Hunter Biden has reached a plea deal with the feds to resolve his tax and gun charges, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Joe Biden and the White House are said to be relieved, but there are still questions about why it took so long for this whole thing to come to a resolution, and whether the other investigations into Hunter Biden will continue. Also, a new report says Hunter Biden is making a $75,000-a-month stripper baby mama a full-time stripper, which is about $5,000 a month. Is this a scam? Or is this the real deal? And is this a slap on the wrist for Joe Biden, who is the only living son of former Vice President Joe Biden? Today's special guest is Rachel Maddow, former White House correspondent for the New York Times, joins us to talk about it all. Guests: Former White House Correspondent Adam Schiff, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, and former Justice Department spokesman Greg Andrey Oran. Thanks to caller for the call in the middle of the episode about Hunter Biden's plea deal. Thank you, Rachel! Thanks, Rachel, too, for the question and for the story! and thanks, Rachel for the questions and the story, and thanks for the links to the stories you sent in! and the facts you provided. . Thanks also to Rachel, Rachel and Rachel for her reporting on this episode, and for all the questions she asked about this episode and the fact that she got a chance to ask about this. Thanks Rachel's answers the question, Rachel's question. and Rachel's story, Rachel s response, and Rachel s answer the question Rachel s tweet about this, and the answer she got back from a reporter s question . Thanks Rachel s question, and also Rachel's tweet about it. Rachel's response to it, and her response to the question about the story. , Rachel's answer, and a call from a reader's question about it, thank you Rachel s reaction to Rachel s reporting on the story and more. Thank you so much Rachel's article, Rachel . Thank you Rachel's questions, Rachel is so much thank you, so much love, Rachel & Rachel's work, Rachel. -- Rachel's back with your questions and your questions, and so much more! Rachel, thank you! - Rachel's Story
00:00:00.000Well, the most important thing is that Joe Biden is very relieved.
00:00:03.000He's in a very, very good mood this morning.
00:00:05.000According to the media, Joe Biden has been just really upset about the fate of his son, Hunter.
00:00:11.000It's been a very upsetting time for Joe.
00:00:13.000I mean, never mind the fact that he was probably clearing checks from Hunter, that there are actual emails on Hunter's computer.
00:00:19.000Remember that laptop that was supposed to be brushing disinformation?
00:00:22.000There are actual emails on there in which There are text messages, Hunter talking with people about how he was paying his dad's bills and all of this.
00:00:28.000But the really important thing is that now Joe Biden can sleep better in the late afternoon.
00:00:32.000I would say at night, but he's really old.
00:00:34.000So like in the late afternoon, he can sleep really, really well for that afternoon nap, which goes directly into his nighttime sleep, which goes directly into his morning siesta.
00:00:42.000Well, according to Politico, Hunter Biden has now reached a plea deal with the feds to resolve his tax issues and gun charges.
00:00:49.000Biden has reached that deal to resolve a five-year federal investigation into his failure to pay about a million bucks in federal taxes and his purchase of a handgun in 2018.
00:00:56.000That purchase of a handgun in 2018, of course, was done because he filed a form that was false.
00:01:01.000That form suggested that he was not a drug addict.
00:01:04.000Meanwhile, he was snorting Parmesan cheese off carpets.
00:01:07.000Under an agreement detailed Tuesday in a filing in federal court in Delaware, Joe Biden's son will plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor tax charges.
00:01:13.000Prosecutors have also charged him with possessing a firearm According to the Wall Street Journal, if approved by a judge, the plea agreement between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden will end a long-running criminal probe into President Biden's only surviving son.
00:01:21.000of probation, that is a slap on the wrist, and everybody knows that that is a slap on
00:01:48.000One of the questions is why it took so long for this whole thing to happen.
00:01:51.000According to the Journal, the meandering inquiry took over five years over two administrations and came with many challenges, including disagreements among investigators over how to proceed.
00:01:58.000By mid-2022, investigators believed there was already enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden.
00:02:02.000Prosecutors held off on a decision for months while they reviewed the defense evidence.
00:02:05.000Among other issues, prosecutors struggled with certain facts, including whether their target's drug addiction would present a defense against a potential criminal tax case.
00:02:12.000Now, I'm just going to put it out there.
00:02:14.000There's also the significant possibility that investigators did not actually want to charge Hunter Biden, you know, right before the midterm elections.
00:02:21.000And so they wait until right after the midterm elections in a dead year.
00:02:24.0002023 is, of course, a year with no serious elections.
00:02:27.000In a charge meeting in October, federal prosecutors were informed of investigators' longstanding concerns about what they described as irregularities in the handling of the DOJ's investigation, according to a lawyer for an IRS supervisor who in April expressed concern to lawmakers about political interference in the probe.
00:02:40.000The agent said that after airing his concerns, he and his investigative team were no longer invited to any further prosecutorial team calls and meetings on the case, effectively excluding them from the case.
00:02:48.000There have been longstanding accusations that basically Hunter Biden was being given special treatment by the prosecutors, that at every turn the prosecutors were going out of their way in order to give him the strongest possible defense.
00:03:00.000But as I say, the real story here is that Joe Biden and the White House are very relieved.
00:03:04.000That is according to Politico, quote, inside the White House and Biden's own relief over the Hunter plea deal.
00:03:10.000Members of Biden's inner circle took great comfort in knowing that with a guilty plea, Hunter likely would not serve prison time.
00:03:15.000According to Politico, the president himself privately told Confidence he was proud of his son for taking responsibility for his actions.
00:03:23.000Is that Hunter Biden took responsibility for his actions?
00:03:26.000Dude won't even take responsibility for, you know, his own child.
00:03:31.000Apparently he came to a settlement yesterday in which he lowered the amount of child support he's providing to that child, this is from the stripper baby mama, from $20,000 a month down to $5,000 a month.
00:03:42.000But I love that Joe Biden is like, well, now Hunter's a responsible citizen as he makes his paintings and sells them in what very much appears to be a money laundering scam to people for like $75,000 a print and $500,000 for a painting.
00:03:54.000Several people close to the elder Biden portrayed him as having been deeply anxious for months about his son's legal fortunes and frustrated at the slow pace of the investigation.
00:04:01.000Biden had repeatedly barked to confidence that he could not understand why his son was being made to twist in the wind for five years, concerned the legal limbo could create a stress that would trigger his son's demons, according to people in the inner circle who spoke about private matters on condition of anonymity.
00:04:14.000Though Biden had earlier insisted his son had done nothing wrong, members of Biden's inner circle took great comfort in knowing that with a guilty plea, Hunter likely would not serve prison time.
00:04:21.000And again, the way this is being played by the media this morning is Joe Biden, wow, I mean, what a great dad.
00:04:26.000Seriously, what great dadding, Joe Biden.
00:04:29.000Not, what exactly is Hunter's financial relationship with Joe?
00:04:32.000Where exactly is Joe's stream of income coming from?
00:04:35.000In fact, why is the entire Biden family making bank off of Joe's name?
00:04:39.000Why was Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma knowing nothing about Ukraine or natural gas or, you know, being a non-drug abuser?
00:04:44.000Where is all this money coming from and how is it flowing?
00:04:47.000Why are there so many shell companies?
00:04:49.000No, the real story is that Joe Biden feels better.
00:04:52.000And if the old man feels better, well, I guess that that's all we could all really ask here.
00:04:56.000I mean, sure he got a sweetheart deal, but shouldn't he get a sweetheart deal so the old man feels a little bit better about things?
00:05:02.000Remember, after all, Joe Biden, the world's greatest dad, he has spent years saying that Hunter did nothing wrong.
00:05:08.000In fact, here is Joe Biden doing that repeatedly.
00:05:12.000The prosecutors think they could, they have enough to charge your son Hunter for tax crimes and a false statement about a gun purchase.
00:05:20.000Personally and politically, how do you react to that?
00:05:23.000Well, first of all, I'm proud of my son.
00:05:26.000Your son, while there's no ties to you, could be charged by your Department of Justice.
00:06:18.000Well, you know who actually thinks that Hunter Biden did something wrong?
00:06:22.000It's Hunter Biden, who pled guilty to all of these crimes.
00:06:24.000We'll get to more on this in just a second, because again, Joe Biden's view of the law is that his son should get off scot-free and he should be made to feel better, personally, by the DOJ.
00:06:33.000And you, if you commit the same crimes, you should probably go to jail for like a super long time.
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00:07:46.000If you were charged with the same crimes that Joe Biden's son was charged with, Joe Biden would throw the book at you.
00:07:52.000In fact, here is Joe Biden, not all that long ago, as in like last year, talking about how it was a priority for his administration to enforce the gun laws, to ensure that background checks were performed on every gun purchase, and if you lied on your forms, you should go to jail.
00:08:07.000None of this absolves Congress the responsibility from the responsibility of acting to pass
00:08:15.000universal background checks, eliminate gun manufacturers' immunity from liability.
00:08:21.000And I'm determined once again to ban assault weapons in high capacity magazines.
00:08:29.000Remember, you, the law-abiding citizen owning a gun like an AR-15.
00:08:34.000You really should be criminalized, because you never know, that gun might jump out and bite somebody.
00:08:38.000Hunter Biden, purchasing a gun, using a form where he said he was not a drug addict, while being addicted to crack cocaine.
00:08:43.000And then his girlfriend, who used to be the wife of his brother, Beau's wife, his girlfriend at the time literally took that gun, dumped it in a trash can across from a high school, and the gun went missing.
00:09:20.000Hunter Biden, that dude can skip down his taxes to the tune of like $1.2 million, and then he can have all of his friends pay the back taxes.
00:09:49.000The boo-boo has been made to go away because Daddy kissed the boo-boo right on the DOJ.
00:09:53.000What exactly could have happened to Hunter here, by the way?
00:09:56.000A myriad of crimes that were not charged in the first place.
00:09:58.000And I'm not even talking about the foreign corruption.
00:10:01.000So according The president's 53-year-old son pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay federal income taxes on at least $3 million he earned from overseas business dealings, but court filings revealing the deal made no mention of more serious charges that Hunter's laptop indicates he exposed himself to.
00:10:18.000Number one, Hunter was almost certainly a violator of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
00:10:24.000So for a long time, they didn't charge Farah violations.
00:10:26.000Farah was basically, he got paid by a foreign regime in order to press their case in the United States.
00:10:32.000And for a long time, nobody cared about it.
00:10:33.000And then really, when Donald Trump came to the fore, you started to see people getting prosecuted under this sort of thing, most prominently Paul Manafort, who was Donald Trump's campaign manager in 2016.
00:10:43.000Hunter was basically acting, I mean, he was literally on the board of a Ukrainian company that was lobbying inside the United States for special privileges from the vice president of the United States.
00:10:53.000George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley said that the evidence of Hunter violating a FARA was unassailable and undeniable.
00:11:00.000Because again, he should have registered as a foreign agent.
00:11:02.000The then second son visited his dad at least 30 times at the Obama White House and at Joe Biden's Delaware home, often within days of meetings with foreign nationals, according to schedules found on his abandoned laptop.
00:11:11.000Also, there are people from these companies who are like, can he broker a meeting with his daddy for us?
00:11:16.000They literally talk in emails that were found on Hunter's laptop all about why he was appointed in the first place.
00:11:22.000And one of the reasons that he was appointed is, again, because of his access to people in positions of high power.
00:11:28.000Emails from his laptop show that Hunter may have passed along funding requests to then Vice President Biden from the Crown Prince of Yugoslavia and the Crown Prince of Serbia as well.
00:11:38.000No charges on money laundering thus far.
00:11:40.000The committee has combed through bank records and found evidence that at least nine Biden family members received payouts from million-dollar deals that Hunter inked in China and Romania.
00:11:49.000How about solicitation of prostitution and sex trafficking?
00:12:03.000I mean, like, Hunter Biden's laptop was just filled of perverse images of him doing bad things to people who were clearly involved in the sex industry and nothing.
00:13:56.000Because he said that he thinks that this is basically the end of the case.
00:13:59.000And this is really where the dirt lies.
00:14:02.000If this settlement here If this plea deal was meant to make all Hunter Biden issues go away before 2024, it's the dirtiest thing.
00:14:09.000If all of the questions about Hunter Biden's foreign fundraising and where that money was going, if all of that was meant to just disappear because we were all supposed to look at a plea bargain in which nothing happens to Hunter.
00:14:21.000He really pays no fine of any serious measure.
00:14:26.000He gets to go to some sort of outpatient program for drug addicts.
00:14:30.000If all of that is meant to paper over all of the other potential corruption and the investigations really are over here, It's one of the, I mean, it's an amazing whitewash.
00:14:38.000Here's Chris Clark basically claiming that.
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00:17:23.000I'm not aware of any other politician who gets this sort of treatment.
00:17:27.000Seriously, I don't know any other politician who gets this sort of treatment.
00:17:29.000I'm old enough to remember when George W. Bush was president, and there were pictures of, like, his daughters drinking in college, and people were like, oh my god!
00:17:47.000Oh my god, it's just, I mean, and sure, he, sure, he has a really nice house.
00:17:52.000And he can afford a lot of things on a senator's salary.
00:17:55.000And Hunter has many, many times implied, if not overtly stated, that he was funneling money to dad.
00:18:01.000But, you know, really the story here is about the feelings of the old man.
00:18:04.000Quote, after more than a half century in politics, no subject may be more personally painful nor politically problematic for President Biden than his troubled son.
00:18:22.000On the one hand, Hunter Biden's agreement on Tuesday to plead guilty capped a five-year investigation without prison time.
00:18:27.000But on the other hand, it put Hunter once again in the crosshairs of Biden's adversaries, who instantly complained the wayward son got off too easy.
00:18:32.000Oh, the pouncing, the pouncing that happens when the president's son, who may or may not be funneling him cash, is pleading guilty to a sweetheart deal.
00:18:58.000Said the outcome of the prosecution refuted the many allegations hurled at the president and his son since the Trump administration.
00:19:03.000Hunter will not be charged with any of the unfounded and outlandish issues Republicans right wing media have used to smear him for years, said Brock.
00:19:12.000The fact that we're supposed to now be super sympathetic to Joe Biden on the day when this raises serious questions about his DOJ is pretty amazing.
00:19:41.000Yes, that shows that it would seem to show there was no interference.
00:19:45.000He didn't pull the plug on the investigation.
00:19:47.000He didn't order his attorney general to pull the plug on the investigation.
00:19:50.000But what Republicans will say is that this didn't look at the bigger, more serious allegations about whether or not I mean, the Republicans have made lots of Major allegations against Biden, against President Biden.
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00:21:51.000And then the background is this cynical bet that nobody views this as a normal family.
00:21:58.000Nobody knows that the Bidens have dealt with loss and pain.
00:22:01.000What do you make of the fact that, to David Jolly's point, that they should take this loss and move on, find another political weapon to wield?
00:22:11.000I don't know what America they live in.
00:22:14.000And I don't know how they sleep at night.
00:22:17.000You know, alcoholism and addiction are probably the most pervasive diseases in America.
00:22:28.000He's a big ol' victim, says Claire McCaskill.
00:22:31.000Now, every so often, the mask sort of slips with the media, and they're like, yeah, it kind of was a sweetheart deal.
00:22:35.000MSNBC's Ken Delaney, and he's like, yeah, you could theoretically see this as a significant victory for Hunter.
00:22:40.000Well, yes, it turns out that when you commit a bevy of crimes in the most obvious, egregious fashion, and there are pictures of you doing those crimes, and no one charges you with them, and then the crimes you are charged with, you get hit with, like, not just a slap on the wrist, but basically A box of Mike and Ikes are handed to you as you head your way to drug rehab.
00:23:01.000But under this arrangement, Mr. Biden would not get prison time.
00:23:04.000He'd be sentenced to probation, assuming the judge goes along.
00:23:08.000And then there's this other gun charge where he filled out a form declining to say, or failing to say, that he was addicted to drugs at the time.
00:24:34.000And number two, of course there's a two-tiered system and it benefits people like Hunter, but the people who are really hurt are the poor people, which means it's okay that it benefits Hunter.
00:24:41.000So argument number one was made by CNN's Dana Bash yesterday.
00:24:44.000Here she was saying, it's not a two-tiered system of justice.
00:25:06.000What is the same is that the Republican response, the Republican, those who feel the need to or the desire to defend Donald Trump are making the same arguments that they are making against Hunter Biden, which is allegations that the DOJ is, that there are two tiers of justice and that one is for Democrats, the other is Republicans.
00:25:33.000There is no evidence to prove that at all.
00:25:38.000There's no evidence to prove that at all.
00:25:39.000This is from the same news network that suggests that American law enforcement is systemically racist across the board, which is why we have to have 20 million people in the streets protesting, and we have to whitewash $2 billion in property damage.
00:25:50.000That's how terrible our criminal justice system is.
00:25:52.000But when it comes to Hunter Biden, it is clean as the driven snow.
00:25:55.000Meanwhile, Jake Tapper over on CNN, he says, well, you know, there is a two-tier system of justice, but you should see what happens to poor people.
00:26:03.000How does that then excuse what they're doing to Hunter?
00:26:05.000I'm just confused by the argument here.
00:26:07.000In the immediate, you saw the reaction from across Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.
00:26:12.000All these Republicans are on the same page on this, on using this as a rallying cry.
00:26:17.000In the long term, Jake, I don't think we know the answer.
00:26:20.000I'll be surprised if a year and a half from now, in November of 2024, we're talking about these Hunter Biden plea deals as the thing that the 2024 presidential election hinges on.
00:26:32.000If they're concerned about a two-tier system of justice, they should learn a little bit more about the kind of justice system that poor people in this country get, because that is really a two-tier system of justice.
00:26:44.000Okay, I'm just confused as to why that would then excuse the two-tier system of justice between Democrats and Republicans when you're talking about high-level political operatives and whether they should receive jail sentences.
00:26:52.000Meanwhile, President Trump, who is currently under indictment, that case is now going to be moved, apparently, out of Miami, and a trial date has been set by Judge Eileen Cannon.
00:27:02.000She's moving the case to her Fort Pierce courthouse, so it won't be, like, in the middle of downtown Miami.
00:27:08.000And she also noted that the location could continue to change, apparently.
00:27:11.000She has set a trial date as early as August 14th, but that's likely to be pushed back.
00:27:15.000It's very unlikely the trial actually begins in August.
00:27:18.000There are going to be a bunch of appeals.
00:27:19.000Presumably, it will happen sometime later this year.
00:27:22.000Doubtful that it will last beyond the election, but that is going forward.
00:27:25.000Meanwhile, Trump is responding to the Hunter Biden announcement, quote, With a lot of capital letters.
00:27:31.000A lot of capital letters happening here.
00:27:32.000The Hunter Joe Biden settlement is a massive, and then the rest of this is all caps, cover up and full-scale election interference scam, the likes of which has never been seen in our country before.
00:27:40.000A traffic ticket, and Joe is all cleaned up and ready to go into the 2024 presidential election.
00:27:45.000And this has crooked DOJ, state and city prosecutors, Marxists and communists all hit me from all sides and angels with bull.
00:28:27.000Shouting into the ether on Truth Social, which has like 7 followers and literally the only person that anyone knows is on Truth Social is Trump?
00:28:34.000I'm not sure how that solves any of the problem.
00:28:38.000Again, he's going to face a criminal trial, and at a certain point, you would want him to have a strategy.
00:28:43.000Meanwhile, he's basically, instead of going in real fashion after Democrats, he's spending most of his time going after Ron DeSantis, who he sees as his top competitor.
00:28:53.000He did a second part of an interview with Brett Baier the other night.
00:30:05.000There are many people who are very loyal to Donald Trump.
00:30:08.000I would love to hear a list of the people that Donald Trump is loyal to.
00:30:11.000Like, loyalty means something conflicts with your interest and you stay loyal to the person anyway.
00:30:16.000Somebody does something damaging and you stay loyal to them anyway.
00:30:19.000Like, name the people to whom Donald Trump is loyal.
00:30:21.000Loyalty is like a complete one-way street with President Trump.
00:30:25.000Now again, you can vote for him, you can like him, but that is just a lie.
00:30:28.000Okay, when Donald Trump says that loyalty is very big, what he means is when people are disloyal to him, when they do a thing he doesn't like, he doesn't like it.
00:31:27.000Governor Ron DeSantis shut down Florida businesses during COVID, drove away tourism, and used a mandate to keep Floridians from leaving their homes.
00:31:35.000Governor Ron DeSantis issues a wide-reaching mandate.
00:32:54.000In any case, that actually was not the worst clip of the interview with Bret Baier.
00:32:58.000It was a bad interview for Trump with Bret Baier, just simply.
00:33:00.000But Donald Trump was asked about pardoning Alice Johnson.
00:33:03.000Now, it was a bizarre move by Donald Trump to sign the so-called First Step Act, which was a criminal justice reform program that went soft on drug dealers.
00:33:15.000He did it largely at the behest of Kim Kardashian, which, by the way, don't let Kim Kardashian make either sex tapes or policy.
00:33:30.000Don't make your policy based on Kim Kardashian.
00:33:34.000So one of the things that Trump did was in an attempt to win over black voters, a misbegotten attempt to win over black voters, because this is just bad policy, he decided he was going to pardon an industrial scale drug dealer named Alice Johnson.
00:33:45.000Alice Johnson ran and was convicted of running a multi-million dollar cocaine dealing organization.
00:33:52.000And underlings for Alice Johnson were like involved in actual violent crime, like murders and things.
00:33:58.000Alice Johnson was sentenced to decades in prison.
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00:37:26.000Okay, meanwhile, you may have noticed that all of the things that you thought were true about the lab leak and COVID are probably true.
00:37:33.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a prominent scientist who worked on COVID projects funded by the U.S.
00:37:37.000government is one of three Chinese researchers who became sick with an unspecified illness during the initial outbreak of COVID-19.
00:37:43.000This would have been well before the wet market stuff.
00:37:45.000The identity and role of the researchers is one piece of intelligence that has been cited by proponents of the judgment that the pandemic originated with the lab leak.
00:37:52.000Ben Hu, scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who had done extensive lab research on how coronaviruses infect humans, was identified in U.S.
00:37:58.000intelligence reports as one of the researchers who became ill in November 2019 with symptoms that American officials said were consistent with either COVID-19 or a seasonal illness.
00:38:08.000So there were three workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who got sick well before the wet market stuff.
00:38:13.000The FBI has assessed with moderate confidence that a lab leak was the most likely origin of the virus.
00:38:19.000So are we going to hold China responsible for any of that?
00:38:38.000According to the Wall Street Journal, China and Cuba are negotiating to establish a new joint military training facility on the island, sparking alarm in Washington.
00:38:44.000It could lead to the stationing of Chinese troops and other security and intelligence operations just 100 miles off Florida's coast, according to current and former United States officials.
00:38:52.000Discussions for the facility on Cuba's northern coast are at an advanced stage.
00:38:55.000They're not concluded, according to U.S.
00:38:57.000The White House, of course, is declining to comment because they are too busy plastering their lips to the interior sphincters of the Chinese Communist Party leadership.
00:39:07.000So, clearly, this country, again, is in the best of hands.
00:39:10.000Joe Biden's administration, it is a target-rich environment, but we could just continue to talk about, you know, legal cases and all of the rest.
00:39:18.000So we're gonna do some things I like, but we're gonna start, actually, today with some things that I hate.
00:39:25.000The story that is just riveting the entire world right now is this insane story about a missing Titanic tourist sub.
00:39:35.000It is absolutely shocking, and again, the drama is playing out in real time.
00:39:41.000As of this morning, there were less than 24 hours of oxygen on board the missing Ocean Gate Titan submarine, according to an estimate from the U.S.
00:39:49.000So, essentially, there was a very small vessel.
00:39:52.000It launched a journey on Sunday with 96 hours of oxygen on board to go down to the bottom of the ocean where the Titanic sank and go look at the ruins of the Titanic.
00:40:09.000The passengers have been identified as the OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, a French mariner named Paul-Henri Nargiolet, British businessman and explorer Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his son Suleyman Dawood.
00:40:21.000Apparently it's a five-person submersible.
00:40:23.000It weighs 20,000 pounds and it is capable of diving 13,120 feet.
00:40:29.000Apparently Canadian aircraft have been deployed to try and find this thing.
00:40:32.000They're searching an area the size of Connecticut.
00:40:34.000They picked up underwater noises in the search area, and they have now deployed resources to try to rescue this submarine.
00:40:43.000Three C-17 aircraft, according to the Daily Wire, from the U.S.
00:40:45.000Air Force reportedly landed at a cargo terminal in St.
00:40:48.000John's, Newfoundland, carrying unmanned vehicles capable of going 19,000 feet underwater, as well as two heavy-duty Hyundai Winches, emblazoned 6,000-kilogram line pull, a huge roll of cable, two large machines that had high voltage on their sides.
00:40:59.000The equipment was then taken to a port where a ship dubbed the Horizon Arctic was scheduled to leave at midnight, although the journey to the area where Titan is submerged would take fully 15 hours.
00:41:08.000The Titan may be as deep as 12,000 feet below the surface and weighs apparently 10,432 kilograms, so both winches would be necessary to pull it out.
00:41:16.000Apparently, late on Tuesday night, banging sounds were reported coming in 30-minute intervals near where the Titan went missing with its passengers.
00:41:24.000The fact that people got on this rickety craft in the first place is rather astonishing.
00:41:31.000There's a video a few years ago of the Ocean Gate CEO trying to explain this submersible.
00:41:36.000Suffice it to say that it basically looks like somebody took a water heater and a Nintendo joystick and some Christmas lights and riveted all that crap together and was like, what if we just dump you 13,000 feet under the water?
00:43:09.000People paid, apparently, $250,000 a pop to go out in this thing.
00:43:13.000Um, that is, um, some bad judgment, because a lot of the former guests in the submersible, they're like, yeah, it turns out that when you hook up a bunch of garden hoses, To a water heater and then grab a Nintendo 64 joystick and use it to control this jerry-rigged thing and the great feature of it is that it has a poop hole where we have a screen and some music.
00:43:37.000It turns out that that sucks and you don't really want to be in it and you might die.
00:43:41.000Here are some of the guests talking about it.
00:43:44.000When we went down, there were communication problems on every trip I've taken of the four separate dives I've taken with Ocean Gate.
00:43:55.000Every time, there was a problem with at least, you know, sporadically communicating with the surface.
00:44:02.000Before we went, we had never seen the sub.
00:44:32.000He like went to Home Depot and he made a thing.
00:44:38.000Now, the question is why people were like, OK, well, I'm going to do it now.
00:44:41.000One of the reasons is because there's a weird thing that happens in markets where when you price things high enough, people think that they must be good.
00:44:48.000It's why brands, like brand names, big brand names, Gucci, they'll price things really, really high.
00:44:53.000Versace, they'll price things really high just so that you think that it's like worth a lot of money.
00:44:59.000Because we just have a built-in bias that because competition has made free markets so efficient, if something is worth a lot of money, it must be worth a lot of money.
00:45:06.000And so he was charging like a quarter million dollars per person to go down there.
00:45:10.000So people probably go, ah, the guy is charging a quarter million dollars.
00:45:17.000It also turns out that the strictures of DEI have apparently bled down to even the dumbest levels.
00:45:22.000So, DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, apparently it even has applied down to, like, the level of, what if we build a toothpaste tube and combine it with a bunch of hoses from your shower?
00:45:39.000And they're like, yeah, well, white people won't do it, so that'll make it awesome.
00:45:43.000Yes, I mean, when I started the business, one of the things you'll find, there are other sub-operators out there, but they typically have gentlemen who are ex-military submariners, and you'll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys.
00:45:57.000I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational, and I'm not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old who's a sub-pilot or or a platform operator, one of our techs,
00:46:37.000Okay, so all of this is, it's hard to comment about it because we actually, at the time that we are talking about this, don't know the outcome of all this.
00:46:44.000So it could be just horrifically tragic.
00:46:46.000It's hard to think of a worse way to die than 13,000 feet below sea level.
00:46:51.000Underwater and suffocating to death in a submersible.
00:46:54.000That sounds like a horrible way to go.
00:46:56.000Or it could be one of the great rescue stories ever.
00:46:59.000That somehow this thing was located and dragged back to the surface.
00:47:17.000One thing that is worth noting here is the amount of effort, time, and money that's going to be put into saving this submersible is not even remotely, it's not even remotely the kind of effort that anyone is putting into, I don't know, saving people who are trying to float themselves off the coast of a communist hellhole like Cuba to the coast of Florida.
00:47:32.000If we're going to devote this kind of resources to saving a bunch of billionaires who are below the waves because they put themselves there in harm's way in order to view a ship that we know sank a hundred years ago and which there is already excellent footage of because James Cameron has taken that footage actually.
00:47:49.000If we're going to do that, I feel like we should spend at least an equivalent amount of money to save people who are attempting to escape some of the worst situations on planet Earth and make their way to freedom.
00:48:00.000I know there's some people out there who are, you know, admiring of the people who have decided to make this journey down to see the Titanic.
00:48:06.000To me, this is not quite on the order of advancing science.
00:48:10.000And there are certain acts of exploration that advance science.
00:48:12.000going up into space, paving the way for making space more more visitable or habitable,
00:48:19.000or making scientific gains, that is one thing. Taking a submersible down to see a ship that
00:48:25.000sank a hundred years ago and doing so then in a way that in no way advances science. Again,
00:48:31.000I'm not, people can use their money how they want and if this is how people want to use their money
00:48:35.000they're more than welcome to do it. I just, the kind of, I've seen some people, including my
00:48:40.000my friend Matt Walsh would be like, this is the spirit of exploration.
00:48:43.000Seeing cool things at close proximity, I like it also, but this is no more the spirit of exploration than somebody who pays for a very expensive safari in Africa, right?
00:49:09.000And also, folks, check out the machinery that you are using before you get into it, would be my recommendation.
00:49:17.000Okay, meanwhile, one other thing that I hate.
00:49:19.000So, there is this horrific, another horrific terrorist attack in Israel.
00:49:24.000The Palestinian Authority, Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, many of these entities funded by Iran, they have been ratcheting up the amount of violence in Israel, in the Gaza Strip, in Judea and Samaria.
00:49:34.000Particularly in Judea and Samaria, violence has gotten really, really extreme because, essentially, terrorist populations have now been activated by Iran In an attempt to bring down the current government of the state of Israel and exert pressure in order to continue to create fissures inside the state of Israel.
00:49:49.000Four Israelis were murdered, another four were wounded in a shooting attack by two terrorists at a gas station outside of the Judean settlement of Eli on Tuesday afternoon.
00:50:00.000It's actually very, very close to Shiloh, which is the site of the tabernacle for 400 years in the Bible.
00:50:06.000One of the victims was 18, another was 21, another was 63, and a fourth was 17.
00:50:11.000The two terrorists just walked into a restaurant and started shooting people.
00:50:14.000And naturally, the media did what they do, which is they covered this as a cycle of violence issue.
00:50:19.000Because Israel has been conducting anti-terror operations, you know, killing actual terrorists who are involved with killing civilians, in Jenin, which is a terrorist hotbed, unfortunately.
00:50:28.000It's a major Palestinian city, Palestinian Arab city, and there are a lot of terrorists who live there and plan there, and it's their base of operations.
00:50:36.000Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides drew an equivalence between the two, like a person walking into a restaurant murdering people, a terrorist, and the Israeli military killing terrorists.
00:50:56.000That is the equivalent of after 9-11 and the United States strikes back at the Taliban, suggesting that after a bunch of Taliban people are killed, that it's a cycle of violence because after all, Americans were killed and Taliban people were killed, cycle of violence kind of stuff.
00:51:10.000That brings me to the thing that I like.
00:51:12.000The thing that I like today is a book that is largely on topics like this called People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn.
00:51:18.000Dara Horn is a really, she's an excellent writer.
00:51:21.000The basic premise of the book is that when it comes to discussions of anti-Semitism, people love talking about the Holocaust because it is a one-off.
00:51:30.000Because if something isn't the Holocaust, well then it isn't the Holocaust.
00:51:33.000When Jews get murdered by people who hate Jews in Judea for the great crime of living in Judea or Shomron or in Samaria, In the historic Jewish, most Jewish part of the Jewish homeland.
00:51:44.000That if they, if those Jews are just getting murdered by people who are effectively modern-day Nazis, that's not a big deal because it's not the Holocaust.
00:51:51.000So in other words, we get to talk about Jewish victimization of the past, but the minute you talk about Jewish victimization in the present, everybody starts to get a little bit upset and annoyed.
00:51:59.000Because after all, Jews do really well economically speaking, Jews in the United States, people like me, are very successful, thank God, and thanks to the graces of the United States, and all that is 100% true.
00:52:07.000It also happens to be true That antisemitism never went away.
00:52:19.000And the attempt to draw moral equivalence is yet another modern-day way of avoiding the realities of antisemitism, which are an everyday occurrence across the world.
00:52:29.000Instead, we sort of pretend that they don't exist, and then we focus in on, quote-unquote, universalizing the message of the Holocaust.
00:52:34.000So, the point that Dara Horne makes, for example, that everybody loves the diary of Anne Frank, because it talks about how she believes people are fundamentally good, and it makes people feel very good about themselves.
00:52:42.000But the whole story of Anne Frank's diary is that people are fundamentally not good.
00:52:45.000That actually, she learned, just like most people learn at some point, that people are not fundamentally good, that most people are cowards, that most people are capable of participating in acts of evil, and that makes people uncomfortable.
00:52:57.000So, when people discuss antisemitism, they like talking about antisemitism of the past because it means that they don't have to talk about the things that are happening in the here and in the now.
00:53:05.000And none of that is to, again, disparage the fact that Jews have it better on planet Earth right now than they have at any time since probably the Davidic Kingdom.
00:53:12.000It is to point out that antisemitism is a real and ongoing problem.
00:53:16.000And not only is it a real and ongoing problem, people are being murdered for the crime of living as Jews in the historic Jewish homeland right now.
00:53:22.000And everybody doesn't want to look directly at that because if they do, they might actually have to face up to the fact that antisemitism is a real and continuing problem that should not be backed with moral equivalent nonsense from the American administration.
00:53:33.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show continues right now.