California Professor THREATENS ICE Agent's Life… Then Trump Grand Jury Subpoenas Dems FEAR Most!

Well, this got awkward fast. After nearly 10 years of Russiagate arguments, former CIA Director John Brennan is facing a Justice Department investigation examining his testimony and the 2017 Russia intelligence assessment. You can't even make this stuff up. Now, I will admit, no charges have been filed yet, but investigators have been interviewing intelligence officials. Apparently, Washington finally discovered something that's more terrifying than a congressional hearing. Questioning under oath. Who knew? But wait a second, guys, because somehow this is not even the craziest story today. Over in California, Cal State LA professor Melina Abdullah publicly identified ICE agent Brian Polisios essentially discussed where he might be staying and repeatedly used language that was so inflammatory that she later clarified that she meant protest tactics, not physical violence. Anybody believe that? Nothing says calm academic discussion quite like needing the clarification afterward. Then, New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani stepped directly into a 9-11 controversy involving victims' families, Ground Zero, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish, and his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassim. And while America handles that circus, President Donald Trump is talking directly with Vladimir Putin as Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner work through Russia and Vladimir Zelensky's Ukraine possible to war peace. So, no, the war is not over. But, all of a sudden, Vladimir Putin's got something new to think about. Now, today, we're going to separate what actually happened from what people think happened, and there are some details here that you definitely don't want to miss. Now, go ahead and subscribe because apparently, boring news week has been permanently discontinued. And, of course, guys, if you need free medicare help, check out the link in the description down below. The average senior is saving about $1,100 a year. And then, of course, if you make it all the way to the end of this show, go ahead and tap the like button. You know you enjoyed it. Think of it as like tipping your waiter, except I didn't charge you $19 for some sparkling water. Alright, guys, for years, all we got was talk. Hearings, reports, politicians pointing fingers at other politicians and calling it justice. No more, okay? No more. The Justice Department, the Department of Justice, just moved into a federal grand jury in Florida. This is not a strongly worded letter, guys. This is not a press conference. This is under oath, under the law, no exits. And guess who's in the hot seat? Former CIA Director John Brennan, reportedly a target, reportedly facing questions about whether he lied to Congress. Now, innocent until proven guilty, of course. We got to follow the law here. We're not the mob. But here's the thing that should really make everybody sit up straight. After nearly a decade of accusations, somebody may finally have to answer questions where, I don't recall, doesn't quite cut it. The receipts are showing up right on time, guys. And so, here's the question hanging over Washington tonight. Are we finally going to get to the part where the law actually decides who broke it? Oh, and by the way, guys, this is exactly why I created the Ron Yates Report. Because finding out that John Brennan got subpoenaed or that the DOJ opened another investigation, that's the easy part, okay? Usually accompanied by a red banner in somebody's face looking like they just swallowed a Lego. And, of course, the cool thing about the Ron Yates Report is that we understand that the advantage is understanding what happens next. Does this turn into charges? Does it change how Washington operates? Does it affect policy, stock market, your money, investments, or something nobody's paying attention to yet? This is exactly what I break down in the Ron Yates Report, what happened, why it matters, and what I'm watching next. Because being informed after everybody else understands the story, that's not much of an advantage. Now, I left a link for you in the description down below where you can join the Ron Yates Report. Don't just know the headline. Know what the headline could eventually do to you. Because John Brennan didn't act alone. Nobody ever does. Bring in Barack Obama, James Clapper, James Comey, all these different Jameses, right? And the entire intelligence leadership that ran the show back in 2016 and 2017. Tulsi Gabbard already cracked the door wide open with declassified files that made a lot of powerful people look very, very uncomfortable. So, here's the real question nobody's asking out loud. Who knew what, and when did they know it? Was it intelligence, or was it a story somebody needed to be true? The 46-page document was completed by House Republicans in 2020, but remained in CIA custody until now. It includes references to surveillance programs and CIA human sources. Gabbard released the report with President Trump's backing, bypassing the standard interagency clearance process and overriding objections from within the intelligence community. CIA Director John Ratcliffe supported the release publicly, while former intelligence officials and Senate Democrats warned the move could expose sources and damage U.S. intelligence sharing with allies. The report challenges a 2017 intelligence assessment that concluded Russian President Putin favored Trump over Hillary Clinton. That conclusion was previously endorsed by the CIA, FBI, NSA, and a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation. Alongside the report, Gabbard's office published whistleblower testimony from a senior intelligence official. The whistleblower claims they were pressured to endorse the 2017 findings, but refused due to concerns about flawed sourcing and political interference. They also allege repeated attempts to raise the issue through internal channels were ignored. Attorney General Pam Bondi has now authorized a grand jury to consider potential charges related to the case. The Justice Department also confirmed ongoing investigations involving former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan. Independent investigations, including those led by Robert Mueller and the U.S. Senate, have previously reaffirmed that Russia sought to help Trump in the 2016 election. But Gabbard argues the newly declassified materials point to a coordinated effort to undermine Donald Trump's presidency. Now, look, plot twist you might not expect from a guy like me. What if nobody gets charged? What if prosecutors dig through everything and just don't have enough? That would matter too. Because either way, guys, for the first time in years, this isn't getting decided on cable news, it's getting decided in a courtroom, where evidence has to survive. So, I want to talk about something CNN conveniently forgets to mention every year. September 11, 2001. The towers just fell. And where was Donald Trump? Not hiding, not issuing a statement from a beach house, he grabbed his own construction crew and sent them straight into the wreckage to help first responders dig. You can't even make this stuff up, guys. No cameras rolling for applause, no press release, just go help them. It's funny how that clip never makes primetime, right? It's going to take a long time, but they're tough. New Yorkers are tough. The country is tough. And hopefully, there'll be great retribution. What do you plan to do about the devastation down here? Well, I have a lot of people working here right now. That's why I came down to see. We have 100 and another 125 or 150 coming, so a couple of hundred people. So, I just want to make sure they're okay. What do those people do? They're digging out. Not a pleasant chore. Not pleasant. And what about rebuilding? Well, I guess that'll be the next step. Hopefully, the city is going to be rebuilding, but that'll be the next step. Is that possible as a developer? Oh, yeah. Everything's possible. You can do anything nowadays with the right money and the right talent. And there's a lot of talent in that group, I'll tell you. But I think the city will ultimately, it'll be rebuilt in some form. Maybe not the same form, but in some form. I think it has to be, actually. As a man who builds large buildings, how do you feel on your stomach seeing this? I can't believe that it could happen. I would have never believed they could have been knocked over. And I really think the only solution is to rebuild something of even greater importance than the World Trade Center. What are your thoughts about the possibility, subterranean sense of this building of people being down there? I think the whole concept of what happened is terrible. Just disgusting. And we should really do something about it. Okay. Thanks, folks. Now, if we flash forward 25 years, President Donald J. Trump stands at the White House with actual 9-11 first responders next to a steel beam pulled straight out of the South Tower. Real steel guys, real weight, real memory. So here's the thing about September 11th. Everybody old enough remembers exactly where they were standing, what they were watching, who called them crying. This is not politics. This is a scar we will never forget. 25 years later, the memory is turning into history. And history, unlike CNN's coverage, doesn't get to pick and choose what actually happened. But the nation's capital, it marks 25 years since a day that was etched forever into the memories of Americans. On 9-11, nearly 3,000 precious souls were stolen from us, killed by evil terrorists at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93. All of these years later, we gather on another Tuesday morning in September to reaffirm the sacred vow we made a quarter of a century ago. We will never forget. We say it and we mean it. We will never forget those we lost, and we will never forget the immortal heroes of September 11th, 2001. And I will tell you, we're right now fighting because we have a certain nation that wanted a nuclear weapon. They were very close to getting it, and now they have no chance of getting it. They will never have a nuclear weapon. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. Here's the part that should really put your coffee down, okay? September 11th didn't stop taking lives when the smoke cleared. FDNY, NYPD, the first responders who ran into the towers while everybody else was trying to run out, a lot of them didn't die that day. They died years later, cancer and lung disease from the dust that they were breathing in and inhaling during their jobs. Somebody survives Ground Zero, goes home, raises kids, coaches Little League for a decade, and then finds out Manhattan never actually let them leave. Now, this is not a footnote, guys. This is a second attack in slow motion, and it raises a rather uncomfortable question that New York officials still owe people an answer to. What did the city know about that air, and when did they know about it? Because never forget, it doesn't just mean the planes. It means the bill that kept coming due for 25 years later. Here's a plot twist nobody saw coming. Mamdani's administration, yes, that Zoran Mamdani, just released roughly 170,000 pages of previously unavailable 9-11 records, air quality data, environmental hazards, what the city actually knew about Ground Zero back then. I am proud to announce that our administration has settled two lawsuits between the city and 9-11 Health Watch, ending what has been a multi-year legal battle and restrictions on New Yorkers' ability to access information that can shed valuable insight on air quality and health concerns. Administration after administration has ignored those calling for answers and clarity, instead choosing to bury them in legal arguments and in red tape. We will do no such thing. As we mark 25 years, it is time for this painful chapter to end. As part of our commitment to a governmental transparency that has too long been absent, City Hall has made a more than $34 million commitment to create a new public portal providing information about our city's response to the horrific attack. This will be a vast resource with hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from numerous city agencies, including sought-after records like the Harding Memo, the 68 DEP boxes discovered a few years ago, and information about 7 World Trade Center. These are documents that show what the city knew about the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it, and how they acted to limit liability. They contain details about DEP's response. They show how asbestos was found nearly everywhere that inspectors tested. And they will help New Yorkers access the health care they need. The 170,000 pages posted today are only the first release. More will be shared over the next 12 months. Now the question becomes, why on earth did it take 25 years? It's funny how that works, right? John Brennan, stone walls for a decade, New York sits on 170,000 pages for roughly a quarter of a century. Different buildings, same Washington and Albany move, bury it, wait it out, and release it when nobody's watching. 170,000 pages means there's a mountain left to dig through. Somebody here's the pattern, folks. Whether it's Russiagate or Ground Zero, the government's default setting isn't transparency. It's eventually, at best. So now the confrontation, right? 9-11 families, real people, real grief, publicly asked Mayor Zoran Mamdani to go ahead and skip the private Ground Zero ceremony. Not because of where he's from, but because of his record. They asked Mamdani nicely, politely, repeatedly. Mamdani showed up anyway. It's a bold move for a guy whose approval rating needed the photo op before the families needed his presence. Now to be fair, Mamdani is the mayor, showing up is technically part of the job description. But here's a counter, and it's a good one. This ceremony belongs to the dead, and to the people who love them, not to anybody's political calendar. So who actually owns remembrance? Is it the office, or the grieving? New York's still arguing about it, and honestly, so are we. So this next one is almost a little too perfect if you ask me. Mamdani signs an executive order for 9-11 remembrance, very solemn, very official, even uses the fancy pen, and then hands the ceremonial pen to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassim. This is a lawyer whose past clients include someone connected to an Al-Qaeda case. Of all pens, of all hands, standing right next to him, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish. Of course, her face during that handoff was being replayed more than a Super Bowl commercial. Now look, a facial expression is not a legal document. We're not putting Jessica Tish's eyebrows on trial. But Tish herself has been crystal clear in her own words, the people who attacked the city were terrorists, and the people who ran toward the towers were heroes. This morning, New York City's mayor facing growing calls to stay away from this Friday's ceremony at Ground Zero, marking 25 years since the 9-11 attacks. The latest flashpoint, this moment when Zoran Mamdani, the city's first Muslim mayor, signed two executive orders, and gave a ceremonial pen to Ramzi Kassim, his chief counsel. Kassim once represented a convicted member of Al-Qaeda, whose brother-in-law was one of the 9-11 hijackers. City officials say Kassim was at that event because he wrote the executive orders Mamdani signed. So Mamdani's office says it's nothing, just a pen, just a formality, sure, okay, and Oracle just happened to land billions of dollars in government contracts. Some things don't have to be planned to be embarrassing. They just have to happen on camera. Now, California, because of course, I mean, why not? Gotta talk about California, right? So Cal State LA professor Melinda Abdullah stood in front of a crowd and publicly identified ICE agent Brian Palacios, named him, showed his picture, mentioned a hotel where he said he might be staying, and then followed it up with language that you don't casually toss around about a real human being with a family. Heard defense afterward, oh, just talking about protest tactics? Sure you were. Sure you freaking were. And I'm talking about my New Year's resolution every December 31st. Here's the real deal, folks. This is not about left or right. It doesn't matter if you love ICE or hate ICE. When you publicly identify a federal officer, hint at where he sleeps, and then you follow it with some violent language, this is not activism. This is a five alarm problem. And so now Cal State LA, a taxpayer-funded university, they have to answer an uncomfortable question. What exactly are we paying this woman to teach? ICE agent who we got on good authority is right down the road at the Hilton Garden Inn in Oxnard. His name is Brian Palacios. Brian Palacios, and we'll show you a picture of his pig. He's at the Hilton Garden Inn in Oxnard. Sometimes it's just dude. You see the devil right there. You know that Brian Palacios may be staying at the Hilton Garden Inn at 2000 Solar Drive, down the way off of Black August. If you have not read Blood in My Eye, go pick up that book, not from Amazon. Go pick up that book and study guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla warfare means using every single tool in your toolbox, whether it be powerful prayer like Mama Harriet Tubman, whether it be standing on front lines and putting your body on the line like it's necessary in this moment, whether it be giving a dollar, all of those tools are absolutely necessary. So when I say up and I say Brian Palacios up who may be staying at the Hilton Garden Inn, when I say up, I mean in many ways. They don't get to do their invisibly. They don't get to do their dirt in the dark. There should be nowhere that they go where they are comfortable. Now, I do want to zoom out on the Abdullah situation because this is bigger than one professor with a microphone problem. Ask yourself honestly, if a conservative professor at Cal State LA stood up and named a federal officer's hotel, would this university statement come out this slow? Would it come out at all? Or would security escort her out by lunchtime? That's not a gotcha, guys. This is just a question sitting in a room that nobody at the podium wants to answer. Now, here's the actual standard, plain English, no law degree required. Free speech is broad. It's genuinely broad. Threats and incitement are not protected. There's a very narrow standard, real teeth. Universities also have their own conduct rules separate from the law entirely. So there are three real questions here, not one. Was it legal? Was it responsible? Did the university's own rules get broken? Three different answers are possible here. It's funny how gathering information always seems to take way longer when the politics point a certain direction. So now, let's leave the country entirely. President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin got on the phone following groundwork that was laid by Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow and Kiev. So, here's the part that actually matters, not the phone call itself, it's the incentive behind it. You see, Trump, he's not just saying, please stop. He's dangling something Putin actually wants, a full economic reset. Trade, investment, sanctions relief on table, diplomacy, or the world's most expensive vending machine, you decide. Is the war over? Oh, no, the war is not over. Don't let anybody tell you that. But Putin, he now has some math to do. What has Russia gained by continuing the war versus what Russia could gain by ending the war? You see, this is leverage that doesn't require a single missile. Years from now, people might point to this exact phone call or maybe just fizzles out like a dozen ceasefires before it. Either way, for once, somebody's actually negotiating instead of just posting about it. So, look, hold on, guys. Hold on before anybody starts printing Trump ends war t-shirts. Vladimir Putin doesn't get to shake hands with Washington and just mail Ukraine a memo after that. President Vladimir Zelensky has a country, real territory, real cities, millions of people whose entire lives got flipped upside down. So, here's the guest list that nobody invited to the celebration yet. What happens to occupied land? What security guarantees does Ukraine actually get? What happens to sanctions? What stops round two and five years from now? Now, those are not small print. Those are the deal. A historic phone call and an actual historic peace agreement, these are not the same thing. Once a conversation, the other one requires everybody in the room to agree, including the guy whose country is actually on the map in question. So, the honest headline isn't Trump ended the war. It's did Trump just open the door or is this another one that slammed shut in about a week? Nobody knows yet. This is really what makes it worth watching. Now, I do want to bring it together. Iran, the IRGC, the Strait of Hormuz, pressure campaign, ongoing Venezuela, oil deals, energy strategy, gas prices moving the right direction for once. But now, we've got to separate the claims from the confirmed. Look, I'm not here to promise you Mount Rushmore. We're here to tell you what's actually happening. I mean, look at this whole week side by side, folks. DOJ, will the evidence survive a courtroom, not just a headline? 9-11, how does a city honor memory while still uncovering records a quarter of a century later? Cal State LA, what happens when rhetoric meets an actual human being with a badge? Russia and Ukraine, can a trade deal do what a battlefield couldn't? Different stories, different names, different stakes, same question underneath every single one of them. What happens when years of talk finally collide with actual consequences? Brennan's facing a grand jury, a professor's facing some hard questions about a badge and a hotel address, Zoran Mamdani's facing families who just wanted one thing respected and he couldn't even do that, and President Trump's facing Vladimir Putin with something better than a threat. Leverage. Seen and missed half of this. The rest, they buried on page 19. You found it right here, guys. Think of that one person in your life who still remembers exactly where they were on September 11th. Send them this video, not to make them angrier. I'm sure they're still trying to get over it. Send it so that they know the truth didn't stay buried forever. 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