00:00Now, this coming just two months after a grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey for posting a similar
00:06photo containing the same message.
00:08Remember, he said he just happened to come upon these seashells in this formation.
00:13Yeah. Brittany Hughes is a Media Research Center video host and Barry Donadio is a national security analyst.
00:20Thank you both for being with us, Barry.
00:22Your thoughts. Do you think that 8647 is a message that a lot of people understand and that, you know,
00:28I mean, this clear.
00:30Although Comey said he didn't know what it was, that whoever etched this into the National Mall grass must have.
00:37Thanks for having me on your show. Absolutely.
00:39It should be taken as a true threat under Title 18 U.S. Code 871 and 879.
00:46You can't make a threat against the president of the United States.
00:48And this is a threat. And the reason why it's a true threat and not necessarily freedom of speech,
00:54because somebody went and took out the mission of putting these numbers in such a large field that it would
01:04take some engineering to do, however they did it.
01:07So now think, is that just freedom of speech or are these people really on a mission, whoever's responsible for
01:14this?
01:14And are they capable of potentially hurting the president?
01:19I say yes. I think it's beyond freedom of speech.
01:23This is a statement to take out the president of the United States.
01:26Brittany, who do you think could have possibly done it?
01:28Maybe the aliens that President Trump, he released all that information.
01:31I mean, that this is a bold and brazen act to do this on the National Mall.
01:36And it took time. It took time.
01:39Yeah. I mean, I again, I look over at James Comey and I just been waiting for him to pop
01:43up and go.
01:44We just thought that these were some crop circles. What is this?
01:46Right. Look, this is it cannot be understated that at best case scenario.
01:51Right. Best case scenario. This is an act of vandalism.
01:54This is defacement of public property of not just public property, but a national monument.
01:59Of course, we know leftists don't care about that because they do that all the time.
02:03But it is a crime and people should be held accountable.
02:06But at the same time, you also have to look and say, look, it can't be understated that we have
02:11a sitting president
02:12who has faced now three significant credible threats against his life, including two people who tried to shoot him to
02:18death,
02:18one of whom nearly succeeded.
02:21OK, so no longer do we have a benefit of the doubt to give to someone and say, OK, well,
02:26this was a joke or this was just something stupid that they did.
02:28This is a credible threat and it should be treated as such.
02:32And I will add that because of that, it should be getting far more media coverage than it is.
02:37But of course, this is against a Republican president.
02:39And so the national news media, the same national news media that says things like if you're for border security,
02:44that means that you want all black and brown people to die.
02:47And that's violence. They're going to look at this and say, oh, well, this is a nothing burger.
02:50There's really nothing to see here. It's not a real threat.
02:53But let's move on.
02:55Barry, if it is a threat, though, why are they just investigating it as sort of as a vandalism issue?
03:01That's a good question.
03:03I imagine the Secret Service is going to be investigating this as a threat under the Title 18 that I
03:08mentioned earlier.
03:09Now, we all have to remember, if you're in a bar and you say that you're going to kill the
03:13president
03:14and somebody overhears that and the Secret Service gets wind of it, they're going to have a talk with you.
03:19They're going to come talk to you and see if it actually is a true threat.
03:24You know, you may be interviewed and say, yeah, I was just drunk and I didn't mean it.
03:29And the Secret Service can determine that, yeah, it wasn't a true threat.
03:32This was just an angry person.
03:33But let's take a look at the large scale of this operation to sit and conduct a mission to make
03:40these numbers in this field.
03:43It's a tremendous amount of effort to do that.
03:47So I would say that lumped into the message, lumped into the potential, makes this a true threat.
03:53Of course, you know, when you catch up with this person, it's going to play out in the court.
03:57But they're in a lot of trouble when they get caught up, too.
04:00That's for sure.
04:00So, Brittany, was Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, do we know where they were and where their lawnmowers were last
04:07night?
04:07Maybe I'm making a joke, but I mean, seriously, like who who could have done this?
04:12This is a massive undertaking.
04:13You see the picture.
04:14Unless it was a lot of people at once.
04:16Unless it was several people.
04:18And to your point, Brittany, the fact that nobody else is really covering this.
04:23To me, it's also kind of like a security issue that they were able to pull this off and no
04:28one noticed it right near the White House.
04:30And this is something that James Comey is under criminal investigation for.
04:35And somebody was able to do this on basically the White House lawn.
04:39Well, no, you're making me give a little bit of credit to Nancy Pelosi here, which I don't appreciate.
04:43But I'm going to guess not her.
04:44I think she would have broken a hip.
04:46But look, I my money would absolutely be on more than one person.
04:50I don't think that logically you could look at this and say that one person could have pulled this off
04:54the amount of time that it would have taken to do something on this scale.
04:57I think that we're probably looking at a group of people, which makes it even more insidious and even more
05:02dangerous, I think.
05:03And look, it's an escalation of the rhetoric that we've seen against the Trump administration and against President Trump himself
05:08now for years.
05:09When you constantly go on air, and this is where media bias is so incredibly important, these are not things
05:15that are spoken in a vacuum.
05:16This is incendiary, inflammatory rhetoric that has been pushed by the media.
05:20And we have seen repeatedly crazy people who then take that and turn it into action.
05:24At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, we saw somebody who not only tried to shoot Trump and members of the
05:30Trump administration, but who actually put in his manifesto the exact words that we have seen the media peddle now
05:36for years, that Trump is a Nazi, he's an autocratic fascist dictator, he's going to destroy the country, and that
05:41somebody needs to do something about that.
05:43And then when we see stuff like this happen, then the media is like, oh, we didn't actually mean it.
05:47That's not a call to violence.
05:48The heck it isn't.
05:50Everybody understands what's happening here.
05:52And so we're going to continue to see this until, again, the media is held accountable for the verbiage that
05:57they are using.
05:58Well, we'll watch this investigation, see how that plays out and who is behind this.
06:03Brittany Hughes, Barry Donadino, thank you very much for your time.
06:07Thanks, guys.
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