Biden is back from his month-long vacation, and it s going exactly as you would expect, as he and his top spokesperson fumble their way through various media events, getting key facts wrong, and flat-out refusing to answer simple questions about Hunter Biden. Plus, crime and environmentalist chaos on the West Coast, as we see increasing examples of people having had enough of the environmentalist nonsense on the streets, blockades of the traffic.
00:00:00.520Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
00:00:12.180Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live from Sirius XMHQ in New York City today.
00:00:19.780A little later in the show, I'm going to be joined by a couple we first had on and absolutely loved last year.
00:00:25.800In the world of Hollywood, these guys are a breath of fresh air.
00:00:29.380But we begin with politics. President Biden is back from his month-long vacation.
00:00:38.420It's okay, he's only president. I'm sure you all take a month-long vacation too.
00:00:42.360And it's going exactly as you would expect, as he and his top spokesperson fumble their way through various media events,
00:00:49.580getting key facts wrong and flat-out refusing to answer simple questions about Hunter Biden.
00:00:55.780Plus, crime and environmentalist chaos on the West Coast, as we see increasing examples of people having had enough of the environmentalist nonsense on the streets,
00:01:31.360All right, so let's just start with President Biden, who, I mean, truly, he's been on vacation for a month between his time at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware
00:01:39.280to the trip out west to Lake Tahoe, one little stint to Maui under pressure to actually show some sort of heart for those whose lives were destroyed by this fire.
00:03:25.780So we actually tried to translate it, and my team thinks he's referring with that muddled statement to something that did happen back in August of 2018.
00:03:38.060There was a shooting at the Jacksonville Landing.
00:03:41.400A gunman opened fire at a video game tournament at the Chicago Pizza Restaurant targeting rival gamers.
00:03:47.060Not at a gun shop, not at a store, nothing to do with kids' toys.
00:03:51.360Two were killed, not five, which is what he seems to be suggesting there.
00:04:12.340Well, you know what, he's failing at a geometric, not arithmetic rate.
00:04:17.500And I think what I mean by that is each week, it's not just seven days worse, it's 21 days worse.
00:04:24.700And there's three things going on with him.
00:04:27.120One is, I don't know if it's congestive heart.
00:04:30.200I'm not a doctor, obviously, and you shouldn't even be speculating.
00:04:32.700But he slurs his words, so his delivery is incomprehensible.
00:04:36.860And that's separate from the cognitive problems where he rambles or he can't read off a teleprompter or he goes into a wild thing.
00:04:45.540But the third is even more disturbing, and that is he has lost all of the veneer or the breaks that most people have that when they have an impulse to speak, then they don't speak because they have some social awareness.
00:04:58.520So whether it was, you ain't black, or you're a junkie, or a stupid question, or the out and out lies, you know, when he tells people who've lost children or sons in Afghanistan that his son died in Iraq.
00:05:12.840But just in that context, he said also, as I remember, because I watched the clip, that he talked Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act.
00:05:24.400Well, that has to refer to 1964, or maybe the Fair Housing Act of 65.
00:05:36.740So he just makes things out of whole cloth, and he assumes, or his wife does, or his handlers do, that the media is so invested in the alternative to Trump or whoever the Republicans have, that they will make up the necessary adjustments.
00:06:26.620I mean, I don't want the Republicans to get overconfident, because I think, to some extent, they're banking on people seeing this and just saying he can't do it.
00:06:41.800This is why Nikki Haley, and I'm going to get to why I'm raising this, she just tweeted out, the truth is, a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for President Kamala Harris.
00:06:51.420That's what she tweeted out, and I think we all understand what she's saying, like the odds of Joe Biden actually making it if he gets reelected through a second term are extremely slim.
00:07:02.280So she tweets that out, and then you promptly get people like Jamel Hill, this very racist commentator, tweeting out, part of the reason racism is such a terrible sickness in this country is because politicians like this know they can rally a certain base with the fear of, oh, my God, a black woman might be president if you don't vote for me.
00:07:27.000Then we want to act all surprised when the most hateful part of the base decides they need to act out on their feelings of hatred.
00:07:37.640You see, so Nikki Haley is herself a racist because she's saying, if you vote for Joe Biden, reminder, Kamala Harris is going to be the president.
00:07:48.080Yeah. Well, the funny thing is that Kamala Harris would not be in the position she was in because she ran for president in 2016, and she was a dismal failure.
00:08:04.440She failed to get one delegate. She had a lot of Silicon Valley money.
00:08:07.660And so she was appointed because he had announced pro forma that he was going to select a woman, and then the Black Caucus said that has to be a black woman, and he nodded.
00:08:18.220So that's why she's there. And she had a perfect opportunity. She had a favorable press.
00:08:23.320She had a president that wasn't really cognitively engaged. She could have freelanced and done wonderful things.
00:08:29.720She's been an utter failure. And it's not you or I saying that, Megan. It's the Democratic insiders.
00:08:34.900And their biggest fear right now is they don't want Joe Biden to not finish this term because that means she is going to be president, and they think she'll destroy the party.
00:08:46.560I think she probably will. So they're going to do whatever it takes to get him across, sort of like Woodrow Wilson and Edith Wilson in 1919 when he was non-composmentes and she finished out his term.
00:08:57.740But what they're looking at in the next four years, I don't think he's going to be able to run.
00:09:03.760And I think that they're going to be pressure on him because he's going to get so embarrassing in the next 18 months that sometime in March or February, they'll do like LBJ did in 68, just he's not going to run.
00:09:16.140But that also solves the Kamala Harris problem because then they just say, well, have an open primary and they know that she won't get another delegate, just like in the past.
00:09:25.520We've been here before, too. And, you know, in 1944, it was pretty clear that FDR around June or July, even maybe March, he had blood pressure about 220 over 180.
00:09:38.900He may have had melanoma. He had chronic bladder and sinus. In fact, he was just unfortunately a wreck and he was not going to live much longer.
00:09:49.960Probably, they thought, not even a year. But they wanted that fourth term and they needed that Democratic White House.
00:09:56.240So they ran him. But his vice president was kind of like Kamala Harris.
00:10:00.480It was Henry Wallace, who was a nice guy, but an avowed socialist.
00:10:03.780So they got together and they said, we've got to get him off the ticket and we've got to get somebody who's conservative and won't rival FDR.
00:10:13.100And FDR will think he's not very important or well-known, so he won't overshadow him.
00:10:18.940So they picked Harry Truman. And of course, on April 1st, just a few months after the inauguration, he died.
00:10:25.440And we had Truman instead of Henry Wallace.
00:11:01.960And that's why they don't, they just talk about Trump 24-7, because not only can they not talk about the Biden record at the border or crime or energy or foreign policy, and especially the economy.
00:11:14.660And they can't talk about what they would call the walls are closing in on Joe Biden with the IRS whistleblowers or Victor Shokin or the oligarchs that have evidence or the laptop evidence or Jim Jordan subpoenaing tax document.
00:11:30.380They don't want to talk about that, but they also can't talk about his cognitive or physical health, which means if you can't talk about those three things that everybody's worried about, then you can't talk at all about anything relating to Biden.
00:11:42.280So it's 24-7, 360 degrees, Donald Trump.
00:11:46.060There was just a piece this morning in Axios referencing back to a survey of what words come to mind when you think of Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
00:11:56.700This is a survey of 1,100 adults in America just this month.
00:12:03.040And the number one cluster of words for Joe Biden by 26 percent was old, outdated, aging and elderly.
00:12:13.040The next most popular at 15 percent was slow, confused, bumbling, old, outdated, aging, elderly, slow, confused, bumbling on Trump.
00:12:25.780The number one cluster of words was corrupt, criminal and crooked.
00:12:29.720Now we all know why they're saying that.
00:12:54.300You're suggesting they may have to keep him on until the spring and that that's when they'll say he's not running because something interesting happened in the past few days.
00:13:03.100Bernie Sanders went to New Hampshire to give a speech.
00:13:05.520Now, why was Bernie Sanders going to New Hampshire to give a speech?
00:13:10.480Bernie Sanders, unlike Kamala Harris, actually did win a couple of the primaries last time around until the party decided he he had to be stopped and made sure he didn't get any further.
00:13:20.700But it does seem like the Democratic Party is starting to realize they have a serious problem of their own.
00:13:28.800Yeah, I think they feel that they have a serious problem and they have the solution, too.
00:13:33.920And Bernie's heard that and they think it's Gavin Newsom.
00:13:38.680And he's saying basically to America, hey, I was here first.
00:13:44.340So I'm going to if that's what you guys in the Democratic backroom want, that you want an open primary, quote unquote, open to get rid of Kamala.
00:13:53.000Then you've got to pick me because I'm ahead of the line.
00:14:00.220And you know that better than I do, Megan, unless he was getting pretty good information that Joe Biden is not going to run again.
00:14:08.100But to make the next 16 months viable, they can't tell anybody that he'd be at the lamest of all lame ducks in our presidential history if he's if we know that he's not going to run because then all the attention would say we'll even finish his term.
00:14:23.560I'm not just trying to be partisan, but I do think there's 50 percent chance he won't finish his term.
00:14:29.740He's one he's one trip away from oblivion.
00:14:33.000And he really is. If he was to trip again off a bicycle or fall or a stairway or a stage, people with that health chat, those health challenges, they deteriorate very quickly when they break their hip or knee.
00:14:49.460He's one crazy remark about beyond caricature or he could take a young, poor, innocent girl and hug her as he did on the Finland tarmac and start.
00:15:01.520I don't know what he was doing, nippling her at her neck or something or blowing her hair.
00:15:05.940If he does it again, I think any of those things would pretty much convince people that he can't be the president of the United States.
00:15:14.360And this is so ironic, Megan, because remember when Donald Trump said, I have a bigger button than yours?
00:15:19.660Everybody's we got Bandy Yee, the Yale psychiatrist, and she testified before the Democratic Senate and said that we needed an intervention with a straitjacket with Trump.
00:15:29.900And then we had the pressure for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment that Monty Jackson gave Trump.
00:15:37.060And we had, I think it was Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe put on wires because they needed to get proof that Donald Trump was in, you know, non-compos mentis.
00:15:47.960Because he wasn't sane or he wasn't well.
00:15:50.680And given all of that, and we saw Mark Milley was so worried he had to call his Chinese counterpart, warn him that Trump was crazy in case there was a nuclear tension arising.
00:16:02.660But you don't, all those people who did that, they're silent.
00:16:06.400They don't, I mean, they're so hypocritical.
00:16:52.340Remember Scott, the, is it Brown, the Senate, Senator from Massachusetts, that he had to, I guess, level an implied threat to Biden that not to touch his wife.
00:17:04.560And that, he, I guess what we're saying is that he always did that, but now he has lost that cognitive self-control that he shouldn't do it.
00:17:14.040And he's liberated in a very sick way.
00:17:18.720So that's, I predict within the next 18 months, we're going to see a book from a former Biden aide talking about the nightmare that was trying to manage this story.
00:17:29.660As, as incident after incident happened.
00:17:31.920And I think Hawaii will be 100% in there because what happened out there really was dreadful with the, you know, not being able to pronounce anybody or say anybody's names properly.
00:17:42.120Actually comparing his house fire and the potential loss of a cat and a Corvette to people's dead children.
00:18:10.980So McCarthy's got a real problem as housekeeper because by any fair measure, you would either be invoking the 25th Amendment or starting serious impeachment.
00:18:50.160I don't want to use that metaphor, but loading the gun.
00:18:52.440And they don't know whether to actually go through with it, depending on how he acts in the next 18 months.
00:19:00.760But I don't know what I would do if I were the Republican leadership, because if you impeach him and the Democrats might convict him and cut him looser, then you've got Kamala Harris as the incumbent candidate.
00:20:07.900And Nikki Haley is reminding people you're going to get that nincompoop in there if Joe Biden doesn't make it to the end of his term or if he gets reelected and doesn't make it to the end of the second term.
00:20:17.740She she's saying you're going to get a doofus elected as president.
00:20:21.440If we had this conversation 35 years ago, Republicans were very fond of Barbara Jordan.
00:20:27.780She was kind of the voice of sanity on the border, that Democratic congressman.
00:20:31.480She had beautiful diction, enormous vocabulary, very capable.
00:20:36.880Everybody respected her, not because of her race, but because she was intellectually a giant.
00:20:42.580And the same thing to a lesser degree was Shirley Chisholm when she ran for president.
00:20:46.900She had a different take on the Vietnam War.
00:20:48.920Everybody thought, wow, this is really good.
00:20:52.460We have these black women that are more articulate and they're sharper than a lot of white males.
00:21:03.560And I think a lot of this, when you have all of these elite left wing black hosts that say this, I think a lot of it's projection that they themselves have real problems with race, that they do judge people by their superficial appearance.
00:21:21.940And they believe that your skin color is essential, not incidental to who you are.
00:21:29.000And I think that explains a lot of it.
00:21:31.180Other than that, and careerism, because the longer you scream racism, the more you inflate this leaking balloon of diversity, equity, inclusion.
00:21:40.780And we're getting to a point, just to get off topic, I think everybody's pretty much had it with diversity, equity, inclusion czars and what they've been doing and the war on meritocracy.
00:21:52.100So I think there's a lot of paranoia in the elite so-called marginalized community that have been beneficiaries of this.
00:21:59.520You know, you speak about the Democrats and sort of projecting their own racism on the other party.
00:22:05.180We skipped past what Joe Biden tried to do in that incoherent answer at the top, where he said, speaking about the Jacksonville shooting, right, where you've got this 22-year-old crazed young man who apparently had racist manifestos, one or more, back at home, but was said to have severe mental health issues and had been locked up for his mental health issues at least once in the past five, six years.
00:22:32.000He says about this young man's act, we have to act against this hate-fueled violence, okay, and this all that's happening.
00:22:44.920Then he goes into the pivot about what happened five years ago where he claims five young blacks were killed.
00:22:57.740And then he goes on to say there's a whole group of extreme people trying to erase history and then says, I never thought I'd be president talking about book bans.
00:23:07.840He launches into an attack on Ron DeSantis.
00:23:10.540Now, this is one thing for the morons on Twitter to try to blame the shooting by this crazed lunatic at 22 who then took his own life on DeSantis.
00:23:20.960But this is the president of the United States trying clearly to tie what happened there, that racist and madman violence, to Ron DeSantis, despite the fact that there is zero proof that this kid had read a single thing that Ron DeSantis had ever said in any news article, etc.
00:23:41.380Yeah, I mean, the whole book banning thing is very interesting because what Ron DeSantis was trying to do, along with Glenn Youngkin and others was in Virginia, was just simply not have a pornographic graphic novel type of literature that portrays transgender or gay sex for minors.
00:24:09.140Just have that accessible and then not teach critical race theory, which says that all things can be explained by racial bias.
00:24:18.460And the people who are trying to ban books, that was the irony again.
00:24:21.780I mean, nobody on the right said, let's ban To Kill a Mockingbird.
00:24:25.120There's a lot of school districts that ban that.
00:24:40.960And Joe Biden, you know, I don't understand, Megan.
00:24:45.160I understand it, but it's so baffling that here we have Joe Biden, who made a career as a senator, pretty much demagoguing race when he said it was a jungle and against busing.
00:24:58.820That was fine, but he really demagogued it.
00:25:01.060And then he had the donut comment and then put you all back in chains where he addressed a group of black professionals as if they were helpless and they needed him to keep them out of slavery.
00:25:42.180But we actually have some of that, Victor.
00:25:43.820We have a montage of some of the Joe Biden examples, which he gets a complete pass on as he sits there attempting to lecture us about book bans and how the curriculum needs to be in Florida.
00:27:22.680And he said, did we impeach a president of the United States for threatening to delay something and investigate the Bidens, but we didn't impeach Biden?
00:27:33.940So did we impeach the wrong guy for the same crimes that Biden has committed?
00:28:12.820And this whole thing that's happening, yes, with Hunter, but also with Joe and their overseas business dealings is getting more and more interesting.
00:28:24.120So John Solomon's been doing great reporting on what's happening with Hunter and Joe overseas and the firing of that Ukrainian prosecutor.
00:28:31.140The allegation being that, and, you know, we've heard Joe Biden on camera bragging that he's the one who got Victor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor, fired.
00:28:54.780Burisma went to Hunter to say, help us out, get the old man off our back.
00:28:57.880Get the old man to get this prosecutor off our back, and that in December of 15, there was a phone call exactly about that, according to Devin Archer.
00:29:06.540But even prior to that, it seems clear that the Bidens knew Burisma would like Shokin and the Ukrainian corruption sniffing around them to go away.
00:29:17.220Well, all along, it's been like, well, you know, the Europeans wanted Shokin gone.
00:29:24.240They didn't think he was doing a good enough job of investigating corruption.
00:29:27.880And, you know, our State Department wanted it, too.
00:29:31.960Now we see this new information that the State Department was actually advocating, was actually saying that they were doing a good job,
00:29:41.040that Shokin was doing a good job over there in Ukraine.
00:29:44.660As early as September, like the summer leading up to the guy's firing by Joe Biden, which is why you just said Joe Biden did it against the recommendations and desires of his own State Department at the time.
00:30:00.040And while all this goes down, Victor Shokin, the fired prosecutor, sits down with Brian Kilmeade.
00:30:06.420This is a great interview at Fox News.
00:30:48.600I think he remarked that he was kind of bewildered that Fox asked him for an interview, that nobody had even dared to interview him for all these years.
00:30:56.100Because people like John Kerry had promulgated this lie that the State Department had seen that he was corrupt and Joe was just carrying out a government directive.
00:31:05.040I think the paranoia, though, was we have high crimes and misdemeanors spelled out in the Constitution, but we only have really two specificities, and one is bribery and one is treason.
00:31:16.400And when you look at a classical definition of treason, it is warping your national interest for your personal benefit or the benefit of a foreign power.
00:31:27.240And if he's impeached and they can prove that, of all people, Joe Biden went against the national interest of the United States as reified by a State Department official policy for his own benefit or the benefit of Hunter or the protection of his family, which was against the interest of the United States, and bribery would be part of that.
00:31:52.980Then you have the two things outlined in the Constitution he violated.
00:31:56.620And I think that's one reason why they got together with the Europeans and created this false narrative that this poor guy was utterly corrupt and Joe Biden was just kind of formalizing what was official U.S. policy.
00:32:10.000And that lie, nobody that had any empirical sense believed, but we were always shot.
00:32:18.200I think I wrote that four years ago, along with a lot of other people, and you would get violently attacked.
00:32:31.620So just to go through some of John Solomon's reporting at Just the News, and I'm trying to get the timeline correct.
00:32:37.260He says in June of 2015, there was a letter from Victoria Nuland, who was the State Department's lead on Ukraine.
00:32:44.800She sent a letter to Viktor Shokin, this prosecutor, on behalf of then-Secretary of State John Kerry, congratulating Viktor Shokin, suggesting they were impressed with the job he was doing on corruption reform.
00:33:00.500Then September of 2015, the Interagency Policy Committee, which is a federal task force advising the White House on Ukraine, affirmed that Shokin's reform effort, this prosecutor, was advancing enough to warrant the new loan guarantee, the thing that they were after.
00:33:19.640Then, okay, then we get to October of 2015, and a task force made up of state treasury and justice had decided Ukraine and Shokin had made enough progress on anti-corruption reforms for Ukraine to receive a new $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee.
00:33:47.240And within one month, this is Solomon reporting about a month later, Joe Biden and his top advisors did an about-face, a sudden about-face on Shokin, contradictory to what the career staff had been recommending, and within a few months demanded that he be fired.
00:34:08.240Now, they have not uncovered specific evidence that Hunter Biden specifically asked his father to take that action.
00:34:14.640They don't, of course, have a tape recording of Hunter saying, Dad, get this guy off of our backs.
00:34:22.300We can't have him breathing down our necks like this.
00:34:24.680But we do know, again, thanks to Devin Archer, that they did, that there was a conversation in December 2015.
00:34:33.780He said Hunter and Burisma executives called DC in December 2015, just days before Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine to ask the Obama administration to help get Shokin fired.
00:34:49.400Then Joe Biden went to Ukraine, made his threat, and by, I think it was March or June of the following year, 16, he was on camera bragging about getting Shokin fired.
00:35:13.960And I think if you look at the political landscape at that time, Hillary Clinton had shoved Biden to the side, and she was going to be the nominee.
00:35:22.660And from all practical considerations, she was going to, you know, win on the landslide over Donald Trump.
00:35:30.340And Joe Biden was thinking, I don't have a career to protect anymore, but I do have influence right now as Vice President, and I better maximize it while I have my tenure.
00:35:39.700But he wasn't thinking, I have to be very careful because I'm going to announce that I'm going to be a candidate for the presidency, and this stuff could come back to haunt me.
00:35:49.000So I think he was getting very reckless at this time.
00:35:51.240And he was kind of bitter that Hillary was acclaimed as the nominee before he had even had a chance to consider it.
00:35:59.240People were already at that time saying he was too old or he had cognitive challenges.
00:36:04.040So I think he was really taking a lot of risk and being pretty explicit.
00:36:09.800And I think that's going to come back to haunt him.
00:36:12.220I don't know what we do with all this, though, Megan.
00:36:14.480And when we've talked about the cognitive problems of Joe Biden in a historical sense, and then you look at this massive, this is the most corrupt presidential family in history.
00:36:24.580And when you look at the actual record of what he's done to the United States on the economy, and as I said, the border on crime and energy, Afghanistan pullout, saying that he wouldn't react to Ukraine if it was a minor offensive, or he wanted to get Zelensky out the first week, or if you're going to hack U.S. targets, would Putin please put some off limits?
00:36:45.280You put all that together, it is an utter catastrophe.
00:36:49.320And yet, there's no reaction from the media, there's no reaction from the Democratic Party, there's just Trump, Trump, Trump.
00:36:58.940I really haven't seen such damage done to the country without any pushback.
00:37:03.240If there's an actual impeachment against Joe Biden, they'll have no choice but to cover it.
00:37:07.140And honestly, given the parallels between the impeachment number one of Trump and what we're seeing here, the impeachment number one of Trump told us that it is an impeachable offense for a U.S. president to condition assistance to Ukraine on his belief that they need to further investigate corruption, which might, in the Trump case, have a political benefit to him.
00:37:32.460What the Biden story is, is that he allegedly conditioned assistance to Ukraine on them getting rid of a prosecutor, and that getting rid of that prosecutor would have provided a personal benefit to the Bidens.
00:37:47.740I mean, it's worse than what Trump is accused of.
00:37:52.220Because even then, when you go back and look at the transcript of that call, Trump threatened to delay it.
00:37:58.860Biden said he was going to cancel it outright, and they weren't going to get anything.
00:38:02.460And then, when you look at the reality, Trump greenlighted the offensive weapons in terms of javelins that were really important the first week of that war that Biden and Obama had not approved.
00:38:15.120And so, if it hadn't been for Trump, they wouldn't have had any javelins at the siege of Kiev.
00:38:20.880And so, it's a lot worse what Biden did.
00:38:26.040If an impeachment, this is, of course, for acts he allegedly took as vice president, not as president.
00:38:31.900There's a question about whether you can impeach somebody.
00:38:35.140I mean, I don't think there's nothing specifically saying the bad acts or the high crimes and misdemeanors must be done while the sitting president, while an elected official in this particular role.
00:38:45.800I'm going to have to go back and look at it.
00:38:46.860But that is a twist that it happened while he was the city.
00:38:50.480But you've got to remember, they've destroyed, as you pointed out, they've destroyed all precedents.
00:38:54.420Because when they impeached Donald Trump, they broke with custom and tradition of the Bill Clinton sense and the possible impeachment of Richard Nixon in the sense that they didn't have any special counsel specifically to go after.
00:39:09.000They just said, we're not going to investigate him.
00:39:49.600And so whether it's getting rid of the Senate filibuster and then whining about it, or the blue wall is so important, and we thank God for the electoral college, now it's a racist hangover from the Jim Crow era.
00:40:03.880Whatever they find useful, then they institutionalize it.
00:40:07.160And then when other people say, okay, you set the precedent, we're going to use it, then like teenagers, they start weeping.
00:40:14.080And they've really destroyed the idea that impeachment was supposed to be pretty rare and not really directed.
00:40:21.560If you read the Federalist Papers, that a first-term president, the moment he loses the majority in the House, and that's what we've done now.
00:40:29.160I think we're going to institutionalize that.
00:40:30.820If you're a president and you're controversial and you lose your majority or you don't have it your first term, you're probably going to be impeached.
00:41:07.780And then you've got these details that then November 15 is when it seemed to change.
00:41:15.140A Ukraine desk officer at the State Department forwards Joe Biden's talking points for meetings, his upcoming meetings with Ukrainian leaders.
00:41:25.700Suddenly, they see a new condition to fire.
00:41:28.520Viktor Shokin has been added to the requirements.
00:41:35.800Joe Biden goes to Ukraine in December of 15 and his talking points memo includes a requirement that Shokin must be fired.
00:41:43.800I refer you back to December 15 as when Devin Archer says Burisma executives and Hunter called D.C.
00:41:51.160to try to get Shokin off the back of Burisma.
00:41:54.620So now by December, his talking points memo to the surprise of the State Department has a condition that they have to fire Shokin.
00:42:01.100And even by January of 16, the White House seniors were not in the loop on Joe Biden's plan.
00:42:09.660Again, citing John Solomon's reporting and just the news, January 2016, Obama White House circulates a document on the loan guarantee to Ukraine that's identical to a previous conditions memo.
00:42:21.680And it makes no demand for Shokin's removal.
00:42:26.680They weren't pushing for it. Obama wasn't pushing for it.
00:42:29.940His senior executives and officials were Joe Biden was pushing for it.
00:42:34.800And then he did it. And it was March 29th, 2016 that Shokin was fired.
00:42:41.560Two years later, Joe Biden's on camera saying this.
00:42:45.260I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.
00:42:50.360I said, you're not getting a billion. I'm going to be leaving here.
00:42:53.000I think it was what, six hours. I looked at him leaving in six hours.
00:42:56.380If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.
00:43:13.880It's kind of that comment that he's the big he man and he went over and he did this and he was son of a bitch and all that stuff.
00:43:20.940You remember he said, I think on two occasions, he said he was going to take Trump behind the gym and beat him up.
00:43:26.080And then there was the corn pop saga about he got some chains sawed off and he was going to meet them.
00:43:31.320And then there was the story that somebody had insulted his sister.
00:43:34.900So he went to a lunch counter and slammed the guy's head on the thing.
00:43:37.680It's that whole narrative that he's he's Joe Biden from Scranton, tough guy.
00:43:43.100And this time it really did him in because it's in his own words, because he can't refrain from magnifying or exaggerating his his sense of self.
01:09:05.640You're talking about 80,000 people that have no background checks.
01:09:08.860And this was all fine and dandy for Joe Biden's world, you know, in his beach house or Hunter in Malibu or Nancy Pelosi in Napa Valley or Dianne Stein on Lake Tahoe shores where Biden is now staying with Tom Steyer.
01:09:32.580And they were racist if they objected.
01:09:34.320And so finally people got smart and said, you know, the whole key to the liberal project is that the architects are never subject to the consequences of their own politics or ideology.
01:09:44.260And now we're going to make them subject to that.
01:09:47.000And once they feel what they're doing to other people, they squeal.
01:09:51.360And that's the only thing they understand.
01:09:53.280It's really kind of Neanderthal tactic.
01:09:55.220But they're Neanderthals and that's what they that's what gets their attention.
01:09:59.740I mean, California is finding out the hard way the consequences of these bizarre policies.
01:10:05.120But on the subject of California, not only are we seeing the influx of these illegal migrants and the, you know, second guessing about the sanctuary city status of places like L.A., you know, no sooner do they vote for it than they realize it's a mistake.
01:10:20.800You've got the soft on crime prosecutors in places like L.A. and Oakland and elsewhere.
01:10:25.200And now we're seeing the smash and grabs increase where they are in USA Today just a couple days ago.
01:10:32.860They're reporting on how flash mob robberies are all over Los Angeles right now.
01:10:38.1401230 in the afternoon last Thursday, nine mass suspects ransacked a fragrance counter at Macy's right in the middle of the day in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood.
01:10:49.440People are just standing by and watching this happen.
01:10:51.400This this happens right after four other incidents at a Nordstrom just 12 miles away.
01:10:58.440On August 12th, you had 30 people entering Nordstrom at four o'clock again in the middle of the day, stealing high end handbags, clothing and other easily resold items over $300,000 stolen.
01:11:09.340August 8th, at least 30 suspects flooded a Yves Saint Laurent store in Glendale, stealing clothing, other merchandise worth approximately $300,000 before fleeing on foot.
01:11:24.200And then another targeted a Macy's store in Arcadia.
01:12:08.820It's everything from razor blades to toothbrushes.
01:12:11.960And then when you go to get a new car in California, they give you the price on the sticker, but then they add $2,000 to $2,800.
01:12:22.580And that's for LoJack or some type of thing that they've had to install on their cars in the car lot because people are going into the car lot, stealing the catalytic converters, taking the car without consequences.
01:12:34.320So the dealers then put all of these anti-theft devices and they pass it on to the consumer.
01:12:42.140And so it affects everybody in California.
01:12:45.600And now where car insurance is going up, home insurance is going up, it really is rippling through and destroying the state.
01:12:53.560And what's the final irony is in San Francisco, particularly the smash and grab and the carjacking statistically, to the degree they'll release information, tends to be a lot overrepresented as young black males.
01:13:11.860And they represent the black community in California is about 3% of the population.
01:13:16.820They probably represent 1% of the entire demographic.
01:13:20.920And they may be, at least FBI crime statistics, suggest they may be responsible for 50% of the violent crime.
01:13:27.920I only mention that because we're also witnessing simultaneously in San Francisco this reparations committee that is demanding from a state that was never a slave state, never had Jim Crow, 1 million plus dollars from all California taxpayers facing almost a $45 billion deficit, it looks like.
01:13:49.160And yet there's no leadership among, I don't like the idea of a collective community that we're all black or all white or Latino.
01:13:56.680But if you go down that path, and you say, we're all black, and we all need something, then you've taken by your own volition, the reins of leadership collectively.
01:14:05.440So then you should at least say, and if I'm going to represent this community, then I'm going to talk about the inordinate demographic that's committing violence against other communities and itself.
01:14:21.100And that's what's driving people really angry in California.
01:14:24.380And this is well aside from the idea that we have 13.3 income tax, highest in the nation, some of the highest sales taxes, our property assessments are so high, we have, I think we're number six in property taxes, highest gas tax, and what do we get?
01:14:40.20045th in school test scores, 48th in infrastructure.
01:14:44.580We're blowing up four dams on the Klamath River, and we're going to lose clean hydroelectric power for 80,000 residents, recreation, flood control, drought insurance.
01:14:55.520We're blowing them up because we feel indigenous people should try to reinduce salmon in a state that has no water, basically storage for 40 million people.
01:15:04.440So if you could, I don't think they could do a better job if somebody started out and said, I want to destroy California, and I need to do it in five years, what would I do?
01:15:14.280And what you would do is the last few years of Jerry Brown and the first years of the Gavin Newsom governorships.
01:15:21.440Yeah. Well, I've got to end on this. Speaking of anarchy and people being fed up, finally, we're seeing some pushback, both by the citizenry and by law enforcement, to these environmental nutcases who continue to disrupt, whether it's an art show or a beautiful museum spilling God knows what over beautiful art, to stopping traffic.
01:15:44.380A couple of examples that just happened to happen within the same few days. First, Burning Man out in Nevada, this group of environmentalists lined up along the road to get there.
01:15:57.520They threw their, they had their signs, they had their bodies, they wouldn't let any cars get through. 150 cars at least lined up, and the Nevada Rangers got there and said, it's a no.
01:16:08.880So they just, no one got hurt. Now the environmentalist, I'm shocked. Can't believe what I saw. This is horrifying. We're just trying to protect Mother Earth. But you know what? F.A. and F.O., as they say, the Rangers got there and said, yeah, you got to move on.
01:16:28.140And as these people are chanting, abolish capitalism. And guess what happened? The traffic picked right up.
01:16:34.360Then in Washington, D.C., similar situation where people are trying to go to work or come home from, get to their kids.
01:16:43.260And the furious commuters got stopped by environmentalist activists and had a few things to say to them as they tried to stop them from going to their jobs. Listen to this.
01:16:54.680I want to walk. I want to walk. I want to go to walk.
01:17:00.900Put on a trophy. I want to go to walk.