UNIVERSITY OF PA President Liz McGill resigns after her failure to condemn anti-Semitism on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. A development in the Biden scandal as the National Archive releases 62,000 Biden records to investigators. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally gives an answer to a question that he had refused to answer for two years.
00:13:06.320And the Republicans only had a five seat majority to begin with.
00:13:10.000Now, with Mr. Santos leaving and my guest in a special election, particularly former congressman Tom Swasey, who previously held most of that seat, the area that now composes that seat would have to be considered the favorite.
00:13:26.180Despite the political atmosphere, that would bring your majority to four.
00:13:30.480I think McCarthy's district, which is basically the Bakersfield area, is pretty reliably Republican.
00:13:41.080Your majority could quickly become three.
00:13:44.140In the case of Santos, I really think I'm not a fan of his, but I do think he's been denied due process.
00:13:50.720They didn't kick Adam Clayton Powell out of the House until he was convicted of a crime.
00:13:55.160I think Santos was due his day in court, should not have been expelled until he was convicted.
00:14:02.860I think his conviction is pretty much of a foregone conclusion based on what I've read.
00:14:08.380But I still think we rushed him out of the door unnecessarily until he was proven guilty.
00:14:16.440Yeah, I'm not a person who, well, I didn't pay a lot of attention to him.
00:14:21.580But I think that he got a he got a bum deal and was treated badly because I thought his votes and his stand with the party while he was there certainly earned him the right to due process.
00:14:34.500If it's going to be ignored, it shouldn't have been ignored for somebody who was at least trying to be faithful to the party that he was a member of.
00:14:42.340The Republicans seem to be manic in their desire to to get rid of him.
00:14:47.520It's really not clear to me why, because, as I mentioned, they don't enjoy a broad majority.
00:14:54.560I think they may come back to regret this.
00:14:58.340Recognize now that we'll have a special election for his seat, but the seat will also be up again for contest next November.
00:15:08.100And those two results are not necessarily the same.
00:15:12.820New York has a very much of a top down Republican Party, and therefore, essentially, the Republican County Chairman will make this decision, at least in the short term, in terms of who the party nominates for this special election.
00:15:28.160And we'll have disproportionate influence in who the party nominates for the next November election.
00:15:35.520When this same seat will be up for a contest yet again, that will not necessarily be the same candidate unless, of course, the Republican wins the special.
00:15:46.780And all of this, of course, in the hands of a new speaker, Mike Johnson, you're reading how well he's done to this point.
00:15:59.620I initially hailed his elevation because he had been one of the defenders of Donald Trump on the defense team in the Senate, as a member of the House in the impeachment of Trump, which was greatly unjust and unnecessary.
00:16:16.980And I think clearly a man who is very serious about his faith, which I liked, said that he would release the January 6th government tapes, appears to have at least begun to do that, needs to finish it.
00:16:34.500We still seem to continue to continue to go back to the same way we do our budgeting, which is disappointing.
00:16:41.820And he seems to me, although he's I think he's going to, unlike McCarthy, he's going to hold the Democrats up for border funding in return, but seems to be committed to millions, if not billions more for Ukraine.
00:16:55.640And I'm a little mixed on this because I think he first said we didn't have enough to impeach Joe Biden.
00:17:05.740Now he seems to have changed his mind, said, well, there is enough to impeach Joe Biden, but we're going to do this, you know, very slowly and deliberately.
00:17:13.680I'm a little confused by all of that. There's more than enough evidence.
00:17:18.520There's far more evidence to justify articles of impeachment against Joe Biden today than there ever was to justify articles of impeachment against Donald Trump.
00:17:28.360Yet Nancy Pelosi and company got that done in five days flat.
00:17:33.380Yeah, I just I'm not really clear. I think Comer's doing a good job.
00:17:37.580He's been very dogged. He keeps digging up more and more bombshells.
00:17:41.920But Joe Biden's claim that he knew nothing about his son's business and he never profited from it is now quite obviously an enormous lie.
00:17:52.120And there's more than enough evidence of foreign payments to justify a vote of impeachment.
00:17:57.940Now, it is conceivable and we would know this.
00:18:01.340The Speaker Johnson doesn't have the votes in a vote count because of some of your weak need, lily levered, white wine, swilling, country club belonging establishment Republicans who just don't have the guts for this.
00:18:19.640And the Speaker can only do things for which he can corral the votes.
00:18:24.400So there's no question that there is a more robust radical caucus that favors impeachment.
00:18:31.840But I don't know that the Speaker can get the votes.
00:18:34.860Funny, Nancy Pelosi never had this problem.
00:26:01.860And I cannot understand why there isn't some sort of a pellet relief available to the president, whether it be his business interest case or whether it be the Letitia James nonsense.
00:26:15.620I think the president, first of all, you're right about his mood and his and his attitude.
00:26:22.140I saw him last Friday night and he's he's lost a little weight.
00:26:49.720The war in terms of the public relations and public attitudes surrounding his various prosecutions, but that's because they are all so ridiculously transparent, whether he will win in court at the end of the day in very stacked.
00:27:06.640And I think biased proceedings, particularly in D.C., I have a little experience in that particular meat grinder.
00:27:12.320Yes, you know, that's a different question.
00:27:15.140But the fact that he's leading Biden now in all of the swing states and continuing to lead him nationally shows that everything they're doing to him is transparent to the American people.
00:27:56.300In all of these trials where the election is the principal issue, will he be allowed by the judges to enter in his defense proof that he won the election?
00:28:08.160Because it undermines the underlying premise of the cases against him.
00:28:13.660If he is, then it will be the first time in any court where the merits of that argument will be heard.
00:28:21.780I watched this great interview with Bill Maher, who's kind of a pompous ass, and Oliver Stone.
00:28:29.500And Maher, who's very funny when he's working with a phalanx of comedy writers, but not so funny when he's on his own two feet,
00:28:37.620he repeats this canard that 63 courts rejected the claim that the election was stolen.
00:28:46.14063 courts refused to hear the merits for purposes of standing.
00:28:50.980No court has weighed the actual evidence of fraud or discrepancies or inconsistencies and ruled on it.
00:29:00.840So the real question is, will the judges, particularly in Atlanta and in D.C., allow Trump to enter as a part of his defense proof that the election was, in fact, not on the up and up?
00:29:13.160If they do, then I think that he comes out OK at the end of the day, even if he is ultimately convicted.
00:29:22.040Finally, he will get his day in court on the question of the election.
00:29:25.380On the other hand, since I was not allowed at my trial to use expert witnesses and forensic evidence to prove that no one ever hacked the DNC, never mind the Russians,
00:29:36.440I don't have a high degree of of confidence that Trump will be able to will be allowed to introduce in his defense the very best possible defense,
00:29:48.920which undermines their entire case, i.e. proving that the last election was indeed stolen.
00:29:55.320And and to that point, there is, I think, a very hopeful sign in full.
00:30:01.660Well, I and I won't get carried away with what I would would prefer not become mass optimism about this.
00:30:08.460But Amy Totenberg, the federal judge there on a separate case, will be hearing evidence against electronic voting machines.
00:30:19.660And they have found serious irregularities.
00:30:23.400And there will be a ruling in January, says a federal judge.
00:30:27.580That could be that could be a moment of extraordinary reversals for the for the left, because it would be it might be the thread that would pull all of this, unwind all of this.
00:30:43.740But as I said, I'm I'm hopeful, but not optimistic.
00:30:48.040Roger Stone, thanks for being with us.
00:30:49.660You are a great American, a great friend and and a great supporter of the president.