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The deep state is not a theory, it's fact, and you know it as of this morning, why President Trump

has been talking about it for nine on six years, and now they're trying to take him down yet again.

We'd better to discuss it with the man who literally wrote the book, The Plot Against the President,

turned into an amazing documentary and the permanent coup, my friend and investigative reporter

and author, par excellence, Lee Smith. Welcome back to America first.

Sam, great to be with you as always.

Lee, we usually jump straight into the meat of the matter. We have the luxury of a little bit of

extra time today because this is one of our deep dimes one on one. I got to know you, I don't know

centuries ago when I was doing national security, you were doing national security, your original

book that I knew you throm was the strong horse, power politics, and the clash of cultures,

or you know, Arab-powered dynamics in the Middle East. For those who aren't familiar with your

prior work before you got into this analysis of domestic politics in the deep state, tell us a

little bit about Lee Smith and your trajectory, how you moved from international affairs to what

you're covering today. Well, this is, I mean, actually it was covering the Middle East,

covering Iran and Syria, and particularly in particular that showed me what was going on in

2016. First of all, I was covering the Syrian conflict very, very closely, and the reality was

is that Barack Obama officials were coordinating with Russia, with Vladimir Putin in Syria. I mean,

Russia's, you know, Russia came in there and partnership with the Islamic Republic of Iran

and his Bala, and the Obama administration was supportive of this. So when starting in the summer of

2016, we started to see stories about how Trump was close to Russia, and many of these leaks, many

of these statements were sourced to unnamed officials, who as it turned out were precise the same

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