America’s Enemies Are Already Here — Ex-FBI Agent Mark Rossini Issues a Chilling Warning

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Dangerous Laughter. [00:00:03] Speaker B: Laughter. [00:00:05] Speaker A: Dangerous. Dangerous laughter. Dangerous laughter. Danger. Left here, sam. [00:01:08] Speaker C: The emergency destruct system is now activated. The option to override detonation procedure has now expired. The ship will automatically destruct in E minus one minute. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. And welcome back to another edition of Dangerous Laughter. I am AJ Rice. Remember, we are unfit for polite company here on the DL Show. And you know, those of you out there, I'm getting these messages, I'm getting emails, getting DMS from people telling me, I gotta go see this, this he man movie, this Masters of the Universe movie. Because Nancy Pelosi's in this movie. They keep. A bunch of dummies are messaging me, guys, they're saying, oh, we gotta go see the Master Universe, the reboot from the 80s movie. Now, look, I'm a geriatric millennial. I love He man, right? Love some He Man. The movie's been made before, I think, with like, Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langello a while ago. So we got a Masters of the Universe movie. They're telling me Nancy Pelosi's in this movie. Now, I went and looked. That is not her. That is Skeletor. And apparently Jared Leto is under, you know, is playing Skeletor. Now, this is a man who just ruins one sci fi franchise after another. He ruins. He plays the Joker. No one remembers. He was in the. His Blade Runner sequel. No one remembers. What else? Morbius, right? This vampire guy. So they just keep inserting Jared Leto into these movies. No one wants to see him. I mean, God bless Jared Leto. I mean, he keeps working, he's wandering around, he always looks like he's a little bit high. But just understand, Skeletor is not Nancy Pelosi guy. So stop messaging me and telling me that that's who the hell that is. It's not. It's not the case. So for my next Dangerous guest, we gotta. We got a very interesting show for you today. You know, sometimes on Dangerous Laughter, we do more laughter than danger. Sometimes we do more danger than laughter. Sometimes we do both. But my next dangerous guest, guys, he's an international man of mystery. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Okay? [00:03:34] Speaker C: Fred And I would tell you something. If Frederico Fellini was still making films, this man would be the star. Yeah, he would be the star. Or he could be like the star of, like, Ferragamo AD or, you know, maybe a little Balenciaga AD. He joined the FBI in 1991, joined the Joint Terrorism Task Force in 1997. After the September 11th attacks, 2001 became the FBI's representative to the CIA. He was once the man responsible for putting together the presidential threat matrix. So these are all the threats post 911 that the president then at the time was George W. Bush, was dealing with. He is smarter than Jack Ryan, better dressed than James Bond, and better looking than Jason Bourne. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the mysterious, the debonair Mark Rossini, everybody. [00:04:28] Speaker D: Wow. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Thank you. I didn't know. Or tuxedo. [00:04:34] Speaker C: Hey. [00:04:34] Speaker B: Well, you know what? [00:04:35] Speaker C: You're broadcast, you're, you're coming to us live from the undisclosed location. So you're probably someplace that's a little nicer than North America. We don't know where, but here you are. Here you are. And look, you and I, we've known each other, We've known each other some time, haven't we? [00:04:51] Speaker A: Indeed, indeed. A while now, of course. Since about 2008, I'd say. Probably. [00:04:57] Speaker C: Yeah, you were right in the thick of it. And you were right in the thick of it. So, so, you know, just to set the, the tone here and I, I saw we had some of them up there a minute ago. I just want to walk people through a little bit of, of your career in the national security space working with the FBI. Throw those bullets up again there, Chris. Let me see those again. Just to walk people through it. I mean, joined, then went through. Hit me with the next one. I mean, this, I had, I got Rossini's resume. I'm like, I gotta boil this down to like 10 things. How the hell are we gonna do that? When the, when the, the, the embassy attacks happened In Africa before 9, 11, you were, you were dispatched to investigate that. You know, you, you started, but you kind of started out in these sort of white collar, right, you know, crime side of the FBI. And then as the 90s progressed, as Al Qaeda was, was basically ratcheting up pressure, right, you got moved over slowly into counter terrorism, is that correct? [00:06:02] Speaker A: Well, that's correct. What, what happened was in the 90s when it started to percolate ever since the attack in 93, the first World Trade center attack. That's right, the blind shake. That's when the leaders of the FBI decided that we needed, they needed more criminal, experienced agents over to work on the JTTF that they wanted. People had that experience in gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses, being in a courtroom, being in front of a grand jury in order to make the case. So that's why I was moved over, because of my six prior years experience while putting people in jail and getting convictions and understanding how the court system worked and who the players were. So it was a natural segue. And then of course, after 9 11, the JTTF just exploded to the point of God. [00:06:59] Speaker C: Well, and, and just to. I mean, there are people that, that, you know, have problems with the FBI. There are people that go down rabbit holes about September 11th. But as someone that kind of. I mean, I kind of changed my career because of the September 11, 2001 attacks. I was going to creative writing and film school. I was, you know, and I redirected the politics and specifically Middle east studies and political science and started working on congressional campaigns, which led me to Ingram. And you know, it's how I ended up here. Want to bore everyone with my bullet points. But what people forget is we had this first World Trade center attack, which is a couple years after you joined the FBI. And the goal was to blow up the basement of one of the buildings and Ramsey Yousef was the bomber and to have that tower fall into the second tower. Right. [00:07:53] Speaker A: That was, that was exactly the plan and the plot. And mind you, if he had parked that van literally just a few feet or yards to one way or the other, it would have worked. [00:08:09] Speaker C: That's right. [00:08:10] Speaker A: That's. [00:08:10] Speaker C: We're talking. [00:08:11] Speaker A: We're talking about the curse or not. [00:08:14] Speaker C: No. [00:08:14] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:08:14] Speaker C: This is dangerous. Laughter. You say whatever the hell you want, [00:08:17] Speaker A: but that's how close it was. [00:08:19] Speaker C: That's right. [00:08:19] Speaker A: A few feet or yards away and he would have brought them down. [00:08:23] Speaker C: Holy. [00:08:24] Speaker A: And the mayhem and destruction that deaths that would have caused, all because of some sick war ideology that we still don't understand. Don't. All right, I got my substar. That you, A.J. [00:08:39] Speaker C: keep going. Let's hear it. [00:08:40] Speaker A: No, from that. 9, 11 and everything else. Now you got students protesting in America for Hamas. That's right. Where do we draw the line of. It's a stopping idiocy. These people want to kill us. Get that through your head. Hamas's own charter said the destruction of Israel, destruction of Jews and the destruction of all non believers. What part don't you get? So this is. It's just. I find it. I'm sorry I got emotional and upset about it, but it's just, it's mind boggling. I really just. I find it and. And then they throw around this word genocide, right? Oh, genocide. Genocide in Gaza. Really? I, I think if someone wants race convicted, they start up together. They start. It's just, you know, having my background, everybody wants to. What's your opinion like? Like I'm deflecting grand pool.com but they said to me, it's a genocide. And I said, hold on, I've seen. Won't you ever, ever use the word genocide with an Armenian? That's right. I didn't have an Italian last name because my father was Italian, my mother was 100% Armenian, and my Armenian grandparents lived through the genocide. And they remember vividly the stories that they told me, which I remember vividly of Turks coming in on horseback with swords and decapitating heads. That's a genocide. If Israel wanted to commit a genocide against Gaza, they could have lined up bulldozers in one day into the ocean, 30 minutes, bombed him to death. [00:10:29] Speaker C: That's right. [00:10:30] Speaker A: Matter of fact, the population of Gaza has actually grown in population. So there is no genocide. Rant over. Let's go forward. [00:10:38] Speaker C: Right, well, I mean, no, we're gonna rant. We're gonna rant for an hour here. So. So in the night. No, you're right. I mean, anyone that's actually studied genocides, whether it's the Armenian one, the world, World War II, even the rape of Nanking and some of the stuff the Japanese did to the Chinese. Right, yes. Go study that. Go. I mean, study. Study the spread of the Ottoman Empire. Study what happened. [00:11:00] Speaker A: Boko Haram, killing all those Christians in northern Nigeria. [00:11:04] Speaker C: Stop. That's right. That's right. And our, our client, Mayor Mike Arnold, I mean, they're after him for writing books about it and going down and reporting on it. You're right. Absolutely. It gets thrown around the same way. You know, some of these other, you know, World War II buzz terms get thrown around. So as we, we look at this sort of archipelago of radical Islam that goes from the Philippines and Ibuf all the way to New York City on the first World Trade center attack. Throughout the 90s, throughout the 90s, we are slowly doing what the Bedouin Arab suings love. This phrase is death by a thousand cuts. So we've got world, first World Trade center attack, we've got Cobar Towers, we've got the Blackhawk down situation where, you know, where Ilhan Omar's relatives are taking out black, Black Hawk helicopters. Okay. And Mogadishu. Bill Clinton sends him in there with a bunch of pop guns and, and, and, and Super Soaker weapons. And they put the UN in charge, a bunch of blue hat, you know, dummies. So we, as we move through the 90s, the Taliban take over Afghanistan, we have the embassy bombings in Africa, which you were involved with, right? [00:12:14] Speaker A: Yes. [00:12:15] Speaker C: And when you were sent there and you, you were in the Mid, you know, in the mix of that, was there any, right, was there anyone saying that what is going on here with this group and this leadership, these things are connected, or was each one sort of taken in isolation? Well, you know, it's the religion of peace. And you know, this just happened. This happens in the Middle east all the time. This happens with radical Sunni, you know, Wahabi ism all the time. Or is someone starting to say, and look, you know, the audience is meeting you for the first time today, so forgive me asking, I'm asking you questions, I asked you 20 years ago. Is there anyone connecting the dots of all these attacks? [00:12:56] Speaker A: Here's the problem with that. When, when not with you, with what you're saying, the problem is with the way the problem is addressed or was addressed. And even still, it may unfortunately still be being misaddressed in that the people on the ground, the grunts, right, the man and woman working the case, the cop on patrol, they know what the ground truth is. They know that guy over there is bad news, that they're connected, right? It's when the politicians get involved, it's when the political thing comes alive. When the strategic long term objective gets in the way of, well, you know, we need that country and there's a guy over there we need for this policy we want to enact. That's when things get fucked up, when they lose focus and when they don't take seriously the people that the people in power just dismisses. Oh, you're just a bunch of like, you know, cops that want to like, you know, arrest people and you want to, you want to be like Rambo. No, these people are bad and they kill people and they need to be arrested and brought to justice and, or neutralized in a war. Well, so that's always the problem because there's never, it's never black and white and it should be because it's war. And that's another thing that I haven't talked about with, with other folks is that we treat terrorism as still a criminal act. Again, this goes back to why I got transferred over to the jttf, right? Because they wanted agents with criminal experience, right? To make a case. And what does that mean? When you make a case, that means the crime has already been committed. So now you're playing catch up to prove that person did a crime rather than in a war. You stop them from preventing the crime, you neutralize them beforehand. Oh no, he's advocating murder. No, stop. Just shut up. Get your fucking brain in that. Rumsfeld said the global warrant's ever gy. Gwod. Okay, everybody's talking about the gwod, but we still treat it as a criminal investigation. We have started to make it, let's say, to neutralize or stop the problem before it grows. But we need to go further than that. We need to treat it as a true war because they are at war with us. Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Boko Haram. They are at war with America. But unfortunately for our Constitution, only Congress can declare war. Maybe it's time we have a rethink about that and say, you know what? We declare war against Al Qaeda. Maybe we should do that. [00:15:46] Speaker C: Sure. And look, you know, the. The presidents have used, you know, their power for kinetic action, whether it's. Whether it's, you know, rabbit and pineapple face in Panama, right, Or. Or the invasion of Grenada or, you know, Reagan bomb and Gaddafi, you know, I mean, has happened it, and it does happen. And. And, you know, Bill Clinton bombed what, a couple of aspirin factories or something in the right. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Yes, [00:16:18] Speaker C: that's right. I mean, obama was. Was Mr. Drone Strike. I mean, he was just flying on those drones around. He was just drowning. Everybody was drowning. The FedEx guy was. I mean, everybody got droned. [00:16:29] Speaker B: Right? [00:16:29] Speaker A: I mean, look, he took out Anwar Al Aqi, which I have no. I lose no sleep over that. [00:16:35] Speaker C: No, there's no. There's no. There's no tears there. [00:16:37] Speaker A: And. And what he did was. He. He. He. His decision was made pursuant what they call a finding where the preponderance of the evidence was so great that even a moron with a 50 IQ can say that guy's a terrorist if he's guilty. Right. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:54] Speaker A: And it's war. And that's what we perhaps need. Now, of course, the danger in that is that while you go a little too far, you play loosey goosey with the evidence, etc. We always have to have guardrails to make sure we're doing something, which. Remember, A.J. we're talking about taking someone's life and their liberty. Which leads me to another story. When I first got out of the FBI Academy, right? In 1991, I report to New York and I'm all full of, you know, fish and vinegar, right? I want to take. [00:17:31] Speaker C: That's right. [00:17:33] Speaker A: I want to arrest everybody. Everybody's legal. And first case I had, the first prosecutor I worked with, still a lifelong friend. And I said, we were in a meeting about this case, and I said, we should arrest him because I just got out of the academy three days ago. So I want to show that I'm listening and I'm important. And he turned to me and he said in front of the other agents, and he said, and it wasn't a takedown. He said to me, mark, he said, I know you're new, but I want to tell you something. We're talking about taking someone's liberty. And I will only give you an arrest warrant, let you sign off on one, go to a grand jury, go before a judge, swear out of the complaint. Only if you can come to me and say that you looked yourself in the mirror and you did everything possible in your power to prove that person's innocence. And every time, you keep trying to prove that innocence, but you keep coming up guilty, keep coming up allegedly guilty. And only then, because then I know you've got a personal stake in it, you've got a conscience about it. And I never, ever forgot that lesson, AJ and that's a good lesson. What? [00:18:50] Speaker C: It's an amazing lesson. [00:18:51] Speaker A: It is an amazing lesson that I wish more agents and people would take into consideration. [00:18:57] Speaker C: And look, the thing that's. The thing that scares me. I'm going to take a break here in a second. The thing that, the thing that scares me is that I, I, and I've asked Bongino about this and others. I, I worry that people with your type of background, your pedigree, sir, you know, how you see the universe, whether you can even get into the FBI or some of the national security agencies anymore, because of the way we're selecting untalented people, is that this is no longer just a meritocracy where people, you know, oh, we need a, you know, we need a black, and we need a bearded lady, and we need this and we need that. And instead of a bunch of Rossinis that I feel safe at night if there's more of you sort of coming through the farm system. And I feel that especially when the Democrats are in charge, they don't, they don't sort of prioritize meritocracy or some of the street knowledge that you obviously have. I, you know, it makes me. It makes me, you know, fearful at night. [00:20:07] Speaker A: It's meritocracy, but it's also just common sense. And you have, you have to have people that don't have a personal political agenda. And that's very, very hard because we're all political at heart. Even a judge is political, right? Even the president's obviously political. We're all political political beliefs. But you have to leave those out the door when you, when you're talking about someone's liberty. And that is the most important thing that we have to remember for any person in law enforcement. Understand? Look, I would give my right arm to go back to the government. Honestly. Honest to God, I really would. I admire what the government can do. The problem is not the government, is the people that are in the government. Sure. That do not take that power or they run amok with it or it's abuse. That's why you have to have proper checks and balances. [00:21:02] Speaker C: Absolutely. And, you know, and I've done some recent interviews, one with the president's lawyer. You know, lawfare has been used. It's been used against you. We're going to get into that later. It's, you know, and, you know, I gotta. Friend of mine, sort of famous FBI guy, John Legato, you know, he has always told me he's just, He's a famous sort of legend. There's a Marine Corps, he said, you know, guys like Rossini and Legato, they don't go to. We don't go to Washington to sit in cubicles behind the venetian blinds and diddle themselves. They want to help the country. Right. It's like, you know, Cash Patel said, you know, if you want to be cops, go be cops. Go investigate. But for too long, for too long, we've got these pencil necks. They're political animals. You know, the, the, the Muellers and the Rosenbergs and the Rosenstein and the, and the, you know, Fitzgeralds and all the rest of them, they come to D.C. and, you know, they're just, they want to gobble up power and they're not there to do what you just said. So listen, we're going to take a break. I am AJ Rice. This is dangerous Laughter. 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You're listening to Dangerous Laughter on the Publius Media Network. [00:23:31] Speaker C: We are back on Dangerous Laughter. Doing a little more danger today than laughter. Although Rossini's a pisser, as they used to say. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Right? [00:23:39] Speaker C: I am. [00:23:39] Speaker D: A.J. price. [00:23:41] Speaker C: Remember, we are unfit for polite company. I've got the Armenian Italian stallion in the house. Okay? We're gonna. You know, I'm telling you, this guy, look, I see a lot of bozos. I see a lot of bozos that think they know things in the media, on tv. Now, now that I have this show, I'm. [00:24:01] Speaker A: I'm dust. [00:24:02] Speaker C: You know, I guess the secret's out. I mean, I have had all kinds of people that have given me advice on the world, on international affairs, national security, and all the rest of it over the years. And, you know, I don't like to share my experts with people, although I think that, you know, the cat's out of the bag today. But I've known Mark a long time, going back to when I was a producer of shows 15, almost 20 years ago. And look, he's always been an amazing resource. He should be out there more. [00:24:32] Speaker B: And. [00:24:33] Speaker C: And one of the things I want to address is in January of this year, you received a pardon from President Trump. Right? Now, anyone that knows AJ Rice, Publius PR Understands. I have worked with Paul Manafort, Okay? I did his book. I've done four Peter Navarro books. I know Flynn. I know. I mean, yeah, Papadopoulo. I mean, I. That, you know, I've. We've worked with tons of the J6ers. We've worked with. I mean, so. So, you know, ro. John Wilson, who was caught up in a. In a. Basically a sting operation, a change of venue sting operation over the Varsity Blues scandal, which was, you know, all those famous people that were lying about getting their kids into college by pretending to be on the swim team or the crew team or, you know, it's like Aunt Becky from Full House. So, so I. Look, we have guests on this show that talk about lawfare. The President, United States has experienced it. We've got a fund that has now been set up through the IRS for people that have. That have had the government weaponized against them. It's like 1.8 billion. You know, I mean, I don't know. I got kicked off of LinkedIn four years ago. Maybe I can make a claim. I don't know. And I'm still not back on LinkedIn, Mark. I'm still. [00:25:53] Speaker A: Wow. Really? [00:25:54] Speaker C: Why? You know, number one conservative PR firm in the United States, and we did it without LinkedIn. Imagine that. So I've got. I've got Mark, Mark Rossini here today. So hit me with that image, Chris. We got. So President Trump pardoned. We're not going to spend a lot of time on this. The idea that even some of our best guys, and I think everyone that's working at DOJ right now, you know, I'm sure Bonjino feels this way. Who's gone already and the cash, I'm sure, feels this way. I know Ed Martin does, my buddy. There are people that if the Democrats get back in power, they are going to come for everyone that served in this White House. For the most part, it's just with this lawfare, we're just going to trade blows now, I guess. I mean, it's kind of. It's been kind of going on since the Clinton impeachment, but I think that's where we are. And it's a shame because as John Adams once said, we're supposed to be a country of laws and not a country of men who have vendettas and hunt people down. So, Mark, if you want to address the pardon and what exactly happened, I'll give you the floor. [00:27:01] Speaker A: Well, no, I just, I want to be as an echo here. Okay. I. I want to just be brief on this. I'm extremely grateful for the president for granting myself and the two other individuals involved in the case, Mr. Herrera and former Governor Wanda Vasquez, a pardon for the misdemeanor crime. Remember that? Originally charged with a whole slew of felonies that just were preposterous. And then I think what people should do is read my motion to dismiss and also read a letter that a filing a document that Governor Vasquez's lawyers provided at the end of the case when we had agreed to a misdemeanor charge just to make it go away. And then President Trump then rightly gave us a party for that misdemeanor, so we weren't even sentenced yet. So therefore, his pardon effectively just obliterates the whole thing like it never even happened. And what a waste of time. When I remember when it first happened, I got calls from former agents who said to me, and people who actually served in Puerto Rico said, it's political, it's all political. And they had read the indictment and said, well, this is kind of thin. Like where, where's the bribe? What, what, what, what happened? Nothing happened. So you have to go through three and a half, four years of this Kafka experience where you're fighting like Don Quixote windmills, right? Can't get any traction. No one's listening to what you're saying. You came to me, get an evidentiary hearing at a minimum. That's why I wanted an evidentiary hearing. Show me the evidence. Okay. Couldn't even get that. So there's you. It is so frustrating. You, you, no one will hire you. You get no phone calls, you lose your income. It's just debilitating. And I am now just starting to try to emerge from that thousand pound weight that was over my head over nothing. And anybody that takes the time to read the court filings, not supposition by people that call themselves a journalist, they connect these dots that are gazillion light years away from each other to make their case. Read what's in the court filings and you will see that there was nothing there. That's really all I need to say about that. But I am grateful again for the President, as I understand that the president actually, this is what other thing people say, oh, he just signed it. No, I understand that the President actually read the file. Requested the file in the evening. It was an evening. And he read it and said there's no case. And we were all, we all got our parties now the pieces to go forward. [00:30:00] Speaker C: And let, let me do a little analysis. You don't have to do it. So we have had on this show recently both Christina, Bob and Alex Sawyer, both who have written books about lawfare. Other people have done it too. Bongino and others have done it. I mean, there's a ton of books out there on. Right. They're both attorneys. Bob was present at Mar a Lago when the FBI came running through there to check out, you know, Melania's, you know, underwear drawer. [00:30:30] Speaker A: Oh, okay. The, the document case. Yes. [00:30:33] Speaker C: Right. So they've been writing about lawfare. So I mean, this is something that's now part of the vernacular. So the idea that the governor of Puerto Rico, who I guess when that hurricane happened, Trump went there immediately and he brought water and he brought, I mean, he, he was there, I, I believe with Governor Wanda Vasquez. [00:30:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:30:57] Speaker C: And, and she endorsed him. [00:30:59] Speaker A: Right. [00:31:00] Speaker C: And I guess someone. And there's tons of ink on Merrick Garland's partisanship. Right. He's not just a goofy Guitar player, Right. And he's probably pissed that Trump kept him from the Supreme Court. Thank God. And you get a little shout out to, you know, Mitch McConnell, Foghorn Leghorn for getting that done. It does look, you know, if you're a conservative that's been through the last 10 years, right? And you've seen this, you know, Don Jr. Being sucked in and I crossfire hurricane and all the rest of it. Kobe saying, oh, we're gonna go have a conversation with Flynn and see what he says. You know, all this stuff that went on, it's not really that far fetched that, you know, the Biden DOJ would go after the governor of Puerto Rico and anyone in her orbit. [00:31:48] Speaker A: Well, look there, I'm just going to refer to the newspaper articles that have been written. Okay, sure. Again, I can't cite it in my brain, but I remember reading an article or two that rightly, correctly pointed out that the investigation of Ms. Vasquez, Governor Vasquez, was commenced, was officially opened up. The opening serial, as we call it in the FBI took place 10 days after she flew to Washington D.C. in October 2020 and officially endorsed Trump. Now, of course, the tea leaves are in that Biden was going to assume the presidency. And 10 days. So in between that endorsement, you had another 20 days to the election. Ten days after Wanda's endorsement, the case is officially open. So that you have to, you have to look at, don't, don't look at what people think. Look at evidence, look at facts. You know, and it's funny, I, I had several people say to me, and good, I'm harp all questions. Yes, but you were indicted by a grand jury. And I always point out, I go, really? Did you ever hear of the Central Park Five? What, what, what, What? Central Park Five. Five young men of color who were arrested, indicted, convicted and went to jail for a crime they didn't even commit. One of them actually confessed to the crime and he wasn't even there. Right. So you tell me. So when you say, oh, you were indicted, no, pal, you can indict a ham sandwich, as Bruce Cutler famously said. Because what is the grand jury? AJ A grand jury is where a bunch of your peers allegedly come into a room amongst all the trappings and power of the government and the wood paneled walls and they feel like they're part of this team and it's a one sided affair. You, the agent and you and the prosecutor. And the prosecutor just throws you questions that a softball. Moreover, hearsay is allowed, right? Well, I spoke to someone who told me that he spoke to someone and they said the following, that so and so did this. That's allowed in the grand jury, not in the courtroom, but that's allowed in the grand jury. So something has got to change there. And look, if you've got a bank robbery case, you've got DNA, you got fingerprints, you got a, you got a fraud case where there's checks, there's recordings, I get it, that's solid evidence. You've got this political supposition and innuendo. You need perhaps maybe to have maybe a defense lawyer in there, not necessarily of the people you're investigating, but just another voice that says, oh, wait a second, I don't think so. Then you could say if you still return a true bill after that you go probability. Going back to that conversation of that first ausa, I had look yourself in the mirror that you have done everything to prove that person's innocence, but you can't come up with any other solution or reason or. There you go, then I'll believe that grand jury. [00:35:20] Speaker C: And let me, let me just look, I'm. This is a cultural show. We do political satire here. [00:35:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:28] Speaker C: I have written three books, I've written three books on Wokeism and how it gets. I mean, the genie's out of the bottle on the way the left thinks. And if you look at the 2024 election, Donald Trump made the electorate. He sort of. It became more blue collar, it became more multi ethnic. For all the talk about the blue wall that came down in the Rust belt states, the second blue wall that collapsed was the one along the Texas Mexican border. All those counties were Democrat counties. They all flipped to Trump. That's why when the Democrats talk about how they're going to flip Texas, I guess they never take it into consideration that Hispanics, you know, know how to say George Washington in Spanish. But if you are an African American that decides to become a Republican and run, Byron Donald's running for governor of Florida. If you are a Hispanic, whether you're in the Central Valley of California or, or in Puerto Rico or wherever you are, if you decide to leave the color coded Woke plantation where you are supposed to be a certain way because your name is Vasquez or Gutierrez or Rodriguez or whatever. [00:36:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:36:51] Speaker C: They will come for you to punish you because they don't want anyone else, you know, to follow you there. [00:37:00] Speaker A: Recently. [00:37:01] Speaker C: Yeah, go ahead. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Recently I just saw on Real Time with Bill Maher Rahma manual being interviewed about this very subject. And he said it just correctly, like what you're saying what I'm going to say. The Democratic Party lost its way by saying we have to make identity politics our base, our foundation, what we're all about. They forgot what Bill Clinton said back in the second election. It's the economy, stupid. It's about what people feel about their pocket, about their life, about their family. My father, my dad was a blacksmith. AJ my father swung a hammer molding metal for 38 years for the city of New York. And he always voted Democrat. Because they were union, right? Sure. Part of the party of the union and boilermakers and blacksmith. Union. All right. Republicans were big business. No union. And then my dad, he died in 2023, 95 years old, he became a Republican. He voted for Trump the first time. And why? Because they felt the Democratic Party left him. Okay. Because at the end of the day, what does the working man and woman want? They care about paying the rent, paying the mortgage, putting their children through school, that they get a good education and move onward in life. That they have this American dream. And they felt the Democratic Party just abandon that in favor of, again, identity politics. And who's left? The Republican Party now the Republican Party deliver on all that. Probably not. Yes, they do, but they were addressing people like my dad saying security, safety, economy, your family matters, longevity. That's the message. And Democrats, if they don't get that through their head, they're going to keep losing. [00:39:03] Speaker C: Yeah. And look, Rom, Rom is, is one of the people the Democrats should be listening to. He, he engineered the 06 takeover of the House and made Pelosi the speaker. The first time, you know, Reagan was able to get some Reagan Democrats and, and, and Trump was able to get, I mean, if you really look at the blue collar workers, the smokestack industry, cattle, corn, coal, I mean, they always, they've been moving towards the Republican Party for some time. But when you have the AFL CIO and the Teamsters holding back endorsements of Kamala or basically the rank and file voting for Trump and the, the fat cats basically throwing in with Kamala. You have even situations like where you have a, a known left wing union in Nevada, the AF or the, the, the seiu, the Service Employees International Union. Well, how did Trump, how did, how did Trump win Nevada for the first time since Bush in 04? Well, it was called something called no tax on tips because the gaming commission and all the service industry in Nevada. This is like what you just said. It's the economy, right? This is, this affects people immediately. So, and you, so you have the left that has prioritized 72 genders over workers. Prioritized phony climate change science over workers has prioritized making sure you have 50 vaccines before you go to work as a member of the plumbers union instead of workers. Right. And you have different immigrant populations that have come in here, just like the Irish and the Italians and the Armenians and the Jews and everybody the hell else. And they are saying to themselves, well, I, I don't care, you know, I've got to put food on the table. I don't, I don't, I don't care about signing up to, you know, for some Davos agreement or some Paris climate accords or whatever the hell it is. So Trump under. And look, let's be honest, Trump's from Queens. He grew up around I beams with his father, right? And, and, and this is, that's the language he speaks, which is why some people call him the blue collar billionaire. [00:41:19] Speaker A: Tip o' Neill said it very well said all politics is local. And what he meant by that, local down to your living room local. [00:41:30] Speaker C: That's right. [00:41:30] Speaker A: And that's what Democrats don't understand. And that's the message that Trump was able to convey. Now, the tracks could say, look at you two, Trump's a billionaire, doesn't give a, about YouTube. I don't care whether he gives a about or not. The fact that he's saying it and he gets the message out. And that's the problem. Democrats are not doing that. [00:41:48] Speaker C: That's right. [00:41:49] Speaker A: It's that Republicans took the book and they ran, they ran with it. And that's right. That's why they're going to win. [00:41:56] Speaker C: And look, and, yeah, well, and it's, I mean, the question remains whether this coalition could be transferred to anyone else. I mean, Trump is a unique animal. He is a counterculture icon and some of the stuff he has done and said and still will do will ring down through the ages. We are going to take a quick break here. Come back on the other side with Mark Rossini, the international man of mystery, broadcasting to us from a undisclosed location. I am AJ Rice. This is dangerous. LAUGHTER we will be right back. [00:42:26] Speaker A: We're protesting him and he's, he's mocking [00:42:28] Speaker C: like, I mean, they, they, they actually [00:42:30] Speaker A: think they're serious people, but they're dressing up like clowns, they're acting like idiots [00:42:35] Speaker C: and they're worried about Trump being a king. But I will tell you who does sniff their own royal farts, and that is the 535 members of Congress, 100 in the Senate, 435 in the House. They all think that they're kings of their little fiefdoms because there would be no government shutdown. All the little left wing government employees would be getting paid right now. If your father actually was a king. This is the biggest boneheaded. You know, I know as a PR person, some, some rat on K Street or somewhere came up with this garbage. Someone made a fortune off of this new king's garbage and they packaged it, they put it on a left wing rainbow colored plastic lunchbox and these wackos are buying it. They're just getting taken for a ride because the American people, like you said, they smelt this out. These are the same Democrats that want to pack the Supreme Court. These are the same Democrats that want to get rid of the filibuster and have no debate. And they're worried about Trump being a king. They have done everything in their power to weaponize government, to consolidate power. And you don, have been the victim of it. [00:43:47] Speaker A: I mean, if there's someone that's acting certainly like a monarchy, maybe not, not a king, but a king with some puppet masters, it's, it's the Democrat party. [00:44:06] Speaker B: You should be women. And yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so. Someone once said comedy is the art of turning horror into humor. That's the essence of the curse of the Bearded Lady. Laughing in the face of madness before it devours us whole. Nothing in living memory has been funnier or more horrifying than a movement convinced there are 72 genders. Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina. The curse of the Bearded Lady. The curse of the Bearded Lady. The Trans mafia has whipped America's sanity. It's Monty Python by way of Mengele. Absurd theater with real victims. I'm not here to conduct a medical examination of the trans mafia. This is a cultural autopsy. If Billy Shakespeare could write tragedies, histories and comedies, why can't I? The radicals refused to to surrender their gender mad stranglehold on America's vital institutions. This book will show how we got here, how we fight back, and how the Democratic Party's obsession with mainstreaming the bearded lady will doom it to political extinction. Stay locked in with the man who slayed the woken dead. This is Dangerous Laughter with AJ Rice on the Publius Media Network. [00:45:45] Speaker C: I am AJ Rice. This is the DL. Don't keep it on the DL. Tell everybody. Gotta go to dangerouslaughter.com dangerous laughter.com Remember, comedy is our civic duty here, but we do have other civic Duties because, you know, there is. This is a dangerous world. I am here with a man who has, you know, been watching the, the front door of the United States in pretty much his whole career, given a lot to it. He has had some wins, some losses. He's been abused. But because he's Mark Rossini and he is the most interesting man in the world, he is still coming up a winner. Mark, great to have you here. You know, I, you look, you were the FBI decades, I read. Because the reason I got into this business was because of September 11th. [00:46:37] Speaker A: Okay. [00:46:38] Speaker C: I read the 911 Commission Report a lot. People see what they want to see, I guess, when they, when they go through that. [00:46:47] Speaker A: True. [00:46:47] Speaker C: One of the things that I focused on because I am a sort of. Well, I like to think I am a. A fairly creative person. You know, I could never be an FBI agent. I would be like the Pink Panther. I'd be like Inspector. I'd be like fucking Inspector Gadget out there. So I focused on a section at the end and I continue to come back to this, okay? And that was one of the reasons that September 11 happened, is due to our lack of imagination, our lack of thinking outside the box, our lack of creative input, and the fact that we could never imagine that a bunch of Bedouin dirty night shirt wearers with box cutters could bring down our tallest buildings, hit the Pentagon and all the rest of it. And I always think to myself, like, is there anyone sitting around using their imagination now, thinking to themselves, contrary to what I've seen during COVID and everything else, where everyone is still trapped in the drone mindset, is there anyone that is out there thinking creatively now? Because as you saw from the first World Trade center attack to the second, although the target remained the same, they got more creative. So the question is, are we lacking that in the intelligence community? I mean, what's your assessment? Do we still have an imagination or are we going to wake up one day just totally freaking befuddled and stunned that something insane has happened? [00:48:22] Speaker A: Well, I, you know, I, I'm not there, you know, I would love to be there in the room again, back making, making plans and making policy and back in Washington, oddly enough, after everything has happened. But I think the testimony to. It's a testimony testament to the fact that we have not had any major attack in a long time. Which shows, I think they're probably doing something right, okay. Treating it perhaps as a war neutralizing the threat before it happens. The thing about the 911 attack was it was so simple in Its planning. They hid in plain sight. That's right. They were even in the phone book. It was, it's not what they did. Turning airplanes into weapons was remarkably simple, if you will, because they knew that what was and always had been the response when airplanes hijacked. Everybody calm down, we're going to land safely, it's okay. But pilots in control, blah, blah, right? Because no one ever think who the fuck's going to suicide themselves? [00:49:36] Speaker C: Right. [00:49:38] Speaker A: That again goes back to what I said in the way beginning. We're dealing with people that do not think like you and I. They treasure death rather than life because to them, when they die and go to paradise is when they really begin to live on this earth. They have to maintain this lifestyle that quite frankly is like a monk, if you will, allegedly. [00:50:00] Speaker C: Look, when they get to heaven, I'm hoping, Mark, when they get to heaven, Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 bearded ladies, like the, the woman behind me here. Okay, Right. No, you're right. They have an apocryphal worldview and, and some are more mystical than others. The Iranians are trying to bring about, you know, you know, Judgment Day. But you're right, they felt that they were, they were Islamo Qazis and that they were going to be rewarded by what they did. [00:50:28] Speaker A: But the, you know, the, the 9, 11 attacks and I've been involved in this tremendously, as you know, was involved and interviewed relentlessly on this. But the quick and dirty was again going back to what I said in the beginning about politicizing the problem. And to respect that, I wrote a 20 page document on my Twitter feed. You can access it, I'll send it to you again. It's the fact that the CIA knew about the meeting in Malaysia where the hijackers met. They knew, they traveled to America and refused to let denied me and my colleague the ability to tell the FBI that that happened. [00:51:05] Speaker B: Right? [00:51:05] Speaker A: And in a weird and the most crazy thing, the CIA's own internal inspector general report, when they whitewash themselves, what's the blame on me? Which is the most incredible thing in the world. [00:51:17] Speaker C: Like really. [00:51:18] Speaker A: But be that as it may so, but again to your question, what are we doing? I don't know. I wish I knew. We have this behemoth called the dni, right? We have this behemoth called the CIA, the ic, right. And their job is to track and to monitor all the bad players in the world. I just pray to God that they have not let anybody slip or have not will not in the Future, maybe today or tomorrow. Not let some political agenda get in the way of taking action to prevent that next attack. Because we can go on and on. We could divide five hours to this about Operation Encore. What went on with that. Right. It's just, it's. Terrorists are bad and want to kill us. And I could care less about foreign policy or what the long term strategic objective of the United States is. [00:52:15] Speaker C: Sure. [00:52:16] Speaker A: Preventing killing innocent people no matter where they are on the globe. And yes, prejudiciously, Americans wherever they are. [00:52:24] Speaker C: Right. And just full disclosure. And I think the audience knows this. I mean, Tulsi Gabbard is our client, or was when she, you know, for her book she was at dni. She is now gone. Her husband's got cancer. The new gentleman, I guess that's been put up is Bill Pulte. I don't know much about him. I know that one of my other clients, Scott Besson, threatened to kick his ass, which he was joking about. So I don't know whether we've got a show going on at dni. I hope not. I hope not. [00:52:58] Speaker A: Personalities don't get in the way of what needs to be done. [00:53:01] Speaker C: Sure. I mean this is not tiddly winks. I mean this, this cannot be, you know, notching your resume situation here. I mean we, this, this is a dangerous place, Planet Earth. And it's getting smaller. With technology and AI, all kinds of can happen. Drone swarms of drones can be controlled from half the, the continental way. [00:53:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:25] Speaker C: So that, I mean, that's where we're at. Which brings me to something I'm gonna play a cut here in a second. Of all people, it's Dr. Phil. And I think this was right before the 2024 election. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Okay. [00:53:38] Speaker C: Dr. Phil's got President Trump on his show. And you know, we talked a minute ago about using our imagination. And like sometimes you were talking about the 911 hijackers hiding in plain sight. Well, Dr. Phil, of all people brings Trump on and he, he, he basically shows him maps of places in the United States where the ccp, the Chinese are buying up farmland. And then he proceeds to show him where some of our strategic bases are and technological military establishments are. Chris, let's hit that. [00:54:16] Speaker D: This map, I did a show about this. The red is where Chinese government has funded buying major farmland. And then superimposed on that are some of our most strategic military bases. And you can see there's surrounding, there's Dugway Proving Ground. That's military equipment, Biological chemical weapons. They're surrounding it. Utah test training Range the largest supersonic. Authorized restricted airspace United States Whiteman air Force Base B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Base Missile Drone Operations MQ9 Reaper Global Strike Command 3 Fort Liberty Airborne Special Operations Forces Rapid Deployment We've allowed them to come in and buy up agricultural land, wind farms. No wind, no blades on some of the towers. But they're surrounding our military bases. We've allowed that to take place. [00:55:23] Speaker C: Unbelievable. Now, in my. In my fever dream, I'm thinking to myself that there's an army of Mark Rossinis wandering around outside these goddamn purchases, wandering through them like Italian paisan children of the corn. Wandering through. Trying to figure out what the hell's going on here. I'm hoping. I'm hoping that that's. That's going on, but I'm not sure it is, because as far as I can tell, and I kind of do this for a living and I watch everything. That is the only time that question's been freaking asked. [00:55:57] Speaker A: That's amazing. You know, as the tape was. Was progressing, I. I really couldn't believe what I was hearing. And you say, well, how is that allowed? So of course I need to look at the evidence, right? Dr. Phil. Good. I need to know in whose name they bought it. Where'd that money come from? What's the source of that? Do they set up some offshore LLC and then use some three or four law firms to hide behind? I mean, and. And. And if that is the case and it's actually in China, then why so. Because then it's not just pure agricultural need. Because if you are China, you know, I want to know how they bought it. Number one, to show maybe some nefarious thing there. But the fact that they were allowed to do that and China is not our friend. Let's just get that through our head. Yes, we trade with them. You know, this cup was probably made in China. I think maybe it is. But the simple fact of the matter is we are in a constant battle for world peace and dominance with them because quite frankly, we cannot let them control the planet. No. Nor can we allow Russia to control the planet. At the end of the day, we are the only game in town. We are not perfect, but we at least ensure fairness. We can ensure fairness. Okay, speech over. But getting back to that problem that needs to be fully investigated, what activity is going on those farms, those lands? Is it truly agricultural? Are they actually planting crops? But then why there aren't there other plots for land for sale, Other places that maybe could be better for the agricultural needs? [00:57:48] Speaker C: Right? [00:57:49] Speaker A: I don't I don't get it. [00:57:51] Speaker C: Right. We're told, we are told. You know, they, they want our soybeans. That's what it's. This is really about. Soybeans. It's our love of soybeans. They like a little soy latte, a little tofu, you know, on their upper lip in the morning. And it's not the B2 bombers or our missile technology or our drones. No, no. That's just the soybean crop next to every military installation in the Midwest. Got it. Okay. [00:58:20] Speaker A: That doesn't make, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. And of course, more research is needed into it. But if they wanted soybeans and a lot more soybeans, they could have an agreement with an American farmer or an American firm and have them do the cultivating and the control of that land with the contract that says everything you produce, you sell to us. Fine. But now you, the Chinese government, control that property. [00:58:46] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, who knows, maybe they're building, you know, Bill, Bill Gates is farms where he's growing fake meat and God knows what else. The Lone star ticks being dropped in there. I mean, I look, I don't know, but to me, whenever I see something like that and I'm looking around going, does everybody like, are we, are we out of our minds here like that? To me, that should be on the COVID that should be leading every day because, because we have a situation where we don't have that many farmers to begin with. Left. [00:59:19] Speaker A: Yes. [00:59:20] Speaker C: You know, like you said, sometimes you get these sovereign wealth funds that get set up and they buy these farmers out. They, they write a number down that some, you know, eighth generation dairy farmer can't compete with. Right. And away we go. The season where we're feeding our enemy. [00:59:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Right. So we need, we need to be more vigilant, study the situation more and come to the aid and rescue of our American farmers. We have to maybe say to that sovereign fund or that entity, hey, you need to protect that American if you want to do that activity. Because. [01:00:02] Speaker C: Right. [01:00:02] Speaker A: America first. It's America. Right? That's. [01:00:06] Speaker C: That's right. [01:00:07] Speaker A: And we're the last name in town. [01:00:09] Speaker C: So I'm going to switch, I want to switch this up a little bit. Get off of the Chinese menu here. Put the low main. We'll put the low main away for a second. And I want to focus on some of what's going on here in our media with the Republican Party a little bit and how radical Islam and different aspects of some of These terror groups have been given sort of a softer side of Sears treatment. We have an Iranian molocracy who's basically enslaved its people. Since 79. They've been killing by, frankly, more Americans than ISIS and Al Qaeda ever dreamed of. Most. A lot of it was in Iraq with the, you know, Iranian militias and the. And the, you know, IRGC and all the rest of it. And, you know, the Arabs are not fans. These are ethnically different people. One's Persian, one's Arabic, one Shia, one Suni. Right. And right. And. And after October 7th, obviously, there's this movement that pops up in the United States where you have radical left wingers and a few, I guess, right wingers that throw in playing kiss and tail, playing footsie with Hamas. Yeah, right. They look at Hamas like it's some kind of, you know, community organizer group. Okay. Hezbollah is in Lebanon. Some of, you know, some of what they do gets excused as well. And it's. It's a weird thing I'm seeing. You know, there's always been, you know, conspiracy theories about the Jews. There's always been conspiracy theories about the Jews going back to, you know, Moses. [01:02:03] Speaker D: Right. [01:02:04] Speaker C: And about Israeli money and this and that. [01:02:06] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:02:07] Speaker C: But from my perspective, and I sent you this document from the foundation that was a foundation for defense of democracy. [01:02:15] Speaker A: Excellent document. Excellent, by the way. [01:02:17] Speaker B: And. [01:02:18] Speaker C: And look, Even in the 18th and 19th century, Spanish Empire, French British Empire, and to a lesser degree, the Dutch, they all were trying to influence what was going on in the newly formed United States of America. They were. They just were. Sometimes they would cut deals, like they'd sell us Florida or the Louisiana Purchase or whatever the hell it is. So there's always been foreign. We don't live, you know, in Whoville. Okay. We live in a planet where people interact. So, you know, different strategic money gets spent. You know, It says that $400 billion in all kinds of sectors of the United States is coming out of the country of Qatar. [01:03:09] Speaker A: Right. [01:03:10] Speaker C: I mean, everything from film to, you know, I mean, everything, Right. They're investing in everything. Some of the money that us. That Musk used to buy Twitter came from them. So, I mean, you've been in this. In this, you know, area of the world and studied it a long time. I mean, to what degree are people being captured by some of these, you know, pro radical Islam, Muslim Brotherhood funding people? [01:03:39] Speaker A: Well, I tell you, they. Two things. Well, several things. Right. Okay. As you said correctly, investment in America, the French, the British, everybody else. In the past, they did that. And they still do. Okay. The investment is fine per se, as long as there's not a nefarious activity attached to it. As long as there's not an anti American agenda or an agenda which seeks to destroy or weaken America for some greater good that they have, let's say, to make us go away for whatever delusional beliefs they have about what their plan is. So that's the first thing. Always keep in check in mind. What are they really up to? Why do they want that sector? What. What is involved? What are they actually trying to do? Does it hurt America or does it help America? That's the first thing. But how Hamas has been able to manipulate the media is remarkable. But moreover, what's remarkable to me is the ignorance and how gullible people are to believe the horseshit that they're being fed. How can you side and call this thing a genocide? Which is not. We went over that. How can you side with a group that killed babies in front of their parents? And no one has their fucking brains to say, hey, why did Hamas attack on October 7? Could it be that just that week before I read in the paper, because I was sitting in a hospital watching my father die. He died on October 6th. Okay. I read this wonderful article. Wonderful. I say, because I went, wow, this is really great. Israel and Saudi Arabia had just that week confirmed their intention to normalize relations and to recognize each other. [01:05:38] Speaker C: Yep. [01:05:39] Speaker A: And that's what gave those. And I apologize, I saw take heed for this. Those sick motherfucking sons of bitches sitting in Tehran to go, we cannot allow this. And they turned to Hamas and Hezbollah and said, do what you want to do. And that's what caused October 7th green light. That's what caused it. Because the Shia led Iran was in no way gonna let the Sunni led Saudi Arabia normalize relationship with the Jewish state. And that's what caused October 7th. [01:06:11] Speaker C: Right. And they're worried about Saudi Arabia becoming members of the David. [01:06:15] Speaker A: Nobody remembers that. [01:06:16] Speaker C: The David Accord. [01:06:18] Speaker A: Oh, it's because of Israel's occupation, the colonizers. [01:06:21] Speaker C: Really? [01:06:21] Speaker A: This was colonizing Gaza. See, what countries does is Israel colonize or did they ever colonize? Oh, wait. Oh no, none. But there are 54 or 57 Islamic countries around the world, so. But Israel's the colonizer. I get it. Right. Israel, which left Gaza in 2005, had to send his own army to physically pick up its own people fighting with them to get them out of the Gaza so the Palestinians can go back there. [01:06:50] Speaker B: Right. [01:06:50] Speaker A: What did they do? They elected Hamas as His governance. Right, that's right. And that's the problem. Hamas's charter, look it up. Google people watching this got things. [01:07:02] Speaker C: Yeah, you've got a whole. I mean, look, you got a whole country full of Hamas. They're going to elect Hamas. I mean, that's just it. I mean, you got 30 Hitlers in the room. Who's our class president? Hitler. Hitler's the class president, everybody. Hey, Goebbels and Goebbels and Himmler and gearing of the runners up. I mean, that's where we're at. Now, some people have asked Trump about this. Certain skeptics that live inside rabbit holes don't want to hear this, but China has satellite states that need to remain healthy for China to remain healthy. Some of them include Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, which had to go away. So if you look around the globe in the last two years Trump and Rubio and Pete have been doing is that they've slowly. Everything we do, I don't care whether it's the Greenland purchase, the Ukrainian rare earth minerals deal, the retaking of the Panama Canal, these things are all little clamps they are putting on China. Now, Trump could go to China. Trump could go to China and eat all the egg rolls he wants. But he definitely understands. And I know this because I talked to Navarro, I talked to Monica, I talked to all of them in the White House. I'm just telling you that these are all the removal of China's customers. Right? That's what they are. [01:08:30] Speaker A: See, everybody got, everybody got all bent out of shape when Trump went in and took Maduro out of Venezuela. So you're really going to cry for a brutal dictator who has put his people into poverty while stealing the country blind and sequestering all his money in foreign bank accounts? You're going to cry for that guy who keep this is like we've lost our way. And moreover, the strategy is where does China. For whatever reason, China has no oil fields, doesn't have any natural gas, has none of its resources, depends solely on the foreign, on the other parts of the world, Venezuela and Iran, okay, so people get all bent out of shape, oh, they're illegal war, invading Iran. Iran is behind Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran controls all the oil that goes to China. And by cutting them off, cutting off Venezuela as part of the greater global agenda that this administration has to keep China in line to curtail it. And quite frankly, Trump is really more interested in my opinion. From what I see, he's interested more from the North Pole to the tip of Patagonia, the North and Southern hemisphere. America first, this side of the world, rest of the world. You want to fight and kill each other, go right ahead. But we are going to take care of our backyard. And by taking Venezuela, he made a strategic move by controlling the oil and energy that goes to China, and of course, by goso going and getting rid of a rogue leader and where the people were openly celebrating in the streets and around the globe. Spain has an incredibly large Venezuelan population. And those Venezuelans that are there were. You can see it. I'm not. Again, Google it. We're parading in the streets. Yay, Hooray, hooray, hooray. While on the other side of the street were extreme leftists in Spain who were arguing against it, like Trump, you know, dictator, Yankee, go home, whatever. [01:10:40] Speaker C: They just got their ass kicked, too, in an election. Right, so. [01:10:45] Speaker A: Exactly right. So the issue is like, stop with your crazy rhetoric because you just hate everything. Trump everything Republican or even the Democratic works on both sides. And stop and breathe. Look at the facts and look at the motive behind the action. And what is that goal? And there you'll have your answer. [01:11:07] Speaker C: Well, look, we, we're, we're, we're running out of time here, and I just want to ask one last question and. And then we'll go. We're about. We're a quarter into the 21st century here, and, you know, I'm talking to Mark Rossini, spent decades with the FBI. He's our resident international man of mystery here on Dangerous. [01:11:28] Speaker A: Laughter. [01:11:30] Speaker C: The country's about to have a big birthday. 250 years. [01:11:34] Speaker A: Yes. [01:11:34] Speaker C: As we go further into the 21st century, what, from your perspective, is the emerging threat that we need to think about from a national security perspective as we sort of ring in our birthday, but, but always understand that we can't. We don't live in a utopia. This isn't a fantasy. We need to keep our wits about us and use our imagination. What. What should we be looking at? And what should the American people. What message would you give them, you know, in what is definitely a dangerous time? [01:12:10] Speaker A: Yeah. My greatest fear, aj, is ignorance. Ignorance to separate fact from fiction, ignorance to not have the ability to analyze properly a situation, ignorance to not understand that eloquent document that you forwarded to me regarding Qatar's investment in the United States. So well done, so well written. That should be a benchmark of how someone writes a paper, not what passes now for fact. Because people just create fact. And my biggest fear is AI taking over people's brains and the ability to analyze a situation. So it's, again, my biggest fear is the culpability or how gullible people are. That's what I worry about. Ignorance. Because from that ignorance and ability to comprehend what's going on in the world, we can never create a policy to combat the evil that is coming our way. That's. [01:13:19] Speaker C: That's. Yeah, I mean, that's. And that's nicely. That's sad. It's. It's. It's. You know, our job here is to transform horror into humor. But I, I, you know, they're. I think you're right. I think that there are people trying to capture it. Yeah. There are people that are captured. There are people that go down rabbit holes every day. You know, they're fighting phantom enemies that don't exist. They're worried about things that don't exist. But there are. There are enemies of the United States that are here that want to hurt us. You've been face to face with them, and they don't care if you use some left wing buzzwords from the humanities department. They're coming for all of us. [01:14:07] Speaker A: And the fact that, again, that our revered educational institutions, particularly our Ivy League schools, where the people there who are allegedly supposed to be smart can be convinced that a terrorist organization is the correct party in all of this. That. That is my biggest fear. That gullibility. That's a property, right? That, that. That's my biggest fear. AJ for the future of America. That's fine. [01:14:37] Speaker C: Well, we want to thank Mark Rossini coming to us live from his undisclosed location. You know, come out of your immediate retirement. Coming out of. Out of retirement today for me. I appreciate that. [01:14:49] Speaker A: Yeah, Yep. You know, more. I'll be more than happy to. Come on. Whatever you want. [01:14:54] Speaker C: All right, brother. Well, look, you've. You've always given me great advice and insight. We need more Marcosinis out there. Hopefully we've got some of them wandering around these Chinese farm purchases. But look, Mark. Mark's a vet of the FBI. Decades and decades. He is a fountain of knowledge. Look him up, you'll find, I mean, he's. He's done a lot of media over the years. He's advised all kinds of politicians and. And, you know, been inside some of the, you know, some of the scary rooms that everyone, you know, pretends like doesn't exist. It keeps us safe at night. So, Mark, I just want to thank you, brother. You know, enjoy the summer. We will check in with you soon. Okay? [01:15:40] Speaker A: All right. [01:15:42] Speaker C: That's Marco Cini. That's. That's one of my favorite paisans in the world right there. Okay? We love him, you know. God Godspeed. Mark. Remember, this is Dangerous laughter. Everybody go to dangerouslaughter.com the show is up everywhere. It's on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music. You know, you could probably pick it up on pirate radio with your transistor from the caves, you know, And. And speaking of the caves, hopefully our enemies just saw Rossini and know that he's coming for their ass. [01:16:18] Speaker A: Dangerous lefter. Dangerous Danger. Left her. Dangerous laughter.