In this episode, we discuss the Democratic response to a Democratic whistleblower's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. We also discuss the implications for the Biden family, Hunter Biden, and Joe Biden's attorney, Jill Harthorne, as well as the Democratic reaction to the testimony. And we take a look at why a gay Democratic whistleblower is a hero and why a conservative Republican should be scared of coming forward with information that could have a negative impact on the Biden's family. Guests: Former IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler and IRS whistleblower Gary Shakhley. Special guest: Former Justice Department lawyer David Weiss. Thanks to callers and for the questions, and thanks to our sponsor, VaynerSpeakers for sponsoring this episode. Thanks also to caller who called in with the question, "What would you do if Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were involved in a bribery scheme?" and to our friend, Joe Biden s attorney, David Weiss, for the response to the whistleblower s testimony. Thanks to all the calls and texts and support we've gotten so far, and we'll see you next week with our next episode! Thank you for all the love, bye! - Your continued support is so appreciated, bye, bye. - Tom, Amy, Caitlyn, and Jordan, and Good Morning America. Cheers, Sarah, Amy and Sarah, - Caitlyn and Sarah Caitlyn's Dad and Sarah's Dad, Sarah's Mom, Sarah and Sarah & Sarah's Brother, Joe, and Sarah. . Sarah's Houseclearence, and her Dad, Kristy, and all the work she does so much work, and she's so much love and support, and so much support, too! . . . and Sarah szn, Sarah s , Sarah s, and much more. Thank you so much, Sarah is so much & Sarah s , and we're so much more! , and Sarah loves you, too, thank you for being a hero, and thank you, so much Thank you, Sarah & Joe s - Sarah, and you can do so much. Sarah, you're amazing, and I'm so much thanks you, Thank you all so much for all of you, you are so much of the love and all of your support, thanks you're so good, you can see it, so please give it out, so thank you.
00:00:00.000So most of the legacy media did not touch the big story of the day yesterday.
00:00:03.000They pretended there was really no big news yesterday.
00:00:06.000They covered other things like sex in space, or they covered what is going on with the possible looming Trump indictment, which we'll discuss in a little bit.
00:00:13.000Leaked information about what is actually in the indictment suggests that they really do not have much against President Trump.
00:00:27.000Imagine that Democrats had brought forward an IRS whistleblower who had suggested open corruption inside the Trump family and then had suggested that Trump militarized the DOJ to protect his kids.
00:00:37.000Do you think that might lead the news?
00:00:38.000Do you think that might actually serve as the predicate for impeachment?
00:00:42.000But if it's Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, then not only are we supposed to pretend that nothing bad happened, we're supposed to chastise people for speaking about it.
00:00:49.000The whistleblowers themselves are now considered bad.
00:00:51.000Whistleblowing is bad if it's against Democrats.
00:00:53.000This is the way that all of this works.
00:00:54.000This is how you get through the entire Obama administration, which was a scandal-ridden administration.
00:00:58.000Everything from the IRS targeting political opposition to Benghazi.
00:01:01.000You get through that entire administration with the entire media proclaiming that the only scandal Barack Obama ever had is that he wore a tan suit at a press conference once.
00:01:25.000One, they testified that it's pretty obvious that Hunter and Joe Biden spoke about business.
00:01:29.000Two, they testified about the amount of money that was passing within the Biden family, the Biden so-called crime family, from a wide variety of sources ranging from Romania to China to Ukraine.
00:01:39.000Burisma alone is responsible for paying the Biden family business $7.3 million over the course of several years, including when Joe Biden was vice president, according to that IRS agent, Joseph Ziegler.
00:01:50.000The IRS whistleblowers also suggested that the prosecutors who were supposed to be going after Hunter Biden were basically stopped from doing so by Joe Biden's DOJ.
00:02:05.000It appears to be that the DOJ used its leverage and its power in order to prevent harsher sentencing from being brought against Hunter Biden and also from certain questions being asked in the first place.
00:02:16.000So let's go through some of the testimony.
00:02:17.000So first of all, let us introduce IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler.
00:02:22.000So in an attempt to get ahead of the smearing that inevitably was going to come his way, Joseph Ziegler pointed out that he's a gay Democrat.
00:02:28.000Now, identity politics doesn't work in this way for Democrats.
00:02:31.000The way that it works for Democrats is that if he's a gay Democrat, no, you're not.
00:02:34.000That is the typical response, that he's a bad person nonetheless, which means probably he's a straight Republican.
00:02:39.000But here is Joseph Ziegler talking about his personal life as sort of a shield against the fact that Democrats presumably would claim that whoever makes a report against the Biden family must inherently be some sort of conservative Republican.
00:02:52.000I hope that I am an example to other LGBTQ people out there who are questioning doing the right thing at the potential cost to themselves and others.
00:03:01.000We should always do the right thing, no matter how painful the process might be.
00:03:06.000I kind of equate this to the experience and feelings I encountered when coming out.
00:03:10.000It was honestly one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.
00:03:13.000I contemplated scenarios that would have been highly regrettable, but I did what is right and I'm sitting here in front of you today.
00:03:21.000Okay, Ziegler does not seem like an uncredible source, right?
00:03:23.000All you have to do is gauge the credibility of the sources by looking at their testimony or by the contemporaneous documentation brought forward, as Shapley is going to explain in just a minute.
00:03:31.000The other whistleblower, he's the only one who has any sort of corroborated reports.
00:03:36.000attorney who is going after Hunter Biden in very soft, cushy fashion, was saying has not been corroborated by anybody.
00:03:42.000Everything Shapley has said was being corroborated by other sources.
00:03:45.000In any case, Ziegler also pointed out that he's risking his career and his reputation by coming forward on this sort of stuff.
00:03:51.000Members of the Committee, today I sit here before you not as a hero or a victim, but as a whistleblower compelled to disclose the truth.
00:04:00.000That said, in coming forward, I believe I am risking my career, my reputation, and my casework outside of the investigation we are here to discuss.
00:04:09.000I ultimately made the decision to come forward after what I believe were multiple attempts at blowing the whistle Okay, so Ziegler then testified that he was stopped during this entire investigation from interviewing Joe Biden's adult children, that there was an attempt made by his superiors to prevent there from being any serious questioning of Hunter Biden about all of his corrupt foreign affairs.
00:04:41.000Why did you want to interview Hunter Biden's adult children?
00:04:45.000So a lot of the business deductions, expenses, related to the adult children.
00:05:05.000No, but I mean, I was asking to do these certain things, and roadblock after roadblock was put up in front of me.
00:05:14.000In his opening statement, Ziegler testified, quote, I have reason to believe there was gross mismanagement present throughout this investigation, that there was a gross waste of funds relating to the tax dollars spent on investigating this case, and that there was an abuse of authority with DOJ tax and Delaware United States Attorney's offices.
00:05:27.000So Democratic members tried to rebut all of this by pointing out that David Weiss was originally a Trump-appointed U.S.
00:05:32.000attorney who had been appointed by AG Bill Barr.
00:05:35.000And the idea here is that these People were somehow overseeing all of this.
00:05:42.000But here is the problem with that particular theory.
00:05:44.000That assumes there's not institutional capture.
00:05:47.000Meaning, David Weiss, at what point was he actually preventing these investigations from going forward?
00:05:52.000If it was in 2021 or 2022, obviously that is under Joe Biden.
00:05:55.000There's also the broader concern that has now taken root in all of the DOJ, which is this bizarre space that's been created largely by James Comey, which is we can't be involved in quote-unquote election interference.
00:06:07.000And what that typically means is that they are going to overlook criminality unless your name is Donald Trump.
00:06:11.000If you're Donald Trump, then the DOJ will go after you with the hammer and the tongs.
00:06:15.000And if you are anybody else, meaning a Democrat, then even Republicans inside the DOJ are not going to go after you.
00:06:21.000Well, there's got to be one standard for everybody.
00:06:22.000Either it's election interference or it's not election interference.
00:06:24.000If it's election interference to deeply investigate the Biden family in the run-up to the 2020 election, Even if it was Republicans doing it.
00:06:31.000If that's the rule, can't get involved in election interference.
00:06:33.000James Comey's not going to get involved in election interference because if he indicts Hillary Clinton in 2016, then somehow it prevents the election from going forward fairly.
00:06:41.000And what exactly would you call it when prosecutions are brought over and over and over against Donald Trump when he is the leading candidate for the Republican nomination?
00:06:50.000It's either election interference or it's not election interference.
00:06:52.000If the idea is we can't investigate too deeply, and this is a sort of bipartisan consensus inside DOJ, can't investigate too deeply, can't ask serious questions, because obviously it might interfere with the American people's choice.
00:07:04.000Well, then how do you get to do it with Trump?
00:07:07.000Like, everyone can see the double standard and you wonder why institutional credibility with the DOJ is absolutely in the toilet?
00:07:13.000In one second, we'll get to the other IRS whistleblower, Gary Shapley.
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00:09:13.000Investigators were not allowed to follow up on WhatsApp messages from Hunter Biden's Apple iCloud backup, where he suggested he was sitting next to his father.
00:09:22.000Assistant United States Attorney Leslie Wolf cited the optics of executing a search warrant at President Biden's residence as a deciding factor for not allowing it, even though she agreed that probable cause existed.
00:09:33.000Prosecutors instructed investigators not to ask about the big guy or dad when conducting interviews.
00:09:40.000The Biden transition team was tipped off about interviews the night before the investigation went over.
00:09:46.000A fact my FBI counterpart confirmed to this committee in a recent testimony, where the result was that only one witness spoke to investigators that day.
00:09:55.000These are just some of the examples of how our investigation was stymied.
00:10:00.000Again, not wrong, and he is the only one who has corroborated documents, a point that he makes here.
00:10:05.000He says, listen, David Weiss told us, like straight up, he just told us that he had been denied special counsel status by Merrick Garland's DOJ, which would have allowed him to charge in a wide variety of jurisdictions.
00:10:15.000And I'm the only one who has that story corroborated, says Shapley.
00:10:18.000Meanwhile, you have David Weiss saying things that are rebutted by other testimony from other witnesses.
00:10:23.000Mr. Weiss was consistent with the investigators up until this October 7th meeting, and then he changed.
00:10:28.000What do you think happened, Mr. Shapley?
00:10:32.000I don't know what happened internal at Department of Justice, but what I can say is that the story has been changing from Department of Justice and U.S.
00:10:43.000Attorney Weiss, and I think the only person that's really had any documents that have been corroborated are my own.
00:11:06.000But many of the accusations that are being made by these IRS whistleblowers suggest that the DOJ under the Trump administration was actually acting in this way.
00:11:13.000Now, again, that may go to this sort of broader, quote unquote, good faith attempt by the DOJ not to interfere in elections because a lot of these decisions were being made in 2020.
00:11:23.000But if that only applies to one side, it is not fair, as everyone knows.
00:11:26.000The original sin here, as I've said a thousand times, the original sin is that James Comey should have charged Hillary Clinton.
00:11:31.000Hillary Clinton clearly violated the law when it came to her handling of classified documents.
00:11:35.000If she had been charged in 2016, that would have set the predicate for the idea that charges would be appropriate for anyone who violates the law going forward.
00:11:42.000Because here's the thing that's so stupid about this logic that you can't interfere in the election.
00:11:46.000If you don't prosecute, you are interfering in the election.
00:11:50.000A sin of omission when it comes to prosecutorial discretion is very often just as grave as a sin of commission.
00:11:57.000James Comey's failure to prosecute Hillary Clinton is just as damaging against the Republicans, for example, as the Democratic attempt to now prosecute Donald Trump in advance of an election.
00:12:08.000And that is particularly true when you're talking about a double standard where it appears that election worries just don't exist, I suppose, with regard to Republican candidates for the presidency of the United States.
00:12:17.000Now, the media have decided the big scandal here is not anything the IRS whistleblowers are saying.
00:12:21.000The systemic corruption, the attempts to cover up for Hunter and Joe Biden.
00:12:25.000They're not even willing to point out some fairly obvious points that were admitted in some of the cross-examination.
00:12:32.000Dan Goldman, Democratic representative and one of the lawyers in the impeachment hearing, Dan Goldman accidentally confirmed in the middle of this hearing that Joe Biden did discuss Hunter's foreign business dealings with Hunter.
00:12:46.000And you testified that he said to that Hunter told his dad, according to Rob Walker, quote, I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys.
00:13:01.000That doesn't sound much like Joe Biden was involved in whatever Hunter Biden was doing with the CEFC if Hunter Biden is telling him that he's trying to do business with them, does it?
00:13:14.000No, but it does show that he told his father he was trying to do business.
00:13:20.000Hunter Biden does try to do business, that's correct.
00:13:24.000So you not only have no direct evidence connecting Joe Biden to any of Hunter Biden's business deal, you actually had proof that he wasn't involved.
00:13:40.000What you just admitted, Dan Goldman, is that Joe Biden and Hunter talked about his business dealings.
00:13:46.000And maybe the sort of wink-wink, nod-nod arrangement was that you go and you do your stuff and money just magically appears in my account, and every so often I take a meeting, and that's sort of the way that we play this game.
00:13:56.000By the way, this would not be a giant surprise.
00:13:57.000Apparently, the way, particularly with the Chinese, that you do business, and this is true in a lot of foreign countries, because so many countries are deeply corrupt and deeply political, including China.
00:14:08.000Many Chinese business people who are working hand-in-glove with the government, they believe that politics works the same way in the United States.
00:14:13.000That if you get a meeting with the Vice President of the United States, for example, that this like magically greenlights your business project and means billions of dollars flow into your coffers.
00:14:21.000And this is true for a lot of foreign countries.
00:14:22.000And it's exactly this impression that the Biden family has traded on for Joe Biden's entire political career.
00:14:27.000Is that if you meet with a senator, then this means that somehow something good is going to happen for the business.
00:14:31.000So Americans can look at that and even be like, okay, so you met with the Senator, who cares?
00:14:34.000But if you're from a country where meeting with a Senator very often involves that Senator now being your friend and that friend now cramming through a bunch of stuff that you like, you can see why the Chinese were deeply invested in Hunter Biden hooking up with Joe Biden.
00:14:46.000And that doesn't require Joe Biden to be like deeply invested in every aspect of Hunter's business.
00:14:50.000I don't think there's an accusation that Joe Biden is sitting there and like going over the books with Hunter.
00:14:55.000All he cares about is does that money appear in his bank account?
00:14:58.000And Joe Biden is a lot richer than normal vice presidents who have been on a senator's salary for most of their career typically are.
00:15:05.000Well, the media have decided, of course, that this is not the story.
00:15:07.000The real story is, of course, of course, of course, how evil Donald Trump and the Republicans are during a whistleblower hearing about the Bidens.
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00:16:12.000Democrats, of course, in the media, but I repeat myself.
00:16:15.000They have decided, the big story here is that Marjorie Taylor Greene showed photos of Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:16:20.000So here is what it looked like when Marjorie Taylor Greene decided to ask some questions about Hunter Biden's laptop and decided that it would be a good idea, I think, frankly, this is hilarious, to show all of the pictures of Hunter Biden unclothed on his laptop and doing the drugs.
00:16:38.000So when Hunter Biden paid for this woman To do this with him, to travel across state lines from California to Washington D.C.
00:18:11.000I love the faux outrage from these people.
00:18:14.000Jared Moskowitz, Democrat of Florida, said, in an effort to own Hunter Biden, they're assembling nude photos of him, having some intern have to sit in a room and blow up these photos and put it on poster boards and figure out, oh, which ones are beyond the pale.
00:18:27.000She called the images pornographic and accused Republicans of reaching a new low.
00:18:30.000They should make a kid's book out of it and put in school libraries, and then Democrats would all be out front protesting in favor of it.
00:18:35.000Animate Hunter Biden's porn from his laptop and stick it in a school library for 6th graders and Democrats would be like, How dare you try to take that out of the library, you censorious bastards, you!
00:18:55.000You should stop defending Hunter Biden.
00:18:56.000Two, Hunter Biden shouldn't have left his laptop being a drug-addicted derelict who's in his 50s at a stupid computer repair shop.
00:19:04.000Three, you guys shouldn't have all claimed that it was Russian disinformation.
00:19:07.000And four, maybe you should let him be prosecuted when he commits crimes like transporting prostitutes across state lines, apparently, and then allegedly taking tax write-offs for them.
00:19:16.000Maybe it's a you problem, in other words.
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00:20:55.000OK, so naturally, Democrats tried to pretend that this was all ludicrous and terrible.
00:20:59.000So Representative Jamie Raskin, he's one of the people you hear shouting at Marjorie Taylor Greene, why is this happening?
00:21:31.000I thought we might be here today on the matter that the chairman declared his top priority, the crusade to find evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden.
00:21:39.000But now the majority's long-promised star witness turns out to be a fugitive from American justice, an arms trafficker indicted on eight federal criminal felony counts and an unregistered foreign agent for China who tried to trade Chinese arms for Iranian oil.
00:21:56.000So I guess he's not going to be a witness for the majority anytime soon.
00:21:59.000Well, after the failed SARS reports, bank records, Form 1023, we can conclude that this Inspector Clouseau-style quest for something that doesn't exist has turned our committee into a theater of the absurd, an exercise in futility and embarrassment.
00:22:21.000Meanwhile, Representative Kweisi Mfume, he is a Democrat from Maryland.
00:22:26.000He says that we need the DOJ and the FBI and the IRS because they're keeping this democracy in check, which is an admission against interest, I think.
00:23:06.000It is not the job of the DOJ, the FBI, or the IRS to keep democracy in check.
00:23:10.000They have statutory authority to do certain tasks.
00:23:14.000If they move beyond those tasks, then they actually are going into directions they should not be going into.
00:23:20.000I love that the Democrats want to overrule the Supreme Court are suddenly about checks and balances when it comes to executive branch agencies, which are not a check or a balance.
00:23:30.000So apparently the DOJ is just a check and a balance when it lets Hunter Biden skate without any serious questions, but goes after Donald Trump.
00:26:05.000Now, I noticed again that you guys are perfectly happy to dismiss charges against the Bidens or Hillary Clinton or anybody else because it might be election interference.
00:26:11.000But the minute that Donald Trump is the guy, then it's not election interference anymore.
00:26:32.000I mean, I think that's Victor Hugo's entire point.
00:26:34.000In this particular story, the claim that you are making is that it's okay to misinterpret law to get Trump.
00:26:42.000Which is what's actively happening, for example, in the Alvin Bragg case, the Manhattan DA case, prosecuting Trump for campaign finance violations that clearly are not covered by the law.
00:26:51.000And it appears more and more clear that that may be the case with regard to the charges that are now being brought against Donald Trump or will be brought by Jack Smith against Donald Trump with regard to the January 6th events.
00:27:07.000So according to the New York Times, federal prosecutors have introduced a new twist into the January 6th investigation by suggesting in a target letter they could charge former President Trump with violating a civil rights statute that dates back to the post-Civil War reconstruction era, according to three people familiar with the matter.
00:27:21.000So they know they don't really have Trump on anything is what it sounds like, and so what they are actively attempting to do now...
00:27:26.000is stretch the definition of charges to get Trump.
00:27:29.000I said yesterday I was going to withhold opinion until I saw more about the indictment.
00:27:32.000Well, now there's more about the indictment being leaked to the New York Times, so I can make a judgment as to the merits of the indictment as that sort of stuff rolls out.
00:27:39.000Again, two things can also be true at once, as they are in the classified documents case, that Donald Trump may have fulfilled the elements of a crime, but it's also a political prosecution.
00:27:47.000When it comes to this particular charge they're talking about on January 6th, if this ends up being in the indictment, this is a stretch beyond a stretch.
00:27:55.000According to the New York Times, the letter to Trump from the Special Counsel referred to three criminal statutes as part of the grand jury investigation into Trump's efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss, according to two people with knowledge of the content.
00:28:05.000Two of the statutes were familiar from the criminal referral by the House January 6th Committee and months of discussion by legal experts.
00:28:11.000That'd be conspiracy to defraud the government and obstruction of an official proceeding.
00:28:14.000We'll get to those in just one second because those both appear to be weak as well.
00:28:17.000The third criminal law cited in the letter was a surprise.
00:28:19.000That'd be Section 241 of Title 18 of the U.S.
00:28:22.000Which makes it a crime for people to, quote, conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
00:28:32.000Originally, this was directed in order to shut down the Ku Klux Klan in the aftermath of the Civil War.
00:28:37.000The idea was we're going to have federal agents go prevent the Ku Klux Klan from engaging in terrorism to stop black people from voting, for example.
00:28:44.000In the modern era, it's been used really with like voting fraud conspiracies, like actually stuffing ballot boxes, for example.
00:28:51.000So a 1950 opinion by the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit wrote that applying Section 241 in a ballot box stuffing case could be correct because we all have a right to vote.
00:29:01.000And if that right to vote is somehow overturned by somebody who's engaging in fraud, then it may violate the statute.
00:29:07.000Same thing in a 1974 Supreme Court opinion, which allowed Section 241 to be applied to West Virginians who cast fake votes on a voting machine.
00:29:15.000But it's going to be very difficult to stretch that to cover Trump.
00:29:20.000Presumably, they would have to suggest that Trump was attempting to overthrow an honest count of votes or something.
00:29:27.000Norm Eisen, who's a Democrat and worked for the House Judiciary Committee on behalf of the Democrats during Trump's first impeachment, he says, it seems like under 241, there's at least a right to an honest counting of the votes.
00:29:36.000Submitting an alternate electoral certificate to Congress is a novel scenario.
00:29:39.000It seems like it would violate this right.
00:29:43.000Because Congress can just reject that.
00:29:45.000That's not the same thing as stuffing ballot boxes.
00:29:47.000That's saying, I don't like your interpretation of this law.
00:29:49.000Here's my alternative interpretation of the law.
00:29:51.000Maybe you'll go for it, which is actually what happened, right?
00:29:53.000John Eastman provided Trump with this gussied-up, ridiculous version of how the law works, which it doesn't, as John Eastman kind of acknowledged.
00:30:01.000That seems like that falls pretty clearly under free speech, not under violation of Section 241.
00:30:07.000The other two crimes, theoretically, that Trump could be charged with are Section 371 of Title 18 that makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the United States.
00:30:14.000The other, Section 1512, includes a provision that makes it a crime to corruptly obstruct an official proceeding.
00:30:21.000Now, Andy McCarthy has an excellent rundown on those potential charges.
00:30:45.000So that particular section shouldn't apply.
00:30:47.000as far as corruptly obstructing Congress.
00:30:49.000He says, I don't think a charge of corruptly obstructing Congress can survive
00:30:52.000if the alleged corruption does not involve patently lawless behavior,
00:30:55.000such as evidence tampering or threats to use force against witnesses or Congress itself.
00:30:59.000Since Trump has not been implicated criminally in the violence of the Capitol riot, Jack Smith
00:31:03.000will almost certainly have to argue that the corruption lay in 1. Trump's awareness he lost
00:31:06.000the election and b. John Eastman's nonsensical legal theory that Vice President Pence had the
00:31:10.000authority to discount electoral votes.
00:31:12.000He said, I'd be surprised if prosecutors can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump knew he'd lost the election.
00:31:16.000Again, this is my point yesterday is that proving intent in a Trump case, very, very difficult because Trump's intent changes moment to moment.
00:31:30.000I think Donald Trump today thinks he won the election.
00:31:32.000Donald Trump has a unique capacity to convince himself of things, both for good and for bad.
00:31:37.000However, says Annie McCarthy, keep your eye on an episode that appears to have gotten a lot of Smith's attention.
00:31:42.000It is said that the Trump campaign raised tens of millions of dollars on the representation, that the money would go to a legal fund that would fight the election fraud, by which Trump claimed the election was being stolen.
00:31:50.000But according to the January 6th committee, there was no such fund.
00:31:52.000At least some of the money was diverted to other purposes.
00:31:55.000The New York Times says $200,000 was spent at Trump hotel properties.
00:31:58.000So that would look more like traditional fraud.
00:32:00.000Okay, so we'll see what the charges come down.
00:32:02.000But if the three charges that people are discussing are the ones that are brought, those are super weak.
00:32:08.000And listen, even if they weren't super weak, pretty clearly politically motivated.
00:32:12.000But if they're weak and politically motivated, it looks like Alvin Bragg, the case for political prosecution becomes even stronger, obviously.
00:32:21.000Well, the Biden administration was asked yesterday about whether they're weaponizing government.
00:32:25.000And here is Karine Jean-Pierre's response.
00:32:28.000Lastly, former President Trump received a letter from the special counsel that he's
00:32:32.000being investigated for his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
00:32:36.000House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says the Biden administration has decided to, quote,
00:32:41.000weaponize government to go after their number one opponent, end quote.
00:32:48.000The president respects the Department of Justice, their independence.
00:32:52.000He has been very, very steadfast on making sure that the rule of law comes back in this administration, comes back in the White House and clearly the administration more broadly.
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00:34:59.000Okay, meanwhile, So if the material in the Trump indictment looks this week, why exactly are they doing it?
00:35:03.000Well, I think that we all know the answer.
00:35:05.000Democrats have to do whatever they can to stop Donald Trump.
00:35:08.000They have to do whatever they can to prop up Joe Biden.
00:35:11.000Now, there's also a dynamic where Democrats are perfectly happy to elevate Donald Trump in the primaries.
00:35:15.000They think that he's the most beautiful candidate.
00:35:16.000If you ask Democrats about this, they're basically pretty obvious about it.
00:35:19.000But they have built up in their minds this idea, this Mutually exclusive idea that one, it's good if Donald Trump gets nominated because Joe Biden can beat him.
00:35:27.000And two, Donald Trump is the greatest threat to the Republic ever.
00:35:29.000So how do you achieve both those things at the same time?
00:35:32.000That Donald Trump is a huge threat to the Republic and that also he needs to be the nominee so that Joe Biden can beat him.
00:35:53.000When Democrats keep saying over and over and over that everything is justified in pursuit of Donald Trump, it makes us think that you will justify anything in pursuit of Donald Trump.
00:36:02.000Eddie Glaude from MSNBC, he says self-governance itself is on the table if Donald Trump wins the presidency.
00:36:07.000Now, first of all, I gotta say, I hate this language on all sides.
00:36:36.000Will we hold all of these folk accountable?
00:36:40.000Or will our political passions overrun?
00:36:43.000Will those passions then deny the legitimacy of the court?
00:36:46.000Will those passions deny the legitimacy of the decisions?
00:36:49.000Will it undermine the very foundation of the polity?
00:36:53.000So, we're in this moment where it seems as if the question of whether or not everyday ordinary people can engage in self-governance is on the table.
00:37:05.000Will we respect the decisions of the court?
00:37:06.000MSNBC hates the court since the Roe versus Wade overturning.
00:37:20.000And you're doing all of this, by the way, in cover for a radical democratic agenda.
00:37:24.000Fascinating piece by Thomas Edsel, he writes a really good data-driven piece over at the New York Times fairly often.
00:37:31.000I disagree with him on a lot, but he at least brings the data.
00:37:33.000And he points out in this piece that while at the end of the 20th century the Republican Party moved rightward, since then, Democrats have moved far, far, far to the left.
00:37:42.000And this has opened a gap for Republicans if the Republicans will take advantage of it and Democrats are freaking out about it.
00:37:48.000Bill McInturff, a founding partner of the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, released a study in June, says Edsel.
00:37:54.000It documents the shifting views of Democratic and Republican voters.
00:37:56.000Among the findings, from 2012 to 2022, the percentage of Democrats who described themselves as very liberal grew from 29% from 19%.
00:38:02.000In 2013, when asked their religion, only 10% of Democrats said none.
00:38:05.000In 2013, when asked their religion, only 10% of Democrats said none.
00:38:51.000They point out that Republicans are dominating the cash dash so far in the cutthroat battle for the House in 2024.
00:38:58.000GOP leaders are continuing to reap the rewards of a successful years-long strategy to erase the massive small-dollar fundraising advantage Democrats enjoyed since Trump took office in 2017.
00:39:08.000Some 65 Republican candidates raised half a million dollars or more in the second quarter compared to just 40 Democrats, according to a political analysis of campaign finance filings.
00:39:16.000In 2019, only 30 Republicans crossed that threshold compared to 50 Democrats.
00:39:19.000So Republicans are out-raising Democrats on the House level.
00:39:24.000I mean, when they have to try out Nancy Pelosi to defend Joe Biden, you know you're in trouble.
00:39:29.000In probably the most hilarious clip of the day, Nancy Pelosi, because she is extremely old and also not with it, she testified that Joe Biden is actually a spring chicken.
00:39:40.000Man, this is like the night at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade talking about how basically Methuselah is a spring chicken here.
00:39:59.000We'll be hopeful that as we go forward, we can do this in a unifying way.
00:40:03.000And we couldn't be better served in that regard than by President Joe Biden.
00:40:07.000This is a person who respects other points of view, a person who has a vision about our country that is consistent with the vision of our founders, that respects the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform to keep our freedom intact and, again, Look at the lies.
00:42:46.000According to the New York Times, Chinese leaders rebuffed attempts by John Kerry, Joe Biden's climate envoy, to persuade them to commit to tougher climate action during three days of talks in Beijing.
00:42:54.000Kerry emerged late Wednesday from lengthy negotiations in Beijing with no new agreements.
00:42:58.000In fact, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, existed in a speech that China would pursue its goals to phase out carbon dioxide pollution at their own pace, in their own way.
00:43:09.000So John Kerry was then asked about this, the fact that Xi Jinping and the rest of the Chinese, who are responsible, by the way, they in India are responsible for the bulk of the world's carbon emissions at this point.
00:43:18.000Kerry was asked about the fact that Xi just rejected him to his face, like Dikembe Mutombo.
00:43:22.000And John Kerry's answer here was, no, no, no, that's not what he said.
00:43:29.000Are you sure he rejected me to my face?
00:44:55.000Because it turns out that if you have a really solid energy grid, and you have the capacity to turn on that AC, you're living quite comfortably these days.
00:45:13.000The media will say, well, you know, it's not global warming, it's now climate change.
00:45:16.000And the reason they changed the term from global warming to climate change is because the climate in many cases is colder during the winters than it was before.
00:45:25.000So it's hotter during the summers and it's colder during the winters.
00:45:33.000Which, of course, is an incredibly vague term because the climate is always changing.
00:45:35.000However, it is worth noting at this point that all of this focus— millions will die of the heat waves that are occurring on planet— Oh my god, the ocean is so hot during the summer in Florida.
00:45:45.000Okay, so first of all, it is hot this summer in Florida.
00:45:48.000Also, it's hot like every summer in Florida.
00:46:36.000Across the period 2000 to 2019, Asia experienced over 2 million cold deaths compared to less than half a million heat deaths.
00:46:45.000Africa experienced over a million cold deaths compared to a very low number of heat deaths, which is shocking because Africa is located in Africa.
00:46:51.000Europe, you're talking about 600,000 cold deaths as opposed to Less than 200,000 heat deaths over the course of two decades?
00:46:58.000North America, Latin America, same deal.
00:47:56.000It is a book called Revolt of the Masses.
00:47:59.000It's sort of a classic in sort of conservative circles.
00:48:04.000The basic premise of the book is that when you have mass man, in other words, when the mass becomes the only thing that matters, as opposed to principles, you end up falling down the road to populism and fascism.
00:48:19.000Here's one of the things he says, the fascist and cynical species were characterized by the
00:48:22.000first appearance of a type of man who did not care to give reasons or even to be right, but
00:48:26.000who simply resolved to impose his opinions.
00:48:28.000That was the novelty, the right not to be right, not to be reasonable, the reason of unreason.
00:48:32.000The idea here being that if enough people say a thing, then it magically becomes true.
00:48:38.000It's something the founders very much opposed.
00:48:39.000This is why when you hear people talk about pure democracy, they are wrong.
00:48:47.000Pure democracy was never supposed to be the way that governments work.
00:48:50.000This is why you need checks and balances.
00:48:52.000Unfortunately, we've moved more in the direction of a populist politics in which a pure majority gets to cram down its opinions on everybody else in really brutal fashion without appeal to reason.
00:49:02.000at the top of the federal government, for example, and that is very, very bad thing.
00:49:19.000If you go and you visit Buckingham Palace, they just stand there.
00:49:21.000And now there is a video of Mike Van Erp, who's 50, who's better known by his YouTube name Cycling Mikey, and a youngster posing for a photo.
00:49:30.000It's caused a stir because it is, again, their job to basically stand there absolutely still, but footage shows how there is a member of the guard who moved closer to Mike and a boy trying to get a photo to remember their trip to the Horse Guards Parade.
00:50:27.000Uh, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:50:33.000So, um, the Barbie movie, but we'll get to a full review of that on YouTube in very, very short order.
00:50:38.000So you're going to want to stick around for that because, uh, wow, what a piece of dreck.
00:50:42.000But the thing that I hate today, now you're seeing all the old country stars feel the necessity to dissociate from Jason Aldean because Jason Aldean had the temerity to make a music video about a song in which he said that in a small town they don't allow riots because people actually care about each other and like each other and don't want their city burned down.
00:50:59.000And this apparently is racist in some sort of a weird way.