CPAC Live from Pennsylvania

Hey folks, thanks for joining us for this special Friday edition of CPAC Live. We're here in Washington, Pennsylvania where tomorrow we're going to be hosting the first ever CPAC Pennsylvania. I can't tell you how great it's been to be able to get back out on the road and to hang out with our fellow conservatives and to make sure that we're all doing everything that we can to shape the direction of America. This important decision that's happening on the first Tuesday in November, just 50 days away from this momentous occasion that's going to determine the future of the next five generations. Are we going to remain to be the America that we grew up with and that we know and love? Are we going to take a far left turn toward becoming a socialist nation? All of these things are going to be determined here in just a handful of weeks, folks, and that's why we decided to come out here to western Pennsylvania. We've identified this as being one of the critical battleground states where a handful of voters, 40,000 voters in 2016, determined the direction of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and all of the electoral college votes that go along with it. This part of the state is critical as far as the issues that they care about. They are drastically affected by our relationship with China, with trade deals. There's a lot of farmland and agriculture, energy jobs out here. What's it going to look like in Joe Biden's America if these energy jobs out here in western Pennsylvania go away? There are a lot of people who are concerned about it. We're very happy to bring this program to folks, and if you're in western Pennsylvania, if you're in eastern Ohio, if you're in Morgantown or Wheeling, West Virginia, it's not too late to get your ticket. Go to conservative.org. Join us here in Washington, Pennsylvania. We're at the Washington County Airport here in Washington County. A federal judge just ruled earlier this week that Governor Wolf's lockdown orders were unconstitutional. We were going to be here either way, but we're going to have close to a thousand people here supporting the re-election of the president, standing up for conservative values. We're here at Washington County Airport. I know you can hear the airplane behind us, and stick around. We're of what's happening here tomorrow for CPAC Pennsylvania. You know who our next guest is. She's one of the people that you watch on TV and you read all the time. You can read about her latest takes on sarah8carter.com. Sarah Carter, you have started a new foundation. Tell us about the foundation. Well, very excited. It's the Dark Wire and Investigation Foundation. We actually started several years ago with our documentary that we launched, which was Not in Vain. That's V-E-I-N, and it dealt with the opioid crisis. Anybody can see the video. It was a nonprofit documentary, and it's actually on the web. So if you go to Not in Vain USA, that's V-E-I-N.com, you can see the documentary there. I thought it was really important to start especially now with mainstream media being so far to the left, it seems, and so divisive, that a place where young journalists, and this is really our goal for the foundation, where young journalists can be trained, where they can work on big projects, projects that deal with human trafficking, with opioid addiction, with other issues, whether those are conservative issues or middle-of-the-road issues, where they can get the truth out to the American people and have some guidance and some training. We're also looking at expanding this throughout Central America. We've seen a large influence of socialism and communism in those parts of the world, and we really want to get out why it's so important for liberty and freedom to have a free press and to have people that are out there documenting the truth and telling the truth. So that's our goal. Okay. So we're going to start this off. We're going to get right into this question about the deep state, the travesty that was perpetrated on Mike Flynn, the coup against the president, with a question from one of our wonderful CPAC volunteers, Kate Collins from Maryland. Here's Kate's question. Hi, Sarah. Thank you for your service to the American people. Many Americans are frustrated by the sense of injustice we see playing out daily before our eyes. Does the Democrat Party and the media in general wield so much power that no one will ever face repercussions for the attempted coup, the weaponizing of our intelligence agencies, and the unmasking of General Flynn? Look, I have faith in our system of justice, and I have faith in our country. And I know sometimes it can feel like we're never going to come to any resolution, especially with the case of the Russia hoax, what we saw happen with the Obama administration and those senior officials, and what they did to our country, basically weaponized the agencies that we trusted against their own presidency, against this administration, a duly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump. And the more and more we know about what happened, and especially when you look at Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, I've known him. I've known him since he was the J2 at the Pentagon. He was head of intelligence at the Pentagon when I first started as a reporter here in Washington, D.C. And I remember meeting this man who was so vivacious, willing to always stand up for the truth, never played the narrative. He never believed in just telling people what they wanted to hear. He always told the truth. And that was the big problem between Lieutenant General Michael Flynn and President Obama. Obama had a certain narrative. And what did President Obama do to General Flynn? Look, he fired him from the Defense Intelligence Agency. He was head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. At that time, President Obama had this narrative. He didn't want to hear the truth. A ton of people in the intelligence community that I spoke with were sending messages to the CIA, trying to get it to the president, saying, look, al-Qaida is not on the run. There's this new group called Islamic State ISIS that is building up in Syria. And we're really concerned about it. And Obama did not want that to be the message. He wanted to win the next election. And Flynn also, Sarah, is it true that Flynn literally would go and brief the president and use terms like radical Islamic terror, which really peeved President Obama? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. And he wasn't willing to back down from that. And I want to tell you about Flynn. He was a Democrat. He was appointed by President Obama. It's true. I know this to be true. You're right. And he actually really had a good relationship with him in the beginning. But one of the things that Flynn had told me during an interview, and I had known him for a long time, he's like, look, I wasn't willing to lie. My job was to deliver the facts to the administration, whether they liked those facts or not. And unfortunately, President Obama did not like the facts that I was delivering. I never once believed that Michael Flynn was a traitor to this country. I never once believed that President Trump or the campaign was conspiring with Russia. And I'll tell you why. Because never did any one of them, and I've interviewed John Brennan. I've talked to these folks. I interviewed John Brennan at CIA headquarters, December 2016. Never once did Brennan, Clapper, or any of them give any concrete evidence to the American people that there was anything going on. That's right. You have to question even authority when they're making accusations that the duly elected president of the United States is a Manchurian candidate, is working with the Russians. You can't just accept it at face value. You go back to the question, do I believe there will ever be justice? Yes, I do. I don't believe that my husband fought in wars. I don't believe that we fight for this country and for the freedoms and liberty that this country gives us, that we're a beacon of light for the rest of the world. Without us, there is no place like America. The world is in a dark place without America. Now let me ask you this. So Obama fires General Flynn, and shortly thereafter, with all the documents that have been dumped, which is really not the right word, it's transparency. They've been given to the American people who own it and pay for it. Obama essentially then, eventually, started this whole kind of spying operation with his intelligence chiefs. They had a vendetta against Flynn, and they sure made it real. Yeah, they did, Matt. And I love the way you put that because it's so important for people to understand. Flynn wasn't just about the Trump administration. It wasn't just about targeting Trump, although that was the bigger part for them, the insurance policy. And I do believe when Cindy Powell says Flynn was the insurance policy, I believe she's pretty much right on the money. The thing with Flynn was that there had already been animus between General Flynn—he was the head of the DIA and the CIA—and there were so many people, and I've interviewed some of them, that did not want Lieutenant General Michael Flynn at the White House. They knew where all the bodies were buried, I like to say. He understood the system. He was the one person in the administration that understood how things operated and where to look for the information. And he was the one guy who knew enough where he could stop some of the crap that had been going on ever since these entities, certainly the CIA, their cultures had been established. They needed him to be defanged. And so what does Obama tell Trump in that famous meeting in the Oval Office when Donald Trump has secured the presidency? What's one of the things Obama tells Trump? He plants a seed in President Trump's head, and this is why he was just so good at this. He plants a seed in his head and he says, don't let anybody tell you what to do. Put all the people you want in positions of power. This is about your presidency, but I have to warn you. I have to warn you about one person, and that's Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. You can't trust him. Do not put him in office. Do not bring him on board with the administration. He warns him, and he does that on purpose because he plants a seed in his head because he already knows. He already knows about the investigation, about the phone calls, and what's going to happen. And I believe that Obama himself knew that Trump would put Flynn in because he was targeting all of them. He just wanted to put that seed of doubt in President Trump's head. Because remember, on January 4th, the FBI wants to end the investigation on Flynn because they find no derogatory information on him whatsoever or on anyone that Flynn is connected with. On January 5th, they have the famous meeting at the White House with President Trump, with Susan Rice, Sally Yates, all of the big players, Vice President Joe Biden. Basically, Peter Strzok then keeps the investigation open on Flynn. They don't allow it to shut. They don't shut it down. Then they go in on January 24th and they interview him at the White House. They trick him, basically, because Flynn's just thinking they're coming over to talk. He thought it was part of his job as the National Security Advisor. Right. They come in and they set him up. But I think what people forget is that all the stories that leaked after that, remember, we have the stories that came, David Ignatius with the Washington Post. Let me go there. Let me do that real fast. So what people have to understand is the day Joe Biden asked for the unmasking of General Flynn, miraculously, the Washington Post through David Ignatius's pen has the full readout of General Flynn's conversations and his name is mentioned. That is classified information. I don't know for sure that Joe Biden did it. You don't know for sure that Joe Biden did. But with the 12, 17, 15 people in the Obama administration that also asked for that same information, it would be impossible not to come to the conclusion that Obama or one of his people on his behalf or on their own behalf were trying to have a kill shot on General Flynn through the Washington Post, which is illegal. And that is exactly what they went after Scooter Libby for doing, even though they claimed it falsely. You're 100% right, Matt. You're 100% right. All you have to do is look at what happened. And also the fact that David Ignatius himself says in the column that this was verified by senior administration officials. Which is an illegal activity to verify. Right. It is because this is the most classified piece of material in US possession. Believe it or not, it's up there with the top most classified pieces of documentation. Because what you're saying is you're listening in on a targeted call, which was basically then Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, and you're picking up the full conversation. And then you're unmasking the American on the other side. Not only did they tip off the Russians that we had access to that particular phone that Ambassador Sergei Kislyak was using, because at that point- Oh, wow. That's a great point. Yeah. Right? But they're also saying, look, we're weaponizing the information that we get, because what is the most valuable thing on the planet? It's information. That's right. And what that told me, Matt, was that Michael Flynn isn't the only one they were listening into. I want you to think about this. The documents that came out on Flynn that show that the 16 senior Obama officials that unmasked him, that was about 48, I think, unmaskings of Michael Flynn in those documents, right? I've got the list right here. It's almost 50. That's exactly right. Right. So during that timeframe, it increased threefold. They weren't just unmasking Michael Flynn. That's only what we know, because David Ignatius leaked that in the paper, and now we have these documents. And look, Sarah, the other thing is you go back to the previous Republican administration and the George W. Bush administration. When Clapper goes on CNN and says, oh, these unmaskings happened regularly, it is true that people at a lower level, for instance, at the CIA or an intelligence agency, would, of course, know both parties in a phone conversation. But the American has rights, and it is irregular for those names to be pushed up to the political offices, for instance, the president, the vice president, those serving in a White House. It has to reach a very high legal bar for that individual American's name to be disclosed. General Flynn was stripped of those rights as an American citizen. So the question is, who was so good as to get these, you said it was how many, 15 people in the Obama administration to all ask for the unmaskings around the same time? Isn't the culprit there John Brennan? Right. I mean, all you have to do is think about this. I have a friend, many friends, actually, that I've worked with and stories that worked in the intelligence community, one that retired after 30 years, and cloak and dagger CIA stuff, right? I asked them, how many times did you unmask an American? Because these are people that legitimately can investigate, right? Joe Biden is not an investigator. He doesn't have any reason to have an unmasking. Samantha Power, she shouldn't be unmasking people. No, that's ridiculous. Susan Rice, they're not investigators. They're not working as target analysts at the CIA. They're not doing any of this. Joe Biden doesn't need to ask for an unmasking unless he's going to do something political. Right, exactly. So let me ask you as we- Only three times in that person's career, three times. Another person told me only once. So you think about how many times the Obama administration unmasked Americans, and it's insane. It has been a triple fold. So Sarah, as we come to the end of this segment, which has been enriched by the fact that you took time to come talk to our CPAC community, we want to have you back on. But I want to really just get a yes or no answer. I have what I think the answer is. I want to hear from you. Between Brennan, and Clapper, and Comey, and Yates, and Strzok, and Page, and McCabe, and Baker, and there's 20 more I could go through. Will there be any indictments in your opinion, yes or no? Yes. Yes. God. God, from your mouth to God's ears. Sarah Carter, thanks for joining us on CPAC Live. And as you all know, we'll be with you back Monday at 3.30 PM Eastern Standard Time, and we look forward to being with you. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, CPAC. Thank you, Sarah. We're here at Washington County Airport, where tomorrow we're going to host CPAC Pennsylvania in this airplane hangar. We are on the tarmac right now. Let's go take a look and see how the preparations for the event are going. The state of Pennsylvania in 2016 came down to 44,000 votes. That's just a handful of votes in the grand scheme of things. We're going to have about 1,000 pumped up conservative activists who are here to support the reelection of the president, who understand that the conservative values that he is, and the conservative agenda that he brought about with his policy initiatives and working towards conservative solutions are good things for all Americans. It doesn't just single out a handful of Americans the way that liberal policies do, and it elevates all Americans. And that's why so many people around here are proud to be conservatives. You can see the chairs are starting to get set up. It's a very big airplane hangar. I'm not quite sure if you get the size and scope of this thing, but you can probably fit two or three 737s in here. It's a magnificent space. It's an indoor and outdoor thing, lots of beautiful fresh air, but also obviously a roof and stuff. So if we get a little bit of weather, everybody's going to stay dry. The chairs are getting set up. You can see in the background there that the stage is here, but we haven't begun to install that quite yet. We'll have lots of local media here, which will be a fantastic thing as far as being able to reach people and activists and conservatives who aren't able to be here. A lot of hard working folks here that make this thing happen. Once the cameras go on and the lights go on, you see Matt Schlapp, you see Dan Schneider, you see Charlie Giroux, you see me up there. But the fact is that there are dozens, dozens of people behind the scenes, behind the curtain who helped make this thing happen. And you can see a lot of them working their tail off right now, making sure that we have a great event out here in Western Pennsylvania. One of the reasons we do this is to give people a great experience. But the more important goal of this entire event is to make sure that folks are energized and are ready to go out there the first Tuesday of November. And between now and that first Tuesday of November, that they're talking to their neighbors, that they're talking to their classmates, that they're talking to the people that are part of their network as far as reminding them about what's at stake in the 2020 election and going out there and organizing and making sure you go out there and vote. For folks, a big issue this year is mail-in balloting. The governor or the state Supreme Court here in Pennsylvania just ruled that they're going to extend mail-in balloting for, I think, three days after the election. So we may not know the results of this state on Wednesday morning and that first Wednesday in November. We may have to wait a few more days to see how this mail-in balloting goes. But you can be assured that the thousand people that attend CPAC Pennsylvania are going to be pumped up and making sure that their neighbors are doing everything that they can to make sure they've got a voice and that voice is heard as far as determining the direction of America for future generations. And that's what we're doing here. We've got Diamond and Silk. We've got KT McFarlane. We've got Gordon Chang. We've got Sarah Carter. A lot of the issues that we're talking about are going to be how what happens in Washington, D.C. affects people's here in western Pennsylvania, whether that's about electric cars and solar panels versus coal and natural gas. These are basic issues, folks. It's not some foreign concept that, you know, people down in Washington, D.C. This is about keeping your house warm in the wintertime. This is like the first fall day. Here we are, September 18th, and it's a little chilly. I got my sweater on. But how are you going to keep your house warm? You need natural gas for that. How are you going to keep your car running? How are you going to get to work? If you're a truck driver, if you're a teamster, how are you going to keep that big rig going and bringing goods to grocery stores? We all have followed what's happened in 2020 and how important it is that things, that items make it to the grocery stores. These things don't happen without a lot of the natural resources that are found out here in western Pennsylvania. So stick around. We're going to bring you some more behind-the-scenes footage at some point from CPAC Pennsylvania. We want you to be out here with us, and we'll see you again on Monday for another fun-filled Action Pack edition of CPAC Live.