[00:00] That's what it's going to be called now. We'll be getting into that. Um, Eric Adams, they're trying to get him out of the race. Uh, they're trying to bribe him. It's probably not a feeling he's unfamiliar with. We'll get into that. Um, sanctions on Palestinians. Nothing new there. This time it's for having the timmerity to oppose genocide. We'll get into the details there. Um, and this part, I don't know if you care about this, but you fly a lot. I I have a feeling you do. Trump's decided to screw
[00:31] uh airline passengers. And I wonder if he's going to pay a price for that uh in terms of populism, siding with the airlines who are really kind of one of the most hated industries in America against ordinary passengers. But um let's just get to it. What do you want to talk about first, John? >> I'd like to talk about Eric Adams first if we could. Absolutely. only because because you know deep down deep down I still have a love of the of the you know how the sausage is made at
[01:02] the um at the State Department and in foreign policy. Uh one thing about the Saudis and this is why this is why Saudi Arabia is being floated as a place for Eric Adams to end up. The Saudis have always insisted that they not have a career diplomat as the US ambassador. They demand it, which is exactly the opposite of most other countries. The Saudis demand a political
[01:33] appointee. Why? >> Because they want to be able to pick up the phone, call the ambassador, and have the ambassador call the president, and the president takes the call. >> So, if you're a career diplomat, the president's never heard of you. You can't call the the White House in the middle of the night and say, you know, the the king of Saudi Arabia wants to talk to you. So, so as crazy as this might sound, um the Saudis would be very happy to have Eric Adams as the US ambassador.
[02:04] That's not to say that 51 US senators will agree to have Eric Adams as the uh US ambassador. Although, if he were to drop out of the race, >> the Republicans endorse Quomo. He'll still lose. But the Republicans endors we need to break this down for people who are not watching the details of the New York City mayoral race, which is super important even if you don't live in New York or care about New York, just because it's the epic showdown inside the Democratic party between the
[02:35] progressive left base of the party and the corporist uh centrists who run the DNC, right? uh you know so in the primary uh Mumdani the Democratic socialist basically a Bernie acolyte uh managed to defeat um the a crowded field and uh and is now in a general election. He's the Democratic nominee current polls I just checked the rear uh clear politics averages as they currently stand Zarron Mandani is uh 30 38.2% 2%.
[03:08] Bringing up number two, a distant number two, is Andrew Cuomo, former New York ass grabbing governor. Um, he is running as a third party candidate. Uh, I think if I'm not mistaken, he's on the fan fight anti-semitism uh line. Subtle. >> Yeah, it's like that. Um, Sydney Wilkinson, the editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Enquir, she has a delightful that she says in moments like that that you just reminded me of. And uh, Curtis
[03:41] Leewa, the uh, founder of the Guardian Angels and the Republican nominee, perennial Republican nominee, is at 16.6%. Um, basically as popular as Lint is the sitting incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, who is currently uh, at 10.6%. 6%. So the powers that be are looking at one outlying poll that seems to indicate that if you could get Adams and hopefully Slewood to drop out, but certainly Adams, you might actually be
[04:12] able to beat Mamani with Cuomo. So the billionaire class in the the real estate um interests, Wall Street, all those people. Uh that's their plot here, right? So they're trying to clear the field for Cuomo. Oddly, the New York Post, which is the Murdoch Oregon here in New York, >> is still trying to push for Adams. I mean, you know, honestly, Clovis, my cat, has a far better chance of being mayor than than Adams. >> Seriously, >> there's no way. I mean, no,
[04:43] >> he's at 10.6% in the race. >> The incumbent. >> Yeah, that's right. Mdani is increasing in the polls. Adams is has faced a lot of very credible corruption charges. Um, you know, I can't say that he's corrupt. I mean, I think it's my opinion that he is corrupt and takes bribes. Okay. Um, but the and I think it's the opinion of most New Yorkers, too. Um, but anyway, so they're trying to get so they basically the idea is, hey, let's get rid of Adams. Adams drops out and
[05:14] endorses Quomo. >> Yeah, >> we'll work on SWA. Slew says there is absolutely nothing that uh he that can convince him to drop out. He said they'd have to be run over by a car to drop out of the race. So, and I say I kind of believe Curtis. Um it it just seems very it's all very desperate, right? And so, um, Steve Witco, the, uh, Trump envoy, um, to
[05:44] various middle, uh, you know, global hot spots, including Russia, Ukraine, he's floating this. We don't know how far the, uh, food chain this has gone. We don't know if the Donald is on board with this or if he's just sort of, you know, obviously he's reading about it. Um, I don't know. I mean, how likely is this? >> You know what? I think I think it actually is likely because
[06:16] Donald Trump's not stupid. I mean, we like to criticize Donald Trump, sure, but he's not stupid and he knows >> his political instincts are obvious. I mean, yeah, if this was a stupid man, he'd be in jail right now. If he was if he was a stupid man, he wouldn't be the first person to be elected president without military or political experience. not stupid. >> Yep. He's not stupid. And so he knows that Eric Adams isn't going to win this race. He knows that there's not a prayer for Eric Adams to win this race.
[06:49] There's a better chance that Trump can have um have some serious input. If he gets Adams out and so what do you do? You offer him ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Why not? That's going to make him happy. And the Saudis want a political appointee anyway. And um and then uh you know, he at least throws a little bit of
[07:20] a wrench into the Mumani campaign. Even if Trump has already come to the conclusion that Mani is going to win, getting Eric Adams out of the race at least forces Mumani to spend some money and would allow people to then coales around the candidate that Trump wants, which is either well well it's or neither Curtis Leewa nor um Andrew Cuomo. It just makes it a little bit tougher for Mum Donnie. I mean, Mommy's he's already got the maximum number of campaign contributions that he's allowed
[07:52] to accept. People are throwing so much money at him. So, I mean, it's hard it's hard to see how he loses at this stage. And he's increasing in the polls. He's not going down. Um, the more that the more that they pay attention to him, the more that people like him in New York, um, I I think all of this establishment stuff is just, you know, not it it's it's just it's it's counterproductive. Yes. >> Um, and it's it's just blowback, right? Uh, I I don't know. I think it's going
[08:23] to be it's super interesting to me to see how this is all playing out. Um, and I So, but I mean, I guess Eric Adams gets a soft landing. How is that post though? I mean, we talked yesterday about, you know, the ambassadorial position in Athens, which I think all humans can agree is a nice job. How is Riad I mean, you know, I you and I both we have similar views on what it's like to live in Saudi Arabia. >> Yeah, I my own personal view is that Saudi Arabia is the biggest open air prison in the world. Um, but that's just
[08:56] me. When I was serving in Saudi Arabia, I served under two ambassadors there. Um, one was Chaz Freeman, the legendary Chaz Freeman, who, God bless him, he's still alive. He has some health problems, but he is one of the leading voices out there in support of the Palestinian people. Um, he went on to be the assistant secretary of defense and then he was supposed to be chairman of the National Intelligence Council, but the Obama people killed the nomination because he's pro Palestinian. So, the second one that I served under
[09:29] um had been the governor of Mississippi and then was Bill Clinton's Secretary of the Navy. Nice guy, sweet guy, completely out of his element. He just did what he was told to do. Whoever happened to be National Security Adviser Sandy Burger for most of that period just told him what to do and he did it. That's what the Saudis wanted. So, if you are the ambassador, it's going to be good for you because you're meeting with the king, you're
[10:00] meeting with the crown prince, you're meeting with the minister of foreign affairs, you have the biggest uh parties in the country, you have the biggest mansion in the diplomatic quarter. Life's going to be good. As soon as you step out of that house, life's not going to be so good because Saudi Arabia is a terrible, terrible place to be. I would rather be almost anywhere else than Saudi Arabia. >> Now, I imagine that that the ambassador just like everywhere lives in a uh you know, basically lives in a compound.
[10:30] They can have alcohol. There's high walls. They can pretty much do whatever they want. They're living in their own private Idaho, right? Like a wild potato. Don't go on the patio. But but isn't it >> But so that's basically it. You're like in your >> You're in your Wall-E world. Yeah, that's all. It's It's awful. It's awful. And every once in a while, you get in the car and you go over to Dahan and you meet the people in the in the um uh consulate there. And then you take a
[11:01] quick flight over to Jedha. Uh the the Saudi government, the entire government moves to Jedha in uh in May. And they're in May. They're in Jedha for May, June, July, and August. And then the whole government moves back to Riad because Riyad's too hot. 120 125 degrees. So they uh they just go to Jedha because it's on the water and you get a little bit of a breeze. It's still 120 degrees, but I don't know. It's all relative, I suppose. Uh but then that's it. The reason why they want you in the first
[11:32] place is they want to have somebody who will have his phone calls taken by the president. That's it. That's the bottom line. Uh, Adam wants to know um if is it true that if you want to work in Saudi Arabia, you're appointed a handler by the government, your passport is taken away from you and you can only leave with this permission. >> Yes, that is true. >> That is true. That's a serious human rights problem. >> Um, >> yeah. Yeah, I should agree with that.
[12:02] >> But yeah, you you have to be sponsored. So, you have to say on your visa application who your sponsor is. A Saudi has to be the majority shareholder of whatever company you're working for. So, you can't just go to Saudi Arabia and say, "I'm gonna open an LLC and we're gonna make widgets." Uh-uh. You're gonna open an LLC that you own 49% of. Some random Saudi is going to own 51%. The Saudi is going to hold your passport. And if he doesn't like your face or you have a fight or a falling out over money,
[12:33] then you're essentially under house arrest because you can't go anywhere. And that's how they that's how they keep especially South Asian women as sex slaves. They they hire them as domestics, nannies, English teachers, and then they arrive. >> The sponsor takes the passport and says, "Yeah, now take your clothes off and you're going to be living in the cupboard underneath the steps." >> Lovely. >> It's a great great place. >> Best system. I hated it there.
[13:03] >> Good thing we're so close to them. Um, Marble wants to know and thanks for the generous donation. Thanks also Houdini and uh everyone else thoughts Marble wants to know thoughts on Nigel >> Farage for Congress. >> While you answered that, I'm going to hit reboot. So don't panic. I'm just get a better connection here. >> You know, it's funny. As recently as five years ago, Nigel Farage was was a joke. He was like a kind of a neon-Nazi fascist weirdo fringe weirdo from the
[13:35] British rightwing. And just over the last 5 years with the humiliation that the electoral humiliation that the uh that the conservative party underwent, Faraj has come out as like a real voice on the right. He's no less no less fascistic than he was five years ago. He just has been accepted by the mainstream as a legitimate and this is nuts to me, but
[14:05] as a legitimate right-wing voice. I I when I was last in London, I was there in March. Um there was a an article in the Times of London. And the Times, of course, it's a conservative paper and it's owned by Rupert Murdoch and all, but um there was a piece saying that Nigel Farage um would likely be the next leader of the Conservative Party. If that happens, I could see the end of the Conservative Party as a viable political force. >> Really? >> Uh-huh. I think because because
[14:35] conservatives who aren't that conservative that they're called wets the wetss I think the wets would move to the liberal party which is not liberal it's actually quite conservative especially on foreign policy and um I think that the the ones who remain by the the Nigel Farage uh uh conservatives would just be sort of a rump party. Fared is a very interesting character
[15:05] because it sort of reminds me, not reminds me, it reminds me of what I've read happened in the UK in conservative politics in the runup to the Second World War. There were a lot of Brits who thought Hitler was a-okay. And a lot of those Brits, you know, it took years for them to change Mosley types. >> Yeah, exactly right. >> Yeah, people forget that the British
[15:36] Fascist Party was a real thing. >> It was a real thing and there were members of the royal family that were members of it. >> Yeah. By the way, thank you so much uh to Peter for becoming a monthly supporter over Rumble. Much appreciated. >> Um Okay. So, uh so, okay. So, let's talk about the politics here. I mean, Trump is going to I think, you know, I've got to think that the reason Trump's not allin on this plan is he knows that it probably won't work and, you know, he doesn't want to get behind a plan that's
[16:08] likely to fail. That's right. >> And then he'll be made fun of and he hates that. >> That's right. Yep. >> So, >> yeah, there are a lot of moving parts here >> and in the end, look at it this way, too. Donald Trump does things that benefit Donald Trump. So, how does this benefit Donald Trump? It doesn't really. >> I mean, I would think that it would be kind of I mean, look, I think that the Republican party is planning to uh go after Mumani as basically turn him into their [ __ ] for the next uh for the next four years.
[16:39] >> I I wouldn't be so sure it's going to work. Um you know, he seems like a really smart young man. >> Yep. uh who's surrounding himself with some uh older seasoned New Yorkers who are going to hold his hand uh over at Gracie Mansion and at city hall and they're going to tell him how things work. And I don't think he's just going to go in there like a bull in a china shop. I mean, he's been running [ __ ] great campaign. >> I think you're right. Which is funny because Ted, you remember >> I mean, you remember better than I You're a New Yorker. Um when Mumani uh
[17:13] came out ahead, so many on on the right, or not even really on the right, in the center and on the right said, "This is a fluke. It's temporary. We're going to keep running. Everybody's going to coales around Quuomo and the DNC is going to live happily ever after." And that's not happening. >> It's not. >> No, not at all. Dan's mom political godfather happens to be Jewish. >> And so when people say, "Oh, Manny, it's
[17:45] going to he's going to open ovens for the Jews." And no, no, he's not. >> No. And New York and New York voters, many of whom are Jewish, are voting for him, and they know they know they know what he's about. That's right. >> Um, you know, uh, so we we shall see. Uh Nixon Barley says all of Amdany's advisers are young. Guy is talking about >> true. >> Um his I got to tell you though um he had that guy that God now his name is escaping me who was uh running with him
[18:18] uh who ran against him in the primary and then endorsed him and they kind of co-endors each other in the in the uh in the primary. And that guy is like older than we are and uh and he's holding >> Yeah. I I I think I think that he hits a big part of it. We'll see. We'll see. We will see. >> Hey, before we we move on to we we've got a good question from Road Beef here. If we mentioned Fudge, I must also ask Ted and John for their opinion quickly on Boris Johnson. Two peas in a pod. You
[18:49] know, Boris I think there was nobody there was nobody in the UK more shocked when Boris Johnson became prime minister than Boris Johnson. He was a joke. Yeah, >> he was a and not just a joke. He was a he was a provocator journalist um who made a a career by pissing people off on purpose, right? He was one of those original I have an opinion right-wing journalists
[25:32] and then Dublin to Washington. So, there was a mechanical problem in Madrid and uh finally they got the plane fixed and they sent us to to Dublin, but I missed my connection. It's not my fault I missed the connection. Their plane was broken. So, I went to the little desk there, the information desk, and I said, "Hey, you know, I was on this flight from Madrid." "Oh, yes, yes, we've been waiting for you. You're Mr. Kiryaku." "Yes, I am." They said, "Yes. Um,
[26:04] unfortunately there's not a flight to Washington until tomorrow. So, we've booked you in this four-star hotel with buffet breakfast that could feed an army and um your ticket was uh $1,200. We're going to refund $600 of the dollars. And I'm like, "Oh, >> nice. >> Okay. >> Yeah, >> great." So, I I went to the hotel. They they had a a shuttle bus waiting to take those of us that had to spend the night. Took us to the hotel, expedited
[26:36] check-in. It was a gorgeous hotel in the center of Dublin. Gigantic buffet. And then I went around, did some sightseeing, and went back to the airport the next morning and flew to Washington. And then about six weeks later, I got my $600 transferred into my checking account. The craziest thing. How come we don't do that? >> Why are we held hostage? Look, I would go further and say even when it's a weather delay, there should be some form of compensation. Um, pass I mean maybe
[27:06] airlines can um charge an extra fund. So it basically creates like a a compensation fund so that when people I mean it's it's okay. It's not the airlines fault if there's a storm and I don't want them to fly during a storm but I mean you know >> Sure. Sure. but people need to be able to stay at the hotel at the airport. Maybe you don't put them up at the fourstar hotel, but they should be able to go to the, you know, the Ramada or the Marriott or whatever. >> Yeah, totally agree. Everybody should do this. The Europeans are so much >> D. Wolson, thank you so much for
[27:38] becoming a monthly supporter for us on on Rumble. >> Thank you. >> Um, we are Robbie, go ahead and put that ad up and I'll I'll go ahead and read it when when you do. Um, so yeah, so I mean this I mean it really b it it stuck in my craw this news and I did notice that it was happening on a Friday news dump day uh you know sort of at a time of the year when people are still like you know spending a lot of time outside on the weekend and I think you know they know this isn't popular. I still maintain
[28:09] that Pete Buddhaj Judge is the front runner for the Democratic nomination in 2028, not Gavin Newsome. And this this if I'm Pete Buddha Judge right now, I'm doing a little dance, you know, because I could say like, "Oh, I promoted this and Trump killed it. I'm on your side. Trump is on the airlines and the corporations side." All right, here's the ad. >> Um, thanks everyone for listening to this. Uh, if you haven't already, make sure you down, make sure you download the Rumble app. It's free, simple to
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[29:10] because that's where we make the the financial action. >> And I I want to say too, thanks to our our viewers and to Robbie, we were on the Rumble um first page, front page, what do you call it? the splash page, I think is what they call it. >> Splash page the other day. So, thank you for watching us on Rumble. Um, it it seriously boosted our viewership by a good I'm going to say nine or 10%.
[29:41] Um, and landed us on that front page. So, thank you very much for that. >> No, it's it's ins it's insanely very much appreciated. Uh, the support has been super inspiring. Um, Peter says, "Every airport should have the words from Dante's Divine Comedy inscribed, abandon all hope, you who enter here, you enter here." >> It is a bleak [ __ ] feeling when you walk into an airport. You know, even if you have TSA pre, it's going to be an, you know, an undignified experience. It's like, "Ah, we found your
[36:26] he worked on a kabutz, you know, as Jewish as the day is long. Joint citizenship in Israel. He's flying back. He's flying alone. So ll they decide to give him they literally were like, "We need to do a body cavity search." >> What? >> And uh and I was like, "You mean?" And I was joking. I'm like, "So, including your anus?" He's like, "Yeah." And I'm like, "So, what did you tell him?" He goes, "Well, I didn't want to miss my flight." I go, "Are you kidding me?" I would have been like, "Fuck you. Call the call the US embassy." And it's like, it's like, "Oh, but I would have missed
[36:57] my flight." I've been like, "I'd missed my flight for a week. Those people aren't sticking their fingers out my ass if I can help." >> No way. No. I got strip searched in Iceland in December. Um, down to my underwear and I was boiling, raging mad, but I never spoke a word. Never said a word. I didn't want to give them the satisfaction. >> What would have happened if you declined or refused? >> I think they probably would have told me, "Turn around and leave the airport." And there's no other way to get out of Iceland. You're kind of stuck.
[37:30] >> Miserable miserable place. Yeah. That's just terrible. >> OMG. OMG. Oh, Jen wants you to finish your story. I don't know. Did I interrupt you? I apologize. >> Yeah, that Oh, that's okay. What story was I Jen? What was I talking about? >> Sorry. I do that. I get I get over enthusiastic. >> I don't remember what we were talking about. We were talking about trains. Jen Jenners. >> She'll put it up. She she's a she's a uh she's a she's a she's a follower a
[38:01] frequent follow follower so she has to exc remember >> um okay so we have a we did Eric Adams um we we should probably talk about the well we have to do the war department >> yeah we have to you know what call me crazy but it is a federal a federal >> it was your train story Jenna saying Sorry. >> Yeah, I don't remember what I was saying about the train. >> I'm sorry. If you think of it, let me
[38:32] know and I'll finish it. >> Right. >> So, um, >> war department. >> Yeah, it is. It is a war department. >> It it was the department of war until 1947 and President Truman uh changed it because it sounded kind of wararmongery. Um, and but it is it is. >> What was it about World War I mean, it's weird that I mean, I don't know the politics of this. Why did Truman change it in 47? I mean, we just won World War II. Everyone loves us. I mean, was it
[39:03] just what was the point? >> He didn't want to be seen. He didn't want the United States to be seen as as a an aggressor, as an imperialist. And so, um, and so he changed it to defense. But listen, we're all we're all relatively moderately, you know, intelligent people. We can tell the difference between defense and offense. And we're an offensive uh military country really since since we achieved, you know,
[39:34] so-called superpower status at the end of the Second World War. Um we invade countries all over the globe. >> Hundreds >> all over the place. We're overthrowing governments. We're invading. We're occupying it is a department of war. So we're invading airspace. >> I have no problem with this change. He signed he I'm sorry. Let me finish this thought. He signed a an executive order uh he announced it last night. He signed the executive order today mandating the change. A president can't change the name of a federal department. It has to
[40:06] be an act of Congress. >> Do you think Democrats will go along with it or do they actually do you need it's just is it a simple majority vote? >> Simple majority. You need 60 in the Senate because you have to break closure. But I mean, there's so many more important things to worry about. I I don't think the Democrats are going to care one way or the other. I wouldn't, but they may oppose it just to make life harder for Trump and for the Republicans. >> Well, you know, right about this. >> Pacifists have been saying for years that it should be called the War Department.
[40:36] >> So, I'm wondering what they're going to say about it. You know, I mean, it is more accurate. Um, I have no problem with it at all. I mean, definitely Trump's statement yesterday was hilariously incipid where he's like, "Defense sounds too defensive. We also have to be off offensive." And I'm like, "Don't worry, Donald. You're always offensive." Um, but it's just so like dumb. But yeah, I'm totally fine with it. Um, you know, no problem. I just wonder if it's going to maybe backfire
[41:07] in the future and make it a little more difficult for uh you know the defense appropriations to always get rubber stamped year after year after year. Sorry, the war appropriations. >> Hey, I I want to ask you too, we have a question here. It's an important one. Uh first of all, my good sir, thank you very much for that $10. He says, "Can you uh please cover the breaking story about US Marines going into North Korea and killing North Korean civilians?" Oh yes. >> To me, this is a huge story. It is a huge story. And I want to read to you
[41:39] Trump's response. >> Uh Trump was asked >> um if the administration had engaged with North Korea since this happened in 2018. It it's a story broken by the New York Times. And listen to this response. Quote, "I don't know anything about it." No, I'd have to. Well, I could look, but I know nothing about it. I don't know anything about it. I'm hearing it now for the first time. First of all, liar, liar, pants on fire. We're not going to
[42:12] send Seal Team Six into North Korea for a botched operation where they start shooting civilians. And the president didn't know anything about it. That's not how covert operations work. Not only did the president have to know about it, he had to physically sign a paper called a finding authorizing special forces to do something like this. So, he's lying. >> So, to bring people up to date in case you're not you didn't follow this piece in today's New York Times, John, correct
[42:43] me if I get any of the details wrong. Um, I'm just doing this by memory, but in 2019, >> 2018, at the time when relations with North Korea and the US were sort of thawing, um, and the US thought and Trump thought was hoping there could be a ruproma, they wanted to learn more about Kim's thinking. And they thought we need we they have a device that would allow them to uh eaves drop on Kim's communications. But the catch was that the device had to be planted on North Korean soil or it wouldn't work. So,
[43:16] Seal Team 6 was assigned this task. Um, they planned it out well and practiced a lot, but it it didn't go well. And basically when the weather was a little off, um, the landing didn't go quite right. And basically they and the water was super cold, the conditions were hard. Um, and basically, uh, while they were trying to do it, a they saw a North Korean boat arrive and they nobody spoke Korean and they couldn't hear what they
[43:46] were saying anyway. They thought it was kind of like, "Look, there's something going on." And so anyway, they they they uh aborted the operation, shot the people on board who turned out to be fishermen, >> killed everybody. >> Killed everybody. killed everybody on the boat >> and and and screwed the pooch and took off, right? And didn't and didn't manage to plant the device. And the New York Times got this information and basically in the context of apparently Sealed Team 6 and groups like it often have botched
[44:17] operations and they tend to brag about their successes but the you know the failures don't get much PR and this was one of them and Trump had to personally sign off because it was so risky uh that you know they were worried about you know being they could be caught on they could have been captured or killed. on North Korean soil. So, it would have been a huge embarrassment and a massive international incident. >> Huge. And listen, there was a serious violation of protocol on the part of the
[44:48] White House, too, because the law says that that the White House has to inform at least the gang of four, if not the entire committee on both sides. the gang of four being the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. If it's so sensitive that you want to keep it, you know, eyes only, you do the gang of four. And they didn't inform the committees either
[45:20] before or after the operation. I mean, heads should have rolled and nothing happened. May I add to Hello Aasam says, "John, yesterday you mentioned Afia Sadiki. Can you tell us more about her, please? And thank you. You know, thanks for that. Do we have a minute, Ted? >> Absolutely. >> Um, so I I had Afia Sadiki's attorney over at my house today for coffee and um and we recorded an episode of of my uh Deep Focus podcast talk about Afia
[45:50] Sadiki. Afia Sadiki was a Pakistani American um uh neurosurgeon uh with a PhD from Brandeise and a bachelor's degree from MIT. Woman was absolutely brilliant. Her sister also is a PhD uh like neurologist or neurosurgeon or something like that. Um, Afia self-radicalized right around the time of the World Trade Center uh and Pentagon attacks 911 and
[46:23] she went back to Pakistan and she volunteered to join al-Qaeda. So, we capture Khalik Muhammad in August of 2002, I think is what it was, and he said, "Oh, there's this woman Afia Sadiki. She's really bad. I'm I'm ratting her out." Uh, you need to grab her. Well, we found her in Karach and we grabbed her. We asked the Pakistanis to grab her. They gave her to us and we took her to Afghanistan and locked her
[46:55] up. Here's the rub. She had three young children at the time, a boy, a girl, and a young boy who was uh an infant. And as it turns out, well, before I tell you how it turns out, she was turned over from the Pakistanis to the Afghans, from the Afghans to the Americans, and the FBI flies out to begin interrogating her. Here's where the stories all diverge. The official story is
[47:27] that she was in a tent waiting to be interrogated. One of the FBI agents had an M4. He leaned his M4 up against the side of the tent. She grabbed it. She tried to shoot him. The gun jammed. And another FBI agent took out his gun and shot her twice in the stomach. Um, she survived. That's the official version. Um, she went on to be charged with attempted murder and she was found
[47:59] guilty and given 86 years in prison. She didn't murder anybody. She didn't even injure anybody. So, he told me this is the longest sentence ever given in American history to someone for attempted murder where there was no discharge of a weapon. 86 years. The story gets worse. In the um during the trial,
[48:29] they uh showed bullet holes, two bullet holes in the canvas of the tent, and they said, "See, she got two shots off. We had to shoot her." But as it turned out, they had been interrogating prisoners in that tent for for months. and and another photograph surfaced showing the bullet holes were already in the canvas of the tent weeks before Afia Sadiki was ever caught. So, no, she did not fire the
[49:00] shot. She didn't fire any shots. Here's what makes this case even worse. The CIA kidnapped all three of her children and they turned them over to Christian missionaries in Kabell. The eldest son was adopted by a missionary family and they changed his name. The middle child, a daughter, was adopted by another missionary family and they changed her name.
[49:33] No one ever figured out what happened to the baby. So the war ends and Hamid Cararzi who was president of Afghanistan is placed under house arrest. My friend um the attorney went to Afghanistan. He's befriended the Taliban government. He told them what happened. Afia Sadiki is a giant hero in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. And so he said, "I really need to talk to Hamid
[50:03] Carzi." So the Taliban tells Cararzi, "You're going to talk to this British human rights lawyer." And Cararzi's like, "Yeah, we we snatched the kids. We turned them over to the CIA. They just farmed them out for adoption." He found the kids and um they're adults now, but he's reunited them with Afia Sadiki's sister in Pakistan. They now live with her. the baby would now be 18 years old. And
[50:36] the only news that he's been able to get about the baby um was verbal and it was that that the baby had been dropped on his head and he was killed. >> What? >> And he says, "I think that's complete and total [ __ ] The CIA just doesn't want us to know where the baby is." The baby, like I said, is now 18. So what he did is he got Afia's sister to give a
[51:06] DNA sample and he registered it with 23 andMe and GED match and um you know all these different you know ancestry.com. He also used AI to age the picture of the baby to what he would look like at the age of 18 today. and um and he said, "We're we're trying to find him." And so now he's he's suing the CIA, which of course is going to go nowhere.
[51:37] Um he's suing the FBI, which is going to go nowhere. and he said, "Look, I I know we're not going to win any of these suits, but I'm hoping that the suits garner enough public attention that some 18-year-old dark-skinned kid out there is going to say, "Maybe this is me they're talking about and that he does a a DNA test." So, I said, "Well, what about Afia? She's going to die in prison. She's at She's at FMC Carwell, which is a maximum security medical prison. She's in solitary confinement
[52:09] and has been in solitary confinement since 2008. He told me that she has for all intents and purposes lost her mind. And of course the prison doctors say um yeah, she's faking that craziness. It's not from being in solitary confinement for the last 17 years. She's just faking it. He told me that on Thanksgiving she was given a plate of food with turkey, potato stuffing and corn and some pumpkin pie and she let it sit and
[52:41] they asked her why she didn't eat her Thanksgiving dinner. And she said, "No, no, she's saving it for her son because he must be so hungry by now." And they wrote it up. They said, "She's faking this PA PTSD. She said that she's waiting to feed her son and everybody knows her son is dead." So I said, "Well, what what can we do?" And he said, "She does respond to um to letters." Um he answers, his name is um is Clive uh Stafford Smith. Uh
[53:15] hold on one second. I'm going to find him. There he is. He's Listen to what an awesome guy he is. He's a He's a member of the um Order of the British Empire. the queen, Queen Elizabeth gave him an OBBE uh because of the work that he's done on human rights. He has never charged a client a single dollar in all of his life. Um he just lives on donations. He's devoted he's he's represented 66 Guantanamo detainees and he's gotten
[53:45] every one of them released. All 66. and um he says to write to him. It's it's Clive Stafford Smith2020gmail.com. He will deliver the um the letters to to Afia. But he said her only hope is that President Trump commutes her sentence and lets her go home to Pakistan. And that's not going to happen. John, I I hate to bring this up, but we
[54:17] do have some breaking news. Um uh also, I should probably uh we have another ad. So, Robbie, whenever you're ready. Uh but first, I'll break this. So, a federal judge has blocked uh Christine Nome and the Trump administration from getting rid of those temporary Biden era protections for the Venezuelans and Haitians that they're trying to deport. Uh the judge was extremely um uh upset with the administration. US District Judge Edward Chen said that Christy
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