The Great America Show - DEM IMPEACHMENT A COVER-UP

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. This is The Great America Show. Good to have you with

00:00:07.820 us. And the Department of Justice, the FBI, the deep state, all on display at the House

00:00:13.400 Judiciary Committee hearing. What are their captains yesterday on Capitol Hill? No more

00:00:19.240 forthcoming than usual, but clearly discomfited by the glare of lights, cameras and angry

00:00:25.420 Republicans. FBI Director Christopher Wray testifying on Capitol Hill, clearly uncomfortable,

00:00:32.200 his cheeks and mouth twitching incessantly throughout tough questioning. His customary

00:00:37.900 smirk on display only a handful of times, no more. And the House Judiciary Committee Republicans

00:00:44.540 didn't disappoint. They sharply questioned his integrity and that of the corrupt agency that

00:00:50.120 he leads. Congressman Matt Gaetz made no pretense of cordiality. Gaetz asked Ray how many illegal

00:00:57.600 FISA searches had been conducted under his command, and in particular, how many illegal FISA searches

00:01:04.460 conducted in connection to January 6th. Here's the FBI Director's response and how little he

00:01:11.800 professed to know. Let's go from the uncurious to the downright nosy. How many illegal FISA queries

00:01:20.640 have occurred under your leadership of the FBI? Well, there are reports that have come out with

00:01:26.340 different numbers about compliance incidents. More than a million illegal ones? Because that's

00:01:32.620 what the Inspector General said. The Inspector General said that in the 3.4 million of these queries,

00:01:38.020 more than a million were in error. Do you have any basis to disagree with that assessment by

00:01:42.560 the Inspector General? I'm not sure, actually, that's a correct characterization of the Inspector

00:01:47.600 General's findings on that. Oh, well, the internet will remind you of that in moments, but let's now

00:01:52.980 go to what the court said. The court said it was over 200,000 that have occurred on your watch.

00:01:59.360 Do you have any basis to disagree with that assessment? Again, I don't have the numbers I sit here

00:02:03.460 right now. Seems like a number you should know. How many times the FBI is breaking the law under

00:02:08.620 your watch, especially if it's like over a million to not know that number. And I'm worried about your

00:02:13.680 veracity on the subject as well. Play the video. Letters for investigation of the Capitol. I don't

00:02:19.780 believe FISA is remotely implicated in our investigation. So there, Senator Lee's asking you

00:02:26.160 whether or not FISA was in any way involved in your January 6th investigation, and you say no.

00:02:31.400 Well, was that truthful? I said that I did not believe it was. Okay, so now let's pull up what

00:02:36.820 the court said, which was something a little different than what you said. So here, no, that's

00:02:44.200 not the right one. Yeah, here we go. Right there, it says the government has reported additional

00:02:49.040 significant violations of the querying standard, including several relating to the January 6,

00:02:54.680 2021 breach of the Capitol. So I guess the question, Director A, is did you not know when you were

00:02:59.960 answering these questions that the FBI was engaging in these illegal searches, or did you

00:03:04.180 perjure yourself to Senator Lee? I certainly didn't perjure myself. At the time that I testified in

00:03:09.740 front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I didn't have that piece of information. I will add...

00:03:14.960 Well, that was a court order. You didn't have that piece of information because the court hadn't yet

00:03:18.120 rendered a judgment. Did you not know when you gave the untruthful answer before Senator Lee that

00:03:23.140 this was going on? It was a truthful answer. I did not believe FISA had been involved in the

00:03:28.060 January 6. But it was. So you didn't... The answer is the FBI has broken so bad that people can go

00:03:34.920 and engage in queries that when you come before the Congress to answer questions, you're like

00:03:39.740 blissfully ignorant. You're blissfully ignorant as to the unlawful queries. You're blissfully ignorant

00:03:45.120 as to the Biden shakedown regime. And it just seems like it gets into a kind of a creepy place as well.

00:03:51.980 Go to our next image on what the court said. Just so the American people realize, the court has

00:03:59.020 smacked you down, alleging or ruling FBI personnel apparently conducted queries for improper personal

00:04:06.640 reasons. People were looking themselves up. They were looking their ex-lovers up. Who has been held

00:04:12.760 accountable or fired as a consequence of the FBI using the FISA process as their like creepy personal

00:04:21.200 snoop machine? There have been instances in which individuals have had disciplinary action and they

00:04:27.980 were no longer with... I can't get into it here, but we can follow back up with you. But don't you see

00:04:31.980 that that's kind of the thing, Director A, that you preside over the FBI that has the lowest level of

00:04:39.040 trust in the FBI's history? People trusted the FBI more when J. Edgar Hoover was running the place than

00:04:45.020 when you are. And the reason is because you don't give straight answers. You give answers that later a

00:04:49.960 court deems aren't true. And then at the end of the day, you won't criticize an obvious shakedown when

00:04:54.860 it's directly in front of us. And it appears as though you're whitewashing the conduct of corrupt

00:04:59.180 people. Respectfully, Congressman, in your home state of Florida, the number of people applying to come

00:05:04.540 work for us and devote their lives working for us is over up over 100 percent. We're deeply proud of

00:05:10.180 them and they deserve better than you. Congressman Gates, impatient and in no mood, obviously, for Ray's

00:05:16.480 dodging and dissembling. Congressman Wesley Hunt laid out for Director Ray how the two-tiered system of

00:05:23.120 justice and the difference in the Department of Justice treatment if your last name is Trump and what it means

00:05:29.880 to be a Biden. If you are a Trump, you'll be prosecuted. If you are a Biden, you'll be protected.

00:05:37.300 And the American people that I represent are sick and tired of this double standard.

00:05:44.380 It seems like every single hearing that we have in this room, we talk about the two-tiered justice

00:05:49.080 system of Biden's DOJ and the FBI. And as we were talking earlier, here we are again.

00:05:56.360 President Trump endured an unprecedented raid at his home in Mar-a-Lago.

00:06:01.200 President Biden's home, however, was respectfully browsed.

00:06:05.480 President Trump is facing up to 400 years in federal prison for allegedly being in possession

00:06:10.680 of classified documents he obtained as the commander-in-chief of these United States of

00:06:16.820 America. And meanwhile, President Biden is facing no charges for the classified documents he had held

00:06:23.380 at his time as a senator and a vice president, not the president of these United States of America.

00:06:30.180 And last I checked, he had no legal authority to declassify those documents.

00:06:37.160 Assuming President Trump was in possession of said classified documents, would those documents

00:06:42.400 be more secure, surrounded by Secret Service at Mar-a-Lago, or in a box, in a garage, behind your Corvette?

00:06:51.380 I know the answer to that question.

00:06:52.360 Question for you, sir. What can you tell us about the status of the FBI's investigation

00:06:58.980 of President Biden's classified documents found next to his Corvette in Delaware and those found

00:07:04.060 at the Penn-Biden Center? Do we have an update on that, sir?

00:07:08.540 What I can tell you is that there is an ongoing special counsel investigation led by Mr. Robert

00:07:13.640 Herr, and we have FBI agents affiliated with it, working on it, working very actively and aggressively

00:07:20.180 with him on that case. I obviously disagree with your description of the two standards.

00:07:26.000 In my view, we, at least under my watch, we have one standard, and that is we're going

00:07:31.140 to pursue the facts wherever they lead, no matter who likes it. And I add that last part,

00:07:35.260 because especially in sensitive investigations, almost by definition, somebody's not going

00:07:39.680 to like it.

00:07:40.180 So I understand, and that's actually why I live with the sentiment of the American people.

00:07:43.800 I understand that's your sentiment. I do want to finish this. So I want everybody

00:07:48.200 to talk about this dichotomy that we have seen. I get your point, sir, but that's just

00:07:51.880 not what we see as the public, as we the people. We see one case being fast-tracked and one case

00:07:59.320 being slow-walked. We see one president's home being raided, the other president's home being

00:08:04.220 kindly searched. You have one government agency, the Secret Service, protecting the former president

00:08:10.700 and his home, and another government agency, the FBI, raiding the same home.

00:08:17.420 Now, to me, sir, that's tragically ironic. And we expect more from a functional constitutional

00:08:23.540 republic, and these things shouldn't be happening. Now, it's my opinion that Joe Biden is the most

00:08:30.880 unpopular president we have seen in a century, and that's why he knows the only way to stop

00:08:36.480 President Trump from beating him in November is by putting him in jail. You talked about

00:08:42.100 this, Mr. Fry. In the 247 years of this existence of this great nation, only one president has

00:08:49.240 ever been indicted by the DOJ and is home raided by the FBI. Now, some have said that President

00:08:54.700 Trump's indictment means that no one is above the law. Okay. All right. I would love to see

00:09:01.920 that. But what about Hillary Clinton? And what about Joe Biden? And what about Hunter

00:09:08.180 Biden, who is America's favorite son? Let me tell you something. I got a four-year-old

00:09:13.920 daughter and a two-year-old daughter at my house. Hunter Biden to me is like glitter. He

00:09:19.240 is on everything, and you cannot get rid of him. And yet nothing is going to be done about

00:09:24.160 this. We're sick of it. James Comey decided not to prosecute Hillary Clinton despite overwhelming

00:09:30.420 evidence that she committed crimes. And as I recall, it was the position of the FBI to

00:09:35.820 not prosecute because they didn't want to interfere with the presidential election. What do you call

00:09:41.960 this? The Iowa caucuses are in six months. Six months. I think the American public would

00:09:50.560 expect to see this from Cuba and from Venezuela and from Russia and from China, but not here.

00:09:56.240 The people expect us to have blind justice. They expect equal justice under the law. And it's not

00:10:03.160 the job of the DOJ or the FBI to prosecute Joe Biden's top political opponent who was leading in

00:10:09.260 every single primary poll. And the Iowa caucuses are in six months. Let the people decide. It's our job

00:10:17.460 to uphold the Constitution. Under Ray, the weaponization of the Justice Department and FBI has reached depths of

00:10:24.580 corruption and depravity never witnessed in our nation's history. Just yesterday, the DOJ indicted

00:10:31.140 a man by the name of Gail Luft. He's accused of not registering as a foreign agent for his work

00:10:37.580 on a Chinese energy company for which Hunter Biden also worked and who never registered as an agent for

00:10:44.740 foreign countries. The difference is Gail Luft is a whistleblower against the Biden crime family. 0.66

00:10:51.520 Joining us now, John Solomon, editor in chief of Just the News. John, great to have you back with

00:10:57.460 us here on The Great America Show. And let's start with all of these whistleblowers on Capitol Hill.

00:11:03.140 There are so many of them, so many charges. We all need a program to keep track of them.

00:11:08.540 Yeah, it is. And it's the the opposition knows that they can play in this area of confusing people,

00:11:15.580 right? Tax law is confusing. So they try to switch terms. They try to do things that they're trying to

00:11:20.760 suggest that the whistleblowers aren't telling the truth when, in fact, all of the evidence points

00:11:25.240 that. Let me just get to a couple of really good examples. Early on, Abby Lowell, the lawyer for

00:11:30.340 Hunter Biden, by the way, a very good lawyer, former criminal division chief of the Justice Department.

00:11:34.960 He suggested, though he didn't directly allege it, but he suggested that maybe Gary Shapley,

00:11:39.960 the IRS whistleblower, leaked a story to The Washington Post in October. And he leaves it there.

00:11:45.580 And of course, everybody covers it. By the way, The Washington Post covers that allegation,

00:11:49.720 even though they know who their source is. And they stay silent about it. But Gary Shapley goes

00:11:55.940 and puts a statement to Congress saying, I wasn't the source and I free The Washington Post. If they

00:12:00.100 feel like they have any source relationship with me, I free them to confirm I'm not the source from

00:12:05.200 this alleged grand jury leak that that Abby Lowell is alleging. And of course, the media that's

00:12:11.440 confusing. It confuses everybody what's going on here. And of course, the media doesn't play up

00:12:15.340 Gary Shapley's response the way they play up the allegation from the Democrat or from the lawyer

00:12:20.460 representing the Democratic family, Hunter Biden and his father. So these things are going on and

00:12:27.260 they're all designed to sully up the whistleblower's reputation without really sully. They're not

00:12:31.840 actually landing blows. They're actually not putting facts in there. They're using supposition and

00:12:36.040 innuendo and suggestions. And so what you've seen the lawyers for Gary Shapley and the other

00:12:41.840 IRS whistleblower do is be very much on offense, which is we're not going to take any punches

00:12:46.580 without counteracting. And so day in and day out, they're doing this and they're now forcing

00:12:51.400 people like David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, the lead of the Hunter Biden prosecution

00:12:57.060 team to start answering questions and to get pinned down on answers. And this happened this week. There

00:13:03.440 are two things that happened this week. First, after Gary Shapley made his allegations and his

00:13:08.680 allegations are very simple. David Weiss and his staff signed off on a very specific indictment

00:13:14.380 that took Hunter Biden all the way back to felonies dating to 2014 when he got the Burisma money in

00:13:19.880 Ukraine. And then Weiss went to the U.S. attorneys in California, in District of Columbia, asked them to

00:13:26.660 bring these cases. They turned them down. And then he says, Weiss told the investigating team he sought

00:13:34.120 a special counsel designation and got turned down. That is what he said. Now, Weiss has been putting

00:13:40.520 little pieces. I can't talk much about this, but it is true that I was geographically limited to what

00:13:46.720 I could bring. In other words, he was telling the truth. The whistleblowers were telling the truth

00:13:51.120 when he said he himself couldn't bring the charges without first going to the Los Angeles and District

00:13:55.500 of Columbia, U.S. attorney. So he's affirmed the whistleblower, even though the perception is he's

00:14:00.280 challenging the whistleblower. He then went on to say that if I couldn't get those places for

00:14:05.320 prosecutors to do it, I could potentially seek authority as a special prosecutor, meaning he has

00:14:14.780 authority to bring a case in a district, even if the local U.S. attorney won't do that. So he again

00:14:19.280 affirms the whistleblower. Now, he flatly says, I didn't seek special counsel status. Okay, so that's

00:14:26.320 the difference between him and Gary Shapley, but it's a difference without meaning. Whether

00:14:30.140 you're a special prosecutor or a special counsel, what you're really seeking is authority to bring

00:14:34.540 the charges in a place where the prosecutor who resides in that place isn't willing to bring them.

00:14:39.320 So again, it's affirming to the whistleblower story. You'd have a hard time telling that by

00:14:44.420 watching the mainstream medium. But I think the big question here is who's telling the truth,

00:14:49.180 right? That's what everybody wants to know. I want to point people to a document because

00:14:53.040 David Weiss has been trying to almost undercut the whistleblowers without doing it, just like

00:14:57.940 Hunter Biden's lawyer, Abby Lowell, is trying to undercut them without actually directly challenging

00:15:02.020 them. There is a very important document that most people have missed. It has existed since the

00:15:07.320 moment the House Ways and Means Committee first released the testimony of Gary Shapley and his

00:15:12.480 colleague, the second IRS agent. It is a conclusions and recommendations memo. It is the memo that the

00:15:19.560 agents on the case wrote after meeting with the prosecutors, and it delineates what the prosecutors

00:15:25.180 agree to. And it is very important to understand what this memo says. I'm just going to read this

00:15:30.940 document. It's a couple pages. It was included in the release of documents from Congress.

00:15:37.480 A draft of this report has been given to the DOJ tax senior attorney, Mark Daly, as well as

00:15:42.260 the assistant United States attorney, Leslie Wolf. Leslie Wolf is the right-hand woman on this case

00:15:47.840 to David Weiss. AUSA Wolf, in other words, David Weiss's deputy, has reviewed the appendices and the

00:15:54.280 charges cited in this report and agrees with the prosecution recommendation of the above cited

00:16:00.360 charges against Hunter Biden. This is a contemporaneous document that shows that David Weiss's staff

00:16:06.820 signed off on bringing a much more sweeping case going all the way back to 2014, including felonies,

00:16:13.000 including proving that Hunter Biden did not pay his taxes in 2014 on all that Ukraine money or at

00:16:18.800 least $400,000 of the money he got from Burisma in Ukraine. This is a very difficult document for

00:16:25.520 David Weiss because David Weiss is saying, listen, I could bring any charge I want. Okay, well, now we

00:16:30.720 know you signed off on a bigger charge and then you didn't bring it. So the person who has a lot of

00:16:35.400 explaining to do isn't the whistleblowers. It's David Weiss. David Weiss has a contemporaneous document

00:16:39.800 saying he signed off, his office signed off on prosecuting Hunter Biden all the way back to 2014

00:16:45.360 on a felony. And then he later only brings misdemeanors in there to much more present

00:16:50.040 time, 2017 forward. David Weiss, if you signed off at it and you had the authority, the question

00:16:55.460 Congress is going to ask is, why didn't you bring those charges? That's the current state of the case

00:17:00.200 as we are right now. That's terrific, John. And that the data that is, what date is that memo,

00:17:08.820 the recommendations, conclusions and recommendations? The summer of 2022. Isn't

00:17:14.140 that remarkable? Just a year ago. So it means even a year ago, David Weiss and his team were still on

00:17:20.240 the idea that Hunter Biden should be prosecuted on a long tax evasion case going back to 2014,

00:17:26.100 including a felony and including the allegation that he didn't pay money on Burisma. Why is that

00:17:30.580 important? We impeach President Trump, the Congress, a Democratic Congress impeach President Trump

00:17:37.220 for asking for an investigation into the Burisma matters. We were told in 2019 there was nothing

00:17:42.520 there. There was no reason to investigate. It turns out while that was going on, the U.S. attorney and

00:17:47.480 Weiss had evidence and was moving towards a recommendation that Hunter Biden be prosecuted for

00:17:52.620 not paying taxes on his Ukraine money. So this really is important stuff to history. It's important

00:17:59.080 to understand how much the administrative state and the Justice Department knew about the Biden's

00:18:04.120 wrongdoing and didn't tell the American people in 19 during impeachment, 20 during the election,

00:18:09.780 21 after Joe Biden took over. And in 2022, when the agents and prosecutors were ready to hit Hunter

00:18:16.440 Biden with a very serious tax charge, and then they backed off. And the question is, why did they back off?

00:18:22.420 We can infer from what we know of why they did. What is interesting to me is what happens next. And the

00:18:31.140 judge who has to decide about the sweetheart deal, you know, it's not really a slap on the wrist that

00:18:38.180 Hunter Biden received from Weiss and the Justice Department. It's really just a pat on the head.

00:18:45.260 That federal judge with this, as you were reading, all I could see was all of the papers exploding in

00:18:52.640 front of this judge saying this can't be. I mean, it's outrageous on its face.

00:18:58.820 Yeah, listen, here's the problem that those who want a more who want the judge to intervene at

00:19:04.500 present, the judge can only consider what's in the court record. And none of this is in the court

00:19:09.680 record right now. It's in the court of public opinion, but it's not part of the record upon

00:19:14.080 which a judge can make a decision. So the real question is, this is a question I've been pressing

00:19:18.640 lawmakers for. Congress is a potential victim of the Hunter Biden tax evasion screen. What do I mean by

00:19:24.580 that? They are, by the constitutional power granted to them, the purse holders of the United

00:19:29.240 States taxpayer. And it is Hunter Biden's failure to pay tax bases that gypped Congress of the ability

00:19:35.100 to spend certain money during the years that it's alleged that Hunter Biden didn't pay his taxes.

00:19:40.460 If Congress were to make a victim statement or to intrude and put some sort of motion in saying,

00:19:46.780 judge, we have learned things that are relevant to this case. We are a victim. We have standing

00:19:50.980 because we're Congress and we're in charge of the tax dollars that get spent. Then there would be

00:19:55.560 something before the judge that potentially could help them to do that. Now, some of the people I've

00:19:59.820 interviewed, like Jim Jordan said, we don't want to do that. We don't want to intervene in the judicial

00:20:02.880 branch. I don't know why. I mean, the judicial branch intervenes on congressional matters all the

00:20:08.240 time. They are separate bodies of investigation or bodies of government, separate and independent of

00:20:14.340 each other. But there hasn't been the appetite for someone to get these facts before the judge,

00:20:20.700 before she accepts the plea deal. There's only about a week or 10 days to do that. 0.74

00:20:24.660 The court hearing is, I believe, July 26. So it's coming up quickly. But the judge may not be able

00:20:30.180 to make it. She may not be able to pull any of this information in from the public realm. She must make

00:20:34.880 it only from the court record reform. And right now, the prosecutors have not put any of this into the

00:20:41.060 court record. But she can make a judgment based on what is on the record. This knowledge of what is

00:20:49.720 happening here. At some point, we've got to decide in this country if we're going to have a justice

00:20:54.240 system or not, and do the right thing, not just the things by the book. I mean, this becomes all

00:21:04.060 semantics and connotations and shadows. What is supposed to be law and what is supposed to be

00:21:11.160 justice? It would be a shame if Hunter Biden got away with this on that basis, in my opinion.

00:21:17.480 We're talking with John Solomon. He's editor-in-chief of Just the News.

00:21:21.580 Please stay with us. We'll be right back.

00:21:29.700 We're back with John Solomon, editor-in-chief of Just the News. John, a fascinating point of law that

00:21:36.840 you make about the judge having to approve the sweetheart deal, the pat on the head for Hunter

00:21:42.120 Biden. At the same time, we have an investigation by the Secret Service and presumably the FBI since

00:21:51.340 the cocaine was found in the White House. Not a simple denial from any part of the Biden

00:21:59.720 administration, not from the Biden White House, not his press secretary. No one has said, no,

00:22:05.420 the first family is not involved. Your thoughts?

00:22:10.800 Well, no one has been able to understand the White House's position on this. There has been

00:22:17.360 obfuscation, there's been denials, there's been denials that have been then contradicted. Fox News

00:22:22.240 did a good job. They had a press pull report that shows that after Corrine John-Pera said the Biden

00:22:27.660 family wasn't at the White House on Friday, in fact, they were. A press pull report showed they were

00:22:31.680 still there. I think it's highly improbable based on the reporting I've done for people who have

00:22:37.500 worked in the White House for a long time. And by the way, currently involved in this investigation

00:22:42.200 that Hunter Biden would have entered that entrance in the White House. That's an entrance usually brought

00:22:48.220 in by guests who aren't family members. The family typically goes through a different entrance

00:22:53.140 than outside visitors. So the people coming into that entrance typically tend to be

00:23:00.440 other governor officials or people attending a meeting at the White House with the president.

00:23:06.100 That still makes it incredibly serious and embarrassing to the White House that someone

00:23:10.420 the president was likely meeting with or his senior staff was meeting with had cocaine on them and

00:23:14.860 brought it into the White House and didn't think anything of it. But I do think that those are,

00:23:19.340 I think a lot of people say, well, could this be Hunter Biden's cocaine? Of course, a lot of people

00:23:23.220 want to know that because he's admitted he's a drug addict. He's got some criminal issues involving a gun

00:23:27.720 in taxes right now. But the people who know the White House and also know what's going on in this

00:23:32.500 investigation say, this is not the entrance that Hunter Biden would have come in, got swept for,

00:23:37.480 or left his cocaine or his phone in a box. And so I think we got to take that into account as we

00:23:42.800 evaluate this. But why can't the White House on very simple things like this be able to give us

00:23:47.800 straight answers? Well, they have never given us straight answers. They didn't give us the truth

00:23:51.200 about the Hunter Biden laptop this team did when they were running for Congress. They didn't give us the

00:23:55.780 truth about the Afghan withdrawal. It took two years to get the truth on that. They haven't given us 0.96

00:24:00.680 the truth on so many other major stories. The record of this White House press secretary's team is

00:24:07.240 they are not really the advocates of truth for the American public like every other press secretary

00:24:11.840 before them. They are the obfuscators and oftentimes the disinformation artists in providing the American

00:24:18.760 public about information. It's very important to our policy and to our security. Listen, the cocaine thing is

00:24:24.680 more than just a federal felony of someone bringing drugs into a federal property. Imagine if that

00:24:31.920 cocaine was anthrax or ricin or something more dangerous. There's been a security failure that

00:24:37.400 needs to be tightened up by the Secret Service and those who provide security in the White House.

00:24:41.660 And a lot of people don't concentrate on this. This isn't just a whodunit about a drug case.

00:24:46.660 This is a really a security failure that occurred in the White House, much like the security failures we

00:24:51.540 now are learning about in the Capitol that predated and led to January 6th.

00:24:56.720 Absolutely. But it's also a security failure in a in a White House that is as corrupt as it is the

00:25:05.500 most corrupt White House we have ever seen in our country's history. That is that doesn't have to be

00:25:10.960 adjudicated. That's not a matter of law. We are looking at evidence right now that has been brought up by

00:25:17.540 the Congress of the United States and other sources. We know that this president cheated,

00:25:23.680 lied and and stole the 2020 election. There is no doubt about it. One does not have to go beyond

00:25:31.700 the evidence, whether it's by Bill Barr, whether it is the testimony, FBI agents, the Twitter files.

00:25:40.500 We know what happened. And I don't see why anyone should be surprised, frankly, that cocaine is going

00:25:46.940 through the the hallways of the White House, given the the moral standing of this president and this

00:25:53.720 presidency. Listen, one of the greatest election interventions, when history looks back at 2020

00:25:58.700 and it goes through all the smoke and mirrors and the debates in the January 6th and all these things,

00:26:02.940 there's going to be one thing that's going to stand out. The man who won that election in 2020

00:26:07.840 concocted a scheme with 51 intelligence agents to write a letter. It was his campaign working with

00:26:14.240 Mike Morrell to get a letter to falsely mislead the American people into thinking that the Hunter

00:26:19.800 Biden laptop was Russian disinformation and shouldn't be considered as part of the job interview

00:26:24.100 for Joe Biden becoming president, when in fact, the FBI months before that had already determined that

00:26:30.700 it was Hunter Biden's laptop, both by getting the Mac ID, the computer address and confirming that was the

00:26:36.000 one registered under Biden and then doing forensic analysis months before Joe Biden and his campaign

00:26:41.440 concocted a false story. And then Joe Biden took that false story, the 51 intelligence aid analysts,

00:26:47.220 and he used it at the debate. He looked in the camera and said, it's Russian disinformation.

00:26:52.040 He concocted that entire scenario. So when people say, should I trust him now? Should I believe what

00:26:56.400 he says now? Just remember what he did in October 2020 to become president. He told the American people

00:27:02.240 a story that wasn't true. And his campaign concocted the untrue story, working with 51

00:27:07.460 people that earned their credibility on the backs of American taxpayers, 51 former government

00:27:12.800 intelligence agents. And what I find astonishing is that the national media, knowing their role

00:27:19.840 in retrospect, if they did not know it concurrently with the events that took place, the dastardly events,

00:27:26.980 that they have not acknowledged their role, they've not acknowledged their failings,

00:27:31.880 or they haven't acknowledged their guilt. It's only one of those two possibilities. And either way,

00:27:38.940 the fourth estate looks more like a fifth column carrying out the Marxist dims and deep states agenda

00:27:46.600 against the Republican Party, conservatives and the American people. It's just, as you say,

00:27:53.320 history is not going to be kind, nor should it be. I think one of the questions that we'll be

00:27:58.700 looking at retrospectively in a few years is why was the Republican leadership of the House of

00:28:05.580 Representatives? Why was there no urgency in moving these investigations ahead? Why was there no urgency

00:28:13.140 in impeaching Joe Biden? If not Joe Biden, why not Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of DHS?

00:28:22.280 Yes. Christopher Wray, who will appear before Congress, I'm sure, several times over the course of the next

00:28:29.240 months. How about just moving forward with some sense of urgency and at least convey to the American

00:28:38.380 people they understand the level of corruption and what is right, the right thing to do at this moment?

00:28:46.480 You know, it's hard. It feels like the Republicans have been in charge a really long time, but it's been

00:28:49.960 only about six months and there's been a lot of advancement and particularly on the Joe Biden part

00:28:54.840 of the Biden family scandal. For much of the prior years, it's always been focused on Hunter, poor

00:28:59.120 Hunter, the drug addict. Yeah, he traded on his dad name. But over the last couple of months, we've begun

00:29:04.220 to get information that really shows what you and I suspected from the beginning, Lou, and that is that

00:29:09.160 Joe Biden was the head of this effort to cash in on the family name. The fact that they've now

00:29:15.620 uncovered the 1023 informant report, the fact that they now have a close family friend telling the

00:29:23.840 FBI that Joe Biden attended the meeting with the Chinese, something he denied, the fact that Hunter

00:29:29.080 Biden's business partner, Devin Archer, is about to testify in the next couple of weeks to Congress.

00:29:33.780 These are pretty big advancements that move this from, hey, no story here, Russian disinformation, to

00:29:38.820 a very serious story, a tax violation by Hunter Biden. No, the president of the United States

00:29:44.100 probably was directly involved in. Those are significant gains. I think when I've asked these

00:29:48.900 lawmakers the very question you have, and I think you had Jim Jordan on just the other day,

00:29:53.540 why aren't you moving quicker? And the answer is we saw two drive-by impeachments. We saw two things

00:30:00.280 where Democrats rushed through. They did half-cock things. They misinformed the public. There are now

00:30:05.280 revelations coming out that half the evidence, much of the evidence they presented isn't true

00:30:10.560 or was lacking context. These Republicans have told me, this is what they say. I can only give

00:30:14.840 you what they say. We're moving quickly, but we don't want to do a drive-by impeachment. We want to

00:30:19.580 make sure that if we ask the American people to accept the next impeachment, that it's accurate,

00:30:24.020 that it isn't based on false or political motivations like the sort of stuff, the garbage that

00:30:28.300 Adam Schiff misled the American people with for three years. That's what they say back. Now,

00:30:34.320 history will judge them. They'll have a two-year window. Will they make a difference? Will they

00:30:39.020 create the sort of accountability they promised people before they got elected in November 2020?

00:30:43.700 The jury is clearly out on that. There's been some progress. There's been some new

00:30:47.780 revelations, but there really hasn't been anything more, as you called it, a tap on the head to Hunter

00:30:53.940 Biden. We'll see if Congress starts to bring that accountability over the next several months.

00:30:59.440 The clock is ticking. If they get into the election year and no real accountability has

00:31:04.360 been meted out, I think the American people say, hey, we gave you an opportunity. You whiffed. You

00:31:08.520 couldn't come back to boomerang on them in the 2024 election.

00:31:11.800 It absolutely certainly could. We're talking with John Solomon, the chief editor-in-chief of Just

00:31:18.860 the News. We're coming right back, and we're going to take up why those drive-bys occurred

00:31:23.800 and the distinction that we might make between then and now. We'll be right back with John Solomon.

00:31:36.880 We're back now talking with Just the News, John Solomon. John, I just wanted to

00:31:41.040 offer up what I think is a distinction between those two impeachments

00:31:45.280 attempted against President Trump and the impeachments that I believe are critically

00:31:51.640 necessary, urgently necessary right now of the Biden regime. There is wholesale corruption

00:31:59.880 throughout this administration. That is patently clear. But the difference is the reason there was

00:32:07.200 a drive-by in the Trump years of those two impeachments is they didn't have any evidence. They

00:32:13.140 didn't have a crime. They had the man, and they wanted to keep it moving and rolling and keep

00:32:19.380 their tap dancing going as fast as they could. And right now, we have the evidence. We have

00:32:27.300 also the crime. We also have the individual squarely in the sights of the three principal

00:32:33.760 investigating committees, if you add ways and means for investigating committees, who really, in my

00:32:42.160 opinion, should proceed just so that the American people know that the Republican Party does know

00:32:47.600 the right, the difference between right and wrong, not just rhetorically, but in terms of law and

00:32:54.100 consequence. Yeah, listen, that is such a powerful statement you just made, Alou. There is one thing to

00:33:01.500 get the facts out. There's another effort. The Democrats created opinions and false narratives and tried to

00:33:09.500 make them look like facts. And it took five years for John Durham to unravel that bizarre misconduct

00:33:17.580 by the FBI and by the Democrats in Congress. What the Republicans have done since they came in is say,

00:33:25.040 listen, we are not going to tell you what to believe. We're going to get you facts and let you

00:33:29.240 make up your own mind, American voter. So they were able to get the border chief, Raul Ortiz, to

00:33:34.980 acknowledge that Joe Biden lost operational control of the border. That testimony had never been given

00:33:40.020 before. And that becomes very important. Wait, Joe Biden had operational control of the border the

00:33:45.560 day Donald Trump gave him the keys. Now we don't. And as a result of that, X amount of fentanyl is

00:33:51.300 coming in enough to wipe out the United States multiple times over now. Those are facts that are

00:33:56.280 now in evidence. And if they do want to go and impeach Mayorkas for failing to do his job as home

00:34:02.240 in security, they're going to be able to say his border chief said this. The DEA reported that this

00:34:07.020 person died. This person did this. They're building a factual case. They're not doing what Adam

00:34:14.100 shifted time and again, which is you'll just have to trust me if you believe not what your eyes are

00:34:19.660 telling you, but what I'm telling you. If you're willing to see it, there was Russia collusion. That

00:34:23.060 was one of the famous lines that Adam Schiff gave us that I think is one of the more embarrassing

00:34:27.020 moments in congressional history. So Republicans are building a factual case. They're putting fact

00:34:31.900 by fact by fact. And then at some point, they're going to have to decide, did we put enough facts

00:34:37.100 into the American public, to the American public that we can ask the American public to accept a

00:34:41.780 legitimate impeachment proceeding? We don't know the answer to that because Republicans haven't

00:34:46.320 decided themselves. They're still in the process of getting facts. But there's a very big difference

00:34:51.520 from the games of illusion that people like Benny Thompson and Adam Schiff played. And there are moments

00:34:58.220 in my reporting where I realized just how bad the Democratic game of magic illusion,

00:35:04.020 political illusion was. There's a moment, I remember this, where the Democrats went out and

00:35:08.900 said, Bob Woodward confirms that this thing happened. And oh, we can put Bernie Carrick,

00:35:15.760 the former NYPD commissioner, someone who gained fame during his great work during the 9-11 crisis in

00:35:21.100 New York. We have him in Washington. You have to trust us. And I did the reporting and it called Bob

00:35:25.820 Woodward, like I didn't say that. I didn't report that. That's not true. And then a couple of days

00:35:29.700 later, I got the toll booth record showing that Hunter, that Bernie Carrick was not in Washington

00:35:35.900 like the January 6th committee claimed. He was in New York caring for a Democrat, for a family member

00:35:42.140 who was sick. The Democrats never did the groundwork to justify their allegations. They made the

00:35:49.380 allegations and hoped they could find the facts that would fit him. That's what Russia collusion was

00:35:53.460 about. And now we're learning much of January 6th was really not facts. It was illusion, movies,

00:36:00.520 Hollywood producers coming in and creating emotional appeals without the facts to back them

00:36:05.140 up on some things. The Republicans are taking a more boring, but I think in the long term,

00:36:10.480 different pair to which is we're going to start with facts. We're going to build the story wherever

00:36:13.800 the facts lead. The story will be solid. And then we will ask the American people for political

00:36:18.340 permission to do the things, whether it's impeachment or, or removing funding for agencies

00:36:24.260 or ending the FISA powers of the FBI. Maybe that'll happen this fall. So there is a very big difference

00:36:31.080 in how the oversight hearings in the last few years, the impeachment hearings have been carried out.

00:36:35.560 I think the American people sense that there's a difference, but the real question is if they don't

00:36:40.560 end up with any more accountability now than they got two years ago, four years ago, six years ago,

00:36:44.700 it is a zero sum loss for the American people. So they want to see now, okay, you're building a

00:36:49.540 factual basis. What's the consequence? We're going to find out in the next few weeks, whether

00:36:53.740 or next few months, whether Republicans have the courage to create consequences that voters are asking

00:36:58.620 for. You're right. And we're also going to find out really what kind of, what kind of people are

00:37:07.680 in this investigation. They're talking with Congressman Jordan, Chairman Jordan, chairman of the

00:37:14.060 Judiciary Committee, and chairman of the Subcommittee on Weaponization of Government, doing a magnificent

00:37:19.320 job. But there is only, there are only two weeks left before they have to adjourn for this summer.

00:37:26.640 There is then all that will follow. There is, the year will be gone before we know it.

00:37:34.180 That's right.

00:37:34.500 And meanwhile, a thousand people are in jeopardy of being arrested by the Department of Justice for their

00:37:40.000 actions or accused, accusations of actions on January 6th. Another thousand. We have hundreds

00:37:48.140 still in jail. Prisoners of, political prisoners of this deep state and the Marxist dems.

00:37:56.640 We have a responsibility, it seems to me, to proceed urgently because these are real. We have parents who

00:38:04.260 are being accused of being domestic terrorists. We have school systems that are failing because of the

00:38:09.480 rancid corruption of two teachers unions and what they're doing to school districts all over the

00:38:15.200 country. We have thousands of children who are being mutilated, who are being groomed in public schools

00:38:22.060 from the age of apparently six on in some places. We have great wrongs to right here. There are great

00:38:32.500 sins that are being committed. And every day we do nothing. Every day that we fail to bring

00:38:39.340 them to account, the Marxist dems, the deep state, the Marxist left. That is on us. Your thoughts?

00:38:47.940 I don't think I could find a voter in America who would disagree with what you just said. We have to

00:38:53.940 have accountability and time runs out much faster. And by the way, the Democrats are planning on

00:38:59.340 running out the clock. They've done that for years and they're very good at it when they're in the

00:39:03.080 minority. They can slow down the processes and some of what's going on in the Joe Biden thing is

00:39:07.720 slowing down. David Weiss, I can't talk about this now. And, you know, some of the witnesses

00:39:12.560 constantly rescheduling interviews so they can't be interviewed. The Republicans have to overcome

00:39:19.060 these obstacles if they want to win the trust of the American people. Now, some very important things

00:39:24.320 have happened that benefit the American people. Consequences. I'll give you a couple of them.

00:39:28.820 Joe Biden in less than a year was blocked from giving away four, five, six, seven, eight hundred

00:39:36.260 billion dollars to pay off student loans for which he had no thing. That case went through the court

00:39:41.380 system very effectively and quickly. And Joe Biden was told what he was doing was unconstitutional,

00:39:46.660 illegal, and he couldn't do it. That's a consequence. Just 48 hours ago for the second time in a week,

00:39:52.740 a federal judge told Joe Biden, you cannot infringe free speech of Americans like you did in 19,

00:39:59.080 20, 21, 2022. The Justice Department may not talk and other agencies may not talk to social media

00:40:04.840 and censor political speech. That's protect it. You got to stop it. So there have been some

00:40:09.580 consequences and some reversals that protect the American people. Most of those victories have

00:40:14.840 occurred in the courts. Most of those victories were prompted by either private parties or Republicans in

00:40:19.880 the states, the attorney generals and others. Congress has built a good record of facts.

00:40:24.720 They're helping the American people understand what went wrong. Yes, Afghanistan really was the 1.00

00:40:30.960 disaster that people thought it was. Yes, there's been illegal censorship. Yes, Joe Biden has very

00:40:36.540 serious bribery allegations that have never been fully investigated. Yes, Hunter Biden got a sweetheart

00:40:41.560 deal. All that is great on Congress's part. It's the first part of the bargain they have with the

00:40:46.160 American people to get the truth out. But now they must create consequence. If House Republicans

00:40:51.840 renew the FISA authority like they did in 17 in the face of evidence that it had been abused against

00:40:57.340 Donald Trump, they will be aiding and abetting the Democratic machinery in what they're doing.

00:41:02.080 If Republicans don't create a early get out the vote system like the Democrats did and try to get

00:41:06.980 themselves on equal ground, they will be at a disadvantage again in the 2024 election. If the

00:41:12.780 Republicans wait to November 2024 to try to come up for a prescription for the open border, the

00:41:18.040 fentanyl, the drug trafficking and the human child trafficking, they will not have won any favor with

00:41:23.800 the American people. They've begun to create informational timelines and facts that aren't in

00:41:28.480 the public record before. But the American people are not going to judge them on how well they got the

00:41:33.040 facts out. They're going to judge them on how much they made America better. Did they use their

00:41:37.180 authority to create accountability and to stop bad behavior? There's been a couple of victories,

00:41:41.840 most of them not Congress. We'll see if Congress creates some accountability victories for the

00:41:46.060 American people between now and really the spring of next year. By the end of by spring of next year, 0.73

00:41:50.640 we're in the presidential season and everything's going to come to a grinding halt. So they really

00:41:54.080 have a few more months to get the people's business done.

00:41:57.360 Hence my question about urgency, the critical urgency that we face right now.

00:42:05.200 John, I have to tell you what a delight it is to talk with you whenever we have these opportunities.

00:42:09.880 I appreciate you being with us here. And as you know, we always give our guests

00:42:13.200 the last word here. You're concluding thoughts, John.

00:42:16.460 There's going to be a couple of big moments that I think we're going to learn

00:42:18.860 from in the next few weeks. I think the two IRS whistleblowers will be in public for the first

00:42:23.940 time and Americans can set their eyes on them and see what type of men they are.

00:42:28.040 And then I think Devin Archer is slated to testify right now. The date I'm hearing is July 23rd,

00:42:33.840 so less than two weeks away or two weeks from today or less than two weeks from today. He'll

00:42:37.800 be testifying. Those are big, big moments. Those are important moments for the American people because

00:42:43.680 they will learn things that have been long suppressed from them. We're going to find out

00:42:49.340 from a man who will know, did Joe Biden take action to help Hunter Biden or Burisma or China

00:42:55.540 or any of those other partners? That's going to be one of the big questions. We were trying to get

00:42:59.500 an answer to 19 and 20 because of impeachment. And they have 51 intelligence. We were deprived

00:43:05.040 the truth on that. The moment of truth. Did Joe Biden actually take action to further his son's

00:43:11.300 business deals while he was vice president, while he was using the authority and color of the

00:43:14.540 government? If that's established this month, which it could be with Devin Archer, the true

00:43:20.360 ultimate insider in the Biden family business, then the question is going to confront Congress.

00:43:25.140 What are you going to do about it? And that will be that moment of whether we see an

00:43:29.100 urgent press towards accountability or the sort of rope-a-dope and excuse-making that prior

00:43:35.020 congressional Republican majorities gave the American public, such as they did on Russia

00:43:38.920 collusion. They never really got very much accountability for the Russia collusion

00:43:43.620 players. So this next week, we're going to get probably the most, the next month, we're going

00:43:49.080 to get the most important questions we possibly could get answered. And then the question is,

00:43:52.960 what will Republicans do about it? Or will they just go into another election without

00:43:57.460 meeting out accountability? That's what's really at stake in the next few months.

00:44:01.380 John Solomon, thank you for being with us here on The Great America Show. Thank you,

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The Great America Show - July 13, 2023

DEM IMPEACHMENT A COVER-UP

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