00:01:00.000100% when you say, when you tell the truth about yourself, you know, to the extent you can see it, it's kind of hard to see ourselves and like we're not always accurate in the way we understand ourselves.
00:01:09.000But to the extent that you can to say, this is who I really am, once you stop lying, you're filled with this weird supernatural power.
00:01:59.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:02:06.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:56.000I mean, this is just like strange things happening all over the place.
00:02:59.000We got congressional hearing on men in women's locker rooms and Jerry Nadler reading some press release saying that, oh, no, it's perfectly fine that men are allowed to go into locker rooms.
00:03:09.000You got Sam Bakeman Freed, who got dropped charges on some of it, some of it on campaign finance stuff.
00:03:15.000It's just, you got so much news going on.
00:03:28.000If you're like me, I don't recognize this country somedays.
00:03:32.000If you look at that hearing on men going into female locker rooms, it's unbelievable.
00:03:37.000The regime media is celebrating Barbie as this like feminist movie while simultaneously saying it's perfectly fine for biological men to go into female locker rooms.
00:03:50.000And then you just got hearings on aliens.
00:04:04.000But then we learn that, like, the Clinton's private chef also died under mysterious circumstances.
00:04:09.000Anyway, and then Donald Trump is in front of the special counsel.
00:04:12.000But we're going to start with the Hunter Biden story, which is also very confusing.
00:04:17.000We're going to try to make sense of all this.
00:04:18.000If anybody tells you clearly what is going on and they know what's going on, they're lying to you.
00:04:24.000This is all just guesswork and educated guesswork with speculation.
00:04:28.000So here's how things were supposed to work yesterday: Hunter Biden was supposed to show up, was supposed to get a tongue-lashing from a judge, sign a piece of paper, and move on.
00:05:48.000Well, basically, there were two documents that a federal judge was reviewing yesterday.
00:05:53.000One was Hunter Biden's plea deal to plead guilty to tax charges.
00:05:57.000The other was a diversion agreement allowing him to avoid prosecution for a gun charge.
00:06:01.000Now, normally, all the details of the actual plea agreement would be in the plea agreement.
00:06:08.000But in this case, the feds dumped a ton of details into the diversion agreement.
00:06:13.000If you read the deal very carefully, what they say in effect is that if Hunter doesn't commit more crimes for two years, then he's immune from any prosecution for Foreign Agent Registration Act violations for all the corruption and bribery he's engaged in.
00:07:26.000I think that this judge was under intense pressure to go along with this.
00:07:31.000But I think this judge flipped and was able to be given an excuse privately and publicly to all the pressure that I believe she was receiving because of Hunter Biden's lawyers calling and impersonating and lying.
00:07:49.000This is a part of the story that I think we have to remind.
00:07:52.000This judge and the clerk's office gets a fake call from Latham Watkins, a top-tier blue-chip law firm, demanding that an amicus brief is pulled.
00:08:06.000And we're all just supposed to act as if that's normal.
00:08:08.000I think this judge reached a breaking point.
00:08:13.000And honestly, praise God for this judge for saying, like, no, we're not going to do this.
00:08:17.000And so we asked the question, who benefits from this?
00:09:05.000This plea deal was supposed to be a conversation ender, and it has all fallen apart.
00:09:10.000I would bet the farm that there are LLCs and bank accounts that we have not yet learned about.
00:09:19.000I would bet the farm that there are millions of dollars in the Cayman Islands, in the Bahamas, in Swiss bank accounts, in foreign transactions, in real estate, in numbered accounts.
00:09:36.000Just think about how much has come out in just the last couple of weeks.
00:09:39.000The gay IRS Democrat was just a week ago saying, we have not been able to investigate any of this.
00:09:46.000You know, you could say it's just the tip of the iceberg.
00:09:48.000I think this is just the beginning of the story.
00:09:50.000This plea deal was supposed to end it.
00:09:52.000I believe that this plea deal falling apart significantly puts into jeopardy the idea of Joe Biden becoming the nominee in 2024.
00:10:02.000They have a machinery that they're very confident in, but this adds a lot of mystery.
00:10:07.000Now, whether or not that's a good thing for Republicans and Trump supporters remain to be seen.
00:10:12.000We might actually look back and be like, boy, I wish that plea deal went through, because running against Gavin Newsom will be a lot harder than Joe Biden.
00:11:00.000Did something go awry because of looming anxiety about Joe Biden's ability to speak in coherent sentences and that Donald Trump is only gaining steam?
00:11:09.000Did this go awry because of, again, I don't like poll watching.
00:11:13.000It drives me nuts, but Harvard Harris poll shows Donald Trump up five points on Joe Biden in the key battleground states.
00:11:18.000Is it that there's a little bit of uneasy and they want to try to keep Joe Biden in?
00:12:53.000Claire McCaskill, former senator from Missouri, talking to Jen Pesaki, play cut 94.
00:13:00.000What accusations and arguments do you think they're going to make, given this didn't go exactly as planned today?
00:13:07.000Well, they're going to keep doing what they've been doing.
00:13:09.000They are going to try to indict a father for loving his son who has been addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, and without evidence of the father doing anything other than loving that son.
00:13:25.000I'll be honest, just seeing that saddens me to the level of Pravda-style dishonesty that half the country engages in.
00:13:34.000That's so hunt, and it's so unhealthy.
00:14:41.000He's such a good grandfather that he ignores one of his grandchildren, doesn't even acknowledge them as if it's dust, as if it's just kind of a rat in Arkansas.
00:14:52.000He goes out of his way to say that he has six grandkids when in reality he has seven.
00:15:30.000No, you have to go fly your son out on private jets to alimony hearings, to go fight dollars and cents for a woman he impregnated of a daughter that is now alive, looking for a future.
00:15:44.000These are bad, bad people, and it's consistent.
00:15:47.000The same scumbag who is our president, who ignores his granddaughter, is the same person who sells us out to the Chinese, who sells us out to Burisma.
00:15:57.000These people are morally corrupt across the board.
00:16:01.000Across the board, they always have been.
00:16:05.000They have suppressed their soul to such an extent and boy, they're gonna have an eternal reckoning at some point if they don't get right with the lord.
00:16:12.000The amount of evil these people have engaged in and they think that they're being so virtuous like, oh yeah, we're doing the right thing.
00:16:21.000You guys are really challenging the divine and the almighty in a serious way.
00:16:32.000Former U.s attorney slams, Biden DOJ play cut 95.
00:16:38.000So if you're right, if i'm right, that that one of the choices the Department has is to dismiss this thing and just admit that they're they're they're a protection racket for the Bidens, they're gonna have to justify getting rid of it and at this point they've already charged it and she's arraigned him.
00:16:56.000He's he's pled not guilty and she's gonna demand that they prosecute the case or give her a reason to dismiss that.
00:17:21.000Stop acting as if this is a series of mistakes.
00:17:24.000There's some coordination happening here.
00:17:26.000So what does the Administrative State want?
00:17:28.000And my best guess today is, I don't think they know.
00:17:34.000In some ways, the Administrative State, the shadow government, the Leviathan.
00:17:38.000They're actually more powerful, with Biden being compromised because they get whatever they want full rubber stamp.
00:17:46.000At the same time, you have Donald Trump looming.
00:17:51.000You have Donald Trump growing in popularity.
00:17:54.000You have Donald Trump increasing despite everything they're throwing at him.
00:17:57.000And any moment now we might get news, Donald Trump indicted by the Department OF Justice on 48 accounts or 57 counts of insurrection rebellion, seditious conspiracy lying blah blah blah, all that crap.
00:18:09.000What does the administrative state want?
00:19:37.000Will, I saw your tweet, and I had to reread it five or six times.
00:19:40.000This is without a doubt one of the most perplexing and confusing, quote-unquote, plea deals I have ever seen.
00:19:46.000Make it make sense for me and our audience.
00:19:49.000Yeah, you know, that's exactly right, Charlie.
00:19:51.000First of all, thanks for having me on.
00:19:53.000What we saw with this Hunter Biden deal was an attempt by the Department of Justice and Hunter's legal team to let him walk out of court with total immunity for basically a decade of all of his malfeasance, whether it's burismo, whether it's his shady deals in China, failing to register as a foreign agent.
00:20:14.000All of the accusations that we've all heard about Hunter Biden and his activities were going to be wiped clean in return for a minor misdemeanor plea to a couple of tax charges.
00:20:27.000That's not the deal that DOJ represented it was to the public.
00:20:32.000But when you dig into the court documents, that's the deal that they promised.
00:20:36.000And to make it even more outrageous, they attempted to insulate the deal both from public view and from judicial oversight by burying the key immunity provisions, not in the plea agreement where they would usually be, but in a pretrial diversion agreement that they said was about an unlawful possession of a firearm charge, but was really about the full scope of Hunter's illegal activity over the better part of a decade.
00:21:05.000Fortunately, Judge Norieca, who's an outstanding judge in Delaware, a Trump-appointed judge who was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate, she wasn't having any of it.
00:21:16.000She demanded accountability from the lawyers.
00:21:19.000She ran through these two different agreements in gruesome detail in open court, and she blew the whole thing up and sent them back to the drawing board.
00:21:27.000That's what all of us who care about the rule of law and the Constitution should have been rooting for.
00:21:44.000So the Department of Justice and Hunter's legal team hid the key provisions, these key immunity provisions, in a pretrial diversion agreement, which isn't even in usual circumstances supposed to come before the court.
00:21:58.000So instead of being upfront and honest, both with the court and the American people by having a clear and open plea agreement, they basically buried this stuff in a document that they thought would never see the light of day.
00:22:11.000And because of that, they argued that this plea agreement was really not a big deal.
00:22:16.000And because of the provision they were bringing it under, didn't even require judicial approval at all.
00:22:23.000Judge Norieka said that if you're agreeing to this kind of immunity from prosecution, those cases do require judicial oversight, and the judge gets to have a say.
00:22:34.000So she was unwilling to engage in this kind of constitutional morass that they were setting up and instead demanded that the deal that was being presented in court be the actual deal.
00:22:48.000But she pointed out contradictions in the way that DOJ was presenting the plea versus the actual terms of the plea.
00:22:57.000She pointed out that this pretrial diversion agreement was essentially incorporated into the plea deal.
00:23:04.000She made Hunter say on the record that he wouldn't accept the plea deal, absent this corrupt pretrial diversion agreement.
00:23:12.000And she got DOJ to say on the record that one, there is an ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden, and two, that he could face liability as an unregistered foreign agent under FARA.
00:23:24.000Those were two big admissions that DOJ clearly did not want to make in open court.
00:23:30.000But because she was on the ball, because she knew the facts and the law, we, the American people, at least have those answers this morning.
00:23:39.000So, Will, I have a very simple technical question.
00:23:42.000Who actually writes these plea agreements?
00:23:46.000Is this the prosecutor in charge of the case?
00:23:49.000I mean, I guess the simple answer is: did Merrick Garland review this plea deal before it went in front of the judge?
00:23:56.000So, typically, prosecutors are the ones who prepare plea agreements.
00:24:00.000I've prepared dozens and dozens of plea agreements, or I did in my career as a federal prosecutor.
00:24:06.000There are terms that are negotiated over.
00:24:09.000The defense counsel is obviously going to have a say in certain provisions.
00:24:13.000But at the end of the day, it's the job of the prosecutor to prepare this thing.
00:24:16.000I don't know if Merrick Garland had a say in this.
00:24:20.000It's such an irregular deal that I find it tough to believe that no one at Maine Justice in D.C. was cued in as to what they were doing.
00:24:29.000The whole thing just reeks of the kind of corruption, of the kind of two-tiered system of justice that we've seen time and time again under President Biden and under Merrick Garland.
00:24:40.000Well, and so correct me if I'm wrong, though, Will, but typically if there's a plea deal, there's also something in return, testimony, right?
00:24:50.000This seems a plea deal just because, I mean, when you have ongoing investigations, isn't it usually like, okay, we can, you're the bag man.
00:24:58.000Maybe you could testify against the mob leader, or you could be helpful in an ongoing.
00:25:06.000So at times, you'll see plea deals that are structured where a defendant agrees to plead guilty to some charges in return for other charges being dropped or an agreement not to bring new charges.
00:25:20.000But those deals are always subject to judicial approval.
00:25:23.000They purposely structured this deal to pull Judge Norieka out of the circle and basically just to shove it down her throat and to require her, in her words, to be a rubber stamp.
00:25:34.000And she just wasn't willing to do that, fortunately, for all of us who care about these sorts of things.
00:25:41.000But, you know, anyone who's ever been in federal court, anyone who's prosecuted a case will tell you that the structure of this plea agreement was highly irregular.
00:25:52.000It didn't really reflect the facts on the ground at all.
00:25:55.000I think it was an attempt by Hunter's legal team and by DOJ to pull a fast one.
00:26:01.000And fortunately, there was a judge who was sharp enough and who understood what they were trying to do, and she blew the whole thing up.
00:26:09.000But it's also the Constitution got in the way.
00:26:11.000They would have loved to not have to involve a judge.
00:26:14.000And the fact they even had to go through this process probably irritated them.
00:26:17.000They wanted to go top-down, bottom-up, DOJ, Hunter Biden's lawyers meet in the middle, rubber stamp.
00:26:23.000But the framers actually put together this system where, no, no, no, no, you have to run this by a judge.
00:26:30.000They were effectively asking the judge to perform a judicial duty without even knowing what that duty was.
00:26:37.000Judge Norieka was very clear that there were poor separation of powers issues, poor constitutional issues implicated by the way that they had structured this attempted, I'd call it almost an out-of-court settlement in the form of this pretrial diversion agreement.
00:26:53.000And then even more, after cutting her out of the deal, they attempted to cut her back in in a different provision in the pre-trial diversion agreement by saying that if Hunter Biden violated his probation, prosecutors, maybe prosecutors under a future Trump administration, wouldn't be authorized to bring charges without first seeking judicial approval.
00:27:16.000So they attempted to ram through this deal without judicial approval and then said that to reassess or readdress things down the road, you would need judicial approval.
00:27:27.000So they didn't want the judge involved where she's supposed to be involved.
00:27:31.000But they are so scared of future liability for Hunter that they attempted to put in that extra constitutional, unconstitutional check on future prosecutors and limit their ability to bring charges down the road.
00:27:45.000The Department of Justice has other investigations in process, but they were actively trying to strike a plea deal that blew up future cases.
00:28:04.000It's something that, you know, in no normal case would this ever happen.
00:28:08.000But we've seen this willingness to let Hunter Biden get away with what I believe is the greatest scandal in American history, a broad-ranging foreign corruption conspiracy between him and other members of his family, including, I believe, President Biden.
00:28:25.000DOJ wanted to just wipe that all away, let him plead guilty with no prison time to two little misdemeanor tax charges and bind the hands of any future prosecutor that might want to look at all this.
00:28:37.000So, Will, you know, you were in the Department of Justice, right?
00:28:40.000In a Missouri office, I'm not mistaken, right?
00:28:42.000You were going after some really bad dudes and you went after violent crime.
00:28:46.000There are some good people still in the Department of Justice.
00:28:48.000Here's my working theory is that there's a fraction, I don't know, maybe 5%, 10% of people that are involved or adjacent to these active investigations.
00:28:57.000And they are really upset that they are not allowed to do their job.
00:29:00.000They're upset about the double standard.
00:29:02.000They're seeing Trump get after, you know, they have to probably, they hear all the chatter in the DOJ office, like, wait, hold on, we have the special counsel thing.
00:29:08.000What it seems to be, and plus they're getting pressure from Grassley and from Congress, which, you know, is irritating, but the internal pressure, I think, is significant.
00:29:17.000What it seems to be, Will, is that they wanted this plea deal as a way where they could shut up internal DOJ pressure to actually continue the investigations into Hunter Biden.
00:29:29.000We've seen that with these various whistleblowers that have come forward from the IRS, from DOJ, talking about the special treatment given to Hunter.
00:29:37.000Look, I was a line prosecutor in a violent crime unit in St. Louis.
00:29:43.000I never saw this kind of D.C. Democrat politicization of the Justice Department the way that we're all seeing it now.
00:29:52.000But it really tells you just how far the Biden administration has been willing to take things to clean things up for the Biden family because of their long history of these really horrific criminal acts.
00:30:06.000There's another wrinkle to this that I want to dive into, which is Latham Watkins, a top-tier firm, this just lies to a clerk.
00:30:18.000Some people are saying it's a sideshow.
00:30:19.000I think it plays right into the paranoia, the neurotic behavior, the pride, and also the desperation on behalf of Hunter Biden's legal team.
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00:31:44.000Have you ever experienced somebody calling a clerk for a judge and lying about their identity to get an amicus brief filed, let alone Latham Watkins doing this?
00:31:57.000Yeah, you know, Charlie, this story, it's not just irregular, it's insane.
00:32:03.000For your viewers who may not be following it as closely as we are, the other night, the night before last, what happened was this.
00:32:12.000The House Ways and Means Committee filed an amicus brief in Hunter Biden's case that included their investigative report into Hunter Biden.
00:32:21.000That's their full investigation into Hunter's various activities abroad, the money laundering, the stuff with burisma, the Chinese connections, all of that.
00:32:31.000And they wanted that on the record in court.
00:32:33.000So instead of attempting to negotiate with the House Ways and Means Committee, a lawyer associated with Hunter Biden's legal team called the clerk's office, the people who run the district court in Delaware, apparently misrepresented themselves, said that they were working with the lawyer for the House Ways and Means Committee, and asked that the filing that they'd made just be pulled off the docket entirely.
00:33:05.000Now, the whole thing blew up in their face.
00:33:07.000Judge Norieka issued what's called a show cause order, basically threatening to hold Hunter Biden's legal team in contempt of court for their actions unless they could explain things, which I don't see how they can.
00:33:21.000But it's such a weird turn of events and it's such a weird course of action.
00:34:02.000They were so desperate to pretend that this case, oh, it was just about a few minor tax violations and the gun charge, as opposed to being something much bigger, that they were willing to go to just crazy ends to try to keep those documents off of the docket here.
00:34:22.000Fortunately, it seems like court personnel weren't willing to back down and have stood by what they said happened.
00:34:30.000And I think there's going to be a reckoning in the form of a hearing and potential follow-up, either criminal or civil against these lawyers for what they did.
00:34:42.000The idea that you would ever call a court clerk, court personnel, and misrepresent who you are, the conversations you've had, who you're representing.
00:34:53.000It speaks to the wild irregularity of this case and the ends that Hunter Biden's team are willing to go in order to protect this guy from what I believe are his just dessert.
00:35:06.000And they tried to lie about what they did too.
00:35:29.000And that's one of the things that makes this so shocking.
00:35:32.000But I think more generally, it speaks to this two-tiered system of justice we've seen developing really since the start of the Biden administration, where Biden and his family members and their friends get one level of justice.
00:35:46.000And conservatives, whether it's President Trump or whether it's parents showing up aggravated to school board meetings or whether it's Catholic charities, get subjected to a totally different form of justice.
00:35:58.000Justice is supposed to be justice for anyone, for everyone.
00:36:02.000There's supposed to be an even-handed application of the law.
00:36:05.000But time and time again, we've seen a very different set of rules being applied to Biden and his family.