25:51 I know you probably saw this, but the little ditty we talked about a month ago? About a missing 3 minute video from the State Department. Oh right! Yes this is hilarious. This was regarding... what's her name.. Not V- not Newland, because Newland was the one that had lied. And then... what was it? Was it Jen? Jen Psaki? I thought it was Newland No but there was Jen Psaki who lied about her and then that was removed from the videotape although it was at the time Then we're gonna listen to that in a second It was deemed a glitch! It was just a glitch! Just a glitch! And you recall Matt Lee who is not here for the unfolding of the truth
26:37 was really hounding, it was Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau actually who was covering up. No no just a glitch just a glitch anyway Mr Kirby Admiral Rear Admiral Kirby comes out. Can I say something before? Of course! You don't have to ask. Kirby... well you have to interrupt somehow Kirby, I saw him doing some... there was some other event with him. Have you seen that binder? You know the binder they always have a binder? Yes! It actually comes up in one of these clips it's huge The thing is the size is unbelievably big It is the biggest binder I have never seen a binder this big He has to use two hands to turn to another topic
27:18 It's unbelievable. And this topic was so big he actually has to stop to use two hands to turn the page and gets interrupted because I thought it was done So again recalling that this was a cover-up of a lie And this came to a head as Kirby just... He did receive a question about this, but I'm going to presume that was a setup question. Oh yes! Thank you for asking me that. I almost forgot. Well he didn't here's his... It was a long segment but i'm gonna give you just a couple pieces of it Here is the statement. As many of you know and I want be specific on this one so I am gonna refer my notes a little bit. As many of you know and some have brought to our attention
28:00 A portion of the State Department's December 2nd, 2013 press briefing was missing from the video that we posted on our YouTube account and on our website. That missing portion covered a series of questions about U.S. negotiations with Iran When alerted to this, I immediately directed the video to be restored in its entirety with a full and complete copy that exists – and had existed since the day of the briefing on the Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System website otherwise known as DVIDS. I also verified that the full transcript of the briefing which we also post on our website was intact and had been so since the date of the briefing. I asked the Office of the Legal Advisor to look at this including
28:45 a look at any rules that we had in place. In so doing, they learned that a specific request was made to excise that portion of the briefing We do not know who made the request to edit the video or why it was made To my surprise, the Bureau of Public Affairs did not have in place any rules governing this type of action. Therefore we are taking immediate steps to craft appropriate protocols on this issue as we believe that deliberately removing a portion of the video was not and is not in keeping with the State Department's commitment to transparency and public accountability." No shit! I'm not, let me just finish. Sorry, sorry. I got a little bit more? No? It was a dramatic pause. I was just turning the page! See there it is his huge binder
29:31 Specifically, we are going to make clear that all video and transcripts from daily press briefings will be immediately and permanently archived in their entirety. And that in the unlikely event that narrow compelling circumstances require edits to be made such as the inadvertent release of privacy protected information they will only be made with express permission of the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and with an appropriate level of annotation and disclosure I have communicated this new policy my staff it takes effect immediately Okay, so I'm to the glitch. Well we'll get into that in a moment it was it wasn't a glitch that was a lie but the what Kirby is saying Is someone called up now? This is the pub the PA the public affairs department It's not that big in the State Department. I'm sure there's 40 50 people But it's not that big So he's gonna go into little more detail here to explain exactly what happened, but I'll set it up for you somebody called to the
30:30 somebody who was responsible for the videos and said, we need somebody else in public affairs who is of authority says you have to edit this to their out. Which by the way if you remember the little skit we did at that time it was exactly that way Hey, so-and-so wants a cutout. Yeah no problem what do we do? It's a jump cut I just put a flash in which is exactly what happened. Exactly what happened of course the question is who did this? Who did the edit now they've talked to the person who did the edit who was unnamed We don't even know if the person was inside the public affairs agency but I presume he was or she was
31:10 We do not know who asked for the element. They call them over at the grammar school They got a hold of him the grammar school exactly they Do not know who asked nor the person who was mentioned as the authority? For which it should be done and No need to investigate because and this is a beautiful line I Strangely, we have no rules about this stuff. Can't believe it! How about falsifying government documentation? Wouldn't you say that adheres here?" I would say no. I don't think this is falsifying anything. This is just taking something out. Okay. If they put something in that was bullcrapped, then I'd say that would be falsified but there's not falsehood if you just remove excise something
32:01 really falsifying anything. Well, it's certainly not transparent but he sees no reason for an investigation I think it'd be worthwhile to investigate that Oh no! No, you know he says it is NOT worthwhile Because HE'S the one Yeah Do you know when the edit or cut occurred? Cut. Was it some point afterwards? Or was it the same day? To the best of our knowledge, the edit was done on the same day And how do you know that it was deliberately removed as you said As I understand that request was made again back in 2013 over the phone The recipient of the call who is one of the editors does not remember They have editors interesting What did editor's do
32:52 Edit. The edit, so this doesn't seem like an isolated incident as far as I'm concerned but okay that's just me maybe reading too much into it. The editor does not remember anything other than the caller was passing on a request from somewhere else in the bureau and are you doing any... Well hold on a second stop there's an implication here Yeah, that this situation must happen more often than not if you can't recall. Oh yeah, it was a one-off oh yeah this comes up don't worry the press was asking questions in fact someone asked questions they never just never reported why bother? In the bureau and are you doing any
33:30 I mean, as you said there was no rules about this but are you nevertheless investigating further to figure out who did this and why? The short answer is no. As I said there were no rules in place at the time to govern this sort of action so while i believe it was an inappropriate step to take... I'll say! ...I see little foundation for pressing forward with a formal investigation. Oh wow bro- Why bother?! Why bother now!? Luckily, the girl from CNN was in the room and just a little bit because she got pretty excited. And I liked it. It's a little strange somebody said the person you spoke to admitted cutting it from the tape and said somebody they can't remember told them to do that
34:09 They didn't know their position, how senior they were. Have any indication of their authority to ask them that? And then they just said well I did it but somebody I can't remember told me to do it. That seems a little fishy right? The recipient doesn't remember anything other than that the caller was passing on a request from somewhere else in the Bureau and That's, that is the most information we were able to gain. Wait wait wait you said I'm sorry i don't remember if you've said this before but you said a request was made from someone in the Bureau so it was made from someone in PA? Was, the recipient of the call doesn't remember anything other than
34:50 The caller, the individual who called this technician was passing on a request from someone else in the Public Affairs Bureau. a one-of-a kind request and would the editor forget of one of a kind? There's your question. I mean, as I understand you're saying you are not aware if any other occasions... All I can do is tell what the individual... Humming a humming a humming. ...could remember. I mean, I can't do more than that again this happened three years ago. Did the legal advisor ask other than top officials in PA whether they made that request
35:26 I'm not going to get into the specific details. But it does go to how thorough the investigation on this was. This wasn't an investigation, remember at least there were no rules governing this. Just because- John, John just because there were no rules governing taking out a public briefing and editing it doesn't mean that it was the right thing to do so I'm sorry that there were no rules but I don't really think that you know just because there's no rules on certain things And you've said from this podium there was no rule on Secretary Clinton not using emails, but it was the wrong thing to do. So I don't think that... And as I said, I don't find this to be the appropriate step to have taken either. No! But I asked the Office of the Legal Advisor to look into this and they did? What the hell is the Office of the Legal Advisor? Is that like a secretary who just says nah, no investigation needed? What's the office of the legal advisor
36:19 The office of the legal advisors obviously the cover your ass go yeah, that's what it is So you go in there where you go into the legal? Office of the legal advisor which means there's a legal advisor inside somewhere so you don't actually go knock and talk to the door You actually go in and talk to the legal adviser not the office of legal adviser well Maybe just talked to the office. You don't know I gotta take this guy's word nobody does anybody here No, I'm asking a question to the office. There you go! I think that's pretty much it You gotta take these people at their word Emails but it was the wrong thing to do so...I don't think that And as I said I don't find this to be the appropriate step to have taken either
36:58 But I asked the office of the legal advisor to look into this. They did, they pursued it for me and we got about as far as we can go. The individual who took the call doesn't remember anything more than that it was being passed on from somebody else in the Public Affairs Bureau. I don't...I cannot be any more specific than that right now. Well at the time he wasn't there but I'm pretty sure it was either Psaki or Newland But maybe they sent little, uh... flute girl out. You never know Bandcamp girl Maybe? Then maybe they made her do it Now what I did last night is that went and found the clip we played originally Let me see if i have a date on this when we actually played this Hold on Although I edited it may not have the original date No, I don't have the original date Anyway Oh yes! May 11th Yeah so that's three weeks ago