Joe Biden's plea deal with the Justice Department blows up, and now it appears we could be headed for a trial. Former Vice President Joe Biden has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to launder money, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
00:00:57.000We now know that Judge Noriega is not going to accept the plea agreement.
00:01:03.000And as we were talking about just a moment ago, it's got to do.
00:01:08.000Judge Noriega does not believe that she has questions over the constitutionality of that diversion clause of the immunity that Hunter Biden would receive in this deal to not prosecute on the gun charge.
00:01:40.000Welcome back to Firebrand, broadcasting out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here in the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C.
00:01:47.000And all the news is about the blown up plea deal with Hunter Biden.
00:01:53.000Usually when you have the government and the defense in agreement as to the scope of punishment, a court is very reluctant to engage in second guessing that and undoing it.
00:02:04.000Not something you see in the courthouse every day.
00:02:07.000Usually it's only when the terms are egregious or when the scope is not properly defined or there's some confusion about the scope.
00:02:17.000Hunter Biden of the view that this was the great inoculation that pleading guilty to these small, insignificant tax charges would then be the antidote to future allegations that he was acting as a foreign agent.
00:02:33.000Taking bribe money, money laundering, and who knows what else based on what we've all seen from that laptop and uncovered and discussed a great deal here on Firebrand.
00:02:46.000So Hunter Biden was expecting this to be the total get out of jail free card, pay a fine, take some ostensible responsibility.
00:02:55.000And today he ends up pleading not guilty.
00:02:58.000Now, when I saw the not guilty plea, it brought me back to the statement of Hunter Biden's lawyer at the time of the initial agreement that we all criticized.
00:03:09.000And it says in part, this reported in Politico, Hunter believes it's important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life.
00:03:21.000Take responsibility. Hunter thought that was important.
00:03:24.000Part of Hunter making his way back to the state dinner circuit and the elite scene in Washington, D.C. and the influence peddling operation is this degree of accepting responsibility.
00:03:37.000Right. He was heralded by the president, the Biden family, others in the administration for taking responsibility.
00:03:46.000Now you have the not guilty plea because he wasn't going to be able to use these inoculating charges as defense to the really bad stuff.
00:03:54.500And I think one of the reasons why that became so important to Hunter Biden is because we've got Devin Archer coming in to give testimony in a transcribed interview Monday, July 31st.
00:04:06.660Now, Devin Archer has delayed that testimony three times.
00:04:09.640He's told others that he had Joe Biden on the phone when these deals were going down.
00:04:15.080And you can tell how concerned the Bidens are about the Devin Archer testimony based on this desire to really have a robust view of scope of the Hunter deal now.
00:04:28.360And then you saw Kareem Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, totally change the answer yesterday and say, oh, well, this is this is a circumstance where we've always said that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were never in business together.
00:04:44.000See, Joe Biden originally, of course, told us all that it was something very different, that he never discussed his son's overseas business dealings.
00:04:52.600You know why Joe Biden said that? Because he knew how dirty they were.
00:04:55.400He knew that any proximity to that was not going to be ultimately defensible.
00:05:00.420And now we're on the case. And that's exactly why you see what you see happening in courtrooms and also the White House press briefing room.
00:05:08.720There was another press briefing today that took an odd and unfortunate turn.
00:05:14.760Senator McConnell was at the microphone, as he typically is, and seized up a bit.
00:05:21.360Here's if you're watching on one of our viewing platforms, you can see Senator McConnell gets a look on his face that is not one that he appears to be just pensive about the next matter.
00:05:33.680Here you see Senator Barrasso going very kindly, taking him by the arm, seeing to his well-being.
00:05:39.880But you can see right there, Senator McConnell does not have his color.
00:05:44.080He does not look well. And that is not something that we certainly want to see linger for the leader.
00:05:51.280We hope that he is healthy and that he's able to have a swift recovery.
00:05:55.800But definitely big news, always shakes Capitol Hill when you see somebody that wields that much power in this town, have a moment of personal fragility.
00:06:06.000And we all have to take account of our health.
00:06:08.200And we certainly hope that Leader McConnell is restored to full and better health.
00:06:14.300I want to go to our next big matter to discuss.
00:06:18.880And that is this hearing that we had in the House Judiciary Committee today with Mayorkas.
00:06:23.880Now, you know that that's going to get spicy.
00:06:28.140We're deeply concerned about the over 100,000 Americans who've been poisoned due to fentanyl.
00:06:33.300But I'm not just worried about the criminals, OK?
00:06:35.960So a lot of times when my colleagues ask questions of these cabinet-level officials, it's just about the crimes and the criminals.
00:06:43.760But I worry about immigration even for the non-criminals, even people who don't come here to commit crimes.
00:06:49.960I don't know that you could just let an unlimited amount of those people in at the border without a process, without some understanding of who is coming here, what they will be doing.
00:06:59.700And so I asked about the Mayorkas Doctrine.
00:07:03.9002 million encounters and releases under your watch.
00:07:10.480So not including the Title 42 expulsions, not including violent criminals.
00:07:16.060Of those 2 million plus that you've encountered and released, how many have you told to go home?
00:07:22.540Congressman, individuals who are released are placed in immigration enforcement proceedings under the law where they can make their claim for relief.
00:07:32.520If their claim for relief is not satisfied, they are subject to removal from the United States.
00:07:37.180Right. Subject to removal sounds very different than actually removed.
00:08:55.360Two point, I'm sorry, 1.2 million people today have been through your entire process, right?
00:09:01.860They've been through what you call a removal proceeding is just an amnesty dance because after the 1.2 million people get an order from the judge saying that they don't have a basis to be here, you still don't remove them.
00:09:14.740Like, what's your plan to remove those people?
00:09:21.680Congressman, in this country, in this country, there are between 11 and 12 million.
00:09:29.020Right, but I'm asking about a subset that you won't send home.
00:09:32.860And the reason you're smirking about it and the reason you won't answer my question is because everybody gets the joke.
00:09:37.800And the sad thing is it's not just us here.
00:09:39.700It's the cartels who get the joke too.
00:09:41.600And so now what you've done to execute this Mayorkas doctrine where so long as you don't commit a crime, you get to stay here and burden our hospitals, burden our schools, burden our social services, burden our jails.
00:09:52.120Because you've sent the message to the cartels and then you've taken this app and you've digitized illegal immigration and you've scaled it to the moon.
00:10:00.640Like, this app that you've got everybody downloading is like the Disney fast pass into the country, never to be subject to actual removal, just removal proceedings as you call them.
00:10:09.300That app doesn't do any search of their criminal history in their home country, does it?
00:10:13.880Congressman, I disagree with everything you have said.
00:10:16.800Well, I'm sure, but just to answer the question, does the app that you are out there promoting do any search of people's criminal history in their home country?
00:10:23.900Congressman, Customs and Border Protection screens and vets individuals whom they encounter.
00:10:29.400Your app, it either has the functionality to test their criminal history in their home country or it doesn't.
00:10:35.020By the way, if it did, you'd have already told me.
00:10:38.000And then the other epic failure of this that's empowered the cartels is that in these processing centers you've set up in other countries to just wave them all in at a rapid pace,
00:10:47.940you've had to shut them down in Nuevo Laredo because the cartels were standing outside extorting people.
00:11:07.720You've just shifted those encounters because right now, for the first time in modern history,
00:11:12.480more people are showing up at the ports of entry than running through some bush in Yuma, Arizona.
00:11:18.660And the reason they're showing up at the ports of entry is because you've got the turnstile open where so long as they've gone and downloaded this app, you just let them in.
00:11:26.500And I've got one final question for you, and it's an important one.
00:11:28.820Is Mexico an ally in this fight against illegal immigration?
00:11:33.920So, I mean, it's hilarious and somewhat troubling that you say that, because, like, I'm looking at the El Chapo trial where President Nieto took a $100 million bribe from the Sinaloa cartel.
00:11:44.680Do you think that the subsequent presidents following Nieto weren't offered a bribe by the cartel or didn't take the bribe?
00:11:51.700Congressman, I disagree with everything you have said.
00:11:54.540Right, but you can disagree all you want, but what you won't provide is any number.
00:12:00.300And when you sit there and just kind of ostensibly disagree without any facts, it shows people what the real gig is.
00:12:05.980The Mexican government is captive to the cartels.
00:12:09.900They are doing the bidding of the cartels, and based on your response today, so are you.
00:12:42.400Know that the doctrine of the Biden-Mayorkas era is if somebody shows up, they get into our country, they get released, and if they don't commit a crime, they never have to leave.
00:12:55.040That is why it is so important to have physical barriers at our border.
00:12:58.340We will stay on this, and I'm going to come back later in the program to give you an update on a specific lie in all of that that Mayorkas told that is just so blatant it bears rubbing his nose in it a little bit.
00:13:13.660But first, I've got to get to the hearing that we had on Capitol Hill today, the most serious review of testimony and evidence regarding these unidentified aerial phenomenon, UAPs, UFOs.
00:13:25.900I had an opportunity to question witnesses who were test pilots, who were involved in the review of national security information in this space.
00:13:34.460I was a guest of the House Oversight Committee.
00:13:40.600Several months ago, my office received a protected disclosure from Eglin Air Force Base indicating that there was a UAP incident that required my attention.
00:13:49.300I sought a briefing regarding that episode and brought with me Congressman Burchett and Congresswoman Luna.
00:13:57.000We asked to see any of the evidence that had been taken by flight crew in this endeavor and to observe any radar signature as well as to meet with the flight crew.
00:14:07.500We were not afforded access to all of the flight crew.
00:14:12.120And initially, we were not afforded access to images and to radar.
00:14:17.120Thereafter, we had a bit of a discussion about how authorities flow in the United States of America, and we did see the image.
00:14:27.120And we did meet with one member of the flight crew who took the image.
00:14:30.920The image was of something that I am not able to attach to any human capability, either from the United States or from any of our adversaries.
00:14:40.920And I'm somewhat informed on the matter, having served on the Armed Services Committee for seven years, having served on the committee that oversees DARPA and advanced technologies for several years.
00:14:51.020When we spoke with the flight crew, and when he showed us the photo that he had taken, I asked why the video wasn't engaged, why we didn't have a FLIR system that worked.
00:15:03.780They were out on a test mission that day over the Gulf of Mexico.
00:15:08.080And when you're on a test mission, you're supposed to have clear airspace, not supposed to be anything that shows up.
00:15:13.120And they saw a sequence of four craft in a clear diamond formation for which there is a radar sequence that I and I alone have observed in the United States Congress.
00:15:28.680One of the pilots goes to check out that diamond formation and sees a large floating, what I can only describe as an orb.
00:15:36.100Again, like I said, not of any human capability that I'm aware of.
00:15:40.080And when he approached, he said that his radar went down, he said that his FLIR system malfunctioned, and that he had to manually take this image from one of the lenses, and it was not automated in collection, as you would typically see in a test mission.
00:16:00.180So I guess I'll start with Commander Fravor, how should we think about the fact that this craft that was approached by our pilot had the capability of disarming a number of the sensor and collection systems on that craft?
00:16:18.360Well, I think this goes to that national security side, and you can go back through history of things showing up at certain areas and disabling our capabilities, which is disheartening.
00:16:28.760And for us, I mean, like I said, it completely disabled the radar on the aircraft when it tried to do it, and the only way we could see it is passively, which is how he got that image.
00:16:35.960So I think that's a concern on what are these doing, not only how do they operate, but their capabilities inside to do things like this.
00:16:43.420And how should we think about four craft moving in a very clear formation, equidistant from one another, in a diamond?
00:16:54.060And in all of the phenomenon, perhaps, Mr. Grave, that you've analyzed, have we ever seen multiple craft in a single formation?
00:17:02.980I have one particular case, and that was during the Gimbel incident.
00:17:07.000The recording on the AT FLIR system shows a single object that rotates.
00:17:12.100You hear the pilots refer to a fleet of objects that is not visible on the FLIR system,
00:17:16.580and that was something that I witnessed during the debrief as part of the radar data on the situational awareness page.
00:17:21.900I would like to add, however, Congressman, there's a small bit of anger, I would say.
00:17:28.860I would feel that those pilots are still facing that difficulty in reporting this topic,
00:17:32.840and they don't have the tools to be able to mitigate this issue.
00:17:35.680It just goes to show how serious this is and why this is such an important issue for our pilots and for our nation.
00:17:40.920It was stated explicitly to me by these test pilots that if you have a UAP experience,
00:17:47.680the best thing you can do for your career is forget it and not tell anyone,
00:17:52.420because any type of reporting, either above the surface or below the surface,
00:17:57.460does have a perceived consequence to these people, and that is a culture we must change if we want to get to the truth.
00:18:04.120Mr. Chairman, I would observe that perhaps as we move forward from this hearing, there are some obvious next steps.
00:18:11.420Every person watching this knows that we need to meet with Mr. Grush in a secure compartmentalized facility
00:18:18.320so that we can get fulsome answers that do not put him in jeopardy and that give us the information we need.
00:18:25.320Second, I would suggest that the radar images that were collected of this formation of craft out of Eglin Air Force Base,
00:18:33.880and specifically the actual image taken by the actual flight crew that we can actually validate be provided to the committee,
00:18:42.720subpoenaed if necessary, so that we're able to track how to get this type of reporting and analysis done in a more fulsome way.
00:18:49.860That would be my recommendation humbly as a guest here of the Fine Oversight Committee.
00:19:22.920Have you faced any retaliation or reprivals for any of your testimony or anything along these lines?
00:19:29.740Yeah, I have to be careful what I say in detail because there is an open whistleblower reprisal investigation on my behalf,
00:19:37.800and I don't want to compromise that investigation by providing anything that may help provide somebody information.
00:19:45.660But it was very brutal and very unfortunate, some of the tactics they used to hurt me both professionally and personally, to be quite frank.
00:19:55.180That's very unfortunate, as they say, when you're over the target, that's when they do the most firing at you.
00:20:01.220Do you have any personal knowledge of people who have been harmed or injured in efforts to cover up or conceal these extraterrestrial technology?
00:20:12.760Have anyone been murdered that you know of or have heard of, I guess?
00:20:18.060I have to be careful asking that question.
00:20:19.960I directed people with that knowledge to the appropriate authorities.
00:20:23.440Maybe if we could get in a confidential area of SCIF, we could talk about that.
00:20:30.500But unfortunately, we were denied access to the SCIF, and that's very unfortunate in this scenario.
00:20:38.420That was Congressman Tim Burchett questioning Mr. Grush, who actually worked in the national security apparatus as a senior official where a lot of the information from these UAPs was filtering up to him.
00:20:53.480So he was the guy seeing a lot of this stuff in his role with the national security apparatus, now testifying before Congress, bringing information forward, hopefully on a rolling basis, so that we can continue to analyze the risk that UAPs pose.
00:21:10.320One feature of that risk is the extent to which you find any biological remains.
00:21:15.000And there were questions from South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace about remains.
00:22:07.560That certainly was an earth-shattering admission to get from the witness that our government has access to non-human biologics discovered as part of the review of these craft.
00:22:20.400Now, again, this is the statement of a witness, a witness who was in a high position, who would have seen a lot of the information filtered,
00:22:27.280but now delving into these specific special access programs and other activities that exist in a number of our research apparatuses.
00:22:38.060We're going to need to do that work, certainly as a consequence of that admission.
00:22:42.560There was another line of questioning that showed how bipartisan this hearing was.
00:22:46.420Congressman Jared Moskowitz of the state of Florida had questions about the recovery of craft, specifically.
00:23:16.040Yeah, you're not able to actually personally tell within the vehicle.
00:23:19.260I will say the objects that we were seeing, they were spherical, and they were observed up to Mach 2, which is a very non-aerodynamic shape.
00:23:51.700I didn't have the detail to be able to tell that.
00:23:54.440So we got within a half mile of the Tic Tac, which people say that's pretty far, but in airplanes, that's actually relatively close.
00:24:00.120No, it was perfectly white, smooth, no windows, although when we did take the original FLIR video that is out there, when you put it on a big screen, it actually had two little objects that came out of the bottom of it.
00:24:11.860But other than that, no windows, no seams, no nothing.
00:24:20.440We are going to be thorough, and there is a lot more coming on the UAP phenomenon and what the Congress can do to get the truth before the American people.
00:24:30.500I'm particularly proud of Congressman Tim Burchett for raising the issue, and if you watched the episode we had with Congressman Burchett on Firebrand, you got a pre-briefing on these issues that were addressed.
00:24:42.160I said we would get back to one of these lies from Mayorkas, and it just irks me when these witnesses say things that are verifiably untrue.
00:24:56.060Make sure you're subscribed and enjoy this specific lie contradicted Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:25:04.740And then the other epic failure of this that's empowered the cartels is that in these processing centers you've set up in other countries to just wave them all in at a rapid pace,
00:25:15.100you've had to shut them down in Nuevo Laredo because the cartels were standing outside extorting people.
00:25:22.740Asylum seekers crossing from a dangerous Mexican border city say corrupt officials are extorting them for money.
00:25:30.260Now the U.S. has stopped taking asylum appointments at the port of entry in Laredo, Texas.
00:25:35.380Customs and Border Protection is citing a security situation for the change at Laredo without going into further detail.
00:25:43.420But it comes as some migrants waiting in Mexico are claiming that Mexican authorities are forcing them to pay bribes in order to keep their CBP appointments.
00:25:54.160From Reuters, U.S. suspends asylum appointments in Texas border city after extortion reports.
00:25:59.680From U.S. News and World Report, U.S. halts online asylum appointments at Texas crossing after extortion warnings.
00:26:06.160And the Associated Press, U.S. halts appointments using migrant phone app at Texas border crossing seems to be in direct contradiction to the secretary's testimony.