WATCH: Three Years Ago James O'Keefe Indefinitely Suspended by Project Veritas

[00:00:00] I had no idea what to expect. I had no [00:00:02] idea in that meeting they were going to [00:00:04] trot out a dozen employees in a board [00:00:07] meeting. And up first was Barry [00:00:09] Hinckley. He said he had ran all these [00:00:10] companies and he'd never heard of a car [00:00:12] service shuttling the executive around. [00:00:15] >> I ran a large company with a lot of [00:00:16] employees. And I never lived this [00:00:18] lifestyle with black cars running at [00:00:21] $250 an hour constantly picking me up, [00:00:23] moving me around, expensive [00:00:24] accommodations when the rest of the [00:00:26] staff was staying at one level. I mean [00:00:28] all for one, one for all in a nonprofit. [00:00:30] I just one person living one way and [00:00:32] everyone else living another way. [00:00:34] >> It was designed to hurt me. [00:00:36] >> There was an event in as well. There [00:00:39] were uh suggestions and comments made [00:00:42] that the dress of his uh girlfriend was [00:00:44] not appropriate. [00:00:45] >> They started talking about what my [00:00:47] girlfriend dresses like in the [00:00:50] boardroom. I would like to hear from [00:00:54] some other employees so that we have the [00:00:56] full contact. [00:00:57] >> Point of order. How many more people are [00:01:00] we going to intend to hear from? [00:01:02] >> I think we should hear from a few more [00:01:04] people from different divisions of the [00:01:05] company, not just uh not just [00:01:08] development, [00:01:08] >> a high netw worth husband and wife. The [00:01:11] wife told me that she asked me for a [00:01:14] photo and he had turned her down. Ardan [00:01:17] brought up this bizarre allegation that [00:01:19] I had made a donor cry. [00:01:22] >> The allegations are that he was [00:01:23] extremely rude to one of his donors, [00:01:25] which happens to be me. They're not [00:01:27] completely blown out of proportion. I'm [00:01:29] really very disappointed and lupetti [00:01:32] allegations towards him are absolutely [00:01:34] completely false. [00:01:36] >> Everyone was basically told it's my way [00:01:38] or the highway. If you don't like it, [00:01:39] you can leave. [00:01:40] >> The same Jonathan Bailey months later [00:01:42] would send me text messages of dildos [00:01:44] with semen on it. [00:01:46] John Bailey would be fired uh in August [00:01:50] of the same year when Project Veritas [00:01:52] ran out of money. Then he asked me for a [00:01:54] job. [00:01:56] >> I think James has become drunk on power [00:02:00] and has has acted like a titan that is [00:02:03] an exact data to what we should be [00:02:05] exposing. [00:02:06] >> What was interesting is Jake Mennel sent [00:02:08] me a text message apologizing for saying [00:02:10] that. [00:02:12] And then a year later, Jake Mantel sent [00:02:14] me another message calling me a quote [00:02:16] [ __ ] [00:02:18] >> I can only withstand some, you know, a [00:02:20] certain kind of treatment and I I demand [00:02:23] a certain level of [00:02:24] >> Bobby Har would later send me a text [00:02:26] message of me eating a sandwich covered [00:02:28] in semen. [00:02:31] He said, "Cry harder, James. They're [00:02:33] effing memes. That's sexual harassment." [00:02:37] >> I frequently express concern over James [00:02:39] with judgment and decision making. And [00:02:41] this this one really I I I thought it [00:02:43] couldn't get any worse and it somehow [00:02:46] did. We had done a story about Twitter [00:02:49] and one of the vice presidents or one of [00:02:50] the executives said that Elon is special [00:02:52] needs and criticized Elon for his being [00:02:55] on the spectrum. [00:02:56] >> We're jogging here with a Twitter [00:02:57] executive on the streets of New York [00:02:59] City who's literally gone in an allout [00:03:02] sprint. [00:03:03] >> When I went to ask this guy for comment, [00:03:05] this guy started running away and I ran [00:03:06] after him with my microphone. Also, when [00:03:08] it comes to his behavior in the videos, [00:03:10] make it even worse to me about how his [00:03:12] ego, arrogance, and the fury. An example [00:03:16] would be from like the recent FI videos [00:03:18] of Goldman calling him a punk, telling [00:03:20] him to look into his face when he's [00:03:22] talking and the employee that he [00:03:25] literally kicked around. [00:03:27] >> Are you kidding me? [00:03:31] >> We all love that. You love that video. I [00:03:33] the donor. You're You love that video. [00:03:36] and you solicited money from donors and [00:03:37] now you're criticizing the video. The [00:03:39] donor wrote us a $200,000 check saying [00:03:42] she loved that video and the method by [00:03:45] which I obtained it. The entire Russ [00:03:47] Detra of Project Veritas is to do things [00:03:49] like that. [00:03:49] >> What do you expect us to do given these [00:03:52] allegations? [00:03:55] >> Well, will I have a chance to respond to [00:03:58] them? There's two separate issues here. [00:04:00] There's the [00:04:01] >> No. No. The the quick answer is no. Not [00:04:05] here. Not now. [00:04:07] >> I didn't prevent him from responding. [00:04:09] That's for sure. [00:04:11] But he thought that I did. [00:04:14] >> They think uh that you should resign. [00:04:16] They think that you're using the [00:04:18] organization for a personal vendetta and [00:04:21] that you'll drive it into the ground [00:04:23] just for your personal justice and [00:04:25] vengeance against James. [00:04:27] >> That they feel that. [00:04:30] >> Okay. But they feel that. I would like [00:04:33] full sampling that pattern of that [00:04:35] before cherrypicking her testimony. [00:04:37] >> You said you wanted James's heart. You [00:04:40] said you wanted James's heart, but it [00:04:43] carved out with a spoon or something [00:04:44] like that. [00:04:45] >> I said I you want to carve out his heart [00:04:48] and eat it in front of him. Okay. [00:04:50] >> Yeah. Yeah. That was the quote.