Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Coletta Kewitt, Bill O'Reilly & John Solomon ｜ 9⧸27⧸19
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My older sister Coletta kewitt is the author of a new book called The Pie Letters, thoughts and reflections on pie and life. In this episode, we talk about her childhood, her new book, and how she became a writer.
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boy we have a great show for you today uh first i want to just talk to you human to human because
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i think it's been a really rough week and a lot of people are are feeling the pressure
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of all the things that are coming and and i get it uh also somebody scheduled my sister to be on
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the show uh and i want to thank stew for that bill o'reilly is uh with us he's he's got the facts
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of the trump impeachment and he lays them out and then john solomon john solomon is the guy who was
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named uh his reporting was named in the whistle report um he was not named personally but all
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of his reporting and that's the only evidence that the whistleblower actually has is the coincidental
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timing we talked to john solomon about it and his article that just came out about joe biden
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and what this story truly is make sure you hear the end of john solomon's uh report today on our
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podcast because i think it really kind of brings it home and you are way ahead of any other audience
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in america and you're going to need to follow his advice on how to deal with this probably the biggest
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story in our lifetime that's what this is going to turn into all this and more on today's podcast
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you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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i don't know why i've talked to presidents i've talked to prime ministers uh
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i've talked to really famous people and there's nothing that makes me more nervous than talking
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to my family on the air that's because they know things about you prime ministers don't know
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anything about you i don't uh i don't think that's coletta kewitt is the author of a new book
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called the pie letters thoughts and reflections on pie and life if that sounds like something
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i could write it's because coletta kewitt is my older sister and uh and looking at the cover of her
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new book where she's standing there with a pie i fail to see the almost identical resemblance
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other than the goatee yeah it's close yeah um and it it really defies all logic because you'd think
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i'd make an ugly woman and i i apparently don't no i apparently don't uh the piloters welcome to the
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program and watch your step carefully because you are on with pat and stew who have our ulterior motives
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my good sweet sister no no no how are you coletta good morning good morning fine yeah good you should
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know coletta this is the safest interview you will ever do in your life we are 100 on your side
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and we want to sell copies of the piloters that is my main goal and we don't want to embarrass you
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at all we want to embarrass glenn yeah so so you help us we help you yeah yeah there's nothing here
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to embarrass me this is my sister who has if you listen to this program you know we had a good
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wouldn't you agree we had a good childhood screwed up but a good childhood yes yeah it didn't sound like
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much of an agreement yeah well we i mean the main difference between your childhood though is that
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she had to live with you right like you are already you so you didn't have to deal i had to listen to
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all of her hippie records from her room okay uh so we i i maybe we're maybe you know we we we all try
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to you know remember things more fondly than they were but i know people had worse childhood and then
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have worse things happen to them even though you have uh have really truly struggled in the family
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both my sisters truly have struggled and what i like about this book coletta is uh well i'll tell
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you what i like and i don't what i don't like what i like about this is this is my sister finding
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happiness and there is nothing i want more for my sisters and my family than to each of them find
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peace and happiness and she found it through what she calls the pi letters and so she was motivated
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to tell this story um of of happiness and peace and kindness um and now what i don't like about it is
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there are no recipes of your pies which are the best pies i've ever had so tell us tell us about the book
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coletta well and actually glenn i um it's it's really i found peace through
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the awareness of god through my life by the way you don't have to edit yourself i know your language
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you don't have to edit yourself you can say god and scriptures and everything else in the program
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but that's really you know just finding that peace and um and patience which you know god actually had
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me write this book for me because i'm the one that um i know we all need patience but oh my gosh
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through the through the whole writing of of it it was um yeah patience patience patience and i write a
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lot about my husband which we laugh a lot about this because i need patience with living with him
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oh my goodness yes i think so i think so yes well there's some pretty funny stories about just um
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you know uh relationships and relationships and then there are also those um yeah just stories about
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our life as as um you know there so there's a reason why one of us went into the communications
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business and one of us went into the pie business uh and i and which is which i forget now i think i think
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i i i'm not sure i'm not sure well can i just so that everybody knows just you know to let you know
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i didn't know we were having this little interview this morning and you woke me up from
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a dead sleep like oh i'm going to be on air okay so wait a minute one of us one of us didn't know
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about it it was me too i didn't know i as i prepared a show and they sprung this on me a half hour ago
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so both of us didn't know i blame the producer and pat it's your fault it's your fault yes
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how much of the struggles in your life would you assign to growing up with glenn that's not
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percentage wise and you want to give a roundabout figure which you have to ask yourself which one do
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you think will help sell more books at this point stew or me well just so you know his bedroom was
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right next to mine and he was my stinky little brother and uh yes stinky his room room just permeated
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um so i forget the name of your book um it's called the pie letters it's available on amazon you
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should buy as many copies as humanly possible explain what the explain what the pie letters are
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coletta um the pie letters is a it's a book on no no no short essays yeah but what were the pie
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letters originally what were the pie letters you went into the pie business oh yeah yes so i i had a um
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a pie the month club and um it started out the pie letters first started out with meeting this
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um gentleman who um i'm so sorry oh boy okay so let me delve with the pilot the book is that my sister
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is dead asleep um the the pie letters the pilot she started this deal my my sister's a personal chef
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um and she makes the best food if you ever find yourself anywhere near wyoming find my sister's pies
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because they are fantastic um and so she started making these pies but she started making them and
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selling them and then bringing them to people um you know every single month and it would be a
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different pie every month and with it would come a pie letter and it basically is what some of these
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chapters are these pie letters were reflections on on um eternal truths and lessons of life and it she
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and what they have to do with pie go ahead coletta i have no idea what do they have to do with pie
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well there's a synchronicity of between pie and life um um so so many things in our life are
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are um i'm just going to get here to one of the little short essays
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this is the greatest interview of all time of all of all time i will say i think it's great i think
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it's fantastic and clen is doing a fantastic job and considering uh these stinky permeations that
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came from her brother's room the fact that she's able to get to a level where she can write a book
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like this is incredible it's incredible oh i know it's good yeah and glenn you're gonna love me
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still in either way right uh oh we'll see at christmas
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all right well one of them for instance is um called piology 101 and um it talks about how awesome
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it is to ponder um how our creator has put our individual ingredients so carefully together yet
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we get to choose our finishing touches and the temperature settings of the day sometimes we're hot
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sometimes we're not every day is spent forming our own creation of self some days we also form a pie
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our ingredients of the day can be mixed up nutty and complicated or just sweetly simple fruits grown
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out of even the best soil and conditions may become bruised but even imperfect fruit can become a pie to
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savor life as imperfect as it is maybe is a multitude may maybe has a multitude of savory and sweet bites
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in each new day pie and life filled to the brim with the fillings of our choice oozing and bubbling over
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and just so beautifully messy being very hungry in life any pie or day can end in failure but be perfected
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on the next pie and life presented in pieces and or just what is left or sometimes presented
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well-rounded as a whole you're definitely it's the same family i can tell we're getting life advice
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through baked goods right is that not great yeah that's not great i just go pie and life are made up
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of a beautiful variety of spices and different tastes pie and life overworking can make it too tough
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pie and life tender care will always produce the perfect foundation pie and life dig in while
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it's fresh and share that creation so the name of the book is the pie letters thoughts and reflections
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on pie and life uh it's by my sister colotta kewitt uh and you can find it at amazon right now the pie
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letters uh and it is well worth the read i i i've heard rumor not that i've read this book several
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times but uh i have heard rumor that there is a uh there's some other things in in this book that
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you should read anyway you'll enjoy it it is the and which which chapter is the uh glenbeck's room odor
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where can we find yeah uh the the pie letters thoughts and reflections on pie and life colotta i
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love you very much and i'm very proud of you okay thank you so much you bet bye-bye that's so nice
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if you're stinky shut up shut up what she didn't say is all of the artwork done in this she she really
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worked hard on this book not for her uh her friend is an artist and wanted to do all the artwork in the
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book all this really great artwork yeah uh and uh she was dying of cancer and she wanted she was like
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i gotta get this out before i gotta get this out because she does she's worked so hard on it uh and
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it's a it's a true labor of love and a labor of um of of humility and um and god i think the pie letters
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thoughts and reflections on pie and life by coletta kewitt this is the best of the glenbeck program
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hey it's glenn and if you like what you hear on the program you should check out pat gray unleashed
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become one today and listen on your own time you can subscribe on itunes thanks gee bill not a lot
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happened this week huh you talking to me back i'm talking well if you're the only bill on the show
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talking to me i'm talking to you this this this impeachment where do you want to start
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let's start with facts and go through the whole hour just on facts okay go ahead all right because
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my head's gonna blow off listening to these morons on cable television and i have never seen anything
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more dishonest this is and i say this every time they do something it is worse and worse every time
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and this is where we start so this impeachment drive is now being um sponsored that's a good word
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by the media the media is doing this not nancy pelosi and the democratic party the media is driving
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the impeachment and nancy pelosi and her merry people are hitchhiking a ride drive would you dispute
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that yes um i would i wouldn't have two days ago but after listening to the whistleblower i think this
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is so far above nancy pelosi's head uh this is going to tear down the entire uh obama dnc infrastructure
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that they thought they had all buttoned up in ukraine um and uh i think they have no choice
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yeah but you're you're ahead of yourself you're ahead of yourself now just the story the ukraine
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trump story and the impeachment hysteria that has come out of it is driven by the media would you would
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you seed that uh yeah i mean the media wants to take him down at any cost but they sense that there's
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something bigger here because of what they're hearing from the dnc and the dnc is is is not
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telling the truth obviously well let's just keep it as simple as possible because you're a brilliant man
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but i'm a simple man okay all right simple man i'm a simple guy i just want to be really clear
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so everybody listening can say you know that was a worthwhile hour with o'reilly and back okay so
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the media is driving the impeachment sentiment and if you don't believe me look at all the front pages
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of the liberal newspapers which is 90 percent of them so you see words like scandal you see words like
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cover up you see words like mob behavior organized crime all of that is what is being written today
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um september 27 2019 the broadcast media picks up the phraseology scandal cover-up mob behavior that kind
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of thing drops it on television now pelosi and the democrats say hey this is good because even though
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we don't have anything that rises to the level of impeachment it doesn't matter because the media
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is saying we do are you with me so far yes i'm with you okay so for the american citizen who's
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fair-minded not pro-trump or anti-trump or but just wants the best for his or her country the first
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question you have to ask is what is the violation what is it that would amount to uh an impeachment
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inquiry and mob can you tell me what the violation is beck no can't what can't because there is no
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violation exactly right there's no violation it's not like clinton lied or andrew johnson is so drunk
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he can't do his job it's not like that it's like there's no violation because a sitting president
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is allowed under our constitution to call any foreign leader and say to that foreign leader you know
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there's a situation involving a former vice president that we feel might lead to corruption
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can you please check that out for us that's allowed beck of course it is it is in the national
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crime or misdemeanor look you could say that the that donald trump was doing this um to hurt joe biden
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but the fact is this is bigger than joe biden and even if it did help donald trump it is in
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our national interest to the extreme to find out what was going on right and a president has the
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right to ask the assistance of a foreign leader to get information so that's number one okay that's
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number one he didn't do anything wrong in a call there's no if you don't give me this we're going
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to deny uh funds like biden did and biden admits to doing it all right none of that the second thing
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is election integrity okay that's a subjective thing it's not a fact but i will see that donald trump
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wanted to get dirt on joe biden i will admit that all day long and the reason i admit it is because i
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wrote it in the united states of trump if you read the book you'll see the genesis of this whole thing
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that trump is so furious because he believes that barack obama um hillary clinton and joe biden and now
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joe biden hurt him personally in the campaign and then after he won and that he believes that firmly
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correct and he wants payback and because we did our homework um starting a year ago and did
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two episodes on this six months ago we know that that is true we know that that is true
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absolutely well and the and the biden oh yes i don't know about well we'll listen to next hour we
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have john we have we have john solomon on with us next he just got some additional documents from
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ukraine yesterday uh and the case is the case is moving forward and it is damning on joe biden
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and the democrats okay all right i'll see that okay but on the record on the record
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in the united states of trump right there so you can see it is barack obama as president united states
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knew was informed by the cia in august 2016 that russia was trying to intrude on the election
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and barack obama chose not to say anything not to give either campaign a heads up that's on the
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record that happened that's a fact trump is furious about that because in his mind any other president
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would have said hey be careful the russians are trying to intrude but obama didn't do it secondly
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donald trump believes and this is a fact as well that hillary clinton's campaign and the democratic
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national committee paid money to foreign nationals to get the dossier the smear dossier that turned out
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to be false both the clinton campaign and the democratic national committee paid money to foreign
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nationals through fusion gps i think russians were paid right and i think you will find that they also
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did it in ukraine uh they used ukraine as the middleman to get to the real dirty people in russia
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you will find that to be true soon okay but i'm i know i know i know back i know i'm stating facts
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but all right it's a fact-based hour yeah okay so every every word that i've said up until now is
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true fact yeah verifiable so now you have the american people the american people going what the
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deuce is happening when our congress can be diverted into trying to destroy a sitting president based on
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what nothing there's no crime and let's get into the cover up the cover up every president since
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george washington when they have a sensitive conversation not only with a foreign leader but
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anyone in government here puts the sensitive conversation in a more secure place
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every single one of them yes but but they don't put there is nothing no no there was nothing
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sensitive in this except for him saying i want to ask you for a favor dot dot dot i need you to get
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some dirt on joe biden and his uh son that that's what they're claiming that there was nothing
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sensitive in this except for him what was said i know look the cover up thing drives me nuts because
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you as a president cannot put out to the public that you talked to the president of ukraine or australia
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or anyone and here's what i said if you do that no one will talk to you so of course you're going to put
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it in a more secure place it's not a cover up this is standard procedure yet on the front page of the
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newspapers whistleblower says cover up i mean it's just it are you always say twilight zone i always say
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this but now i'm i'm teed off beck now i'm mad and it's not because i'm sticking up for donald trump
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if you read the united states of trump the man makes a lot of mistakes and he makes them because
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he has a lack of discipline when he's attacked and he does things he shouldn't do i honestly put
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yourself in his shoes i honestly entered the week he didn't do anything wrong i know i entered the week
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when i heard about the whistleblower thinking okay let's keep an open mind you know he could have
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he could have done that we also when when they said well we're going to release the transcripts i came
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in that morning going well you know he makes a lot of stupid mistakes and just kind of you know just
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blurts things out maybe but i am absolutely convinced now that and and i'm going to do a special on this
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next week he did nothing wrong in fact i fully support what the president was trying to get at
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if i understand this story right and i believe i do i fully support him in this and the way he
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handled it i would have handled it exactly the same way i couldn't give the president more support at
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this point i would not have handled it the same way he did i would never have trusted a foreign leader
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in ukraine it wasn't the foreign leader that blew this it wasn't the foreign leader that blew this
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that foreign leader i wouldn't have done it that foreign leader was the guy who agreed with the
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president in fact brought judy giuliani up first he was the guy who said i know and i i'm on this and
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i've got the people the one that ratted him out the one that broke this confidence is the the uh deep
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state intel that was spreading or who was spreading rumors you're gonna see in the next few days who
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that person is that's definitely gonna come out well wait wait wait wait since we're in a fact-based
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hour who is he yeah yeah really do you really want me to say who he is i do i'm gonna give you just
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because i'm a great no no no wait hang on yes no come on because i'm a great broadcaster i'm gonna
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i'm gonna make people listen to this one minute commercial and then we're gonna come back and you
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are on the rack you are going to tell us what you know because you said this was a fact-based hour
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hey it's glenn and you're listening to the glenn beck program if you like what you're hearing on
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this show make sure you check out pat gray unleashed it's available wherever you download
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your favorite podcasts john solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist
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he has worked for the associated press the washington post the washington times he's the
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executive vice president at the hill and is at the center of this story john i don't know what your
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day was like yesterday when you got up and watched and and read the whistleblower report and you are
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named as the mouthpiece for this conspiracy theory yeah it's uh well my name is not in there but my
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reporting clearly is and they're clearly identifying me and i yes and um and i think there are some
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troubling questions that need to be asked which is why is why is a reporter's factually uh proven
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factually based fully authenticated fully documented stories the matter of the intelligence community
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has anyone been monitoring me have they been looking or unmasking my calls overseas
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why is this a matter of whistleblower i can't violate intelligence law i'm not an intelligence
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officer uh there is a very serious question raised here about why my reporting was thrown into a
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narrative that absolutely my reporting has nothing to do with intelligence law it has nothing at all
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and so it was clearly and ironically it this whistleblower complaint was filed in july right around the
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time i began submitting questions to joe biden about the story that i just wrote last night and i think
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that if you look yesterday there was a coordinated assault on my reputation all of it factually false
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and i intend to eventually show the american public how false the stories in the narrative were yesterday
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but uh it can't be an accident that all this happens as i'm finishing up the latest story on joe biden
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which came out last night and when you look at what i reported joe biden's hunter biden's legal
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team the legal team for burisma working on hunter biden's watch when he's a board member and
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consultant and according to the company overseeing the company's legal strategy uh they are telling
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the ukraine prosecutor's office that the information that was used to justify joe biden firing
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the chief prosecutor of ukraine the man investigating his son's company was quote false information
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why would why would wait why would burisma do that why would the lawyers i don't know the answer yeah
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we don't know the answer right there's all sorts of possibilities which is they wanted the new guys
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to have you know feel good about them they wanted the new guys to make the case go away and settle the
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case which they did you know they settled it with a tax fine uh at the end of uh brock obama's
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presidency nobody can understand the dynamics here yet because in ukraine it's a very strange world
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right truth isn't always what it seems when you first get there but the the importance for the
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american people is that joe biden has staked out a very clear story i fired the guy yes i knew my son's
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company was under investigation but that's not why i fired the guy i fired him because he was he was
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corrupt now what i put in the record yesterday were just old-fashioned documents they come from public
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releases of information from the office of prosecutor in ukraine and from an affidavit filed
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in the austrian court and here's what they show first the man who was fired shokin the man that
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biden forced to be fired the man who was investigating hunter biden's company and at that moment he was
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fired making plans to interview hunter biden that doesn't mean hunter biden did anything wrong but he
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was about to interview hunter biden in the middle of the 2016 election that would have been a big story
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right he says i was told and i can tell you for certainty i was fired because i continued to
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investigate burisma when joe biden wanted me to stop and that's what president poroshenko made clear
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to me that's the important thing it's under it's under penalty of perjury we should evaluate that but it
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doesn't match joe biden's story now here's the second thing that doesn't match joe biden's story
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joe biden says it was all about the corruption but the day that he fired or got that ukraine
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prosecutor fired while in ukraine miraculously burisma's team is at the doorstep trying to get
00:31:12.760
a meeting immediately with his replacement if they're not related why is burisma so interested
00:31:17.420
on the day of the firing to get to see the new guy the acting prosecutor and of course that acting
00:31:23.880
prosecutor is a little busy that day getting his job in place so he waits about a week and then he
00:31:27.860
takes the audience with burisma these are three american lawyers uh two working for a public relations
00:31:34.400
lobbying firm known as blue star strategies and one a famous criminal defense lawyer very
00:31:38.020
accomplished uh defense lawyer in i think it's massachusetts or new york they come over and they
00:31:43.920
have the meeting and in that meeting according to the prosecutor's memo of it summary of it signed by
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the acting or the at that time the acting prosecutor it says they apologized for the false information
00:31:56.280
that u.s officials had spread about the predecessor mr shokin they knew that it was false information
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and they would like to arrange a way to make this all up by bringing the left remaining prosecutors
00:32:06.980
to washington getting good with the obama administration tell them what really went on
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so there's no more confusion going forward that that narrative those documents do not match joe biden's
00:32:19.740
story now maybe maybe someone's made them up maybe someone there's two different possible stories
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here but joe biden's very clean story doesn't match any of the documents that i obtained
00:32:29.700
and and people say what's a ukraine prosecution memo why should we trust it well the answer is
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i also have the emails of the burisma american legal team and the those emails show that what
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what the prosecutor's memo says is actually what those american lawyers said to the prosecutors i
00:32:48.660
actually have the invite from burisma's american lawyer saying hey you guys you got victimized come
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over to the united states we'll hook you up with the justice department you can clear the air about
00:32:58.400
this false information so these these facts all add together and they don't add up to joe biden's
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story and that's why i wrote what i wrote last night all right so john um i believe that there is
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um with an exception of this new information now that there hasn't been anything that joe uh biden or
00:33:18.620
hunter biden was doing that was illegal it was just grotesque just grotesque do you agree with that or not
00:33:26.480
listen i i think lawyers make decisions on legality i'm not a lawyer i'm i'm a reporter i can tell you
00:33:32.860
what the ethics standard is for the united states for all u.s government officials the standard is not
00:33:38.100
only to avoid a conflict of interest but to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest i think most
00:33:45.380
average people would say if joe biden knew which he acknowledges he did that that prosecutor was
00:33:51.900
investigating his son he should have left it to somebody else to fire that prosecutor why did he
00:33:57.220
go out of his way to do it and when he did it what did he use he used u.s foreign aid as the hammer if
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you do not fire this guy i'm going to bankrupt your company uh country by withholding one billion
00:34:11.260
dollars remember that's what democrats just accused president trump of doing right of course when the
00:34:16.140
transcript came out there was no quid pro quo linking u.s foreign aid to a request to the
00:34:21.380
ukrainian president but in joe biden's case it is irrefutable he linked usa to the forcing of a
00:34:28.300
firing of a prosecutor that he knew was investigating his son's company so under that standard a lot of
00:34:34.420
people will say well that is an appearance why didn't he step aside why didn't he let somebody else
00:34:39.080
do the job joe biden hasn't answered those questions yet do i see any criminality i'm not a lawyer i think
00:34:45.280
we need to see more thing my my reason for writing the stories is not to accuse someone of breaking
00:34:49.700
the law or committing a crime it's to put into the public information the accurate portrayal of what
00:34:56.500
our u.s government was doing overseas in ukraine so tell me about tell me about what happened after
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the fire after the firing and after the new york times pretty much verifies everything that you're
00:35:09.300
saying uh and writes a story about hunter biden and they say but there is no wrongdoing
00:35:14.340
um it's just grotesque no wrongdoing um let me go ahead yeah there's some interesting storylines
00:35:22.260
that get put out there i saw some of this on msnbc the other day and they're simply not true
00:35:26.000
one of the favorite storylines that joe biden's defenders like to throw out there at the time joe
00:35:30.840
biden uh at the time joe biden effectuated the firing of this prosecutor there really wasn't an open
00:35:37.140
case it had been closed in 2015 that's not true there was a british case against burisma's owner that
00:35:43.820
was closed in in great britain in 2015 but there were two open cases in ukraine active at the very
00:35:50.480
moment joe biden did so that's a straw man it's a false story but it's getting into the narrative
00:35:54.820
because the same reporters that wrote about russia collusion are now writing about this ukraine story
00:35:59.460
it is simply not true shokin's affidavit makes clear he was preparing to interview hunter biden he
00:36:06.660
told that to the washington post he told that to abc news he told that to me so that's a false
00:36:12.080
storyline when people are perpetrating that you have to ask yourself why are they giving the american
00:36:16.060
people a false story why don't they just admit yes there was an investigation now one of the most
00:36:21.700
damning pieces of evidence to that narrative is that burisma's own american lawyer john barretta gave
00:36:27.060
an interview when the case was all done and he laid out the timetable and he confirmed that one of the
00:36:32.860
criminal cases the investigations in burisma was closed down nine months after joe biden had effectuated
00:36:38.520
nine months after and that the second case was settled with a fine a few days before barack obama
00:36:44.600
left office and turned the keys to the white house over to donald trump so burisma own his own lawyer
00:36:50.500
debunks uh the the very storyline that a lot of these media champions of joe biden are now putting
00:36:56.100
into the american public they're feeding the american public a false story and that's what complicates
00:37:00.720
the ability of americans to make a good judgment on this there is bad reporting on this tell me about
00:37:06.500
the new york times story that comes out and hunter biden and devon archer have a meeting at our state
00:37:13.460
department yes so all we know is there's a text message that devon archer uh sent to one of his
00:37:19.740
business colleagues on december 10th it's two days after the new york times raised the question saying
00:37:25.140
joe biden's anti-corruption fight in ukraine is really being hampered by the appearance of his son
00:37:30.920
because his son worked for this owner and this owner and this company are currently under investigation
00:37:35.360
that is december of 2015 now the next day joe uh honor at that very moment that that story came
00:37:42.460
out joe biden was in ukraine meeting with president porschenko president porschenko's aides told me on
00:37:48.440
the record that during that meeting joe biden renewed or pressed again to get mr shokin fired something that
00:37:54.760
doesn't happen for four more months so article comes out joe biden makes another request to fire
00:38:00.240
the prosecutor and then devon archer is talking uh that's the business partner of hunter biden they're
00:38:06.100
both on the board of barisma they're longtime friends devon archer is somebody that has met with
00:38:10.780
the vice president um uh during the the time he was on barisma's board and devon archer writes a
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friend saying we want to change the narrative we just came back meaning hunter and him hunter and
00:38:21.640
devon archer two business partners came back from a meeting at the state department and there's going to
00:38:25.880
be some announcement of usaid money meaning state department grant money coming to us now i can't
00:38:31.120
find that grant but clearly it references a meeting in in december of 2015 around the time of this
00:38:38.100
negative story by the new york times so i have filed a FOIA request the state department did not comply
00:38:43.520
for that you know to get records of that meeting i have now sued and i expect over the next few months
00:38:49.180
that i will begin to get documents from the state department identifying any and all contacts
00:38:53.480
that hunter biden joe biden how unusual is it how unusual is it for for that to happen for somebody
00:39:00.820
to go into the state department and change the narrative well yeah you know americans meet all
00:39:09.100
the time with the state department particularly those americans that that are working overseas right
00:39:13.080
and if you're working in ukraine it is a volatile area right you got russia right next door to you
00:39:17.660
there's a lot of corruption in ukraine in and on its face it's not uh necessarily unusual it could
00:39:25.180
be entirely appropriate uh the idea that hunter biden and his business partner are looking for grant
00:39:31.320
money from the state department which is the inference of this text message that stands out
00:39:35.820
again it's it fulfills this or it's another piece of this narrative of hunter biden riding in the vapor
00:39:41.840
trail of his dad's policy wagon and trying to collect joe biden goes to china he brings hunter
00:39:47.940
biden with him the hunter biden's firm walks back with a 1.5 billion dollar contract uh hunt uh joe biden
00:39:54.980
is named the point man for barack obama ukraine three weeks later he had a few weeks later he goes
00:40:00.240
to ukraine and he gives he meets with the prime minister of ukraine this is really extraordinary
00:40:04.460
you can look at the transcript because i put it up not not too long ago joe biden meets with
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the prime minister of ukraine in april of 2014 just a few weeks before hunter's named to the board and
00:40:15.800
he says you know what you ukrainians should start expanding your natural gas um production and
00:40:22.500
americans should be here to help you in fact some are here right now getting that process started
00:40:27.040
joe biden basically lays out the idea that americans should come and help expand uh ukraine's natural gas
00:40:34.480
production and what happens within three weeks hunter biden is added to the board even though
00:40:39.240
he doesn't seem to have any experience in natural gas he doesn't seem to have any long-term
00:40:42.980
experience in ukraine those are the sort of facts that raise to the question of did this create an
00:40:48.620
appearance of a conflict of interest we have uh john solomon on he is an award-winning investigative
00:40:54.120
journalist he has um been at the forefront of really game-changing investigations he's worked for
00:41:02.580
the washington post the new york times the associated press he is now the executive vice president
00:41:07.360
of the hill and he has been instrumental on the reporting of what was going on in ukraine i have
00:41:16.240
a theory i want to pass by you here in a few minutes but first i want to ask you this john is there is
00:41:22.440
there they're trying to allude that you uh were getting your marching orders from rudy giuliani
00:41:31.420
right that is the inference yeah any you want to comment on that uh i think if people just simply
00:41:42.180
looked at the public record of what i've done you will discover that i began reporting and writing on
00:41:47.440
ukraine months before rudy giuliani says he ever began investigating ukraine i can tell you some of my
00:41:54.320
early sources because they're they're clear now from my stories were democrats working for ukrainians who
00:42:00.700
were concerned about what went on inside ukraine during the 2016 election i can tell you that the
00:42:08.040
ukraine embassy provided me a statement that mr giuliani and his team never played a role in confirming
00:42:14.280
that the democratic national committee asked ukraine to interfere in the 2016 election that the ukraine
00:42:20.420
government ultimately turned down that request i can confirm to you that i wrote a series of stories
00:42:25.640
or a story about mr furtash's case a ukrainian a ukrainian oligarch that is intertwined with joe
00:42:32.140
biden in the 2016 period rudy giuliani had nothing to do with that story it was actually driven by
00:42:39.300
a democratic lawyer okay all right john i i i gotta take another break and then i want to come back i i i want
00:42:45.740
to go in uh and i want to talk to you about the um ambassador that has been fired what that story is
00:42:53.620
all about and what what kind of things were going on do you believe now through your reporting
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in ukraine during 2016 how deep does this go john solomon you can follow him in at j solomon reports
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