Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 160 LIVE: Hunter's Business Partners – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:01:56.000 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:01:59.000 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:02:03.000 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:02:09.000 I want to thank you, Matt Gaetz, for holding the line.

00:02:13.000 Matt Gaetz is a courageous man.

00:02:15.000 If we had hundreds of Matt Gaetz in D.C., the country turns around.

00:02:20.000 It's that simple.

00:02:20.000 He's so tough.

00:02:21.000 He's so strong.

00:02:22.000 He's smart and he loves this country.

00:02:25.000 Matt Gaetz.

00:02:27.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.

00:02:32.000 We will save America.

00:02:34.000 It's choose your fighter time.

00:02:35.000 I'm sending the firebrands. 1.00

00:02:37.000 I want to be crystal clear.

00:02:45.000 From my direct personal experience and what I've subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was the brand being sold by the Biden family.

00:02:54.000 His family's foreign influence peddling operation from China to Ukraine and elsewhere sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.

00:03:05.000 Joe Biden was more than a participant in and a beneficiary of his family's business.

00:03:09.000 He was an active, aware enabler who met with business associates such as myself to further the business, despised being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.

00:03:22.000 I ask this big question.

00:03:24.000 If there's no evidence of corruption here today, if Joe's conduct and the conduct of his family were fully legal and proper, then why are they so dishonest about it?

00:03:33.000 Not just slight misrepresentations of fact, but deep untruths about the entire corrupt enterprise.

00:03:41.000 Hunter Biden gave his transcribed interview on February 28th and lied throughout his testimony.

00:03:46.000 Here's just one egregious example of Hunter's perjury.

00:03:51.000 He lied to the committee on important details concerning his money demands and threats to CFC in text messages on July 30th and 31st, 2017. He leveraged his father's presence next to him in that infamous text to strong-arm CFC to paying Hunter immediately.

00:04:09.000 Jim Biden also lied extensively throughout his transcribed interview on February 21st and perjured himself.

00:04:17.000 An example of that, on page 100 of his transcript, Jim is asked specifically, do you recall having a meeting with Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, and Joe Biden?

00:04:27.000 Jim's response, absolutely not.

00:04:31.000 The committee was so shocked by his perjury that they asked him the same question multiple times, each time he denied meeting with me and Joe Biden.

00:04:41.000 After the committee showed him text messages confirming that I met with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Jim Biden at the Beverly Hilton in May 2017, Jim Biden, with a former U.S. attorney lawyer sitting next to him, still denied that meeting took place.

00:04:58.000 Hunter Biden, in his own transcribed interview, confirmed that that meeting took place.

00:05:03.000 Hunter confirmed his uncle perjured himself in front of this committee.

00:05:08.000 I'm simply here to tell the truth to the American people, and I hope each and every one of you, congressmen and women, give me the opportunity to do that instead of focusing on Russia or smearing my family's name or focusing on facts that are irrelevant today.

00:05:28.000 Welcome back to Firebrand.

00:05:29.000 We are live broadcasting out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. And what a week it has been.

00:05:36.000 We put on the full Biden family crime operation in the House Oversight Committee meeting yesterday.

00:05:42.000 I am not on the House Oversight Committee, but I was allowed to wave on, they call it, for the purpose of asking questions.

00:05:49.000 And here's what we saw.

00:05:50.000 We saw a fusion of Between Joe Biden's public service and Hunter Biden's business transactions.

00:05:57.000 And I believe that you can bribe a public official by paying off their kid or their spouse or their brother.

00:06:06.000 And in this case, you've got a lot of Bidens getting paid off.

00:06:10.000 We traced that back to the money.

00:06:15.000 Tony Bobulinski, for those of you unaware, former Biden business associate, really out there exposing a lot of the lies that the Bidens have told regarding the way in which Joe Biden specifically was used to close some of these business deals.

00:06:31.000 Here's my questioning of Tony Bobulinski.

00:06:33.000 Take a listen.

00:06:36.000 You're a serious business person, Mr. Bobulinski, right?

00:06:39.000 I am.

00:06:40.000 Unlike the convicted felon next to you, you've served in the military, right?

00:06:46.000 Correct.

00:06:46.000 You've done big deals, complicated deals, deals that involved foreign businesses, right?

00:06:54.000 Correct.

00:06:54.000 And so what I'm trying to figure out is when you came to realize that you showed up at the wrong party, Because you kind of strike me as a guy who showed up to do a legitimate business deal and you ended up instead at a bribe.

00:07:09.000 And so as you're looking at CEFC, as you're having this meeting with Joe Biden, as Hunter Biden is introducing you to his web of contacts, when did you go from serious businessman Tony Bobulinski working to make a buck in a capitalist system to a guy worried that you had been unwittingly ensnared into Hunter and Joe Biden's bribe operation with the Chinese Communist Party.

00:07:35.000 I appreciate the question.

00:07:37.000 It wasn't an aha moment.

00:07:38.000 It was more of a process.

00:07:40.000 I am a serious businessman demonstrated by the different deals I've done around the world and the success of them.

00:07:46.000 But it started, remember, the Biden family wasn't my entry into this.

00:07:51.000 James Gillier, who I'd known for over 10 years, who traveled the world doing business, kept trying to get me involved.

00:07:57.000 I really had no interest, no interest.

00:07:59.000 I sat down in the spring of 2017 to walk through things, and then I quickly put together two businesses, Sino Hawk and Oneida.

00:08:08.000 After the meetings in Los Angeles with Hunter and Joe Biden, It started to sort of bells and whistles started to go off when Jim Biden used the term plausible deniability.

00:08:19.000 Plausible deniability is the first moment straight from the lips of Jim Biden, right on the heels of your discussion with Joe Biden, where you start to think this might not be legit.

00:08:30.000 Correct.

00:08:31.000 And my lawyers at the time could attest to that because I reached out to them saying, listen, I'm a former naval officer.

00:08:37.000 I held a Q security clearance.

00:08:40.000 I couldn't collect.

00:08:41.000 Somebody couldn't take me to dinner for $50.

00:08:44.000 This just does not make sense to me.

00:08:46.000 But you proceed.

00:08:47.000 But you proceed, and then later this thing starts to get a lot uglier.

00:08:50.000 What's the moment you go from, okay, your spidey senses are up, you're analyzing this, to now you know this is a crime that you are bearing witness to?

00:08:58.000 The end of July.

00:09:00.000 When the Biden family put them right front and center in the middle of a $9 billion transaction between the Russian state-owned energy company Rosneft and CFC, a surrogate for the Chinese Communist Party.

00:09:14.000 And was there ever a time in the deals you were involved in where you started to see the money move around the legitimate business enterprise and toward the pockets of the Bidens?

00:09:25.000 Well, the challenge, Mr. Gates, with that is, at the time, They moved the money, right?

00:09:31.000 You guys have the text messages where Hunter Biden shook down Director Zhang, but I was not aware of that.

00:09:36.000 I spent a year asking questions of, this doesn't make sense to me, where's the money?

00:09:42.000 I stepped in and had lawyers work to dissolve the two entities.

00:09:46.000 I didn't know until years later that they had defrauded me, they had gotten paid all this money, and all this craziness.

00:09:53.000 It just seems pretty simple.

00:09:54.000 This is either a bribe or a business.

00:09:56.000 It was a bribe from the Chinese Communist Party.

00:09:59.000 And I don't say that lightly.

00:10:01.000 There's 1200 pages...

00:10:04.000 Eight days of testimony in the Southern District of New York.

00:10:08.000 I encourage everyone watching me, hearing me say this.

00:10:11.000 They're publicly available.

00:10:12.000 Go read them.

00:10:14.000 Our Department of Justice outlines in intimate detail the corruption and bribes that CFC was deploying to political officials all over the world.

00:10:23.000 It wasn't just in the United States.

00:10:24.000 So I'm here to believe that they did this in every other country, but with the Biden family, it was pristine.

00:10:30.000 It was an actual clean business.

00:10:32.000 That's absurd.

00:10:34.000 And you came to know that, and that's when you blew the whistle, right?

00:10:37.000 That's when you started to get worried, when you saw Joe Biden...

00:10:39.000 I stepped away from it.

00:10:40.000 There's the whistleblowers, I can't give them kudos enough for the bravery and the risk they put their family in.

00:10:46.000 They publish stuff where I am voicing the concern of the Rosneft deal directly to them.

00:10:50.000 And you animated your concerns when you saw that this wasn't just a corrupt bribe, a corrupt business deal happening to a guy who used to be vice president.

00:10:58.000 When you see that Joe, everyone's made a big deal, like you're a bad guy that you showed up at the debate, or you're trying to give life to these facts that you've observed, that it's so bad that you did that during a political contest.

00:11:10.000 But Observing this, it kind of seems like it would be unpatriotic for you to stay quiet.

00:11:15.000 Of course.

00:11:17.000 And so, I mean, Joe Biden running for president clearly motivated the Chinese to consummate this bribe. 0.99

00:11:24.000 Did it also motivate you?

00:11:25.000 Well, I didn't want to go public.

00:11:27.000 I wanted to simply unload all the facts, personal experiences.

00:11:31.000 It's funny, there's 18 People on this committee with law degrees, including, I think, Mr. Swalwell.

00:11:38.000 Evidence, first-hand testimony, is the most powerful evidence you have.

00:11:42.000 I've given it, Mr. Galanis has given it, along with a whole host of other witnesses.

00:11:47.000 Then, on top of that, I have thousands of documents and pages of legals and stuff like that.

00:11:53.000 I wanted to simply give this information Yeah, but that's the thing.

00:11:58.000 No one questioned any of your facts.

00:12:00.000 No one brought a single piece of evidence that even for a moment discredited any of the truthful testimony that you've given us.

00:12:06.000 No, they did not.

00:12:07.000 My time's expired.

00:12:08.000 I yield back.

00:12:10.000 All right, we're back live. 0.97

00:12:11.000 Heather on Facebook says, this is a waste of money and I am ridiculous. 0.91

00:12:15.000 Will on Rumble wants to choke out Bill Gates.

00:12:17.000 Not sure what that has to do with this, except that we are not related.

00:12:20.000 And SoCal on YouTube says, there are no consequences for Democrats.

00:12:24.000 Republicans are weak.

00:12:26.000 We have to build the case.

00:12:27.000 We have to deliver those consequences.

00:12:28.000 One person who I thought really developed the evidence well regarding the direct link to the Biden family and Joe Biden was Congresswoman Nancy Mace.

00:12:36.000 Take a listen.

00:12:39.000 On March 1st, 2024, Joe Biden stated he did not interact with Hunter or Jim Biden Business Associates.

00:12:45.000 Mr. Chairman, I'd like to ask unanimous consent to enter into a record New York Post article.

00:12:50.000 Biden insists he did not interact with.

00:12:52.000 Without objection to order.

00:12:53.000 We're going to go fast here.

00:12:55.000 I have strictly yes or no questions.

00:12:56.000 On that note, the New York Post article, Joe Biden also said, read the record of every single witness.

00:13:01.000 So I did.

00:13:03.000 I first read Devin Archer's deposition, and he interacted with Joe Biden.

00:13:07.000 Then I read the transcripts of Rob Walker, Eric Schwerin, George Burgess, Kevin Morris, Tony Bobulinski, and Jason Galanis.

00:13:14.000 And every single one of them interacted with Joe Biden.

00:13:18.000 And that's just the people we interviewed.

00:13:20.000 Mr. Galanis, my first questions are for you.

00:13:22.000 Did Hunter Biden call Joe Biden with Elaine Baterina on the line on May 4, 2014, yes or no?

00:13:29.000 Yes.

00:13:30.000 In that call, did Hunter Biden state on this call with Joe Biden that everything is good and we're moving forward?

00:13:36.000 Yes, he did.

00:13:37.000 Okay.

00:13:38.000 On the same call, did Joe Biden in the call was saying, okay, then you be good to my boy?

00:13:43.000 Yes, he said that as well.

00:13:45.000 Okay.

00:13:45.000 Did Botterina agree to put $20 million into one of Hunter Biden's business projects days later after this phone call?

00:13:53.000 Yes.

00:13:54.000 Okay.

00:13:54.000 Did Hunter Biden ever take a call from Joe Biden while at the Peninsula Bar in New York?

00:13:59.000 I'm sorry, I didn't hear the...

00:14:00.000 Did Hunter Biden ever take a call from Joe Biden while at the Peninsula Bar in New York?

00:14:05.000 Yes, he did.

00:14:06.000 During this call, did Hunter Biden update Joe Biden on progress in a landing, a business partnership with Harvest Fund Management?

00:14:14.000 Yes.

00:14:15.000 Okay.

00:14:15.000 Was Harvest a $300 billion Chinese financial services company closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party?

00:14:22.000 Yes, it was.

00:14:23.000 Okay.

00:14:24.000 Is Hunter Biden involved with Harvest?

00:14:31.000 Yes or no?

00:14:32.000 Was Hunter Biden involved with Harvest, yes or no?

00:14:36.000 Yes.

00:14:37.000 As part of the deal, did Hunter Biden want the company to reserve a board seat for Joe Biden?

00:14:44.000 Yes.

00:14:44.000 Did Henry Zhao, a Chinese businessman, want assurances Joe Biden would join the board, yes or no?

00:14:50.000 Yes, he did.

00:14:51.000 He expressed that in emails as well.

00:14:54.000 Okay, thank you.

00:14:56.000 Did Hunter Biden draft an email stating, please also remind Henry Zhao of our conversation about a board seat for a certain relation of mine.

00:15:02.000 Devin and I golfed with that relation earlier this week, and we discussed this very idea again.

00:15:07.000 And as always, he remains very, very keen on the opportunity.

00:15:11.000 Here is a photo of Joe Biden and Devin Archer and Hunter Biden golfing days before the alleged email draft.

00:15:18.000 Do you believe a certain relation of mine refers to Joe Biden?

00:15:22.000 I don't think there's any question.

00:15:24.000 It was based on firsthand conversations with Devin Archer who was in that picture and at that golf meeting.

00:15:29.000 Did you ever meet with Devin Archer where Hunter took calls from his father?

00:15:35.000 Yes.

00:15:36.000 Okay, during one of these phone calls and Hunter Biden tell Joe Biden that he and Henry Zhao needed help getting, quote, getting across the finish line.

00:15:43.000 Yes, that's correct.

00:15:44.000 Okay, Mr. Bobulinski, do you recall receiving an email that followed the possibility of giving 10% ownership of Sino Hawk to Joe Biden through Hunter Biden?

00:15:50.000 Yes.

00:15:51.000 Okay, my questions, my last questions are for both of you very quickly.

00:15:55.000 Mr. Bobulinski and Mr. Galanis, you both stated you were told not to use Joe Biden's name in communications, correct, Mr. Bobulinski?

00:16:01.000 Correct.

00:16:01.000 Mr. Galanis?

00:16:03.000 Yes.

00:16:04.000 Okay.

00:16:04.000 Did Joe Biden participate in phone conversations and meetings with Hunter Biden, his business associates, and foreign interests, yes or no?

00:16:10.000 Mr. Bobulinski?

00:16:11.000 He clearly did.

00:16:12.000 Okay.

00:16:12.000 Mr. Galanis, yes or no?

00:16:15.000 Yes.

00:16:15.000 Okay.

00:16:16.000 In Hunter Biden's deposition, he said he did not involve his father in his business.

00:16:20.000 Did Hunter Biden lie under oath, yes or no?

00:16:22.000 Mr. Bobulinski?

00:16:23.000 Yes.

00:16:24.000 Mr. Galanis?

00:16:26.000 If that's what he said, yes.

00:16:27.000 Okay.

00:16:28.000 Is Joe Biden lying when he says he did not interact with Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, their business partners or forward interests?

00:16:33.000 Yes or no?

00:16:34.000 Yes.

00:16:34.000 Mr. Galanis?

00:16:36.000 yes all right in a debate on october 22nd 2020 joe biden denied hunter biden made money from china then hunter biden his business associates and foreign interests include money from chinese businesses business partners and or interests yes or no mr babulinski i'm sorry that did the the did the biden family make money from chinese business interests mr galanis did hunter biden receive money from chinese business interests yes or no Okay,

00:17:06.000 thank you.

00:17:08.000 Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed that he was not involved in In Hunter Biden, Jim Biden or any other Biden family business deals.

00:17:17.000 Today our witnesses have proved otherwise.

00:17:21.000 Today we've established Joe Biden lied about interacting with Hunter Biden's business associates.

00:17:25.000 It is my belief Joe Biden is the closer for Hunter Biden, Jim Biden and their business associates and foreign interests.

00:17:31.000 Good luck to the left proving otherwise.

00:17:34.000 Thank you and I yield back.

00:17:38.000 We're back live.

00:17:38.000 A lot of love for Congresswoman Mace on the live stream.

00:17:41.000 Amy on Rumble saying, Mace to the point.

00:17:44.000 Couldn't agree more, but on the opposite side of the spectrum, we had a member of Congress in the hearing who embarrassed herself because she did not know that RICO was a violation of federal criminal law.

00:17:55.000 Here's Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez getting corrected by Tony Bobulinski.

00:17:58.000 Take a listen.

00:18:01.000 RICO, you're obviously not familiar with.

00:18:03.000 Excuse me, sir.

00:18:08.000 RICO is not a crime.

00:18:10.000 It is a category.

00:18:11.000 What is the crime?

00:18:13.000 It's a category of crimes that you're then charged.

00:18:15.000 You have charges.

00:18:17.000 You have charges.

00:18:19.000 Sir, please name the exact statute under RICO. Well, it's funny.

00:18:24.000 In this committee room, everyone's not here.

00:18:26.000 There's over 18 lawyers that went to law school.

00:18:29.000 I'll leave it up for you guys to define the statute under RICO. Thank you, sir.

00:18:31.000 I reclaim my time.

00:18:34.000 The time can be reclaimed, but the dignity cannot be.

00:18:37.000 That was spilled everywhere.

00:18:40.000 Tony Bobulinski just needed an opportunity to tell his story because he was the inside man.

00:18:45.000 He saw the way a business apparatus was created to be an illusion, when in reality, this was just all about the payment of bribes from the Chinese to the Biden family.

00:18:58.000 There was great questioning on this point from Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee.

00:19:01.000 Take a listen.

00:19:04.000 On July 30th, 2017, Hunter Biden wrote to his Chinese business associate, Raymond Zhao, I'm sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.

00:19:16.000 Mr. Bobulinski, why did Raymond Zhao work for the...

00:19:19.000 Who did Raymond Zhao work for when this message was sent?

00:19:23.000 Raymond Zhao worked for Director Zhang at CEFC. Is CEFC connected to the Chinese Communist Party?

00:19:29.000 It is.

00:19:30.000 Is CEFC a corrupt organization?

00:19:33.000 It was.

00:19:35.000 From your perspective, what had occurred with CEFC from the end of May to this July 30th text message?

00:19:43.000 Well, it's tough to go through all these details in 20-second clips, but at the end of July, it's important to note Jim Biden was broke.

00:19:52.000 Hunter Biden was broke.

00:19:55.000 Published by the Brave Whistleblowers, Shapley and Ziegler.

00:20:00.000 And Hunter made the conscious decision to basically Defraud the partners of Sino Hawk Holdings and Oneida because he needed money immediately.

00:20:10.000 They've published pages of text messages where he's trying to get money into his bank account.

00:20:15.000 And so that night, for whatever reason, on the 30th, when he asked why hasn't the commitment been fulfilled, the commitment he's talking about is actually the $10 million funding into Sino Hawk Holdings LLC. Really key point.

00:20:31.000 But the next day, He decides that he's going to defraud Sino Hawk Holdings and Oneida, create a new entity called Hudson West 3, well actually change Hudson West 3, it had already previously been created by the Chinese, and make himself a 50% owner in that entity, so when the Chinese did send money, he would have instant access to it.

00:20:54.000 Really important.

00:20:55.000 Backed up with tens of pages of communications.

00:20:58.000 He wanted to get access to the money the second it came in.

00:21:02.000 And in Sinohawk Holdings and Oneida Holdings, he did not have that power.

00:21:06.000 I just want to address one thing real quick.

00:21:08.000 Hunter Biden represents.

00:21:09.000 He's a governance expert.

00:21:10.000 That's why Burisma put him on the board.

00:21:12.000 Well, he obviously can't do basic math.

00:21:15.000 The board of Oneida Holdings had seven votes.

00:21:18.000 Each one of them, Hunter, Jim Biden, James Gillian, Rob Walker, had a single vote.

00:21:24.000 I had three votes.

00:21:26.000 I have a master's degree in electrical and nuclear engineering.

00:21:29.000 I think I can do math.

00:21:31.000 I had three.

00:21:32.000 They had four.

00:21:33.000 They controlled Oneida Holdings.

00:21:36.000 So Hunter Biden's representations that I was trying to take the business from them or I didn't know is all a sham and a misrepresentation.

00:21:44.000 He wanted money in his account instantly and that's why he shook down the Chinese and they were willing to send him that five million dollars because they viewed it as a bribe to the Biden family.

00:21:55.000 They say it in their own communications.

00:21:58.000 Are you aware or not that they pay taxes on any of that?

00:22:02.000 I can only go from public testimony.

00:22:04.000 I was not involved in their taxes.

00:22:06.000 Okay.

00:22:06.000 On July 31st, the next day, Hunter says he hopes Kevin should know that the plan to speak is highly confidential.

00:22:14.000 And Raymond Zal responded, CEFC is willing to cooperate with the family and the priorities to solve the problems mentioned last night.

00:22:21.000 What family was Raymond Zal talking about?

00:22:24.000 Well, the family was the Biden family, and more importantly in that text is what is he talking about is the confidential manner.

00:22:31.000 The confidential matter he's talking about were four sealed indictments in the SDNY where they were about to indict executives of CEFC that we now know.

00:22:41.000 I didn't know that in July of 2017, but the SDNY knew.

00:22:45.000 Charles McGonigal, who's now apparently going to serve 78 months in prison, ran counterintelligence for the FBI in New York City where Chairman Yee was dropping $50 million of cash for penthouses in Manhattan.

00:23:01.000 So who you should be asking all these questions are the Department of Justice, the SDNY, the FBI, because they have troves of evidence that back up what was going on in July 2017 and in August 2017. So I apologize, Congressman, to be so passionate and to take your time, but this is what I need you guys, or the focus has to be of your oversight committee.

00:23:23.000 This involved the Chinese Communist Party.

00:23:25.000 They were doing a transaction with Rosneft, which was a Russian-sanctioned U.S.-sanctioned company at the time, and the Biden family was right front and center in the middle of it.

00:23:36.000 Thank you.

00:23:37.000 I'll switch gears for a second.

00:23:38.000 I wish Hunter Biden were here because I'd like to ask him about his taxes.

00:23:42.000 I want to know if he paid his fair share, just like his dads asked Americans to do.

00:23:46.000 I want to know if he's current on his taxes, and if he isn't, I'd like to ask him when he plans to pay up.

00:23:52.000 Mr. Bobulinski, you're a businessman.

00:23:54.000 Did you pay your taxes?

00:23:55.000 I did.

00:23:56.000 Mr. Bobulinski, he actually pays his taxes.

00:24:00.000 Unlike the President's son, and yet Democrats on this committee act like Hunter is a believable one out of you two.

00:24:05.000 Joe Biden has no right to lecture the American people about their taxes until he gets his own house in order.

00:24:11.000 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:24:14.000 We're back live and Frank on Getter asks the question, well actually makes the statement, DOJ do your job or get out of the way.

00:24:23.000 So the DOJ has a role here that's not just protecting the Bidens, but in the words of some, They're actually retaliating against some of the people who speak out against the Bidens.

00:24:36.000 Jason Galanis is a former Hunter Biden business associate.

00:24:39.000 They were in some of the same corrupt deals together, and when they were exposed as corrupt, Jason Galanis went to prison, where he was giving his testimony from at the hearing this week.

00:24:50.000 But Jason Galanis believes that the DOJ indeed is not just hands-off, but they're acting in a malicious way against the interests of justice.

00:24:59.000 Take a listen.

00:25:02.000 The Democrats could have sent anyone.

00:25:04.000 They could have sent Hunter Biden.

00:25:07.000 They could have sent Joe Biden.

00:25:08.000 They could have sent Rob Walker.

00:25:10.000 They could have sent Devin Archer.

00:25:11.000 The Democrats could have sought any person to come and refute the direct evidence backed up by bank statements, backed up by calendar entries, backed up by emails, backed up by text messages.

00:25:22.000 And who did the Democrats send to clear the name of Joe and Hunter Biden?

00:25:27.000 They sent Lev Parnas.

00:25:29.000 Lev Parnas, who was charged with enough crimes and violating our campaign finance laws to, like, serve 50 years, but he gets four months.

00:25:42.000 And, like, the big, like, grand criminal conspiracy Mr. Parnas is involved in is using Russian oligarch money to try to get marijuana licenses, which seems odd, and then using that Russian money to plow into campaigns in order to achieve that objective.

00:26:00.000 But the fraud he committed wasn't just on our election system by plowing Russian money.

00:26:05.000 It was also a fraud on his own investors who didn't get it.

00:26:09.000 So I guess, Mr. Bobulinski, as you hear, Maxwell Frost, my colleague on the Democrat side, say that Mr. Parnas, fresh off of his prison time, is the most credible witness we've had to address these business dealings.

00:26:23.000 What's your reaction to that?

00:26:24.000 I think it's laughable that the Democrats are asking Lev Parnas to weigh in on my credibility, a convicted felon that served jail time.

00:26:34.000 I have an impeccable record.

00:26:36.000 Now, he warned me earlier in this hearing that they're coming for me.

00:26:39.000 I look forward to that, Mr. Parnas.

00:26:43.000 Keep lying.

00:26:44.000 You'll be there soon.

00:26:45.000 Well, and is that a threat, Mr. Parnas?

00:26:47.000 No, it's just the truth.

00:26:48.000 No, did you say they were coming for me?

00:26:50.000 No, I said if you keep lying, you will end up in prison.

00:26:52.000 I'm not lying.

00:26:53.000 You're the one who was lying.

00:26:55.000 You're the one who went to prison for lying.

00:26:56.000 What am I lying for?

00:26:57.000 Tell me what we're lying for, Mr. Bobaranski.

00:26:59.000 You don't even know what you're talking about.

00:27:00.000 What am I lying?

00:27:01.000 You went to prison for lying and defrauding your investors?

00:27:05.000 What am I lying here?

00:27:06.000 Oh, the list is long.

00:27:07.000 We don't have enough time.

00:27:08.000 I think Mr. Gates only has a minute.

00:27:10.000 I think you're a little scared, just like Mr. Gates.

00:27:12.000 Because Mr. Gates doesn't even ask a question.

00:27:13.000 You're filibustering.

00:27:14.000 I've been here for six hours and not one of your committee members has asked me one question.

00:27:21.000 I asked a question about your illegal business dealing.

00:27:24.000 I've been here for seven hours.

00:27:24.000 Ask me some questions.

00:27:26.000 Fraud is a crime, right?

00:27:27.000 Correct.

00:27:28.000 Fraud is a crime.

00:27:29.000 Fraud is a crime, and you observed fraud on the part of the Bidens, right?

00:27:33.000 I did, crystal clear.

00:27:35.000 So much so I had an independent law firm spend $300,000 to analyze that fraud.

00:27:40.000 And put together a fully ready, fileable lawsuit against the Biden family.

00:27:45.000 And bribery is a crime, right?

00:27:47.000 Correct.

00:27:48.000 And what you observed with Joe Biden trying to get you into this business deal with Hunter Biden, what you later learned about that business deal and how the money was flowing from the Chinese Communist Party to Hunter Biden, to other members of the Biden family, did that concern you as a potential feature of money laundering?

00:28:07.000 It did.

00:28:08.000 It did.

00:28:08.000 I started to grow concerned after I met Joe Biden, and then I sat down with Jim Biden and he used the term plausible deniability with me, and that's documented because I went back to my lawyers and I asked them, something is starting to feel unright, and they went and hired another law firm to give me a full FCPA workup to go through the details of what could be done and what couldn't be done.

00:28:31.000 Sounds like high crimes and misdemeanors to me, Mr. Chairman.

00:28:33.000 I yield back.

00:28:34.000 Hunter Biden's deposition.

00:28:36.000 Question, do you think some of your business associates we've spoken about today, Mr. Archer, Mr. Bob Yulinski, Mr. Galanis, do you think they had an expectation that your dad had any role or involvement in any of your joint business dealings?

00:28:49.000 Answer from Hunter Biden, not an expectation from me.

00:28:52.000 There was never a single time I can remember saying, hey, we'll get my dad involved.

00:28:57.000 Hey, let's get my dad on the phone.

00:28:58.000 Hey, let's, you know, what can we get out of dad for this?

00:29:02.000 Mr. Galanis, what's your reaction to that testimony from Hunter Biden in light of you describing the Biden lift?

00:29:09.000 I think it's patently false.

00:29:12.000 It's belied by emails, and I think that there's documentation that says that that's just an untruthful statement.

00:29:20.000 What I'm trying to understand, Mr. Galanis, is there you are sitting in a prison cell for a financial crime Where you were an associate with Hunter Biden and some of the other players there, and they're out enjoying Southern California, and you're sitting in a prison cell, and they've got the ability to come and give this false testimony to Congress.

00:29:40.000 Is it your belief that the Biden Justice Department retaliates against people who speak out against the Bidens and their crimes?

00:29:50.000 I'm living that.

00:29:51.000 I think, to clarify, I took responsibility for my crimes.

00:29:54.000 I pleaded guilty.

00:29:55.000 I've served eight years of clean conduct, and I think I've rehabilitated myself quite a bit in that period of time, and evidenced a track record, but I would say that there is unquestionably a pattern of two tiers of justice, and that's become a popularized term, and it's something that I've lived experience that I've gone through.

00:30:12.000 You'll back.

00:30:16.000 We are back live.

00:30:17.000 Lev Parnas, you'll remember, was the individual involved in financial campaign crimes.

00:30:24.000 He was taking money for one purpose and using it for another, and this was the criminal the Democrats brought in to defend Hunter and Joe Biden.

00:30:33.000 Really remarkable.

00:30:35.000 Lev wanted some questions from me.

00:30:36.000 It seemed from the last clip that he was a little bored, so we gave him some questions.

00:30:40.000 Take a listen.

00:30:42.000 Mr. Parnas, how much time do you spend in prison?

00:30:47.000 Four months, but you were indicted for crimes that could have resulted in you spending 50 years in prison, right?

00:30:53.000 Right, there were false crimes.

00:30:54.000 The judge saw through it.

00:30:56.000 Well, you went to trial and you were convicted, right?

00:30:59.000 I went to trial, correct.

00:31:00.000 And the crime was that you were trying to acquire marijuana licenses and you took money from a Russian oligarch and you tried to use that money to go give political donations and do what you had to do to acquire marijuana licenses.

00:31:14.000 Is that about right?

00:31:15.000 That's what the crime was.

00:31:16.000 That's what the indictment was.

00:31:18.000 Sounds like everyone here today, the only one working for a Russian oligarch was you.

00:31:23.000 Right?

00:31:24.000 I mean, I just heard you wax.

00:31:25.000 It's public information.

00:31:27.000 I got paid $200,000.

00:31:30.000 You know how much I got paid.

00:31:31.000 You were really worried about our democracy and you were here to warn us, but you were working for a Russian oligarch.

00:31:36.000 On behalf of President Trump.

00:31:38.000 But then you didn't even do it.

00:31:40.000 The fraud you committed against the Russian oligarch was that instead you spent the money on yourself.

00:31:45.000 So was that what you were doing to fight against Russia's aggression, just taking their money?

00:31:50.000 Well, that's what you were convicted of.

00:31:52.000 But instead of spending 50 years in prison, you got four months.

00:31:56.000 As this hearing continues, I look forward to hearing what Mr. Galanis thinks about how he was treated by the DOJ for telling the truth, as opposed to how you're treated for lying.

00:32:03.000 The DOJ didn't listen to the truth, because if they would listen to the truth...

00:32:06.000 The question Mr. Gates had is for Mr. Galanis.

00:32:12.000 Look, the truth for you is taking money from Russians to buy marijuana businesses and then going to jail and then coming here to lie about Trump.

00:32:19.000 You should know better than anybody.

00:32:21.000 what the VOG is about.

00:32:23.000 You should know better than anybody.

00:32:24.000 Gentlemen's time's expired.

00:32:26.000 That was the star Democrat witness.

00:32:30.000 We got a chance to question and I think expose.

00:32:33.000 So tell me why it took three years.

00:32:36.000 Tony Bobulinski has been making a lot of these claims for quite some time, even before the last presidential contest.

00:32:42.000 Why did it take House Republicans until now to get this hearing with Hunter Biden's business partners out there?

00:32:47.000 And the answer is simple.

00:32:48.000 It took too long to get the subpoenas out to Hunter Biden.

00:32:51.000 Kevin McCarthy would never authorize a subpoena to Hunter Biden.

00:32:55.000 For all of Mike Johnson's concerning disappointments on spending, and we'll get to that later in the program.

00:33:02.000 He did authorize the subpoena to Hunter Biden, and that's what finally got the Hunter testimony, which allowed us to bring in these business associates and to show how Hunter was lying.

00:33:12.000 Now, we, of course, invited Hunter to be there as well, but he didn't want that.

00:33:16.000 He didn't want to be exposed in public.

00:33:19.000 In front of his business partners that would just turn to him and say, that's a lie, dude.

00:33:23.000 And the American people would see, just with the incarnation of Hunter there alongside Bobby Linsky, who was lying.

00:33:30.000 And it wasn't Bobby Linsky.

00:33:31.000 And you know why it wasn't Bobby Linsky?

00:33:32.000 How I know that it wasn't Tony lying?

00:33:35.000 Because the Democrats never really pushed into the facts.

00:33:39.000 They didn't bring contravening evidence.

00:33:41.000 They didn't say that Bobulinski wasn't sufficiently corroborated.

00:33:46.000 They just complained about Trump, which is really all they do, and probably why the American people are wondering why Democrats don't address their challenges, their needs.

00:33:55.000 Now, there was one Democrat during this hearing who made some interesting points, and I know you're not going to like this, so just get ready to be triggered, firebrand audience.

00:34:05.000 But Katie Porter... 1.00

00:34:08.000 Democrat from California, if you take this next clip I'm going to play you of Katie Porter and filter out all the anti-Republican, anti-Trump stuff and just focus on the ethics changes and legislative reforms she's proposing. 1.00

00:34:27.000 Going after the revolving door between lobbyists and members of Congress.

00:34:33.000 Stopping members of Congress from being registered foreign agents.

00:34:36.000 Tightening up the bribery laws.

00:34:38.000 Again, not the rhetoric.

00:34:39.000 But this is your assignment.

00:34:41.000 Listen explicitly to the policy prescriptions that Katie Porter lays out and tell me what you disagree with in the live chat.

00:34:47.000 Take a listen.

00:34:50.000 We should have a policy discussion about how to stop government officials from using their positions to get money or favors.

00:34:58.000 Now that is a real hearing, one that nearly every American, regardless of party, wants us to hold.

00:35:06.000 We could start by talking about how senior executive branch officials can leave public service, wait just one year, and then legally become lobbyists for big corporations, scoring their new employers' profitable government contracts and favorable regulations.

00:35:23.000 They can even be Paid by the big corporations during that short one year while they are waiting to become lobbyists as a down payment for their future ability to peddle influence.

00:35:37.000 That's wrong.

00:35:39.000 For the panel of witnesses, by show of hands, as Americans, would our witnesses support extending this one-year waiting period to at least two years?

00:35:52.000 No, I would.

00:35:53.000 Okay, so there we go.

00:35:55.000 Republicans, Democrats, even convicted criminals, everybody supports that we should do more to stop influence peddling.

00:36:04.000 This is the kind of good government reform that Americans of all political stripes support.

00:36:09.000 And I should know, in 2022, I passed that exact reform as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act with a bipartisan majority vote.

00:36:21.000 What happened to that amendment?

00:36:23.000 Why didn't it become law?

00:36:25.000 The answer is simple.

00:36:27.000 Nearly 500 former members of Congress worked for lobbying firms.

00:36:33.000 And too many people around here want to follow in their footsteps, and so don't want to make it harder for government officials to become lobbyists.

00:36:41.000 Ultimately, Democratic leadership under then Speaker Nancy Pelosi let the amendment get stripped out of the final bill.

00:36:48.000 When I offered up the amendment again during this Congress, Republican leadership under then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy never even put the amendment up for a vote.

00:36:56.000 Both parties have let us down on fighting influence peddling and tackling corruption.

00:37:03.000 But I'm hopeful we can begin a new approach in this very committee.

00:37:07.000 Let me give you some facts.

00:37:09.000 I don't even need a whiteboard for this one.

00:37:12.000 495 former members of Congress worked for lobbying firms.

00:37:18.000 467 members of Congress take corporate PAC money.

00:37:23.000 78 members of Congress violated the Stock Act last Congress.

00:37:30.000 Clearly, we have our work cut out for us, so let's start the conversation today on what a bipartisan ethics reform package could look like.

00:37:39.000 Here are the organizations that could have come today as witnesses so we could have had a productive conversation.

00:37:46.000 Oversight staff, do you have your notebooks ready?

00:37:48.000 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Common Cause, Project on Government Oversight, Public Citizen, with the right witnesses, And the commitment to doing what the American people want, this committee can have a real conversation about the problem of influence peddling.

00:38:06.000 And we can pass legislation to create badly needed ethics guardrails.

00:38:12.000 That would be real work, not a real circus.

00:38:16.000 I yield back.

00:38:19.000 I recognize Mr. Timmons.

00:38:20.000 Ms. Porter, I think you are sincere and I look forward to working with you on that legislation.

00:38:30.000 Bravo, Katie Porter!

00:38:32.000 We should have an extended cooling off period.

00:38:34.000 Frankly, I don't think members of Congress should ever be able to be lobbyists.

00:38:38.000 I think if you get the privilege of making our nation's laws, you don't get to then enter the transfer portal and then go and influence lawmaking for money.

00:38:46.000 Just a mercenary instead of a patriot.

00:38:48.000 And far too many do, and I'm glad Katie Porter brought that to fruition.

00:38:52.000 And she can count on me as an ally in any effort to try to clean this place up from the corrupt influence of money, and it affects both sides.

00:39:00.000 And any of you who try to say, well, you know, the whataboutism of, well, the other side does it worse than we do...

00:39:06.000 It's the uniparty.

00:39:07.000 It is totally the uniparty who keeps this corrupt system in place, and there are few voices that speak out against it, and so we have to band them together even if they come from different places in the ideological spectrum.

00:39:20.000 One voice that was deeply concerning to me was one we heard today on TikTok encouraging illegal aliens to break into people's homes.

00:39:29.000 The Biden border policies have gotten so bad that your home is at risk of invasion, promoted, And put out by TikTok.

00:39:38.000 Take a listen.

00:39:40.000 And right now, there is this TikTok going viral.

00:39:45.000 This TikToker is telling illegal migrants to invade Americans' homes, take them over. 0.99

00:39:54.000 He tells his half a million followers that U.S. squatting laws allow it.

00:40:01.000 We're back live.

00:40:02.000 We've heard how the openness and acceptance of our country has often turned against us in great power competition with China, with Russia.

00:40:10.000 But here you see just the fact that we have this viral nature to our society allowing someone to spread a message of deep destruction and hate and concern.

00:40:23.000 And you know what?

00:40:23.000 I wouldn't screw around and do that in Florida.

00:40:26.000 F-A-F-O, baby. 0.99

00:40:28.000 We got the Stand Your Ground law in Florida.

00:40:30.000 We got the Castle Doctrine.

00:40:31.000 So you break into my home, you break into the home of my fellow Florida man and Florida woman, and you're likely to be catching some hot lead.

00:40:38.000 So if you got plans to break into people's houses and commit forcible felonies against them, I suggest you do that in a state that does not have the Castle Doctrine and a well-armed citizenry like we do in the Sunshine State.

00:40:51.000 Today in the House Armed Services Committee, we had the leaders of U.S. policy on Africa.

00:40:55.000 And you've heard me talk a lot about the continent on the program, not because I think that there is some natural linkage of African culture and society to ours.

00:41:05.000 That's the argument other people make about Ukraine.

00:41:07.000 I do it because it is a microcosm of the Biden administration's The terrible decision-making, the lack of a strategic envelope for how we're going to generate outcomes based on the pipeline of our actions, and one of us truly,

00:41:23.000 and I don't say this lightly, but truly one of the dumbest people I have ever questioned is General Langley, who is in charge of AFRICOM and doesn't know basic things about the continent or government or warfare.

00:41:37.000 It was something. 0.97

00:41:39.000 Take a listen.

00:41:41.000 This is Colonel Mamaday Dumbuya, and this is a photo of him.

00:41:47.000 Did we train and equip him?

00:41:49.000 By name, I cannot identify that.

00:41:51.000 Well, that's him with a bunch of U.S. service members outside of our embassy.

00:41:55.000 And just months after this photo was taken in 2021, he led a coup in Guinea and threw out the leader.

00:42:04.000 Does that concern you?

00:42:06.000 Congressman, Core values is what we start off with in IMA programs.

00:42:11.000 Do we share core values with Colonel Dumbuya?

00:42:14.000 Core values.

00:42:15.000 I will repeat that.

00:42:16.000 He let a coup?

00:42:16.000 We do.

00:42:18.000 So I guess four months after that exchange, General Langley, you had General Musa Bamu overthrow the government in Niger.

00:42:30.000 It won't surprise anybody here that we trained him.

00:42:33.000 The person who overthrew the democratically elected government in Niger went to the National Defense University, trained at Fort Benning, Georgia.

00:42:41.000 So, do we share core values with Musa Bamu?

00:42:47.000 Congressman, let me just go ahead and state that core values is what we start off with.

00:42:53.000 But there is no syllabus for overthrowing the government, not in our institutions.

00:43:00.000 Well, they're learning it pretty well even in the absence of a syllabus, right?

00:43:03.000 Because if you look at Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, in a lot of these countries, the coup is led by someone we trained.

00:43:15.000 Now, I put in the National Defense Authorization Act a requirement for you to issue us a report as to how many coup leaders our taxpayers have funded the training for.

00:43:25.000 That report is due tomorrow.

00:43:27.000 Will we be getting it on time?

00:43:30.000 I'll do a follow-up on that, Congressman.

00:43:32.000 Well, this was the follow-up, right?

00:43:34.000 Because first I asked you in that clip, how many coup leaders did we train?

00:43:39.000 You didn't know, and so then I put it in the law for you to tell me.

00:43:43.000 The law requires you to tell me by tomorrow, so can you give us a preview of coming attractions?

00:43:48.000 You'll get your answer, Congressman.

00:43:50.000 But let me say, there's no correlation and there's no causation of U.S. training to these members.

00:43:58.000 Well, that's what I'm trying to find out, because in like a dozen countries, the coup leaders are people we trained.

00:44:04.000 Like, what a difference a year makes.

00:44:06.000 March 16th, 2023, Secretary Blinken calls Niger, quote, a model of resilience, a model of democracy, a model of cooperation.

00:44:18.000 One year and one day later, Dr. Wallander, the spokesperson of the Nigerian military, Colonel Amadou Amabramay, says, quote, the American presence in the territory of the Republic of Niger is illegal.

00:44:35.000 A year and a day after our government said they were the model of resilience and democracy, they are throwing us out by the scrubs of our neck.

00:44:44.000 And so, is it safe to say that this failed, General Langley?

00:44:52.000 It's safe to say that there's no correlation or causation of U.S. training to a coup happening.

00:44:58.000 Period.

00:45:00.000 It certainly isn't.

00:45:01.000 There's no causation or correlation to the training we do, creating more stability.

00:45:05.000 I'm trying to ascertain whether or not all this money we spend in Africa makes the place less stable or more stable.

00:45:10.000 And just for a country lawyer like me, if we're funding the coup leaders, that probably strikes me as making it less stable.

00:45:16.000 Now, are you aware of the Iranian efforts to now mine in Niger?

00:45:21.000 General Angley?

00:45:23.000 Congressman, we could talk about it in a classified section on that.

00:45:26.000 Well, I mean, Fox News is reporting it.

00:45:29.000 They're saying that Iran is working on economic arrangements to get uranium from Niger.

00:45:35.000 Well, in a classified session, we're going to talk real intel.

00:45:38.000 Yeah, I guess.

00:45:39.000 I mean, we've spent more than 500 million in the country.

00:45:43.000 What can you say we've got for that 500 million as we sit here today?

00:45:46.000 If it's like being turned into an Iranian mine, The Russians are the preferred security partner, and we're training the coup leaders. 0.98

00:45:56.000 There was a buy-down on an insurance policy for protecting the homeland.

00:46:02.000 I don't think we're doing that though.

00:46:04.000 I don't think there's evidence to suggest that.

00:46:07.000 That's your opinion.

00:46:07.000 You went to Niger.

00:46:08.000 I respect your opinion.

00:46:09.000 Okay, but General Langley, you went to Niger and you went to have a meeting with the people we trained who overthrew the democratically elected government and Fox News is reporting that you didn't even get a meeting with the principal decision-maker.

00:46:22.000 Is that right?

00:46:25.000 I had a meeting with my counterpart.

00:46:27.000 Well, here's the quote.

00:46:28.000 Sources say last week's meeting with the Junta was extremely difficult.

00:46:32.000 The administration's envoys did not get to meet with Niger's principal decision-maker.

00:46:37.000 Is that a true statement, or is that a false statement?

00:46:40.000 My responsibility is to meet with my counterpart, not...

00:46:43.000 I would just hope that if we were two leaders, we could at least book a meeting, you know, since it's the model of democracy.

00:46:53.000 We are back live.

00:46:54.000 Those are painful discussions, but they need to be had because, as you heard, you have invested $500 million into the country of Niger.

00:47:02.000 And what we have for it is an opportunity for uranium mining expansion for Iran, military expansion for Russia, and our opportunity to train the next generation of coup leaders.

00:47:14.000 That's basically what you got for $500 million.

00:47:17.000 And by the way, that's where things are going best in Africa. 0.94

00:47:20.000 That was the place Tony Blinken said was the centerpiece of our strategy for democracy and cooperation.

00:47:30.000 Unbelievable.

00:47:31.000 And it's happening everywhere in the world.

00:47:33.000 Now, before we go, I want to make mention of this trillion-dollar spending bill that the House of Representatives is set to vote on tomorrow.

00:47:39.000 I will be voting emphatically against this.

00:47:43.000 Continues to advance an unconstitutional process, unconstitutional agencies.

00:47:48.000 It doesn't secure the border.

00:47:50.000 It funds Planned Parenthood.

00:47:51.000 It funds earmarks for all kind of LGBTQ, AI, XYZ stuff. 0.59

00:47:58.000 And what does it do for the American people?

00:48:01.000 Higher prices, more inflation, higher prices.

00:48:05.000 Larger debts, growing deficit, and no political courage to take it on.

00:48:10.000 Now, I know we only have like a one or two seat majority on a given day, but I would rather die on the field politically than continue to surrender to America's defeat and demise.

00:48:21.000 And surrender is precisely...

00:48:24.000 What this omnibus spending bill does.

00:48:25.000 It surrenders on the border.

00:48:26.000 It surrenders on the budget.

00:48:28.000 It surrenders on the bureaucrats that are choking out the economic freedom of our citizens. 0.58

00:48:32.000 I will vote against it.

00:48:34.000 I will speak out against it.

00:48:35.000 I will debate against it.

00:48:36.000 I will do everything I can to encourage my colleagues to join me.

00:48:40.000 And you know what?

00:48:41.000 Those who don't very well might see me in a different context that I cannot discuss from my congressional office.

00:48:48.000 But they'll see me.

00:48:49.000 And so will you.

00:48:51.000 Thanks for tuning into Firebrand today.

00:48:52.000 Much appreciated.

00:48:54.000 Ensure you are subscribed with notifications turned on.

00:48:57.000 The best way to watch the show is to download the Rumble app with the notification so that you get the word each and every time we go live to bring you exactly what's happening from the United States Congress in real time.

00:49:08.000 Thanks again.

00:49:09.000 Roll the credits.

Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - March 21, 2024

Episode 160 LIVE: Hunter's Business Partners – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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