Biden's White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, on Wednesday, declined to answer questions in a House Oversight Committee probe into a possible cover-up of President Joe Biden s cognitive decline by White House staffers, according to a February 2024 medical exam.
00:04:47.220We have several other witnesses that are going to come in for depositions and transcribed interviews.
00:04:52.880On Wednesday, Next Up host Mark Halperin reacting on The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:04:57.340I don't know, as I said before, I don't know what crime he might be guilty of.
00:05:00.620But I do know that he's abusing the public trust, and after four years of participating in the cover-up, and arguably the central figure, because he is a doctor and he does have a responsibility both to his patient and the public interest, I just think it's hard to me to see how he's going to sustain this unless the cover-up was even more insidious than we knew it to be.
00:05:24.060In other words, one thing that hasn't been acknowledged by anybody on the inside, and he'd be considered on the inside, is that they knew how bad it was, and they covered it up.
00:05:33.420Their premise is, we didn't really know if it went that far.
00:05:37.180Again, I don't know that that's a crime, but it's a political crime, and it's a policy crime, and it's an irresponsible action for a doctor who's supposed to have an obligation to the American people to have done.
00:05:47.940Fox News reporting Tuesday evening, the DOJ is investigating former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.
00:05:59.520Sources saying the Brennan investigation includes allegedly making false statements to Congress in relation to the Trump-Russia collusion probe.
00:06:07.700Those DOJ sources declining to share specifics of the Comey investigation, but revealing a bit more on the Brennan one.
00:06:14.660The criminal referral of former Director Brennan made by current CIA Director John Ratcliffe coming after the release of a CIA review last week pertaining to the intel community's assessment regarding potential Russian interference in the 2016 election.
00:06:30.600President Trump's first term hamstrung by accusations of collusion between the Trump 2016 campaign and Russian President Vladimir Putin to influence the election.
00:06:40.000Those claims later debunked by multiple investigations.
00:06:42.800The assessment ordered in the waning days of President Obama's administration, concluding in part that President Putin, quote,
00:06:50.480aspired to help then-candidate Trump win the election.
00:06:53.800The review ordered this past May by Ratcliffe finding multiple anomalies with Brennan and others' work, including, quote,
00:07:02.120excessive involvement of agency heads who created, quote,
00:07:05.720a politically charged environment that triggered an atypical analytic process.
00:07:10.520Those same agency heads forcing inclusion of the now-debunked Steele dossier in the Intel Assessments Annex,
00:07:18.780which the main report referenced, thus, finds Ratcliffe implicitly elevating unsubstantiated claims
00:07:25.260over the objections of the two senior CIA leaders responsible for Russian intelligence.
00:07:30.640Those agents warning the information in the dossier, including salacious allegations involving Mr. Trump and Russian prostitutes,
00:07:38.440did not meet, quote, even the most basic tradecraft standards.
00:07:42.600Ratcliffe revealing that the CIA deputy director for analysis had warned Brennan in an email on December 29th, 2016,
00:07:50.700that including the Steele dossier in any form risked, quote, the credibility of the entire paper.
00:16:05.580It's called CFIUS, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, CFIUS.
00:16:11.260Until now, it has not involved the Secretary of Agriculture because this has gone under the radar.
00:16:16.440People didn't perceive agriculture as a security threat.
00:16:19.400One big part of the announcement yesterday that Secretary Rollins made is that she has now been designated as a member of CFIUS, this board.
00:16:28.160CFIUS is across the board surveying incoming purchases from foreign countries which may affect national security.
00:16:34.960Now that agriculture, in the person of Secretary Rollins, will be sitting on CFIUS, when an agricultural case comes in, when there's an inbound purchase of land by an adversarial country like China, agriculture will be able to sit on that decision, will be able to inform that decision.
00:16:51.760And that's an important modifier that happened with this announcement.
00:16:55.780Savitt says the threats posed by Chinese-owned U.S. farmland go far beyond spying on U.S. military bases.
00:17:02.040Chinese entities are increasingly gaining access to America's agricultural data and proprietary technology, though not through espionage, but through business acquisitions of agricultural companies operating inside America.
00:17:15.020Now, many of these are overtly, you know, directly listed, or if you look into it, if you look just barely beneath the surface, these are state-owned enterprises of the Chinese government.
00:17:40.760It provides chemicals, pesticides, seed technologies, things that, you know, people who are not in the ag industry like me, we don't think about this, right?
00:17:49.640But this is essential to what these farmers do.
00:17:52.580They need seeds that are adept to their type of soil.
00:17:56.520They need seeds that are adapting to their environment and their crop needs.
00:18:01.520So a lot of these farmers are used to this name, Syngenta, right?
00:18:05.900A Chinese company called ChemChina acquires Syngenta, and then the Chinese government has full access to this technology that they're developing, the data that they collect, access to the land.
00:18:18.760In this case, we're actually talking about intellectual property theft, and so in that way, it kind of goes under the radar.
00:18:27.120It is hidden, you know, shell companies, four and five steps down, where, yes, it has an English-sounding name, and you would have no idea that there was a Chinese interest four or five rungs up the ladder that is either a state-owned enterprise or it's related to the state.
00:18:44.240Now, here's an important thing that the listeners need to know is that no company of any size or any importance in China is not tied in some way to the CCP.
00:18:54.900As for clawing back land already owned by foreign adversaries, Savitt says the states will need to lead the way.
00:19:07.060The states have been doing, I should mention, the states have been doing amazing work while the federal government was getting its act in order and now finally has some sort of an ordered plan here under the Trump administration.
00:19:29.920But I mentioned Arkansas put in a law that they enforced and pushed out Syngenta.
00:19:35.420So they, under their state law, they were able to eject Syngenta and also penalize them with a monetary value.
00:19:42.940But again, state by state, this gets very sticky as far as ownership and how to rescind that ownership.
00:19:48.860Political reporting in April, quote, more than two thirds of states, primarily controlled by Republicans, have enacted or are considering laws limiting or barring foreign ownership of land.
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