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Tonight on The Cameron Journal Newshour, we talk about the latest news on the air strikes in Iran and the backlash from Iran to those strikes. We talk about the protests and celebrations around the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Then we dive into the latest on the Epstein files and we finish off with a new tech social contract that Ro Khanna proposed at Stanford and I explain why they won't do it.
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02:29I got to report the strikes in Iran and the death of the Ayatollah all at the same time.
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03:32Um, anyway, with all that out of the way, um, let's dive right into the headlines.
03:38As you know, if you don't, you should, um, overnight between, um, Saturday and, well, Friday and Saturday, um, the
03:52United States and Israel, beginning first with Israel, and that's important to note, um, began military airstrikes against the Islamic
04:02Republic of Iran.
04:03And on Saturday afternoon, we found out that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who'd been in power since the revolution, had been
04:11killed, um, in his private bunker outside of Tehran.
04:16Um, and so it was a, uh, a hard hit, um, early on.
04:21Um, however, as we have said for years and years, Iran is, unlike some other recent nations that the U
04:29.S. invaded, is not without its resources.
04:31Iran does have long-range missiles and they put them to work, um, with strikes throughout the region.
04:39Um, in fact, there is a map.
04:44Let's see here.
04:45Let me do this and we'll change to this.
04:48Here we go.
04:49Map.
04:50And wrong overlay for wrong show.
04:53Let me put up the correct overlay with the correct color for the correct show.
04:58Here we go.
05:01And some of this stuff.
05:02Technology has been a disaster today.
05:08Um, and, uh, you can tell, like I said, military is in record good because nothing to do with words
05:13or technology or contracts is working well today.
05:15So, um, so Iran is here, obviously.
05:18Um, they did strikes in Oman and UAE.
05:21That right there, which is called the Strait of Hormuz, which is access to, um, which is access to much
05:29of the world's shipping, especially oil shipping, out of the Gulf and around to, um, and around to the Suez
05:35Canal, is currently shut.
05:38Um, which is not good because a lot of shipping traffic happens right in this area, particularly if you're in
05:43an oil-producing state.
05:45That's usually where most of it leaves through.
05:46Um, you had, um, strikes in Lebanon by Hezbollah.
05:52There's been heavy strikes in Israel.
05:54Those have been downplayed a lot.
05:56There was a strike overnight between Sunday and Monday in the island of Cyprus.
06:00There was a strike in the U.S. military base in Jordan, bases in Iraq, bases in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain,
06:07United Arab Emirates, and in Saudi Arabia.
06:09So, points out this.
06:10And so this is, Iran's early response has been strikes in all of these areas.
06:16Particularly along the coast here, and obviously as far as Israel and, and Jordan.
06:24Um, most of those were U.S. military sites, not sites that were native to the countries, to the countries
06:31involved.
06:33Um, there is kind of what they're already calling an expansion of, of the war.
06:40Um, it's been, not that the Middle East is that stable of a region, but it is getting more destabilized.
06:46Um, and has caused new, new, new attacks and whatnot to, uh, to, to break out and new responses.
06:55It says, yes, thank you, New York Times.
06:56I know, I'm not inviting anyone.
06:59Um, here's the better map of the sites in Dubai, an oil tanker off the coast of Oman, a base
07:06in Oman, a U.S. Navy base in Saudi Arabia, a U.S. base in Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, uh, three
07:12places in Kuwait, including the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, um, an Iraqi Air Force base, those U.S. forces,
07:17an RAF air base in Cyprus, points in Israel, and a point in Jordan.
07:21Um, now, what the, uh, response to all of this will be, um, is going to be interesting.
07:30They, we've already struck nine, but I think I read between 900 to 1,000 targets in Iran.
07:37Um, people are already doing the math on how many Tomahawk missiles that was, um, and how much of our
07:42stockpile that we have, we have used.
07:44I did find it interesting that the two aircraft carriers we've sent for power projection in the region are not
07:50in the Persian Gulf here.
07:52They're in the Red Sea over here.
07:53Um, which is a quite interesting thing because it puts them out of range to attack Iran.
08:05The U.S. attacks came from bases in Israel and, and Cyprus, um, and in Iraq, um, and, but it
08:12also means that the Pentagon thought there was a reasonable threat that Iran could find the carriers and could strike
08:21them, and even though our ability to stop that from happening is superior, there's still a chance that they might
08:27get through.
08:28A lot of Iranian missiles have been stopped.
08:31These are the ones that have gotten through.
08:34Um, obviously, you know, regionally speaking, this is, you know, necessarily not so great because now this conflict, which is
08:44primarily between the U.S. and Israel over Iranian nuclear development, has now expanded to every major regional player, especially
08:52Saudi Arabia, who wants to be the titular regional power.
08:55In a, in a, in a way that, in a way that, in the way they never have been, and
08:59in a way that Iran always has been.
09:02Now, there, uh, the, uh, stomach, the tolerance, um, for continued attacks from Iran because of this.
09:18It will be interesting to see how long, um, these countries are willing to put up with this level of,
09:26of bombardment.
09:27Um, you know, like I said, it says many sites in Dubai, which is here.
09:31Um, there was a quite significant bombardment in Dubai.
09:35A lot of those littering towers and whatnot were, were hit with missiles.
09:38There was fires and local deaths and all this sort of thing.
09:42And so, the, the, the tolerance for this stuff may be, may end up being quite low.
09:47And that puts the United States, especially, in a very awkward position.
09:52Jordan doesn't need to be friends with any of these people.
09:54We still need to maintain relationships with all of these people.
09:58And that may leave our involvement with this to be rather, rather, rather short.
10:06Um, and, but I, I want to go through some of these kind of updates of where we are at,
10:12at this hour.
10:13Um, it says here that, uh, the United Emirates Defense Ministry said on social media that its air defenses were
10:20dealing with a barrage of ballistic missiles coming from Iran in a post on social media in the early hours
10:24of Tuesday in the Middle East.
10:27Um, I'd also heard in some of the rumors on Twitter, rumors now, that, uh, that the, some of the
10:34Gulf states had felt like the U.S. was not defending them properly.
10:38Um, although, given the equipment that we've sold them, they should be able to defend themselves properly.
10:43That was kind of the whole point.
10:46Um, but, uh, yes, that, that was kind of a rumor floating around.
10:51I don't know how valid that is, but that was a rumor floating around.
10:54Um, it says here that shortly after striking in Tehran and telling Israelis they were free to leave shelters for
10:58Afghanian launches had undetected the Israeli military early on Tuesday mornings that it was attacking in Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah command
11:05centers and weapons storage facilities in Beirut.
11:08Um, which obviously, which obviously, when we talk about conflict expansion, this is now, you know, expanding the conflict into,
11:14into Lebanon, um, Israel has already seized land in southern Lebanon for themselves, but, um, it's not surprising that they
11:23would want to save off attacks from, from Hez, Hezbollah.
11:27Um, there's a picture of people in shelters, um, in, in Tel Aviv, um, to stay in protected spaces.
11:36Um, apparently they already need money.
11:39Speaker Mike Johnson said in a supplemental funding request was discussed in the classified briefing on Iran to pay for
11:44new munitions and other costs associated with a continued military operation.
11:47Quote, it was brought up in the discussion, he said.
11:49There are more details to be determined, of course, on how long the operation goes and what the need is,
11:52but our appropriators certainly asked that question.
11:55Well, considering we were doing it without an author, an authorization of military force or anything else, yeah, that would
12:01be an interesting conversation.
12:04Um, one of the big, uh, stories has been the friendly fire incident, where apparently, due to some sort of
12:13mix-up, um, three F-15 fighters were shot down, presumably by each other, although it said the Kuwaiti air
12:20defenses mistakenly shot down three American jets on Monday.
12:23Um, that's the first time I've heard it being blamed on the Kuwaitis.
12:27Um, all six crew members ejected safely, um, and, uh, and, and there's this lovely video of this lady pilot
12:35being rescued.
12:37You need something to help you?
12:41And there she's landed on the beach in Kuwait.
12:44Welcome to Kuwait, and these nice people have come to help her.
12:46No problem.
12:47Thank you for, uh, helping us.
12:50Everything you want with me?
12:54So, um, yeah, so obviously this has been, obviously been a quite, uh, a quite big story today.
13:02This is the big story that the hardest is when Iran lie ahead and offers conflicting rationales for the military
13:07campaign.
13:08Um, it says the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would
13:12be attacked, that they would immediately come after us, and we're not going to sit there and observe a blow
13:16before we responded, Mr. Rubio said.
13:18We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage.
13:23Mm-hmm.
13:24That's a sentence that makes sense.
13:27He went on to lay out military objectives that had nothing to do with imminent danger of the United States,
13:31and appeared rooted, and said, in a longer-term mission of weakening Iran's long-range missiles to degrade its ability
13:36to shield this nuclear program.
13:37Quote,
13:38The purpose of this is to destroy that missile capability, he said, reaching beyond the administration's initial explanation that the
13:43operation was meant to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
13:47What they are trying to do, and have been trying to do for a very long time, is build a
13:50conventional weapons capability as a shield where they can hide behind, Mr. Rubio said, meaning there will come a point
13:56when they have so many conventional missiles, so many drones, and can put so much damage that no one can
14:00do anything about their nuclear program.
14:02His comments reframed U.S. participation in the strikes as being far beyond a response to a specific time-sensitive
14:08threat, which a president has broad unilateral authority to respond to.
14:12That raised more questions about Congress's role, a question that the House and Senate are set to weigh in on
14:16the week as a pair of votes, seeking to limit President Trump's power to continue using force against Iran.
14:21Mr. Rubio's remarks also contradicted the administration's previous emphasis on the possibility that Iran could soon launch missiles capable of
14:27reaching the continental United States, an argument he made last week ahead of the strikes, even though American officials told
14:32reporters, the U.S. intelligence agency said no evidence Iran was on such a path.
14:37I believe Iran's most sophisticated missile can only make it to Europe, I think it only goes a thousand kilometers,
14:44and it's like Eastern Europe, not like Western Europe.
14:46So, um, so, um, that's what we know at, at this hour, um, this is some of the rubble in
14:53Tehran, um, from a Times reporter there, and they are beginning already the cleanup process.
15:01Um, this was, um, this was a police station that was, um, that was, that was bombed, um, and, uh,
15:11and that's, that's where we are, uh, that's kind of where we are at this hour.
15:15Um, it's 4.01 in the morning in Tehran, it's 2.30 in Tel Aviv, which is very helpful.
15:21Um, let's take a look at photos real quick, um, and, uh, oh, yes, and the, I, yeah, so this
15:32is the, uh, yeah, this is the damaged building in Tehran, more office buildings, um, this is the, the, I
15:42think the daily traffic, morning traffic, um, and a funeral already.
15:50Um, these are people fleeing Lebanon, um, and a school that's been turned into a shelter, just absolutely haunting photos,
16:03aftermath of an Israeli airstrike.
16:06This is Beirut, a shelter in Israel in Rishban, um, and, uh, yeah, and obviously this is a morning parade
16:19for the ISIS.
16:20Ayatollah, um, morning Ayatollah Khomeini, um, that's, I think it was one of the first bombings, um, this is, yes,
16:32um, people shedding death to America, death to Israel, um, mourning the Ayatollah.
16:39Um, Israeli recovery efforts from the Iranian response, um, the, I, they've, Israel has been downplaying the, the response from
16:49Iran, but I understand, based upon on-the-ground reports, it has been quite brutal and, and quite deadly.
16:55The Iron Dome stops a lot of it, but not all of it, and the Iranians have figured out if
17:00they just fire enough missiles eventually, and something will get through.
17:03This is the pictures from the United Arab Emirates, and this is in, uh, Sharjah.
17:10And this was in the skies over Dubai, and in Bahrain, and this is a protest in Beirut.
17:20Oh, this is a memorial rally, I'm sorry.
17:21Memorial rally, uh, held by supporters of Lebanon, Shia, and Muslim Hezbollah movement for the Ayatollah.
17:27Um, so, yeah, um, now that's a picture.
17:33That, ha, ha, ha, ha, yes.
17:35Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's a picture for sure.
17:38Anyway, that's what we know at, at this hour, um, in regards to, uh, in regards to the, the strikes
17:46in Iran.
17:47There is supposed to be more strikes this week.
17:49Um, President Trump announced that, uh, there would, uh, continue to be, uh, strikes, um, throughout the week, um, in,
18:00in Iran until the regime falls or topples.
18:04Um, the only thing I've heard on regime toppling, and I don't know if I have a link for it.
18:10I'm not gonna look right now.
18:12Um, the only thing I've heard, but I will do this, and I will look now.
18:16Now, the only thing I've heard in regards to the regime toppling is that there's a portion of the Iranian
18:26army that has, um, that has sort of broken away from the new command, um, and, uh, and is, um,
18:41is not participating in, uh, pushing back the protests.
18:46And so, um, and so that, they are kind of staying out of the repression of the protests.
18:53They are, um, they are taking a different tack from what the Republican Guard, who now in somewhat is in
19:02default control of Iran, wants to do.
19:05And so, um, and so it is interesting that that is already, um, that that is already, already happening.
19:12Um, as a rather fun and entertaining moment, um, and I will, I will switch back to this now.
19:21People in Iran are doing the Trump dance in order to thank him for, uh, for getting rid of the
19:30Ayatollah.
19:31So, you know, the little arm thing he does like this, um, is, uh, yeah, that is, that's what they're
19:38doing in, in support of, of all of this.
19:42Um, and, uh, and then there's a little Operation Epic Fury, um, and, uh, all the places that they, they
19:50strike.
19:50I have to say, when it comes to, you know, missiles per strike, Iran's response has been somewhat, uh, has
19:57a much more limited than ours,
20:00although greater in distance in many cases.
20:02But I thought that was a fun, a fun, a fun moment.
20:07Um, and there's a lot of Iranians, especially those, you know, who, maybe our children of those who survived the
20:12revolution are, are celebrating.
20:15So, yeah, here we are, people dancing in New York City, waving the Iranian flag, and doing the, yeah, yeah,
20:23yeah, yeah.
20:23Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:24So, um, not gonna play that very long because YouTube will get very mad at me about that.
20:28But, um, yes, so, um, moving on from the Iranian update, um, which we've been on for a good 15
20:41minutes,
20:41I'm gonna move on to a couple other news stories, um, including the Clinton's deposition in regards to Epstein,
20:47um, some financial Epstein stuff that I thought was very interesting, and, um, and we're, we're gonna go from there.
20:55Before, uh, we do, though, I want to play, I was gonna play this video last week, and we ran
21:02out of time.
21:02I want to play this video of Senator John Ossoff, um, speaking about our current state of affairs,
21:09and I think this is the Democratic Party messaging moving forward.
21:14Let's just listen for a second.
21:15Then we'll talk Epstein, because there's so much.
21:17First, I will affirm what you can all clearly see.
21:23You can see it, right?
21:27Our nation is afflicted and in crisis.
21:33Americans losing insurance in the middle of chemo.
21:37Hospitals closing down services to fund tax cuts for the very wealthiest people.
21:45Masked federal agents profiling, brutalizing, and killing American citizens.
21:53And maybe amidst all the cruelty and the chaos, you start to feel a little doubt.
22:01And you start to wonder whether our republic can survive it.
22:06A government transformed into a tool of one man's vengeance and enrichment.
22:15A spiritually broken president.
22:20Who digs the moral pit deeper and deeper.
22:27But Pastor Proverbs says, whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will fall into it.
22:42And scriptures full of kings brought low by their own arrogance.
22:49Ahab surrounded himself with 400 yes-men, false prophets paid to affirm the king's delusions.
22:58And those delusions led him to his defeat.
23:03And among today's false prophets are the election deniers.
23:08Who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election.
23:17Now hear me when I say this.
23:20They tell a lie so absurd.
23:24And therefore so debasing to tell.
23:27That the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission.
23:36That is such a prescient, I think, and spiritual, scriptural, if you're Christian, way of analyzing our present situation.
23:48I had wanted to end last week's show on that, but we went so over time, it wasn't even funny.
23:54And so I was kind of like, I don't think we have two minutes and 15 seconds to listen to
23:59an inspiring speech.
24:00But it was just something that was just so prescient of the times.
24:08And I think talking about those sorts of things in a less Christian-coded way, going forward, will do good
24:16for Democrats.
24:17I think it's also where emotionally, psychologically, a lot of people are right now.
24:23Even, like, bridging this to the Iran story a little bit.
24:26I have an old friend of mine that I don't really talk to that much anymore.
24:30Because we had a little bit of falling out about politics.
24:33Not in policy or in anything.
24:35But the way in which he chose to speak to me about these matters, I did not find respectful.
24:41And so I had to distance myself from the situation.
24:44But, does this people around here know, I never shy away from good debate.
24:47I have lots of Maggie people on the show.
24:49Most of my political guests don't agree with me.
24:51Because I'm in broadcasting, which is fundamentally a right-wing medium.
24:54And I'm the lefty guy out here.
24:55So I'm constantly in debate with people, you know, sort of thing.
25:00But, I always tell people, even in the comment section of this show,
25:03I do not mind debate, but it must be respectful.
25:06And this person was not respectful.
25:07Anyway, I've been wanting all weekend to send him just a repeating text of,
25:13No new wars.
25:14No new wars.
25:15No new wars.
25:16Remember no new wars?
25:17No new wars.
25:18Yes, no new wars.
25:19And I'm like, you screamed that at me through the phone in 2024.
25:24Screamed it.
25:26Melting down screamed that at me.
25:29And yet, here we are, you know, bombing indiscriminately all over the place.
25:36But especially this Iran situation.
25:38I think, I'm not going to say that getting rid of the Isla Tola Khamenei isn't a good idea.
25:47Because it is.
25:48I'm not saying that even regime change in Iran isn't a good idea.
25:52My dad thinks we should have done that 20 years ago.
25:5630 years ago now.
25:57Well, actually 40 years ago now.
25:58I'm old.
26:02But things we should have done a long time ago.
26:06I'm not saying that any of those things are bad or terrible.
26:10The lack of congressional authorization is certainly concerning.
26:14The lack of the kind of interesting narratives around the reason why are also quite interesting.
26:22But I think it's, the public support of this war is not that great.
26:27And it will probably fall quickly, especially if things become protracted and our body bags start piling up.
26:33Most of us are still reeling from Iraq and Afghanistan.
26:37There's certainly not going to be any excitement for ground troops on the ground or any sort of occupation.
26:42It is quite clear from some of the things the president has posted over the last 24 hours that they're
26:46hoping the Iranian people will do the dirty work for them.
26:50And the airstrikes will be the necessary nudge over the edge to cause the Iranian regime to fall.
26:56I'm not saying that any of that's a bad idea.
26:58But I do think we are in a very difficult time in this country.
27:02And I think more people are starting to feel it.
27:05The following approval ratings, I think, are definitely emblematic of that.
27:12As someone who's old enough to remember the Bush years, I remember when there was the axis of evil and
27:18Iran was on the axis of evil,
27:21which now really could only leave North Korea left.
27:24If I were Kim Jong-un, I would be concerned.
27:28And this has put us in a very interesting and difficult time in our country and who we have in
27:40charge and why and what's going on.
27:43I think we should all be collectively concerned about unchecked state power.
27:49Don't care who's in the White House.
27:51Unchecked state power is not a good thing, regardless of who's in the White House.
27:55We should all be concerned about unchecked power.
27:56We should all be concerned that our institutions are not functioning.
27:59We should all be concerned about how we've gotten ourselves to this situation and, most importantly, how we pull back
28:06from it.
28:07And I've watched this video, getting back to the Ossoff video, I've watched this video a few times and I'm
28:12impressed with it every single time,
28:16especially doing it in Georgia where we have the seizing of the Fulton County ballots.
28:21I'm not going to get into that tonight because I did it last week, but if you had read the
28:24newsletter this weekend, you would have seen my deep dive.
28:28So if you want to go read my deep dive on the Georgia election thing, head over to CameronJournal.Substack
28:33.com and click on the most recent post.
28:37And you will see my very early Saturday reporting on the Iran situation.
28:41And you'll also see a deep dive with tons of links about the Georgia ballot situation, why Fulton County ballots
28:49were seized, where the research and ideas came from,
28:52and some of the concerns I have and some of the things that I think are quite legit.
28:55I think it's like an eight-point list.
28:57It's a deep dive.
28:59So if you want to catch up on all of that and find out about Kevin Monclo, the person who
29:03did all the research,
29:04and his 236 pages of research he has done into the issues in Fulton County, definitely head over to CameronJournal
29:12.Substack.com for that.
29:14So, all right, let's move on quickly and let's get into all things Epstein.
29:19So, should we start with the Clintons?
29:21Maybe.
29:24I do want to get into the money, but let's...
29:26So, last week on Friday and Thursday and Friday, both Bill and Hillary came in to be deposed by the
29:38Oversight Committee.
29:40There's full four-and-a-half-hour deposition videos here.
29:44I have not watched them yet.
29:46They've just been out this evening about four...
29:50They came out at 3.45.
29:51I was in the middle of technology drama when those came out.
29:57But we can see here both of them.
29:59Can the court reporter please swear on the witness?
30:00Swear them in.
30:02There we are.
30:03Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give in his deposition of the truth, the whole
30:09truth, and nothing but the truth?
30:10I do.
30:11I do.
30:14So, there's...
30:15Yeah, so those are fun to watch.
30:18The one clip that has kind of stood out that I think is quite interesting, I was actually listening to
30:25it on a loop while I was putting makeup on for the show,
30:29is the way Bill Clinton is talking about his interaction with Trump and Epstein, and he phrases it very carefully.
30:42Now, the O Committee has said it's calling out Democrats for selective questions and that President Trump is their wrongdoing.
30:48I don't think that's what he's saying.
30:49Well, the way he does talk about it is very interesting, especially considering what we know from the files based
30:56on the tips and some of the other things along the way.
30:59Let's listen for a moment.
31:01I hate this because I don't believe I should inject anything.
31:06But I do not want to leave the impression, since there was no follow-up question.
31:14The President, he never, the President, never, this is 20-something years ago, never said anything to me to make
31:21me think he was involved in anything improper with regard to Epstein either.
31:28He just didn't.
31:30That's the truth.
31:34As I said earlier, the only conversation I had with President Trump about this was in the early 2000s, and
31:46I have no information that he did anything wrong.
31:52I just want it all out there.
31:54I want everybody to get it all out there and let everybody see where we are.
31:58I hate this.
32:01And it was a very interesting, especially, I'm going to go watch the whole clip, because I'd like to see
32:08what it is without the cut and what the other back and forth was.
32:11But I think it was very, very interesting that, you know, Bill's like, look, I don't have any evidence that
32:18Trump did anything.
32:20He never told me about it.
32:21We talked about it one time forever ago.
32:24So, you know, long before Trump was in politics and Bill had been out of office for a few years
32:28in the middle of the Bush years.
32:30All this sort of thing.
32:30I thought it was very, very interesting.
32:32I kind of want to see what the context of it is, but I think it's very interesting.
32:35And obviously, the Oversight Committee has a certain narrative they're trying to push with all of this.
32:41And people mention it almost, you know, immediately sort of thing.
32:47And so I'm going to tuck that away for later and get into all of that.
32:53There was an interesting thing from Raw America.
32:56This is a very great British writer on Substack, rather.
33:05And it says here that Bill Clinton sat for hours of closed-door questioning on Friday before the House Oversight
33:10Committee,
33:10making him the first president in American history to be forced to testify before Congress against his will.
33:14That's a remarkable sentence to have to write.
33:16Clinton's position was straightforward.
33:18I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong.
33:20He acknowledged he had a relationship with Epstein, but insisted he never knew about the crimes.
33:23He said he cut off the association well before Epstein's first guilty plea.
33:27Here's what's interesting.
33:29There are a lot of photos of the current president with Epstein,
33:33and Trump himself was less than enthusiastic about seeing Clinton deposed.
33:37Bill Clinton dropped one hint he may give a clue about Trump's position.
33:40During his testimony, Clinton revealed he'd had a conversation with Trump at a golf event,
33:43in which Trump told him the reason he fell out with Epstein.
33:46According to Democratic representatives who described the testimony afterward,
33:49Trump told Clinton that the rift was over a land dispute,
33:52not because Epstein was preying on girls working at Mar-a-Lago,
33:55which is the story Trump has continued to tell.
33:57Chairman James Comer tried to spin this as Clinton clearing Trump of wrongdoing.
34:01Democrats pushed back hard.
34:02According to one Democrat, what Clinton actually said was that nothing he personally heard from Trump
34:05gave him reason to believe Trump was involved in any wrongdoing.
34:08And I think that's the clip we just heard.
34:09But we have the whole video, so we can go find out about all this.
34:12That's different from exoneration.
34:14It's important to note that Trump's name appears over 38,000 times across the DOJ's 3 million Epstein documents.
34:19Based on Clinton's testimony, Congressman Ro Khanna proposed a new Clinton rule,
34:23meaning that presidents and their families have to testify when Congress issues a subpoena.
34:26Several Democrats made clear they'd be invoking that president should they regain control of the House in November.
34:31The investigation that was supposed to be about a bipartisan reckoning with Epstein's network
34:34has turned into a partisan sideshow,
34:36while the current president, who has plenty of Epstein questions to answer,
34:39watches from the sidelines.
34:41Obviously, we know his opinion about all that.
34:46But, there is...
34:49It is...
34:50It was interesting.
34:51We had the early reporting on what the testimony was.
34:53We now have the full videos.
34:54So, I will be watching those.
34:58And we will see what comes of...
35:01If I find anything juicy.
35:03And I will report it in the newsletter on Saturday.
35:06Where I'm sure we'll discuss more about this.
35:09These videos have only been out for four hours.
35:11So, people really haven't had time to go through them yet.
35:14But people will and more clips will come out.
35:16And we'll, again, subscribe to the newsletter,
35:19CameronJournal.Substack.com
35:21or CameronJournal.com slash newsletter.
35:23And I will have more updates as the week goes on.
35:28The other interesting thing,
35:31this creator posted this video
35:34about these new 50 pages of Epstein docs
35:39that were up and removed
35:41and have the story and interview
35:44about an underage person
35:46who was accusing Trump of something.
35:50There are four interviews.
35:51Three are missing.
35:53And here's the story.
35:55And here's what he has to say.
35:56I had heard about this.
35:57I'd save this link from middle of the week.
36:00I had heard about this.
36:01The documents still have not been found.
36:03Obviously, the Clinton deposition
36:04kind of pushed it off the front page.
36:06But here's the story.
36:07The story of 50 pages of FBI interviews
36:10missing from the Epstein server
36:12isn't going away.
36:13It's getting bigger by the hour.
36:16Originally reported by journalist Roger Sullenberger
36:19on his Substack,
36:20the 50 pages of documents
36:22included interviews with a woman
36:24who says that when she was 13 years old,
36:27she was sexually assaulted by Trump.
36:30Next, NPR picked up the story.
36:32And today, the New York Times.
36:35This may be one of the biggest scandals
36:37in presidential history.
36:40And as...
36:42Not quite the biggest scandal.
36:43But yes, that is the situation as we have it.
36:48And as we know it,
36:49we don't need the last 10 seconds of that.
36:52But there is...
36:55Let's also be clear.
36:56It is the written testimony of an interview.
37:00It's not necessarily, you know,
37:03smoking gun evidence or anything like that.
37:06Here was some of the original screenshots
37:07from before it was taken down.
37:12However, there are some aspects of it
37:14that are quite harrowing.
37:17And I personally witnessed
37:19defendant Trump telling the plaintiff
37:21that she shouldn't ever say anything
37:23and shouldn't want to disappear
37:24like the 12-year-old female Maria.
37:26And that was capable of having
37:28her whole family killed.
37:30And this was under penalty of perjury
37:35by a Tiffany Doe.
37:39And it says that...
37:41And there was obviously...
37:42I'm not going to say these things out loud,
37:43but there's the crime at the top
37:46if you want to look at...
37:48Yes, Mr. Trump did things
37:50to underage persons up there.
37:54And so that was the files
37:56that were taken down.
37:58Um, one of the things
38:00that it's very important to remember
38:01about a lot of these things is
38:02these are tips,
38:04these are interviews,
38:06um, these are witness statements.
38:08Um, there's not a lot
38:09of cooperative evidence.
38:11Um, if there's any.
38:14A lot of these things are he said, she said.
38:16One of the main issues
38:18with the Epstein files
38:21that will be true in this country
38:23that will be less true
38:24in other countries.
38:26American standards for evidence,
38:28particularly at the federal level,
38:29are quite high.
38:30Um, and you have to have
38:32an airtight case
38:34before the federal government
38:35even bothers to show up
38:37to court or file anything.
38:38A lot of times,
38:39things don't get prosecuted
38:40in this country
38:41because our standards of evidence
38:42are quite high,
38:43and oftentimes,
38:44there's just not enough evidence.
38:47This is certainly
38:48one of those situations.
38:49It's a witness interview.
38:50It's a tip.
38:52It's not,
38:53it's not anything hard
38:54or concrete.
38:55There's really no way
38:56of proving it either which way.
38:58Um, the allegation
39:00is quite,
39:02um,
39:02is quite shocking.
39:04Um,
39:05it obviously isn't,
39:06you know,
39:06the first time
39:07we've heard about
39:08President Trump's sex life.
39:09Um,
39:10but it's,
39:11uh,
39:12it,
39:12and it is obviously
39:14even more horrible
39:15when it involves
39:16someone that was so young
39:17at the time.
39:18But the unfortunate reality
39:19is
39:22it's not really anything
39:24prosecutable or actionable.
39:26Now,
39:27in other countries
39:28and other legal systems,
39:29it would be treated differently.
39:32Unfortunately,
39:33or fortunately,
39:34depending on your perspective,
39:35in this country,
39:37a simple accusation
39:39that was a while ago
39:41does not
39:42a case make.
39:44Now,
39:45we can have,
39:46and as,
39:47as I think we should,
39:48we can have a debate
39:50if this is the person
39:51who should be leading
39:52our nation.
39:53Um,
39:54the,
39:55one of the reasons
39:56why impeachment
39:57is a,
39:58is a government
39:59civil procedure
40:01and not a criminal one
40:02is that
40:04is high officials,
40:06presidents,
40:06vice presidents,
40:07judges,
40:07all this type of thing,
40:08it is the accountability
40:09mechanism for removal
40:11that allows other branches
40:12of government
40:13to stop it
40:13and prevent them
40:14from harming the country.
40:16Whether Trump
40:17should be leading
40:17our country
40:17is quite another question.
40:19I obviously personally
40:20do not think
40:20he should,
40:22did not vote for him,
40:23did not recommend
40:24people to vote for him,
40:25anything,
40:26anything like that.
40:27I think these allegations
40:28are quite shocking
40:29and I think it's not good
40:30for our leader
40:31to have this swirl
40:32of scandal
40:34around.
40:36Some are old enough
40:37to remember
40:38when we impeached
40:39Bill Clinton
40:40for getting a blowy
40:42and a hand DJ
40:42under the Resolute Desk
40:43in the Mobile Office.
40:45And so I don't,
40:46from a politics perspective,
40:48I think this is
40:49terrible politics.
40:50I think it is not necessarily
40:52the type of person
40:53you want in charge
40:55who has this type of baggage
40:56and these type of issues,
40:57but it does not
40:58a criminal case make.
41:01I think,
41:01unfortunately,
41:02and this gets into narrative,
41:03I think this is one
41:04where given the volume
41:07of everything,
41:08given the amount of times,
41:10you know,
41:11according to people
41:12and different things
41:14that there's kind of
41:14this inextricable link
41:15between Epstein and Trump,
41:17I think is not so good
41:18for Trump.
41:19But again,
41:19I think he's losing
41:20a bit of control
41:21of the narrative
41:22on all of this
41:23and there's obviously
41:24a very new
41:26and different,
41:28a different narrative,
41:29you know,
41:29kind of flying out
41:33into the world
41:34about him.
41:35I don't know
41:36that it's really
41:36going to matter,
41:37but this,
41:39the fact that they
41:39had these up
41:40and then took
41:41these down
41:41is also not great.
41:43There's been
41:43several instances
41:45of that.
41:46I know we're getting
41:47long into the show
41:49and we're probably
41:49not going to get
41:51to the surveillance
41:52state stuff
41:53that I really wanted
41:54to about Palantir
41:55and all this type
41:56of thing,
41:57but I do,
41:58I do want to close
41:59on,
42:02I do want to close
42:03on a couple things.
42:06One is this guy,
42:09Randall Scott Tyler,
42:10Taylor,
42:11did a $2.1 billion
42:13audit in Epstein's
42:16financial records
42:17and I went through
42:19this over the weekend
42:20getting ready
42:20for the show
42:21and he breaks
42:23it all down
42:24in terms of
42:25the shell entities
42:26that were used
42:27to move around
42:29all of this money
42:30and the number
42:31of wires
42:33and we sometimes
42:35can find out
42:36who owns these
42:36sometimes you can't.
42:40And the shells
42:42moved money
42:42between themselves
42:43eight times
42:44totaling $260 million.
42:45That's internal
42:46circulation
42:47with no external
42:47economic purpose
42:48visible in the documents.
42:49They also list
42:52people including
42:53Darren Indyke,
42:54Eileen Alexanderson,
42:55Lyle Casriel,
42:57Richard Kahn,
42:58Melanie Spinella,
42:59Scott Stackman,
43:01Hal Perrin,
43:02and Groff.
43:05The key persons
43:06here were
43:07Jeffrey Epstein,
43:07Leon Black,
43:08Debra Black,
43:08Jelaine Maxwell,
43:10Brad Wexholler,
43:14Brad Waxler,
43:16Larry Vysoski,
43:17Leslie Wexner,
43:20Joichi Ito,
43:21and Jean-Luc Brunel
43:22is kind of where
43:24most of this money
43:25is moving
43:26at least that is
43:27available for him
43:27to go through.
43:29The saying says
43:29the single biggest
43:30direct bank-to-person
43:31flow in the network
43:32JPMorgan Chase
43:34sent $97.3 million
43:36to Debra Black
43:37across 33 transactions.
43:39Debra Black
43:39then chose
43:40$65.2 million
43:41flowing to Leon Black
43:42in 55 payments.
43:44Deutsche Bank
43:44sent another
43:44$36.5 million
43:46directly to Leon Black
43:47in seven transfers.
43:48Between the two banks,
43:49the Black family entities
43:50received over
43:52$507 million
43:53in documented flows.
43:55Epstein separately
43:56sent $77 million
43:57to Black Family Partners
43:58LP in four payments.
44:01Now here's what's
44:02interesting as the gaps.
44:04A forensic accounting
44:06analysis looks at
44:07net positions
44:07and asks one question,
44:08where's the difference?
44:09Southern Financial LLC
44:11has a $412.3 million
44:13net positive position.
44:14That means $412.3 million
44:16more entered the entity
44:17than left it
44:18through documented channels.
44:19Either the money
44:20is still in the account,
44:21unlikely for a dissolved entity,
44:22it exits through
44:23a payment type
44:23not captured in the corpus,
44:25or the outflow documents
44:26are sealed and redacted.
44:27Hayes Trust
44:28has $79.9 million
44:31net negative.
44:32Jeepers Incorporated
44:33shows $155.6 million
44:34more leaving than arriving.
44:36BP70 LLC
44:37has a $101.5 million
44:39gap in the opposite direction,
44:40more out than in.
44:41These are open questions.
44:42The documents
44:43don't close them.
44:44Across all eight
44:45shell entities,
44:45total documented inflows
44:46are $2.23 billion,
44:48and total documented
44:49outflows are $2.13 billion.
44:51The aggregate net position
44:52is roughly $99 million
44:54positive,
44:54but the entity level gaps
44:56are far larger
44:57and cancel each other
44:57out in the aggregate,
44:58which is exactly
44:59what you'd expect
45:00to see in a structure
45:00designed to obscure
45:01the trail.
45:04It shows here
45:05the money starts moving
45:07between about
45:07late to,
45:08well,
45:08mid-2007
45:10through 2015
45:12and kind of shows
45:13this is the monthly
45:14and then this is annual
45:16between 2005
45:17and 2020.
45:20It's interesting
45:21that there was still
45:22money moving
45:22after his death.
45:24which I thought
45:25was interesting.
45:27There's some other
45:28inner circle people,
45:30public figures,
45:31including $2.1 million
45:34to Noam Chomsky,
45:36Leslie Wexner,
45:40any,
45:40as I recall,
45:41I'm like,
45:42no one we really
45:43know or care about
45:44took money
45:45besides Noam Chomsky.
45:48If I were Noam,
45:49I would retire
45:50and move to
45:51a non-extradition country
45:52or something.
45:54You talked to them,
45:55you gave them advice,
45:56and you took,
45:56says here,
45:58$2.2 million.
46:01Not good.
46:03And then we also have
46:04Deutsche,
46:06JP Morgan,
46:07and Citibank
46:08involved
46:08as custodians
46:10of various
46:11and sundry things.
46:11So,
46:12it says here,
46:13ultimately,
46:13this is not an investigation.
46:15I don't have subpoena power,
46:16I don't have access
46:16to sealed records,
46:17I can't compel testimony
46:18or demand account statements.
46:19What I have
46:20is the publicly released record,
46:22the same documents
46:23available to anyone
46:23with an internet connection
46:24and the patients
46:25to read them.
46:25What I did
46:26was treat these documents
46:27like what they are,
46:28financial records.
46:29I extracted every payment,
46:30classified every transaction,
46:32cross-referenced
46:32every name against
46:33flight manifest,
46:34source documents,
46:35and SAR filings,
46:36built a relational database
46:37with 39 tables
46:38and 26.6 million rows,
46:40wrote extraction pipelines
46:41for 10 payment types,
46:42published 18 prior narratives
46:43covering specific angles
46:44like Deutsche Bank analysis,
46:45the art market transactions,
46:47Gratitude America connections,
46:48and the flight financial
46:50temporal correlations.
46:51This narrative,
46:53number 19,
46:54is the season finale.
46:55Every name,
46:56every shell,
46:57every bank,
46:57every operator,
46:58every flow.
46:59All of it drawn
46:59from the publication ledger,
47:01which holds the full corpus
47:02of the 10,964 transactions
47:04and 2.146 billion.
47:07Season one is the foundation.
47:08The machine is mapped
47:09but the documents
47:10aren't done talking.
47:11The companion visualization
47:12lets you click any note
47:13and see exactly what went in
47:14and what went out.
47:15The forensic workbook
47:16contains the full data set
47:17in spreadsheet format.
47:18The entire repository
47:19is public on GitHub.
47:21I'm a finance professional.
47:22I did this work pro bono
47:23because public records
47:24should be publicly understood.
47:25The numbers are here.
47:26The names are here.
47:27The gaps are here.
47:28What happens next
47:29is up to the people
47:30with subpoenas.
47:33This is impressive.
47:34And this is,
47:35like you said,
47:35this is the end
47:37of something he's been working on
47:38since the files came out
47:40and this is just
47:40part of everything else.
47:42But when I saw this
47:43and I was reading this,
47:44I'm like,
47:44one,
47:45elegant presentation,
47:46bravo.
47:47But two,
47:48it was just amazing
47:50to watch
47:51two billion dollars
47:52move around
47:53and between who
47:55and for why
47:56we don't always know.
47:59But the gaps
48:01where the money moved,
48:02why,
48:03the how,
48:04the who,
48:05was all
48:06quite interesting.
48:08The complicity
48:09with both
48:10domestic and international banks.
48:13if this were
48:14a different time
48:15and under
48:16a different administration,
48:20this would be
48:21one hell
48:21of an FTC
48:22and an SEC.
48:24I'm sorry,
48:25sorry.
48:26Yeah,
48:27FTC and SEC
48:29investigation
48:30into all of this
48:32because essentially
48:34this could be
48:34a money laundering case.
48:35now,
48:36that would require
48:37investigations
48:37and all this type
48:39of thing
48:39and a lot
48:40of document
48:41production
48:42from banks
48:43and people
48:43and all this type
48:44of thing.
48:45But yeah,
48:45I mean,
48:46it's,
48:46you know,
48:48it's a lot
48:50and it was
48:53it's just
48:54the more
48:54and more
48:55we learn
48:56and the farther
48:57and farther
48:58into this
48:58we get,
48:59the more
48:59and more
49:00crazy it is
49:01and
49:02and this is
49:03only a fraction,
49:04this is only
49:05the data we have
49:05in the files
49:06that starts
49:07in 2005.
49:08It,
49:09we don't have
49:10the stuff
49:10before,
49:12you know,
49:13so who knows
49:14what occurred,
49:16you know,
49:17in the 90s,
49:18you know,
49:18anything between
49:21before 2005.
49:23And so,
49:24I,
49:24if you want
49:25to go look
49:25this up,
49:29I actually
49:30saved this link
49:31and when I tried
49:31to re-access it,
49:32it did not work.
49:34So,
49:35I would just
49:36look up
49:38Randall Scott
49:39Taylor Epstein
49:40and it came up
49:41on the first page
49:42of Google.
49:42So,
49:43if you want
49:44to go look
49:44and click
49:45through all of this
49:45and all of his
49:46other stuff,
49:46like I said,
49:46he has tons
49:47of other stuff
49:48including
49:50the companion
49:51visualization
49:52of the machine
49:54and where
49:55went to who
49:56and for why
49:57and by what
49:57means,
49:58he has it all
49:59figured out
50:00and mapped out.
50:01So,
50:01if you want
50:01to play
50:02with some
50:02of this
50:02stuff,
50:03you certainly
50:04can
50:06between banks,
50:08shell entities,
50:10operators,
50:11and then the
50:12actual people
50:12in control
50:14of all of
50:15this.
50:16If I were
50:17Leon Black,
50:17I'd be very
50:18concerned.
50:18If I were
50:19some of these
50:19banks,
50:20I'd be very
50:20concerned.
50:20But of course,
50:21we never
50:22arrest banks
50:22in this country.
50:24Now,
50:26before we go,
50:28it's been a
50:28long,
50:29it's been a
50:30long day
50:31and a long
50:31show,
50:31but before
50:32we go,
50:33I'm going
50:34to read
50:40through this
50:40from this
50:41new social
50:43contract with
50:44Ro Khanna
50:45a little bit.
50:46We're going
50:46to end on
50:46this.
50:49And it
50:50says here,
50:51I love the
50:52quote,
50:52we must not
50:52ask what
50:53America can
50:53do for
50:53Silicon Valley,
50:54but what
50:55Silicon Valley
50:55must do
50:56for America.
50:57I don't
50:58think Ro Khanna
50:59understands that
51:00Silicon Valley
51:00has spent the
51:01last 40
51:02years making
51:02sure they
51:03never have
51:03to actually
51:03contribute to
51:04society in
51:05any real way
51:05because they
51:06all read too
51:06much Ayn Rand,
51:07but anyway.
51:09He says here,
51:10first,
51:10we must keep
51:11humans in the
51:11loop.
51:12We need real
51:13protections
51:13against mass
51:14displacement,
51:14beginning with
51:15our 3.5
51:15million truck
51:16drivers.
51:17Even as
51:17self-driving
51:18trucks improve
51:19safety and
51:19efficiency,
51:20human drivers
51:20must remain
51:21just like the
51:21pilots must
51:22still fly
51:22our planes.
51:23This will
51:24allow us to
51:24develop AI
51:25that augments
51:25human capability
51:26instead of
51:27eliminating jobs.
51:28Second,
51:29every large
51:30company must
51:30bargain with
51:31its workers.
51:31unions or
51:32elected
51:32representatives
51:33should ensure
51:34displaced workers
51:35move into new
51:35value-creating roles
51:37and can share in
51:38AI's productivity
51:39gains through
51:40higher wages,
51:41profit sharing,
51:42and shorter
51:42work weeks.
51:43Third,
51:44we have to fix
51:45the tax code's
51:45anti-human bias.
51:47Robots get
51:47accelerated depreciation
51:48while hiring humans
51:49comes with payroll
51:50taxes.
51:51Nobel laureate
51:54Darren Asimoglu
51:55estimates that
51:56companies pay
51:57about zero tax
51:58on digital tools
51:59while paying
51:59something like
52:0030% in taxes
52:01between employers
52:02and employees
52:02when they hire
52:03workers.
52:03This makes no
52:04sense.
52:04It must make it
52:05easier to hire
52:05workers,
52:06not AI agents.
52:08Fourth,
52:09we must launch
52:09a future workforce
52:10administration.
52:11We should seize
52:12this moment of
52:13anxiety among
52:13white-collar and
52:14blue-collar families
52:15alike and answer
52:16it with the boldest,
52:17most patriotic jobs
52:18gender and
52:18generations.
52:19Funded by a modest
52:20wealth tax on the
52:21trillions created
52:22here and by a token
52:23tax on AI used by
52:24businesses that
52:25displaces labor,
52:26this program will
52:26put Americans to
52:27work in public
52:28service.
52:29The initiative will
52:29drive moonshot
52:30projects that
52:31expand the
52:31frontiers of
52:32science, clean
52:33energy, and
52:33biotech.
52:34It will mobilize
52:35young people to
52:35rebuild towns,
52:36teach our children,
52:37provide child care
52:38and elder care,
52:39and strengthen
52:39small businesses
52:40in every community.
52:42And we will
52:43launch 1,000 new
52:44trade schools and
52:45tech institutes so
52:46the next generation
52:46are prepared for
52:47careers AI
52:48can't replace.
52:49Fifth, data
52:49centers must serve
52:50the communities
52:50who power them.
52:52Right now, data
52:52centers are one-way
52:53extraction centers
52:54from communities
52:54to the wealthiest
52:55corporations.
52:56That must end.
52:59Tech companies
53:00need to provide
53:01local communities
53:02with compute
53:02resources for
53:03schools and
53:03libraries,
53:04create local
53:04tech jobs and
53:05fund startups,
53:06and use
53:06renewable energy
53:07and dry cooling
53:08technology.
53:08We should look
53:09to what Singapore
53:10has done with
53:10their data centers
53:11for a balanced
53:11solution and invest
53:12in massively
53:13increasing supply
53:14of clean energy.
53:15Most importantly,
53:17tech companies
53:18must pay
53:19their full
53:19electricity bills
53:20instead of
53:20shifting costs
53:21onto communities.
53:22Sixth, we must
53:23prevent AI from
53:23weaponizing our
53:24public discourse.
53:24We can unite
53:25across very lines
53:26to stop engagement
53:27driven algorithms
53:27from spreading hate.
53:29End section 230
53:29protection for
53:30amplified violent
53:31content and require
53:32platforms to open
53:33up so Americans
53:34can connect freely
53:34across them.
53:35Seventh, we must
53:36regulate AI so it's
53:37used to improve
53:38humanity, not
53:39damage it.
53:42And, oh, that's
53:43the end.
53:45I had last week
53:53talked about the
53:55kind of coming
53:55surveillance state
53:56and some stuff in
53:57Palantir that's
53:57very concerning and
53:58all this type of
53:59thing.
53:59Obviously, don't
54:00really have time to
54:00get to that right
54:01now.
54:01But, it was
54:03interesting that
54:03Ro Khanna schlepped
54:04out to Stanford and
54:06talks about a new
54:07tech social contract
54:08and lays out all of
54:09these things that
54:10tech can and
54:11should do to
54:12actually participate
54:13in the society
54:14that they are
54:15exploiting and do
54:16things for everyone
54:17and not just
54:18themselves.
54:19As I just said,
54:21it's funny that
54:22he's doing this
54:22because tech and
54:23Silicon Valley has
54:25spent the last
54:2540 years doing
54:27and trying to
54:28create exactly
54:29the opposite.
54:30They do not want
54:31to be part of
54:31society.
54:32They do not want
54:33to feel an
54:33obligation to other
54:34people.
54:34They do not want
54:35to worry about
54:36libraries and all
54:37this type of thing.
54:37They want to be
54:39separate.
54:39That's why they
54:40keep trying to
54:40build freedom
54:41cities in the
54:42middle of
54:42nowhere.
54:42They want to
54:44be separated
54:45from the masses
54:47that they
54:48consider, quite
54:50frankly, too
54:51stupid to live.
54:52And again, if
54:53any of you had
54:54read Ayn Rand
54:55and the
54:56Fountainhead or
54:57Atlas Shrugged,
54:58you would literally
54:59know the playbook.
55:00Literally.
55:01They all think
55:04that they're the
55:06next John Galt
55:07and they just
55:07need to get
55:08away from the
55:10world that's
55:10holding them
55:11back from
55:11reaching their
55:12true creative
55:12potential.
55:13So this is a
55:14nice speech and
55:15this is a nice
55:16idea.
55:16It is antithetical
55:18to their existence.
55:20At least their
55:21existence as they
55:22view it.
55:22You want this,
55:23Ro Khanna?
55:24You better
55:25legislate it and
55:26use the power of
55:27the law to make
55:28it so to force
55:30them to do it and
55:30hope that that
55:31whole freedom
55:31cities thing never
55:32gets off the
55:33ground.
55:34They do not
55:34want to live in
55:35a society.
55:37They don't.
55:39That's why all
55:40of them were so
55:40excited when
55:41Margaret Thatcher
55:41said there's no
55:41such thing as a
55:42society.
55:43Ronald Reagan,
55:43I'm going to
55:44get big government
55:44off your back.
55:45Bill Clinton,
55:45the Arab big
55:46government is
55:46over.
55:47Are you seeing
55:47the picture yet?
55:49We're not
55:51necessary to
55:52their plans.
55:54And on that
55:55frightening note,
55:56I will leave you
55:58because we started
55:58late and I'm not
55:59going to keep you.
56:00My name is
56:00Cameron Cowan.
56:01This is the
56:02Cameron Journal
56:03News Hour.
56:04You can visit
56:05me online at
56:06Cameron Cowan on
56:06LinkedIn, Twitter,
56:07Instagram, at
56:08Cameron Journal on
56:09TikTok for clips of
56:10the show.
56:11Thank you all so
56:12much for watching.
56:12We had a wonderful
56:13group here this
56:13evening.
56:1323, bravo us.
56:15Thank you all so
56:16much for watching.
56:17My name is Cameron
56:17Cowan.
56:18This has been the
56:19Cameron Journal
56:19News Hour.
56:20Good night.
56:31Good night.
56:32Good night.
56:33Good night.
56:33Good night.
56:34Good night.
56:34You
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