Fmr. Amb. Hoekstra: 'Nobody in Washington has credibility on spending right now'
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🗓️ 6 January 2023
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Former Ambassador Pete Hoekstra explains how Republicans in the House can return to fiscal conservatism. He says they need to "take the tough votes and demonstrate how they're going to get there," since "we cannot sustain a $30 trillion debt that is bigger than the American economy and that's driving in inflation." He also discusses the misdeeds of the intelligence community which "is being used to target Americans and to censor American speech" and suppress stories about COVID origins, despite the fact that the intelligence community and "people like Fauci knew about it." Facebook whistleblower Cassandra Spencer discusses her work in uncovering social media censorship of conservatives and the Twitter files revelations that the federal government was "strong-arming the tech companies to come to the conclusions that they wanted them to find, even if the evidence didn't support that." She hopes for further investigations, saying that with the Twitter files, "we're just scratching the surface. We need the Facebook files and we need the Google files."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and happy Friday. What a great line that we have for you today. You're going |
| 0:11.6 | to hear from one of the very first big tech whistleblowers to blow the whistle on censorship, |
| 0:19.4 | on suppression of free speech. This long predates the Twitter files that Elon Musk has been |
| 0:25.9 | releasing and shocking us all with Cassandra Spencer. She was a contractor for Facebook and she came |
| 0:32.0 | out in 2018 through Project Veritas, James O'Keefe's group and began to reveal what was going on in |
| 0:39.7 | the suppression of content in the Facebook realm. And it was the first hint that a thumb was on |
| 0:47.3 | the scale that conservatives were being targeted. And from that, we have now learned so many different |
| 0:52.9 | ways, including that the United States government, the form of the FBI, the intelligence community, |
| 0:57.3 | even in the form of Adam Schiff, were making requests and succeeding at censoring people. A pretty |
| 1:03.2 | remarkable set of revelations. But it all began. The first real whistleblower, the first real |
| 1:09.0 | inkling of a systemic effort to censor content in America. It came from Cassandra Spencer. She later |
| 1:16.3 | wrote a book about this. It's a very powerful book, Impact, Colin, how I went behind enemy lines |
| 1:22.6 | in our struggle against the far left. Cassandra Spencer is going to join us at the top of the show to |
| 1:28.0 | talk about what she knows. And her warning is very cogent. Her warning is there are far more people |
| 1:35.7 | and far more instances, far more entities involved in censorship. And it goes way earlier than 2020, |
| 1:43.0 | which is where the Twitter file sort of focus our attention on the 2020 election. She says it |
| 1:48.0 | really began in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election. And so we're going to learn a lot |
| 1:53.9 | from Cassandra Spencer. Take an enjoy that conversation straight up honest answers from a whistleblower |
| 1:59.8 | whose book by the way has gotten a lot of attention. And then in the second half of the show, |
| 2:04.3 | we're going to bring in a former member of Congress, former chairman of the House Intelligence |
| 2:08.6 | Committee, former ambassador to the Netherlands during the Trump years. Congressman Pete Hokstra |
| 2:14.5 | is going to join us for the second half of the show. We're going to talk about that censorship |
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