Trump collusion story. Doesn't even mention that one. Was that CIA?

So in the comments, how many of you believe it? I'm seeing only yeses. I see one now on Locals. It looks like YouTube is very much believing it and Locals too, looking at both platforms. Your comments. Yeah, you do believe it, don't you?

So here you are in a country in which your most important industry to protect your freedom, which is the press, you believe doesn't exist. You okay with that? Are you okay with that? Yeah, you can throw in the FBI I guess as part of this. How are we okay with the fact that the CIA is making up stories and the corporate press is just printing them like it's real? Could that be a more dangerous situation? Have we already lost everything?

But it's weird that because when you say the CIA did something, is it always the same people? Is it the head of the CIA who makes these decisions or is it just people associated with it making up their own projects? How does this happen? Well it feels real to me. It feels real that the news is not real and that at least the political parts, a lot of it, are just literally made up by our own CIA.

Now can I prove it? Nah, I don't have any proof. But you've seen Clapper and Brennan on TV lying, lying to the public. You've seen that. So I don't think you trust these entities whatsoever.

Now here's a question for you. The media, I would say the media has two major forms at this point. One is the regular legacy media, the Fox News and the CNNs and stuff. But the other part of the media is people like me, pundits. If you believe that all of the major media legacy platforms have been captured by the CIA, if you believe that's the case, what about the independent voices? What about the people that you follow on Twitter who have gigantic followings and seem to be independent voices? Has the CIA also captured them?

What do you think? Has the CIA captured the independent political voices, the people with just social media followings? Yeah, you're a little worried now aren't you? A little bit worried now.

Now let me ask you this. Do you think I know the answer to that question definitively? So here's your new question. I'll wait for you to be done answering this because there's lag here. Do you think that I know the answer to the question of whether the CIA is also co-opting individual voices who are not part of legacy news? Because I would be one of those people, right?

So if they had never contacted me, well let me ask you this. Do you think any intelligence agencies have tried to co-opt me? And your comments: have any intelligence agencies, U.S. or other, tried to co-opt me on politics? Yeah, of course yes. The answer is yes.

Have they succeeded? Have they succeeded in co-opting me? I'm looking at your answers. You say no, no, no, no. Well you're wrong. Hate to tell you, they've co-opted me.

Now when I say they've co-opted me that doesn't mean that I'm saying anything that I wouldn't normally say. But one of the things that is the subtle way that people like me get influenced is by what stories we see and which ones are brought to our attention. So when I talk about the news I talk about the things that have come to my attention. How does stuff come to my attention? What do you think is my process for deciding what stories to focus on?

No, Scott did not just admit to being a sellout. Listen to the rest of the story. I'm open to hearing your opinions after you've heard it. But maybe wait till after you've heard it and then make your decision.

All right, so here's how people like me decide what news we're going to talk about. Often people send me stuff. You can see it yourself. You can watch it in real time. You see people tweet things at me and then I say, oh that's interesting, and then I talk about it.

Do you think that anybody is tweeting at me things they would like me to spend more time on who may or may not be associated with intelligence agencies? So that's the model. How many think that that's happening? That there are people associated with, maybe not on the payroll, I'm not talking actual spies, I'm talking people associated with, because intelligence agencies don't work with just people they pay. They have an extended family of connections that do things for them.

So I would say that I'm not necessarily aware of who works for who. Well I can say that for sure. I am not necessarily aware of who works for who. I have some ideas. I have some ideas.

If somebody sends me a story that seems to be pro-Israel, do I say to myself, oh I wonder who this person is and I wonder if they have any connections with Israel intelligence or the government? And I often assume they do. But if the story is what I like and it's been brought to my attention, yeah I'll talk about it because it's something I like and it's in my wheelhouse and it's what I would have talked about anyway. And I know about it so I talk about it.

So it works. The way that somebody like me can be influenced is just by what stories I talk about. So I believe that some number of stories that get sent to me through a variety of channels, usually individuals who say hey I think you'd be interested in this, some number of them are intelligence agency connected.

Now some of them I know, meaning I know they'r