The Washington Post is now doing a mea culpa for a story they had not reported a year and a half ago. Why? And why is it so important that they cover a story that has been out for three years?
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.
00:02:27.000So first they say, quote, there was something grotesquely familiar about last week's revelations about Hunter Biden's business dealings abroad, both in the story's particulars and more in the general saga of self-sleazy self-dealing in which it fits.
00:02:42.000So back in 2019, when Biden first announced for president, Schweitzer had the goods about Biden's foreign business dealings.
00:02:53.000And now we're supposed to believe that the Washington Post is going to go out of their way and write an article saying that, oh, by the way, there's all these new revelations.
00:03:03.000We've known about this for three years.
00:03:05.000But then why are you putting this into there?
00:03:54.000Let's dwell on that for a second longer.
00:03:58.000The Justice Department, the Washington Post editorial board writes, meanwhile, continues its inquiry into Hunter Biden's tax affairs and foreign lobbying.
00:04:12.000For now, what's more compelling than the assorted accusations about the Biden behavior is this question.
00:04:18.000Why is the confirmation of a story that first surfaced in the fall of 2020 emerging only now?
00:04:24.000When the New York Post published its blockbuster exclusive on the contents of a laptop said to have been abandoned at a Delaware repair shop by Hunter Biden, mainstream media organizations bulked at running with the same narrative.
00:04:36.000Social media sites displayed even greater caution.
00:04:40.000Twitter blocked the story altogether, pointing to a policy against hacked materials and suspended the New York Post's account for sharing it.
00:04:48.000Facebook downraked the story and its algorithms that governed users newsfeed for the fear that it was based on misinformation.
00:04:54.000Now, the Washington Post and New York Times have vouched for many of the relevant communications.
00:04:57.000Don't you love how they try to frame themselves as the validation?
00:05:23.000The Washington Post continues, this series of events have prompted allegations of a cover-up, or at best a double standard in the treatment of conservative and liberal politicians by mainstream media and social media sites.
00:05:34.000Yet there was a reason in this case for reluctance on part of the publications and the platforms alike.
00:06:33.000It was only prudent to suspect a similar plot lay behind the mysterious appearance of a computer stuffed with juicy documents and conveniently handed over to President Donald Trump's toxic person, right, toxic in their personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
00:06:49.000Indeed, at the time, there was also an ongoing disinformation operation from Moscow involving, among other things, doctored recordings supposedly showing Joe Biden properly pressuring the then president of Ukraine to aid Hunter Biden's business interests, a fraud point prompted by Rudy Giuliani.
00:07:03.000Miranda Devine has been talking about the laptop for over a year, and yet no one wanted to touch it.
00:07:36.000Social media sites face a tougher choice when it comes to whether or not how to dampen the spread of the story or whether they're unsure of its truthfulness or origins.
00:07:46.000None of these dilemmas have easy answers.
00:07:48.000This is what the Washington Post says.
00:07:49.000The lesson learned from 2016 was evidently to err on the side of setting aside questionable material in the heat of a political campaign.
00:07:56.000The lesson learned from 2020 may well be that there's a danger suppressing accurate and relevant stories.
00:08:18.000Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation for Trump.
00:08:22.000This right here, though, the Washington Post writing this article is making space.
00:08:28.000What do you mean, making space, Charlie?
00:08:30.000It's making space for the looming displacement of Joe Biden.
00:08:39.000They need to have a mini mea culpa for now.
00:08:43.000What will be, as Rush Limbaugh beautifully predicted right before his passing, the fake news media will become the hard news media almost overnight.
00:08:54.000Now, everyone's talking about the Hunter Biden deal.
00:08:57.000And there's one story after the other.
00:08:59.000For example, Washington Post, quote, in the midst of the election, sorry, Republicans, social media companies aren't obligated to spread your lies.
00:09:08.000They were true, and the Washington Post was covering for them to just get Biden into office.
00:09:14.000All about displacing and destroying Donald Trump, no matter how many corners you cut, no matter how many rules you break, no matter how much unethical activity you engage in, you must get rid of him.
00:09:27.000But this story and the timing of this story is directly correlated with the Democrats' inability to be able to resurrect their poll numbers with the state of the country.
00:09:38.000They gave Biden his year, and now they are saying, all right, speed up that Hunter Biden investigation.
00:09:46.000And guess who is visiting the White House today?
00:09:54.000Obama to return to the White House to celebrate health care reform.
00:09:59.000In his visit, first visit since he left office, the former president will appear alongside Biden and Harris to promote the success of the Affordable Care Act.
00:10:08.000Barack Hussein Obama will return to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he left office to promote the Affordable Care Act in an event alongside President Joe Biden.
00:10:17.000So am I supposed to believe the Washington Post does a massive, oh, sorry, we screwed it up and it was all true.
00:10:25.000The indictments are accelerating against Hunter Biden and Obama just happens to show up at the White House?
00:10:50.000I believe that there's some major reshuffling happening behind the scenes.
00:10:55.000And I don't think they're going to make Biden resign.
00:10:57.000I think that they can really put him in a position where they can control him and have him not run for re-election, have him do the term.
00:11:04.000Now, the challenge will be the highly ambitious Kamala Harris.
00:11:10.000She's going to be the challenge because she's going to want to run, and she's deeply unpopular, and she has no talent.
00:11:18.000So the way Obama's going to have to thread that, he's coming to the White House to have an all-hands-on-deck meeting to try to reorganize some things.
00:11:28.000Remember when the media used to cover the Biden story, Hunter Biden story, this way?
00:11:51.000For all we know, these emails are made up.
00:11:54.000Information found on the laptop may be part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
00:12:00.000So we know about Operation Mockingbird, which was never completely disassembled in the 1960s and 70s, which was a CIA project to take over the media.
00:12:08.000Where if you ever deal with mockingbirds, they're all saying the same thing over and over again.
00:12:12.000And so back and forth and back and forth.
00:12:14.000They're repeating, Hence, the name Mockingbird.
00:12:20.000And so Operation Mockingbird was around that whole idea.
00:12:22.000I guarantee you that there's a memo that got sent out that said Russian disinformation campaign, foreign intervention campaign, all that was a lie.
00:12:30.000But now the media has a different posture because the memo has been sent out.
00:12:34.000There's a wink and a nod saying, hey, Republicans are going to be in power for a long time if we don't get rid of this Biden guy.
00:12:48.000The Washington Post also reported this week on deals that Hunter Biden had with a Chinese energy company, paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter and the president's brother.
00:12:58.000Is the president confident his family didn't cross any ethical lines?
00:13:03.000George, the president is confident that his family did the right thing.
00:13:07.000Yeah, confident the family did the right thing.
00:13:08.000Let me tell you, here's how it works: Stephanopoulos is a total mouthpiece for the regime.
00:13:14.000Stephanopoulos, if you look at that clip, he's reading off a piece of paper.
00:14:59.000The southern border is wide open, and unfortunately, the regime is overcomplicating it.
00:15:04.000But there are some fair questions that need to be asked about what can states do?
00:15:08.000What can we do to try to secure a southern border?
00:15:11.000And nobody is more qualified to talk about this than Tom Homan.
00:15:16.000He's the former director of ICE and did a wonderful job under President Donald Trump securing our border and using every legal mechanism we had at our disposal to secure our country.
00:15:27.000Tom, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:16:26.000So 1.9 illegal immigrants crossed our border last year under President Biden.
00:16:30.000We went from the most secure border to historic, never seen these kinds of numbers before, numbers under President Biden.
00:16:37.000The unaccompanied alien children, all-time high in the history of the U.S. Border Patrol.
00:16:42.000Family groups, all-time high in the history of the Border Patrol.
00:16:46.000And look, now we're in a new fiscal year, right?
00:16:48.000So everybody says, well, what about this Title 42?
00:16:51.000Even if they keep Title 42 in play, we're already over a million apprehensions this fiscal year, which means we're on the glider scope right now to beat 2 million.
00:17:02.000So we're going to blow away last year's numbers, which were historic, before we even talk about Title 42.
00:18:57.000Under Joe Biden, more migrants have died on U.S. soil during the first year of Biden than any time in the history of it.
00:19:05.000Also, we got over 100, what 107,000 overdose deaths, and most of it's on fentanyl.
00:19:11.000DEA says 95% of that fentanyl comes across the southwest border because Borvato is overwhelmed.
00:19:18.000Half of them are not on the line doing their job.
00:19:20.000They're in facilities processing, changing diapers, making baby formula.
00:19:24.000So understand on Joe Biden, over 100,000 overdose deaths.
00:19:28.000Highest migrant deaths in history of this country.
00:19:31.000And that's just what the migrants, almost 700 found on U.S. soil.
00:19:35.000We're not talking about the hundreds that die in Mexico or the hundreds that die in a daring death in Panama Canal.
00:19:40.000Joe Biden's policies are killing people, including over 100,000 Americans.
00:19:45.000You can say what you want about President Trump.
00:19:47.000Anybody can say what they want about President Trump.
00:19:49.000I personally think he's the greatest president ever worked for.
00:19:51.000But when illegal immigration is down 83%, how many women aren't being raped?
00:19:56.000How many billions of dollars are the cartels not making?
00:19:59.000How many pounds of fentanyl aren't getting into countries to kill our young children?
00:20:03.000How many children aren't dying crossing the river in the desert?
00:20:06.000President Trump saved lives when he secured a border.
00:20:09.000So the federal government is not, it's not, they're not going to do it.
00:20:12.000I mean, so I want to just ask about what can be done then on the state level because I'm running out of patience with the federal government and I know that's a legal question.
00:20:22.000But first, I want you just to explain in detail Title 42.
00:20:27.000We have some listeners that don't understand the nuance of it.
00:20:30.000Talk about how Title II has just been a temporary measure.
00:20:34.000And if it is repealed, which there's no explanation for it, what this summer could look like as far as the amount of people coming into our country.
00:21:01.000It's talked about the Immigration Nationality Act.
00:21:04.000When you're dealing with a pandemic and public health crisis, that you can actually shut down the borders.
00:21:08.000So I mentioned to him, you know, you might want to check the CDC because we're in the middle of this pandemic and there's certain things you can do to close the border down.
00:21:16.000He followed up with Mark Morgan and Steve Miller and a few of his other staff.
00:21:19.000And sure enough, in a couple of weeks, CDC said, look, we are in the middle of a pandemic.
00:21:23.000We got hundreds of thousands of people dying.
00:21:28.000Now that the CDC may pull that back, saying this country's no see, you know, COVID is no longer a public safety crisis anymore, which I find amazing.
00:21:37.000But they said they're going to pull it back in May.
00:21:40.000And understand, under Title 42, almost a million illegal aliens were sent back to Metro, refused entry because of Title 42.
00:21:49.000Now, those same people, if they live Title 42, can come to the border.
00:21:54.000They can turn themselves into Borgo, claim asylum, or want to see a judge, and they got to be processed by what we call Title VIII processing, which is going to take a lot of time rather than just kicking them back.
00:22:04.000You're actually going to process them and create a file on them.
00:22:08.000This is going to cause massive delays with a board patrol.
00:22:12.000It's going to cause massive backups in the stations.
00:22:15.000So I want to see AOC and the rest of them come screaming that these facilities are overcrowded like they did on the Trump administration.
00:22:41.000But the department's on record saying, well, there's not enough detention beds.
00:22:45.000As of this morning, they had over 10,000 empty beds already paid for that they're refusing to fill because the progressive left don't like private detention and they want to put more people on alternatives of detention, which means 33% will abscond the first month and less than 12% when order removed will leave because they're not in custody.
00:23:06.00099% of everybody ICE deports, they deport from a bed in detention.
00:23:11.000But when you release them, they're in the wind.
00:23:15.000Not only do they want all these people to come, they don't want them ever to leave.
00:23:19.000And they put a lot of pressure on the private contractors, which is a not very talked, not talked about issue here, where the Democrats just go after the contractors and then that's the way they defund ICE.
00:23:29.000So let me ask you, though, about this.
00:24:41.000We're at a point where the federal government has betrayed its own voters and citizens.
00:24:46.000Talk about how realistic that would be.
00:24:47.000And technically, it's supposed to be the federal government, but what sort of situation are we when the federal government decides not to do their job?
00:24:53.000Not Border Patrol, not ICE, but the president and Mayorkis decide that.
00:25:35.000Border Patrol are people are smuggling to the border, and border patrol is forced to process them and release them.
00:25:40.000So he feels like he's part of the smuggling organization.
00:25:42.000So my heart goes out to those guys, but you're exactly right.
00:25:45.000Charlie, we're actually talking to, I've had several meetings with the governor of Texas.
00:25:50.000You know, the Attorney General of Phoenix last, just about three weeks ago, declared this an invasion, which we needed under the Constitution, the invasion clause, where that says that when you're under an invasion, the states have certain powers.
00:26:02.000So we're actually talking to Governor Abbott and his Attorney General's staff.
00:26:09.000We just set a bunch of information that we received from constitutional scholars over the country that thinks he can do this, enforce immigration law.
00:26:17.000So that is right for discussion right now.
00:26:19.000It's being discussed with Street and the state of Texas.
00:26:21.000Ken Cuccinelli is taking the lead on this, who used to be the deputy.
00:26:25.000He's very knowledgeable and knows the Constitution better than anybody I know.
00:26:52.00062,000 people got into the country last month and didn't get arrested by the Board of Patrol based on camera traffic, drone traffic, and censor traffic.
00:27:00.00062,000 people walked across the border, were never touched by a uniform.
00:27:49.000I am invested personally and also through the Charlie Kirk show to try to do everything we possibly can to try and push back against these Democrats and their lies.
00:27:59.000And so look, you can get a signed picture by President Trump himself.
00:29:35.000And the reason they dropped the passports, because they want to be identified.
00:29:38.000Look, some of these countries, these third-world nations, they don't have like the United States had, they don't have biographical information to store the computer.
00:29:45.000So if these people have any derogatory information in their past, if there are no suspected terrorists, have terrorist ties, of course you're not going to carry a passport.
00:29:56.000There probably won't be anything biographical to be found on them.
00:29:59.000And plus, the border right now, they're releasing so quick, they're not vetting them like they're supposed to.
00:30:05.000You remember what happened in Afghanistan, and they actually spent time trying to vet them, but they couldn't vet them because there was no chief of mission in Afghanistan, no access to Afghanistanian government documents.
00:30:15.000It's even worse on the southern border.
00:30:17.000They're just processing as quick as possible and releasing them.
00:30:20.000They're taking some biographical information, a set of print, and thousands have been released on a notice to report, which means they weren't even putting immigration proceedings.
00:30:29.000So when the secretary says, well, the ones we released are putting immigration proceedings lie.
00:30:37.000We got to trust them to show up in an ICE office when they think they can and be scheduled for arrest and be scheduled for an immigration hearing.
00:30:45.000How many think are we going to do that?