Brian Cole & the J6 Pipe Bomber Case: Evidence Raises SERIOUS Questions | 3/12/26

Keith Malinak (00:00.834)

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Keith Malinak (02:18.944)

make this easy for everybody. What I have done is I went ahead and drafted the tweet here. It says, read Steve Baker USA's awesome stories at the Blaze. And I put a link. I've already typed in Steve Baker in the search engine for the Blaze. So all you have to do is go to this tweet that I just posted, click on that, and you'll see all of Steve's great work. And I do mean great. Buddy, how's it going?

going good. And since you put that out there and, of course I just shared the link to the live stream on my ex page as well. By me doing that, that means that you should have, um, you should have some extra viewers today. mean, the FBI, CIA, um,

Hi everybody!

Keith Malinak (03:05.774)

I think they're all right. I've had so many shows about the FBI.

A of law firms will be interested. Yeah, it'll be fun. It'll be fun. But I'm doing, I'm doing good.

I think whenever I have you on or FBI whistleblower Steve Friend on, I believe the Hoover Building IP addresses show up in mass.

for sure. Yeah.

Man, okay, so before we...

Steve Baker (03:34.158)

Check Langley today. See if you get the IP addresses from Langley today.

I would love that. That reminds me, I need to do a CIA. It's been a while since I've done a show on the CIA. OK, let's first touch base on you, you haven't been on this show in a while. And I don't know that you've been on since you had your health scare late last year, right around Christmas. And is there an update? What's going on,

Yeah.

Steve Baker (04:07.63)

Oh gosh. Uh, yeah, I, um, gosh, what was it? It was the Sunday before Christmas. Um, whoops, Christmas last year on a Thursday. Anyway, so the Sunday before Christmas, I suffered a quote unquote acute heart failure. And, um, uh, I had had symptoms leading up to it, but I didn't.

didn't recognize the symptoms. thought I had, you know, bronchitis or something like that. You know, I had a, I had a chronic dry cough. I had a trouble breathing, you know, had kind of a little gurgling in my wind, you know, that sort of thing. And of course I didn't know what was going on and, and I was, you know, I was working right through it.

How long had these symptoms been showing?

I want to say if, if I, if I really stretch it out with my imagination, I would say maybe up to two months before, but really became, prevalent in the two weeks leading up to that. And I, know, and again, I just thought it was, a, you know, matter of, I don't know when it was.

You know, the dead of winter, I'm working hard. mean, I'm walking the streets of DC every day. were doing investigating the pipe bomber story. were, you know, in fact, on the Friday and Saturday, so the, the, the, the event that where I had to go to the ER and ultimately they put me in ICU was, on a Sunday, but on that Friday and Saturday, the two days before that I was in DC.

Steve Baker (06:00.982)

out on the streets measuring bricks and concrete blocks and pavement and gutters where the, you know, the, pipe bomber, the, the J six pipe bomber with, know, the one wearing the hoodie and all of that. And then also the kid that they arrested, Brian Cole jr. And claims to be the, you know, the, the, the pipe bomber. I I'm out measuring with tape, literally with a tape measure.

where both of those individuals had walked in their life so that we could get accurate foot size measurements and you know, things like that. So I'm walking around out in the cold in the dead of winter. I'm in, I'm in Brian Cole's neighborhood. I'm interviewing neighbors. I'm interviewing other people that know him. So I'm working, I mean, I'm putting in the hours and doing it outside. And then of course, when you're in DC, you walk everywhere. You don't, you know, so it's,

And it's what I'm used to doing. And I like to do that. But I noticed that on that Friday and Saturday, in fact, my partner in crime and co-writer on most of these stories related to January 6th, Joe Hanneman, I remember calling him on the Friday. I was leaving the Rayburn Congressional Office building and I was walking up Capitol Hill. And it's not a steep incline, but it's a gradual, steady incline.

I got one block and I had to stop. And I told Joe, said, Ben, I don't know what's going on, but I can't breathe. And, this was on Friday, two days before my event or heart event. And, I said, can't breathe. I got air. I got to stop. whatever the, can't remember what the next, congressional office building up is long worth or whatever it is. Anyway, I stopped on the steps there and just sat down. And then on Saturday, I was actually.

I was actually down at the democratic national committee headquarters and was measuring, the places where the exact spots where the hooded bomber had stepped, back on the evening of January 5th, 2021, you know, we had, you know, video of this. So I can actually pull that up on, could pull it up on my phone screenshots. had some specific screenshots that we identified that we wanted to get measurements on.

Steve Baker (08:23.15)

So then we could, you know, do the reverse, the math and get actual measurements of both, um, foot size, uh, length of stride, things of those natures to compare it to Brian Cole, which by the way, we'll talk about it a little bit more, but we've got that story coming out on hopefully Monday and a lot of weeks, lot of man hours and putting this new story that we have out. anyway, so it goes back, you know, three months ago. So I, um, uh,

I finished measuring at the DNC and I started walking toward where the blaze offices are up on Capitol Hill. And it's not a far walk. mean, I don't know half a mile. I mean, it's a piece of cake walk for me under normal circumstances. Well, I was only a block away from the office and there's a Starbucks right there. I couldn't move anymore. I stopped.

At the Starbucks went inside, ordered a coffee, and then I had to sit down for two hours before I felt good enough and had enough wind to move again. And then at that point I didn't even go to the office. I, I got a, got an Uber, went back to my hotel, in Arlington across the river and gotten checked out, got in my car and headed home.

So that was on Saturday night that I got home and then Sunday by late Sunday afternoon, I knew I was in trouble and had to get to the ER.

my goodness. Okay. So you're in the ER. did we get a diagnosis? What's happening here?

Steve Baker (10:09.324)

Yeah. So, well, when I get there, they immediately recognize the stress and it's an actual, it's a heart, it's, what they call a Rex, UNC hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina has a brand new, you know, state of the art cardiology center. And the, the ER is right there. and so I go in, they immediately recognize the, the distress they.

Got it. Got an EKG EKG going. And then all of a sudden, and I don't know if he was a nurse or an orderly or whatever. He comes to grabs a wheelchair, throws me on the wheelchair and starts running down the hallway. I mean, he's pushing me at great speed. I said, what's going on? He said, um, he said, we're coding you. I went, wait a minute, wait a minute. What do mean coding? thought when you coded, that means you're flatlining. He said, that's the way we're about to treat you right now. He said, we think you're, we think you're in the middle of a heart attack.

And, so they throw, they throw me into this really advanced, you know, don't know, triage room whatever. It's got all the high tech, you know, video screens and everything. look, felt it look, it looked like a set from, you know, Star Trek, uh, the next generation in there. And, and, um, uh, all of a sudden there's like seven or eight. I don't know what they are. I know their physician assistants, nurses, doctors. don't know. They are stripping my clothes off of them. Of course, 80 % of them were women.

And, I mean, I'm, I'm just completely, yes. I'm thinking to myself, well, all right, well, this is how goes.

Normally you have to pay extra for that.

Steve Baker (11:50.478)

I'm well, I'm thinking, you know, if I got, if this is, if this is my last, uh, memories on earth, I've got women taking my clothes off. Um, there you go. I'm serious, Keith. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm was a, it was a bizarre, surreal moment because I had no fear at all. I mean, I wasn't scared. was fascinated by the process and, and, uh, and I did, and I, and in,

one of the things that went through my mind and, it, it stuck with me cause I, I cataloged it because I wasn't, I'd never would have expected this. I would have expected fear, dread of the unknown. You know, what, about my kids? Do I need to call? You know, what, what do I need to do? And instead I was thinking, okay, all right, well,

If this is it, it's it. I'm going to, I'm going to try my best to, chronicle it all and see what, you know, what the transition is like. And if it's not it, I'm just about to go through a major heart surgery or something like that.

You're thinking I'm gonna write a story about crossing over. But this journalist in you is like, okay, I don't have my notepad, I don't have my phone, but I gotta remember all this because I might be writing a story about this one day.

Are you?

Steve Baker (13:19.758)

Exactly. I, I, I mean, I had nothing but curiosity and fascination at that moment and no fear at all. And, uh, and so, you know, they're stripping my clothes off and they're putting electrodes all over, you know, my chest and my stomach, my back. And, uh, and then all of a sudden they start hitting me with some, um, uh, you know, they, they, they didn't give me a general anesthesia, but they're hitting me with locals.

down around my groin area because they're going in, you know, they're going in up through my veins and arteries or whatever. And so they're going into my heart with a, you know, a camera, essentially they're injecting dye into me and I can see it all happening on the screen. I can see the doc that's doing it and he's down there, you know, he's down there jamming this tube or, know, these series of whatever, whatever the heck it is.

side track for just a quick second. Who do you think was the first person to go, you know what we might want to try to do is to get to the heart. Let's go through the leg. That is just fascinating, you know.

It is. mean, you know, look, we, we, we spend a lot of time in the news media criticizing, medicine insurance, pharmaceuticals, you know, things like, and, there's plenty there to analyze and criticize, but what they have accomplished in medical science is just insanely fascinating.

That's a good tease for next Wednesday show criticizing the medical.

Steve Baker (14:56.494)

my, you know, cracking my, chest, know, yeah. And peeling me open like a chicken and, going in directly, they're coming up through my groin with a camera and yeah. And, I, then the fact that I'm awake and I can see it, I'm watching it. And so, and so I see the frustration because the, the, the, the,

fascinating.

Steve Baker (15:26.37)

the technician or the doctor or whoever's doing this, he's getting really frustrated because he, he's up there jamming this thing up and I'm seeing, I'm seeing the inside of my heart and he's going into the different valves and ventricles and veins. No, no pain at all. Wow. I, it's discomfort. I felt discomfort.

Feeling physical pain, like what?

Keith Malinak (15:47.042)

Okay, yeah, but they had you on a drip or something, guess. Yeah.

So I felt discomfort, but I didn't feel any pain. and so, he's suddenly he's like expressing the fact that there's no blockages. I don't have any, you know, buildups in any of my veins, my arteries, the valves, the ventricles, the, know, the, whatever you call them, you know, the nothing, there's nothing, there's no blockages at all. And that's what.

typically, you know, that's what they're looking for. They, know, you typically end up, you know, that's why you have to have bypass surgeries or have a stent put in or something like that. And I was clean, clean and green, man. I'm, know, and at my age, that's pretty good. know,

Yeah, and so, no, the doctor, it wasn't a poker face, huh? You saw the look on his face, huh?

I mean, so I've got the screens up on my left side here and then he's, down here. I can see him. I can see his face and his hands working and I'm looking up at the screen and I can see his frustration and, and he's taught, of course he's talking in there. it's like, there was, there was, you know, again, like there's seven or eight, you know, people in varying colors of, uh, uh, you know, surgical gear and, and, um, uh, what are they, what do they call them? They're.

Keith Malinak (17:13.985)

Orderly's, no.

What? clothes they wear, you

Everybody's got it's color coded in there, but I don't know what means what.

I so, so they, know, they, so I'll never forget at some point this, lady in blue scrubs, goes, Hmm. Acute heart failure. And I'm watching the screen and I jerked my head around to this group of people standing in a semi-circle watching the screens.

And they're looking at the EKG on other screens or looking at, know, what he's doing on, you know, two or three other big screens. And, uh, and I, and I remember raising my finger up and pointing at her and said, you, you in the blue, what did you just say? She said, acute heart failure. I'm like, okay, well somebody explained this to me, you know? So long story short.

Keith Malinak (18:15.032)

Take your time. This is fascinating.

I, I have what is, you know, what was, or is a fairly common malady. And that's, what do they call it? Atrial fibulation or a fib. And, I had been apparently for some time suffering, a, problem where my heart was not beating regularly.

And it's proper tempo and pace and rhythm. And, as a result, it was, my heart was getting weaker and weaker and weaker as it was literally failing. And, and the thing, the symptoms that I was noticing, that I thought might be, you know, cold or bronchitis or maybe even, you know, mild pneumonia or something.

was actually a buildup of blood and fluids in my lungs. that, because my heart wasn't strong enough to pump my fluids through my body and particularly to extract them, you know, from my, from my lungs. And, another really curious and really frustrating side symptom to that was I had been putting on this gut. I couldn't

There was nothing I could do diet wise. It didn't matter how many meals I skipped. didn't matter what I control, how I controlled my diet, how much exercise I did. Nothing. could not lose this growing gut. And it was in, and by then it had gotten to like basketball size and,

Keith Malinak (20:08.878)

Pregnant Man emoji from Apple.

I was, and, so, I was, I was horrified because it's interesting that for, know, our, our other colleague, Matt Kibbe, blaze TV guy, I was due. had, he asked me if I would interview, Congressman Thomas Massey on, you know, pipe bomb related stuff for his show. So, I mean, I thought it was an honor, you know, Matt would

give me the interviewer slot to interview the Congressman. And we did it in Massey's office. And when I, course, when I saw the playback and I saw this basketball in my gut, you know, I was embarrassed. I mean, I couldn't, I couldn't button my, sports jackets. They w