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00:00:00.000Today, we go through everything you need to know about Joe Biden, from his personal history to his political history, from the Senate to the Vice Presidency, from his corruption to his gaffes.
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00:00:23.000We'll get to everything in the news, plus a full breakdown of everything you need to know about Joe Biden.
00:00:28.000Today is the episode that you're going to send to your friends who are thinking about voting for Joe Biden, just so they have the Full information on exactly whom they are voting for, not just who they're voting against.
00:00:38.000I understand a lot of people voting against Trump, but who they are voting for.
00:00:42.000First, let's talk about the fact that if you look at that bill, like every month, you look at your bills every month, one of the big ticket items on your bill is probably your cell phone bill.
00:00:51.000And you think to yourself, well, that's something that can't change.
00:00:53.000I mean, after all, I need my cell phone.
00:02:17.000We are now less than one week away from the election.
00:02:20.000We are watching this race tighten nearly everywhere.
00:02:22.000So we are seeing in the Senate, for example, that in Maine, the Sarah Gideon-Susan Collins race has tightened dramatically.
00:02:30.000The latest polls there show that this race is basically nearly a dead heat.
00:02:35.000There's a recent poll that had them within one point.
00:02:38.000If you look at the Senate race in Iowa, it now looks as though that is a margin of error race between Joni Ernst and Greenfield, who's the Democrat over there.
00:02:46.000In Georgia, it looks like the Republicans are probably going to take Georgia.
00:02:50.000It looks as though South Carolina is starting to open up dramatically, with Lindsey Graham jumping to a nearly 10-point lead in the latest polls.
00:02:56.000So, the Senate is very much up for grabs.
00:02:59.000The race in North Carolina between Tom Tillis and Cal Cunningham is now within margin of error, with a couple of late-breaking polls showing Tillis up a little bit by a couple of points, but certainly this thing is basically a dead heat.
00:03:10.000Meanwhile, in the presidential race, The national average for Joe Biden has now dropped.
00:03:15.000It was close to 10 points just a couple of weeks ago.
00:03:17.000It is now 7.1 points, and there are several polls showing this thing narrowing pretty dramatically.
00:03:21.000There's an Emerson poll showing Biden up just five, an IBD-TIPP poll showing Biden up just four, and a Rasmussen poll showing Biden up just two, all of which came out in the last two days.
00:03:31.000So this race is tightening dramatically because in the final moments, a lot of Republicans are coming home.
00:03:35.000And maybe some Democrats are thinking to themselves, I'm not sure I love this Joe Biden character.
00:03:40.000If you look at the battlegrounds, Things are tightening dramatically in states across the board.
00:03:45.000Florida, in the RealClearPolitics poll average, is now trending Trump.
00:03:48.000Trump is now up in the RealClearPolitics poll average in Florida.
00:03:51.000As I predicted, I think Florida is going to go for Trump.
00:04:06.000In Pennsylvania, it is just a three-point, eight-point lead for Joe Biden.
00:04:10.000There's an entire article in the New York Times today about why it feels like Donald Trump may, in fact, win Pennsylvania again.
00:04:16.000There's an entire article in the New York Times by Sean McCreech, an editorial assistant for the opinion section called, Can We Trust Pennsylvania's Polls?
00:04:23.000They show Joe Biden clinching crucial counties.
00:04:25.000So why does it feel so different on the ground here?
00:04:28.000And he has an entire piece here talking about how if you drive around rural Pennsylvania, the fact is that this is Trump-landia.
00:04:34.000I mean, that's literally how he describes it.
00:04:36.000It's his poll show, Mr. Biden leading by 5 to 13 points in Pennsylvania.
00:04:39.000But I grew up around here and I'm dubious.
00:04:41.000This place, the land of hoagies and Bradley Cooper and Rocky Balboa worship and Tina Fey's cousin Karen Axent has transmogrified into Trumplandia.
00:04:48.000He has so much more support than in 2016 because it's been four years of accomplishments, said Zarina Thompson, 49, a homemaker, who is talking with a group of women outside a Trump store.
00:04:57.000They were part of a caravan that had just encircled the Democrats' rally to say bye-bye to Biden and let his supporters know they were outnumbered.
00:05:04.000Pollsters say that suburban women are President Trump's kryptonite that they've turned on him.
00:05:07.000At another Pennsylvania rally, the president pled, I feel like that's wrong.
00:05:12.000We're the majority, said Jennifer Girard, 41, a single mother working in consumer goods, who was standing near a pink Dodge Challenger emblazoned with Women for Trump.
00:05:19.000Girard said she was part of a group that raised enough money to erect a Women for Trump billboard over the stretch of I-95 that crosses from the city into the suburbs.
00:05:28.000A lot of these women are obviously big Trump fans, but the fact remains that there are a lot of Trump supporters in Pennsylvania and things seem to be dramatically narrowing in Pennsylvania.
00:05:39.000Even Nate Silver is pointing out that this is not a large Biden lead.
00:05:44.000Nationally speaking, he may have a very solid lead, but in the swing states, he does not.
00:05:49.000In Pennsylvania, things have really closed up.
00:05:52.000In Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, those are all states that Trump either will win or is on the verge of winning.
00:05:59.000And remember, Joe Biden, he can win the popular vote by a fairly significant margin.
00:06:04.000In fact, according to a study that was headlined over at Newsweek last week, if Joe Biden carried the popular vote by four points, Donald Trump has an 88% shot of winning the Electoral College.
00:06:15.000So if this thing shrinks within four points, all of a sudden Donald Trump gets reelected.
00:06:20.000This doesn't mean that Donald Trump is definitely favored at this point.
00:06:24.000It does mean that as people look at the real possibility of Joe Biden being president, not just at Donald Trump not being president, but at Joe Biden being president, they are feeling a little more skittish.
00:06:33.000Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, who released an ad yesterday pointing out why it is the Democrats really should not be allowed to lead the country forward.
00:06:41.000This is one of the best ads of the campaign put out by the Senate Majority PAC.
00:08:15.000Missing a little bit of context, as we would say, in the fact-checking business, aren't you?
00:08:19.000It wasn't just that a black man was shot by the police.
00:08:21.000It was that a black man was holding a knife, and they told him to put down the knife repeatedly, and he approached them repeatedly, and then they shot him.
00:08:27.000But apparently, that no longer matters.
00:09:41.000Well, at least the protesters here, some of them look like they're wearing masks.
00:09:44.000That's really the important thing I noticed.
00:09:47.000So what exactly is the case against Trump when it comes down to it?
00:09:49.000The case against Trump is just that Trump is a big bad orange man who's very bad and orange.
00:09:53.000The Lincoln Project caught what I think is the single funniest ad I have ever seen in my entire life yesterday.
00:09:58.000This ad sums up all of liberal feeling.
00:10:01.000So the Lincoln Project, first of all, just...
00:10:03.000Kudos, I mean really, just all sorts of props on being the greatest grift I have ever seen.
00:10:08.000It's an incredible grift because the Lincoln Project, you'll recall, was begun by a bunch of former Republican strategists who couldn't make money in Republican politics anymore and decided they were not just anti-Trump, they were anti the entire Republican Party.
00:10:20.000It is one thing to say you don't like Trump and you don't want to see him in the White House.
00:10:23.000It is another thing to say that Susan Collins needs to lose her Senate race because you don't like Donald Trump.
00:10:28.000But that's what the Lincoln Project has done.
00:10:30.000So the Lincoln Project has raised tens of millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars from Democrats because Democrats think, oh, these are our converts.
00:10:38.000These are these are people who who have decided to leave Trump behind and they're going to lead the fight here.
00:12:48.000Well, it turns out that those scare tactics may in fact not be working because it turns out on the other side, and this is something I've been pointing out for a while, when you vote against Donald Trump, you are voting in favor of Joe Biden.
00:12:58.000I don't mean if you vote for a third party or something, or you just don't vote.
00:13:01.000I'm talking about if you vote for Joe Biden, you vote for Joe Biden.
00:13:03.000And it turns out that Joe Biden, there are a few themes to his career, and we're going to go through all of them.
00:13:08.000The first theme is that Joe Biden has switched every position he has ever held on a major issue.
00:13:13.000There are only a couple of exceptions to that rule, and they are in the far left direction.
00:13:23.000Number two, he's been engaged in low-level corruption and sometimes somewhat high-level corruption his entire career.
00:13:28.000Not the kind of stuff that violates the law, but exactly the kind of swampy behavior that you would expect from a 47-year politician who's been in Congress since he was 29 years old, since he was elected at 29 years old.
00:13:41.000The third theme is that he's been wrong on every single foreign policy issue he has ever set eyes upon.
00:13:48.000And so if there are themes to Joe Biden's career, it's that he moves with the wind, he's wrong on everything foreign policy related, and that he is low-level to high-level corrupt.
00:13:57.000And that he's a gaffe machine, if there's another theme.
00:13:59.000All of these things are well-known about Joe Biden.
00:14:01.000But to my mind, it is the very first thing, that he shifts with the wind, that's what makes Joe Biden scary.
00:14:07.000Because he's been campaigning, as captain returns to normalcy, He's been campaigning as, I am a return to all that is good and steady in American life.
00:14:15.000Remember, one of the reasons that Donald Trump was elected in the first place is because the old normal was not very good.
00:14:20.000It turns out that the old normal, which was filled with corrupt politicians like Joe Biden, was filled with corrupt politicians like Joe Biden.
00:14:26.000And not only that, it was filled with politicians who were going to basically follow the diktats of the radical left.
00:14:39.000We're going to get to more of this in just one second.
00:14:41.000We're going to run down everything you need to know about Joe Biden, soup to nuts, in just one second.
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00:16:44.000I know we haven't spent a lot of time talking about you, Biden.
00:16:46.000That's the way Joe Biden would prefer it.
00:16:48.000Joe Biden has spent this entire campaign hiding in the basement and refusing to ask simple questions like, would you like to pack the court?
00:16:54.000He says things like, I don't think I need to answer that question because then you'd be talking about me and you wouldn't be talking about Donald Trump.
00:17:11.000They see Joe Biden and they see standing right behind him grinning.
00:17:15.000Kamala Harris, because they know that with Joe Biden, what you probably get is a Kamala Harris administration, but Biden himself is bad enough.
00:17:21.000So let's start with Joe Biden's life story.
00:17:24.000So Joe Biden was born in 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
00:18:17.000And then the tragedy that has come to define his personal life happened that same year.
00:18:21.000His wife and daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident and his sons were injured in that automobile accident as well, which obviously under all circumstances is just a horrific, horrific tragedy.
00:18:31.000Biden would later claim that the person who was involved in the accident on the other side was drunk.
00:18:47.000He flamed out amidst accusations of exaggeration and lying and plagiarism.
00:18:53.000So, what did he do while he was in Congress?
00:18:55.000Well, he did an awful number of things.
00:18:58.000First of all, he was the father of borking.
00:19:00.000So, borking is the practice that has basically destroyed our Supreme Court nomination hearings.
00:19:05.000That practice is where a politician decides that a well-qualified judicial nominee cannot sit on the court because you want certain results from them and that person is unwilling to grant you the results.
00:19:17.000Biden didn't treat him as a serious judge.
00:19:19.000Instead, he suggested he was a stooge of the Reagan-Meese agenda, writes George Neumeier for The Hill, which is correct.
00:19:27.000Biden's treatment of Bork was so bad, The Washington Post wrote, while claiming that Judge Bork will have a full and fair hearing, Senator Biden this week has pledged to civil rights groups that he will lead the opposition to the confirmation, as the Queen of Hearts said to Alice, sentence first, verdict afterward.
00:19:40.000How can he possibly get a fair hearing from Biden, who has already cast himself as the role of prosecutor instead of juror in the Judiciary Committee?
00:19:50.000Because Bork was an originalist, and originalism was bad.
00:19:54.000Biden said to Bork, will we retreat from our tradition of progress, or will we move forward, continuing to expand and envelop the rights of individuals in a changing world, which is bound to have an impact upon those individual sense of who they are and what they can do?
00:20:08.000Biden suggested that he was a Puritan who wanted to break into the bedroom.
00:20:17.000And apparently he recalls testing his portrayal of Bork as an enemy of privacy at a mall in Delaware.
00:20:23.000He said, people who knew me would walk up and say, hey, Joe, and I'd ask them if they thought married couples had the right to use contraception.
00:20:28.000They'd look at me like I was crazy, of course.
00:20:29.000And when I asked why, none of them said the right to privacy.
00:20:37.000Being the father of the destruction of judicial nomination hearings is one of his bragging points.
00:20:42.000Here is Joe Biden in Democratic debate just last year bragging about this.
00:20:46.000I was part of the reason why Elena Kagan worked for me, begotten of the Supreme Court.
00:20:50.000I was part of the reason why Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on the court.
00:20:53.000I was part of the reason why Sotomayor is on the court, and she swore me in.
00:20:57.000I presided, and I'm the reason why this right wasn't taken away a long time ago, because I almost single-handedly Okay, I mean, that is correct.
00:21:14.000His time in the Judiciary Committee was a disaster.
00:21:16.000He also presided over the Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill hearings, in which he scurrilously accused, without proper evidence, Clarence Thomas of engaging in a pattern of sexual harassment.
00:21:27.000Later, Justice Thomas wrote that Biden told him he would begin with softball questions, instead threw a beanball straight at my head.
00:21:35.000Now, ironically enough, Biden has been forced to apologize to Anita Hill because he was not harsh enough with Clarence Thomas.
00:21:47.000The New York Times later reported that was April of this year.
00:21:50.000That he had to call up Anita Hill and apologize because he said he believed her.
00:21:56.000But at the same time, he he didn't try to browbeat Thomas enough to Anita Hill's liking.
00:22:23.000So this idea that he has been promoting, that the reason he ran for president this time around in 2020, which last I checked, was three decades after he first ran for president, He says that was about Charlottesville.
00:22:34.000The man's wanted to be president since he was in his late 30s, early 40s, right?
00:25:04.000He quit that race within a week. And one of the reasons that he quit the race is because he was accused of plagiarizing.
00:25:10.000He plagiarized his life story from Neil Kinnick, who was a British politician.
00:25:14.000And then they uncovered the fact that he had engaged in hijinks, shall we say, while he was in college with regard to using other people's material.
00:25:22.000He had flirted with a presidential run in 1984.
00:26:11.000He was a typical politician, in other words.
00:26:13.000Okay, and Joe Biden has a longstanding habit of putting his foot in his mouth.
00:26:17.000The fact that now the media are declaring that Joe Biden has no problems with putting his foot in his mouth, you know, it's just the media making things up.
00:26:23.000Dude puts his foot in his mouth all the time.
00:29:30.000Take, for example, August 2008, CBS News reports that MBNA paid Joe Biden's son as Biden backed a bill.
00:29:37.000Quote, a son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was paid an undisclosed amount of money as a consultant by MBNA, the largest employer in Delaware.
00:29:46.000During the years, the senator supported legislation that was promoted by the credit card industry and opposed by consumer groups.
00:29:51.000Barack Obama's presidential campaign said Biden helped forge a bipartisan compromise on the issue, which is now law and makes it harder for consumers to obtain bankruptcy protection in the courts.
00:30:00.000MBNA's consulting payments to Hunter Biden, first reported by the New York Times, followed his departure in 2001 from the company, where he had been an executive.
00:30:08.000Obama opposed the bankruptcy law enacted in 2005.
00:30:25.000Said one of his partners, David Wade, a spokesman for, well, actually not one of his partners, David Wade, a spokesman for the Obama campaign.
00:30:32.000Consumer and civil rights groups and unions, as well as Democratic opponents, had argued that the bankruptcy legislation was unfair to low-income working people, single mothers, minorities, and the elderly, and would remove a safety net for those who have lost their jobs or face mounting medical bills.
00:30:45.000The financial services industry made the case bankruptcy frequently is a refuge for gamblers, impulsive shoppers, divorced or separated fathers avoiding child support, multimillionaires who buy mansions in states with liberal exemptions to shelter assets from creditors.
00:30:57.000When the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill early in 2005, Biden, Dianne Feinstein of California, and Herb Kohl of Wisconsin were the only Democrats to vote with the Republican majority.
00:31:05.000MBNA employees have poured more than $200,000 into Biden's Senate campaigns over the past two decades, making donors working for the credit card company the senator's largest source of campaign money.
00:31:26.000They poured a bunch of money into Hunter's pocket.
00:31:27.000This is going all the way back to 2008, when it was not considered verboten to report on Joe Biden's corruption.
00:31:35.000Meanwhile, at the same time, as Michelle Malkin once reported for National Review, Joe Biden was involved in some sweetheart real estate deals with folks over at MBNA.
00:31:45.000According to Malkin, circa 2010, former senior senator from Delaware and current vice president Joe Biden has a custom-built house in Delaware's ritziest chateau country neighborhood.
00:31:54.000It is now worth at least $2.5 million and is the Biden's most valuable asset.
00:31:58.000Biden tapped campaign funds to pay for his compound's lawn needs.
00:32:00.000He secured the new estate with the help of a corporate executive who worked for Biden's top campaign donor, credit card giant MBNA.
00:32:07.000In 1996, Biden sold his previous mansion to MBNA vice chairman John Cochran.
00:32:30.000Stoltz didn't need to sell the property.
00:32:32.000Reporter Byron York looked at comparable properties in Biden's neighborhood and found three cases, three cases where homes went for below asking price.
00:32:41.000However, nobody actually bothered to negotiate.
00:32:44.000It appears that MBNA indirectly helped Cochran buy the Biden House through six-figure executive compensation funds listed as moving expenses and losses suffered on the sale of his previous home.
00:32:53.000Again, this is just all inside-the-beltway, garbage, corrupt politics.
00:32:58.000And as we all know, for a long time now, Biden's family has been cashing in on his career for decades.
00:33:02.000Ryan Grim writing for The Intercept, which is not a right-wing source.
00:33:06.000He says the problem for Democrats is that a review of Hunter Biden's career clearly shows that he, along with Joe Biden's brother James, has been trading on their family name for decades, cashing in on the implication and sometimes the explicit argument that giving money to a member of Joe Biden's family wins the favor of Joe Biden.
00:33:19.000Democrats have been loathed to give any credibility to wild rantings of Trump or Rudy Giuliani, leaving them to sidestep the question of Hunter Biden's ethics or decision making and how much responsibility Joe Biden deserves.
00:33:30.000Investigative reporters and GOP operatives have dived deep into the question of whether Joe Biden ever used his official power to do favors for special interests, shoveling money to his family.
00:33:40.000But that doesn't mean that Biden's behavior isn't a legitimate problem for Democrats.
00:33:43.000Indeed, Biden has been taking political hits over the intersection of his family's financial dealings and his own political career for some four decades.
00:33:50.000If he has done nothing publicly to inoculate himself from the charge, his career is corruptly enriching his family.
00:33:58.000In 2006, Beau Biden, who died of cancer in 2015, was roped into an investment meeting led by James and Hunter Biden at the firm Paradigm Global Advisors.
00:34:05.000The family was considering acquiring the firm.
00:34:07.000James Biden told executives he'd have no problem bringing in people looking for an in with Joe Biden, who was a U.S.
00:34:28.000We've got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this company, a Paradigm executive recalls, James Biden saying.
00:34:37.000In 2014, a stepson of the former Secretary of State John Kerry, Chris Hines, gave Hunter a similar warning.
00:34:42.000The pair were partners in an investment firm, Rosemont Seneca, when Hunter Biden and a third partner, Devin Archer, were invited to join the board of Burisma.
00:34:50.000Hines told the Washington Post he strongly objected to Hunter Biden and Archer taking the board seats.
00:34:55.000Obama administration officials were concerned as well.
00:34:58.000In April 2014, of course, Hunter went ahead and accepted the invitation to join the board, along with a fee of at least $50,000 a month.
00:35:07.000And then, when later asked about it, Hunter explicitly said, Oh yeah, by the way, I mean, of course, that had to do with the Biden name.
00:35:15.000Hunter was following in the footsteps of James Biden, says Intercept.
00:35:20.000It began small in 1973, one year after Joe was elected to the Senate.
00:35:23.000James Biden opened a nightclub at Seasons Change with Wet Politico, referencing contemporaneous local reporting in Delaware called unusually generous bank loans.
00:35:31.000When James ran into trouble, Joe, as a senator, later complained the bank shouldn't have loaned James the money.
00:35:36.000What I'd like to know, Biden said, is how the guy in charge of loans let it get this far.
00:35:40.000Sources at the bank said the loan was made because James was Joe's brother.
00:35:44.000James in the 90s founded Lion Hall Group, which lobbied for Mississippi trial lawyers involved in tobacco litigation.
00:35:50.000According to Curtis Wilkie's book, The Fall of the House of Zeus, the trial lawyers wanted James Biden's help pushing Joe Biden on tobacco legislation.
00:35:57.000That same decade, in 1996, Hunter Biden got in the game.
00:36:03.000Biden in the 90s was known half-jokingly as the senator from MBNA, though he didn't find it funny.
00:36:08.000He was, however, MBNA's greatest champion in the Senate, as we have discussed.
00:36:12.000So the fact is that for a long time, members of the Biden family have been cashing in on Biden's name, and Biden has done nothing about it.
00:36:19.000As we'll see, this is starting to bear some fruit in the story of Tony Bobulinski.
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00:37:39.000Alrighty, so all of this has now culminated in all of the talk about Joe Biden and these Chinese emails.
00:37:47.000Well, the New York Post now reports on Tony Bobulinski, Michael Goodwin reporting.
00:37:53.000That Hunter's business partner has now told all with regard to Joe Biden.
00:37:59.000He says, For Tony Bobulinski, the meetings with Joe Biden are unforgettable, not because they had anything to do with politics.
00:38:04.000It's because that's when Bobulinski fully understood Joe is very much involved in the foreign business schemes that son Hunter and Joe's brother Jim had cooked up.
00:38:11.000The final proof came during two conversations over two days in May 2017.
00:38:14.000He first met the former VP in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where Joe was to speak the next day at the Milken Conference on the Moonshot project of finding a cure for cancer.
00:38:22.000Bobulinski told Goodwin in a Tuesday interview, Hunter and Jim and I are there.
00:38:26.000Hunter gets up and talks to his father when he comes in.
00:38:28.000He then brings Joe over and introduces me, saying he's the one who's helping us with the business we're doing with the Chinese.
00:38:33.000If Joe Biden was honest with the public when he said he never discussed Hunter's business with him, the next words out of his mouth would have been, what business with the Chinese?
00:39:27.000When he states that, that is a blatant lie.
00:39:30.000Obviously, the world's aware that I attended the debate last Thursday.
00:39:34.000And in that debate, he made a specific statement around questions around this from the president.
00:39:41.000And I'll be honest with you, I almost stood up and screamed liar and walked out because I was shocked.
00:39:49.000OK, well, you know, he's saying that the media are not reporting it, obviously, because the media must protect the precious who is Joe Biden.
00:39:55.000But there's a long pattern, decades long pattern of people in Joe Biden's family taking advantage of Joe Biden's name.
00:40:01.000Obviously, Joe Biden had to know something about this sort of stuff.
00:40:03.000It's been dogging him his entire career.
00:40:05.000Whether he was implicitly involved or making profit from it is another question.
00:40:09.000But certainly he was looking the other way, which is deeply corrupt stuff.
00:40:19.000Okay, being in politics, the vice president of the United States or a senator, and knowing that your family is jet-setting around, raising money off your name and doing nothing to stop it?
00:40:39.000He looks at me and kind of chuckles and says, plausible deniability.
00:40:42.000So they're relying on that plausible deniability. Meanwhile, the feds have obtained a FISA warrants against Hunter Biden's Chinese business associate, according to documents. Chuck Ross investigative reporter for the Daily Caller says federal investigators obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against one of Hunter Biden's Chinese business associates, suggesting the executive was suspected of acting as a covert agent of a foreign government.
00:41:03.000Prosecutors revealed the existence of at least one FISA warrants against Chai Ping Patrick Ho, known as Patrick Ho.
00:41:09.000In a February 8, 2018, court filing obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Ho was charged on December 18, 2017 with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering related to CEFC China energy contracts in Uganda and Chad.
00:41:23.000Ho had been executive at CEFC, Hunter Biden was part of a business consortium that sought a partnership with CEFC in May of 2017.
00:41:30.000A Senate report released last month said an affiliate of CEFC wired five million bucks to Biden's law firm from August 2017 through August 2018.
00:41:39.000Apparently, Hunter Biden also represented Ho during his legal battle.
00:41:42.000Ho, of course, apparently there was a FISA warrant because they thought that essentially he was a representative of the Chinese government who had not registered as such.
00:41:50.000Biden agreed to represent Ho and find out about the extent of the investigation, according to The New Yorker.
00:41:54.000The New York Times reported in December 2018, Ho's first call following his arrest the year before was to James Biden, the brother of the former vice president.
00:42:02.000The Senate report also said a shell company affiliated with CEFC called Hudson West III wired a million bucks to Biden's law firm, Awosco, on March 22, 2018.
00:42:14.000The Senate Republicans who released the report said Biden's relationship with CEFC posed counterintelligence concerns because of Yi's connections to the People's Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party.
00:42:23.000And the Feds knew about all of this, apparently.
00:42:26.000So, again, lots of corruption inside the Biden family, and the chance that Biden knew nothing about it?
00:45:02.000Okay, we're gonna get to more of Joe Biden.
00:45:06.000We're actually gonna get to his policies and what his career has been like.
00:45:13.000And we're gonna get to his actual full-scale agenda for beyond the election in just one second, which should scare the living hell out of you, for sure.
00:45:22.000We're gonna get to all of that in just one second.
00:45:24.000First, let's talk about the fact that this has been an insane year and that what we are watching right now, the riots in the streets in Philadelphia, At root.
00:45:31.000This is about a philosophical conflict between people who believe that the country ought to be torn down to the root and people who do not.
00:45:36.000Between unionists and disintegrationists.
00:45:38.000There's a philosophy out there that believes that America is endemically evil.
00:45:41.000That America was rooted in racism and white supremacy.
00:45:44.000There's a philosophy that says that your basic American rights are in fact discriminatory and bad.
00:45:49.000And then there's a philosophy of American freedom.
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00:47:18.000Okay, so theme number one when it comes to Joe Biden's actual policies.
00:47:36.000We have a couple themes with Joe Biden.
00:47:38.000One is that he is a lifelong career politician, which means all the corruption, all the gaffes, all the exaggeration, all the lying, all that is endemic to Joe Biden's career.
00:48:05.000Here is Robert Gates explaining just that.
00:48:08.000You said in your memoir, Joe Biden is impossible not to like.
00:48:14.000Quote, he's a man of integrity, incapable of hiding what he really thinks, and one of those rare people you know you can turn to for help in a personal crisis.
00:48:22.000Still, I think he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.
00:48:31.000Would he be an effective commander-in-chief?
00:49:05.000Now, Joe Biden is very much in support of the war in Iraq.
00:49:09.000He specifically says, he says, there's a lot of us who voted for giving the president the authority to take Saddam Hussein down if he didn't disarm.
00:49:15.000There are those who believe at the end of the day, even though it wasn't handled all that well, we still have to take him down.
00:49:48.000The predominance of the evidence, the pure weight of the evidence, I think anyone, let me put it this way.
00:49:51.000If I were back practicing law, I can't imagine I could not convince an open-minded jury of the facts that he presented as having been true.
00:49:58.000Okay, this is, again, the revisionist history of the Democrats is that they were all anti-war.
00:51:16.000I did make a bad judgment trusting the president saying he was only doing this to get inspectors in and get the UN to agree to put inspectors in.
00:51:24.000From the moment shock and awe started, from that moment, I was opposed to the effort and I was outspoken as much as anyone at all in the Congress and administration.
00:51:43.000You'll remember this is the only thing that brought the situation in Iraq under control during the insurgency, because again, Joe Biden has never been right about a single foreign policy issue.
00:51:53.000He said, I totally oppose the surging of additional American troops into Baghdad.
00:51:56.000It's contrary to the overwhelming body of informed opinion, both inside and outside the administration, which is code for, I don't like it, but I have no good excuse, so I will cite informed opinion.
00:52:05.000Okay, then, in 2010, when Barack Obama precipitously pulled troops out of Iraq, you'll recall, leading to the rise of ISIS, Joe Biden declared it a major victory.
00:52:15.000He said Iraq would be a great Obama achievement.
00:52:17.000The rise of ISIS began immediately with the withdrawal of troops from Iraq under the Obama-Biden administration.
00:52:23.000Here is Biden being wrong again about Iraq.
00:52:25.000So he's wrong every way you could be wrong about Iraq, he's been wrong.
00:52:27.000From every single angle you could be wrong about it, he's been wrong.
00:52:56.000On Afghanistan, Biden opposed Obama's Afghanistan surge, which was done halfway, of course.
00:53:01.000He said that rather than focus on nation building and population protection, instead you should do more to disrupt the Taliban, improve the quality of training of Afghan forces, and expand reconciliation efforts to peel off some Taliban fighters.
00:53:12.000This is what drove Robert Gates to suggest that Biden was wrong about every single thing.
00:53:16.000David Petraeus also opposed Joe Biden on this.
00:53:19.000Then in 2011, Biden says he opposed the bin Laden raid, right?
00:53:22.000He now admits that he opposed the bin Laden raid and that it was that it was Barack Obama.
00:53:27.000By the way, that would make Biden like the only human being in planet Earth's history who has opposed a raid to kill bin Laden.
00:53:51.000Okay, but it's not just Afghanistan, it's Libya.
00:53:53.000So after the Libyan invasion, Biden then suggested that it was great, it was much better than Iraq, because NATO got it right.
00:53:59.000In this case, America spent $2 billion and didn't lose a single life.
00:54:02.000This is more the prescription for how to deal with the world as we go forward than it has been in the past.
00:54:06.000He was very much in favor of the NATO war in Libya, which of course ended with the complete destruction of any sort of control in Libya, which culminated in the murder of an American ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi.
00:54:16.000In 2012, Joe Biden mocked the idea of Russia as an adversary.
00:54:21.000This is in the middle of the 2012 election, when the Romney campaign was asked, Romney was asked during a debate, who is America's greatest geopolitical threat?
00:54:45.000I mean, we have disagreements with Russia, but they're united with us on Iran.
00:54:48.000The only way we're getting one of two... The only way we're getting one of only two ways we're getting material into Afghanistan is through Russia.
00:54:55.000They've just said to Europe, if there's an oil shutdown in any way in the Gulf, they'll reconsidering... They'll reconsider increasing oil supplies to Europe.
00:55:03.000Hey, this is in the midst of Joe Biden and Barack Obama handing control of Syria over to the Russians, allowing the Russians in the short months thereafter to invade Crimea.
00:55:14.000Okay, then, wrong on Iran as well, as we'll see.
00:55:17.000Okay, so the foreign policy wrongnesses for Joe Biden, they just never stop.
00:55:21.000He was wrong on Iraq every which way he could be wrong.
00:55:23.000First he was for the war, then he says he was against the war when he wasn't really against the war, then later he says that he was against the war from the beginning, basically, which is not true.
00:55:30.000Then he opposed the Iraq war surge, and then he was in favor of precipitously pulling out the troops.
00:55:35.000In Afghanistan, He opposed the Obama Afghanistan surge.
00:55:39.000And then he opposed the bin Laden raid in Libya.
00:55:41.000He says that we did the right thing in Libya.
00:55:42.000He said that Russia was not our adversary.
00:55:46.000Now, of course, Russia is the great bugaboo living under your bed, who is perverting every election on behalf of Donald Trump.
00:55:53.000I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden and Barack Obama were offering flexibility to the Russians while presenting Crimea and Syria to the Russians on a platter.
00:56:02.000In 2015, Joe Biden was one of the chief cheerleaders for the garbage Iran deal that gave Iran a path to a nuclear bomb, as well as a bevy of cash, in return for literally nothing.
00:56:12.000Just Iran saying, oh, we won't develop anything for a few years.
00:56:53.000Not only is he wrong on Iran, just this year, you'll remember, that Joe Biden took the bizarre step of opposing the killing of Qasem Soleimani.
00:57:01.000Qasem Soleimani was, of course, the head of the terror arm of the Iranian government.
00:57:06.000He said no American will mourn Qasem Soleimani's passing.
00:57:15.000None of this negates the fact this is a hugely escalatory move in an already dangerous region.
00:57:20.000The administration's statement says its goal is to deter future attacks by Iran.
00:57:23.000This action will almost certainly have the opposite effect.
00:57:25.000President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox.
00:57:28.000He owes the American people an explanation of the strategy and plan to keep safe our troops and embassy blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
00:57:46.000Joe Biden said last year that China is not competition for the United States, and it's foolhardy to claim that China is competition to us, even at the same time that they are promoting intellectual property theft and all sorts of other goodies.
00:57:57.000Here is Joe Biden circa 2019 saying China is not competition for the United States.
00:58:07.000They can't even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the East, I mean, in the West.
00:58:18.000They can't figure out how they're going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system.
00:58:23.000I mean, you know, they're not bad folks, folks, but guess what?
00:58:33.000Okay, so he's wrong about that one, too.
00:58:35.000And also, he's just wrong about Israel.
00:58:36.000So in 2020, after the Trump administration correctly and morally finally fulfilled the congressional promise to move the U.S.
00:58:42.000embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Biden then says that while he's not going to move the embassy back, he would never have moved the U.S.
00:58:50.000Okay, this is all part and parcel of the bullcrap democratic argument and the foreign policy establishment argument that by treating Israel honestly and decently, as opposed to on an even par with terrorists like the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad, that you have increased the measure of risk in the region.
00:59:34.000Because it turns out, moving the embassy to Jerusalem not only did not result in higher risk in the region, after that happened, after the recognition of the Golan Heights, after the recognition that the settlements are not Prima facie illegal.
00:59:46.000There were peace deals between Israel and half the Arab countries in the Middle East.
01:00:15.000He has shifted on virtually every major issue of his career.
01:00:18.000The most obvious is on crime and drugs.
01:00:20.000So in 1982, according to The Intercept, Biden actually told Ronald Reagan that he wanted to ramp up drug enforcement.
01:00:28.000According to The Intercept, in September 1982, Biden gave a nationally broadcast Democratic response to the president's weekly radio address.
01:01:02.000He was in favor of higher levels of anti-crime enforcement.
01:01:06.000Here was Joe Biden in 1982 supporting the war on drugs.
01:01:10.000I think the President has to join us in making a significantly greater commitment to these six areas to stem the rising tide of violence in America.
01:01:41.000Then in 1993, Biden famously supported the crime bill that poured all sorts of federal resources into ensuring that people got locked up for their crimes.
01:01:49.000Again, this is all stuff that as a conservative, I'm like, OK, all right.
01:02:00.000He is wherever he thinks the crowd is.
01:02:02.000And if the crowd is on his left, that is where he will run.
01:02:04.000If he thinks that he requires the radical left in order to win election, that is where he will run.
01:02:08.000He didn't require them to beat Bernie Sanders because there are still more moderates than radicals in the Democratic Party.
01:02:12.000But he needs the coalition of moderates and radicals in the Democratic Party in order to defeat the Republicans.
01:02:17.000So he ain't going to be a bulwark for moderation.
01:02:19.000OK, here is Joe Biden circa 1993 talking up the crime bill.
01:02:23.000The underlying bill, which is now the Biden-Hatch bill, was the Biden bill.
01:02:27.000A guy named Biden wrote that bill, and he wrote that bill by going down and sitting down with the President of the United States of America.
01:04:13.000Here is Joe Biden suddenly flipping on the death penalty, which he'd been in favor of his entire career.
01:04:18.000We should make sure that if, in fact, someone is put on trial for a crime, they could end up with a major sentence for life imprisonment because it was a capital offense.
01:04:27.000And by the way, congratulations, you're all ending to death.
01:04:32.000Okay, then in 2020, he suddenly came out against the enforcement of criminal penalties against marijuana.
01:04:39.000And he says, nobody should be in jail for smoking marijuana.
01:04:43.000Asked by CNN if the former vice president supports legalizing marijuana, Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesman, said Biden believes the drug should be decriminalized.
01:04:49.000Oh, well, isn't that a switch in position?
01:04:54.000He's shifted his position from tough on crime to loose on crime.
01:04:57.000And he's done all of it because that's where his party has moved.
01:05:00.000He will do whatever is convenient to the moment.
01:05:02.000The most obvious example isn't even on crime, where he took his signal accomplishment in the United States Senate on crime, his signal bipartisan accomplishment, and just chucked it directly out the window as soon as it became inconvenient.
01:05:11.000On abortion, he's had his own evolution.
01:05:13.000In 1973, Biden actually supported getting rid of Roe vs. Wade.
01:05:17.000In 1974, Biden said of Roe vs. Wade that it, quote-unquote, went too far.
01:05:21.000He didn't, quote, think a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.
01:05:26.000OK, even as late as 2019, Biden was reiterating his support for the Hyde Amendment.
01:05:29.000The Hyde Amendment bans federal funding for abortions.
01:05:32.000So Joe Biden said, In a statement to ABC News, quote, his campaign said he has not at this point changed his position on the Hyde Amendment.
01:05:40.000The Hyde Amendment does not prevent organizations in the U.S.
01:05:42.000that provide life-saving health care services for women from receiving the federal funding they need.
01:05:46.000But given the current draconian attempts to limit access to abortion, if avenues for women to access their protected rights under Roe v. Wade are closed, he would be open to repeal.
01:05:54.000The next year, Joe Biden came out and then openly denounced the Hyde Amendment.
01:06:00.000He denounced the Hyde Amendment as of June 2019.
01:06:03.000As recently as a couple days before, he said he supported the Hyde Amendment, and then he just turned it around and now the Hyde Amendment's bad.
01:06:09.000I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right.
01:06:19.000If I believe healthcare is a right as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's zip code.
01:06:27.000Oh wow, look at that, he just flipped.
01:06:29.000Who could have predicted such a thing?
01:06:30.000And then, there was Joe Biden, same year, saying that he would codify Roe in law.
01:06:34.000So he moved from 1974, Roe is a bad decision, to 2020, Roe needs to be codified in federal law.
01:06:40.000I mean, it's almost as though the man has no principles.
01:06:44.000Considering the new Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, what are your particular plans to protect women's reproductive rights in the U.S.?
01:06:55.000Number one, we don't know exactly what she will do, although the expectation is that she may very well move to overview, overrule Roe.
01:07:06.000But the only thing, the only responsible response to that would be to pass legislation making Roe the law of the land.
01:07:38.000He has continued to maintain support for an assault weapons ban.
01:07:40.000And then he says occasionally idiotic things like, I own a couple of shotguns.
01:07:43.000And if ever somebody's at your door bothering you should fire a shotgun through the door, which is literally the stupidest, most criminal thing that you can do.
01:07:49.000Also, he says that cops should shoot to wounds.
01:07:51.000So he knows less about guns than he knows about anything else, which is saying an awful lot.
01:07:59.000On civil liberties, he's not really spoken out about the Patriot Act, other than to say, repeatedly, that he was one of the original creators of the Patriot Act.
01:08:07.000He actually says that most of the provisions of the Patriot Act, created in 2001, that most of those provisions were actually first brought about by Joe Biden in 1994.
01:08:16.000Here was Joe Biden saying that he supported the Patriot Act during his 2008 failed presidential run.
01:08:22.000Senator Biden, go ahead and respond because you voted for the Patriot Act.
01:08:47.000This is a guy who went from being somewhat in favor of having a border to completely not in favor of having a border.
01:08:52.000In 2006, Joe Biden supported the Secure Fence Act, which was designed, of course, to build fencing along, wait for it, wait for it, the southern border.
01:09:42.000He said this during the debate the other night.
01:09:44.000He said, as president, I will immediately work to make it permanent by sending a bill to Congress on day one of my administration. So now he's totally in favor of open borders, pretty much.
01:10:15.000Joe Biden has never been out front on an issue in his entire life without the backing of his party, without believing that the momentum was behind him.
01:10:22.000In 1993, Joe Biden voted for a bill deeming homosexuality incompatible with military life.
01:10:26.000That was the Don't Ask, Don't Tell bill.
01:10:28.000In 1996, Joe Biden voted for the Defense of Marriage Act.
01:10:31.000Right, which was designed to enshrine traditional marriage.
01:10:35.000In 2012, of course, he shifted, and he said that he was now pushing same-sex marriage, and he just didn't understand why anybody would oppose same-sex marriage.
01:10:41.000Because, of course, he was basically thrown out there by the Obama administration as a trial balloon in the middle of the campaign.
01:10:46.000You're comfortable with same-sex marriage now?
01:10:49.000Look, I am Vice President of the United States of America.
01:10:56.000I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that Men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying men are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties.
01:11:10.000And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.
01:11:21.000Or, alternatively, the guy shifted on every position, and he follows the prevailing political winds.
01:11:25.000On civil rights, in the 1970s, Joe Biden opposed mandatory busing, of course.
01:11:31.000In 1974, freshman Senator Joe Biden found himself under siege from white suburbanites at a meeting just south of Wilmington in Delaware that's going to Politico.
01:11:38.000The possibility their children would be bused into black schools in the city and black children would be bused to their schools has sent a wave of consternation through the white community.
01:11:45.000For two hours, Biden paced the auditorium stage and absorbed the ire of the 250-member audience.
01:11:50.000Unable to offer them any assurance on the court ruling, he made a promise to oppose busing when he returned to Washington for the next legislative session, and he did.
01:11:56.000This, of course, became the basis for the famous Okay, so, obviously, he has tried to disown all of that.
01:12:08.000And then, of course, in 1996, Joe Biden voted for welfare reform.
01:12:11.000Now, he won't even answer where he is on welfare reform, but this is Joe Biden circa 96.
01:12:16.000If we really want welfare reform, and not a political issue, we must do it in a bipartisan way in each of his compromise, and do it in a form the president can sign.
01:12:29.000It's the only bipartisan welfare reform bill to be introduced in Congress.
01:12:33.000It's a bill the president said he would sign, and it's a bill that's gotten wide editorial endorsement, and a bill that makes compromises by definition of it being bipartisan on both sides.
01:12:43.000Now his campaign refuses to answer where he is on welfare reform.
01:12:45.000Because, of course, to answer that question means that he might actually be held accountable for his own policies.
01:12:51.000According to NBC News, nearly 25 years after Biden voted for it in the Senate, his campaign declined to say directly whether he stands by his vote.
01:13:02.000Because when you look at the actual radical agenda that is on Joe Biden's website, when you actually look at what Joe Biden would like to do for the country, it is all radicalism.
01:13:09.000He made an agreement with Bernie Sanders.
01:13:11.000Bernie is out there bragging that Biden is going to be the most progressive president since FDR because he allowed Bernie to fill in a lot of the policy details on his campaign website.
01:13:19.000Now, there are a lot of people out there saying, well, Joe Biden, he's a typical politician, so he's not going to do all that.
01:13:23.000OK, but what if the pressure is coming from his left?
01:13:27.000Joe Biden may think that he's going to be able to find some sort of common ground middle with the Republican Party.
01:13:31.000But what happens when his own party rebels against that and he is forced into a coalition with the most extreme elements of his base?
01:13:37.000The fact that Joe Biden has no principles is the reason you should fear that he is not going to be a bulwark against the radicals in his own party.
01:13:44.000Bill Clinton had no principles either.
01:13:45.000And so when his political fortunes started to shift beneath him, he started to cut deals with Republicans.
01:13:50.000Do you think that Joe Biden is going to do that?
01:13:52.000Do you think he has the ability to do that?
01:13:53.000He doesn't have enough Democrats in his own party who are willing to cut deals with Republicans in order to do that.
01:13:58.000He's going to continue shifting the way that he shifted under Barack Obama to the radical left.
01:14:02.000So here is what is in Joe Biden's radical agenda.
01:14:05.000Here's what's in Joe Biden's radical agenda.
01:14:07.000Okay, so his tax plan. According to the Tax Foundation, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would enact a number of policies that would raise taxes on individuals with income above $400,000, including raising individual income capital gains and payroll taxes. Biden would also raise taxes on corporations by raising the corporate income tax rate and imposing a corporate minimum book tax.
01:14:26.000Biden's plan would raise tax revenue by $3.3 trillion over the next decade.
01:14:29.000There's only one problem is we'll see when it gets to spending.
01:14:31.000He's going to spend way more than that.
01:14:33.000According to the Tax Foundation's General Equilibrium Model, the Biden tax plan would reduce GDP by 1.62% over the long term.
01:14:40.000On a conventional basis, the Biden tax plan by 2030 would lead to about 7.7% less after-tax income for the top 1% About a 1.9% decline in after-tax income for all taxpayers on average.
01:14:53.000It will lead to a loss of over half a million jobs in the United States, according to the Tax Foundation.
01:14:58.000That is his tax plan, his massive, incredible tax plan.
01:15:09.000The Manhattan Institute's Brian Rydell, a former budget staffer, used third-party cost estimates of Biden's proposal to show that they cost more than $11 trillion over 10 years.
01:15:19.000So he's supposed to raise taxes by $3.3 trillion over the next 10 years and raise spending by at least $11 trillion over the next 10 years.
01:15:27.000Removing the $3 trillion cost of the House Democrats Heroes Act, which is the new COVID relief program that they are pushing, they still would have to increase federal spending by more than $8 trillion over the next decade.
01:15:38.000There is never a time where they've estimated government spending that it has come in low.
01:15:43.000Analysts from the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a project associated with the Wharton School, estimate that even at the lower end it would cost $5.4 trillion over the next decade.
01:15:52.000This means that Biden's plans would make federal spending roughly 24% of gross domestic product by 2030.
01:15:58.000He has pushed for a public option, which will dramatically undermine your private health insurance plan by essentially having a subsidized public taxpayer-funded system that forces people into the public system.
01:16:09.000That's what happens through a public option.
01:16:10.000Everyone understands that's the first step toward getting rid of private insurance.
01:16:16.000He's going to pour money into labor unions, and he's going to go out and he's going to wreck charter schools.
01:16:21.000His position on charter schools is absolutely clear.
01:16:24.000According to the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force recommendations, charter schools should basically be done.
01:16:29.000Democrats believe education is a public good and should not be settled with a private profit motive, which is why we will ban for-profit private charter businesses from receiving any federal funding.
01:16:38.000Also, They oppose private school vouchers and other policies that divert taxpayer-funded resources away from the public school system.
01:16:45.000So you're going to see more money poured into the labor unions and our crappy public schools, no more charter schools, federally funded, and we are going to remove the possibility of school vouchers.
01:16:54.000Joe Biden is extraordinarily radical when it comes to labor.
01:16:57.000He has been pandering to unions, public sector unions particularly, for a very, very long time.
01:17:03.000According to Steve Delly, an opinion contributor for The Hill, His plan includes abolishing right-to-work laws.
01:17:09.000These are laws that state that you do not have to be a union member in order to work in the public sector.
01:17:14.000Biden's plan would return to the days where union members or not employees would be forced to pay at least some portion of their union dues or be terminated.
01:17:21.000Tens of millions of workers would lose freedom from such a policy.
01:17:25.000Currently, no federal law addresses collective bargaining for state and local government employees.
01:17:39.000Card check forces employees to vote for a union by signing an authorization card, which means that you can be bullied into joining a union by the union higher-ups.
01:17:49.000Biden supports the nationwide adoption of the ABC test for independent contractors, making it nearly impossible for workers to be classified as independent contractors, so it would kill Uber, it would kill Lyft, it would kill the gig economy, and of course, he wants to radically increase the minimum wage.
01:18:10.000He said, I want to make something clear.
01:18:12.000I'm going to guarantee you this is not the last you've seen of Beto.
01:18:14.000You're going to take care of the gun problem with me.
01:18:15.000You're going to be the one who leads this effort.
01:18:19.000So Joe Biden is going to get radical on guns, obviously.
01:18:23.000He said, weapons of war have no place in our communities.
01:18:25.000We need to ban assault weapons in high capacity magazines.
01:18:27.000Of course, assault weapons is an ill-defined, nondescript term, meaning whatever Democrats want it to be.
01:18:33.000Biden is also going to target religious freedom.
01:18:36.000His own website suggests that religious freedom is to be subsumed beneath the rubric of LGBTQ rights.
01:18:43.000According to the Biden website plan, religious freedom is a fundamental American value, but states have inappropriately used broad exemptions to allow businesses, medical providers, social service agencies, state and local government officials, and others to discriminate against LGBTQ plus people.
01:18:58.000So there should be no exemptions for religious people, basically.
01:19:02.000If you're a religious person who operates a business, all exemptions go away.
01:19:04.000You are now forced to do the bidding of the state on LGBTQ issues.
01:19:09.000So, I hope you've enjoyed your freedom of religion.
01:19:12.000It is going to be wildly quashed under a Biden administration.
01:19:15.000And again, it will all get more radical.
01:19:17.000And of course, Biden is pushing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants, which I think will be his very, very first step.
01:19:23.000Here was Joe Biden in the last debate with President Trump.
01:19:29.000Within 100 days, I'm going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people.
01:19:37.000And all of those so-called dreamers, those DACA kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship.
01:19:47.000Okay, this is putting aside all of the various other institutional Heresies that Biden is going to preside over.
01:20:17.000If that does not give you pause about voting for Joe Biden, then go ahead and vote for him.
01:20:21.000Just recognize that if you are talking about Joe Biden voting against Donald Trump, you're talking about voting for that guy that I just described wrong on every foreign policy issue of his entire career.
01:20:30.000A serial exaggerator, a career liar, a plagiarist, a low-level corrupt dude.
01:20:38.000That's pretty much the only quality that seems presidential in him is that he is a nice guy.
01:20:42.000So if that's enough for you to make this guy president, this nice guy president who immediately will start implementing the most radical agenda of the Democrats from the Green New Deal and regulatory Expansions to the prosecution of people on campus who are accused of sexual assault without any right to due process.
01:21:00.000If you're in favor of all that, by all means, Joe Biden is your guy.
01:21:06.000Well, today, to conclude our extraordinarily long show, I had the opportunity to sit down with our friends over at Birchgold.
01:21:12.000Once in a while, we sit down with our friends over at Birchgold and give you a financial projection on what's going to happen over the coming months.
01:21:18.000I had a conversation with one of their precious metal specialists.
01:21:48.000What effect do you think the election is going to have on stocks as well as the overall economy?
01:21:52.000I mean, as always, I think a fairly dramatic effect.
01:21:57.000Obviously, it depends on the outcome of the election.
01:22:00.000If the polls are correct, which obviously we've grown to doubt in recent years, they're suggesting a Biden win.
01:22:09.000If that happens, I think it has a dramatic effect on the market.
01:22:14.000What we can count on, as we understand taxes going up, $3 trillion predicted in excess taxes over the next 10 years, The concern is raises in capital gains taxes could lead investors to flee the markets in anticipation.
01:22:30.000Goldman Sachs recently came out and said a Biden win could result in a 12% cut in corporate profits in the S&P, largely on the back of these tax raises. At the end of the day, I think we know what it amounts to, and that is larger government, more spending, and ultimately a move away from a laissez-faire and free market economy.
01:23:10.000The one thing we can say is, as good as he is in some respects, what he is not is a magician, right?
01:23:16.000What he cannot do is make debt disappear or change the cyclical nature of the markets.
01:23:22.000The markets have been cyclical since inception, regardless of president, good or bad, Republican or Democrat.
01:23:28.000The point being, we've got tough times to go through no matter who gets into office, but certainly I think it would be a better trajectory.
01:23:37.000So, we've blown out the spending since COVID.
01:23:39.000I mean, to the tune of trillions and trillions of dollars.
01:23:41.000Obviously, we can expect that that's going to have some impact on the efficacy of the dollar going forward.
01:23:47.000Either taxes are going to have to radically rise or we're going to have to start inflating the currency at some point in the future.
01:23:51.000What does that mean for precious metals investment?
01:23:54.000Look, at the end of the day, it's climates like that that you speak of, currency devaluation, inflation, these things act as drivers for precious metals.
01:24:04.000So as bad as these things are for the nation, for us, for gold and silver, they're quite good at the end of the day.
01:24:12.000It's a very conducive climate for them.
01:24:15.000Well, on the other hand, obviously, stocks did this massive drop in late February, early March.
01:25:24.000So when we look at precious metals going into 2021, what is the outlook for precious metals in 2021?
01:25:28.000Obviously been a wild year financially.
01:25:31.000Yes, indeed, and just in general, quite frankly.
01:25:34.000Look, it certainly bodes well, and it ties into, again, what you mentioned previously.
01:25:40.000We're moving into a climate that looks very conducive, right?
01:25:44.000If we were to ask US citizens, what are the major issues facing the economy today, I think most people would mention bubbles in the market, debt, inflation, currency devaluation.
01:25:56.000As we mentioned a moment ago, these things are all drivers for gold and silver, so the climate looks conducive.
01:26:03.000On top of that, I think options today are more limited than they've been in the past.
01:26:08.000The stock market looks to have problems.
01:26:10.000Interest rates are so low, creating issues for bonds or cash.
01:26:15.000Limited options, I think, further support the precious metals market.
01:26:19.000And in reference to that, look at Bank of America's prediction.
01:26:24.000They feel by 2021, gold will be at 3,000 an ounce.
01:26:28.000So it seems to speak to what we're talking about.
01:26:32.000So if somebody does want to diversify at least a little bit and move some of their money into precious metals, what would be the best way for them to go about doing that with birch gold?
01:26:46.000If you have a retirement account, you want to put a portion of that into precious metals.
01:26:50.000We have a structure in place that allows you to roll over any portion and place physical, tangible metals tax deferred within a retirement account.
01:26:59.000We can also assist with cash purchases as well.
01:27:01.000But I think the first step for your listeners, give us a call, get our information.
01:27:06.000Should it make sense, we're here to facilitate.
01:27:09.000Obviously volatile times breed uncertainty, and uncertainty is a good time to diversify.
01:27:13.000Make sure that you are not too much in one area or another with your finances.
01:27:17.000Make sure that you are invested at least a little bit into precious metals, the way I am with my friends over at Birch Gold.
01:27:22.000All right, Philip, so I know that you are not in the predictions business more than in general terms, but You've already said that you think that precious metals are going to be a good bet for the near future.
01:27:35.000Where do you think the country is politically next year?
01:27:37.000I'm going to ask you to jump into my business here.