Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

Bill Gates’s past with Jeffrey Epstein is again boiling to the surface. It was already known that Gates had connections to the accused sex trafficker and convicted pedophile. In fact, Gates’s wife previously said this was a key reason she divorced him. But the new evidence is exposing even more. Not only is it now apparent that Gates met with Epstein more than was previously thought, but it also appears that Epstein had tried blackmailing Gates over an affair with a Russian bridge player. Meanwhile, the nation watched last week as FBI whistleblowers made shocking allegations on how the agency has been punishing agents for refusing to break the law, or for refusing to carry out orders they view as unethical. They spoke during a hearing from the House Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee. One of the agents was Stephen Friend, an FBI whistleblower, who joins us for a discussion. We’ll discuss these stories, and why they matter, in this episode of Crossroads.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to announce his run for president in 2024 sometime next week. On Thursday, he took a swipe at former President Donald Trump, allegedly saying during a private call to donors that he’s the only one who could beat President Joe Biden. Yet his poll numbers are looking rough, as the DeSantis campaign is still trying to recover from a drop in support after New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought charges against Trump. This highlights the elephant in the room for the 2024 presidential race. There are two topics that Republican voters have front and center. One is stopping woke culture. The other is putting an end to government corruption. Being part of the “establishment” is now a toxic label. Not pushing back hard enough on woke politics is seen as an endorsement of child abuse and racial division. Not taking a strong enough stand against the weaponization of justice is itself seen as an injustice. These two issues will likely decide who Republicans choose as the frontrunner. In this episode of “Crossroads,” we’ll discuss this issue and others.

FBI agents who refused to break the law, who refused to carry out what they viewed as unlawful orders, or who came out to expose alleged crimes being committed within the agency itself, have been punished by the FBI. Some lost their jobs. Some went without pay. Many of them were defamed and attacked by news outlets after members of Congress selectively leaked information. The agents lost their well-being, their reputations were harmed, and they knowingly faced these punishments in order to uphold the values that the FBI was once expected to uphold. This was the gist of the hearing today on what’s gone wrong with the FBI. It was part of the investigation by the Select Subcommittee into the “weaponization” of the federal government, which is being conducted under the House Judiciary Committee. In this episode of Crossroads, we’ll be speaking about this story and others.

If someone you love were threatened, or even physically attacked, do you have the right to defend them? And even more so, when police are being defunded and when criminals are being released on the streets, do you have a right to protect yourself? Do you have to just let things happen? Do you just watch while innocent people get victimized by criminals? Well, these questions are currently on trial in New York regarding the death of Jordan Neely and the former U.S. Marine being charged with manslaughter. Meanwhile, a leaked Pentagon report dismantles what we’ve been told about COVID-19 and its origins. In particular, it contradicts the Proximal Origin study that was used by people including Dr. Anthony Fauci when trying to debunk the lab leak theory. We speak about this with Hans Mahncke, author of the report and co-host of EpochTV’s “Truth Over News.” Also, a recent Epoch Times investigation found something shocking. An activist group has been secretly sending sex-change kits to children, and they’ve been shipping these kits to kids all over the United States. To speak with us on this is the author of that investigative piece, Epoch Times reporter Jackson Elliot.

The report from special counsel John Durham has finally been released to the public, and the American people are now learning the truth about the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into Donald Trump, both when he was a candidate and when he became president of the United States. It turns out that the Trump–Russia claims were false, and that the investigations were deeply flawed. We’ll discuss what these new findings mean for the country. Meanwhile, Lee Smith joins us to comment on the Durham report and on what it will mean for the FBI’s other investigations into Trump leading into the 2024 elections. He’s the host of “Over the Target” on EpochTV, and author of “The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in US History.” We’ve also invited Jeffrey Tucker to speak with us about the federal government hitting the debt ceiling. Would it really be so bad? And what can be done to avoid the crisis? Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute.

Special counsel John Durham on Monday released his long-awaited report on the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign back in 2016. FBI veteran and Epoch Times contributor Marc Ruskin discusses the significance of the findings. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden over the weekend warned that white supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat against the United States. He didn’t specify a group or detail who these individuals might be. So what was he referring to? We’ll take an in-depth look at this. Also, Californians are now leaving the state in droves. This is being blamed on high taxes, rising crime, and a whittling away at the quality of life in the “golden state.” Yet what does this say about California politics, and what could this mean for the rest of us as those policies begin to spread? We’ll speak with Siyamak Khorrami, host of California Insider, about this and more.

Twitter users are mourning the death of the platform: The hashtag #RipTwitter was trending this afternoon. And the feed was filled with posts and videos about Elon Musk’s newly appointed CEO, Linda Yaccarino. Yaccarino was the head of advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal. She’s also a forum executive chair at the World Economic Forum. So is this the end of the platform? We’ll discuss. And in other news, despite legal attempts to prevent it from happening, Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor tied in with the Stormy Daniels case against Donald Trump, had to testify before Congress today. We’ll discuss why this matters, and what it means for “justice” and accountability.

CNN will never be the same again after former President Donald Trump appeared on the network for a Town Hall Wednesday night. The show lasted over an hour and ended with the live audience of Republicans and undeclared voters, at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, cheering for Trump. And they weren’t cheering so much for CNN interviewer Kaitlin Collins. Immediately after, CNN itself was even attacked by several public figures and establishment news outlets for even giving Trump a platform. So what took place? Well, it may have made Trump look just a bit too human. And for the well-crafted and ongoing attacks to dehumanize the former president, this could be a threat to the narratives. Also, border expert and war correspondent Michael Yon joins us from El Paso, TX, to talk the end of Title 42 and what it means for the border crisis. We’ll discuss this story in this episode of Crossroads.

President Joe Biden is being accused of money laundering and influence peddling. This is the latest chapter in the Hunter Biden saga, where the president’s son was suspected of selling his father’s influence to foreign governments and businesses. On Wednesday, members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a press conference. They detailed what they described as a complex money laundering scheme, involving payments from several foreign countries to President Joe Biden. And it turns out this isn’t just about Joe and Hunter, either. The Committee members claim the payments have been going to close to a dozen members of the Biden family, and they also claim the Biden family was taking steps to conceal the funds.

A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump liable for defamation and battery in a civil case filed by columnist E. Jean Carroll. Both are civil charges that do not result in jail time. Joseph Tacopina, Trump’s attorney, told The Epoch Times that the former president is planning to appeal the verdict. Also, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has just announced his future plans. He’s going to start a new show on Twitter. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic has come to an end. The federal vaccine mandates are over. The public health emergency was brought to a stop. The world is returning to normal, yet for many people, things aren’t over just yet. The next step may be to hold everyone accountable who violated the basic rights of people using COVID policy. Yet, key players behind lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and censorship are now claiming it wasn’t them. They say the public attacks are based on misleading information. Others are writing off the blame altogether. So what’s really happening? We explore this issue in this episode of Crossroads.

Evidence of alleged underhanded deals involving President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and other members of the family will be revealed this week. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) have called a press conference this Wednesday where they will reveal details of a months-long investigation—including claims from whistleblowers—and with documents received from banks and other sources. Meanwhile, they claim witnesses and whistleblowers on the case have faced threats from Biden’s legal team, and that some of the witnesses fear for their safety. In this episode of Crossroads, we’ll discuss this.

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, and eventually won, he did so with a key campaign promise: He said he’d “drain the swamp.” The initial sentiment after Trump left office was that he failed at this. The new sentiment is that he did in fact drain it, and now the nation is seeing all the swamp creatures that once hid below the surface. This is bringing about a new type of political debate for the country. Rather than being between Republicans and Democrats, it’s now between the “MAGA Republicans” and the establishment. And the anti-establishment camp is breaking from the old systems of information control.

The two Caribbean islands that formerly belonged to now-deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been sold. The islands, known for their bizarre structures, were initially listed at $125 million, but sold for $60 million to the founder of a private equity firm that has new plans for construction. Meanwhile, new details are emerging on who Epstein was meeting with before his death. Wall Street Journal obtained new records, including Epstein’s personal calendar, which exposes the names and dates of meetings with various public figures. Also, the U.S. military is facing a recruitment crisis, and they’re turning to drag to get numbers up. In this episode of Crossroads, we’ll discuss these stories and others.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is facing public hit pieces. Leaked internal videos from Fox and internal communications at the network have been provided to The New York Times and to leftist organization Media Matters. It appears public sentiment is still more on the side of Carlson, but the attacks are raising questions of whether or not these leaks were motivated by business. In other news, Anheuser-Busch is still reeling from boycotts following a Bud Light promotional campaign with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. But they might have a solution: free beer. In this episode of Crossroads, we’ll discuss these stories.

The Biden administration is being accused of running a large-scale child trafficking operation in relation to the “border crisis.” Findings on this from a grand jury were detailed in a 142-page document from the Supreme Court of Florida. Similar accusations were recently made by Department of Health and Human Services whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas. While testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, she stated that, “whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the U.S. government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar child trafficking operation that is run by bad actors seeking to profit off of the lives of children.” In this episode of Crossroads, we’ll discuss what’s really taking place.

During the 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, President Joe Biden declared that “a poison is running through our democracy and parts of the extreme press. Truth buried by lies and lies living an honest truth.” Yet what is the “extreme press” and what is this alleged “poison” running through the American system? The United States is having a fundamental debate on truth, and on whether voices should be allowed to challenge established narratives. Tucker Carlson struck a chord in a video published on Twitter after he left Fox News. In it, he raises a new debate for the news outlets of the world, questioning whether the stories of choice actually matter for the public, and questioning even more deeply why the stories that matter are not being discussed.

WATCH THE FULL LIVE: https://ept.ms/BidensWarPowersCR_YT Russia has declared it is in a “hot conflict” with the United States after Pentagon intelligence leaked. The leaked intel detailed secret American and NATO plans for bolstering the Ukrainian military.

WATCH THE FULL LIVE: https://ept.ms/DisinfoCollusionCR_YT California Governor Gavin Newsom has activated the National Guard to deal with San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis following a 41% spike in fentanyl overdose deaths in the first few months of 2023.

WATCH THE FULL LIVE: https://ept.ms/CCPPoliceInNYC_CR_YT Recent developments in AI are raising the question of what constitutes life and what value human life will have if 'personhood' status is granted to things like robots and trees. And now, an expert is even warning that if we go too far with AI, "everyone will die."

WATCH THE FULL LIVE: https://ept.ms/LawWeaponizedCR_YT George Soros, the billionaire leftist philanthropist, has backed many social reform prosecutors, and now these DAs are being called out for their soft-on-crime policies as cities become overrun with crime.

WATCH THE FULL LIVE: https://ept.ms/DeDollarizationCR_YT BRICS nations are working on a new world currency to replace the US dollar. And as this happens, the USD is facing threats as the world's reserve currency, as more and more nations are moving away from the US dollar in international trade.

WATCH THE FULL LIVE: https://ept.ms/TrumpIndictmentBreaksCR_YT The Chinese regime is using the Trump indictment to point out that the US political establishment looks like it has become tyrannical. And they're using this to their advantage to argue that America is in no shape to lead the world. @JoshJPhilipp on the international implications of DA Bragg's case against Trump.

WATCH THE FULL LIVE: https://ept.ms/TrumpGagOrderYT Socialist billionaire George Soros has backed the election campaigns of many social justice prosecutors, and there are now over 70 Soros-backed prosecutors in office. @JoshJPhilipp on how these soft-on-crime prosecutors have ruined cities.

WATCH THE FULL LIVE: https://ept.ms/TrumpsTrialCR_YT Stormy Daniels has been ordered to pay nearly $122,000 in legal fees to Trump over her failed defamation lawsuit against him. This is in addition to the $300,000 she was previously ordered to pay. This ruling came at the same time as Trump was being indicted for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, to which he pleaded not guilty.

WATCH THE FULL LIVE: https://ept.ms/FBIsViolentDisinformationYT Congress is weighing a bill to ban TikTok, however, what's contained in the bill is more government control in disguise. It would allow the government to go after anyone they deem a national security risk by accessing all their digital technology.