00:00:04.000We talk about all sorts of different things, most specifically Ukraine with Senator Rand Paul and the funding and the cronyism around that.
00:00:10.000And then also with Kash Patel, we focus on the fourth branch of government.
00:01:06.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:34.000So what the $250,000 wire transfer, walk us through this, Cash, and the details associated with this, because I mean, if this is not like smoking gun evidence, I really don't know what is.
00:02:46.000Yeah, and I love how the Democrats make up new laws.
00:02:49.000I mean, they do it all the time in their two-tier system of justice when they say what evidence.
00:02:53.000And they're like, well, Joe Biden didn't get any monetary benefit.
00:02:56.000Let's just say they're right about that.
00:02:58.000The way bribery works is you don't have to be the recipient of the funds.
00:03:02.000As a former federal prosecutor, I kind of know this.
00:03:04.000As long as you participate in the scheme to defraud and leverage someone with a bribery scandal and you are benefited or your family or your friends or your business is benefited, you are guilty of bribery.
00:03:17.000This $250,000 mark alone is guilt for Joe Biden himself of bribery, let alone Hunter and his brother and their daughters and their sisters and everyone else in on the scheme.
00:03:29.000But this DOJ is never going to prosecute him.
00:03:32.000They've probably already leaked this information, which is why the Washington Post is now calling for Joe Biden to go quietly into the sunset so they can parachute in Gavin Newsome.
00:03:42.000Oversight Chair James Comer has just released a bombshell piece of evidence that could be the nail in the coffin for Biden's career.
00:03:50.000A $250,000 wire transfer from China directly to Joe Biden's home address in Delaware while he was running for president.
00:04:00.000In August 2019, just months after Joe Biden announced his candidacy, the Chinese sent a quarter of a million dollars electronically to Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware address.
00:04:11.000Hunter Biden received the money in his checking account, and his checking account listed his father's primary residence.
00:04:31.000You're not missing anything, but the Republicans are politicizing the greatest amount of evidence we've ever seen showing Joe Biden's corruption, bribery, and fraud scandal.
00:04:41.000And why they're doing it is I think they're wed to the media.
00:04:43.000They're wed to this idea of somehow they're going to defeat the mainstream media and get glorified in conservative media circles for breaking through.
00:04:50.000But like you just laid out, this evidence is never going to be is rock solid when it comes to fraud cases, but it's never going to be acted on by Chris Ray and Merrick Garland, who've created the two-tier system of justice.
00:05:03.000And what Congress has is the inherent contempt of Congress powers.
00:05:08.000When these individuals violate congressional subpoenas and they are the ones who are supposed to be policing our country, you go police them.
00:05:16.000But of course, Kevin McCarthy and company is not going to use the inherent powers of Congress to do anything.
00:05:21.000They're not going to refer it to a DOJ for anything.
00:05:24.000And I don't know, next week we'll be hearing from 17 other witnesses that we've never heard of.
00:05:28.000And maybe we'll get another email about a half a million dollar payment, which we should have gotten eight months ago if they just enforced the damn subpoenas.
00:05:35.000Yeah, why haven't they enforced the subpoenas?
00:05:39.000I cannot begin to tell you a reason that's plausible for that, other than the Republican will and leadership has told them they can't do that.
00:05:54.000You know, when we issued 17 during RussiaGate, when Devin and I were running RussiaGate, we fenced money and overnight on 17 subpoenas, we got 2,000 pages of documentation.
00:06:05.000That means we withheld a little pocket of money.
00:06:06.000We didn't defund the whole organization.
00:06:08.000Why doesn't this government and Congress take Chris Ray's government-funded G5 private jet away from him?
00:06:21.000They've ceded their entire constitutional oversight to Chris Ray and Merrick Garland, the number one in two government gangsters, as I write about in my book.
00:07:42.000So, but does it have anything to do with that we don't control both the White House and the House of Representatives, that we don't have unified government?
00:07:48.000It makes it harder to enforce subpoenas, or is that just not a very good argument?
00:08:06.000We've heard it over and over again: constitutional oversight.
00:08:09.000The agencies and departments report to Congress, not the other way around, unless and until you have an executive branch that runs roughshod over them like this one is doing.
00:08:18.000And I can't believe the amount of people on the Republican conservative side that are saying, oh, we'll let the FBI and DOJ tell us what we want and inform us how they want to be informed.
00:08:29.000And we won't get that information to the American people.
00:08:33.000Not educating Americans so that another election is rigged yet again by the FBI and DOJ.
00:08:38.000Yeah, and so just so I'm clear, have Republicans cut any of Christopher Wray's budget since they've taken Congress?
00:08:45.000Not one cent, not one dime, not anything from DOJ and their fleet of cars and their boondoggles.
00:08:52.000And Chris Ray wants, just so we're clear, Chris Ray has put in a budgeting proposal to build a new FBI headquarters in Maryland that's twice the size of the Pentagon.
00:09:01.000And a bunch of Republicans are okay with that.
00:09:26.000I guess I have hope, but that's not really a, you know, how we say in DOD.
00:09:30.000That's not really a line of effort you can execute on.
00:09:34.000We have the power of the first in the House of Representatives.
00:09:38.000That's the most important thing to me right now is the budgeting cycle.
00:09:41.000And we're about to, you know, probably cave on the CR and give out away more money to Ukraine.
00:09:46.000And it's funny how we can print $120 billion to Ukraine, but we can't take away $5 million from a law enforcement agency in the FBI and DOJ that are breaking the law on a daily basis.
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00:11:36.000Yeah, it's another example of lawfare now at the state civil level.
00:11:40.000They've done it at the federal, criminal, state, criminal, and now a judge who has unilaterally decided without a jury that, one, Donald Trump's establishment in Mar-a-Lago is worth a few pennies rather than what its actual value is, is using lawfare to nik Donald Trump.
00:11:57.000And it's not surprising, but essentially he could go in there and just take away his licenses and his properties and his ability to do business.
00:12:06.000Of course, it's going to get appealed.
00:12:08.000But this shows you the level they're willing to go to and the radical left and the extremes that they have and how far away we Republicans are utilizing our law authority.
00:12:27.000Arthur Biden, his mistress was there at some point.
00:12:30.000You know, you and I have led the effort about having state attorney generals in Arkansas or anywhere, Missouri, elsewhere, come in and battle the Biden administration and battle for Republicans.
00:12:42.000And not one single state attorney general.
00:12:44.000And we've got, I think, 26 of them at my last count, Charlie, that could bring crimes, that could bring civil actions, that could bring so much criminality to the forefront.
00:13:23.000Well, we've talked about how he got that sweetheart deal.
00:13:27.000But what people are overlooking is that to get that deal, and I know this having handled about a thousand gun cases as a public defender and prosecutor, you have to get the specific permission of the attorney general to get diversion in a gun case.
00:13:41.000That obliterates the narrative that Merrick Garland said, I'm not having any say in this matter whatsoever.
00:13:47.000We are letting career prosecutors execute this.
00:13:50.000The reason I bring that up is because he's lied about the Biden administration's involvement in the prosecution of Donald Trump.
00:13:56.000When Donald Trump was being prosecuted because Joe Biden waived executive privilege, of course, Merrick Garland talked to the White House and they were in on it together.
00:14:04.000And what should happen when a plea deal explodes, implos, whatever word you want to use, like the Hunter Biden case, is you bring the full suite of charges.
00:14:13.000That's what happens when you prosecute people and they don't accept a plea.
00:14:17.000That's what happens in 100 of 100 cases.
00:14:20.000But for some reason, we let the statute of limitations lapse because Merrick Garland has a two-tier system of justice.
00:14:26.000And we also failed to bring FARA charges, bribery charges, fraud charges.
00:14:31.000All of these things have been worked on for five years.
00:14:36.000Bill Barr is the number one government gangster that could have brought these charges and sat on them and sat on justice and is out there running around in the lethargic manner, blaming Donald Trump for everything because the rhino entrenchment class will pay him to do so.
00:14:50.000These people are all government gangsters.
00:14:52.000It's not a Republican or Democrat thing.
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00:15:46.000Joining us now is Senator Rand Paul, who is doing a heroic and important job in the U.S. Senate, holding the line the best he can against sending more money to Ukraine.
00:15:57.000Senator, thank you so much for joining the program.
00:15:59.000Senator, tell us the latest in the U.S. Senate.
00:16:02.000How much money have we sent to Ukraine, and what are you doing to try to stop the funding of this proxy war?
00:16:12.000We know where at least some of it went, but we haven't been able to get an inspector general.
00:16:16.000The Democrats refuse, and many Republicans complicit refuse to hire an inspector general.
00:16:23.000I've suggested that the inspector general that's been overseeing Afghan aid and military payments in Afghanistan for about a decade, he's got a team of 100 accountants and economists and lawyers.
00:16:34.000They know what they're doing in a war zone.
00:17:02.000Now this week, they're saying that they will close our government down if we don't give them more money for Ukraine.
00:17:08.000And the Biden administration has said, you know what?
00:17:11.000We consider the Ukraine government to be essential.
00:17:14.000So those government workers in Ukraine will be paid, but U.S. government workers will not be paid during a shutdown.
00:17:20.000That is just, I think, the height of gall and something we should all reject.
00:17:25.000There's so much to unpack here, Senator, but let's really focus on the money.
00:17:29.000And I just want to compliment you, Senator.
00:17:31.000When we were doing all this nation rebuilding in Afghanistan, you were one of the few people in the U.S. Senate that asked the question, why do we have electric vehicle charging stations in Afghanistan?
00:17:40.000Why are we building hundreds of millions of dollars for this hotel just to then torpedo it?
00:17:46.000I mean, the amount of waste that happens with our foreign adventures, it blows the mind.
00:18:09.000For the last over a year, I've been asking for an inspector general, and I've told them the one we should use already exists, already has a budget.
00:19:02.000These people are ready to shovel the money and even more money out the door.
00:19:05.000They're ready to fund all these government workers in Ukraine, defend Ukraine's border, pay for 56,000 firemen and policemen in Ukraine, and yet they're not even willing to have an inspector general.
00:19:16.000They ought to all be fired and sent home for this kind of oversight or lack of oversight.
00:19:21.000So is there any evidence to suggest that American contractors or crony insiders are making off on this, Senator?
00:19:29.000I mean, we know this in previous kind of foreign war gaming, right?
00:19:36.000Is there any evidence to suggest that the insiders in D.C. are making a lot of money off of this?
00:19:41.000We know that there is still some semblance of media in Ukraine.
00:19:46.000We know Zelenskyy's banned a lot of media, but we also know that the media over there has discovered people on the take, Ukrainians on the take, and that they've been forced to fire 24 people two weeks ago, a general a month ago.
00:19:59.000I mean, there have been people fired, but only under duress and only under pressure from what remains of scrutiny over there.
00:20:07.000But historically, Ukraine has been known as one of the most corrupt countries on the planet, maybe only exceeded by Russia.
00:20:26.000And that to me, I mean, particularly for all these blowhards on CNN talking about democracy and make the world safe for democracy, they're not even a democracy.
00:20:35.000They're a regime run by a guy who canceled the elections, who's canceled opposing parties and actually has invaded the churches as well as tried to restrict priests from their freedom of speech as well.
00:20:48.000So this is a real mistake, but the bottom line is we don't have any money.
00:20:52.000We have to borrow the money from China to send it to Ukraine.
00:20:55.000It's beyond any sort of rational explanation.
00:20:59.000Senator, I want to get into some of the geopolitics here.
00:21:01.000You're one of the few people in the U.S. Senate that asks the question, why are we not trying to broker peace?
00:21:06.000And also, why are we trying to get closer and closer towards a kinetic hot war against Russia?
00:21:13.000Senator, why does Washington, D.C. hate Russia as much as they do?
00:21:18.000I'm not saying we have to like Russia.
00:21:21.000But why is it the Intel agencies, the fourth branch of government, and a majority of Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats, why are they so insistent on fighting Russia?
00:21:30.000In the words of Senator Mitch McConnell, quote, it's the most important thing happening right now, equipping the Ukrainians against the Russians.
00:21:38.000Can you help explain this to me, Senator?
00:21:40.000Because not spending time in D.C., I don't understand how they can come to this conclusion.
00:21:45.000I think they mistake the world for being a black and white world where there's good and evil, and we need to be always on the side of good.
00:21:52.000And the world's a much more murky place.
00:21:54.000There's both good and evil on the Russian side and good and evil on the Ukraine side.
00:21:58.000There's good and evil in China, frankly.
00:22:01.000And so when we have national policy or we do things, we should be aware of the unintended consequences of it.
00:22:08.000You know, some of the brinksmanship that led up to World War II were putting an embargo on Japan, sanctions on Japan, things like this.
00:22:16.000And none of that justifies Pearl Harbor, but some of it explains that we pushed and pushed and pushed.
00:22:22.000Actually, I'm reading a good book right now called The Declassification Engine by Matthew Connolly.
00:22:28.000And in it, he talks about how with the war, there were many of FDR's closest advisors who were giddy after the attack.
00:22:35.000I mean, can you imagine how sad it is?
00:22:37.000We lose thousands of people at Pearl Harbor, and they're jumping for joy because we finally got into the war.
00:22:43.000And that's the sickness that still pervades some in Washington who would claim they aren't for it, but would actually welcome some sort of expansion of the war.
00:22:53.000People like me fear that Russia will be boxed into a situation, become desperate, and bomb a Polish city.
00:23:00.000And then all of a sudden, all the force of NATO is involved and NATO troops are in Ukraine, and this becomes a massive war.
00:23:08.000And I don't know, even with your enemies, you need to continue to have conversations.
00:23:12.000I'm for continuing to have arms negotiations with both the Chinese and the Russians.
00:23:39.000There are more mature thinkers up here, but the vast majority, the bipartisan Senate leadership, are really of one mind.
00:23:47.000And that is that there's no problem with this.
00:23:49.000We're just buying bullets to shoot Russians.
00:23:52.000But in the end, I think there's a great deal of danger this could escalate.
00:23:56.000Well, the hope I have, Senator, is that the American people have quickly turned against funding this proxy war.
00:24:03.000And even you're starting to see it in the U.S. House of Representatives grow and grow and grow.
00:24:07.000Senator, in some of your private conversations or one-off kind of dialogues that you have, are you seeing a little bit of a weakening of the gusto amongst Senate Republicans to keep this money train going?
00:24:19.000Are you starting to see people ask more questions?
00:24:22.000You know, are you starting to see people say, you know, maybe this is not, I mean, publicly, you know, Senator McConnell and Senator Cornyn, they seem as enthusiastic as ever.
00:24:30.000Are you starting to see some weakening, though, amongst some of the more persuadable members of the Senate in either political party?
00:24:38.000Well, among those of the senators who are like weather vanes and they are testing the wind daily, they're starting to know the winds are against them.
00:24:46.000The polling now shows 70% of Republicans think we shouldn't be sending further aid.
00:24:51.000Some of it just simply for fiscally conservative reasons that I make, that we don't have the money and we're having to borrow it to send there.
00:25:11.000And so, and there's several others that are with us, but there might be 10 that are outspoken.
00:25:16.000But it's still sort of the opposite up here.
00:25:18.000We've got 20 or 30 percent who have questions about more aid to Ukraine.
00:25:23.000And yet among the public, it's 70% of Republicans and growing that are sick and tired of this.
00:25:29.000And they see our border being overrun, that we're not willing to spend a dime or do anything to change policy on our border.
00:25:35.000But we're sending billions of dollars over there to protect the borders of Ukraine.
00:25:40.000Yeah, and I mean, I love the kind of weather vein analogy because they're just trying to test to see where things are.
00:25:47.000The voters are decisively against this.
00:25:50.000I believe firmly that because of the language that certain current and former senators have done, like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, we actually helped provoke the Russian invasion.
00:26:01.000This is considered to be a thought crime.
00:26:12.000Senator, can you build this out for us a little bit?
00:26:14.000I think it's very important to talk about how we actually were complicit, potentially even responsible for creating this conflict in eastern Ukraine.
00:26:24.000The problem with this discussion and why it's always they come at you with which pitchforks is that they believe that any explanation of why an adversary reacted in a certain way is somehow justification.
00:26:38.000And I say it repeatedly to preface this, nothing justifies the invasion of Russia into Ukraine.
00:26:48.000Russia has said for decades, and we promised back in the early 1990s, that when Germany united and Germany became part of NATO, that we wouldn't go one inch further into Eastern Europe.
00:27:02.000And as we added former Soviet republics into NATO, or we threatened to, such as Ukraine and Georgia, the Russians got their backup and continue and continue to say that that's one thing that's unacceptable.
00:27:15.000And in fact, you can kind of argue that Russia's invasion of Georgia was to make them on a war footing and unacceptable for NATO membership.
00:27:25.000Part of NATO membership is you can't really be in the middle of a civil war when you become a NATO member.
00:27:30.000It also may have been the provocation that says, hey, we're going to go ahead and invade eastern Ukraine as well because it makes them less palatable to be admitted immediately into NATO.
00:27:55.000But in the U.S., we've been programmed to think it ends like World War II.
00:27:58.000You drop an atomic bomb, and then there's an unconditional peace, or unconditional surrender.
00:28:05.000But I don't think that's going to happen.
00:28:07.000And right now, Ukraine is saying, Zelensky is saying, he will not negotiate.
00:28:10.000There'll be no ceasefire and no stopping to the killing until Russia leaves not only eastern Ukraine, but also Crimea, as it's been since 2014.
00:28:20.000I think that's unlikely and means the killing goes on longer.
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00:30:11.000He has seen how all these other candidates have just been smoked.
00:30:14.000He very well might be doing this summit as just a way to raise money for the Texas, not Texas, I'm sorry, the Virginia House of Representatives races or the House of Delegates races.
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00:30:29.000Governor Young, let me give you some unsolicited advice.
00:30:36.000No matter how many donors tell you it's going to go well for you, no matter how much money is promised to you, no matter how many consultants come to you, do not do this.