Brian, Karen, my good friend, great to have you here on When You Know You Know, Unleashed the podcast, the continuation of the show, when you know you know.

So, look, one of the questions that I asked you at the very end is, when you have this weaponization fund and you have the fighting that's going on as it is right now.

When you see somebody like Todd Blanche getting grilled by Democrats and some established

Republicans, folks like the John Cornans or the Tillis's, who are desperate to put a fork

in this fund, the question I want to ask you, is there panic really about the $1.8 billion?

Or you think that they're terrified of the precedent that it's going to set?

And I said to you in the ending of my show, when you know you know,

if the deal, this is my thought.

If the Department of Justice institutionalizes a way for citizens to get paid when the government oversteps, like what they did to me, doesn't that strip Congress and the deep state of their ultimate weapon of intimidation? Isn't the bipartisan backlash just the swamp protecting its own power

to target people? Well, I've been targeted my whole life and I don't know what to tell you there.

I don't know. I have to know what the definition of deep state is. And I also don't think that

their objection to Todd deep state is. And I also don't think that their objection to

Todd Blanche is based entirely on this. I think it's a sidebar. If you're asking if the swamp of

Washington, D.C. protects itself. Of course it does. It always it always has. Right. Yeah, I mean, that's not, I mean, it bothers me that you have a Congress that adjourned at Christmas time without taking up affordable health care for the rest of us while they get free health care for life.

It bothers me that members of Congress, members of the executive branch, members of the judicial

branch all have paid maternity leave when millions of Americans can't get it.

Those things do bother me.

The thing that D.C. does best is protect itself.

That is Congress, that is the executive branch,

that is the judicial branch. Do they, and if you mean by Deep State, those actors who are in office,

well, yeah, they protect themselves. Todd Blanche has far bigger problems than this particular fund. This particular

fund is a function of of DC doing what DC does, to your point, but Todd Blanche doing what he

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