BREAKING: FBI makes arrest in J6 pipe bomb probe (12-04-2025--Hour1)

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A couple of weeks ago, I saw there was a swirl around a report from I think his name is Steve Baker, and I've had Steve on the program before. I believe he's located here in North Carolina, and he had he was reporting that, you know, he had gotten some evidence of like the way the person was walking, and they got like an expert on gate, you know, like how a person walks, and then they narrowed the field down or whatever, and they made some accusations, if I remember correctly, it was against some well I don't remember what law enforcement agency it was. It was it was like Secret Service maybe, or CIA or FBI or DHS somebody. And it was a female, and I wasn't confident in the reporting, and so like I didn't do anything with it, and then the story just kind of died away and people were like, you better get ready to be sued and all of this. So who is the suspect that they picked up, Well, it is not a female. I don't know if this person identifies as a female. But the person's name is Brian Cole. So here's the associated press story. And also hang on, hang on, hang on, I'm gonna look at the Fox News. Okay, So soon the FBI news conference on the pipe bomb suspect. Okay, So we're going to have a press conference and we will endeavor to bring that to you live as it happens. Here's the Associated Press. The FBI made an arrest this morning in its nearly five year old investigation into pipe bombs that were placed outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic National Parties in Washington on the eve of January sixth, twenty twenty one riot at the US Capitol on the eve of the riot. So what does that mean? It was the night before, right, the person was like walking down the street, did not I mean, they were wearing a hoodie and I believe a mask, but you know, COVID can't be too safe, and so they were walking around and they dropped the bags off in front of both of these locations, and I think at the Democrat Party headquarters at one point Kamala Harris came and was and was hanging out at the DNC headquarters there and then there was video. I'm trying to remember, Like, I was not aware of this until like about ten minutes ago that they had made this arrest. So I'm just going by, like by my recall here. But didn't she arrive at the at the DNC headquarters and was hanging out there and then after either after she left or while the truck was still there, her SUV was still there, somebody like walked over and then yeah, like this could have been very bad as and as far as I know, they were legit bombs. They just they were never detonated, as I recall, I don't but I don't remember the suspect in custody. Oh sorry, hang on, I skipped a paragraph. So again, this is the AP and so they're obviously going to try to say without any evidence. I should point out we have no evidence of who this Brian Cole character is. I'm sure people are, you know, scouring social media to find out who this guy is, but he's had five years to wipe his digital footprint right. The arrest marks the first time investigators have settled on a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories, and remained an enduring mystery in the shadow of the dark chapter of American history. That is the violent Capital siege. Yes, during the in the aftermath of the summer of fiery but mostly peaceful rioting across the country, not a dark chapter. That is not a dark chapter in American history. It's the one riot, not all the other riots. It's this one riot that occurred at the Capitol when conservatives were so angry, And that's saying something, by the way, to get conservatives to riot like that, there's a reason that doesn't happen very often, you know. Okay, so the the suspect in custody has been identified as Brian Cole, according to three people familiar with the mat. Okay, so we'd actually don't even know this has been confirmed. This is the AP citing three people familiar with the matter, And of all of the anonymous sourcing explanations, you know, whenever you see this, like according to somebody with direct knowledge of the situation, but it's not at liberty to discuss details like the way they describe their anonymous sources. They just this is the least helpful one to me. People familiar with the matter? What does that mean? Familiar with what matter? What matter? Like the investigation but not the person. The person but not the investigation? Like what matter are you talking about? And what does familiar mean that you're familiar with it? Does that mean that, Oh yeah, I got a buddy who works on that probe, you know, and he told me this one thing. So I'm you know, I'm familiar with the matter. I work in the building. You know, I meet it the water cooler with the lead investigator. Like, is that familiar with the matter or familiar with the matter? Does that mean like you're the lead investigator. That's why I hate this phrase because there's just too much ambiguity. I'm old enough to remember when reporters would not use this kind of sourcing. But if they're wrong, we'll find out. But we'll see. There's a press conference that they're going to hold. We don't know when, but it just says soon. Two of the people of two of these three people familiar with the matter said that Brian Cole lived in Woodbridge, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, d C. The pipe bombs were placed on the evening of January fifth, twenty twenty one, near the offices of both the headquarters. Nobody was hurt before the bombs were rendered safe, but the FBI has said both device could have been lethal. Okay, so there it is. So they right, So they they were not fakes, is my understanding. Now, maybe that's not true either. I don't know. We're relying on the FBI that told us this, and they told us this during the last administration, So I don't know, but I do want to just throw out there that if they could have connected this to Maga, I kind of feel like they would have. But then again, maybe they had just devoted so many resources and personnel to tracking down, you know, seventy seven year old Grandma's in Florida and hauling them back up to d C with their oxygen tanks in order to throw them in jail for three months because they followed a crowd in for an impromptu tour of the Capitol, Like, that's possible. They maybe they just didn't have enough personnel in the FBI to pursue a bunch of bombs that were placed around town. That's possible, and maybe they just maybe they lied. Maybe they lied about it. Again, I don't I get the feeling after watching the Biden administration's doj and even during Trump's term his first term, and even before then. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I kind of feel like they would have. They would have pinned this on Maga if they had the evidence to do so. Right In the years since, investigators have sought the public's help in identifying a shadowy subject seen on surveillance camera cameras like many of them, like walking all through DC, including the person's gender and motive, and whether the act had a clear connection to the riot at the Capitol a day later, when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the building. In a bit too all the certification of the election would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you kids. Yeah, we'll say what they say at the news conference. You know, stories are powerful. 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Oh does that mean going after the seventy seven year old grandma down in Florida. Well, yes, there's a reason why they disparaged that. It's because it is completely worthy of disparagement. See that's how that works. Despite Trump's pardons on his first day back in office of the rioters who stormed the Capitol, including those who violently attacked police with polls and other makeshift weapons. In a long November thirteenth post on Twitter formerly known as x Bongino wrote that the FBI had brought in new personnel to examine the case and quote dramatically increased investigative resources along with the public reward for information to try to utilize crowdsourcing leads. In that same post that was addressed to Republican Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky that a quote week of near twenty four hour work on recent open source leads in the case has yet to produce a breakthrough. That was November thirteenth, and so now here we are with somebody arrested, which I mean, this is a good day, a good day for all of the legacy media outlets that now get to run all of the b roll footage from the J six riot. Well, oh and Fox News as well. So yeah, they're talking about oh wait, hang on a second, hang on, and all my glasses on let me look them. Okay, no, sorry, different riot, that's anti ice riots. Sorry, they're storming some New Orleans. Oh, they're storming the city hall in New Orleans. Not an insurrection people, Okay, this is completely different because Democrat. All right. The person that they were looking for, the pipe bomber, wore a light sweatshirt, dark pants, and sneakers, a dark backpack slung over one shoulder. Investigators have long said that the gate suggested that the person was a man, but a surgical mask and a hood rendered the face all but impossible to see. Again, they were COVID worried, right, they're very scared of getting the RONA agents paired their video review with a broad sweep of digital records. They gathered cell tower data showing which phones were active in the neighborhood at the time, and issued subpoenas to several tech companies, including Google. Okay, look, I think you are all aware. I am not an agent with the FBI. I am not a criminal investigator, okay, or am I no, I'm not okay. I am not a technical guru either, but I think a pretty good place to have started would have been to capture the cell phone pings and such that were near the Republican Party headquarters, and then also capture the pings that were near the Democrat Party headquarters. And then and I'm just spitballing here again not an expert, but then maybe like match up those lists of the phones that were in both areas and find out, you know, if there's a match, because if there's a phone that's pinging near the DNC and that same phone number pings near the RNC on the night of January fifth at the time that we know the time was when the bombs got planted, because we actually have that on video, the planting of the bomb, So we could put the two together and maybe find out whose phone that was if they had a phone. Now maybe they didn't have a phone, and maybe they were no matches, but that would have been my first step. I would have probably done that first, especially because like the the video was so terrible, which that's another question that I have on these types of cases, where like we've like we got we got clearer video of the moon landing sixty years ago. You know, we have of today's modern close circuit TV cams. For some reason, I don't understand. You know, it's like, hey, we need your help identifying this suspect, and they show you this picture and it's just like a blurry blob. You can't you can't tell anything about this image. I don't get that. Let me jump over here to PJ Media Catherine Salgado. Following the news that the j six pipe bomber has been arrested by the FBI, a new report establishes his identity as a Virginia man named Brian Cole. Fox News miss Now formerly known as MSNBC and NBC News all reporting today that Cole is the suspect. But the particularly galling part is that miss Now says Cole's arrest was the result of a quote fresh review of old evidence, and Cole could have possibly been arrested years ago. Huh. So there's no new evidence that you guys have uncovered. It's just old evidence that somebody else looked at. Now. Look, I have seen enough of the Cold Case TV show, you know, the forensic files and all that stuff. I've seen enough. I mean, not that I go out and try to put those on. Christy loves why these things because she's a woman, and I think that's part of the deal. Like, if you're a woman, you love watching these types of true crime shows and stuff, And so I see some of these episodes, and so I understand. You know, a case goes cold, nobody's talking, evidence will leads to dead ends, and that's it. But then you know, a detective, you know, takes a fresh look at it, They interview some new people, they find some new information or whatever, and boom, the case gets solved. Right, And maybe that's what happened here, that's possible, But it's not like this is a terribly old case. It's only been four and a half years, right, a fresh review of old evidence. And according to miss Now, hardly a conservative publication. Right, they're saying that Cole could have been arrested years ago. Now, I wonder does miss Now think that the arrest should have been made years ago because he's maga because right now, nobody knows. As of this moment, I'm not aware of any background research that's been done or published about Brian Cole's politics, right, because that's what everybody is scrambling to do right now. You can like everybody is just like it's like the two monkeys with the knives the cartoon where they're like circling each other with the knives. That's what's happening right now. Everybody's waiting to find out was this guy of the left or was he of the right right? Or was he a fed? Like that's it, I mean, that's the other possible. I kid, I kid the fed. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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If Ken Delanian is telling you something, it's coming from the Intelligence services, and you know, so you don't know if they're telling you this for truthful purposes or they're telling you this for deflective purposes. We don't know. So that's my disclaimer. Whenever I do anything that comes from Kendelanian with NBC, I always like, I take it as if the intelligence community is giving me this information for some reason, and I don't know what that reason is, and so you have to hold out the possibility that they're doing it in order to distract to misinform, right. I don't know what the motives are. But what they report is that the suspect has been linked to statements in support of anarchist ideology. What well, what is anarchist ideology? What does that mean? Like an anarchist. Or is that? Is that a way of saying antifa, which is just an idea? People, There is no there's no organization, there's no structure, It's just an idea. Antifa is just an idea. Is that what we're talking about? Is it antifa linked to statements in support of anarchist ideology? So I don't know what that means. There is a press conference. We now have learned that this press conference is going to be scheduled for one o'clock. That is also coincidentally or not, I don't know the same time when this individual is going to be arraigned in federal court. That's at one pm. Yeah, and we'll see, we shall see. Let me right now, I'm just trying to look for to do, all right, how about this. I'm trying to look to see which way to pivot because I've got to like think ahead to one o'clock, and I've got the stuff on the blowing up of the boats, but I kind of feel like that's going to be longer than a segment, so I want to keep all that self contained to an hour for the podcast and everything. So let me do this. I've got some audio that I pulled do to do to do here she is okay, so, uh, you know Congresswoman Promila Jayapala or jayapal gaiapow uh, Democrat from Washington, head of the Progressive Caucus. Well, she has introduced legislation now that would severely limit the Department of Homeland Security's ability to enforce the nation's immigration laws. Okay, which, by the way, I support her doing. So. I don't support her bill, but this is the way you go about changing laws that you don't want to see enforced. Okay. If you don't want laws to be enforced, then take the laws off the books, change the laws, and you do that through the legislative process. And that's what she is doing. And so kudos to her for at least understanding the way it's supposed to go. You don't just get to nullify stuff. You don't get to say we're not going to enforce this, we're going to ignore that. Right, So she introduced Well, here let me play the sound bite, because she did a news conference announcing the rollout of this bill. Here's what's you. See our Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act has a remarkable, unprecedented one and twenty three original co sponsors before we've even introduced it, one hundred and twenty three co sponsors. And it overhauls the detention system. It drastically scales back the use of detention. It ensures that every single immigrant who is in detention has their human and civil rights protected. Our bill also phases out the use of private, for profit detention centers. It prohibits the detention of children and families, and makes it harder to detain primary caregivers and vulnerable people like pregnant women or seniors, or workers who are whistleblowing on unscrupulous employers. It requires DHS to allow members of Congress to do our jobs and conduct those unannounced inspections that hold these facilities accountable. Yeah, okay, that's what you're doing. Mm hmm, unannounced inspections, right to hold them accountable, that's what Yeah, because you're trained as an inspector, right, Okay. So according to bright bart dot com, and she mentioned some of these provisions, it repeals mandatory detention, So like, what does that mean? More catch and release? So your order to be deported, but we can't detain you, so you're free to go until you have your day in court, which you may have already had by the way, but nonetheless due process, so we don't ever get to deport you. That's and that's the goal here, by the way, just so everybody is clear, it's to slow the process down so much that you can't ever get people out of the country in a timely fashion. And then eventually you can give them amnesty or path to citizenship amnesty once Trump is gone and you can get a Democrat in charge, and then you can just you know, give the amnesty. And that's what the long game is. They just need to slow everything down. And by the way, this is not just me making this up, Okay, this is me going off of what these leftist bureaucrats said. During Trump's first term, there were stories about how bureaucrats inside the federal government were actively throwing sand in the gears if you will, to slow everything down to work Trump's agenda. This is how This is why people in MAGA call it the deep state, because they you have people inside the government that are essentially like a fifth column, right, They're they're they're working as as saboteurs inside the government because orange man bit. All right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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So this uh Dignity for Detained Immigrants at or the DDIA or the DiDia as I like to call it, introduced by Promila Jayapol along with one hundred and twenty three other sponsors. Unprecedented, never before. Okay, So this is what the Democrats are, This is where they're throwing their lot into, right, this is what they're going to be running on. This idea that there will be no more mandatory detentions for illegal immigrants that are picked up, no more mandatory detention. It would prohibit the detention of families and children in family detention, so they all have to be released, which is what Biden did. And that's how you ended up with, you know, a couple hundred thousand unaccompanied minors that got sent out to live with people throughout the United States and they don't know who those people are, and those kids, many of them got trafficked' the see, that's the humane thing to do. In Democrats' brains, that's the humane thing to do, is that if you got kids, you can't detain them, You got to send them on their way to be sex trafficked. Sorry, that's I mean, that's only the moral thing to do here. Also, it creates a presumption of release, a presumption of release, and it imposes a higher burden of proof to detain primary caregivers as well as vulnerable populations. And you heard her mention some of them, some of these protected classes pregnant women, but also survivors of torture or gender based violence, people with serious mental or physical illness or disability. So if you are insane, that is a presumption of release. That makes sense in the Democrats' brain, that makes sense. So somebody suffering from mental illness, serious mental illness, then the presumption is that you have to release them back out into our society, right, that's yeah. What else? Oh, asylum seekers, anybody over the age of sixty, So all you cartel members, you can retire here. You get the presumption of release. But also LGBTQ individuals. I don't know why the plus and the two ia are not in there, but LGBTQ individuals, so they get extra protection. So if you're straight, you don't get the presumption of release, but if you're gay, you do. These people they're just crazy. What else here? Phase out the use of private detention facilities and jails because those are bad, right, Yes, those are terrible private detention facilities. So why do that, Well, because in the sanctuary jurisdictions, you've got local Democrat officials that are already doing that in the public detention facilities, right, they're they're already not cooperating with ICE. They don't want to hold anybody, so they're releasing these violent criminals all the time. In fact, the New York Post had a big story where is it here? It's in the stack of stuff shilling. New details emerge about killer migrants responsible for twenty nine homicides that were sprung from New York jails instead of being handed off to ICE. Twenty nine dead people in New York directly connected to the people that the New York prison officials, at the direction of Democrat elected leadership, right, they said, release them. They would not honor the ICE detainers. They let these people out. And by the way, there was six nine hundred and forty seven, so almost seven thousand criminals released from New York jails despite having active ICE detainers. That's just in one year. One year, that's what New York did, and it led to the deaths of twenty nine people, and that's what Promilajaiapol and to one hundred twenty three Democrat co sponsors, that's what they would like to see replicated throughout the country. What else here? Established civil detention standards that provide at minimum the level of protection in the American Bar Association. Civil Immigration Detention standards, mandate the DHS Inspector General conduct unannounced inspections with meaningful penalties for failure to comply with standards, and require that DHS allow members of Congress to stage publicity stunts and photo ops. I'm sorry to make unannounced inspections. Sorry, that's what That's what the bill actually says. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.