Former Vice President Joe Biden has been charged with a felony for allegedly keeping classified documents after leaving the White House. The Justice Department says he willfully retained and disclosed the documents, but could not be prosecuted because he was unable to remember them.
00:00:27.860They made this case on technical and like a gotcha in the Constitution instead of, you know, making the basic point.
00:00:35.740But this is a centerpiece of our Constitution forged after the Civil War, after all that bloodshed for a simple reason.
00:00:43.660Our founders coming together and saying, no more insurrectionists.
00:00:47.520It's too dangerous to have people who give aid and comfort to the enemy.
00:00:51.840And there was just such a little discussion of that.
00:00:55.180And instead, it was all on the other side, like the interchanges, Alicia, you were showing about 50 states.
00:01:01.300And, you know, we should only let one state shouldn't be able to decide the whole.
00:01:04.680There were five great answers to that.
00:01:07.160They're all in the front of the court briefs, but we heard none of it.
00:01:10.260And so it was a really dismal showing, unfortunately, for the challengers to Donald Trump.
00:01:16.100Yeah, Katie, for those who remember what happened in 2016 involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee at the time for president, of course, we remember there were no charges, but a pretty damning report from the attorney general at the time, James Comey.
00:01:32.420The initial top lines we're reading of this report find a similar situation, that there are no charges recommended here against the president, but some damning details, including the statement that he willfully retained documents after leaving office.
00:01:47.520I think the point that you highlighted about how the special counsel and his team found their interviews with the president, in which he, as it was put, his memory was significantly limited, are certainly going to be weaponized by the president's opponents.
00:02:01.580We also see an interesting moment as part of the investigation in which the president's ghostwriter, this is, of course, the former president, a former vice president at the time, as he was working on his book after leaving office, had recordings of President Biden, the former vice president at the time, talking about having obtained or having uncovered classified documents in his possession at the time.
00:02:24.140So that is a significant moment that comes back from 2017, according to the special counsel report here.
00:02:30.760So let's just step back and underscore the most important fact, which is we're just reading this report as it's being made public at this moment.
00:02:39.140There's going to be a lot of details. We understand it's a 400 page document.
00:02:43.620And so these are just literally the top lines that we're reading at this moment.
00:02:46.640The House Judiciary Committee Republicans are already out accusing a double standard of the Justice Department here for not bringing charges against the president.
00:02:55.740As we also, of course, the President Biden's likely opponent in the general election, former President Trump, with a different investigation here into his handling of classified document.
00:03:05.620One thing that we also understand to be true from this report is that there is a very clear distinction being made between the ways in which former Vice President Biden handled classified documents and how President Biden worked with the Justice Department during that investigation.
00:03:22.680Very cooperative retention of documents. It's crucial because I think it's getting a little bit lost here.
00:03:29.260This report clearly says, and this was surprising to me, I did not expect to see this, that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified information.
00:03:38.400That is a felony. But then the report goes on to say, but we don't think we could win a prosecution in this case for various reasons,
00:03:45.300including Mr. Biden's memory lapses and the fact that he's an elderly, well-intentioned man.
00:03:50.640That is a deeply significant finding. And it's in two respects. One, they found that Mr. Biden was on tape speaking to his ghostwriter back in 2017, saying the words,
00:04:01.240I found all the classified stuff downstairs. This was when he was living in a home in Virginia after he had left the vice presidency working on a memoir.
00:04:08.720And they also found that he disclosed classified information to the ghostwriter throughout that process.
00:04:15.060Now, they're not it's not clear whether he remembered that. And that's that was crucial in terms of their findings about whether that could be prosecutable,
00:04:23.060because those, by the way, were the same documents they believe that were found by the FBI in Mr.
00:04:28.020Biden's home in Delaware in the garage. And they were highly classified.
00:04:31.660There was information about the Afghanistan war, but willfully retained.
00:04:36.700And then secondly, the report says that Mr.
00:04:39.600Biden had notebooks that were sort of a combination of personal diaries and observations,
00:04:44.200but that included highly classified information that he knew it was classified, that he took them home anyway.
00:04:50.180This is very similar to what happened with former CIA director David Petraeus, remember,
00:04:54.080who was prosecuted because he had notebooks and diaries that included classified information that he turned over to a woman that was working on a book about him.
00:05:02.140Now, again, they the her report also puts a lot of this into context and says, first of all, very different from the Trump situation,
00:05:10.540as you've already covered. But also there is a history of presidents taking home classified information.
00:05:15.700And it talks about Ronald Reagan having notebooks that may have had classified material in them.
00:05:20.680So that, I would say, is a mitigating factor for Mr.
00:05:23.460Biden. But nonetheless, here's a man who had been dealing with classified information for decades,
00:05:28.100his entire career as a public servant on the Foreign Relations Committee and likewise,
00:05:32.860and treated it in what appears to be a cavalier manner and not by accident, not by carelessness.
00:05:38.460But according to this report, willfully, Katie.
00:05:40.700This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:05:48.800Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.
00:05:52.560The reason I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people, the people have had a belly full of it.
00:06:00.060I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:11:29.320They would prosecute except for the fact that he's like an elderly old man with the beginning stages of dementia.
00:11:35.660That's the reason they're not prosecuting him for felonies and doing criminal referrals, that his mind is too far gone, sir.
00:11:43.800Well, Steve, it seems not just like the beginning stages of dementia.
00:11:47.940It seems like they were saying that there's a significant memory loss.
00:11:51.480And if Biden is not well enough to answer questions from his own DOJ, how is he well enough to deal with China and Russia and Iran and the wars that he's caused all over the country?
00:12:02.120That's the key question that we have to be asking ourselves.
00:12:05.100And then as to the underlying issue, it's clear that, as President Trump has stated strongly, that we don't have a true system of justice in this country.
00:12:18.840He did everything by the book under the Presidential Records Act.
00:12:21.060While Joe Biden has violated law after law after law, and yet he's not charged, even David Petraeus, the CIA director was charged with giving documents, classified version to his ghostwriter.
00:13:34.280Your assessment of today in the Supreme Court, sir?
00:13:36.480We finally found a constitutional court that is willing to follow the law, it looks like.
00:13:44.080Hopefully that decision will echo 9-0 as you talked about.
00:13:46.740But there was never a basis for Colorado or any other state to disqualify President Trump because he never committed insurrection, was never charged with insurrection, was never convicted of insurrection, even by Merrick Garland's rig DOJ.
00:13:59.340And that was a point the court noted out repeatedly, and the states have no authority under the 14th Amendment to bind a federal mandate against a person for presidency of the United States.
00:21:56.060And there was a video right after news broke that, you know, the Supreme Court really was scrutinizing the arguments made by Crewe and the Colorado Supreme Court, much in favor of President Trump.
00:22:09.540That's when Antifa started to become more aggressive and violent outside of the Supreme Court.
00:22:15.620You have it there and you can play it for your viewers.
00:22:18.000You can actually see these people blocking traffic with their banner.
00:22:22.720Capitol Police standing right next to them on their bikes, not doing anything to shut them down.
00:22:26.720And in a previous video I posted from this morning, there were a couple of Trump supporters who were being harassed and shoved by these Antifa protesters who were carrying.
00:22:42.640Laura, do we still have you as you drop?
00:23:22.540Did Soros pay for your trip and how much money did Soros pay you to remove Trump from the ballot?
00:23:27.420As I exclusively reported and, you know, it was interviewed on your show about in October and November of last year, Steve, the group that pushed this lawsuit forward is a group called Crew.
00:23:39.640They're the group that initially funded this lawsuit.
00:23:42.120And the executive director and one of the co-founders, Melanie Sloan, is literally on video saying that their largest donor is George Soros.
00:23:53.360Moments ago before coming on your show, Steve, this guy, Noah Bookbinder, who is the president of Crew, who was there at the Supreme Court today representing Crew, we actually confronted him on video.
00:24:06.160I'll be posting that in the next hour or so.
00:24:08.920Did you know that he is actually working with DHS and Alejandro Mayorkas?
00:24:14.160In 2022, Alejandro Mayorkas appointed Noah Bookbinder to serve on the DHS advisory committee.
00:24:22.380So this guy who is literally working and orchestrating the lawsuits to get President Trump removed is an appointee by Alejandro Mayorkas at the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
00:24:33.560So, in other words, Joe Biden's administration under the DHS and under Mayorkas' watch is directing the assault on our elections to remove President Trump, which means, you know, these House Republicans who failed to impeach Mayorkas this week, it just got even worse for them.
00:24:51.160Because not only are they not stopping the invasion of our country, but they're stopping Mayorkas from using his political operatives and appointees within DHS to interfere in our elections.
00:25:04.060Laura, where do people go to get all the breaking footage and the stories you're putting up today?
00:27:13.260On October 8th and 9th, he spent 48 hours with special counsel, Herr, buried in a room, not being able to remember when he was vice president, one day after the conflict started.
00:27:23.180This man cannot be responsible for the nuclear codes.
00:38:28.380Isn't this a crisis of national security because they essentially say we can't take him to trial because he's just an old man with bad memory?
00:38:37.860And a jury may feel empathetic or sympathetic for it, but there's clearly times he doesn't remember he's vice president.
00:38:53.440Yeah, so Robert Herr's report shows that there is clear evidence that Biden violated the Espionage Act by retaining these classified records that he was not allowed to retain.
00:39:06.980He shared these classified records with his ghostwriter, probably others, but this Robert Herr says that he's not competent to stand trial.
00:39:19.340He's not mentally competent to stand trial.
00:39:22.260Well, how the hell can you serve as the president of the United States, the commander-in-chief, the most powerful person on the planet, if you're not competent to stand trial?
00:41:56.820They put out some statements of what they were expecting.
00:41:59.420And I think this is on particularly the worst end of the spectrum as far as they were concerned.
00:42:05.060But you've got to get into the detail on this.
00:42:08.260I'm speaking directly to the audience here to recognize just how deep the rot is now set and recognize just how badly the country is being run and being let down by this.
00:42:23.060You know, we said the day of in 2020 when we knew the cheat was in the regime, right, from day one, we refused to call it an administration and rightly so.
00:42:34.800So let's let's look at the detail on this.
00:42:37.420And we have it up at the national pulse dot com.
00:42:39.620We've gone through line by line what exactly we're seeing here.
00:42:42.760The predominant thing here that the American public will see is that there is a circumstance where the special counsel has said that this man, Joe Biden, willfully, willfully continued to take documents from when he was a vice president.
00:42:58.880He had documents from when he was a senator and kept them amongst, quote, household detritus.
00:43:06.960And it took his ghostwriter of his book to find these packages and say, hey, I think you might have some national security documents down here.
00:43:17.560But at that point in time, remember, there still was no owning up.
00:43:21.520There was still no resubmission of these documents.
00:43:24.500There wasn't a position where Joe Biden said, oh, my goodness, how could this have happened?
00:47:21.240We know how they were stored, unsecured, not under the protection of Secret Service like you had at Mar-a-Lago.
00:47:26.780And the two things that really jumped out to me here is, number one, in the report they say he actually may have leaned on some of these documents for one of his books that got released.
00:47:36.180I think it was 2017, which means that he's not just kept these documents.
00:47:45.520And secondarily to this is that evidence was deleted after the special counsel was instructed to go through this.
00:47:53.440And specifically, Joe Biden's ghostwriter deleted audio recordings of Joe Biden, which had, quote, significant evidentiary value.
00:48:03.900Now, the special counsel has said, and this is a takeaway line, the special counsel has said that they will not pursue a prosecution of Joe Biden in this circumstance because, number one, he is too doddery, too old.
00:48:18.380And, number two, the underlying, the undertone of all of that is that a jury wouldn't try and convict somebody like that anyway.
00:48:26.500Well, I think that tells you everything you need to know, everything we've heard over the last several years of nobody being above the law.
00:50:18.920Just got back here, and I'm in the room where President Trump's going to be speaking in just a few minutes.
00:50:23.200After Nikki Haley got beat by none of the above, President Trump's going to be here to basically continue on this fight to expose the left for what they are.
00:50:32.740And this is the battle we're in, Steve.
00:50:34.580Everything the left is talking about, it is a reflection of themselves.
00:50:38.120Everything they attack President Trump for, it is what they do.
00:50:41.260But one thing that I didn't hear anyone mention tonight that should not be lost, the happiest people about this report are people on the left because they want Joe Biden out in some ways, maybe even worse than we do, because they know he's going to get crushed by President Trump.
00:51:40.000This is one of those things, you know, it's frustrating.
00:51:41.820You beat your head against the wall so many times, but when the left starts imploding like they're doing and God's light starts shining into the evil that they've been trying to foist on America, it's an honor to be able to do what we do.
00:51:52.900And I just pray that lights keep shining, these cockroaches keep running, and we have the victory.
00:51:56.980But we've got to push the pedal to the metal, all gas, no brakes.
00:52:18.740How do people make sure they can find you and then get over to RAV?
00:52:21.180You guys are going to be covering this all night.
00:52:24.280Yep, at Ben Burkwam, FrontlineAmerica.com, AmericasVoice.news, and we will be jumping in live with Studio 6B tonight and continuing the coverage through President Trump's speech tonight.