BRAZEN Assassination Of Health Insurance CEO On NY Street!
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I'm here with our special guest, Tim Pool. Hi, Tim. How are you? Mexican Tim Pool. And the Mexican Tim Pool. Yes. I don't know if you saw this today. UnitedHealthcare executive killed in Manhattan in a targeted attack. Do you see this? I just saw it. I just saw it. I was like, wow. Did you see it?

So this guy, Brian Thompson, is the CEO of the United Health Insurance Unit. He was fatally shot on Wednesday morning outside of Midtown Manhattan Hotel in what police describe as a brazen targeting attack by a gunman lying in wait for him.

Thompson 50. He's 50 and he's the head of that health insurance thing. He was shot around 6.45 a.m. outside the Hilton on 6th Avenue where the company's annual investor conference was about to take place. He was rushed to a nearby hospital. He was pronounced dead. Police said the gunman remains at large. It looked like a professional hit. We're going to show you as much as we can show you. They're still investigating the motive, right? We can show it right up to the time the guy shoots him. Okay. So here, I'll show you.

So there he is. So this is the guy. That's all we can show you. So that's the guy. And then this guy comes out. He's got a silencer. Yeah. So then he shoots him and the gun jams. So then he has to like clear it. I don't know anything about guns, but then he clears it. Did you know this? And then he shoots him again and then he has to clear it again. Then he walks. So yeah, it was, it kept jamming. The gun always jams. Good thing they defunded the police. Cause we had time to clear that jam.

So just like that, 6.45 in the morning, this guy, he's got a backpack, just walks up, boom. Well, it could be also revenge for denying somebody's claim because apparently he was a real sack of shit, this guy. That's what people are. And then he just walks towards him. So the guy falls and he walks towards him. He reloads the gun and that's that. That's it. It's all over.

Yeah. I, you know, I have no idea what it could be, but I know that the kind of claims he denied is the kind of thing where someone might want a bloody revenge on you and might very calmly shoot you in your head. They do have the highest, uh,

They do have that. Is it in here? I sent it to Malcolm. Did he put it in here? There it is. They do have the highest claim denial rate in the insurance business. I mean, there was a movie about this, right? It was Sam Jackson, I think, taking over a hospital because they denied his claim. Oh, really? This is like a thing that's in the zeitgeist to do. So here's Anthem. That's who I use. So 23% of the claims they deny. The industry average is 16%. They're double that at 32%.

So a third of all claims, the United Health, they deny them. Yeah, I'm guessing not legitimately. Hey, good work, Kaiser Permanente, huh? Kaiser's the lowest. Isn't that something? But you can't go out. You have to go to a Kaiser hospital, right? You can't go to...

So the New York police said it doesn't appear to be random violence. No, to me, it looks like one of those Seth Rich botched robberies. That's what it looks like to me. They forgot to take anything. They forgot to take his watch, his wallet, his cell phone. No, somebody had a grudge. Somebody had a grudge. Somebody above him or below him had a real grudge.

So the suspect was wearing a mask and carrying a gray backpack. He fled on foot before mounting an electric bike because he cares about the environment. That's what I like. Green. This guy's a green murder. He rode into Central Park. So there he is. That's what the guy looks like.

So he said that the shooter before attacking Thompson had gone to a Starbucks about two blocks away on 6th Avenue between West 51st and 52nd Street. The police released three surveillance photos of Wednesday afternoon, the suspect standing at a Starbucks counter wearing a black coat with a hood up, a black face mask and a gray backpack, which appears to match the apparel seen on the assailant. So that's the guy.

So why would you put glasses on? Yeah, that's why I'm like, is he that big of a pro? Because he stopped off at Starbucks for a quick latte. You know they're going to grab the surveillance cameras from everybody around there. And they did. And they got them. At least cover your hands or something. I figured they could get you from this. That's what I think. I bet they could get them. See, that's why I don't think it's so professional. Because why would you get caught on camera if you're a pro? Professionals know how to do it without that. Yeah, I agree.

City police departments have demonstrated the ability to release crime footage within hours when they want to. It is amazing. We still don't have any, no video of Epstein's death. None. Yeah. If it was an oligarch hit, then I would think we wouldn't have this video, you know? I could be wrong, but. Yeah. Thompson's wife, Paulette, she told NBC News they had received some threats, though she did not know any specifics. Basically, I don't know, a lack of coverage, she said.

I don't know details. I just know that there was some people that had been threatening him. UnitedHealth is the largest U.S. health insurer. Really? That makes sense. Tens of millions of Americans who pay more for health care than any other in the country. That's I know than any other country. The company has been grappling with the fallout from a massive data hack of its change health care unit that provides technology for U.S. health providers, disrupting medical care for patients and reimbursement to doctors for months.

In May, a pension fund serving firefighters in Hollywood, Florida, sued United and three executives, including Thompson, accusing them of selling a combined $120 million in shares after being made aware of a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust probe before the public became aware. Oh, that's just standard. It just sounds like standard stuff.

Brian Thompson, who was killed by a man wearing a hood and using a suppressed pistol. They call it a suppressed pistol. That means a silencer. So this guy says he was set to testify before Congress over UnitedHealthcare's hacks, as well as their business practices. Oh, wait a minute. That could be a professional thing made to look like revenge. But he's about to testify. And that's a whole other dimension. I don't know.

Video showed the gunman arrived outside the Hilton about five minutes before Thompson. He ignored several other people walking by. When Thompson approached the hotel, the gunman shot him in the back with a pistol and then continued firing, even after his gun appeared to jam. What? So he wasn't staying at the Hilton, it doesn't appear. He was just going there for the conference. After his gun jammed, he kept firing? How do you keep firing after your gun? Because he kept clearing it. Sir Hand did. Remember Sir Hand? Sir Hand, they couldn't take the thing out of his hand. Yeah.

About one hour after United Health's investor conference started at 8 a.m., Chief Executive Andrew Witte took the stage to announce the rest of the program was canceled. Boy, that'll put a damper on your convention, huh? The company later removed photos of its leadership team from its website. Immediately, he's gone. They already got his name off the door. That's weird. Thompson was named United Healthcare CEO in April of 2021 after working at the company since 2004.

politicians, including Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota and Amy Klobuchar, released condolence statements on Wednesday. I guess I think they're headquartered in Minnesota, maybe. This is horrifying news, says Tim Walz. A terrible loss. This is more horrifying than Taco Tuesday with white guys. It's a terrible loss for business and health care. How is it a loss for the health care? He's connected to this.

How is it a loss? Now the healthcare community is just, what are they going to do? Oh, they lost their CEO. Those aren't replaceable. They're going to do exactly what they do every day, deny people healthcare. You saw those charts. That guy was the best. Yeah. They act like he specialized in getting people healthcare. He specialized in keeping people from healthcare. Hey, we should privatize social security, Jimmy. We could have all kinds of stories like this all the goddamn time.

A pitch profiler says, where were my prayers when United Healthcare denied my prior authorization for an MRI of my brain to determine if I had a tumor? It's not a tumor. As I was growing, showing symptoms, especially since a brain tumor killed my grandfather. Don't forgive that. Don't give this guy sympathy. Use this to show that health care has moral and ethical obligations to the people that are forced to purchase it and not just their shareholders. Oh, there's jokes for this.

You know, I agree with that, but also, if he was about to testify on something, it sounds like it's a thing to cover up something. Oh.

The hit man seems like he might be a professional professional, but they found him on LinkedIn, I heard. That's what I... Hit man rule number one, when you're trying to hide what you're doing, use a silencer on your pistol and then shoot the guy right in front of somebody else. He did. There was a guy right there. Did you see the guy right there? I couldn't show it, but yeah. I mean, it's not like the guy was about to testify against Nancy Pelosi or anything like that. Was he? I don't know.

But this joke says... Who was it testifying about? But the joke says... Oh. Stop Cop City says, this is the good side, caring more about black...

Hearted. And this is Tim Waltz. So he's he's commenting on Tim Waltz having condolences. He goes, this is the good side, meaning the Democrats caring more about black hearted insurance CEO than anyone harmed by his criminal policies. I hope Brian Thompson burns for eternity and every other health care CEO is scared to be in public for the rest of their miserable lives. And again, F Tim Waltz. Wow. That's strong stuff. Stop cop cities.

Yeah, dude, I really... There's something about this that reminds me of Boeing. Yeah, of course. You know, those people have to testify dying. Chris Lynn Hedges, a friend of the show, says, We don't know the motive yet for the assassination, but it would not surprise me if the killer stalked Thompson because UnitedHealthcare had denied medical coverage or forced a family or an individual into bankruptcy after the company failed to cover a serious illness. Insurance reject about one in seven claims for treatment. Well, actually...

At UnitedHealth, it's one in three. Often by deciding that treatment is not medically necessary. Among 10 high-income nations, the United States spends the most on health care but has the worst health outcomes. And people still say, what do you want, the government to run it? Just like they do the military. I want them to run it.

- I want to put the money and care into it, what they do to blow people up. - Americans die four years earlier than our counterparts in other countries. There are more than 200 million Americans who rely on private health care insurance. But once they become seriously ill, they're often tossed aside, left with crippling medical bills and unable to receive adequate treatment. Exorbitant medical bills account for about 40% of the bankruptcies in America. Many of those driven into bankruptcy because of medical bills

They had medical insurance. I know. That's my favorite. I did. Yeah. The revenue of six largest insurers, Anthem, Centene, Cigna, AVS, Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealth have more than quadrupled from 2010 to $1.1 trillion. Combined revenues of the biggest have quintupled. What?

Those corporations, in moral terms, are legally permitted to hold sick children hostage while their parents bankrupt themselves to save their sons and daughters. That many die at least premature deaths because of these policies is indisputable. Nothing absolves the killer of Thompson, but nothing absolves those who run for-profit health care corporations that embrace a business model that destroys and terminates lives in the name of profit.

Professor Zenka says, today we mourn the death of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. Wait, I'm sorry. Today we mourn the death of 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires. Oh, Professor Zenka's taking the gloves off.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in New York City today. I will not shed one tear for the CEO of a greedy insurance company. Instead, I weep for every person who has died due to lack of healthcare and for the 100 million Americans who are saddled with medical debt. That's true. When he was the CEO, the company began using AI to automate the denial of services.

That is infuriating. The AI was found to have 90% error rate, but the company continued to use it, resulting in people being denied medically necessary and fully covered treatments. Yeah, it's hard to report the story without smiling. Well, that's why I'm suspect. What is he testifying about? Yeah.

Because, look, you said he's only 50. He's the CEO of the company. That's weird. So is he a puppet that was going to testify and the people that pull the strings want him dead? Because everybody's on board with him getting killed. That's why it seems kind of perfect to have a guy –

you know, some 50-year-old be the head of the company and take the heat. And then, you know, we all pretend like, I don't know. I want to know what he testified about, and I want to know who that guy is that shot him. I think this guy says he died doing what he loves most, increasing shareholder value. Today it's up 2.48% for UnitedHealth Group. I was going to say it was the time to buy that stock. That's what it sounds like.

I like this. This is a great one. Noah Horowitz says, CEO Brian Thompson won't see your jokes about his assassination, but the other health insurance CEOs in your life will. Nice. I say nice. All right. There it goes. That's our feel-good story of the day. Ha ha! Ha ha!

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And he's saying a lot of things that I personally like hearing. And there's also, he's flawed. He's got a bad side.

But I'm going to focus in this video on the good side. And in the next video, I'm going to tell you the downside. The downside is he's Israel first. Okay, there it is. But that seems to be the price of admission into any presidential administration. You have to be Israel first. But here's the good side. Here's what he's saying. The people rendered their verdict on all this lawfare. So this is Steve Bannon, Trump advisor.

And listen to what he's saying, what's going to happen now in the Trump administration. On last Tuesday, one week ago, and like I have worked on for years and years and years, the whole country came together. Working class people all over came together and they rejected what's going on in this court, what's going on with President Trump. The lawfare of Tish James and Alvin Bragg and Jack Smith and Merrick Garland

has been rejected by a landslide by the American people. So the one thing I have to say to Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Jack Smith, Tish James, Alvin Bragg, you wait. The hunted are about to become the hunters. Thank you very much. The hunted are about to become the hunters. Good.

And but of course, the highest office in the land will not be used for personal revenge reasons or the Democrats will sue you for copyright infringement here. Here is good. So here's the guy who is going to be the hunter.

This is Kash Patel. So Steve Bannon said the hunted are now going to become the hunters. So how they did all that lawfare, what they did to the January 6th people, the Russiagate, that came from the FBI, the CIA, the Clinton compound, and the news media, how they did those four completely ridiculous, bogus lawfare cases against President Trump. Now, those people who did all that are now going to be the hunted,

And here's the guy going to be doing some of the hunting. This is Kash Patel, and he's nominated by Donald Trump to be the new head of the FBI. And listen to what he has to say. And the one thing we will do that they never will do is we will follow the facts and the law and go to courts of law and correct these justices and lawyers who have been prosecuting these cases based on politics and actually issuing them as lawfare. We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government,

But in the media, yes, we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come after you. So now a lot of people are afraid of that. Oh, he's going to go after them. He's saying it explicitly. Mockingbird reporters. Good. Project Mockingbird that never ended. That's still been going on. Good. Get some real journalists. As long as he's following the law.

I think it's good to put the fear of death into those corrupt media people. I mean, the idea that anybody would be upset about that shows you how much of a bubble they're in because everyone...

Everyone would like to see that who isn't in a very small minority of people. So does he mean the CIA chiefs who go on, who populate the green rooms of cable news networks now and go on? They used to have to get pay a reporter or a journalist or a TV news person. The CIA used to have to pay them to corrupt them and come on and lie for the CIA. Now they just bring the head of the CIA on.

They bring disgraced FBI people on. Disgraced FBI. I showed you that yesterday. I showed you that yesterday how they brought on this guy who was lied to the FBI three times. Should have been prosecuted. Guy who they brought him on. Disgraced FBI chief. They brought him on to talk about Kash Patel.

You know, those people should be pressed. I think that's what he means by that. So maybe that's what he means. The people in the media talk. It's great talk. But let's face it. They're not going to do what they're not. I know they're not good. That's the happy if they even do a little bit of what they say. But these threats, I'm not going to buy it till I see it. It's not like Rachel Maddow is going to be banging out license plates for a pack of cigarettes. OK, no. Although it would feel good to see her have a real job.

Yeah. Here, he's got more to say. Criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out. But yeah, we're putting you all on notice. And Steve, this is why they hate us. This is why we're tyrannical. This is why we're dictators. So there it is. I can't wait to see what happens. I really would like, I really like all their worst fears to come true, but I know it won't be that great. I just think, how could it be? Here is, here's, he got more to say. Then we need to decrease what I call government creep.

With person. So, so the first part, he's going after the liars who pushed media lawfare on Donald Trump. He's going after the liars in the media, push Russiagate who pushed all. That's what I hope he's saying. And he said, and he said, whether he said, whether we go after them criminally or civilly, we'll have to work that out. Is he a former FBI guy? What is he? These people who cheered out. Yeah. He was a deputy deputy.

I think at the Department of Home... Can you look up what his resume is? Kash Patel with a K. Kash Patel is an American attorney and former government official. He served as the U.S. National Security Council official, senior advisor to the acting director of national intelligence, and chief of staff to the acting United States Secretary of Defense during the Trump presidency.

Why are they saying he's not qualified? It sounds like he had all the... He's got all the qualifications. They seem to be saying that about every nominee right now. They're not qualified. That's just it. And then people just repeat that. They're not qualified. So, believe me, he's not really going to go after anybody in the media. That's not going to happen. And the one thing we will... So here we go. Now, so this is another big idea he has about declassifying classified material.

Which is a great idea. Let's listen to what he says. Then we need to decrease what I call government creep with personnel. The FBI's footprint has gotten so freaking big. And the biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its Intel shops. I'd break that component out of it. I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopening the next day. Day one.

Wait, Jimmy, the guy that I came up with, McCabe, that piece of shit. Yeah, McCabe, Andrew McCabe. He goes, he's a lot like J. Edgar Hoover. Well, he's saying he's going to close down the J. Edgar Hoover building. Is that something J. Edgar Hoover would do? Dipshit? As a museum of the deep state. And I take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. Yeah. You're cops. Go be cops. Go chase down murderers and rapists and drug dealers and violent offenders.

What do you need 7,000 people there for? Same thing with DOJ. What are all these people doing here? Looking for their next government promotion, looking for their next fancy government title, looking for their parachute out of government. So while you're bringing in the right people, you also have to shrink government. So a massive government reform. Yeah. You got to work with Congress to eliminate the billets. This is one of the things we did when I was deputy DNI. We got to DNI and I was like, okay, what do all these people do?

We've got the CIA, so why do I have analysts doing the CIA's job here? Why do I have a floor of them? Like, give me a good answer. I don't know everything. I don't know a lot. But if you can give me an answer that satisfies their existence, I'm all in. Well, we just have our own people.

Okay, well, now we don't. We went to Congress and zeroed out a bunch of billets. I like how he's talking. Why? Why would Congress hate you for that? Not Congress, the public. Congress is like, great, you saved us money. You're the only agency that returned money this year because we didn't spend our entire budget. We were literally funding seats with no humans in them for years.

And what the government creep that I was talking about is these agencies go to Congress every year. And again, this is why it's a thing of decades. I need five more seats here. I need 10 more seats here. Okay, you keep doing that. How's that going? Oh, we'll fill that seat next year. We're in the process of interviewing people for that section. And that keeps, no one returns money. It's the biggest fiction in government that you can't return money. Every agency and department that I've ever worked for, when it comes to the fiscal end of the year, they're like, go on trips, go spend money.

Yeah. What? Just give it back to Congress. We can't do that.

Okay. Wow. That's a big deal what he just said, Jimmy, because all these programs, if you don't spend your money, they're afraid they're not going to get the money next year. So I learned this when I first started comedy. I met a friend who came from the military who was at comedy, and he said they would send them out and take the beds from the barracks and tell them to dig a hole and bury them. Right. And he was like, why are we doing this? Like, so we could get new beds because we got extra money. We have to spend it.

And he said the same thing. Well, why don't we just save it for next year? He said, you can't. If you don't spend all the money they give you, they'll give you less money next year.

I've known this for 30 years. So he that's exactly what he's saying. So thermometers and hospitals, the government started taking the you know, they would send a collection service to get the mercury. Right. And then somebody invented something where they can dispose of them safely at the hospital. So there's no need for that program. So the program didn't end. It didn't end. It kept they just keep sending money to it. I found that out and playing in D.C. to

Talk is all these like young younger than me disillusioned. They already learned how it works kind of like, you know, they're in their 20s, but they're like kids to me. And they all I learned about this a long time ago. I never forgot it. That's probably the basis of most of the problem in everything is that we got to spend the money because that's how you lead to creating fake criminals. And then once you start doing that, then that becomes the institution, which it has been with the FBI for quite some time.

So I think that guy should walk around with six inches of plexiglass, bulletproof plexiglass around him because that's what's going to happen to a guy who wants to do that. So he's got more to say. Two different colors hair is going to take a shot at him. Yeah. Yep. When he said government creep, I thought he meant Stephen Miller, which is a good band name, but bad. Anyway, here we go. You need a 24 seven declassification office, whatever you want to call it. Transparency, truth, whatever. I don't care.

sits in the White House, reports directly to you, and you take incoming from the United States of America. I want JFK. I want the 9-11 files. I want this. I want that. All the FBI, and this is a tool, this is something we didn't cover. What the deep state uses the most to cover up their corruption is an illegal application of the classification system.

Remember the lovebirds text from – this is a beauty. The lovebirds text from FBI, DOJ, LAN, Russiagate, Strzok, and Page were texting each other. They were running the Russiagate investigation against Trump. They were the head of the counterintelligence unit at the FBI, and they're having an extramarital affair together. Can't make this stuff up. They're sending each other texts about how much they hate Trump and are going to create an insurance policy to stop Trump.

Then we finally find those text messages. You know what the FBI and DOJ do for like a year? Redact them to congressional investigators and congressional men and women running the oversight of it. So we saw the people running the head of the Russiagate investigation. Two of the people are having an affair. They text each other. We're going to stop Donald Trump from being president. They lied to the FISA court 20, 17 times to get a tap on his phones.

They say that these are the people we're going to stop him from becoming president. So when they so then the FBI redacts that they don't let Congress see that, that that's what happened. And then guess what happens? Then the guy who's texted that sues the FBI and the Department of Justice and for taking his text messages off his phone, a phone that's issued by the government.

He sues them. He would lose this case in court, but the Department of Justice settles before it goes to court and gives him one point something million dollars. So that's their payback. That's the deep state's payback for doing their dirty work. He was a good boy. So he was a good boy. Peter Stroke. Hunter's pardon. It's not just the Biden crime family. He's a bad man for the CIA in Ukraine. Yes. And then that's why. Why would there be so much weight behind this? Right. Yeah.

It's mafia shit. It's just mafia shit. So that's what he's talking about right here. He's talking about how corrupt and criminal the FBI is. That's what he's talking about. And the Department of Justice. And he knows it. He knows where the bodies are buried because he's been inside government. I mean, I like how he's talking quite a lot. The only thing that would be better is if he was like, we're going to get rid of FISA courts. Yeah, they should get rid of FISA. But here we go. They're...

congressional men and women running the oversight of their agency. That's just one example. But it gets even better. Here's the deep state full circle. Just last week, do you know what Strzok and Page received from the Department of Justice? What? A $1.5 million payout to settle a lawsuit that Strzok and Page brought for the improper disclosure of their personal text messages on FBI phones.

And the DOJ just rewarded them. They broke the law. They broke the chain of command. They broke every regulation there is in the FBI. They weaponized the system of justice against a political target they hated. We found those text messages and we got them declassified finally in full when I became deputy director of national intelligence. And the world has now seen them and they can read them. And that's the best form of transparency. That's why I want this 24-7 declassification office. Don't have me regurgitate it to you. Read it.

get the documents, get the files, get the memos. But the deep state came full circle and gave these guys a payday for rigging a presidential election and breaking the law. So now you know what happens. That's step one. Step two, get America the truth. And that's what that office would be for. This sounds great. How you cannot be jump doing cartwheels, happy that this guy's going to be the head of the FBI is kind of a mystery to me. If he does it, I'm going to do them.

Yeah, but the problem is he probably won't do this stuff. That's the worry. Not that he will do it.

Well, I mean, it sounds like he wants to do it. The problem would be what can they – because this is a huge organized crime operation. And one thing about organized crime, if you remember Pablo Escobar, he started blowing up congressmen and shit in Colombia to not face justice. Remember that? So this is – he's a punk compared to these people. These are much more powerful people. So –

They're going to do something wild to not face the music. Yes. If I had to put money on it. I bet I wouldn't fly in any planes if I was him. So here he has more to say. Here's more of the good of Kash Patel. Who has Jeffrey Epstein's Black Book? FBI. The FBI has it. Who? So they have. So he's letting you know right now.

That the FBI has Jeffrey Epstein's black book. They have the names of the clients. They haven't returned it to Israel? They haven't. They have not returned it to the Mossad. And you remember the last guy who was nominated who talked about Jeffrey Epstein? You remember that? It was Matt Gaetz. He said, I know who killed Jeffrey Epstein and it was a foreign government. And everybody knows that's Israel. And then he was out. So here he is saying this. Let's see what's going to happen. I mean...

What he's doing right now, he needs his own army to protect him. Yeah, I hope there's Deep State that's protecting him from the Deep State because I don't know who else could protect you. So the whole, that the same people who killed Jeffrey Epstein are going to want to kill him. Israel. There we go. That is, I mean, there's... Oh, that's under direct control of the director of the FBI. Just like the manifesto,

From the Nashville school shooting of the Catholic school? We still haven't seen that, right? It's not the Nashville police or PD saying we don't want this out. The FBI airmailed into that operation and said this is not getting out. Because they do that because this is another government gangster operation. All these local law enforcement communities get funding from the DOJ and FBI for local programs. And if you don't cooperate, you're not getting your million dollars for this. And that's a lot of money to these local districts.

That's how they play the game. That's why you don't have a black book. But the black book, it's not just sitting. I mean, that's that's that's Hoover power times 10. And to me, that's a thing I think President Trump should run on on day one. Roll out the black book.

And not just that. On day one, roll out all of the text messaging communications we were told were deleted. On day one, play the rest of the video of the pipe bomber. One of the reforms I talk about in government canons is you need a central node to be continuously declassifying. This is another thing they do. They overclassify. And I'm telling you, as a former number two in the IC, they overclassify 50% of the stuff there to protect the deep state. Oh no, you can't see that. Nothing to see here.

Gino was a master at it, of doing it. And we still haven't seen half of the Russiagate report that we wrote. Still under lock and key. On how the ICA was originally constructed. We put 10,000 man hours against John Brennan's team that did it. And we found out why they came up with their bogus conclusion. We couldn't sell it to the world.

Because we couldn't talk about it, and the government gangsters came in and buried it. All of these things, there needs to be a continuing central power, whether it's the White House or off-site, that says every request that comes in, just write out the door, as long as it's not a major threat to national security.

I hope he does it. I have as much hope. It's just like Barack Obama saying the first thing he's going to do is codify Roe versus Wade. Him saying the first thing they should do is get the Jeffrey Epstein. I bet you we never see the Jeffrey Epstein black book. We're not going to see it. Yeah, I'm not holding my breath, but I really enjoy how he's talking right now. I'm enjoying it. Let's have a little fun.

So here he is talking about the Russiagate. But when do you believe the FBI figured out that all of this was just one political campaign trying to take down another?

I think they knew right away in the documents that we put out. So he's talking about Russiagate. What do you think that they figured out? This was just one campaign because it originated with Hillary Clinton, Russiagate, the P dossier, the Steele dossier. That was funded. That was opposition research. That was them trying to get dirt that was on their political opponent. Make it up. And Steele did. He made it up.

Wait, he didn't mention that in his interview with Dean Abedabu on CNN. And so here, so that's what they're talking about here. But when do you believe the FBI figured out that all of this was just one political campaign trying to take down another?

I think they knew right away. And the documents that we put out in the Nunes investigation, the Nunes memo and the HIPC report on Russian active measures show that the FBI knew right away because their FISA abuse process, now that declassification process is complete. And your viewers can read it that the FBI...

knew the information was fraudulent. They knew the credibility problems with Christopher Steele, and they knew the DNC through Fusion GPS and Perkins Coie were piping in tens of millions of dollars into the machine so that they could get up a FISA warrant on President Trump. So I think they knew right away. The FBI themselves lied 17 times, according to the inspector general's investigation, 17 times to the FISA court so they could get a tap on Donald Trump's entire organization, which they did.

And they still couldn't find a crime they could prosecute him with. 17 lies. So when did the FBI know Russiagate was a hoax? From the beginning. From the beginning. Guess who else knew? Barack Obama knew. The head of the FBI knew. We've already covered this, but here he is. Here's this guy who's going to be the head of the FBI saying it. Barack's like the shadow president. Yeah. You know, like George Clooney has to take the hit for decisions made by the Democratic, by Obama.

Which is why I think the individuals at the head of the FBI need to be held accountable. Look out for indictments against the folks like Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson for helping perpetuate this fraud. And look out for individuals like Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. I believe they're already helping John Durham. They're cooperating with him to get the bigger fish like the Andy McCabe, who is the biggest fraudster next to James Comey. I think you're going to see these indictments start coming out on the individuals at the top. It's just going to take a few more months. But I remind your viewers, it takes a little bit of time to work these matters.

So that's the good. And so we just showed you, go look at the video where the establishment freaks out about Cash Patel. Andy McCabe, he just talked about it. Andy McCabe's the biggest fraudster. He was the acting head of the FBI. He's the biggest fraudster in the world. And he says that Cash Patel's not qualified. This guy sounds very qualified. Oh, McCabe, the guy that deserves to be put in prison, doesn't like this guy? No, you don't say. Yeah.

Okay, so that's the good part of Kash Patel. That's the good. That's the part I like. ♪

So get this MSNBC has descended into a civil war as Rachel Maddow turns on morning Joe host for bending the knee to Trump by civil war. Do they mean catty comments from fellow twits? Is that what they mean by that? A civil war. Yeah. It's like, you know, it's like that gang rumble sequence from anchorman. Rachel, Rachel Maddow steps into the arena and morning Joe steps forward from the other side. Are you not entertained? Come on. Yeah.

So this is what's happening. MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow was reportedly furious with her Morning Joe colleagues for meeting with Donald Trump after he won the presidential election. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski visited the president-elect a little over two weeks ago at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida to restart communications and set a new approach ahead of his second term. So...

Did they bring the Russian restart button that Hillary used back in the day? They're furious. She's furious. Well, I'm sure they care. Everyone at MSNBC hangs out together in real life, right? So Maddow, along with other hosts at the troubled liberal network, are calling this move by the married morning joke. Oh, opportunistic, according to the report in The Sun.

The meeting at Mar-a-Lago created a lot of tension in the teams and many other stars see both Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski as opportunistic and with very low self-respect and forgetting their values of being journalists with independence and integrity. Really? So...

They're forgetting their values of independence because it makes sense when you realize, Kurt, that the hallmark of being an independent journalist is only speaking to people you agree with. Yeah. They're journalists? I wasn't aware of that.

Which journalist that said a journalist who worked at MSNBC for 15 years said that? There's a journalist over at MSNBC? Doing what? What do they do, just hang out in the break room? You're kidding me.

And by the way, always a crack reporter, Rachel Maddow has finally found someone being opportunistic at her own network. Yeah, same thing. With this kind of detective work, she should have her own BBC series, Ms. Maddow's Murders. This is Jacob's Talks for Raytheon, by the way. I know.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the journalist made it clear who has a problem with Morning Joe pivoting from calling Trump a fascist and an admirer of Adolf Hitler to having a cordial meeting with him to figure out coverage going forward. They have lost a lot of credibility. Rachel Maddow is pissed at them, as are other presenters like Chris Hayes and Ari Melber. They're so frustrated, the journalist said. Not Ari Melber. Oh, no. Not the rapping lawyer.

I mean, cut Joe Scarborough some slack, you guys. He killed his lover and is afraid he'll be prosecuted. I'm kidding. Come on. That's just a conspiracy theory. That Trump said, and they had to debunk in 2016.

It was such a stupid thing to do, they added. They've bent the knee to ensure not being targeted by Trump and the whole MAGA world. This comes as MSNBC has devolved into an utter turmoil following Trump's win. The network's viewership has taken a precipitous dive. Comcast is considering spitting off the cable channel, and Maddow agreed to take a $5 million pay cut in her new contract. Oh, my God. Welcome to the bottom, bitch. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Come on, Rachel. It's only $5 million a year. Pretend it's still 2010. That's what she does. Yeah. That's what they all do. Uh...

According to Brzezinski, their rationale for reaching out to Trump was to soothe the fears of their viewers who are worried about his cabinet picks. Scarborough said that the three talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets. Oh, yeah.

Oh, OK. Scarborough, who left the Republican Party in 2017 because of its embrace of Trump.

shared that they didn't see eye to eye on a lot of issues and we told him so. What about him murdering his mistress? So these last fears are highlighted in red because that's the only one Joe and Micah actually care about. That's it. There you go. That's it. Let's see. By the way, if you left the Republican Party in 2017, you don't get to have any opinions about the Democratic Party before 2027. How about that?

That's a good point. You're still an underclassman. Yeah. The backlash against the two hosts has been immense. And this is, I love to hear this. I do too. Has been immense in the week since the controversial meeting with people on both sides of the aisle ripping them.

The views Anna Navarro slammed the pair, accusing them of changing their stripes because of who's in power and calling the meeting opportunistic. Opportunity makes makes me sick to my stomach. Anna Navarro continued. And not just because Ozempic has paralyzed my insides. On the MAGA side, Megyn Kelly had a much sterner reaction.

As for us, we also let him know that we will continue to speak truth to power and push back hard when called for. Oh, please. As we have with all. Doesn't Joe Scarborough look like the guy who poisons Native Americans to get their oil money in that last source case? He totally does. Doesn't he?

There's just something about Morning Joe's little round glasses that said, I killed my lover and told people she fell on a desk. Anyway, I love how they're both wearing their snuggly sweaters. So they keep it real with the viewer. They look like they're definitely in a separate bedroom situation in their marriage. That's what it really does look like that. Like the boxes that are. Yeah. Yeah.

Presidents. Don't be mistaken. We're not here to defend or normalize Donald Trump. We're here to report on him.

If you can't handle it, F you. I searched for a way to respond appropriately, and I called on my 10 years as a litigator in addition to my now 20 as a journalist, and I think I found the perfect phrase, go f*** yourselves. Bam! Go f*** yourselves, you dishonest jokes of faux journalists. What an absurd farce that was, Glenn. Which one was insincere? He's Hitler or

Or now we're going to speak truth to power and find a way of speaking to and working with Donald Trump. Which one was a lie? So Glenn Greenwald, by the way, was on his way to an audition for the Al Capone movie. And look at that. Look at that piano.

Gangster style tie. Very gangster. Scarborough and Brzezinski initially dismissed the criticism saying how it showed there is a massive disconnect between social media and the real world. Still, Morning Joe suffered a huge dip in ratings. Wait a minute. There's a massive disconnect between social media and the real world? Really? Is it anything like the disconnect between MSNBC and the real world?

I don't believe they had such a huge dip. I think they were getting paid by oligarchs to stay on the air. And now that Kamala lost, they don't want to pay anymore. And now we're pretending the viewers left. But how many viewers could they have had besides people that work in Washington, D.C.?

Still, Kurt, Morning Joe suffered a huge dip in ratings after the Trump meeting. You know, after a busy day of alienating every last viewer they used to have, it's good to take a refreshing dip in the ratings just to cool off. Am I right? Do you think Stern loves him like he... Ha ha ha!

Nice cool dip. Nice cool dip in the ratings. You think Stern loves Morning Joe as much as he did before the election? Remember Stern's like, I love Morning Joe. Yes. Yep. There are also rumblings the pair got together with Trump for more nefarious reasons. Oh, really? From who, me? An anonymous source told Puck News that they were afraid the incoming president would have allowed Matt Gaetz as attorney general to investigate conspiracy theories that

surrounding the 2001 death of Scarborough's intern while he was a GOP congressman in Florida will blow me down. Yeah, his politics changed quite abruptly from his old politics around the time of the mysterious death of his intern. Oh, wow, wow. I told you, it's a thing. An autopsy found that Laurie Bolsterstein, Klaus Soudis, 28, had hit her head on a desk.

After collapsing from an undiagnosed heart valve irregularity, but Trump called for a fresh investigation into this case. Yeah. Sources told CNN that since Trump has been feuding with the Morning Joe host for years, they met with him to hopefully tamp down his rhetoric against them. So there you go. The undiagnosed heart valve thing. Oh, they had an undiagnosed problem. You should investigate that every time someone says it. Yes. Because that sounds that couldn't sound more suspicious.

Unless she was testifying in the Jelaine Maxwell case. I'm sure it's just a conspiracy theory. All right, Kurt, go do your set. Great to talk to you. Bye, guys. Bye, buddy. Bye.

Come see us doing live shows. We'll be in Los Angeles, Honolulu, Baltimore, Atlantic City, Cohoes, New York, Providence, Rhode Island. Go to JimmyDore.com for a link for tickets and only JimmyDore.com. IHOP is in the news because a lady, you want to hear a spoiler alert, a waitress fed a homeless guy and they fired her. They fired her. Apparently IHOP stands for I Hate Oppressed People. And...

I had a second thought. You know, I'm not sure what kills homeless guy faster, eating at IHOP or living on the street. Am I right? Come on. Last time I was eating at an IHOP, I was working in Houston. This is probably 10 years ago, 12 years ago. And I would go for breakfast every day at the IHOP and I would get two eggs over easy. That's what, when I'm on, when I'm home, I eat them scrambled because I know how to make them. I make an omelet. I know how to make them. Most places don't. They come out like rubber. So when I'm on the road, I order over easy.

And this is the, she was one of these white, she was white, but she talked, she had an accent that it sounded like she was trying to speak black. That's what it said. Yeah, she probably grew up with black people. She went to IHOP, Jimmy. So I said, can I get two eggs over easy, wheat toast, and some hash browns? Do you want them over medium? I go, what? Do you want them over medium? And I was like, no, I want them over easy. Do you want them over medium? Like, she just kept saying that.

Oh, so she didn't want you to get sick. I'm like, no, I want them. I like them over easy. You don't want them runny. I go, no, I want them how they come. It was like crazy. She did this two days in a row to me. Really? And I'd heard her go around the table. She'd go, you want them over medium? Like, I've been ordering. I'm 50 years old. I've been ordering eggs my whole life. I know how to order eggs.

Does she know something about the kitchen that you don't? Trust me, you're going to want to cook those a little more. Well, she should have said that. She should have said that. But anyway, here's the story. Here's the...

Want to hear the story? Here's what happened. A full-county woman says her simple act of kindness left her out of a job the day before Thanksgiving. She says she was fired from her server. Look it, this guy goes to the same hair stylist Jackson Hinkle does. That's what I like. Job after helping a homeless man get something to eat. News Channel 8's Georgia MacArthur spoke with the woman, joins us live in Lakeland now with her story. Georgia. Georgia.

Josh Victoria Hughes says she was just trying to help someone in need, but she says her manager told her she violated the company policy and let her go. But turns out this is not the end of her story.

Victoria Hughes says she spent 13 years serving customers at this IHOP up US 98 in Lakeland. But now instead of working the holiday rush, Victoria is at home with her family. Hughes says a good deed led to her termination after she served food to a homeless man this past Sunday. He stated to me in the host that he was hungry.

Without a second thought, I bought the stack of pancakes and made him a water. She bought them. She didn't give it to him for free. She wasn't stealing from IHOP. She paid for the pancakes and gave it to the homeless guy and made him a water. I don't know how you do that, but she did. That's a miracle, Jimmy. They have a water machine.

Anyway, here we go. She then informed her manager but claims his reaction caught her off guard. Told me the reason behind him being upset because of it could cause a loitering issue or things like that or a safety issue to the customers. Hughes says tensions escalated further when the same homeless man returned with a family who brought him in for another meal.

Then on Tuesday, Hughes says she received a phone call from her manager telling her she'd been let go. He talked to me yesterday and told me that I was fired. I asked him for what, and he said company policy. Despite losing her job just before the holidays, Hughes told us she stands by her decision. I need my job.

But I would still do it again. I truly would. I would still help somebody if I could. If he asked me for my shirt, I probably would have tried to give him. It really needs her job. But I think she thought she was working for the National House of Pancakes. This is, Kurt, you know, this is the International House of Pancakes. And their motto is fuck the poor. It's run by NATO. You got to work at N. We're not working at NHOP. Yeah. Here we go.

Do you remember Starbucks? They fired the woman because she wouldn't let a homeless guy use the bathroom during the BLM times, and now you're fired for –

Buying food just before Thanksgiving? That's very strange. This is strange. Just right before Thanksgiving. Here, there's more to this story. Watch this, though. She says she needs the job, but watch this. But there is a surprising twist to this story. After Eight on Your Side got involved, Hughes tells us she got a call direct from IHOP's corporate office, a call that include a job offer in compensation for the days of work she missed. He also told me that

he would make a donation, a healthy donation to the charity of my choice and my local community. We reached out to IHOP regarding this incident and they provided us with this statement in part quote, "As we actively investigate the situation, we utilize this as an opportunity to train our employees on how to approach instances surrounding food insecurity."

And as far as Hughes goes, she told us she needs some. Apparently, buying a plate of pancakes for a hungry homeless guy is not the way to approach food insecurity. Apparently. First of all, that term is so jacked off, food insecurity. Food insecurity. People, homeless, starving people. You mean starving people? Okay, here's that. Yeah. There's more. Hold on. Time to make a decision on whether or not she will return to the company. She hasn't made a decision. She just said, I need this job. And then she says, I haven't made a decision if I'm going to return or not.

Well, I mean, there's probably other pancake, probably the National House of Pancakes. Yeah, probably, yeah. There's Waffle House. There's Waffle House. There's Bob Evans. Maybe there's a- It's amazing. What? Go ahead. These restaurants are not that far from being homeless. It's not like it's some high-class restaurant. Like, we can't have that kind in here. Right. I mean, it's people like a week away from homelessness, half of the restaurant. You know, they got a place called Cracker Barrel.

Bring me to the bed. I mean, a family brought him in, so I'm assuming it's a nice homeless guy. You know, that's an unusual thing. After spending some time with her family for the holidays, reporting in Lakeland, I'm Georgia MacArthur. AIDS on your side. AIDS on your side. That's what I like. I like that AIDS is on our side. Uh...

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