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00:00:00.000 How 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.

00:00:11.040 Almond what? Is not milk?

00:00:12.620 Almond milk is not milk.

00:00:16.840 Almond. Where's the tea?

00:00:18.760 You can milk an almond.

00:00:22.680 Alright, welcome to the podcast. We have bigger fish to fry.

00:00:27.120 Believe it or not, we have Adam Schiff.

00:00:30.520 Now, I'm not going to insinuate or suggest that he's a liar.

00:00:36.240 On today's podcast, I might just come out and tell you.

00:00:39.560 Also, Peter Schweitzer is here.

00:00:41.600 He's got unbelievable evidence on the Biden corruption, the corruption with Senator Warren and Bernie Sanders.

00:00:52.720 Also, the person that is running for Ilan Omar's seat, she's, you know, we have to get that Muslim out of there, right? 1.00

00:01:00.580 Yeah, that's why the Republicans are running a Muslim immigrant. 1.00

00:01:06.500 Oh, what a surprise. Doesn't seem like that's the problem.

00:01:10.060 Find out about that. Also, people have less sex when the Pope is around.

00:01:14.240 All that and almond milk on today's podcast.

00:01:17.260 All right. Again, I don't want to suggest anything here, Stu.

00:01:38.540 I don't want to suggest it. And please stop me from any speculation.

00:01:42.080 Okay.

00:01:42.540 Okay.

00:01:43.000 You just want to make sure you're staying on the facts. 0.98

00:01:44.640 I want to stay on the facts that Adam Schiff is a lying dirt bag. 0.98

00:01:49.440 Okay. 0.98

00:01:50.000 Okay.

00:01:51.600 And I shouldn't have said that. See, now you've let me down.

00:01:54.720 No, because it won't.

00:01:55.600 I was going to see if you had evidence if he was actually a bag of dirt.

00:01:58.660 Yeah.

00:01:59.020 And I can't make, I can't.

00:02:00.460 Well, I was waiting for the evidence.

00:02:01.820 You should know that.

00:02:02.800 Oh, I should know what your evidence is before you present it, counsel?

00:02:05.940 So, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff.

00:02:09.280 This is from the Politico, that vast right-wing conspiratorial centerpiece.

00:02:15.320 The House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff appears to have mischaracterized a text message exchange between two players in the Ukraine saga.

00:02:27.120 According 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.

00:02:39.900 You know the GOP is going to pounce on this one.

00:02:42.200 That's what they do.

00:02:43.320 That's what they do.

00:02:43.880 They just pounce.

00:02:44.820 They use it to their advantage.

00:02:46.320 They're so good at that.

00:02:47.180 The complete lies from Democrats they use to their advantage.

00:02:49.780 They never miss an opportunity to take down the Democrats.

00:02:54.700 When they like to play.

00:02:55.780 Yeah.

00:02:56.240 Okay.

00:02:56.640 So, let me just, let me translate this line by line.

00:02:59.780 House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff appears to have mischaracterized a text message exchange between two players in the Ukraine saga.

00:03:08.120 Okay?

00:03:08.360 Let me translate.

00:03:10.660 House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff lied about a text message exchange between two players in the Ukrainian saga.

00:03:19.740 And we know it because of the documents that were obtained by Politico.

00:03:25.700 Now, back to their speak.

00:03:28.500 A possible error the GOP will likely criticize is another example of Democrats' rushed effort to impeach President Donald Trump.

00:03:35.420 No, let me translate from bullcrap into actual common sense English.

00:03:42.280 This lie will probably not see a hard enough stand against, but because the GOP is spineless.

00:03:54.160 But it is another example of the Democrats doing anything they can without any ramification in their effort to impeach Donald Trump.

00:04:07.700 Here's what happened.

00:04:10.460 Schiff sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler.

00:04:14.760 This was last week.

00:04:16.120 What was the big story last week?

00:04:18.580 It was everywhere.

00:04:19.740 Lev Parnas.

00:04:22.800 Oh, yeah.

00:04:23.560 Okay.

00:04:24.360 Everywhere. 0.86

00:04:25.220 This is the guy who we know is a liar because he's the guy who said, you know, Devin Nunes. 0.66

00:04:32.500 He was over in where? 0.98

00:04:33.560 Switzerland or France or someplace looking at people's underpants.

00:04:37.380 And I know it because I was there.

00:04:40.680 I saw him.

00:04:41.380 Well, 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.

00:04:53.180 He was over there.

00:04:53.980 He was talking.

00:04:54.740 We have a witness that saw him over there.

00:04:56.780 And then when Devin went, uh, no, here's my calendar.

00:05:01.220 Here's my passport.

00:05:02.720 I haven't left the country.

00:05:04.460 I was in the country at the time.

00:05:08.000 Then they just dropped it and it went away.

00:05:10.400 Okay.

00:05:10.540 That's who Lev Parnas is.

00:05:12.400 He's a bad guy.

00:05:13.440 I mean, he plays whatever side he needs at the time.

00:05:16.400 Exactly right.

00:05:17.180 For his own advantage.

00:05:18.120 And he's the guy, when I asked Rudy Giuliani, why would you trust this guy?

00:05:21.580 And he said, I don't trust him.

00:05:23.480 He said, you know, it's like with the crime families.

00:05:26.060 You got to get to the people you, that will give you information or give you, um, access.

00:05:32.780 He said, I didn't use him for information.

00:05:34.780 I used him for access.

00:05:36.200 He could connect me with the people I had been trying to be connected to.

00:05:40.880 So here's a guy now that Adam Schiff comes out and says, oh my gosh, look at this.

00:05:49.200 Here's Rudy Giuliani and Lev Parnas and their text messages.

00:05:54.280 Lev just gave it to us.

00:05:56.060 And this text message, uh, says, quote, continue to try to arrange a meeting with president

00:06:03.660 Zelensky.

00:06:05.220 Okay.

00:06:05.740 That's what, that's what Schiff says.

00:06:08.260 It said, but it didn't, it said, continue to try to arrange a meeting, uh, a meeting with

00:06:13.800 Mr.

00:06:14.520 Z.

00:06:14.960 Now who's Mr.

00:06:17.400 Z?

00:06:19.220 Zelensky.

00:06:19.780 Right.

00:06:20.000 He's the Z guy. 0.95

00:06:20.680 He's the president.

00:06:21.520 He's the guy we've been talking about.

00:06:22.560 He's the guy in Poland with the letter Z that starts a name.

00:06:26.580 Yeah.

00:06:27.100 Right.

00:06:27.720 The only one.

00:06:28.580 Right.

00:06:29.160 Poland.

00:06:29.840 Okay.

00:06:30.440 So you have to assume everything else was redacted in that memo and they were going to

00:06:36.480 get the unredacted memo.

00:06:37.960 But last week they couldn't wait.

00:06:40.360 They couldn't wait because this president is doing so much damage that we can't wait.

00:06:45.980 That was Schiff's argument yesterday.

00:06:48.040 We have to move now.

00:06:49.780 Really?

00:06:50.800 Well, now that it's unredacted, uh, we find out that Mr.

00:06:56.940 Z is Zolachevsky.

00:06:59.720 He is the Burisma guy.

00:07:02.340 And what, what Parnes was doing was he was trying to get Mr.

00:07:07.880 Z, the Burisma guy to go on record with somebody with a list of questions that Rudy Giuliani

00:07:14.800 wanted answering.

00:07:16.720 Uh, basically they're hiring practices.

00:07:19.580 Who do you hire?

00:07:20.820 Why do you hire these people?

00:07:22.140 Et cetera.

00:07:22.880 Uh, wanted to build Burisma.

00:07:24.840 This is the response from Mr.

00:07:26.340 Z.

00:07:26.660 We wanted to build Burisma as an international company.

00:07:29.480 We also thought it would help in Ukraine to have strong international board figures.

00:07:34.580 Okay.

00:07:35.780 Well, that's Mr.

00:07:37.300 Z is the head of Burisma, not president.

00:07:44.360 Also, by the way, I would say confirms a large part of the problem with Hunter Biden being

00:07:49.200 on that board.

00:07:50.440 I mean, he's admitting the reason he hired him is for his influence, not because he has

00:07:54.960 any ability.

00:07:55.860 Correct.

00:07:56.300 In his knowledge of the gas, Ukrainian gas world.

00:07:59.720 So he is only there because of his dad.

00:08:02.480 I mean, that's just confirming the reason he was hired.

00:08:04.580 Exactly right.

00:08:05.560 Exactly right.

00:08:06.440 Now listen to the Politico.

00:08:08.720 The apparent mischaracterization.

00:08:11.440 Excuse me?

00:08:13.020 Mischaracterization.

00:08:13.420 The apparent mischaracterization does not undercut Democrats' argument that Trump withheld critical

00:08:19.740 military aid to Ukraine as a way to pressure Zelensky.

00:08:22.480 So now, we just moved the goalposts.

00:08:24.540 We weren't even talking about that.

00:08:25.560 No, no.

00:08:25.900 Yeah.

00:08:26.160 No, now we're talking about that.

00:08:27.120 This doesn't disprove every single thing they've asked about.

00:08:29.180 A Democratic official working on the impeachment trial did not dispute the suggestion that

00:08:36.000 the initial interpretation was incorrect, but the official does maintain that Z is commonly

00:08:44.100 used in Ukraine as shorthand for Zelensky.

00:08:48.780 Oh.

00:08:50.000 So you had that, common usage.

00:08:52.260 Common usage.

00:08:53.180 This is amazing.

00:08:54.380 I mean, I don't know how to take this because Politico is the one bringing it to light.

00:08:58.180 So, I mean, you give him credit for that, but this is written in such a hedged way.

00:09:02.280 It's as if Adam Schiff wrote it himself.

00:09:04.160 And then, there are plenty of examples of Giuliani attempting to arrange a meeting with

00:09:08.640 Zelensky, and he did, in fact, meet with top aides of the Ukrainian president.

00:09:13.320 This has nothing to do with what you were accusing him of last week.

00:09:17.780 Right.

00:09:18.160 Last week, he's admitted those things.

00:09:21.240 He brought that to the State Department.

00:09:25.100 He brought that to the Southern District of New York FBI.

00:09:30.220 Admitted isn't even the right word.

00:09:31.620 He was going on television telling everybody about it.

00:09:33.700 He went and gave them all of this information before he was even asked for it.

00:09:39.480 Like, over a year ago, before the scandal even started.

00:09:42.540 So, Democrats have not predicated their impeachment trial arguments on Parnas' new allegation, but

00:09:52.200 they would have.

00:09:53.360 And they wanted to.

00:09:54.100 The big part was they wanted him to be able to testify with the Senate.

00:09:57.840 Exactly right.

00:09:59.380 When he has obviously shown no level of credibility.

00:10:03.080 So, they have absolutely, they continue to do it again.

00:10:11.820 And the media is their arm.

00:10:16.440 It is their PR arm.

00:10:19.080 They can say whatever they want without any ramifications.

00:10:25.100 No ramifications on this.

00:10:27.300 Well, yeah, he just mischaracterized that.

00:10:29.560 He just, he made a mistake.

00:10:30.820 I mean, it's a common error over there.

00:10:32.420 I mean, Mr. Z, there's, you know, really, there are lots of Mr. Z's, but only one Mr. Z.

00:10:36.700 And you can understand why they assumed.

00:10:39.060 This is the impeachment of a president.

00:10:43.340 There's nothing more important in our republic to get right than justice.

00:10:50.340 But justice to remove a president?

00:10:54.280 I can't think of anything you should be more focused on.

00:10:57.120 You know, you're typing these things out.

00:10:59.040 You're starting to say these things.

00:11:00.320 Hey, have you had a nap?

00:11:02.120 You should get a nap in so you don't get this one wrong.

00:11:05.500 They're not worried about getting it wrong.

00:11:08.360 They're intentionally getting it wrong.

00:11:11.120 And this is the argument against additional witnesses and everything else.

00:11:17.060 Look, here's the thing.

00:11:19.060 You are rolling the dice.

00:11:21.320 And I want to talk to you as three people.

00:11:24.380 First one, the president's defense team.

00:11:29.180 This is one because their evidence is so weak.

00:11:32.640 This is a slam dunk.

00:11:35.780 All right.

00:11:36.500 So now just think as a president that has been under siege.

00:11:42.580 Think of yourself as an attorney.

00:11:45.880 And the one thing you do is don't roll the dice.

00:11:48.940 Don't let's not take any chances.

00:11:50.240 Mr.

00:11:50.460 President, this is we've won this.

00:11:52.460 They have nothing.

00:11:53.680 They have nothing.

00:11:54.620 Do not roll the dice.

00:11:56.460 Okay.

00:11:57.800 I would do that.

00:11:59.220 You would do that.

00:12:00.440 Because 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.

00:12:12.300 Now, let me talk to you about the Democratic point of view and then the American point of view.

00:12:22.480 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:12:30.900 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:12:33.900 If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:12:38.460 It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts.

00:12:41.640 Peter Swiser, best-selling author, the author of Clinton Cash and so many others.

00:12:50.480 This is the abuse of power by America's progressive elite, the ones who all say they're fighting for you.

00:12:56.260 No, they're not.

00:12:57.140 They're robbing you, the American people blind. 0.99

00:13:01.300 Profiles in Corruption is the name of the book.

00:13:04.420 Peter, let's start with Joe Biden.

00:13:07.220 I was blown away at it's not just Hunter Biden.

00:13:12.440 It's the whole family.

00:13:14.380 And the story you tell about Joe Biden's brother.

00:13:19.920 Is remarkable.

00:13:22.780 Yeah, Glenn, it's great to be with you as always.

00:13:25.560 Yeah, that's right.

00:13:26.360 I mean, we've talked about Hunter Biden before, his deals in Ukraine and China.

00:13:31.060 But what you have in this book are what we call the Biden Five.

00:13:34.520 And these are the five family members who all cashed in during this period when Joe Biden was vice president.

00:13:41.420 One of those is his brother, James Biden.

00:13:45.160 James Biden, you know, got a lot of benefits by his brother being vice president of the United States.

00:13:52.020 If you step back to November of 2010, a guy visits Joe Biden's office in the White House named Kevin Justice.

00:14:00.720 We know this from White House visitors logs.

00:14:02.640 It's the only trip visit that he makes to the White House during the entire period.

00:14:06.940 Kevin Justice is from Delaware.

00:14:08.520 He's friends with the Bidens.

00:14:09.960 And he has just set up a company called Hillstone International, which wants to get into the construction business.

00:14:16.660 So he has this meeting in Biden's office.

00:14:19.000 We don't know what was discussed, obviously.

00:14:20.800 Three weeks later, Hillstone International announces that James Biden, Joe Biden's brother, is the new executive vice president of the company.

00:14:31.120 Now, what's interesting about this, Glenn, as we found with Hunter and his deals, James Biden has no experience or background in construction.

00:14:39.300 He's never held a job in it.

00:14:40.920 He's never been involved in it.

00:14:42.840 But that's only the beginning.

00:14:44.500 What 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.

00:14:56.820 They get a contract to build 100,000 homes in Iraq.

00:15:00.720 It's part of a $35 billion reconstruction deal in Iraq.

00:15:05.420 So he had no experience, but he's a jack of all trades.

00:15:10.480 Everybody in that family is.

00:15:11.940 No experience on building.

00:15:14.180 But he had to have vast experience on getting the job done overseas in a war zone, though, right?

00:15:20.000 Yeah, right.

00:15:21.740 No, no experience there either.

00:15:23.300 You 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.

00:15:39.400 But that was the first contract they got.

00:15:41.600 They got a contract to do reconstruction work for the U.S. State Department and others.

00:15:46.660 And, 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.

00:15:55.660 I'm sure he made a lot of money doing this.

00:15:58.140 He's not going to be cheap in this kind of arrangement.

00:16:00.620 But 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.

00:16:08.520 And, Glenn, I've been on your show numerous times.

00:16:11.080 We've talked about corrupt Democrats, corrupt Republicans.

00:16:13.900 Being 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.

00:16:26.980 Give me the give me the worst offender and then tell me about the other family members.

00:16:32.900 Oh, boy.

00:16:33.720 I mean, worst offender is really hard because there's so many examples.

00:16:37.160 I mean, the Biden chapter in the book is 60 something pages long.

00:16:41.000 But let's go back to Hunter.

00:16:42.540 You know, Hunter, we talked before about Rosemont Seneca, the deal that he had in China.

00:16:48.740 And we've talked about the deal he had in Ukraine.

00:16:51.280 He had another entity called Burnham that he set up with his business partner, Devin Archer.

00:16:58.500 And 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.

00:17:08.860 Again, all of this happening while Joe Biden was vice president.

00:17:12.220 It didn't happen before he was vice president.

00:17:15.060 It hasn't happened since he's been vice president.

00:17:17.280 So we can all draw our conclusions about what that money was for.

00:17:20.740 But, for example, they talk in corporate records about a $200 million deal done with somebody named Yelena Batterina.

00:17:32.160 Now, 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.

00:17:44.060 So these are the sorts of deals that Hunter Biden was doing.

00:17:48.220 We'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.

00:17:57.920 Yeah.

00:17:58.140 Wait, wait, wait.

00:17:58.740 Explain that one because I talked about that one yesterday.

00:18:02.560 It's amazing.

00:18:03.240 Here's a guy who has, you know, again, jack of all trades.

00:18:07.440 Every member of this family is super entrepreneurial.

00:18:10.000 He 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.

00:18:26.340 It's a disaster.

00:18:29.140 And then he decides, you know what?

00:18:31.320 I'm actually an entrepreneur in solar energy.

00:18:35.300 And he gets all these government-backed loans for a solar energy company in Jamaica, which also, how's it doing today?

00:18:43.680 Is it really rocketing to the top now?

00:18:46.580 Yeah, no, you're exactly right.

00:18:48.400 That's the pattern here.

00:18:49.780 Again, these are solar companies or real estate companies that he started after his brother became vice president.

00:18:56.280 In the case of Costa Rica, you know, it's very, very clear.

00:18:59.580 Joe Biden flies down to Costa Rica in the spring of 2009.

00:19:03.600 Really the first president or vice president to be in that country since Bill Clinton went 11 years earlier.

00:19:09.820 So this is a big deal to the Costa Ricans.

00:19:11.920 And 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.

00:19:18.360 Well, in the months that follows, his brother Frank is suddenly in Costa Rica.

00:19:23.140 And he's meeting with the president of Costa Rica.

00:19:25.840 He's meeting with the education commissioner.

00:19:27.740 He's meeting with all these government officials.

00:19:29.240 He gets letters of support for this real estate project that he wants to develop.

00:19:34.600 He gets these exclusive agreements with the Costa Rican National Energy Company.

00:19:40.300 And again, this is a guy who has no background in any of this.

00:19:43.500 In Jamaica, you have a solar project that's developed.

00:19:47.720 He sets up a company called Sun Fund Americas that gets the power purchase agreement.

00:19:52.460 And the project is supported with a $47 million Obama-Biden administration taxpayer-backed loan.

00:20:01.920 And again, he has no background in solar energy.

00:20:06.020 So a couple of things.

00:20:07.660 How much of this was known in and around Joe Biden?

00:20:13.140 How much of this would be shocking, actually shocking, to the people in the former administration or anybody on Capitol Hill?

00:20:23.320 How widespread, how well-known is this corruption?

00:20:27.200 I don't think it's that well-known, and here's why.

00:20:29.420 I mean, one of the things we talk about in the book, in using the words of people around Joe Biden and his family members,

00:20:36.200 the Biden political operation is a very close-run thing.

00:20:40.040 It basically circles around the family and a few other aides.

00:20:44.260 You know, when he ran for president, his sister, Valerie Biden, was his campaign manager.

00:20:49.700 We actually talk about her in the book as well, Glenn, how she was running Joe Biden's campaign,

00:20:54.300 and she funneled $2.5 million from his campaigns into her own consulting firm.

00:21:01.240 But, you know, to answer your question, I think a lot of this stuff is going to come as a surprise.

00:21:05.480 The Bidens always talk about the importance of family.

00:21:08.620 And, look, I believe that's a great virtue.

00:21:11.400 But when you use it to self-enrich your family, you're not talking about family values.

00:21:16.300 You're talking about mafia-like operations.

00:21:19.260 And that's precisely what they've done.

00:21:20.800 All right.

00:21:21.040 So let me ask you this, because Joe Biden, you know, he's had tragedy in his life, et cetera, et cetera.

00:21:26.620 You see how out of control his son Hunter is.

00:21:30.980 Just really a sad, sad case.

00:21:33.960 So 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?

00:21:47.740 Or is he more of a Logan Roy and Hunter is kind of Kendall Roy?

00:21:54.140 I don't know if you watch Succession on HBO, but which is it?

00:22:00.460 Yeah, I'm familiar with it.

00:22:01.940 I think that's a great question.

00:22:03.420 It's always hard to get into the mind of people.

00:22:06.420 You know, we are all about follow the money and paper trail.

00:22:08.760 I think that Joe Biden, you know, takes pride in the fact that he is a powerful man.

00:22:16.160 I mean, I'll just give you a small illustration of what I mean.

00:22:18.760 I 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.

00:22:27.480 And it makes him a regular guy, which everybody has heard that story.

00:22:31.260 Well, we looked into this and we actually found local Delaware press accounts.

00:22:35.820 The other side of that story, yes, Joe Biden did ride Amtrak all the time.

00:22:41.020 But you know what he also did, Glenn?

00:22:42.500 If he was running late, he would call Amtrak and have them hold the train for him.

00:22:48.700 The entire train would be held, commuters be damned, until he arrived.

00:22:53.600 That, to me, is evidence of the fact that this is somebody who enjoys power.

00:22:58.440 He doesn't mind using power and he believes that, you know, power is something that he deserves to have.

00:23:05.060 He believes he's doing great things for his constituents and for the country.

00:23:08.940 Why not be able to do great things for his family as well by allowing them and helping them to secure all these deals?

00:23:16.060 How much money do you think has passed through the Biden's hands?

00:23:20.220 It's impossible to know.

00:23:21.700 I 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.

00:23:30.040 But it could be more than that.

00:23:31.480 And that's part of the problem.

00:23:32.680 So much of this is so murky.

00:23:34.520 And some of it, Glenn, is so intangible.

00:23:36.480 I mean, you know, another story, his daughter, Ashley, this case involving his daughter, Ashley,

00:23:41.700 in 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.

00:23:51.840 This company doesn't have a website.

00:23:53.280 They don't even have a business plan.

00:23:55.160 These executives get their picture with Barack Obama.

00:23:57.600 They put that up on the website.

00:23:59.340 And then the next day, they are sort of the hallmarks of this big federal government conference on health care data.

00:24:06.640 Now, Startup Health is an investment firm.

00:24:09.040 They want to invest in health care companies.

00:24:10.740 That's what they do.

00:24:12.200 So over the next five years, Startup Health brings its investors together, brings its partners together.

00:24:18.200 And 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.

00:24:30.620 The chief medical officer for that company is married to Ashley Biden.

00:24:36.840 It's his son-in-law.

00:24:37.940 And he described in the interview he gave in this very obscure trade publication how all of this happened.

00:24:45.260 You know, I was talking to my father-in-law on the phone.

00:24:47.500 I told him about this company.

00:24:48.820 He said, great, come by.

00:24:50.160 I want to introduce you to Barack.

00:24:52.260 You know, this is the classic sort of inside corrupt deal.

00:24:56.320 And if you could imagine the Trumps doing something like that, I mean, everybody, of course, would would be outraged in Washington.

00:25:03.000 I would be upset and outraged by it as well.

00:25:05.580 But the Trumps haven't done that.

00:25:07.080 The Bidens have.

00:25:08.180 And yet there seems to be zero curiosity and interest by people in Washington, D.C. for this kind of conduct.

00:25:15.140 Because 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.

00:25:27.060 We'll continue our conversation here in just a second.

00:25:29.420 The name of the book is Profiles in Corruption by Peter Swiser.

00:25:33.980 And it is not it's it's so well written.

00:25:38.320 He's a good storyteller, but it is not something that is light.

00:25:41.360 The last over 100 pages are fine print footnotes.

00:25:46.280 So you could go look it all up yourself.

00:25:49.080 This is not a man's opinion.

00:25:51.180 This is a this is a journalistic work.

00:25:54.780 And I haven't seen one of those in quite some time.

00:25:57.480 Peter 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.

00:26:11.940 And you have taken all of the front runners of the Democratic Party and shown where they are really corrupt and dirty.

00:26:20.500 Let's go to Bernie Sanders, because people think, oh, no, he's for the little people, although he was a little person.

00:26:27.240 And now he's worth millions of dollars.

00:26:29.040 How does that happen in Congress as a public servant?

00:26:31.880 But let's let's spend a few minutes on Bernie Sanders.

00:26:36.000 Sure. You know, Bernie Sanders is an interesting case because Bernie Sanders really since the 1970s has railed against millionaires and billionaires in politics.

00:26:46.060 And he used that phrase for about 37 years and then he stopped using that phrase.

00:26:53.060 He said he was only concerned about billionaires in politics because he's now become a millionaire.

00:26:58.660 And it's been an interesting path to how he's done it.

00:27:01.740 And the first thing that emerges, I mean, the Bernie Sanders chapter in the book is probably 40 pages long, something like that.

00:27:08.080 And, 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.

00:27:20.160 Now, the city council never authorized this.

00:27:22.340 He created a position that was not funded. 0.90

00:27:24.840 But Bernie's attitude was be damned. 0.53

00:27:27.300 I want my girlfriend on the payroll. 1.00

00:27:28.760 She's on the payroll.

00:27:30.080 And 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.

00:27:39.840 So when he started running for Congress, he discovered this loophole that other people in Washington, D.C. have learned, which involves media buys.

00:27:48.400 So, 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.

00:28:03.780 I would get $150,000.

00:28:05.700 The challenge is it would not have to be disclosed anywhere.

00:28:09.280 Nobody knows that I got that $150,000 because the only thing that shows up is the large sum of $1 million.

00:28:14.700 Well, Bernie Sanders figured this out, so, of course, what did he do?

00:28:18.660 He made his wife his media buyer.

00:28:21.760 And 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.

00:28:32.440 The 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.

00:28:41.080 Now, he spent $83 million on media buys, $83 million.

00:28:47.440 So, the commission on that is, what, $12 million, something like that.

00:28:50.940 Who did the media buying for him?

00:28:54.060 Well, 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.

00:29:05.420 Oh, 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.

00:29:16.520 We'll go back to Peter next.

00:29:18.740 I wish these people would just be as good at government as they are at scamming.

00:29:22.860 Right?

00:29:23.200 This would be the most efficient place in the world.

00:29:25.580 If they put their attention on making America profitable and strong, imagine what we could get done.

00:29:34.780 So, with Peter Swiser, he is a New York Times best-selling author.

00:29:38.720 He is a guy who has taken on both the left and the right, doing his journalistic job, profiles in corruption.

00:29:46.240 You're clearly in New York, aren't you, Peter?

00:29:49.140 How'd you guess?

00:29:49.860 Because I know the sound of that city. Could be 3 a.m. or 3 p.m. That's what it sounds like.

00:29:56.280 You are right.

00:29:56.780 Yeah. 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.

00:30:11.140 You don't know who was doing the buying for that, but that's 15% of that money went to that person.

00:30:19.560 It used to be his wife. It still could be his wife, I would imagine.

00:30:23.100 Well, yes. The home, so this, of course, went through Old Town Media, which was just set up in a home in suburban Virginia,

00:30:29.800 was linked to two former aides that were friends of Jane's, that were involved in the media buys before.

00:30:37.720 Now, Jane Sanders was actually asked by a Vermont reporter, a progressive, about this during the 2016 campaign.

00:30:45.800 What did she know about Old Town Media? Was she connected to Old Town Media?

00:30:49.460 Her answer, Glenn, was she hung up the phone.

00:30:51.480 So, you know, we don't know, but what we do know is there's been this pattern with the Sanders family in the past.

00:30:59.680 You know, again, when Bernie Sanders was running for Congress, Jane Sanders and her kids actually set up a company called Sanders Media,

00:31:09.620 through which they became a contractor for his campaign.

00:31:13.300 So the pattern certainly fits.

00:31:15.860 And the final piece to this media buying campaign is after that 2016 loss, what Bernie did was he set up this 501c4 political action group

00:31:27.760 to sort of carry on the revolution.

00:31:30.640 And when it was announced that basically that company, or sorry, that entity, was going to engage in massive media buying,

00:31:38.500 half a dozen of the staffers of that group quit in protest because they said this is not what we signed up for.

00:31:47.200 We thought this was going to be a grassroots campaign, and all this is going to do is make media buyers wealthy.

00:31:52.300 So this is a huge problem.

00:31:54.360 And because the disclosure laws do not require you to disclose who's actually getting the commissions for the media buys,

00:32:00.640 we just simply don't know, but we have our suspicions.

00:32:03.400 Can you tell the Burlington College story quickly?

00:32:05.820 Yeah, Burlington College.

00:32:08.280 Jane Sanders is appointed president of the college.

00:32:11.180 The college board says the reason they picked her essentially was because Bernie was a senator and they thought he could help.

00:32:17.440 She wants to expand the college. 1.00

00:32:19.660 They get help from some very wealthy Vermont families to help that expansion take place.

00:32:26.620 This is an unknown side of Bernie Sanders.

00:32:29.020 He does not dislike rich people.

00:32:31.020 He only dislikes certain rich people.

00:32:32.880 Those that agree with him and support his activities, he's very supportive of.

00:32:36.860 But basically what happens is Burlington College can't make the payments to pay for this loan that they've taken out to expand.

00:32:45.340 Part of the problem is that Jane Sanders, as president of the college, 0.91

00:32:49.560 funnels about half a million dollars of the college's money to her daughter's woodworking school,

00:32:57.020 which is unaccredited, it's unclear whether the college committee or leadership even approved that transaction,

00:33:04.880 but the college basically collapsed.

00:33:07.260 And there's been a lot of scandal around it because the claims are that Jane Sanders made a lot of claims

00:33:13.120 about money that was promised to the college to make this happen.

00:33:16.120 And when investigators, including the FBI, went and met with those individuals, they said,

00:33:21.100 no, I never made that pledge.

00:33:22.420 So there have been allegations that there were fraud on these applications to get the bank loans to begin with.

00:33:28.260 What do you think his supporters do if they would ever pick up your book and read this?

00:33:34.380 Do you think, I mean, you know, I think these young kids, they believe it. 0.66

00:33:38.740 And they believe he's just an old fart that has been saying these things.

00:33:42.340 And he believes that at least he's honest. 0.79

00:33:44.860 And when you look at the corruption, I mean, it's the way the Soviet Union works. 0.99

00:33:50.140 I mean, you know, or used to work where you, you know, if you're part of the political elite,

00:33:57.040 you get a special lane on the highway.

00:33:59.040 What do you think his his deep supporters would think of what you outline in the book?

00:34:05.940 Well, I think they would be shocked if they looked at it.

00:34:09.280 What I would say to them, even if you don't want to buy the book,

00:34:12.380 what I would encourage Bernie Sanders supporters to do is look at his rhetoric,

00:34:16.160 where he says he's a socialist, he does not like corporate America,

00:34:19.480 he believes corporations are evil, and then actually look at his investment portfolio.

00:34:24.560 His investment portfolio is in blue chip Fortune 500 stock.

00:34:30.360 He, by the way, this is very interesting, Glenn.

00:34:32.180 And, you know, a lot of people know there's this phenomenon of sort of socially responsible investment funds.

00:34:37.800 And Bernie doesn't invest in those.

00:34:40.020 Bernie invests in Fortune 500 company stock.

00:34:43.040 When Jane ran Burlington College, they had a small endowment. 0.91

00:34:47.200 They had stock in tobacco companies.

00:34:49.960 They had stock in pharmaceutical companies, chemical companies.

00:34:53.000 There is a yawning gap between how Bernie Sanders thinks we should live our lives

00:34:57.960 and the way that he and his wife actually lived their life.

00:35:01.360 Elizabeth Warren, in your book, Profiles of Corruption.

00:35:05.440 Take her on.

00:35:05.980 She's Chapter 5.

00:35:07.520 Yes.

00:35:08.020 So Elizabeth Warren, it's kind of a three-layer cake of corruption.

00:35:12.460 It involves her.

00:35:13.540 It involves her daughter.

00:35:15.180 And it involves her son-in-law, beginning with her very quickly.

00:35:18.740 A lot of people don't realize in the mid-1990s, Elizabeth Warren was hired by Congress 1.00

00:35:24.140 and paid by taxpayers to rewrite a portion of corporate bankruptcy law.

00:35:29.180 She did that for three years. 0.99

00:35:30.660 What did she do after she rewrote that law? 1.00

00:35:33.460 And she says in legal documents she actually wrote the law.

00:35:37.120 She hired herself out to major corporations to help them use the law to their advantage. 1.00

00:35:42.240 Oh, my gosh.

00:35:44.380 I mean, this is the consummate insider Washington deal, right?

00:35:48.260 We hear about this all the time.

00:35:49.920 And, in fact, and I would agree with her on this,

00:35:52.360 Elizabeth Warren has condemned other people who have done it. 0.96

00:35:55.440 She did that very thing.

00:35:57.040 She got huge paydays from companies like Dow Chemical, Armstrong Worldwide,

00:36:01.940 companies that were having problems with litigation involving asbestos and breast implants,

00:36:08.640 made millions of dollars doing that.

00:36:12.240 It's a classic self-enrichment scheme.

00:36:14.500 So that's the first thing that I think is troubling.

00:36:17.220 The chapter on Elizabeth Warren's, you know, probably 40 pages long.

00:36:20.260 There's a lot of material there.

00:36:22.020 I'm just skimming over it.

00:36:23.140 If you go to the second part in that, that would be looking at her daughter, Amelia Tiagi.

00:36:29.120 They're very, very close.

00:36:30.160 And Amelia had helped start a company called BTG in 2007.

00:36:37.140 And BTG was looking for capital and was looking for advisors to help this business really go.

00:36:43.660 Well, Elizabeth Warren, if you remember in 2008, is selected by Congress by Harry Reid to be the chairman of the oversight committee for TARP.

00:36:52.900 TARP was the committee that was sending out huge sums of money bailing out Wall Street firms.

00:36:58.780 And Elizabeth Warren becomes the chairman of that oversight committee.

00:37:02.360 When she meets with Harry Reid, her daughter, Amelia, actually comes with her to the meeting.

00:37:07.160 Well, here's what's interesting.

00:37:09.040 Wait, wait, wait.

00:37:10.380 Was it bring your daughter to work day?

00:37:11.960 I'll have to check that.

00:37:14.940 Okay, because that could explain all of this.

00:37:16.900 All right, go ahead.

00:37:18.420 Here's what's interesting.

00:37:19.760 In the six to eight months following Elizabeth Warren's appointment to the TARP oversight committee, two things happen.

00:37:26.660 TARP bails out major Wall Street investment firms.

00:37:30.480 During 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.

00:37:39.960 Oh, my God.

00:38:09.960 I came over from India, met Elizabeth Warren's daughter at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.

00:38:17.220 He has a lot of business activities.

00:38:19.480 He's very entrepreneurial.

00:38:20.960 But he has one entity called Tricolor Films that he started.

00:38:25.560 He's taken down the website.

00:38:27.500 But 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,

00:38:37.180 which is certainly a unique business model.

00:38:39.740 Well, here's the stunning part.

00:38:42.680 He does one film that is financed by the Iranian government.

00:38:49.680 And that's not speculation.

00:38:51.800 That is not – we actually have the film credits.

00:38:54.200 We actually have the documents.

00:38:55.920 The son-in-law is the only – the sole producer on this film.

00:38:59.400 And the financiers are these Iranian government agencies.

00:39:04.040 These 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.

00:39:14.700 It's the mourning of the loss of Jerusalem and the vow to get it back by blood. 0.95

00:39:21.880 Exactly.

00:39:22.540 That's exactly right.

00:39:23.360 Well, the same government entities that financed his film also are very active in Al Quds Day.

00:39:29.940 And in the film credits, one of the entities that they give credit and thanks to is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Air Force.

00:39:40.880 I 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.

00:39:52.400 And that's something that I think, again, we need to have more information on.

00:39:55.980 Are there other governments?

00:39:57.420 You know, he talks about working with foreign governments.

00:39:59.440 Did he work with other governments on films?

00:40:01.460 That's, I think, a legitimate question that people should ask.

00:40:04.140 You 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.

00:40:16.880 Nothing like the Bidens.

00:40:18.860 But it is, it's rampant.

00:40:21.920 Do you ever see anybody ever trying to clean this up?

00:40:25.500 Are 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?

00:40:38.240 I think there are some that want to.

00:40:40.600 I think the problem is right now, as you correctly point out, is this is a bipartisan problem.

00:40:45.620 And 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.

00:40:58.320 And they, they are actually in both political parties.

00:41:00.980 But you also have more powerful people generally in both political parties that either wink and nod or actually participate in this kind of corruption.

00:41:10.280 The only thing that they understand, Glenn, is exposure and embarrassment and shame.

00:41:18.100 That's the only thing that leads them.

00:41:20.080 You know, we, I wrote a book back in 2011 on insider trading by members of Congress on the stock market.

00:41:26.300 I came on your show.

00:41:27.500 We talked about it.

00:41:28.960 It was on 60 Minutes.

00:41:31.280 Congress did not want to deal with it.

00:41:33.100 They were basically forced to, three months later, pass a bill, which they've now kind of gutted.

00:41:38.240 But they were forced to at least pass a bill making it illegal for members of Congress to engage in insider trading.

00:41:44.400 So they will act.

00:41:45.380 But those are, those are different days.

00:41:47.700 I mean, look at what's happening with this impeachment.

00:41:49.980 There's no amount of shame.

00:41:51.280 There's no, there's no one holding anyone accountable anymore.

00:41:55.840 Right.

00:41:56.460 I agree with you completely.

00:41:58.100 And it's, it's a very sad day.

00:41:59.660 We 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.

00:42:11.820 And what I just tell people is nobody is irreplaceable.

00:42:15.500 If you are a, you know, Democrat and you hate Donald Trump, Joe Biden is not your savior.

00:42:23.220 There are other people that can, that can perform that duty. 0.92

00:42:26.440 I would say the same thing to Republicans, Republicans that are, you know, officials that are corrupt.

00:42:30.980 There are other people, good people that can take their place.

00:42:34.160 So 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.

00:42:44.440 Because there are other people that can step up and take those.

00:42:46.900 Peter Schweitzer, he is the author of the book, Profiles in Corruption.

00:42:50.620 I literally have 30 seconds.

00:42:52.260 Any chance do you believe that Hunter Biden will have to be, will have to testify?

00:42:57.240 I think there's a pretty small chance.

00:42:58.920 I think he should, but I just think that they're going to make a pact and it's not going to happen.

00:43:02.780 Yeah.

00:43:03.240 Peter Schweitzer, thank you so much.

00:43:04.480 We'll talk to you again.

00:43:05.560 Profiles in Corruption.

00:43:07.520 It is really well worth any price that you're paying for it.

00:43:12.460 What is it?

00:43:12.800 20, 25 bucks in hardcover, 29 bucks in hardcover.

00:43:15.900 There are 100 pages of footnotes and it is, it's jaw-dropping, jaw-dropping.

00:43:22.960 Profiles in Corruption.

00:43:27.000 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:43:29.400 Hey, it's Glenn.

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00:44:01.760 Ilanamar.

00:44:04.240 Ilanamar.

00:44:06.700 Ilanamar.

00:44:07.980 Ilanamar.

00:44:11.840 All right.

00:44:12.920 With our Ilanamar update is David Steinberg.

00:44:16.180 How are you doing, David?

00:44:17.980 I was doing better before that.

00:44:21.300 Yeah.

00:44:21.660 You think that cheapens this segment a little bit?

00:44:24.300 No, no.

00:44:24.920 That was wonderful.

00:44:25.940 I never heard it before.

00:44:27.220 I'm glad I finally got a chance.

00:44:29.780 Well, there you go.

00:44:31.080 Thanks for inviting me.

00:44:32.100 Sure.

00:44:32.380 And thank you also for running my update last week.

00:44:36.820 Absolutely.

00:44:37.400 I know everybody's been waiting.

00:44:40.200 Well, everyone who's been following this story has been waiting a while to hear this news.

00:44:43.960 Yes.

00:44:44.240 And it was satisfying to finally publish that headline.

00:44:49.160 Okay.

00:44:49.480 So tell me the story.

00:44:52.420 Well, last year in mid-October, it actually, by coincidence, it was the same day that Donald Trump was in Minnesota giving a stump speech.

00:45:03.520 Steve Drazkowski, who is the state rep in Minnesota, who has been the only person over there trying to get some accountability.

00:45:14.080 He 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.

00:45:27.880 There's just an overwhelming amount of evidence here.

00:45:30.000 And surprisingly, he got a response.

00:45:34.780 How sad is that, that you have to say?

00:45:38.160 And surprisingly, they responded to this.

00:45:41.860 Well, it was rather shocking.

00:45:44.620 Not only did he get a response, it wasn't a polite dismissal.

00:45:48.940 The current U.S. attorney of Minnesota, Erica McDonald, she is a Trump appointee, by the way, a 2018 Trump appointee.

00:45:57.180 And she directed the FBI to review Steve's complaint.

00:46:03.840 And then the FBI, the special agent in charge at the FBI, who she had assigned, did meet with Drazkowski.

00:46:11.560 It was that same day Trump was in town.

00:46:14.000 And a few others.

00:46:15.620 And he handed over a file of prepared evidence that they had put together.

00:46:20.260 Some other information that related to her finance charges that Steve was also involved with exposing earlier in the year.

00:46:31.780 And some other evidence.

00:46:33.440 And the FBI, during the meeting, said, essentially, I'm paraphrasing, but wow.

00:46:40.140 So they took it seriously and said, you know, we have such a wide range of criminal activity here suggested by this evidence.

00:46:52.200 In these kind of cases, the FBI turns into a hub and coordinates sharing evidence among several interested departments.

00:47:02.420 I 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,

00:47:15.900 immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud and even bigamy.

00:47:24.260 To be clear, the facts described perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in all of American history.

00:47:35.400 Wow.

00:47:36.760 Yeah, I you know, I've that passage.

00:47:40.160 I've run themes on that for a couple of years now.

00:47:43.260 And as you know, this has been covered solely by outlets like the Blaze and PJ Media and Powerline.

00:47:52.240 Yep. And not only really, that's are the three.

00:47:56.320 Yeah, pretty much. Other people have followed up on it.

00:48:00.760 But it has been an alpha news, Minnesota, a small local outlet got the ball rolling on this back in 2016.

00:48:09.920 Now, 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.

00:48:25.880 Now, 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.

00:48:36.740 Compare that evidence, which was George Papadopoulos in a bar.

00:48:41.200 Yeah.

00:48:42.020 Speaking to a foreign a foreign diplomat.

00:48:44.700 Right.

00:48:44.960 Compare that to these dozens and dozens of verifiable social media posts.

00:48:52.200 We have documents, legal documents from two different countries that can be verified.

00:48:57.860 We have address records.

00:49:00.900 We have Ilhan's own comments to an interviewer back in 2014.

00:49:07.440 We have her husband's comments that also corroborate all of this.

00:49:12.200 This is just such a huge packet of evidence.

00:49:16.960 And 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.

00:49:27.500 Meanwhile, take a look.

00:49:29.020 All 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.

00:49:38.360 Okay, so you have the FBI playing as a quarterback, if you will.

00:49:43.000 They 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. 1.00

00:49:54.380 And then they also went to ICE.

00:49:57.080 And they are saying that, you know, she broke all kinds of immigration rules.

00:50:04.900 Do you...

00:50:05.400 Go ahead.

00:50:06.500 A lot of people who have been, who haven't quite been following it are discussing Phil Han being deported.

00:50:14.240 But that's not the issue, I guess.

00:50:18.540 She came to this country at age 12.

00:50:20.880 Whether 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.

00:50:29.760 ICE would be involved with her having a fraudulent marriage to a U.K. citizen.

00:50:36.760 She was 26 years old.

00:50:38.620 She had been a U.S. citizen at that point for seven or eight years.

00:50:44.340 We're not talking about when she was 12.

00:50:46.340 We're not talking about her getting deported.

00:50:48.440 I want to be clear about that.

00:50:49.920 ICE would be talking about a fraudulent marriage.

00:50:52.920 You wouldn't be talking about deportation.

00:50:55.620 You'd be talking about possible jail time because of fraud.

00:50:59.580 Correct.

00:51:00.160 Absolutely.

00:51:00.600 And do you see a world in which this stuff is actually handed down on a member of Congress?

00:51:07.000 You 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.

00:51:23.360 If they don't take action on this case, then – yes, what will they take action on?

00:51:30.620 This is something that seems like, you know, if they do open an investigation in the morning, they could hand out indictments by lunchtime.

00:51:41.660 Yeah.

00:51:42.240 There's really not a lot of work left to do.

00:51:45.480 The only work left to do is to subpoena these documents that I can't get access to, such as the school records of her husband, Ahmed Elmi.

00:51:57.320 He came over to this country in – when he was a teenager and went to high school for a year.

00:52:04.500 And from all I know, he lived in – he lived with his father, Ilhan's father, for that year.

00:52:12.340 And so the history goes way back.

00:52:14.440 And I believe on their school registration forms, it'll say, Father, Nurse Saeed Elmi.

00:52:19.480 Right.

00:52:19.940 It was Ilhan's father.

00:52:20.900 Right.

00:52:21.100 I can't get my hands on those documents because he was a minor, of course.

00:52:25.520 So just – those sorts of things that I can't legally acquire, that's all that's left to do.

00:52:33.640 And those certainly won't take a lot of times to get their hands on because that stuff that –

00:52:38.200 Yeah.

00:52:38.500 That simple – yes.

00:52:39.920 I think you said it best, that you could start it in the morning and by lunchtime you could hand out the indictments.

00:52:44.760 I mean, it is – there's that little of work to be done.

00:52:49.460 All they have to do is make a phone call.

00:52:51.840 You're at a block.

00:52:53.140 You're at a block.

00:52:54.840 Correct.

00:52:55.840 Well, there's certainly more I can find to completely – there's more I haven't published yet.

00:53:03.300 I'll put it that way.

00:53:04.120 Okay.

00:53:04.240 But, however, also at a state level, I pointed out that it doesn't matter who this person was.

00:53:12.480 She perjured herself eight times while divorcing him, and that would be a state matter.

00:53:19.660 So we have federal agencies looking at this right now.

00:53:23.020 Hopefully there will be some movement at the state level as well.

00:53:26.620 Any idea in timing?

00:53:28.820 Timing, I don't know.

00:53:30.080 Obviously, when you see law enforcement doing something – when you see they're doing the job as expected, I don't want to antagonize them.

00:53:41.600 Yeah.

00:53:41.740 So obviously this news – I published the news of the meeting last year.

00:53:47.500 I waited three weeks after the meeting happened before I ran it.

00:53:50.920 And 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.

00:54:03.060 This happened last year in November.

00:54:05.880 So 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.

00:54:18.460 Right.

00:54:19.160 Which 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.

00:54:28.600 David, 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.

00:54:39.340 We're talking to David Steinberg.

00:54:41.120 He 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.

00:54:59.400 And some say it was the beginning of the Trump era, and all because of you, David Steinberg.

00:55:05.260 Talk to you again.

00:55:06.160 Thank you very much.

00:55:06.820 Let us know when you have an update.

00:55:08.620 Will do.

00:55:09.100 Thanks, Glenn.

00:55:09.540 God bless.

00:55:09.940 David Steinberg, you can follow him at RealDSteinberg.com.

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