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joining me. You want to do that? Let's see. We've got a thousand people here. So I'm using my laptop now, which frees up my phone. So I can check some stories on my phone, see if there's something to talk about. Did you know that Trump put a blockade on the Venezuelan oil tankers? And apparently he has some kind of justification for that. Did you know that Venezuela nationalized a bunch of U.S. a…

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been trying to ignore the Candace story because it felt a little gossipy and didn't really seem like big news. But the part that caught my attention just sort of in a gossipy way is apparently Candace has a hypothesis that the Egyptian government has two of its official state planes that have somehow intersected with the travels of Erica Kirk like 70 times, and that it would be statistically impossible for that to be an accident.

Now, she doesn't go beyond that to say what it is that Egypt or Erica were up to, but she does say, well, isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting? Yeah, we presume it would be about Israel just because the Middle East is involved. But so Ian Carroll has also been covering the plane paths. Well, I saw this morning somebody say that the data was fake and I don't know. There's no way to know.

I'm going to say I don't think there's anything to that one because even if Egypt had some kind of interest in Erica, I don't think that they would use their presidential planes and intersect with her 70 times. Now Megyn Kelly got in the middle of it. Oh, they're registered as Egyptian. That might be different.

Well, I'm going to go on record as saying I doubt there's anything to it. The Egypt planes are a scam. Yeah, I suspect there's nothing there. That's my guess.

So let's catch up with the Rob Reiner story. Are you sick of that yet? That one is kind of deeper than I thought it would be. Tucker said it's true. What part is true? The planes. Kiko the Great has a story about that. Do you really think that this one's worth digging into the airplane story?

We're just super chats. No, they're using her Candace to make us all look crazy. Maybe. Maybe.

So I think I've given you my opinion, but here's some things that I've recently realized. So now we hear that the Reiners were planning to have dinner with the Obamas that very night. Do you believe that? Do you believe that by coincidence the Reiners were going to have dinner with the Obamas that very night, the night they were killed? Well, they do have a lot of famous friends, so that that's possible.

But now that you know that they were that close with the Obamas, did you know that they were, at least Rob Reiner was close with I think five different heads of the CIA? So there was, or at least intelligence people. So he did a piece about the Russia collusion in which he was trying to sell Russia collusion to the public, and he did that with a Brennan and Clapper high-production thing.

Now, do you think that when Rob Reiner did that video with Brennan and Clapper accusing Trump of being a Russian puppet, do you think he knew that wasn't true? Because there's some possibility he didn't know and that he put all that effort and personal capital into it without knowing.

He was also very good friends with Norm Eisen, and if you don't know who Norm Eisen is then you don't know what happened in our country for the last several years. So Norm Eisen is the architect of all the lawfare against Trump. Pretty much all of it, you know, from the Russia collusion. So you got the Obamas, good friends. You got Norm Eisen, good friends. You've got Stephen King, who he worked with for years and made many movies together. Yeah, Larry David. I always wondered why Larry David was so weird about Trump, but maybe that's part of it, that connection. And who else was he? Yeah.

So basically Rob Reiner was connected with the power apparatus in the Democratic Party. So that explains a lot. I don't know about George Clooney. Was there any connection between Clooney and Reiner aside from the fact that they're both famous and they probably knew each other? Yeah.

So I posted this morning a video of Rob Reiner and his wife in some interview talking about Trump. Yeah. Stephen King, they were good friends that worked together. And look at Rob Reiner when he's talking about Trump. When he's saying things that we all know to be true, his eyes are open. But when he goes into fiction, you know, the part where Trump is Hitler and he's working with Putin and all that, he closes his eyes like he's imagining it and then talking about what he's imagining. You have to watch it. Once you see i

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t, you can't unsee it. So here's a question I have. Why did Rob Reiner treat the anti-Trump stuff like it was his job? I don't think he was doing it for money, but he didn't do it like he was just a concerned citizen. Would you agree? The amount of organization and effort, and he was part of a club and they were all after him. It very much looked like something bigger than just his political opin…

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