On today's show we have the latest from the George Santos Indictment, and a new report from the House Oversight Committee. We also have a major scandal out of the CIA and a possible cover-up by big tech and big media.
00:01:47.000They have been involved in coups abroad.
00:01:50.000They have been involved in election interference abroad.
00:01:54.000And sadly, those capabilities have been brought home to our country.
00:02:01.000The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, upon which I serve, released a report just today that laid out the problems with what the CIA was doing and the nature of their election interference in the 2020 campaign.
00:02:17.000That's right. I am explicitly asserting, as this report does, that the CIA was involved in interfering in the 2020 election.
00:02:26.000Here's how we know that to be the case.
00:02:29.000One in six of the people who voted for Joe Biden said they would have not done so if they were aware of the corruption erupting out of Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:02:42.000But you see, the American people didn't get that information in time for the election.
00:02:48.000Well, because 51 senior national security folks, people who had retired from some of the top positions in FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, NSA,
00:03:00.000these 51 people signed a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
00:03:07.000And that letter was then used by big tech and big media to censor the reporting from the New York Post that laid out those foreign contacts and those foreign connections.
00:03:21.000And so you might ask yourself, why did 51 people put their reputation on the line, their name on the line, their security clearance on the line to sign that which we know today to be false?
00:03:36.000And the conclusion in this report is that they were prodded and triggered to do so by the current Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, who at the time was a senior Biden campaign official.
00:03:49.000And then they were coerced in at least one circumstance by folks who were at that time working for the CIA.
00:03:56.860The CIA was working to coerce people to sign a letter that then government and media and tech would all use to try to stop the American people from seeing something that undeniably would have been dispositive on this election had it impacted the perspective of one in every six voters.
00:04:20.860When someone in one of these senior intelligence organizations wants to, following their employment, write a book or a manuscript,
00:04:31.420they have to get approval of the agency where they worked.
00:04:36.600They have to get approval to see that no national security information is being released, that it is an appropriate disclosure.
00:04:42.920And these approvals are typically given so long as there's not a release of information that might be classified, sensitive, or otherwise protected.
00:04:51.920Well, one of the 51 people told the House Judiciary Committee that he was only going to get his book approved by the CIA if he signed the Hunter Biden letter.
00:05:06.020Using the power of the most exquisite intelligence agency in the world to coerce someone that if they did not do what they were being told to provide this tool for Biden in the debates,
00:05:21.080for big tech, for big media to censor, if they did not do that, they could not publish their book.
00:05:25.720That is the weaponization of government that we are reporting on.
00:05:30.840The live feed is fired up, and there's a lot of folks saying, where's the action?
00:05:38.280Let me lay out some level setting here for you.
00:05:42.000The United States Congress has no ability to throw anyone in jail or put handcuffs on folks, issue arrests.
00:05:48.920That's probably for good reason if you think about it.
00:05:52.440We have the power, though, to expose, and we have to use the power of the subpoena and the power of the purse.
00:05:59.940I believe that what we are learning about a weaponized government ought to be the principal driver of how we think about every budgetary fight,
00:06:10.020every authorization to spend, every nickel, even the debt limit.
00:06:14.020If this government is weaponized, why would we willy-nilly go raise the debt limit to provide a ton more cash for it to continue to operate in a way that has turned on the people?
00:06:32.260And oh, by the way, the folks who are at the Department of Justice right now don't really think that they're going to move up in their career if they go after Joe Biden.
00:06:41.320So when the appropriations process comes, when the budget is before us, we ought to use the tools that I fought so hard for during the speaker contest,
00:06:54.440defunding the salaries of these bureaucrats, deep vertical cuts into these agencies, strip them of their authorities and their cash and the veneer that they use to lie.
00:07:04.880That is the action that we ought to perform in the House of Representatives and divided government.
00:07:10.080And no, it probably doesn't give these people the ultimate accountability that they deserve, but it sets us on the correct trajectory to save the country and our future and our values.
00:07:23.580And I care about that even more than I care about any bloodlust or vengeance against any particular individual.
00:07:29.080I want to set it right, because if we do not, these corrupt cultures will continue to re-manifest throughout the national security apparatus and the enterprise of government entirely.
00:07:40.860So there was the other major news today on the debt limit.
00:08:25.120They have a speaker who has his job because he yielded to the, quote, MAGA element of the party.
00:08:31.620They're doing, to the best of my knowledge, what no other political party has done in the nation's history.
00:08:36.580They're literally, not figuratively, holding the economy hostage by threatening to default on our nation's debt that we've already incurred.
00:08:46.140We've already incurred over the last couple hundred years, unless we give in to the threats and demands as to what they think we should be doing with regard to the budget.
00:09:31.120It's not bad for the country that McCarthy had to make concessions on spending in order to secure the speakership.
00:09:36.840And those very concessions that McCarthy had to make to folks like Chip Roy and Dan Bishop and Scott Perry, good friends of mine, great conservatives, folks who've joined us on Firebrand,
00:09:46.680those concessions are reflected in the House Freedom Caucus debt limit architecture that the House passed.
00:09:54.660Now, I didn't think it went far enough for the very reasons that many of you are firing off about on the live stream that we have to stop funding this corrupt government.
00:10:03.080And even what Joe Biden calls extreme would gaslight up to $49 trillion in debt over the next 10 years,
00:10:10.400something that Congressman Burchett and I discussed on a previous episode of Firebrand.
00:14:15.140Now I'm going to have to go and fight to defend myself.
00:14:17.700The reality is, is it's a witch hunt because it makes no sense that in four months, four months, five months, I'm indicted.
00:14:27.800You have Joe Biden's entire family receiving deposits from nine family members receiving money from foreign destinations into their bank accounts.
00:15:02.220That was not a man on defense, George Santos, answering questions at a press conference following turning himself in federal charges, largely dealing with campaign finance issues.
00:15:15.140We will certainly follow up on that and provide information in this very, very slim Republican majority in the House.
00:15:22.020Every single member is significant, and we're going to follow that story and make sure we get to the bottom of it.
00:15:28.600JoJo on Getter on the live stream says that it's an interesting coincidence in timing that the Santos indictment seems to happen the same day that Congressman James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, holds a press conference on the information discovered regarding Hunter Biden.
00:15:49.120Hunter Biden and his family designed an exquisite system of shell companies and LLCs.
00:15:56.540They look like businesses on paper, but they don't actually do any business.
00:16:01.120They're just in the business of moving foreign cash into the accounts of members of the Biden family.
00:16:07.120We learned today it's over $10 million to members of the Biden family, to brothers, to grandchildren, to children, to their spouses, to their former spouses.
00:16:22.400The committee has reviewed thousands of bank records from individuals and companies affiliated with the Bidens and their associates.
00:16:30.980It has received these bank records pursuant to four subpoenas I've issued to different banks.
00:16:37.560These were targeted and specific subpoenas, and each was different based on the information we believed the banks possessed.
00:16:46.820Every one of those subpoenas returned valuable information that had been unreported and that contributed to this committee's understanding of how the Bidens conducted their businesses.
00:16:56.820The committee is concerned by the complicated, suspicious network of over 20 companies we have identified the Bidens and their associates used to enrich themselves.
00:17:10.100Most of these companies were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden's vice presidency.
00:17:17.580The bank records show the Biden family, their associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals and their companies.
00:17:29.060Some of that money came from a Chinese company and went to Hunter Biden's company.
00:17:33.880Other transfers occurred with the help of Rob Walker, who then sent it on to different Biden family members.
00:17:40.100This is not how lawful businesses operate.
00:17:45.660Chinese nationals affiliated with the Bidens created limited liability companies in the United States,
00:17:50.840and then in a short period of time transferred their interest to a Chinese company that sent money to the Bidens.
00:18:27.040And what Congressman Comer is unveiling very well could end up being the strongest basis for the impeachment of Joe Biden that we've seen just yet.
00:18:40.160But we're going to pull those strings.
00:18:41.960And my expectation is they're all leading back to Joe.
00:18:45.520We are in police week currently, and you would think that would be a bipartisan moment for Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee to come together and celebrate police.
00:18:58.040Congressman Troy Nels is the first of my colleagues that you're about to see in the House Judiciary Committee introduce what I thought would be a pretty non-controversial resolution.
00:19:07.200A resolution that would simply honor our police, honor police week, say that we appreciate them, the sacrifice that they make as first responders.
00:19:16.900And then you're going to hear a bunch of Democrats work themselves into an absolute lather over the defund the police movement.
00:19:26.980Whether they're for it, whether they're against it, whether they've previously been for it, whether they're for it, but it doesn't really mean defund the police.
00:19:35.560I could not resist when my colleague Mike Johnson pointed out that a very prominent Democrat has been leading the fight to defund the police, and she has a prominent role as a House Judiciary Committee member.
00:19:52.100Today, I offer my support of the resolution recognizing National Police Week.
00:19:57.000My colleagues and I are committed to recognizing the valor, dignity, and integrity of police officers across the nation and express our sincere support for those who defend our communities against criminals and lawlessness.
00:20:10.060The far left has pushed for defunding the police for far too long.
00:20:13.960Ironically, the same folks that have advocated for and voted to slash the police budgets have armed security surrounding them daily.
00:20:21.260First, I must disagree with Mr. Niels, with whom I agree on the bill, but I must disagree with him when he says that the Democrats seek to defund the police.
00:20:33.540My Republican colleagues are using Police Week to promote cheap talking points and largely meaningless legislation designed to distract and divide communities, not make them safer.
00:20:45.100Let me just give you a sampling of some of their comments, because it's been said here that these are, quote-unquote, cheap talking points.
00:20:51.240I'll just start with the calls from Chairman Jerry Nadler.
00:20:55.880He publicly agreed with reducing the New York Police Department budget, which I think was cut by, I don't know, something like a billion dollars or something.
00:21:03.340He said, quote, there should be substantial cuts to the police budget and a reallocation of those funds to where we need them, unquote.
00:21:11.700So Representative Cori Bush, boy, she has pages and pages of this, but she said, and by the way, she was vice chair of the Crime Subcommittee in the last Congress.
00:21:21.240She tweeted, it's not a slogan, it's a mandate for keeping our people alive.
00:21:52.180said that it was a mandate to defund the police, and now, on Police Week, when the majority is seeking to simply pass a resolution honoring the police,
00:22:04.780we are being accused of taking cheap shots at Democrats when, not any Democrat, literally the person they put in charge of the Crime Subcommittee.
00:22:15.180I did indeed say that we should defund the police, when what I meant was, and what was done, was that we should reallocate some of the resources to mental health.
00:22:28.860When you're at risk of robbery or a battery or a stabbing, you don't need a therapist.
00:22:40.180You need a cop, the very cops that these Democrats can't quite figure out whether or not they're willing to support or not.
00:22:48.040Bruce of Fur 85 on Instagram says, I should shave my head.
00:22:51.880I am not doing that, because then who would have the best hair in Congress?
00:22:57.140And Neff 2020 says, what does the future hold?
00:23:00.360And it may very well be with these things that we're talking about, with a compromised first family, with a border that's open that many of you are deeply concerned about for good reason,
00:23:10.780with a weaponized government with debt that is out of control, a dollar that is spiraling, that it may get worse before it gets better.
00:23:18.700But I know one thing, it can turn around quickly.
00:23:22.220How is a young man coming out of law school looking for professional opportunities when Barack Obama was president?
00:23:30.220And there was such a sense of national demise.
00:23:35.780It wasn't the national malaise of the Carter years.
00:23:39.100We were in a state of demise under Obama.
00:23:41.740And I saw how quickly an energetic executive, a great leader like President Trump, could turn it around.
00:24:00.720We just have to ensure that the right policies are enacted, because we don't have to reinvent the wheel.
00:24:06.580We know how it was done, and I believe we can do it again.
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