20 posts from Wednesday, August 13, 2025

committee chairman James Colmer. First, your response to John Solomon's report? Well, Solomon's the best investigative reporter out there, and this is just more evidence of how the deep state tried to interfere in our elections. The deep state needs to be held accountable. The evidence is coming forward. Thank God for Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and John Radcliffe. They're doing what we've hoped would be done for a long time, and that's exposing the truth. And with great investigative reporters like John Solomon, great platforms like yours, Sean, we're finally going to see justice. I think at the end of the day, more than anything, we have a new intelligence community, one that we can trust now, one that is going to be rebuilt, and hopefully we'll be safer now because we have a credible intelligence community. But Biden people are coming before your committee and they're either pleading the fifth or they are just in flat out denial of any decline that Joe Biden was experiencing. This memo that says, well, he can't do this event because there's too many steps, and there wasn't a whole lot of them, that he would have to walk on a ship, tells me that they all knew. Are you coming to the conclusion that everybody knew and they're either lying or covering it up? Well, this is more evidence that there was a coverup to try to conceal to the American public Joe Biden's mental decline and physical decline. Look, we couldn't even trust Joe Biden to walk around a ship that was used to protect the American people, and they tried to get him through for another four-year term, much less tried to cover up to the American people the current status of the president of the United States. We look at this investigation of the auto pin, Sean, and we see that all the activity that took place with that auto pin, especially over the last 90 days, during the lame duck period, once Donald Trump won the election, but before he was sworn in as president. And what's at stake in this investigation is to determine whether or not those executive orders and those pardons that were signed by the auto pin are valid. And I think that with the evidence that continues to emerge, including those emails today, that show there was a coordinated effort to conceal how bad a shape Joe Biden was in. I think that's going to not play out well for the future of those executive orders and those pardons in a court of law. All right, James Colmer, House Oversight Committee. Thank you, sir.

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Again with John Solomon, editor-in-chief, founder, chief investigator of ReporterJustTheNews.com, revealing tonight that an FBI investigation uncovered the fact that Mr. Higher honor himself. James Comey routinely leaked classified information to The New York Times through an intermediary, a friend on the faculty of Columbia Law School. The sheer amount of leaking appears to be political, deep, dark, purposefully deceptive, in a myriad of ways, here with details, is investigative reporter, founder of JustTheNews.com, editor-in-chief. All right. Mr. Higher honor, years ago on this program I said you have the right to remain silent and you might want to use it. This is a very long piece that you have here. It is a worthwhile read. I'll let you sum it up, and then I want your conclusion on what you're finding here, because to me it's very damning. Well, what you find out is that James Comey decided not to work through the FBI press office when he wanted to change the narrative in Washington, burnish his reputation against attacks from Democrats, and try to sully Donald Trump's reputation. If you remember, Democrats were mad that James Comey let out of the bag just before the election that there might be some new evidence in the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Hillary blamed Comey for throwing the election. She blamed the Russians for throwing the election. She blamed everybody but herself for throwing the election for her. But Comey was trying to rehabilitate that. And so he had an intermediary, a Columbia law professor by the name of Daniel Richmond, who the FBI confirmed and interviewed. And Richmond said, yes, I used my relationship with a New York Times reporter named Michael Schmidt. He's one of the authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning package that President Trump is now suing over. And my goal was to improve negative stories about James Comey and to set a narrative, i.e., set the Russia collusion narrative. This guy worked around the official channels of the FBI press office. And at one point, the FBI noted, you met with James Comey. He gave you access to classified information. A short while later, you had a conversation with that New York Times reporter, and he ends up reporting something that appears to be classified. Did you do it? He gives, I think, perhaps the most famous denial people will remember, since Bill Clinton says it depends what the meaning of the word is, is when he tried to obfuscate whether he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky, he says, I can say, I don't think I confirmed the information. I can say, with a discount, that I didn't give him the classified information. With a discount means you got to give me some room. It's an extraordinary moment. The FBI clearly had strong suspicions that this was a potential backdoor for information, maybe classified information, to get out to the media with James Comey's fingerprints on it. And they didn't go much further. They didn't put Comey before the grand jury. That we can tell. They didn't appear to put this gentleman, Daniel Richmond, before the grand jury. And like Adam Schiff, as we told you last night, here they have an eyewitness whistleblower who said, I was in the room, when he authorized leaks of intel, these end up being a dead end again. And it's another reminder of a dual system of justice that the Justice Department had the last six years. These are documents that were never given to Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan confirmed that to me today. And we're just learning, eight years later, because of what Cash Patel turned over, that the FBI had all the evidence of how the false narrative of Russia collusion was spread across this country, to the detriment of voters, to the detriment of President Trump's first campaign. And they did nothing about it. It's a credit to the FBI. It's a credit to Cash Patel. It's a credit to the people that are involved in sharing this information now with the public. Do you see legal jeopardy here? I think if Pam Bondi goes the grand jury route, that these are people that are going to be hauled before the grand jury. I want to remind people, most classified information statutes have a five-year statute of limitations. But there is a provision that extends it to 10 years if it's willing and knowing. And there is some pretty clear evidence of a strong apparatus put in place to make these leaks occur, according to the FBI documents. I think a grand jury could go back and try to compel testimony and find out if it rises to the level of criminality. Tomorrow, though, I think we're going to take people on a new destination, which is, how often did the FBI get blocked in trying to investigate Hillary Clinton corruption at the Clinton Foundation? You're going to be shocked by the answer. We'll have you back tomorrow. I'm John Solomon. This is unraveling very quickly. Thank you.

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Okay, this year the board has selected a truly exceptional class of honorees. I mean, really exceptional. First is country music star actor and producer George Strait. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Great, over an extraordinary four decade career, George has sold more than 120 million records worldwide. Amass 60 number one hits, wow. And produced 33 platinum certified albums more than any other living American. That is amazing. He's believed by millions of people to just be as good as you can get. And he's beloved by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. He's really something and they call him the king of country and we know him very well, George Strait. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Thank you, peace. And it looks nice, you're a good looking guy. I hope he still looks like that. >> [LAUGH] >> Second is actor, singer, philanthropist and star of the Broadway stage, one of my favorite talents. I think he's one of the greatest talents I've ever actually seen. I've always said, and just so we don't get in trouble, I'll say among, but among the greatest artists in the world are the Broadway London actors back and forth, that's all they want to do is they want to do Broadway and they want to do London. They want to do eight shows a week, including Matinee on Wednesday. And if you said make a movie, they can't even think about it. If you say go on television, they don't want it at all. They want to do is be on the stage, the live stage, and it's amazing. But I've always said that the most talented people, and this man may be the most of all, Michael Crawford is being honored. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Michael was born in England in 1942. He made his Broadway debut in 1967. I was there. I shouldn't say that, but I was there. Seems like a long time ago. And he became an international sensation in the 1980s for his original portrayal of the Phantom of the Opera, one of the greatest ever, ever, ever, ever. You don't see him like that very often. Winning him the Esteem Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He's won so many awards. Michael is truly a generational talent, had a voice that was unbelievable. It was unbelievable, this never, I don't know, it's Luciano Pavarotti had a very different voice, the power was incredible, magnificent. Michael had a different kind of a voice, these are just unbelievable talents. But Michael is very special and one of the greatest roles in the history of Broadway. And nobody did it like him, Michael Crawford, thank you very much. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Next, we look forward to honoring three-time Oscar nominee Golden Globe Award winner and action movie icon and a friend of mine, very unique man. He's somebody that doesn't do these things. I said, I wonder if he'll accept, because some people don't really wanna be honored. They don't care, but he was very honored to be honored, I will tell you. He was, he's a very special guy. A real talent, never been given the credit for the talent. There was nobody else could have done the roles that he did like he did. I'm not even close and they've tried and they didn't work out too well. His name is Sylvester Stallone. >> [APPLAUSE] >> So it's very few, almost if any. People that could have taken a name and made it so incredible like Rocky, Rambo, Creed, and others. But think of it, Rocky, Rambo, if you did one, you're good, you do two. And I'll never forget, I was a young guy and I went to see a thing called Rambo. And it had just come out, I didn't know anything about it. But I got, I was in a movie theater, like we used to go to movie theaters a lot. And I said, this movie is phenomenal, what the heck? And that turned out to be a monster, Rocky is Rocky. I mean, the way that happened, Sly had no money, nothing. And he went around and everybody wants to do a boxing movie. It's the most, probably more than any other type of character, boxing. Boxing, always boxing, it's so great. And there's rarely been anything like this one. John Voight did a great one, as you know, champ, great. I think that was right there too. John Voight's a phenomenal person, phenomenal actor. But Sly came in and he had no money. He wrote a script along with thousands of other people writing scripts on a boxer. And for some reason, a studio picked up this and liked it. And Sly had, he's in an old car that he came in from Brooklyn or someplace in New York, but I think Brooklyn had barely made it to California. He was sleeping in the car, I mean, he had nothing. And he wanted control over who the actor was gonna be. Because he said he can't be successful if you're gonna pick a movie actor with a bad build, okay, a nice face but a bad body. And he said, I can't have these guys cuz he's a tough cookie and he knew exactly what it took. He knew what a boxer's body was. So they brought him one and I won't tell you who it was, but it was a big name. But the chest wasn't exactly what you need. One shot and your heart would pop out. That wasn't too good. Then he did another one, he was fat, sloppy, but had a good face. Then he did another one and another one and another one. And he turned it down, he wouldn't take $1 million, he wouldn't do it. And it turned out that when they saw him, they said, you know, you'd be actually pretty good for this role. And he had never done this before, anything like it. But think of it, he turned down a million dollars, he had nothing. He refused to let somebody else play, he didn't wanna play it. He wasn't originally, he did it as a writer. But he ended up playing it because he couldn't find anybody else that fit the role. And who knew what would have happened? He's become a legend of the silver screen, a true legend, and he's a great guy. He's a little bit tough, a little bit different, I will tell you. He's a little tough guy, but he's a phenomenal person with a phenomenal wife and family, incredible wife, incredible family. His films grossing more than 7.5 billion, which is either a record or very close to it. I can't imagine anybody doing more. If you add up Rambo and Rocky and these others, I can't imagine anybody doing much more. 7.5 billion worldwide over the course of six decades. And Sly is a pillar of the really American pop culture and a Hollywood superstar, like few others. And one of the biggest names on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In fact, the only one that's a bigger name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they say is a guy named Donald Trump. I'm on the Hollywood Walk of Fame too, if you can believe that one. But he's amazing, he's really amazing, and he's actually a great actor. Fourth will be together celebrating one of the most revered singers of the American disco era, Gloria Gaynor. Best known for her chart-topping 1978 hit, I Will Survive, Gloria won the 1980 Grammy for best disco recording. And her song was inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2016. Four decades later, Gloria won a second Grammy in 2020 for her gospel album Testimony, which is incredible. Truly a historic achievement, not only in terms of the years that have gone by to be great that long, but to have the two top of anything in that span of time. And with that kind of period between is pretty amazing. But I will say that I Will Survive is an unbelievable song. I've heard it, you know, like everyone else here thousands of times. And it's one of those few that get better every time you hear it.

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This time, we had four years of hell that we went through. We found out who the people were that were actually fighters, people who believed in the America First movement. He brought them all on. So now that you have a cabinet that's actually aligned with the president, not trying to subvert him, you can see what's being done. And what's really great now, for the first time in probably history, the Republicans actually have a great bench for the future. Before it was Trump, and what do you have after Trump? There's no one there. We found out who those people were, who those fighters were in that four years. And we needed to go through that hell, like addiction, right? We have to hit rock bottom to be able to rise up again. We hit rock bottom as a country. We know the people who are on our team. They are fighting together as one engine, and the results are incredible.

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Over and over again, Adam Schiff went on programs saying things like that. We never bought into Schiff's claims, of course, and our audience knows better. I spoke with current CIA Director John Ratcliffe repeatedly when he was congressman and on the Judiciary Committee over a 10-year period. Here's one of those conversations on "Sunday Money Futures" so many years ago. The Democrats have made the mistake of staking the credibility of all this on Adam Schiff. The person that they put in charge of this investigation turns out as the one that helped start it by meeting with a person who walked out of Adam Schiff's office and became the whistleblower and at the very same time that that's happening, as you mentioned, now there's an inspector general report that comes out that says during the last impeachment hoax, the Trump-Russia one, Adam Schiff repeatedly made false statements to the American people about the FBI's actions. Adam Schiff was certainly out and about a lot throughout the last three years, saying that there is collusion in plain sight, and now we get the IG report and we actually see the misconduct and what they call errors, fraud, whatever you want to call it. What is your reaction to what you learned from Michael Horowitz? It wasn't just that Adam Schiff was out and about. He put out a report that said there was no FISA abuse by the FBI. That was false. He said that the FBI didn't fail to turn over exculpatory information. That was false. He said that the Steele dossier was not a central part of the FISA applications against Carter Page. That was false. When I asked to comment, Schiff's office said this, quote, "Cash Patel's latest smear against Senator Schiff is absolutely and categorically false. These baseless smears are based on allegations that were found to be not reliable, not credible and unsubstantiated from a disgruntled former staffer." Ashley Davis, the whistleblower, says all this started because Adam Schiff assumed he was going to be the CIA director in a Hillary Clinton administration. Of course, President Trump won, and for years we poked holes in this ridiculous story of Russia collusion that Adam Schiff was going on all these shows claiming about President Trump. He knew better, and you know what's really incredible, that when you have the title of Chairman of Intelligence Committee, people believe what you say, Ashley. He's going all these shows with this title that he knows something that we don't, even though it was complete nonsense. Absolutely, Maria, and first of all, good morning, but one of the major things I think that is different from what this story has been doing the last few years with just bubbling up is the fact that the FBI unclassified the 302 document from the FBI. So now there's real proof that Congress can see. They already delivered it last night or yesterday afternoon to Congress. They can actually see the research, even though some of it's redacted. Here's what I'm watching, the number one thing. What is Chuck Grassley going to do? He is a huge supporter of whistleblowers. He has been after Schiff and what his in his leaking potential since 2020. He's chair of the Judiciary Committee. And how is he going to investigate or hold Schiff responsible? I think that's where the world power is right now. Yeah, no, you're right. And also Pam Bondi and Cash Patel. We need Pam Bondi to actually pursue prosecutions here. This story ripped the country apart, Adam. Oh, my gosh. It ripped the country apart, and you thankfully, Maria, stayed on top of it the whole time. We always, as we were talking back then, as we listened to Schiff, as we talked about Schiff, there was something about it that just didn't ring true. It was just so highly manipulated and so partisan. And imagine someone actually doing all of that, going down that road and creating falsifying information for political gain. It's shocking. Well, it's shocking because all it was always about was holding on to their grip on power.

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Here with more former House Speaker Fox News contributor, Newt Gingrich. It really is remarkable and will be in Alaska this week. And when you couple that with 15 trillion in committed investments and the largest tax cut in history and energy dominance policies that I think make economic growth incalculable, if peace and prosperity drive elections, he's looking pretty good early on for 26 in my view. Look, I think he has a great chance. I happened to get a call Sunday night from Cambodian leaders who are nominating President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, and they are ecstatic at the role he played in stopping a potential war between Thailand and Cambodia. And every time you turn around, he's doing something which is entirely amazing. So I think the stage is being set in 2026 between a very successful, hardworking American president who represents American values, focuses on American interests, and a Democratic party dominated by big government socialism with radical values. And that's a choice, I think, between a Trump boom and Democratic gloom. And my guess is this will be the biggest off-year election since Franklin Roosevelt in 1934. You know, many other politicians, and you tell me if I'm wrong, you're the historian, they will wring their hands, they'll talk to their advisers, they'll vacillate back and forth. You know, how much political capital will I have to expend to get involved in this issue? There's no such calculation as, like, problem, let me fix it. Let me see if I can fix it. Let me give my best shot at fixing it. Dive in, don't jump in. Very different than most politicians. Well, but I think, Sean, you use the key word. Donald Trump is not a politician. Donald Trump is a citizen businessman who left a remarkable career, took an amazing beating, survived a most unbelievable series of circumstances. And walks in every morning believing that God saved him for the purpose of creating a golden age for America. And he does it as a citizen. I don't think there's a politician bone in his body. I think he gets up every day as a citizen and says, what can I do to give my children, my grandchildren, and the American people a better future? And then he doesn't. And I don't think he thinks about second and third order effects. I think he just does what he thinks is right. Okay. So as we watch Donald Trump, what do you expect Friday? I don't know yet. I mean, having watched him on occasion, for example, I can't jump in. He says he'll know in two minutes. Just get up. I think you will. He says he'll know in two minutes. Look, I tweeted today, it was a very bad sign that the Russians launched a big offensive yesterday on the eve of this thing. I think that Putin is probably going to walk in there totally misunderstanding Trump, trying to run a bluff. And my guess is if that was what happens, he's going to get up and walk out. He's just going to say, this is all baloney. You're a liar and I can't trust you and I'm not going to work with you. I think what Putin believes, which is a total misreading of President Trump, is that somehow Trump can be talked into a fantasy. I don't think that's going to happen. But again, I'm an optimist. I'm a big believer in Donald Trump. And I think he's going to walk in there. He's going to look him in the eye and he's going to say, if you continue this, you will be crushed. Now, do you want to continue or should we talk? And if Putin says something baloney, he's going to go up and say, well, I remember President Trump said to me one day in negotiating with the Japanese, they walked out four times and he sat there calmly and they kept coming back. And I have a hunch that's the way he's going to approach Alaska. If Vladimir Putin actually, if he doesn't believe Donald Trump will get up and walk out and tell him to go jump in a lake, then he knows nothing. His intelligence is useless because I can tell him right now with 100 percent certainty, Donald Trump is not going to take any of your crap. That's my advice to Putin going into Friday. We'll see what happens. That's exactly right. All right. I want to watch you in Alaska.

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We have the Senate we have the house we have a 6-3 majority in the Supreme Court my father has a cabinet That's unparalleled and what they're doing every single day. I mean he's making America proud He's making transformational change to this country This is exactly what we need look at our economy right now look at the job force look at the tariffs look at how much money He's coming back look at inflation. I mean our markets in the last six months They have done a 180. I mean we were going into a really really deep place My father has single-handedly saved this country. Now you watch what he's doing in Washington, D.C. It's a --

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