Harris seized evidence of abortionists' lucrative butchery of babies. Activist reveals who helped him fight back.



Pro-life citizen journalist and Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden published undercover videos in 2015 showing Planned Parenthood officials callously talking about butchering, playing with, and trafficking baby parts.

Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, whose various campaigns have netted substantial contributions from Planned Parenthood, evidently could not tolerate this exposé of the abortion regime's apparently lucrative and unlawful repurposing of victims' remains.

After allegedly meeting with executives from the abortion organization, Harris targeted Daleiden and authorized a raid on his home, kicking off what would become a years-long effort to punish the pro-life activist and to hide his damning evidence from the American people.

Daleiden, who still faces eight felony charges, revealed Wednesday to "Blaze New Tonight" who in Washington, D.C., helped him surmount the Democratic suppression campaign and ultimately publish the videos for the edification of the American public: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and other Republican elements of the House Oversight Committee.

"Big shout-out goes to ... the House Oversight Committee and especially Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for finally being able to release this footage unredacted, in full, which was subpoenaed by Congress during their initial investigations in 2015," said Daleiden.

'You can see exactly what they were so afraid of the public being able to see for themselves.'

Greene announced on July 30 that she was releasing the full versions of the undercover videos, which were previously featured at a March congressional hearing titled "Investigating the Black Market of Baby Organ Harvesting."

During the March hearing, Greene expressed concern that the abortion regime operates with little to no federal or independent oversight, meaning it can engage in the types of conduct alluded to in the undercover videos.

Blaze News reached out to Greene's office for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Daleiden further explained to "Blaze News Tonight" that thanks in part to Greene and in large part to the perseverance of his team, "the cover-up plan by Planned Parenthood and Kamala Harris has not been totally successful. They tried to bury these facts and this evidence for the past eight years, but it's all starting to come out, and you can see exactly what they were so afraid of the public being able to see for themselves."

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The videos

The Center for Medical Progress posted a video on July 14, 2015, showing a senior director of medical services at Planned Parenthood, Deborah Nucatola, state between sips of wine, "We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, 'I'm not gonna crush that part, I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact.'"

"I'd say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they'll know where they're putting their forceps," continued Nucatola. "The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is calvarium. Calvarium — the head — is basically the biggest part."

Nucatola, who was later reprimanded but ultimately faced no actual consequence, indicated further that body parts could run interested parties anywhere from $30 to $100 per specimen.

It soon became clear that this would be nowhere near the CMP's most provocative undercover video.

'Oh, there's some lungs, there's some kidneys.'

An undercover reporter from the CMP recorded conversations at the National Abortion Federation's commercial trade show posing as a laboratory wholesaler. The reporter spoke with Ann Schutt-Aine, then chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, as well as with the branch's vice president of abortion access, Tram Nguyen.

"I'm like, 'Yeah, I have a leg for you.' I'm like, 'Oh s**t, if other people were to hear me, they'd like, "You are f****** evil,"'" Nguyen says in the video. "You have to come and play with our tissue and see if it's cool enough for you."

Responding to the reporter's suggestion that there is competition for baby organs that are "more profitable," Schutt-Aine says, "You told me about the proposition, and so now every time I do a [dilation and extraction], I'm like, 'Oh, there's some lungs, there's some kidneys.'"

"If I can't get [the baby] out intact, I can still get you a good sample," Schutt-Aine boasted, adding that she can cannibalize livers and lungs for buyers "without much difficulty at all."

Rather than address the possible criminality raised in the videos, Kamala Harris and other Democratic officials have targeted the group that brought it to light.

The lawfare

"As California attorney general, Kamala Harris had a choice," Daleiden told "Blaze News Tonight." "When our reporting was first being released in the summer of 2015 showing Planned Parenthood's top-level leadership callously negotiating the harvesting and sale of aborted baby body parts from late-term, partial-birth abortions, Kamala Harris could have chosen to investigate Planned Parenthood and investigate the taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood mega centers."

Daleiden indicated that Harris instead decided to investigate him and his undercover team.

Following the initial release of the footage, then-California AG Harris said she would look into whether the pro-life activist broke laws when exposing Planned Parenthood. Daleiden's house was reportedly raided, and his computer and hard drives were seized. She was cheered on by the abortion outfit and other activists.

"David Daleiden engaged in an elaborate criminal conspiracy to deceive the public and ban abortion in this country, and now he’s paying the price," a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman told Politico following the raid. "The only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the extremists who broke multiple laws to spread lies about Planned Parenthood — and it looks like they're finally being held accountable."

'What Kamala Harris did was unconstitutional and vindictive.'

Daleiden was slapped with multiple lawsuits and a raft of criminal charges, including those brought by Harris' replacement and future Health Secretary Xavier Becerra. Emails obtained by the Washington Times revealed that Harris' office also collaborated with Planned Parenthood to draft legislation effectively targeting Daleiden — to amend the law to criminalize the secret recording and dissemination of communications with health care providers.

The late legal scholar Ronald D. Rotunda noted at the time the correspondence between Harris' office and the abortion outfit made abundantly clear that the Democratic AG is a "tool of Planned Parenthood" and that she was "working with Planned Parenthood to protect it from criminal prosecution."

"The state attorney general is supposed to represent the people of California, not a particular industry in California," Mr. Rotunda told the Times. "What would people say if the attorney general would be working with the local slaughterhouses to help them cover up instances of cruelty to animals?"

Former Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, who has represented Daleiden, recently told the New York Post, "What Kamala Harris did was unconstitutional and vindictive."

"Kamala Harris opened this investigation at the behest of Planned Parenthood, and the two AGs that followed her have kept it alive," added Cooley.

The Post indicated that neither Harris' office nor the California Attorney General's Office responded to their requests for comment.

"There has been a lot of twists and turns with the lawfare over the year that really was engineered by Planned Parenthood and Kamala Harris," Daleiden told "Blaze News Tonight." "They are the first ones who started to use this really unprecedented kind of lawfare to try to suppress free speech."

Now, however, the cat is out of the bag.

Daleiden stated last week, "Planned Parenthood repeatedly told Congress, the courts, and the public that it had 'rebuffed' any opportunity to sell aborted baby body parts in Texas."

"This finally-released undercover footage shows that in reality, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast was ghoulishly eager to rip healthy babies out of vulnerable patients whole and alive and mutilate their bodies after to sell body parts for top dollar," added Daleiden.

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Documents show Planned Parenthood agreed to swap baby parts for intellectual property rights: Report



Planned Parenthood entered into a "biological material transfer agreement" with the University of California, San Diego, whereby Planned Parenthood would transfer human body parts in exchange for intellectual property rights over patents resulting from subsequent experiments, according to a report from the Center for Medical Progress.

The CMP — a pro-life activist organization David Daleiden founded — said it obtained the documents through a public records request.

According to the agreement, the regional abortion outfit — then called the Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties — would provide "certain proprietary biological materials" to investigators at the university "for the purpose of deriving cell lines from and determining gene expression, genomic, and epigenomic profiles of the Materials."

The "proprietary biological materials" are clearly defined in the agreement as "fetal and placental tissue," otherwise known as human baby parts.

The agreement — which was made and went into effect on May 1, 2009 — specifies that the university cannot use the baby body parts "for the development of any commercial product, including drug screening or development for commercial purposes or on behalf of any commercial entity."

Further, the contract stresses the human remains are for "investigational use only in laboratory animals or in vitro experiments" and are not to be used in humans.

Per the terms of the agreement, PPSD would acquire "all right, title and interest in patents and patent applications and other intellectual property rights relating to the Material" in exchange for the remains.

A 2010-2011 email chain between Planned Parenthood and the university, similarly obtained by the pro-life group via a public records request, contains plans to set up a quarterly "Planned Parenthood/UCSD Research Collaboration Meeting"; to "share on samples recently collected"; and "questions about payment to the residency program."

Planned Parenthood has partnered with the UC San Diego for more than three decades, operating the Ryan Residency Training Program and providing the university's Complex Family Planning Fellowship program with a clinical training site.

While the initial agreement was between the university and PPSD, it was amended in June 2014 to reflect that the regional abortion outfit had changed its name to Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest.

The Center for Medical Progress obtained more recent UCSD communications that allegedly reference the agreement.

Emails from January 2017 appear to reference the body parts agreement as well as another contract.

A 2020 email chain reveals concerns about the origin of "fetal human fibroblasts" that were used to generate human induced pluripotent stem cells for use in the study of genetic and epigenetic stability.

In one reply, an apparent researcher notes that the fibroblasts were "derived from human fetal livers that were used to generate immune system humanized mice."

Another person identifying as "more of an attorney than a scientist" can be seen asking for a "purchase agreement with an [Advanced Bioscience Resource] or an incoming MTA type agreement" and stressing the "need to be especially careful that we have permission to transfer."

According to the Daleiden's organization, the 2009 agreement remains in effect today.

Neither Planned Parenthood nor UCSD on Friday immediately responded to Blaze News' request for comment on the documents.

Daleiden and his pro-life group have faced repercussions over their past efforts to expose Planned Parenthood's alleged side business.

In 2015, Daleiden went undercover as a biotechnology representative interested in acquiring fetal tissue for research and recorded his conversations with staff members from Planned Parenthood. The videos he took while under cover generated significant uproar.

The Center for Medical Progress posted a video on July 14, 2015, showing a senior director of medical services at Planned Parenthood, Deborah Nucatola, state casually over wine and lunch, "We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, 'I'm not gonna crush that part, I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact."

"I'd say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they'll know where they're putting their forceps," continued Nucatola. "The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is calvarium. Calvarium — the head — is basically the biggest part."

Nucatola, who was later reprimanded, indicates in the video that body parts could run interested parties anywhere from $30 to $100 per specimen.

Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, stressed in the aftermath of the video's release, "Our donation programs — like any other high-quality health care providers' — follow all laws and ethical guidelines," reported the New York Times.

Despite giving Planned Parenthood a black eye, the abortion outfit sued Daleiden in 2016.

In 2019, a San Francisco jury reportedly awarded Planned Parenthood over $2.2 million in damages. Daleiden and his group appealed, claiming their work was constitutionally-protected journalism. While they largely lost their appeal, the court overturned the jury's verdict that the pro-life group had violated the Federal Wiretap Act by secretly recording their conversations with Planned Parenthood employees.

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Russell Brand roasts MSNBC



Russell Brand has been ruffling some feathers.

The Hollywood actor turned podcaster is no stranger to telling it like it is, but his latest appearance on Bill Maher's show truly solidified his spot as one of the freer thinkers in the public eye today.

Brand absolutely roasted MSNBC, Pfizer, and Big Pharma to the face of MSNBC analyst John Heilemann — and the result was glorious.

Brand rattles off behind the "Real Time" desk, saying, “It’s disingenuous to claim that the biases exhibited on Fox News are any different from the biases exhibited on MSNBC. It’s difficult to suggest that these corporations operate as anything other than mouthpieces for their affiliate owners in BlackRock and Vanguard.”

He continues, looking directly at Heilemann, “I’ve been on that MSNBC, mate, it was propaganda, it’s nutcrackery.”

Brand then says he’s been on the "Morning Joe" show and called it “absurd.” And the shots keep coming.

He says, “There was no one called Joe there, no one could concentrate, they didn’t understand the basic tenets of journalism, no one was willing to stick up for genuine American heroes like Edward Snowden, and no one was willing to talk about Julian Assange and what he suffered trying to bring real journalism to the American people — and I think to sit within the castle of MSNBC throwing rocks at Fox News is ludicrous.”

Heilemann responds, saying, “I’d like to hear a specific example of an MSNBC correspondent or anchor being on television saying something they knew was false.”

Heilemann seemed satisfied with his retort, but he was sorely mistaken in thinking he had proven a point, as Brand quickly brought up the criticisms of Joe Rogan and ivermectin. He then points out the media said if you got the vaccine, you wouldn’t get COVID.

Brand sat down with Dave Rubin after the showdown and had this to say in reflection: “Why don’t we acknowledge ... for the sake of simplicity that there are progressive ways of being a human being and there are traditional ways of being a human being. Neither of those ways are wrong. Why don’t we allow one another to express ourselves how we want to within the obvious bounds of consent?”

He adds, “And then perhaps we can organize different alliances so that we can organize around the systems of centralized power that will elsewise continue to dominate and annihilate.”


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Biden threatens oil companies with new tax over 'war profiteering.' But top Dem economist says it will backfire.



President Joe Biden threatened oil and gas companies with a "windfall tax" on Monday, accusing them of "war profiteering."

What did Biden say?

Speaking at the White House, Biden accused oil companies of netting "outrageous" profits, which he attributed to the exploitation of the war in Ukraine.

Biden said oil companies need to reinvest their profits and reduce the cost of oil — or else.

"If they don’t, they’re going to pay a higher tax on their excess profits and face other restrictions," Biden said. "It’s time for these companies to stop war profiteering, meet their responsibilities to this country, and give the American people a break and still do very well."

The U.S. is not, in fact, at war.

Moreover, Biden claimed that if oil companies were not profiteering, then Americans would be paying, on average, at least 50 cents less per gallon of gas. He did not provide evidence to back that claim.

What was the response?

Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, predicted Biden's windfall tax will backfire.

"I’m not sure understand the argument for a windfall profits tax on energy companies. If you reduce profitability, you will discourage investment which is the opposite of our objective," Summers pointed out.

"If it is a fairness argument, I don’t quite follow the logic since even with the windfalls Exxon has underperformed the overall market over the last 5 years," he noted.

\u201cIf it is a fairness argument, I don\u2019t quite follow the logic since even with the windfalls Exxon has underperformed the overall market over the last 5 years.\u201d
— Lawrence H. Summers (@Lawrence H. Summers) 1667297192

As Summers observed, the oil business is highly volatile.

For instance, while Biden emphasizes the industry's current profits, the five biggest oil companies — ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and TotalEnergies – lost $76 billion in 2020. Biden, however, made no mention of that.

Meanwhile, the American Petroleum Institute also pointed out in a response to Biden that the oil industry does not control the price at the pump.

"Oil companies do not set prices—global commodities markets do," API president and CEO Mike Sommers said.

Economists at the Federal Reserve of Dallas have explained why oil companies are not responsible for the high prices of gas at the pump. According to their calculations, less than 60% of the price of gas is directly related to the price of oil. Other costs associated with the price of gas include oil refining, distribution, and taxes.

The truth is that gas stations control the price of gas at the pump.

"Since only 1% of service stations in the U.S. are owned by companies that also produce oil, U.S. oil producers are in no position to control retail gasoline prices," the Dallas Fed explained.