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Well, one of the guys that's in here is Eric Swalwell. Now, that is secondhand information from the whistleblower, but the whistleblower actually attended a meeting with Adam Schiff, a ranking member. Yeah. I stand corrected. They both hate Trump, so I kind of mix them up. Yeah, they all merge together these days. Listen, this whistleblower literally sat in a meeting, he says, he tells the FBI, where Adam Schiff authorized the leaking of classified secrets to dirty up Donald Trump and to try to build towards either a select committee in Congress or a special prosecutor.

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My relationship with the president, hey, listen, if somebody is doing good stuff and president Trump is doing a lot of good stuff, I believe, I know I'm irritating a lot of you again, but I think so. Because as I said, also in Davos, the 2% reach by all, uh, NATO countries now at the end of 2025 would never, ever, ever have happened without Trump. Do you really think that Spain and Italy and Belgium and Canada would have decided to move from 1.5 to 2% Italy spending 10 billion more in our own defense at the beginning of the year without president Trump? No way it would not have happened. And do you really think that in the Hague we would have come to the 5% commitment without president Trump? No way. So when president Trump is doing good stuff, I have operation, uh, and I don't mind him, uh, publishing text messages. And if anyone thinks here again, that the European union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming. You can't, we can't. We need each other. And why do we need each other? I tell you, first of all, because also the US needs NATO for the US to stay safe. And by the way, Arctic region is evidence here. They need a secure Arctic. They need to secure your Atlantic. And you also need to secure Europe. So the US has every interest in NATO as much as Canada and the European NATO, uh, NATO allies, but for Europe, if you really want to go with alone and those who you are planning for that, forget that you can never get there with 5%. It will be 10%, you have to build up your own nuclear capability. That costs billions and billions of euros. You will lose them in that scenario, you would lose the ultimate guarantor of our freedom, which is the US nuclear umbrella. Uh, so, Hey, uh, good luck.

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Many days after Kevin McCarthy was sworn in as speaker, did you subpoena his records? I don't recall, but those two things had nothing to do with it. It was 16 days after becoming the highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. You subpoenaed his toll records. Do you agree that that might reasonably be considered a violation of the speech or debate clause? I do not, and I want to be clear that the toll records— We were collecting months' worth of phone data on the Republican Speaker of the House, the leader of the opposition, right after he got sworn in as speaker, all around the time of a major vote. That sounds like a flagrant violation of the speech or debate clause to me, and I think most people agree with me. And Speaker McCarthy had no recourse, did he, because you issued a non-disclosure order ensuring that neither he nor any of the American people knew about these subpoenas. Is that right? The toll record, the non-content toll record subpoenas, we did secure non-disclosure orders for those subpoenas. You did, and let me ask you, Mr. Smith, at the time you secured those non-disclosure orders, was Speaker McCarthy a flight risk? The non-disclosure order was based on concerns about— Was Speaker McCarthy a flight risk? He was not. He was not. Then why did your non-disclosure order refer to him as a flight risk? It says right here, "The court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in flight from prosecution." Sir, when securing a non-disclosure order, the risks don't have to be associated with the— Do you think the Speaker of the House is a flight risk? Did he finish answering the question? No, this is not your time. This is my time. You think the Speaker of the House is a flight risk? Do you think he's going to hop on a plane and leave the country? No, what I was trying to explain is with respect to a non-disclosure order, the risks aren't necessarily associated with the subscriber to the phone. There are risks to the investigation. I think that you were using—this was clearly in reference to Speaker McCarthy, and you were using clearly false information to secure a non-disclosure order to hide from Speaker McCarthy and from the American people the fact that you were spying on his toll records. But I've got more, so let's move on. In May of 2023, you also issued subpoenas for toll records of nine U.S. Senators and an additional representative. Is that right? In May of 2023, we did issue— You did, and there were non-disclosure orders in conjunction with those subpoenas as well, right? That's correct, consistent with Department policy and the law. So again, nobody would know what you were doing. The Senators would, and the Representatives would, and the American people wouldn't know what you were doing. Is that right? The toll records that we secured and the non-disclosure orders were consistent with policy and consistent with— And you knew, whenever you were doing that, that there was a risk you were violating the speech or debate clause. Is that right? The toll record subpoenas that we secured were with the concurrence of the public— Your own analysis says that you knew there was a risk you were violating the speech or debate clause. I have it right here. It's an email from John Keller at public integrity section to your team. As you are aware, there is some litigation risk regarding whether compelled disclosure of toll records of a member's legislative calls violates the speech or debate clause in the D.C. Circuit. That's from your own analysis right there. So you did know, didn't you? So with respect to the item you just put up on the screen, the last sentence states— We're going to get to the last sentence. We're going to get to the last sentence. And you cite case law in here, quote, "The bar on compelled disclosure is absolute." Is that right? Or do you think that you didn't have to abide by that precedent? To be clear, this is not—this statement is not from my office. This is the statement of public— This is your justification for those subpoenas and NDO's that you ordered. This was part of your analysis. It's a cursory analysis. I think it's worth noting. But let's get to that last sentence then. Quote, "Given my understanding of the low likelihood that any of the members listed below would be charged, the litigation risk should be minimal here." In other words, you're using a novel legal theory, which you knew was novel, has never been tested by any court. You're not charging any of these members. Nobody's going to know about it because you issued NDO's. Nobody's going to sue about it, so sue this. So who cares? We're going to do it anyways. You walked all over the Constitution throughout this entire process, buying our members of Congress, and you know it. - It's absolutely disgraceful. - The time.

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joining me now to break that news, as he always does, is my favorite John Solomon, founder of Just The News. John, first of all, before we get into their latest and greatest, what is ActBlue specifically? It is the largest Democratic online fundraising machine in America. It moves hundreds of millions of dollars of small donations, online donations to Democrat and liberal causes, every election cycle. It is the juggernaut of the Democratic fundraising machine these days. I remember when we had Hurricane Harvey down in my neck of the woods in Houston, and Democrats famously fundraised to help those hurricane victims, and instead the money went to ActBlue. That's just how these people operate. Now, what's the latest and greatest? Well, there have been three investigations ongoing. There's one in the Senate, one in the FBI and Justice Department, and then one in the House. Yesterday, the House, three separate committees of the United States House of Representatives, the Judiciary Committee, the Administration Committee, and the Oversight Committee sent a letter to ActBlue saying, "Hey, we think you misled us. We think you've been lying about this, and we're going to bring you in for further depositions." Now, as part of that, they also released a report. The report said that all of the legal compliance officers for ActBlue, the lawyers who were supposed to keep ActBlue out of trouble, all took the Fifth Amendment when being questioned about the various practices designed to keep illegal foreign money and excessive donations from moving through the platform to Democrat and liberal causes. That is not a good sign if you're ActBlue, if you're lawyers, lawyer up and take the Fifth Amendment. The third element of that is that the report hinted at some pretty significant transactions. ActBlue became aware at various times that foreign money and other illicit transactions were coming through their platform but didn't tighten up their fraud prevention tactics. In fact, they did the opposite. They downgraded their fraud prevention tactics, almost seeming to enable fraud to occur on the platform easier. One of the things they got rid of and didn't use for most of the 2024 election campaign, that little three-number code that you have in the back of your credit card, that's probably the biggest, the CVV, it's called, the biggest fraud prevention opportunity that everybody has. If you don't have the code, you don't have the card, you're not the person. For some reason, ActBlue got rid of that for a long period of time until they were called out on it after a series of stories by Just The News in the summer of 2024. That was a really red flag. And if that isn't enough to make you suspicious about ActBlue, yesterday, the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, sued ActBlue saying that they had misled the state in its investigation and that they likely engaged in improper fundraising in the state. So there is a world of hurt surrounding ActBlue this moment. And meanwhile, donations on ActBlue look to be a little bit down this year compared to prior years. Okay. So you would know this much better than me. This sounds complicated, as in this sounds like something that's going to take a while to unravel and expose. And if people were expecting ActBlue's CEO, whoever that may be, to go to prison tomorrow, they're going to be sorely mistaken. Well, I think there's one issue that is very prescient and very time-sensitive, and that is that a couple of weeks ago in a New York Times article, a letter surfaced from the law firm that was representing ActBlue that made clear that ActBlue's own lawyers believed that ActBlue had misled Congress, had made a false representation or statement to Congress. That's not a hard case to bring. If that is true, and if the lawyer's evidence becomes part of that case, that could be a profound and quick potential prosecution. And then you might take that act as a prosecutor because you want to roll a person up or a couple people up to get them to cooperate against the larger enterprise. So I'd be watching for that part of the case to bubble up. Meanwhile, I think Casper Dell dropped a big bombshell in the Maria Bartiroma Sunday show. He said that the election meddling allegations are now part of the grand conspiracy case, the one that's looking at Russia collusion as election meddling, Ukraine impeachment as election meddling, the raid on Donald Trump's house in Mar-a-Lago as election meddling, and of course Jack Smith's antics before the '24 election. The fact that he said that now election integrity issues are part of that is a big, big shift. That is the first time we've heard that, and it appears to be that ActBlue is part of that election cheating, election concerns that are being investigated. It doesn't mean it happened, but that's clearly what they're looking at. Did they allow illicit foreign money or excessive donations to come into? So DOJ looks like it's got a hot iron right now. I think the nearest case, if they do make one, and it doesn't mean that the evidence will show this, but if the lawyers for ActBlue are telling the truth in that letter, ActBlue could have a charge of misleading or obstructing Congress come at it pretty soon. That'd be wonderful. Speaking of cash Patel, here's what else he had to say. I am never going to let this go, because they not only have personally attacked the presidency of the United States and President Trump, but they tried to thwart our elections and rig the entire system. And that is not something that is going to stop on, that is not something I'm going to allow on my watch. But you have to remember, they built this disease temple over 20 and 30 years. We've got all the efforts I can announce on your show that we've got all the information we need. We're working with our prosecutors at Department of Justice and Attorney General Todd Blanche, and we are going to be making arrests. And it's coming, and I promise you, it's coming soon. John, who? What? What's happening? Yeah, these are great questions. So let's remind everybody what I broke on Saturday, that Joe DeGeneva, former U.S. Attorney, former special counsel, former independent counsel, one of the few lawyers in American history to hold all three of those ties. He's a very accomplished prosecutorial lawyer. He just took over the grand conspiracy case in Fort Pierce, Florida. That is some heavy artillery if you're talking about a prosecutor who knows what he's doing. There are two cases pending right now. There's a case looking at whether John Brennan misled and obstructed Congress and whether James Comey lied and obstructed to Congress. There's been new evidence presented. The Brennan case has been tied up a little because the Senate, the John Thune Senate, the place where action goes to die, or as I like to call it, the grand old party of procrastinators, GOP, grand old procrastinators, they haven't yet complied with the request that came in back in January and February for the Senate to transmit certain evidence to the grand jury. But if John Thune can get that done, it will become a very important part of the case. And I think the decisions on whether to indict Brennan and Comey could be made in the next few weeks. When you saw Maria Bartiroma, the next question she said is, is it going to be in the next couple of weeks? And Cash Mattel said, yeah, I think so. That's consistent with what I've been hearing. There always can be a delay here and there. But I do think this spring the first decisions on who should be indicted for weaponization are going to be made down in Florida. Do you have a piece out, speaking of all this stuff, about intel agencies, the 2020 election, having, what did they say, vulnerabilities? What is all this? Yeah, it's an important piece of evidence. And you have to put it together with two or three other things that I've kind of squeezed out of the DNI in the last couple of months. And by the way, I want to thank Tulsi Gabbard personally for considering the specific requests I made for documents and declassifying them. She did that on her own. And it's a great act of transparency. We fight with government a lot, but she's been fantastic in getting us documents we've identified in our reporting that we believe are of national interest. Today, I want to remind everybody what we were told in December 2020 when Donald Trump was crying foul about the 2020 election. We were told it was the most secure election in American history. That is what people said on the record, on television, on camera. We now know that that was not the case. Another false narrative concocted by the bureaucrats in government, just like Russia collusion, just like Ukraine impeachment, like just all the other things that we've been talking about. We now know that China and Iran had hacked into the voter registration databases of multiple states. Iran at least won China multiple states. We were never told that. That is one of the largest breaches in American electoral history. We still don't know the names of all the states, though I'm now beginning to be told it's more than a dozen. So it's a massive breach. It's been kept secret for six years. It's only because Tulsi Gabbard's digging into this and Cass Patel's digging into it that we're now getting visibility. So we broke that story a couple of weeks ago. And what we broke this morning is the precursor warning that the intelligence community knew at the start of the 2020 election, in January and February of 2020, that these systems were vulnerable. Specifically, they flagged the voter registration data. And they described how a foreign power would likely use that data if they got it. They would file false ballots. They would potentially knock people off the voter registration list. They would assume identities and do influence operations on social media. That's exactly what would happen just three or four months later. The CIA, the FBI, the NSA began detecting evidence in the spring of 2020, just a few months after that document that made public today was written that China and Iran had done that. Iran stole 100,000 voter identities and used them for ballot influence operations. China, we believe, reached more than a dozen states' voter registration databases. And then we know, because of documents Cass Patel made public recently that we wrote and broke about, that the Chinese sent tens of thousands of fake driver's licenses to the United States in the summer of 2020. So they breached the databases. They get the identities. They send fake driver's licenses. And according to the FBI documents, their goal was to get ballots. The Chinese were going to get ballots and vote in the names of Americans, and try to swing the election to Joe Biden. That's what the FBI documents say. All of that was kept from us for the last six years. And certainly those records that are now out in public do not equate to the most secure election in American history. We were lied to. Final one for me, John, and it's a fairly important one. Do we know who kept that information from us at, say, the FBI? Because that's kind of a big deal. Yeah, listen, we know from the documents I got a few weeks ago that the FBI originally wanted to put an alert out and did quickly put an alert out when the driver's licenses were captured. They were stopped at an airport, and the FBI had a very reliable informant in China saying this was a plot to help Joe Biden. Within 24, 48 hours, their supervisors in the counterintelligence division ordered them to recall that report and destroy it. I want to repeat what I just said. They said don't pull it back from all the agencies you just sent it to and instruct those agencies to destroy the document. That sounds like a cover-up, because by the way, the evidence is held true to this day. They've re-vetted that informant multiple times. They have considered that informant to be reliable. And by the way, the government has in its possession the fake driver's licenses. They intercepted it. So it was a real plot. When it comes to Ukraine and the stuff we broke last week, we know it was the Inspector General, Michael Atkinson. When it comes to FBI documents, there's a heavy focus on the seventh floor, the leadership of the FBI at Chris Ray and people downstream from him. And also, there's a growing body of evidence, particularly in Arctic Cross, and there was a hearing today in the Senate, that the Washington Field Office, which is the second most prominent local office in the FBI after New York, those are the two big ones, that they have been involved in some really nefarious things in targeting Trump supporters without cause, without having a predicate or criminal case that made sense. And so those are the players. We're going to get more names as more documents get declassified. I think in mid-May, Tulsi Gabbard is likely to drop a giant bombshell showing just which states were breached by China, which voter data was compromised by China. Those states have never been told this will be an alert to those states, but think about what it might do in the Senate. Right now, John Thune can't move the Save America Act through the Senate. But maybe if some of those senators found that, hey, your state, your constituents, your voters were compromised by China in 2020, and you were kept in the dark for six years, maybe there would be some momentum in the Senate. We'll have to see how that plays out.

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