that. I don't know why they didn't talk about that during the election more.
00:43:02They should have, among other things. But this is a quite remarkable thing. It's certainly more
00:43:13helpful and better than rounding people up in detention centers. Now, moving on quickly,
00:43:20we're going to dive into a little bit of Gaza news. Some of these stories will go quickly now.
00:43:29And we'll get through them all. So this one is the Human Rights Council
00:43:39finding Israel responsible for war crimes. Not that anyone will particularly care,
00:43:44but I felt like this deserves some airtime. In relation to Israel's military operations and attacks
00:43:51in Gaza from 7th October, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes,
00:44:00crimes against humanity, and violations of international humanitarian and human rights law,
00:44:07including extermination, intentionally directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects,
00:44:16murder or willful killing, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer,
00:44:25gender persecution targeting Palestinian men and boys, sexual and gender-based violence amounting
00:44:32to torture, and cruel or inhuman treatment. Israel's total siege of the Gaza Strip has weaponized
00:44:41the provision of life's sustaining necessities for strategic and political gains, including
00:44:47through cutting off supplies of water, food, electricity, fuel, and other essential supplies,
00:44:55including humanitarian assistance. It constitutes collective punishment, disproportionately impacting
00:45:03pregnant women and persons with disabilities, and is causing grave harm to children, including starvation-related deaths.
00:45:16The cruelty is the point, by the way. We don't need to listen to the last 50 seconds of that.
00:45:21The cruelty is the point.
00:45:24The cruelty is the point.
00:45:30Now, and I've set this up specifically to start with the horrors of Gaza, and Israel will respond,
00:45:39and they will say, we are doing this for our own security, it's full of Hamas, our people are being
00:45:44attacked, Israelis are being killed, this is a terrible thing. At which point, I would then turn around
00:45:50and remind Israel of this video. And this did not get as much press as it should have, but it
00:45:59really
00:46:00should have gotten a lot more. It's very short. We'll watch.
00:46:02The Israeli Prime Minister came here today and said that Israel is surrounded by those who want to
00:46:06destroy it, an enemy. We're here members of a Muslim Arab committee mandated by 57 Arab and Muslim
00:46:13countries. And I can tell you here, very unequivocally, all of us are willing to, right now, guarantee the
00:46:22security of Israel in the context of Israel ending the occupation and allowing for the emergence of a
00:46:29Palestinian state, independent state. He is creating that danger because he simply does not want the
00:46:33two-state solution. Can you ask Israeli officials, what is their end game? Other than just wars and
00:46:39wars and wars, ask any Israeli official, what is their plan for peace? You'll get nothing because
00:46:44they're only thinking of the first step, we're going to go destroy Gaza, inflame the West Bank,
00:46:49destroy Lebanon. The Israeli Prime Minister came here today and said that Israel is the cruelty is the
00:46:58point. The cruelty is the point. And we see it again and again and again. The cruelty is the point.
00:47:14I have to say, behind Kurds, Chechens, and a handful of others, being born Palestinian is a unique burden I
00:47:21would never want to bear. And I'm African-American. Our history is not exactly glowing. And I want to
00:47:30reinforce that the cruelty is the point. I'm not going to linger on this story very long because
00:47:35I'm late and I started late and we have, as you can tell, a lot of tabs to go through.
00:47:41Fortunately, we're going to move a little bit faster now. But I wanted to show this contrast of
00:47:47Israel is actively doing things that are causing active harm to the Palestinian people. Children are
00:47:54being starved to death, pregnant women are being starved to death, men are being targeted, all this
00:47:57type of thing. Last year, everyone was ready to give Israel what it wanted and they still said no.
00:48:06Things to think about. Before we move on, I want to quickly walk through this really great
00:48:15organization I found that I kind of like. Um, I haven't looked into who's funding them yet.
00:48:24You know, sort of thing. But, um, there's this new, this new thing called the Grand Bargain
00:48:30Project. And this is from the Center for Collaborative Democracy. And it is about how voters can get Congress
00:48:39to function and meet their aspirations for a better, a better life. And it advances basically
00:48:46seven aspirations. Greater economic prosperity and growth. Schools enable kids to reach their
00:48:51potential. Effective and affordable health care. Cribbing the national debt. Reliable, clean, and
00:48:56affordable energy. A fairer, simpler tax code. Congress organized to resolve our differences.
00:49:02How both parties have been crushing our aspirations. And it goes through economic mobility,
00:49:07education, health care, energy taxes, national debt, all this sort of thing.
00:49:12And why both parties will keep thwarting our aspirations. And they have an app that you can
00:49:17use to motivate your elected representatives to stand up for you. Um, it is, and it says,
00:49:22we've gathered over 300 ideas from diverse stakeholders invested in the seven areas. We then
00:49:27distilled their ideas into 39 reforms that meet five criteria. Significantly enhance each American's
00:49:32life. Boost efficiency to yield biggest bang for the buck. Work well together. Yield a package
00:49:36recently. Every citizen wants stuff to accept the cost. Motivate each lawmaker to act in the
00:49:40public's interest. Which, of course, lawmakers never do because that's the one who pays their
00:49:44bills. Um, 83% of Americans right, left, and center agree on the grand bargain. A YouGov poll
00:49:50asked the following question, do you want Congress to make this grand bargain a priority? Democrats,
00:49:5587% Republicans, 83% independents, 83%. We are over 80 to 90% in literally almost every demographic except
00:50:0576 to 97. Um, in every ethnicity except Hispanic. Um, and in every income bracket, um, sort of thing.
00:50:15It, and so it, it, I would encourage, we're not going to explore all this right now. I may do
00:50:19a
00:50:20dedicated video on this at some point. Maybe try to get somebody from their organization on the
00:50:26podcast, but I would encourage you to go check this out. Grandbargainproject.org. Go check it out.
00:50:32Explore. I'm going to leave this tab open as a reminder to myself to try to, um,
00:50:39get somebody from there on the Cameron Journal podcast. So, um, moving along quickly, um,
00:50:47speaking of lack of bipartisan, um, uh, lack of bipartisan agreement and making Americans'
00:50:55lives better, I found this really great, um, video, um, Graham Plantner, uh, talking about
00:51:02what people are now calling the Epstein class of people who are running the world for their own
00:51:07for their own benefit. And I just want to listen to, I think, some of this. Let's listen.
00:51:14I think, you know, it's important to note that, like, this is just, I think a lot of us have
00:51:19understood for a long time that there is a class of people that exist above accountability,
00:51:26that exists kind of above even like the concept of the nation state, that there are, there are
00:51:31people out there who have so much wealth and so much power that they live in a totally different
00:51:36world than we do. And what the Epstein files are showing us is just how true that actually is.
00:51:43And also just how depraved that level of power and wealth can make people. And for more on that,
00:51:51Cameron Journal.com. It is, it's amazing that it is really kind of bringing in a lot of folks who
00:51:58in other, in other, uh, issues don't agree with each other politically, but we are all beginning
00:52:03to realize right, left, Republican, Democrat down here in the real world, we actually are just there
00:52:10to be exploited by a small group of people who in some ways are just kind of running the world
00:52:16for
00:52:16their own benefit. And the Epstein files show that in glaring fashion. And I think it's,
00:52:23it's just the realization that we're all, we're all starting to wake up to this fact. And
00:52:29If any one of you had read any of my work in the last decade, you would have not known
00:52:34this for a
00:52:35long time. In my original essay, How We the People Became, We the Corporation, I have discussed this.
00:52:40This has been discussed over and over and over and over since at least the mid 2010s.
00:52:46This was the foundation of Occupy. I am amazed it has taken everyone 15 years to finally figure out
00:52:56what most of us have known a very long time. When you have high concentration of wealth,
00:53:03and you have high concentration of power, and the Supreme Court linked those two together,
00:53:08thank you Buckley B. Pellejo and Citizens United, you end up with people who live in a completely
00:53:13different world that is not accountable in the same way ordinary people are.
00:53:20And by the way, you can see this as a small scale in your own town.
00:53:24But, um, I'm just, I just, I, for me personally, I always laugh when the rest of the world catches
00:53:30up
00:53:30to something I've been seeing for a long time. To be kind of like, yeah, I was talking about this
00:53:36in 2014. Where were y'all? Um, and, and I, I think one of the interesting things about things like
00:53:42the
00:53:42grand bargain and this guy is this is now getting outside of the binary political thing. This is
00:53:51getting out of bipartisanship. We're leaving that frame behind. Now, if you're the billionaire class,
00:53:58or the Epstein class, as we're now calling it, this is the most frightening thing. Because the whole
00:54:03point, as we now know, thanks to the Epstein files, of identity politics was to stop a class war from
00:54:10breaking out. It's breaking out anyway. And this is the first indication of it. This is the first
00:54:18part of it. When guys who look like that are starting to say this out loud, that, not guaranteed,
00:54:26but could be the beginning of a movement having a much greater conversation. Incidentally, even when I go
00:54:32to Trump people, especially moderate Trumpers, not really diehards, but people are kind of like,
00:54:36yeah, Trump. Um, and I start talking about this stuff, they're totally on board. That's probably
00:54:42half Trump's coalition. If you really get this sort of conversation going, and make it less about each
00:54:48other and identities, and much more about the people who are taking advantage of our society,
00:54:52that is a powerful political coalition that I guarantee you will overturn every single thing in this
00:54:59country. And if you want to see the proof of that, bounce back to the crime wave story.
00:55:07You know, when you invest in people and things, you get really wonderful results. They knew that in
00:55:16the Truman administration. And then we did that for 30 years. And ironically, the person who killed it
00:55:24was Nixon. But anyway, um, that's a whole other story. Many shades of many different presidents.
00:55:29Um, I'm happy to see this, people finally figure this out and come around on it, you know, and, and
00:55:34finally figure out who, who the real responsible parties for all of this were the whole time.
00:55:40So, all right, we're still not way over time and not getting through all this stuff.
00:55:45Let's go through some of the latest Epstein file update stuff. Um, and while I'm changing this
00:55:52graphic, um, don't forget, I am streaming the State of the Union tomorrow night, um, beginning
00:56:00at eight o'clock for the speech at nine. Uh, several big names, this is a Mario Nafal, I don't
00:56:06love him,
00:56:06but Mario Nafal post, um, uh, key resignation, several big names have stepped down amid fallout from
00:56:12the massive Epstein Docs release. Key resignations, Thomas Pritzker of Hyatt, Catherine, uh, Rumler
00:56:18of Goldman Sachs, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, uh, DP World CEO, uh, Brad Karp from Paul Weiss Law Firm,
00:56:26Larry Summers, Harvard President, Open AI Board of Directors, Peter Mendelsohn, British politician,
00:56:30Morgan McSweeney, Downing Street Chief of Staff, Tim Allen, Miroslav Lassak, Slovak National
00:56:37Security Advisor, Sarah Ferguson, former Duchess of York, uh, stepped back from public roles and
00:56:41royal duties, um, especially because her ex-husband, Andrew, was arrested over the weekend.
00:56:46Um, Jack Lang, Carolyn Lang, um, were affiliated with some organizations in France, David Ross,
00:56:54Joanna Rubenstein, Chair of, Chair of Sweden for, uh, UNHCR, um, uh, is that the, I forget,
00:57:02what they, not Human Rights Commission, something, oh, UNHCR is health stuff. Um, most had ongoing
00:57:10conduct with Epstein even after his 2008 conviction. Some are now under scrutiny or
00:57:14investigation. The list is growing past who's, who's next. Oh, it'll keep going. Um, it'll keep
00:57:20going. Um, I'm not at all surprised, I mean, with Andrew being arrested and basically, you know,
00:57:26being squeezed for cash and Sarah Ferguson never being that great with money, I imagine she's
00:57:31basically couch surfing, um, at, at this point. This is, you know, the Europeans are not giving
00:57:37anyone any quarter. Anybody who is connected to Epstein in Europe is, is at minimum resigning
00:57:43at maximum getting prosecuted. Um, you know, it's, there's even, you know, some people in Britain
00:57:50saying there's a tangential threat to the institution of the monarchy. Um, and I would laugh at Andrew
00:57:58and say, you know, it's quite impressive that, um, you by yourself in your relationship with
00:58:10Jeffrey Epstein and getting your mother, beloved Queen Elizabeth II to pay off these women have
00:58:15managed to destroy a thousand year, almost continuous monarchy. You've managed using your dick
00:58:24to destroy a thousand year old monarchy. Um, yeah, that's, uh, impressive. Henry VIII couldn't
00:58:33even have managed that. Um, it's, it's a quite, uh, quite impressive, uh, quite impressive thing.
00:58:41Um, there's a little bit more other fallout as well. Um, one has to do with the story that kind
00:58:48of broke earlier this month that, uh, the Epstein files confirming Donald Trump, quote, blew the
00:58:53whistle on Epstein's disgusting behaviors in a 2006 phone call with the police, with the guy saying
00:58:58Trump was one of the very first people to call. That was a big story that never really got off
00:59:03the ground, never really went anywhere for the simple fact that, um, uh, this is old. And this
00:59:10person walks, walks through it more elegantly than I could. This is old information. The documents
00:59:14from 2019 and recounts events from 2006, but in the current context actually makes Trump look worse.
00:59:19What it says is that Trump spoke to the then police chief, Michael Reiter, after the investigation
00:59:23had gone public because the investigation started in 2005. There's no official police report of this
00:59:28call, only the 2019 FD302 in which Reiter recalls 2006 events. Trump said that, quote, everyone has
00:59:34known he's been doing this, unquote, which actually, and this is the part that's interesting, actually
00:59:39contradicts Trump's July, 2019 testimony where he said he had no idea about Epstein's
00:59:44crimes. More importantly, if Trump knew all about Epstein in 2006, why he refused to release the
00:59:48files until the country, the Epstein case was unimportant and to move on now. Either way,
00:59:52Trump did not blow the whistle on Epstein. Any contact came while after the investigation was
00:59:56underway and already public. And this is where we talk about narrative. The narrative that good guy
01:00:05Trump, and this, this narrative is not new either, but this whole narrative that good guy Trump knew
01:00:09what Epstein was up to and, you know, threw him out of Mar-a-Lago and called the police and
01:00:14wasn't
01:00:15really involved and on all this type of thing doesn't really hold water when you consider he's
01:00:19mentioned in the files tens of thousands of times for various and sundry things. People, the people
01:00:25around him at one time or another have tons of connections to Epstein and Epstein affiliated people.
01:00:31It's, it's a whole, it's, it's, it's its own milieu, especially when you see it on like a map.
01:00:37There's so many places now that have like mapped all the connections and are continuing to do so
01:00:41as more documents get processed. When you start seeing how expansive this network is, and then you
01:00:48see how much is clustered around Trump, that's kind of the, the frightening, the frightening part.
01:00:55The reason why I say this is because I also, when I first saw this story, because that's the end
01:00:59of
01:00:59the night of February, when I first saw this, I was kind of like, wait a minute, didn't Trump claim
01:01:03for a while that he had no idea about Epstein? Like kind of didn't pretend who he was. And this
01:01:07person remembered the thing I couldn't remember. And that was the July, 2019 testimony. And he said
01:01:13he had no idea about Epstein's crimes, but yet it was the first person to call in, well, only a
01:01:16year
01:01:16after the investigation started. This narrative didn't go anywhere. It didn't really get off the
01:01:21ground. It was tried, didn't get traction and abandoned as quick as, uh, as quick as it
01:01:29as it started. Um, and, uh, um, and that, you know, it didn't really go anywhere, but I, I wanted
01:01:36to kind of remind people that when it comes to this subject, there's been a lot of inconsistencies.
01:01:42The reality is people, not in this country, of course, but around the world are getting arrested
01:01:48and investigated for far more tenuous connections. So far, let's take Trump to the one side. So far
01:01:56after this, not a single U.S. person has been arrested so far. At least not that I've heard
01:02:04about. No one. No, and certainly no one of note. Especially after last week, we read that
01:02:10big list of everyone with political, uh, with political exposure in the report. And we read
01:02:18Bono, Cher, a smattering of Europeans, a smattering of British and Norwegian royals. There are Norwegian
01:02:24worlds and all this type of thing. There's a whole list of Americans in there. No one has
01:02:28been arrested. No further investigations are taking place. No one has been handcuffed of
01:02:34note. I mean, there might have been small, other smaller people who have been arrested,
01:02:38whatever have you. Um, I have not heard, I have not seen any news on that in any place. So
01:02:44far,
01:02:44no one has gotten arrested. The rest of the world is taking action. We aren't. Why is that?
01:02:50But one wonders. Although not really. Um, oh, this is a, this is fun. So the first
01:03:02Epstein investigation started in 2005 after two girls at the Royal Palm Beach High School
01:03:09got into a fight with one of them calling a prostitute and a hooker. And the journalist
01:03:15who originally broke that story, um, which was Julie K. Brown in the Miami Herald in 2018,
01:03:22uh, broke this whole story that it was literally two girls got in a fight. Someone called the
01:03:27other one, a prostitute and a hooker. And that caused the first Epstein investigation. Here's
01:03:32Joe Rogan finding about this in real time.
01:03:35Did you hear about how this started in 2005? I think this is accurate.
01:03:39No, but I was, it's, it's, I'm glad you're saying that because I'm.
01:03:42This is crazy. Two girls fighting. So it started between a, a fight between two teenage girls
01:03:48at Royal Palm Beach High School in Florida. Here are the details of how the event triggered
01:03:52the investigation. Early 2005, two girls at, uh, Royal Palm Beach High School got into a
01:03:57fight during which one girl repeatedly recalled the other girl a prostitute or hooker. Following
01:04:03the fight, school administrations and parents investigated, searching one of the girls' purses
01:04:07and finding $300 in cash. The confession. The student initially claimed the money was
01:04:11from working at a fast food restaurant, but later revealed she had been paid for massages
01:04:15by a wealthy man, later identified as Jeffrey Epstein. This revelation led to a police investigation
01:04:22in March of 2005 when the stepmother of one of the girls reported the molestation to the
01:04:27Palm Beach police. Wow. Wow. That's in 2005. That was the first arrest. And now listen to
01:04:33this. It says they identify the, uh, what the Royal Palm Beach High was identified as a focal
01:04:38point for recruitment where according to investigations, at least 15 students were lured into Epstein's
01:04:45Palm Beach home. Holy shit. That's so crazy. That's in 2005. Imagine if those girls didn't get in
01:04:51that fight. Yeah. Imagine if that didn't happen. Wow. And again, the local newspaper had this story
01:05:01eight years ago. This has been around. This is not new. And the fact that, you know, this is, um,
01:05:10you know, this is a whole thing and, uh, and this is now finally coming out and finally being talked
01:05:17about in any meaningful way is quite, uh, quite shocking. We're, we're late is basically my point.
01:05:27We're very late on this whole thing. If you, if you had stopped this man in 2008, you could have
01:05:33successfully stopped. What is that? 11 years of harm and cruelty to real people.
01:05:44If things had been investigated way, way back then, who was in office back then? Oh, right. Bush. We
01:05:49couldn't rely on them at all. Um, the, uh, oh, this one, this is a long, this is a long
01:05:57ass video. It's
01:05:5715 minutes, but very quickly we'll go through and, and, uh, speaking just more Epstein fallout. Um, the
01:06:03Israeli government installed and maintained security system at Epstein apartment. The Israeli government
01:06:08installed security equipment and controlled access to a Manhattan apartment building managed by
01:06:12convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails recently released by the Department of
01:06:17Justice. The equipment was installed beginning in early 2016 at 301 and 66th Street, where former
01:06:22Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak stayed for extended periods. Emails show the security operation Ehud's
01:06:27apartment remained in place for at least two years with officials from Israel's permanent mission
01:06:32to the United Nations corresponding regularly with Epstein's staff about security arrangements.
01:06:36The unit was owned by a company connected to Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein, who was effectively
01:06:40controlled by Jeffrey Epstein. Units in the building were frequently loaned to Epstein's
01:06:45contacts and used to house underage models. He means victims. They mean victims. Um, drop site news
01:06:55as a link to the whole report in this video is from breaking points, which is really cool. Um, and
01:07:03so, uh,
01:07:04uh, yeah, it's, um, so it, it, it's, um, the, one of the things that's happening with the Epstein files
01:07:14that I think is very important is the fact that the more and more you look at it, the more
01:07:18and more
01:07:19you realize this entire time Israel has been up to no good, which considering what's happening in Gaza
01:07:27and the videos we played about that and all the stuffing actions with Epstein and what was happening
01:07:33there, this leaves a very interesting, what's going to happen with our relationship with Israel
01:07:41moving forward as people are starting to figure out maybe not so much our friend as we thought. Um,
01:07:49um, this is, uh, this is a, this is a quite, a quite sad, quite sad thing. Um, and, uh,
01:07:58yeah, it's, uh,
01:08:00it's a quite, um, it's a quite sad, uh, sad, sad thing. It's a quite sad thing. And, um,
01:08:11I, as I tell people, there's a Russia connection to Jeffrey Epstein, but the plane stops in Tel Aviv first.
01:08:16And this is a pile on of more information, another brick in the wall that a lot was going on
01:08:27and it was in concert with the Israeli government. So, um, oh yes, good. And now we're on to Georgia,
01:08:38I think, mostly. Um, and we're way, way over time, but I'm going to, uh, I'm going to keep going
01:08:49because
01:08:51all these stories, all these tabs are short. So, um, the, uh, so we're, there's multiple aspects to,
01:09:00to this. So let's start with, um, let's start with kind of the breaking part of this. And that is
01:09:06the supporting affidavit for Trump's DOJ warrant to search Fulton County election records has been
01:09:11unsealed. Now, if you're not aware, last week on the show, we covered the fact that the DOJ
01:09:17had executed a raid to secure ballot boxes from the 2020 election, um, in, uh, in Georgia,
01:09:26particularly in Fulton County. And so those ballots were seized and collected and taken somewhere.
01:09:31And so more information is not coming out. So it says that the duplicate ballots led to quote,
01:09:39Donald Trump receiving approximately 10% more than his average in Fulton County, 40% instead of 30%.
01:09:45So if anything, the duplicated ballots from 2020 likely helped Trump, not Biden says here,
01:09:50a former investigator at the secretary of state's office said that the complaint of duplicate ballots
01:09:55was investigated by tallying ballots by hand for the presidential race. No further investigation
01:09:59was conducted. Once the investigators learned that 40% of the duplicated ballots cast a vote
01:10:04for Trump, the investigators concluded it was not intentional misconduct. Additionally stated,
01:10:09he found similar cases of ballots being introduced during the recount to make the total numbers match
01:10:15those obtained during the original count in other counties throughout Georgia. Um, it says here
01:10:23that he concluded what he observed could not be intentional, but was not partisan. Explained that by
01:10:27adding the duplicate ballots, Donald Trump received approximately 10% more than his average in
01:10:31Fulton County, 40% instead of 30%. This indicated to the witness that the introduction of duplicate
01:10:37ballots was intended to make the recount numbers match more than to affect the outcome of the election.
01:10:42So its action would be an intentional tabulation of ballots in a false manner in violation of
01:10:46universe, of UF federal code. Um, so I wanted to start there. Um, cause, and most importantly,
01:10:54because this is what happened in Arizona. So in Maricopa County in Arizona, Trump paid people
01:10:59to go down and convince a judge to let them recount all of Maricopa County in Arizona. And the judge
01:11:05let
01:11:05them do that. And they actually found more votes for Joe Biden. Um, it appears that this not malicious,
01:11:11not partisan thing may have also happened to Fulton County. We have more information now turning from
01:11:17that. What's this tab? Oh yeah, that's about tech and AI. We'll save all that. We'll save those tabs
01:11:22for next week. So that's more evergreen. We'll end on this. So a new explosive report reveals that Elon
01:11:28Musk's PAC sent out pre-filled election ballots, which is highly illegal. Now, this is a story from the
01:11:34New Republic. Cameron, where's that story from the New Republic? Girl, I got you. I got you. We're already
01:11:41here. If Donald Trump's administrations really wants to find evidence of foreign interference
01:11:46in Georgia's elections, they need to look no further than the president's old friend, Elon Musk,
01:11:50in a shady super PAC. Members of the Georgia state elections board voted Wednesday to issue a formal
01:11:56letter of reprimand to Musk's America PAC over the billionaire technocrat's illegal scheme to get
01:12:00Trump elected. Georgia, a key battleground state in 2024, was the target of aggressive campaigning by
01:12:05Trump's team. In October, 2024, the Georgia secretary of state's office launched an investigation
01:12:11after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they'd received
01:12:15partially pre-filled absentee ballot applications from Musk's America PAC, according to John
01:12:22Fervier, the state elections board chairman. There was evidence to suggest America PAC had violated a
01:12:27state law that prohibits any person or entity other than an authorized relative to send an elector
01:12:32an absentee ballot application pre-filled with the elector's required information, according to Janice
01:12:37Johnston, the SCB's vice chairman. America PAC had also failed to display in a conspicuous location
01:12:42that this was not an official government publication, was not provided by the government, and was not a
01:12:46ballot. The board swiftly voted to issue a letter of reprimand to America PAC. The letter comes weeks
01:12:51after Trump suggested that his national intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard, was spotted lurking around a
01:12:56federal raid at the election office in Fulton County, Georgia, because she was investigating foreign
01:13:00interference in elections. It should come as no surprise that the only evidence of meddling with the
01:13:05people's votes from Trump's own camp, the same thing happened in the 2020 election too, and that gets
01:13:11into the fake elector scandal, which we're not going to we're not going to get into at this
01:13:17at this juncture. I wanted to dash to this because this Georgia voting election thing is going to become
01:13:22a bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger story, and the reality is a lot of states have mandatory
01:13:30recounts of an election that's too close. When it first happened, I said, I don't think there's any
01:13:35point in going after Georgia in 2020 because one, the current governor ran the election in 2020.
01:13:41That's a thing. Also, you have mandatory recounts, and in 2020, it was a rather close election,
01:13:52not just for president, but for senate seats that were up. So they recounted that election, I think,
01:13:57three times, you know, sort of thing. And they sued at the time and were denied that they were in
01:14:04court
01:14:04for every single little thing. They had no standing. They had no reason. They had no real evidence or
01:14:09suspicion. I am open to new evidence. I am open to new information coming up. I am open that something
01:14:16could have gone wrong. Election integrity is very, very important. It's very important that we believe
01:14:21in our democratic process. I just don't think there's there there right now. But I do think
01:14:29there is certainly a narrative being pushed that there's something there when there probably isn't
01:14:35as much as one would think there would be. So on that note, I'm going to end for tonight. We're
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