TO LEAVE.
ALL RIGHT, TREY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
LET’S WRING IN FLORIDA G.O.P.
CONGRESSMAN AND NATIONAL GUARD
COLONEL MICHAEL WALTZ MEMBER OF
THE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE.
GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
>> HEY, GOOD MORNING, AINSLEY.
>> Ainsley: GOOD MORNING.
I KNOW THAT SOME MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS WERE BRIEFED YESTERDAY
BY JAKE SULLIVAN NSA.
AND WE ARE WONDERING WHAT
EXACTLY DID HE TELL THE CONGRESS
MEN AND SPHWHIM I KNOW THAT YOU
HAVE SPOKEN TO SOME OF THEM.
WHAT ARE YOU HEARING?
>> WELL, UNFORTUNATELY, IT
WASN’T ANYTHING EARTH SHATTERING
ORAL ANYTHING NEW, REALLY THAT
THEY ARE STILL BELIEVE THIS IS A
SMALL CHANCE FOR DIPLOMACY, YOU
KNOW, IN THESE EXCHANGE OF
LETTERS THAT WE HAVE HAD WITH
THE RUSSIANS.
WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT MORE
TRANSPARENCY AND EXERCISES.
WITH EACH OTHER.
>> THE WHITE HOUSE HAS PUT ON
THE TABLE SHIFTING SOME OF OUR
SHORT RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILES
AND PERHAPS EVEN A PROMISE NOT
TO PUT THEM IN UKRAINE.
THE RUSSIANS HAVE BEEN STACKING
UP THESE TYPES OF MISSILES FOR
YEARS AND WOULD HAVE, I THINK,
MORE TO LOSE THAN TO GAIN OUT OF
THAT TYPE OF ARGUMENT.
SO AT THE END OF THE DAY,
AINSLEY, I DON’T THINK PUTIN HAS
EVER BEEN SERIOUS ABOUT
NEGOTIATIONS.
I THINK THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO
BUY TIME.
IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME TO MOVE
THINGS LIKE HIS PACIFIC FLEET,
HIS NORTHERN FLEET.
HIS ARTIC FLEET.
AND A HUGE CHUNK OF HIS ARMY
FROM SIBERIA, ALL THE WAY OVER
TO UKRAINE.
AND WHAT YOU ARE SEEING NOW IN TERMS OF WHAT WE MIGHT GO.
TERMS OF WHAT WE MIGHT GO.
WE MIGHT NOT HE BELIEVE IS MORE
RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION.
>> Brian: DO YOU THINK THEY NEED
TO BUY TIME OR NEED SOME KIND OF
FACE SAVING MEASURE?
SHOULD WE GO TO A TABLE WITH A
FACE SAVING MEASURE WHETHER WE
WANT TO OR NOT.
TO THINK HE IS GOING TO PULL
BACK 120,000 TROOPS FOR NO
REASON BECAUSE WE KEPT TALKING
IS NOT LOGICAL?
THIS WOULD BE THE LARGEST AND
MOST EXPENSIVE THING TO RUIZ RUS
MODERN HISTORY IF HE DOESN’T END
UP GOING.
AND I THINK THERE ARE SOME
THINGS WE COULD PUT ON THE
TABLE.
I LEAVE PUTIN IS OWNING THAT AT
THE END OF THE DAY HE CAN GET
WHAT HE HAS WANTED, WHICH WOULD
BE AN ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF, A
POLITICAL COLLAPSE IN KYIV AND A
WINDOW TO PUT HIS OWN PERSON IN.
I DO THINK PRESIDENT ZELENSKY
HAS DONE A GOOD JOB OF WALKING A
VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN TELLING
HIS POPULATION AND HIS MILITARY
TO GET READY AND THE WHITE HOUSE
TO HURRY UP WITH ITS LETHAL AID
BUT, AT THE SAME TIME,
PREVENTING A PANIC IN THIS
CAPITAL AND PLAYING INTO PUTIN’S
HANDS.
IS HE IN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT
SITUATION AND MANAGES AS WELL AS
HE CAN.
>> Steve: LET’S SEE WHAT
HAPPENS.
CONGRESSMAN, LET’S GET IN THE
WAY BACK MACHINE FOR A MOMENT
AND SET THE DIAL TO 2016.
NOW WE KNOW THAT APPARENTLY
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON’S
CAMPAIGN PAID AN INTERNET
COMPANY TO ESSENTIALLY FIND
STUFF SO THAT THE CAMPAIGN COULD
SAY THAT THERE WAS A DIRECT
CONNECTION BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP
AND THE RUSSIANS THEY FOUND ALL
THIS STUFF ON THEIR SERVERS AT
TRUMP TOWERS AND HIS BUSINESSES
AND HITst HIS HOME AND STUFF
LIKE THAT AND THEN LATER AT THE
WHITE HOUSE.
>> WE KNOW THAT ONE OF HER
CAMPAIGN LAWYERS IS IN HOT
WATER.
HE HAS BEEN INDICTED FOR LYING
TO THE FBI.
THE QUESTION IS IF THEY CAN
CONCOCTED A STORY LIKE THIS.
IT’S MORE THAN THAT ONE GUY WHO
KNOWS THE STORY.
AND THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE
STORY AND PUSHED THE STORY CIA,
FBI, AND ELSEWHERE IN THE INTEL
COMMUNITY, THOSE PEOPLE ARE IN
BIG TROUBLE.
>> YOU KNOW WHAT IS STRIKING TO
ME STEVE IN WHAT DURHAM HAS LAID
OUT SO FAR IS THE LEVEL OF
LEADERSHIP THAT AT THE FBI THAT
BEING CALLED BEFORE GRAND JURY.
THE GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE FBI.
THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF
INTELLIGENCE, THE ASSISTANT
DIRECTOR OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE.
WE ALL KNOW OF PETER STRZOK’S
ROLE TO SOME DEGREE ALREADY.
THIS IS, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE
THIS, AND THAT LEVEL OF FBI’S
LEADERSHIP COMBINED WITH THE
FACT THAT IT’S FROM BRENNAN’S
NOTES, WHICH THANK GOD JOHN
RATCLIFFE DECLASSIFIED ABOUT A
WHITE HOUSE MEETING, WHERE
ESSENTIALLY THIS, YOU KNOW,
OPPOSITION SCHEME FROM THE
CLINTON CAMPAIGN TO BASICALLY
SMEAR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND
PLANT A FALSE FLAG ON RUSSIA ON
THEIR SERVERS, WAS LAID OUT
BEFORE THE WHITE HOUSE.
WE HAVE THE PARTY IN CHARGE OF
ALL THE LEVERS OF POWERCO
LEWDING WITH A POLITICAL’ OPPOSITE SIDE OF A PRESIDENTIAL
OPPOSITE SIDE OF A PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN TO MAINTAIN POWER IT’S
REALLY ALMOST HARD TO BELIEVE.
IT SOUNDS LIKE A NOVEL.
THIS IS WHAT IS UNFOLDING BEFORE
US.
THIS IS A MASSIVE, MASSIVE
SCANDAL THAT I DON’T THINK WE
HAVE SEEN THE BEGINNING OF YET.
>> Ainsley: AS OF YESTERDAY ARE
ABC ZERO COVERAGE.
NBC ZERO SECONDS.
CBS ZERO SECONDS.
MSNBC ZERO SECONDS AND CNN
COVERED IT 20 MINUTES AND 30
SECONDS.
IF THE ROLES WERE REVERSED AND
IF THIS WERE PRESIDENT TRUMP
DOING THIS TO HILLARY CLINTON,
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT?
>> I WOULD EXPECT ALL OF THOSE
NETWORKS TO BE IN FULL-FLEDGED
MET DOWN TO BE LOSING THEIR
MINDS.
RIGHT?
WE ALL SAW IT DURING THE RUSSIA
HOAX BUILD UP.
YOU KNOW, THE OTHER PIECE THAT
IS REALLY STRIKING TO ME IS THAT
WE HAD A TECH COMPANY THAT
APPARENTLY HAD IT CONTRACT OR
SOME TYPE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO
MANAGE THE WHITE HOUSE’S
INFORMATION SYSTEMS.
SOME OF THE MOST SENSITIVE WORK
IN THE NATIONS AND THAT AN
EXECUTIVE IN THAT COMPANY IS
USING THAT ACCESS INTO THE WHITE
HOUSE TOE DIG UP DIRT ON THE
PRESIDENT THE
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
AND PROVIDE THAT FALSE
INFORMATION OVER TO THE FBI.
SO WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS HOW
WITTING OR UNWITTING THESE
SERIES OF FBI EXECUTIVES WERE
AND HOW DEEP THE SCANDAL GOES.
>> Steve: I THINK THE GENERAL
COUNSEL FOR THE FBI WAS
INTERVIEWED BECAUSE HE IS THE
ONE WHO REPORTEDLY, MICHAEL
SUSSMANN, THE HILLARY CLINTON
CAMPAIGN LAWYER LIED TO.
AND SO THAT’S WHY DURHAM WOULD
BE TALKING TO HIM.
>> Brian: BIGGER QUESTION IS,
JUST ON YOUR GUT FEELING WITH
ALL THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE
WITH INTELLIGENCE.
DO YOU BELIEVE THE FBI AND CIA
WERE DUPED LEGITIMATELY?
WERE THEY JUST A WINK AND A NOD?
I GET IT?
I WILL PUSH THIS FORWARD?
DO YOU THINK THEY WERE USED?
IS THERE A CHANCE?
OR DO YOU THINK THEY WERE IN ON
THIS WHOLE THING?
>> AGAIN, THAT’S WHY I GO BACK
TO THAT WHITE HOUSE MEETING
WHERE YOU HAD BRENNAN, YOU HAD
COMEY, SUSAN RICE, THE PRESIDENT
OBAMA AT THE TIME, BIDEN, AND
WHAT DID THEY WALK OUT OF THAT
ROOM AFTER THEY WERE INFORMED
THAT CLINTON PLANNED TO SMEAR
TRUMP WITH RUSSIA AGAIN AS PART
OF HER POLITICAL OFFENSIVE WHAT
DID THEY WALK OUT OF THE ROOM
AND INFORM THEIR LEADERSHIP.
BRIAN, BEST CASE, YOU HAD
SOME -- A TEENAGER CASE OF
CONFIRMATION BIAS WHEREBY THESE
OFFICIALS WANTED TO BELIEF IT
AND REALLY KIND OF TURN A BLIND
EYE AND TURN THEIR CHEEK AT WHAT
CLEARLY WAS FLAWED INTELLIGENCE.
AND YOU HAD A SINCE THEN A
NUMBER OF PEOPLE SAYING THEY
NEVER WOULD HAVE SIGNED OFF ON
FISA ZOO APPLICATIONS.
TOO LATE.
WE ALL DRUG THE COUNTRY THROUGH
ALL OF THAT AND SMEARED A
SITTING PRESIDENT.
BUT AT WORSE CASE, IF WE THIS
THAT LEVEL OF CORRUPTION, AGAIN,
OF A PARTY CONTROLLING THE
LEVELS OF -- LEVERS OF POWER.
CONTROLLING THE SURVEILLANCE
STATE.
AND THEN TURNING IT FOR
POLITICAL MEANS, ON ANOTHER
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, I DON’T
THINK THE COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN
THE LIKES OF THAT IN ITS
HISTORY.
>> Ainsley: YEAH.
WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT
THIS, TOO.
WE THIS IS A STORY THAT WE WERE
AWARE OF THIS MORNING.
LEVI STRAUS, THE JEAN COMPANY.
HER NAME IS JENNIFER AND SHE
WALKED AWAY FROM $1 MILLION
SEVERANCE PACKAGE.
SHE QUIT HER JOB BECAUSE SHE
SAID THE CEO TOLD HER, LOOK, YOU
MIGHT BECOME THE NEXT CEO IF YOU
STOP TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL
CLOSURES.
THIS IS WHAT SHE SAID.
YESTERDAY I WAS LEVI’S BRAND
PRESIDENT.
I GIFT SO I COULD BE FREE.
I TURNED DOWN $1 MILLION
SEVERANCE IN EXCHANGE FOR MY
VOICE.
SHE GOES ON TO SAY UNTIL
RECENTLY I HAVE ALWAYS FELT
ENCOURAGED TO BRING MY FULL SELF
TO WORK INCLUDING MY POLITICAL
ADVOCACY.
THAT ADVOCACY HAS ALWAYS FOCUSED
ON KIDS.
EARLY ON IN THE PANDEMIC I
PUBLICLY QUESTIONED WHETHER
SCHOOLS HAD TO BE SHUT DOWN.
THIS DIDN’T SEEM AT ALL
CONTROVERSIAL TO ME.
DURING THE FALL OF 2021 DURING A
DINNER WITH THE CEO I WAS TOLD
TO BECOME THE NEXT CEO OF LEVIS
ONLY THING STANDING IN MY WAY
WAS ME.
ALL I HAD TO DO WAS STOP TALKING
ABOUT THE SCHOOL THINGS?
S WHAT’S YOUR REACTION WALKING
AWAY FROM A MILLION DOLLARS
SEVERANCE PACKAGE AND SAYING
"I’M OUT."
>> JUST JED I MET WITH ENNEZ KAN
FREEDOM AND BECAUSE CHINA UPSET
WITH IT NOW HE IS NO LONGER WITH
THE NBA.
WE ALL KNOW WHAT CHINA DID
AGAINST THE NBA WHEN YOU HAVE
ONE COACH SAY I STAND FOR FREEDOM.
BUT, YOU KNOW WHEN IN THIS CASE
EVERYTHING HAS BECOME
POLITICIZED AND YOU ARE GOING TO
HAVE JUST NOW AS WE ARE HAVING
FREE STATE AND LITTLE VENEZUELAS
PEOPLE ARE VOTING WITH THEIR
FEET.
COMPANIES AND CORPORATIONS WHERE
YOU CAN SPEAK YOUR MIND, WHERE
YOU CAN SAY HEY, LET’S FOLLOW
THE SCIENCE OR HAVE SOME
CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT.
AND COMPANIES WHERE YOU CAN’T.
AND THAT IS JUST FURTHER
DIVIDING THE NATION.
LOOK, I WAS A SMALL BUSINESS
OWNER.
AND IT’S OKAY, I THINK, TO TAKE
A STAND TO SAY LOOK, HERE IS OUR
BRAND AND HERE IS WHAT IS IN
LINE WITH OUR BRAND.
BUT THEN DON’T BE HYPOCRITICAL
BECAUSE LEVIS HAS SPOKEN OUT ON
IMMIGRATION POLICY.
GUN CONTROL POLICY.
SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES.
AND THAT KIND OF POLITICAL
SPEECH IS OKAY, APPARENTLY.
BUT WHEN A MOM SAYS YOU KNOW
WHAT?
I HAVE ISSUES WITH THE RISE IN
TEEN GIRL SUICIDE.
WITH THE RISE IN FAILURE RATES
BECAUSE OF REMOTE SCHOOLING.
AND I’M LOOKING AT THE SCIENCE
AND KIDS AREN’T BEING AFFECTED,
LIKE THEY ARE BEING OUT OF
SCHOOL BY BEING IN SCHOOL.
AND STARTING TO RAISE THOSE
QUESTIONS AND SUDDENLY YOU ARE
CANCELED AS A SENIOR EXECUTIVE?
IT’S JUST DISTURBING, GUYS.
>> Brian: THERE IS A REPORTER AT
FORBES FOR GETTING FIRED INTO
DOING AN INVESTIGATION INTO
ANTHONY FAUCI.
TOLD YOU ARE NOT WRITING FOR US
ANYMORE.
UNBELIEVABLE.
PEOPLE HAVE TO PUSH BACK.
THE MORE PEOPLE’S EYES ARE OPEN.