The Great America Show - February 21, 2023


IF WE FLEW UKRAINIAN FLAGS OVER THE U.S., THEN BIDEN MIGHT DEFEND OUR AIRSPACE & BORDERS, SAYS JUDICIAL WATCH’S CHRIS FARRELL


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52 minutes

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150.49382

Word Count

7,878

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458

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

Judicial Watch Director of Research and Investigations Chris Farrell joins Lou Dobbs on The Great America Show to talk about Joe Biden's obsession with Ukraine, the disaster in Palestine, and the latest Chinese military coup attempt to seize control of Afghanistan.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show. Thanks for being with us.
00:00:05.360 Let's begin with Joe Biden and his obvious obsession with Ukraine.
00:00:10.500 Just as I was thinking a little bit about crediting Biden, with the guts at least,
00:00:15.900 to make a presidential visit to Kiev, it turns out the U.S. government reportedly warned Russia
00:00:22.100 there would be a tough response if there was any attack while Biden was in Kiev.
00:00:27.220 If so, all Biden really did was threaten World War III if the Russians ignored the U.S. threat
00:00:35.100 while he was in Ukraine. This is really crazy stuff when you think about it.
00:00:41.040 Biden in Ukraine also promising President Zelensky another half billion dollars
00:00:46.740 to add to the more than a hundred billion dollars already spent on Ukraine.
00:00:51.460 You might think that the big guy was working on a 10 percent commission.
00:00:57.220 Biden went to Ukraine. All right. But he never went to East Palestine, Ohio,
00:01:03.460 where residents are fearing for their health, their families and community after that Norfolk
00:01:09.100 Southern derailment. Water, air and soil contaminated by hazardous chemicals contained in at least five
00:01:16.940 tank cars on that train. The railroad blew them up, saying it was the safest thing to do.
00:01:23.000 What government agency approved that one? Do railroads regulate themselves? How did they decide what a
00:01:30.100 community should do? And Biden's FEMA refused to help out, help out in any way, saying that houses
00:01:38.500 weren't destroyed so they could do nothing. Sounds like a Kamala Harris plan, don't you think?
00:01:43.740 Remember when Harris called for prioritizing federal disaster responses based on race?
00:01:51.980 Well, President Trump announced he'll be there in Palestine tomorrow. And as soon as he did,
00:01:58.460 FEMA suddenly decided they just might be able to help out the good people of Palestine after all,
00:02:03.700 no matter what their race. Those residents complaining now of rashes, headaches, nausea,
00:02:10.340 sore throats and troubled breathing. Potential effects include risk of cancer in liver, lungs,
00:02:16.880 brain and blood. And the Biden CDC? Well, they're not there yet. It's been over two weeks.
00:02:24.080 They won't be there until later this week. Transportation moron Pete Buttigieg hasn't gone to
00:02:29.800 Palestine at all. Could it be that he doesn't want to breathe their air and drink their water?
00:02:35.000 And good old Joe's in Ukraine, not Palestine. He might start to think about sending some big
00:02:41.620 checks to the folks who have to fix Palestine and take care of the victims. Meanwhile, the Biden
00:02:48.120 regime is threatening China now, telling them not to send lethal aid to Russia, warning them. Well,
00:02:55.440 that while the United States and Europe are planning on sending more advanced weapons,
00:02:59.800 tanks, artillery, missiles and fighter jets to Ukraine. Does that sound rational to you? Go
00:03:07.360 figure. And another balloon is shown up over U.S. airspace, over Hawaii. Naturally, no one knows what
00:03:14.800 it is. They don't know whose it is or, as usual, what to do about it. Stay tuned, as they say. These
00:03:22.120 balloons are making fools of the U.S. military and civilian leadership. Let them fly, shoot them down or
00:03:28.280 just watch them on three-year-old radar tracking recordings. These balloons are paralyzing the U.S.
00:03:34.840 air defenses and the Pentagon. And our guest here today on The Great America Show is Judicial Watch's
00:03:41.040 Director of Research and Investigations, Chris Farrell. Chris, thanks for being with us and great to have
00:03:46.620 you back. I want to get your read on those balloons and the flummox Biden regime. As they first froze,
00:03:53.200 then they tried momentarily to do something which they don't frequently practice, which is telling
00:03:58.180 the truth. Our impaired president and the military establishment just simply conducted themselves badly
00:04:04.520 and look even worse. Well, it's a disgrace, number one. Number two, Mark Milley, of course,
00:04:12.460 our illustrious chairman of the Joint Chiefs, appears to have been doing the bidding of his Chinese
00:04:18.400 masters. Once again, the man who should be court-martialed. And then the notion that we're
00:04:23.660 going to let a balloon traverse our airspace in total defiance of our sovereignty and continue to
00:04:31.400 do its collection mission, then transmit all the data back to China and then erase itself and then have
00:04:38.840 the air force to shoot it down is just insanity. And on the heels of Afghanistan, on the heels of a wide
00:04:47.880 open border, how else is the Biden administration going to neglect or endanger the American public?
00:04:56.440 I guess maybe if we flew Ukrainian flags over the country, we would defend our airspace. But
00:05:03.500 if there's an American flag over it, then we don't have to worry about it.
00:05:08.180 It was stunning to watch the way in which the government just didn't respond. Started on the 28th,
00:05:17.560 apparently, according to the government. The 28th, the Aleutian Islands, and then moving through the
00:05:24.820 southern Alaska into Canada, into the United States, northern Idaho, and then Montana, sighted
00:05:32.820 by numerous citizens with iPhones and whatever other camera they had. They would never have said a
00:05:42.420 word, would they? They being this federal government, if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes.
00:05:50.700 And my recollection is that there were reports from commercial airline passengers who looked out of
00:05:56.480 their plane window and seen something floating along. And again, you know, it becomes sort of a hazard
00:06:01.940 in navigation. Normally, the FAA puts out these NOTAMs or these notices to airmen and mariners about
00:06:09.220 dangerous conditions. And there's this object floating along, and they'd rather keep it under wraps. But
00:06:16.420 the notion that it posed no threat to the American people, which is what the Pentagon spokesman kept
00:06:20.660 saying over and over again, is a lie. It's just a lie.
00:06:24.100 And a huge lie. But this government of ours is out of control. And when I say out of control,
00:06:33.140 it's not just a figure of speech. It is out of the control of the civilian leadership. When the military
00:06:41.220 is not notifying the commander in chief, the National Security Council, what's going on with an intrusion,
00:06:48.180 a provocation like this? This is stunning stuff. And then we learn, to the degree that we can rely on
00:06:57.380 it, that there were three incursions. That was the first blush in defense by some some fool in the
00:07:03.620 Defense Department to say, well, it happened to Trump, too. Well, in saying that, they had to reveal that
00:07:09.860 they notified none of the civilian leadership of those incursions.
00:07:13.780 This is all, you know, an attempted sort of a CYA maneuver that actually blows up in their face.
00:07:23.220 It's as idiotic as Hunter Biden acknowledging that the laptops actually are his because he wants to
00:07:30.340 threaten people to shut up talking about his laptops. It's the same mentality, the same
00:07:35.700 faulty logic where they admit that they've made even more errors than they started out talking about.
00:07:41.620 In this case, it looks like we have right now. I know the term is used somewhat loosely and I don't
00:07:48.980 mean to be in that grouping. I truly believe that we are looking at the incipient point of a
00:07:55.620 constitutional crisis in this country. We are seeing our tradition of civilian and by the way, our
00:08:02.420 constitutional relationship between civilian leadership and the military breached and breached
00:08:08.820 through two administrations by the United States military, its general officers. I think that this
00:08:18.500 couldn't be bigger, frankly.
00:08:22.020 It is. I mean, it seems like one sort of incident or one event or one, you know, unfortunate,
00:08:30.420 like they used love to use passive voice. Mistakes were made, right? But it isn't. It points to a much
00:08:36.420 larger systemic problem with, and it's everything from leadership failures politically to leadership
00:08:45.300 failures within the military, a breakdown of the chain of command, and inability to identify real
00:08:54.660 clear threats to the public and deal with them in a manner that shows strength and authority and
00:09:01.220 the proper sort of defense of our own sovereignty that we should be doing. Instead, it's waffling
00:09:06.900 and wobbling and pearl clutching and dissembling and then lying about it after the fact. You're
00:09:13.860 trying to put a smiley face on something that's just horrific. And it sends the worst possible message,
00:09:21.140 not just to the Chinese, but to other bad actors around the world.
00:09:24.260 Yeah. Instead of a smiley face, I tend to think of this in terms of emojis. This would be a Millie
00:09:33.300 face. General Millie, once again, involved in this breach of responsibility to the civilian leadership
00:09:42.420 and being part of, apparently to this point, a deliberate plan, if not outright conspiracy on the
00:09:52.740 part of the general staff, to not take instances, incidents and events like this to the beyond the
00:10:03.220 Secretary of Defense. If you actually like the Secretary of Defense, you can talk to him or her,
00:10:08.900 I guess. But that's optional. But it is not optional to take these kinds of events and incidents to the
00:10:17.860 National Security Council and to the President, God forbid, the President of the United States.
00:10:24.340 And Millie has presided over a string of disasters that any other chairman, any other journal
00:10:33.620 officer would resign over, right? So first of all, there's the crazy phone call to the two crazy phone
00:10:40.900 calls to his Chinese counterpart. The phone call documented with Pelosi is publicizing all those
00:10:48.100 things in two different books a year apart. Then he presided over the disaster in Afghanistan.
00:10:54.820 All of his advice and all of his predictions concerning how Ukraine was going to turn out
00:11:00.180 with the Russians have been either wrong or late or inaccurate. And now this Chinese balloon situation,
00:11:10.180 I mean, what other grave, gross error of judgment or bad advice or presiding over a slow motion
00:11:22.900 disaster like Afghanistan, what else would he have to do to finally be in a position where he would be
00:11:30.500 embarrassed enough to resign or where he would be fired? Well, what has to happen? Do we have to have
00:11:37.140 another sort of Pearl Harbor or 9-11 event? Well, amongst the explanations were that General Mattis,
00:11:49.220 for example, at the Department of Defense, didn't want to tell Trump about those incursions by balloons
00:11:54.420 because he felt this man whose name is Mad Dog Mattis felt that President Trump was too aggressive.
00:12:06.100 Absolutely crazy. I mean, this is psychotic behavior on the part of the uppermost officers in the U.S. military.
00:12:17.380 And it goes on and on, and it's inexplicable why there has been no reaction on the part of the Republican Party,
00:12:28.980 certainly now, and the Democrat Party for that matter, but that's because we know that they're aligned
00:12:34.900 with this deep state interagency conspiracy against political leadership. It's a stunning moment,
00:12:48.180 and I don't know that there's ever been anything approaching this. I guess the closest thing we have
00:12:55.140 is seven days in May, you know, a long ago book and movie talking about the military taking control
00:13:03.220 of the government. Our military has been in de facto control of this government through much,
00:13:09.220 if not most, of the Trump presidency and also now with Joe Biden. If they were concerned about an
00:13:16.340 overly aggressive president in Trump, they must surely be just as concerned and frightened by an impaired
00:13:26.100 president like Biden. And it begs the question now, what else have you not told the chain of command,
00:13:36.020 the leadership about? These are lies or these are errors of omission. So what else are you not being
00:13:44.100 forthcoming and straight about? What's occurred that hasn't been reported? What have you let get away?
00:13:50.260 What have you turned a blind eye to or misreported or underreported? It undermines the faith and
00:13:58.660 confidence of the American people. It's deeply corrosive to the whole structure of the chain of command
00:14:05.700 as laid out in the Constitution and all the other regulations and statutes under that that lay out
00:14:12.580 the responsibilities and authorities of the military command structure. So now, so the starting point is,
00:14:18.580 okay, we know you've been lying or you've been deliberately omitting material facts that affect
00:14:25.780 the nation. What else is there? And how do you ever know you've ever gotten to the bottom of it?
00:14:32.180 That's the really corrosive part of this. It's corrosive. It's corrupt. We've known that there was
00:14:39.060 considerable political corruption, horrible amounts, pervasive amounts of corruption in the intelligence
00:14:47.620 community. To see that it is also extant in the uppermost regions of the U.S. military
00:14:55.620 is deeply, deeply concerning. The fact that the military was comfortable making national security
00:15:03.220 decisions without command authority from the President of the United States is just breathtaking.
00:15:14.660 There's no other way to express it. It is just stunning stuff.
00:15:21.860 And I don't see anybody, as you've mentioned, either A, calling it out or B,
00:15:29.540 trying to come up with a solution. I mean, we can sit here and yell about it and we should,
00:15:34.580 but then somebody, whether it's the House or Senate Armed Services Committee, whether it's,
00:15:41.380 there has to be some accounting for it. You just can't say, boy, that's really,
00:15:45.860 that's bad and crazy. Okay, that's true. So what's the solution? And I, again, another leadership
00:15:51.460 failure on the part of the Republicans, there's nobody really stepping up and saying, look, this is
00:15:56.260 out of control and this is how we have to fix it. It's just left hanging out there. And that's what's
00:16:02.020 infuriating as well. I want to hear from President Trump, who is the leader of the Republican Party.
00:16:11.060 I want to hear from Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, holding the third most powerful position
00:16:18.420 in government. He has to stand up here and demand answers for the American people because the vice
00:16:26.580 president isn't doing it and she would be incoherent if she attempted it. And the president isn't doing
00:16:32.980 it because he is just fine with maintaining his vacation time at his Wilmington, Delaware residence
00:16:41.220 or in, uh, in, uh, in, uh, Delaware. Uh, right. It's, it just, I, I, I have to say they have to speak
00:16:52.100 up and to hear these congressmen and senators go on Sundays, uh, shows with their little briefings
00:16:58.020 that they've had from the defense department about, yes, this happened, uh, in the Trump administration,
00:17:03.860 but no dates, no, uh, certain definition of what occurred. Uh, and we do know that the president,
00:17:11.060 it was, they left that out. Didn't they, Chris, they left out that part when they were trying to do
00:17:16.020 is what you called CYA. They left out the part that, you know, the president of the United States,
00:17:24.180 the national security, uh, council, and the director of national intelligence were all not informed at
00:17:31.980 once. Even it's just, again, I go back to it. I can't believe something like this could have happened
00:17:40.140 repeatedly over the course of years in the United States of America. The de facto, the de facto coup
00:17:47.820 occurred. Uh, we talked about the plot to overthrow the president. Well, he was overthrown as far as the
00:17:54.240 U S military was concerned. The coup was successful. You are correct. It's, it's, uh, uh, used to refer
00:18:05.100 to it as a soft coup in the sense that, you know, the tanks weren't rolling through the streets and
00:18:11.420 generals didn't seize the levers of government overtly, but, but the result is the same. The net
00:18:17.620 result is the same. I can't imagine a solution that doesn't involve firing the entire general staff
00:18:25.220 of the United States military. And I mean, every damn branch, this is ignorance beyond belief. Uh,
00:18:31.680 and we need to get to the bottom of, uh, of what had happened, who was involved and who knew about it
00:18:37.940 and said nothing, who didn't resign their posts rather than be a part of this. Uh, this is outrageous.
00:18:44.220 And I don't want to hear any excuses from anyone about their conduct and their decision-making or how
00:18:51.320 these were tough choices because it's all bull crap. This is laid out in the constitution and these
00:18:57.760 officers have taken a high oath to that constitution and they have broken that oath in every instance
00:19:05.200 in which they did not follow the constitution and reporting up the chain of command to their
00:19:10.320 civilian leadership. Uh, what do you think will happen?
00:19:16.300 Well, uh, up with you with regard to, uh, Republican leadership needs to, uh, not just kind of wave their
00:19:23.800 arms and yell, but actually come up with a strategy to correct the problem. And so, uh, like you,
00:19:30.820 I'd like to see president Trump come out with, uh, some sort of a framework or strategy as to how he
00:19:36.580 would, how he would fix it. And you want to talk about a president who's been screwed by general
00:19:41.720 officers, uh, whether it was Mattis or Kelly or all the other folks who he thought he could believe
00:19:48.800 in, uh, remember that, you know, uh, it's president Trump, unfortunately that, that chose Milley to be,
00:19:55.880 uh, the chairman of the JCS again, a guy he thought he could believe in. Uh, this is an instance where
00:20:02.320 president, president Trump's unfortunate personnel choices really comes back to haunt us. And then I
00:20:08.200 want to see what, uh, what McCarthy's going to do. He needs to get, uh, Milley under oath in front of
00:20:13.980 congressional committees and they need to drill down on this guy. He's got a horrific, uh, track
00:20:21.420 record that I detailed a few moments ago. Uh, there's gotta be, you know, somebody has to ask
00:20:26.400 him, Hey, uh, general Milley, at what point do you resign? Well, what's it going to take? You know,
00:20:31.800 when do you, when will you be shamed enough publicly? Um, but those are that got to play hard
00:20:38.520 ball and enough, you know, incessant talking about it. They got to do something. Yeah. Uh,
00:20:44.220 without question. Well, I've got a couple of recommendations and, uh, you know, uh, please
00:20:49.040 contribute yours. But the first thing I would do if I were the speaker of the house is call for the
00:20:54.140 immediate resignation of general Milley, uh, and everyone associated with that, uh, that decision
00:21:01.680 tree that left out the commander in chief of the United States military. Uh, and I would mean now,
00:21:07.740 uh, I would march, I would have them marched out of there if they didn't understand that this was,
00:21:12.880 uh, their, uh, their end to their career. Uh, I would make it clear to them. Uh, I, and I would
00:21:19.300 organize a select committee right now, a bipartisan, by the way, select committee, uh, and, uh, to
00:21:26.900 investigate the, the, this, uh, coup, uh, that is, that has been in place, uh, for years now.
00:21:36.160 Now, this cannot stand and everyone associated has to be not simply resigned, but I mean,
00:21:43.700 fired and without benefits. I mean, I don't want to hear that a single taxpayer dollar
00:21:49.180 goes into their pockets, any, any one of them.
00:21:54.420 Well, you know, and then Billy Mitchell was court-martialed in the 1920s for a fraction of what,
00:22:00.900 uh, these guys, uh, were done. And of course, Billy Mitchell ended up being vindicated by history and
00:22:06.540 ended up making a bomber after him. But Billy Mitchell simply criticized, uh, the way in which
00:22:11.780 the government was funding and supporting, uh, military aviation. He talked outside of, you know,
00:22:18.100 the four corners of what his, of what his responsibility was. And, uh, they, they convicted him and he
00:22:24.660 resigned his commission and, uh, died about three years later. But, uh, you know, it turns out Billy
00:22:32.540 Mitchell was actually correct in this criticism. You look at what Millie's done, Billy Mitchell's
00:22:37.840 offenses, you know, are infinitesimally smaller than with the kind of shenanigans that Millie's been
00:22:44.520 up to. Millie needs to be court-martialed. I wrote, I wrote an op-ed in the Washington Times back in
00:22:49.860 September detailing it of why it should be court-martialed. But, and that's the way, that's,
00:22:55.540 that is the technique or the, the, the, the, the device to be used, not just to get to the bottom
00:23:01.900 of this, but also to strip these people of their rank and of their retirements. There needs to be
00:23:06.800 a cleaning house like you've talked about, but the mechanism for doing it is our military courts
00:23:12.060 marshal. And that is the way to, and look, the army in particular, each of the services, but each of the
00:23:19.100 services, I'm speaking to the army, that's my, my experience. The army has an obligation to police
00:23:24.000 itself. They can't let this kind of stuff just slide. There is no more vivid example of breaking
00:23:30.900 our laws, our constitution than this one in which they decided to supersede civilian authority in
00:23:38.300 the Pentagon. It's an outrage. Uh, and, and there has to be accountability and it has to start now.
00:23:46.600 And I mean, by now, now would not be too soon to begin to set up that select committee and demand
00:23:53.640 the, uh, the resignations of all of those people who were involved, give them an opportunity to
00:23:59.400 voluntarily step aside. But my God, that investigation had better sweep through the Pentagon,
00:24:05.120 uh, and also, uh, any other, uh, part of the so-called, uh, deep state, uh, where there has been
00:24:13.460 complicity, uh, with knowledge here. Uh, I want to turn to, uh, as well, uh, I have to, I have to do
00:24:21.700 this. I have to ask you about how your, your efforts to learn what 50 years, just about 50 years of, uh,
00:24:30.540 Joe Biden's public career, uh, which is hidden away at the university of Delaware, you and, uh,
00:24:36.940 judicial watch trying to learn more, uh, tell us what you've run into, uh, and what the prospects are.
00:24:45.340 So, uh, we discovered, it was widely reported that, uh, surprise, surprise, uh, Joe Biden was hiding
00:24:55.420 all of his records and documents for his time as a Senator at the university of Delaware. And that
00:25:02.860 was a secret deal that was forged between, uh, Biden and the university of Delaware, basically
00:25:11.020 to keep everything locked up essentially forever or until such time as, uh, you know, Biden decided
00:25:17.020 that he wanted his, his file sort of curated and then released in order to make him look like he's
00:25:23.500 a genius and a hero. Good luck with that. So we sued, uh, in Delaware court because it's
00:25:29.740 the university of Delaware. So we went to a Delaware state court under the open records act.
00:25:34.460 Delaware has its own opens, open records law because we believe that the American public has
00:25:39.980 a right to Biden's records. If he's going to put them all together and he's going to archive them at
00:25:45.340 the, at a public university, well, let's see what they are. Well, university of Delaware, you know,
00:25:49.900 fought tooth and nail. No, no, no, no, no. Uh, this effort of ours is, um, is also, uh, being done in
00:25:58.860 conjunction in conjunction with daily caller news foundation. Uh, that's who we filed the,
00:26:04.140 the request for their, their effort to get reporting on this. And, uh, there's, you know,
00:26:10.860 eighteen hundred and fifty boxes of documents and a ton, an enormous amount of electronic records as
00:26:16.780 well. And, uh, the Biden's are fighting like hell to keep them secret. And we're in court pressing to
00:26:24.780 have them released. And so we've been back and forth in court to do so. How does a vice president
00:26:31.420 take ownership or as a U S Senator take ownership of all those documents? This is, this is without
00:26:39.980 question, the people's business. This is, if it, if there is a case to be made for ownership by a
00:26:47.740 senator of his public records, that's madness on its face, isn't it? Yeah, it is. But, you know,
00:26:55.580 he absconded with them and has them, has them under lock and key at the University of Delaware.
00:27:01.260 We've been fighting this now for nearly two years. We originally filed our requests for access under the
00:27:08.700 Delaware open records law, the Freedom of Information Act in Delaware. We filed for that back in April of
00:27:14.220 2020. So now we're, we're sneaking up on, on a two year anniversary of going back and forth in court
00:27:20.140 over this. The superior court in Delaware, uh, you know, sided with the university. We've appealed it.
00:27:27.500 And I think that the, the, the latest revelations about how Biden really abused and misused and, and, uh,
00:27:37.820 broke all the rules about classified information has actually kind of upped the burden or the
00:27:43.820 pressure on the University of Delaware to be forthcoming about what they have tucked away in
00:27:49.340 those 1800 plus boxes. And, uh, the, the gigabytes, I think it's 415 gigabytes of electronic records.
00:27:59.100 Uh, so we gotta, we have to get to it. We have to, the public needs to know what he's hiding in there.
00:28:03.900 Uh, and these documents appear to be at least, I mean, I could just off the top of my head, I would
00:28:11.260 suggest one, uh, you said absconded. I would say he stole these documents. Number two, I'd like to know
00:28:17.980 the court, uh, decisions on instances in which a Senator has had the Temeri to take all of his public
00:28:25.980 documents and claim them as his, uh, vice presidents don't even have ownership, do they, of their own
00:28:33.020 documents? A president does. I understand that. Yep. And there's a, there's a presidential records
00:28:39.740 act, uh, you know, governing that entire process. Uh, my, I want to know if Biden stole classified
00:28:49.020 documents and has them squirreled away. We've seen, we've seen what he's done as vice president.
00:28:55.260 Now, while he was a Senator, he had access to classified information because he was on
00:28:59.340 Senate foreign relations committee and other, uh, committee assignments where he received
00:29:04.540 classified briefings. And so who knows what he's ripped off and has tucked away and, uh, you know,
00:29:10.780 hiding it at a university archive. And the university is under, is a public institution has got to be
00:29:19.660 accountable for this kind of an agreement. This is an effort to obstruct justice. Uh, in my opinion,
00:29:27.980 uh, at the very least, when there is an active investigation of this president, uh, underway in
00:29:34.220 the house of representatives, they should have every, every, every damn document the guy ever messed
00:29:40.620 with. And look, we, we, we have a long track record going after public institutions that are trying to
00:29:48.540 hide documents. Uh, that everybody knows our federal work using the federal freedom of information act,
00:29:53.980 but there, there have been other public figures who've tried to tuck stuff away and hide it.
00:29:58.540 I remember governor Dean up in Vermont, he tried to broker some cute deal where he was going to hide
00:30:05.100 his records for 24 years. And he even bragged, I think on the New England public radio about,
00:30:11.500 he really didn't want anybody looking at his stuff, which is like waving a red flag for us. Right.
00:30:17.260 So we went up there to Vermont and got a hold of the public records. And we had to fight a Vermont
00:30:23.740 court that was very, you know, hard over his, on his, uh, trying to keep his stuff secret. And,
00:30:30.380 uh, these, look, all these phony politicians love to run on their record, right? They would,
00:30:36.220 oh, I've got a strong record. I've got a great voting record and I've done this project and that
00:30:41.660 project. And I've been involved on these committees and I've done this and that. And
00:30:46.700 they all want to pretend that they're running on their record, but they also are very quick to hide
00:30:50.700 their record as fast as they possibly can. So Joe Biden was sitting over in the U S Senate for what,
00:30:56.460 32 years. I mean, it was some enormous amount of time. You can imagine all the different crazy stuff.
00:31:03.980 And he's got a record of, of, of making, making and doing outrageous things, outrageous statements,
00:31:11.980 outrageous personal conduct. There's a woman who's gone public saying that he sexually assaulted her,
00:31:18.140 that she filed papers and records with his office. We're wondering if that's hidden, tucked away at the,
00:31:23.900 at the university library or archives. There's a lot of unanswered questions that really need to be
00:31:29.340 exposed. And, uh, we're going to keep slugging away on this appeal legally to get, uh, to get to the
00:31:36.460 records themselves. You know, the university of Pennsylvania and the university of Delaware
00:31:41.580 have a lot to explain. Uh, and the, and I know it's very unpopular with elected officials
00:31:48.780 to go after public institutions like that, or the, that are sometimes so allied with one party or the
00:31:55.420 other, one Senator, one Congressman or the other, but it's gotta be done. We have got to end this,
00:32:02.140 uh, defiance of the public's right to know your job at a judicial watch has never been more critical
00:32:08.460 to the nation than right now. I really believe this is a high watermark, uh, for, for you and all the
00:32:15.100 judicial watcher is doing, uh, to, to bring the truth to the surface for the American people, whether
00:32:22.220 it's Joe Biden, whether it is, uh, one governor or one, uh, part of the deep state, it all has to happen.
00:32:30.940 Uh, we've really got to end this, uh, denial of the public's right to know because right now they,
00:32:38.060 the national left-wing media, uh, is no longer an objective source of, uh, uh, journalism in this country.
00:32:46.700 Uh, we've got to have judicial watch. We've got to have, uh, the best of our public servants engaged,
00:32:53.580 uh, reaching, uh, into every dark recess to root out what is runaway, uh, political corruption in
00:33:02.140 our public institutions, whether they're universities or whether they're governments, your thoughts.
00:33:07.580 I agree with you a hundred percent. And, you know, the, the media is so complicit at this point,
00:33:14.140 you know, they, they actively cover up and phony up and water down and double talk so much stuff.
00:33:22.460 If you look at Biden's track record, I mean, really give it a hard look. Uh, if you look at the way in
00:33:28.140 which he's handled these classified documents compared to the way in which the Trump issue was,
00:33:33.100 was handled with regard to his right, rightful, uh, keeping of presidential records and how the
00:33:41.020 archives responded, the archives issued seven press releases about the Trump document, uh, issue and
00:33:47.420 the raid and what he had and what he didn't have. They haven't issued one document, uh, one, one press
00:33:52.460 release on the, on the Biden situation. And there's, there's an explanation for you. Seven, seven
00:33:58.940 press releases about Trump, zero about Biden. And the national archives have much to answer for,
00:34:05.420 and I suspect will be answering for, uh, their conduct. They're again, just another outpost of,
00:34:12.380 uh, uh, of the deep state. Uh, and they are being used as a, uh, as a tool and facilitator, uh,
00:34:21.580 for the Marxist Dem party in this country. I've, I've got to ask you now about something that's, uh,
00:34:27.580 up on my Wikipedia, uh, page. And I, I want to warn everybody. If you go to my Wikipedia page,
00:34:33.340 it is a mess. Wikipedia has got a mess there, but among the things there, uh, and again, uh,
00:34:39.900 our producer, John Fossett brought this to my attention. Uh, it comes under the heading, Chris,
00:34:44.540 and I knew you would just love to hear this one. The George Soros conspiracy theories, uh, referring to,
00:34:50.780 to, uh, to, uh, uh, my quote, peddling numerous conspiracy theories about the Jewish American
00:34:57.740 philanthropist. Think about the number of times you've heard George Soros, uh, referred to, uh,
00:35:03.660 with the, these, uh, adjectives, Jewish American philanthropist, George Soros. Uh, it's hilarious.
00:35:11.420 And then I've referred to him as quote, an evil SOB and without quotes insidious, your reaction.
00:35:20.140 And I should tell everybody, Chris and I have a history when it comes to George Soros.
00:35:25.740 We do. And, uh, you know, it's an incredibly dishonest representation. I'm, I'm looking at the,
00:35:32.700 at the page now. Uh, it is loaded with false and misleading commentary. And, uh, it is a subject
00:35:42.060 really, uh, this is projection on a grand scale. So, uh, George Soros has an organization called
00:35:49.500 the Open Society Foundation. Uh, it is, uh, some would say notorious, but there's certainly a large
00:35:56.380 and influential, influential operation. A couple of years back, Soros transferred 18
00:36:02.060 billion with a B dollars of his personal wealth into the Open Society Foundation. And the organization
00:36:08.540 itself also receives huge amounts of taxpayer money, U.S. taxpayer money for its operations.
00:36:14.940 Back in November of 2018, after this explosion, uh, of criticism that, uh, that you're making reference
00:36:23.260 to based off your Wikipedia page, uh, yours truly and judicial watch published a 30 page report.
00:36:30.140 That 30 page report has 152 footnotes in it. So it is, it is thoroughly excruciatingly documented.
00:36:39.020 And it talks about Soros and some of the operations that, you know, the Open Society Foundation
00:36:45.420 has engaged in. So they've done things like promoted open borders of Mexico. They've gone in and funded
00:36:52.780 anti-capitalist race, racialist type organizations like Black Lives Matter. They were active with
00:37:00.380 other organizations involved in the riots at Ferguson, Missouri. They've gone after our electoral
00:37:06.060 system, uh, system. They love abortion on demand. They think that's taxpayers should promote that.
00:37:13.660 Uh, they've opposed counter-terrorism efforts by the U.S. government under President Trump.
00:37:18.700 Uh, all kinds of, you know, leftist, leftist operations that you, you could possibly imagine.
00:37:27.020 And, and this report, this 30 page report that we published in November of 2018, it documents the
00:37:34.300 financial and staffing nexus between Open Society Foundation and the United States government. So when we
00:37:41.740 say that, look, there's an agenda being advanced at the U.S. taxpayer expense, you go into this report,
00:37:49.100 you can see where the money's going. We've documented every bit of it. And you can see the revolving door
00:37:55.260 of personnel staffing people who are with Open Society, then they go into the U.S. government,
00:38:01.260 and they're the undersecretary of state for blah, blah, blah. Then they rotate back out into Open Society.
00:38:07.660 And then the next administration, sure enough, they go back into government. It's a rotating door. Uh,
00:38:13.660 and so again, excruciating detail, uh, 28 pages of text with 154 footnotes. We went in and decided we
00:38:22.780 were just going to document the hell out of it so that when people put up crazy Wikipedia posts like
00:38:27.900 they do, uh, we could knock it down with facts. Well, and, and good luck with that. I, years ago,
00:38:36.460 I decided not to even raise a question of inaccuracy on my Wikipedia page. It was ridiculous.
00:38:43.180 Wikipedia picked the worst picture they could find of me. They're a left-wing outfit. There's no way
00:38:48.300 you're going to deal rationally with them. There's nothing about them that's going to be fair.
00:38:52.460 Anyone who expects that from Wikipedia is going to be sorely disappointed. Uh, at least I can say
00:38:59.900 with absolute assurance, I certainly have been. Uh, I, I love this, uh, reference though. Uh,
00:39:06.860 Fox stated that the guest Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch would no longer be booked and that the program
00:39:12.060 episode would be, would be withdrawn from the Fox News archives as if to, as if to say that we,
00:39:20.300 indeed you and me were in the wrong, uh, you and I were in the wrong, uh, it was one of those things
00:39:27.900 that's sounds like a tacit approval of the, uh, the complaint, uh, from the Soros, uh, folks, uh, I, which
00:39:34.860 I, by the way, I apologize to you at the time. I will apologize to you throughout my life, uh, for that. Uh,
00:39:40.860 it was what I think the sorriest moment in Fox's history. Uh, and they've had a couple, but that was certainly
00:39:47.260 one of them. Well, you, and I appreciate that, but of course you had absolutely nothing to do with
00:39:52.300 it. Well, that's true too, but cowardly, cowardly, uh, administrators and, and, uh, and corporate
00:39:59.980 executives who, uh, who, you know, completely misread and made stupid decisions about things that were
00:40:10.060 objectively false and you, you had absolutely nothing to do with it. Although I, I always
00:40:15.580 deeply appreciate that. Just your, your kind words about it, but your friendship on this,
00:40:21.580 no, no guilt or blame falls on you. It's the idiots at, uh, at the Fox corporate offices.
00:40:27.900 Well, I, I will, you, as you well know, I fought this, uh, with everything I had, uh, and, uh,
00:40:35.740 uh, like it's happened a couple of times, uh, and I finally lost a fight. Uh, but, uh, this is, uh,
00:40:45.980 outrageous. It, it's just unbelievable. Uh, and by the way, uh, I think it's, I should spell it out
00:40:53.020 for folks. I am absolutely pro, uh, Israel. There is never, has never been any, uh, suggestion
00:41:02.140 otherwise by any of my conduct or anything I've ever said, but yet they had, this was their standard.
00:41:08.620 Let's protect your edge. And yes, I do still believe he's a evil son of a gun. Uh, I cleaned
00:41:15.900 that up because my wife is within hearing distance. Uh, it is, uh, and he is, I mean, we, we know for a
00:41:24.620 fact this business about, uh, a, uh, anti-Semitic trope. Now that is one of the worst kinds of, uh,
00:41:31.100 nonsense, uh, that they could come up with because in point of fact, Soros had in the
00:41:37.900 administration, the Biden administration had one person in every transition team, uh, for the
00:41:44.460 departments, uh, some 17, uh, people, uh, organized around that. And for them to want to
00:41:51.580 argue about the extent of the insinuation of the Soros, uh, philosophy, ideology, and programs
00:41:58.220 is, is, is mind boggling. Uh, it doesn't stand out. Yeah. A hundred percent. And, uh, poor Joe,
00:42:06.060 the, the Genova, I just, they quote him as saying on my show, George Soros controls a very large part
00:42:13.820 of the career foreign service, the United States state department. He now controls activities of
00:42:18.060 FBI agents overseas who work for NGOs. That was very evident in Ukraine. Now that was in 2019,
00:42:25.900 ladies and gentlemen, that was prescient. That wasn't just, you know, that, that was not, uh,
00:42:32.780 anything anti-Semitic. He used George Soros's name. He suggested precisely what were the facts
00:42:39.980 that Soros supported people were with throughout, uh, the state department. And by the way,
00:42:46.860 in particular in Ukraine. That is exactly correct. Joe said nothing wrong or inaccurate. It's, uh,
00:42:56.940 the fact that he said it is what makes them crazy and that's why they try to smear him. Yeah,
00:43:01.660 absolutely. And of course, uh, by the way, there's a pretty, pretty well-placed, uh, uh,
00:43:07.580 Soros acolyte at the state department right now. His name is Tony Blinken. Uh, he, uh,
00:43:14.620 and his parents are very close to the Soros, uh, family and organization as well. And by the way,
00:43:20.780 there's a, there's a sudden, uh, lifting of, uh, uh, taboos around George Soros's name,
00:43:29.020 Matt Palumbo. And I mentioned this to him the other day, a bright young author. Uh, the book is
00:43:34.860 the man behind the curtain, the secret, uh, network of George Soros, uh, which I recommend highly to
00:43:41.020 everyone. It, and he said it this way, uh, uh, that, you know, having done the book and I said
00:43:50.300 to him, the reality is suddenly we're hearing his name. We, there is no longer a taboo. I mean,
00:43:56.860 people were in hushed, uh, retreat every time they even thought about mentioning his name in national
00:44:04.540 television. I'm talking about powerful networks, uh, powerful news networks and something's changing
00:44:12.380 here. And I don't know rightly what it is, but suddenly they, the taboo has been lifted.
00:44:20.300 And, uh, I don't know what it is either, but I, you know, there are people that have insisted on
00:44:24.700 reporting facts regardless of what the, the, uh, the drum beat from the organized left is,
00:44:31.260 um, and realize that, you know, the open society foundation, uh, you know, has an awful lot of
00:44:38.860 subsidiaries and affiliates and associates, et cetera, who don't necessarily advertise what their
00:44:44.460 connection is. Uh, but I mean, there, it is documentable and we've done it, uh, and you can
00:44:52.460 show the people, the money, the contacts, the organizations. Most people don't know about
00:44:58.060 what something called the East West management Institute. Well, that's a, it's an operation.
00:45:03.500 It's an affiliate of open society foundation. They don't know that the open society foundation
00:45:08.860 engaged in all these projects around the world, trying to, you know, influence the outcome of
00:45:13.980 elections. They do. Uh, you know, it's, it's, it is a, an expansive, sophisticated,
00:45:22.700 well-funded operation that has all sorts of contacts, controls, organizations, et cetera,
00:45:30.060 projects around the world. And to say otherwise, I mean, if you, if you said that they didn't,
00:45:35.100 they'd be insulted, right? They'd be upset that they're not being effective and, and not being
00:45:39.980 productive with their money and their programs. They are very, and, and, and the U S taxpayer
00:45:46.300 is financing it to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. So it's your money.
00:45:54.460 Your money's going to support it. Yeah. Yeah. Your, your tax dollars and mine going to, uh, the,
00:46:03.580 an organization whose interests are not in any way aligned with traditional America. It's just, uh,
00:46:11.580 it's just straightforward. Uh, this organization, open society is funding everything that is
00:46:17.340 antithetical, uh, to our founding values and to our national interest. Uh, the Soros, uh, programs,
00:46:24.380 uh, I want to, uh, well, obviously go to judicial watch.org, uh, where on judicial watch org,
00:46:31.820 can folks get those, uh, Soros reports? If you, if the, the name of the document, if you,
00:46:38.060 you can just even put a couple of these words in to search for it, you'll find it immediately.
00:46:43.180 It's called the financial and staffing nexus, any X U S the financial and staffing nexus
00:46:50.620 between the open society foundations and the U S government. If you put an open society
00:46:55.740 foundations, you should find it to put in open society, financial, any terms like that.
00:47:02.140 It'll pop up on the judicial watch website real fast. You can even just use what your favorite
00:47:06.620 search engine, whatever you're using and put in financial staffing, open society foundations,
00:47:13.020 and bang, you'll get it. And, uh, it's excruciatingly detailed. Basically, every sentence
00:47:20.140 of the report has a footnote and, uh, not, not to our reporting or our opinion pieces, but the outside
00:47:27.500 objective, either the open society foundation website, where it's their own representations
00:47:33.340 of what they're doing or to websites like USA spending dot gov, where it shows the grants that
00:47:40.540 their government's making to open society, um, or to, or to individual persons who have rotated into and
00:47:48.940 out of the government from open society. You can look at their personal web pages or their, uh, the,
00:47:55.500 the organization staffing documents and see who these people are and, and how they've gone
00:48:01.740 into and out of us government and how the money, your taxpayer dollars have gone to open society
00:48:09.420 programs. So it's, uh, it's very, very detailed when you read through all of it. I think, uh,
00:48:16.700 even though the document's a few years old, I think anybody looking at it would go, holy cow,
00:48:21.420 they, they would have no idea that so many people and so much money are woven together in this operation.
00:48:28.860 It's, it's remarkable again, judicial watch.org, uh, and, uh, look for that. Uh, I want to ask you
00:48:37.340 before I turn to you for your concluding remarks, Bill Barr now saying he didn't overstep in the
00:48:41.660 Durham probe of the Mueller Russiagate investigation. I, I want a Chris Farrell analysis, if you would,
00:48:50.540 on that. I, I, it's just, uh, it's stunning the reversal that Bill Barr has made in just the last few
00:48:57.820 months. Uh, you know, Barr is another disgrace. Barr is sort of like a, uh, he's to the Department of
00:49:07.340 Justice what Milley is, the Department of Defense. This guy's a disgrace and he's a, he's a really
00:49:14.060 both somebody that betrayed the American people, not just President Trump. He betrayed the American
00:49:19.740 people and he did it in a really cowardly way. And, uh, he, he was brought in, I think by the
00:49:27.260 establishment, Rhino, you know, Republican, uh, operatives to hopefully sort of, you know, manage
00:49:35.420 or control in their view, control Trump in some way. And, uh, he sat by and watched the president be
00:49:44.780 impeached over Ukraine when they knew that they had the Hunter Biden laptop already in their
00:49:50.540 possession. They knew the real story of what was going on. Uh, he told the president he couldn't
00:49:56.380 do things that he did have the right to do. He stopped the president from appointing his own
00:50:02.060 special counsel to investigate matters of corruption on Biden where that he could have done.
00:50:07.660 He, he, he really, he's tried to play both ends against the middle. And I think that he's being
00:50:14.780 exposed for, for what he is. Chris Farrell. Thanks for being with us here today. Uh, if you will,
00:50:20.220 you're, you're concluding remarks. I've enjoyed it tremendously. Thanks, my friend. Lou, thank you
00:50:25.660 very much. It's always a pleasure to be on with you. And, uh, looks for folks listening. If you want
00:50:31.340 more background or information on any of the stuff we talked about today, uh, our website at Judicial Watch
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00:50:45.340 all of our work, the lawsuits, the public, uh, information requests, uh, our reporting on different
00:50:51.580 topics. You can read the, the Soros report of the Open Society Foundation report that we discussed
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00:51:04.220 want to support us, that would be great too. And, uh, Lou, thank you very much for giving me the
00:51:09.420 opportunity to come on today and visit with you and talk about such important, uh, public policy
00:51:14.300 matters. Always. And anytime, my friend, thanks so much, Chris, for being with us and to look forward
00:51:19.580 to talking with you soon. And again, thank you for all that you, uh, and Tom Fitton and the good folks
00:51:25.340 that Judicial Watch do. Uh, we appreciate, uh, everything. Uh, thanks for being with us and God
00:51:32.140 bless you. Thank you, Lou. You too. Chris Farrell, judicialwatch.org. Chris mentioned the report by
00:51:39.180 Judicial Watch on the nexus between Open Society Foundations and the U.S. government funding.
00:51:47.500 Go to loudobs.com and you'll see the link there for that report. It'll be under Judicial Watch's report
00:51:55.020 on Open Society. So thanks everybody for joining us here today. Tomorrow on the Great America show,
00:52:00.780 our guest is Congressman Cory Mills, Great American. So please be with us for that and much more
00:52:07.180 right here tomorrow. Till then, God bless you and God bless America.