Back to episode — Episode 2942 CWSA 08/29/25
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know if that's enough, though. We'll see. The headline says that Trump has revoked Kamala Harris's Secret Service protection, but you have to read past the headline to know that she got exactly as much as vice presidents are supposed to get. So vice presidents are not like presidents who get a lifetime of Secret Service. Vice presidents are only allowed six months and the six months is up. Howeve…
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All the smart people said that the John Bolton investigation was because Trump was getting revenge on all of his enemies and John Bolton was just one of them and so he went after him first. Well, it turns out that the John Bolton investigation started under Biden. So everything in the news was... But apparently the story is that our intelligence people picked up something when they were looking at some foreign people that they're allowed to do. But if the foreign people communicate with domestic people such as John Bolton, well then they're going to see both sides of the conversation. So apparently they saw some emails that Bolton sent. And here's the wonderful part. He used an unapproved email system just like Hillary Clinton. You would think that people would know not to do that, but he used an unclassified email system to send some classified stuff. And it looked like he was sending it to people who were involved in writing his book. So I don't think that there's an accusation that he was selling it to an adversary. I don't believe there's any evidence that he was selling it to an adversary country. There is evidence that because he was playing loose with it and violating the rules of classified behavior, that he was allowing them to see some classified stuff, but that stuff probably is pretty close to what was in his book. So I don't know how classified it was. If a guy who knows a lot about classified information thought, "I'll just send it to my family members and I'll put it in my book." So there's something about this story that we don't understand.
And if I had to guess, one of his defenses will be that things were overclassified. That would probably be his defense because then it doesn't sound like he's a traitor or treasonous. He's just a guy who knows the difference between something that's properly classified and something that isn't. And then maybe he thought, well, this wouldn't hurt anybody. It's just happens to be classified. So he may have just thought, I'll just ignore the ones that are obviously overclassified. Maybe that might be his defense. It might be a pretty good defense actually. So we'd have to see examples. Or I'd have to see an example of what's the worst thing he did that our adversaries saw. I don't know. How would you feel about it if there wasn't a single thing that you looke
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d at and said, "Yeah, that's a problem." You looked at and said, "That's classified. Why is that even classified?" So I think I'm going to grade this one as a wait and see because the part of this story that doesn't make sense is that somebody like Bolton would play so fast and loose with classified stuff if it could really hurt the United States. I wouldn't be surprised about somebody who cut som…
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