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What's going to come out of this, John? What is your feeling on this one? So I've been on the same roller coaster you have, Glenn. You do lots of this great reporting. You try to help people. I've been in the White House declassifying documents. And you see this extraordinary body of evidence. And then you see the people implicated in that body of evidence walking free, thumbing their nose, going on television, making money, writing false letters that mislead Americans in elections. And you're like, is it worth even doing this? The answer, of course, it is. I have detected since the beginning of the White House task force a new sentiment in the Justice Department in the prosecutorial world. And I'll just use some examples. So our original releases at the task force were the basis for the president's July speech about China interventions in our election, including the theft of voter records, the fact that there were a lot of non-citizens on voter rolls and some appeared to have voted, and then the election vulnerabilities. Now, I can tell you from the work I've done that this has long been known in the government, but it had never gotten to the president's intention. In fact, there was an intentional effort by the intelligence world to keep two presidents and probably two congresses in the dark on this. The antiseptic of light kicked in a whole new sort of activity at the Justice Department. And I suspect it wasn't the Justice Department-- wasn't looking at it. It was probably the career people like, there's nothing going on there, nothing there, it's rare. It doesn't happen. All of a sudden, you've seen north of 100 non-citizens charged with voting. You got a major criminal investigation in New Jersey about maybe systemic non-citizens getting on the board. You've seen some new actions taken to protect our voting machines. The intelligence that we made public was six years old, but nobody ever acted on it until Donald Trump gave his speech. You heard the other day that John Brennan, in a court filing said he was told by prosecutors, he's a target. You only give someone a target notification if they're about to be indicted. I see an awful lot of activity in the grand jury talking to defense lawyers looking at activity and behavior by James Comey and his inner circle. I didn't see that activity for much of the last first 13 to 14 months of the Trump presidency, except in the FBI. The FBI was always churning. But it seems to me that the Justice Department is in a different gear. And that gear has been kicked in for different reasons. HSI takes on Ilhan Omar, separate of DOJ. They drive that case. The president's speech puts new evidence out there. I've seen more accountability, activity before grand juries and in courts in the last eight weeks. And I saw, quite frankly, in the first six years of the two Trump presidencies. So something is going on. But it only matters if you get results. And the result will be someone being charged if there is criminality, or being sued, or being charged with fraud, or having their job taken away. I think we're in a window now where we're going to finally know the answer. I don't know which one it will be. But there's enough activity that the Justice Department is probably going to give us some clarity. And certainly on election integrity, you're seeing things you've never seen before in the history of the Justice Department, not Trump. I mean, there have never been this many non-citizens prosecuted in the history of the Justice Department in one year. You've never seen a case like they're bringing in California, where the pay to play with the homeless people has blossomed into a very big scandal. And last night, while you and I were probably getting ready for bed, Glenn, the Justice Department did something really significant, something they could have done a year or two ago, but they did it. They told California, we see these many people that we think are non-citizens on the 26 voter rolls. You better get them off before election day, because if you allow them to cast the ballot, we're coming to charge you with knowingly and willfully letting a illegal alien vote or a non-citizen foreigner vote. And that's never been done before. That is a shock wave. That's activity we haven't seen in the past.
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