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00:01:08.000Some analysts suggest there's an unusual dislocation in price that might present some real opportunities for silver to rally over the next couple of years.
00:01:14.000And again, silver, like gold, never going to zero.
00:01:36.000Elon Musk taking over Twitter has people very, very hot and bothered over on the left, including many of the people who work inside at Twitter.
00:01:44.000So the media, of course, very upset because their favorite playground, the place where they trade all of their insults for the right, in an echo chamber protected by the algorithms of Twitter, Those are going to go away.
00:01:57.000People might be allowed to criticize them.
00:01:58.000People might tweet things they don't like, and those tweets might actually get attention.
00:02:01.000I will note that over the past 48 hours since the announcement that Elon Musk was taking over Twitter, I've personally picked up something like 200,000 followers.
00:02:10.000And my tweets are probably getting 10 times the exposure that they were getting before.
00:02:13.000I would think that that has something to do, not with Elon Musk actually changing the algorithm, but with the sort of document shredding that is going on inside Twitter right now.
00:02:22.000The fear is that Elon Musk is going to come in.
00:02:23.000There will be some sort of truth and reconciliation commission where we finally learn who was shadow banned and whose traffic was being throttled and all the rest.
00:02:30.000And so now, all of a sudden, some of the limits are coming off.
00:02:32.000I would imagine that's one of the things that's happening.
00:02:36.000They're saying that this is all organic.
00:02:38.000So the loss of followers for Taylor Swift and the consummate pickup of followers for people like me, that's all organic.
00:02:44.000That right-wingers are joining the platform by the hundreds of thousands and left-wingers are leaving the platform by the hundreds of thousands.
00:03:19.000And of course, this means that they pull out their favorite, their favorite rubrics.
00:03:24.000They talk about how This is going to lead to increased violence.
00:03:27.000If people are allowed to see things, this might lead to increased violence.
00:03:31.000We get accusations of evil racism from Elon Musk.
00:03:38.000And it's led by some of the people who are working for Twitter.
00:03:40.000I mean, as I said yesterday, when Elon Musk comes in, he needs to clean house.
00:03:43.000And people are like, oh, you're saying he should fire people over politics.
00:03:46.000I'm saying he should fire people who are not in consonance with his vision, because this is what every CEO does at every company.
00:03:52.000Some of the internal audio from the chief operating officers at Twitter before Musk's takeover.
00:04:00.000Should be disturbing to Musk when he comes in. So that includes Leslie Berland, the CMO over at Twitter. This is audio that was revealed by Project Veritas yesterday, a leaked audio of internal meeting April 25, 2022. Here's Leslie Berland, the CMO of Twitter.
00:04:13.000Berland made it clear in public that a large part of the reason he bought the platform was because of our moderation policies and disagreements in how we deal with health.
00:04:23.000This puts Twitter service and trust and safety, as well as anybody who cares about health on the platform, in a very difficult position. I believe Twitter grows as a service.
00:04:33.000He's a paragaggero of a CEO. We use the product and have a better experience because we're able to make the conversation on Twitter be safe because we have built tools, processes for people to be able.
00:04:47.000Okay, control their experiences is the whole point.
00:05:08.000They decide what gets exposure and what does not.
00:05:10.000They decide what trends and what does not and how it will trend.
00:05:14.000And when you hear the CEO talking about safety, and when you hear the CMO, the Chief Marketing Officer over at Twitter, talking about health and how troubling it's going to be that someone's going to come in and challenge the health of Twitter, they're saying that their way of policing speech makes for a healthy conversation.
00:05:30.000And if anybody else wants less policing of speech, there'll be a lack of health in the conversation.
00:05:34.000Who decides what makes for a healthy conversation?
00:05:38.000The Twitter employees who donated at a 98.7% clip to Democrats in the last election cycle?
00:05:44.000Might that have something to do with the internal political bias?
00:05:48.000Meanwhile, the top lawyer for Twitter was apparently openly weeping during meetings yesterday.
00:05:54.000According to Politico, Monday was an emotional day at Twitter, even for its executives.
00:05:57.000Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the powerful social media platform, top Twitter lawyer Zheya Gady called a virtual meeting with the policy and legal teams she oversees to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them.
00:06:08.000Gady cried during the meeting as she expressed concerns about how the company could change.
00:06:12.000So, I mean, first of all, great sign that you're running your company well, that you're crying during meetings.
00:06:19.000I'm sorry, but if you cry during business meetings, I don't think that you should be in a position of power.
00:06:25.000I don't know why this is controversial.
00:06:35.000Neither have any of our top executives.
00:06:36.000Crying during meetings is not a thing.
00:06:38.000In the emotional world of corporate America, now crying is a thing.
00:06:41.000Okay, Gatti cried during the meeting as she expressed concerns over how the company could change, according to three people familiar with the meeting.
00:06:47.000She acknowledged that there are significant uncertainties about what the company will look like under Musk's leadership.
00:06:52.000Twitter spokesperson Trenton Kennedy said Gatti became emotional when discussing her team's impact and the pride she feels in them.
00:07:00.000this. Sources confirmed she spoke at length about how she's proud of the work her team has done and offered employees encouragement urging them to keep striving to do good work at the company.
00:07:07.000Gatti, who has worked at Twitter since 2011, is the key executive charged with overseeing Twitter's trust and safety, legal and public policy functions. She is seen internally as Twitter's moral authority. Wow. So she is the great arbiter of truth, safety and morality over at So, excellent job so far, lady.
00:07:25.000And the executive, tasked with handling sensitive issues like harassment and dangerous speech.
00:07:31.000Gaddy played a leading role in negotiating the deal between Twitter and Musk, according to one person familiar with the dynamics.
00:07:37.000She has shepherded Twitter through some of its most contentious political battles, including the decision to remove all political advertising and boot Donald Trump from the platform in the wake of the January 6th attack on Capitol Hill.
00:07:48.000But as news of Musk's official takeover broke, policy and legal employees fretted at the meeting about what his leadership could mean for Twitter's carefully crafted online speech rules.
00:07:55.000I love that now we're going to pretend that Twitter's carefully crafted online speech rules have been such a wild success.
00:08:00.000Twitter has been just an excellent example of healthy and decent conversation.
00:08:46.000And now a person is coming in who says that he wants to allow people to speak more freely on your platform without you putting your thumb on the scale.
00:08:54.000Well, get the world's smallest violin for this gang.
00:08:58.000Yadi herself has advocated strongly for ensuring that Twitter's policies protect its most vulnerable users while protecting free expression, a position at odds with Musk's.
00:09:07.000This is because the phrase protecting its most vulnerable users, there's a lot of assumptions packed into that little phrase, protect its most vulnerable users.
00:09:14.000What they mean by this is that if you fulfill an intersectional quotient, If you are a member of the Black community, if you are a member of the Hispanic community, if you are a member of the LGBTQIA2S-divided-by-a-sign-carat-dollar-sign-hashtag-pound-sign-tilde community, then this means no one can be allowed to say things that offend you.
00:09:33.000And people yesterday on Twitter were experimenting with this.
00:09:35.000They were saying things like, controversial things like, Leah Thomas is a man, to see if this got them banned.
00:09:46.000Oh, donning the eternrement of mourning and standing in the city gates crying to the sky, why, Gaia, would you allow such a thing?
00:09:59.000This is the attitude that the left has decided to take about Elon Musk saying that it's okay if you say Leo Thomas is a man because Leo Thomas is, in fact, a dude.
00:10:06.000Gaddy wrote in a 2015 Washington Post op-ed, quote, Man, is that an Orwellian phrase?
00:10:08.000Silence healthy discourse in the name of free expression.
00:10:10.000controversial issues that occur on Twitter.
00:10:12.000But I've also been seriously troubled by the plight of some of our users, who are completely overwhelmed by those who are trying to silence healthy discourse in the name of free expression.
00:11:36.000Okay, if this lady's record is any indicator, Elon Musk should put her on the breadlines immediately.
00:11:41.000Senior Public Policy Associate Kennedy O'Brien said, if you look up the word inspiring in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of this woman.
00:11:48.000Grateful as ever for your leadership, Vishaya.
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00:13:51.000I mean, you know, if there's one person who is deeply involved in making the discourse better, it's Chuck Schumer, the senator from New York.
00:13:58.000Meanwhile, Brian Stelter, who his entire career has been getting no ratings on CNN, so far as I'm aware.
00:14:07.000So Brian Stelter, whose massive draw, I mean just his intellectual draw, his physical magnetism, just that animal magnetism of Brian Stelter, drew a grand total of zero people to CNN+, which just had to shut its doors.
00:14:21.000By the way, you know what's super funny?
00:14:23.000So CNN+, actually in one of their recent articles about the shutdown of CNN+, they suggested that in order to support CNN+, eventually they'd be aiming at getting 29 million people to subscribe to CNN+.
00:14:36.000You don't have a show on your air that gets over 500,000 viewers a night, but you're going to draw 29 million people to subscribe.
00:14:43.000Anyway, Brian Stelter, the chief media correspondent for CNN, he says that he's lecturing Elon Musk about how he doesn't understand the complexities of free speech.
00:14:56.000Based on his public statements, it's clear he has very little understanding of the complexities that go into content moderation and hate speech policies and the like.
00:15:05.000So he's about to learn how it works, and it might be a whole lot more complicated than he realizes.
00:15:09.000Well, I mean, first of all, I have a feeling that some people will be working for Elon Musk.
00:15:13.000He's not going to be personally, like, shadowbanning people.
00:15:15.000But also, definitely Elon Musk, who is the richest person on planet Earth, needs to take advice from Spud over here.
00:15:25.000That's definitely a thing that he needs to do.
00:15:27.000Meanwhile, Joy Reid over on MSNBC doing what she does best with Jason Johnson and just calling people racist because this is, in the end, the final preserve of the left is everyone I don't like is a racist.
00:15:43.000So here is Joy Reid doing that routine.
00:15:44.000It turns out the reason Elon Musk is upset about the shutdowns of free speech on Twitter and the shadow banning and the bottlenecking and throttling of traffic, what that's really about is that Elon Musk is secretly a... There we go.
00:16:02.000There was a time when people had the double hashtags around their names because they were Jewish, and right-wingers were saying, get in the oven anytime you made any benign comment on Twitter.
00:16:26.000Okay, so as the person who has targeted the most anywhere on earth in 2015-2016, with the triple parentheses, it wasn't double, it was triple parentheses, and the get in the ovens kind of stuff, let me just say that the content moderation on Twitter has not made life markedly better.
00:16:42.000They've just suppressed major breaking political stories.
00:16:45.000By the way, yesterday, Elon Musk said publicly that he thinks it is bad to shut down major political stories a month before an election.
00:16:52.000And people on the left are like, now that he said that, he probably voided his deal.
00:18:33.000He is saying that he is not the great all-knower of the public opinion on free speech, and therefore, he is going to reflect what governments in various areas say about free speech, which, again, seems like a much better and clearer standard than some lawyer for Twitter deciding, what is a healthy conversation?
00:18:52.000You know, you must have your vegetables.
00:18:56.000Again, Twitter is a place for unhealthy conversation if you've ever spent more than five seconds on the actual service.
00:19:02.000But again, the left's wailing is beyond the pale.
00:19:06.000You have Anand Giridharadas, who I don't know why this person is considered in any way a person worth hearing from, but he writes for the New York Times, on CNN all the time.
00:19:15.000There's a piece today called Elon Musk is a problem masquerading as a solution in the New York Times.
00:19:20.000It's a perfect marriage for an age of plutocracy.
00:19:22.000Twitter with its serious problems and Elon Musk, the embodiment of those problems.
00:19:26.000What happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?
00:19:32.000Well, he didn't buy the right to decide.
00:19:36.000I was, by the way, I was told by people like Anand Sharadharadas that if you had problems with Twitter's censorship, build your own.
00:19:42.000And then, of course, Parler was de-platformed by Amazon Web Services in the aftermath of January 6th because people tried to build their own.
00:19:53.000But, says this columnist, Twitter has a disinformation problem, fake news about COVID vaccines, climate, and more running buck wild across the platform.
00:20:00.000Mr. Musk has shown himself to be a highly capable peddler of dubious claims, whether putting out financial misleading information or calling the British diver who helped rescue trapped schoolboys in Thailand a pedo guy.
00:20:29.000Okay, I mean, and by the way, there's articles like up the wazoo over at the New York Times about how terrible this is.
00:20:34.000The New York Times, which spends its days just reflecting the positions of the far left and firing anybody, Who comes into conflict with those positions.
00:20:41.000Here are just a few of the titles of pieces written in the last two days alone.
00:21:10.000That agenda is not just an agenda inside Twitter up until now, it's an agenda across Big Tech.
00:21:15.000So in a second, we will get to the fact that when it comes to the internal employees of these big tech companies, they really do rule the roost, and that is scary, scary stuff.
00:21:23.000We'll get into that in just one second.
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00:22:24.000So there's some audio that broke yesterday of employees inside Amazon, bewailing and bemoaning the fact that our own Matt Walsh here from the Daily Wire, he wrote a book called Johnny the Walrus.
00:22:37.000It is a sort of satirical children's book about a young boy who's pretending to be a walrus and mommy goes to yoga class and her friends tell her that perhaps Johnny actually is a walrus.
00:22:48.000And so they start feeding Johnny raw fish.
00:22:50.000They go to visit a surgeon who recommends that Johnny's hands be carved into fins, etc.
00:23:14.000So here is some of the internal... Again, these are the people, by the way, who are controlling what you see, what you hear, what kind of literature you're allowed to read.
00:23:20.000These are the folks who have their thumb on the button.
00:23:23.000So you tell me whether it's important that people like Elon Musk actually sign in and start having their way with free speech.
00:23:29.000Because otherwise, you're gonna get folks like this.
00:23:32.000It's about a book called Johnny the Walrus.
00:23:35.000And I want to be very clear, the next two are about books.
00:23:37.000And I saw someone say, oh joy, we're going to talk about one of them because it's been, it's been a very traumatic experience for transgender Amazonians and our transgender customers.
00:23:49.000Johnny the Walrus is a bit of a problematic book.
00:24:04.000These are the conversations being had inside Amazon.
00:24:06.000And this person started crying about it.
00:24:09.000And then he shared feedback from a customer who alleged that the book teaches children to kill transgenders or bully them into committing suicide.
00:24:19.000These are the folks who are controlling what you get to see and what you get to hear.
00:24:24.000You wonder why the right is excited about Elon Musk taking over?
00:24:27.000Because all we're asking for is some transparency.
00:24:30.000All we are asking for is some standard by which we can tell if you are throttling traffic or determining what we can see and what we can hear.
00:24:45.000According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.
00:24:47.000stocks fell extending their April losses as investors digested earnings reports from leading companies and weighed concerns about inflation and the spread of COVID-19 in China.
00:24:54.000Stocks slid for much of Tuesday, dropping further late in the session.
00:24:57.000The S&P 500 closed down 2.8% or 120.92 points to 4175.20.
00:25:03.000A day after tech stocks led major indices higher, the DJIA, the Dow Jones, declined 2.4% or 809 points.
00:25:23.000Google reported slower sales growth in the first quarter, so its shares were down 4% after close.
00:25:28.000Fears about resurgence of COVID-19 in China, attenuating supply lines, continues to be a serious threat.
00:25:35.000The bottom line is that what we are watching right now is an economy that is on the brink of recession.
00:25:41.000And that recession is being accelerated by the inflationary tendencies of the economy.
00:25:46.000According to the Wall Street Journal, home price growth accelerated in February.
00:25:49.000Demand remained robust because we are still seeing the aftermath of an inflationary cycle.
00:25:54.000A shortage of supply limited the volume of home sales.
00:25:56.000Meanwhile, mortgage rates are headed significantly higher.
00:26:00.000Economists expect home price growth to begin to slow in the coming months because of that mortgage interest rate increasing, reducing buyers' purchasing power.
00:26:09.000There are early signs the market is cooling from its frenzied pace.
00:26:11.000About 13% of sellers dropped their list prices in the four weeks ended April 17th.
00:26:15.000That's the highest share since the end of November.
00:26:18.000The Case-Shiller Index, measuring repeat sales data, reports on a two-month delay.
00:26:24.000It still remains far below normal levels.
00:26:25.000So what we have now is the possibility of serious stagflation, where we have an inflationary cycle married to really, really slow economic growth.
00:26:35.000And this is being promoted pretty openly by the Biden administration.
00:26:40.000Jen Psaki was asked yesterday about inflation and just walked away from the podium.
00:26:46.000I will go to the back tomorrow first thing.
00:27:17.000So you have an inflationary cycle to be ended with economic stagnation.
00:27:22.000Already businesses are pulling back because they see the interest rates are about to increase.
00:27:26.000And now the Democrats are talking about increasing taxes and regulations.
00:27:29.000Just genius, genius stuff here from your Democratic If you want to get rid of inflation, the only way to do it is to undo a lot of the Trump tax cuts and raise rates.
00:27:48.000No Republican is ever going to do that.
00:27:50.000So the only way to get rid of inflation is through reconciliation.
00:27:56.000Man, you want to see a party commit political suicide?
00:27:58.000I mean, it is political suicide already that they have made parents into an actual interest group by saying that parents shouldn't parent, that schools should teach their kids that boys are girls and girls are boys.
00:28:08.000Invoking reconciliation, going nuclear, in order to pass a tax increase?
00:28:14.000Good luck with this one, because that's what the American people want.
00:28:17.000In the middle of worries about the economy, what they desperately want is massive tax increases rammed through along party lines with Kamala Harris as the dividing vote.
00:28:26.000And meanwhile, you know what they really want?
00:28:27.000They want that combined with the Biden administration single-handedly relieving student loans to pay off the people who are the most privileged in our society, college graduates.
00:28:37.000That's what Joe Biden is now signaling.
00:28:39.000I mean, this is just incoherent, insane political policy.
00:28:42.000The reason is because Joe Biden is always responding to the urgent rather than the necessary.
00:28:46.000And so he's looking at his poll numbers and he's seeing that he's down like 40% with college graduates.
00:28:50.000And he's freaking out because that's his base.
00:28:52.000This party is run by college educated white single women.
00:28:56.000And minority people and people who are black and they thought Hispanic but Hispanics are now moving away from the Democratic Party in a pretty heavy way.
00:29:04.000So it's supposed to be a minority coalition and college-educated white women who are single.
00:29:40.000So Joe Biden, according to the Washington Post, Gave his strongest indication yet in a private meeting with House Democrats, he's poised to take significant action to relieve student loans.
00:29:48.000A move that could include canceling tens of thousands of dollars in debt for some people.
00:29:51.000Well, aren't we suckers, those of us who actually paid off our student loans?
00:29:58.000Borrowers are currently benefiting from a moratorium on paying off their student loans that lasts until August 31, a pandemic-induced pause that began under the Trump administration.
00:30:06.000The White House has come under considerable pressure from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party to cancel the liabilities outright.
00:30:12.000Biden and centrist Democrats have expressed skepticism, however, about the wisdom of burdening taxpayers with the debt of students who voluntarily took out loans to attend pricey private universities.
00:30:22.000To address such concerns, a Biden move could target lower and middle income borrowers, who, by the way, already have subsidized loans via Pell Grants and stuff.
00:30:29.000During a lengthy meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Biden signaled multiple times he was prepared to not only extend the current moratorium, but to potentially take executive actions, canceling some of the debt altogether.
00:30:42.000I mean, it's just nutty economic policy.
00:30:44.000How nuts is this economic policy, by the way?
00:30:46.000Nancy Pelosi came out today and said there's not even a discussion about doing this.
00:30:51.000When Nancy Pelosi is the one who is the designated driver, because everyone else is so drunk off their ass that they can't get home, so you throw the keys to Nancy, who's 80,000 years old and has never passed a good piece of economic policy, you know this party's in trouble.
00:31:07.000She suggested on Wednesday anyone who believes Biden can forgive student debt on his own are misinformed.
00:31:23.000So this party is in a state of complete economic disarray.
00:31:26.000Meanwhile, the White House is freaking out because Joe Manchin is not going along with any of their spending plans.
00:31:32.000So they have fallen into the trap because Joe Biden is no longer sentient and Ron Klain and Susan Rice are running the show over at the White House.
00:31:38.000They have fallen into the bizarre trap of thinking that the way that they avoid a cataclysmic defeat in November, which they are not going to avoid, the tsunami is on the horizon.
00:32:05.000According to the Washington Post, Biden's shrinking ambitions are largely the result of failed negotiations with Senator Joe Manchin.
00:32:12.000Now White House officials are confronting the real fear they will fail to reach any deal with Manchin, even one that leaves out most of what Biden initially hoped to accomplish.
00:32:19.000A year after Biden introduced his climate and social spending plans, the White House is running out of time to get Manchin on board, with many lawmakers in Congress viewing July 4th as a crucial deadline for action.
00:32:29.000In recent weeks, White House officials have tried gauging Manchin's interest in a package that would consist primarily of clean energy initiatives, prescription drug reform, and higher taxes on the rich and corporations.
00:32:38.000The ideas discussed internally include more than $500 billion of deficit reduction.
00:32:43.000On Monday, a Manchin spokeswoman reiterated the senator supports measures to boost U.S.
00:32:46.000energy production, lower prescription drug costs, and raise tax revenue from corporations and the rich.
00:32:51.000But despite support for those provisions generally, Manchin has not yet made clear to the White House precisely what he would support.
00:32:56.000He's not going to support anything because what is in it for him?
00:33:00.000He's in a state where Joe Biden is not only underwater, Joe Biden is beneath the earth.
00:33:05.000Joe Biden is below the seafloor, all the way through the core of the earth, and now in the ocean on the other side of the earth.
00:33:12.000So why exactly would Joe Biden, whose state of West Virginia, Joe Manchin, whose state of West Virginia hates Joe Biden, go along with anything that Joe Biden wants?
00:33:20.000I mean, Joe Manchin, for his part, continues to We can make sure that we protect our borders and basically protect our people and citizens of the United States and making sure that people coming are coming for the right reason through a legal procedure.
00:33:44.000And right now we don't have an immigration policy that allows that to happen.
00:33:50.000Yeah, well, it's not going to change because the Biden administration is fully committed to no border security.
00:33:55.000Jen Psaki said yesterday that they're not going to continue Title 42, which is the pandemic-related restriction that allows people to be rejected at the border, because that's not an answer to comprehensive immigration reform.
00:34:06.000So in other words, we're not getting anything done.
00:34:07.000So we're not going to do the thing that will stop a massive wave of illegal immigration right now.
00:34:14.000The president has never made a secret of the fact that he thinks immigration reform is necessary, and that Title 42 was never a replacement for comprehensive immigration reform.
00:34:25.000Yeah, but you're not doing comprehensive immigration reform, so all you're doing is really opening the border.
00:34:29.000These people are cruising for a bruising, and it's going to be so ugly for them come November.
00:34:33.000In just one second, we'll get to more on Joe Biden's corruption, because new stories are emerging, you know, now that we're allowed to talk about it.
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00:37:33.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden, again, it's not just that Joe Biden's policies are unpopular.
00:37:43.000It's that Joe Biden personally is unpopular.
00:37:45.000And he's unpopular really since Afghanistan.
00:37:47.000After Afghanistan, it became clear that this was not your kindly old grandfather who had your concerns at heart, Uncle Joe.
00:37:55.000It became clear that he is, in fact, a venal and malicious elderly man.
00:38:00.000who is not in full control of his faculties and he has done nothing to disabuse Americans of this.
00:38:04.000And now as more information emerges about just how corrupt he is, things are about to get a lot uglier.
00:38:08.000So according to the UK Daily Mail, Joe Biden agreed to pay son Hunter's legal fees for his deal with a Chinese government-controlled company, emails reveal.
00:38:16.000This revelation ties the president even closer to Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings and makes his previous claims he never discussed them with his son even less plausible.
00:38:24.000Joe was able to pay the bills after earning millions of dollars through his and his wife's companies after he left office as vice president.
00:38:30.000Some of the wave of cash came from their book deals and speaking engagements, but the president's financial filings reveal he declared almost $7 million more income on his tax returns than he did on his government transparency reports, an analysis by the Daily Mail of the president's financial records shows.
00:38:46.000Some of that difference can be accounted for with salaries earned by First Lady Jill Biden and other sums not required on his reports.
00:38:51.000But it still leaves $5.2 million earned by Joe's company and not listed on his transparency reports.
00:38:58.000The missing millions, combined with emails on Hunter's abandoned laptop suggesting Joe would have a 10% share in Hunter's blockbuster deal with the Chinese, raise a rather troubling question.
00:39:06.000Did Joe Biden receive money from the foreign venture?
00:39:10.000In January 2019, Hunter's assistant Katie Dodge wrote an email to bookkeeper Linda Shapiro, no relation, and Biden aide Richard Ruffner saying Joe had agreed to pay his hundreds of thousands of dollars of bills.
00:39:22.000I spoke with Hunter today regarding his bills.
00:39:23.000It's my understanding that Hunt's dad will cover these bills in the short term as Hunter transitions in his career.
00:39:28.000The assistant attached a spreadsheet of bills with the email totaling $737,000.
00:39:35.000So that's Joe paying the legal fees for Hunter, but he had no idea.
00:39:39.000No idea at all what Hunter Biden was doing.
00:39:45.000One of the last items was $28,000 in legal fees for the restructuring of Hunter's joint venture with the government-controlled Bank of China.
00:39:52.000The spreadsheet listed the bill as Fager Baker Daniels BHR Restructuring.
00:39:57.000BHR, Bohai Harvest RSD, is a private equity firm, one of Hunter's two major Chinese business ventures.
00:40:02.000That joint venture was co-owned by the State Control Bank of China.
00:40:07.000Hunter's personal attorney, George Maciris, is a partner at Fager Baker.
00:40:11.000A separate October 2018 invoice from the law firm shows Hunter spent $68,000 on the restructuring beginning September 2016.
00:40:17.000The same year Joe took on these bills from Hunter, he promised, quote, no one in my family will have an office in the White House, will sit in on it, any meetings as if they are a cabinet member, will in fact have any business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign country.
00:40:30.000Yet not only did Hunter hold on to his 10% share of BHR through 2021, confirmed by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki last February, the emails also indicate Joe knew about it and even agreed to pay Hunter's legal fees for the firm.
00:40:42.000The bills also include $413,000 in unpaid taxes dating back to 2012.
00:40:46.000The New York Times reported earlier this month Hunter had taken out a million-dollar loan to pay his delinquent tax bill.
00:40:54.000Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson said Joe Biden's unaccounted-for millions are another disturbing piece of information that raises questions that deserve answers.
00:41:22.000And meanwhile, Hunter is just going around picking up bags of cash for being a drunk, drug-addicted derelict.
00:41:28.000Like that's, that's an interesting, an interesting move.
00:41:32.000Well, in office, Joe had a relatively modest income, says the Daily Mail.
00:41:35.000He enjoyed a flood of millions of dollars soon after he left office, most of which came from his memoir book deal and eye-watering speaking fees.
00:41:41.000Between 2017 and 2019, he and First Lady Jill Biden reported $16.5 million in gross income on their federal tax returns released by the Biden campaign.
00:41:50.000The government in ethics filings for the same period, Joe only reported $9.6 million in income for himself and his wife.
00:42:05.000A $7 million gap can be attributed to Jill Biden teaching occasionally at Northern Virginia Community College, one of our nation's great institutions of higher education.
00:42:16.000A comparison of the income reported by Joe shows a difference of almost $5.2 million, which remains unaccounted for.
00:42:25.000So we also know, by the way, that Hunter Biden's business partner, while Joe Biden was vice president, visited the White House something like 19 times and met with Joe Biden in the White House.
00:42:36.000So here is Jen Psaki saying she knows nothing about it.
00:42:41.000Does the president still maintain that he never spoke with his son about his business dealings?
00:42:45.000And given this reporting on Eric Schwerin, does he also say that he has never spoken to his son's business partners about his son's business dealings?
00:42:54.000He maintains his same statements that he's made in the past.
00:42:57.000I would say, I know you're referring to WAVES records.
00:43:23.000New York Post reporting today, quote, Hunter Biden desperately insisted his brother's widow, Haley Biden, get screened for HIV as their torrid affair cooled off in the summer of Biden, 52, implored Haley to be tested for HIV in an email sent to Beau Biden's widow July 27, 2018, about a month before he fathered an out-of-wedlock child with former stripper London Roberts.
00:43:46.000You need to inform me of the results, Hunter wrote in an email found on his Amanda laptop, today.
00:43:51.000I've been scared sick, Haley, and you hang up on me.
00:43:55.000He says, the love you give is so disturbing.
00:43:58.000The all caps subject line was, you need to get tested for HIV, Haley.
00:44:03.000And then he went on to ask Haley to stop the BS regarding his niece, accusing his sister-in-law of trying to turn the young teen against him.
00:44:11.000And he called her behavior sick and disturbing.
00:44:14.000So he is the smartest person that Joe Biden personally knows.
00:44:19.000I mean, Joe Biden must not know very many people.
00:44:25.000Alrighty, well, we've reached the end of today's show, but we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.
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