It turns out, the Titanic submersible, known as Titan, that it essentially imploded as soon as the water pressure got to be too much and everybody died instantly. So, as suspected, it was not at the bottom of the ocean, filled with air. It wasn t a horror movie in which everybody was knocking on the walls, hoping desperately that somebody would save them. It was not people in a small chamber waiting and running out of time. Instead, it turns out that, days ago, essentially, the Titanic Submersible the Titan, that it was essentially imploded. As soon as it hit beyond the water pressures that the Titan was capable of withholding, it basically got crushed like a can. Here's what James Cameron had to say about it: "I knew what happened. The sub is imploded, it's on the bottom in pieces right now. I sent that out Monday morning. So the question is, again, now you wonder why there's institutional distrust again? Why is it that the Navy knew that Monday morning? And then we went through this five-day rigmarole of deploying enormous resources to the area, and then we're led on this sort of wild goose chase on a recovery mission, which is fine, but why are we not deploying massive resources to this area?" Jason Blum Blum: Why did the public not know of the implosion? when they should have been notified of this possibility? by the public? Why is there so much institutional distrust? What are we're not getting more transparency from the public about this? and why is it so difficult to find out the information that we don't get it? And why is there a lack of transparency from our institutions? when it matters so much more than a week later than we should be getting the information we need to be notified of something that could have been so obvious? in the public ? by James Cameron, the director of a film about a sinking Titanic, a man who spent a lot of time in the Titanic and a guy who knows a lot about this stuff? is a good question. by most people on this episode of Conspiracy Theories by David Letterman by Robert Downey Jr. by the New York Times Magazine by Alex Blum by The Associated Press by John Rocha by the Los Angeles Times by ABC News
00:00:00.000So, as suspected, the Titanic submersible, it was not at the bottom of the ocean filled with air.
00:00:05.000It wasn't sort of a horror movie in which everybody was knocking on the walls, hoping desperately that somebody would save them.
00:00:11.000It wasn't people in a small chamber waiting and running out of time.
00:00:16.000Instead, it turns out that days ago, essentially, the Titanic submersible, known as Titan, that it essentially imploded as soon as the water pressure got to be too much and everybody died instantly.
00:00:27.000This at least is according to the Coast Guard.
00:00:28.000Yesterday afternoon, they revealed that they had found a bunch of debris on the floor near the Titanic site.
00:00:34.000And apparently, again, there was essentially no long period of survival.
00:00:40.000As soon as it hit beyond the water pressure that the Titan was capable of withholding, it just imploded.
00:00:48.000Here's the Coast Guard Admiral John Malga confirming a catastrophic loss of pressure chamber.
00:00:54.000This morning, an ROV or Remote Operated Vehicle from the vessel Horizon Arctic discovered the tail cone of the Titan Submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the seafloor.
00:01:15.000The ROV subsequently found additional debris In consultation with experts from within the Unified Command, the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.
00:01:35.000Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families.
00:01:42.000Well, as it turns out, the Navy knew full well that this chamber had imploded almost immediately.
00:01:47.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a top-secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard what the U.S.
00:01:53.000Navy suspected was the Titan implosion hours after the submersible began its voyage on Sunday.
00:01:58.000So we were all waiting around until Thursday, including the families.
00:02:03.000They were waiting around for days thinking that it was possible that their family members were still alive on the ocean floor waiting for rescue.
00:02:11.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications, according to a U.S.
00:02:17.000Shortly after the submersible's disappearance on Sunday, the U.S.
00:02:19.000system detected what it suspected was the sound of an implosion near the debris site discovered on Thursday and reported its findings to the Coast Guard commander on site.
00:02:26.000The Navy couldn't definitively say the sound came from the Titan, but the discovery played a role in narrowing the scope of the search for the vessel before its debris was discovered on Thursday, according to officials.
00:02:35.000Navy official told the Wall Street Journal, the U.S.
00:02:37.000Navy conducted an analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost.
00:02:46.000While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the incident commander to assist with the ongoing search and rescue mission.
00:02:52.000Now, this is exactly what James Cameron had suggested.
00:02:56.000Of course, the director of Titanic, who spent an awful lot of time in this area and knows a fair bit, actually, about sending submersibles down to the ocean floor.
00:03:04.000Here's James Cameron explaining that he knew pretty much right away that the Titan had essentially imploded.
00:03:10.000It's just tragic, and it's horrific, and it's unnecessary.
00:03:15.000You know, there are acoustic networks around.
00:03:18.000Some are research, some are intelligence.
00:03:23.000We got confirmation within an hour that there had been a loud bang at the same time that the sub was... that comms were lost.
00:04:01.000Why is it that James Cameron knew that Monday morning?
00:04:03.000Why is it that the Navy knew this almost immediately?
00:04:07.000And then we went through this five-day rigmarole of not only deploying enormous resources to the area, which is fine.
00:04:12.000I mean, even if it's a recovery mission, deploying resources is fine.
00:04:15.000But why is it that we are led on this sort of media speculative wild goose chase where maybe they're still alive at the bottom of the ocean in some sort of Jason Blum film?
00:04:26.000Why wasn't the public notified of the significant possibility, indeed high probability, that everybody aboard was dead and killed almost instantly?
00:04:41.000When there's lack of transparency from our institutions, when they know something you don't, and they clearly knew, like, days in advance this was happening, this leads people into speculating about, well, maybe they were holding this story and they wanted the story to build up because they were covering something else up.
00:04:54.000There was a lot of speculation online last night, at least on the right side of the aisle, that the reason the Biden administration didn't reveal any of this information was because That was not because they wanted to confirm or because it would have been important if they actually notified anybody that this stuff was happening.
00:05:08.000The reason that they did that was to essentially misdirect away from all the attention that should be put on the Hunter Biden scandal, which we'll get to in just a second because there actually is some pretty astonishing breaking news in the Hunter Biden scandal.
00:05:19.000Whistleblower interviews have now been released and what's present in those whistleblower interviews is Absolutely amazing.
00:05:24.000I mean, it's shocking, amazing, like, smoking gun type stuff that not only requires full investigation, but may require impeachment of the President of the United States if it turns out that it is true.
00:05:33.000And so a lot of people are like, well, maybe the reason that they were holding the fact on the submersible imploding for five days is so that everybody would be distracted all week with this story.
00:05:42.000Now, again, I always use Hanlon's Razor, a tribute to human stupidity.
00:05:47.000Virtually everything, because people are stupid and incompetent as general rule.
00:05:51.000Malice is generally not the rationale for this sort of stuff, but I certainly understand why people are suspicious.
00:05:56.000And again, when you wonder why people are now suspicious of our institutions, it's because of stuff like this.
00:06:00.000They don't see the necessity for hiding this sort of material from the public.
00:06:05.000And again, you want to destroy institutional trust, this is precisely how you do it.
00:06:09.000So it's a tragedy, it's a terrible story.
00:06:12.000I guess the only saving grace here is that at least the people who were killed were killed instantly and weren't suffering for days on end waiting to suffocate to death.
00:06:20.000But that is cold comfort, obviously, to the families.
00:06:23.000In just one second, we'll get to the breaking news in the whistleblower case regarding Hunter Biden.
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00:07:31.000Okay, so we were told that the Hunter Biden whistleblower story was a big nothing.
00:07:35.000It was a big nothing burger that James Comer, the congressperson who was leading the investigation, the House Oversight Committee investigation on Hunter Biden, he had exaggerated the case that when he was talking about the whistleblowers who had come forward to allege mishandling of the Hunter Biden investigation by the DOJ and the FBI, or when he suggested that there was some really serious material in the whistleblower investigation, that this clearly was him exaggerating in a politicized attempt to get Joe Biden.
00:08:04.000After all, what did Hunter have to do with Joe?
00:08:05.000I mean, this has been Joe's schtick from the beginning.
00:08:08.000Hunter was bagman for the Biden family.
00:08:10.000He was going around, he was picking up giant bags of cash, he was traveling on Air Force Two while Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States and making deals with China.
00:08:17.000He was going over to Ukraine and he was becoming a member of the board of a Ukrainian energy company, knowing nothing about Ukraine and nothing about energy, but having the last name Biden.
00:09:28.000Okay, so he's angry, very, very angry.
00:09:29.000How dare you insinuate that Joe Biden had anything to do with his son Hunter's business?
00:09:33.000Well, probably he had something to do with his son Hunter's business, at least according to these whistleblower allegations.
00:09:41.000So the whistleblower allegations cover a variety of shocking revelations.
00:09:45.000One is the DOJ and the FBI basically cramming down a plea deal on the IRS that allowed Hunter Biden to get away with a slap on the wrist for tax evasion.
00:09:56.000And then there is the significantly, I think, more damaging situation, which is that Hunter Biden literally sent a WhatsApp to somebody suggesting that Joe Biden was in the room when he was shaking down a Chinese foreign company for cash.
00:10:11.000That's in the whistleblower allegations.
00:10:13.000The Wall Street Journal reports today.
00:10:16.000House Republicans on Thursday released transcripts of interviews in which IRS employees alleged that the Justice Department hindered the criminal investigation into the president's son, Hunter Biden, just days after a plea agreement was announced in his case.
00:10:26.000The transcripts detailed alleged tensions among IRS agents and the federal prosecutors in the five-year investigation into the younger Biden, with claims that DOJ officials stymied and slow-walked attempts to charge him with multiple felonies.
00:10:36.000In the interviews, two IRS employees shared their perspective on behind-the-scenes government discussions about how to handle the case and alleged that they suffered retaliation for raising concerns internally.
00:10:44.000The records released by the House Ways and Means Committee don't include statements from top IRS officials or prosecutors.
00:10:49.000The interviews were conducted behind closed doors by committee staff members of both parties.
00:10:53.000In a statement, the IRS said it could not comment on matters regarding individual taxpayers, and the agency said it had referred employees' allegations for whistleblowing to its inspector general.
00:11:02.000The interview transcripts also featured allegations that the DOJ interfered with U.S.
00:11:06.000Attorney in Delaware David Weiss, who was appointed by former President Trump.
00:11:09.000He's the one who cut the deal with Hunter Biden.
00:11:11.000A spokeswoman for Weiss declined to comment on the transcripts on Thursday.
00:11:17.000And then on June 7th, he put in a letter, quote, A Justice Department spokesperson emphasized statements from both Weiss and Attorney General Merrick Garland about the U.S.
00:11:30.000Attorney's sweeping authority to direct the investigation and bring charges against hunters.
00:11:33.000The idea is that David Weiss did this on his own, that there was no pressure from his higher-ups.
00:11:37.000But that is not what these whistleblowers are saying.
00:11:39.000The IRS criminal supervisory agent, Gary Shapley, told committee staff members the investigation into Hunter Biden was unlike any he had experienced in his 14-year career at the tax agency.
00:11:47.000His testimony on May 26 centered on Weiss.
00:11:50.000According to the more than 200-page interview transcript, Shapley alleged Weiss was denied special counsel status in the course of the investigation, that DOJ officials blocked his efforts to bring charges against Hunter Biden in both Washington, D.C.
00:12:02.000Shapley said, some of the decisions seemed to be influenced by politics.
00:12:05.000But whatever the motivations, at every stage, decisions were made that had the effect of benefiting the subject of the investigation.
00:12:10.000The House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines Thursday to release the transcripts of interviews with Shapley and another IRS employee who worked for Shapley, who gave anonymous closed-door testimony.
00:12:20.000And Jason Smith, who is the committee chairman, he explained exactly what was going on here yesterday.
00:12:27.000One, but two IRS employees are blowing the whistle with evidence that the federal government is not treating taxpayers equally when enforcing tax laws.
00:12:39.000The whistleblowers were working on an investigation into Hunter Biden that opened in November of 2018 as an offshoot of a separate corporate investigation by the IRS.
00:12:52.000Let me emphasize, this was an investigation in the ordinary course of work at the IRS.
00:12:59.000It was not ordered by any individual, any chairman, or any political entity.
00:13:06.000The testimony we released today shows the IRS recommended charges against Hunter Biden that included attempt to evade or defeat tax, a felony, fraud or false statements, a felony, And willful failure to file returns, supply information, or pay tax.
00:13:31.000So what exactly are the stunning revelations here?
00:13:33.000So again, the idea here is that the DOJ was impacted by Attorney General Merrick Garland, and David Weiss was told, according to the whistleblowers, to basically stand down.
00:13:41.000And there are multiple allegations to that effect.
00:13:43.000The most significant allegation, however, is not really about that.
00:13:46.000The most significant allegation is that there is a WhatsApp message that's actually included in the records here, in which Hunter Biden is openly telling people at a Chinese company that they need to pay him money.
00:13:59.000And in which, in this message, Hunter Biden literally says, my dad is sitting next to me and he wants you to pay the money.
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00:15:11.000Okay, so here's some of the revelations that Jason Smith, who again is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, exposed yesterday.
00:15:18.000He says, the whistleblowers exposed how the DOJ established a pattern of delaying, divulging, and denying the Hunter Biden investigation.
00:15:24.000At nearly every turn, officials chose protecting the powerful over exposing the truth to the American people.
00:15:29.000Attorney General Garland promised the American people in public testimony that the prosecutor handling Hunter Biden's case, David Weiss, could bring charges against Hunter Biden outside of Delaware.
00:15:37.000But whistleblower testimony shows Garland's testimony was inaccurate.
00:15:40.000For almost a year, IRS investigators and Weiss tried to advance the investigation, including bringing charges against Hunter Biden every time he was denied by a Biden DOJ employee.
00:15:49.000So in March 2022, apparently there was an attempt to bring charges against Hunter Biden in D.C., denied.
00:15:55.000In spring 2022, The counsel in this case, David Weiss, he sought special counsel status from the DOJ, which would give him independence to charge wherever.
00:16:10.000According to Jason Smith, whistleblowers described the investigation intentionally dragging on after Joe Biden became the Democrat nominee for president.
00:16:16.000According to one of the whistleblowers, quote, by June 2020, those same career officials were already delaying overt investigative actions.
00:16:22.000This was well before the typical 60 to 90 day period where the DOJ would historically stand down before an election.
00:16:28.000It was apparent that DOJ was purposely slow-walking investigative actions in the matter.
00:16:31.000So again, there's this kind of generalized rule at the DOJ that 60 to 90 days out from an election, you don't announce big things because it could impact the election.
00:16:38.000But the allegation is that they started doing this because they saw Joe Biden was the nominee like a year in advance.
00:16:43.000Jason Smith says the same month, well before the 2020 election, the two whistleblowers and their investigative team had a call with the IRS chain of command to call out the slow pace of the investigation.
00:16:51.000Quote, on June 16, 2020, a special agent had a call with the chain of command up to the director of field operations.
00:16:58.000I pointed out that if normal procedures had already been followed, we would have executed search warrants, conducted interviews, and served documents requests.
00:17:04.000Nevertheless, my IRS chain of command decided we would defer to the DOJ.
00:17:08.000And here is where things get unbelievably dicey.
00:17:10.000In August 2020, a search warrant uncovered a text between Hunter and Henry Zhao.
00:17:15.000Henry Zhao is an executive at a Chinese company that paid Hunter $100,000.
00:17:24.000I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment has not made, has not been fulfilled.
00:17:30.000Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.
00:17:35.000And Xi, if I get a call, and Xi, if I get, Xi would be Xiao, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will regret not following my direction.
00:17:52.000I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father, What?
00:18:00.000Again, just to make clear, that is a direct text from Hunter Biden to a guy named Henry Zhao, who's an executive at a Chinese company, a Chinese foreign company, that paid Hunter a bunch of money.
00:18:09.000And Hunter is saying, my daddy is sitting next to me.
00:18:11.000And if you do not give me the money, my daddy and his friends will make it very, very uncomfortable for you.
00:18:19.000And by the way, there's confirmation that Hunter was in fact with his dad that day.
00:18:24.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, photographs on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop place him at his father's Wilmington, Delaware residence on the day he invoked Joe Biden's name in a text message, threatening his Chinese business partner to come down on him with their full weight if the business partner did not fulfill his quote-unquote commitment.
00:18:39.000In that message, Hunter said he was sitting next to his father, Apparently, that same day, hours after the message was sent, Hunter Biden was pictured at his dad's home, sitting behind the wheel of the president's beloved 1967 Corvette Stingray with family members.
00:18:53.000Shapley, the whistleblower, did not provide evidence that Biden was in fact in the room with his son, but the timing indicates that they were in the same exact place.
00:19:00.000Four photographs on the hard drive of Hunter Biden's laptop show him posing behind the wheel of Joe Biden's 1967 Corvette Stingray at 6.49pm, July 30th, 2017.
00:19:10.000GPS metadata embedded in the photos shows they were taken in close proximity with Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home.
00:19:16.000So remember that time, like, I don't know, seven, eight minutes ago, when I played a clip of Joe Biden saying he had never discussed business with his son ever?
00:19:39.000As the Free Beacon points out, if Joe Biden was sitting next to his son as he sent the message, it would be a fatal blow to the president's repeated claims he never discussed overseas business deals with his son.
00:19:47.000And the photographs of Hunter Biden at what appears to be a family gathering at the Delaware home is the strongest indication that they were in the same place at the same time.
00:19:56.000I'm not sure which is stupider, this shakedown attempt or the fact that Hunter Biden is such a moron that he wrote it down in a text message.
00:20:02.000And as I've said 1,000 times, I've said it in the context of Donald Trump, I've said it in the context of Hunter and Joe Biden.
00:20:07.000First rule of lawyering, guys, don't put stuff in writing.
00:20:12.000According to Jason Smith, texts like these made it clear to IRS investigators they needed to conduct a search of Joe Biden's guest house where Hunter was living.
00:20:18.000Investigators were then told, there is no way we will get it approved.
00:20:22.000So the IRS investigator was like, um, maybe we should search his house.
00:21:45.000Jason Smith, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, he continues, he says investigators wanted to question Hunter's associates, including about an email referencing 10 held for H for the big guy, right?
00:21:55.000That's the famous email on Hunter Biden's laptop talking about holding 10% of some sort of deal for quote unquote the big guy.
00:22:02.000attorney stated she did not want to ask questions about the big guy or dad despite multiple objections.
00:22:06.000Quote, Weiss was in and out for the rest of the meeting, David Weiss being the prosecutor, but it went downhill from there.
00:22:11.000We shared with prosecutors our outline to interview Hunter Biden's associate, Rob Walker.
00:22:15.000Among other things, we wanted to question Walker about an email that said 10 held by H for the big guy.
00:22:20.000We had obvious questions like who was H, who was the big guy, and why this percentage was to be held separately with the association hidden.
00:22:26.000But AUSA Wolf interjected and said she did not want to ask about the big guy and stated she did not want to ask questions about dad.
00:22:32.000When multiple people in the room spoke up and objected, we had to ask.
00:22:35.000She responded, there's no specific criminality to that line of questioning.
00:22:39.000So there's no specific criminality to Hunter Biden holding a percentage in abeyance for his father?
00:22:46.000You're not going to, nothing will arise from that criminally speaking?
00:22:48.000How about violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which was used against Paul Manafort?
00:22:54.000After the November 2020 election, according to Jason Smith, IRS agents scheduled a day of action to conduct interviews on December 8th, 2020.
00:23:00.000Investigators were told not to ask about Joe Biden.
00:23:03.000In fact, the night before the interviews, the FBI actually went to the Biden transition team and told them, we're going to interview you.
00:23:10.000Which gives them the opportunity to, of course, create, out of whole cloth, a defense.
00:23:16.000After the interviews, Investigators learned of a storage unit controlled by Hunter.
00:23:20.000They debated getting a search warrant for the unit.
00:23:21.000Once again, the DOJ divulged the sensitive details to the Biden camp, this time to Hunter's lawyers.
00:23:26.000Quote, no sooner had we gotten off the call, we heard AUSA Wolf had simply reached out to Hunter Biden's defense counsel and told him about the storage unit.
00:23:31.000Once again, ruining our chance to get to evidence before it was destroyed, manipulated or concealed.
00:23:36.000Once the whistleblowers came forward to expose the pattern of slow walking the Hunter Biden tax investigation, the whistleblowers say they were then retaliated against.
00:23:42.000They say that they and their entire team were removed from their investigation at the behest of the Biden DOJ.
00:23:47.000So these are very serious allegations.
00:23:49.000I mean, we need congressional testimony immediately from AUSA Wolf.
00:23:52.000We need congressional testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland.
00:23:56.000We need congressional testimony from David Weiss.
00:23:57.000We need congressional testimony from everyone involved in all of this.
00:24:00.000And we do need a legal investigation into, in deep fashion, whether Joe Biden has ever received money from his son Hunter's business dealings in corrupt fashion.
00:24:11.000I mean, this is amazing, amazing stuff.
00:24:16.000Not only that, by the way, among other elements of the testimony, apparently Joe Biden was scheduled.
00:24:22.000Basically, Hunter would have Joe walk through meetings with foreign officials just so that he could remind them, you know, my dad is Rob Walker, for example.
00:24:32.000said that the he said that that he'd not believe that that Joe was part of anything we were doing.
00:24:38.000But it was clearly valuable, according to the whistleblower, for the investigators to ask about
00:24:42.000Hunter Biden's dad. Walker went on to describe an instance in which the former VP showed up
00:24:46.000at a CFC meeting. CFC is a Chinese company that was handing bags of cash to to Joe Biden's son.
00:24:53.000Walker said we were at the Four Seasons. We're having lunch.
00:24:55.000And he stopped in just to say hello to everybody. I don't even think he drank water. I
00:24:58.000think Hunter Biden said I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys.
00:25:02.000And could you? I think it was like if I'm around and he showed up, the FBI agent said, so you
00:25:05.000definitely got the feeling that was orchestrated by Hunter to have an appearance by his dad at
00:25:09.000that meeting just to kind of bolster your chances of making a deal work out. And Walker answered,
00:25:15.000The FBI agent continued, at any time when he was in office, did you hear Hunter say he was setting up a meeting with his dad, with them, while dad was still in office?
00:25:26.000The newly released transcripts, as Byron York points out, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, show that the IRS wanted felony charges against Hunter Biden, and they were stymied.
00:25:37.000Apparently, The report, the IRS report, includes itemized elements of each violation for each year above it that I couldn't provide because of grand jury material.
00:25:46.000It recommended felony tax evasion charges for tax years 2014, 2018, 2019.
00:25:49.000And they made the decision they were going to move forward with felony charges 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
00:26:07.000In January of this year, I learned U.S.
00:26:09.000Attorney Estrada had decided to bring up the charges in the Central District of California.
00:26:13.000For all intents and purposes, the case was dead, with the exception of one gun charge that could be brought in Delaware.
00:26:17.000And yet, when Senator Chuck Grassley asked A.G.
00:26:19.000Garland about the case on March 1st, 2023. Garland testified, quote, the U.S. attorney
00:26:23.000had been advised he has full authority to make those referrals you're talking about or to bring
00:26:27.000cases in other districts if he needs to do that. I don't have any first-hand information,
00:26:31.000says the whistleblower, and why Garland said that.
00:26:33.000But to all of us who have been in the October 7th meeting with David Weiss, where he was basically told, don't do any of this, this was clearly false testimony.
00:26:41.000I mean, this is amazing, amazing stuff.
00:26:45.000By the way, I mean, if you look at Hunter Biden's activities here, They're absolutely criminal.
00:26:51.000I mean, just put aside the Joe Biden of it.
00:26:52.000They're certainly more criminal than the stuff he got charged with.
00:26:55.000According to the New York Post, Hunter Biden illegally deducted tens of thousands of dollars in payments made to a prostitute and sex club from his taxes.
00:27:03.000In a June 1st interview at the House Ways and Means Committee, one whistleblower, an unnamed IRS criminal investigator, detailed how Hunter went to great lengths to underreport his income and avoid paying $106,000 in taxes, including by writing off his sex escapades as business expenses.
00:27:17.000The whistleblower said some of the items he deducted were personal Mosho employees.
00:27:20.000He deducted payments that were made to who he called his West Coast assistant, but she was essentially a prostitute.
00:27:26.000Apparently, he also expensed flights for prostitutes?
00:27:30.000Shapley said there were multiple examples of prostitution that were ordered, basically.
00:27:34.000We have all the communications between that where he would pay for these prostitutes, would book them a flight, where even the flight ticket showed their name, and then he expensed those.
00:27:41.000Also, Hunter expensed a deposit for an elite L.A.
00:27:44.000sex club membership, listing it as a golf membership at the time.
00:27:49.000Which is a hell of a way to expense a sex club membership.
00:27:52.000By the way, that would be the same sex club in L.A.
00:27:55.000that actually tossed Hunter out on his ear because he was grabbing women's asses and acting like a spoiled child.
00:28:20.000So yesterday, Joe Biden was doing a presser, not really a presser, because that would require him to actually answer non-prescriptive questions.
00:28:29.000And reporters were asking him about the Hunter Biden stuff, and he just blew it off.
00:28:34.000$369 billion, $369 billion to deal with the climate crisis.
00:30:17.000I know nothing about his business dealings, said Joe Biden.
00:30:20.000While Hunter sat next to him typing out messages to Chinese oligarchs.
00:30:26.000Well, if the Republicans, the Congressional Republicans, don't now subpoena pretty much everyone in law enforcement, I don't know what the hell they're doing or what they think their role is in Congress.
00:30:36.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the 2024 Republican side of the ledger.
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00:32:43.000Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to be not only corrupt apparently, or at least possibly, but also incredibly confused.
00:32:50.000So yesterday, he just continues to show that this is a person who does not have higher brain function.
00:32:55.000He was doing an event with Modi, who is the leader of India.
00:33:00.000And he's getting ripped up and down by members of the media for being nice to Modi because, of course, Modi is considered authoritarian despite the fact that Modi has been elected multiple times.
00:33:08.000In any case, in the middle of this event, they start playing the Indian National Anthem and Joe Biden puts his hand on his heart and then he slowly realizes they are not playing the American National Anthem and lowers it because, again, he's the smartest president we have ever had.
00:33:22.000If by smartest, I mean like a brick of a human being.
00:34:33.000And Jill is like, where am I supposed to go?
00:34:35.000She thought she was supposed to come and, you know, hold Joe's hand as they went down the red carpet, and he would let go of Modi's hand, but instead, apparently, he wanted to hold hands with Modi, which is super weird.
00:34:43.000And so she goes around the other side, and now she's holding hands with Modi.
00:34:46.000Joe Biden's confusion is apparently contagious.
00:34:48.000But again, the best life insurance policy for Joe Biden is the fact that his vice president is Kamala Harris, legitimately the worst politician who has ever graced Mankind.
00:34:58.000Yesterday, she told us a riveting tale about two frogs.
00:35:01.000Now, what she means here is not a story about two frogs, but she doesn't, it's just, it's so bad.
00:35:07.000She's going for the metaphor, the oft-used, I would say overused metaphor about politics, that if you boil water and toss a frog in it will jump out, but the best way to acclimate people to bad things is to gradually turn up the temperature of the water and then the frog won't jump and then it will be boiled.
00:35:22.000Apparently not physically true, actually.
00:35:23.000But Kamala Harris told the story a different way because she is just terrible at this.
00:36:54.000And now it turns out he may in fact have been involved in deep and overt corruption that if it's proved that Joe Biden used his office to essentially raise money for himself via his son Hunter, that's impeachable stuff and he will get impeached in the House of Representatives.
00:37:06.000So now would be like a great time to shift attention to Joe Biden.
00:37:10.000Or, or we could talk about Donald Trump.
00:37:14.000And this is going to be a decision for Republicans because what Donald Trump does on a daily basis is not talk about Joe Biden.
00:37:19.000What Donald Trump does on a daily basis is focus bizarrely on himself.
00:37:23.000Yesterday, for example, he released a very weird video.
00:37:27.000Like, I don't know who makes the decision to release this video, but he releases a video talking about why he is mean to his opponents.
00:38:53.000Even for people who like Trump, I don't think it plays well.
00:38:55.000The reason it doesn't play well is because Ron DeSantis is not the enemy.
00:38:57.000Joe Biden, when it comes to politics, is your political opponent.
00:39:01.000Joe Biden is the person that you presumably are running against.
00:39:03.000And yeah, you're running against DeSantis in the primary, but you have an overwhelming advantage, so why don't you aim your fire against the people who actually are destroying the country, not the person who actually is doing a really good job in Florida you just want to beat in the primary.
00:39:14.000But instead, he's just, now he's overtly lying about DeSantis, which is truly pretty despicable.
00:39:19.000And he's saying things, like, he says that Ron DeSantis, they called him Lockdown Ron in an ad.
00:39:25.000I'm sorry, the gaslighting is just, it's beyond.
00:39:28.000And you can be a fan of Trump and still acknowledge that the gaslighting is kind of crazy.
00:39:32.000And then he called Ron DeSantis a loser.
00:39:33.000Now, I'd just like to point out at this point, we'll play the video first and then I will comment on the accusation that Ron DeSantis is a loser.
00:39:41.000The very stupid and little respected, China-loving Club for No Growth, which has been backing Ron DeSanctimonious as his poll numbers have been absolutely crashing, has just spent some of the rhino money they have accumulated on an ad campaign Hoping to counter the fact that DeSantis, just off the worst presidential launch in history, opted three times to cut and destroy Social Security, even lifting the minimum age to 70 years old.
00:40:16.000He also voted to cut Medicare and institute a 23% national sales tax, which will hit our country hard.
00:40:35.000Okay, there are a lot of things that can be said about Ron DeSantis, and it's interesting that Trump keeps running at him from the left on entitlement reform.
00:40:44.000You know, Captain Fiscal Responsibility over here running directly against fiscal responsibility.
00:41:22.000Apparently, you're a loser if you win every election that you've ever stood for.
00:41:26.000But you are a winner if you lose to a dead person, Joe Biden, in the last electoral cycle.
00:41:33.000You're also a winner if you then proceed to lose two winnable Senate races in Georgia for your party in 2021.
00:41:39.000You're also a winner if you then proceed to lose a wide variety, a smorgasbord, a veritable smorgasbord of winnable Senate races because you endorsed a bunch of lackluster and garbage candidates in the 2022 Senate races.
00:41:51.000Because these terms are all malleable.
00:41:54.000And it just comes down to, you know, for Donald Trump, the terms mean what Donald Trump wants them to mean in the moment.
00:41:59.000Now, Again, I think that a large part of this is his appeal to his constituents.
00:42:03.000People who love Donald Trump, they're like, well, if he can craft and bend reality to his whim, if it is not the spoon that is bending, it is you.
00:42:09.000If that's the way that Donald Trump sees the world and he's able to impose his will on others, then great, because he'll do that for us.
00:42:43.000Your opponent's ballot harvest, and you sit home and whine about it on Truth Social, or you also do the work of ballot harvesting and you win occasionally?
00:42:51.000I mean, I can't think of a dumber strategic move than saying to your own voters, don't vote mail-in ballot.
00:42:56.000Instead, stay home and maybe forget to go to the polls on election day out of some sort of misguided principle.
00:43:02.000And it just demonstrates there's no plan.
00:43:05.000I've asked this question a thousand times, and I'll continue to ask it.
00:43:07.000Donald Trump says that he was robbed of the 2020 election, that he actually won the 2020 election he did not lose, which is, I guess, how he continues to define himself as a winner after, again, losing to a corpse.
00:43:22.000To my understanding, he has spent not one dime on an actual ground game for 2024.
00:43:28.000To my understanding, he spent more money attacking his fellow Republican candidates than he spent on any of the Senate candidates during the 2022 election cycle.
00:43:36.000What is his plan to overcome the obstacle he says is greater than any obstacle faced by any presidential candidate in history?
00:43:42.000He says the entire system is rigged against him.
00:43:47.000Other than apparently yelling at Ron DeSantis and then hoping against hope that something magical happens, I suppose.
00:43:54.000DeSantis, for his part, is not standing still for this.
00:43:56.000He was asked yesterday about whether he would vote for his political opponent, Donald Trump, if Donald Trump were to become the nominee.
00:44:03.000And I have to say, the double standard here is astonishing.
00:44:05.000Donald Trump has spent three election cycles now saying that if somebody else from the Republican Party were nominated, he would not endorse.
00:44:12.000In 2016, he was asked specifically, will you actually vote for and endorse another candidate
00:44:17.000if that person beats you in a primary? And Trump said, I'm not going to answer that question.
00:44:20.000I'm just not going to. DeSantis has asked that question and he doesn't answer the question.
00:44:24.000Instead, he answers a different question. And the Trump fans are like, how dare he say this?
00:44:28.000Well, I don't know. Maybe he's saying the exact same thing your guy is saying.
00:44:55.000Because I remember in 2020 and 2021 when he was praising Florida for being open, saying we did it much better than New York and Michigan, and everyone was coming to Florida, and that we were one of the great governors in the United States.
00:46:28.000In the context of another one of his essays, where he talks about the difference between people who are conservative and people who are liberal, where he talks about a man who comes across a fence in a forest, and he doesn't know why the fence is there.
00:46:39.000If you're a liberal, you immediately uproot the fence.
00:46:41.000If you're a conservative, you say, I'm gonna go find out why the fence is there, and then maybe, after I know, then I'll uproot the fence.
00:46:47.000Chesterton's Orthodoxy is a great attack on scientific materialism.
00:46:51.000It is also a tremendous and uplifting read about the power of religion and organized religion.
00:46:58.000He says, quote, By the way, this is in the very, very early 20th century.
00:47:00.000a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. By the way, this is in
00:47:03.000the very, very early 20th century. This is like a hundred years ahead of his time. We are on the
00:47:07.000road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.
00:47:10.000We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their
00:47:14.000own. Squawfers of old time were too proud to be convinced, but these are too humble to be convinced.
00:47:19.000The meek do inherit the earth, but the modern skeptics are too meek to even claim their inheritance.
00:47:23.000What he's saying there is essentially scientific materialism robs people of the power of thought, because once you say that we're basically meatballs wandering through space, then what access do we have to truth?
00:47:32.000Everything just becomes a matter of perception and opinion.
00:47:36.000He points out about morality and the other quote from this, which I think is just a brilliant and wonderful quote that people don't think about enough.
00:47:41.000Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me.
00:47:45.000There is no trace of such a transaction.
00:47:47.000There is a trace of both men having said, we must not hit each other in the holy place.
00:47:51.000They gained their morality by guarding their religion, by guarding their religion.
00:48:24.000The magic of the book of Leviticus, which is really boring, it's a very hard slog, the book of Leviticus is all about the altar and sacrifices and it's really bloody and strange.
00:48:34.000And when you read it, one of the things you're realizing is that the entire thing is about sanctifying the mundane.
00:48:39.000Taking the mundane and saying that now, the things in life that you think of as sacred, right, the moral precepts that we all think of as sacred, the world is filled with those moral precepts.
00:48:48.000And the reason that you do the moral precepts is not out of a utilitarian calculation.
00:48:51.000It's because it is demanded of you that you be holy.
00:48:54.000The same force that leads you to bring a sacrifice in the temple is the same force that says, thou shalt not kill.
00:48:59.000You have to link the holiness with the moral, and when you do that, something magic happens.
00:49:23.000So, Demi Lovato, who has alternatively been a she, and then a they-them, and now she's back to being a she, because she said it was exhausting to be a they-them.
00:49:31.000Yeah, Demi, try being us, trying to follow, you know, your insane permutations of pronouns.
00:49:37.000Well, she is now in order to shore up her left-wing credibility, which apparently she needs to do like every five minutes.
00:49:43.000So she released an entire album about, you know, sex being transgressive, which has been absolutely shocking and transgressive since 1980 when Madonna made her debut.
00:49:52.000Well, now she has a surprise new single.
00:49:53.000It is titled Swine, and it was made specifically to promote abortion.
00:50:52.000To get this argument straight, she's swine unless you allow her to be absolutely promiscuous and kill the baby that is produced.
00:51:01.000So what makes her human is actually the thing that makes her most animal.
00:51:06.000Actually understand the perverse logic here.
00:51:08.000The perverse logic is that being human is not about elevating yourself and taking into yourself the level of divine holiness that morality represents.
00:51:17.000Including, you know, guarding the human baby inside you.
00:52:16.000Again, the idea is that what makes her human is acting like an animal and what makes you an animal is acting like a person with moral responsibility.
00:52:26.000The complete inversion here, the complete paganistic inversion is insane, and it is representative of a shift in the secular morality that has taken over the country.
00:52:34.000In the 1990s, at least the left had the temerity to say safe, legal, and rare.
00:52:37.000That abortion, what they would say was tragic, it was a problem, we had to minimize it as much as possible, but there were certain circumstances in which you wouldn't want somebody to have to have a baby.
00:52:46.000That was the argument of the left in the 90s.
00:52:48.000Now it is, the thing that makes me most human, the thing that makes me most authentic, is having sex with as many people as humanly possible, producing a child, and then killing it.
00:52:56.000That's what... Human sacrifice is what makes you the most human.
00:52:59.000That's the thing that makes you the most human.
00:53:01.000And to deny you that, makes you into an animal.
00:53:07.000So I do understand that, considering that we are now in the greatest of all months, Pride Month, in which basically religion is banned from the public square and we're all forced to honor and bow to the great Pride Progress flag in substitution for the American flag.
00:53:28.000If Demi Lovato and her ilk had their way, religious Americans would literally be forced to perform same-sex marriages in churches and would be forced to bake cakes for transgender identity parties.
00:54:09.000It's the idea that the true you is this disembodied spirit that has nothing to do with the body that you inhabit and you have no responsibility or morality in the real world.
00:55:20.000Like, I'll give you the countervailing point of view, like just the contrapositive of what you are arguing here.
00:55:25.000What you are arguing is basically you should be allowed to kill a kid because you don't want to grow them, raise them, or feed and bathe them.
00:55:32.000I'm sorry, makes you a terrible, terrible human.
00:55:34.000Because you're not doing this in the name of your own health.
00:55:37.000You're not doing this in the name of your life is at risk.
00:55:39.000You're doing this because you want to F who you want to F. So, I mean, points to Demi Lovato for just saying the quiet part out loud here.
00:55:45.000Undercompensated, too domesticated, the F. Underestimated, over-regulated, the F. First of all, the only regulations that Demi Lovato has ever been against are ones that actually preserve human life.
00:55:55.000Under-celebrated, hate-dominated, the F. We're infuriated, got us activated, get up.
00:55:59.000Ever-dedicated, newly motivated, and if you're awake, I'm so glad you made it.
00:56:04.000So, um, again, it is, the gaslighting and inversion here is truly insane.
00:56:10.000She says, quote, I want this song to empower not only the birthing people of this country.
00:56:24.000but everyone who stands up for equality to embrace their agency and fight for a world where every
00:56:28.000person's right to make decisions about their own body is honored unless you don't want to get a
00:56:31.000vaccine in which case we are going to throw you out of your job.
00:56:34.000What a disgusting human being Demi Lovato has become.
00:56:41.000I mean, honestly, I used to feel bad for Demi Lovato because Demi Lovato is clearly a deeply troubled human being.
00:56:46.000She did a reality show where she talks to feminist ghosts who have been abused by men or something.
00:56:51.000So clearly she's a person with serious problems.
00:56:53.000But when you start actually promulgating evil, and it is promulgating evil to suggest that the height of human authenticity and achievement is killing the baby inside you and screwing whoever you want.
00:57:09.000Man, again, at least they're saying the quiet part out loud now.
00:57:13.000It was never about safe, legal, and rare.
00:57:14.000It was always about shout your abortion because what makes you truly authentically human is acting as animalistically as humanly possible without any consequence.
00:57:21.000Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.