2:06:39 there's a lot of people that are saying. Here we are months and months later, and they're quote still just redacting. Now does that mean maybe they're going to give it to somebody now to investigate? Because as you said, you guys don't act autonomously. You don't act alone. You've got to be directed so unpack exactly what you're saying, what your sources are telling you. And what their concerns are and then what the right process would would be and what we as the public should think the and when family comes over for Easter, everybody's asking me, we want the Epstein. Where is it? We and I'm saying, OK, we want that too. We want the 300,000 missing kids. We want that, but just on the Epstein alone, because that's the you know that's something people are got a focus on. They understand it. Recap and flesh out exactly what you're saying and your concerns. All my concerns are that we're going to see nothing. That's my big concern and my concern is that the that the machine is working slowly on purpose because the attention span of the American people they think they can manipulate it.
2:07:35 and they're chasing headlines. So, they're going after the 764 thing that you heard. I'm told that wasn't even done by the people that do child sex trafficking. It's actually being done by the JTTF, the Joint Terrorism Task Force. And you know who the Joint Terrorism Task Force is? That's the group of people they use to do the foot-shoulder work of the regime. That means like, whatever the current thing is, that's what you put the JTTF on. If that means it's going after Catholics or parents at school boards, or if it's J6ers, or if it turns out to be this, they're chasing these headlines. So that's the storm troopers. Yeah, they're the ones that just do what like they're like utility infielders. They just get to play whatever position needs to be done. So okay, great. Why are they not going after kids? Why are we not seeing that scene stuff? I heard and this is troubling to me as well. You've got guys like Bongino who are now number two in the in the in the administration or in number two in the in the FBI.
2:08:21 He can't go out and talk frankly. So he's got his, his buddies from his old podcast and his radio show. And they're saying the new Bon Gino rules, we have to wait six to eight months. That's the, that tells me I'm waiting long enough that you're going to forget about it. That's what it tells me. Alex that says, just ignore it long enough. We're just going to string you along. What it means is they want narrative control. Right, we want to string you along and we want to tell you what we want to focus on. Let us show you what we did with this restored justice. Let us show you what... The problem is, is, you know, they're highlighting like drug busts. The FBI does drug busts every single day. They don't highlight it. People were talking about how they rescued kids. They did it under the Biden administration too. Every single freaking director that you can remember going back. Mueller, they have... There's press releases of them grabbing child sex traffickers. Okay, so why would she raid the FBI?
2:09:04 New York office and have that guy resign, who I think should be indicted for covering it up. Why would you give it to the field offices if you're then not going to do it? So the field office piece, and maybe this was misunderstood or maybe misconstrued, but like the people that I heard seeing this in the field office, I think it was made available to them on accident. They weren't actually tasked with doing anything with it. It was just there. It's like if you went to your computer and you said, hey, I'm looking for a printer, I'm looking for other items on the network. Oh, by the way, here's a bunch of Epstein files. What do you do with that if you're an FBI agent? You don't have autonomous authority to go out there and open cases. So unless somebody tasks you from headquarters, because that's where these files are being redacted apparently, that's what the headquarters guys told me that, if they're looking at it, until those quote unquote leads, that's what they're called, it's an official request for you to go and investigate this topic, until those are sent to you in the field, you're not going to do anything with it. So it's like, okay cool, just like what I was trying to tell you before the break,
2:09:55 I had guys stand in the office with me and my boss, March 2022, watching Hunter Biden laptop videos. The stuff that we've all seen. Him in the sensory depot chamber. Him lighting crack rocks up. Him trying to talk to a prostitute or whatever. And he didn't know what it was. FBI agents, I have found, and that's not an indictment of them, I think they're just focused on things like a lot of Americans are, they are utterly uninformed about what's happening nationally to the point where guys work in national security in New Mexico with me who are decent human beings, smart guys, good shooters, cool to hang out with, nice guys to have a beer, didn't know that there was a Hunter Biden laptop story in October of 2020, and they didn't know it through 21 or in 22 when I talked to him about it, they were like, is this new?
2:10:36 They just are unaware. So they might not even know what the news headlines are asking for the Epstein files. There's a decent chance if you grabbed a random FBI agent, they wouldn't even know that this is something that's going on. Well, that's what I think happened with O'Keefe because I don't think he knew Pam Bondi had been on the news after you and others on the show exposed that. and that she'd been out saying hundreds of victims, thousands of files, and we've sent it out to the offices to investigate. I think when he got that undercover video of her basically saying stuff she'd already said, I think he probably really thought that was new. I think the danger is, is I'm in the undersell overdeliver business because I used to be in sales, so I understand what that looks like. If you're in the theatrics business, then you're in the oversell and potentially underdeliver, and then people look at you and say it's a nothing burger, when maybe it's somewhat nuanced and maybe there's some news there.
2:11:24 But the problem is, if you go out there and tell people that everything is going to be bigger than it ever has been before, something new has happened that's never happened, and people go like, well... Yeah, it is not new. Like every person that reached out to me from the bureau said you realize that the Kash Patel press conference about how we're now focusing on kids is something we do every single year. And I went yeah, I remember that. And they go it's Operation Cross Country 1, 2, 3, up to 12. Okay, but Trump keeps saying in press conferences he wants it out, he wants it released and I believe that. So what does he need to tell Kash Patel to do? They need to get rid of the people that are stopping them on the inside. Again, you're talking about a bunch of satellite offices that have the ability to do a lot of things on fire. Okay, well you're talking to the deputy director, Bongino, Secret Service, smart guy. All right, you want the plan? I had the plan. Maybe he doesn't know exactly how all that works, so you did it. Why don't you explain it to him? Okay, this was the plan. This is actually what we laid out for Kash Patel. I said you should take every person that's a GS-15, that's going to be an assistant special agent in charge,
2:12:20 You should put them all in an acting role. They are now temporarily in charge of your field offices. You want every single SES person that worked under the Biden administration, all of them, every single person promoted there now no longer does that job, period. You're gonna lose some decent people in there too probably, it doesn't matter. Every single one of them has the opportunity to either retire or they have to go work in Puerto Rico, because we're gonna get them out of the United States. We need to move them to a territory where they can't screw with what- And what do those guys do? Nothing. from here on out. They don't get to do anything. But what's the problem? Oh, the problem is, is because all of those people have independent little fiefdoms and they all want to have plausible deniability on why they can't fix the problem. What they do, the FBI is a factory of no's. It's a bunch of people, this is the way we've always done it, Alex, we can't do anything new. How can we need to go and kick doors down at 0600 because we've always done it that way? Well, why don't we just grab them on surveillance so we don't get shot? Why don't we grab them when we see them pumping gas when they're not looking around? We've never done that before, so we're not going to do it.
2:13:09 You've got institutional knowledge that is basically interested in the way business has always been. going all the way back to Hoover. That's like the local police in Waco or the ATF. The local police are like, he works in town every day, grab him there. They're like, no, we're gonna go shoot the building up. Because it's splashy, because it worked once. Yeah, all of the bad ideas that have always been there, they're always still there. And all the people that got promoted, if you look at the senior executive service for the FBI, if you go in and find anybody that's what's called senior executive service, SES, this is your quote unquote deep state, your administrative state. Nobody there has more than six years of investigative experience. They have the same amount of time working the job that I did. And then they're all in senior management roles. Now they went to a management role where they worked at a squad, then they went to headquarters and worked in a management role, then they worked back in the field office of management, and they ping-ponged their way- And a librarian, a homosexual librarian set up the FBI back in the 20- and so all of this flows out of that.
2:14:02 It's the craziest thing is that you have people that have not been near a case in 15 years are the ones that are making the most serious decisions about this. They're describing the tactics. What I always said was if you wanted to have the best people out there, and this is my recommendation to Dan Bongino straight away, go out and query every single one of your field offices. I've told this to a dozen FBI agents, by the way, they think this is a great idea. Query the field offices, find your top GS13, that's your frontline agents, find your top three or five agents in every single major threat criminal cyber counterterrorism and counterintelligence. Take your top three to five from every field office. Now you have a pool of your best brick agents. Then go get your supervisors, the GS 14 level. These are the people that supervise the squad. They're the closest to the actual work and they manage the caseload. Get those get top three or four out of every single field office. You don't have to do it by threat. Make sure they all have between four and seven years
2:14:52 Go out there and check their climate survey, see how people like working for them. If they are good bosses, good managers, and they want to be near the cases, those are the people that should be running the FBI. And you take the hourglass, which is basically bottom heavy, you flip it upside down, and everybody that's currently managing right now that hasn't been near a case in a decade or two... Get rid of them. Why do you need them? They're the people that were moving the status quo for as long as they have. If you want to change- Yeah, that's how you purge- You're talking about how we purge the FBI. You have to gut the culture there. And then you can have the people that are closest and most passionate about doing that work. You take a guy that says, I'm 17 years into my FBI 20. I'm going to retire at 20 years. I'm 17 years in and I'm still working cases trying to go after child sex traffickers. I want that guy in charge of the program.
2:15:33 Because he cares enough to do the actual work. He doesn't want to be a manager. We're going to ask you for the needs of the Bureau because the country needs you to step forward, step out of the front line and manage the problem at a bigger level. If you ask those people to do it, they'll do it. They don't want to do it though because they know that once you get into management, you basically get to just write your, you brief it for 18 months, you tell people you're going to do change, you do almost nothing, you put one little line on your resume and you go to the next job. It's the same bureaucratic thing that has the FAA collapsing and our airports might close. Every federal agency does this. They're all the same, man. I'm just telling you like it's so crazy. Well, it's like Social Security in a mine and they didn't want to change that. Because we've always done it that way, Alex. Why would we change it?
2:16:12 That's why, oh it'd be too hard, we'd have to get a study and we'd have to ask some consultants, we'd have to spend some money and we didn't budget it this year. Like it's all crap excuses. It's the same reason when you FOIAed, you got one piece of paper. Because the goal of government is to say no and to just keep that money and that responsibility up in the air. When I went and put my whistleblower complaints forward, I got investigated by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility. They kicked it over to the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General, who kicked it over to the Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management, who said no. It just goes in this circle until eventually you get worn out. And there's guys like you that don't get worn out. Meanwhile, we're up against the Communist Chinese. Who never get worn out. to