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00:00:00.180 Oh, really, psycho? Me, the psycho? I'm not the one who's been looking at the guy in the Adidas swimsuit, thinking, yeah, that's a hot swimsuit on that guy, and it's a girl's swimsuit. 0.99

00:00:13.820 Just making a judgment on what I see, that's all.

00:00:16.260 You know, I come from a time where a boy wouldn't have ridden a girl's bike. 0.98

00:00:24.500 My sister would be like, you take my bike, no way am I taking your bike, no way am I taking it, to now guys are modeling.

00:00:34.920 And women are the ones that aren't pissed off about it somehow? 1.00

00:00:37.540 Yeah, somehow or not.

00:00:38.240 Yeah, this is totally fine, this is normal, let's go along with this.

00:00:41.160 That's so crazy.

00:00:42.400 Luckily, there is enough pushback, I think.

00:00:43.700 Yeah.

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00:02:37.380 So, right now in Washington, the FBI's whistleblowers are testifying.

00:02:45.900 No one but Fox News is covering it.

00:02:48.440 Let me tell you what's happening.

00:02:50.820 There are three FBI whistleblowers that are testifying today, not just on what they've learned, why they blew the whistle, but now how they're blowing the whistle has destroyed their life.

00:03:08.080 There's no protection for whistleblowers.

00:03:10.380 With the FBI, DOJ, it's not happening.

00:03:13.020 It's not happening.

00:03:14.820 Adam Schiff, those whistleblowers?

00:03:17.240 Oh, yeah, no, uh-uh.

00:03:19.360 They're completely protected.

00:03:20.960 In fact, they got promotions.

00:03:23.220 These guys?

00:03:25.300 Intelligence analyst Marcus Allen has alleged the Bureau suspended his security clearance for raising concerns about the factual accuracy of testimony that FBI Director Christopher Wray gave to Congress about the events of January 6th, the Capitol riot.

00:03:39.960 During March 2021 hearing, Ray made remarks suggesting the FBI or law enforcement had not infiltrated certain groups that attracted blame for violence at the Capitol during the incident.

00:03:52.140 After viewing a news article suggesting the opposite, Allen wrote to his supervisors, asserting there is a significant counter story to the events of January 6th, 21 at the U.S. Capitol.

00:04:05.360 There is a good possibility the D.C. elements of our FBI organization are not being forthright about the events of the day or the influence of government assets.

00:04:18.860 Well, what did they do?

00:04:23.540 They suspended his security clearance.

00:04:26.900 Despite my history of—this is what he's testifying to today—despite my history of unblemished service to the United States, the FBI suspended my security clearance, accusing me of being disloyal to my country.

00:04:43.380 That is an outrageous and insulting accusation based on unsubstantiated accusations that I hold, quote, conspiratorial views, end quote, regarding the events of January 6th, and that I allegedly sympathize with criminal conduct.

00:05:00.940 I do not.

00:05:02.380 Instead, it appears that I was retaliated against because I forwarded information to my superiors and others that questioned the official narrative of the events of January 6th.

00:05:16.020 As a result, I was accused of promoting conspiratorial views and unreliable information because I did this.

00:05:24.500 The FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States.

00:05:29.260 This has been a trying circumstance for me and my family.

00:05:33.180 It has been more than a year since the FBI took my paycheck from me.

00:05:37.140 My family and I have been surviving on early withdrawals from our retirement accounts, while the FBI has ignored my request for approval to obtain outside employment.

00:05:50.060 Okay. 0.99

00:05:51.240 You're a traitor. 1.00

00:05:53.600 You are not loyal to your country. 1.00

00:05:55.700 Uh, you're going to have a, we are going to revoke your security clearance.

00:06:00.640 So you can't work.

00:06:01.920 We're not going to pay you and you can't work anywhere else.

00:06:05.260 What do you think that is?

00:06:06.900 You think that's a message to anybody?

00:06:09.520 How about this one?

00:06:11.300 Special agent Garrett Boyle.

00:06:13.120 He testified the FBI prioritized investigations into anti-abortion groups in the aftermath of the 22 Dobbs versus Jackson decision that overturned the constitutional right for the procedure.

00:06:26.180 O'Boyle questioned the point of such an approach, noting that it was pro-abortion protesters who demonstrated outside of the homes of the Supreme Court justices, which I don't think any of them went to jail.

00:06:39.200 He further contended that he was asked to speak to his anti-abortion informant about potential threats against the justices that the FBI wanted its agents to look into the pregnancy centers.

00:06:52.780 Despite our oath to uphold the Constitution, too many in the FBI, he's saying today, aren't willing to sacrifice for the hard right over the easy wrong.

00:07:06.680 They see what becomes of whistleblowers, how the FBI destroys their careers, suspends them under false pretenses, takes their security clearances and pay with no true options for real recourse or remedy.

00:07:20.940 This is by design.

00:07:23.380 It creates an Orwellian atmosphere that silences opposition and all discussion.

00:07:29.460 In his remarks, he recalls the oath he swore to defend the country.

00:07:35.620 He said, my oath, however, did not include sacrificing the hopes, dreams and livelihood of my family, my strong, beautiful and courageous wife and my four sweet and beautiful daughters who have endured this process along with me.

00:07:49.060 So what process did he go through?

00:07:52.580 Well, security clearance revoked.

00:07:55.540 So he can't find another job.

00:07:57.940 He can't.

00:07:58.540 They won't allow him to find another job.

00:08:00.760 But he was given the opportunity to move across the country and take his family.

00:08:07.420 And they gave him this opportunity when his daughter was two weeks old.

00:08:12.840 So his wife is still recovering from pregnancy.

00:08:16.180 The house is all up in arms.

00:08:19.620 But he takes his children, his newborn, his wife.

00:08:24.220 They sell their house.

00:08:25.440 They move out.

00:08:27.300 They're about to move into their new house.

00:08:31.880 Day one of the new job, he suspended.

00:08:35.140 So now he he doesn't have any money for a house.

00:08:40.400 They become homeless and the FBI does not release their home goods, including their clothes, for weeks.

00:08:53.160 Now, what do you think?

00:08:55.080 Do you want to live in an America like that?

00:08:58.800 Do you realize, Democrats?

00:09:01.000 Democrats, this we are repeating the exact pattern of the Weimar Republic.

00:09:08.360 We're repeating it.

00:09:10.320 And the people in the Weimar Republic thought, oh, well, we're going to control everything forever.

00:09:15.340 And gee, it didn't work out that way.

00:09:18.880 You don't want either side having this kind of power because you don't know what others are going to do with it.

00:09:33.020 You have absolutely no way to get.

00:09:37.620 Let me ask you this.

00:09:39.540 Well, no, I'm going to let I'm going to let the good Senator Bill Haggerty ask it.

00:09:45.160 Listen to this. Good question, America.

00:09:48.380 We should all ask. Cut three.

00:09:51.020 Let me just come back to what I'm trying to understand that if the FBI has in evidence,

00:09:57.220 has uncovered evidence that alleges criminal conduct by the president.

00:10:02.340 I'm sorry.

00:10:03.320 Sorry.

00:10:04.160 And you then, I presume, hand this to the DOJ if you uncover this.

00:10:09.600 But I understand the DOJ's policy is they're not going to charge a sitting president while that person is president.

00:10:16.040 And the DOJ is not going to provide that information to Congress, not going to comply with subpoenas for documents.

00:10:23.720 It feels to me like it's a dog chasing its tail.

00:10:26.740 And the question is, if illegal conduct is alleged or uncovered, how does the Congress or the American public ever get that evidence?

00:10:37.500 Well, the decisions made by DOJ about how to staff prosecutions, which U.S. attorney's offices, which counsel to appoint,

00:10:49.600 all those sorts of things, are entrusted by regulation to the department, to the attorney general.

00:10:56.700 I can speak to what the FBI's role is on my expectations of FBI agents.

00:11:01.120 Not answering the question at all.

00:11:02.320 And those are the ones I've communicated.

00:11:04.000 To be clear, if evidence weren't covered by the FBI, you would hand that over to the DOJ.

00:11:07.980 They then make the determination, whether it's the attorney general or, in this case, the Delaware U.S. attorney,

00:11:13.300 what to do with that evidence.

00:11:14.340 And, again, their policy is not to charge a sitting president, and we can't get the evidence in Congress.

00:11:21.180 Is that correct?

00:11:24.080 Decisions about who to charge, what to charge, those are decisions made by prosecutors at the Justice Department.

00:11:30.500 Okay, stop.

00:11:31.620 So, wait a minute.

00:11:32.960 So, Congress says, we need the facts so we can do oversight to see if there's any kind of anything going on.

00:11:44.420 Why are you doing this and not prosecuting that?

00:11:48.680 Well, I can't get into it.

00:11:49.920 It's an ongoing investigation.

00:11:52.240 Well, yeah, but you work for us.

00:11:53.920 We have oversight.

00:11:54.860 We want to see your work.

00:11:57.340 Show me your work.

00:11:58.920 Even Common Core says, show me your work.

00:12:04.080 Okay?

00:12:05.580 No, we can't.

00:12:07.140 We just can't do it.

00:12:09.040 Because, you know, it's secret.

00:12:11.360 We don't want to reveal anything.

00:12:13.040 Wait a minute.

00:12:13.840 One of the things we want to investigate is how all of the FBI sources linked up with the media

00:12:22.140 and fed them all of these lies about Russiagate.

00:12:28.080 So, wait.

00:12:30.640 Well, I mean, you can refer it to the Justice Department.

00:12:33.720 I don't have anything to do with the Justice Department.

00:12:35.840 I'm just in the FBI.

00:12:37.400 And I can tell you that, you know, I'll investigate anything they want me to investigate.

00:12:41.940 But they have to ask me.

00:12:43.580 Uh-huh.

00:12:44.220 So, you've said you have this evidence, which you won't show us.

00:12:49.300 You've given it to the Justice Department.

00:12:51.780 The Justice Department, they won't prosecute.

00:12:56.580 They won't tell us why they won't prosecute.

00:12:59.160 They won't even show us the information.

00:13:02.520 How are we supposed to conduct oversight?

00:13:07.100 Do we work for you?

00:13:08.940 This is what the senator should be saying.

00:13:11.340 Do we work for you or do you work for us?

00:13:15.700 Because I know the Constitution says, I work for the American people as a senator or representative.

00:13:23.440 I work for the American people.

00:13:26.980 And we know, because we have a representative government, not everybody has to know everything.

00:13:33.700 But as representatives, when we feel something is wrong and the American people think something is wrong, you have to show it to us.

00:13:48.580 So, America, how exactly do you fix this?

00:13:55.840 Do you know what the Durham report actually said?

00:13:58.860 You know what the real problem was, the reason why he said there should be no arrest or anything else?

00:14:04.080 He said, because you won't get a fair trial.

00:14:08.540 It won't happen.

00:14:10.120 It'll all happen in Washington.

00:14:12.060 Okay?

00:14:12.880 You have the Justice Department, the FBI.

00:14:16.460 Except here's how he said it.

00:14:19.460 We don't need new laws or procedures.

00:14:23.240 We need the laws that are currently on the book and the procedures that have all been agreed upon to be instituted and used.

00:14:37.380 That's the problem.

00:14:38.620 And he said, the hearts and the minds of those in the Justice Department, those in intelligence and the FBI, until those are changed, you won't get anything done.

00:14:56.460 Because, and I'm quoting, there is no fidelity to our system of government and our Constitution.

00:15:06.320 Think of that.

00:15:07.460 There is no fidelity.

00:15:10.260 Nothing to see here, gang.

00:15:12.320 Nothing to see here.

00:15:14.680 Except the core being absolutely rotten.

00:15:22.440 Now, I'm not going to give this to you and then say, okay, so I'm interested to see how that works out.

00:15:29.900 There is a way to do it.

00:15:32.140 There is a way to make sure that we hold these people accountable.

00:15:36.620 And it's not going to come from Washington.

00:15:38.080 It is going to come from you.

00:15:41.000 Get the pitchforks on the torches.

00:15:43.560 Nope, that's not it.

00:15:47.380 I'll tell you tonight.

00:15:48.860 But it's going to require a massive movement to do it.

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00:16:18.440 Peter, how are you, sir?

00:16:19.700 I'm great.

00:16:22.180 How are you, Glenn?

00:16:22.840 I'm good.

00:16:24.080 I'm good.

00:16:25.740 Are you encouraged or more frustrated when you saw the Durham report and what's happening in Congress and what they have been releasing lately?

00:16:39.720 On the Biden crime family.

00:16:44.040 Well, Glenn, I would say I'm not a pessimist.

00:16:46.500 I'm not an optimist.

00:16:47.380 I'm a realist.

00:16:48.520 But I feel like we are making progress.

00:16:53.180 I think that if you look at the House Oversight Committee's report, we now have a congressional committee using its subpoena power, revealing to the American people what the Biden family has been doing.

00:17:07.100 And let's remember, Glenn, they've only got the banking records of four of the 12 banks that the Bidens were involved in.

00:17:15.020 It's crazy.

00:17:16.040 So, you know, yeah, I mean, right now they're at 10 million.

00:17:18.880 I'm confident that when it's all said and done, they will reach 30 million, which is what we believe the Bidens received based on the laptop.

00:17:26.580 And I'll tell you, Glenn, I think the investigation is going to take a very interesting turn, specifically focusing on Joe Biden himself.

00:17:34.760 So we noticed in the laptop there was a email exchange in 2017 where Hunter Biden is complaining about how he's tired of paying his dad's phone bill.

00:17:47.180 Right.

00:17:47.280 And we went back and looked and found that Rosemont Seneca partner, his business, gave a private phone to Joe Biden in 2009 and paid for that bill throughout his vice presidency.

00:17:59.980 So this is not a government phone.

00:18:02.020 This is not a family phone that Hunter Biden, that Joe Biden had as vice president.

00:18:06.460 This is actually one paid by Hunter Biden's business.

00:18:09.260 We located that phone number.

00:18:11.540 It was provided to certain people.

00:18:13.540 And we now understand that the House Oversight Committee is subpoenaing those records.

00:18:19.340 So we will actually know who Vice President Joe Biden was talking to, the timing of those calls.

00:18:26.620 And I think this could be a potential game changer in terms of really highlighting the role that Joe Biden's had.

00:18:32.540 We know about the meetings.

00:18:33.880 We know about that he benefited from some of the Hunter's money.

00:18:36.980 But this could be a real game changer, Glenn.

00:18:38.980 OK, so let me ask you, because what the media is saying now, it's exactly what happened with the Clintons.

00:18:45.360 No, he didn't.

00:18:45.900 Yes, he did.

00:18:46.380 No, he didn't.

00:18:46.900 Yes, he did.

00:18:47.420 Well, it doesn't matter.

00:18:48.580 Wait a minute.

00:18:48.900 What?

00:18:49.360 Why have we been arguing?

00:18:50.960 They're now saying, OK, maybe some of this stuff is true, but there is nothing illegal with what Joe Biden was doing.

00:19:00.900 A, I don't think that is true.

00:19:03.200 There's lots of different angles on this.

00:19:05.400 But they say they can't track any of these things to him using his influence as the vice president.

00:19:15.300 Is that true?

00:19:16.460 And is that the only reason this is illegal, is if they can say, well, he changed this policy?

00:19:24.100 No, no, it's not.

00:19:25.700 And let me give you a couple of examples.

00:19:27.600 I mean, people focus on the sort of quid pro quo that, you know, a politician gets money and they change their vote or they make a decision.

00:19:37.060 You know, imagine if you've got a county council member who's taking money from developers and he votes for something and he gets caught.

00:19:45.880 His defense that, well, I would have voted for it anyway, is not going to fly.

00:19:50.540 You're not allowed as an elected official or as family members to take payments from people as it relates to decisions that you are making.

00:19:58.900 And the bigger question, Glenn, is do we really want to live in a country where it's OK for a family, for politicians, family members?

00:20:07.640 I mean, the Speaker of the House, the secretary of defense, the vice president, the president, for their family to be taking money from Chinese or other foreign entities.

00:20:16.500 No. And the standard becomes, oh, this is OK. It's not illegal.

00:20:20.380 I don't think anybody wants that. So they are standing on sand.

00:20:24.500 They have continually shifted their story and the media has backed them up.

00:20:29.020 First, there were no business deals. Then it was Joe didn't know about those business deals.

00:20:33.140 Then it was Hunter didn't profit from those deals. Now it's Joe Biden didn't make decisions.

00:20:38.160 I think at the end of the day, that is going to collapse as well.

00:20:41.740 These things just take time, unfortunately.

00:20:43.800 You and I talked about this first in 2018, Glenn.

00:20:47.600 You were one of the first people to stand up and say that these Biden deals with China are terrible and bad.

00:20:53.720 That was five years ago.

00:20:55.920 We are now finally at the point where where we have a congressional investigation with subpoena power,

00:21:01.120 where we are actually finding out what they are discovering as opposed to the grand jury or the DOJ.

00:21:07.600 So it's taking a while, but things are moving in, I think, a very, very good direction so far.

00:21:13.100 So the media believes that if, you know, there's a whistleblower in the forest and he testifies in the forest, but nobody's there, you know, it didn't happen.

00:21:26.500 Um, that's, uh, that is no longer true.

00:21:31.560 However, the media has doubled down on, um, on making sure they're not covering any of this stuff.

00:21:40.760 So what's happening is we are actually becoming even more divided because half the country is being told nothing here, nothing here.

00:21:49.640 There's nothing going on.

00:21:52.320 Yeah.

00:21:52.880 And look, uh, what I would say, uh, to people in the mainstream media is look at the surveys of, of faith in America's institutions.

00:22:01.400 Yeah.

00:22:01.880 Congress is really bad.

00:22:03.500 The presidency is really bad.

00:22:05.680 Uh, the government's really bad.

00:22:07.340 The media is the worst.

00:22:08.660 Um, the polls consistently show that they are absolutely torching themselves by standing up and, and, and basically covering up, I would argue for this administration.

00:22:20.860 Uh, if you, if you change the name from Biden to Trump or to George W. Bush on any of these activities, they would be all over it.

00:22:28.840 And the vast majority of the American people know that, uh, now it works for a while, Glenn, as we know, because as you guys were talking at the beginning, uh, most people, unfortunately don't do a lot of research for themselves.

00:22:41.600 They don't listen to you or the blaze or other alternative media, but there's an accumulative effect that we're seeing here.

00:22:48.060 There are a lot of polls now that are showing the majority of American people see this as a problem.

00:22:52.740 Um, and my view is if the mainstream media wants to continue to torch their brands and their credibilities for this, let them do it.

00:23:01.720 Let them do it.

00:23:02.240 So, um, it's not just Biden.

00:23:05.680 Um, you know, when you talk about Hunter Biden going to jail and everything else, that's just only right.

00:23:12.000 We, we found 170 crimes that Hunter Biden has committed that were all dismissed.

00:23:21.160 170 crimes.

00:23:25.460 Uh, that's pretty remarkable to not be charged with anything after doing this.

00:23:31.000 I mean, like a Bonnie and Clyde hooker show all over the country. 1.00

00:23:34.960 Um, but it's not, it's not just Biden or Joe Biden. 0.93

00:23:40.920 This now involves the IRS, the FBI, the justice department, all of it, all of it is corrupt.

00:23:49.960 Yeah.

00:23:51.160 Yes.

00:23:51.880 Yes.

00:23:52.320 And it does show that we have, uh, sort of a one party, uh, entity in Washington, DC, this sort of seamless, uh, connection between the democratic party and major elements of the government bureaucracy.

00:24:05.220 And let's remember what it said about Richard Nixon.

00:24:08.080 What got Richard Nixon was not the original crime.

00:24:10.720 It was a coverup.

00:24:11.800 And I think what you are seeing again, I would say to people in the FBI, people in other government agencies, look at how the American people lack trust in you and how this has happened really over the last eight years.

00:24:26.260 This is, this is a new phenomenon that generally began, uh, with the disinformation about Trump and Russia collusion cover up as it related to the Clinton's crimes.

00:24:36.280 You'll, you'll notice that, uh, that, uh, you know, in my book, Clinton Cash is mentioned in the Durham report.

00:24:41.880 Again, you were one of the first people to interview me on that book, but that is what is torching these institutions.

00:24:47.600 If they want to go to the mat for this family, um, and for their corrupt activities and destroy the institutions that they have spent their lives building up, let them do it.

00:24:59.040 There's not much we can do about it.

00:25:00.660 We're going to continue to, uh, expose the truth and bring it forward.

00:25:04.060 And I still have enough faith in the American people that they are going to make the right choice and really be angered by this.

00:25:10.560 So there's a couple of things.

00:25:11.560 First of all, any comments on the FBI and, uh, and what we just found out about the Clintons investigations?

00:25:19.600 Yeah, I'll say Glenn, uh, in 2015, uh, when Clinton Cash came out and you remember we did a, um, we, we, we shared the book, uh, in advance with a couple of, uh, investigative reports, the New York times.

00:25:31.640 They ran a 4,000 word from front page piece confirming all the elements of the Uranium one deal.

00:25:36.900 I was contacted by the FBI shortly after that.

00:25:40.600 Um, and, and they, you know, didn't tell me what they were going to do, but, but that really kind of set off the investigation as the Durham report points out.

00:25:48.340 And what's stunning to me, Glenn, is that, you know, in contrast to the Russian dossier, which they pursued with vigor, which was anonymously sourced, all made up, no way to confirm it.

00:26:01.720 The allegations that we made in Clinton Cash about the $145 million they got from the, uh, you know, investors in Uranium one and the fact that they transferred ownership of that to the Russian government, uh, it was all based on public information.

00:26:15.760 We actually had transfers of money going to the Clintons as well.

00:26:20.760 Um, and as a report makes clear, I wasn't aware of it at the time.

00:26:24.000 Um, it was shut down.

00:26:25.380 You had three separate field offices that independently decided to look into this.

00:26:29.560 So I think it's Little Rock, New York, and Washington, the, the headquarters of the FBI consolidated that investigation, which is kind of unusual and said, no, no, no.

00:26:38.620 We want it all consolidated.

00:26:40.260 And then they basically killed it.

00:26:42.120 And as the report makes clear, one of the reasons they killed it is because they thought, well, Hillary Clinton might be president.

00:26:49.100 Um, and we don't want to tick her off.

00:26:51.680 Wow.

00:26:52.300 So that, that was pretty stunning.

00:26:54.880 Uh, you know, and it's interesting that the, do, they do the opposite.

00:26:58.200 They consolidated on Clinton.

00:27:00.100 So you didn't have three separate investigations.

00:27:02.160 And when it comes to, uh, January 6th, they're breaking everything up and not using one investigation.

00:27:09.400 They're making it thousands of investigations.

00:27:12.680 Um, the, there's a new story out, um, that, uh, says that people believe that Obama knew about the family business, the Biden family business.

00:27:24.480 And that's why Obama didn't want Joe Biden to run because it would be exposed.

00:27:29.320 Do you believe that?

00:27:31.180 Uh, I don't know about him not running.

00:27:33.020 That may be true, but I think definitely, if you look at what the Biden family was doing and there were hints of this, there were, there were some, you know, when, when Hunter signed up to, uh, work for Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company in 2014, there were murmurs in the, in the, uh, Obama camp about, Oh, this is not such a great idea.

00:27:50.660 In my mind, there's no question they knew what was going on.

00:27:54.400 The bottom line is they just looked the other way because they didn't care.

00:27:57.660 And then Joe Biden was picked because he was supposed to be ironically, the guy with gravitas and foreign policy experience.

00:28:05.620 And he was supposed to be the statesman to help this young Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, uh, govern, uh, govern the country and handle international affairs.

00:28:14.320 So there's no question in my mind, um, that they knew.

00:28:18.200 And of course, as we've talked about in the past, and as we've highlighted in our work here at GAI, the Biden has, you know, friends and others, uh, who, uh, engaged in, uh, commercial activities that they benefited from decisions.

00:28:31.060 Barack Obama took, um, so Obama may not have had the adult children, uh, that Joe Biden did with, with, you know, Hunter, uh, but he had very close friends who profited from deals, uh, handsomely that Barack Obama made happen.

00:28:45.280 So unfortunately, this is not just limited to Joe and it includes the bombers as well.

00:28:50.640 So tonight on, on the, uh, special we're doing at the blaze, I'm, I'm trying to show how these things happened.

00:28:56.900 And, uh, you know, we were going back and forth with the writers last night and, uh, I said, you know, I don't know anybody with an offshore account.

00:29:07.020 Uh, and the Bidens have a lot of offshore accounts, um, and, and a lot of LLCs, I think like 20 LLCs in the family that just pop up, you know, the grandson all of a sudden has an LLC and an offshore account.

00:29:22.300 Um, um, do we have any idea what those businesses are?

00:29:28.060 Is there any way to stretch that these family members getting all this money are doing anything for the companies?

00:29:40.820 Yeah.

00:29:41.360 Well, first of all, Glenn, I'll be watching tonight.

00:29:43.320 I'm going to be excited to see what you guys talk about in terms of accountability, because that's the frustration that we all had, right?

00:29:49.720 What's, what's going to be the accountability.

00:29:51.800 If you look at the 20 LLCs that have been identified, and I would say so far involving, uh, Biden family members, as best as I can ascertain, three of them actually have employees.

00:30:03.300 Uh, the other 17 are all pass-throughs, Glenn.

00:30:06.940 They're all, they're all pass-throughs.

00:30:08.660 They don't, they don't offer discernible services.

00:30:10.980 They don't sell products.

00:30:13.080 Uh, they don't bring capital to bear.

00:30:15.300 They're all pass-throughs, and they receive money, uh, from foreign accounts.

00:30:20.500 Again, a lot of them don't even, uh, you know, receive domestic transfers of cash.

00:30:24.980 So it raises the question, obviously, of what they were created for.

00:30:29.860 And the fact is, no one has been able to explain from the White House what actually Hunter and James and Frank Biden and the other Bidens, what their businesses actually are.

00:30:41.540 What do they actually do when a, when a Chinese investor, I'll put that in quotation marks, sends them $5 million, um, you know, as, as good faith money.

00:30:51.460 Again, I've, I've never had a businessman say to me, hey, here's good faith money, no strings attached.

00:30:56.620 Um, what does that actually mean?

00:30:58.340 And what are they expecting in return?

00:30:59.900 Because the LLC that's getting the money doesn't do anything.

00:31:03.140 Uh, and that I think is the heart of the matter.

00:31:05.280 And I was very excited when the, uh, oversight committee held the press conference, the Congressman Andy Biggs, for example, talked about who was actually sending this money to the Bidens.

00:31:15.300 These are people in China that are linked to the intelligence services.

00:31:18.480 And the fact that was repeated again and again by Congressman Donald's that these Biden businesses don't actually do anything.

00:31:25.360 They're not actual businesses in the sense of selling products or services to anybody.

00:31:29.880 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:31:37.240 John, welcome to the program, sir.

00:31:38.620 How are you?

00:31:40.020 Good.

00:31:40.500 Good to be with you.

00:31:41.580 Uh, you are, um, you've just put out a new book with brave hidden headlines, a Seymour clues mystery.

00:31:49.740 Uh, and it's, uh, for kids.

00:31:51.480 And we'll talk about that here in a second.

00:31:52.960 Um, but I wanted to get an update from you on the Durham report, the reaction, what's happening today with the witnesses testifying.

00:32:03.040 Uh, what is your overall thought on where we are and what's happening with this?

00:32:09.700 I think we're at a moment where everyday Americans for the first time are getting to understand the consequences of a big, all powerful, all intrusive central government in Washington.

00:32:20.100 And I think across many, uh, uh, uh, scandals and controversies and hearings, we're now seeing the consequence.

00:32:26.600 We know that the FBI put censorship requests into places like Twitter and Facebook.

00:32:30.980 We just learned just within the last hour, Glenn, we just learned that the FBI was able to obtain American, uh, bank records in connection with the January 6th investigation from Bank of America without needing a subpoena.

00:32:44.680 The bank just turned them over.

00:32:45.860 There was no protection of the civil liberties or financial privacy of Americans in that circumstance.

00:32:51.460 Another example of big government, big intrusion.

00:32:53.840 It's jaw dropping.

00:32:54.700 I mean, 10 years ago, the ACLU would be out marching.

00:32:57.760 And today there's a yawn in the establishment media, the establishment government, the establishment, um, influencers.

00:33:05.180 They simply don't care.

00:33:06.880 And they're tolerating a, a level of intrusion in our lives in the United States government that is unprecedented in American history.

00:33:14.160 And so these whistleblowers came forward.

00:33:16.560 They have compelling stories to tell.

00:33:18.660 One of them is an agent who said, listen, my job is to send open source intelligence, the things that might be concerning to the FBI.

00:33:25.360 I sent open source intelligence that there were some people making claims that the director, Christopher Wray, had given inaccurate testimony.

00:33:31.880 And soon I was, uh, had my security clearance suspended and my, I had my loyalty to my country question.

00:33:40.600 Now, what makes this FBI analyst so interesting?

00:33:43.180 He did two tours of combat duty in Iraq.

00:33:45.480 How does the FBI get the right to choose and challenge that man's loyalty to his country for, by the way, doing his job at the FBI, which was to tell the FBI there was this intelligence out there.

00:33:55.420 We're living in an era where only one side of opinion matters, where only, uh, the power of the government, uh, has any say over most parts of our lives.

00:34:04.560 It's an incredible, incredible moment in American history.

00:34:07.700 The American experience is changing before our eyes.

00:34:10.560 So, uh, are you, are you optimist?

00:34:13.780 I just talked to Peter Swiser and he said he feels we're making great progress on revealing all of this.

00:34:20.580 And, uh, he thinks that we'll, we'll see some justice.

00:34:25.460 I'm not sure if we're going to see justice, at least from the federal government.

00:34:30.240 Um, and the government is acting more and more, uh, boldly.

00:34:36.840 They're, they're openly hostile, um, and not kowtowing to Congress or anyone else and engaging in scare tactics for the American people, even though we're onto them and we know they're lying about things.

00:34:53.380 They don't seem to care.

00:34:56.060 Yeah.

00:34:56.640 Listen, a lot of people say there's a fourth branch of government.

00:35:00.480 They don't seem to be answerable to the other three branches of government.

00:35:03.100 And I think there is growing, compelling evidence, uh, that that is true in certain circumstances and it can become true in all circumstances if a greater, um, effort or stop it isn't mounted.

00:35:14.180 I agree with Peter that we are making enormous progress on the first thing.

00:35:18.060 You have to get to the truth before you can fix the problem.

00:35:20.640 I think we are unmasking more and more abuses, more and more anti-American activities, more and more abusive government behavior.

00:35:28.960 Uh, the oversight committees are doing a very good job in Congress.

00:35:32.300 There are lots of reporters out there now digging and getting stuff.

00:35:35.480 FOIA groups are winning FOIAs, uh, whistleblower groups are onboarding whistleblowers.

00:35:40.600 So the exposure and the ability to shine a light on how bad it is and where it is, is really, I think, a success story.

00:35:48.100 The consequence is the Justice Department is not going to prosecute any of its own.

00:35:51.500 We've seen that time and again.

00:35:52.800 But the one opportunity for accountability before an electoral change is, uh, that the Congress can use the power of the purse to penalize agencies, programs, and people that have engaged in the sort of activities that most Americans find reprehensible.

00:36:07.020 And so there are lots of signs that this Republican Congress, much like Newt Gingrich's Republican Congress of 95, are serious about taking a bite out of the size of government and biting it where it will hurt most, which is in the places where abuse has happened.

00:36:22.380 Maybe the FBI doesn't need its headquarters.

00:36:24.780 Maybe the FBI doesn't need so many intelligence analysts anymore.

00:36:27.620 If it's having happiness seminars for its employees rather than solving crimes, maybe we've given them too much money.

00:36:33.200 Those are the questions lawmakers are.

00:36:34.700 I think the power of the purse will create a lot of accountability, but the ultimate accountability is going to be at the electoral box.

00:36:41.380 Either Americans are going to vote for the people who keep growing the size and power of government, or they're going to vote against them and put new people in charge.

00:36:48.880 And that's really the question in 2024.

00:36:52.020 Um, the, um, the IRS whistleblowers or blower, the entire team that was working on the Hunter Biden thing just canned, um, right.

00:37:03.640 And, uh, the IRS will not answer any questions about it still, uh, hasn't said a word to Congress.

00:37:12.200 Congress is demanding answers.

00:37:14.160 What is happening there?

00:37:18.200 Well, uh, it may not have been the IRS that took this action.

00:37:21.860 Remarkably, it most likely is the justice department who just kicked them out of the investigation.

00:37:25.320 So I think the focus of Congress is very quickly turning from the IRS, which says, listen, this wasn't our call.

00:37:31.900 The justice department decides what teams they put on cases.

00:37:34.560 They took our guys out.

00:37:35.820 You got to pick it up with them.

00:37:36.880 I think that's what they're learning.

00:37:38.620 This is a Merrick Garland question, much like many of the other questions before us today are Merrick Garland questions.

00:37:43.480 Remember, the IRS's whistleblower isn't that his agency did anything wrong.

00:37:47.540 That's not his claim.

00:37:48.680 His claim is that the justice department interfered in career officials' recommendations to bring criminal charges.

00:37:54.840 Now it appears that the justice department sidelined the whole team.

00:37:58.620 And beyond the retaliatory reprisal issues that that action takes, think about this.

00:38:03.320 We're in the final stages of the Hunter Biden investigation, according to the media reports, according to my own reporting.

00:38:08.020 They're about to make a decision whether to charge Hunter Biden and with what.

00:38:12.300 And the guys who've had the most experience on the tax side, who followed this from the beginning to the end, they're suddenly sidelined.

00:38:18.740 There's a brain drain that could really hamper or maybe help Hunter Biden's defense team hamper the government in making an informed decision.

00:38:26.680 That's another reason to be troubled by this beyond the reprisals that we keep seeing at the FBI, the justice department for sure.

00:38:32.800 So, um, the, um, the, the, the investigation, you say they're about to make a, make charges, make a decision.

00:38:47.260 Uh, you had Comer last week say you don't do anything until we release our report, until you hear my press conference.

00:38:56.040 Why did he say that?

00:38:57.920 I think he wanted to make a point that the, uh, justice department, this is based on what he told me.

00:39:04.080 So I'm, I don't want to opine what he is, but he actually told him is he wanted to make the point that the justice department has been so narrowly focused on the most pecuniary of issues with Hunter Biden.

00:39:13.480 Sure.

00:39:14.040 Lying on a gun form is a bad thing.

00:39:15.660 If you didn't pay your taxes or you cheated on your taxes, that's a bad thing.

00:39:18.760 His point was there is a much larger scheme, a scheme where money came in policies, change hands and more money came in.

00:39:25.560 And most times the people who are targeted for business and we're paying up were people who had oligarch like relationships in corrupt countries and had corruption, legal or ethical problems that they needed to address with the United States government.

00:39:38.380 While Joe Biden was overseeing those parts of the portfolio of the United States government, it's, it seemed like an influence peddling scheme and that taxes, according to James Comer was too small an issue to be focused on.

00:39:50.680 And I think people saw a little bit of that with the Romanian oligarch that came out last week, right?

00:39:54.520 Here's a guy who's trying to get out of trouble and he's paying Hunter Biden thinking that his dad will get him out of trouble.

00:39:59.920 Quite amazing.

00:40:01.600 Let me switch topics with you.

00:40:04.100 The, the treasury department, I've never seen the secretary of treasury go to foreign countries and say, Hey, you got to help us put pressure on because these Republicans are going to, are going to hold us to our,

00:40:16.680 uh, uh, uh, to our spending limits.

00:40:19.540 Um, never seen that, never seen that.

00:40:22.580 Now there's also a letter that has gone out and said, treasury needs to stay out of the global warming business.

00:40:30.240 You have no place there.

00:40:31.740 That's not what the federal reserve or the treasury is supposed to be doing.

00:40:36.160 Um, give me the inside scoop on, first of all, the, uh, budget.

00:40:42.140 Are, are we seeing any weakening from the white house at all?

00:40:48.580 Well, this is the first time you're going, you and I probably covered a lot of these over the years.

00:40:52.280 Republicans are always more late to the table and they always got played at the, at the last minute in the prior cliff, uh, moments we've had this year.

00:41:00.240 The Republicans, their legislation passed, they had a credible plan.

00:41:03.340 One that actually tests well with polling people look and say, of course, we want to cut some spending with this.

00:41:07.600 Uh, and Joe Biden hasn't had an answer.

00:41:09.940 He was playing a game of chicken and eventually realized, wait, there's people on my side of the equation.

00:41:14.500 My voters, some of my members in Congress don't agree with this.

00:41:17.700 And he's come to the table.

00:41:18.980 I think he's weakened.

00:41:20.340 One of the problems that Democrats have is that they don't have enough votes on their side to solve this problem.

00:41:25.580 So that's why they're trying to bring foreign powers in to bring pressure. 0.61

00:41:28.560 They don't even have the ability to get enough votes among their own, uh, uh, members in Congress to get a deal or get a plan that they want.

00:41:36.740 And so that's why they're pulling stunts, like trying to get foreign government.

00:41:40.000 No foreign government is going to get involved in our, our debt crisis.

00:41:43.060 They know that our politics should end and stop, begin and start at our water's edge.

00:41:47.460 It's not their job to get involved in it.

00:41:49.480 Uh, but you see the desperation that, uh, the treasury secretary had and keep in mind, it's the same treasury secretary that two years ago misled the entire world by saying that inflation was transitory when no data indicated it was transitory.

00:42:02.600 So her record of behavior, her record of achievement is not one that a lot of treasury secretaries would be proud of.

00:42:09.580 By the way, I just saw you, uh, you gov poll, Kevin McCarthy's job approval ratings, January.

00:42:14.880 February, it was, uh, down 5% net minus five, February 14th, uh, net minus two, April 1st net plus seven, May 10th plus 10.

00:42:27.620 So he's becoming more popular just by, oh, I don't know, doing what the people want him to do.

00:42:35.780 Um, John, tell me about, tell me about the, uh, idea of the book that you did with, uh, brave books.

00:42:41.940 Well, first, I never thought I'd have a children's book author in my resume at any point.

00:42:47.500 And I never thought I would need to write a book or feel compelled to write a book to defend free speech in America.

00:42:52.920 But that's really the motivation for this was when, when I was getting canceled, uh, on the Hunter Biden story and on the early COVID origin story and other stories that I had written, the Russia collusion, there was no outcry among a large segment of America.

00:43:06.040 I was perplexed by it. Like the censorship is anathema. I want, I, I did a little self-discovery and found out there are one or two generations of young adults that went through school and they weren't taught the civics lessons you and I were.

00:43:16.600 They weren't told about the bill of rights. They weren't told the first amendment was first for a reason.

00:43:20.720 In fact, some of them told me when I interviewed them that they were told that in some circumstances, government censorship could be a good thing for the larger collective.

00:43:28.340 And now I have no idea what the larger collective is. It sounds like a Star Trek term, but that's what these kids were told.

00:43:33.220 It really was crazy, but they, they, they were being told these things. And I realized, oh my God, the education system isn't the same.

00:43:39.860 And so when brave books are just amazing people, would you like to do a children's book? I said, I want to do it on free speech.

00:43:46.380 We took my son's hamster, a pudgy little guy named Chuck. He's a newspaper editor.

00:43:50.800 He can't get his newspaper out in the hamster village because a mean old koala bear named Carl, yes, he is modeled after Carl Marks, clogs the tubes in the, in the hamster cage.

00:44:01.620 He gave his newspaper out. He can't warn people. There's an impending flood coming.

00:44:04.580 And then a courageous dog comes along named, uh, DeMar clues. And he solves the mystery, saves the village.

00:44:10.400 And kids learn that if you censor danger, dangerous things can happen. There's some lessons at the end of the book.

00:44:16.080 But for me, it's, it's a, it's an opportunity to give mom, dad, aunts, uncles, grandmas, and grandpas an opportunity to share some lessons that their children probably aren't getting in school.

00:44:26.860 That is excellent. Uh, the name of the book is hidden headlines. John Solomon is the author of brave books who they do amazing work.

00:44:32.680 Thank you so much, John, for everything that you do.

00:44:35.960 Thank you, Glenn. It's an honor to be on your show. It really is.

00:44:38.440 God bless.

The Glenn Beck Program - May 18, 2023

Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Peter Schweizer & John Solomon ｜ 5⧸18⧸23

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