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The Wisconsin Watchdog: Glenn Grothman Tackles Border Security, Mental Health, and Election Integrity

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In this episode of John Solomon Reports, we delve into a significant shake-up within the Trump administration as President Trump fires Attorney General Pam Bondi, leaving many to speculate on her legacy and the future of the Justice Department. With Todd Blanche stepping in as acting Attorney General, we discuss potential candidates for the permanent role, including EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and the implications of this leadership change on ongoing investigations.

Joining us in the first segment is Congressman Glenn Grothman, who shares insights on his vital oversight work in Congress and the solutions he is championing to address pressing government issues. In the second segment, California gubernatorial candidate Leo Zacky discusses his vision for the state amid a competitive primary landscape, where Republicans are gaining momentum.

We also welcome Wayne Barnes, a distinguished former FBI agent, to talk about his new book that uncovers the deep state resistance he encountered while investigating the notorious Robert Hanssen spy scandal. His firsthand experiences provide a unique perspective on the challenges faced by law enforcement in tackling corruption.

Lastly, we explore health and wellness with one of the co-founders of 120 Life, a superfruit drink designed to naturally lower blood pressure. Discover how this innovative product has become a staple in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

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The Wisconsin Watchdog: Glenn Grothman Tackles Border Security, Mental Health, and Election Integrity

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bombshell. Probably not a surprise for a lot of us who have covered the Justice Department the last 15 months, but Pam Bondy was fired today by President Trump as the attorney general. She's out. She's gone. Todd Blanch, the deputy attorney general, will be an acting attorney general. I think a lot of people believe and this is consistent with what I'm hearing that if he wants it, uh, current EPA administrator, longtime friend of mine former former congressman, Lee Zeldin could be the front runner for the attorney general's job. He's got the president's confidence. He's easily confirmable. At least Republicans believe that, uh, he knows that a run a big organization. He showed that at EPA, where he got an enormous amount of deregulation occurring there. So all eyes on that, uh, most important post in attorney general, we still 15 months in 15 months and do not have. I just want to repeat that 15 months and we do not have a single meaningful prosecution of weaponization in the second Trump administration. That is a

legacy of Pam Bondy. Uh, there are signs that things are getting cranking down in Florida, but the new attorney general is going to get credit for that. Uh, Jason Kenone is the, my US attorney. He's on top of it. It's, um, I, I, a lot of people's eyes are watching to see, is there a decision soon on whether former CIA director John Brennan gets prosecuted. But in the meantime, there's going to be a new boss. I want to step back and look at, uh, the Pam Bondy or just for a second. But before you, let me tell you what show we have today. We got a good one. Congressman Glenn growthman. He's always on the front line of identifying not only a problem in government. That's important when you're an oversight chairman in Congress. He's got a great subcommittee in House Judiciary. Uh, but he also is identifying the solutions. We're going to talk about a couple of things he's doing right now that are very popular and very important to the future. But Congressman Glenn growthman will join us in the first block. We're going to do a four spot tonight. I'm kind of excited about this. In the second block of the show, Leo Zachis, one of

the candidates for California governor Republicans are doing very well in that primary jungle primary. Uh, there's some concern that Democrats might not finish in the top two, which means there'll be no Democrat in the final. They'll finally be a potential Republican. Leo Zachi, though, uh, wants to give us his agenda, his thinking businessman, interesting guy. I think you'll enjoy the conversation. In the third block of the show, one of the FBI's most famous and decorated agents of the last half century Wayne Barnes is here. Wayne Barnes has a brand new book out. It is amazing story about the deep state in an earlier era where he discovered and was close to unraveling the Robert Hansen spy scandal. That's the guy, the agent you turn bad and went to the Soviets and the Russians. But Wayne Barnes ran into, yep, get it, you got it. Deep state resistance. He wrote a whole book on it. It took him seven years to get the approval from the FBI. It is coming out next week. It's a must read book. Wayne Barnes will join us in the third block of the show. And then we'll touch on a little, um, health. I try to give as many health segments a month and as we can, one 20

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of them. Shame on them. It was Glenn growthman that found him and got a solution in place. Today, Tom Holman is finding him by the tens of thousands. He's recovering those children. Leo Zaki, repubbing candidate for governor Wayne Barnes, former FBI agent, and now author of a best selling book. I guarantee this can be a best seller. And then one 20 life, a really great product. And well, we'll talk to one of the co-founders. Now, Pam Bondy's tenure began with a lot of excitement. Now, she was an accidental agent because remember the president originally picked former Florida Congressman Matt Gates, but Matt Gates had a serious ethics problem involving young women and other issues. The report was about to come out. It would be an embarrassment. The president of drop Matt Gates very quickly. And then he turned to someone who had been an attorney general of a large state Florida, Pam Bondy. But Pam Bondy got off the rough start. She started by prompting us, promising us, excuse me, that she had found a whole bunch of new stuff on the Jeff

R. Epstein. It was all old rewashed stuff. The conservative influencers got dragged into that charade. We're angry at that beginning 14 month odyssey, where she couldn't get the Epstein documents out. She couldn't get the story straight on the Epstein documents. She fought with the FBI and she didn't have US attorneys in many places. And the negative side of this is Epstein became a millstone around her neck. And it probably frankly, it was an eye sore for the president, too. The department felt dysfunctional the whole time. She was there in three. She got things in motion. No prosecutions in 15 months. That's stuck. I mean, they tried. Comey got reversed. They tried the New York attorney general, Tish James got reversed. A lot of bad decision making in that process. Now the good side of Pam Bondy's record and something that won't be forgotten is the fact that she in partnership with the FBI director, Cash Patel created one of the quickest fastest downturns of violent crime in America that it's ever, ever been recorded. It really is quite

remarkable. How did they do it? Well, they got cops doing cops working out of politics. They did it by making sure that those of us who the worst offenders, the people who ran the gangs, the leadership infrastructure of the criminal gangs, the criminal cartels, they got taken out real quickly. And then that they couldn't organize violence downstream for them. So there was a strategic approach on this. And I think that that's pretty good. So she has a legacy of success. It's not all bad. But I think we know what finally took her out. And I think the president finally made that decision today. It is what is, by the way, she's a very nice woman. And I have no doubt she was intending to be loyal to the president. I wanted to do a good job at the end of the day. Her record of achievement just wasn't enough to keep her going. I'd keep all your eyes on Lee Zeldin. He's not the only candidate. It's possible that Todd Blanche could get nominated, though I think he

might have a hard time getting confirmed by some of the conservatives in the Senate. Or you know, Harmie Dillon's another one to keep an eye on. She's doing a good job on election integrity and civil liberties at the Justice Department. So we'll see what happens. All right. That is some thoughts. That is the big news of the day. It's hard to find anything else bigger than that. And go check out just the news.com or the just the news apps in the Android and Apple stores. Either way, you're going to get some great news there. I love it. The apps allow you to experience the just the news ecosystem in four dimensions, writing, listening, watching and searching. It's really great. Great apps are very proud of them. All right. We're going to take that quick commercial break. We're one day from Good Friday. All of them thoughts tomorrow. By the way, Congresswoman Tim Birchard will be on the other side of Father Frank Povon. Someone I really look up to in the face base as a Catholic. But before we get to that, a quick shout out to a couple of our great sponsors. The first is American alternative assets. I've noticed a pattern recently.

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across the border without the parents and then the Biden administration laws track up or more recently addressing the epidemic of suicide. He's Congressman Glenn Grossman from the great state of Wisconsin. So good to have you on the show. Glad to be on the show and it was certainly enjoyable to sit there and watch President Trump again, right? They had to play him night at 1030. He would blow away all those so-called those big comedians they have on the other stage. Yeah, that's right. You're right. Yeah, there's no doubt. A lot of news and there's two things that jumped out. The executive order clearly taking a shot at improving these dirty voter rolls at harming Dylan's been doing a great job exposing. And then, too, him wanting to show up the Supreme Court tomorrow and have his face be looked at by the justices as I consider birthright citizenship. Love to get your reaction to those two things. Well, it was good. It's good that President Trump is shining a light on what's going on in the Supreme Court because we all know when that amendment was passed, it was designed to make sure that slaves were children of slaves

were calling it citizens. That was the whole background. There were several amendments passed at the end of the Civil War and they were all designed to address what are we going to do with the people who were formally classified as slaves. And so President Trump is in the right here. And I think he's going to take a great deal of interest. You know, our forefathers, if you would have thought at the time that somebody who come here from France have a baby, get back out of the boat and go back to France, that was an American citizen. That'd be ridiculous. Nobody would have dreamed that. So it's good President Trump is monitoring that. Your other issue there was what? The election integrity order. Yeah, the election integrity. President Trump is 100 percent right. The viciousness, which the Democrats use not to have photo ID or not to care whether people here are citizens or not, they might still walk around with a sign on their head. We want to cheat. I mean, why else? I mean, I have somebody that works

for me for Mexico. They have photo ID in Mexico. What's wrong with doing it like they do in Mexico? But here in America, no, no, no, no, no, we can't have photo ID. I mean, my goodness, why do you object to this? In other countries, they put, you know, a little dot on your hand or whatever when you vote. I mean, we are so kind of Lucy Goosey here in the United States. President Trump is trying to straighten it up. And other people, the only possible explanation for their position, you know, we don't want to crack down. We don't want to make sure people are citizens before they vote. The only explanation for this is they want to take advantage about Lucy Goosey citizen, Lucy Goosey's system and cheat. Yeah. Sir, I, John and I've had the you on the show for years. And I know that you have a heart for children as evidenced by your work on Capitol Hill. So I wanted to get your take on this case, the court struck down a Colorado law, of course, that banned what they refer to as conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors. It was an eight-to-one

decision, Olnick, Atonji, Brown, Jackson, dissented. But it seems to me that despite, despite the fact that this is a 9010 and 8020 issue at least, this is still a lingering issue. Do you think it's going to be something that is still talked about and propels votes in the midterms? I'm afraid so. It is bizarre that the Democrats are so involved in ingratiating themselves to the most extreme members of the LGBT community that they want to have minors. Can you imagine a 14-year-old, a 15-year-old having surgery that can't be turned around for life? I mean, what type of sick doctor would do that? And what type of sick state legislature would allow such things? So it should be brought up not only because we want to do what we can to help these poor people. We don't want to allow some fast-talking doctor to talk them or them and their

parents into lopping off body parts when you're 14 or 15 years old. That's for sure. So you're ruining people's lives. I mean, it also says that people who vote that way are so utterly lacking in common sense. You know, they listen to some stupid psychologists or stupid psychiatrists and says, this is what we have to do. I would hope most Americans have more common sense, but I think particularly on your left wing maybe college professor type people, they say, well this guy, you know, he went to college until he was 28 years old and he thinks it's okay to remove 14-year-old body parts. So we have to go ahead with that. That's just ridiculous. We hope people with a common sense went out and hopefully in the elections people remember which party is the party of common sense and which party is the party of, if some guy hung out around and went to college for 10 years, we'll do anything no matter how stupid he's wants it to be. So you spent a lot of time forcing a conversation about issues that we often try to

sweep under the effort to the fact that the Biden administration lost a track of all these children who came across the border vulnerable without their parents. The Biden administration was supposed to take care of them. You found that they were lost. You got them found in the last year with the work of time home and you've taken on the fraudsters who steal our entitlement money and still want to stay in the country. You think they should be deported. You get that bill passed. You took on another big issue. It's probably one of the hardest we all have a hard time talking about. Mental health, the rise in depression, the rise in suicide. You had a recent round table. This is a really big crisis in America. It hardly talked about. Tell us what went out of that round table and why it's so important to get this issue front and center. Well, you have to look out all of the young people who are getting powerful anti-depressants and these kids are not told that it's very difficult once you take them to get off of them. So you're having 12, 13, 14-year-olds getting powerful drugs that are very, very difficult. You can't just go cold turkey and get off

of these things. We heard testimony from a gal. She began to take these things when she was 14. She didn't get off them until she was 33 or 34 years old and she was a very bright together gal. I mean, if she wasn't so bright, I can imagine people on these things forever and sometimes attempting or actually committing suicide. You take these drugs expecting to be happier and then you wind up being suicidal or kill yourself. It's just heartbreaking. We've got to stand up to the drug companies and educate these young people and their parents. Be careful before you let your kids, even 19 or 20-year-olds. Be careful before you let them take these powerful drugs. God made your body. You don't take powerful drugs and change the way you think about things. That's big trouble. Like I said, I think we should look into it. We didn't bring up the hearing, but I think we should look into people who some of these mass shooters and see how many of them were on

drugs of some nature. It's not natural to want to go out with a gun and kill seven or eight people in a school. I'd like to know how many of these mass shooters are on some type of medications prescribed by our out of control psychiatric profession. Yeah. Devastating, devastating topic. I'm so glad that you're having that conversation. But let's end on something a little bit lighter. Something you and I share. I love for hunting and as sportsmen and women, I suppose. You did something up on Capitol Hill and House Republicans. Did something protecting that important hobby that exists here in this country that can contribute to excited and a billion dollars towards conservation every year. Right. Right. Right. Well, very important. We always have to have opportunity for young people to use all our lands. And in some areas, the number of people who are hunting is decreasing. So we have to do all we can to allow opportunities to go hunting,

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field that a California allows. And it is sort of a jungle primary. And right now Republicans are fearing very well on that primary. And Democrats are worried that their monopoly on the state could suddenly be foiled by their own strategies of having a jungle primary. Joining us right now, one of the Republicans who is doing well running as a four California governor, he comes from a family of very successful business people, four generations in California. They used to run one of the most famous, most famous chicken farms in America. Today he is running to be the state's next governor. His name is Leo Zachini joins us right now. Leo, great to have you on the show. Well, thank you very much, John. I appreciate it. All right. We met a few years ago. I think back at a turning point event, you you've been a great entrepreneur. You have your own major business. Your family had generations of successful business raising chickens at Zachi farms. What tempts you to suddenly say, you know, even though it's a blue state, I'm jumping in as a Republican going to run for California governor. Well, it's my home and my family has been here for over 120 years and the state gave me

and my family everything to become successful. And I witnessed the state change and become destructive and take all of that away from me. I'm not going to run away from this destructive power that's that's overwhelmed the state here. And I'm going to fight for it. I'm going to fight for all the people that live here. And I got to be a part of the California Polter Federation. So I've been to Sacramento. I've been to DC. I've seen how the sausage is made. So to say, and we just need actual people who have a heart and a brain for understanding how this state works and have the business know how to actually achieve success. And that's what I'm bringing to the table. Yeah. So very important to have that dialogue. I think for a long time, Republicans gave up on California. It was the land that gave us Reagan. But it changed quite a bit in the early 2000s. That said, there are some signs that Democrats have worn out some of their welcome. The fraud, the constant budget crises, the policies that make people scratch their

head. And now a significant flight. People are voting with their feet and leaving California. How big an issue is that going to be in the campaign that it's gotten so bad in California. People just are fleeing the state. Well, I mean, that's a big talking point. Every time I go and speak, I always ask the room I'm addressing, you know, who here has thought about leaving or has a as a friend or a family member that's left or is about to leave. And it's almost a hundred percent of the room put their hand up every single time. Over a million people have fled California. And it's definitely something that people are feeling because the economy here is unsustainable for them to have the ability to actually keep them, to not only keep the money they earn, but with what's left be able to survive. So they can't do that. They don't feel safe because crimes are the roof, but that's also because the economy is so bad. And they don't trust the schools. I mean, it's just a whole host of issues here. And that's the thing that the foundational issues in California drives everybody away. Everybody knows what the problems are. The question is, which candidate can actually bring forth a solution? And I don't see that coming

from either side. I'm the only one who can actually articulate clear and concise plans on how we actually not only fix the problems here in California, but actually create additional revenue streams to the state. And I can go into detail with that. My whole plan is to hold every California's hand and walk them through how we end homelessness and how we end and monetize the drought and how we utilize oil and and the cal fire and prevent these fires make the state insurable and affordable all these things. You have a very detailed platform. Anyone who goes to your website, Leozaki.com will see under the vision subcategory a very detailed plan. One of those I want to lean into because I don't think a lot of people outside of California know about this. You have a very provocative way of describing you're going to end the homeless industrial complex. This is a really great thing. There's an industry in California that's designed to keep people homeless so they can keep collecting non-profit in government money. Absolutely. That's what's going on. When you give out billions of dollars and use arbitrary metrics and say like they change

the definition of homeless, right? You can't say homeless there. Unhoused. So their solution is well if you just put a roof over their head essentially. We've cured the unhoused problem. They can pat themselves on the back and add to the tally that look we're doing a good job. But the reality is that they're not providing services or a means to actually get these folks back into society. And so my homeless to home program does that. We get them off the streets by enforcing our vagrancy laws. We give them the ability to learn a job skill while undergoing, excuse me, undergoing mental health and drug rehab treatment. And then you use the money that they would earn from doing these on the job work, whether it's in construction, helping build our water infrastructure for my water abundance project or raising crops or doing sanitation or forced management and wildfire prevention, which all help save us money on the balance sheet and create revenue streams to offset this because anything you want to do in business has to have a means of paying for itself. So you deduct their cost of living and their medical care and all

that from the money they earn, the remaining money which doesn't put them into debt goes into an account. They can't touch until they complete the program. You rebuild their self-esteem, give them a job skill. And when they complete the program, they've got money in the pocket. They're eligible for government assisted housing and anybody hiring them coming out of the program gets attacked the center for doing so. What an amazing idea. What an amazing perversion that what happened in California, by the way, in other blue states is the goal of maintaining the status quo of homelessness is a higher goal than actually getting people the American dream and getting them into homes because some people make a business off of keeping people homeless. It's really remarkable. You have a unique moment in California history. The top two Democrats have some top three Democrats have some significant issues. You got one guy that sold the climate change alarm that a lot of the things have never come true. So a lot of false warnings and boy cry wolf phenomenon. You got another guy who had a relationship with a Chinese spy and then you got a woman who has anger management and perhaps other issues as well.

And right now it seems like the Minnesota fraud scandal which started in the Somali community there. Maybe migrating to California where there's a lot of attention there. Those four things could create a perfect story. Talk about how those are affecting voters in the state in their mood heading into the 26 election. Well that's the thing. I mean nobody's in love with really any of the candidates. I mean that's kind of that's why you're seeing all this polling and all these everybody's under you know during the mid to low teens high single digits if anything right. People don't know who to vote for because their choices are pretty garbage on you know across the board. And the stuff that's going on in Minnesota with the fraud is scratching the surface. I mean I think all that fraud stuff probably originated here in California and then that was just being exported to other places that had these these poorest

legislature in place that would allow for fraud to take place. It definitely started here in California but whether it started here or not but the fact of the matter still stands it's going on here in extreme fashion across a whole spectrum of different industries that people are taking advantage of it whether it's in healthcare or has to do with COVID stuff or child care. I mean you name it the problem is is that it's the absence of accountability you don't have proper auditing in place and you don't have any follow an oversight from the government it's just oh here's the money we're doing a good thing and this this policy of emotions before logic or even emotions in the with the complete absence of of a business logic to monitor where the money is going has made this as bad as it is and so people take advantage of that and then of course the buck gets passed on to we the people the taxpayer and then we're dealt with all the shortcomings that come from it. Yeah that really is the dynamic there's no doubt about a lot of challenges a lot of

pressure points and no one is breaking out and saying huh we're the candidate we we caught the fancy no one's catching that fancy right now I think that that's what makes it so interesting Democrats currently are panic they could see their jungle primary potentially leaving two Republicans in the charge because like nine or ten Democrats maybe more now. Well that won't happen that you'll think they'll clean that right that's well that's I think that's pie in the sky the whole notion that two Republicans are going to make it through because of the jungle primary here it's pie in the sky that's that's not going to happen I actually think that's like a like a voter suppression tactic that the mainstream media is pushing out there and a lot of people buy into it because it sounds really sexy but it's not it's not going to happen um uh there most likely will be one in one and uh it's the at some point the the Democrats will coalesce and rally behind one person it's the it's the high mind mentality of the Democrat party it's

not that all Democrats are bad because there are the thing is is that California is such a mess right and and everybody left or right it doesn't matter like the the you know you might be a Democrat you might be a Republican deep down you're still a regular human who wants the same things you want to go to strong economy you want affordability you want to have safe schools you want to have safe communities you want to have all these wonderful things that we can all agree on the problem is is that we disagree on the methodology on how we get there and neither of the candidates with the exception of me are actually discussing how we bridge that gap how we open these lines of communication and work together because regardless of the party affiliation you're impacted by the decisions made in Sacramento if you're here in California or in D.C. for the rest of the country so we have to actually figure out how to work together because right now it's oh you're a Democrat you're an idiot oh you're a Republican you're a racist and that's the end of the conversation

nobody having dialogue yeah there's no dialogue there's no respect and and nothing gets done and everybody's like why why isn't this working and they just keep throwing you know somebody into the frame like well why didn't that work this time because it's the same it's the same tactic nothing's changed yeah no really remarkable all right so we're what are the issues upon which this ultimately would turn what do you think's gonna happen well with getting people to what's gonna make them vote either way yeah what do you think the ultimate when people go in and pull that lever what's gonna be that question they ask themselves in the back of their mind is it is this the California we want or is there something else that's lingering out there uh I mean it's so many issues I mean I think the vast majority are gonna just it's gonna come down to affordability uh I mean average rent prices in California are like 2850 a month which is insane yeah that's crazy wow yeah and and you know we're getting what is it 13.3 or 13.6% income tax

for the state on top of the 35 from the federal government so you know you're essentially talking about 50% of the money that you earn bond so if you make 100k it's more like 52 now it just the money's not there for people to live in any meaningful manner especially with just the cost of living groceries but it's all because of all the all the extras that tech California slaps on to us right the excise tax the the the inability for businesses to operate here which caused the the prices of fuel and food uh to go up the arbitrary laws that make it difficult the lack of insurance I mean it's a whole host of issues depending on what category of person you are whether you're a homeowner or you're um or you're just you know a regular you know a regular everyday person or a billionaire I mean look at Steven Spielberg moved out uh was the was the the Google guy left all these companies left Yamaha just left in an out left um so yeah it's gonna come down to affordability obviously people that exes also was creating a job

pressure right there's fewer companies to work for right well yeah well that yeah exactly it's a combination right the businesses leave and the people leave so there's nothing really to retain anybody here in California so all these other states get population booms and and problem is is you know people they don't they don't change their voting habits when they leave that's right yeah they they just export them yeah right but that's but it's kind of part of the design for everything but yeah you probably write the whole another uh that's that's a whole we get there's a lot to discuss in this category yeah well you you're having that discussion I mean like I said one of the most substantive uh policy sites I've seen for candidate in a long time you've got very detailed information lots of video uh to make it easy if you're a visual consumer there's also great um great uh you know text policy so people could really dig in and see where you stand on the big issues that are probably going to be the forefront of this very important and maybe surprising elections can be very interesting to see what how it all plays out um it's always a

ton of fun Leo to be with you for folks listening who might be hearing maybe they're not even in California but say I like this guy how do they check it how do they get involved well I mean if you're not in California I mean the best thing to do is obviously share my content that always helps but you know I can't do it alone I've I've put in about a million of my own dollars into this race so uh you know any anything helps you know it really makes a difference uh helping me get more visibility uh that's what it's about if you or a loved one is in California or you have business in California or hell you just love this place and want to see this country come back to normal sea and sanity we have to say it California I'm here to do that this isn't a left and right thing anymore I think everybody's disillusioned with that so please go to my website Leozaki.com or Leozaki for governor.com and uh make a contribution it would mean a lot and uh share my stuff yeah and check out the um the vision page it really is a very interesting very detailed um agenda

app which is I think people like ideas yeah well that's they want to hear something new right because anybody can get out there and say oh this is wrong we got to change it this is bad we got to fix it they never tell you how and the millennials and Gen Z we we've woken up to that we want to know how you do it saying it you know and having these you know great buzzwords that everybody hooks on to doesn't work and I think even all you out there listening know that it's like great how do we actually accomplish the goal so that's what I'm here to do and then you can go to uh Instagram and x at leo f zacky and uh follow me there for your content as well definitely no doubt about it Leo let's get John again uh love having the conversation love meeting you every time we're together lots of energy lots of ideas it's going to be a fun election year in 2026 good to have you on thanks John appreciate it yeah thank you so much yeah thanks for the time that was great all right folks don't go any that was a good conversation was it when we come back from the commercial break the former FBI agent Wayne Barnes

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percent off one more time that's the promo code just news at light stem STIM dot com welcome back everybody you've heard us talk plenty about the deep state but it's actually not a new phenomenon deception even amongst America's own intelligence and law enforcement agencies goes back a very long way for example we know how an account from an FBI counterintelligence agent who was recruited to find a Russian mole inside the bureau however when he found the mole FBI leadership buried it so why would they do that well we're going to ask that counterintelligence agent himself joining us now to put this in perspective is a former FBI counterintell agent and author of the book a trader in the FBI Wayne Barnes Wayne thank you so much for being with us my pleasure it's good to see you absolutely you know I think for a lot of our audience they let's just say the FBI has suffered some damage because of corruption within its ranks were you surprised when this happened and could things like this still be happening well it's some more

complicated story than then well it was in 1998 it's the end of the Cold War and all the along when people are now talking about it as the Hansen case we did not know what was Robert Hansen we just had an unknown subject who we had learned what there was a Soviet coming to the US former Soviet official who knew the identity of the unknown subject in the FBI and the goal was to try to recruit him he was going to a film festival in Santa Monica I was given the assignment to go there find him meet him befriend him recruit him and then show him photos of a dozen senior FBI agents who were suspected any of one who was suspected of being the trader in the FBI giving our secrets to the Russians they're turned out to be Robert Hansen but the fellow I was involved with did actually point out a photo but then the goal in the FBI is not just do I know the identity but it is to find someone catch them in the act of blessing passing classified documents and that was the goal that's one thing they made it take so long amazing why you're doing that

you're starting to get a beat on the subject and you run into some pretty serious well what we say interference tell us what happened in the case itself trying to find him and meet him or or later on in publishing they book well for I want to get to later publishing the book but first as you were trying to sell the case the the brass got cold feet didn't they yeah it was difficult um in 98 I had been in San Diego for eight years I had been previously in the Washington field officer 18 years so I did a lot of counterintelligence work against Russians and all the eastern block countries and I recruited individuals so when it was learned that there was a trader in the FBI the question is who they would spend send to go to try to recruit a Russian who could identify him because everybody in the FBI at that point was a suspect including me but it's a turns out because I arrived in San Diego in 1990 and the trader was active in 92 and 93 I wasn't the bad guy so three agents flew out there literally under cover of darkness on a

Tuesday afternoon telling me don't tell anyone else in the the field office not in your wife no one at all what we're doing that we're here at all and we want you to go to the film festival and read this man and try to recruit him and when a Soviet official is assigned to DC in their embassy for four years it's almost impossible to recruit them but so I asked how long I had this and the festival was eight days long so this said you have eight days so Tom Cruise had his mission of possible movies but his missions were jumping out of airplanes and scaling buildings but they were physical obstacle I I however had a psychological obstacle the Soviets believed there were two super powers that they were the member of the best superpowers so why would that guy want to talk to me so it took all of the profiling I attribute part of this to my old friend John Douglas who did profiling in the criminal field with serial murderers and the like and we also use the same kind of profiling kind of intelligence but ours was all classified so it wouldn't have made it into the public sphere but it was the same way what would it take to have the man agree to talk to

someone from the FBI and that in therein lies the the the big difficulty we had to surmount but it worked out well in the end wait very quickly we've just got about 30 seconds left talk to us about the pushback that you've gotten and actually getting this book out yeah well do have any kind of a book published whether it's poetry or fly fishing west Virginia you have to send it through the pre-publication review unit at at in in Washington and they had never had a book submitted to them which was a nonfiction counter intelligence book and I was the first one who did that if you want to write about one big drug case you're hadn't destroyed or kidnapping in Tampa you know have at it but this was all within considered sources and methods and it took me seven years I sent it to them in threesau in 2016 they have 40 to five days to review a book three years later it came back to me completely redacted I flew to Washington three times to argue out and finally after a full seven years they released it hey folks one more good one to go I helped

discussion with one of the co-founders in one twenty life a super free drink that's part of my everyday health routine now have that next welcome back everybody high blood pressure doesn't always feel urgent until you or someone you know is affected we are going to look at how to lower your blood pressure in as little as two weeks so what's the secret well joining us to discuss this is co-founder of one twenty life Susan Shafter Susan great to see you great to see you Amanda thank you for having me thank you absolutely we love this company we've actually had your co-founder Ira on the show as well talk to us about your involvement with one twenty life how did you get involved sure I like this story um Ira and I grew up with each other we grew up in Brooklyn around the corner from each other and we went to junior high school and high school together um and you know his his dad died at the seven from cardiovascular disease and I were really

kept on top of his cardiac you know health his cardiac health and one of the times he went to the doctor to the cardiologist cardiologist said to him your blood pressure is so high it is urgent that you get it down in three weeks or you're going to have to have open heart surgery because he had another issue there as well and Ira took really looked into different things that were found in nature natural things that could help and he put some things together and he called me up because I'm a nutritionist I'm a registered dietitian with a master's nutrition and clinical dietetics and nutrition and he said what do you think of this what do you think of that you know and I said that sounds good that sounds good I want to add this to it and let me take a deeper dive and found all of these study we both did found all of these studies that showed these different things that are found in nature actually work by a similar mechanism

to some of the anti-hypertensive medications that are out there so put it all together and after we got it together after five days of him using it his blood pressure came down 30 to 40 points he didn't need the surgery and his cardiologist is on our board wow that is amazing yeah amazing I had my own personal experience I had suffered from my blood pressure I take my blood pressure pills I'm pretty good controlled but I've been able to wean almost eight points off my bottom number in the six months since I started taking 120 life it's really impressive I think a lot of people don't understand that the ingredients in this drink also have many other benefits the pomegranate is good for the prostate and there's cholesterol low in capabilities this drink even though it's primary purpose to bring your blood pressure down it has a lot of ancillary benefits as well yes what I say about it is it has good side effects so you know yes all the things you said it's also highly anti-inflammatory and in addition there is even

something in one of the ingredients that lowers an inflammatory a cardiac inflammatory marker called c-reactive protein and it can also be helpful with cholesterol and without without damaging the the effect of the good cholesterol we have so it has so many good side effects and of course getting your blood pressure under control has so many wonderful things to it not only reducing your risk of cardiac disease and stroke you know it also helps reduce your your chances of dementia bringing blood pressure down helps reduce your chances of dementia it helps a lot of people with high blood pressure get sexual dysfunction it also I'm forgetting some of the other things but it will come to me but it it can you know it could also affect your kidneys it can also affect your eyesight all of these things can be affected by blood pressure and so you want to get it under

control and it's nice to have something that has good side effects no doubt about it Susan this company's been around for I think almost 10 years at this point so before the maha movement you've got to be absolutely relieved to see that so many Americans are starting to seek out things like 120 life instead of spending a life on on pharmaceuticals I really yes really am it's been about I think it's around eight years but it hasn't been on the market for eight years and but we started working on it and all the other things about eight years ago but so delighted because it's it's real it's all real ingredients I say it's nature's pharmacy and you know it's a wonderful thing at that with the good side effects yeah it's it's great yeah with the maha yeah preceded the maha movement which is also trying to get people away from fake things right so yeah

yeah no it's so important all right I already have some of my favorite recipes I sometimes will mix the super fruit drink with with a little fizzy drink and make it myself a cocktail it's really kind of fun while quickly do people start to see an impact I started to see a little bit of downward trying to my butt pressure like in four or five days but what's the norm for people you you see results within the first two weeks and if you don't see results we fully refund your money no questions asked and I will also say that most of our sales are subscription and that says a lot absolutely yeah people are in for the long haul that's right yeah we're all signed up for that yeah of course yeah it's really it really and it makes us you know makes me makes ira and everyone else in the company feel really good that we're helping people you know it just feels good to do that all right folks at wraps up our Thursday edition of John Solomon reports

a podcast from just the news a big thank you to congressman gun growthman Leo zaki Wayne Barnes and our good friends at 120 life back tomorrow good Friday conversations with Tim Berger Michael Watley father Frank the vote and David Bazzale I'll have that tomorrow until then God bless him have a great night

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