On today's show, we have a special guest on the show, former FBI Director James R. Fast and Senior Counselor to the Office of the Director of National Security Patrick Fitzgerald. They discuss the ongoing efforts by Republicans in Congress to get access to audio of a key part of the Biden-Hearn interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
00:00:00.000It protects you both personally. Is that a conflict of interest?
00:00:05.720The Justice Department is a fundamental institution of our democracy.
00:00:10.380People depend on us to ensure that our investigations and our prosecutions are conducted according to the facts and the law and without political influence.
00:00:21.500We have gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that the committees get responses to their legitimate requests.
00:00:34.140But this is not one. To the contrary, this is one that would harm our ability in the future to successfully pursue sensitive investigations.
00:00:43.100Now, there have been a series of unprecedented and, frankly, unfounded attacks on the Justice Department.
00:00:54.620This request, this effort to use contempt as a method of obtaining our sensitive law enforcement files is just the most recent.
00:01:03.520The effort to threaten, to defund our investigations and the way in which there are contributions to an atmosphere that puts our agents and our prosecutors at risk.
00:01:17.060These are wrong. Look, the only thing I can do is continue to do the right thing.
00:01:22.540I will protect this building and its people.
00:01:25.700You kind of answered this just now, but I was wondering, like, you know, what is this combined with the efforts to defund Jack Smith and the other attacks on Biden administration officials say about, you know, the broader effort to discredit you and to discredit the Justice Department?
00:01:43.760And also, how do you manage that? How are you resisting that? And what can you do about that as Attorney General?
00:01:49.980We have to go about our work following the federal principles of prosecution.
00:01:54.080They said, we follow the facts and the law. We screen out outside inappropriate influences.
00:02:01.360That's what we're doing here. We're protecting our ability to continue to do high profile and sensitive investigations.
00:06:17.580Thursday, 16 May, You're of Our Lord, 2024.
00:06:20.4002024, when I go to sleep every night, I take comfort in the fact that I had a small role in making sure that that scummy little worm, Merrick Garland, did not get a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.
00:06:33.600Because if Hillary Clinton had won on 8 November of 2016 in the year of our Lord, he would have been on the Supreme Court.
00:06:52.120Happening today was both judiciary and oversight.
00:06:57.140Both committees were doing a criminal contempt markup on Merrick Garland for withholding the audiotapes of the interview that Biden did, I think with the ghostwriter, that shows his obvious understanding and knowledge of the classified documents he was turning over and letting the guy see and not taking care of.
00:07:20.460Damning evidence, damning evidence, damning evidence, damning evidence that Biden's White House and Biden's Justice Department's hiding, you know what they came out today?
00:07:31.180That big announcement right there, that little worm.
00:09:00.400There's no call for executive privilege here.
00:09:03.800This is purely evidence in a criminal investigation, sir.
00:09:06.980President Biden disregarded 250 years of constitutional executive privilege going back to George Washington.
00:09:17.660So Biden could orchestrate an unprecedented raid on President Trump in the office of former presidents to get back presidential records that President Trump was allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act.
00:09:33.620Now, President Biden, through his attorney general, is trying to hide behind executive privilege to prevent the American people from hearing how Biden knowingly stole highly classified materials from his time as vice president, even as senator.
00:09:52.940And he shared these highly classified materials with his ghostwriter so he could get an $8 million advance on a book that no one other than lobbyists in D.C. will ever buy and read.
00:10:08.140So Biden put our national security at grave risk for his personal financial gain.
00:10:16.180And now Joe Biden is leading a cover up.
00:10:19.900Right. So House Republicans must obtain these recordings showing that the Biden Justice Department covered up Biden's clear espionage as part of as part of the House Republicans impeachment authority.
00:10:36.820Remember, Biden eviscerated constitutional executive privilege for Peter Navarro, President Trump's trade director inside the White House, who is sitting in prison right now.
00:10:50.260They eviscerated constitutional executive privilege for you, Steve Bannon, one of President Trump's top outside political presidential advisers.
00:11:00.180And this Biden Justice Department, Merrick Garland, ignored that when they prosecuted Peter Navarro and put him in prison.
00:11:16.900They ignored that when they prosecuted you and you're you're about to go to prison.
00:11:21.680This is this is this is this is just absolutely unacceptable that Merrick Garland and Joe Biden are now trying to claim executive privilege to hide Biden's clear espionage for his personal financial gain.
00:11:37.920They're trying to hide behind executive privilege after they eviscerate it for President Trump during his four years.
00:11:43.820Hell no. House Republicans need to put the pedal to the metal.
00:11:48.000Mike, I hope because you've been one of the apostles of this.
00:11:52.040I hope finally, finally, the House Republicans understand how much the Biden regime keeps them, holds them in contempt.
00:12:00.400It took the markup and it took the announcement that, hey, judiciary is going to start at 10 this morning and oversight,
00:12:07.960because I think some of the oversight folks actually are in New York to show support for President Trump at the other illegitimate show.
00:12:16.180Moscow show trial of President Trump that they were going to start at 8 p.m.
00:12:20.260tonight. But these are going to be done in the next 24 hours and get ready to be taken to the overall house and issued criminal contempt for Biden for Garland,
00:12:28.920which would jam them up since they've used that weapon backing Nancy Pelosi against Trump's advisers and President Trump.
00:12:36.100Also, people have got to remember, remember, the the the ghostwriter already erased.
00:12:41.860Remember, he had tapes of Biden, too. He already erased types.
00:12:44.980And I think he also had eight memoirs that he erased.
00:12:48.060That's why these tapes with Biden, the ones that he got are so absolutely important.
00:12:53.380This all came because of the criminal contempt markup and letting it know that they were getting getting serious.
00:12:59.640What should the House do now that we know what works now that we know when you go on offense, these rats start scrambling?
00:13:09.720We should keep going. We should be issuing instead of strongly worded letters, we should be issuing subpoenas, subpoenas for documents, subpoenas for witnesses, subpoenas for staff depositions.
00:13:22.860And if they want to claim executive privilege, take them to court.
00:13:26.860If they want to claim some other privilege, take them to court, hold them in contempt.
00:13:31.260And even if Merrick Garland doesn't prosecute contempt, the Trump 47 Justice Department Department certainly should and probably will starting on January 20th, 2025.
00:13:43.400So I have a whole bunch of these contempt prosecutions ready to go from the House of Representatives that you can send over to the Trump Justice Department on day one with a little bow wrapped around it so we can get moving on prosecuting President Biden and these Democrats.
00:14:00.140I may actually I may we may actually put that into your viceroy category.
00:14:04.320Mike, just hang on. I want to get to Jim Jordan.
00:14:06.580Other things about the trial, a lot else going on.
00:14:09.220And of course, they had Lisa Monaco, Ray and in Garland, the three thugs, had a press conference the other day to try to intimidate MAGA from carrying out their legal duty.
00:14:22.480And quite frankly, the requirements of citizens of this country to make sure you don't steal the election like you stole in 2020, Garland.
00:14:29.400We're not going to let that happen. We don't care how many press conferences you have.
00:14:32.820You're going to be watched. We're putting the stink eye on you.
00:14:34.960You're going to be watched every second of every day.
00:14:37.200OK, we know what you're trying to do to this.
00:14:39.700You're trying to steal it outright, steal it.
00:14:42.600And it's not going to happen. You stole it in 2020.
00:14:45.420You got an illegitimate regime that the usurpers that are occupying 1600 Pennsylvania temporarily.
00:14:53.000Right. The regime's about to come to end. That's why the rats are scrambling.
00:17:43.860And I know you don't want to listen to it.
00:17:45.200If you hate MSMEC as much as you hate them, you don't want to listen to these guys more.
00:17:50.420Mike Davis, why is it important to continue down this path?
00:17:54.120And you just heard Jordan right there, Chairman Jordan, lay out the fact that they're not trusting anything coming out of the Justice Department.
00:18:00.440This Justice Department is so crooked.
00:18:02.560By the way, if we can get rid of that clip of Garland whining at the top, I'm going to want to play that along with the Congresswoman yesterday.
00:18:46.580He's talking about defunding, how we're trying to defund these investigations before the election, how we're supposed to, how we're issuing subpoenas.
00:18:55.760They are now on defense in the Biden Justice Department, and they're on defense for the first time in 22 months.
00:19:02.500And I commend the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, the Oversight Committee, James Cobra.
00:19:10.760We're finally firing on all cylinders.
00:19:13.580We should have been doing this 22 months ago, but I'm pleased we're finally firing on all cylinders instead of in week five of the unprecedented criminal trial of a former president,
00:19:23.860and likely future president, like we've seen with Alvin Bragg's bogus case up in Europe, but we need to keep going.
00:19:30.520We need to keep the pressure on the Democrats.
00:28:18.120I want to warn you of a huge change that could be coming to our money in our bank accounts.
00:28:23.460First, think back to 9-11, shortly after the government pushed through the Patriot Act.
00:28:28.320This gave the government power to spy on innocent Americans by monitoring our phone and email and tracking our movement across the Internet.
00:28:36.660Now, Jim Rickards, editor of the independent financial newsletter Strategic Intelligence and New York Times bestselling author, is warning about a coming event that could elevate this governmental surveillance to a terrifying new level.
00:28:49.500In fact, some of the guests I've had on The War Room believe that the government will soon expand their powers to track our every move.
00:28:57.420If we say the wrong things on social media, donate to the wrong causes, buy firearms, or even vote MAGA, the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts.
00:29:08.300I can't say for sure if this will happen, but it's an interesting and dire warning.
00:29:13.720Fortunately, Jim Rickards, an American patriot and friend of mine, has made it his mission to educate us on what he believes is coming and how to protect yourself from the possibility of programmable money.
00:29:26.320Watch Jim's warning video now before it's censored like I've been in the past.
00:29:37.400The embarrassment of recent hearings today, Donald Trump and his cronies don't think that the chairman is doing enough.
00:29:46.180We're here today simply because Donald Trump's sycophants have been taunting the members of this committee on the GOP side and judiciary Republicans for not doing anything tangible to defend Trump against our judicial system.
00:30:03.260Lackeys like Natalie Winters, a Trump loyalist and an executive producer for Steve Bannon's show, have been mocking Chairman Jordan's leadership of the committee openly.
00:30:15.240As you can see up there, when the House Judiciary tweeted, imagine actually believing Michael Cohen, she retweeted and said, imagine actually believing at GOP, at judiciary GOP will do anything about it.
00:30:34.260Just as one example, on Monday, she put that tweet up and then Fox's Maria Bartiroma and Steve Bannon himself have gotten into the act.
00:31:47.240Wait to June 27th, 28th and 29th in a federal court down in Florida, in South Florida, where Judge Cannon is going to put Jack Smith on trial.
00:31:57.200And an evidentiary hearing over a couple of days is going to be showtime.
00:33:11.000It's not what the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts out there, which is core inflation, which excludes food and energy, which, of course, is not particularly relevant to normal people who want to stay warm and eat.
00:33:28.780And so what we're doing here is we're showing this, things that people must buy, not discretionary items, versus their wages during the Biden administration.
00:33:39.080And what you found is that wages have trailed this inflation measure by over 6%.
00:33:45.920People's standard of living has deteriorated by 6% over the past three years.
00:33:51.880And so the numbers may be a little bit better than Wall Street expected, but it does not obscure the fact that people are having trouble with the cumulative effects of inflation that are already in place.
00:34:04.820The level of prices has far exceeded the level of wages over the past three years.
00:34:11.180Now, Biden is sitting there and saying, well, hold it.
00:34:13.320Anything that's any part of this is corporate greed.
00:34:15.740And look, as you know, we're populist nationalists, so we're anti the big corporations from the get-go.
00:34:22.760But if you look at the PPI, the producer price index, the wholesale numbers that came out the day before, that kills his argument.
00:34:30.360And it also means more bad news downrange?
00:34:55.260The Biden administration is using every tool possible to keep the economy out of recession before the election.
00:35:02.300So they're using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:35:05.460They're using something called reverse repos.
00:35:07.880They're using the Treasury General account.
00:35:10.000They're doing, they have canceled student loans, employee retention tax credits, you name it.
00:35:16.520We're spending money like it's going out of style.
00:35:18.780To me, that is the reason why inflation is higher than people have expected.
00:35:25.520There is no coordination between monetary policy and fiscal policy.
00:35:30.140The Fed has raised rates meaningfully and has started to cut the size of the balance sheet.
00:35:35.100But without any help from the federal government as far as spending is concerned, it's, in my opinion, it sets up for another wave of high inflation later on down the road.
00:35:45.220Also, Treasury, I mean, they're doing everything possible to make sure they have a good late summer, early fall so they can go into the presidential election with the best economic news they possibly can get.
00:36:00.360Are you concerned about refinancing of the debt?
00:36:04.660Because right now we've got to finance, I guess, a third of the $35 trillion.
00:36:07.740And Janet Yellen, there's no 10s or 30s.
00:36:11.680She's doing everything in T-bills, right?
00:36:13.480What kind of impact is that going to have on inflation?
00:36:15.500So we have $34.5 trillion in debt total, about $26 trillion that's owed to the public.
00:36:23.260And while China is issuing 30-year and 50-year bonds, we're issuing most of our bonds in 91 days and less.
00:36:33.900So a third of our debt matures in the next, actually, three years.
00:36:37.880A significant portion of our debt matures 34% in the next year.
00:36:42.400What that means is that interest expense will exceed defense spending by the end of this year.
00:36:46.800So it's very difficult, unless the Fed starts buying treasuries again, it's going to be very difficult to get the toothpaste back in the tube as far as spending is concerned and deficit spending is concerned.
00:36:58.720This is a very, very difficult situation for whoever the next president is.
00:37:04.320And there's going to be the short-sightedness on the part of Janet Yellen, in my opinion, is torching her reputation as an economist.
00:37:14.240She had a lot of respect as an economist, as Fed chair, as Treasury secretary.
00:37:19.820I'm sorry to say that she is essentially throwing caution to the wind and is really doing anything she can to get her client, President Biden, reelected.
00:37:31.960Now, when she was Fed chair, in fact, under Trump in his first term, she actually did quantitative tightening.
00:37:38.060Now, people might argue that was a political move to make it harder for Trump's tax cuts and the growth.
00:37:42.280But she did do a good job of letting the air out of the asset bubble that had been created under Obama to take liquidity off the Fed's balance sheet.
00:37:53.180But now she's completely gone, I think, fiscally and monetarily insane.
00:37:59.020We just played the clip at the beginning to show the power of this audience, particularly on this lawfare.
00:38:15.100And there's all this confusion now about the fiscal year that's going to come that President Trump's going to inherit, the 2025 fiscal year, that the budget has to be done by September 30th or the government shuts down.
00:38:26.840And a lot of people are saying, well, they're trying to de-Trumpify things.
00:38:31.320Here's my point is I've now spent the last 48 hours, as I promised this audience, we would do due diligence.
00:38:37.800The top line number, the Republicans are creating to a top line number that's going to be over $7 trillion of spending and basically have baked into it at least a trillion and a half dollar deficit.
00:38:50.420They're going to play some games to show less, but it's going to be a trillion and a half to two trillion.
00:38:55.220Until the House of Representatives takes a stand, because at 7% GDP, deficit GDP, that doesn't work.
00:39:03.060You've got to get that below three, don't you?
00:39:04.880I mean, you've got to immediately try to figure out how to get it below three.
00:39:07.900Isn't it the responsibility of the Republican House to be the adult in the room here and force a showdown on this?
00:39:14.440Absolutely. Hosting the House Ways and Means Committee, that means it's their responsibility.
00:39:22.520And there will be, you know, the bill will come due for this.
00:39:26.960I think one of the problems with having 12 years of quantitative easing is that it has obscured the real costs of government spending and deficit spending, not only for investors, but also for policymakers.
00:39:41.260You might remember James Carville in 1994 said, I want to be reincarnated as the bond market because it intimidates everyone.
00:39:48.180Right now, the Fed has, through its manipulation of prices, has made the bond market toothless.
00:39:58.500And therefore, there is a sense that there are no consequences for this runaway spending that we see.
00:40:05.300The bill eventually will come due in the form of higher interest rates and higher inflation.
00:40:11.440And there's almost no way of getting around that, in my opinion.
00:40:16.220The Oracle of Omaha, you know, Buffett said at the Berkshire Hathaway, he agreed with, he said, look, the political class does not have the courage, the political courage to cut spending.
00:40:25.660He says, you're going to pay for this three ways, inflation, interest rates.
00:40:29.060And he brought up, he says, look, at some point in time, you're going to have to have a massive tax increase.
00:40:33.860And that's going to fall in the middle class.
00:40:35.380You're going to have to somehow, this is an unsustainable model.
00:40:39.220And at some point in time, and quite frankly, the near future, we're going to have to pay the due bill.
00:40:44.560Your thoughts and recommendations to the Republican House?
00:40:48.200Listen, I think the one thing I would do is have a very significant supply side response, which is there is a chance you can grow your way out of it.
00:40:56.000And that would include drill, baby drill.
00:40:58.840It would be reducing the costs of fossil fuels, which are an extremely efficient source of energy.
00:41:05.400It would be having perhaps full expensing of capital expenditures, because productivity and capital formation can greatly aid in the growth.
00:41:15.020So you can grow the numerator if you can't grow the, if you can no longer grow the denominator.
00:41:19.580You can grow the numerator so that this is not as severe, the bill is not as costly as it would be eventually.
00:41:28.560But the other thing is we have to get rid of this ridiculous spending jaunt that we're on.
00:42:44.700Let's go check it all out, particularly his tweet yesterday.
00:42:47.580He said, hey, the fight against inflation is over and Biden lost.
00:42:51.740And if you really get EJ and you get Jason, you get Scott Besson, we're going to have a couple other folks join us, I think, this afternoon to go through this.
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00:45:14.540Look, I am a well-known Democrat, and I welcome every Republican and Independent who wants to join the coalition to protect American democracy by voting for Joe Biden.
00:45:30.680This is not the time to settle scores.
00:45:33.260This is not the time to have petty debates between Americans.
00:45:36.480This is a time when democracy is at stake, and all hands are welcome in the fight to protect democracy.
00:45:43.640You know, Nicole, I was thinking about this because you recently had a precious new baby.
00:45:48.740And 20 and 25 years from now, they will ask you not what the price of gas was, not what was going on with, you know, some television show or some cultural moment.
00:45:59.980They will ask you what you did when democracy was at stake.
00:46:03.240Your grandchildren will ask you 50 years from now, what did you do when democracy was at stake?
00:46:09.420And that's a question that all of us will have to answer.
00:46:12.760And we all and everyone who is willing to answer that question by saying that they said that at this moment in time, at this need, that they stood up against Donald Trump.
00:46:24.000And everyone who was part of that will be will be celebrated and everyone who was on the other side will be condemned.
00:46:34.280OK, let me give you some suck on this.
00:46:36.580The polling shows that independents who are kind of a proxy for the American people, because both parties are obviously quite partisan now, that that they by 11 percent, brother, think that Donald Trump's a better custodian of our democracy than Joe Biden.
00:47:33.080We're going to cut back to the top of the hour and tonight by oversight.
00:47:36.980When I think the 15 House members actually get back from New York City, where they're supporting President Trump today on Michael Cohen's second day in the hot box.
00:47:48.380Yeah, and this is much worse what Merrick Garland is doing now than what Eric Holder did with Fast and Furious, which was bad enough.
00:47:57.860What Merrick Garland is doing now, he's trying to cover up the fact that Merrick Garland personally authorized the espionage prosecution against President Trump for the non espionage of a former president,
00:48:13.140having his presidential records in the office of the former president, which is allowed by the presidential records act.
00:48:20.300That's why Congress funds the office of the former president with federally funded staff with security clearances, with secure office space, with 24-7, 365 secret service protection.
00:48:31.780At the same time that Merrick Garland is having Jack Smith go after Trump for espionage, for non espionage, Merrick Garland has protected his boss, Joe Biden.
00:48:43.480Joe Biden had several stashes of stolen classified records from his time as vice president, even as senator, unguarded for years.
00:48:53.680Move several times accessible by this Chinese agents that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden had on their payrolls, almost certainly used by Hunter Biden to secure corrupt foreign funding, including from Ukraine.
00:49:09.320And even Joe Biden admitted that Joe Biden shared these highly classified materials with his ghostwriter for a book for which Joe Biden got an $8 million advance.
00:49:23.020And this is on an audio tape by Biden special counsel, Robert Herr.
00:49:27.780Robert Herr, through Garland's, declined to prosecute Biden, even though it's just absolutely espionage.
00:49:35.820And it's it put our national security in grave risk.
00:49:40.180President Trump had presidential records in a secure office of former president.
00:49:44.740Joe Biden shared our most classified secrets with his ghostwriter for the purposes for the purposes of getting those those secrets out there to the public.
00:49:57.880And Merrick Garland is trying to cover this up.
00:50:00.960Merrick Garland is trying to cover up for his boss to protect his boss in an election year while they're prosecuting President Trump, his boss's political rival in an election year.
00:50:10.820This is absolutely contemptible what Garland has done.
00:50:14.360It is impeachable what Garland is doing.
00:50:17.600It is actually criminal what Garland is doing.
00:50:20.480This is part of a criminal conspiracy.
00:50:22.620And again, these House Republicans, I commend them for what they're doing today.
00:50:32.380They they they came up with a bogus intel assessment for records that never leaked in Mar-a-Lago until the Biden Justice Department went and raided Mar-a-Lago.
00:50:41.800Where's the intel assessment on Biden's damage to our national security?
00:50:44.880Davis, real quickly, Mike, this letter that was sent by Jordan, that'll be blown off.
00:51:21.700Send subpoenas, get the damn documents, get the people in chairs for staff depositions, get them in public hearing rooms under the bright lights for public hearings.
00:51:30.860And if they try to object, move for contempt.
00:51:34.060And if you can't move for contempt right now because House Republicans don't have the votes, then have it ready to go for January 20th, 2025, when the Trump 47 Justice Department is back in office.
00:51:46.800And then the Trump 47 Justice Department can prosecute this contempt under two U.S.C. 192.
00:51:54.000And let's let's have some let's have some unmasking.
00:51:56.540Let's see what Republicans and let's see.
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