Adam Schiff is a liar, Peter Schweitzer is a crook, and the Pope has less sex when the Pope is around. Also, a possible error the GOP will likely criticize as an example of the Democrats' rushed effort to impeach President Donald Trump.
00:00:00.000How this show actually makes it to a podcast every day, when we are sitting here and we can't agree on simple things like almond milk is not milk.
00:02:02.800Oh, I should know what your evidence is before you present it, counsel?
00:02:05.940So, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff.
00:02:09.280This is from the Politico, that vast right-wing conspiratorial centerpiece.
00:02:15.320The House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff appears to have mischaracterized a text message exchange between two players in the Ukraine saga.
00:02:27.120According to documents now obtained by Politico, a possible error the GOP will likely criticize as another example of the Democrats' rushed effort to impeach President Donald Trump.
00:02:39.900You know the GOP is going to pounce on this one.
00:04:41.380Well, when they went back to Adam Schiff after they announced that through Adam Schiff, when they said, when Adam Schiff came out and said, Devin Nunes, he's part of this.
00:12:00.440Because the consequence of something being taken out of context, twisted, even if you know you're innocent, something with these dirt bags, you know, could come out.
00:12:12.300Now, let me talk to you about the Democratic point of view and then the American point of view.
00:14:09.960And he has just set up a company called Hillstone International, which wants to get into the construction business.
00:14:16.660So he has this meeting in Biden's office.
00:14:19.000We don't know what was discussed, obviously.
00:14:20.800Three weeks later, Hillstone International announces that James Biden, Joe Biden's brother, is the new executive vice president of the company.
00:14:31.120Now, what's interesting about this, Glenn, as we found with Hunter and his deals, James Biden has no experience or background in construction.
00:14:44.500What happens next over the next six months is Hillstone International, this new company with Joe Biden's brother as the new executive vice president, starts landing big contracts from the federal government.
00:14:56.820They get a contract to build 100,000 homes in Iraq.
00:15:00.720It's part of a $35 billion reconstruction deal in Iraq.
00:15:05.420So he had no experience, but he's a jack of all trades.
00:15:23.300You know, in fact, when the executives put up his biography on the company website, they described that he had, in their words, a unique ability to deal with government officials and then noted, of course, who his brother was, the vice president of the United States.
00:15:39.400But that was the first contract they got.
00:15:41.600They got a contract to do reconstruction work for the U.S. State Department and others.
00:15:46.660And, again, as always, is the problem with this stuff, Glenn, because of the way this corruption is handled, we don't know how much James Biden made.
00:15:55.660I'm sure he made a lot of money doing this.
00:15:58.140He's not going to be cheap in this kind of arrangement.
00:16:00.620But it's the kind of sweetheart deal that you find repeated over and over again with five family members during the time that Joe Biden is president.
00:16:08.520And, Glenn, I've been on your show numerous times.
00:16:11.080We've talked about corrupt Democrats, corrupt Republicans.
00:16:13.900Being honest with you, I have never, ever, ever seen a situation with a politician that has five family members that were basically bagging money while, you know, they were in office.
00:16:26.980Give me the give me the worst offender and then tell me about the other family members.
00:16:42.540You know, Hunter, we talked before about Rosemont Seneca, the deal that he had in China.
00:16:48.740And we've talked about the deal he had in Ukraine.
00:16:51.280He had another entity called Burnham that he set up with his business partner, Devin Archer.
00:16:58.500And we know now from court documents and cases that they were, by their account, taking in hundreds of millions of dollars from Kazakhs, Russians and Chinese investors.
00:17:08.860Again, all of this happening while Joe Biden was vice president.
00:17:12.220It didn't happen before he was vice president.
00:17:15.060It hasn't happened since he's been vice president.
00:17:17.280So we can all draw our conclusions about what that money was for.
00:17:20.740But, for example, they talk in corporate records about a $200 million deal done with somebody named Yelena Batterina.
00:17:32.160Now, if you go on Google and look up Yelena Batterina, it'll take you five, ten minutes to discover that this Russian oligarch is widely believed around the Western world to be tied to Russian organized crime.
00:17:44.060So these are the sorts of deals that Hunter Biden was doing.
00:17:48.220We've got instances of his other brother, Frank, doing deals in Costa Rica and in Jamaica involved in projects that are getting taxpayer-backed loans.
00:18:03.240Here's a guy who has, you know, again, jack of all trades.
00:18:07.440Every member of this family is super entrepreneurial.
00:18:10.000He goes to Costa Rica and he gets all these government-backed loans to start this, you know, almost like this, you know, super rich community, building houses and golf courses and spas and everything else.
00:18:49.780Again, these are solar companies or real estate companies that he started after his brother became vice president.
00:18:56.280In the case of Costa Rica, you know, it's very, very clear.
00:18:59.580Joe Biden flies down to Costa Rica in the spring of 2009.
00:19:03.600Really the first president or vice president to be in that country since Bill Clinton went 11 years earlier.
00:19:09.820So this is a big deal to the Costa Ricans.
00:19:11.920And Joe goes there and talks about bringing all sorts of U.S. government aid and we're going to help the Costa Ricans and all these things.
00:19:18.360Well, in the months that follows, his brother Frank is suddenly in Costa Rica.
00:19:23.140And he's meeting with the president of Costa Rica.
00:19:25.840He's meeting with the education commissioner.
00:19:27.740He's meeting with all these government officials.
00:19:29.240He gets letters of support for this real estate project that he wants to develop.
00:19:34.600He gets these exclusive agreements with the Costa Rican National Energy Company.
00:19:40.300And again, this is a guy who has no background in any of this.
00:19:43.500In Jamaica, you have a solar project that's developed.
00:19:47.720He sets up a company called Sun Fund Americas that gets the power purchase agreement.
00:19:52.460And the project is supported with a $47 million Obama-Biden administration taxpayer-backed loan.
00:20:01.920And again, he has no background in solar energy.
00:21:33.960So do you take away from your research on the Bidens, is Joe Biden a good parent like Lori Loughlin is, that, you know, she does really bad things, but she's doing it for the love of her daughter?
00:21:47.740Or is he more of a Logan Roy and Hunter is kind of Kendall Roy?
00:21:54.140I don't know if you watch Succession on HBO, but which is it?
00:22:03.420It's always hard to get into the mind of people.
00:22:06.420You know, we are all about follow the money and paper trail.
00:22:08.760I think that Joe Biden, you know, takes pride in the fact that he is a powerful man.
00:22:16.160I mean, I'll just give you a small illustration of what I mean.
00:22:18.760I mean, Joe Biden has said for years that he is the Amtrak senator and he's just regular Joe and he gets on Amtrak and he rides Amtrak, you know, all the time.
00:22:27.480And it makes him a regular guy, which everybody has heard that story.
00:22:31.260Well, we looked into this and we actually found local Delaware press accounts.
00:22:35.820The other side of that story, yes, Joe Biden did ride Amtrak all the time.
00:23:21.700I mean, it's certainly, when you look at all of it, it's in the tens of millions in terms of, I think, actually to them over the course of years.
00:23:34.520And some of it, Glenn, is so intangible.
00:23:36.480I mean, you know, another story, his daughter, Ashley, this case involving his daughter, Ashley,
00:23:41.700in June of 2011, Joe Biden ushers these two executives from this new company called Startup Health into the Oval Office to meet with Barack Obama.
00:24:12.200So over the next five years, Startup Health brings its investors together, brings its partners together.
00:24:18.200And the sitting vice president of the United States, Joe Biden, goes to these closed sessions and speaks to these audiences and briefs them on what's going on in Obama administration health care policy.
00:24:30.620The chief medical officer for that company is married to Ashley Biden.
00:25:08.180And yet there seems to be zero curiosity and interest by people in Washington, D.C. for this kind of conduct.
00:25:15.140Because it seems like many of them are involved in in the get rich quick schemes that comes with their their office, including people like Bernie Sanders.
00:25:27.060We'll continue our conversation here in just a second.
00:25:29.420The name of the book is Profiles in Corruption by Peter Swiser.
00:25:33.980And it is not it's it's so well written.
00:25:38.320He's a good storyteller, but it is not something that is light.
00:25:41.360The last over 100 pages are fine print footnotes.
00:25:46.280So you could go look it all up yourself.
00:25:51.180This is a this is a journalistic work.
00:25:54.780And I haven't seen one of those in quite some time.
00:25:57.480Peter Swiser, I, I, I would like to sit down with you and develop a series on this book, because this is it's remarkable what's going on and nobody is paying attention to it.
00:26:11.940And you have taken all of the front runners of the Democratic Party and shown where they are really corrupt and dirty.
00:26:20.500Let's go to Bernie Sanders, because people think, oh, no, he's for the little people, although he was a little person.
00:26:27.240And now he's worth millions of dollars.
00:26:29.040How does that happen in Congress as a public servant?
00:26:31.880But let's let's spend a few minutes on Bernie Sanders.
00:26:36.000Sure. You know, Bernie Sanders is an interesting case because Bernie Sanders really since the 1970s has railed against millionaires and billionaires in politics.
00:26:46.060And he used that phrase for about 37 years and then he stopped using that phrase.
00:26:53.060He said he was only concerned about billionaires in politics because he's now become a millionaire.
00:26:58.660And it's been an interesting path to how he's done it.
00:27:01.740And the first thing that emerges, I mean, the Bernie Sanders chapter in the book is probably 40 pages long, something like that.
00:27:08.080And, you know, what you find is from the earliest days when he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, one of the first things he did was put his girlfriend, later wife, Jane, on the payroll.
00:27:20.160Now, the city council never authorized this.
00:27:22.340He created a position that was not funded.
00:27:30.080And from that point forward, there has been a strategy by him to use his government positions, to use campaign funds, to use other resources to enrich his family.
00:27:39.840So when he started running for Congress, he discovered this loophole that other people in Washington, D.C. have learned, which involves media buys.
00:27:48.400So, Glenn, if you were running for senator of Texas, and I was the media buyer for your campaign, and you spent a million dollars on television ads, I would basically take a 15% fee or commission for placing those ads.
00:28:21.760And it's hard to know exactly how much money they made, but if you follow some of the money in paper trail, it's at least $150,000 while he was in Congress.
00:28:32.440The big payday on this for someone, we don't know yet, but we have our suspicions, came when Bernie Sanders ran for president of the United States in 2016.
00:28:41.080Now, he spent $83 million on media buys, $83 million.
00:28:47.440So, the commission on that is, what, $12 million, something like that.
00:28:54.060Well, we don't really know because that $83 million went through a company called Old Town Media, which is registered to a private residential home on a cul-de-sac in Virginia.
00:29:05.420Oh, my gosh. Hang on just a second. There's more on this and other with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, all of them with Peter Swiser.
00:29:56.780Yeah. Okay, so we were talking about Bernie Sanders, and you were starting to tell the story about this $80 or $85 million campaign that was on television and ad buying, the last campaign.
00:30:11.140You don't know who was doing the buying for that, but that's 15% of that money went to that person.
00:30:19.560It used to be his wife. It still could be his wife, I would imagine.
00:30:23.100Well, yes. The home, so this, of course, went through Old Town Media, which was just set up in a home in suburban Virginia,
00:30:29.800was linked to two former aides that were friends of Jane's, that were involved in the media buys before.
00:30:37.720Now, Jane Sanders was actually asked by a Vermont reporter, a progressive, about this during the 2016 campaign.
00:30:45.800What did she know about Old Town Media? Was she connected to Old Town Media?
00:30:49.460Her answer, Glenn, was she hung up the phone.
00:30:51.480So, you know, we don't know, but what we do know is there's been this pattern with the Sanders family in the past.
00:30:59.680You know, again, when Bernie Sanders was running for Congress, Jane Sanders and her kids actually set up a company called Sanders Media,
00:31:09.620through which they became a contractor for his campaign.
00:36:30.160And Amelia had helped start a company called BTG in 2007.
00:36:37.140And BTG was looking for capital and was looking for advisors to help this business really go.
00:36:43.660Well, Elizabeth Warren, if you remember in 2008, is selected by Congress by Harry Reid to be the chairman of the oversight committee for TARP.
00:36:52.900TARP was the committee that was sending out huge sums of money bailing out Wall Street firms.
00:36:58.780And Elizabeth Warren becomes the chairman of that oversight committee.
00:37:02.360When she meets with Harry Reid, her daughter, Amelia, actually comes with her to the meeting.
00:37:19.760In the six to eight months following Elizabeth Warren's appointment to the TARP oversight committee, two things happen.
00:37:26.660TARP bails out major Wall Street investment firms.
00:37:30.480During the same period, her daughter's new company gets new investors and new advisors from the same firms that are being bailed out by TARP.
00:38:27.500But on the website, which we were able to recover, it talks about their business model is making films that are funded and in partnership with foreign governments,
00:38:37.180which is certainly a unique business model.
00:38:55.920The son-in-law is the only – the sole producer on this film.
00:38:59.400And the financiers are these Iranian government agencies.
00:39:04.040These Iranian government agencies, by the way, also fund and participate in things like Al Quds Day, which is a very anti-Semitic celebration in Iran.
00:39:14.700It's the mourning of the loss of Jerusalem and the vow to get it back by blood.
00:39:23.360Well, the same government entities that financed his film also are very active in Al Quds Day.
00:39:29.940And in the film credits, one of the entities that they give credit and thanks to is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Air Force.
00:39:40.880I don't know what their participation was in the film, but this, to me, speaks of a willingness to work with some really, really, really nasty people around the world.
00:39:52.400And that's something that I think, again, we need to have more information on.
00:39:57.420You know, he talks about working with foreign governments.
00:39:59.440Did he work with other governments on films?
00:40:01.460That's, I think, a legitimate question that people should ask.
00:40:04.140You know, when I was looking into Ukraine, I see that a lot of people are doing what the, you know, Bidens were doing over in Ukraine to one degree or another.
00:40:21.920Do you ever see anybody ever trying to clean this up?
00:40:25.500Are there, are there people that are, that are decent enough in Congress and in the administration or in the Senate that will actually take this on?
00:40:40.600I think the problem is right now, as you correctly point out, is this is a bipartisan problem.
00:40:45.620And whenever there's an opportunity for both political sides for people to make money, you're going to have a hard time getting a consensus because you have very good people that are, that are honest and want to have this go away.
00:40:58.320And they, they are actually in both political parties.
00:41:00.980But you also have more powerful people generally in both political parties that either wink and nod or actually participate in this kind of corruption.
00:41:10.280The only thing that they understand, Glenn, is exposure and embarrassment and shame.
00:41:18.100That's the only thing that leads them.
00:41:20.080You know, we, I wrote a book back in 2011 on insider trading by members of Congress on the stock market.
00:41:59.660We have a binary situation and people do not want to call out somebody on their own side because they think somehow it's going to lead to the collapse of their side.
00:42:11.820And what I just tell people is nobody is irreplaceable.
00:42:15.500If you are a, you know, Democrat and you hate Donald Trump, Joe Biden is not your savior.
00:42:23.220There are other people that can, that can perform that duty.
00:42:26.440I would say the same thing to Republicans, Republicans that are, you know, officials that are corrupt.
00:42:30.980There are other people, good people that can take their place.
00:42:34.160So I just urge everybody, never fall into the trap of saying, I'm going to accept whatever, anything that this individual does, because we're afraid of losing them.
00:42:44.440Because there are other people that can step up and take those.
00:42:46.900Peter Schweitzer, he is the author of the book, Profiles in Corruption.
00:44:52.420Well, last year in mid-October, it actually, by coincidence, it was the same day that Donald Trump was in Minnesota giving a stump speech.
00:45:03.520Steve Drazkowski, who is the state rep in Minnesota, who has been the only person over there trying to get some accountability.
00:45:14.080He had made a complaint to the Minnesota branch of the Department of Justice, the U.S. attorney, saying, for goodness sakes, somebody has to look into her past.
00:45:27.880There's just an overwhelming amount of evidence here.
00:46:33.440And the FBI, during the meeting, said, essentially, I'm paraphrasing, but wow.
00:46:40.140So they took it seriously and said, you know, we have such a wide range of criminal activity here suggested by this evidence.
00:46:52.200In these kind of cases, the FBI turns into a hub and coordinates sharing evidence among several interested departments.
00:47:02.420I want to I'm going to give the exact quote from your article following answers to those questions about Representative Omar's 2009 marriage appear to give probable probable cause to investigate Omar for eight instances of perjury,
00:47:15.900immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud and even bigamy.
00:47:24.260To be clear, the facts described perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in all of American history.
00:47:40.160I've run themes on that for a couple of years now.
00:47:43.260And as you know, this has been covered solely by outlets like the Blaze and PJ Media and Powerline.
00:47:52.240Yep. And not only really, that's are the three.
00:47:56.320Yeah, pretty much. Other people have followed up on it.
00:48:00.760But it has been an alpha news, Minnesota, a small local outlet got the ball rolling on this back in 2016.
00:48:09.920Now, so this information, it's been a long wait because there was a much there was enough information to open an investigation back before she was even elected in 2016 to her to her state seat.
00:48:25.880Now, what I like to do is compare what was all what was going on with the FBI at the time, the evidence they used to open this investigation against Trump.
00:48:36.740Compare that evidence, which was George Papadopoulos in a bar.
00:49:00.900We have Ilhan's own comments to an interviewer back in 2014.
00:49:07.440We have her husband's comments that also corroborate all of this.
00:49:12.200This is just such a huge packet of evidence.
00:49:16.960And with what else is going on in the world today, look at what Adam Schiff's trying to trying to start trying to use as grounds for impeaching the president.
00:49:29.020All you need to know about the hypocrisy of what's going on today in the Senate is to take a look at how Adam Schiff has treated the evidence against his colleague.
00:49:38.360Okay, so you have the FBI playing as a quarterback, if you will.
00:49:43.000They gave part of this case to the Department of Education Inspector General for her fraud on marriage and how she was working the educational system.
00:50:20.880Whether or not that was legal, and obviously I've printed before that I think it was entirely fraudulent, that's not what we're looking at here.
00:50:29.760ICE would be involved with her having a fraudulent marriage to a U.K. citizen.
00:51:00.600And do you see a world in which this stuff is actually handed down on a member of Congress?
00:51:07.000You know, this is – I've talked about her as sort of the perfect test that came along both for the Democrat Party, for the media, and for law enforcement.
00:51:23.360If they don't take action on this case, then – yes, what will they take action on?
00:51:30.620This is something that seems like, you know, if they do open an investigation in the morning, they could hand out indictments by lunchtime.
00:53:30.080Obviously, when you see law enforcement doing something – when you see they're doing the job as expected, I don't want to antagonize them.
00:53:41.740So obviously this news – I published the news of the meeting last year.
00:53:47.500I waited three weeks after the meeting happened before I ran it.
00:53:50.920And this news about the FBI being contacted – I'm sorry, this news about ICE being contacted and the Department of Education being contacted, this didn't happen last week.
00:54:05.880So I have been – the last thing I want to do is be accused of, soap piping, essentially, handing information over to these agencies, calling the media and saying, hey, look, there's an investigation.
00:54:19.160Which is – ironically, that's what James Comey did, you know, when they briefed the president and then leaked it to the media that there was something going on.
00:54:28.600David, I like the way you work, and I like the way you think, and your work ethic to prove it is very rare in today's world.
00:54:41.120He is – was the New York City editor at PJ Media, and if you ask Dave Bratt, it was his investigation of Eric Cantor in 2014 in the primary campaign that tipped that district into a historic loss.
00:54:59.400And some say it was the beginning of the Trump era, and all because of you, David Steinberg.