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

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Holy Thursday of Holy Week as we head into the Extraordinary Easter Weekend, or if you're Jewish, we're celebrating Passover right now. I'm a Catholic, as you know, and a Christian, and this is one of my favorite weekends of the year for family and renewal and spring. But news goes on even in the midst of this Holy Week and today there was a bombshell. Probably not a surprise for a lot of us who have covered the Justice Department the last 15 months, but Pam Bondi was fired today by President Trump as the Attorney General. She's out, she's gone. Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General, won't 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, current EPA administrator, longtime friend of mine, 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. You know, he's had a run of big organization. He showed that at EPA, where he got an enormous amount of deregulation occurring there. So all eyes on that most important post, Attorney General. We still, 15 months in, 15 months in, do not have. I just want to repeat that. 15 months in, we do not have a single, meaningful prosecution of weaponization in the second Trump administration. That is a legacy of Pam Bondi. There are signs that things are getting cranking down in Florida, but the new Attorney General is gonna get credit for that. Jason Kanone is the Miami U.S. Attorney. He's on top of it. 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 gonna be a new boss. I'm gonna step back and look at the Pam Bondi, or just for a second, but before I do, let me tell you what show we have today. We got a good one, Congressman Glenn Grossman. 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, but he also is identifying the solutions. We're gonna talk about a couple things he's doing right now that are very popular and very important to the future. But Congressman Glenn Grossman will join us in the first block. We're gonna do a four spot tonight. I'm kind of excited about this. In the second block of the show, Leo Zachey is one of the candidates for California Governor, Republicans are doing very well in that primary, jungle primary. There's some concern that Democrats might not finish in the top two, which means there'll be no Democrat in the final, there'll finally be a potential Republican. Leo Zachey though, 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 is 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 who turned bad and went to the Soviets and the Russians. But Wayne Barnes ran into, yep, you got it, deep state resistance. He wrote a whole book out. 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 health. I try to get as many health segments a month and as we can, 120 life has been, it's a super free drink. It takes natural ingredients that can naturally lower your blood pressure and it helps lower your blood pressure. I brought my bottom number out, which is my resting number. That's the number that has more impact on your body than even the top number. And I brought down about seven, almost eight points on average now over a three month, four month period. 120 life, I just take one drink a night. I sometimes mix it with things like, I like to put it in a seltzer water now and make it like a fizzy super drink. Fit it out a little bit. It's really great. So 120 life, been a big part of my life. We're gonna talk to one of their co-founders. The history of how this product was created and then what it does is so, so cool. You'll love it. And of course 120 life has a special discount because they're one of our strategic partners here. So our show today, Congressman Glenn Grossman, the man who found all those missing children that the government lost track of, the unaccompanied, minored migrant children, the most vulnerable children in the world, potentially in the hands of cartels and sex traffickers and the Biden administration lost track of them. Shame on them. It was Glenn Grossman 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 Zachey, Republican candidate for governor, Wayne Barnes, former FBI agent and now author of a bestselling book. I guarantee this is gonna be a bestseller. And then 120 life, a really great product. And we'll talk to one of the co-founders there. Now Pam Bondi's tenure began with a lot of excitement. Now she was an accidental AG 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 had dropped Matt Gates very quickly. And then he turned to, someone had been an attorney general of a large state Florida, Pam Bondi. But Pam Bondi got off to a rough start. She started by prom-ing-assess, promising us, excuse me, that she had found a whole bunch of new stuff on the Jeffrey Epstein. It was all old re-washed stuff. The conservative influencers that got dragged into that charade were angry. And 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 frankly, it was an eyesore for the president. Two, the department felt dysfunctional the whole time she was there. And three, she got things in motion, no prosecutions. In 15 months that 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 Bondi's record is 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 has ever, ever been recorded. It really is quite remarkable. How did they do it? Well, they got cops doing cops work 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 and criminal cartels, they got taken out real quickly. And then that meant they couldn't organize violence downstream for them. So there was a strategic approach on this. And I think that that's pretty good. 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 it is. By the way, she's a very nice woman. And I have no doubt she was intending to be loyal to the president, 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 Blanch 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, Harmey Dones, another one to keep an eye on. She's doing a good job on a lecture 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 Justinews.com or the Justinews apps in the Android and Apple stores. Either way, you're gonna get some great news there. I love it. The apps allow you to experience the Justinews ecosystem in four dimensions, writing, listening, watching, and searching. It's really great apps. 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He has been a clarion voice on so many important issues that he's trying to fix, whether it's the children across the border without the parents and then the Biden administration lost track of or more recently addressing the epidemic of suicide. He's Congressman Glenn Grossman from the great state of Wisconsin. So we're 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? Yeah, it was. 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. That's right. You're right. Yeah, there's no doubt. Lot of news in this, two things that jumped out, the executive order, clearly taking a shot at improving these dirty voter rolls that Harmeet Dillon's been doing a great job exposing. And then too, him wanting to show up at the Supreme Court to borrow and have his face be looked at by the justices as they 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, or children of slaves, were counted as 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 formerly 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 could come here from France, have a baby, get back on 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% 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 as well walk around with a sign on their head, we want to cheat. Why else? I have somebody that works for me from 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, no, we can't have photo ID. I mean, my goodness, why do you object to this? In other countries, they put a little dot on your hand or whatever when you vote. We are so kind of loosey-goosey here in the United States. President Trump's trying to straighten it up, and other people, the only possible explanation for their position, 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 of a loosey-goosey system and cheat. Yeah. Sir, John and I have had the U 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 referred to as conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors. It was an eight to one decision, only Katanji Brown Jackson dissented, but it seems to me that this, despite the fact that this is a 90, 10, and 80, 20 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 LGB 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 have allowed 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 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 psychologist or stupid psychiatrist 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 around and went to college for 10 years, will do anything no matter how stupid he wants it to be. Yeah. So you spent a lot of time forcing a conversation about issues that we often try to sweep under the rug, 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 Tom Homan. 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 have to 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 on at 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 horrific. 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, don't take powerful drugs and change the way you think about things. That's big trouble. And 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 you're having that conversation. But let's end on something a little bit lighter, something you and I share, a 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 contributes, you decided, in 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 go hunting is decreasing. So we have to do all we can to allow opportunities to go hunting, share a heritage, our ancestors enjoyed, and teach our young people about our natural resources, which is something that we like to think we help protect. Hey, folks, don't go anywhere. When we come back from the commercial break, candidate for California Governor, Leo Zaki, Republicans are doing very well in this jungle primary. We'll talk about that with Leo Zaki. 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They used to run one of the most famous chicken farms in America. Today he is running to be the state's next governor. His name is Leo Zachey. He 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've been a great entrepreneur. You have your own major business. Your family had generations of successful business, raising chickens at Zachey farms. What tempts you to suddenly say, you know what, 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's 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, this destructive power that's overwhelmed this 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 Poultry 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 who here has thought about leaving or has a friend or a family member that's left or is about to leave. And it's almost 100% 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 the money, 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 to 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. The foundational issues in California are what 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. And my whole plan is to hold every Californian's hand and walk them through how we end homelessness and how we end and monetize the drought and how we utilize oil and the cow 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, we'll 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 and government money, right? Absolutely. That's what's going on. When you give out billions of dollars and use arbitrary metrics as they change the definition of homeless, right? You can't say homeless or 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 undergrowing, 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 forest management, and wildfire prevention, which all helps 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 a tax incentive for doing so. What an amazing idea. And what an amazing perversion that what happened in California. And 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 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 26th election. Well, that's the thing. I mean, nobody's in love with really any of the candidates. I mean, that's why you're seeing all this polling and all these everybody's under. They're in 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 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 porous 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 health care or has to do with COVID stuff or childcare, 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 and oversight from the government. It's just, oh, here's the money. We're doing a good thing. And this policy of emotions before logic or even emotions with the complete absence 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 it. A lot of challenges, a lot of pressure points. And no one is breaking out and saying, huh, we're the candidate. We caught the fancy. No one's catching that fancy right now. And I think that that's what makes it so interesting. Democrats currently are panicked. They could see their jungle primary potentially leaving two Republicans in the charge because like nine or 10 Democrats, maybe more now. That won't happen. You'll think they'll clean up, right? Well, I think that's pie in the sky. The whole notion that two Republicans are going to make it through because of the jungle here, it's pie in the sky. That's not going to happen. I actually think that's 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 going to happen. There most likely will be one in one. And at some point, the Democrats will coalesce and rally behind one person. It's the high-mine mentality of the Democrat Party. It's not that all Democrats are bad because the thing is that California is such a mess, right? And everybody, left or right, it doesn't matter. Like 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 a good, 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 DC 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. When nobody's having dialogue, yeah, there's no dialogue. There's no respect. And nothing gets done. And everybody's like, why isn't this working? And they just keep throwing somebody into the fray. And like, well, why didn't that work this time? It's the same tactic. Nothing's changed. Yeah, no, really remarkable. All right, so what are the issues upon which this ultimately would turn? What do you think is going to happen? Well, with getting people to, what's going to make them vote for either way? Yeah, what do you think is the ultimate? When people go in and pull that lever, what's going to 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? I mean, it's so many issues. I mean, I think the vast majority are going to just, it's going to come down to affordability. I mean, average rent prices in California are like 28, 50 a month, which is insane. Yeah. That's crazy, isn't it? Wow. Yeah, and 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're essentially talking about 50% of the money that you earn, bond. So if you make 100k, it's more like 52 now. 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 extras that California slaps onto us, right? The excise tax, the inability for businesses to operate here, which caused the prices of fuel and food 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 just a regular everyday person or a billionaire. I mean, look at Steven Spielberg moved out. Was it the Google guy left? All these companies left? Yamaha just left and an out left. So yeah, it's going to come down to affordability. Obviously, people will care. That exit is also was creating a job pressure, right? There's fewer companies to work for, right? Well, 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 problem is, is people, they don't change their voting habits when they leave. That's right. Yeah, they just export them. Yeah. Right. But that's kind of part of the design for everything. Yeah, you're probably right. That's a whole other. There's a lot to discuss in this category. Yeah. Well, you're having that discussion. I mean, like I said, one of the most substantive policy sites I've seen for a candidate in a long time, you've got very detailed information, lots of video to make it easy. If you're a visual consumer, there's also great text policy. So people can 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. It can be very interesting to see how it all plays out. 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 you up? 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 I can't do it alone. I've put in about a million of my own dollars into this race. So anything helps. It really makes a difference helping me get more visibility. 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 normalcy and sanity. We have to save California. I'm here to do that. This isn't a left and right thing anymore. I think everybody is disillusioned with that. So please go to my website, leozacky.com, or leozackyforgovernor.com, and make a contribution. It would mean a lot. And share my stuff. Yeah. And check out the Vision app page. It really is a very interesting, very detailed agenda app, which is I think people like ideas. Yeah. 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've woken up to that. We want to know how you do it. Saying it and having these great buzz words that everybody hooks onto 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 Instagram and xatliozacky. And follow me there for your content as well. Definitely. No doubt about it. Leo, let's get you on again. I 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. I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you so much. Yeah, thanks for the time. That was great. All right, folks, don't go anywhere. That was a good conversation. Was it when we come back from the commercial break, the former FBI agent Wayne Barnes? 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 have 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 former FBI counterintelligent 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. I think for a lot of our audience, 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 a more complicated story than, well, it was in 1998. It's the end of the Cold War. And all along, when people are now talking about it as the Hanson case, we did not know it was Robert Hanson. We just had an unknown subject who we had learned 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. It turned out to be Robert Hanson. 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 active passing classified documents. And that was the goal. That's one thing they made it take so long. Amazing. While 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 of self trying to find him and meet him, or later on in publishing the book. Well, I want to get to later publishing the book. But first, as you were trying to solve the case, the brass got cold feet, didn't they? Yeah, it was difficult. In 1998, 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 the Russians and all the Eastern Bloc countries. And I recruited individuals. So when it was learned that there was a traitor in the FBI, the question is who they would spend, send to go to try to recruit a Russian, who could I identify him? Because everybody in the FBI at that point was a suspect, including me. But as it turns out, because I arrived in San Diego in 1990 and the traitor was active in 1992 and 1993, I wasn't the bad guy. So three agents flew out there literally undercover of darkness on a Tuesday afternoon telling me don't tell anyone else in 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 meet 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 they 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 obstacles. I, however, had a psychological obstacle. The Soviets believed there were two superpowers that they were a member of the best superpowers. So why would the 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 counterintelligence, 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 big difficulty we had to surmount. But it worked out well in the end. Wayne, very quickly, we've just got about 30 seconds left. Talk to us about the pushback that you've gotten in actually getting this book out. Yeah. Well, to have any kind of a book published, whether it's poetry or fly fishing in West Virginia, you have to send it through the pre-publication review unit in Washington. And they had never had a book submitted to them, which was a non-fiction counterintelligence book. And I was the first one who did that. If you want to write about one big drug case you had in Detroit or kidnapping in Tampa, you know, have had it. But this was all what they considered sources and methods. And it took me seven years. I sent it to them 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. A health discussion with one of the co-founders of 120 Life. A super free drink that's part of my everyday health routine. Now, have that next. Welcome back, everybody. Hi, 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 120 Life. Susan Schachter, 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 120 Life. How did you get involved? Sure. I like this story. 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. And his dad died at 27 from cardiovascular disease. And Ira really kept on top of his cardiac health. His cardiac health. And one of the times he went to the doctor, to the cardiologist. The 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 an open heart surgery. Because he had another issue there as well. And Ira 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 in nutrition and clinical dietetics and nutrition. And he said, what do you think of this? What do you think of that? And I said, that sounds good. I want to add this to it. And let me take a deeper dive. And found all of these studies, we both did, found all of these studies that show these different things that are found in nature actually work by a similar mechanism to some of the antihypertensive 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 suffer 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 pomegranates good for the prostate. There's cholesterol, low in capabilities. This drink, even though it's primary purpose is 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 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 damaging 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, it also helps reduce 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 can, oh, 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 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. But we started working on it and all the other things about eight years ago. But so delighted because it's real. It's all real ingredients. I say it's nature's pharmacy. And it's a wonderful thing, that with the good side effects. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, with the MAHA. Yeah, it 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 a super fruit drink with with a little fizzy drink and make myself a cocktail. It's really kind of fun. Well, how quickly do people start to see an impact? I started to see a little bit of downward trend in my blood pressure, like in four or five days. But what's the norm for people? 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. People are in for the long haul. That's right. Yeah, it works for them. So yeah, of course. 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, that wraps up our Thursday edition of John Solomon reports, a podcast from Justin News. A big thank you to Congressman Glenn Grossman, Leo Zaki, Wayne Barnes and our good friends at 120 Life back tomorrow. Good Friday. Conversations with Tim Berger, Michael Wattley, Father Frank Devone and David Bezal. Have that tomorrow until then. God bless you. Have a great night.