The Great America Show - September 29, 2023


BIDEN & DEMS RUNNING A RACKET


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Joe Biden and his family used the Biden name to peddle influence in order to enrich themselves and their family. To date, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee has uncovered a mountain of evidence revealing how Joe Biden abused his public office for his family s financial gain.

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00:01:15.040 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show.
00:01:26.240 Great to have you with us.
00:01:27.900 The House Oversight Committee held their first impeachment inquiry hearing yesterday.
00:01:32.720 Chairman James Comer laying out just how Joe Biden, his vice president,
00:01:36.600 abused his public office for financial gain and has lied about it for years.
00:01:41.920 The House Oversight and Accountability Committee has uncovered a mountain of evidence
00:01:45.780 revealing how Joe Biden abused his public office for his family's financial gain.
00:01:51.920 For years, President Biden has lied to the American people about his knowledge of
00:01:56.720 and participation in his family's corrupt business schemes.
00:02:01.400 At least 10 times, Joe Biden lied to the American people that he never spoke to his family about their business dealings.
00:02:09.200 He lied by telling the American people that there was an absolute wall
00:02:12.260 between his official government duties and his personal life.
00:02:16.500 Let's be clear.
00:02:18.020 There was no wall.
00:02:19.840 The door was wide open to those who purchased what a business associate described as the Biden brand.
00:02:25.480 Evidence reveals that then-Vice President Joe Biden spoke, dined, and developed relationships
00:02:31.940 with his family's foreign business targets.
00:02:35.580 These business targets include foreign oligarchs who sent millions of dollars to his family.
00:02:40.320 It also includes a Chinese national who wired a quarter of a million dollars to his son.
00:02:44.940 Joe Biden also lied to the American people about his family making money in China.
00:02:49.080 He continued to lie about it even when the House Oversight Committee uncovered bank wires
00:02:54.420 revealing how the Bidens received millions from Chinese companies
00:02:58.720 with significant ties to Chinese intelligence and the Chinese Communist Party.
00:03:04.340 Just this week, we uncovered two additional wires sent to Hunter Biden
00:03:08.400 that originated in Beijing from Chinese nationals.
00:03:11.460 This happened when Joe Biden was running for President of the United States
00:03:15.860 and Joe Biden's home is listed as the beneficiary address.
00:03:21.540 To date, the House Oversight Committee has uncovered how the Bidens and their associates
00:03:25.100 created over 20 shell companies, most of which were created when Joe Biden was Vice President
00:03:29.940 and raked in over $20 million between 2014 and 2019.
00:03:35.880 We've also identified nine Biden family members
00:03:39.040 who have participated in or benefited from these shady business schemes.
00:03:44.400 Now, what were the Bidens selling to make all this money?
00:03:49.180 Joe Biden himself.
00:03:51.440 Joe Biden is the brand.
00:03:53.120 And Joe Biden showed up at least two dozen times with business targets and associates
00:03:56.660 sending signals of access, influence, and power to those prepared to pay for it.
00:04:02.340 The American people demand accountability for this culture of corruption.
00:04:06.300 They demand to know how these schemes have compromised President Biden
00:04:09.920 and threatened our national security.
00:04:11.280 They demand safeguards to be put in place to prevent public officials
00:04:15.340 from selling access to their public office for private gain.
00:04:18.900 You heard it from the source right there.
00:04:21.360 The man leading the investigation into the Biden crime family,
00:04:25.120 Joe Biden has sold out his country to some of our biggest enemies time after time.
00:04:30.520 The three witnesses testifying at that hearing,
00:04:34.060 all confirming that we have passed the threshold for this inquiry to have been opened,
00:04:39.560 while the committee continued to lay out mountains of evidence
00:04:42.900 showing the Biden family used the Biden name to peddle influence.
00:04:48.240 This is only the beginning for the Biden crime family and this investigation.
00:04:53.420 President Trump had a rally for union auto workers this week in Macomb County, Michigan.
00:04:58.380 President Trump went there after Biden's fraudulent claim of being the blue-collar president.
00:05:04.860 Trump said the only time Biden has gotten his hands dirty is when he's taking cash
00:05:09.720 from foreign countries and says all Biden cares about is enriching his own family.
00:05:16.060 The only time Joe Biden has ever gotten his hands dirty is when he's taking cash from foreign
00:05:20.680 countries, which is quite often, actually.
00:05:23.140 It's quite often.
00:05:23.880 Based on what we're seeing, it's much more often than anyone would have thought.
00:05:28.940 But can you imagine an unannounced raid on his many homes?
00:05:33.020 He would have made Senator Menendez look like a baby, just like a baby.
00:05:37.020 Can you imagine?
00:05:38.460 You know, they gave him three weeks notice.
00:05:40.220 You know, they said, we're going to raid your home over documents.
00:05:42.460 They gave him three weeks.
00:05:44.020 Would three weeks be enough?
00:05:45.160 So I can imagine.
00:05:46.480 I'd like to see what he cleaned out of there.
00:05:48.200 Joe Biden only cares about enriching his own family.
00:05:52.500 I care about enriching your family.
00:05:54.920 That's why I did this.
00:05:57.760 President Trump's got it right once again.
00:06:00.660 And in other congressional news, the government is set to shut down at midnight tomorrow night
00:06:05.600 unless Speaker McCarthy can unite the rhinos of his conference with members of the Freedom
00:06:11.840 Caucus and other conservatives.
00:06:13.460 The only other option McCarthy really has to fund the government is to cross the aisle
00:06:19.600 and work with the Marxist Dems on a continuing resolution.
00:06:23.900 If McCarthy were to do that, it would almost certainly mean the end of his speakership.
00:06:29.340 Unless, of course, he could work out such a sweetheart deal for the Marxist Dems
00:06:35.300 that they would vote to keep him as their speaker should that motion to vacate come to pass.
00:06:41.220 It's unlikely, though, the Marxist Dems could stomach such a pretend Marxist Dem like McCarthy
00:06:46.860 for long.
00:06:48.420 Congressman Matt Gaetz saying this week that if McCarthy were to do that, he could no longer
00:06:53.340 be speaker, and it seems Gaetz means to bring a vote to the floor to elect a new speaker.
00:06:59.840 Let's bring in our guest today to take up all of this and much more.
00:07:03.060 Joining us is John Solomon, editor-in-chief of Just the News.
00:07:06.800 And, John, great to have you back with us.
00:07:08.300 So much going on in Washington, the investigations, the committee investigations of Biden going
00:07:14.360 forward.
00:07:15.420 But I want to start with something Just the News is breaking.
00:07:18.840 A FOIA request of the FBI asking for documents related to the investigation by, first of all,
00:07:26.280 a couple of local and state agencies in Michigan about what is a nationwide voter registration
00:07:33.340 fraud.
00:07:34.300 Give us the latest on what you've uncovered.
00:07:36.360 Yeah, another sign that the 2020 election was not nearly as perfect as some of the Democrats
00:07:41.900 and their friends in the mainstream media have tried to bring it out to be.
00:07:46.140 We now know from documents we want under an open records request from the Michigan State
00:07:50.620 Police, from the Muskegon Police Department, and from the Michigan Attorney General's Office.
00:07:55.100 Very important to note, the Michigan Attorney General's Office is run by a Democrat, Dana Nessel.
00:07:58.820 All three of them, Muskegon Police, Michigan State Police, Dana Nessel, say they uncovered
00:08:04.660 what appeared to be a fraudulent voter registration scheme.
00:08:08.540 People were getting registrations put in, fake names were showing up.
00:08:12.840 There was about 8,000 to 10,000 voter registrations that were suspect just in Muskegon alone.
00:08:17.280 Now, think about that when you multiply that across the country.
00:08:20.460 Why is that important?
00:08:21.420 If someone is fraudulently registered, they could potentially file a fraudulent vote without
00:08:26.140 being detected because their name shows up in the database.
00:08:30.040 Well, we know from all of those earlier open records requests that we fought for that this
00:08:35.760 had been corroborated, that there were workers inside the Democrat-leaning firm GBI Strategies
00:08:43.880 that was running this operation who were saying, hey, there are problems here.
00:08:48.580 They referred it to the FBI back in 2020.
00:08:51.800 It is now 2023, three years later.
00:08:54.160 No evidence that the FBI did anything.
00:08:56.220 Maybe they're still working on Russia collusion.
00:08:57.900 Didn't get around to this.
00:08:58.900 But whatever the case is, we thought, hey, after three years, the FBI could have, should have
00:09:03.600 done something with the quality of the evidence that was there.
00:09:06.320 So we filed an open records request to the FBI, and they came back and said, we're not going
00:09:11.100 to give you anything because we consider this to be an active investigation.
00:09:14.940 Now, of course, that seems implausible three years later.
00:09:17.600 And by the way, we've not found any evidence of activity in over a year.
00:09:21.360 The last communications with the Michigan authorities on this case was back over a year ago in 2022.
00:09:27.540 But they're saying, we're not going to refile it.
00:09:29.520 We're not going to give you anything.
00:09:31.000 It's sensitive information.
00:09:33.140 There's no chance we'll be able to give you anything before the 2024 election.
00:09:36.380 We are probably going to sue in the next couple of weeks to keep this going.
00:09:39.300 We want to get this information for the American people so they can see the body of evidence
00:09:43.440 and also the conduct of the investigation by after it went to the FBI.
00:09:47.320 In Michigan, it got taken care of seriously.
00:09:50.400 Michigan also flagged that this appeared to be going on well outside of Michigan in many
00:09:54.480 other states.
00:09:55.400 That was one of the things that we saw in the documents.
00:09:59.200 That's why the FBI got involved.
00:10:00.880 But here, no evil, see no evil.
00:10:02.800 There doesn't appear to have been any action at the FBI since then, or certainly in recent
00:10:07.880 time.
00:10:08.240 So we're going to sue and try to get this information for the American public.
00:10:13.580 Well, great.
00:10:15.260 And that's great news.
00:10:17.060 And I want to just, before we get to actually what is going on here, or what we suspect is
00:10:23.500 going on with particularly this GBI entity, the cooperation with the Muskegon Police Department,
00:10:32.200 with the Michigan State Police, how cooperative have they been?
00:10:37.920 Outstanding.
00:10:38.480 They've complied with every open records request.
00:10:40.560 They've answered questions.
00:10:41.600 We've got on-the-record comment, even from Dana Nessel, a Democrat who sometimes has been
00:10:45.360 a little prickly with the media.
00:10:46.860 They all have the same story.
00:10:48.520 There's something bad went on here.
00:10:49.860 We referred it to the FBI, and we have no idea what happened to it.
00:10:52.740 It went into a black hole, and we don't know.
00:10:54.800 And when you look at the documents, you can see that the Michigan State Police, the Muskegon
00:11:00.100 Police, and the Attorney General's Office saw evidence that this sort of activity was
00:11:04.340 going on in other states.
00:11:05.480 There was mentions of Atlanta.
00:11:08.380 There was mentions of New York.
00:11:09.780 There was mentions of some other places where there were operations or references to similar
00:11:15.480 type of voter registration drives going on.
00:11:18.640 And the last time that we see any real activity is in September of 2022, when the state police
00:11:26.180 put one last report saying, hey, we're maintaining evidence for FBI in case they ever do something.
00:11:30.960 That's it.
00:11:31.920 And so I think a lot of people now are in a belief in Michigan that this went to die at
00:11:37.740 the FBI and never got revived.
00:11:41.200 And so we're going to find out.
00:11:42.520 The FBI says it treats everybody equally.
00:11:45.240 Well, this was a Democratic voter registration drive.
00:11:47.960 Let's see if they treated this case like they treated, well, Russia collusion or Donald
00:11:52.140 Trump, or did they go that route or did it go the route of Hunter Biden, where you see
00:11:56.940 all the dancing and excuse making not to do basic investigative steps like execute search
00:12:02.880 for and something we now know went on in the Hunter Biden case.
00:12:07.120 As I understand it, John, the Michigan State Police and the Muskegon Police Department handed
00:12:14.600 over a case to the FBI for their for their investigation and disposition.
00:12:19.980 And now we're talking about three years, almost three years later.
00:12:24.580 And we again see the FBI and the Department of Justice as the place where truth goes to die.
00:12:34.580 And we've heard that a lot.
00:12:36.480 Absolutely.
00:12:36.880 Absolutely.
00:12:38.620 And they don't seem to be too embarrassed.
00:12:41.200 They don't seem to be in any way unnerved by the outrage of the Republican Party and Congress
00:12:47.620 or the Senate or in any part of this country.
00:12:51.820 They they continue to act as if they are a power unto themselves.
00:12:57.780 And without congressional oversight, they are not wrong, are they?
00:13:02.000 Listen, I think there is a growing number, including some now, even in Democratic circles.
00:13:07.440 I've talked to a lot of people.
00:13:08.360 They're not going to say it publicly because the party line is, oh, the FBI is fine.
00:13:11.480 And this is just a Republican conspiracy theory.
00:13:13.500 But I will tell you, I've sat with a lot of Democrats in the last six months who say, you
00:13:17.880 know, we're a little uneasy.
00:13:19.280 This doesn't look like the FBI of old.
00:13:21.700 It doesn't look like there is a fairness in the system right now.
00:13:26.480 And hey, right now it's working to our advantage, but it could boomerang on us at any second.
00:13:30.740 We don't want that.
00:13:31.440 So I think there are some wiser minds.
00:13:33.660 And I think the 2024 election, if American voters give a resounding message to the elitists
00:13:40.340 in the media, the elitists in politics, and they put new leadership in Washington, they
00:13:44.260 put new leadership in the Congress, there's an opportunity for Democrats to join Republicans
00:13:49.340 and say, let's fix the FBI. 0.89
00:13:51.520 And this isn't a first time rodeo.
00:13:54.320 We know this happened in the 70s when after the end of the J. Edgar Hoover era and all of
00:13:59.160 the abuses at that time, the FBI was, according to liberals, weaponized against liberals, people
00:14:05.260 like Martin Luther King and anti-war protesters from the Vietnam War.
00:14:10.380 And liberals were the driving force.
00:14:11.920 But Republicans joined in and they created the reforms that are known as the Church Committee
00:14:16.200 reforms.
00:14:16.640 And the FBI became a more modern law enforcement agency that operated pretty well for a few
00:14:21.460 decades.
00:14:22.580 Now it's the other way around.
00:14:23.840 It's conservatives having concerns.
00:14:25.380 The concerns are very similar, by the way.
00:14:27.560 The FBI is violating civil rights.
00:14:29.140 It's targeting one side.
00:14:30.260 It's involved in censorship.
00:14:31.260 And the moment will be if there is a resounding election like there is potentially ahead in
00:14:38.840 2024.
00:14:39.300 There was a resounding election post-Watergate in 76 that led to the Church Committee reforms.
00:14:46.580 Maybe 2024 will result in some significant reforms of the FBI.
00:14:51.780 It's in need of it.
00:14:53.060 The American public no longer trusts the FBI.
00:14:55.600 And whether it's warranted or not, that lack of trust is a major problem for the agency.
00:15:00.600 Line agents tell me that.
00:15:02.320 Retirees of the FBI tell me that the FBI is an agency in grave distress right now.
00:15:08.320 Yeah.
00:15:08.560 And so is this nation in large measure because of the corruption of the FBI, the politicization,
00:15:16.000 and of course, the weaponization of the Department of Justice itself.
00:15:21.920 It is a sad time for America, but it is a time for every American to stand up and fight
00:15:30.440 against what we now see our government to be.
00:15:34.300 I want to go into GBI and how far you think that investigation should go and whether we've
00:15:41.700 got any indication that that firm, with all of the allegations against it, is actually
00:15:47.360 the target of any investigation by any federal agency, despite what we now know as a result
00:15:55.160 of what the Muskegon Police Department and Michigan State Police discovered.
00:15:59.940 We're talking with John Solomon, the head of Just the News.
00:16:04.500 He is the founder and editor-in-chief.
00:16:06.780 We continue in just one moment.
00:16:08.860 We'll be right back.
00:16:09.780 We're back talking with John Solomon, and he is the leader at Just the News, and they
00:16:22.580 are doing, as usual, their terrific work to keep the American people informed.
00:16:28.220 John, let's turn to GBI strategies.
00:16:31.360 Sure.
00:16:31.680 The firm under considerable scrutiny.
00:16:34.220 Give us your sense, your understanding of how far flung this is as a result of any activities
00:16:41.000 they undertook.
00:16:42.900 Well, the big question is, did the FBI actually open an investigation after they were contacted?
00:16:47.340 And we have a little hint of that.
00:16:49.340 The Muskegon Police wrote a supplemental report dated May 28th, 2021, so well over two years ago.
00:16:55.600 And it reads, case will remain open as FBI has opened an investigation on the nationwide organization.
00:17:03.740 So that suggests that there were national allegations, and the FBI opened its own probe.
00:17:08.180 Now, that's more than two years ago, two years and four months, almost two years, five months.
00:17:12.440 The big question is, what have they done?
00:17:14.040 Why haven't there been action?
00:17:15.340 Why isn't there a resolution?
00:17:16.400 Why does the FBI tell us now just the news?
00:17:18.780 It's still open two and a half years later when most cases like this wouldn't take.
00:17:22.820 This isn't a rocket science case, right?
00:17:24.380 Either there are people that were collecting fraudulent ballot applications, or there weren't.
00:17:29.240 And in this case, the Michigan Police certainly felt that there were.
00:17:33.520 Even Dana Nessel felt that the evidence was pretty strong.
00:17:37.000 Again, we know there is an open inquiry, at least according to the documented records of the police department.
00:17:43.840 Getting the FBI to answer any questions has not been easy.
00:17:47.140 They keep declining to answer questions from us.
00:17:50.100 And, of course, they turned down our Freedom of Information Act request.
00:17:53.120 That's why we'll probably end up suing in the next few weeks after we exhaust all of our administrative appeal avenues.
00:18:00.000 And that, without question, I was going to say it's an intimation.
00:18:03.420 It's more than that.
00:18:04.180 That statement about nationwide coming from the original agency, that is the Muskegon Police Department, as you point out, over two years ago, almost two and a half years ago, for nothing to have happened is deeply suspicious.
00:18:20.480 And yet there is there is also a great number of questions about the Michigan election itself.
00:18:29.860 We're talking about Dana Nessel, the attorney general.
00:18:32.280 Sure.
00:18:32.600 If memory serves, that was a tight and hard fought battle as well.
00:18:38.520 There were questions about all sorts of elements, whether it's Wayne County and its voting machines, whether it is, you know, other jurisdictions in Michigan where there are voter fraud allegations.
00:18:52.160 And yet it's there's nothing there is no conclusion.
00:18:57.000 There is no alter alteration in the results as a result of what appears to be legitimately.
00:19:05.460 I guess you can have legitimate illegitimacy.
00:19:08.720 Well, listen, I think it's important to step back at this moment.
00:19:15.280 The Michigan one is the latest in a long line of examples of things that we have found that were either illegal, improper or irregular in the 2020 election.
00:19:24.060 Let's remind everybody what we were told in November, December of 2020.
00:19:28.400 This was a perfect election.
00:19:29.900 There was no foreign hacking.
00:19:31.000 The head of CISON, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, the Homeland Security Agency, told us there were no foreign intrusions into the election.
00:19:41.380 At the time they made that statement, we know that wasn't true.
00:19:44.440 And we know the Homeland Security Department knew it wasn't true.
00:19:46.940 It had been briefed.
00:19:47.840 But a whole year later, November 2021, long after the debate and the election was resolved and Joe Biden was installed into the White House, the Justice Department, the Biden Justice Department said, oh, we arrested two Iranians.
00:20:00.000 We charged two Iranian nationals for hacking into a voter database, stealing the identities, 100,000 Americans, and then using those identities to interfere in the 2020 election. 0.85
00:20:13.360 So what CISA told us in 2020 on 60 Minutes and elsewhere, not true.
00:20:18.220 It was disproven not only by the indictment, but by the fact that we knew about it for so long.
00:20:22.100 Go to Wisconsin.
00:20:22.880 Listen, we now have two Supreme Court rulings by the state Supreme Court saying that the tactics that Democrats pushed through through the Wisconsin Election Commission for 2020 were illegal.
00:20:32.580 They were unlawful.
00:20:33.360 They were not authorized by law.
00:20:35.000 They were not authorized by the Wisconsin legislature.
00:20:37.560 What were they?
00:20:38.640 Well, hundreds of thousands of voters were allowed to exempt themselves from having to use voter ID while voting from their homes, claiming that they were somehow disabled and couldn't go to the polls.
00:20:50.200 Because in every election since and under the law, before and after, it was required that you show voter ID even when you were voting and what they call voting invalid or voting from home.
00:21:00.280 That was exempted in 2020.
00:21:02.160 It resulted in a massive growth in people voting remotely because of COVID, and the law wasn't filed.
00:21:09.040 What also was declared unlawful in Wisconsin?
00:21:11.180 Well, we were told that drop boxes were allowed in Wisconsin.
00:21:15.440 It turns out that was an unlawful order given by Wisconsin election regulators.
00:21:19.620 That, too, overruled.
00:21:20.840 But way after the election, right?
00:21:23.320 Months and years after the election, we learned about foreign interference.
00:21:27.060 We learned about illegal instructions, illegal things.
00:21:29.420 Now we learned that there was a ballot application operation that appeared to raise concerns about fraud and fraudulent applications nationwide.
00:21:39.660 It shouldn't take us three years or four years to find out the truth of what happened in our election.
00:21:44.120 And it's a reminder, particularly to Republicans who are asleep at the switch in 2020, that they need to challenge things in real time.
00:21:52.480 Not wait until after the election and the votes are cast to challenge orders that appear to be unlawful, tactics that appear to be unlawful, voter registration efforts that appear suspicious.
00:22:01.960 You have to see something, say something, and act on something before the election because the courts have made it pretty clear they don't want to interfere after the election to right these wrongs.
00:22:11.500 So will the Republican Party, will Ronna McDaniels, a Republican Party who didn't do a very good job in 2020, will they be on the ball for 2024? 1.00
00:22:19.640 We'll find out. But the story that it was a perfect election in 2020, we can disprove that with, I think I had 27 examples of real interferences and illegalities and irregularities in the election from Michigan to Georgia nationwide in the case of the Iranians and, of course, Wisconsin and the examples we just used.
00:22:41.260 So the perfect election story, it's gone like Russia collusion.
00:22:44.600 And I want to remind everybody, and I apologize if there's no requirement here to be reminded, but let me just say, it's important for all of us to remember what the margin of victory was in 2020.
00:23:01.200 When everyone in the Marxist atmosphere demands that you say immediately, well, it wasn't a rigged election, that it wasn't a corrupt electoral system.
00:23:15.640 It's just specious nonsense, and it's attempting to obfuscate what was a dirty election, a rigged election, in my opinion.
00:23:24.620 John, I want to hear your view.
00:23:25.800 But we're talking about a margin of fewer than 30,000 votes in the aggregate in these battleground states that could have turned the tide and would have turned the tide for President Trump.
00:23:42.300 And he would be President of the United States as we speak if, indeed, that margin had been corrected because of what we found out subsequently.
00:23:54.040 I mean, it's that straightforward, isn't it, John?
00:23:56.360 Well, listen, there is no doubt that there were problems in the 2020 election.
00:24:00.780 Are they dispositive?
00:24:01.300 No one's ever been able to do an exhaustive review because, well, the media and the elitists that control government, both in the states and in the nation, didn't allow a thorough thing.
00:24:13.680 Think about what's going on right now with Carrie Lake.
00:24:15.980 We are, what, nine months after the 2022 election, and she's just now being able to litigate whether signature verification in Arizona was unlawful or improper.
00:24:25.420 This is not a great way for a constitutional republic to address election issues.
00:24:31.420 You can't be fighting after them eight, nine, ten months later.
00:24:33.940 You should have them fixed before an election.
00:24:36.380 And I think Republicans too often were unwilling to challenge things the way like Mark Elias and the Democrats do.
00:24:43.360 They haven't matched the Democrats blow for blow in this battle to control election rolls and to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.
00:24:51.700 And as a result, they've lost two straight elections.
00:24:53.680 I think there's another dynamic, and I do see some signs that it's changing, maybe not as fast as it needs to.
00:24:59.420 We are entering into an era, whether we like it or not, where there is a new type of voter who will never get off their duff and show up at the polls on election day.
00:25:08.280 They're too busy.
00:25:09.000 They're too busy playing games.
00:25:10.260 Maybe they have three jobs and taking the kids. 0.99
00:25:12.380 But they want to vote.
00:25:13.780 They are interested in politics.
00:25:15.040 They just aren't willing to make the effort that it takes to go stand in line on election day one day and vote or to go vote early through the mechanisms of showing up in person.
00:25:24.360 And so Democrats figured this out.
00:25:25.900 They saw a new generation of voters, millennials and Gen Zs, and they decided we are going to make it really easy for them to vote.
00:25:33.180 We are going to solicit them nonstop to vote early through absenteeism.
00:25:37.780 They changed the laws and rules and regulations in many places to accelerate this.
00:25:42.780 And 2020 with COVID gave them the ultimate steroid injections.
00:25:46.440 And they now win the early vote race by a margin, often in these states, of 100, 200, 300,000 voters.
00:25:53.920 It's very hard for Republicans to show up on election day and make up a gap of 250,000 or 300,000 voters that have been casting ballots for Democrats for two, three, four, five weeks in advance.
00:26:05.900 And this is something that Republicans stuck their head in the sand.
00:26:10.000 They want to go back to the way it was in 1996 or 2000 or, quite frankly, even 2016.
00:26:15.180 Well, the laws and rules have changed.
00:26:17.820 The Republicans haven't done anything or haven't succeeded in changing them back.
00:26:22.220 So you only have two options.
00:26:23.600 You can unilaterally disarm, let the Democrats keep running these early voting things unanswered, or you can step up to the plate, match them ballot per ballot in the early one.
00:26:33.100 And then, of course, we conservatives win on election day because of the fact that so many Republicans have that desire to show up on election day and exercise that right that their founding fathers gave them.
00:26:43.720 So this year is the year where Republicans have a chance to change the tide.
00:26:48.080 And I'll give you a couple of hopeful examples.
00:26:50.620 A lot of people have looked at Wisconsin and said, we're a little confused.
00:26:55.140 There were two guys at the top of the ticket, almost identical in policy and style.
00:27:00.220 One was named Ron Johnson, senator from Wisconsin.
00:27:02.640 The other was named Tim Michaels.
00:27:03.780 He was a businessman running for governor.
00:27:05.520 They're both endorsed by Donald Trump.
00:27:08.000 They had almost identical policies and approaches to solving America's problems, Wisconsin's problems.
00:27:13.640 And they both were targeted with tens of millions of dollars of anti-abortion advertising, something that Ronna McDaniel likes to blame everything on when Republicans don't win. 0.99
00:27:24.100 But there's a weird thing that happened, though.
00:27:25.760 They were on the same ticket.
00:27:28.700 Ron Johnson got tens of thousands of more votes than Tim Michael did.
00:27:32.760 And Ron Johnson won narrowly.
00:27:34.760 And Tim Michaels lost narrowly.
00:27:36.840 What's the difference?
00:27:37.600 How could that happen?
00:27:38.400 How could the top of the ticket split so powerfully and so overtly?
00:27:42.300 The answer is Ron Johnson put a few hundred thousand dollars of early voting into his effort.
00:27:47.460 He erased that pre-election day advantage that Democrats had, and he won the election day vote.
00:27:52.680 And he won.
00:27:53.060 Tim Michaels didn't really run an early voting campaign, and he loses.
00:27:57.040 You see almost identical circumstances.
00:27:59.000 How did we end up with four seats pick up in New York in 2022?
00:28:02.580 Those four seats are the margin that Kevin McCarthy took over the House with.
00:28:07.240 Well, a guy named Lee Zeldin ran for governor, ran a very good governor's race in a super blue state, nearly one, surprising the establishment.
00:28:16.100 Well, how did he do that?
00:28:17.460 He did a lot of early voting.
00:28:18.760 And that early voting not only brought him closer in the polls, it tipped over a lot of Republican races in places like Staten Island and northern New York that tend to run a little more red.
00:28:29.180 And the early voting erased all of the advantages Democrats had, and Republicans won some key seats.
00:28:36.000 2024, Republicans will either suffer another stinging loss or they will close the early voting gap and then, of course, win the voting gap on election day.
00:28:44.520 They do election day very well.
00:28:46.720 That will be the test to see how we fare in the 2024 election, because beyond the integrity issues,
00:28:51.440 there are also an advantage that Democrats have given themselves in the early voting.
00:28:56.060 We'll see how that turns out in 2024.
00:28:59.300 But both of those issues, integrity and early voting, have to be addressed if conservatives want to be competitive in 2024.
00:29:06.140 Well, I haven't seen any and I'm not in any way arguing with you about it.
00:29:10.600 I think your summation was of what is the extent situation is exactly right.
00:29:18.440 But I haven't seen any evidence that the Republican Party is organizing around early voting, that it is organizing around a ground operation and get out the vote.
00:29:28.180 I don't see any indication whatsoever of any kind of animation strategically in the Republican Party.
00:29:35.120 And I think that the dead minds of the leadership of the RNC will not be bringing forward such a thing.
00:29:43.280 I also think that we have to put an asterisk by it all, a very big asterisk.
00:29:48.080 And that is many of the changes that are being made in various states are illegal.
00:29:53.700 And just as the changes that were made in 2020 were illegal.
00:29:57.740 And the Republican Party still has not demanded changes and taken that through the court system.
00:30:04.000 Perhaps that would be because it would be futile, given the corrupt nature of many of those courts in various blue states in particular.
00:30:13.620 We're talking with John Solomon.
00:30:15.520 We're going to be talking about the impeachment inquiry.
00:30:19.620 And we're going to be talking about new information damning in the Ways and Means Committee.
00:30:26.720 We still don't know what it is.
00:30:29.120 But John Solomon may have an inkling.
00:30:31.900 We'll be right back with that.
00:30:33.180 Stay with us.
00:30:33.740 We're back now with John Solomon's Just the News, or is it Just the News, John Solomon?
00:30:45.060 Well, it's in point of fact both.
00:30:46.720 And John, great to have you with us here on The Great America Show.
00:30:49.920 As we continue talking about the voting reforms that are desperately needed to have any kind of integrity in our electoral system.
00:30:57.380 A couple of ideas that I think are important to consider.
00:31:02.660 One is a national day of voting, a national holiday, whatever day, whenever it falls.
00:31:11.220 It's going to be Tuesday.
00:31:12.380 It's going to be November.
00:31:13.300 And that is something that will, you know, the idea that people can vote from home and automatic voter registration, all of that is just such an invitation to cheating that there should be a passionate rejection of it and fight against it by the Republican Party, by independents, by every American.
00:31:34.500 Your thoughts?
00:31:35.120 Well, listen, it wasn't you and I that first said that.
00:31:39.180 It was Jimmy Carter and James Baker back in 2005 and 2006, which saw that the country was maybe entering a period where the temptation to vote early was going to happen, that mail would supplant a day of voting.
00:31:52.820 And they warned specifically of the very things that you just said.
00:31:56.640 In fact, literally, you said it almost verbatim of what Jimmy Carter, very liberal president, and James Baker, very conservative chief of staff to Ronald Reagan, said in a prior warning in 2005 and 2006.
00:32:11.180 And Republicans in many of these states sat on their hands and did nothing.
00:32:15.080 And the Democrats didn't.
00:32:16.280 Now, listen, you have to credit the Democrats.
00:32:19.020 They didn't sit on their laurels.
00:32:20.320 They realized that they were getting beat the day of vote because Americans liked the choices they were getting, Donald Trump and 16 and pushing the 2000s.
00:32:29.180 And so they tried to tip the rules in their favor.
00:32:31.960 And the Republicans didn't fight those rule changes aggressively enough.
00:32:35.260 And they didn't match the rule changes with a tactical onslaught like the Democrats did.
00:32:40.680 And then they woke up on election day, 250,000 votes behind in every state.
00:32:44.380 And it's just hard to make it up in 13 hours, particularly if you have some bad weather or a car accident in a major borough or, as it happened in Maricopa County in Arizona, there is a printer jam, whether contrived or accidental.
00:33:00.460 There's no doubt it had an impact on the election, right?
00:33:03.060 No doubt.
00:33:04.040 You don't want to have all your cards in one place.
00:33:06.640 So if the Democrats have already changed the rules, you're not going to get it back.
00:33:09.780 You cannot, you know, not Ronald Reagan used to say this to people.
00:33:13.280 I'm a principled guy.
00:33:14.540 I stick to my principles, but I'll never unilaterally disarm that Republicans have essentially unilaterally disarmed.
00:33:19.960 They didn't fight the lawfare fight and then they didn't do the early voting.
00:33:23.220 And then they wonder why they lost on election day.
00:33:25.480 It's not rocket science, though.
00:33:27.880 It sometimes seems that way to Ronald McDaniel and the RNC.
00:33:30.620 You know, you and I are going to have to take part of an episode one of these days and talk about how the Republican leadership got this dumb and how they continue to serve interests that are completely divorced from either the people who they pretend to represent or the interests of the nation.
00:33:53.320 Because it is the Republican Party leadership are fouled and they are absolutely cretins when it comes to fulfilling their responsibility. 1.00
00:34:04.400 We're living through that example right now.
00:34:06.020 And you have been more articulate than anyone I know on this issue.
00:34:08.940 But the Republicans took control of the promise.
00:34:12.160 We're going to change the way that budgeting occurs in Washington.
00:34:15.460 We are going to go back to normal order, whatever that is.
00:34:18.420 We're going to pass 12 appropriations bills like you're supposed to, and we're going to do the budget in an orderly thing and no more of those continuing resolution caoses at the end of the budget year.
00:34:29.920 Where are we?
00:34:30.480 We're three, four days from the end of the budget year.
00:34:33.260 They've only passed one out of the 12 appropriations bills.
00:34:37.360 They tried to rush a couple more through the rules last night, but they're not going to get the 12 done.
00:34:42.000 They were elected on a very clear promise.
00:34:44.200 We're going to restore order to budget.
00:34:46.020 And they didn't deliver it.
00:34:47.140 It doesn't get any simpler in a failure of leadership than that.
00:34:51.600 And, you know, they'll go through this dysfunction.
00:34:53.820 We might have a shutdown.
00:34:55.140 Maybe we'll have a last minute save.
00:34:56.860 But whatever the outcome of the next four days are, the Republican Party ran on a platform.
00:35:02.820 It could not deliver.
00:35:04.240 And I was thinking all through the summer, you know, boy, it would be a good time to get started on those appropriations bills.
00:35:09.020 Don't they remember?
00:35:10.080 They promised they were going to do the appropriations bills, and they don't get it done.
00:35:13.540 And that is not incompetence, or that's not, I should say, that's not circumstances beyond your control.
00:35:19.340 It's incompetence.
00:35:20.260 It is a failure of leadership, a failure of imagination, a failure to just simply deliver on the very basic promise you made that got you elected in the first place.
00:35:30.040 If Republicans get thrown out in 2024, voters will say, hey, you told us you were going to do it different, and you didn't.
00:35:36.720 And who's going to argue with that?
00:35:37.700 The facts are on the voter side.
00:35:40.340 I don't know why the entire Republican conference isn't shouting at Kevin McCarthy.
00:35:46.880 Promises made.
00:35:48.780 Promises kept.
00:35:50.500 You're halfway there.
00:35:51.820 Make sure you fulfill your promise.
00:35:54.800 It's basic politics.
00:35:56.320 This isn't rocket.
00:35:57.060 Again, not rocket scientists.
00:35:58.360 It just seems to be for Republicans.
00:36:00.580 Yes.
00:36:01.180 That's why I sort of phrase the parameters of our discussion next time on leadership of the Republican Party as the dumb leadership.
00:36:10.620 But let's turn real quickly to two quick items here as we conclude.
00:36:15.120 One, the information that Congressman Jason Smith, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, his committee, he and his committee are meeting over what that evidence is.
00:36:28.100 He says it is significant in advancing the impeachment inquiry.
00:36:33.700 Your thoughts about what it might be?
00:36:35.280 Well, listen, I think you see in Chairman Jason Smith, Chairman Jim Jordan, and Chairman James Comer, three guys who I think have changed the course of history and done some really good stuff.
00:36:45.520 They've shown leadership.
00:36:46.460 They've shown what oversight is looking at.
00:36:48.900 And I think history will look back at the summer of 2023 and say it's the moment where a couple of whistleblowers taken seriously by Republicans who followed the letter of the law to get tax private information out to the public changed the course of history.
00:37:04.260 Hunter Biden was going to get the sweetest of sweetheart deals.
00:37:07.520 He was going to walk away without any present time on allegations of illegal foreign lobbying, tax evasion on a large scale, millions of dollars in tax evasion, and inappropriate or misconduct with gun ownership and applying for a gun.
00:37:24.360 Ironically, three issues that Democrats often demagogue on, right?
00:37:27.720 They're the big fairer people.
00:37:29.200 Oh, we got rid of Paul Manafort.
00:37:30.840 We don't believe in people who abuse gun rights, and we certainly don't like corruption and tax evasion.
00:37:37.760 We want to add 87,000 more agents to stop tax cheats.
00:37:41.080 Well, they only needed one agent to stop Hunter Biden.
00:37:44.440 They didn't do that very well because they were going to give him a great bargain.
00:37:46.960 When the whistleblowers came forward, when Jason Smith followed the proper process for piercing tax privilege, he gave the American public a visibility into the Hunter Biden case that no one could have imagined, and they changed the course of history.
00:38:00.720 The judge almost certainly rejected that plea deal because of what we had learned from the whistleblowers in the Republican Party.
00:38:08.820 So there is a good sign of leadership today and into tomorrow.
00:38:12.960 We'll see the next round of that.
00:38:14.380 There are thousands of new pages of documents that are going to have the pierce of the tax privacy pierced.
00:38:20.820 They're going to put it in the American public, and we're going to see the nature of the evidence, the nature of the obstruction by prosecutors, the timetable of how early on did the FBI and the IRS have the goods on Hunter Biden and how long they were dragged out and not being able to bring justice.
00:38:37.060 And the document vote today and tomorrow will start that process.
00:38:40.860 And then tomorrow, the first impeachment inquiry occurs, and there's going to be a fascinating witness.
00:38:45.660 They're going to bring a forensic accountant in.
00:38:47.580 What a great idea, given all of the Democrats' spin.
00:38:50.640 They know what Hunter Biden did was very normal.
00:38:52.540 It's nothing untoward about it all.
00:38:54.400 Joe Biden knew nothing, even though the Chinese checks were showing up at his house.
00:38:57.760 He knew nothing.
00:38:58.500 He was Sergeant Schultz.
00:38:59.400 Don't worry.
00:39:00.520 Tomorrow, the accountant is going to look at this, and he's going to say, hey, I do thousands of businesses.
00:39:05.120 I identify risk assessments.
00:39:07.180 Let me tell you what I see in the Hunter Biden business world and Joe Biden that you should look at.
00:39:12.120 And I think American public say, well, there's a boring peanut gallery counter, peanut counter.
00:39:16.640 It kind of just convinced me that something's not right here.
00:39:19.500 You're right.
00:39:20.020 I wouldn't run my finances this way.
00:39:22.220 Tomorrow, I think the American public will get schooled on just how smelly the Biden finances are and why there needs to be more inquiry in the next couple of months.
00:39:32.920 I have to say, John, I never thought I'd hear you get so excited about a forensic account, even though it is a historic impeachment process.
00:39:43.260 I wanted to ask you a quick question as well on the judge, the New York judge, who basically is single-handedly putting Donald Trump out of business in New York, taking matters into his own hand, doing so in a case in which there is no victim.
00:40:00.560 There is no allegation from any quarter other than Letitia James that amounted to charges against him.
00:40:11.420 There is a difference of view about what the value of his real estate is.
00:40:15.280 And the fact is, the judge was stupid enough, in my opinion, to put up that he valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 million.
00:40:22.900 I've got to tell you the truth.
00:40:25.240 I'd have to run down to the bank and say, you know, I need an $18 million loan because I would buy that right now for that price any day.
00:40:32.700 Your thoughts about what I think is an outrage?
00:40:35.900 Well, listen, we had Mike Davis on the TV show last night, and I think he just laid out exactly what you did.
00:40:40.260 It just doesn't make sense.
00:40:41.920 First off, there isn't even the trial yet, right?
00:40:44.400 The judge is making these determinations before a trial has been conducted.
00:40:47.780 That's unusual.
00:40:49.300 It was supposed to be a bench trial, but to have the major headline out before the evidence was presented, the other side got to make its case.
00:40:55.620 I think another example of justice that seems to have the cart before the horse.
00:40:59.820 That's what Mike Davis said and a lot of other people said.
00:41:02.020 I think the American people have already made a determination on these four cases, the two by Jack Smith, the one, the two, the civil and criminal in New York and then the legal or criminal in Florida.
00:41:16.280 They simply in Atlanta, too.
00:41:18.720 I'm sorry.
00:41:19.440 Fulton County.
00:41:20.220 I think they've just decided, you know what?
00:41:21.860 This is politics masquerading as law.
00:41:24.000 We're just not going to take it seriously.
00:41:25.160 And we'll show you how unserious we're going to take it when we vote next November.
00:41:28.520 And I think if that course holds, if the Democrats don't change the narrative and Americans stick to it, all four of these prosecutions will receive a repudiation from the most important jury that the founding fathers ever imagined, the American electorate.
00:41:42.980 Well, I appreciate it, John, being with us today.
00:41:45.060 And I hope you're right.
00:41:46.980 And I got a heck of a track record.
00:41:49.900 So I think I think we all should be optimistic about the outcome.
00:41:54.500 But I think we should be very vigilant and energy, energetic about the way we move forward from here.
00:42:01.480 I know, John, John will.
00:42:03.700 And I know that you and I will, folks.
00:42:06.540 So we appreciate you being with us.
00:42:08.940 John Solomon, always a pleasure to have you here on The Great America Show.
00:42:12.600 Thank you.
00:42:13.080 Great honor to be with you.
00:42:13.920 Thank you.
00:42:14.720 Thanks to John Solomon.
00:42:16.020 Thank you, everybody, for being here today.
00:42:18.120 Tomorrow, we're joined by our weekly foreign policy panel, Gordon Chang and Tony Schaefer.
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00:42:36.620 God bless you.
00:42:37.700 And may God bless and save America.