Chapter 1: What is the primal scream of a dying regime?
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Chapter 2: How is the media influencing public perception?
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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It's Thursday, 30 October, Year of Our Lord 2025. We've got a cold open. I've got Dave Bratwright and Shotgun. We're going to have Josh Hawley here, Cleo Pascal. We're packed this morning, as usual. I want to start off, though, I've got a few minutes with John Solomon.
John, Arctic Frost, the dump that came out the other day, Grassley, the Senate's now fully engaged, and Jim Jordan over the House is going absolutely ballistic on this. I think this is the biggest scandal I've ever seen in American political history. Your thoughts, sir?
Yeah, I think we're getting there. I think this could be one of the greatest civil liberty violations in American history under the color of government authority. You've got a predicate that's open that, according to the FBI agents I showed to, the experts, the prosecutors, it doesn't meet the standard. It's basically there's no evidence. The evidence is, oh, Steve, you were on CNN.
That was the evidence for literally opening the investigation. They're trying to criminalize in this memo when they open it up in April of 2022, 15 months after January 6th, in just four days after Donald Trump has announced he's going to run for reelection. And I think that's really important.
This investigation, if you thought what happened on January 6th with the electors was bad, you could have done it on the 7th or the 8th or 9th of 2021. They wait a whole year until Donald Trump raises his hand and says, I'm getting back in the arena. I'm running for 2024. And they open up. electronic communication that every expert I talk to says is thin, doesn't meet the rules.
Then they try to say the crime is by some people offering alternate electors to the Senate. That is a criminal conspiracy. If you're going to do that, the FBI has an obligation to go back and look at how alternate electors were done in the past. They don't do that. They ignore the fact that in 1876 and in 1960, alternate electors were submitted to the Senate twice. Nobody got prosecuted.
Nobody thought it was a crime back then. Oh, by the way, in both of those cases, it was Democrat candidates who were doing it. So they ignore the precedent, and they just simply open up, and then they just go fishing. I call this a MAGA dragnet. 400-plus Republicans and their groups are targeted, eight senators, one House member.
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Chapter 3: What significant political scandal is being discussed?
Here's the news I want to give you. I just got off of the phone with some senior law enforcement officials. The FBI is internally now investigating some of its own personnel for their conduct in Arctic Frost, meaning they're looking at the possibility of their own agents engaged in criminality by opening up this investigation or conducting or doing things in the investigations.
The entire unit that ran this has been dismantled. Most every agent that played a role in this has been fired. This is unlike the FBI in the past, which would just sweep things under the rug and say, nothing to look here. There is accountability internally going on.
And if the FBI refers people for prosecution, Pam Bondi will be able to do to maybe people who committed crimes here what she's now done. for James Comey and John Bolton and Letitia James. And I suspect with the referral that happened earlier this week, John Brennan could be someone who's facing an indictment soon as well. So you're getting an accountability lens, which never happened before.
in the first Trump administration. People got away with all sorts of crimes in the first Trump administration. No one really got anything more than a slap on the wrist. This time, you're starting to see real accountability, firings, criminal investigations, prosecutions. So this looks a little different than the frustrated storyline you and I've covered for the last 10 years.
John, is there a realization now, because this began, I believe, with a whistleblower coming forward with the situation about the senators. Is Cash and Bondi and Todd Blanch and others... Have they come to the realization that this is systemic? This is just not bad apples and that there's a deep festering problem of cultural.
This is the way the cultural and institution, these institutions have been warped. So it's beyond now even just we have to have accountability individuals that has to happen or this is a joke. But now this is this is systemic and you've got to go in and break that culture and start taking it apart piece by piece.
Yeah, absolutely. In the interview I did with Kash Patel 10 days ago, he said, listen, we are stamping out the notion that the FBI settles political scores or that they go after their political enemies. You only see the crime and the evidence. You don't look at the person or the political affiliation. And we are reorienting a large organization. Now, I want to give you a little timetable on this.
I know Grassi mentioned the whistleblowers. It makes it look like Chuck Grassi broke this whole story. Kash Patel first found these documents back in March. They're part of the grand conspiracy case. Remember, you and I have been talking about that. The documents that just were made public because they go through a review process, and that process is always really slow at the Justice Department.
They were in the Justice Department's hands in spring and summer. So the Justice Department has been looking at this for some time. We just didn't know about it until it became public. There is a real turning over. And I think the big thing that's going to happen, Steve, I think the U.S.
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Chapter 4: How is the FBI's conduct under scrutiny?
attorney in Miami is going to be made the key prosecutor. And this whole case is going to move down. And Jack Smith's final actions in Florida are going to move the case to Florida. And then we're going to go all the way back to maybe as early as 2014 in the IRS and look at this as one large case.
grand conspiracy case to misuse the power of the FBI and the Justice Department to go after MAGA Nation. This is a MAGA dragnet. That's what you see here. And, you know, one FBI official I talked to today said what they did, they took a boat into the ocean and they were towing to find any license plate they could tag on Donald Trump's car. They were simply looking for anything.
You don't do criminal investigations that way. You have to have a reason to look at Americans. That didn't happen here, according to the people who've reviewed this evidence.
You've been on top of this more than others. Directionally, because they put out another 2,000 pages, I think, last night or the night before. Yeah. Where is this investigation going to go, and what are the next, you believe, major reveals we're going to see?
I think some of the people who were part of Arctic Frost are going to get both congressional and grand jury subpoenas. People will be hauled before the court and forced to answer. And I want to remind people something that Jim Jordan said on our show last night. Jack Smith's two top deputies have taken the Fifth Amendment, have taken the Fifth Amendment.
Prosecutors have taken the Fifth Amendment about what they did in this case. What does that mean? They think they may have engaged in criminality. You can't take the Fifth Amendment if you don't think you have criminal liability. That is a stunning thing. We don't normally see prosecutors and FBI agents saying, I'm taking the fifth. You know something serious is here.
And I think what's going on now is that people are starting to get grand jury subpoenas. I've been talking to defense lawyers. There was about 20 or 30 that have gone out in the last couple of weeks. The big conspiracy is now being put together. Now, whether a grand jury indicts, whether you get convictions, we'll see. But they're looking at a decade as one criminal machine that the
Comey, McGarland, Jack Smith era was an ongoing criminal enterprise like a mob or mafia or drug kingpin. And the crimes were violating innocent American civil liberties to try to score a political score in politics. That is so extraordinary. I don't think I ever would have uttered those words, ever thought I would utter those words as a journalist. That's what went on here.
You're saying that even as much emphasis as we do, you and the Warren put on Papadopoulos and Crossfire Hurricane and the Honeypot, you know, with Stephen Halford, all that, the Cambridge crowd, in the spring of 15, you're actually saying, hey, folks, I think they may go back even before that and start rolling this thing up. This thing could look like 10 years, a decade or more.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Arctic Frost investigation?
This isn't FBI work. This is political opposition work. When people who wore the badge for 40 years start saying that about their old agency, you know something bad is rotten in Denmark.
One of the issues we've had is that, you know, Cash has got a couple of people over the FBI. Pam is holding on by our fingertips. She's got, you know, at Maine Justice, she's got some of her top people. Is the manpower issue about just enough prosecutors? You've got Halligan, you know, she's doing a bunch. But is this I know the Miami is talking about a grand jury in January.
But is there at Maine Justice a problem that we still don't have just enough prosecutors? senior level bodies that are senior prosecutors because this case is going to have enormous complexity. It's going to have to have a massive team. Do you think we've got the manpower because we are burning daylight? Do you feel that we're making strides in the manpower issue?
You and I talked candidly about this three weeks ago. I think we got the Justice Department's attention. I heard a lot after I made that appearance on your show, which shows how many people watch your show every day. There is a ramping up of hiring and of really skilled people. They're bringing some retired FBI agents back to come back on contracts. They're bringing former prosecutors back.
They are staffing up. And I think they're actually now ready for that process. And I think when they hit that January grant, by the way, there are grand juries right now gathering the evidence that will get shifted to Florida in January. But there's a lot of activity that wasn't going on three, four weeks ago. And I actually think the conversation you and I had on your show had a profound effect.
And that's why we do these things, what we do. But it's ramping up now. We're going to keep a close eye on it. We always got to keep a distrustful eye on government. But I do think that we're seeing the sort of investigation that we wanted for 10 years.
John, you're breaking stuff all the time. You got the show that follows us here on Real America's Voice at 6. But how do people keep up with this? Because you and the Just the News team are putting out updates and articles and analysis, breaking news and analysis and observations all the time. So what are all your coordinates?
Because I know the audience, this is a top priority for the war in passing.
First, we're grateful that we get to work with you every day. JusttheNews.com is the website where all the stories are. I think we had 13 stories on this yesterday. Jay Solomon Reports is the fastest way to follow us on all social media platforms.
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Chapter 6: How is accountability being addressed within the FBI?
And so this oversight work is huge. And the American people are rightly restless because they want to see action coming back onto their streets. But you first have to have the rule of law in order before that can happen. So Trump's in a, you know, he was left a terrible shape. He's fixing this stuff systematically.
And eventually it's going to show up for the base and for the American citizen at home in their cities and across the country.
Dave Bratz riding shotgun with me this morning. We're going to pivot now to this, quite frankly, this trip, historic trip. But the meeting, if you were with us last night from 10 p.m. to about 1 in the morning, you saw it live. We're going to break it all down. Cleo Pascal is going to join us. Dave Bratz riding shotgun. We're going to take a short commercial break. Markets are turbulent.
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Chapter 7: What are the geopolitical stakes in the Pacific?
What will your new tariff rate on China's goods be once you sign a deal? Tariffs have been exactly the same. Fifty-five percent? It's about, no, it was 57. Now it's 47. Because we reduced it by the veteran. because I believe they are really taking strong action. We've already seen the action on fentanyl, and they're taking very strong action. So reduce to 10%.
So that November date is gone when it was going to go up again? Yeah. Okay. That's a threat on fentanyl. What we've done throughout this trade war is we've basically gone back to the status quo ante, right? And I think from Beijing's perspective, that's a win.
I think part of what's troubling about the approach to these trade negotiations is that we are not focusing on the big strategic trade and macroeconomic issues that ostensibly animated this trade war in the first place. Instead, I think what Beijing has done successfullyā Well, what are those issues?
I think things that are longstanding concerns, China's non-market unfair trade practices, the trade imbalances that President Trump in particular seemed quite concerned about, we are not really addressing those.
I think instead what Beijing has done has orchestrated a game of whack-a-mole for the Trump administration, where we are focused on relatively narrow issues like soybeans, like TikTok that are either sector-specific or firm-specific. Right.
The other thing that I think is missing in this approach, too, is that their approach to China is suffering from what I call trade myopia or trade and tech myopia. These are the two issues that we are really focused on in these discussions.
And what's omitted from these discussions then are some of the bigger strategic issues that are at play in the relationship, such as China's coercive activities in the South China Sea. Or it's striking that the president mentioned that Taiwan didn't come up at all. Yeah. So let's follow up on that.
Like, if that's indeed the case, that would mean that Xi Jinping didn't say, hey, we're going to take Taiwan. That's good. But it also perhaps means that President Trump didn't offer any sort of warning either. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Because it's not that you don't want the two sides to talk about this issue. It's that you want the U.S.
to send a signal of consistency and reaffirm our longstanding policies on Taiwan. Going into this meeting, of course, there was a lot of concern that Taiwan, that they could be part of the negotiations and that President Trump could change our longstanding policy. So it's good that that didn't happen, but you don't necessarily want to omit it altogether from the conversation.
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Chapter 8: How does American sovereignty relate to Pacific power?
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It looks like, and it's kind of confusing, they're going to get into a discussion with Jensen Wang, which I told you some before, had the story last night that the company is now $5 trillion. Jensen would be both, I guess, the richest guy in the world and the most powerful combination. And he's an agent of influence for the Chinese Communist Party. It's not me saying that.
Just listen to him on this Fareed Zakaria interview.
uh so he's going to be in discussions but we're not some the blackwell chair parade that looks like this the super advanced ships what they need for ai also there was no discussion of taiwan which we were told in advance that she was adamant about particularly since she just purged the military that he's got to have a framework for us backing off the defense of taiwan and then i guess most importantly
This situation where they kind of had us because the globalists sold all of our processing capability a decade ago that they're going to continue to ship us rare earths, particularly the magnets and the other things we need for full production lines up in Detroit and other places. Your assessment, ma'am.
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