The Great America Show - BIDEN RACKET SCANDAL WORSENS

00:00:00.000 Hello everybody and welcome to The Great America Show. I'm Lou Dobbs and it's great to have you with us.

00:00:06.120 We're now only one day from the Title 42 law being lifted and that means we're one day away

00:00:12.460 from our southern border being flooded with illegal immigrants. I want to begin by bringing 1.00

00:00:17.740 in our first guest, the founder of FrontlineAmerica.com. He's the host of Law and Border

00:00:23.540 on Real America's Voice, Ben Bergwam. Great to have you with us, Ben, and for the last two weeks

00:00:29.820 you've been on both sides of the border in Mexico, El Salvador, and Texas. Tell us what you've seen.

00:00:36.660 Well, thanks, Lou. As always, it's an honor to be with you. Yeah, I just came back. We were on a

00:00:42.200 tour. We continuously go to different parts of the border, basically trying to show what Kamala

00:00:46.880 Harris, the Democrats, don't want you to see, the real root causes. And we were down in Panama

00:00:52.520 about four weeks ago. We were involved in a shootout with the Colombian cartel known as

00:00:59.480 Cartel de Golfo. And in that case, we actually, one of them was killed by Centerfront, the guys we

00:01:05.720 were with, and two others were apprehended. But these guys control this area. They control the

00:01:10.780 routes from Colombia all the way up to Matamoros into Brownsville, Texas. And they're simply being

00:01:17.660 enriched by Secretary Mayorkas and Joe Biden's policies. They claim that the borders are closed.

00:01:23.800 And so right after we got helicoptered out, evac'd out from Panama, we went back to the border. And

00:01:31.560 about a week ago, I was down in Brownsville and on the Mexico side in Matamoros, Mexico,

00:01:37.640 again, a stronghold of the Gulf cartel, and witnessed the lies. It was actually the day after

00:01:44.080 Secretary Mayorkas announced, he did his press conference saying that the border is not open,

00:01:49.640 that they're going to be expelling illegals that come across illegally, that you have to enter 0.91

00:01:54.560 legally. I went down there to see if he was telling the truth. And not surprisingly, as we've seen time

00:02:01.480 and again, everything he said is lies, that they are simply going across the river illegally. And to the

00:02:08.300 point where I was actually, it just was happenstance. I was there as an excavator on the U.S. side. I was

00:02:14.980 standing on the Mexico side. And I heard this tractor noise behind me. And I look, and there's

00:02:22.100 this massive excavator. And I realized what it was doing was actually clearing a path along the river.

00:02:28.060 So there's places where the illegals are crossing. Apparently, Border Patrol thought it wasn't suitable

00:02:34.540 because they had to throw ropes down to actually help the people out of the water rather than telling

00:02:39.260 them to turn around and go back. They're actually helping them out of the water along with Texas

00:02:43.500 DPS and Texas National Guard. And so they decided to basically create a landing ramp

00:02:50.880 for the invasion that's coming. And I witnessed them actually build this in front of me. It's about

00:02:57.480 20 feet wide and about 40 feet up the banks. And it just makes it very simple once they cross

00:03:03.460 illegally to walk on in. We went into the town of Brownsville and witnessed the downtown being

00:03:09.620 completely overrun. We tried to confront one of the NGOs that's down there. It's called Team

00:03:15.040 Brownsville. It's a communist organization, leftist organization that's being paid for at taxpayer

00:03:19.960 expense. And they are simply inviting illegals in. DPS is handing them off to them to the tune of 0.59

00:03:26.660 upwards of 2,000 a day now. And they are putting them on buses and planes and shipping them around 0.70

00:03:31.820 the country. We followed that up by just in El Salvador. And we just got back from that trip.

00:03:39.080 And so it's been wild. But needless to say, the bottom line is everything that's coming out of

00:03:44.080 Washington, D.C. is a lie. And when Title 42 goes away, it's going to be even a bigger disaster than

00:03:50.040 we've seen, which what we've seen so far is the most unprecedented invasion we've ever seen on our

00:03:56.160 shores. So one of the many things that you just said that troubles me is it sounds like the Texas

00:04:04.220 Department of Public Safety isn't on that line to hold back illegal immigrants crossing, but rather

00:04:12.280 to accommodate them and to provide for their safety. Is that a fair construction? Yeah, in fact,

00:04:18.380 well, there's two parts to it. And I'd say what we've seen on the southern border, particularly from

00:04:27.800 Texas and Governor Abbott, the one thing that has been effective and needs to continue is using DPS

00:04:35.280 on the interior. So the DPS, if you go down to the border within about 100 miles of the border,

00:04:41.520 you'll notice DPS lined up along the highways and freeways. And they are participating actively

00:04:48.340 going after smugglers. And so anybody who's come in illegally that hasn't been apprehended at the

00:04:53.480 border, DPS is being used to go after these guys. They're catching hundreds a day, if not more,

00:05:00.120 some days. And, you know, it's a massive, massive operation, again, being orchestrated by the cartels.

00:05:05.940 The problem is now we have Governor Abbott using national, primarily National Guard, sometimes it's DPS,

00:05:12.840 but almost always now it's National Guard, Texas National Guard being used basically to not repel

00:05:20.600 the invasion, but simply to accelerate it or backfill where Border Patrol is unable to process.

00:05:29.180 And so what they're doing, and we actually witnessed this, we have drone footage of them, of the National Guard

00:05:34.440 throwing a rope down to the illegals that had just crossed the river and helping them out of the water.

00:05:40.660 So rather than actually repelling them, which you would hope, you know, Governor Abbott has said

00:05:44.820 that this is an invasion. He's used the words invasion, but rather than repelling it, he's

00:05:49.780 actually, for lack of a better term, aiding it. They're using our National Guard troops to invite

00:05:56.660 them in to help Border Patrol process these illegals, many of them fake asylum seekers, you know, being 0.96

00:06:02.380 taught. And by the way, the one organization I mentioned, this is the same for almost all of

00:06:06.660 the NGOs that operate in Brownsville. They operate on both sides of the border. So they're training

00:06:11.640 people on the Mexico side how to game the system, the right words to put in their application

00:06:16.980 so that when they get across, they don't get immediately expelled. And then they get put

00:06:22.580 into the pipeline of these NGOs who then end up finishing the smuggling for the cartels and

00:06:28.640 sending them in. But while that's all happening, then you have the other guys that don't want to get

00:06:32.620 caught that are running the drugs, running the human trafficking, the sex trafficking further

00:06:37.160 up the border in different areas. And then that's, again, where DPS does play a part in

00:06:42.320 catching some of those guys. But all in all, it's burning money. I mean, we're simply burning

00:06:48.820 money because Texas and the federal government is doing absolutely nothing to stop them from

00:06:54.780 coming over in the first place.

00:06:57.040 And so I've got to ask you a question about who's there to watch along with you to observe,

00:07:02.280 to report. The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC, or all of the networks and the big,

00:07:12.540 well, I'll call them left-wing papers. Are they there?

00:07:17.320 Almost never. Unless there's a, you know, unless it's a photo op for when Joe went down to El

00:07:25.440 Paso and, you know, walked along the border. Other than that, you almost never see them. I haven't

00:07:31.500 seen them. And I was just down there a week ago. And the only, the only news networks I saw were

00:07:36.740 locals. It was us and local news. You almost never see the, you know, the big alphabet, ABC,

00:07:44.700 NBC, CBS, CNN, any of the other leftist propaganda outlets. And I, and I, you know, I believe the

00:07:50.640 reason they're not there is because they would end up having to report the reality of what's on the

00:07:54.800 ground. And they simply don't want to do that. And their corporate masters don't want them to 0.78

00:08:00.460 be reporting the truth. So they're keeping them out of there. That's a decision, an editorial decision.

00:08:05.500 That's a business decision by these networks and by these papers for the Washington Post,

00:08:11.160 the New York Times. Obviously, you call them left-wing propaganda outlets. And I think that's

00:08:18.340 exactly right. Based on what, on what they're reporting over the course of the last five to 10

00:08:24.140 years, it's been a complete, a complete investment in propaganda. And if, and if I can add one thing

00:08:31.040 to that in particular, perfect example. When I was down with my colleague, Oscar Blue, we were down in

00:08:36.400 the Darien Gap. We actually went across the Darien Gap from Columbia to Panama on our first trip. And then

00:08:41.780 we were halfway going back across when we got in a firefight. We found out when we were down there that

00:08:46.280 the New York Times had actually been there. They had been to the villages on the, very near the

00:08:51.340 Columbia side of the border, the Guna Indian tribe, they're indigenous to the area. They live, you know,

00:08:57.160 very primitively, hunter-gatherers, fishermen, and live off the land. Well, their land, we found out

00:09:04.540 that they had, New York Times had been there and reported almost nothing of the reality on the ground.

00:09:09.640 These are, you know, the very people that the left claims to care about, indigenous tribes,

00:09:13.480 the environment, all of this, being absolutely destroyed by the open borders policy, by this

00:09:20.420 invasion that the cartels and the NGOs are profiting off of. And to the point where we were actually

00:09:25.340 walking on beaches down there that had more trash than sand on them, on the very same beaches that

00:09:30.220 the New York Times had been to. And in that case, they just refused to report the truth of it. And they

00:09:35.380 simply make it this humanitarian issue that it's our fault that this is happening, ignoring the fact

00:09:40.580 that we actually, we filmed the United Nation handing out condoms and birth control to women

00:09:46.400 and children before they went across the Darien Gap because they know they're going to be raped along

00:09:50.420 the way. So these organizations aren't only, you know, it's not omission. They know exactly what's

00:09:55.920 happening. They're complicit in this. And to the point where, you know, we, they talk about

00:10:00.260 humanitarianism. President Trump's policies were the most humanitarian, most compassionate we've

00:10:05.440 seen on our southern border because he actually said, stop. He said, don't, don't sell

00:10:09.460 yourself to the cartels. Don't allow your children to be raped or stolen from you or murdered. Do it 0.99

00:10:15.360 illegally. And what we have going on right now is the exact opposite, where the, these organizations

00:10:21.460 that claim to be compassionate, claim to be charities are actually not just profiting themselves,

00:10:26.920 but profiting the most evil among us, the cartels. And we have media that is complicit in covering it

00:10:33.000 up for them. 0.97

00:10:33.480 Well, we, we have also two political parties that are not doing a, a, a damn thing to put 0.91

00:10:39.420 it straight up English. And the Republican party, the Democrat party, this is something new. This 0.77

00:10:45.620 is unprecedented what Biden and his regime are doing because they're Marxist Dems who are leading

00:10:51.620 that party. And the Marxist Dems are running this president, this white house, and these policies

00:10:57.260 we have right now been, in my opinion, we don't have a constitutional republic. It's been suspended

00:11:04.220 and made and made simply absolutely inert by this administration. He's Biden functioning as a

00:11:15.600 despot. He's not even pretending to consult with Congress on any of the unilateral moves he's made,

00:11:22.740 opening the border and flooding this country with illegal immigrants. The estimates are anywhere 0.92

00:11:28.640 around seven to 10 million over the course of the next, this next year. And it looks like what

00:11:36.840 you're describing, it sounds like they're going to do better than that. What do you, what do you

00:11:42.540 anticipate in the days ahead?

00:11:45.200 Yeah, it's, it's going to be worse than we've ever seen it. Title 42 ends on the 11th. And I

00:11:52.680 anticipate the floodgates being opened even more than they already are. They say they're going to

00:11:56.220 be going back to Title 8. I think the only thing that's going to change the current trajectory that

00:12:01.740 we're on is if they see the, their political decisions impacting the 2024 election. I think

00:12:08.160 that's the only thing that they care about. And if they see that start to happen, if they see

00:12:12.860 the Democrats begin to be even, you know, as irate, as they should be, as all American citizens should

00:12:18.720 be about this. That's the only thing that's going to change it. But the problem is the Democrats,

00:12:23.760 Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mayorkas, Secretary Mayorkas, they're all controlled, not, not by the

00:12:27.760 Democrat party, but by the radical leftist, you know, the Marxist henchmen of, yeah, of, of the

00:12:35.420 Democrat wing. And that's who really controls it right now. They're for totally open borders.

00:12:40.040 They're for no stopgaps at all. They're for no checks for anyone. And that's, that's what's leading

00:12:46.240 the border push right now. But you mentioned it. It's not just the Democrats. It's weak.

00:12:51.500 I call them limp noodle Republicans. You know, we have the house, we have, supposedly we have 0.87

00:12:56.000 the purse strings. And that's the one thing. If, if, if they did one thing right now, the

00:13:01.240 Republicans could do this and stop much of what's happening right now and simply defund

00:13:05.940 these leftist NGOs, these non-governmental organizations who are contracted to basically

00:13:11.980 operate as a surrogate for the federal government to transport all of these illegals, they should 0.99

00:13:16.760 defund those organizations immediately. And they should begin investigations into these,

00:13:22.140 these organizations involvement with the cartels. We also need to investigate our, the politicians

00:13:26.600 in America, people like Veronica Escobar in El Paso. We know Mexico is controlled by the

00:13:32.540 cartels. It's basically a narco state. What we also know now is America, many politicians in 0.92

00:13:37.440 America have been corrupted by the same cartels. And the question is, why aren't we doing any

00:13:42.320 investigations? Why aren't there any prosecution? We spend so much time wasted on things that really

00:13:48.200 don't matter. That's where we should be focusing our energy. But as you mentioned, we hear almost

00:13:52.360 none of that from the Republican party. Well, it's a, it's a shame. And this is a dark era in American

00:13:58.320 history for so many reasons. The public trusts very few of our institutions and with good reason,

00:14:05.040 they trust very few of them. We have a, we have a, a lot of work to do to restore this great

00:14:12.960 constitutional republic of ours. Ben, I appreciate everything you're doing. I want to ask the last

00:14:18.260 time we talked, we saw nearly all men crossing, young men crossing that border, very few families.

00:14:27.600 What is, what is the situation in that instance? Are we seeing any families at all? Or is it still

00:14:33.500 mostly men being distributed all across young men being distributed all across America?

00:14:40.140 It's still mostly men still. The numbers that I'm counting are about two thirds fighting age men

00:14:44.720 and, and the families, and we're still getting the reports that basically children are being bought

00:14:49.320 and sold in order to create fake family units. You do have some families escaping places like

00:14:54.540 Venezuela, escaping communism to come here. Sadly, they're coming into a country where the political

00:14:59.560 leaders are pushing our country that direction. But the vast majority of people that I see coming

00:15:04.020 across are still fighting age men. Ben Berkman, as always, it is great to, to have you reporting here

00:15:10.080 on the great America show. We appreciate everything you do at great risk of yourself and to your

00:15:15.340 colleagues. And I just want to give a shout out to, to real America's voice for, for their coverage

00:15:24.300 of these critically important issues. Thanks for everything you do, Ben, and come back soon and

00:15:29.420 stay safe. Will you, my friend? My honor, sir, and happy to come back anytime. Thanks, Ben. Well,

00:15:36.000 the investigations into the Biden crime family are heating up. And by the way, make no mistake,

00:15:42.340 the Biden crime family is perfectly aligned with the Mexican drug cartels that Ben Berkman

00:15:48.120 has just been describing for us. We're going to take all of that up and more with John Solomon. He is

00:15:55.040 the founder and editor-in-chief of Just the News. Stay with us. We're coming right back.

00:16:01.840 Thanks for staying with us, folks. Over the last few months, James Comer, the chairman of the House

00:16:07.420 Oversight Committee, has been acquiring Biden family bank records through subpoena. Today, Congressman

00:16:14.200 Comer will be providing an update to where his investigation stands and what will be the next

00:16:20.700 steps of his committee. According to our sources, Congressman Comer has new bank records. These

00:16:27.220 records further implicate Joe Biden and his family in their pay-for-play scheme that was being run while

00:16:34.780 Joe Biden was vice president of the United States. The bank records being released today are in addition

00:16:41.820 to those released in March, showing Biden family business associate Rob Walker distributed Chinese

00:16:48.980 money in early 2017 to these people. First, Joe Biden's brother, James Biden, and then Hunter Biden,

00:16:58.680 and daughter-in-law, Hallie Biden. There was also a payment of $70,000 that went to a Biden whose name

00:17:06.160 was not identified. I wonder who that might have been. We may find out. Congressman Comer will be

00:17:13.100 joining us later this week on The Great America Show to talk about his plans to proceed with his

00:17:18.660 investigation of President Biden and the Biden crime family. Our next guest today is John Solomon,

00:17:25.720 founder and editor-in-chief of Just the News. John, great to have you back with us here on The Great

00:17:30.560 America Show. There's a lot to talk about in regard to Comer's investigation. Just the News is now

00:17:37.720 reporting on a new dimension into the Biden crime family and their corruption. Tell us about it.

00:17:43.620 This is all the great work of James Comer, Jim Jordan, Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson.

00:17:48.940 If anything, Johnson and Grassley are in the minority, but they get more done on investigations than

00:17:53.340 the Democratic majority. They keep pushing forward. They're relentless. And what we're beginning to see,

00:17:58.660 there's two things going on. One of them you and I have covered really well. That is that the size

00:18:03.640 of the Biden family influence peddling scheme in the world was much larger. Foreign countries,

00:18:09.460 tens of millions of dollars, and a dozen family members. We're up to a dozen family members

00:18:13.640 that apparently were in on it, according to James Comer. So the size of the corruption is bigger and

00:18:18.880 worse than we ever imagined when I started reporting on this with the little Ukraine stories in Burisma back 1.00

00:18:24.220 in 2019. But while that's going on, we're getting, for the first time, a very clear portrait of a

00:18:31.940 protection racket, of a censorship racket, of an effort to hide from the American public the truth

00:18:37.660 of what the Biden family was doing. And it goes so far as to perhaps involve false testimony to

00:18:45.840 Congress. Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley yesterday put out some amazing evidence. So back in 2020,

00:18:51.120 when people were starting to scratch at Hunter Biden, and we were told that's a conspiracy theory,

00:18:54.800 that's Russian disinformation. We know that's not true now. Anthony Blinken, about to become the

00:19:00.060 Secretary of State, gave some testimonies like, hey, I never had any contacts with Hunter Biden.

00:19:04.480 I met once with him to mourn Beau Biden, the president's son's passing. We didn't talk business.

00:19:09.900 I never emailed him. I never called him. There were no contacts between us. And with the relentless

00:19:15.160 work of Grassley and Johnson, they came back and said, well, guess what we found? We found emails to

00:19:19.860 Hunter Biden from you, text messages from Hunter Biden. And oh, Hunter Biden was communicating to

00:19:24.300 you through you, your wife, meaning Blinken's wife, who also worked at the State Department.

00:19:29.500 You gave us false testimony. And yesterday they demanded he preserve all the records of his

00:19:34.920 contacts with Hunter Biden. They said, we can no longer trust your word at this. So now we want

00:19:39.560 the documents. You must turn them over to the Senate. On the House, the same, the House Republicans

00:19:45.200 who have subpoena authority, they're going to target the same documents. Anthony Blinken's in

00:19:50.460 the hot seat, not just because of the letter that he was involved in with Mike Murrell, which we talked

00:19:55.640 about the last time we were together, but now because he may have given false testimony. And that false

00:20:00.040 testimony gave the perception that Hunter Biden wasn't doing anything at the State Department. He

00:20:04.940 wasn't trying to help clients at the State Department. We now know that to not be true. And Anthony

00:20:10.580 Blinken is part of that cover up racket in Republicans' minds. Another big angle. Last

00:20:16.280 night, Congressman Perry, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, very important voice in the House

00:20:20.800 these days. He said, listen, I'm convinced that the Justice Department, the Biden Justice

00:20:24.600 Department, allowed the statute of limitations to expire on some of the offenses that Hunter

00:20:29.860 Biden could be charged with going back to 2014. He references an email I made public two years ago

00:20:35.640 where Hunter Biden's told you didn't pay your money on Ukraine. Burisma income, $400,000 you

00:20:41.620 didn't declare. It's three years later, Hunter, you better start paying up. That's called tax evasion,

00:20:46.320 tax avoidance. And that's not on the table right now. Scott Perry said, I want everybody in Congress

00:20:51.440 to start asking, did they let the statute of limitations expire so the Biden family could avoid

00:20:56.680 an embarrassment and a legal consequence, another part of that protection racket?

00:21:00.360 Yeah, and a great question it is. And this is a great moment to take a quick break for our

00:21:07.700 sponsors, John. You're intimately familiar with this architecture. We're talking with John Solomon,

00:21:17.540 Just the News. We're coming right back with him and much more. Stay with us.

00:21:23.520 We're back with Just the News, John Solomon and John talking about the dimensions of the Biden

00:21:29.360 crime family and all that is now in question about Tony Blinken and talking about going back all the

00:21:37.060 way to 2014, the statute of limitations. And it's important. That's an important year because that

00:21:44.740 year, 2014, we also know it was the Obama administration. We know that many of those in the

00:21:54.080 51, the infamous 51 letter from the intel community. Many of them were working in the Obama administration

00:22:01.580 at that time. And how much the question has to arise, how much did President Obama know? And how in the

00:22:11.420 world could they have done all of that with five former CIA directors, 51 intel veterans, at the behest of

00:22:19.180 Mike Burrell, the to be the acting director of CIA, Tony Blinken, who was serving as deputy secretary

00:22:27.020 of state? They had to have clearance from that administration, that White House, that Obama

00:22:33.140 White House, don't you think? Listen, it's impossible for a president to have this level of a scheme being

00:22:40.560 run by his vice president's family without someone detecting without the CIA picking it up, without the

00:22:46.480 State Department picking it up, without whispers in the community. So of course, Barack Obama must have

00:22:52.300 looked the other way. This is a man who came into office in 2009, promising to have the most ethical

00:22:57.620 administration in history. I think the legacy of the Biden family scheme is going to stain any promise

00:23:05.180 that Obama made. And I want to point out one piece of evidence that I recently obtained. I obtained this

00:23:10.980 in about the last year, made it public a few months ago, but it goes right to foreknowledge.

00:23:15.280 Remember, during impeachment, we were told, all right, Joe Biden did do the he did fire the

00:23:20.160 prosecutor, but that wasn't because of his son. And his son really didn't impact US policy. That turns

00:23:25.600 out not to be true. There is a famous email I have now obtained in which George Kent, he was the guy

00:23:31.160 with the bow tie during President Trump's first impeachment hearing. He was one of the Democrat star

00:23:37.360 witnesses in a private email that was classified. It didn't need to be classified, but it was classified to

00:23:43.200 hide it in a private email to the ambassador, a US ambassador in Ukraine, Marie Ivanovich, another one

00:23:50.120 of the star witnesses at that Ukraine impeachment. George Kent wrote to Marie Ivanovich, someone should

00:23:55.740 tell Joe Biden, this is as the Obama administration was leaving office, someone should tell Joe Biden,

00:24:02.020 his son undercut all of our anti-corruption activities in Ukraine. That was hidden from the

00:24:07.320 impeachment team. President Trump's lawyers didn't get that email back in 2019. But it's so powerful.

00:24:12.880 What does it tell you? Obama's own State Department knew what Hunter Biden was doing. It knew it had

00:24:17.840 a negative consequence on the Obama foreign policy. And that's the fact that that got hidden for two or

00:24:23.340 three years. Another piece of evidence that what a lot of the lawmakers in the House are now saying

00:24:29.260 is a protection racket. Another thing kept under wraps. So we wouldn't know the full extent of the

00:24:35.060 Biden family's corruption and its impact on American policy.

00:24:40.020 The and that's and that's fascinating. And it's as you say, it's important talking about for knowledge

00:24:47.280 of what is happening. And you and I have some personal experience with the former ambassador of

00:24:53.400 Ukraine. And we were amongst those who they wanted to know more about, weren't we? I guess

00:25:00.560 it's a nice way to put that. They were targeting our social media improperly. They weren't allowed

00:25:05.040 to monitor, but they did anyways. And that monitoring word I thought was fascinating at the time.

00:25:09.920 Let's let's let's let's turn to again this administration. Merrick Garland has a hand in so

00:25:18.920 much that is going on and a quiet fellow. We thought of him as a sort of an avuncular

00:25:24.800 and thoughtful Supreme Court justice potential nominee. It's just he has turned out to be a

00:25:35.520 partisan activist of the highest order and certainly a a capo, if you will, for the Biden White House.

00:25:44.640 Yeah, I think that is one of the big concerns that folks have right now. And I think in this moment

00:25:51.840 where Republicans have a real chance to get us to some very deep hidden truths, truths that were

00:25:57.820 deprived of the American people in the 2020 election. There's a line in the Jim Jordan letter

00:26:03.860 that he sent to Antony Blinken last week that I really think gets at the sixty four thousand dollar

00:26:09.820 impact of what happened in 2020 by hiding the laptop as Russian disinformation, by calling the

00:26:16.180 Hunter Biden story a conspiracy theory when it was not. The American people were deprived of making an

00:26:21.780 informed decision about who they wanted to be to be their next president. And they were told

00:26:26.820 Joe Biden was clean and all these allegations were a dirty trick. And it was the other way around.

00:26:30.900 He had a dirty situation in his family and they were lying to us. This moment to tip that so that

00:26:37.340 it can't be mistaken in the 2024 election is right among us. But there are people still sitting in

00:26:44.360 the way. They've got their feet out. They've got their little trip lines up trying to trip up and

00:26:49.000 keep us from getting the truth. We have to bowl over those blockades right now and get the American

00:26:55.360 people the full truth so that in 2024, no matter who the nominees are, we have a clear picture of

00:27:01.320 who the two candidates are and what they've really done in their careers as politicians.

00:27:06.720 Well, Joe Biden, for one, has much to atone for. And we now know that he lied in that debate.

00:27:14.800 We know that Bill Barr, the attorney general for President Trump, knew he was lying and chose to do

00:27:22.620 nothing while choosing to send out FBI agents to the social media and big tech companies for the

00:27:30.420 for the specific purpose of suppressing conservative voices. We know so much. And but the public doesn't

00:27:39.860 share that knowledge because it's almost impossible to get all of that out to 300 million Americans.

00:27:46.280 And listen, Bill Barr has a distinguished career as a lawyer, but I think his legacy as the Trump

00:27:52.160 attorney general will be looked about and say, listen, he aided and abetted whether willingly or

00:27:57.820 unwittingly in several really troublesome episodes. And just remember the censorship machinery that was

00:28:06.500 set up by the FBI in the summer and fall of 2020 out in San Francisco run by an FBI agent named Elvis

00:28:14.740 Chan that was literally sending requests to Twitter every day saying, you might want to cancel this

00:28:19.820 post. You might want to censor this post because it doesn't meet your terms of service. Now, the FBI

00:28:25.500 has no legal authority to enforce the terms of service for Twitter. It was it was an excuse for

00:28:30.340 censorship that occurred when the FBI was under the command of Attorney General William Barr.

00:28:36.280 These are things that Barr has not yet been asked to answer for. But did he know about it?

00:28:40.940 Why didn't he know about it? If you were in charge, you take a look at that spring, summer and fall

00:28:46.420 of 2020. And the FBI and the Justice Department was acting in ways that were contrary to American

00:28:52.620 values and contrary to our promise that we don't let the government interfere in elections.

00:28:58.800 United States spies, United States spies, not Russian spies, not Chinese spies, not North Korean spies or

00:29:04.600 Iranian spies. U.S. spies put their finger on the scale of the election in 2020 when they put that

00:29:10.100 letter out. When the FBI was sending censorship requests to the big tech companies under the

00:29:16.180 color of law, they were putting their thumb on the scale, too. When they kept the word of Hunter

00:29:20.920 Biden's laptop and the criminal investigation that was ongoing from all of us, they deprived us from

00:29:26.200 making an informed decision. And all of that came under the command of Attorney General Barr.

00:29:31.360 That is something that he has yet to be asked about. I hope I get a chance to interview him one day

00:29:35.480 because these are important questions for him to answer. What did he know? When did he know it?

00:29:39.680 And if he didn't know it, should he have known it?

00:29:43.620 Well put. And by the way, my phone call is in to Mr. Barr's office as well, because I would like to

00:29:51.700 know a great deal, just as you would, about what he was thinking, why he conducted himself as he did.

00:29:58.440 Why, a month after the election of 2020, did he say that there had been absolutely no voter fraud

00:30:07.700 in the country when there was no FBI investigation or Justice Department investigation whatsoever to

00:30:14.180 base that statement on?

00:30:15.640 Well, let's remember something that came public a year later, but it was on Bill Barr's watch that

00:30:20.200 it was detected. There are two Iranian nationals who were charged in November 2021, but this case was

00:30:27.520 actually cracked in the summer of 2020. Two Iranian nationals who were accused of meddling in the U.S.

00:30:34.080 election in a significant way, targeting Republicans specifically, a foreign influence operation

00:30:39.540 in the United States. Bill Barr couldn't have said what he said if he knew about that case. And we know

00:30:44.620 that that case was briefed. And in addition, we also know that a foreign power actually stole 100,000

00:30:51.700 voter IDs from a state. We don't know the state, but they stole them and they used those IDs to try to

00:30:56.800 influence the election. Those two things alone, which are now irrefutable, they're public,

00:31:01.720 are clear evidence of problems in the election. And Bill Barr didn't acknowledge either before he left

00:31:06.980 office.

00:31:08.140 And a reminder to everyone, the election of 2020 was a close one. Three states decided by fewer than

00:31:17.340 45,000 votes cumulatively. We're going to also take a look at another thing that happened in that

00:31:24.120 election as we continue with John Solomon of Just the News, another interesting and disturbing

00:31:31.260 development from the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency. We'll take that up next. These

00:31:39.400 words from our sponsor. Please stay with us. We're back with John Solomon. And I want to turn John

00:31:46.360 to, as I suggested, the Agency for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, who came out within

00:31:54.880 just a matter of days after the election in 2020 to say it was a perfect election. There was just no

00:32:01.920 problem whatsoever. We found out later. We found out later in 2021, in the spring of 2021,

00:32:13.260 that they had made an overstatement. In fact, going forward then to 2022, we saw the Halderman report,

00:32:22.800 which was the most exhaustive and I think most credible report done by the University of Michigan,

00:32:30.400 Professor Alex Halderman, of the election in Georgia. And he determined that there were a number

00:32:38.820 of vulnerabilities, at least nine, and that no one could speak to whether or not those vulnerabilities

00:32:45.060 and those electronic voting machines had been exploited. And this was after, a year and a half

00:32:52.080 after the election. We know that. But we couldn't get access to that report. And the reason is a federal

00:33:00.840 judge in Atlanta has it under seal. Your thoughts about that and the way in which it might have

00:33:08.160 contributed to some further troubling concerns about the election of 2020.

00:33:13.820 Yeah. So, listen, it's, again, I don't know yet that we have any evidence whatsoever that votes ever were

00:33:21.700 changed by a machine. But the idea that these machines were perfect, nothing is perfect in America.

00:33:26.700 There are human flaws and there are technical flaws that always affect us. And I encourage people to go to

00:33:32.820 CISA.gov, C-I-S-A.gov, and find this. There is a report. It was put out June 3rd, 2022. And it says,

00:33:40.880 Vulnerabilities Affecting Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X. And it's a report that just says,

00:33:47.980 hey, to all people who use these machines, we are aware of this vulnerability. Get it fixed.

00:33:53.260 That occurred on the government's watch. And it was, these are vulnerabilities that apparently

00:33:58.280 existed for a while. They weren't detected until the summer of 2022. Now, let me tell you about

00:34:03.020 something that happened in October of 2020. Not in doubt, Dominion confirmed it to us,

00:34:08.520 the Fulton County, Georgia elections people confirmed it to us because they turned over

00:34:13.840 the documents to us under an open record request. Going into the election with a large turnout and

00:34:18.960 large early turnout in Georgia, this was one of the largest early turnout votes that Georgia had

00:34:24.240 ever experienced. About two weeks before election day, Dominion put out a warning to some of the people

00:34:32.320 that use their machines, including in Georgia, saying, hey, the cards that we put in these machines

00:34:37.140 have a limitation. They can only count up to about 10,000 votes. So if you've got a busy,

00:34:41.860 busy precinct and you might exceed 10,000 votes, you got to crack into the machine, take the card

00:34:47.180 out, put a second card in. And we recommend you do that before election day so that you don't have

00:34:52.100 delays on election day. Now, understand the concern, understand the instruction. In Fulton County,

00:34:58.120 according to the records that were actually released to us, these things were just pulled out of

00:35:02.160 the machine and thrown into a drawer. There was no security, no chain of custody. It was sort of a

00:35:06.860 haphazard way of dealing with a technical advisory that came from Dominion. Now, does that mean there's

00:35:11.700 some grand conspiracy? No. Does it mean that we didn't have the perfect system in place? We weren't

00:35:16.620 aware to the end of some data limitations to machines? We didn't have best practices to ensure

00:35:22.320 the chain of custody of cards that held Americans' vote totals on them. We didn't. And so when people

00:35:28.800 talk about the 2020 election and they called it perfect, that clearly wasn't the case. We had

00:35:33.380 Iranian intervention. We had hacking of voter data bases. We had these warnings about the machines.

00:35:40.220 Again, that's some grand conspiracy, just things that we should have a better handle on. And the longer

00:35:45.980 we deny these things happen, the longer we don't address them, the longer we allow distrust in the

00:35:51.440 elections to occur or a future crisis to occur that we could potentially prevent now. And I think now

00:35:57.300 at this moment, people are looking at that and trying to, I think there is a genuine effort now

00:36:03.060 that the temperatures come down to start to look at these things and come up with rational solutions.

00:36:08.520 You don't have to throw everything out. You don't have to throw the baby in the bathwater out, but

00:36:11.500 hey, there are always going to be vulnerabilities. Let's close them and be smarter and be honest

00:36:15.900 about them. Something we weren't allowed to be in 2020. Yeah. Absolutely. And the reason I brought it

00:36:23.240 up is not to relitigate Dominion. I've had quite enough of litigation. Thank you very much. But my

00:36:31.140 purpose in this is to do what I wanted to do at the outset, which is inspire an investigation of every

00:36:38.620 aspect of that election. And what I've heard people say is that it's settled. That was a great

00:36:45.460 election that was perfect. There was no, these irregularities, these anomalies, these vulnerabilities

00:36:51.740 are real relevant because the result was pristine and settled. That was the reality. It is not the

00:36:59.900 reality. And this country needs to go into an in-depth investigation with the proper agencies and the

00:37:07.200 proper representatives of the American people to make certain that we know in the very short time,

00:37:13.360 we've got, what, a year and a half now before we're facing another election. It's got to happen

00:37:17.820 soon. And neither this administration nor, frankly, the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill has been

00:37:24.560 willing to say, we've got to get to the bottom of it and put this before the American people. Instead,

00:37:29.320 they're treating this condescension, this, if you will, this slur against the American people through

00:37:36.080 condescension saying, you know, you're not mature enough, you're not adult enough, you're not in any

00:37:43.020 way responsible enough to know what the problems are and how we need to fix them. It's infuriating

00:37:49.340 to me. The public's right to know is just being destroyed by both parties.

00:37:54.760 And we knew, listen, it's not possible to have a perfect election. We are going to have mistakes and

00:37:59.400 nothing's perfect. Not being able to address that or to have a fake storyline that just,

00:38:04.780 everything was hunky-dory when people went to a voting machine or went to a voting precinct and saw

00:38:10.540 a problem that alarmed them while the observers weren't allowed to see things. Well, that's a

00:38:15.120 problem. Well, the machine, the ballots were printed the wrong size, like Maricopa County went to.

00:38:19.780 All of these are mistakes that if you acknowledge them, you can fix them so they're not repeated.

00:38:23.680 But there's been a political narrative controlled by a few to not allow us to have a debate and fix

00:38:31.580 these things. And that's bad for America. Someday this will come around and haunt Democrats just like

00:38:35.820 it's haunted Republicans. And that's no better than it is now. We got to have an honest debate.

00:38:40.860 And there are some states having it, right? Texas, Florida doing things to Georgia, I think,

00:38:45.660 made some improvements. There are states that are stepping into the void and doing this. And I think

00:38:51.100 there's a moment ahead, Lou, I'm going to put everybody's calendar. Let's put a mark on the

00:38:56.340 calendar for June of this year, because I think the Supreme Court will decide the North Carolina

00:39:01.320 Republican Party case. This could be a very significant change in how elections are dictated,

00:39:10.040 the rules by which people will vote in the future. The founding fathers gave the means times and

00:39:15.820 way of voting specifically to the legislatures. And over the last many decades, that system's evolved

00:39:24.120 so that the courts have a say in it when it comes to things like redistricting. And the governor has 0.92

00:39:29.460 a say in it, though the governor's not mentioned the Constitution. If a legislature passes a law like

00:39:34.240 Republicans did in Wisconsin and the Democratic governor doesn't like it, he can just simply veto it

00:39:39.520 and the will of the legislature has been thwarted. If the North Carolina reapportionment case, which

00:39:45.780 has already been heard, and there was a lot of skepticism of the role the courts and the governor

00:39:50.740 played in North Carolina, if this Supreme Court rules that the legislative power to determine the means

00:39:57.880 of elections is absolute, meaning courts and governors can't get involved, while that's about

00:40:04.400 apportionment. Its implications for the 2024 election are significant. There are states like North

00:40:10.220 Carolina, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania that have Republican legislatures and Democratic governors

00:40:15.120 who've been blocking the will of those legislatures to make changes to the integrity systems of those

00:40:20.340 states. If the Supreme Court determines that the legislative authority to determine electoral decisions

00:40:26.480 are the legislatures solely, the courts and the governors can't get involved. These Republican

00:40:32.560 legislatures can do things that their Democratic governors and their courts have prevented them 0.99

00:40:37.580 from doing. We could see a lot more election integrity, by the way, just a lot more election

00:40:42.540 common sense get enacted in states where we've had some of the silliest episodes in recent history.

00:40:48.140 I'd really put a mark on that moment. That case in the Supreme Court could be epic and important

00:40:53.100 going forward.

00:40:53.700 I want to turn to some other news, John, that you have for us. You have a new book out,

00:40:58.720 a children's book. Tell us how John Solomon, editor-in-chief, came to be writing a children's

00:41:06.440 book.

00:41:06.980 I'm still pinching myself thinking I did it, but because of the great people at Brave Books who

00:41:12.280 are the answer to all the woke books today and the libraries, the scholastic books, all of the stuff

00:41:18.140 that's getting into our libraries and our school systems, they've created a pro-God, pro-America

00:41:22.700 message for parents who want an alternative. And they approached me and, you know, we talked over

00:41:27.120 some ideas and I said, listen, there's something that's been bothering me for the last couple

00:41:31.060 of years. I didn't know what was going on. My children are older, so I haven't been engaged

00:41:35.100 in the school system for about a decade. But there's one or two generations of young adults

00:41:39.680 that have gone through the school system in the last 10, 15, 20 years who weren't given

00:41:44.320 the civics lessons that we all had, who weren't told of why America is great, why the Bill of

00:41:49.880 Rights was so essential to the American experience, why the First Amendment was first. In fact,

00:41:54.320 I learned from talking to some of these young adults, including some that came to my news

00:41:57.980 and to work for me, that they were actually told by their educators that in some circumstances,

00:42:03.740 government-backed censorship could be good for the larger collective, whatever the heck

00:42:08.340 that's supposed to mean. Now, I thought America was supposed to be about the individual liberty

00:42:11.820 that we have, but I was appalled when I heard this. I realized if I ever get an opportunity,

00:42:17.660 I want to do something to give parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, a chance to counter this

00:42:23.480 message in schools. And so when they approached me, I said, listen, I know what I want to do.

00:42:26.740 I want to talk about free speech. And they were all for it. And we've created this incredible book.

00:42:32.860 It's got all the things that children between the ages of four and 11 need. They've got

00:42:37.240 a detective dog. It's got my son's hamster. And I'll tell you a story about him in a second.

00:42:43.520 The hamster chunk publishes a newspaper and he can't get his newspaper out to the public and warn

00:42:49.540 them that there's an impending flood in the hamster community because a mean old koala bear

00:42:54.580 named Carl, yes, he is modeled after Carl Marks, clogged the tubes in the hamster village. Yes,

00:43:01.180 this is what you got to do to do a children's book. He clogs the tubes in the hamster village

00:43:07.040 and the newspaper can't get out. Now, of course, the tubes are an allegory for what we just experienced

00:43:11.980 with big tech, with social media. But we bring it down to a kid's level. The artistry is beautiful.

00:43:17.160 The story is really fun. But at the end, there's a lesson that parents and grandparents can sit with

00:43:22.840 their children and go through and explain why this is important in a larger context.

00:43:26.980 And it's been really rewarding. And I'll tell you how my son's hamster chunk ended up in this book.

00:43:33.000 It's one of my favorite embarrassing moments in life. So my son is autistic. We got him a hamster.

00:43:38.520 He won him a couple of years ago. He loves the hamster. My wife and him went away to go visit some

00:43:42.180 family. And I was left with one mission. Just feed the hamster and don't lose him. And I fed the

00:43:47.400 hamster. But I left the cage open for about a minute too long. And chunk got out. He got I

00:43:52.200 couldn't find him. I was mortified. I'm like, there's going to be heck to pay if I don't find

00:43:55.620 him. I was so desperate. I went to the CVS. I got a stethoscope. And I went along the floorboards

00:44:01.640 until I could locate this guy scratching. I found him in the air conditioning air duct vent. I grabbed

00:44:08.080 him. I put him back in the cage. And I thought, whew, I dodged a bullet. Judy and Josh are never

00:44:12.500 going to know. My assistant told Amanda, had my co-host on television this story. And the next

00:44:18.500 night on television, she told the world that I had lost chunk and found him. And then Judy found out

00:44:23.860 and I was in big trouble. So I decided my way of making amends was to put chunk the hamster in this

00:44:28.680 book. And he turns out to be a fun character for the kids. And I'm just so grateful. Brave Books are an

00:44:35.280 amazing group of young American-loving publishers. And this month, they're going to give my book away

00:44:41.640 free. If you subscribe to their monthly book clubs, you get a book, a pro-America book every month for

00:44:46.360 your children. You'll get my book, Hidden Headlines, free this month. But great people. And one of the

00:44:52.260 most rewarding experiences I've had as a journalist. Well, good for you. And congratulations on the book.

00:44:57.440 Thank you. And I have to say, I'm anxious to see the illustrations as well.

00:45:01.020 They're beautiful.

00:45:01.560 Because the word picture you created there creates a little nostalgia. My wife is sitting

00:45:11.540 about 15 feet away from me. What was the name of Jason's hamster that got loose? Was it was a

00:45:18.840 gimp? Is that the one? What was it? I can't remember the name. We're going back a few years.

00:45:24.700 You had a moment like this too, huh? But it's the only thing I know that my wife is afraid of,

00:45:30.560 and I'm serious about this, are hamsters and mice. Other than that, she is the bravest woman of all.

00:45:37.400 But anyway, great. Congratulations again. We can't wait for it. How can how can folks get the book

00:45:44.080 right now? Can they? Is it ready on Amazon? It is. It's on Amazon. Or the easiest way to go is go to

00:45:49.180 bravebooks.us, bravebooks.us. And there are all sorts of books. Sarah Carter has one out. Sean Spicer has one

00:45:56.160 out. Cash Patel has two out. He's an overachiever. And but there's just great, great books. And all of

00:46:04.980 them teach a pro-America value-based lesson while giving kids a really entertaining story.

00:46:10.800 Well, John, I can't wait to get my hands on it. We've got a few grandkids who will be all over it.

00:46:15.960 John, as you know, we always give our guests the last word here on The Great America Show.

00:46:21.280 Your concluding thoughts, if you will.

00:46:22.980 My last word is just a gratitude of thanks for being able to come on and talk with you every

00:46:28.520 so often. It's a great honor. You have an amazing show and amazing audience. So always an honor to do

00:46:33.400 this. John Solomon, a great American, a reminder to get John's new book, Hidden Headlines, a Seymour

00:46:40.960 Clues mystery, available at ludobbs.com and at Amazon and everywhere else that great books like John

00:46:49.080 Solomon's are sold. That's all for us today. Please join us here tomorrow when our guest will be the

00:46:54.860 former head of Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan. We'll be talking, of course, about that

00:47:01.180 flood of illegal immigrants about to pour over our border with Mexico. We hope you'll join us tomorrow 1.00

00:47:08.560 for that and more. Until then, thanks, God bless you, and may God bless America.

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