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.
00:18:04.180That 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.
00:18:20.480And yet there is there is also a great number of questions about the Michigan election itself.
00:18:29.860We're talking about Dana Nessel, the attorney general.
00:18:32.600If memory serves, that was a tight and hard fought battle as well.
00:18:38.520There 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.
00:18:52.160And yet it's there's nothing there is no conclusion.
00:18:57.000There is no alter alteration in the results as a result of what appears to be legitimately.
00:19:05.460I guess you can have legitimate illegitimacy.
00:19:08.720Well, listen, I think it's important to step back at this moment.
00:19:15.280The 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.
00:19:24.060Let's remind everybody what we were told in November, December of 2020.
00:19:31.000The head of CISON, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, the Homeland Security Agency, told us there were no foreign intrusions into the election.
00:19:41.380At the time they made that statement, we know that wasn't true.
00:19:44.440And we know the Homeland Security Department knew it wasn't true.
00:19:47.840But 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.
00:20:00.000We 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.
00:20:13.360So what CISA told us in 2020 on 60 Minutes and elsewhere, not true.
00:20:18.220It was disproven not only by the indictment, but by the fact that we knew about it for so long.
00:20:22.880Listen, 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.
00:20:38.640Well, 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.
00:20:50.200Because 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.
00:21:23.320Months and years after the election, we learned about foreign interference.
00:21:27.060We learned about illegal instructions, illegal things.
00:21:29.420Now we learned that there was a ballot application operation that appeared to raise concerns about fraud and fraudulent applications nationwide.
00:21:39.660It shouldn't take us three years or four years to find out the truth of what happened in our election.
00:21:44.120And it's a reminder, particularly to Republicans who are asleep at the switch in 2020, that they need to challenge things in real time.
00:21:52.480Not 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.
00:22:01.960You 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.
00:22:11.500So 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?
00:22:19.640We'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.
00:22:41.260So the perfect election story, it's gone like Russia collusion.
00:22:44.600And 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.
00:23:01.200When 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.
00:23:15.640It's just specious nonsense, and it's attempting to obfuscate what was a dirty election, a rigged election, in my opinion.
00:23:25.800But 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.
00:23:42.300And 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.
00:23:54.040I mean, it's that straightforward, isn't it, John?
00:23:56.360Well, listen, there is no doubt that there were problems in the 2020 election.
00:24:01.300No 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.
00:24:13.680Think about what's going on right now with Carrie Lake.
00:24:15.980We 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.
00:24:25.420This is not a great way for a constitutional republic to address election issues.
00:24:31.420You can't be fighting after them eight, nine, ten months later.
00:24:33.940You should have them fixed before an election.
00:24:36.380And I think Republicans too often were unwilling to challenge things the way like Mark Elias and the Democrats do.
00:24:43.360They 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.
00:24:51.700And as a result, they've lost two straight elections.
00:24:53.680I think there's another dynamic, and I do see some signs that it's changing, maybe not as fast as it needs to.
00:24:59.420We 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.
00:25:15.040They 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.
00:25:25.900They 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.
00:25:33.180We are going to solicit them nonstop to vote early through absenteeism.
00:25:37.780They changed the laws and rules and regulations in many places to accelerate this.
00:25:42.780And 2020 with COVID gave them the ultimate steroid injections.
00:25:46.440And they now win the early vote race by a margin, often in these states, of 100, 200, 300,000 voters.
00:25:53.920It'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.
00:26:05.900And this is something that Republicans stuck their head in the sand.
00:26:10.000They want to go back to the way it was in 1996 or 2000 or, quite frankly, even 2016.
00:26:15.180Well, the laws and rules have changed.
00:26:17.820The Republicans haven't done anything or haven't succeeded in changing them back.
00:26:23.600You 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.
00:26:33.100And 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.
00:26:43.720So this year is the year where Republicans have a chance to change the tide.
00:26:48.080And I'll give you a couple of hopeful examples.
00:26:50.620A lot of people have looked at Wisconsin and said, we're a little confused.
00:26:55.140There were two guys at the top of the ticket, almost identical in policy and style.
00:27:00.220One was named Ron Johnson, senator from Wisconsin.
00:27:03.780He was a businessman running for governor.
00:27:05.520They're both endorsed by Donald Trump.
00:27:08.000They had almost identical policies and approaches to solving America's problems, Wisconsin's problems.
00:27:13.640And 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.
00:27:24.100But there's a weird thing that happened, though.
00:27:53.060Tim Michaels didn't really run an early voting campaign, and he loses.
00:27:57.040You see almost identical circumstances.
00:27:59.000How did we end up with four seats pick up in New York in 2022?
00:28:02.580Those four seats are the margin that Kevin McCarthy took over the House with.
00:28:07.240Well, 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.
00:28:18.760And 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.
00:28:29.180And the early voting erased all of the advantages Democrats had, and Republicans won some key seats.
00:28:36.0002024, 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.
00:28:59.300But both of those issues, integrity and early voting, have to be addressed if conservatives want to be competitive in 2024.
00:29:06.140Well, I haven't seen any and I'm not in any way arguing with you about it.
00:29:10.600I think your summation was of what is the extent situation is exactly right.
00:29:18.440But 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.
00:29:28.180I don't see any indication whatsoever of any kind of animation strategically in the Republican Party.
00:29:35.120And I think that the dead minds of the leadership of the RNC will not be bringing forward such a thing.
00:29:43.280I also think that we have to put an asterisk by it all, a very big asterisk.
00:29:48.080And that is many of the changes that are being made in various states are illegal.
00:29:53.700And just as the changes that were made in 2020 were illegal.
00:29:57.740And the Republican Party still has not demanded changes and taken that through the court system.
00:30:04.000Perhaps that would be because it would be futile, given the corrupt nature of many of those courts in various blue states in particular.
00:31:13.300And 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.
00:31:35.120Well, listen, it wasn't you and I that first said that.
00:31:39.180It 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.
00:31:52.820And they warned specifically of the very things that you just said.
00:31:56.640In 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.
00:32:11.180And Republicans in many of these states sat on their hands and did nothing.
00:32:20.320They 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.
00:32:29.180And so they tried to tip the rules in their favor.
00:32:31.960And the Republicans didn't fight those rule changes aggressively enough.
00:32:35.260And they didn't match the rule changes with a tactical onslaught like the Democrats did.
00:32:40.680And then they woke up on election day, 250,000 votes behind in every state.
00:32:44.380And 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.
00:33:00.460There's no doubt it had an impact on the election, right?
00:33:27.880It sometimes seems that way to Ronald McDaniel and the RNC.
00:33:30.620You 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.
00:33:53.320Because it is the Republican Party leadership are fouled and they are absolutely cretins when it comes to fulfilling their responsibility.
00:34:04.400We're living through that example right now.
00:34:06.020And you have been more articulate than anyone I know on this issue.
00:34:08.940But the Republicans took control of the promise.
00:34:12.160We're going to change the way that budgeting occurs in Washington.
00:34:15.460We are going to go back to normal order, whatever that is.
00:34:18.420We'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.
00:35:20.260It 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.
00:35:30.040If Republicans get thrown out in 2024, voters will say, hey, you told us you were going to do it different, and you didn't.
00:36:01.180That's why I sort of phrase the parameters of our discussion next time on leadership of the Republican Party as the dumb leadership.
00:36:10.620But let's turn real quickly to two quick items here as we conclude.
00:36:15.120One, 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.
00:36:28.100He says it is significant in advancing the impeachment inquiry.
00:36:35.280Well, 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.
00:36:46.460They've shown what oversight is looking at.
00:36:48.900And 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.
00:37:04.260Hunter Biden was going to get the sweetest of sweetheart deals.
00:37:07.520He 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.
00:37:24.360Ironically, three issues that Democrats often demagogue on, right?
00:37:30.840We don't believe in people who abuse gun rights, and we certainly don't like corruption and tax evasion.
00:37:37.760We want to add 87,000 more agents to stop tax cheats.
00:37:41.080Well, they only needed one agent to stop Hunter Biden.
00:37:44.440They didn't do that very well because they were going to give him a great bargain.
00:37:46.960When 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.
00:38:00.720The judge almost certainly rejected that plea deal because of what we had learned from the whistleblowers in the Republican Party.
00:38:08.820So there is a good sign of leadership today and into tomorrow.
00:38:14.380There are thousands of new pages of documents that are going to have the pierce of the tax privacy pierced.
00:38:20.820They'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.
00:38:37.060And the document vote today and tomorrow will start that process.
00:38:40.860And then tomorrow, the first impeachment inquiry occurs, and there's going to be a fascinating witness.
00:38:45.660They're going to bring a forensic accountant in.
00:38:47.580What a great idea, given all of the Democrats' spin.
00:38:50.640They know what Hunter Biden did was very normal.
00:39:22.220Tomorrow, 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.
00:39:32.920I 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.
00:39:43.260I 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.
00:40:00.560There is no allegation from any quarter other than Letitia James that amounted to charges against him.
00:40:11.420There is a difference of view about what the value of his real estate is.
00:40:15.280And the fact is, the judge was stupid enough, in my opinion, to put up that he valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 million.
00:40:49.300It 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.
00:40:55.620I think another example of justice that seems to have the cart before the horse.
00:40:59.820That's what Mike Davis said and a lot of other people said.
00:41:02.020I 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.
00:41:24.000We're just not going to take it seriously.
00:41:25.160And we'll show you how unserious we're going to take it when we vote next November.
00:41:28.520And 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.
00:41:42.980Well, I appreciate it, John, being with us today.