ANOTHER chapter of "Now It Can Be Told"!! (04-11-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:29] We have another chapter now in the Now It Can Be Told saga. I've lost track of how many chapters we have, but I'll get to that in a minute. Last hour, we talked about another chapter, which was about the COVID-19 outbreak in Now It Can Be Told. I'll get to the next chapter first. Let me get Nick on. Hello, Nick. Welcome to the program. Hello, Pete. How you doing? Hey, I'm good. What's going on?

[00:00:57] Well, I just wanted my comment was I'm frankly insulted by Alan from Axios and partially with you. We're better than that. You're insulting our intelligence by being easy on the media. The media has been in the tank for years and protected Biden. If it was Trump and Trump's first administration, they were trying to get rid of Trump.

[00:01:25] The Democrats with Article 25 saying he was mentally incompetent. And he never showed anything close to what Biden showed. And to let them off easy, it's insulting to us, your listeners.

[00:01:39] You should be much more adamant about how terrible what this Alan from Axios said. I don't believe anything that come coming out of his mouth now. And this bit about reporter brain. Come on. You know, as a reporter, you're supposed to be look at things objectively. We know that's not the case.

[00:02:01] Nick, I think you're insulting the entire audience by not being harder on Mike Allen. Oh, I'm definitely I don't I don't bother with I used to listen to Axios and read them. I don't any longer. So that's not hard enough. You need to be harder.

[00:02:24] Definitely out of. Yeah, I mean, they've lost me as a as a listener and lost me as a reader of anything with to have to do with Axios. Mm hmm. Yeah. So I'm curious as to what else do you think? I mean, I've literally like hammered media for my entire career as a host after being a reporter. And so you're you're you're insulted that I wasn't mean. I think you should have been. You were too easy.

[00:02:54] Well, how so? You're too easy on the reporters. How so? Well, I think that, you know, well, all right. From my standpoint, I think you should be more vocal on on them being not objective as they should be. Do you think I've not conveyed that? Oh, no, you you've been. Listen, that's why I listen to you. OK, so I find you to be pretty refreshing.

[00:03:20] Well, thank you. But I'm so but so I'm trying to figure out what more you wanted. I'm just I guess you'll part of it. Maybe it's the partisan in me, but I think that that you should be a little more vocal and adamant. You try to be fair and I understand that and I respect that. But so do you just me? So are you mad that I said or do you object?

[00:03:43] I should say that I I thought that the herd mentality that he said was true and that there is insecurity among the reporter press corps that that I agreed that those two things are true? Is that what did it? I don't agree with you on the itch. Yeah, I don't agree with the insecurity. You don't think they're insecure people? Now, I think that they're totally biased. Now who's being too soft on them? Now who's being too soft on the reporters?

[00:04:11] Because I I totally I absolutely believe that there are insecure. I mean, what do you think drives the the peer pressure? The group think that that Alan is talking about? It's insecurity, right? It's it's it's the it's the desire to be a part of the group and to not be ostracized for any kind of questioning of the the status quo or the narrative. And and that is born out of an insecurity people who are more secure.

[00:04:41] They they won't care what what their colleagues think of them when they ask the question like Mark Garrison in our news department asked, you know, does the president have dementia? And he was attacked for it, right? OK, you're bringing up very good points and I do agree with you. Ah, yes. So I guess, you know, you may be a better way to look at I have defended myself successfully. Totally. OK. Yes, you've done you've done you've done a good job.

[00:05:10] I will continue to be a listener. Oh, thank you so much, Nick. I do appreciate the call, buddy. Thanks so much. And I do agree with you. I just, you know, you're welcome. Yeah. Have a great weekend. Have a good week. Yes, sir. Yeah, I look, I I get it. And I I agree with it. Like what Mike Allen and Jim Vandeheye were saying in the clips that I played, there's a reason I played those clips for you. Um. Is because I don't buy it either.

[00:05:33] I don't I don't buy what they're trying to sell right now, which is that, you know, there's an explanation other than partisan ideology. Now, there may be other things at play. Sure. But the reason why they didn't cross the White House was because they did not want to be ostracized by their colleagues and the White House. And at the root of that is ideology. The root of that is. I don't want to be ostracized.

[00:06:03] From the group's thinking. On what is true. Right. And what is real? And what is the what is the mission here? Because if you start going after Joe Biden, well, that could harm his reelection chances. So but there are there are other factors at play. They want access. They want to be closer to the throne. So this way they can get scoops.

[00:06:30] They can get interviews and they can walk around among their colleagues and be like, I'm the one that got this exclusive. I'm the only one that had the story. They love that stuff. And that is born of insecurity as well. It is. And so there are that's why when he says that there is an insecurity and a herd mentality at play. I have no I have no problem believing that to be at least partially true. But I want to be very clear.

[00:06:59] The core of it is ideology. Absolutely. And I don't buy this idea that I don't buy this idea that that Vande Hei or Allen had no idea what the partisan leanings are of their colleagues. When we have known for decades that. The field of journalism is packed with Democrats. And it has been my entire life.

[00:07:28] So I don't buy that either. Speaking of Joe Biden and his mental decline. Now it can be told yet again. This may surprise you. So you may want to sit down if you're not already seated. But apparently. It was Jill Biden. Sorry. Dr. Jill Biden's lust for power.

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[00:08:57] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast. But it also supports Ground News. As they make the media landscape more transparent. All right. So I did not realize. This is yet another Washington Free Beacon article. I did one in the last hour. But this is another one on Now It Can Be Told. Many have suspected. By the way. This is Andrew Stiles at the Free Beacon. Many have suspected.

[00:09:23] That Dr. Jill Biden played a key role in saving the country. By facilitating Donald Trump's long-awaited return to the White House. Many have assumed the former First Lady and acting president was possessed of an insatiable lust for power, which drove her to insist that her enfeebled octogenarian husband, Joe Biden, run for re-election.

[00:09:46] The ill-advised decision nearly destroyed the Democrat Party when Biden's cognitive impairment became impossible to ignore. It forced the party to rally around Kamala Harris, the most incompetent presidential candidate since Hillary Clinton, all but assuring that Trump would win a second term and usher in the Golden Age of America. The revelations unearthed in several new books by political journalists, conveniently published after the election,

[00:10:14] confirm that these suspicions and assumptions were correct. See, we've been too hard on Dr. Jillson. We've been too hard. She is the reason why Trump won again. Okay, not the reason. She's a reason, right? Had she not been so in love with the power and the elite status,

[00:10:42] then maybe she would have done what any loving spouse would do and say, no, honey, like, it's time to let it go. You know, we need to just retire. It's past our time, right? But she couldn't do it. So she kept him in the race. She kept, you know, everybody away from him, insulating him from media and guest visits that got a little awkward. And that has redounded to our benefit. See, we've been looking at this all wrong, people.

[00:11:12] Jonathan Allen and Amy Parnas have a book coming out. Another one of the Now It Can Be Told books. The name of their book is called Fight! Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. There is another book, by the way, that you should not get it confused with. That one's by Wemple, Chris Whipple. Sorry, Whipple. Chris Whipple, or maybe it's Whipple. I don't know. But the author of the book called Uncharted,

[00:11:39] How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History. See, so it's wildest. There's a narrative forming here, people. I can just see it. It's the wildest battle, the wildest campaign. It is wild. Everything's just wild, which we were told wasn't wild while it was happening. But again, now the truth can be told by the reporters who were supposed to tell us that this stuff was happening and what was really going on.

[00:12:09] But they couldn't see it. They were just too close. You know, it's like the blind man, you know, feeling the elephant. Doesn't know it's an elephant because that's all he can feel is just like what's in front of him. That's what it was like. They're like the blind man with the elephant. So in their book, Fight, they write or they quote rather a Biden ally who said, Let's be honest. Jill has a thousand.

[00:12:39] Yeah, sorry. I'm going to say I'm going to start this sentence again because I completely messed it up. Quote, let's be honest. Jill was a thousand percent behind this. She was pushing it. The staff was all pushing it. At the end of the day, which I hate that phrase, I don't think anyone in that inner circle was presenting the president any contrary advice that that thing that this thing is not going to be as easy or maybe this is not the best thing for the Democrat Party.

[00:13:07] See, they were they were shielding Joe. Had Joe known much like Stalin, not knowing all of the people were starving to death. Please tell Stalin what's happening to us. He must not know because he wouldn't let this be happening. See, that's that's kind of the same thing. Joe, if he had been exposed to the terrible poll numbers, then he would have said, OK, yes, I should step aside. Allen and Parnas.

[00:13:35] Note that many of Joe Biden's longtime aides were also desperate to cling to power and refused to consider advising the president to retire after a single term. Senior advisor, Mike Donilon, reportedly told a prominent Democrat, quote, nobody walks away from this. No one walks away from the house, the plane, the helicopter. Nobody does that.

[00:14:04] But also. So. Trump is a maniac for not wanting to walk away from that either. Right back in 2020. Right. See, so it's different when the Democrats do it or don't want to do something. See, then it's completely understandable. I don't know who would want to walk away from this lifestyle. The burning desire to retain the perks of the White House was doubly true for the first lady. So now I'm confused because now you're saying this is doubly true.

[00:14:31] But somebody else is saying Jill is a thousand percent behind it. So I'm not sure where the percentages break down on this. But Dr. Jill had enjoyed these perks for nearly a decade. And the trappings of the most elite levels of Washington power had grown on her. The reporting confirms what presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said about Jill Biden in February 2024 after it was all over and there was no downside for Democrats.

[00:15:00] Quote, she likes power. She wants to stay. She wants some sense of revenge. Oh, I take it back. He said this before the election. How come this didn't get a lot of coverage? I guess that was that reporter brain that Mike Allen was talking about. The book describes the core group of family and deeply loyal aides who acted as gatekeepers, schedulers and protectors of President Biden. And Dr.

[00:15:30] Jilson carried the most sway. There was also her chief of staff, Anthony Bernal, who would manage Joe's calendar and his personal needs, which I we were we found out about this like a week or so ago in another one of these pre-release excerpts. Why would the why would the first ladies chief of staff be handling Joe's calendar? That's weird.

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[00:17:18] So Anthony Bernal, the chief of staff for Dr. Jilson, would manage Joe Biden's calendar and his personal needs, which included almost daily sessions with a makeup artist to hide the physical signs of his age. In their book, Fight, Jonathan Allen and Amy Parnas report how Dr. Jilson would occasionally

[00:17:45] attempt to intervene when Joe was showing his age. One example they give here is, do you remember when Joe Biden was on stage and he recognized a dead congresswoman calling like, oh, where's Jackie? I just saw her. I was just talking to her or whatever. And, you know, she was dead, right? She had passed away prior. And he calls her out and can't find her in the crowd.

[00:18:10] Well, apparently it's the day before or after the family of Jackie Walorski, the dead congresswoman. A couple of days later, they go to the White House, maybe as some sort of, you know, cleanup on aisle Biden or something. But they go to the White House and Joe offers them a tour of the swimming pool locker rooms.

[00:18:41] And Dr. Jil had to intervene in order to try to prevent it without success, by the way. He did give them the tour of the swimming pool locker rooms. I am not aware. I have no information on how much hair sniffing occurred, but that's the kind of behavior Jill was trying to navigate. And then, of course, comes the debate June 2024, where Dr.

[00:19:06] Jilson and other family members pressured Biden's aides to cut short the prep sessions. We heard stories about this the other day, where he would last like 20 minutes up there in this mock debate. And then he would just like stumble outside to the pool area and collapse on a lounge chair and fall asleep. Right. Jill Biden was, if anything, more firm than her husband about maintaining the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[00:19:36] She and Hunter Biden, the president's crackhead son, blamed his advisers for pushing him too hard and urged Joe to keep fighting. I can't wait for this movie, you know, and I hope it's done by somebody who actually like wants to tell the real story on this. Because the machinations would be wild. Like, you know, Hunter sees dad remaining in power as the only way he can stay out of prison. Right.

[00:20:06] So he's got his motivation. You got Dr. Jilson and her motivation, you know, keeping all of the trappings of the power and the prestige and the, you know, the private plane and the chopper rides and everything else in the vanity fair photo shoots. And then it all comes crashing down. And, you know, the coup is affected. And then Biden endorsed Harris.

[00:20:34] Out of spite for Barack Obama. That's apparently what prompted that. Because remember, Obama had come out and said he would he would want to see an open primary for the Democrats so everybody could, you know, could run for the spot. And so Biden endorsed Harris. As a screw you to Barack Obama. It's just unbelievable.

[00:21:04] One of the ways Jill Biden's and the president's top aides tried to weather the calls for him to step down, according to the book, was by inflicting serious reputation damage. So this is before the coup. They inflicted or tried to inflict reputational damage on Kamala Harris in the weeks following the debate. But before Biden was booted. OK, and you remember this.

[00:21:28] They were sending out messages to people trashing the veep saying that if you keep pushing Joe Biden to get out, you're going to end up with Kamala Harris. And that's going to be a huge mistake. Jill didn't like Kamala Harris either. Do you know why she didn't like Kamala Harris? It had to do with the debate, not the one that Joe Biden mentally checked out of. No, no.

[00:21:57] During the 2020 Democrat primary, when Kamala Harris attacked Joe, her racially charged attack on Biden's opposition to federal busing mandates designed to integrate public schools in the 1970s. Right. Jill Biden harbored a grudge against Harris for that.

[00:22:21] And which is weird because you remember Harris then gave that interview to Stephen Colbert when he asked her about that, like you were really landing punches. He has teeth like chicklets all over the stage and all that. And her response was it was a debate. It was a debate. That was the only excuse she could come up with on the fly was that it was a debate. So I lie during debates. I just say stuff. I just attack people for really terrible reasons, call them all sorts of horrible things.

[00:22:51] But I do that because it's a debate. Ha ha ha. Don't you understand? Well, Dr. Jilson never got over that. And according to the reporters that wrote this book, they described Dr. Jilson as the keeper of the vindictive flame for the family. So she's the only one you see. So remember Hunter Biden's remember the message that he had texted somebody? We have no idea who. But we know who it was the Chinese energy company people.

[00:23:19] But he was like, you know, where's my money? I'm sitting here with dad. And if you don't give me my money, I hold grudges longer than anyone. I will do everything in my power to, you know, carry out my wrathful vengeance on you. I'm paraphrasing. But I don't buy this idea that it's only Dr. Jill that harbors the resentment and the grudges. I don't buy that.

[00:23:46] But we're supposed to believe that no one else in the Biden crime syndicate harbors any kind of grudges. They don't they don't keep the vindictive flame. So it falls to Dr. Jilson. She alone must bear this cross. She's really bitter. She remains really bitter at Harris. Jill's venom was even more potent when it came to Nancy Pelosi. Who orchestrated the coup, right? Right.

[00:24:16] Publicly was out there saying he needs to step down and all that. Jill Biden should be honored for her efforts, however ill intentioned, though, to burn the party down in a frantic attempt to stay in power. Rarely in the course of human events has one individual's reckless ambition and extreme pettiness had such a positive impact on her country's future. On behalf of a grateful nation. Thank you, Dr. Jill. That's over at the Washington Free Beacon, a piece by Andrew Stiles.

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[00:26:03] refused to grant Kennedy's team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database. And he has no idea why he got fired. That's so weird. It's because he was afraid that the information might be manipulated or even deleted. I mean, I don't know what these people are going to do with this information. Dude, that's your boss. Okay? That's your boss. Boss comes in.

[00:26:33] It's like, I want access to everything. I want to see what I'm dealing with. No, no, no. You can't have that. Oh, okay, employee. You're fired. See, that's how that works. Now, I know this is a weird concept probably for a lot of, you know, civil servants. But in the private sector, when your boss comes in and says they want to look at your work product, they want to get eyes on the back end of operations and such. They get it. They get it.

[00:27:03] Because they're the boss. There's a hierarchy there. Right? It's not a democracy. It is boss to employee relationship. The boss says, I want this to be done this way or I want to see this information. You do it that way or you get fired. You give the information or you get fired.

[00:27:21] In an interview with the Associated Press, former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks discussed his efforts to make nice with Kennedy and address his longstanding concerns about vaccine safety, including by developing a vaccine transparency action plan. I tried to play nice with him. I was trying.

[00:27:44] He agreed to give Kennedy's associates the ability to read thousands of reports of potential vaccine-related issues that were sent to the government's system, the reporting system. Remember this? The VAERS, V-A-E-R-S, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. V-A-E-R-S.

[00:28:10] But he refused to allow them to directly edit the data. I don't know if they asked to edit the data, but he would not give them that ability. Why wouldn't we? Because, frankly, we don't trust them, he said. They would write over it or erase the whole database.

[00:28:37] You realize this is a database of the adverse effects of the vaccines. Why would the people who have been looking at the database for the last five years, using that to bolster their arguments against the vaccines, and highlighting all of the adverse events, you think they would delete all of the data that supports their argument? That's stupid. They should have fired you just for that.

[00:29:06] You're obviously not very bright. That doesn't make any sense. If you're going to construct this kind of a stupid lie, just, I don't know, make it less stupid. During his Senate confirmation hearings, RFK Jr. told lawmakers that he is not anti-vaccine. This is according to the AP. Remember, this is their reporting. But since taking office, he has promised to, and they put it in scare quotes,

[00:29:33] Children's shots and agencies under his watch have terminated vaccine-related research, canceled meetings of vaccine advisors, and are poised to reinvestigate ties between vaccines and autism. A link debunked long ago.

[00:29:53] So wouldn't an investigation into the links between vaccines and adverse events, whether it's autism or whatever, like wouldn't, if you're confident in the data and the science, not Fauci, but like science, if you're confident in this, wouldn't you want him to do this? Because the science will stand on its own, would it not?

[00:30:21] The data that they would look at and they would then draw conclusions from and they would issue reports and guidance about, it would be the same as what you did. Except now it's coming from RFK Jr., which, assuming he concludes the same thing y'all have concluded, that would go a huge distance in tamping down the anti-vaxxer narratives, right?

[00:30:52] So once again, this doesn't make a lot of sense. You want the investigation to be done by Kennedy and his crew, because if the science and the data are correct, it will help you say you were right. And if it really is about protecting the public health, if they arrive at the same conclusion based on the same information, then that would bolster your efforts to protect the public health.

[00:31:24] Marx is highly regarded by former FDA leaders and biotech industry executives. I'm not sure that's a selling feature. But his time at the agency was not without controversy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was alternately criticized for being too slow under Trump and then too fast under Joe Biden to authorize new vaccines and boosters.

[00:31:49] Well, yeah, that's because you guys demonized the horse paste, the horse paste, right? Like we went over this the other day. The North Carolina General Assembly has got a bill to make ivermectin over the counter. That drug is like a wonder drug and it's super cheap because the patent has expired on it. It won a Nobel Prize for its antiviral properties and for, you know, wiping out all of these diseases and saving all of these lives.

[00:32:18] Make it over the counter. Make people be able to go in there and buy. It's got like no side effects from what I understand. So that's the argument that had people been told that there was a therapeutic that was easily obtainable, cheap to make. Then we wouldn't have had the rush for the vaccines. And that would not have been a windfall for the pharmaceutical companies. Mark says that he tried everything to work with it with RFK.

[00:32:48] At the center of that effort was a plan to increase publicly available information about vaccine ingredients, safety and side effects. Well, why didn't you do it before Kennedy got there? Look at me. I'm doing all I can to work with the new guy who's demanding outrageous things like people know what's in the stuff we're injecting into their bloodstream. Like, dude, this is, I don't think this, I don't think this article and this, this PR offensive that this guy is running.

[00:33:17] I, I'm not so sure you guys thought this thing through. I don't think you understand how this lands with about half of the country. The centerpiece of the effort would be a vast overhaul of the VAERS system maintained by the FDA and the CDC. Scientists with the agencies monitor the database for possible signals of emerging problems with vaccines. But analyzing the data requires both medical and statistical expertise

[00:33:46] because anyone can submit unverified reports of side effects, injuries and death. The public facing website warns that the data is unverified and may be incomplete or inaccurate. Misinterpretations of VAERS have long been central to anti-vaccine groups and messaging. Right. So bring the team in and go over the data with them. Right. And hash it all out. That should be the process.

[00:34:14] And if after going through that process, the anti-vaxxers with Kennedy, they're all like, hey, you know what? We understand the system better now and we agree with you. That would do wonders for your argument and for your PR. Now, if on the other hand, maybe all the data says something else. Well, now I understand why you might be a little suspicious of Kennedy and his crew. All right. That'll do it for this episode.

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