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Trump issues INSANE update on military deployments | Another Day
Brian Tyler Cohen
Oct 6, 2025 Brian Tyler Cohen

OMG: Trump issues INSANE update on military deployments



Transcript

The Trump administration makes more
excuses to go to war with Democrat-led
cities. Their top excuse still remains
because we want to. This is just another
day.

While the government may currently be
shut down, the president has kindly
decided to come to work in an effort to
inform the nation on how horrible some
of our cities are.

You look at what's happened with
Portland over the years. It's it's a
burning hell hole. And then you have a
judge that lost her way that tries to
pretend that uh like there's no problem.
Actually, she's not even saying that.
There's a huge problem in Portland. I'll
tell you what the problem is. Crime.
Okay. Crime. It's a huge problem in
Chicago. It's called crime. It's
probably worse than almost any city in
the in the world. You can go to
Afghanistan. You can go to a lot of
different places and they probably
marvel at how much crime we have.

That's exactly what's going on. You
know, the way Americans watch is it cake
and marvel at the talents of these
bakers. That's how everyone in
Afghanistan feels about Chicago. They
just can't believe what they're seeing.

And frankly, neither can some local
American journalists. You are watching
as Broadview police respond to a 911
call claiming someone was tampering with
a gate at the ICE detention facility
there.

Good. We got a call of subjects trying
to climb over the fence or something.

Uh, not since we've been here.

But when police arrive, all they find is
two people and a camera. Our CBS
photographer filming the exterior of the
building with a CBS security guard by
his side. The 911 call claiming someone
was tampering with the gate came from an
ICE agent. According to this incident
report, an ICE agent called police for
help.

Look, I'm not saying that there's no
justification whatsoever for ICE to be
in these cities. I'm simply saying that
prank calling 911 is a crucial part of
the law enforcement pipeline that we
should not overlook.

Now, one of the big
complaints from this administration has
been the lack of cooperation from city
and state officials, which does feel a
little rude considering Donald Trump
spent all that time not calling those
governors before he decided to invade.
Sorry, uh, save their states. But that
was then, and this is now. And let's
just say things have gotten so bad, some
members of Homeland Security are
themselves.

No, you cannot.

We can. Okay. All right. Thank you.

Interesting. Uh, that's what Governor Pritzker says
is cooperation and keeping people safe.

Look, I know that this might simply seem
like an incident where local Chicago
officials are taking out their
frustrations on Secretary Noem for
having her ICE agents infiltrate their
towns and target residents in a racially
divisive manner. But there's actually
something much larger at play here, and
that is Kristi Noem is renowned for
destroying a toilet. When her stomach
starts rumbling, her staff whispers,
"Here comes the department of horrific
shits." She's like Jeff Daniels from
Dumb and Dummer on a good day. After
she's done with it, they call her
bathroom stall no man's land. I think
you get the idea.

But that's Chicago.
Trump has had his sights set on another
evil territory in the Northwest.
There's just one problem.
President Trump's push to send National
Guard troops into more American cities
facing new push back.

In Portland,
Oregon, overnight, where protests are
underway, a federal judge blocked the
Trump administration's move to send
National Guard troops from California or
any other state into the city. Figures.
You know, these damn liberal judges. I
mean, they might as well just be Antifa
at this point.

You know, it's so sad
when lefty administrations stack the
courts just so they can impede any
progress by a later administration.
I'm sorry, what's that? The judge who
was appointed by Trump, saying the
administration's description about chaos
in Portland is simply untethered to the
facts, and the president likely exceeded
his authority under the Constitution, was appointed by Trump?
Whoops. Well, that's just the opinion of
one specific woman in a position of
authority. I mean, isn't the more
important question, what does one random
woman on TV think?

There was one woman, and she was great
today. She said, "You know what? I don't
care if it's a National Guard, the Army,
the Marines, the Air Force. I don't care
who comes in as long as we're safe." And
that's the way most of the public feels.

And isn't that really the way we should
be running our country off of anecdotes?
I mean, forget judges and laws and facts
and let's start sending troops to cities
based on whatever random Tik Tok account
gets shoved in front of Donald Trump's
face before he conducts another press
conference.

One of the biggest issues
here is that while there are facts as to
what's really going on in cities like
Chicago and Portland, not all of us feel
these facts the same as was illustrated
today by Prince Charming.

If you
can't see that since we've taken office,
there has been an organized, systematized
campaign to delegitimize, dehumanize,
threaten, impede, obstruct, and
physically assault ICE officers in the
conduct of their duties, then I can't
persuade you of it because you're
choosing not to see what's right in
front of your face.

Hey, what a fun twist on the if you're
too stupid to understand it, I can't
help you routine. I mean, my god, that
is some next level gaslighting. I
haven't seen balls like that since
Netflix debuted that new Horton show.

But Miller wasn't done being his most
delightful self. He saved some of that
for his CNN interview where he was asked
about the validity of ICE agents
specifically targeting black and brown
people.

We cannot have a system of law in this
country that privileges illegal aliens
over American citizens. And that's what
they're doing. You know it and I know
it.

So that's not exactly a no.

Stephen,
can you just unequivocally say,

I said it was a dumb question. Okay.

Well, I appreciate that, but it's a dumb
question -

So no, this policy is not designed --
When I said it was a dumb question, it
meant no.

Hello. What part of I'm a condescending asshole
didn't you understand? Still not
getting it? Let me give you another
taste.

When in our history have we tolerated
unlawful riotist assemblies night after
night around FBI buildings or ATF
buildings or DEA buildings? This is the
textbook definition of domestic
terrorism. Using the actual and imminent
threat of violence to keep federal
officials from doing their jobs.

Well, when you're referring to people
tolerating unlawful attacks on a
government building, one specific date
comes to mind. [Jan 6] I got to say, while it
may be entertaining, I don't think CNN's
new show is going to run for very long.

The reality is, with Donald Trump
ignoring judges and sending California
troops to Portland, and Texas troops to
Chicago, the president is pitting
Americans against each other in a real
life version of the Hunger Games,
pitting district against district in an
effort to distract from the criminality
of the capital. When we watch it as a
movie, there is never a shred of doubt
as to who the villains are. No one ever
watches President Snow and thinks, "Hey,
what a solid guy, cleaning up those
districts so that people can finally get
out to eat in Panam again. Thank god
those Antifa members are being dealt
with."

And yet, when the same thing
happens in real life, suddenly Trump's
White House wants you to believe that
actually rooting for the capital to
quash dissent and use its power to
invade the cities, is something that is
just and noble and definitely not the
plot of a massive franchise that's
grossed over three billion dollars
worldwide.

If the courts allow you to
ultimately send in the National Guard
into Chicago and Portland, do Democrats
not have reason to be concerned that
there are long-term plans
by this administration to keep US
military or the National Guard in
American cities, like what we are seeing
here in Washington?

Why should they be concerned about the
federal government offering help to make
their cities a safer place?

"Why would people be afraid they're being
poisoned when the president is simply
offering them a delicious liquid to
quench their thirst?" But I apologize,
Mi'lady, for the crude interruption. Please
continue.

And the president, all he's trying to do
is fix it. And there has been a complete
smear campaign by the Democrats and the
media. Quite frankly, I was reading
Political Playbook this morning, one of
the most inside the beltway newsletters
you can find. And and you guys are
framing this like the president wants to
take over the American cities with the
military.

"You guys are framing this like
the president wants to take over
American cities with the military
merely because the president is trying to take
over American cities with the military.

The truth is over and over again we are
watching a president callously sweep
laws under the rug while he willfully
pits citizens against each other under
some ridiculous guise that he's saving
our country. And for any skeptics out
there who aren't seeing what everyone
else is,

I can't persuade you of it
because you're choosing not to see
what's right in front of your face.

Flotilla Activists RIP Israel For Abusive Treatment
The Young Turks
Oct 6, 2025



70-year-old Margaret Pacetta and famed humanitarian activist Greta Thunberg allege that they were abused by the IDF while being detained. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks

Transcript

Ben-Gvir taunts flotilla detainees
[Music]
Even though Israel's national security
minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is a literal
convicted terrorist. He accused
humanitarians who were detained as part
of the global sim flotillaa as being as
such. Now in reality, the 137 activists
who were detained by Israel were
actually seeking to deliver humanitarian
aid to Palestinians in Gaza who are
still intentionally being starved to
death. And uh some of the detainees have
spoken out about the torturous
conditions imposed by the Israelis after
Detainee recounts horrible conditions in Israeli prison
they were uh you know taken captive by
the Israeli government, including
70-year-old Margaret uh Pacetta, who's
from Scotland. Take a listen to what she
had to say about the conditions in the
prison that she was sent to.
That prison was awful. Oh, I bet it was.
Wow. In a jail. Yeah. No, no water.
my broken leg. The beginning said to me,
"I bumped your leg." I said, "It's
broke." She slammed a metal door on it.
Sorry. No.
Oh my god. Horrible. Horrible.
So, that 70-year-old woman you just
heard from has a broken leg and she
claims uh that the Israelis slammed a
metal door on her broken leg as she was
in detention. Now, uh, two others who
were part of the flotillaa said that,
uh, Swedish activist Greta Tunberg, uh,
who was in Israeli custody but no longer
is, uh, was also mistreated during her
Greta Thunberg abused in prison
detention. Uh, Haz Hazwani Helme, a
Malaysian citizen, and Winfield Beaver,
an American citizen, told Reuters at the
airport that they had witnessed Tunberg
being mistreated, saying that she was
shoved and forced to wear an Israeli
flag. Uh 28-year-old Helme said that
detainees were not being given clean
food or water uh and that their
medications and belongings had been
confiscated. It was a disaster. They
treated us like animals. Beaver said
Tunberg was treated terribly and used as
propaganda, describing how she was
pushed into a room as national security
minister Bengavir arrived. Now, an
official who visited Tunberg in prison
claimed that she was being held in a
cell infested with bed bugs and had no
food or little food and water. And then
earlier today, uh, Greta was released
from detention and deported to Greece
where she confirmed that she was in fact
subjected to abuses, but didn't go into
detail. Take a look. I could talk for a
very very long time about our
mistreatment and abuses in our
imprisonment, trust me. But that is not
the story. What happened here was that
Israel, while continuing to worsen and
escalate their genocide and mass
destruction with genocidal intent,
attempting to erase an entire
population, an entire nation in front of
our very eyes. Now, as you can imagine,
that looks pretty embarrassing for the
Israeli government to basically torture
humanitarians who are just trying to
break the siege of Gaza and get
humanitarian aid to people who are
intentionally being starved to death.
And so, as a result, uh the Israelis
have denied that these individuals have
been mistreated. The foreign ministry
described reports that detainees had
been mistreated as complete lies. But
apparently uh Ben Gave didn't get the
memo that he's supposed to spout this
Ben-Gvir celebrates mistreatment of detainees
specific lie and instead said something
uh counter to what the uh Israeli
foreign ministry said. In fact, he says
anyone who supports terror is a
terrorist, referring to the
humanitarians on the flotilla as
terrorists and deserves the conditions
of terrorists. And that statement came
after reports that Tunberg uh was
mistreated. By the way, uh Ben Gavir
said he quote took pride in the fact
that we treat the flotillaa activists as
terror supporters. Again, itar Bengavir
is a literal convicted terrorist. But
let me continue. He also said, quote,
"They should feel what the conditions in
Ketat prison are like and think twice
before approaching Israel again. That's
how it works.
So, I'm going to go ahead and take Ben
Gavver's word for it. Uh, because what
he's saying is consistent with the way
the Israeli government has been
behaving. So, Jen, what are your
thoughts?
Uh, every Israeli accusation is a
confession. So, as he's sitting there
pointing at them going, they are
terrorists, terrorists. What he's saying
is, first of all, he is, as Anna pointed
out, a convicted terrorist.
And uh but mainly what he's saying is I
want you to do terrorism on them. I want
you to terrorize them. I want you to
drag them by the hair. I want you to
slam their legs. I want you to treat
them like they're Palestinians.
Well, in a sense, thank you. Because
then the world sees better how you treat
Palestinians.
And so now that they're doing it to
Europeans, people are seeing it with
their own eyes and they're, "Oh, that's
a little grandmother from Scotland who's
got a broken leg and you're going to
slam a door into it." Well, what do you
think they've been doing to Palestinian
grandmothers for two years straight?
Other than, of course, blowing their
heads off when they drop a bomb on them
or lighting them on fire when they drop
a bomb on them. What do you think
they've been doing to Palestinian
children? They've been slaughtering them
one by one or a hundred at a time. What
do you think happens when they drop
bombs? So this is so I love the
flotillaa because they're putting a
spotlight where it needs to be and
they're showing the world the disgusting
terrorist Benavir and the disgusting
terrorist government of Israel, the
current government of Israel and how
they do their terrorism. So yeah, that's
how they treat Palestinians on a daily
basis because they think they're uber
mesh, that they are superior and the
Palestinians are subhuman. And so he's
saying, "Look, even though they look
white, even though they are European,
you should treat them like we treat the
Palestinians like subhumans, terrorists.
If you're still defending this Israeli
government, you lost your moral threat
at some point. You You just lost it.
You're so blinded and biased. You're
like, "No, starving the children is a
good thing. That's what the moral army
would do." 87 87. So like, I got it. I
got it. But the rest of the world sees
it clear as day. And the flotilla is
Khanna tries to get American home
just yet another example. And by the
way, and I don't know if you know this
part of the story, Roan has been trying
to um get in touch with a Jewish
American who's a from California who's
part of the flirtillaa. And Israel's
like, "Shut up." For a long time, they
would not even respond. And then he he's
asking our government, Marco Rubio, can
you please find out the whereabouts of
the American citizen there? And Marco
Rubio, no response. Cuz the American
government,
yeah, they don't care about us. They
don't care about us. No.
Are you kidding me? No. We're just pay
pigs for that foreign government. They
don't care about us. Marco Rubio is a
disgusting hack. Did you know that Marco
Rubio was vetted by Oracle founder Larry
Ellison as he was running for the
Republican primary in 2015? Homeboy was
literally sharing his presidential
speeches with Larry Ellison for
approval. It's disgusting. Forget about
that. For Hold on. Hold on. Forget about
that. and we got to move on because I
just want to give you one point of
victory here. It's a small thing, but we
got to take the wins where we can get it
because the Israeli authorities were so
obsessed and so preoccupied with uh
detaining and terrorizing the
humanitarians on the flotilla that it
actually freed up a an opportunity for
Palestinians able to fish
the Palestinians to do something they've
been banned from doing. Fish for food.
Palestinians in Gaza can't fish for food
because if they do, Israeli authorities
shoot and kill them. And because they
were preoccupied, the Palestinians that
you just saw in that video were able to
fish. I just wanted to share that with
you.
Yeah. No, no. So that that's actually
super important because almost no one
knows about it. As usual, American media
is like, "Oh, I can't criticize Israel."
Israel's been purposely intentionally
murdering the fishermen of Gaza. And you
why the fishermen? Because then they
would be able to feed the population and
they want to starve the population. So
they shoot the fisherman in the head.
That's why, oh, they're distracted.
Let's go fish for a second without the
IDF murdering us. So the IDF is
obviously a terrorist organization. It's
the biggest terrorist organization in
the world right now. It murders
civilians on purpose way more than Hamas
does. That's a fact based on IDF
numbers. Uh 83% civilian kill ratio.
They intentionally murder fishermen.
They treat Palestinians as subhuman.
Israel has lost its way. If you care
about Israel, you need to stop defending
these atrocities and try to get them out
of the morass that they're in. But I
know everybody's blind and can't see. I
got to say one last thing about the
Marco Rubio. We did cover that on
Friday's show. You should check out that
video. And Drop Site News is doing
brilliant work. and Kate, if we can,
let's drop their article about that
story in the description box uh down
below on YouTube because not only did uh
Larry Ellison vet Marco Rubio on behalf
of Israel, this is back in the 2016
election, and then he went said sent a
note back to the Israeli ambassador. He
has been vetted. He will be friendly to
Israel. He then sent him a $5 million
check through a super PAC. That's not
even among the 1 million that Marco
Rubio took from Apac. And then if you
say that out loud, American media goes,
"How dare you say things that are true?
Don't you know the job of the media is
to bury the truth on behalf of Israel?"
Trope. No, he's actually doing it. The
Israeli lobby is actually buying off
almost all of our politicians so that
that we will ignore the atrocious
genocide that that terrorist government
is committing right now.

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IDF Soldiers Break Down Over Gaza Atrocities
The Young Turks
Oct 4, 2025 #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews #TYT

Israeli soldiers are suffering from mental illnesses from the genocide in Gaza. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks



Transcript

[Music]
You're watching Israeli soldiers dump
piles of psychiatric medications on the
table during a Knesset subcommittee
meeting on mental health. The
medications included fentinyl and other
drugs that soldiers have resorted to as
a result of the mental health crisis
they're facing due to their role in the
ongoing genocide in Gaza. and they argue
that the Israeli government is not
providing enough support to keep them
sane. Now, I think anyone that has a
conscience would um struggle with the
slaughter of innocents uh that continues
to happen in the Gaza Strip at the hands
of the IDF. Um, and so this has taken a
toll not only on the innocent civilians
in the Gaza Strip, but it's apparently
taking a toll on the mental health of
the IDF soldiers who interrupted and
protested uh during this Knesset
subcommittee meeting. Now, this has led
to suicides among soldiers. According to
figures cited by Channel 12, at least 12
soldiers have died by suicide so far in
2025. A figure that does not even
include reservists not on active duty at
the time of their deaths. So the number
is actually um an underestimate. It's
actually higher. So in 2024 uh 21
soldiers died by suicide, the highest
annual toll in over a decade. In 2023,
the figure stood at 17, including seven
following Hamas's October 7th assault,
most of them reserveists.
And despite the absolute destruction
that Netanyahu's genocide on the
Palestinian people has led to um both in
Gaza and in Israel, their economy not
doing so well. Uh you have mass protests
happening on a regular basis. It's
tearing the country apart. He doesn't
care. He doesn't care. his complete and
utter disregard for the hostages should
infuriate and enrage people who were
absolutely enraged after what happened
on October 7th because there's no
indication to me that this current
Israeli government has ever given a damn
about the hostages. They have used the
hostages as a pawn to continue carrying
out um you know the butchering and the
brutalization and you know slaughter of
innocent people in Gaza. And so this
again, what we're seeing with the IDF
soldiers, again, I think has a lot to do
with
the death and destruction they're
carrying out. And an Israeli sniper just
spoke to Harets and admitted to killing
innocent civilians, including children,
who are attempting to get aid in Gaza.
Now, you might be thinking, Anna, isn't
this an old story? No. No. This is a new
one. This is a new story with new IDF
soldiers who are essentially reinforcing
previous reporting from Harets that
indicated that they were ordered to
shoot at starving Palestinians at these
aid hubs that you know for the most part
at this point are run by the um Gaza
Humanitarian Foundation. So, uh let's
get to some of the comments, some of the
statements that they've made uh in this
reporting. So, one IDF soldier says it
started about two months ago. The
soldier who went by the pseudonym Benny
told the Israeli paper as part of a
story focusing on the mental toll on IDF
soldiers in Gaza. Every day we have the
same mission to secure the humanitarian
aid in the northern Gaza Strip. It's
like a game of cat and mouse. They try
to come from a different direction every
time and I'm there with the sniper rifle
and the officers are yelling at me,
"Take him down. Take him down." I fire
50 to 60 bullets every day. I've stopped
counting kills. I have no idea how many
I've killed. A lot. Children.
So, as angry as the IDF's conduct in the
Gaza Strip makes me, and it does make me
angry, and you guys all know this,
there's some percentage of those
soldiers who have a conscience. And that
conscience is is weighing heavy at the
moment considering how many innocent
people they know they've killed.
Another soldier who went by yonyi shared
a story about killing two children in
beta laia that's in northern Gaza after
one soldier shouted that that terrorists
were approaching. So without even
confirming anything, you know, they
shout terrorist. And at that point,
according to this IDF soldier, I saw the
bodies of two children, maybe eight or
10 years old. I have no idea, there was
blood everywhere, lots of signs of
gunfire. I knew it was all on me that I
did this. I wanted to throw up. After a
few minutes, the company commander
arrived and said coldly, as if he wasn't
a human being, "They entered an
extermination zone. It is their fault.
this is what war is like. So, it doesn't
surprise me at all that the commander
said that because they're pretty
heartless when it comes to the
Palestinian people. They don't really
seem to have any remorse when innocent
people die. In fact, even when they are
responsible for the slaughter of
innocent people, they someway somehow
managed to blame it on Hamas. But
obviously some of these IDF soldiers
know what the truth is and they really
can't stomach the fact that they're
responsible for killing so many innocent
people.
But it keeps happening and there are no
bricks on this car. And again, Netanyahu
just to prove how little he cares about
anyone, including his own people, he is
tearing his own country apart through
his actions, through the continuation of
this genocide in Gaza. He knows that by
bombing Qatar
as ceasefire negotiations are supposed
to take place with the Hamas
negotiators, well, he doesn't want
peace. He literally blew peace
negotiations up because it was never
about getting the hostages back. It was
always about exploiting the atrocities
that took place on October 7th. fact
that those hostages exist to essentially
carry out a political project that
Netanyahu has always wanted, which is
this expansionist greater Israel policy.
And it also allows him to remain in
power at a time when he's facing serious
corruption charges. That's who Netanyahu
is.
So, the ground invasion in Gaza City
continues
already. We know that a ton of innocent
people have died. You know, you have uh
the former chief of staff uh in Israel
opening up about what the death toll
really is. And guess what? Very similar
to the death toll that keeps getting
reported by the Gaza Health Ministry.
You know, the same health ministry that
the Israeli government wants you to
disbelieve because of the fact that
they're run by Hamas.
But then you have this Halevi guy who's
like
he's not remorseful. Let me just be
clear about that. He's just shedding
light on how many people they've killed
and how many people are injured in Gaza.
So, let's put the first graphic up on
this um because I want to read you some
of his uh quotes. Sorry, guys. I don't
know what happened to my papers. I'm a
mess. Uh but he says, "So, the retired
general told a community meeting in
southern Israel earlier this week that
more than 10% of Gaza's 2.2 2 million
population had been killed or injured.
More than 200,000 people.
Again, these are numbers that are very
similar, very similar to what we have
seen reported by the Gaza Health
Ministry. The current official toll is
64,718
Palestinians killed in Gaza and 163,859
injured since the start of the war on
October 7th, 2023. Many thousands more
are feared dead with their bodies burned
in the rubble.
So I guess part of me feels at least
a little bit of relief that there are
still people who feel guilt, who are
able to feel guilt, who are able to see
Palestinians as human beings.
But even IDF soldiers who have been
speaking out and testifying against
Netanyahu, against the Knesset, against
the Israeli government just get ignored.
And it just kind of shows you the level
of brutality
this uh current Israeli government is
willing to carry out.
Every time you ring the bell below, an
angel gets his wings. Totally not true,
but it does keep you updated on our live
shows.

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Pro-Israel Influencers Are Getting CALLED OUT
The Young Turks
Oct 6, 2025

Benjamin Netanyahu is handing out big cash to influencers who are pushing pro-Israel propaganda. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.



Transcript

All Jews are Israelis, even if you
haven't filled out your paperwork just
yet. Because remember, we were a people
first, far before we were ever a
religion. Judaism was just a way of
life, a set of beliefs and traditions
that our nation followed. So that's why
we speak a Seemetic language. That's why
when we pray, we face Jerusalem and our
synagogues are built to face Jerusalem.
Well, that low cut top was certainly a
choice, a very intentional one because
Israeli paid honeypot propagandists, as
I like to think of them, are flooding
social media as Israel attempts to
essentially launder its current image
and reputation as a belligerent and
genocidal regime. Now, let's back up a
little bit because Netanyahu had met
with American influencers after his UN
General Assembly speech. you know that
speech where literally dozens of
international diplomats walked out
because he is um a war criminal. Yeah,
that one. And uh after meeting with with
them, there were some posts uh from the
prime minister of Israel X page saying
that the prime minister met uh a a after
his UN General Assembly speech with
pro-Israel influencers and spoke with
them about the challenges in the new era
and the public diplomacy efforts and the
influence of the social networks on the
discourse for and against Israel. And
during that meeting, he was on camera
and he just openly said, you know, we
got to take over uh Tik Tok and we got
to have a conversation with Elon Musk uh
to do something about X to ensure that
pro-Israel propaganda is being
dispersed. And um those pictures that he
shared actually ended up coming in very
handy because soon after that meeting,
responsible statecraft had reported that
a cohort of American influencers were
getting paid $7,000
per pro-Israel post on social media.
Now, here's one of the influencers who
was in fact present during that meeting
with BB. Uh she goes by Sheay. She
writes, "This is hilarious. I'm all
about America first, but that doesn't
mean America alone."
Yeah.
Are you? I mean, just note that uh her
handle is
Judan CEO.
Really? You're all about America first?
Okay. Um now she says that America first
doesn't mean America alone but um
you know but many feel America would
actually do better uh without its ties
to a genocidal welfare state like Israel
that relies on US taxpayer money uh in
order to do pretty much everything. Uh
plus Israel needed our bombs uh in order
to carry out strikes in Iran. And in her
post, she makes it seem as though Israel
is protecting the United States by
fighting off Iran. Just not true. And
some are smart enough to see what's
going on here. I want to give you some
of the responses to her post, by the
way. Very pretty girl. I'm not going to
deny that. Uh, however, there she is
with uh Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu. There she is uh with evidence
that she was in that meeting with BB.
One of my favorite uh things that's now
pretty common on social media in
response to posts like this is that
people are making reference to the
amount of money these influencers are
getting paid per pro-Israel post on
social media. I'll give you a taste of
just two of them. Here's one showing
Netanyahu as a game show host giving
$7,000.
Another person posted plus $7,000.
$7,000 has been deposited into your
account. And there are more examples
which I'll give you in just a minute.
But Jenk, uh, what do you think about
this, you know, honeypot propaganda
scheme? Do you think it's going to win
over the hearts and minds of Americans
who have soured on the Israeli
government?
All right, there's three things here.
Uh, two of them are
one is serious, one is hopeful, one is,
uh, light. So, let's get started. First
of all, uh, this could be basically
characterized as tatas for Israel. Um,
okay. And I guess Netanyahu wants Israel
and America to be bosom buddies. Okay.
Don't be a boob, Jen. Don't be a boob.
We should get Colonel Tata back on here
to discuss it. Anyways, um I I mean
that's guys, you got to realize how
funny that is. Again, this is not a left
or right one at all, right? Israel's
basically going like this to you,
thinking, "Oh, dumb American men. Here,
look at Israeli boobs." Okay. So, now
give us Okay. Like, here, uh, I gave
that chick $7,000. Now you give me $13
billion.
Mhm.
Don't let them rob you. Okay.
And so, so it's But Anna, that leads to
the hopeful part, which is in the old
days, nobody would have caught this.
I've seen them run things like this, not
exactly this at all, but different
propaganda campaigns like hundreds of
times and no one ever, of course,
mainstream media works for them, so that
they're useless. We'll come back to them
in a second. But in the old days, there
was nobody to catch them. Now, I don't
even know if it's right-wingers or
leftwingers who are doing these videos,
right? But they're getting caught all
over the place. They're like, "Oh, yeah,
that's another 7,000 uh the 7,000 club.
I made that up." Okay. Anyway, so and
they're all getting called out and I
love it. I love it when the internet
catches people. Everybody's getting
caught. That's a huge phenomenon. Which
leads us to the last point, which is a
serious one.
So BB in that uh gathering with
influencers, we've shown it to you a
couple times, says, "Okay, we're going
to buy Tik Tok. We're going to get
allies. We're going to influence Elon
Musk to be pro-Israel on X and we're
going to control the media and you're
all getting paid." I mean, he's kind of
like literally like a stripper, right?
Because he's like, "All right, here's
the money." like right and so I don't
know if they threw in a lap dance while
they were at it. Uh and so um and then
you go oh it looks like Israel is
obviously
influencing American media and
mainstream media goes anti-semite. Oh
come on guys. Come on. You can't
complain about a trope if you're doing
the trope and you're announcing it to
the world publicly. Right. We are trying
to control American media. You said it.
I didn't say it.
So
So true. So true. But but look, that was
just a little taste. Okay, we've got
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I want to give you um another example.
This one is just so crazy and how lazy
the propaganda is that again, you just
have to laugh. So recently, one of these
uh propagandists tried to lie about the
44 boats that made up the Simud Flotilla
that tried to get humanitarian aid to
the Palestinian uh civilians in Gaza.
And luckily, in her attempt to lie about
the humanitarians and what they were
really up to, um she was just so bad at
it that it was easy to debunk her. And I
want you to get a sense of just how lazy
she was. Take a look. So, this Zionist
lady recently tried to expose the Gaza
Freedom flotilla by claiming that the
boats didn't actually have any aid on
them.
Hi everyone, it is Lizzie Sevki. I'm
reporting to you live from Greta's
flotilla where 44 boats were intercepted
yesterday, allegedly bringing aid to
Gaza. Let's go inside. I'll give you a
tour. Margarita machine and some empty
bottles.
Yeah, hold on, lady. Let's take a closer
look at those empty bottles. The labels
on these products are written in Hebrew,
which means they come from Israel. So,
you're telling me that Greta Thunderberg
brought Israeli products from Sweden, or
did you just plant them here so you
could push your dumbass narrative?
$7,000 has been deposited in your
account. She also claims that there was
paraphernalia and needles on the boat,
but I guess they were too lazy to
actually plant any because she never
shows it.
Like, oh, what? Okay, so the are the
humanitarians doing heroin on the boat?
It's just so ridiculous. It really is.
And of course, she was also pictured
with Netanyahu after his uh UN General
Assembly speech. Let's take a look.
There she is right there in the middle.
You'll also notice that Emily Austin is
in the picture. She's another one of
these uh Israeli propagandists. She's
usually on Pierce Morgan's show getting
her ass handed to her. And on October
17th, she'll be on her take. Really
looking forward to having her on the
show. Um, and so by the way, she's also
the one who put out this banger again.
This is Emily Austin. Take a look.
Imagine supporting people who start wars
just to lose the wars so they can cry
about it and then try it all again.
You must see anti-semites are literally
obsessed with Jews. Now walk with me.
While you must see anti-semmites are
stacking eviction notices, Jews are out
here stacking up businesses.
Jews control all the industries. Maybe
if you spent more time taking notes from
successful people, you wouldn't have to
spend your nights and weekends spreading
hate from your anonymous account with an
anime profile picture.
Do you work as hard as Jews? Do you
network like Jews? No, because you're
too busy cheering on a group of musty
terrorists who smell like dirty earring
backs. And if we're going to keep it
real, you're really mad because your
income is giving side hustle.
Period.
How you going to hate from outside
Shabbat? You can't even get in.
That video is supposed to make people
like Israel. Like, who was that for?
That was so bad. And Jen, there's at
least one person, one influencer who at
least had a little bit of self-awareness
to understand I probably am not going to
look good if I'm in this photo of other
US influencers who are getting bought
off by the nation state of Israel. Let's
take a quick look at that gentleman.
Here he is trying to hide behind hide
behind someone. It's so good. It's so
good.
But don't worry, he's going to be
wearing short shorts in his next video.
And he's like, "Oh, look at this ladies
for come and get it for Israel." And
when Emily Austin's getting her ass
handed to her on Piers Morgan, she'll be
like, "Hey everybody, look at it though.
Look at it for Israel. For Israel, my
ass." That video you just showed was so
weird. So it does two things.
It was so embarrassing. Yeah, it was so
cringey. I can't believe they thought
that was a good idea. But please, by all
means, more more do more of that
real well for Israel.
No, but there is one huge problem. As
always, they're conflating the terrible
actions of the Israeli current Israeli
government with all Jews. Don't do that.
That's what drives anti-semitism, right?
So, they're trying they're almost trying
to egg on anti-semitism so they can
complain about it so that they can keep
murdering Palestinians and then go,
"Yeah, anyone who complains is an
anti-semite." I mean, what was that?
That that whole thing of like, haha, the
Jews are the best. We run all the
industries. You better get a lawyer for
us. What was that? How How's that help
you? That's like maniacal. If Candace
Owens put that out, everybody be like,
"Oh my god, it's the most anti-semitic
thing we've ever seen." So, it's these
guys are nuts, man. And yet, I I I'll
never get over it. as we all the entire
world has woken up the the entire
country left right everyone has woken up
to what's Israel is doing and it's so
obvious because they're literally
shoving it in your face their breast
their ass everything right their money
all of it right the politicians in the
media in America 98% of the powerful
people in this country are like what I
don't see it
what's that oh you must be an
anti-semite if you say Israel is doing
propaganda online or in the media
All right. You guys want to ruin your
whole lives, your careers, everything
just so you can kiss the ass that Israel
is offering up.
That's an embarrassing way to go through
life. But hey, you do you,

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON

STATE OF OREGON; the
CITY OF PORTLAND; and STATE OF
CALIFORNIA,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD TRUMP, in his official capacity as
President of the United States; PETE
HEGSETH, in his official capacity as
Secretary of Defense; U.S. DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE; KRISTI NOEM, in her
official capacity as Secretary of Homeland
Security; and U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY,
Defendants.

Case No. 3:25-cv-1756-IM

SECOND TEMPORARY
RESTRAINING ORDER

[Judge] Mr. Hamilton, let me ask you, how could bringing in federalized National Guard in California not be in direct contravention of the restraining order I issued yesterday?

[Hamilton] The restraining order issued yesterday, paragraph one of it, enjoined implementation of Secretary Hegseth's order to the Oregon National Guard.

[Judge] Mr. Hamilton, you are an officer of the court. Aren't defendants simply circumventing my order which relies on the conditions in Portland? Nothing has changed. There's nothing in my order that has changed.

[Hamilton] No, your honor.

[Judge] So why why is this appropriate?

[Hamilton] Well, the reason is that the California National Guard were federalized under a different presidential memorandum.

[Judge] Mr. Hamilton, you are missing the point, because here it's the conditions on the ground in Oregon that was the basis, that were the basis for my finding that there was not a legal basis to bring federalized National Guard into Oregon. Is there any legal authority for federalizing National Guard for one purpose that is to help California and then to divert them to another purpose in a different state where there's no showing that that is military help that is necessary to assist law enforcement, or to protect law enforcement. or the one federal building here for ICE? Is there any legal authority for what you are doing?

[Hamilton] Well, this section of the US code, section 12406, has not been utilized any time in history. So, there are not many previous precedents from the use of this authority. But --

[Judge] Tell me, why do you think it has not been utilized?

[Hamilton] I can't I I can't speak to that.

[Judge] Mr. Hamilton. So again, if it were the case that you could federalize National Guard in one place, and simply send them to a place where the president doesn't have authority to federalize the National Guard, then what would the purpose of this section of the US code be? You have to have a colorable claim that Oregon conditions require it, but you don't. We have already gone over that. So why is this appropriate?

[Hamilton] Well, again, no additional California Guardsmen were federalized. They were instead relocated from California to the state of Oregon.

[Judge] So are they federalized or are they not?

[Hamilton] They are federalized, but new guardsmen were not federalized. 200 already federalized California Guardsmen were relocated to the state of Oregon.

[Judge] Let me ask you, Mr. Hamilton. You're an officer of the court. Do you believe that this is an appropriate way to deal with my order, or an order that a judge issues, that you disagree with, or is the appropriate mechanism to appeal?

[Hamilton] Well, I I'm not a policy maker, but --

[Judge] You're a lawyer.

Based on this Court’s prior Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs’ First Motion for
Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 56; the hearing on Plaintiffs’ Second Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order; and the newly submitted declarations, ECF 60, 63, 65, this Court GRANTS
Plaintiffs’ Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 59, and ORDERS as follows:

1. Defendants are temporarily enjoined from deploying federalized members of the
National Guard in Oregon.

2. This Second Temporary Restraining Order expires by its own terms in fourteen
days on October 19, 2025.

3. Plaintiffs are ORDERED to post a nominal bond of $100 within 48 hours. The
bond shall be filed in the Clerk’s Office and be deposited into the registry of the Court.

4. Defendants’ Request to Stay or Administratively Stay this Second Temporary
Restraining Order, which was raised in the hearing on Plaintiffs’ Second Motion for Temporary
Restraining Order, is DENIED.

5. The Court Clerk will contact the parties to schedule a telephone hearing on
October 17, 2025, to address whether this Second Temporary Restraining Order should be
extended for another 14 days.

6. Any motion for a Preliminary Injunction shall be filed no later than October 17,
2025; Defendants’ opposition shall be due no later than October 23, 2025, and Plaintiffs’ reply
shall be due on October 27, 2025.

7. A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion and a trial on the merits
under Rule 65(a)(2) is set for October 29, 2025, before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut,
in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.

IT IS SO ORDERED

DATED this 5th day of October.
/s/ Karin J. Immergut
Karin J. Immergut
United States District Judge

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Urgent Message from Recent DOJ Alumni Decrying Attacks on Justice Department

October 6, 2025

We are 282 former career employees who proudly served our country at the Department of Justice. From prosecutors, special agents, and intelligence analysts to immigration judges, grant managers, civil rights attorneys and more, we all carried out our duties faithfully, regardless of who occupied the White House. Until we no longer could.

Each of us left the Department, either voluntarily or involuntarily, because of actions taken by this administration.

Our fidelity to the Constitution and our dedication to our country did not end when our jobs did. Now that we’ve left the Department, we believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DOJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it.

It is incumbent on all of us to fight for the Justice Department before it’s too late.

DOJ’s mission is to “to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights.” It’s failing on all three fronts:

● The Justice Department cannot uphold the rule of law when it carries out the President’s retribution campaign and protects his allies; violates court orders and evades due process requirements; directs attorneys to violate their ethical responsibilities; and fires its employees without notice or cause in violation of civil service laws.

● It also cannot keep our country safe when it ousts FBI employees, prosecutors, national security experts, and ATF officials; shutters offices that prevent community violence and dismantle drug trafficking operations; purges the attorneys who enforce laws that protect the environment; and shifts highly trained special agents away from counterintelligence and counterterrorism.

● And it cannot protect civil rights when it drives out 75% of attorneys from the Civil Rights Division and refuses to enforce the nation’s civil rights laws as Congress intended, using them instead as a cudgel against marginalized groups.

The administration is taking a sledgehammer to other longstanding work the Department has done to protect communities and the rule of law, too. Its plans to eliminate the Tax Division, which saves the country billions of dollars by pursuing tax evaders, will leave us poorer. Gutting the Public Integrity Section and FBI public corruption squads has paved the way for government graft. Cancelling hundreds of millions of dollars in grants has left at-risk communities less protected and crime victims less supported. The list could go on.

As for its treatment of its employees, the current leadership’s behavior has been appalling. This administration’s lies about the “deep state” and exaggerations about government inefficiency have eroded the respect our country once held for public servants. And demonizing, firing, demoting, involuntarily transferring, and directing employees to violate their ethical duties has already caused an exodus of over 5,000 of us – draining the Department of priceless institutional knowledge and expertise, and impairing its historical success in recruiting top talent. We may feel the effects of this for generations.

The Justice Department’s backbone has always been its career workforce, and those who were part of it are best positioned to explain why the current leaders’ actions are catastrophic for the nation.

We call on these leaders to reverse course – to remember the oath we all took to uphold the Constitution – and adhere to the legal guardrails and institutional norms on which our justice system relies.

We call on our fellow alumni to join us in sounding the alarm, and in mobilizing to support our colleagues still there. They deserve respect and gratitude, neither of which they’re getting from this administration.

We call on Congress to exercise its oversight responsibilities far more vigorously. Members in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle must provide a meaningful check on the abuses we’re witnessing.

And we call on all Americans – whose safety, prosperity, and rights depend on a strong DOJ – to speak out against its destruction.

Our democracy is only as strong as the rule of law, and the rule of law can’t survive without the principal institution that enforces it.

JANUARY 2025 DEPARTURES

Jill Anderson, General Counsel, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2006–2025
Leonard Bailey, Special Counsel for National Security, Criminal Division, Retired, DOJ 1991–2025
Brendan Ballou, Special Counsel, Antitrust Division, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2017, 2020–2025
Jay Bratt, Chief, National Security Division, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, Retired, DOJ 1990–2025
Kar Dobinski, Attorney-Adviser, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Retired, DOJ 1985–2025
Jill Anderson, General Counsel, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2006–2025
Leonard Bailey, Special Counsel for National Security, Criminal Division, Retired, DOJ 1991–2025
Mindy Longanecker Deranek, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Deanna McDaniel, Program Analyst, ATF, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Sheila McNulty, Chief Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 1991–2025
Kristina Rose, Director, Office for Victims of Crime, Retired, DOJ 1998–2017, 2021–2025
Cheryl Rost, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Mathew Schutzer, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Kate Talmor, Senior Counsel, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Stacey Young, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Immigrant & Employee Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2006–2025
Aaron Zelinsky, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025

FEBRUARY 2025 DEPARTURES

Anna Baldwin, Senior Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025
Kerrie S. Crockett, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2024–2025
Ryan Crosswell, Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025
Kerry E Doyle, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2024–2025
Riane Harper, Senior Counsel, Criminal Division, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Pamela J. Hicks, Chief Counsel, ATF, Terminated, DOJ 2003–2025
Thomas A. Mariani, Jr., Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired rather than accept involuntary reassignment to Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, DOJ 1986–2025
David McConnell, Director, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, General Litigation and Appeals Section, Retired rather than accept involuntary reassignment to Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, DOJ 1990–2025
Neeta Pal, Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Noelle Sharp, Assistant Chief Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2021–2025
Natalie Teague, Policy Analyst, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025

MARCH 2025 DEPARTURES

Michelle Avery Weston, Grants Management Specialist, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 1997–2003, 2024–2025
Katie Chamblee-Ryan, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Adam W. Cohen, Director, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), Terminated, DOJ 1998–2023, 2025–2025
Christine Coogle, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Joseph S. Gerbasi, Acting Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, Retired, DOJ 1997–2025
Alex Halaska, Senior Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Alex Kristofcak, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Resigned after being placed on administrative leave, DOJ 2022–2025
Holly Lincoln, Director, Fair Housing Testing Programme, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section , Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025
Anthony W. Mariano, Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, Washington Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Lauren Matosziuk, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Martin McDermott, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 1990–2025
Nick Morales, Senior Counsel, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Sean P. Murphy, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Puerto Rico, Appellate Division, Resigned, DOJ 2018–2025
Ellen Noble, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Liz Oyer, Pardon Attorney, Office of the Pardon Attorney, Terminated, DOJ 2022–2025
Bonnie I. Robin-Vergeer, Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Involuntarily reassigned to the Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, then resigned, DOJ 2011–2025
Mike Romano, Deputy Chief, Capitol Siege Section, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, Resigned, DOJ 2007–2025
Amy Romero, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2026
Alex St. Romain, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Vivian Wang, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Taryn Wilgus Null, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025

APRIL 2025 DEPARTURES

Hannah Abelow, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Julianna Astarita, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Bobbi Bernstein, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Retired, DOJ 1990–1992; 1996–2026
Nancy Canter, Senior Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2018, 2020–2025
Peter Carr, Senior Communications Advisor, Office of Public Affairs, Terminated, DOJ 2007–2020, 2023–2025
Astrid Cevallos, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Candice L. Cook, Chief Diversity Officer, Justice Management Division, RIFed, DOJ 2022–2025
Jared Crum, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Tribal Resources Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Joseph Darrow, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Ekta Dharia, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Devon Flanagan, Senior Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Rachel Heron, Assistant Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Patricia Hurst, Senior Counsel, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 1998–2025
Deserea Jackson, Management & Program Analyst, Justice Management Division, Human Resources, RIFed, DOJ 2008–2025
Adam Kinkley, Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, Healthcare and Consumer Products Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Matthew Leach, Paralegal Specialist, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Joseph Manning, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Law and Policy Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Brian McEntire, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Retired, DOJ 2002–2025
Sharanya Mohan, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Angela Munro, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2008–2025
Lisa Newman, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025
Lisa Olson, Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Retired, DOJ 1987–2025
Elizabeth Parr Hecker, Acting Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025
Lauren Reeves, Program Analyst, National Security Division, Foreign Investment Review Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Sarah Ruckriegle, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Sheila Ruffin, Attorney Advisor, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Office of Environmental Justice, RIFed, DOJ 2023–2025
Amy Senier, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
David Steib, Senior Counsel, Office for Access to Justice, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Samantha Trepel, Special Litigation Counsel, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2002–2004, 2009–2025
Leah M. Wolfe, Senior Litigation Counsel, E-Discovery, Civil Division, Resigned, DOJ 2007–2025

MAY 2025 DEPARTURES

Ejaz H. Baluch, Jr., Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Laura-Kate Bernstein, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025
Alan Burch, Civil Defensive Litigation Coordinator, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Retired, DOJ 2003–2015, 2019–2025
Sarah Cade, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2018, 2021–2025
Scott M. Cernich, Senior Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2006–2025
Joanna Citron Day, Senior Counsel, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 2017–2025
Matthew Drecun, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Matthew Faiella, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Laura Fentonmiller, Acting Chief Counsel, Civil Rights Division, Office of Chief Counsel, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025
Danica Glaser, Senior Counsel, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025
Emily B. Goldberg, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Hayley Hahn, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Matthew Harding, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025
Alisha Jarwala, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
April Jean Crook Sultzer, Paralegal, Civil Rights Division, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Carol Koehler Ide, Assistant Chief and Acting Director of Training and Professional Development, Tax Division, Civil Trial Section (Southern Region), Retired, DOJ 1985–2025
Katherine Lamm, Acting Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025
Elisabeth Layton, Attorney, Civil Division, Office of Foreign Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2002–2019, 2025
Courtney E. Moran, Senior Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2014, 2018–2025
Eric Peffley, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2016, 2017–2025
Robert Rich, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Dheitshaa Roma Bala, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Gregory Rosen, Chief, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Capitol Siege Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Erin Ryan, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Elizabeth Ryan, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025
Shan Shah, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025
Nathan Shulock, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Rachel Slywczak, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Adam Small, Trial Attorney, National Security Division, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, Resigned, DOJ 2011–2025
Steven B. Snyder, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Retired, DOJ 1991–2025
Jennifer M. Swedish, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025
Galen Thorp, Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025
Haley Van Erem, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025

JUNE 2025 DEPARTURES

Mark Barcus, Assistant Chief Immigration Judge for attaining and Management , Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2017–2025
Ahmed Baset, Acting Deputy Director of Criminal Litigation, Antitrust Division, Terminated, DOJ 2014–2025
Cassie Crawford, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina, Resigned, DOJ 2018–2025
Michael Feinberg, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, FBI Norfolk Field Office, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025
Dan Freeman, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025
Heather Gange, Senior Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 2004–2025
Mike Gordon, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida, Terminated, DOJ 2017–2025
Rebecca Guterman, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Eric Hostetler, Acting Assistant Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 1996–2025
Emily Keller, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Andrew S. Mainardi, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Erin Monju, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Angeline Purdy, Assistant Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 2001–2025
Marnie Shiels, Attorney Advisor, Office on Violence Against Women, Retired, DOJ 2001–2025
Elizabeth Young, Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Resigned, DOJ 2004–2007, 2016–2025

JULY 2025 DEPARTURES

Ila C. Deiss, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2005–2025
Karen Y. Drolet, Supervisory Financial Manager, Justice Management Division, Terminated, DOJ 2009–2017, 2021–2025
Phillip R. Dupre, Senior Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025
Jennifer Durkin, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Carla I. Espinoza, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Kathryn Fifield, Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Patricia Hartman, Supervisory Public Affairs Specialist, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Terminated, DOJ 2007–2025
Sejal Jhaveri, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Kyra S. Lilien, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Susan Masling, Trial Attorney, Criminal Division, Retired, DOJ 1990–2025
Patricia McKenna, Deputy Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 1999–2025
George D. Pappas, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Kimberly Paschall, Senior Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Irma Perez, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, West Los Angeles, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Jennifer Peyton, Assistant Chief Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2016–2025
Kyle Stock, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025
Allan Townsend, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2018, 2021–2025
Hillary K. Valderrama, Deputy Director, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Civil Rights, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Johanna Valenzuela, Deputy Civil Chief, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025

AUGUST 2025 DEPARTURES

Elizabeth Baxter, Paralegal Specialist, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Terminated, DOJ 1987–2025
Stephanie Berger, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Kacie Candela, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Terminated, DOJ 2022–2025
Corrina Carter, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Janet Chiancone, Deputy Administrator, Office of Justice Programs, Retired, DOJ 1998–2025
Jennifer Chou, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025
Chloe Dillon, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2022–2025
Andrew Doyle, Senior Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 1998–2025
Cynthia Ferguson, Director of the Office of Environmental Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Retired, DOJ 2000–2025
Yuri Fuchs, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025
Fara Gold, Attorney Advisor, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025
Hannah Horsley, Chief, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, National Security and Economic Crimes Unit, Retired, DOJ 1997–2025
Lori Jonas, Counsel to the Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 1994–2025
Robert Juman, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, Retired, DOJ 2016–2025
Barbara Kay Bosserman, Deputy Chief and Senior Legal Counsel, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Retired, DOJ 2000–2025
Alexis Kloiber, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Immigrant & Employee Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Max Lapertosa, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025
Faiza Majeed, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, , DOJ 2023–2025
Carmen Maria Rey Caldas, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2022–2025
Jordan Mathews, Program Analyst for Training and Program Development, Community Relations Service, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Jeremy Monteiro, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Amy Powell, Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Resigned, DOJ 2005–2025
Cherie Rogers, Assistant Section Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Retired, DOJ 1995–2025
LeighAnn M. Rosenberg, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Pearlie Rowan, Legal Support Assistant, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Law and Policy Section, Retired, DOJ 2025
Barbara Schwabauer, Appellate Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025
Sam Stratton, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Kate Thompson, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Lindsay M. Vick, Senior Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2013–2025

SEPTEMBER 2025 DEPARTURES

Elizabeth Anne Saxe, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Mary Atlas-Terry, Grant Management Specialist, Office for Victims of Crime, Retired, DOJ 2005–2025
Lindsay Bailey, Assistant U.S. Attorney, US Attorney’s Office for Central District of California, Criminal Division, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Delia Berka, Paralegal Specialist, Civil RIghts Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Robyn K. Bitner, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Aurora Bryant, Senior Counsel for eLitigation, Civil Rights Division, Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Meredith Burrell, Principal Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Retired, DOJ 1999–2025
Tovah R. Calderon, Principal Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Involuntarily reassigned to Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, then resigned, DOJ 2001–2025
Michael Campion, Chief, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2007–2025
Melissa Carrington, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2015
Lauren E. Case, Attorney Advisor, Office of the Pardon Attorney, Retired, DOJ 2022–2025
Jorge M Castillo, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Florence Chamberlin, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Alec Chapa, Conciliation Specialist, Community Relations Service, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Claire Chevrier, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Young Choi, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Alyssa Connell Lareau, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025
David G. Cooper, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025
Acrivi Coromelas, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Ronda Cress, Attorney Advisor, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Jill Dash, Attorney Adviser, Civil Rights Division, Policy and Strategy Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Joseph DeGaetano, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Resigned, DOJ 2018–2025
Adam Dreher, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Jessica Durney, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Jenna Easton, Grants Management Specialist, Office of Justice Programs, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Alison Elaine Daw, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Sacramento Immigration Court, Terminated, DOJ 1999–2005, 2006–2019, 2023–2025
Ruth Enriquez, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Rachel Evans, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Philip Fields, Intelligence Analyst, FBI, Los Angeles Field Office, Resigned, DOJ 2012–2025
Jill K. Fields, Supervisory Intelligence Analyst, FBI, Los Angeles Field Office, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Maggie Filler, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Clay Fong, Conciliation Specialist, Community Relations Service, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Sheila Foran, Special Legal Counsel, Civil Rights Division, Policy and Strategy Section, Retired, DOJ 1992–1999, 2011–2025
Sydney Foster, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2018, 2021–2025
Erika Fountain, Program Manager, Office of Justice Programs, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Nancy Glass, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Judy Gough, Legislative and Policy Assistant, Civil Rights Division, Policy and Strategy Section, Retired, DOJ 2006–2025
Julia Graff, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Jenna Grambort, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Tamara Hoflejzer, Trial attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Amelia Huckins, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025
Carolyn A. Ikari, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, Civil Division, Retired, DOJ 1995–2025
Alicia Johnson, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Retired, DOJ 1997–2004, 2009–2025
Melody Joy Fields, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Om Kakani, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio, Resigned, DOJ 2013–2025
Teresa Kaltenbacher, Regional Public Information Officer, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Resigned, DOJ 2018–2025
Elizabeth Kohler Maya, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Coreen Kopper, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Nicole Kovite Zeitler, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Beth Kurtz, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025
Teresa Kwong, Senior Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Retired, DOJ 2000–2025
Thomas Landers, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Jillian Lenson, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Joy Levin Welan, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2017, 2019–2025
Shira Levine, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2021–2025
Kerry Lupher, Grants Management Specialist, Office for Victims of Crime, Retired, DOJ 2020–2025
Amanda Maisels, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Retired, DOJ 2021–2025
Megan Marks, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Allena Martin, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Jennifer Mayer, Attorney Advisor, Office of the Pardon Attorney, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Kara McDonagh, Deputy Director, Office for Victims of Crime, Tribal Division, Resigned, DOJ 2009–2025
Melissa McKinnon, Supervisory Paralegal Specialist, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Erin Meehan Richmond, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 2001–2025
Valerie Meyer, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025
Sondra Miller-Wein, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Jenny Mills, Grants Management Specialist, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Kevin Muench, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2024–2025
Qudsiya Naqui, Senior Counsel, Office for Access to Justice, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Maria E. Navarro, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Retired, DOJ 2017–2025
Zachary Newkirk, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Matthew Nickell, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2016–2025
Sara Niles, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Retired, DOJ 2001–2025
Dana Paikowsky, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Ana Partida, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Retired, DOJ 2002, 2016–2025
Beth Pepper, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025
Jessica Polansky, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025
Lisa Porcari, Supervisory Attorney Advisor, Office of the Pardon Attorney, Retired, DOJ 2022–2025, 2017–2022
Kelsey Pormasdoro, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025
Alison Prout, Chief of Training, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Lauren Putnam, Equal Opportunity Investigator, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Julia Quinn, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Anam Rahman Petit, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2023–2025
Nikhil Ramnaney, Chief of Criminal Policy, Office for Access to Justice, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Kit Rees, Investigator, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2021–2025
Dena Robinson, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025
Jeffrey Sandberg, Attorney, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Resigned, DOJ 2011–2025
Jennifer A. Serafyn, Chief, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Civil Rights Unit, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025
Katelin Shugart-Schmidt, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Nabina Sinha, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025
Kate Smith, Supervisory Investigator, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2007–2009, 2015–2025
Maggie Smith, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2014, 2023–2025
Nancy Spodick Healey, Deputy Chief for Litigation, Criminal Division, Child Exploitation & Obscenity Section, Retired, DOJ 1995–2025
Kayla Staph, Special Agent, FBI, Norfolk Field Office, Resigned, DOJ 2020–2025
Patricia L. Stasco, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Employment Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2008–2025
Kristin Stitcher, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2017–2025
Joshua Stueve, Senior Communications Advisor , Office of Public Affairs , Resigned, DOJ 2014–2025
Nicole Taykhman, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Laura Tayloe, Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Andrew Tessman, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Helen Vera, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2019–2025
Sophie Vick, Investigator, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Maya Vizvary, Strategic Communications Specialist, Office on Violence Against Women, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Davené Walker, Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Terminated, DOJ 2015–2025
Lindsey Weinstock, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Resigned, DOJ 2015–2025
Elizabeth S. Westfall, Deputy Chief, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Resigned, DOJ 2010–2025
Sarah Wilson, Assistant Director, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Resigned, DOJ 2011–2025
Kathleen P. Wolfe, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Office of the Assistant Attorney General, Involuntarily reassigned to Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group, then resigned, DOJ 2003–2025
Marisela Zubia, Paralegal Specialist, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Sections, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025

OCTOBER 2025 DEPARTURES

Trevor Kempner, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Resigned, DOJ 2023–2025
Jean Zachariasiewicz, Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Resigned, DOJ 2022–2025

Trump Has NOTHING to Do with Epstein Bday Letter, Pam Bondi Grilled & Federal Workers Go Without Pay
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Oct 7, 2025 #Kimmel

Costco is now offering Ozempic and Wegovy for half price, hundreds of thousands of federal employees are working without pay including air traffic controllers, the tower at Burbank Airport went unstaffed for six hours yesterday, Mike Johnson said Republicans are praying it’ll be a “very short shutdown,” Trump was asked whether furloughed employees would get retro-active compensation, Marjorie Taylor Greene gave a shocking statement about health insurance, Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House and gave him his vision of what America would have been like under President Harris, the Senate Judiciary Committee was at work today hearing testimony from Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, she refused to deny that border Czar Tom Homan was seen accepting $50k in cash, she dodged a question regarding whether the FBI found photos of Trump and Epstein with topless women, and since Donald Trump claims to have nothing to do with the now infamous Epstein birthday letter, we decided to do a bit of research to see if everything adds up.



Transcript

Hi everyone, I'm Jimmy. I am hosting.
Thank you for joining us here.
Hold on one second. I appreciate that.
But I
I could be wrong.
I'm pretty sure that this guy was
chanting Jerry. Yes.
Yeah, you know, you just you get up and
then you just go down.
Yeah.
You know, with all the bad stuff
happening, it is nice to hear some good
news for a change. And oh, here it is.
Costco is now offering OMIC and WGOI for
half price.
One month supply of those drugs is now
only $500. You don't even need a
prescription. All you have to do is
order three hot dogs at the food court.
They'll automatically give it to you.
Selling Ompic at Costco is kind of like
having an AA meeting at Cabo Wabo, isn't
it? But that's something, right? Maybe
we should let Costco run this country.
President Costco would definitely get my
vote. We are on day seven now
of the Trump government shutdown.
There's been no progress of any kind.
Hundreds of thousands of federal
employees are working without pay,
including air traffic controllers, which
is insane. Why they don't have a special
category for the people who keep the
planes from crashing, I don't know. But
this was the scene yesterday just over
the hill from us in beautiful downtown
Burbank. We just spoke to air traffic
controllers here at Burbank Airport in
the last few minutes and they can now
confirm that they will be heading home
at 4:15 this afternoon. As of 4:15 this
afternoon, there will be no air traffic
controllers inside of that tower right
there.
That's bad, right?
Try to land at 4:14 if you can. What are
the pilots supposed to do when they're
in no air? Just aim for the chilies to
go. It's the tower in Burbank went
unstaffed for 6 hours yesterday. They
had to manage the flights out of San
Diego. And listen to this audio of a
pilot from I I think United Airlines
tower. This is United 2304 requesting
permission to land.
Thank you for calling the Burbank
Airport Control Tower. Please listen
closely as some of our menu options have
changed. For takeoff, press one. For
landing, press two. For all other
inquiries, stay on the line. An operator
is not standing by.
That's great. Soon when we fly, we will
soon have
the same number of air traffic
controllers the Wright brothers had.
Trump really is making America great
again. Flights out of Burbank were
delayed an average of two and a half
hours yesterday. Air traffic controllers
are considered to be considered to be
essential workers, which means they are
required to work even if they aren't
getting paid. Meanwhile, Congress, the
people who actually shut the government
down are getting paid in full. Don't
even try to make sense of it. The logic
doesn't fly. And I would recommend that
you don't either, at least for quite a
while. Our squeaker of the house, Mike
Johnson,
he said Republicans are praying it'll be
a very short shutdown, which is good.
That'll help prayer. Trump was asked
today whether furled employees would get
retroactive compensation once the
shutdown's over, which is required by
law, but you know, the law can be a very
ambiguous thing.
Is it the White House's position that
furled workers should be paid for their
back pay? Uh, I would say it depends on
who we're talking about. I can tell you
this, the Democrats have put a lot of
people in great risk and jeopardy, but
it really depends on who you're talking
about. But for the most part, we're
going to take care of our people. There
are some people that really don't
deserve to be taken care of, and we'll
take care of them in a different way.
Why Why does he always sound like the
dumbest member of the crime family?
You remember in Good Fellas, uh, Frankie
after the airline heist, he immediately
bought his wife a fur coat. Frankie is
our president now. Delvito Corleó. The
reason the Democrats refuse to sign this
budget agreement is because it will
cause millions of Americans to lose
their healthcare. Republicans deny this.
They say it won't hurt anyone at all.
And if you had any doubt that they were
lying before, consider this shocking
post from the gentle woman from Georgia
who wrote, "I'm not a fan of Obamacare,
but I'm going to go against everyone on
this issue because when the tax credits
expire this year, my own adult
children's insurance premiums for 2026
are going to double along with all the
wonderful families and hardworking
people in my district." No, I'm not
towing the party line on this or playing
loyalty games. And I know this sounds
crazy, but I will say it for the second
time in a month. Marjorie Taylor Green
is right.
I know. I
need something to wash out my mouth. Oh,
she's right. Trump met at the White
House today with the prime minister of
Canada, Mark Carney. This poor guy. You
know, Trump
slapped a 35% tariff on Canada after
claiming Canada is a significant source
of migrants and fentinel entering the
United States. And now, in order to get
relief from that tariff, Carney has to
promise he'll cut off the flow of drugs
coming over the Canadian border, which
shouldn't be difficult because of all
the fentinel seized at the US border
last year, 0.2% of it came from Canada.
So basically what Cardi has to do is
like convincing uh your toddler you got
rid of the monster under his bed. He's
gone now. These poor Canadians, it is
like living on top of a meth lab. We
want safe cities. If you look at DC, you
would right now, Mark, you could go out,
take your family out to dinner, you
could walk right down the middle of the
street. There is no crime in DC. Uh when
I got here, this place was a raging hell
hole.
And now it's a raging heaven hole. Thank
you, dear leader. And then raging bull
crap treated the prime minister to his
vision of what America would have been
like under a president Harris.
If we didn't win this election, if we
had these people that were running, that
were ruining our country, destroying our
country with their open borders and men
playing in women's sports and
transgender from everybody and windmills
all over the place.
I'm sorry. I I'm not sure I I heard that
correctly. What was that last item?
Windmills all over the place.
There would be windmills all over the
place. They would have turned the whole
country into a little Dutch village.
I mean, he must have gotten his hair
tangled in a windmill at a mini golf
course or something. It's every day he
says something that would rank right at
the top of the most ridiculous things
any president has ever said. And the
people who work for him, they can't get
enough of it.
What a difference the presidency makes,
Jesse. Right. I mean, we are now totally
over that destructive, stupid era of
toxic masculinity. And now we're in an
era of real masculinity thanks to the
bold muscular leadership of President
Trump and our Secretary of War Pete Hed.
It sounded better in the original North
Korean, but you get the idea. He's got
bold and muscular leadership.
Old muscular. That's right. The swollen
steroid blasted areolas of Donald Trump.
The Senate Judiciary Committee was at
work today hearing testimony from
Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Bondi refused to deny that Borders are
Tom H. Home. Homeman was seen accepting
$50,000 in cash in a paper bag at a Cava
restaurant. He hasn't even denied this
yet. How crazy is it? $50,000 in a bag.
The FBI got it on tape. He's still
running the border. He's still in charge
of rounding up illegals. Hey Tom, if
you're looking for illegals, we found
one living in your house. It's there
were a lot of questions about the
Epstein files. There were no answers
about the Epstein files. Bondi answered
none of them. You know, the author,
Michael Wolf, who has interviewed Trump
repeatedly, says he's seen about a dozen
photographs of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
with topless women. Trump's BF Jeff kept
them in his safe and showed them to this
guy. This morning, uh, Rhode Island
Senator Sheldon White House asked Bondi
if the FBI found those photos.
There's been public reporting that
Jeffrey Epstein showed people photos of
President Trump with half naked young
women. Do you know if the FBI found
those photographs? You know, Senator
White House, you sit here and make
salacious remarks once again trying to
slander President Trump left and right.
Didn't hear the word no there. Did you?
Did you hear it, GMO?
No.
No, I didn't hear it either. Well, maybe
it'll help if Senator White House
repeats the question. The question is,
did the FBI find those photographs that
have been discussed publicly
by a witness who claimed Jeffrey Epstein
showed them to him?
You don't know anything about that?
Okay.
Did you eat the Polaroids yourself?
Attorney General, please. And then
Senator Dick Durban of Illinois jumped
in. Attorney General Bondi, why did you
publicly claim to have the Epstein CL
client list waiting for your review and
then produce nothing relevant to that
claim?
Senator Der Senator Dervin, if you
listen to my entire clip on that, I said
I had not reviewed it yet, that it was
sitting on my desk along with the JFK
files, the Martin Luther King files, and
I said I had not yet reviewed it.
Right. Other things to do. Do you want
Bigfoot making your kid trans? No, let
me do my job. One thing we know for sure
is that Donald Trump doesn't want us to
see these files, which to me is all you
need to know. I mean, you walk in on
your teenager, he suddenly pulls up the
covers and slams his laptop shut. I
think you have a pretty good idea of why
you don't need to look at his browser
history. But for whatever reason, we are
still waiting for those files. One thing
Pam Bondi did not get asked about is the
now infamous Epstein birthday letter
that was released last month by the
House Oversight Committee. Trump is
suing the Wall Street Journal for $10
billion over this letter, which our
doodler and chief denies he had anything
to do with.
Did you sign the WFC birthday letter?
It's not my signature and it's not the
way I speak. And anybody that's covered
me for a long time know that's not my
language. It's nonsense.
It's an interesting statement. It's not
the way I speak. And anybody that's
covered me for a long time knows that's
not my language. Now, we've been
covering Donald Trump for what feels
like a very, very long time. And in the
interest of fairness, we decided to do a
bit of research to see maybe he's right.
Does he use the words and phrases that
are used in that letter? That's not for
me to say. It's for you to decide for
yourself.
Voice over. There must be more to life
than having everything.
Look what I have. I have everything.
I have everything.
We have everything.
Donald, yes, there is. But I won't tell
you what it is.
Oh, yes, there is. And I won't tell you
what it is.
Yes, there is. I won't tell you what it
is.
I won't tell you who it was. But,
Jeffrey, nor will I since I also know
what it is.
Nor do I.
Nor did I. Nor do I.
Nor would I. And I know what it is. I
know what it is. I know what it is.
Donald, we have certain things in
common, Jeffrey.
We have a lot of things in common. I
think we have a lot of things in common.
Certain things certain things things in
common.
Right, Jeffrey?
Jeffrey? Yes, we do. Come to think of
it.
Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
Come to think of it. Come to
Yes, we do.
Donald, enigmas never age. Have you
noticed that?
Carson's an enigma. An enigma.
Have you noticed it? Well, you noticed
that,
Jeffrey. As a matter of fact, it was
clear to me the last time I saw you.
As a matter of fact,
as a matter of fact,
it was clear the last time I saw The
last time I saw him was at Mara Lago.
Trump, a pal is a wonderful thing.
He's my friend. My pal.
He's my pal. Is a wonderful thing. It's
a wonderful thing. Wonderful. Wonderful.
Wonderful thing.
Happy birthday. And may every day be
another wonderful secret.
Happy birthday. Happy birthday. May your
dreams come true. May you all have a
truly blessed Hanukkah. Let's talk about
a big secret. Big secret. Big secret.
Incredible secret. Wonderful.
Wonderful secrets. Secrets.
Our most precious secret. Jeffrey,
wherever you may be, Jeffrey. Thank you.
Oh, happy birthday.
Well, I you know what? I stand
corrected. It definitely wasn't written
by him.
[Music]

Iran's Deadly Missile SHOCKS Israel, War Inevitable | Mohammad Marandi & Ramzy Baroud
Danny Haiphong
Oct 8, 2025

Israel just made a stunning admission as Iran tests a deadly new missile that has the Netanyahu regime cowering in fear. Mohammad Marandi weighs in with the threat of Israel-Iran war 2.0 imminent.



Transcript

There's been a lot of fear coming out of Israeli media, the Iranian military. They have tested one of their most
powerful ballistic missiles. This comes after given these snapback conversations
on sanctions, given renewed talks about aggression on Iran that Iran will respond in a deadly manner. And Iranian
international conducted this interview with Israel's ambassador to the UN, if that is a oxymoron, Danny Denan. And I
think we might find his comments quite interesting about what is actually happening when it comes to uh uh
Israel's capabilities. Could some people say Iran could become similar to Lebanon where Israel can can come in and um do military strikes when
they see fit? How would you respond to that? Well, I don't think that is the case. I think they the infrastructure that they
built in the past was very complicated. So, it's not going to happen very fast. And here you had a general admission
that Israel is not considering strikes again. And in large part because it can't become another Lebanon. It can't
become another site where Israel just has kind of cart blanch abilities to hit whenever they want.
Well, that media outfit is actually funded by the Israeli regime. And during
the 12- day war, they were based in Tel Aviv and and Als and and sobbing for the
the the colonizers and they are deeply despised among ordinary Iranians. People
are no longer afraid. The Iranians when the Israelis carried out this blitzkrieak attack and slaughtered
ordinary people. some uh I think I said on your show during the the during that
time that quite near to where I live, they just destroyed an apartment block,
killing everyone inside so that they could kill one person. Uh I think 20ome kids were killed in that building and
then Western media calls it a a an intelligence coup. There's no
intelligence coup. I mean, no senior Iranian official or scientist or general
hides in Thran. They live in their homes like everyone else. People in their neighborhood know where they live. It's
no secret. And uh for them just to knock down an apartment built block, which is
of course what they do all the time, the Israelis. They've been doing that in Lebanon during the war. I I was in
Lebanon last year when Seah Hassan Nasulah was martyed. They just massacred, you know, people and and
Western media would they would frame it as Hezbollah strongholds or Hezbollah
targets in order to hide the fact that they were basically targeting ordinary
people. They just wanted to destroy Beirut and Balbach and and other cities
and slaughter women and children just like they did, as I said, where they killed all the kids in this in this
family and the father who were Americans. That's just what they do. But the Iranians are not afraid. As soon as
the war started, after the blitz creek and after the murder of all these senior military officials, the Iranians struck
back and they struck back hard and they did it day after day and they basically
uh controlled the skies over Palestine. The Israelis could do nothing about
Iranian missiles. And during the last few days, if we go back and recall what
Steve Bannon said, and Steve Bannon is someone who knows what's going on in the United States, he said the real story is
that Trump saved Netanyahu during the last three days of the war, three, four days of the war, Netanyahu was begging
for a ceasefire, and Trump was sending messages to Iran to please stop. And ultimately, he had to give concessions
until Iran finally accepted a halt in the strike. So no one is afraid of the
Israeli regime anymore. We saw Iranians go to the streets under missile fire
across the country in support of the armed forces. They thought that by killing all these people they could
create chaos in the country. But they did the opposite. They brought people
under uh one command and steadfast. They made them steadfast and determined to
defeat this this genocidal enemy. this enemy that considers everyone subhuman
except for themselves. This enemy which has the full support of the west. When they carried out the war against Iran,
the Europeans said Israel has the right to defend itself. So they launch a war and they have a right to when they're
killing Palest slaughtering Gazin families. They have a right to defend themselves. When they slaughter people
in Lebanon, they have a right to defend themselves. when they slaughter ordinary people in Yemen, the 31
journalists, they targeted those journalists. Did you see any outrage in
the New York Times or the Washington Post or the or the Guardian or the
Independent or those who pretend to be uh alternative or or different from No,
they're they're all they're because they're all the same. They're all controlled. It's either controlled
opposition or they're, you know, or they're they tow the government line. So, but all of these are carried out to
defend themselves. And I think that uh the 12-day war between Iran and Israel
was a a defining factor in this war. The biggest the biggest change I mean the
number one defeat for the Israeli regime in these two years is its delegitimization
in the eyes of the world. The Israeli regime was never legitimate,
neither within the 1967 borders or beyond the 1967 borders. In fact, um
Desmond Tutu, who your younger viewers may not know,
but he was a an important force in in South Africa during apartheid.
uh he went to Palestine and uh visited after the fall of
apartheid South Africa and he said that the situation in Palestine is far far
worse than what he saw in South Africa during a part time and this is before
October the 7th. We're not talking about Desmond Tutu's passed away years ago. So
the biggest change is that in the eyes of the world that have been um that that
for the for the most part were ignorant about what was going on before they were being mis misled by western media,
western think tanks, western elites, western diplomats and journalists and politicians.
They now see the regime for what it is. It is carrying out a holocaust. It is as illegitimate as Hitler. In fact, this is
in many ways more evil because they're doing it in front of the eyes of the world. They're doing it in front of
cameras every day where we we never saw what Hitler did. We never saw what the
tyrants of human history did. We read about them in history books. Maybe a picture or two from Algeria,
maybe a, you know, a grainy picture from Kenya or something from, you know,
India. We hear about these things or we read about these things, but here we're seeing the most horrific images ever
literally every single day. And even though Twitter and
Facebook and Instagram and others are do doing their best to to to make them all
disappear and of course Tik Tok will do a really good job quite soon to make everything disappear,
but uh but the regime has become delegitimized. However, the 12-day war
was a defining moment because for once, someone hit back really hard and the
Israeli regime was losing the war and they had to beg for a ceasefire. They were defeated by Hezbollah in 2006.
But this is something very different. They were hit very hard. And the regime
today, if it was to attack Iran again, it would be much worse because the Iranians the the regime gave it its its
its its be best shot. They used everything they had. This was a regime
change operation as they call it. They use all the latest technology. I mean
the uh Ukrainian regime could only dream of the weapons. Zalinski could have can
only dream of the weapons that Israel has, Israeli regime has.
But the and the Iranians were caught off guard. The Iranians I mean there is something I should point out. The Iranians knew that an attack was going
to happen. They knew that an attack was going to happen that night in fact, but they didn't know that the regime was
going to target the state. They thought they were going to bomb the nuclear program or the bomb military bases, but
they didn't think that they were going to go rogue. And that was a mistake. The Iranian the Iranians miscalculated. It
was a failure. But despite that, they turned things around and they the tide
turned and they defeated the regime. So the the regime is now is is now
illegitimate. It is vulnerable. And what Yemen is doing, it is reminding us of
the vulnerability of the regime. But again, I have to stress what Ansar has
said repeatedly, the armed forces of Yemen, the government of Yemen has said repeatedly, "Stop the Holocaust and we
will stop the siege. End the massacre of children and we will
stop blocking ships from crossing through the Red Sea." It's quite simple.
What Ansar is doing, what the Yemen armed forces are doing, what the Yemeni government and people are doing is that
they're implementing the genocide convention. Something that the West not only
refrains from doing, it refuses to do. It is doing the exact opposite. in that video of the Tel Aviv funded outlet
Iranian international it's almost like they were trying to go the ambassador into um cheering on another uh another
iteration a round two against Iran uh but your reaction to the response which
was um you know I don't know the Iranian they say infrastructure is civilian you
know infrastructure is troublesome uh what is the impact of Iran's ability to
stand up, to fight back, to not be afraid, as Professor Morandi said, and to do things like as conversations are
happening with the E3 around snapback sanctions and there are demands for Iran to get rid of its not only nuclear
program but also its ballistic missile program that Iran is testing their missiles because they're getting ready
to defend themselves again. Uh what kind of message is this sending? Absolutely. I I think this has a lot to
do with the degree of arrogance um u within the Israeli establishment.
Um you know you are always fighting against enemies who are much weaker than you are and with time Israel kind of
reached this calculation that it's invincible that that no one is strong enough to fight Israel. I mean is the
Israeli um arm uh industry, arms industry is um at one point I think it
was number seven or eight in terms of global exports. Israel has been seen as
kind of a heavy lifter in the arms market you know and you know and and Iran has been a country under an
American siege a western American siege for such a long time. So they must have
reached some major miscalculations there. not only regarding Iran's capabilities
but also regarding the the nature of the Iranian response thinking that well you
know we are the you know we have this insurance and the insurance is Washington no matter what happens
Washington will always come to the rescue Washington will never allow us to sink financially economically
uh you know Washington will provide even when Ansarah placed a siege on uh Elat
and and and the Red Sea uh effectively shutting down the uh the the the port
which one of the main sources of food uh to Israel. The Arabs came to the rescue
and by the way they are still coming to the rescue providing this kind of alternative
uh you know u US sponsored alternative route to get the Israelis fed and and to
make sure that their kids have toys and their pharmacies have medicine and all the rest while their own brethren in
Gaza are you know being raped and die from hunger and pulverized by Israeli
bombs. So, Israel is always rest assured that Washington will always make sure
that no matter how bad things get for Israel, it will be okay. That was the
understanding. Um, and we have to also place that within a context and the context is that Iran has been the top
target for for Israel for such a long time. I mean, we go back to the Iraq war
where the neoconservatives made made it clear to the American public that the threat was not the
threat was not only Iraq and the Iraqi military as far as Israel is concerned,
but also Iran. And even before the
American Western war on Iraq, Netanyahu was speaking in Congress, was speaking
at in various US platforms telling them Iran is even a bigger threat than Iraq.
So he kind of been building this massive political discourse around the idea that
Iran needs to be eliminated for Israel to finally feel a sense of safety. This
goes for, you know, this been going on for a long time. And we all remember Richard Pearl with his famous, you know,
securing the realms document done on behalf of the Netanyahu or for the sake
of the Netanyahu government, kind of trying to rearrange the Middle East in
Israel's favor, you know, rolling back Damascus,
you know, regime change in Iraq, you know, uh, eliminating Iran and that sort
of thing. And and then that opportunity came the opportunity came with the the rise of
the Trump administration. One of the most foolish administrations in the history of that country. Yes, they are
all to various degrees have been quite criminal. But there is a difference
between c being criminal but also criminal and and foolish as well. this
administration. I don't even know if we are to as future historians when they
try to try to understand the doctrine. What is the Trump administration's
doctrine uh in the Middle East or globally? Nobody knows. Nobody knows.
It's a huge mess. His speech at the United Nations is one of the most embarrassing political spectacles not
only in the history of the US but in the history of the UN as well. Well, he took
advantage of this criminal uh um you know fundamentalist foolish
administration to finally carry out the major attack on Iran. And as professor
Morandi has said indeed they have gone all the way. I mean they they activated
not only their entire uh air defense or or their entire uh um you know um uh air
force uh but also an air defenses but also intelligence. They went for the
civilian infrastructure. They were trying to get to you take advantage of
the political uh schism in Iranian society which is natural and normal in
any society. They tried to take advantage of all of these things and to finally take down uh the Iranian
government and they miserably failed. You know, there's a saying that says if
you if you um uh hit the king, you better kill the king or something of that nature. And they actually went
forth. They were trying to kill the king and they couldn't. And as a result, Iran has been restoring
uh um you know, all of its defenses, its radars in particular. They have been building this uh kind of like filling
all the loopholes regarding intelligence and so forth. What can Israel do in the
next strike that they having done in the previous one? What are the surprise
cards that Israel will have in the next confrontation with Iran? They have
already pretty much showed all of their cards. It would be shocking to see any new elements uh to um the Israeli attack
on Iran that have not been used so far. And that creates a huge problem here
because again Netanyahu has been basing his entire career since he became prime
minister I think the first time in 1996 until today on this crown jewel the
taking down of the Iranian government and he had that chance and he miserably
failed and nothing has changed as far as the military equation in the Middle East neither in Gaza nor in in Yemen nor
elsewhere. So what can they do that they haven't already done? Now we already know and I'm going to finish with that
that Israel has already been on the path of what they call suicide nationalism.
You know where you know heck with the consequences. Let's just do what we can and let's just see. Let's see what the
outcome is going to be. So Israel could in fact go and start a new war against
Iran. And the Iranians must be very much aware of that considering the fact that
Israel just hit one of the closest allies of Washington outside of NATO and
that is DHA. So wouldn't they try to hit Iran again? Yes, they would. They could, they might. They will. But what can they
achieve apart from that? I think very little if any at all. And I think the
counterattack from Iran most likely is going to be even more decisive than the last one. uh United States side uh as
Ramsey was saying has a very confused policy right now in West Asia but the default is of course uh total support of
Israel and that total support of Israel by the Trump administration is getting quite petty and almost pathetic. Uh
during UN week, we had stories like this. Iranian diplomats in the US being barred from shopping at retailers like
Costco uh as a national security measure. And this comes in the context,
Professor Randi, of big conversations happening. maybe you can help us understand uh because uh while the Trump
administration is putting Iran kind of in the in the back uh seat area given uh
uh everything that Ramsay just said, all the challenges uh that it faces, there still is this question of snapback
sanctions and Iran's participation in so-called nuclear inspection where you
have lawmakers pushing for a complete withdrawal from the IAEA and uh there's
been some back and forth around that. So, uh talk about where Iran is
regarding uh its position visav the US and Israel uh as these uh so-called
negotiations go back and forth. I think Iran recently just said too that US negotiations out of the question.
They're only talking to Europeans now uh lightly and they're supposed to be snapback sanctions coming soon. Your
thoughts? You know, Danny, the the US is fully supportive of Israel, obviously,
and Trump, for whatever reason, whether it's because of Epstein or uh or
whatever, he he is totally in bed with Netanyahu. But um but the American people aren't.
And even after the death of Charlie Kirk, when we see people pointing figure
fingers at the Israeli regime, uh so many people in the United States believe it. I don't know what happened to
Charlie Kirk. Uh I know that the FBI um official uh version doesn't make much
sense. But the very fact that people point fingers at the regime or when they
now when they speak about 911, they no longer believe the official story and
they start pointing fingers at the Israeli fingers at the Israeli regime or JFK and so on. shows how despised the
regime is, how widely despised it is. Now, you can shut down Tik Tok, you can
shut down everything else, but people have woken up. People are seeing the reality. A holocaust is not something
that you can really hide that easily. So,
today the world that we live in is very different from the world that we lived in two years ago. just these two years
have been have made things fundamentally different and and the regime by the way is has been shown to be detrimental to
US interests. It is dragging down the entire west with it because the world
sees this as a a a holocaust being carried out by the collective west.
people, young people in the west, people across the world, they're looking in horror. In future the United States
cannot talk about human rights or human values or freedom or freedom because
increasingly we see people being uh oppressed in the United States, people
being jailed, people being deported, people being uh taken to court, uh people losing
their platform simply for for defending Palestine, simply for protesting against
a genocide. It's is quite stunning. So the soft power of the United States, the
soft power of the West has been utterly demolished across the world. People have
much more respect for nonwestern countries than Western countries despite
the fact that the West has been demonizing them successfully somewhat for decades, for many decades, Iran in
particular. So this this is a fundamental shift and I think as Ramsay pointed out the
Israelis are not all knowing. Uh they miscalculated in this war and they
failed. Uh it was a blitz creek but they still failed. And not only does it show
the the power of Iran and the public legitimacy of the state but it shows how
the Israeli regime miscalculates. And it also shows how uh how much Iran knows
about Israel, how much Iran knows about the regime, that Iranian missiles could
strike their targets with uh great effect and to get right through those
many layers of of defenses that are that have been put together by the Americans
and the Europeans and through radar bases in Turkey and across the Persian
Gulf. as they used the airspace of Jordan and Syria, they still failed. And it shows,
by the way, that these missile capabilities that Iran has, which is
probably the among the two, three, four most advanced missile systems in the
world alongside probably the the Chinese and and the Russians. It shows that
despite sanctions, what a country can do and what an independent country can do
and what people in the global south can do. We no longer live in the world where the west can pretend and claim that they
have all the knowledge and that we must go to them to learn how to do things and
they're they're always a step ahead of us. And that is one of the myths that the Israeli regime always used, always
pretended that it knew more, that it it had better intelligence, that it had better capabilities. But it lost in this
war. And it lost in this war despite the fact that the western that western intelligence agencies collectively were
helping them. their embassies in Iran, their embassies in countries around Iran, and of course, sadly regional
countries, countries neighboring Iran, the Republic of Ozaran, a close ally of
the Israeli regime, Erdogan, an ally of Netanyahu of sorts in the Persian Gulf.
Despite that, this the country was able to defeat the regime. And next time round, it's going to be far worse
because Iran is now prepared. They've given it their best shot and now Iran has learned their capabilities and
they're building up their defensive and offensive capabilities. But this I think is a big win for the global south. This
should give self-confidence to young people everywhere that we can do things
that they can do things in their own countries whether it's in South Africa
or South Southern Latin America or whether it's in Central Asia or South
Asia, West Asia, East Asia, these young people, they can do wonders and no one
can stop them as long as that they have that determination. The Israeli regime is
really the final colony of the west, the final major colony in the west that has
occupied a part of the global south. But the coloniz the colonization of the mind
still exists. It is something that we've been dealing with for hundreds of years. Our minds have been colonized for so
long. But this is gradually collapsing. What an every time Ansar Allah hits back
something something breaks in you know something breaks some part of this
colonization falls falls from this broader uh network
from this broader image and I think that Iran's response uh the resistance
together and of course as of course the people of Gaza the the heroic resistance
in Gaza uh Hamas, uh Islamic, Jihad, and the other smaller groups, all of them, and
the people, the women and the children who who who simply refuse to give up
their land, who simply refuse to leave despite uh the the genocide. They're
they're showing the global north, the West, that uh they are not all powerful.
The West is destroying itself. Every child that they kill, they're destroying themselves. So they're being destroyed
economically. They're being And by the way, as the West declines economically
by antagonizing everyone, literally, everyone, China, Russia, Iran, but now
India, and Brazil among others, they're antagonizing everyone. So, and as the
West declines, does that benefit the Israeli regime? No. Because this is this puny regime is completely dependent on
handouts from the west. Without a powerful west, they are not powerful. So
as the fortunes of the west decline, so do the fortunes of the Israeli regime. So their economies are on the decline.
Their military is on the decline. They their soft power is destroyed. The world
is changing much faster than we think. These are very dark times. And I and I'm
not saying that this darkness is going to go away anytime soon.
But those who have imposed this darkness upon us and upon the world, they are
faltering. They are growing weak. They are growing vulnerable. And it shows.
And the best thing about it is that young people in these countries are
waking up. young Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, people from all walks of life,
they're waking up and they want something different. They want a sane government. They want a sane uh
political establishment that builds America, that builds Britain, that BR
builds France and builds Germany and has a decent relationship with the rest of
the world. And that's what the rest of us want too. Even those people in the west who are
anger angry about immigrants and dark-kinned people like ourselves,
they are coming to the recognition that all these wars are the reason why people
have immigrated there. Otherwise, people are are fine where they were fine where
they lived. The the Syrians were fine until the dirty war. The Libyans were
fine until they destroyed the country. People across Latin America were fine until the Americans destroyed their
economies and their governments by by supporting dictatorships and cruel and brutal regimes and and and so on and so
forth. Afghanistan. You know, you you may not know this, Danny, uh but since it's a country
neighboring Iran before the revolution in Iran,
Afghanistan had uh in many ways it was more developed than Iran. I I have to go
back to the numbers but there there uh the the percentage of people who went to
school or uh I mean the our region was very bad. The Iran was very bad under
the sha despite all the oil that was exported but but the situ but
Afghanistan and Iraq were both countries that were they were they were doing okay
compared to other countries in the region. It was the United States that destroyed Afghanistan. It wasn't even
the Soviet Union so much. I mean, I'm not saying the invasion of Afghanistan was an unacceptable crime, but the
United States encouraged them to invade. We now know that Carter and his national
security advisor, they plotted in Afghanistan to support these so-called
mujahedin in order to create a Vietnam for the Soviet Union. So, they destroyed
Afghanistan. So these millions of Afghans who've gone to Europe, they didn't go because they just didn't like
their towns and villages and they wanted some to live somewhere else. They went because they were all destroyed. The
same is true in Iraq. The same is true elsewhere. So people in the west are waking up to the reality that the
western political establishment has brought this upon its own people and they are continuing to brutalize people
across the world. I therefore am optimistic about the future. I'm I'm not
pessimistic. But that doesn't mean that things are going to change overnight. They may even get worse. But ultimately,
I think the fact that people are waking up is the most important thing of all.
What we want is a world where people understand what's going on. We we don't
want to live in a world where people are lulled by western media and by the rich and the powerful who create these
narratives and people uh believe those narratives and as a result they they
close their eyes to death and destruction and genocide and and the holocaust.

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Israel's Ceasefire Trap COLLAPSING, Netanyahu FINISHED | Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern & Garland Nixon
Danny Haiphong
Streamed live on Oct 9, 2025 #netanyahu #israel #iran

Scott Ritter and a major panel react to bombshell developments in the Middle East: the Israeli military is on the ropes after being forced into accepting a ceasefire in Gaza which puts Benjamin Netanyahu's future as Israeli PM in danger. As Israel's desperation grows, major global wars with Iran and Russia loom that could go nuclear. Watch this stream for the full story.



Transcript

Welcome everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's your host Danny Haiphong. Hit that like button as you come on the
stream to boost the stream in YouTube's algorithm. Reports are now that Israel, after much delay, has signed on to the
Gaza peace plan touted by Donald Trump, but many suspect that the deal's lengthy
implementation and vague points leave it vulnerable to collapse. Indeed, Israel
is saying it will occupy over 50% of Gaza and has already shelled civilians returning home in the north hours after
the deal was announced. The question is, can Netanyahu end afford to end Gaza's carnage? Can
Israel what does it mean for wars being discussed and plotted by Israel in the
in the US elsewhere like Iran? to discuss this and much more. I have joining me today friends of the show. We
have Scott Ritterder, former UN weapons inspector, US Marine Corps intelligence officer and overall a great analyst on
geopolitics, author, etc. Scott, good to see you. Good to be here.
We have Ray McGovern. He's a former CIA analyst and great geopolitical commentator in his own right. Ray, good
to see you again. Thank you, Eddie. And then we have Garland Nixon. Welcome
back, Garland. He's an analyst and a commentator as well. Hosts the Garland
Nixon show on YouTube. Welcome back, Garland. Thanks for inviting me, Danny. All right. And chat, let me know.
Sharing screens lately has led to some audio issues. So, immediately tell me if
you hear because we might not be able to hear the audio issues. Um, so thanks so much for that. All right, gentlemen. So,
yeah, let's talk about the immediate news right now. And I wanted to start
with you, Scott, on a point that not many people are talking about in terms of why Israel and why there is this
ceasefire plan uh being implemented right now in Gaza. Uh just before this
happened, Scott, Israeli media reported that Netanyahu's rivals were meeting in secret on how to topple the government
by this winter. And uh many have noted including yourself that Netan oh here's
sorry here is the screenshot Israeli media has noted this and they've said that parties uh opposition parties uh
and uh figures uh like Lieberman Golan Natali Bennett and others have been
meeting to topple the government and I know you Scott have talked about Netanyahu's predicament as well as
Israel's overall how about we start with why this uh ceasefire, why this peace
plan has been implemented and what people might be missing about it as uh
the first phase begins. Well, first of all, um it's a plan
that's long overdue. Um you know, Netanyahu has held on to this conflict
uh because it's in his political best interest to hold on to this conflict. uh he u is in dire political straits on the
domestic front. Um he has a you know he leads a coalition
which uh is not um doesn't have peace in its
DNA. Let's put it that way. Um but he's confronted with a political reality
in the United States that if he doesn't do what Donald Trump asked him to do at this point in time, um you know,
American support for Israel is rapidly slipping away. Uh Trump has already publicly noted that Congress is not
under the control of Israel the way it used to be. and the whole Charlie Cook um you know crisis uh you know after
Charlie was murdered you know you don't have an Israeli prime minister go on TV not once but twice saying I didn't do it
we didn't do it unless there's an underlying political fear that some people will think you did it and why
would he fear that because of you know allegations that um Charlie Kirk was
turning away from Israel along with a large part of the uh Christian Zionist Christian evangelical ical movement that
had long served as Israel's um you know core foundation of support here in the United States. So Netanyahu by
continuing this conflict may be preserving in the short term um you know a situation where he avoids being
prosecuted in a court of law for corruption um by remaining as prime minister but he was setting up the
conditions for the strategic defeat of Israel and that would have also brought about his political divide. he needed uh
to find an an off-ramp and this peace plan uh which I want to just quickly
point out um is Hamas's um demands that have been put in place since day one. Uh
so Hamas wins. Uh and that that's the other thing we have to recognize. You
know, Donald Trump simply packaged it and sold it. Um but um so now the
question is okay he's gone down this path and he's preserving his American foundation but what about his coalition
I mean Bing deir smoke and others are threatening to jump ship and if that
happens then Netanyahu is in trouble because his government collapses he's no longer prime minister he can be arrested
and he'll die in prison um I think what we have here is an
opportunity for Netanyahu to build a new coalition. Um, you know, he he's going
to have to dump the uh the far right wing and he can't survive politically without it. But this peace plan um is
linked to Netanyahu and I think Trump can play some back, you know, behind
the-scenes role. And I think there's a coalition that can be built um you know
by some of the names that were mentioned, Vinnie Gance especially, uh a coalition that can be built in Israel
that allows Netanyahu to uh remain as prime minister um for an interim period
while this peace plan is being implemented and and put forward. Um, and that's also one way that Trump can
control Netanyahu to ensure Israeli compliance because now Netanyahu's political future, indeed his um his
personal fortune is dependent upon the success of this. And then once the treaty um is solidified, uh it's run
through its phases, Netanyahu can go into exile, receive some sort of um you
know, amnesty um etc. There's a political deal here that because on the surface, you know, this is not
sustainable. His coalition can't survive. It's about to collapse and left to his own valition, his political
enemies are going to take advantage of that to topple him. So, why would Netanyahu agree to this this peace
treaty? Because it might be the only off-ramp available to him for political survival.
Scott, quickly before I uh go to the others, you mentioned that this is Hamas's uh peace plan. talk about some
of those points uh those demands that uh you said were things that Hamas has
wanted because there has been some concern on social media and other places. Some even saying this is surrender. I definitely don't believe
that given how Hamas I think was saying that they were fighting up until the very last minute here. But uh what's uh
what are these points that you'd like to uh just illuminate for the audience?
Well, the the big thing is the end of the Israeli occupation. Um, look, let's
let's just be very clear here. There's 1,200 Palestinians in Israeli prison today. One of the Hamas U objectives
always get the release of these people to include Bargoodi. Um, who's going to be released? Um, Bargoodi's been in
prison for what, 20 years now? Um, what's he going to see when he comes
out? Because somebody asked me that question. What's he going to see? Ruined Gaza. I said, no, he's going to see
Palestine. Bargoodi is going to leave prison and set foot in Palestine.
Hamas won. Hamas did what nobody else could do. Hamas brought Israel to a standstill. Israel had to accept this
deal. And Palestine is being born because of it. And Bargoodi is going to step on the soil of free and independent
Palestine. That's a Hamas victory. Hamas also is um
I mean that you know those are the big ones. no occupation, a Palestinian homeland,
freedom to the uh to the to the people out you you know Hamas is a resistance
movement and this is where all the anti-Hamas people can just go pound sand. It's a resistance movement. It's
not a terrorist organization, a resistance movement. And when you are no longer occupied,
when you've achieved your goal, you don't need a resistance movement. You
need a government. And if it was a surrender, there would be no role for Hamas in a future government. But notice
the compromise, not that, yeah, Hamas made, but that Trump made at the very end. Hamas isn't going away. Hamas
will be part of this government. Oh, no, no, this is a Hamas victory. Now, we
still need the peace plan to actually be implemented, and Israel's fully capable of screwing this up. There's a million
things that can go wrong, and everything else has to go right. But the notion that this is Hamas surrender, you don't
know anything about anything. If you believe Hamas surrendered on this one, it's Israel that's made all of the
compromise. This is Netanyahu's government. There will never be a Palestinian state. Oh, yeah. Well, guess
what? There is now. You know, Hamas will be destroyed. Not really. You couldn't
do it. Um, I mean, on and on. We could just go back and forth on this. The Palestinian people paid a horrible
price. an unbearable price. But their children and their grandchildren
will not be children of the camps. The camps are over. Palestine is real.
That's a victory. Uh Garland, I want to get you in here. What's your thoughts about uh this
developing situation? Uh please jump in. Couple of things. Number one, what did
Algeria lose? Six, seven, eight, nine million people. um a horrendous I mean you know look at the numbers here
probably a half a million or more but I mean we're looking at some unthinkable numbers
in in in in hindsight and history with terrible losses etc. Algeria is a
independent country, isn't it? And when you look at it, you'll say that terrible losses, they won. They fought for their
freedom. Ask the Algerians if they would prefer that they had not fought and they're still under French um rule. No,
they've, you know, sadly, it's unfortunate, it's a reality. There are people that fight for their freedom and
pay a terrible cost. I'll say this, what does the future look like for Israel? It
will be a pariah nation. um who want to you know certainly the um the
governments in the west will push you know big corporations to throw money in there people won't want to buy stuff
from Israel if you good luck you know flying around the world with an Israeli passport and going to restaurants and
people find out you for Israel you'll be a pariah the future from for Israel is not bright it is dark it is bleak and
the future for the Palestine is the pal Palestine is they paid a price um provided you know we got a long ways to
go. Provided that we can, you know, maintain this uh ceasefire and turn it into a permanent um uh you know, sess
secession cessation of uh host hostilities. Nothing's guaranteed. And
now, if it is bad enough for Israel, they want to pick a fight with Iran and get themselves pummeled the business
pummeled by um Iranian missiles again. So, it's possible, you know, they're doing this so they can go tangle with
Iran. But the future looks very very dark for Israel and it looks bright for uh for the for the people of Palestine
in my opinion. Yeah. And and Rey, you know, I I definitely agree with Scott. You know,
we it it because of everything that's happened over the last several years leading up to this moment, there's certainly a bigger push now for
Palestinian state. And in fact, there could be a framework inside of this deal uh that could lead to that. But of
course, many are suspicious about Israel. Israel is of course delaying
things and are kind of behaving as they did at the first ceasefire plan at the beginning of the Trump administration.
What do you see here as the important points to note uh as we move into this
phase of what has been seemingly an endless war and genocide in Gaza and the region?
Well, Danny, I too agree with Scott the way he line things out things, but I
would uh emphasize his point that there's many a slip between cup and lip.
I think the way he put it where there are million ways that Netanyahu can sabotage this or other people can. And
so here I am fresh from watching a most remarkable cabinet meeting in Washington
where every one of those sickopants uh gave agilatory commendation to the
king for having succeeded in in this latest deal uh with Israel and
Palestine. Now um I believe that Netanyahu
gave this to Trump. Okay. So Trump could have a really big wing. Now I remember
earlier this year something similar like yeah something very similar happened and folks were saying no Netanyahu now he
can't possibly go back on this is a deal with Trump. How could Well, he did go back on it. So, uh, my fear is this will
last very very not long at all and that we'll be back to where we were before.
Um, and the u the ephemeral boost in
Trump's ratings will uh last for a couple weeks and then when they see what's really happening in Israel, Trump
will not have the guts. he will not have the strength to defy Netanyahu from
whatever he wants to do. So my suspicion is that Netanyahu has given this to
Trump. It's been a big boost. Watch all the oh this the the
sickening sick of fancy flattering agilation going on at that at that uh
cabinet meeting this morning. And so Trump is riding high and uh will he
matter very much? Will it matter very much to him after two weeks if things falls apart? Well, it didn't last time.
And will he abide by everything that Netanyahu asks him to do? Well, he did
last time. So call me from Missouri, the show me state. I'll have to wait and and
have people show me that this is a real deal. that Netanyahu in the first instance is obliged in some sense to
heed. Yeah, good points. And you know, back to you, Scott. I wanted to pull this up.
You know, there was a lot of pressure on Israel in particular, even coming from mainstream channels here. You had the
New York Times talking about Israel cannot go on winning like this. I don't know. It's a very faded title, but I can
go to the quote I wanted to pull up. It says, "In Israel, though, winning has seemed only to yield more rounds of
warfare, Israel is not a victor, but a perpetual fighter." Uh, talk about uh uh
what uh might be meant by this. Uh given all that's transpired, of course, we could crystal ball what's going to
happen in Gaza with a really high chance that things could turn out very badly uh
from here on out after this peace deal. But uh there is this context of Israel's
situation that I think many people miss, but the New York Times was reporting on. Actually, here's the quote. I keep
forgetting to pull it up. In Israel, though, winning has seemed to only yield more rounds of warfare. Israel is not a victor, but a perpetual fighter. Uh your
assessment? Well, I mean, that's an accurate statement. Um except they're not I mean,
you're right. There are some victories. I mean, you know, getting Hezbollah to sue for a ceasefire um was a a victory,
but it didn't solve the issue of Hezbollah. Um helping create the
conditions for the downfall of Assad. Um you know, victory, but it hasn't solved
uh the the issue there. Hamas not even close to being a victory. Iran 12 days
of war um made for some good headlines, but the issue isn't isn't solved.
Netanyahu said the other day that um Israel is more isolated today than it
has ever been. And to put that statement in perspective, let's walk back to um
September 2023 before October 7th. I think it was the 12th. My brain might be
awful by a day or two or a week, but um Joe Biden was in India for the uh G20
meeting and he stepped forward and said, "I am announcing the India Middle East
European Economic Corridor and this is going to be a grand and glorious thing. It's going to unite Europe with with
India through the Middle East and it's going to bring Israel and Jordan and Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,
everybody together, one big happy family, and it's going to be wonderful. And Netanyahu came out the same day, and
literally said, "This is the greatest day in modern Israeli history." Why?
Because this was what made Israel viable. uh it if this economic corridor
went through, it created the potential for Israel to become, you know, the
financial and technological and economic hub of a rejuvenated, revitalized Middle
East. Um, and this would give Israel the economic independence it needed to be its own player to live in peace and
harmony. And Netanyahu was all over that. Well, that's dead. Isn't going to happen. Finished. Israel today is
isolated. Netanyahu said so. He said, "We'll have to learn how to be self-sufficient."
But what a joke. Israel can't be self-sufficient. Israel is 100% relied upon the US taxpayer and the large s of
the United States government. Um, which means that Netanyahu is a prisoner of
the United States and the United States is tired of these wars. I mean, we're going to create our own war in
Venezuela, a separate issue altogether, but that's a Western Hemisphere war. We're trying to walk away, uh, dellink
ourselves from Ukraine, from the Middle East, uh, from Iran, um, from Taiwan.
Um, and Israel is a problem for us because all Israel does is just get him
embroiled in more and more conflict. But let's also take a look at what
happened today. Um, I guess it was yesterday, Vladimir Putin received a
phone call from Benjamin Netanyahu, or maybe it was last week. I don't know, it was recently. They're just talking about it today. Why wet's reporting it? And
Netanyahu, this is while Russia is just flowing in military equipment into Iran.
And Netanyahu said, "Please pass to the Iranians. We don't want a war. We're not
looking for a war." And this is against everything everybody's been talking about. I mean, the betting the the the
money, you know, if you were betting was Israel's going to be attacking Iran, has to attack Iran. Even the Iranian
president uh said in a session two weeks ago um he believes that Iran that Israel
is going to attack and now Danielle is saying we we're not going to attack. We're we're not. Now is this subtle? I
don't think so. I think we're dealing with a new reality where Israel has to adapt to the fact that by not winning
decisively it's just destroying. Israel is isolated. They don't have the ability to survive self-sufficiently. They need
the United States. the United States isn't going to put up with these endless wars. And if you solve the Iranian
problem, because Netanyahu told Putin, "We're ready for a solution, then you solve the Hezbollah problem. And then
you can begin to solve the Israeli problem." And now you have Trump solving the Gaza problem. And maybe while you
can't recreate the Middle East, you know, the India, Middle East, European economic corridor, you can bring about a
monocum of peace and stability that would allow Israel to try and figure out where it is. Because otherwise, if
Israel is just basically the, you know, the the fly in the ointment when it
comes to peace and stability, um the United States is going to walk away from Israel. That's something that Ben
Benjamin Netanyahu fears more than anything else. Yeah. And Garland, your thoughts, your
uh assessments because a lot of people I mean I've seen some especially the Zionist uh elements all across social
media and the media claiming this is a major win for Israel uh that they've gotten everything they wanted. What's
your what's your assessment? Oh, no. I don't see any wins for Israel right now. I see it. Is Israel they've
lost on every front um as far as public relations is concerned. It's a pariah state. People around the world despise
Israel and I don't see how you can survive as a nation in the long term
when um number one most of the world hate you. The governments of of of the
west still support them but the people do not. Um that's number one I think.
Um, additionally, when your economy has come so unraveled that um, they've got a
a major problem and that is while everyone talks about Benjamin
Netanyahu bragging that, you know, I I own the US government and I own the, you
know, I own the US. They'll do anything I want. I've got all of this power in the US. But the other side of that is
now that Israel's losing everyone else, they're completely beholden to the US
government that they have nothing else. Israel is effectively a welfare state of the US government. So if things ever
kind of start to change and adjust wherein the the the US government because of pressure from the American
people can't be as openly, you know, uh um uh controlled by Israel, Israel's in
a world of trouble because they have nowhere else to turn. What a terrible place to be where you say, "Yeah, I
control the US, but I got nothing else because if the US ever drops me, I'm done." I wouldn't want to be in that
position. So, I I don't think Israel's in a good position, you know, and and I'm agreeing with Scott in that while
there's all the appearance that Israel wants to go to war with is with with Iran, everybody believes it. That's like
the common um agreement. Sure, Israel wants to go with Iran. When you look at it, they had a 12 to 14 hour jump on
Iran before. They got the first punch in and they still got their clocks cleaned in 12 days. Iran has gotten stronger
now. Iran has more information on how to deal with Israel. If Iran can look at Israel and say, "In 12 days, I pretty
much ran them out of anti-aircraft missiles. If I fire that amount in three days, they'll be out in three days." So,
they're in no position to go toeto may they go toe-to-toe with Iran again, it would be a military debacle of historic
proportions. And they may. I just don't see how they could possibly do it.
Yeah. and and Rey definitely want your uh maybe final comments on on this section on the peace deal on the
situation that led the context that led to this and anything else.
Well, thanks Danny. Um sure. Netanyahu is a pariah.
He's sort of driven into a quarter here and for a guy with nuclear weapons
that's really dangerous. Now um one thing is simply his political
position in Israel. There is a prison with a bridal suite all prepared for
Metanyahu and his wife. What happens if there is peace? Well, most people tell
me that he ends up there in prison. Uh now this is the kind of guy who does
genocide. Do not blanch before the term. This is a kind of guy got guy who does force
starvation. Okay. And by extension Trump supports both. Now let's say
Netanyahu in extremist decides to brandish a nuclear weapon visav Iran on the
spirious claim that Iran is very very close to a nuclear weapon. What is Trump
going to do? Well, I don't know what BB Netanyahu has on Trump, but I suspect
strongly that he also has a lot of blackmail material, Epstein and so forth, and that also with a person like
Trump who also supports genocide and forced starvation. Well, you know, it
looks like they're bound at the hip. So that's what creates for me a a
unknowable really really dangerous situation. Now hopefully the latest
trends with the Russian and the Chinese coming in and support big time for Iran
there's less likelihood that Israel will strike out. But if they strike out or
you've got people like Kellogg and people like the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and others that reassure
Trump, look, it'll be the same same as last time. We can give the Iranians a
really bad uh uh assassination uh survey or
blow and then what happens next? Well, as uh uh as Garland has already said, uh
last time around uh the Israelis had to get Daddy Trump to bring them out of out
of the impass here because they were going to get they were going to almost get obliterated, pardon the word. So
there's so many loose ends here uh that the only thing that I would leave people with is this is so volatile that
American people need to make make known that we don't want any part of genocide
or for starvation or worse still Netanyahu doing something partly for his
own political and personal reasons and getting Trump to go along with it.
Yeah, great points. and and Scott uh let's talk about let's talk about Iran actually because um there has been I
think a lot of chaos around this particular question with some even wondering if this ceasefire in Gaza is a
prelude to focusing more on this front of course on Ben Shapiro's show everyone's favorite Zionist commentator
Netanyahu had this to say basically a selling war
uh to um especially those who support Donald Trump is developing now ballistic missiles
that are intercontinental ballistic missiles for 8,000 km range. What does
that mean? They add another 3,000 kilometers and they've got under their gun, under their atomic guns, the New
York City in Target, Washington, Boston,
Miami, Mara Lago, all with a smile on his face as he talks
about that. And then there's some recent news though. So according to Israeli
backed Iran international, we have the Iranian VP saying that uh the uh UN
Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez told him that the since the 12-day war had ended, efforts to top the Islamic
Republic have actually ended. And this would go to your point, Scott, about how
uh there's a lot of worries about restarting this uh conflict on the part of both the US and Israel. But of
course, you had Trump threatening to bomb uh Iran if it restarts its nuclear
program. And all indications are is that uh there is still enrichment going on uh
for Iran. Uh whether it meets those thresholds that justified justified the bombing the first time. Who I do not
know. But uh uh Scott comment on this. What is the risk of war with Iran? what
would be the consequences especially now that Iran has also been uh redoubling its efforts to uh defend itself to a
more effective degree and maybe you can also talk about that. Oh, sorry you're muted.
Scott, you're muted. Yeah, sorry. I was keeping Maverick out of the uh
Maverick had something to say about Ray and I was like no not today.
So, but uh no, but we we'll start with um uh something that needs to be said
right off the bat. Um Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons. There is no
nuclear weapons program in Iran. Um, you know, there was a lot of people in the leadup to the 12-day war who said that
Iran should have a nuclear bomb, that this would prevent uh a military strike, and then once Israel engaged, they said,
"This is it. Iran has no choice but to build a nuclear weapon." And that's just, you know, it's an attractive
argument. I mean, because clearly ballistic missilebased deterrence didn't work, did it? Uh, but it did. Um but the
Iranian president again in a in a session two weeks ago um made it as crystal clear that Iran doesn't want a
nuclear bomb. Iran doesn't need a nuclear bomb. Iran doesn't desire a nuclear bomb. Iran is not pursuing a
nuclear bomb. And this is policy. This isn't fatwa. Fatwa is different. Fatwa
is the religious edict sent forth by the supreme leader that creates a religious
obstacle to a bomb. But the thing about the fatwa is that one could say Iran
wants a nuclear bomb, but they can't because of the fatwa. What I'm telling you right now is it doesn't matter if
there's a fatwa or not. Iran doesn't want a nuclear bomb. Iran isn't pursuing a nuclear bomb. So, let's take that off
the table for all those people out there who say that Iran must have a nuclear bomb because guess what? Ballistic
missilebased deterrence worked. Why do you think Netanyahu picked up the phone and begged Daddy to stop the war?
Because Iran's ballistic missiles were knocking the snot out of Israel. And had the war continued, the missile shield
would have collapsed further. Iran would have put out even better weapons and that would have been the end of Israel.
Um so Iran doesn't need this. Uh Iran has identified um the weaknesses in its
system. Uh, interestingly enough, um, based upon reports out of Iran, you
know, the notion that Israel knocked out Iran's air defense systems early on in the conflict, um, uh, appears to be a
little far-fetched. What happened is that the MSAD set up these drone networks of covert operatives, you know,
using drones that were either supplied to Iran or built in a factory that the
Israelis installed. uh they ran around in these little pickup truck type
contraptions and they were hitting Iranian air defense systems and taking them out. And it appears that the
Iranians once they realized that this was happening, they pulled their air defense back uh to preserve as much of
their infrastructure as possible because they didn't have a solution to the drone problem yet. Um
but now the drones are over. the hundreds of uh MSAD agents that were doing this, many of them were
foreigners. They're dead, hung by the neck until dead. Uh and the drone factories have been identified,
dismantled. Um Israel doesn't get to play that game again. And now the air defense systems that were withdrawn, not
destroyed, are in place, and they're being reinforced by, it appears, by more
air defense systems being brought in uh from Russia, from China. Uh an a truly
integrated air defense system. This is new. Um and the Israelis would have to confront this. Um Russia has you know
there was a a deal um where Russia was going to provide advanced MIG 29
aircraft and SU35 aircraft. Uh the delivery of that was going to begin sometime in you know 192
to 29. Well today advanced MIG29s are flying over Tyrron. Uh these aren't
export versions. Uh the Russians basically took frontline Russian fighters and gave them to the Iranians
to fill that gap. Uh while Russia is resolving the issue of getting the Iranians spun up on the SU35s, but there
are now aircraft defending Iranian airspace. That wasn't the case during um
the 12 days. Israel was able to fly through Syria into Azerbaijan and into
the Caspian Sea and bomb Thrron, Parton and other uh you know industrial targets
from the unprotected u you know east. Not going to happen again. That gap's
been filled. Um the Iron Dome still doesn't work. It there's no upgrade you
can do. There's no you know there there's no technician. You can't call the IT specialist come in and say hey
let's run the most the most current version. We need Iron Dome 3.2.
Nope. You got what you got and it doesn't work. The Iranian missiles, by
the way, do work. And there were many of their newest models that didn't get flown. And if there is a war, Iran's
going to frontload the uh the strikes against Israel with these new models. And the damage that was being done in
the end that caused Israel to pick up the phone and beg Daddy Trump to stop the war, that damage will be done upfront. So, let's make it clear. Israel
can't hurt Iran the way they did at the beginning of the 12- day war. And Iran can pummel Israel from day one. The
United States, if we stuck our noses in this, our bases
would be hit by those same missiles and the American air defense systems aren't anything like what we've put over
Israel. There is no Iron Dome for the American bases. They're sitting ducks. Um, and so the United States isn't
looking for a war. Israel's not looking for a Roy. Iran doesn't want a war. So, I'm confident that this war um this this
Iranian-Israeli conflict can be avoided. The big question here is Iran's nuclear program. But one thing's for certain,
Iran will never enter into negotiations um staring down the barrel of a gun.
They've made that clear. Um you know, if they are going to enter into negotiations, the military aspect has to
be ting the threat of military action has to be taken off the table. Iran is also probably going to demand for some
sort of sanctions relief to get back to the JCPOA. So, this uh Security Council
action needs to be reversed. Uh Europe needs to get on board. Uh and I think Iran is holding some cards now because
there's no military threat that can work. Um and Iran does have the support of Russia and China. And the longer this
goes on, the stronger Iran gets. Um I I will also say something that came out of
the meeting two weeks ago. the 60% enriched uranium. You know, I viewed this as a um as making Iran a um a
nuclear threshold state. And logically, it does. It's just very short enrichment
process using advanced centrifuges that Iran possesses to turn 60% into weaponsgrade uranium. And if you listen
to the statements made by many people in Iran, including people close to the supreme leader, people in parliament,
former officials, uh they said that Iran has everything it needs for a nuclear weapon, but the political decision.
But what the Iranian president said is that political decision will never be made because Iran doesn't want a nuclear
bomb. There are people in Iran just like there are people in the in the in the the chatter sphere um who say Iran must
have it but the political leadership has been consistent. Iran doesn't want a bomb, doesn't need a bomb, will not
pursue a bomb and this is independent of the religious aspect of it. The 60% then you say why do you have it? Well, the
reason why Iran went to 60% is because Israel took out the Natans facility. People may have forgotten about the um
Israeli sabotage that destroyed 4,000 centrifuges in Natans. Uh how does it
how does Iran respond to this? The way they responded to it was to increase to step up the enrichment. This 60%
enriched uranium, yes, is one step away from, you know, being enriched in weapons grade, but it's also could be
diluted instantly. I mean, this 60% could be brought down to 3.5%
and with absolutely no problem whatsoever. It can go away tomorrow if
sanctions are lifted, if a deal could be made. So, it's a chip that's out there,
but it doesn't position Iran to be a nuclear threshold state because Iran has basically said that's just something
we're not going to do. So, I don't think the 60% uranium is now the same level of
threat and concern that it was psychologically beforehand because there's a lot more clarity today about
um about why Iran went to 60% and how quickly Iran is willing to get rid of
that 60%. And the fact that Iran isn't pursuing a nuclear bomb, doesn't want to pursue a nuclear bomb, believes that
they they absolutely no need for a nuclear bomb. Iran's secured by its conventional ballistic missile force.
That's all they need to worry about. Scott, quickly, uh, before I get to Rey, I because he's holding up something I
definitely want him to show. Um, I wanted to ask you about the Russia and China military support in particular,
cuz some have messaged me actually saying, "Oh, will Iran have confront the same problems, let's say, a Ukraine
confronts when it's handed military equipment, uh, like air defense systems?" What's your thoughts on that
as a weapons inspector?
So the implication that is is that Russia is America. Oh no, the implication is that uh Iran
may have difficulties incorporating uh military technology etc. integrated. Yeah. Yeah.
Uh first of all, what are they integrating? This isn't Soviet era air defense. I
mean the Iranians have some of that, but the Iranians have built a lot of their own indigenous air defense. They have an
Iranian architecture. Um, and I believe that this Iranian architecture was
designed to plug in and plug out uh Russian and Chinese capabilities. So I I
I think the systems been built with the idea of integrating Russian systems in
mind and Iranian engineers are in Russia. Um I I would imagine that if you
um went to some of the um institutes in Russia that are you know linked to
command and control, air defense integration and all that. Uh you'll see that there's some Iranians walking
around there. And I think if you travel the streets of Thran, you'll see uh some Russians, you know, in hotels that are
being driven back and forth to the Iranian um you know, you know, air force headquarters. I think the Russians and
the Iranians are working very closely on this. Uh they have now, you know, ratified uh that that security agreement
that that wasn't ratified. I was like, where were the Russians? Well, Iran had to ratify it. Iran didn't. They did.
Now, the deal's in place. The Russians are living up to their obligation. And the proof is that Russia accelerated
delivery of advanced big 29s. These aren't export models. This isn't stuff
Russia said, "Oh, wait till it comes off the production line." Iran said, "We need them now." on Russia pulled off frontline fighters, Russian fighters in
service with the Russian air force and transferred them to the Iranians. That shows you how serious Russia is about
this. Yes. And uh Rey, I want you to jump in your comments.
How close is Iran to getting a nuclear weapon? Well, what people need to know need to
know uh if they can can see this thing. Um if there's a crisis, it will be a
manufactured crisis. My friend Gareth Porter wrote a book oh 16 17 years ago,
the untold story of the Iran nuclear scare. And you remember this picture of
Netanyahu. You certainly remember that. Watch it carefully now. uh he's doing
percentages of enrichment. Enrichment is not to be conflated with working on a
nuclear weapon. Correct me if I'm wrong, Scott. So, so here's the deal. Um the
intelligence community under the influence of pro-Israeli people in the
'9s were asked, "How close can Iran be to a nuclear weapon?" They said, "Oh,
about five years." Uh and then five years later they said uh probably about five years and next year they don't
maybe four or five years. And finally after the Iraq debacle where
intelligence was fixed manufactured around the policy of attacking Iraq,
somebody sensible said let's get an honest estimate on how close Iran has
gotten to a nuclear weapon. Now, long story short, and I've said this before,
an estimate was done. It was under the supervision of the head of the previous
head of the State Department Intelligence Agency, INR, Tom Finger was
his name, and was honest. And it said Iran stopped working on a nuclear weapon
at the end of 2003 and has not resumed work on it. And besides, that was a
fatwa. fatwa sort of more more serious than an encyclical or some other
religious pronouncement that forbids it. Okay. Now, as recently as March of this
year, uh Tulsi Gabard reinforced reiterated that judgment and reiterated
the fact that the supreme leader gives no indication that he's going to reverse himself on the fatwa. Now fatwa are hard
to understand for us westerners but apparently the Iranians take it very seriously. If it's going to be reversed
the chances are it will have to be debated in their parliament and approved by the national it will be openly
proclaimed as being lifted. It hasn't been lifted. Bear in mind that during
the long war of Iraq against Iran, during which we supported Iraq in all
manner of ways, including intelligence, pinpoint intelligence, Iran, although it had it had chemical
weapons, was enjoined against using them and Iran didn't use them no matter what
these reports say that they may have. Okay. So, these are important things. And what I'm saying here is that when
Gareth Porter wrote this book, okay, he determined that Iran never had worked on
a nuclear weapon. That was all made up stuff by the intelligence community. And he asked Tom Finger about this and Tom
said, "Well, well, at least we we know that they stopped in 2003." Okay. So, it's a red
herring. And the big thing that American audience should take away from this is they're trying to confuse you. Here it
is. 70% enrichment. Now we have 80% or 60%. My god, how close they are. It
doesn't matter. The enrichment is one thing. A nuclear weapon development is another. One caveat here. Ted Postol, a
very wellrespected scientist who worked for the he was the right-hand man to the chief of naval operations back in the
day. He says that the bomb that the weapon can be constructed in an
apartment house and it could be done very closely. I don't know if that's true or not, but that is the caveat I
have to aduce. Now as as far the rest the rest rest of the stuff I would just emphasize as yeah they have enrichment
and Scott has well described the enrichment up to that degree has been a
bargaining chip really maybe not such a smart bargaining chip as Scott has indicated but enrichment is not working
on a nuclear weapon and you could you could take to the bank what Scott said
they're not working on a nuclear weapon that's big so if there's a crisis It's a
manufactured crisis. Yeah, Garlin, I definitely want your uh
your own assessment here and I just want to add this. You know, of course, the nuclear question is a development
question is a much different question. Uh but uh the Ayatollah, he has actually
lifted all limits on missile range in their development with what Scott was talking about the ballistic missile
deterrence. your comments on on all of this as uh the debate around a renewed
around two of a USIsrael war on Iran u continues.
Well, I'll put it like this. Um Iran has nuclear missiles in the same way that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, in
the same way that Venezuela is uh you know uh that President Maduro is the El
Chapo of Venezuela. They're all simply lies cooked up by the US empire so they
can attack a country. And it's not an accident. The last I heard, I think um
Iran has like the fourth or fifth I think the fourth or fifth largest oil
reserve in the country and Venezuela has number one. Those things are not um you know inconsequential to the to the
decisions of the US empire. Um really yes we can and should discuss the issue
of um Iran's you know uh the accusations against Iran um regarding um development
of a nuclear weapon. But the truth is that the US is just cooking up a lie. Israel their proxy what however you want
to look it they're just both cooking up lies for the next war in the same way that you know there was an unprovoked
invasion of Ukraine. China uh you know wants to take out Taiwan for no reason
other than they just I don't know they hate the island or they just want more land you know whatever the case may be
there's always a lie that's cooked up to invade harass um and uh you know steal
the resources of other countries um so now that's all that is that's all this is you know part of it could be they
want to kind of back away from um the Palestinian issues because they
want to go steal all the oil in uh Venezuela. So, they've got their war over there they want to start. But the
truth is it's just and it's you know it's interesting because you know there was a time when Donald
Trump was you know reminding everyone and and getting heat so you know so-called heat from the mainstream um
you know media and the mainstream politics because he was saying out loud George Bush cooked up a lie George Bush
lied us in war and now he has become George W. Bush. And now the same lies of
weapons of mass destruction are being used for Iran. The same lies of drug dealing, they're being used for uh
Venezuela. So I in reality, we now see it wasn't George W. Bush. Uh let's not
forget all the lies under Obama about Libya and Moar Gaddafi. It wasn't Bush.
It wasn't Obama. It wasn't Trump. In a way, it was in that they are expressions of the US empire, but that's all we have
going on now. It's not has nothing to do with um if it actually had to do had
anything to do if US foreign policy against Iran had anything to do with nuclear weapons or the development of
nuclear weapons, this would be really easy to resolve. But since it doesn't,
there's no way to resolve a lie. Yeah, Garland. And I and I know you have
some time constraints. So I I definitely want um your comments on this before I
uh uh bring it to the other uh guests or other esteemed guests. So Iran has
actually announced that it's discovered major gas and oil uh deposits in the Pan field. It says if 70% of recovery rate
is applied to them, some 7 TCF of gas could eventually be extracted, roughly 17 to 18 years of output. Uh now we know
uh Iran's independence um is one of the reasons why uh there is always ongoing
hostilities toward it. Uh what do you make of this development and uh how do you see if it the if the war against
Iran is not going to continue now uh do you see it happening in the near future?
Is that me? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To you cuz well I'm talking like this. I'm sorry. I think the plan is there. The plan is if
they don't attack Iran now, maybe they go take out Venezuela and they get all of their oil and that makes them more
powerful. They can now control the oil market a little bit more. They can resolve some of our economic issues by,
you know, stealing all the war or the oil and selling it. I think that's the plan. But I think any long-term US plans
are going to run into reality in that they're facing a catastrophic feed in defeat in Ukraine and there's no way to
cheat that. there's no way to get out from under that and that that will the defeat in Ukraine will change the ground
under the US hegemony around the world. Um and so I think that they're trying to
do some things and hold off the defeat in Ukraine. So the question is how soon does this catastrophic defeat in Ukraine
manifest itself? Because when that happens, NATO falls apart, which is NATO is, you know, has one foot in the grave
and the other on a patch of ice right now as France is is is uh, you know, France's political situation is falling.
So, I think these things are inextricably tied to the defeat of NATO
and the US in Ukraine and the um, you know, afterwards the way the world
reacts to that. Yeah, Scott, your comments.
I was Are you there? Oh, sorry. I thought you were muted. No, I'm muted. The dogs The dogs are
cooperating for the moment. Um, about Iran's oil discovery.
The Yeah, the discovery. And if Iran, if the if there isn't aims for a war right
now, uh, do you see it coming in the near future? No, I I
the no this discovery of oil or discovery of
gas is going to be ongoing. Um, you know, this isn't a game changer. It
gives Iran, you know, more reserves. It gives Iran, you know, potential to, you
know, extract, exploit, you know, make make money. But this doesn't change the
strategic balance um in the Middle East. uh any any way any more than say
Israel's discovery of you know of the uh Levathon um you know gas fields off of
its coast you know dramatically changed things. People will be discovering oil reserves and gas reserves for many many
many years to come. Uh and we're not going to go to war because of that. Um I
I think you know it's it's not so much about the the energy but the energy
security. How do we guarantee that these resources that the nations in the Middle
East have can be brought to market in predictable sustainable fashion? Um and
and and this is where a multipolar world starts to dictate. This is no longer about the Carter doctrine where the
United States is guaranteeing the security of the region through its military force. Um though that ship has
sailed. is about engendering stability, not just you know military stability but
economic stability. Um you know get to to bring in these supply chains. The
best way to guarantee that oil and gas flow is to guarantee that economies function. Look what happened to energy
security during the pandemic when economies shut down. I mean, we we saw oil get flipped where uh normally you
have to, you know, pay money for people to uh store your oil, the people storing oil, they couldn't get rid of it. You it
was it was just uh it was done because there wasn't a demand for it. The the world needs to keep demand going and
demand is diminished by conflict. And so I think actually the discovery of energy
um actually creates the uh the potential in a multipolar world which is where
we're transitioning to uh for less war not more war.
Yeah. And Ry your final comment on this before we move on. Um, well, I just say that uh I remember
20 years ago uh there were there were uh Zionist folks uh in the
White House and the Pentagon who were saying Iraq, we'll do Iraq, but real men go to
Tehran. Okay. Luckily, all those Zionists have gone
wrong. They're still around. My god. And
BB Netanyahu still has great influence on our president. So I think everything
Scott has said is reassuring and should be what sensible people take into
account. But I fear as adolescents say these days, and I'm
talking about my grandchildren, uh Putin is not okay.
He's not okay. If you watch, as I did, watch the cabinet meeting this morning,
he held forth for 40 minutes about just about anything, but it was written down. So, he had somebody wrote this stuff
down. It was gibberish. Okay? And then he called on various people to say, "Oh,
we adore you. We bless you. We think you're the greatest thing since uh minced meat or whatever because you did
this great thing on Iraq." So all great thing on
uh Israel, Palestine. So what am I saying? I'm saying Putin is looking at this as is Xiinping and they're saying,
"My god, he really is not okay." Okay, so we're going to do uh my god. Well,
don't piss him off for God's sake. He has his fingers on the codes. Uh see if
you can play along with him. Maybe he'll be sensible. maybe people like Witco and
others will prevail. So all I'm saying is that those Zionists that were around
before Iraq when were more than 50% responsible in my view in retrospect for
the attack on Iraq. They're still around. They've done some other stuff like Libya and Lebanon and Syria and all
that stuff, but they haven't done Iran yet and they're out to do it. And do we have the power to do it? Of course. for
the USA America. Okay, so that's my only caveat on that. I've probably said
enough. Yeah. Yeah. Well, great points, Rey. Uh well, let's now move to uh the uh
Ukraine situation if we can.

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So, I want
to first uh bring up some comments. you know, there has been a bit less uh
enthusiasm uh coming from Russia of late when it comes to USRussia talks because of
especially the situation with um flirting with sending tomahawk missiles
to Ukraine that Trump has done says he's sort of made a decision. It's very
vague. We don't know what it is exactly, but here is what Sergey Rykov the deputy
foreign minister said recently. um to the media about the situation between
Russia and the United States. He said, "I would say this is a very serious escalatory step referring to the tomahawk missiles. Indeed, the
appearance of such systems if it comes to that would signify a substantial
uh uh one could even use the term qualitative change in the situation, but this will not affect our determination
to achieve the set goals." So, uh, Scott, you know, there have been
comments from, uh, other lawmakers, Putin, they've all said that this would be a serious escalation,
um, and that, uh, uh, you know, the momentum according to Rabkov of the Alaska Summit has waned. What exactly is
going on here when it comes to this conflict? Why why is it too that we also see a lot of enthusiasm coming out of
the Western mainstream media? I don't know if you've um, caught it. a lot of, "Oh, well, now Ukraine can push Russia
back. Now Ukraine is in the driver's seat." Uh, can you help dispel all of this for us? What's going on here?
Well, first of all, you said other lawmakers and then you mentioned Vladimir Putin's name. Um, he's not an
other lawmaker. He's the president of the Russian Federation and um you know
basically while you know he consults um and takes advice um it's his word that
matters more than any other word and pretty much what Riyobkov said was
exactly what Vladimir Putin said during his presentation at Valdai. Um and just
to go and reinforce the point that it's the president's word that counts. Ryabkov may have declared Alaska dead.
Uh Ushikov just came out in the last hour and said, "No, Alaska is alive and well. I'm living very much alive." Um and that uh Trump
and Putin continued to talk. You know, Rey and I have been going back and
forth. You guys haven't seen it. Um about the Tomahawk missiles and things of that nature. Um, and you know, I am
more of a literalist, meaning that when I hear a president say, "I have made a decision to send Tommahawks." Um, I'm
like, "Well, I guess the president made a decision to send Tommahawks." And, you know, when I hear people talking about,
you know, the consequences, I say, "Well, you know, perception creates its own reality. The perception of the
president ready to send Tomahawks creates a reality in Russia." Um, back and forth. But Rey and Ever the wise man
um says, "Well, we sort of need to deal with reality here." Um can they send
Tomahawks? I mean, it's one thing, you know, Scott Ritter has been saying, as my wife will tell you, um not so much
recently, but I would every every summer at the end of summer,
honey, this is it. This is the year I'm going to train hard. We're going to save the money, and I'm climbing Mount
Everest in May. I'm going on an Everest expedition. I mean, that was my dream to do that, get physically fit enough to do
that and all that. And um but me saying I wanted to go Mount Everest didn't make it happen because there were many things
that had to happen that weren't going to happen. And therefore, I was never going to get on the top of Mount Everest.
And Ray's probably right. Tomahawks will never be delivered to Ukraine because there's just so many things that have to
happen. And if you listen to what Ushikov said, I
think Ray is even more right. Um, again, I'm not going to be dismissive of it. I
I'm somebody who believes that just the mere threat of city tomahawks is a destabilizing move and it's best that we
not threaten in that manner. But, you know, Trump likes to stir up the pot and create pressure and things of that
nature. Um, and the pressure about the tomahawk, it cuts two ways. I mean, it's
not just about a threat to Russia, but it's also a signal to Ukraine and Europe about the their collective impetence.
Um, because if they're putting so much hope on a weapon that can never be delivered, it means that there is no
hope at all. And Trump needs to drive that point home. And I think that d point has been driven home decisively in
the last week, which is why suddenly Ushikov is coming out saying, "No, no, we're talking. Everything's cool. No,
Alaska on track. we're moving towards uh to peace. I think the whole the whole
Tomahawk thing was just smoking mirrors. I think it's just Donald Trump going in stirring up the pot, seeing where seeing
where things go. The pressure wasn't designed to be put on Russia, which is one of the reason why Putin sort of
lowkeyed it. I mean, he made the obvious statements. Yeah, if you do this, you oh gosh, you know, we got light at the end
of the tunnel, but you know, that'll shut down. But you didn't see Putin, you know, get serious face, pound the table,
threaten, lash out. Putin was like, "It's an old system. We're familiar with it. We could shoot it down." D, you
know, and and and calm. Um, that implies that Putin knows something
we didn't know. And apparently what we did know is that there's ongoing conversations. Normally when Putin and
Trump speak, it's a big deal. I think now they've gone into the quiet mode. I think Trump is in the business of
walking away from Ukraine. I think Trump's in the business of making sure that uh Ukraine and Europe understand
the consequences of this and the um lack of viability of any other option other
than coming to terms with Russia on that are acceptable to Russia and that's the
direction we're heading. Ushikov's statement makes it appear to be just that. And then of course Kuriel Dmitri
who you know he's he's he's this guy who you know has been working with Steve
Witco. He's been at all these meetings. He's a confidant of Putin and he's just
been this cheerleader. You know I'm watching the world go to hell and then I'm following Camal Demetri and I'm
going dude is just tweeting positive stuff. I mean he's and I'm like is he on
cocaine? Is he what's going on? Well, apparently Kurill knew things I didn't
know. Like Putin and Trump are talking and Kill stand there go, "It's all okay. Don't worry about world covenant. Nah,
it's all right. Putin and Trump are talking." He didn't say that, but the implication was everything's going to be
okay. And Ushikov's statement implied, I think that's the direction we're heading
here. Um, you know, Trump had to get himself out of a hole that he dug
himself into about being bringing able to end the Russian Ukrainian conflict. Uh, he needed Europe to wake up to the
reality. You know, he couldn't have seven people flooding the Oval Office every time he made a move on Ukraine. He
needed the Europeans to wake up and go, "It's hopeless." I mean, look at Mcronone. I mean, he may not be around
much longer. Uh, the Brits, they're a joke. Um, you know, Germany a basket
case. Um, Kalas finally woke up and realized after Trump told uh Zolinski,
he saw Zalinski's face. Hey, why don't you take back the 1991 borders? Really?
And while you're at it, take Moscow. Trump's my friend. And then he went to the press, Trump's listening to me. He's
listening to what I said. He believes what I say. And we're going to do all it's going to be great. and Kas came out
and went, uh, what I heard was that Trump has washed his hands of Ukraine and has walked away and he's put all the
burden on Europe and we can't do this. We can't do this. And that's the reality
that came in. Um, I'll leave it at that because I' I've I've drone till I'll make sure next time
I talk I bring up something very important that happened this last week. I mean, gamechangingly important uh that
actually contributes to this this talk. But I I I see Trump um I I don't see all
gloom and doom right now. Um I think there that we're being gamed and and Ray called it. I mean I Ray, kudos to you,
man. You called it. You said this is a game. Trump's just this is this Tom Hawk thing is not real. It's a game. And it
it appears that this Tom Hawk thing's not real. It's been a game. Well, there's also Sorry, wrong uh
article. There is uh some proof also that even the west uh is admitting to
this to your point uh Scott as the Telegraph says Ukraine prepares for delivery atomic missiles. They can't
fire uh they're supposed to be leverage but uh it could take months and they
might never leave their launchers because they have nothing to shoot them with. So uh there's that and here is the
the quote here. And so just uh getting to you Ray um your your assessment your
reaction to the overall situation visa v Ukraine.
Well Major uh I salute you for acknowledging our conversations and for listening and for
also contributing greatly. Captain McGovern signing off.
Now in all seriousness serious intelligence analysts compare notes.
Okay? They don't go h off halfcocked and the really good ones listen. So, so
we've had this dialogue and increasingly over the last couple of days it seemed that this is really a canard, a red
herring. It'll play out both. Well, the important thing is the Russians keep
speaking in the subjunctive mood. Okay. If if if
uh and you know you have Lav, you have you got Putin himself. if you're all
very conditional and Lavra five days ago said look it's my information
uh that a decision has been made yet. So and then you have Zakarova Maria Zakar
the presidential spokeswoman saying you know I don't know about this guy Kellogg
I mean doesn't he work for the president? Uh I mean isn't he subservient to doesn't he abide by the
policy that's been set? We're we're set on on progress and peace. What's going on here? So So it's very clear now. Um
I'm going to suggest something very unusual and that is that
uh Trump uh is following a Marxist Leninist
uh slogans here. Uh, London said famously, "Revolutia
zigzagamy, zigzagamy." Got zigzag. Okay. The
revolution proceeds with zigzags. And so this is the way rhetoric started uh in
in Russia and and the way it is today. Trump will say one thing one day, he'll
say another thing the other day. That's why we had to wait at least three days or four days to figure out if this was
real. Now, the real thing is that the tomahawks are not real. The other real
thing is that Puchin is waiting for an official statement from Trump as to
whether Trump will agree to his proposal, Puchin's proposal to have a
kind of moratorum on further development, something that would approach the same limits as the start
treaty which cannot be renewed expires on the 5th of February. Now, one of the
most interesting things that Ryabkov said yesterday in that interview was the following.
Russia does not associate the issue of Tomak deliveries to Kiev with the new
start proposal toward the US. Quote, "These are two separate matters." End
quote. That's good. Okay. So, one is a red herring, the other one is damn real.
Okay. Now, will Trump be able to be sensible and say, "All right, look, we know you guys make a lot of money there
uh by developing new missiles. We're going to keep this cap on the strategic missiles, so we're going to keep it for
another year. Will he be strong enough to do that?" Well, my guess is he will be. He'll face lots of opposition, but I
think he will be. And if that happens, this is a major step forward. Then other things can get done. Riyabkov bemoaned
the fact that yeah we have period we have contacts sometimes every day but nothing gets done and there's not even
an agreement on when we meet together to discuss bilateral relations and how to
improve them uh how to deal with Russian assets being seized in the United States
under Obama what about you know airlines and all that kind of stuff so what is
saying that is look we have an edifice uh that has been built here says it's
you know just at the nation just the beginning and then he says you know it's
cracking says it's cracking and it's collapsing and right out front the
Americans are to blame for this the Europeans are to blame for the stuff in
Ukraine but the Americans are to blame for this the cracks have now reached the
foundation. So you have the zigg. He says, "Look, we're getting we're getting
to the point where we're not going to be didd anymore on Ukraine or anything else, but please take us seriously on
new start." And then you have uh who's the closest to Putin on this.
He's his right-hand person on strategic arms and and and lower or um
intermediate nuclear forces. He's he's saying, "No, no, look, the EPOP is just
saying we really like to get started. We we're going we're going ahead here with
pursuing the agreements reached in in Alaska." And that's big because before
there were no contacts. At least there are contacts. Now, if the balloon goes up in Iran or Israel, there will be
contacts. Lavough will get through to what's the
guy's name? Rubio as he was unable to get through to Blinken or or Sullivan.
And that's a big deal. And the summit has happened. Now, the outstanding invitation. Last thing I'll say here, uh
the Russians have been saying this repeatedly over the last two weeks. Look, we still hope that that Trump will
come to to visit Moscow for the next summit. Now, the there's an alternative
there, and let me suggest it on air. Um Puchin could say look let's just just
five of you come to Sochi come to Sochi and we'll have sort of an informal discussion five on our side five on your
side and you'll see soi so you s not a backwater place out there you'll see
what so is now and we'll get together and so that's my notion about what might
happen next real formal but something that gets Trump to Russia and get lots
see for himself not only Moscow but the rest of the country and have serious
talks in a more more discoursive and more relaxed manner over some vodka or
over diet coke and vodka uh in in Sochi. Uh my recommendation in case any of you
uh at the White House are listening. Well, Scott, uh certainly to your point
earlier too, you know, you said uh Putin, US, these figures, of course, they're the final word. Of course,
there's a there's a there's a whole range of voices about this Tomahawk issue in particular. Uh, but I think
this one is kind of uh for uh uh just an obvious an obvious one that the response
if anything were like this to happen given that both of you said it's fantasy and I I believe that given how long it's
taken for even a non-decision to be made about it. Uh but Andre Cart Cartalov
said he's a head of Russia's parliament's uh defense committee. Our response would be tough, ambiguous, measured and asymmetrical. We will find
ways to hurt those who cause us trouble. But Scott, how much of this uh
desperation around throwing around weapons, keeping the conflict going, especially on the part of NATO? How much
of this signals things aren't going very well right now? Because I look at the
mainstream media and all I see is Ukraine's hit this, Ukraine's hit that, Ukraine is in the driver's seat. But
this behavior seems to indicate something a different. What's going on here?
Well, this is a perfect segue into uh one I wanted to talk about. Um, you
know, since the spectrum military operation began. Um,
outside observers, analysts like myself have been confounded by
why Russia allows NATO to send weapons into Ukraine
unmolested. Why does Russia allow Lav um and other
western Ukrainian cities to become, you know, sort of a holding ground for not
just weapons, but lately weapons production capabilities? Uh factories are being built. Um and why aren't they
bombing it? And then the question comes up, does Russia really have as much
control over Ukrainian airspace as, you know, we've been led to believe? It
sounds to me like, you know, Ukraine has built a protective umbrella of integrated air
defense. Uh why are F-16s able to operate out of Western Ukraine? Aren't
these things supposed to have been destroyed on day one by the vaunted Russian military? Um,
and it it's one of those questions that just couldn't be answered. I mean, you know, it it you know, the answer was,
well, maybe Russia's not as good as the as we thought they were. maybe the Patriots better than we thought it was.
It I don't think that could be the case, but who knows? Um, you know, and and
that's, you know, that seemed to be the direction, which then points to the potential of a long-term conflict, which
is the exact opposite of the strategic direction that Russia uh wants to go.
Russia is not looking to have a forever war. Russia wants this war to end on terms favorable to Russia. But if Russia
allowing NATO to install defense industrial capacity in western Ukraine
and to bring weapons in and stockpile them, warehouse them there so they can keep feeding them into the front, you
know, that lends itself to another conclusion. Um, and then the answer came this week and it just blinding flash of
the obvious. Um, what Russia did was create the perception of a safe haven in
western Ukraine. Uh see if Russia had acted decisively early on these
warehouses, these defense industrial facilities would have been built in NATO
um as they were early on. You know, they were doing the rehab facilities, everything was being done in NATO and
that's untouchable. Uh gives Ukraine the strategic depth, but NATO was seeking to
push this stuff into Ukraine. But in order to do that, you have to create the perception that Western Ukraine is
strategic depth for Ukraine. And then the West deposited hundreds of
billions of dollars worth of resources, weapons, warehouses, facilities,
defense, industrial facilities, uh the whole thing jammed into the west. Um and
now it's this capability that the British in their keep Ukraine in the fight uh are emphasizing this is now
made it easy. All NATO has to do is provide the money and they can rapidly ship weapons into the holding uh cells
in western Ukraine and this war can go on forever. We can keep Ukraine in the fight. Except last week Russia took them
out. Russia came in and said, "Oh, you guys thought that the Patriots in Western Ukraine had a 60% intercept
rate. Try six." And they just blew up these facilities and they're going to continue to blow them up. All that
investment is gone. And now you see the desert. The day that happened, did you see what Zalinski did after saying,
"We're going to strike Russia deep. We're doing that." He said, "I need a ceasefire in the air right now." Because
he just woke up and said, "I lost everything." And NATO can't replicate that. There isn't a plan B. There's no
NATO facilities that can replace this. They're gone. And this is the reality that Europe's
waking up to right now, that there ain't nothing they can do about this. Russia just dramatically changed the calculus
of this uh game. Which is why all of a sudden Usku was like, "Yeah, yeah, we're we're we're talking. I think I think
there's going to be a peace deal." Well, why? Because Europe doesn't have any cards left. Trump dumped everything on
Europe. Europe's plan was predicated on being able to transfer weapons to a
Western Ukrainian safe haven and have defense industry work that up in there. That's gone. Europe has no plan B.
And they're all sitting there just swinging in the wind right now. And Russia's like, "Yeah, oh that pro that
northern picroka offensive you guys did, it's over. We won. Uh you're all dead
and we've resumed the offensive there. Uh that drone wall you built, all the drone operators that operate, they're
dead. We killed them all and we've reasserted drone dominance." Uh Sunumi, you guys fought us to us. Last time I
checked, we're advancing south there. We're advancing everywhere. You've run out of men. your strategic rever reserve
died north of Picro. Picrok is getting ready to fall. Kianski is getting ready to fall. You know, this is the reality.
And um I think what you're going to see is that Trump is going to go to the Europeans and go to the Ukrainians and
say, "I've washed my hands of this. You're on your own. It ain't going so well, is it?" Tomahawks. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
You'll get the Tomahawk. Um 2028, 2029,
uh you know, 2030. Maybe we'll give you three, four, five of them. Um, yeah, but don't worry, you'll get them, but you
won't be alive because you're dying right now. It's over. Energy killed. The winner is going to suck. Um, and I I
think what we're seeing right now is Trump's played a game. Um, uh, and Klay
Kalas caught on. I mean, you should have seen, did you watch that interview when she came to the microphone? You know,
this woman who says, "I my job is to dismantle Russia, to make Putin lick my boots, and the whole world." She came
and she, you know, Zalinski's out there doing a dance about how, you know, Trump loves him. He loves me. He loves me. No,
he doesn't. She said, "Trump just washed his hands of you and he put all the burden on us and we can't do it." And
this is back when she thought she had a Western Ukrainian enclave. It's gone. Wiped out.
That's why I think you're seeing this new air of optimism out of Moscow. And
they're not cocky about it. You know, the Russians aren't running around doing a victory dance. Very measured words.
But Ushkov's statement says everything. You know, Ryabkov came out, you know, sort of hinted that, you know, all the
momentum out of Alaska's gone. And like, ah, we're we're talking, everything's
cool. Don't worry about it. You know, I
I'm optimistic because ain't nothing going Europe's way. Ain't
nothing going Ukraine's way. and everything's going rushed. Well, Scott, what about the blown up refineries?
Y'all ever you never did anything in war, did you? You know, you've never fought a war in your life. Uh because if
you think that a war is 100% one way, it isn't. But the Ukrainians aren't doing
strategic damage to Russia. What about the What about the lines of cars at gas stations? Ain't happening. What What
about, you know, all the bad stuff? Ain't happening. Um,
I'm going to Moscow next week. I'm confident the Moscow Sea will be a thriving uh metropolis just like the
Moscow that Ry saw uh in May. Um, populated by people that, you know, are
concerned about the war. It would be inhuman not to be, but who aren't losing sleep over it. um who don't believe
Russ, you know, you can have, you know, Gilbert Doctoro come on and talk all he wants about, you know, the whispering
class, the the elites, the politically inclined, uh, and they want Putin gone.
Never in the history of the world has there been a coup effort against a
leader who has enjoys 80% um, you know, approval rating. Vladimir Putin is the
most popular president in Russia, Russian history, for a reason. because he's kicking ass across the board.
Russia's back. They've learned to fall in love with Russia again. They're proud of who they are. They're proud of the
direction they're going. They are proud of what they have accomplished. And they have confidence in their army to continue this fight. And the other
people that say that there's a split between the general staff and Putin don't know what the general staff is and doesn't understand who Vladimir Putin
is. There's no split between these two men. They're on the same page. The proof is in exactly what's happening right
now. a confluence of military action and diplomatic action leading to the result
that Vladimir Putin said will always be from day one of this conflict a war that ends on terms dictated by Russia that
are acceptable to Russia. Yeah, Ray, let's get you in here to uh
Yeah, I would I would agree with unmuted now.
No, no, you're good. You're good. Okay, please jump in. No, I think Scott is right. Um,
what I'd uh say about this putitive influence of the Russian military or the
hardliners or people who are allegedly uh getting Putin upset by saying you
should go faster, you should go faster, why don't you how can you accept these
insults, these zigzagamy uh from from Trump? Uh I don't see that
either. But I do see um the normal the military role to say look Mr. President
uh Mr. President Putin uh we look at uh we look at facts um we don't look at uh
projections and the facts are that Germany and the US have agreed to put
medium range ballistic missiles in Germany next year. That was a side
agreement. Very very odd. It came at the NATO meeting in Washington a year and a half ago. Uh is that going to happen?
Well, uh, if that if if, uh, Trump allows that to happen, I don't know
about mess, then you have what really matters to Russia besides the
the the acceptance of the salt provisions for another year. That's, I think, primary. Now they worry about
what used to be before Scott Ritter verified um the um intermediate nuclear
forces treaty agreed to by G of Truff and Ronald Reagan in 1987 and absconded
from so to speak by Trump himself in 2019
that destroyed a whole class of nuclear attempt medium-range ballistic missiles
unprecedented in the history of the world destroying all these people all
these all these missiles in place. So what am I saying? I'm saying that uh
this threat uh comes to mind. You I think one thing one reason why the
Russians are playing the game of saying, "Oh, no, that would be terrible. Don't do that." That because the Tomahawk uh
was one of those missiles disabled or dismantled or broken up or chopped up
under the INF treaty. And and so what happened? Now, I want to give this for
instance in in the Bronx. We say I'll give you for instance okay people don't
much know about this but it's important right before well two months before the
special military operation namely on December the the third December the 21st
I'll get my thinkings right 2021 Putin before all his assembled generals and
admirals says this pay attention please because this is on the final
US missile sites already in Romania and Poland can launch offensive strike
weapons. If hypersonic, they can reach Moscow five minutes.
Next sentence. The US will give hypersonic missiles to Ukraine,
hypersonic weapons to Ukraine. End quote. Wow. Now, that was December 21st.
Now, I'm talking about the uh the military intelligence people who look at
capabilities and not intentions. Okay? And they I don't know what happened, but
on the 30th of December, Putin called the White House and said, "Look, I need
to I need to speak with President Biden immediately." Now, Biden, to his credit, took the call
and and and Putuchi said, "Look, um, we're about to enter negotiations in
Geneva as pre pre-arranged. Uh, it would be really helpful if you decided not to
put offensive strike missiles in Ukraine as they already could be in Poland and
Romania." And what was the response? Here it is. Washington from put from
Biden. Washington has no intention to deploy offensive strike weapons in
Ukraine. December 30 end quote December 30, 2021. December 31st,
Moscow is pleased beyond beyond measure. The US is finally acknowledging Russia's
security concerns. In a matter of fact, that move acknowledged about five of the eight provisions in that treaty that
Moscow wanted the US and NATO to sign. So, what happens next? Oh, wow. What
happens at the Geneva meetings between Wendy Sherman and Rykov? Okay, that's
the 9th and the 10th of January. So, less than less than two weeks later. Oh,
Wendy doesn't have any instructions about what what you say Biden promised.
I don't I first time heard of that. Okay. On the 21st of January, finally
Lavra finds out where Blinken is. He happens to be in in Geneva. He say, "Hey, what
about that promise?" and and uh and Lav says forot Lav asks blink blink
says that forget about it that we weren't with the president when he made that
promise but he when you say he made that promise now we can put offensive strike
missiles in Ukraine anytime we want anytime the Ukrainians asked that they will ask us uh they we could we'll talk
about maybe limiting the number of them or or something like that that's the 21st of January. On the 12th of
February, the last talk between Biden and and Putin um
Ushakov's readout, the US gave no meaning to meaningful
response on the deployment of strike missiles systems in Ukraine or on NATO
expansion. Now what what I'm saying here is that look uh Biden may not have been
really act in control of his people but to the degree that precedent is set that
underlings uh can can can undercut the president on an important
uh promise like this. No no no offensive strike missiles in Ukraine. My god. So,
uh, that's one of the more little known but really important, um,
what's the word? Uh, deceptions that the US has exercised in relations with
Russia. Now, Russia sees a new kind of leader. They think it's more a hope than
a thought that they can deal with Trump. Uh, I think they're willing to be very gingerely and not alienate him. But I
think in the final analysis, this is the only prudent course because as Putin
made very clear in Valdai, we're winning for God's sake. We're winning. And he he
actually discerned the fronts, the north front, the metal front in which we're
winning. And so it's a matter of time in Ukraine. And if there's no agreement,
well, we still want to make sure that you and the Germans don't put middle or
intermediate range ballistic missiles in Germany. For God's sake, forget about
it. You agree, Scott? Let me add this. It's not just what we
want. We don't have any missiles to deploy to Germany. The Dark Eagle is a joke. It's
a failure. It doesn't work. Um, you know, they they it I think uh in December they did a test. It's not out
of the original launcher, but they did a test. They did the whole system check and the missile launched and it went out
and hit. But uh the report from the Pentagon is that um it's not lethal. Uh
the the the Dark Eagle system and it's very expensive system doesn't kill the target it's supposed to aim at. They
don't they can't establish lethality factors. Another thing is the system hasn't been gone through the whole um
you know survivability thing. You know, one of the things that we've learned watching the Ukraine conflict is uh you
know the the Russians shoot down higher missiles, they shoot down attackums missiles, they shoot down glide bombs,
they shoot down everything and they jam everything. The US is saying that you everything we send in that requires GPS
or some sort of is jammed by the Russians. uh Dark Eagle in order to do
this thing, you know, it's two-stage system, releases this glide vehicle that then comes in uh from Mach 17, slows
down to Mach 5, maneuvers, and hits. All that maneuvering is done because there's a whole bunch of electronics inside
there that say maneuver, maneuver, do this, photograph, da da da. None of that's been hardened.
They haven't tested it. And the Russians will just put up one of their electronic warfare things and go beep and there
goes Dark Eagle into the D. Dark Eagle doesn't work, can't survive, and doesn't kill. Um, right now, I think the the the
earliest Dark Eagle can be deployed as a system is 2027,
and that's probably going to slip even more because it just doesn't work. Um,
so I think that's another reality is that, you know, this this pressure, you know, this timeline of, you know, we're
going to deploy Dark Eagle to to Germany sometime in the summer of 2026.
I don't think that's going to happen. Um, and that sort of takes some pressure off, too. Um, and I don't know if Dark
Eagle's ever going to work because the moment you start hardening that hypersonic warhead, you start changing
things. There's only so much space inside it. and um the materials that are used to absorb the heat and allow it to
maneuver. Uh you start playing with that and you got a whole different warhead design and off you go back to the uh to
the design board and it's going to take Boeing and everybody else years before they can adapt to this. So I I think
that's another reason, you know, the Russians aren't stupid. Everything I'm telling you comes from open sources. Uh
the Russians follow open sources as well as we do. And I think the Russians probably have their own sources. And I I
just don't see the Russians panicking about Dark Eagle. They prefer the United States not do it politically. They would
encourage the United States to decouple itself from the commitment that was made about Dark Eagle. But the fact is, just
like the Tomahawk, it's a threat that just isn't going to manifest itself. Not anytime soon.
Great points. Let me let me add just one thing here. You know, paper tiger has come to the
four again. Uh the Chinese used to call the Chinese call the Russians a paper
tiger five decades ago and call us a paper tiger. Well, is the you know I
just have to say that I've been around a long time. I've never seen a situation
where the Russians outstrip us in every thing but the most sophisticated
strategic weaponry. Uh this is I mean it it I just asked uh Scott to to confirm
this. In other words, uh when when Putin couldn't get any movement to negotiate
these things or delimit them in the middle of well 2014 2015 he said look
we're going to go do it all ourselves and now they have. So would it be fair to say Scott that on every level except
the nuclear strategic maybe well let's leave that one alone on every other
level militarily the Russians are stronger than we are.
I would say on every level they are um let me just put out this reality. Uh the
Minute Man 3 is a system that's long outlived its utility. um supposed to be
replaced by the Sentinel missile. When they announced the Sentinel missile, I took one look at that program
and having been in the missile inspection business, which means that I was thoroughly familiar with Morton Thia
with uh the former Hercules plant. I know how we build missiles. I know what goes into it. I know missile design. I
know the whole thing. Um I looked at it and I said, "This is never going to work." Um the timelines are unrealistic.
uh everything, the new technologies, um said the the the Sentinel they're going
to build isn't going to fit into a Minute Man silo, and the budget doesn't include new silos. Um and you're never
going to be able to build this missile. It's going to last forever. It's going this is a program that's going to go on until 2050, 2060, and it's going to cost
us over a trillion dollars by the time it's done. And people listening, ah, come on, Scott. You're just an old
keragin. You don't know what you're talking about. Congress just pretty much canceled Sentinel Missile this year
because it doesn't fit in the silo and it costs too much and it's, you know, they they had to put something in the in
the the way it works is when you let a contract out, as the contract goes, if the price spikes, Congress stops to
prevent what's happened in the past where F-35 programs take on a life of their own. And so the Sentinel program
spiked right from the beginning as I knew it would because it's just a stupid missile. And they shut it down. They
reconfigured. They relet contracts release contractors. And then it went again and all spike shut it down.
Congress went screw it. Now they're extending the Minute Man 3 until 2050
because we can't. Meanwhile, the Russians are looking at the RS missile which is they just put out and they're
going, "Uh, nah, we need something better. We're going to call it the Cedar. We're going to do the Cedar
missile. And why don't we try some innovative stuff? Because the United States is talking about putting drones out there that are going to fly in the
vicinity of our launches and try and shoot us in the boost phase. How do we defeat the boost phase? What if we build
a solid rocket engine that has the ability to alter its trajectory? Launch
fast then slow down and launch and maneuver. And this is going to require some new fuels and some composits and
all this. And why don't we get it done in a year and a half? And they did.
Did they? Oh, yeah. They're launching it now. Uh, you know, the the Russians, they their
their system works. It just works. They got these experts that are crazy crazy
experts. I mean, these guys are just genius. The Moscow Institute for Thermal Technology used to be called the
Nataraji Design Bureau. These are guys who designed the SS20, SS25, uh the the
TopoM, uh Yars, Cedar, Areshnik. Um you know, these are the guys that are just
they're good and they just sit there and they design new and then they have all around them they have the guys who do solid rocket motors, the guys that do uh
composits and they just come up with ideas. They talk to each other and next thing you know weird things are happening. Um, we don't understand
archnik because and again the postal is a man who I have nothing but the highest respect for. He's 20 times smarter than
me which is why he's an MIT professor. Um, and he is not a fan of arric. He has
done I've read his stuff and I can't I can't counter it. He he uses physics.
There's certain laws attached to physics. You know, you can't make up physics. And he says it can do X Y and
Z. And yet I'm looking at certain Russian institutes that are
peripherilally linked to this uh institutes that get into exotic ceramics that get into exotic chemicals that get
into nano particles and suddenly we have uh you know magnesium hydrogen able to
replicate hydrogen bomb with small things and I'm like
is there something else going on here? For instance, the arric that Russia fired into Nepro were these inert rounds
because they they came in hot but they didn't blow up. But Putin's sitting there going, "Nah, we fire one of these
and it's going to have the equivalent of a of a nuclear bomb, the devastation that's done." And the going, "That ain't
the equivalent, and you can't get it with that." Something seems to be missing from this
equation. And I'm just saying that the Russians are so far ahead of where we are and how we think and what we do. Um
that you know they're better than we are. And the sad thing is we are so
corrupt our defense industry has stopped being about providing the best weapons for the American war fighter and about
how to make as much money for the um you know to to the shareholder. We are
broke. We are fundamentally broke. And again, again, Ted Postol did this. He he
brought to our attention, I'm sure you saw the article, uh, Ray, about um, the contract for Golden Dome.
It's $150 billion giveaway. And the way the contract's written is we're going to give you $150 billion and you don't have
to do a damn thing. Literally, don't do anything. Just you don't have to deliver anything.
You don't have to write anything down. You don't have to do anything. But we hope at the end,
we hope at the end you'll build the best defense system in the world. But we're tired. See what happened is the defense
industry said, like a sentinel. Hey, come on. Our model is to bid low, you guys do it, and then
we raise the price. And so by the time it's done, you're paying, you know, 100 times more per missile, and that's how
we make money. And Congress said no. And put that cap on the spike. And so now
the way they've got around this is is they've led a contract that says here's 150 billion. Don't do anything. You
don't have to do literally the contract says that for 10 years they don't have to do
anything. No deliverables, no plans, no oversight, no Congress, no nothing. $150
billion giveaway. That's our system. I can guarantee you this. if the general
staff and the uh in the presidency said we need a missile that does X Y and Z
and they turned that concept loose on Russian defense industry
in two years you'd have a missile that does X Y and Z and it would be under cost.
That's a system that works. And this is where we're going to lose it guys because we we become so corrupt. Dwight
Eisenhower's military-industrial complex, the the corruption of that has come to roost. We have a trillion dollar
military that can't do squat and it's only going to get worse. Maybe Pete has
people to do pull-ups and sit-ups and all that stuff, but the weapons they're going to be using ain't going to work.
That was Hey, Scott, you're you're forgetting the F-35. Oh, no. I didn't I just didn't want to
remember it. Tell us tell us what the government just did about the F-35.
Well, maybe you know something I don't. Um, no, it was something to the effect that well, you know, we're closing that
program down. It doesn't really met the specifications. Same thing we did with the F-22. I mean,
you talk to all these, you know, Air Force guys, you know, and they're like F-22, F-35. I mean, it just, you
know, we flip them up, they go like this, and they're great because they're American planes. I'm Top Gun. I can do
it all. Maverick and Iceman and Goose. And the F-22 program got shut down
because it sucks. And the F-35 program just got shut down because it sucks. And what do we have? More programs that
suck. The smart move right now, if I were the Secretary of Defense, is I'd shut
everything, one of these advanced, you know, Gen 5, Gen 6 airplanes down. And I
go to I just say make the F-18 better and make the F F-15 better. Uh if you
want if there's a way you can breathe live into the F-16, do it. Proven airframes, proven designs. We don't need
all this fancy crap. We just need planes that take off, shoot down other planes,
bomb targets, and do their thing that we can afford because we can't afford this anymore. I mean, it's crazy. Uh the F-35
doesn't work. People don't talk about it. One day the after report will be
written about the Israeli Air Force and how much this war cost them. You know, every time that plane takes off, you
know, the the the radar absorber material, which is highly classified, we're not allowed to talk about it. Um, it peels off, you know, it flies through
weather, sand, all this. So, when it lands, it has to be retreated. And that's a whole process. And it costs a
lot of money. Nobody talks about it. So, we need more push-ups and we more
less hair on our face, you know, otherwise we'll be all right. No beards. No beards. Well, no, this has been very very
educational for me because, you know, I'm I'm I'm around been around for a
while and the US has always been superior in at least the strategic area
and that's no longer the case. And uh you know you could talk about the hedgeimon
descending and losing influence and all but if the same is true with respect to
relation to the comparison with the Russian military you know people have to
realize that and that's why I really appreciate programs like yours Danny
where we can talk about this stuff freely and I can ask innocent or not so innocent question and get the real poop
from somebody who knows which end is up. Yeah, very true. I know. Uh I've kept
you guys for quite a while, you all. And I really enjoyed that last part there. I just want to pull one thing up if you
guys wanted to comment on this before we head out of here. Wanted to pull this up because it it really does u this is
herets. It really does back up what you're saying, what you've said, Scott, and and you uh Rey, even if it loses
governance of Gaza, Hamas has achieved its goal. And I want to just pull up what those achievements are. According
to Harets, this is actually just breaking. Uh it's ending with two major achievements. First, restoring the topic
of Palestinians to the global agenda. And then the second is emptying out
Israel's prisons, which they of full of Palestinians, mind you. Um which is a
huge point for them uh for the Palestinian people. One of the biggest demands uh and they have won it. So, uh,
any final thoughts on this or any any thoughts on this? Because it know it almost it kind of makes the point that,
uh, there is a lot, uh, there was a lot of resistance that bore out, I think, a
lot of results. Um, Scott, I said at the beginning, I'll say it again. Hamas won. I know there's people
in your chat who disagree with me, think I'm crazy. I don't care. Maybe I am crazy, and you have every right to
disagree with me, but I'm right on this one. I was right when I spelled out uh Hamas's objectives right after October
7th. Um I said, "This is why they're doing it. This is how they're going to do it." I said, "They're going to suck Israel in and get Israel to commit mass
murder at that time." Very controversial thing to say because oh my god, that means Hamas is is facilitating. Yes,
Hamas sacrificed the people of Gaza to get a Palestinian state. Just like
Charles de Gaulle sacrificed tens of thousands of French civilians so the
allies could land in Normandy and begin the process of liberating France from Nazi Germany. Um it's horrible,
horrible. But Hamas did it and now they've won.
They're on the path to victory and I think Harets captures that perfectly. Yeah. And just a quick note on that
before you come in right for the final comment. Uh I uh not not only do I agree
with that, Scott, it also uh stands to reason that uh Palestinians themselves
and those who we have to remember that uh Hamas has been the the governing party in uh Gaza and far more popular
than the so-called Palestinian Authority. And uh for many in the
resistance uh there the vision of any other option was not really there
because as so many commentators have said the resistance has exhausted all of the options and this was the one that
they took uh to achieve their goals and they're well on their way. Uh Rey, your
thoughts? I don't really have much to add on on that particular issue. I guess I come
across as more skeptical as to whether Netanyahu and the others will live up to their part of the deal. Uh we'll just
have to see. I'd like to revisit this in about two weeks to see how things eventuate. I don't think Netanyahu would
hesitate from violating his terms. Even though uh the deal bears the imprint of
the signature of Trump, what the only kind of uh right thing I could see in
this is that if it holds uh then Trump is sitting pretty and he might have
moral latitude to move on things like getting really decent talk going with
Russia on things that's so ripe for resolution uh that that might en enable
him to do that. That's the only thing I can see if the deal holds and I'll just let it rest at that.
Careful, Ray. You're sounding a lot like a MAGA guy. You're s you're Trump has
you wrapped around his little finger, Ray. You're sitting there stroking the Donnie, baby. I'm just
I put my MAGA I put my MAGA hat over here so you nobody can see it. Yeah.
Hey, thanks Danny. This is really good. Yeah. No, you know, for for that comment
too, Scott, it's like, you know, sometimes there are circumstances that move well beyond uh the the
personalities and whatnot of uh our US political class that I think we
illuminated pretty well here. Um that being a MAGA is
right. And yet because of what he just said, there are comments in your chat that Ray
McGovern's been sold out, bought by MAGA because he dare speak realistically. I
mean, Mayor Copa, Mayor Copa, Mayakopa,
the scarlet badge, right? Uh, well, gentlemen, this was great. We'll head off together. I just want to point to
the video description where you can find that substack. You can find Scott's YouTube channel. You can find Ray's uh
Twitter X account. You can also find Garly Nixon who is here with us early. Had to leave after the hour. You can
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Trump HUMILIATED In Front of ENTIRE WORLD as ICE PLANS IMPLODE
Katie Phang
Oct 9, 2025

Till Eckert, a German investigative journalist, witnessed firsthand the violent assault of an Ecuadorian woman by an ICE agent in the halls of the NYC immigration courthouse. He joins Katie Phang to talk about what he’s seen



Transcript

Just a few weeks ago, German
investigative journalist Till Eert here
in the United States on a special
fellowship exchange witnessed firsthand
the violence at the hands of the Trump
administration's immigration draconian
immigration crackdown. He was at that
New York immigration courthouse in the
hallway with a young Ecuadorian woman
who was violently assaulted and shoved
to the ground by an ICE agent. He
captured it on video and he wrote about
it for ProPublica.
Till Eert and I had the chance to sit
down to talk about his observations as
somebody who lives in Germany and is
witnessing what is happening in the
United States. He says he's alarmed and
I don't blame him. We talk about what
happened to that woman, Monica, that day
and why it's so important to be focusing
on how this is going on and and why this
is happening. And joining me now from
Berlin, we are so grateful for his time
is investigative journalist Till Eert.
Till, it's so nice to see you. How are
you doing?
Doing good. Hi Katie.
Hi Till. So thanks again. Like I like I
noted you are in Berlin. You came to the
United States, spent a few months here
as a part of your investigative
journalism. Get the viewers kind of
caught up quickly on what was the
purpose for you coming to the US.
Sure. Um, I was part of uh an fellowship
program. It was like more an exchange
program between journalists. It's an
international trans uh Atlantic exchange
program where 10 German journalists
would get sent to the US and 10 US
journalists would get sent to Germany.
It's called the R4F Burns Fellowship.
and I had the pleasure to uh be hosted
by ProPublica,
which is by the way for everybody who
tunes into my channel till I am a huge
fan of ProPublica. I am always saying to
people to not only subscribe but to
follow because their pieces are truly
tip of spear when it comes to
investigative journalism. So that was
part of the reason why I noted your
article from September 25th. Um, before
I get into that though, I wanted to ask
kind of what were your expectations
before you came to the US? Seeing how
you are in journalism, you are totally
up to speed on kind of global politics
and everything that's going on. What
were your expectations as to what you
thought it was going to be like when you
came here?
Well, I've been kind of alarmed to be
frankly honest with you um because of
the pictures I have seen like of masked
agents uh sweeping people off the
streets. So, I was just wondering and I
was curious to see it with my own eyes
and witnessing what was going on here in
the in the states.
And that was a huge part of that piece
you did for ProPublica.
You spent time reporting on the
immigrant neighborhoods and you went to
emergency rooms, churches, ICE field
offices, and then you spent two weeks
every day going to the federal
immigration courthouse in Manhattan. And
on that morning, this is something that
you caught yourself on video. We're
going to play it right now. And it's two
clips back to back we're going to play.
So, let's take a watch and a listen.
[Applause]
[Music]
till that was really hard to watch. Um,
that woman uh just shoved to the ground,
slamming her head on the floor. Her name
is Monica Moreta Galarsa. And for those
of us that don't speak Spanish and
didn't understand, in that second video,
she was explaining that she had come to
the United States from Ecuador and that
people were routinely beat in her home
country of Ecuador and she didn't think
that she'd come to the US and the same
thing would happen to her till we've
seen these videos. Now, talk about what
it was like to witness it firsthand and
and kind of what happened that day.
Yeah. So that morning, it must have been
like 10:00 a.m. Um I was walking into
the building and then driving up with
the elevator to um floor 12 um with
another photographer um another
journalist colleague. Um and we've been
hearing as soon as we were walking out
of the elevator, we were hearing those
distressed like this screams of Monica
um around the corner. So, we were like
walking out of the elevator around the
corner and have seen what we are what we
just saw in the video um like um right
before like the stairwell. Well, usually
like um ice agents would bring um
immigrants down to another floor. And
apparently this had just happened to
Monica's husband and this was why Monica
was very upset. And uh we can also see
in this video her children were there.
Um, we would hear I would see and hear
the children screaming. Um, Monica
screaming of of course being upset like
speaking Spanish to the Ice Age and
asking him uh whether she's allowed to
come in with him. She's afraid that he
will get hurt and
that was um it was um quite
it was quite a shocking thing to see. Um
it was an escalation for sure. Um, I
could feel the tension
um in this hallways rising like the days
before. Um,
every time when when an arrest happens
short before, you could you can tell
that ICE agents are getting nervous like
they're tipping from one foot to the
other to the other like you could you
could just feel that there is tensions
rising and um so that was like a
culmination and escalation for sure.
Well, there was one ICE agent in
particular, and it definitely was a big
scuffle, right? But there was that one
man in particular. He's been identified
by a first name of Vincent. We don't
know his full name, but he's the one
who's shoving her to the ground, and
he's also the one who was mocking her.
We could hear him on the video saying,
"Adios. Adios to her, maybe even to her
husband." You know, till you mentioned
her children were there. They were so
little and they were witnessing all of
this. Not only their father getting
arrested, but now their mother being
slammed to the ground.
That's correct. Like first correction uh
beforehand little correction like the
agent's name as we heard it is Victor
although we cannot be cannot be sure if
this is his real name.
Okay.
But yeah so children were there. They
were witnessing um their father taken
away by masked men. Well those are
children. They don't know what is
happening. They're just seeing like
masked men taking their father away. Um
and then of course Victor as you just
said um yelling at Monica um adios and
as I'm hearing in the video and as I
understood like one time he also said
calles which means something like shut
up um if I'm not mistaken um that was
like right in the moment when he was uh
standing
like over her above her like and having
his finger so the children were also
they also had to witness is their mom
getting
slammed to the ground
and then she had to go to the hospital.
You went with her to the hospital. That
was a part of that second clip where she
was crying and saying that she didn't
expect to get beaten in the United
States when that was something that was
a regular occurrence in Ecuador, her
home country.
That's right. Um, so photographers and
court observers were taking Monica out
outside um of the a federal plaza right
away and were been calling like um a
priest from a local church who was then
rushing um to us. Um and he was taking
Monica first to Congressman Dan Goldman
who then was watching the videos did a
comment on that too. Um and then
afterwards to the hospital where Monica
got their got her checkups like um she
was apparently seeing a neurologist.
Um and um she was I guess like released
like two hours or two and a half hours
later. Um and yeah, we was we were we
were there all the time.
Till I got to ask you, you were there
for two weeks in a row every day, right?
looking and being a part of the energy
as you spoke of in the hallways at this
immigration courthouse. So these are
people that are voluntarily appearing in
court. They are doing a process that for
all intents and purposes is the quote
legal process, right, to be able to
either get asylum or temporary protected
status or citizenship or some way or
means to be there.
Explain to our viewers what it felt
like. I know you were there in a
professional capacity, but talk about
what it felt like just as a human
knowing that these people are going,
knowing that there's the very real
possibility they could just be taken
into custody, whisked away, and never
see their family again, but that they
were there.
Yeah. Well, there's there's no way you
can you can watch that and just be be
left stone cold. Um that's that's not a
possibility. I mean, as you say, like
the people are going there, they're
playing by the rules. there are um they
will go there to have their regular
check-ins or their asylum case hearings.
Um sometimes it it would be something
about a marriage license or something
like that. And um they are expecting due
process and uh basic humanitarian
protection too. Like this is what would
what you would expect when you are going
to a court. And to then walk in and to
have to cross like sometimes 10 15
sometimes we saw 20 masked agents lining
up like on this hallway like you have to
cross and walk walk through them into
the courtroom. That alone I've seen many
people being
so distressed and so um afraid. So,
some of the arrests I've seen, um, I
could I was I looked into the people's
faces and I could see how
shocked and paralyzed they were. They
were just not understanding what was
going on to them, right? Like they were
they thought like they're doing
everything right. Um, some people, um, I
guess even Monica said they thought
these people are there to protect them.
They're there for their protection. Um,
for some it turns out to be Yeah. the
the opposite, right?
And you're there and you are there again
in a professional capacity. Um, but
you're watching this. Was it even scary
for you to kind of see this happening?
Did you worry at all for yourself while
you're in this? I mean, it it it gets
pretty chaotic when they're when they're
taking people into custody.
Well, it's a delicate uh situation for
sure. Um we have seen a colleague of
ours like just a couple of days later um
Turkish journalist um who got um shoved
to the ground as well by an ice agent.
It was just a couple of days later um
for just trying to follow the agents
into the elevator doing um making some
making photographs, pictures, document
what's going on. So for sure I knew from
the get-go that this is a delicate
situation and I would have to be pretty
careful about like where I'm standing,
what I'm doing, how I behave, how I
talk. And so for me, I guess um the
um I was not going there with a camera.
So that was just me. It was me with my
just I was I was there just like trying
to observe the scene.
Sometimes the phone of course like this
video I just flipped out the phone and
shot the video. Uh for sure if if
something like that would happen. But uh
other than that I was just standing
there and trying to observe. I was like
there were times where I would go like
inside of the courtrooms as well which
is something um journalists with cameras
are not allowed to um but that was the
reason I was not taking like any cameras
with me. So, I knew it's I I need to be
I need to be careful because um you
could you could easily get caught up in
in the chaos and sometimes you see those
arrests and those detains that are like
quite
they're they're swift but they're also
there's like sometimes people would
stand in the way and they would get
shafted away and then um it certainly
can create like a like a dangerous
situation. And so I was like for sure
making sure to not be in their way.
Your thoughts about hearing that that
ICE agent was initially there was a
declaration that that wasn't behavior.
ICE made a declaration publicly. This is
not behavior we condone. You know it
doesn't meet with our professional
standards. And then about three day
three days later CBS News reporting that
that ICE officer was placed back on duty
after preliminary review of that
incident.
Yeah. uh that made the rounds uh quite
quite quickly um with us like the people
who were going there quite frequently.
Um we were trying to verify that on the
ground with um security personnel uh who
were then telling us apparently he's
reinstated. Apparently he's on another
floor or another side. So we we could
not be completely sure like I mean Katie
um in the beginning we were not sure
like what what does it mean like be
relieved of duties? Like we we tried to
follow up with DHS like what exactly
does that mean? Like can you specify is
he fired? Is he taking off the streets?
What does it mean? DHS did not get back
to us for a command and they did not
until now. like we've I've been just
this morning hearing that he was seen um
in Federal Plaza by a photographer, but
again I cannot verify it. I'm trying to
um get um get a comment on that from
DHS, but they were not responding on
that. But yeah, it's uh the agent
he was um
let's say it's not the first time the
agent raised eyebrows. um with um court
observers and other photographers. So,
some of them were not really surprised
that something like that would happen.
Um
so, yeah. Um apparently he's back, but
we cannot know for sure.
There was an article in ProPublica on
July 31st that talked about nearly 50
documented instances of immigration
agents breaking vehicle windows. And
we've seen it on social media, right,
and on the news till we've seen the
violent entries into people's cars to be
able to drag people out. This is
happening on American streets. And it's
interesting because the article spoke
that officers who are breaking the
glass, they're not actually being
disciplined. They're getting promoted.
Like they're getting rewarded for this
type of behavior like Victor exhibited
with Monica and and other things that
were quote eyebrow raising as you've
noticed. You mentioned a few minutes ago
too, Till part of what you did here
coming from Berlin. You're an
investigative journalist. You were
alarmed by what you've been hearing and
seeing have been the tactics by
immigration here in the United States.
There have been comparisons till to
Germany, but Nazi Germany, right? The
idea of having stormtroopers and people
in the streets taking people into
custody, rounding them up, this type of
kind of crackdown on opposition. Do you
think those are fair comparisons, Till?
Well, I think um I think it's always
hard to draw like direct direct
comparisons between what happened back
then in Germany and what happens right
now in the US. But I'm I think it's sure
to compare dynamics and functionalities
um behaviors
um of the authorities. Um, I think this
is a fair game to do. And um, for sure I
do understand why for many people
masked um, federal agents on the street
um, arrest like in unmarked vehicles um,
coming and arresting people um, or in
this courthouse um, could could lead to
very unpleasant associations. So I
understand that. Till, I also wanted to
ask you as just a person. Um, I think it
kind of doesn't get discussed often. Um,
I call myself an independent journalist
because I'm not affiliated with um, a
media company, right? It's hard for us
to be covering this day in and day out.
It's hard for us to witness it to you
literally kind of went through that
firsthand experience with Monica in that
hallway.
Talk about the toll it takes on
journalists. Um, it's it's a lot to to
to hear it and to feel it and to and to
be a part of that energy and to have to
listen to the stories and to watch the
tears and to see these families ripped
apart.
You got to make sure you are uh you look
after yourself as a journalist too. It's
very important, right? Um, I mean it's a
job where you would constantly,
especially as an investigative reporter,
you would be constantly um confronted
with like um
individual stories or sometimes systemic
um abuse that is power power abuse which
is just very hard to to bear. Um so you
got to take care of yourself. Uh it's a
very important thing that meaning um for
me that means uh
just try to eat well right like try to
sleep well try to to get your workout in
try to um so those are those are
important things so I guess like those
are the basics and whenever you need um
someone to talk to it's it's also quite
important to do that um fortunately in
the newsrooms I've been working with
like ProPublica in the but also correct
teeth here in Germany. Um, all of the
co-workers will always have an open ear
um and would always like take their time
to to to go and talk to you for a check
in. So, um, yeah, that's it's not it's
not easy, of course, but I guess it's
it's our job to to look very closely and
to document it and um, but yeah, in the
same time take care of ourselves. Before
you and I part ways, I wanted to ask you
kind of quickly about an article that
you bylinined with others for Corctif,
which is also an amazing investigative
newsroom. I was really impressed with
the the articles I was able to read. You
did an article in January of this year
about Russian meddling in Germany's
elections. And what I loved about
reading it till was I was stunned. you
um and your and your colleagues uh
uncovered a Russian influence operation,
a disinformation campaign that
established a 100 fake websites ahead of
Germany's general election earlier this
year. The purpose to influence the
election campaign through the spreading
of disinformation
um with the help of AI and then having
right-wing influencers kind of spreading
it. The article is fantastic and I'm
going to tag it so people can read it,
but it it was fake news stories
published on websites that were spread
by pro-Russian influencers in Germany.
And one of the kind of like main
interfering entities was Storm 1516,
which targeted our US presidential
elections in no in 2024 with the goal
apparently of getting Donald Trump into
office. People like JD Vance and
Marjorie Taylor Green have spread Storm
1516's narratives. I mean, till it's
terrifying and yet remarkably almost
like um validating to hear your
investigative journalism to prove that
we've known that Russians have been
meddling in these elections, but I
didn't know that you were meddling in
German elections.
Yeah, we've been uh following this for
quite some time. Um there are many um
many hints and clues that like Russia uh
not only tries to meddle with like
elections but also tries to like provoke
um
Europe and Germany in particularly for a
long time. I'm sure you've been hearing
like the stories about the drones
um um above um above Germany. I mean
like above Poland. We have seen we have
seen those news. So this is something
that has been going on for for quite
some time now. So yeah, it's it's quite
real. We're following it for for quite
some time now.
Well, Till Eert, look, I I lauded you
for your hard work. I'm grateful that
this fellowship program allowed you to
spend time here in the United States. I
hope that there was something good that
you got out of it. We got obviously your
incredible work as an investigative
journalist. Correct. Teeth is is is
lucky to have you working there. And
again, we're also grateful for
ProPublica having you be a part of their
newsroom when you were here in the
United States. Thanks, Till Eert, for
joining me today. I really appreciate
it.
Thanks so much for having me, Katie.
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Photographer Captures Pam Bondi’s Notes—and They’re a Doozy. Attorney General Pam Bondi came to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing armed with nothing more than lame canned attacks.
by Edith Olmsted
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025/10:37 a.m. ET
https://newrepublic.com/post/201475/pho ... ring-notes

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi needed a cheat sheet of attacks to dodge Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s tough questions.

While sitting before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, Bondi repeatedly refused to answer questions from the Rhode Island Democrat about what happened to the $50,000 cash bribe border czar Tom Homan received from undercover FBI agents in 2024.

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst captured an image of the inside of a folder of notes Bondi referred to during questioning by Whitehouse. But her notes had nothing to do with her work as leader of the Department of Justice, or even the embattled border czar. Rather, Bondi had collected screenshots of social media posts, prewritten comebacks, and handwritten notes she hoped could give her a good “gotcha” moment.

The top of the folder showed a July X post from Whitehouse in which he’d called for an investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “No government official should be above the law,” he wrote.

Also included in the folder was a bulleted list of comebacks. Apparently, Bondi needed to prepare the remark “You are a total hypocrite” in advance.

[x]
Molly Ploofkins
@Mollyploofkins
Zoomed-in photo of Attorney General Pam Bondi's notes while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

She employed another one of her prewritten attacks when asked about Homan’s tax returns. “Senator, I would be more concerned if I were you when you talk about corruption and money, when you pushed for legislation that subsidized your wife’s company!” Bondi sneered.

“The questions here are actually pretty specific,” Whitehouse replied, undeterred. “So, having you respond with completely irrelevant far-right internet talking points is really not very helpful here.”

Below her catalog of clapbacks, Bondi had written a handwritten note “On Epstein” positing whether Whitehouse had ever accepted money from Reid Hoffman, who once invited Epstein to dinner. She used the tidbit to deflect from a question about whether the FBI had seized photos of President Donald Trump with half-naked young women from the safe at Epstein’s estate, as reported by author Michael Wolff.

“Do you know if the FBI found those photographs in their search of Jeffrey Epstein’s safe or premises or otherwise? Have you seen any such thing?” Whitehouse asked.

“You know, Senator Whitehouse, you sit here and make salacious remarks, once again trying to slander President Trump left and right, when you’re the one who was taking money from one of Epstein’s closest confidants, Reid Hoffman,” Bondi replied.

Again, Whitehouse continued unbothered. “The question is, did the FBI find those photographs that have been discussed publicly by a witness who claimed Jeffrey Epstein showed them to him. You don’t know anything about that?” he asked, and Bondi fell silent, having exhausted her scant notes.

It’s disturbing, but not surprising, that Bondi didn’t make actual preparations to answer tough questions from senators. It appears that the attorney general felt no obligation to be accountable to the American people about alleged efforts to cover up for Trump or his underlings, believing them all to be above the law.