Hunter Biden finally admits that the laptop from hell is indeed his laptop, and now he wants the DOJ to open a criminal investigation into the Biden crime family, but not just against them, but also against Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani, and the owner of the computer store where Hunter Biden left the laptop.
00:01:52.000So if you've seen the news lately, you might have heard that Hunter Biden has finally admitted that the laptop from hell is indeed his laptop.
00:02:02.000Hunter's lawyers are now asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal inquiry.
00:02:08.000But not a criminal inquiry into the Biden crime family, of course.
00:02:12.000An inquiry into Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani's lawyer and the owner of a computer store where Hunter Biden left the laptop.
00:02:23.000They might even want to investigate Bannon's former producer and a former member of our team, Vish Burrup.
00:02:30.000Now, everyone knows that you have to play nice with the 50 year old son of President Biden or you could be the one that's targeted.
00:02:39.000So to refresh your memory, I want you to know how Firebrand has covered the laptop from hell.
00:02:45.000This is a clip from one of our prior episodes where Vish and I are discussing its importance and how this information came to the public.
00:03:41.000And the people who brought that to the forefront, they want those people punished.
00:03:46.000So apparently Hunter Biden didn't consent to having his private information shared with the public.
00:03:53.000That's the legal theory that they're going on.
00:03:55.000Now, I can assure you the public did not consent to a ne'er do well brat selling influence to foreign governments in exchange for access to Joe Biden.
00:04:04.000The corruption in the Biden family doesn't get any more clear cut than that.
00:04:09.000They were global influence peddlers and they were peddling access to the highest levels of our government.
00:04:14.000Now, imagine just the nerve or frankly, the corrupt confidence that Hunter Biden must have to ask that the feds start investigating the whistleblowers and the people who exposed their families own corruption.
00:04:30.000It seems like a good time to recall those 51 intelligence experts who signed a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't Hunter Biden's laptop, but that it was Russian disinformation.
00:04:43.000Every one of them still has their security clearances.
00:05:29.000We owe Steve Bannon and Giuliani and Giuliani's attorney and the owner of the Wilmington computer store a huge thanks for risking everything to take on a powerful family and expose this corruption.
00:05:47.000It shows you that Hunter Biden is so brazen that despite the fact that he makes the admission that the laptop is real, they actually think that the people who are the do-gooders in this case should be punished.
00:05:59.000Some folks who are not do-gooders are the hosts of The View.
00:06:05.000Now, you'll recall from our last episode, I talked about my effort in the House Judiciary Committee to get the Pledge of Allegiance ensconced into the beginning of our hearings so that despite the issue of the day or what we're going to debate over or legislate over or conduct oversight directed at, we would have a unifying moment of the Pledge of Allegiance to our nation's flag.
00:06:28.000Republicans and Democrats standing together.
00:06:31.000But Whoopi Goldberg at The View is offended by this.
00:06:35.000She says that it's unnecessary that because the House of Representatives says the Pledge of Allegiance every day in the morning when there's like four or five people there, that we shouldn't go to the great waste and the great time expense of saying the Pledge of Allegiance in the House Judiciary Committee.
00:08:01.000Hey, Whoopi, maybe one of the reasons why we want to say the Pledge is that so that we understand the values that brought this nation into fruition and we wouldn't do things like defund the police or pass gun control.
00:08:14.000The Pledge of Allegiance didn't even used to be controversial. And her argument is essentially, we get so much of the Pledge of Allegiance by saying it once at the beginning of the day in Congress, we should not have to reassert it in the House Judiciary Committee.
00:08:27.000But there is something august and special about the House Judiciary Committee. It is literally the committee charged with protecting our constitutional rights, defending the freedoms that make the United States the envy of the world.
00:08:42.000And so it is entirely appropriate. But what answers Whoopi is not just my articulation of my adoration for the Pledge of Allegiance.
00:08:53.000It's Sonny Houston, one of the other hosts on The View, because her argument is, you know what, we shouldn't be saying the Pledge at all.
00:09:01.000We're not an exceptional country. We should distance ourself from the great aspiration of being a shining light.
00:10:16.000For all the flaws we have, for all the work that even our founders understood we must do to be a more perfect union,
00:10:23.000this is the greatest country that has ever existed in all of human history.
00:10:27.000And for Sonny Houston to disparage us, to disparage our nation, our ancestors on the set of The View shows exactly why the Pledge of Allegiance is so necessary.
00:10:39.000Because we have an obligation to inculcate pro-American values and the anti-American values.
00:10:46.000They get all the lift you could imagine from big tech and from some of the unpatriotic voices that you see programmed and platformed on the mainstream media.
00:10:59.000Sorry, Sonny, we're proud of this country and my amendment did pass and we will be saying the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of our lovely Judiciary Committee meetings.
00:11:11.000So I wanted to talk about another matter and it's our environment.
00:11:15.000I love America's beautiful environment.
00:11:19.000And it's actually part of being a true Florida man.
00:11:21.000I come from the sunshine state, the prettiest state in the country.
00:11:24.000Our land and oceans and streams and animals have always enchanted me.
00:11:29.000And I feel more patriotic and connected to my country because I am connected to its wild spaces.
00:11:37.000Recognizing and celebrating beauty is important because you look at these tyrannical societies, these socialist societies,
00:11:44.000and all of the architecture is hideous.
00:11:48.000That's because tyrants don't want you to think that you deserve beauty.
00:12:32.000And the Biden plan calls for massive expansion of wind.
00:12:35.000And we should question that and review it because he has basically embraced the Green New Deal through executive action.
00:12:43.000And the Green New Deal was largely funded to the moon after this terrible omnibus bill.
00:12:48.000That's what Marjorie Taylor Greene and I had been warning people that this omnibus bill really was the funding stream for the Green New Deal.
00:12:59.000The American Bird Conservancy predicts that if the 20 percent national goal for wind to contribute to our electricity portfolio, if that actually happens and that's Biden's goal, it would potentially kill at least one million birds a year by 2030.
00:13:17.000We already kill almost 700,000 birds a year with the current American wind portfolio right now with no expansion.
00:13:26.000And the consequences to some of the species is devastating.
00:13:30.000According to energymonitor.com, wind expansion in California could literally result in the extinction of the golden eagle, one of the most majestic birds to grace our skies.
00:13:43.000And if I have to choose between wind energy or the golden eagle, give me the eagle.
00:13:50.000I think that makes me more of an environmentalist than the people who embrace some of these wacky ideas.
00:13:55.000According to Granger Hunt, who's a raptor specialist, quote, there is nothing in the evolution of eagles that would come near to describing a wind turbine.
00:14:06.000There has never been an opportunity to adapt to that sort of threat.
00:14:11.000The lattice work found on turbine infrastructure makes an ideal perch for large birds of prey.
00:14:17.000So they're attracted to the same spires that are also a death trap, close quote.
00:15:08.000Democrats are so hell-bent to align with the Green New Deal politically that they ignore the real dangers that some of these policies actually have for the environment.
00:15:20.000It's like some of our most splendid fauna get treated as sacrifices made on the altar of environmental wokeness.
00:15:29.000And it's really offensive to sound environmental policy.
00:15:35.000Large corporations, which often overpromise on their renewable energy deliverables, cozy up to the government and they get special treatment.
00:15:44.000Treatment that other energy producers don't get.
00:15:53.000This is because wind developers are allowed to self-report violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
00:16:03.000Imagine that, government letting you self-report.
00:16:08.000And it's easy for them to under-report because, and I know this will come as a huge surprise,
00:16:14.000when a bird goes into a wind turbine, there usually isn't much evidence left.
00:16:19.000Wind developers don't have such a great track record playing by the rules.
00:16:24.000Now, Nextera Energy is the parent company that owns Florida Power and Light.
00:16:29.000That is the power company that has a monopoly to provide energy to my entire congressional district and many others throughout the country.
00:16:38.000One Nextera subsidiary pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was ordered to pay over $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms across eight states.
00:16:51.000Federal prosecutors say the number of birds killed was likely far higher.
00:16:56.000The danger of wind to birds is so serious and undeniable, so it must be ignored by the woke left.
00:17:04.000They're too bothered pushing Biden's offshore wind boondoggle to understand the impact on birds.
00:17:12.000And nothing brings this into sharper focus than Democrat Congressman Frank Pallone's reaction to my question recently on the House floor.
00:17:22.000We were debating my amendment to preserve the Florida coastline for military testing and not to allow offshore oil drilling.
00:17:28.000Now, Congressman Pallone opposed my amendment not because he's opposed to my drilling ban,
00:17:34.000but because he's hell-bent on putting wind farms off the coast of Florida's shores.
00:17:40.000And then when confronted by the potential impact on birds, he didn't care.
00:17:47.000There are a lot of great places where we can unlock the potential of our country to ensure that we have a sufficient strategic petroleum reserve,
00:17:58.000And this amendment gives my colleagues in Florida a great comfort that none of the treatment of existing moratoriums
00:18:05.000would in any way harm coastal Florida, coastal Georgia, or coastal South Carolina.
00:18:10.000I don't disagree with the gentleman from Florida in terms of prohibiting offshore drilling.
00:18:18.000But I did not hear him mention, I may have been mistaken, but I did not hear him mention the fact that his bill also prohibits offshore wind
00:18:26.000and renewables off the coast of Florida.
00:18:28.000And to have an amendment that says that offshore wind is not acceptable or should be prohibited
00:18:35.000flies in the face of what we should be doing to address the climate crisis.
00:18:40.000And so for that reason, even though I may agree to the idea that we should prove...
00:19:25.000Keep them in California where they belong.
00:19:28.000I think we can all agree that representatives should not be so dismissive and should actually know better.
00:19:33.000Off Florida's shores, we find a splendid array of bald eagles, osprey, painted bunting, brown pelicans, white pelicans,
00:19:42.000marbled godwit, and swallow-tailed kites.
00:19:48.000More birds winter in Florida than I could possibly list.
00:19:52.000Snowbirding to Florida is not just for humans, it's actually for the birds too.
00:19:57.000And we shouldn't be so enamored with renewable energy that we discount or ignore the impact to our planet and the animals that we share her with.
00:20:09.000Let's be pro-actual environmentalism, not pro-political environmentalism.
00:20:14.000And you want to know why they prefer the political environmentalism to actual environmentalism?
00:20:23.000And it's power we should not surrender, not only for our own sake, but for the sake of these wonderful animals that we share the planet with.
00:20:30.000So recently I was on the floor of the House of Representatives debating about growing concerns over the ATF.
00:20:38.000I filed legislation to abolish the ATF.
00:20:41.000We've covered it on Firebrand quite a bit.
00:20:44.000There was a special hour of debate reserved by my colleague Representative Clyde of Georgia over this ruling that we've just seen come out on pistol braces.
00:20:56.000I want you to get my perspective direct from the floor. Take a listen.
00:21:01.000I thank the gentleman for his leadership and for yielding.
00:21:04.000The ATF's new rule, criminalizing pistol braces, is a brazen and unlawful attempt to usurp congressional authority.
00:21:13.000This pistol brace rule will fail for the same reason the bump stock rule failed.
00:21:18.000The ATF does not have the authority to create federal law.
00:21:22.000Nobody voted for the ATF, though I know a lot of people who would vote against them if they could.
00:21:28.000This new rule will ban pistol braces on certain firearms, forcing users to jump through numerous hoops to comply with this new decree or risk becoming a felon.
00:21:38.000Disabled veterans and others have used these braces for years to help them fire pistols.
00:21:43.000And the ATF has unilaterally decided that this is no longer acceptable.
00:21:48.000Now, otherwise, law-abiding Americans will either have to destroy their newly illegal firearms or figure out how to comply with an arbitrary and confusing regulatory scheme outlined in the National Firearms Act.
00:22:02.000The ATF cannot be trusted to protect our rights to keep and bear arms.
00:22:09.000There is no timeline in which the ATF, under any administration, would become an ally.
00:22:17.000It needs to go. We need to abolish the ATF before they abolish our Second Amendment rights.
00:22:21.000Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms should be the name of a chain of convenience stores in Florida, not a federal agency.
00:22:29.000I urge every red-blooded American and every conservative in this Congress to stand with Representative Clyde and his legislation and to stand with me and co-sponsor my bill, the Abolish the ATF Act of 2023.
00:22:42.000Let's get rid of this unlawful agency once and for all and let this special order be considered a shot across the bow.
00:22:51.000I yield back to the gentleman from Georgia.
00:22:53.000We will work to abolish the ATF, defund the ATF, target the bureaucrats at the ATF by zeroing out their salaries and using the power of the purse if necessary to ensure that we vindicate the God-given, constitutionally articulated rights of law-abiding gun owners.
00:23:13.880Final note before we go, just moments ago the House of Representatives voted to strip Ilhan Omar from her committee assignment to the Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:23:22.240I voted with the majority on that matter, but I can't say that it was the best feeling in the world to look at speech as some sort of threshold for someone's participation in the political process.
00:23:36.300Frankly, if Ilhan Omar hadn't voted against Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, I might have viewed things differently.
00:23:44.500But she voted against folks who had done nothing wrong and did not deserve to be removed from her committees.
00:23:50.860And maybe the only way we get past this and stop this tit-for-tat is to once and for all end it.
00:23:59.240I believe Speaker McCarthy deserved deference on this matter.
00:24:02.300But know this, my viewers, my friends, my supporters, those of you who participate in our podcast project, if the way this works, by rhythm, whenever the House of Representatives change hands,
00:24:16.260there's this implicit requirement that the new majority go and zap members of the other side because of their speech, well, I mean, I'm going to be the one they come for.
00:24:26.040I'm going to say something edgy or not aligned with the dogma of the day in the Armed Services Committee or the Judiciary Committee, and they'll say, oh, Gates is promoting gun violence because he believes in the Second Amendment.
00:24:40.020Oh, you know, because Gates doesn't want wokeness in the military, he's advancing anti-trans tropes.
00:24:47.100You don't get to pick the lineup of the other team.
00:24:50.660The Democrats made that mistake on the January 6th committee.
00:24:53.000They made that mistake vis-a-vis Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, and my hope is that this is the end of it.
00:24:59.440So while Ilhan Omar says things that I find detestable, that I totally disagree with, I didn't vote against her because of her speech.
00:25:07.720I voted against her because she engaged in this effort to deplatform my friends Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and this has to end, and I thought this was the only way to make it end.
00:25:17.960And actually, there have been some pretty productive behind-the-scenes discussions with Kevin McCarthy that I've had, conversations between Hakeem Jeffries and Kevin McCarthy, where we recognize that this activity of stripping other sides from committees is really beneath the dignity of the institution.
00:25:37.400And we ought to be willing to confront bad ideas with our own speech and our own ideas, and that is what I endeavor to do for all of you and for my constituents each and every day.
00:25:47.260Thank you all so much for joining me on Firebrand.