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trying to make a deal to the military. Don't you feel like that's sort of obviously missing? Wouldn't that be the most obvious thing you want to say? It's one thing to say it's not Homeland Security and it's not the FBI and that they don't know anything about it. It's another thing to say we asked all of the departments in our government and they all said it's not us. That's what I want to hear. I…

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l right obviously the DEI stuff and the identity stuff is ridiculous. Obviously DEI destroys everything it touches. This would have destroyed the NASDAQ because companies would have said I'll just list somewhere else. Or it would have created a competitor. Imagine if the NASDAQ just put itself out of business by becoming so hard to work with that everybody said well I think I'll go to the New York Exchange or somebody else says I think I'll do a startup of a new exchange. That's even possible. But the court slapped them down and said that they're not the entity that can tell companies what to do in that specific way. So they don't have that power. So they lost that.

Did you see that the inspector general report came out on the FBI's involvement in January 6? And of course the news predictably split into two movies on one screen. On one screen the fact that there were 26—what do they call them—confidential human sources. So people who were not on the payroll of the FBI but had already before January 6 had been sources. So they're basically spies within right-wing groups. So 26 of those confidential human sources but not FBI agents. This is important. Not FBI agents but confidential human sources were in fact in the crowd. And so how was that reported by the political left? The political left said see there's another conspiracy theory by the right that's been debunked. There were no FBI agents in the group so I guess we can put that to rest can't we? So that's one movie. The other movie looked at exactly the same news and said well there it is. There's proof that the FBI was behind the trouble that happened on January 6. Which one of them is right? Which movie do you like? Do you like the movie where it was proven that the FBI had nothing to do with it or the same information proving that they were totally culpable? It's the same information. The story is the same. How can we be reporting it as opposites? It's just what we do. It's crazy.

So let me tell you my take on this. My take is this. Why would you believe in the IG report? They're making you think past the sale. Think past the sale. So if you're thinking did those 26 confidential human sources, do they have anything to do with the bad behavior? Or if you're thinking well maybe the FBI lied and some agents were involved, how would we know? Then you're thinking past the decision. Here's the thing. You shouldn't think past. Why would you trust an IG report if you don't trust the FBI? Why would you trust the people who gave the information to the FBI giving the information to somebody else to talk for them? Right here's me as an FBI agent. I've got a bunch of things here that I claim are true. Good try FBI agent. Just because you say it's true that doesn't mean I think it's true. Right? That's just you who I don't believe saying this stuff is true. Sorry. Sorry I'm going to have to independen

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tly find out if that's true. So I'm going to hire an inspector general. The inspector general goes and talks to that agent and says I'm trying to find out what's true. And the FBI agent says this is true. The same stuff I was trying to show everybody else. And the IG says let me look at that. All right I'll put that in the report. Where do you think the IG gets their information? By asking the FBI…

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