Breaking Silence: The MMTLP/NextBridge Saga w/Lara Logan & Greg McCabe

company course and that's really how to protect the public and protect individuals when we don't bring charges. Well then how are investors and frankly Congress to know whether you have even undertaken such an investigation or whether such an investigation has resulted in an outcome. Again part of I think that if the trust in our capital markets is being a couple of people also when we close investigations that do not result in either litigation or a settlement that that's really between those various registrants or market participants that it's been closed and they have a right to say it between closed. We are rightfully concerned in this chamber, Lisa my side of the aisle about the weaponization of the Department of Justice but I'm increasingly worried that we should be more worried about the weaponization of the securities and exchange commission. It looks more and more like not an impartial regulatory body protecting investors and consumers but a regulatory body that it's using its power to silence and emisorate political rivals of the current president of the United States. All right all right all right welcome everyone. Laura you get to go hello. Yes I'm good to go. Okay I know it was a long intro but that needed to be had. Savvy and everybody get to go on the panel. Good to go. Okay. Good to go. Mr. McCabe are you there sir here and ready. Okay nice to see you. Savvy you have the mic. So guys welcome welcome welcome of course we are here because of Laura Logan and Greg McCabe. We are very grateful for this opportunity for Mr. McCabe to share his story for the first time publicly and we're so indebted to Laura for bringing this to you. Let's say that the first time publicly is on my show on Friday. You're going up my intro. We're grateful you're here to tease yourself. Yes with teasing my show. That's right. This is this is just the appetizer the real show is on Friday. The real show is on Friday. So we will see you all there but we are here to kind of get you an idea of what it is that Laura and Mr. McCabe will be discussing. So we're grateful for that opportunity and before we begin I'm going to start with our introductions. Correct busy. Yes ma'am. Okay so of course we have the incredible Laura Logan. Laura it's an award winning investigative journalist a former CBS news chief foreign affairs correspondent and a 60 minutes reporter Laura covered Afghanistan Iraq and the Arab Spring. She left CBS in 2018 and is now independent. She hosts going rogue with Laura Logan along for an interview and roundtable show from the Texas Hill country that challenges mainstream narratives on politics, national security and current events. Laura streams on YouTube, Rumble, X Substack, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Laura welcome to the mic. Thank you so much for having me and thank you to you know there's a lot of people putting a lot of work into this issue. I'm late to the game and Van to steal has kind of led the way on doing amazing reporting and I know the bearded vet has been out there on on X. I'm sure I think I'm leaving out one of the significant person who's putting a lot of work getting this trying to get people's attention on this but it's gone all the way up to you know as I understand it it's reached the White House so you guys are amazing. Awesome thank you Laura and of course uh Mr. Greg McCabe Greg McCabe is a Texas oil and gas executive a geologist a geologist and has been chairman of next bridge hydrocarbons since June of 2023 and CEO since January of 2024. Greg found him a Cape petroleum which he still owns and leads today after earning his BS in geology from Saul Ross University in 1984 he is the former chairman of torch light energies and has explored oil and gas across Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Utah, Arizona, Montana and Nebraska. Greg is next bridge is largest shareholder and creditor. Greg McCabe welcome to the mic. Thank you so much I'm very happy to be and we are extraordinarily happy to have you so thank you and of course the incredible and deliable and vander steel. MMTLP community is very familiar with Ann and very grateful for all that she's done to get us to this point. She is also an investigative journalist a constitutional advocate and host of steel news and reports on government outreach January six cases in the southern border. She is the chair and co-founder of the American Mage Foundation and has written legislation to reform cps and restore constitutional accountability and is relentless and an advocate for victims of injustice and welcome to the mic. David great to be here some might call me a domestic terrorist too but that's for another day. Okay okay and of course beard vet otherwise known as Sean George he is a disabled US marine veteran Marine Corps veteran who enlisted in 1996 and served as an artillery canineer. He is the founder of Omaha based at beard vet coffee which donates a portion of its sales to a different veterans charity each month. Beard is a DAV lifetime member Nebraska chapter president of veterans for America first and a supporter of the Veteran Access Act and I will add the proud new papa of Delilah beard vet welcome to the mic. Hey thanks for having me on and it's honor to be up here with all these great folks. Okay busy I'll give it back to you. Thank you busy go ahead Ann. All right well this is a momentous this evening we're going to be talking about this MMTLP fiasco. Has anybody heard about this for the last four years maybe it's been a big deal and there's been thousands of victims and hundreds and hundreds of spaces this is a financial crime so big that according to the folks that the government they don't know what to do nobody knows what to do. MMTLP began as a dividend share to torch light energy holders as an economic claim to oil and gas assets that later spun out into a non trading next bridge hydrocarbons. According to official filing and press releases the issuing company never intended these dividend shares to trade yet they got lifted on the over the counter markets by unknown parties and attracted tens of thousands of new investors and on the 9th of December in 2022 two days before the announced last trading day. Finra imposed a rare U3 halt citing settlement and clearance uncertainty and unlike halftime other takers trading and MMTLP never resumed positions and assets were frozen. MMTLP was exchanged for non trading next bridge hydrocarbons comment shares which investors cannot sell. There's been lots of evidence of counterfeit shares lack of SEC and Fender enforcement and freedom of information act revelations fuel the trapped investors fight for transparency. So what gives if there's nothing wrong at the SEC and Fender state wasn't a big deal why won't they release the total share count why have the investors been trapped. So without that Laura we're going to turn it over you because you had a great interview with Greg McCabe's airing this Friday on going roads with Laura Logan we are here tonight to give Greg an opportunity and you to give the rest of us this week pick and maybe some of the things you didn't discuss and a few of us will chime in with our questions so Laura go right ahead. Yeah Laura she dropped down she's glitching out but let me get her up here just give me a second. No problem it happens. Sometimes maybe going out and coming back in. She's there. I'm here yeah I'm here I'm not very good at technology so I canceled my co-hosting somehow but if you can hear me that's fine. Yeah so you know I just want to say that this is I think what makes this extraordinary is the people because you know everybody from Greg to Jamie Garcia who's hosting this who was relentless pain in my ass pounding me forever to do a story about this without that level of commitment it you wouldn't be as far along as you are and I'm not saying that you know just a flat of people it's not it's not normal it doesn't usually happen there isn't this level of commitment over a period of time and it was one of the things that moved me to to work on this and try to figure it out because as you as you all know you know this is the the financial world is complicated and it's not my strength I'm you know I had to learn a lot but there were a number of people I'm sure some of them are on this space Jamie you connected me with is it Jillian or Juliana sorry Juliana and Matt and you know a bunch of other people who've been working on this for a long time and who had the patience to bear with me and educate me and and I you know I would just say that I mean as a journalist you know trying to understand all of the details and figure out you know who's selling the truth who's not you know what's right that process is complicated but when if you do your job properly when you get down to the you know the bottom line right you get down to it through it all you should be able to simplify anything in terms that people understand because you don't have to share every detail but you can share the ones that really count and so I think you know for me the things that really count about this story on number one this is a story for for every single person that wants to trade on the stock market that wants an opportunity to do something with their hard earned money it's built into the American dream the ability to improve your life and if you you know the idea is that if you're if you're honest and you you work hard enough at and you do the right thing you try to make smart decisions that you're not going to get screwed right and and we can't have a system like the financial markets where where normal people get screwed and nobody does anything about it but what I learned about naked short selling and short selling and you know and all these other things is that I mean like to me the stock market is no different to the to the cartels it's like the cartels without the blood and violence right but it's just as corrupt I mean I just can't believe how how corrupt the hedge funds are and and all the different things that you can do to play to exploit the loopholes in the stock market but that's on the side that's just my probably very naive personal amateur observation about this because when you really start to see what was done is the if you like I'm going to simplify this for for the people who don't know the bad guys out there who trade in shares that they don't actually own those are the guys that do the short selling that that that borrow shares that that they don't actually physically possess and then trade on them and then bet against the company this is the antithesis of the American dream I don't know why it's allowed because it it is so exploited and so abused the list of companies that have been pushed into bankruptcy or you know wiped out because of this kind of brutality in the market the big the big guys the big hedge funds and the big boys all with the money you know sort of it's basically like the casino right rigging the game against the little guy and that's what I don't like about it at all that's what makes my stomach churn and I'm definitely a David versus Goliath right I'm on the side of the David's and not the Goliaths but you know this is so in a sense for me one of the benchmarks of what makes an important story at 60 minutes was always the question of you know how many people does this affect is this a story that although it's a terrible story or a worthwhile story it really only impacts this one family or this you know one one person one company whatever it is or this is a story that resonates far beyond the people that are directly impacted and has significance for you know for a broader audience beyond that and 100 percent this is a story that absolutely affects potentially affects every single American because your ability to go on the stock market to take a risk with your money and to and to play that game should not be at the mercy of people with money who can use dirty tricks and foul play to work against you that's the whole that's why insider trading is our public companies is illegal right even though I know that's not always enforced so my my point is just that once I really began to understand the dynamics of this and I saw the commitment of the people involved and the patience of those who are willing to work with me including Anne you know to help me understand this better then it helped me it helped me recognize the significance and the importance of this story and I apologize for taking so long to do it but independent media doesn't pay well and investigations are self-funded you know and they take they take time so that's not an excuse but what I so when I came to understand the story just for those just to make you know to reiterate in case there are people on this space who don't really understand it you know you it begins with a Canadian company that wants that is Canadian trading in Canada wants to get on the NASDAQ right I mean not surprising over the counter shares is you know is that's not the holy grail right you want to get on the NASDAQ so they do a reverse merger with with an American company and by reverse merger and I'm doing this I know most of you probably know what all these things are but I'm just doing it because I want to make sure that everyone can follow so