Sen. Bob Menendez has been indicted for influence peddling and bribery. This is the second time in 10 years that Sen. Menendez and his wife have been charged for corruption, but that case ended in a mistrial.
00:01:24.480Welcome to The Great America Show. Great to have you with us.
00:01:28.020As has been well established over the past decade, political corruption is a congenital disease of the Marxist Dem Party.
00:01:36.060And as the Bidens have demonstrated repeatedly, it's often a family affair and frequently afflicts the most powerful.
00:01:43.420The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has been indicted for influence peddling and bribery.
00:01:49.640The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York indicted Senator Bob Menendez and his wife for accepting bribes and for corruption.
00:01:59.680The indictment says they were effectively selling Senator Menendez's power and influence as chairman of one of the most powerful committees in the Senate.
00:02:09.860Here is U.S. Attorney Damian William announcing the indictment.
00:02:14.220The indictment alleges that Senator Menendez took several actions as part of this corrupt relationship.
00:02:19.240First, the indictment alleges that Senator Menendez used his power and influence, including his leadership role on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to benefit the government of Egypt in various ways.
00:02:32.960Among other actions, Senator Menendez allegedly provided sensitive, non-public U.S. government information to Egyptian officials and otherwise took steps to secretly aid the government of Egypt.
00:02:45.100We also allege that Senator Menendez improperly pressured a senior official at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to protect a lucrative monopoly that the government of Egypt had awarded to HANA, a lucrative monopoly that HANA then used to fund certain bribe payments.
00:03:02.920Second, the indictment alleges that Senator Menendez used his power and influence to try to disrupt a criminal investigation and prosecution undertaken by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office related to an associate and a relative of Uribe.
00:03:19.720Third, the indictment alleges that Senator Menendez used his power and influence to try to disrupt a federal prosecution of Davies in the District of New Jersey in two ways.
00:03:33.180First, by seeking to install a United States attorney who he thought could be influenced with respect to Davies.
00:03:41.180And second, by trying to influence that office to act favorably in Davies' case.
00:03:45.600And as we allege in the indictment, the senator agreed to do these things and use his power in this way because HANA was paying bribes, because Uribe was paying bribes, and because Davies was paying bribes.
00:04:00.100Fortunately, the public officials the senator sought to influence did not bend to the pressure.
00:04:07.280Now, as part of this investigation, special agents with the FBI executed search warrants on the residence and safe deposit box of Senator Menendez and Nadine Menendez in New Jersey.
00:04:19.660When they got there, they discovered approximately $500,000 of cash stuffed into envelopes and closets.
00:04:27.720Some of the cash was stuffed in the senator's jacket pockets.
00:04:30.560Some of the cash, some of the envelopes of cash contained Davies' fingerprints, Davies' DNA.
00:07:44.940This is an impeachment inquiry where we have every tool at our disposal to be able to get a speedy trial
00:07:50.760if and when we head to court over these personal bank records and these pseudonym emails.
00:07:55.840And it allows us to have a better standing when the department, when the cabinet agencies refuse to turn over information.
00:08:03.960So we're not having an impeachment hearing.
00:08:06.580We're having an impeachment inquiry because we've gotten to the point to where there's so much evidence of wrongdoing by the Biden family.
00:08:13.280And Joe Biden has lied so many times to the American people about his knowledge of his family's wrongdoing.
00:08:18.600Our guest today to take up the Biden impeachment inquiry and much more is journalist and former White House correspondent Emerald Robinson,
00:08:27.100host of The Absolute Truth on Lindell TV.
00:08:30.440Emerald, great to have you back with us on the show.
00:08:32.500It's only been a few weeks, but a lot's happened in that time.
00:08:36.200Let's start with the impeachment of Joe Biden.
00:08:38.260I know it's an impeachment inquiry, but surely it will lead to impeachment.
00:08:44.200I think that perhaps McCarthy doesn't want it to lead there, but it almost has to.
00:08:50.940Clearly, the announcement of impeachment is sort of, in timing, a lifeline for McCarthy,
00:08:57.100who is facing major pressure from within his party to not just do this kind of clean, continuing resolution and continue to fund all of the priorities that Democrats want,
00:09:07.800particularly the political persecutions, to go ahead and keep doing that.
00:09:12.800And McCarthy has been dragging his feet on impeachment, right?
00:09:17.060But here's the positives in talking with members of Congress, which I've done now over the last couple of days pretty extensively.
00:09:22.840While some of them don't necessarily have faith in the sincerity of Speaker McCarthy, and you understand why, and I'm sure your audience understands why.
00:09:32.400They do feel that at the end of the day, with this inquiry going forward, it does give them more powers, particularly subpoena powers, which they need.
00:09:43.980And it should lead to a subpoena of Hunter Biden, which is essential.
00:09:49.260And I would say, first and foremost, that is the first subpoena that they need to issue.
00:09:54.360The four investigating committees, I think, have a responsibility now to move this thing as fast and as quickly and be as hard-hitting as possible.
00:11:10.600And then you find the direct line between Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.
00:11:15.540But again, all that information has actually been out there, made available to the public in text messages, wire transfer documents, shell company documents, emails.
00:11:26.800And when Democrats and this is the counter narrative that is being headed and led by from the White House, the narrative strategy from Democrats and their stenographers in the corporate media is that there is no evidence.
00:11:40.160And they just say it as much as they can say it.
00:12:44.840Well, there's a good reason they feel that way, because historically, when it's been a Democrat administration, they've definitely been able to do that.
00:12:52.000And they've been able to when they're in the opposition to to lead the media as the DNC or, you know, the the opposing campaign.
00:12:59.820But I was on some of those email threads with Ian Sam's, given that I used to be a White House correspondent.
00:13:07.040And I'm still obviously in the database and in some of those chains.
00:13:10.380And like you said, he didn't lay out any point by point refutation to the allegations that are being made.
00:13:17.860And then he cited the Republicans like Colorado Congressman Kim Buck, who've been out who've been out there in the media suggesting they're not for impeachment.
00:13:28.340Then there's this other letter that I did not receive.
00:13:31.260I assume it's more friendly media must have received asking these outlets to to to go after Republicans more and to practice more scrutiny of of the Republican congressman.
00:13:49.900What I find interesting about this, Lou, and I'm still kind of working this out because, you know, this is this is kind of developing news, is that they felt the need to do that.
00:13:59.320Because I feel like usually and I wonder if you agree historically, they've not really had to ask for that.
00:14:07.860Right. Right. With the way that the corporate media, the legacy media works hand in glove with mostly Democrats, but just the uniparty in general, that would be an unspoken item.
00:14:20.780They would just know that that's what they're going to do.
00:14:23.460They wouldn't have to send a letter to get them to do that.
00:14:25.440So it makes me wonder, does the White House, for some reason, have reason to believe that the corporate media maybe isn't going to defend Joe Biden in this impeachment inquiry?
00:14:37.940Yeah, I think you make a great point and raise a very important question.
00:14:42.240My reaction to both of those those issues is this.
00:14:46.900One is that this is the third term of the Obama White House, no matter what anybody wants to say.
00:14:54.14070 of the first 100 people they hired, all Obama-ites and most of the executive power within the White House staff exists with Obama veterans, Susan Rice, et cetera, et cetera.
00:15:07.660But when it comes to the Obama administration, they had a very clever organization built around their there's white their reporting relationships.
00:15:20.680They would send out talking points every morning, every morning to the friendly, friendly media.
00:15:26.980It may be that they had not thought that was necessary because they were getting so much support that they hadn't organized it that way.
00:15:35.240It looks like this might be a form of catch up in that where they have to in public go with that statement seeking support from the left wing media.
00:16:14.900And I have to believe that the only reason that makes any sense to me, at least, is that they didn't have in place the talking points relationships with their friendly media.
00:16:24.340They apparently thought they'd have they had so much support.
00:16:33.700And that's definitely possible because I had noticed that during my time before I left the White House press press corps, they had become somewhat lazy.
00:16:45.700Just because they weren't having to try.
00:16:48.840And every once in a while, particularly Jen Psaki, who was good at her job, would get called out just.
00:16:54.880And I knew what she was like at the State Department before under the Obama administration.
00:16:58.560So I knew she just wasn't operating operating at her top capacity because she hadn't had to because they coddled her so much and they coddled the Biden administration.
00:17:08.960But I'll give you another another possibility, Lou, is that given that it is largely controlled by Obama, though, the administration as a whole, perhaps they see this as a way to rid themselves of Joe Biden.
00:17:25.380There are increasing conversations within and without Washington, D.C., I'm saying without as in other power centers across the country, one being Silicon Valley, that they're done with Joe Biden.
00:17:39.880In fact, one of my sources who is advising a group of tech oligarchs who want to be done with Joe Biden is that they are trying to operate a plan that would essentially.
00:17:53.840Get rid of Joe Biden by whatever means that they could, whether it be convince him not to run again, to step down, or if something else comes along that would make it impossible for him to be the nominee in 2024.
00:18:06.640They would like, and these are very powerful people, they would like for it to be Gavin Newsom at the top of the ticket.
00:18:17.800So the idea would be that Dianne Feinstein would step down and that Newsom would appoint Kamala Harris in that seat until which time they do, I guess, a special election.
00:18:46.020And then they would like to see these tech oligarchs.
00:18:49.620They would like to see the ambassador to Mexico in the vice presidential spot with Gavin Newsom.
00:18:57.540There's lots of money going behind this strategy.
00:19:01.100Whether they'll be successful, that's not clear, but I think it speaks to the environment in which there are powerful people within the Democrat Party looking at other scenarios outside of Joe Biden.
00:19:17.640And that's perhaps why maybe there's not a confidence level with the corporate media as to, you know, them actually effectively defending Joe Biden and attacking Republicans.
00:19:31.840And it isn't, you know, it is a it's an architecture that would make perfect sense, given the oligarchs experience as being determinate in the outcome.
00:19:42.560Certainly in 2020, this is a manufactured presidency.
00:19:47.680It's an illegitimate one manufactured in large measure by those who decided that they would use Joe Biden as the puppet that he is.
00:19:56.200And their masters would be many, but focused, if you will, the cabal of the left wing oligarchs, obviously, and the Obama, the Obama Marxists.
00:20:10.000I think that there's also a great force that's building right now for the Republicans, unfortunately for them.
00:20:15.340This this impeachment means that they're going to have significantly more power in their subpoenas and what they can demand of this administration.
00:20:24.940And there will be repercussions, whether it's through the appropriations process.
00:20:28.840It may be through any number of negotiations, whether it be over the the budget, which is upcoming here in September 30th.
00:20:36.120There are all sorts of ways to play it.
00:20:38.340The oligarchs had best be careful, because this power that they now have over the administration as they move forward with this inquiry also will be greater power when you're dealing with big tech and their monopolies, their oligopoly, if you will, that is for very much for real.
00:20:55.680It's not just an expression when we talk about the oligarchs of Silicon Valley.
00:20:59.480Those are are real in economic terms, oligarchs.
00:21:04.000But we also are dealing with Wall Street.
00:21:06.040And there is a lot to be uncovered here.
00:21:08.340And these committees, I have to tell you, I'm impressed.
00:21:12.820James Comer, the House Oversight Committee chairman, Jim Jordan, who I've known for some time, who I respect greatly, not only a judiciary, but he is also heading up the weaponization subcommittee, as well as Jason Smith at Ways and Means.
00:21:28.140This is immense power that corporate America had best be careful of, because in the hands of the Republicans who have historically, as you know, been pro-corporate, they are now they've been run over by the left wing Marxist corporate who are elite global elites that have been just destructive of both President Trump and the Republican Party.
00:21:52.340Well, I think the test is coming, right?
00:21:54.100I'll be interested to see if Republicans really exercise the power that they now have.
00:22:00.900And as they face the budget deadline on September 30th, it will be very telling, because that's something we focused on today, is how much power does the Republicans really have in the appropriations process?
00:22:13.140And how long could they really let a government shutdown happen?
00:22:16.800And see, you know, Lou, they're allergic to a government shutdown.
00:22:20.420They're allergic to actually going and cutting, you know, funding that benefits maybe the corporations or, you know, the money flowing to Ukraine.
00:22:29.840But this is their opportunity to show that they're ready and willing to do it.
00:22:33.420And technically, American people don't care if, you know, some of these government entities don't receive their funding.
00:22:39.360So let's see if Republicans hold the line on a continuing resolution and actually get some cuts and reshift the money priorities, because they have the chance to do it.
00:22:50.880They might tell you that they don't, but they do.
00:23:44.060Your thoughts about how much power they have, what you expect them to use?
00:23:48.560Well, those are two very different things.
00:23:51.600Now, the powers that they have, they could pass single appropriations bills to make sure they fund, like, Veterans Affairs and certain sensitive areas that would not play as well with the public if they were not funded.
00:24:06.780But then when we're talking government shutdown, everyone goes into a panic.
00:24:10.080And, Lou, I've covered so many of these looming and short government shutdowns.
00:24:15.440And everyone acts like it's the end of the world in Washington, D.C.
00:24:18.920But then you talk to people in real America and they're not affected at all, right?
00:24:25.020So really, 95 percent of government services are still funded.
00:24:28.560It's just sort of a small portion that aren't.
00:24:31.080So with that, and considering the way Americans feel, if you look at the polling about the weaponization of the Department of Justice and the FBI, this is as good an environment as any, as Republicans had in the past, to not go along and just pass a continuing resolution.
00:24:48.580And this will put the ball in Democrats' court because if Democrats won't come to the table and negotiate on some of the funding priorities that Republicans want or some of the cuts, then they can, even though the media will claim it's Republicans, Republicans will have some pretty good justifications, especially as we're watching the political persecution at both the federal and state level of a former president, right?
00:25:14.180They've never had this kind of environment to actually stand their ground in budget negotiations, and they can.
00:25:20.760And from what I understand in talking with several congressmen and some of their policy advisors is that they could really let a government shutdown go on for quite a while, and most Americans would not be affected.
00:25:37.580I am not, I am not, I'm more skeptical that they will do that, because you only really have the House Freedom Caucus members who are committed to doing that, right, and not the larger Republican conference overall.
00:25:50.760So I don't see that they will do that.
00:25:56.220I mean, we'll see how hard the House Freedom Caucus can push.
00:26:01.400Now, if McCarthy tries to thwart their efforts to hold the line on the budget, I do believe that there will be a motion to vacate the chair.
00:26:13.700Now, there's some mixed feelings about how that will go.
00:26:17.540I think the general consensus is that he will survive it, but it puts pressure on him, and it'll force Democrats to have to come in and save McCarthy, right?
00:26:26.800They'll have to come along and kind of give him a lifeline, and that will be politically bad for them.
00:26:32.820So right now, if Republicans realize it, they actually hold most of the political leverage, and they're in a good sitting position going to September 30th where they could actually change some things, if they will.
00:26:49.140And the political will is always the big question, isn't it?
00:26:53.100Particularly with Republicans, it seems.
00:26:55.440The reality that is now extant is that September 30th is approaching.
00:27:05.440They lost, the Republicans lost badly the debate over the struggle, whatever you want to call it, over the ceiling, the budget ceiling, the spending ceiling.
00:27:17.780And when you think about what they did, I beg the Republicans not to get involved in that fight because they've never, ever won it.
00:27:26.700Only one time you can argue, but it's a different circumstance, and that was with Newt Gingrich when he was Speaker.
00:27:32.700But that goes back too far, and it's too distant at the memories of most of these politicos.
00:27:37.300So why would they even get involved in that again?
00:27:42.380The best strategy, it seems to me, is for them to say, no, you're going to bring spending under control.
00:27:48.540These are the red lines, and this is the way it will be.
00:27:51.780Now, Mr. President, you're under impeachment.
00:28:07.720And meanwhile, we'll get back to subpoenaing everyone in your regime until we get the answers that the American people deserve about your rampant corruption and the Marxist Dems control of our entire federal government.
00:29:35.860Marco Polo had been sued by Hunter Biden's lawyer, Kevin Morris.
00:29:39.780And if that name sounds familiar to you, that is who Hunter Biden turned over his shares in that Chinese CCP-aligned company, BHR Partners.
00:29:53.660And that was actually after I found out after I had asked Jen Psaki sometime into Biden's presidency whether Hunter Biden had followed through on that promise.
00:30:06.560Remember, the campaign promise for him to rid himself of that investment.
00:30:09.800Well, now Hunter Biden himself is suing Marco Polo.
00:30:17.100And this is immediately the day after the impeachment proceedings were announced.
00:30:23.820So clearly, that was a trigger point for Hunter Biden, who has sort of stayed out of their orbit and tried to get the other people to deal with Marco Polo.
00:30:34.920And I talked to Garrett about what this means for them.
00:30:38.620And he said this will be more discovery opportunities for them, right?
00:30:43.340And they really understand the Hunter Biden material very, very well.
00:30:47.520But, I mean, look, they're getting sued left and right, and this is going to be a big one coming after them.
00:30:53.740But they're committed to continuing their project and doing the work that they believe is best for the American people and putting this information out about who the Bidens really are and what they've been doing.
00:31:03.300And it's absolutely no coincidence that suddenly Leonard Leo is also under assault now.
00:31:12.600All of a sudden, stories are ginning up, and he's being attacked, the leader of the, if you will, the conservative movement, particularly the judiciary.
00:31:22.680We're going to see a lot of reflux now, aren't we?
00:31:31.620So, and since they do have the corporate media and the legacy media in their camp, and that's, you know, but that's why so many Republicans are cowardly, right?
00:32:05.760And I feel like when they do attack someone in that way, when they really are speaking the truth, they're not really ultimately a casualty.
00:32:12.700And they look that way for a little while, but ultimately they reemerge and they're just fine.
00:32:22.760And truth is the first friend of this great democracy of ours.
00:32:27.560We better hope that everyone stays absolutely resolute in going after the wrongdoing of this administration, this president, and all of their supporters, whether they be oligarchs or whether they be Marxist Dems who somehow want to give continued expression to the political insight of one Barack Obama for what reason I can't imagine.
00:32:52.800Thanks so much. It's great talking with you, Emerald. I hope you'll come back soon. Thank you. Enjoyed our talk very much.
00:32:59.760Of course, Lou. I always enjoy talking with you.
00:33:02.620Emerald Robinson, great American, and her reporting is essential on these historic events.
00:33:08.440Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
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