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garland. controlled by the democratic party in a radical left. as somebody who served there for many years, first it is associate deputy attorney general and then it is special assistant to the attorney general and then finally chief of staff to the attorney general and in my view the greatest attorney general ever. this department, this department is destroying america. it is destroying the 2024 election. it is violating every norm, every tradition, everything it inherited to ensure that that department would be trustworthy and could be reliable. it has criminalized politics and i want to say this, if we do not break the back of the department of justice, and i will explain what i mean in a moment, it will destroy this country and we will not be able to claw our way back. this is not hyperbole. i don't need to be. let's start.

cnn. exclusive special counsel prosecutors question witnesses about chaotic oval office meeting after trump lost the 2020 election. multiple sources told cnn, stick with me, cnn, former trump campaign official cooperating in the 2020 election interference probe. sources familiar with the matter told cnn, cnn, rudy giuliani interviewed special counsel 2020 election special interference probe, who says so? multiple sources familiar with the meeting. new york times prosecutor sought records on drug business deals. two people familiar with the matter. new york times investigation of trump document case continues after his indictment? who says, according to people familiar with the matter. washington post dust hundred justice department, who says?

people familiar with the matter. who do these leaks help? do they help donald trump? do they help a single witness? it is the federal government. the biden department of justice. the democratic party's department of justice. interfering in the election and trying to do many other things. i asked my brothers and sisters, i said go back about six months and pull out all the leaks from the new york times and washington post and cnn involving donald trump. here it is. look at this. you see this, these are the leaks from grand juries to witnesses to monologue go to the nature of the classified documents leak after leak after leak and i limited it to cnn, the new york times and the washington post.

look at this. don't jerk around the former department of justice. is this how you run a case? is this how you have a tradition in the country that represents every damn thing. look at this. this is not intended to be a real case. here is the aba rules, special responsibilities for prosecutor, rule 3.8 and i cut through to the chase. the prosecutor in a criminal case shall, except for the statements that are necessary to inform the public, serving a legitimate law enforcement purpose, refrain from making extrajudicial comments that have a substantial likelihood of a heightening public condemnation of the accused and exercise reasonable care to prevent investigators, law enforcement personnel, employees or other persons assisting or associated

with the prosecutor in a criminal case from making an extrajudicial statement that the prosecutor would be prohibited from making. let me ask you a question. the prosecutor has not come out and said -- look, we have seen there are all of these leaks. i am taking it upon myself to do an investigation. not a single judge has been involved in these investigations. they have the power to do it. say, wait a minute, you cannot do this to a defendant or a would be defended. you cannot do this because you violate their fifth and sixth amendment rights. you cannot have a jury, a jury that is objective and the goal of the leaking is to make sure that they don't have a jury that his objective anywhere in the united states of america. enormous quantity of leaks. grand jury leaks. leaks about witnesses or even the nature classified

information. by the government. even more in its leaking. prosecutions litigation strategies. secret filings with the district court. attorney-client privilege. leaked. who is receiving subpoenas? trump's business dealings, leaked. you have a pattern on this document case. you have a pattern on the january 6 matter. it is unmistakable, it is unequivocal. all roads go through the department of justice. all roads go through jack smith's office, the special counsel who to me is not so special. the trump lawyers need to wait the hell up and do something about this. number one. a constant pattern of leaks benefiting the prosecution of government. a constant pattern of leaks. number two, the department of justice has its own standards in addition to the aba relating to

attorney, professional misconduct relating to law enforcement investigation. number three, i just cited to you rule 3.8. the prosecutor's responsibility. that is not the point, you run the operation. taming the jury pool with these constant leaks. leaks about contents and classified information. leaks about witnesses. leaks about testimony. leaks about constant government filings. the call here is to deny donald trump's and others due process that is our constitution. a motion need to be filed on behalf of donald trump. i am saying this publicly, they need to move the court to order the office of professional responsibility, i know this for a fact, that is the office asked to investigate the possibilities

of attorney misconduct or employee misconduct within the department of justice. they need to be directed by a court, by the judge in florida under attack, trying to intimidate her, but she needs to be as brave as this guy which we will get to in the next segment. be as brave as this. he tries to stop it any speaks up about it. the judge in florida. she needs to order opr to conduct an investigation and the special counsel's office to determine if the department of justice, particularly the special counsel and his staff have violated these rules and have undermined the constitution and, also, they ought to be very specific. look at texas. e-mails, information of that sort, phone calls, all of it. to see if donald trump due process rights have been

violated under the fifth amendment. no person should be deprived of life liberty and property without due process. public trial by an impartial jury. we have a former president of the united states was running for a second term and is the leading republican candidate to run against a sitting president who oversees this department of justice and is investigating him, charging him and leaking against him. not just for purposes of influence in a child, but for purposes of influencing the election. all of the leaks, all of them are intended to undermine the basic constitutional rights and interfere with the 2024 election how is this leak going to affect the election? how is this indictment going to affect? we still of george and we still january 6. it is all about criminalizing politics. prosecutorial leads.

the courts, these obama judges in washington, d.c. don't give a damn. the judge in florida should give a damn. when a prosecutor is running amok through the judicial system. there is more than enough justification for this investigation. the department of justice does leak investigations all the time. this is the biggest leak in a series of leaks in the history of the united states against a former president who is running for reelection for a second term against the people i would argue who are doing the leaking. a motion to the court in the courts order should ask at the opr among other things, secure the e-mails, secure the text, secure any messages, phone records for special counter smith, his entire staff to determine whether they have been

leaking because they're sure as hell is an appearance of it and find the source of the leaks. the source should give opr 30 days, not a year and a half, 30 days, to complete the investigation issue its public findings to the court and maybe we will find the department of justice and mr. smith are people that are absolutely clean handed. what do you think? do they have something to hide? yeah. they have a lot to hide and frankly the court should have already done this. and the department of justice if there was a real department of justice we would've already done this. the necessity for the court orders to protect the entire system, to protect the judiciary and the court itself and to protect the political process from a rogue administration. i want to remind you that jack smith's history of abusing the law is long. including in the case we have

talked about with republican governor, former governor in virginia, including with john edwards in north carolina. this man cuts corners. that is why he was chosen. we see the dorm report. evidence of widespread corruption at the fbi and doj against republicans and four democrats. you see this fantastic judge terry doughty, what he found when he did a serious review of the facts on the record and issued his lawyer. you saw the twitter files. you have seen how they treat fbi whistleblowers. the republicans in the house, you need to step up, too. you have been doing a good job. the senate under macconnell and schumer, forget about it. in the house, ag garland accused of lying under oath, committing perjury by one, but multiple former irs officials.

he needs to be impeached. impeach with inquiry, mph with investigation and have the full review of what this attorney general has been doing. as in my view the mob lawyer for the biden administration. he still has not appointed special counsel to a point. david weiss just thumbed his nose at a house oversight committee and said, no, i will not provide you with any information about what you will be doing. i have absolute power. we have six people who say he does not. he needs to be held in contempt. weiss needs to be held in contempt. i don't care that weiss appointed him, he reports to garland. jack smith, you folks in the house, you need to investigate him for his conduct. among other things in addition to what i said, anybody in the

world walking into my articles, they are public record, another piece by will scharf, trump's codefendant in this case, the document cases walked out. the navy valet who served in trump's white house and remained a personal aide to trump after he left office several weeks ago matt hundred matt tells his lawyer name's stanley word word including department of justice counterintelligence chief who has been quoted in the media who is now a part of the special counsel jack smith's team of prosecutors, according to news reports, he claimed in a sealed letter to the d.c. district judge appointed by obama that they had a meeting to discuss the case indicated that woodward's application to be a d.c. superior court judge, this is the lawyer for the dependent

could be impacted if they could not get his client to testify against trump. that should blow the whole case completely out of the water. now, if we do not push back against this tyranny, it will devour us. it will consume us. i am not overstating the case, i am speaking as somebody that has over 40 years of experience in the wall. at the department of justice and the private sector there that landmarked legal foundation. i know tyranny when i see it and i see it. i will be right back. ♪ i'm a big advocate of recommending things that i know work.

welcome back, america. one of the attorneys who i respect most was a president trump lawyer during one of the impeachments also civil rights criminal defense attorney. i think that i have let out a pretty damn strong case of the endless pattern of leaks against donald trump singularly attempting to violate his sixth amendment rights and to interfere in the selection with this constant criminalization of

politics. what do you make of that. >> your monologue was powerful and it was not over the top. frankly, you were right on. a very dangerous situation that we face with these leaks and so on. you emphasize the right of a defendant to a public trial. we all should believe in that but we cannot have selective leaking. the case in florida, for example , the court approved in unopposed protective order that limits the information the public can have extraordinarily come up it also limits the defendants access to information limited to only looking at documents, nonclassified documents in front of his lawyers in the presence of his lawyers. can't make any copies and so on. in contrast to that we see information selectively leaked over and over and over again. as you pointed out as capably as i have ever seen done. >> i would have to say it would not let that pass away.

i would have been jumping up and down and saying, no, we want access to the classified terms. you can read us into the top-secret requirements. we want access. our client want access. if we are going to have a public trial, that information needs to be public as well in less the government had demonstrated should not be public. we are talking about the former president of the united states. >> absolutely right. he does not really of hard-core criminal defense lawyers on his team yet. i think he will. the former solicitor general is a smart guy. he has to flush it out now with lawyers prepared to fight. i am concerned already that the judge will be intimidated. mainstream media about being a trump appointee. we don't hear much about the judges in d.c., jackson, and

others who make all sorts of extraneous unnecessary comments aligning for president trump. we do not hear about who appointed them in about those comments and how those comments as you pointed out in the monologue affect jury pools directly. it is very dangerous. >> it's time for the civil libertarians to wake the hell up. it is time to understand that when you have legal analysts going on tv and saying, i am looking at the indictment, you better pull out of the weeds and see exactly what is taking place here. these leaks are intended to influence the cases. this is never before happened in american history and it is all being done behind oh it is an investigation and don't you trust the fbi? no, i do not. we are talking about individual liberty here. another judge, terry doughty.

federal judge. his first name also was appointed by trump. appointed by trump judge fill-in the blank. automatically, we are supposed to hate them. automatically, they don't know what they are talking about. i tell you what, i have never seen a federal judge stand for the first amendment and free speech up against a tyranny of this administration like this brave judge has done and of course they are attacking him. this case, 157 pages in a decision here. he lays it out so perfectly, in such enormous detail the collaboration, coordination, collusion, if you will, of the department of justice. department of homeland security paired there is not even a department within the biden administration that did not try to influence twitter and facebook and all the rest to

silence their opposition. you're been around a little while, david, so if i, what do you make of that? >> so many aspects of this that are troubling. trump appointed judge doughty. i think it is also accurate to say that he was confirmed by a vote of 98-zero which is pretty extraordinary. he has a bright guy, but i think one of the beauties of this memoranda decision in support of the preliminary injunction is the first part. the part emphasizing the value we place, the highest value we place in this country and our system on the first amendment. he quotes from scholars, political leaders and so on to really emphasize why this is our highest value. you will never see me without one of these in one form or another. constitution of the united states and the first amendment is always highlighted. it is an important point that many of our freedoms flow for.

deserving great credit. there is testimony that was given here. you want to talk about scary, testimony given that the fbi uses its criminal investigative authority, national security authority executive orders and so on to monitor social media and to make coerce them let's say for anyone that thinks it is appropriate for the government to be involved in that process, let's say you think it's justified by terrorism, public health concerns, you should be troubled by the success that this administration has had with issues like coercing and forcing social media, facebook, twitter, et cetera to take down post at the administration found unflattering about jill biden. did not like the way she was portrayed or other personal things affecting the biden

administration. perhaps his candidacy for president. they have had great success in that area. you should be troubled if you think the other areas justified by their unwillingness, let's say to challenge the operatives, think supporting terrorism or bomb making procedures. that sort of thing if you think government has a role in monitoring and effecting social media. >> the same parents monitoring school board meetings and pro-lifers. the same biden administration that trampled all over the constitution of the united states. just having served for ronald reagan for eight years, i can tell you, that if they found cocaine anywhere in the white house, he would've said to the american people in no uncertain

terms, this is disgusting. i don't know how the hell this happen. i am embarrassed. i am humiliated. i am directing the attorney general of the united states to get to the bottom of this. i will assure you this will never happen again and whoever did this will be punished to the full extent of the law. whatever we heard from joe biden? not a damn thing i willmu be right back. ♪ if you want to be a thinking citizen, we can help. that's at the heart of what we do with our online courses. you're studying the federalist papers, the constitution. dante, aquinas. aristotle. plato. we've had about 3.5 million people sign up for it over ten years. they're all free, and they are all available to anybody who's got the mind to pay attention to them.

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mark: welcome back. obama, biden, the rest of them, the media come out to say we cannot have misinformation out there and so forth and so on. reminiscent of every regime that has ever existed. who decides what is this information and misinformation? have added and let the american people figure it out. it is freedom supposed to be the paramount issue here? >> you have hit the bed rock principal. that does not surprise me coming from you. absolutely. we cannot have government deciding what is this information. this has been recognized as a bedrock principle, specifically, 1919, justice holmes talked about the free-trade idea has.

in 1953, justice douglas. this is an issue on the left and the right. it should not be a political issue. it is a constitutional issue. introducing this idea come at this phrase marketplace of ideas, newspaper publishers, the media, competes for people's minds. the competition is only a fair one if we allow all ideas to be put out there so people can make their own recent decisions. that is the american model. it is unique, but it is our american way. we cannot have any particular isolation infringing on that bed rock principal. >> i think half the nation agrees with us and the other half could give a damn. even the people in the media and democrats. you do not hear a single democrat come out and support to me what is the greatest free-speech opinion i have read

by a judge in a long, long time. you don't hear a single democrat saying i'm a democrat but the biden administration, you are a little out of control, do you mind pulling them back. keep your damn hands off of social media. keep your hands out of the public square. you are the government. that is what we have the bill of rights to protect us from. i don't even hear from the aclu anymore. do you? >> i don't. i represented alabama for about 20 years but that was a very different aclu. iver presented -- i represented the democratic party. it is not of the democratic party of aoc and omar and that sort, but it should be a fundamental principle of every party. i represented a socialist candidate for president in 2020.

socialist stand up for free speech and putting ideas in the marketplace of ideas. it is certainly a republican value. >> i think here, it is more than even speaking. you kind of touched on it. if you can control speech you can control language. you can control communications. in other words, you control the individual and the elective. that is what is going on here. i have never seen anything like this. you go back to woodrow wilson and franklin roosevelt, it was disgusting. with the help of the new york times and the washington post and so forth. you see what is going on today. it is back. they not only want to silence people, they want to destroy people they disagree with. in some cases, prison them. the democrat party, they see silent or celebrating it. you've got to say yourself, how

can people tolerate this from this party? i don't know if you are democrat or republican, i have had my friend don and he makes it clear i am a democrat but i am a liberal. i am not one of these guys. i am not one of these crazy guys. but the problem is, joe biden's. i don't want to hear about it. the most aggressive theoretical president in my view ever. your thoughts. >> your points about the first amendment and how it is being abused so badly here. we talk about the damage that these tactics cause. what we are to talk about also is the chilling effect that it has. what we don't even see about those people that are stopped from speaking freely because of the weaponization. people are afraid to lose their licenses, to lose their freedom because they speak out on position that is unpopular with

the current situation. i have never been in an america like that. i know there has been an error or two like that before. we are seeing it again as you pointed out, as emphatically as i have ever heard. >> god bless you my friend. i want to thank you all of your years of support. four people who needed a really solid defense lawyer. take care of yourself, david show and. >> thank you. mark: we will be right back. ♪

♪ welcome back, america. a tremendous honor to have joey jones with me. he has never been on this program before. i have to tell you, somebody that really admires a handful of people, i really admire you, joey jones.

this is such an emotional book. such a fantastic book. your humility can be seen throughout this period you don't want to talk about yourself a lot, you want to talk about your brothers. some of whom survived, some of whom did not. it is a patriotic book. you can get it at amazon.com or any other bookstore. tell us, we know you lost both of your legs which is a horrible horrible thing, but i don't think everybody knows if you can tell us how. >> my job in the marine corps was to take bombs apart. as you know, most people know, you refer to them as roadside bombs or ied's. the way the enemy tried to kill us will put bombs in the ground. my job was to help find them. when we did find them it was to take them apart and move them so no one got hurt. on august 6, 2010 we were

working in a town trying to get less ied's available for the enemy trying to take this town where most of them were. in doing so the enemy made it a minefield. we had ied's every two steps that felt like. taking apart everyone we could find by luck and circumstance, i stepped on one myself. i stepped on an ied with my right foot. it blew up underneath me and by the time i landed on my back i did not have legs anymore. and that very moment, that was my concern. my concern was the marines behind me. >> you discuss several of them, several even friends. what happened to them and so forth. who would you like to focus on for the brief time that we have? i don't think it's appropriate for me to pick out one or the other. i think it's more appropriate for you. >> when you read the book, the

first few chapters are three marines that know each other well. they were connected. the brother served with the other two and killed in action. danny's mentor was also greg's best friend in the marine corps. he was killed while greg was with him. when you read those three chapters as a section, we talk all the time about 22 a day in suicide. we need to do more for our veterans. we rarely talk about why. what is it that drives a man to kill himself? all three of these guys get into the details of what is been so difficult for them to overcome. think about survivor's guilt times 12, times 20, times 20 years. for them to be in a place now where they can share this part of their life but say this text

of individuals that kept me alive, now this group text of individuals that let me celebrate. i am in that with those three and others and that is what this is about. that relationship. >> what kept clicking in my mind was private ryan and her brothers, even the longest yard, one of my favorite movies ever. we never really know what happens to these people, these great heroes after these battles , after the war. your book spends a lot of time talking about what happens after. so, i am broken, i finished reading this book last night. it is very emotional. i cannot even properly express myself. i just want to say this to the people out there. you see joey on fox all the time. he is a remarkable man.

he will turn 27 soon. he is the kind of guy, you don't need to get to know me, but i would like to get to know quite frankly what comes across in your book as you are a red-blooded regular american who was called to duty, who stepped up with several of your friends, stepped into the battle, you fought for your country, you come back and you are still fighting for your country. i want to continue. unbroken bonds of battle. you can get it at amazon.com. any bookstore. i cannot recommend it enough. we will be right back. ♪ she knew that i always want to know more about my family history. with ancestry i dug and dug until i found some information. i was able to find out more than just a name.

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♪ mark: welcome back. unbroken bonds of battle by our friend joey jones. by the way, you are really good on the five and these other programs you do on saturday and sunday. sharp as hell. the way you communicate is superb, too. this among others that could

benefit from this book are people who have kind of done what you have done, done something like you've done in different wars, different battlefield and so forth. you may still be struggling with family, mental issues, physical issues. what do you want to tell them. in many ways you tell them in this book, but what do you want to tell them? >> we will all struggle until the day we die. the closer we come to understanding that instead of thinking you can take this pill and now you are good again, struggle is life. that is the beauty in it. when you read their chapters, it's not like it is all just a happy ending. they are working every day to overcome things but they are in a better place and they are in a better place to overcome their lives. aaron hill is on a 135-mile, one of the hardest foot races ever here in the united states in the hot sun out west. he is blind and deaf.

he uses a cochlear implant. he is not on a run today because everything is great and they are celebrating, he is on the run today because life is still worth living, challenges are still worth overcoming and there is still stuff left in the tank. we have friends tell us we are worthwhile. when you read this book, that is what you see, they deal with this every day. they just learn how to deal with it. in that respect, every american watching right now, going through divorce, bankruptcy, health, those things don't stop. we learn to overcome, we learn to live with it and we learn for the next. they have tools that other people do not. the things we go through sometimes make us forget to use them. this is all about being reminded what you can do especially with people that love you. mark: what do you tell the american people that are really down with what is going on with

their country today. the military, the way we exited afghanistan, the abusive government, the refusal to enforce the laws and everything, some people are just down and saying i give up. what do you tell them? >> it is hard to respond to that. i don't know what giving up looks like. i know what feeling looks like. i have failed more than i have succeeded. i don't know how to give up. we may need to take a breath and take a timeout, but we don't give up. so many of our problems are derived from our prosperity. we have people alive today, one generation recently passed away who did not experience this country has some too big to fail superpower. they experienced it in the 1920s and 1940s when we either had to scrap everything we had to either scrap everything we had to win a war. those are lessons that can still

be applied today. we are as vulnerable as we ever were. there are americans that will fight and die to keep it that way. i have to raise my son in a way that his generation will do it. we are only alive as long as we have that generation. our responsibility is to keep this country around long enough to hand it around for the next guys and hope we trained them and lead them right. all i can tell you to do is have the positive influence on the people of your life. kids, grandkids, teacher, police officer, there is someone in your life you can influence. if you know the truth, tell it to them. >> you do it and you are remarkable and so is this book. i strongly encourage you to grab your copy. amazon.com. a new york times best seller and it is a life, liberty & levin bestseller. god bless you my friend. hope to meet you one day.

>> same to you, brother. mark: we will be right back. ♪ [clicking] when occasional heartburn won't let you sleep. [clicking] get fast relief with new tums+ heartburn + sleep support. love food back and fall asleep faster. ♪tum, tum tum tum, tums♪

>> welcome back america, the department of justice, the special counsel, they are not in the constitution. you know within the constitution this preamble, we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union establish justice and tranquility to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity do ordain and establish this constitution for the united states of america. we the people who are being abused you are being monitored who are being bullied who are being told to keep her mouth shut, follow the rules. let one party destroy the other party, we the people are in this

constitution right at the front end, not biden, not garlic, not smith. we the people, never forget it. i'll see you next time on "life liberty and levin". >> good evening and thank you for joining us i'm trey gowdy it is "sunday night in america". the 2024 presidential election is still nearly 500 days away but the process we employ to pick the nominees is in full swing, candidates are crisscrossing the country trying to convince voters their vision is right for america and let's acknowledge at the outset, running for president is hard, it is grueling, iv