The Adult in the Room

Author & former federal prosecutor John D. O'Connor joins the program to look back on a crucial moment in the history of governmental corruption and law enforcement, the Watergate scandal. O'Connor befriended & represented Mark Felt, the FBI associate director better known as the legendary whistleblower "Deep Throat," a revelation that O'Connor helped to reveal through a blockbuster article in Vanity Fair. O'Connor has authored two recent books on the scandal, and draws parallels between the FBI & press during that time and their modern successors. He discusses how he first came to know Mark Felt and how he convinced Felt to come clean about his role in Woodward & Bernstein's reports. He also addresses the connections between the Democratic party & current White House and Russian interests that led to the infamous and widely-discredited "Pee Tape" dossier, why China is an existential threat to US sovereignty, and why corruption in the executive branch proves that the DOJ, FBI & media have learned nothing from the mistakes of Watergate. Purchase The Mysteries of Watergate: What Really Happened and Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism by John D. O'Connor on Amazon ***** TOP STORIES 'I Hoped They Didn't Hear the Fear in My Voice': Actress Melissa Joan Hart Helped After Nashville Christian School Attack ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Harvey A. Silverglate is a prominent civil rights and criminal defense attorney, a co-founder and board member of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a former litigation counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, so he knows a thing or two about freedom of speech and abuse of power. Today, he joins the program to discuss how the Department of Justice has stoked what he considers a continued civil war in this country, leaving those with classical liberal ideals -- statistically, the vast majority of Americans -- caught in the crossfire between radicals on both the far left and far right. Meanwhile the government and the media uses the chaos to restrict rights and push its own agenda. In his book Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, Silverglate detailed how the average American violates three obscure laws every single day without even knowing it. Currently, he's representing Dr. John Eastman, former counsel to President Trump, as he battles the California State Bar over their actions taken against Eastman in the aftermath of the 2020 election. He discusses that case, as well as others he's encountered in his long career as a champion of individual rights. ***** TOP STORIES Ray Epps' Lawyer Threatens Tucker Carlson: 'You Didn't See What You Saw on J6 Video — or Else' Man Who Stabbed Rand Paul Senate Aide in Broad Daylight Had Just Been Released from Prison Stop Lying: Watch How the Nashville School Killer Case Destroys Left's Myth About Guns The Nashville Killer Lied About Her Guns The Nashville Police Body Cam Video Will Make You Proud of Cops The Nashville Killer's Manifesto Will Be Released. Other Murderers Give Us Clues About What It Will Say Trump Attorney: 'Today, the Rule of Law in the United States of America Died' The Left Is Already Ca$hing In on Trump Indictment Dershowitz on Trump Indictment: 'Worst Case of Prosecutorial Abuse I Have Ever Seen' West Coast, Messed Coast™: Trump Indictment Has Democrats Channeling Their Inner Commie — With One Shocking Exception ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Journalist Asra Q. Nomani returns to the program to share her deeply personal story: a discussion of growing up as a first-generation American in a Muslim immigrant family from India and her first encounters with early extremism within her own extended family, the origins of Islamist extremism in the DC area, her friendship with murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl, her experience as a single mother and feminist within a deeply conservative culture, and why she believes the American left is embracing religious fundamentalism that stands in direct opposition to its stated goals of race and gender equality. Asra Q. Nomani's new book "Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That is Destroying American Freedom" is available now. ***** TOP STORIES West Coast, Messed Coast™ Where the 'Praying Coach' Gets His Job Back Arrest Trump? Welcome to the Banana Republic of America Is NYC District Attorney Prepping the Jeffrey Epstein Suite at Rikers for Re-Elect Trump HQ? Of Course Donald Trump Could Be Charged at Any Moment by an Unethical, Spiteful Prosecutor Finally! House Leaders Demand New York DA Cough Up Rationale for Trump Indictment A Federal Judge Looks at a California Gun Law and Says, 'Bye!' America's Military Leaders Swear 'Wokeness' Isn't Reason Why Recruitment Sucks Stanford Law Students Ordered to Attend Remedial Free Speech Class While DEI Dean... Disappears After 'Protest' Stanford Law's Self-Own West Coast, Messed Coast™: Fire, Fire Everywhere — Thanks to the 'Homeless' Seattle Fire Chief Accused of Helping BLM and Antifa Take Over CHAZ During 'Summer of Love' ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Mike McCormick served as part of the While House Stenographers Office for over 20 years, serving as part of the team tasked with preserving for posterity the official remarks of the President & Vice President under six different administrations. Now an author and independent journalist with a unique perspective on the Oval Office, Mike has taken on a new project: sorting through the sordid material on Hunter Biden's infamous laptop and matching it with official records and Joe Biden's own statements to establish a timeline that suggests corruption and backroom dealings during his time as Vice President that may have directly impacted Russia's decision to invade Ukraine, and may have even led to the COVID-19 pandemic that caused the deaths of millions worldwide. Mike McCormick on Substack: "Midnight in the Laptop of Good & Evil" ••••• TOP STORIES West Coast, Messed Coast™: The Left's Unconstitutional Assault on Guns The Fault Line in Biden's Bank Failures Runs Through Washington's Greed Russia Goes Kinetic With U.S. in Skies Over the Black Sea, and the USAF Response Is Unbelievable J6 Proud Boys Find Out That Federal Court Is Where Civil Rights Go to Die Gavin Newsom Has Some Explaining to Do About Personal Ties to Failed Silicon Valley Bank BLM Shakedown Raked In Billions; This Group Tracked the $$$ Gavin Newsom's 'Shady Ties' With Failed Silicon Valley Bank Reveals His Other 'Corruption' ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Author, journalist and former Texas Department of Public Safety analyst Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies has a great deal of experience observing and analyzing the unique and sometimes harrowing world that exists along our southern border. In his newest book, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, he takes readers through the what, why, and how of the growing tensions at the US-Mexico border that have resulted in a humanitarian, environmental, and national security disaster that threatens the safety and political future of every US citizen, regardless of party or ideology. In this episode of The Adult in the Room, he talks about his own experiences at the border and exactly why current US policy is making the situation worse by the moment. Buy Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History on Amazon ***** TOP STORIES An Unexpected Lesson From the Alex Murdaugh Trial West Coast, Messed Coast™: Welcome to the Dumb Idea Factory! Tucker Carlson's January 6 Exposé Starts Tonight, and He's Already Uncovered Some Big Lies SHOCK VIDEO: Tucker Carlson Outs the Lies About January 6 ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

The riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 will forever be a controversial, embarrassing, and disturbing mark on American politics and a sign of the disintegration of civility between both sides of the aisle. But are the right people being held responsible for the mayhem that day? Darren Beattie of Revolver.News joins the program to discuss Ray Epps, an individual many believe to be directly responsible for helping whip the agitated crowd into a frenzy that day, instigating one of the most infamous days of civil unrest in modern history. Why has Epps not faced charges for his prominent role in the fiasco, and could he be getting protection from someone high on the government food chain? ***** TOP STORIES California's Councilman's Massive Mail-in Ballot Vote Scam Is Revealed West Coast, Messed Coast™ Report: Too Much Snow, Too Few Workers Washington State Dems Want 'Minority Report' Commission to Destroy Conservative Wrong-Think White House Panics After Wuhan Lab Leak Story ID'd as 'Most Likely' Theory for COVID Where Does Comedian Jon Stewart Go to Get His Lefty Credentials Back After COVID Report Vindicates Him? First the Kids, Now the Dog: Spain's Socialists Show Who the Left's Perverts Are Coming for Next Why I Don't Trust Sneering FBI Director Chris Wray on Admitting COVID Lab Leak ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Author and journalist Stella Morabito's new book, The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer examines the various ways governments, corporations, peer groups and educational institutions use our natural fear of separation and isolation from others to enforce conformity and submission to authority. She joins this episode to talk about the concept, the historical science behind groupthink and mob psychology, and how fearless free speech can combat it. ***** TOP STORIES West Coast, Messed Coast™: Nancy and Paul's Latest Exquisitely Timed Stock Move Inspires the PELOSI Act ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

This past December, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology -- a STEAM-centric magnet high school in Fairfax County, Virginia -- made waves after it was revealed that students who had been recognized by the National Merit Scholar program as Commended Students and Semifinalists had not been notified of the awards, costing them precious opportunities for early college admission, scholarships and more. Two parents of affected students, Shawnna Yashar and Asra Q. Nomani, decided to dig deeper and discovered TJ was ground zero for a systemic failure that has its roots in the so-called "equity" movement. Now it's been found that eighteen schools in four northern Virginia counties have similarly failed to notify students. Is it incompetence, or something more sinister? ***** TOP STORIES One Person Inspired an Insurrection, the Other Is Brandon Straka Nancy Pelosi's Exorcism Gavin Newsom's 'Suicide Pact' With the Truth Washington, D.C.'s Vote-Stealing Law Is Treason Another Wave of Joe Biden J-O-B-S Losses ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

In the first segment of this episode of The Adult in the Room, the Article III Project's Mike Davis joins for a brief update on the classified documents found inside Joe Biden's various properties, why they differ from the similar situation with former President Trump. Then, in our second segment, J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and the US Commission on Civil Rights joins the show to talk about a developing story out of the state of Colorado, in which "motor voter" laws resulted in a substantial number of registrations going out to non-citizens and other ineligible voters, loopholes in the system make voter fraud a worrying possibility, and why Colorado may be covering it up. ***** TOP STORIES Should Someone This Dumb Be the Special Counsel Investigating Biden's Stolen Classified Documents Scandal? Meet 'Lyin' Clyde' Shavers, the Democrat 'George Santos' West Coast, Messed Coast™ Update: 'First They Came for the Shower Heads...' Try Not to Laugh at DOJ's Excuse for Not Sending FBI to Raid Biden's Homes for Classified Docs California's Disastrous Universal Mail-in Election Lost 10 MILLION Ballots in 2022! 'Worst of the Worst' Sex Predators Are Being Released From Washington State's Pedophile Island West Coast, Messed Coast™ Report: Drama Queens Over Here Left Explodes, But Is Trump the Only One Who Remembers Violence From the Dobbs Leak? ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Twitter majority owner and CEO Elon Musk, working with some of the web's most respected independent journalists, has released a flood of new information with regards to the company's internal content moderation policies, revealing for the first time the true extent of employee efforts to suppress speech it deemed inappropriate to the platform. Special guests John D. Trudel & retired Major General Paul E. Vallely join the program to talk about the first series of releases and how Twitter's manipulation of the info stream -- from so-called "shadow banning" to outright deletion of tweets & accounts -- influenced the 2020 election cycle, violated the rights of end-users, and restricted major media outlets from being able to connect with their audience. LINKS TO THE TWITTER FILES: Part 1 via Matt Taibbi: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 Part 2 via Bari Weiss: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600 Part 3 via Matt Taibbi: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281 Part 4 via Michael Shellenberger: https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/1601720455005511680 Part 5 via Bari Weiss: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515 ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media