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00:00:00.000Well, obviously, insane amount of news today.
00:00:02.000President Trump apparently has now been indicted on seven criminal charges in this classified documents case.
00:00:07.000Now, you will recall that this classified documents case actually began in like 2021 because it turned out that President Trump in 2021 had a bunch of documents Over at Mar-a-Lago, and those documents were actually requested by the National Archives in May 6, 2021.
00:00:25.000They alerted Trump that it was seeking approximately two dozen boxes of records be returned to it as required by the Presidential Records Act, according to Ryan Saavedra of Daily Wire.
00:00:32.000The National Archives warned Trump in late 2021.
00:00:34.000They could escalate the issue to prosecutors or Congress if he continued to refuse to hand over the documents.
00:00:38.000He was also then warned by former Trump White House lawyer, Eric Hirschman, he could face serious legal jeopardy if he did not comply.
00:00:44.000In January 2022, about 15 of those boxes were returned, at which time officials discovered there were hundreds of pages of classified material in the boxes.
00:00:51.000And then federal law enforcement was notified of the discovery, and then they came to believe there were more materials that had not been returned.
00:00:56.000And then in May 2022, A federal grand jury issued a subpoena seeking additional classified documents.
00:01:00.000A few weeks later, the DOJ decided to raid Mar-a-Lago.
00:01:03.000Trump's legal team signed a written statement claiming that all the classified material had then been returned.
00:01:09.000On August 8th, the FBI executed a search warrant on the property and recovered more classified material.
00:01:14.000Okay, so that is the sequence of events leading up to all of this.
00:01:16.000Now, let it be stated up front that the treatment of classified material by various public officials is extremely messy.
00:01:24.000So among the public officials that we know have had classified material in a place they weren't supposed to have that classified material, that'd be like Hillary Clinton.
00:01:35.000The only one of those four people who had the power to summarily declassify if he had gone through any sort of procedure with regard to declassification was President Trump.
00:01:42.000The president can summarily declassify anything.
00:01:44.000He's the head of the executive branch.
00:01:45.000None of those other characters were able to declassify anything.
00:01:50.000Number two, why exactly was Trump holding these classified materials in the first place?
00:01:54.000So all the theories at the time when this news broke back in 2022 is that it must have been because Trump was seeking to pass them off to the Russians.
00:02:01.000He was seeking to pass them off to the Chinese.
00:02:02.000There was some sort of nefarious evil plan by Donald Trump to do something with the documents.
00:02:07.000He was going to hand the nuclear codes over to Xi Jinping.
00:02:10.000He was going to make sure that Vladimir Putin knew exactly where our nuclear submarines were or something like that.
00:02:15.000And then, as it turns out, according to pretty much everybody who has testified in this case, apparently, Donald Trump just decided to hold on to documents because, wait for it, Donald Trump just wanted to hold on to documents, which only fits with everything we know about him.
00:02:26.000Anyway, whatever you say about Trump, Trump is a willful human being who likes to do the things that he likes to do.
00:02:31.000And this is true in literally every area of his life.
00:02:33.000So the likely thing that happened is he left the White House and he's like, hey, look, it's a letter.
00:02:46.000And that's pretty much the extent of it.
00:02:49.000Now, is that a national security threat to the extent that the former president of the United States and the current Republican front runner for the nomination ought to be indicted on criminal charges?
00:03:01.000And the reason the answer is no is because we have the disparate treatment of those other public officials, including, most egregiously, Hillary Clinton.
00:03:08.000Well, look at what Hillary Clinton actually did because it's actually relevant in this context that the FBI and the DOJ decided not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her activities surrounding taking home classified documents and loading them up onto an unclassified server, a secret private server that she kept in her bathroom.
00:03:25.000And then she actually ended up using bleach bit to clean the documents when it became clear that she was suspected of holding those documents.
00:03:30.000And then those classified documents ended up on the very not classified computer of a pervert named Anthony Weiner, who is Huma Abedin's husband.
00:04:40.000We have the Alvin Bragg case in Manhattan, which is clearly a put-up job.
00:04:43.000That is the DA of Manhattan trying to make a name for himself.
00:04:45.000He wouldn't know Alvin Bragg's name, other than he lets criminals out of prison, except that he decided to prosecute President Trump on the basis of some sort of bizarre campaign finance case that is such a stretch that even the New York Times is like, uh, that probably is not prosecutable.
00:05:05.000So what exactly does this case constitute?
00:05:08.000Well, right now, the indictment is sealed, so the charges are not fully public.
00:05:12.000But Trump's attorney, James Trustee, said that the charges include false statements, conspiracy to obstruct, and willfully retaining documents in violation of the Espionage Act.
00:05:20.000Now, suggesting that he is violating the Espionage Act does not mean that they suspect that Donald Trump is actually, like, a traitor and that he's going to be hanged or something.
00:05:26.000What that means is that there are provisions of the Espionage Act that relate to the treatment of classified materials and obstruction of justice.
00:05:32.000The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison if Trump is convicted, though the actual sentence would likely be lower because of federal sentencing guidelines.
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00:06:54.000So again, the classified document charges.
00:06:59.000They range from obstruction of justice, which that would presumably be Trump telling his team to take the documents and move them from one room into another room when the FBI originally came to search.
00:07:08.000It might include statements that his lawyers made to the authorities suggesting that he'd already turned over all of the classified documents.
00:07:14.000And then it turns out he had not actually turned over all of the classified documents.
00:07:18.000According to ABC News, federal investigators have seized more than 100 documents with classified markings during the search, according to an unsealed detailed inventory list.
00:07:25.000From Trump's office alone, there were 43 empty folders seized that had classified banners on them.
00:07:28.000You remember the FBI did the wonderfully classified thing of then taking pictures of all of those folders on the floor and then revealing that to the public.
00:07:35.000Which definitely leads to the impression that they are not political in any way, is when you take some of the evidence and you spread it out on the floor and then you take photos of it and release it to the media.
00:07:43.000The property inventory list also showed that agents gathered more than 11,000 documents or photographs without classification markings, all of which were described as property of the United States government.
00:07:53.000Andy McCarthy over at National Review has a good rundown on what he thinks the charges are at this point.
00:07:58.000He says, the most notable thing I've seen is that in charging Trump with an Espionage Act offense, prosecutors are relying on a provision that criminalizes willful violation of the rules that government officials are required to follow in handling national defense intelligence.
00:08:09.000And as McCarthy says, the reason that they are doing this is because if they say that he accidentally mishandled classified information, then we're all going to ask the obvious question.
00:08:26.000A classified document was in Joe Biden's Corvette.
00:08:28.000Donald Trump was willfully and maliciously hiding this material.
00:08:31.000That's why they're going after the intent.
00:08:33.000Now, intent for Trump, as I've said before, is the hardest thing to prove in any criminal case about President Trump because Trump does not have intent beyond the next 0.5 seconds.
00:08:42.000That may be an overstatement of the amount of time that he has intent for.
00:08:46.000Donald Trump intends to do the thing that is right in front of him, and then as soon as it is not in front of him, he no longer intends to do it, which is why he shifts political positions pretty easily, and he will attack a person who he was best friends with five seconds ago.
00:08:56.000So proving willful intent on the part of Trump in any of these cases is very, very difficult, like just as a prosecutorial matter.
00:09:04.000But, as McCarthy says, this seems like an obvious effort to distinguish Trump's alleged crime from President Biden's mishandling of classified documents, which the White House and the media-democratic complex have described as inadvertent, the result of sloppy staff work, not willfulness.
00:09:17.000What intrigues me about the allegation is that it takes too to detangle when it comes to the obstruction of justice charge, because they're charging him not with just obstruction, but conspiracy to obstruct justice, which means there has to be more than one person who obstructed justice, right?
00:09:28.000Conspiracy by its very nature requires more than one person.
00:09:31.000Unclear, because we don't have the indictment in front of us.
00:09:35.000Again, we are only operating off of the leaked info at this point, which could turn out to be largely true, or it could turn out to be that there's more evidence than stated.
00:09:42.000However, I will say that in the past, whenever we have said, well, maybe there'll be more evidence to come, It seems like it doesn't generally happen.
00:09:50.000The Mueller report was like, oh my gosh, the other shoe is going to drop.
00:09:52.000And it turns out there were no shoes to drop.
00:10:04.000Trump is also said to be charged, according to Andy McCarthy, with making false statements.
00:10:08.000One theory the special counsel appears to be pressing is that Trump is responsible for a false sworn statement his lawyers conveyed to the FBI on June 3rd, 2022.
00:10:15.000At that time, the lawyers represented that a thorough search of Mar-a-Lago had been conducted already, and that the 38 documents bearing classification markings that they were surrendering were the only ones in Trump's possession.
00:10:24.000After that point, the government continued to investigate and developed evidence that Trump was still hoarding documents that were marked classified.
00:10:29.000As a result, prosecutors sought and obtained that search warrant that we talked about, and that is when they raided Mar-a-Lago in August of 2022.
00:10:36.000Under the federal aiding and abetting statute, a principal is responsible for the criminal acts of his agents, including false statements.
00:10:40.000If he told his lawyers, go lie to the FBI about the classified documents, tell them we turned everything over, even if we didn't, then Theoretically, he could be charged with that, right?
00:10:49.000That is one of the things that they're talking about charging him with.
00:10:51.000Now, it is also unclear whether the documents that were found were quote-unquote marked classified or maybe he thought he had already declassified them.
00:11:14.000But that has to be litigated out, presumably.
00:11:17.000Most interesting are reports that Trump is charged with willfully retaining national defense information.
00:11:21.000We can't be sure until we've seen the indictments, says Andy McCarthy.
00:11:23.000This appears to refer to subsection D of the Espionage Act.
00:11:26.000In pertinent part, that section says, quote, whoever lawfully having possession of access to control over or being entrusted with any document relating to the national defense or information relating to the national defense, which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully retains the same.
00:11:43.000And fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it, is guilty of a crime punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.
00:11:51.000Subsection D sets forth a more serious offense than the provision that usually applies to government officials who mishandle classified information.
00:11:59.000The problem, of course, is that subsection F, which is one of the other subsections that they are considering, which is substantially broader and easier to convict, would also convict President Biden.
00:12:09.000As McCarthy says, the strategy of the Biden administration and its special counsel seems to be one, alleged Trump committed a willful offense that puts him in a different, more egregious category from Biden's conduct, and two, pretend in connection with Biden that it is not a felony for government officials to be grossly negligent in mishandling classified information.
00:12:25.000Now, again, the line between grossly negligent in mishandling classified information and, like, full-scale willful in mishandling classified information, that's a really dicey line, as we're going to talk about when we get to Hillary Clinton and the fact that these cases are very, very comparable.
00:12:38.000Hillary Clinton was overtly not prosecuted in 2016 by the Comey FBI and the Eric Holder DOJ, or the Loretta Lynch DOJ at the time.
00:12:49.000And yet, Trump is now apparently being prosecuted.
00:12:52.000Trump, for his part, has released a statement.
00:12:54.000He says, the corrupt Biden administration has informed my attorneys I've been indicted,
00:12:57.000seemingly over the boxes hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 boxes at the University of Delaware,
00:13:02.000additional boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more boxes at the University of Pennsylvania,
00:13:05.000and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette,
00:13:08.000and which is secured only by a garage door that is paper thin and open much of the time.
00:13:12.000I've been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in Miami Tuesday, 3 p.m.
00:13:15.000I never thought it could be possible that such a thing could happen to a former president of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country, and is currently leading by far all candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in the polls of the 2024 presidential election.
00:13:30.000Elon Musk, for his part, responded immediately to this, saying, Well, yeah, I mean, that is the understatement of the century.
00:13:43.000So we'll get to President Trump's video statement in just a second.
00:13:45.000We'll compare this to Hillary Clinton's case, which, again, the notion that the DOJ is operating on the basis of some sort of objective determination of the law here is pretty absurd.
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00:15:30.000Cause now we're leading in the polls again by a lot against Biden and against the Republicans by a lot, but we're leading against Biden by a lot, a tremendous amount.
00:15:40.000And we went up to a level that they figured the way they're going to stop us is by using what's called warfare.
00:16:13.000The fact that we have had a long history in this country of not prosecuting the party of the president of the former party when he was in when he's not in power anymore.
00:16:54.000I declassified and the power to declassify.
00:16:56.000Okay, now, that's a pretty weak case in the first place.
00:16:59.000Apparently, that's been blown up CNN has apparently obtained a transcript of an audio recording in which Trump acknowledged on tape in a 2020-21 meeting that he had retained, quote-unquote, secret military information that he had not declassified.
00:17:10.000Apparently, according to the transcript, Trump says, quote, as president, I could have declassified, but now I can't.
00:17:16.000And he's waving around a document supposedly in this tape.
00:18:35.000Again, Hillary Clinton stored thousands of documents, like tens of thousands of documents, on a private server in her home while she was Secretary of State.
00:18:45.000Many of those documents were classified.
00:18:47.000Those documents were then bleach-bitted from her server.
00:18:51.000She used a code called bleach-bit in order to wipe them from her server when she realized that this might fall under investigation.
00:18:57.000And then those classified emails turned up.
00:19:00.000They turned up on the computer of Anthony Weiner, the husband, the pervert husband of her aide, Huma Abedin.
00:19:07.000Which is why, of course, we have this bizarre two-step wherein James Comey originally announced he was not going to prosecute her, and then right before the election, he was like, oh, by the way, we just found a bunch of classified emails, so we're not sure what that means.
00:19:17.000And then a few days later, he said, well, it's probably okay.
00:19:27.000Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
00:19:39.000Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before deciding whether to bring charges.
00:19:44.000There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.
00:19:49.000Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
00:19:58.000Oh, how similar situations have been handled in the past.
00:20:01.000And he says, sure, there's evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding how Hillary actually handled the documents.
00:20:05.000In fact, Comey admitted in that presser, he said that there is a high likelihood that foreign eyes ended up on classified material because of Hillary Clinton.
00:20:12.000Is there a high likelihood that foreign materials ended up being seen by the Chinese or Russians because Donald Trump hid this stuff in like a closet at Mar-a-Lago?
00:20:21.000How exactly would you stack up the treatment of classified materials by Trump as opposed to by Hillary Clinton, where she specifically was not indicted by James Comey and the same people who are spending millions of dollars and thousands of man hours investigating nonsense like the Steele dossier going after Trump?
00:20:36.000If it seems like animus, that's because it is animus.
00:20:40.000In a second, we'll get to the fact that Joe Biden is still in the middle of an ongoing investigation with regard to classified documents.
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00:21:58.000is America's coffee. Okay, so here again is the thing.
00:22:01.000When it comes to Hillary Clinton, Hillary, like, deliberately wiped her server.
00:22:05.000Now, if you're talking about covering up obstruction of justice, preventing the knowledge by law enforcement that you are covering up classified material, Hillary Clinton did all that, and Trey Gowdy said as much.
00:22:17.000Back in 2016, August of 2016, Trey Gowdy said that Hillary Clinton used a special tool called BleachBit to prevent recovery of files.
00:22:28.000He said she and her lawyers had those emails deleted.
00:22:30.000They didn't just push the delete button, they had them deleted where even God can't read them.
00:23:30.000So it's not like you're sitting out in the street.
00:23:32.000But at any rate, yes, as well as my Corvette.
00:23:39.000Oh, well, that obviously is a great defense there by Joe Biden.
00:23:42.000By the way, the case is still ongoing.
00:23:44.000According to NBC News, the federal investigation into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents shows few signs of an imminent conclusion, even as the probes into former VP Mike Pence and former President Donald Trump have reached or appear to be reaching the end, according to three people familiar with the matter.
00:23:58.000Biden's advisors have determined he would provide an interview to the special counsel investigating his handling of the classified documents once Biden's legal team and the DOJ agree on the conditions.
00:24:06.000But Biden has yet to be interviewed, suggesting that the investigation is not yet nearing a close.
00:24:11.000Interviewing the person at the center of an investigation is typically among the final actions before a probe is completed.
00:24:16.000A spokesperson for Biden's personal attorney, Bob Bauer, declined to comment at this point.
00:24:21.000So, again, Joe Biden was hiding documents, or at least he had these documents that were all over the damn place.
00:24:28.000So, is Donald Trump being prosecuted on the basis of doing something extraordinary?
00:24:34.000Like, extraordinarily different from Hillary Clinton, for example?
00:24:44.000And he is a presidential candidate, the same way that Hillary Clinton was a presidential candidate.
00:24:47.000And they decided they didn't want to intervene with Hillary because she was a presidential candidate, but they are perfectly willing to intervene with Donald Trump.
00:24:53.000Now, politically speaking, does it help Trump?
00:24:55.000Every time Trump is targeted, it helps Trump.
00:25:23.000The Manhattan DA broke it on the state level.
00:25:25.000Breaking it on the federal level is a completely different ball of wax.
00:25:27.000Breaking it on the state level is bad enough, but there are lots of states with various political opinions, and so, you know, you take it always with like, eh, you know, okay fine, so Alvin Bragg's a Democrat and he's prosecuting Trump in New York, whatever.
00:25:38.000When the federal government does it, and the federal government can reach you in your home, and the Manhattan D.A.
00:25:48.000Theoretically, he could try to extradite you or something, but let's be real about this.
00:25:52.000We all understand what a politically motivated prosecution by a liberal prosecutor looks like in Manhattan.
00:25:57.000That is not the same thing as an institution that requires all... I don't have a lot of trust in the New York government, but you have to have a certain baseline level of trust in the American government since you pay taxes to it and you are subject to its legal requirements on a day-to-day level.
00:26:10.000When the DOJ and the FBI are obviously weaponizing themselves against Trump in this way, it's a serious problem for American democracy.
00:26:17.000And that means that Republicans are rushing to Trump's defense.
00:26:21.000And they should rush to Trump's defense on this, because obviously this is weaponization against Trump.
00:26:26.000To turn that, however, into a referendum on his electability is, you know, another question.
00:26:30.000And what I'm seeing right now is a conflation on the right side of the aisle between, well, we're really pissed about this, which means we should nominate him.
00:26:35.000Well, I mean, really pissed about it, yes.
00:26:39.000You might want to think about whether independents are more likely to vote for him because he was just indicted by the DOJ.
00:26:44.000Is that something that is more likely to win him the election?
00:26:46.000I'm seeing a lot of analysis today from people on the right, like, well, this is going to drive him back to the presidency.
00:26:50.000Well, no, it's going to drive him back to the Republican nomination, but the chances that it's going to flip, like, Five, six, seven million voters back to Trump because the DOJ is going after him on the classified documents matter ignores all of the polling data showing that independents by and large are fine with the prosecution, not because they care about the prosecution per se, because they don't like Trump very much.
00:27:43.000Again, I think this notion that the American public is going to react in absolute outrage against Joe Biden, and therefore going to throw Biden out of office in favor of Trump, I think we're a very polarized political climate here in the United States, and independents don't really like either of those people, but by polling data, they actually have more of a problem with Trump than they do with Biden at this point.
00:28:00.000And so unless that radically shifts, that is something that Republican voters should take into their calculation when it comes to voting.
00:28:19.000Now, it's so corrupt that Joe Biden actually yesterday had to disavow having any involvement.
00:28:24.000He said, I never suggested what the DOJ should do.
00:28:26.000Well, nobody said that you suggested what the DOJ should do, but it's your attorney general, Merrick Garland, who's presiding over all of this, and Jack Smith, his appointed special counsel, Because you notice, I have never once, not one single time, suggested to the Justice Department what they should do or not do, whether to bring in a charge or not bring in a charge.
00:28:53.000Now, let's talk about Joe Biden's honesty.
00:28:55.000The same day this indictment came down for Trump, there are now pretty significant accusations that Joe Biden was actually paid bribe money by a Burisma executive as part of a bribery scheme, according to an FBI document.
00:29:06.000Fox News is now reporting that Biden was allegedly paid $5 million by an executive of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter sat on the board, a confidential human source told the FBI during a June 2020 interview, according to sources familiar.
00:29:19.000The sources brief Fox News Digital on the contents of the FBI-generated FD1023 form alleging a criminal bribery scheme between then-VP Joe Biden and a foreign national that involves influence over U.S.
00:29:30.000That form, dated June 30th, 2020, is the FBI's interview with a highly credible confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and conversations he or she had with a top Burisma executive over the course of several years starting in 2015.
00:29:42.000Fox News Digital has not seen the form.
00:29:43.000It was described by several sources who are aware of its contents.
00:29:45.000An FD1023 is a form used by FBI agents to record unverified reporting from confidential human sources.
00:29:51.000So it's good enough for the sealed dossier, obviously.
00:29:53.000The form is used to document information as told to an FBI agent.
00:29:56.000That doesn't mean that it's been validated or that it's been fully weighed at this point, but The accusation in the FD23 says that the Burisma executive discussed Hunter Biden's role on the board.
00:30:06.000You'll remember that Hunter Biden was being paid an extraordinary amount of money, like $50,000 a month or something, in order to be a consultant for Burisma, given Hunter Biden's extensive expertise in natural gas and Ukraine.
00:30:31.000Well, because Daddy was the VP at the time.
00:30:33.000And there have been accusations going on.
00:30:35.000I mean, this is what underlay, you'll recall, the first impeachment of President Trump.
00:30:39.000President Trump went to Vladimir Zelensky, the head of Ukraine.
00:30:43.000This is well before the Russian invasion, obviously.
00:30:44.000And he asked him, essentially, to look into accusations that Burisma was attempting a payoff to Joe Biden.
00:30:53.000And that in return for the payoff, Joe Biden was going to fire some prosecutor who was looking at Burisma, or pressure a prosecutor to be fired in Ukraine who was looking into Burisma.
00:31:02.000That's been the long-standing accusation against Joe Biden.
00:31:06.000The Confidential Human Source questioned why the Burisma executive needed his or her advice in acquiring access to U.S.
00:31:10.000oil if he had Hunter Biden on the board.
00:31:12.000The Burisma executive answered by referring to Hunter Biden as dumb.
00:31:16.000Well, I mean, so far we know that 1023 is accurate.
00:31:18.000Hunter Biden is one of the stupider humans walking the earth at this point, despite apparently his massive artistic talent.
00:31:26.000The Burisma executive explained to the Confidential Source that Burisma, quote, had to pay the Bidens because Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma and explained how difficult it would be to enter the U.S.
00:31:34.000market in the midst of that investigation.
00:31:36.000The Confidential Source further detailed the conversation, suggesting to the Burisma executive that he pay the Bidens 50 grand each, to which the Burisma executive replied, it's not 50 grand, it's $5 million.
00:31:45.000$5 million for one Biden, $5 million for the other Biden.
00:31:49.000Apparently, the document makes reference to the big guy, which is said to be a reference to Joe Biden.
00:31:53.000Burisma executive told the confidential source he didn't, quote, pay the big guy directly.
00:31:57.000Now, you'll recall that language is highly reminiscent of language that was used in documents between Hunter Biden and Chinese investors talking about the split of money to the big guy in another investment.
00:32:08.000And the question always was, who was the big guy?
00:32:26.000Remember, Donald Trump was impeached for attaching, supposedly attaching strings to Ukrainian aid based on their investigation of Burisma, and now it appears that Joe Biden, according to his allegations, basically did the same thing but was taking actual bribery money in coordination with it.
00:32:46.000Unclear at this point, but those allegations are now out there openly in the public.
00:32:50.000Representative Byron Donalds, who has actually seen the document, he's a Republican from Florida, he says money was being moved through accounts to get to Joe Biden.
00:32:57.000This document also stipulates that, according to the confidential human source, that money was being moved through several accounts, multiple accounts, to get to Joe Biden.
00:34:57.000Members of the House Oversight Committee were able to view the FBI 1023 document.
00:35:02.000Republicans contend the document points to a legal problem for the president.
00:35:08.000There is no doubt in my mind that Joe Biden is guilty of bribery, 100%.
00:35:13.000I mean, there was two separate transactions, one that went to Joe Biden for $5 million and one that went to Hunter Biden for $5 million.
00:35:19.000So, I mean, if that's not grounds for criminal activity, I don't know what is.
00:35:25.000About a dozen GOP members viewed the document in a classified setting at the Capitol, but a source familiar with the document tells Fox, quote, the document does not say Joe Biden received any payments.
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00:38:08.000Also, this Sunday, we have another Sunday special starring James Lindsay.
00:38:11.000James Lindsay is, of course, the anti-woke warrior, originally responsible for a series of fake papers that were placed in a bunch of peer-reviewed publications about fat-positive bodybuilding and whether dog park culture was rapey.
00:38:25.000Well, then James went on to expose pretty much all of academia in a series of books.
00:38:30.000He's now exposing the Marxification of American education.
00:38:32.000It's a fascinating episode of the Sunday special.
00:38:34.000Here's a little bit of what it sounds like.
00:38:37.000Critical theory is not a bunch of ideas.
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00:39:15.000You'll also be able to listen to it over at our normal feed.
00:39:18.000Well, meanwhile, there are new polls showing that social conservatism is at an all time high.
00:39:21.000That, of course, is because the left has pushed far too fast and far too hard on the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign radical gender agenda.
00:39:29.000Social conservatism in the United States is now at the highest level that it has been since 2012.
00:39:36.000So social conservatism is actually on the rise, a very significant rise.
00:39:40.000In 2021, only about 30% of Americans said that they were socially conservative.
00:39:46.000That number is now up to 38%, which is a very statistically significant increase.
00:39:52.000Could it be that you guys have pushed too far and you're crazy?
00:39:56.000In fact, there is a new poll from Axios that surveyed people of different religions, share of U.S.
00:40:02.000adults who say they would be comfortable learning that a friend uses gender-neutral pronouns by select religion.
00:40:06.000So first of all, let me point out, there's not a single religious denomination in America where a majority of people say they would be comfortable learning that a friend is using gender-neutral pronouns.
00:40:16.000But it does vary widely according to religion.
00:40:18.000The people who are apparently most okay with a friend using gender-neutral pronouns are people who say they are Jewish.
00:40:24.000I find this particularly galling because whenever there's a poll of quote-unquote Jewish people, what they mean are people who are ethnically Jewish but have never been inside a synagogue or attend once a year so they can hear a guitar and see a pride progress flag and then leave for brunch on Yom Kippur.
00:40:39.000If you survey Orthodox Jews, they're going to be the most conservative of any of these groups.
00:40:47.000Other religious denominations, only 20% of white evangelical Protestants say they'd be comfortable learning a friend uses gender-neutral pronouns.
00:40:53.000Only 26% of Hispanic Protestants overall say they'd be comfortable with this.
00:40:57.000Only 35% of black Protestants say they would be comfortable with this.
00:41:00.000Only 34% of Hispanic Catholics say they would be comfortable with this.
00:41:05.000And the left pushed too far, too fast on all of this stuff.
00:41:08.000And they're going to continue pushing, and the backlash is going to come.
00:41:10.000By the way, it's going to completely undermine us, not just in terms of domestic comedy, but also in terms of foreign policy.
00:41:15.000The dumbest tweet maybe I have ever seen came courtesy of the morons at the social media team of the CIA.
00:41:20.000Remember, the CIA, they're just supposed to be, according to the TVs, the all-powerful, all-knowing geniuses who keep us safe.
00:42:34.000What a self-centered, narcissistic, idiotic culture and government we have.
00:42:38.000Pride Month is an occasion for all of us at the agency to pay tribute to the rich history, community, and mission contributions of our LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign officers.
00:43:04.000You want to get a Pakistani source, a confidential Pakistani source, to tell you about an upcoming terror attack or a plan to secure some sort of territory against the allies of the United States.
00:43:15.000So you go to that Pakistani Muslim and you're like, here I am.
00:43:26.000Tell me all about your terrorist friend.
00:43:30.000Again, this is all for domestic consumption.
00:43:31.000The CIA doesn't promote this abroad, and if they did, it would completely undermine our ability to gather intelligence under all auspices, because that's how stupid we are.
00:43:40.000In fact, this isn't the government's job at all.
00:43:42.000But, you know, our government doesn't know its job.
00:43:44.000Our government is not even good at its job.
00:43:46.000Our government's job is apparently to prosecute President Trump, like, full brunt of the law, and to promote Pride progress flags with the CIA abroad.
00:43:57.000We are going to get to a Supreme Court ruling that was a win for the left.
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00:46:07.000In Alabama, there is no evidence that there was racial animus at work when the state of Alabama actually drew its lines.
00:46:14.000And in fact, the only way to come to the conclusion that the state of Alabama did something illegal is to suggest that the proportion of a population Well, that's strange.
00:46:28.000First of all, it's racially discriminatory because you're not supposed to divide people by race.
00:46:32.000No one would ever make the argument that because about 30%, 35%, 40% of Californians vote for Republicans, 40% of all representatives from California have to be Republican.
00:47:02.000Unless you are blatantly preventing people from voting, you are not in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
00:47:06.000But, essentially, it was argued that because there was one congressional district that was majority black and there should have been two congressional districts that were majority black, then this must have been a violation of the Voting Rights Act.
00:47:16.000And the Supreme Court decided in favor of that proposition, which is really weird and strange.
00:47:23.000So the voting majority was John Roberts, of course, of course.
00:47:27.000Again, I'm the only conservative in America who opposed John Roberts for the Supreme Court when he was first selected.
00:47:33.000And again, I was very lukewarm on Kavanaugh.
00:47:37.000Even before the left attacked him over... Honestly, once the left attacked him on bullcrap rape charges, it became clear that he had to be confirmed just to stop the left from winning on trumping up nonsense.
00:47:47.000But I was never a big fan of Kavanaugh.
00:47:49.000I never thought that Kavanaugh was going to be like the great shakes on the Supreme Court.
00:47:53.000But both of them voted, along with the three members of the left, to overturn the gerrymandering in the state of Alabama.
00:48:00.000The other four conservative justices dissented on Thursday.
00:48:04.000Justice Clarence Thomas had a pretty brilliant dissent.
00:48:14.000He's the person who's the most clear in his analysis.
00:48:18.000So he says, In other words, they didn't stop black people from voting.
00:48:20.000They didn't attempt to abridge black people from voting.
00:48:21.000plan imposes or applies any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting
00:48:25.000or standard practice or procedure that affects a denial or abridgment of the
00:48:28.000right to vote on account of race or color. In other words, they didn't stop
00:48:31.000black people from voting. They didn't attempt to abridge black people from voting.
00:48:34.000Nor did they prove that Alabama's congressional districts are not equally
00:48:37.000open to participation by black Alabamians. The plaintiffs did not even prove it's
00:48:40.000possible to achieve two majority black districts without resorting to a racial
00:48:45.000In other words, he's saying you actually have to purely gerrymander on the basis of race, which is illegal under the 14th Amendment.
00:48:52.000In order to get to the conclusion the court came to here, that the Voting Rights Act requires two black congresspeople, essentially?
00:48:58.000You actually have to look at race, which is illegal.
00:49:01.000So if the Voting Rights Act means that you now have to look at the racial composition of a particular state and decide that a state that is 11% Hispanic has to have 11% majority Hispanic district, that's illegal.
00:49:11.000You're not allowed to do that under the 14th Amendment.
00:49:13.000It would make the Voting Rights Act illegal itself if that's the way you interpreted it.
00:49:18.000The most they can be said to have shown is that sophisticated mapmakers can proportionally allocate Alabama's congressional districts based on race in a way that exceeds the federal judiciary's ability to recognize as a racial gerrymander with the naked eye, says Justice Thomas.
00:49:28.000The district court held that this showing, plus racially polarized voting and its gestalt view of Alabama's racial climate, was enough to require the state's redistricting plan on the basis of race.
00:49:38.000If that is the benchmark for vote dilution under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Section 2 is nothing more than a racial entitlement to roughly proportional control of elected offices limited only by feasibility, wherever different racial groups consistently prefer different candidates.
00:49:50.000If that is what Section 2 means, the Court should hold it's unconstitutional.
00:49:53.000If that's not what it means, but Section 2 applies to districting, the Court should hold that vote dilution challenges require a race-neutral benchmark that bears no resemblance to unconstitutional racial registers.
00:50:02.000In other words, you have to come up with another way of drawing districts that is not reliant on racial representation.
00:50:08.000You have to say, for example, that this is specifically drawn to only maximize Republican districts at the expense of Democratic districts, right?
00:50:14.000It's politically drawn and therefore prevents equal protection of the laws or some such.
00:50:20.000But the attempt to draw this on racial lines actually violates the Constitution of the United States.
00:50:27.000He cites a case that he wrote a dissent in back in back 29 years ago, quote, in my view, our current practice
00:50:34.000should not continue, not for another term, not until the next case, not for another
00:51:26.000And of course, Democrats are immediately claiming that it was because of the gerrymandering that Republicans won the congressional majority.
00:51:31.000No, it's because Republicans won a majority of the vote in the last electoral cycle.
00:51:37.000It's not actually because of gerrymandering.
00:51:38.000The amount of time that we spend in this country worrying about gerrymandering is wildly disproportionate to the amount of evil actually done by gerrymandering in the United States as a whole.
00:51:49.000Any gerrymandering that's attempted in New York is generally cancelled out by gerrymandering in Alabama and vice versa.
00:52:07.000So we were told that it was global warming.
00:52:09.000Global warming is responsible for everything.
00:52:10.000Global warming just lights fires in random places and generates enormous clouds of smoke that hover over New York City.
00:52:16.000Well, now it turns out that probably it was arson.
00:52:19.000According to the Toronto Sun, they've learned that Quebec police are investigating the possibility that the smoke creating poor air quality in southern Ontario and making downtown skylines disappear may have been the result of arson.