Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about Jan. 6. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Ed Markey blocked a bill introduced by Republican Sen. JD Vance that would have banned federal mask mandates. And in other news, InfoWars host Owen Shroyer is facing 120 days in prison for alleged crimes of speech on Jan. 6.
In this live Q&A with Crossroads host Joshua Philipp, we’ll discuss these stories and others, and answer questions from the audience.
Thank you all for being here. Good morning and happy Friday. Hope you're all doing well. I want to talk to you about a few things
You might remember that Congress, the Democrats, were charging different members of the Trump team with contempt of Congress
You normally never see anything like this
They were trying to get members of the Trump team, you know
The former Trump advisers and so on to testify before Congress in the what I would say utterly sham
J6 committee because you know, they were doctoring evidence. They were removed. They were removing audio from videos
They were taking false testimony. It was a clown show
It was a total circus act and then they destroyed the evidence afterwards
Anyways, you know what I mean?
They destroy the evidence so that through subpoena process others who are facing charges
Ironically based on some of their own accusations and recommendations for legal action
Can no longer get the evidence, you know that was used to create the false narratives. They deleted it
They destroyed it, but you have a lot of folks who are now having to go and face these contempt charges
Regardless one of them being Peter Navarro. I know I've known Peter Navarro for a long time
Mainly because you know, he was one of the canaries in the coal mine so to speak on the Chinese Communist Party
Manipulating global economies. He did the book and movie Death by China
Which and this this was long. This was long before he was part of the Trump team. I
Highly recommend watching it. It's still very relevant in terms of how the CCP messes with currency, you know
They call currency manipulation. It gives a very clear picture of how the CCP does it
I believe if you if you have Amazon Prime, I'm pretty sure it's there for free or it's very cheap
It's one of the two. It's also a very good book called Death by China
But he was one of the first guys or one of the big guys announced for the Trump team
And I remember when he got on the team, I was like, hey, you know, they're letting Peter Navarro won
They must be getting serious on China. That was my first thought
Now Peter Navarro, of course was supposed to appear before Congress to testify on the J6 stuff
He refused as did a lot of people Steve Bannon also refused notably
You had a lot of them said I'm not gonna do it. This is a total sham thing
It shouldn't even be illegal because of the ways that they made it essentially not they made it partisan
You're not really able to do that. They rejected the Republican nominees for that committee
Nancy Pelosi hand-picked to you know
Republican and name all that they weren't really they were people who voted with the Democrats to impeach Trump
And so they hand-picked two people who had voted with them previously
Demonstrating the same bias they held on that committee. It was a sham committee. It shouldn't it shouldn't have even been legal what they did
Let alone their ability to bring contempt charges. But here we are
Peter Navarro was just found guilty and
They're making some arguments on it. He's not gonna be sentenced until January 12th
You know things are gonna be going through for a while. He's also going to appeal it
He believes it's gonna go to the Supreme Court because he's arguing that he would have had executive privilege
We'll see where that goes. They're also trying to get the case thrown out on mistrial
Because they let the jury out on a break. I believe they deliberated for like five hours
They let the jury out on a break. They claimed there were protesters outside who would have potentially altered the
Altered the opinions of the jurors, let's say
Which, you know, you can especially if they were to have threatened them or whatever else or if they were to have, you know
Given information that would have changed their perspectives
And if you if you are a juror in a court of law, you're not even supposed to watch news shows
on the trial of which you are a juror because you're supposed to solely look at the evidence on both sides presented in the court and
So protesters and so on tends to tend to cause that problem
One of the reasons why under normal circumstances if I understand there are certain laws
Restricting protests at courthouses for that reason if I if I remember correctly
And so, you know things just aren't being enforced
Well, that was one of the biggest issues that came up
For example when the Democrats ironically were organizing protests against the Supreme Court justices when they were gonna rule on Roe v. Wade
Including ironically even holding protests and threatening to like kill them at their own homes
Which I have no idea how that was
I mean
It shouldn't have been allowed the people who did that ironically should be the ones
You know going to prison for the ironically the same things are accusing everybody else are doing but you know, here we are
Rule of law is flipped upside down right now
The evil are punished and the good the the evil are awarded and the good are punished. It's the nature of law currently
That being said we will see what happens to Peter Navarro
I think he has a good shot at appeal the judge did say that they would consider
The mistrial argument if they can provide evidence video evidence of the protesters outside
the the
Prosecutors claim that the protests were in a place where the jurors were not released at they claim was a different place
But afterwards Peter Navarro goes out to give his like speech to the press and there's all those protesters there
So obviously they were there although again, they're arguing the protesters were in a different place from when they let the jurors out
We'll see where it goes
Regardless. He is probably right. This probably will eventually go to the Supreme Court and then we will see what happens
Also big well, I don't know if it's a big update but an update. Do you remember yesterday literally yesterday?
We had the I talked about how it was a Republican senator JD Vance had put forward
You know
Legislation that they were you know, he was trying to get legislation through essentially introducing it
They would force Congress to have a vote and in that vote
They would publicly show publicly state whether or not they believe in federal mask mandates
Well that was shot down already. It was shot down already yesterday
Democrats senator blocked it. That was Senator Ed Markey of
Massachusetts and
There was even a picture allegedly from outside his office where he put this like masks required sign
Now this is suggesting of course that Democrats do want to have mask mandates federal mask mandates
You could argue it wasn't all Democrats. It was Senator Ed Markey
But regardless there are some who believe in the return of federal mask mandates
This would have of course forbidden any government official or any place receiving government funding from enacting mask mandates up until
2024 and after the elections
That has now been shot down by the Democrats
Here we are again where people are wondering are they gonna do it again?
Well, they just might I'm gonna go to one more story, but I want to do a I want to do a longer Q&A today
because
Because today is the last morning live. I know I'm sorry
Crossroads is going to be going live for the nighttime show starting next week
Long story short
NTD television the sister media of Epoch Times there of course our TV broadcasting network
They have great programming by the way, if you haven't watched them
NTD television they have cable news and they're doing a 12 or sorry a 7 to 7
News broadcast, although I guess it's longer technically because Crossroads is the 7 o'clock slot
So they're gonna be broadcasting news all day long. So we're launching essentially a full-fledged news network
Crossroads got the 7 p.m. Slot. And so, you know, we got we got primetime folks. We're going primetime
So you can of course watch it still on Epoch TV. You can of course join our live chats on Epoch TV
You can also watch it on NTD. You can also watch it on cable
You have to check with the local provider where NTD is placed. I believe the website has information on that
But essentially because I'll be doing a 7 p.m
Live show and we're gonna start with half an hour
Gradually increase it and we're aiming for an hour is the goal
It's just too much for me to be honest doing a nighttime show in a morning show be totally honest and because I
Tend to like writing my own content, you know for the for this for the morning show. I don't really do a script
I have I have some news clippings and that's about it
But for the nighttime show, you know because it's TV you need to have a script
Although for cool, you know what? I'm talking on interviews and stuff. I don't necessarily follow it
You know, you got to be you got to keep it natural. You know what I mean?
So I like to write my own stuff, you know
I'm spending most of my days writing and for you know, doing research and so on
Anyways that said today is the last morning live show
We will be doing you know events going forward like Q&A's and so on, you know
We'll do some fireside chats and epic TV. We'll still do some stuff
It won't be as regular at least not at first after I kind of get used to the the new cycle of all this
You know, we'll keep things on a more regular schedule, but I'll keep you all updated on that again
You know with with work with life. I tend to look at the long road in my eyes. I'm kind of just starting still
there's a long road ahead folks and so a lot to do a lot of good stuff in the works and
Glad to have you all here with me. That's us jump over to epic TV
I want to talk about how Owen Benjamin one of the Infowars journalists
He's facing a hundred whether you like him or not, right, you know have your position, but he's facing a hundred twenty days in prison
for saying things for speech
He's facing prison for crimes of speech and this has to do with J6
He did not enter the building he paraded outside with a loud with a megaphone and they're trying to put him in prison for it
I will explain what this means why it's significant because this is the this is the you know
the argument against the First Amendment that
You know, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater
essentially that that's what this comes down to a lot of
Constitutional lawyers a lot of people who are you know, free-speed absolutists and a lot of people like myself
Who just have their own understandings of the Constitution understand that argument is utter nonsense. Yes, you can
constitutionally yell fire in a crowded theater
It's an absolutely
ridiculous
perversion of American law and a slathering of just crud across the Constitution in my opinion
Now it's a good person you probably shouldn't do that but criminal or constitutional violation. Nope
We will talk about that. And so join me on Epic TV. We'll discuss and then we'll go into questions right after
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