John Guandolo

briefing a very small select group of people with my colleague from the DOD.

And I'm told you should be there.

And he laughed and he's like, am I under investigation or something?

He actually tells this book, this story in his book.

But he shows up.

Steve Coghlan and I brief him on the Islamic threat, on the Muslim Brotherhood, and on beyond the Muslim Brotherhood, the Iranians, the Diobandis, the whole Islamic network in the United States.

And Rich is, to your question, Rich had the ability to take that, put that into practice strategically, operationally, and tactically, and was able to do things inside the DOD that

were very successful.

And he, as you know, he became in the last Trump administration, the director of strategic planning for the National Security Council.

He passed away.

It's a great loss, not only of a great friend of ours, but of somebody who could have been a real leader in the nation today.

But we pick up that mantle and we carry it on.

Yeah, there were two shock points for me.

One is as I was doing these investigations and came to see that all of the prominent Islamic organizations in the United States were involved in these cases, the FBI and others, other agencies had open Hamas cases, Al Qaeda cases, and they were directly tied into them, the leadership, both domestically and overseas.

And so what was first shocking to me was that piece of it.

But then to see, when you see that the guy, Abdurakhman Alamoudi, who was the

Islamic advisor to President Clinton for eight years was the largest Al-Qaeda fundraiser in the United States.

When we saw that, you know, guys like Gumarad Kalimov was an ISIS commander and the State Department trained him five times in the United States on weapons and tactics training.

When you see guys like Mohammed Majid, who's one of the senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the United States and North America, serving inside, you know, the

uh, Bush administration inside the Obama administration, having meetings with the president, uh, you know, offering prayers at Mr. Trump's, uh, inaugural prayer session at the national cathedral serving under the, uh, Biden administration on the, you know, commission for religious Liberty, uh, getting, uh, FBI director awards, um,