Tara Reade Reveals What Led Her To Russia, and Biden Influence Peddling Revelations and More, with Gregg Jarrett | Ep. 563
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In 2020, I first brought you the story of Tara Reed. This is before I had even launched this show. I was sitting on my couch during the COVID pandemic lockdowns and saw her story break in the press and reached out to her. And she agreed to sit with me for an interview.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Today we begin with an exclusive
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interview with a guest you may be familiar with. In 2020, I first brought you the story of Tara
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Reed. This is before I had even launched this show. I was sitting on my couch during the COVID
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pandemic lockdowns and saw her story break in the press and reached out to her and she agreed to
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sit with me for an interview. Tara is a former congressional aide that worked under President
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Joe Biden when he was then just a senator. Tara alleges during her time working for then-Senator
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Biden back in 1993, she was sexually harassed and then assaulted by him. Tara decided to come forward
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in April of 2019 after Mr. Biden launched his campaign for the presidency, saying she was
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inspired by other accusers and a desire to advocate for herself. Many in the media and those on the left
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turned a blind eye to her accusations and then went so far as to actively smear her name, deciding
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suddenly not to believe all women. But Tara continued to speak out. Last month, two Republican congressional
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members said that Tara would be called to testify about her experience with Joe Biden in front of
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the now GOP-controlled House of Representatives. But in a stunning move this week, Tara announced in a
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press conference from Moscow that she is now in Russia and is seeking Russian citizenship over what
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she says are threats to her safety here in the United States. Joining me now to discuss her story in this
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exclusive interview is Tara Reid. Tara, welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me. It's been a
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while and I'm glad to see you. Oh, I'm glad to see you too. And I want to get into all of it. I really
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hope you are okay. This whole thing is extraordinary. When we sat together three years ago, who could have
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foreseen this is where it would wind up? So first of all, are you okay? Are you are you all right?
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I'm more than okay. I'm safe. And I'm very grateful, you know, to the to the Russian Federation. They
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they are keeping me safe, and I feel safe. And yeah, I'm not being targeted in this country. And
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it's beautiful here. It's, I have to say, you know, I've been to a lot of cities around the world. And
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this is one of the most stunning cities I've ever been to. It's really gorgeous.
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It is. It's spectacular. So you did not go over there to flee. You went to Russia when you had
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never been when we when we met, you said you'd never been there. This was you took your first
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trip just recently. So when did you go? Well, to take you back just for a second, I during COVID,
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which you mentioned, I tried I published a book and nobody's book that was published during COVID
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really did that well, to be honest. And so I it's been kind of limping along. And I just decided,
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you know, I have the opportunity, opportunity to have it translated. And so I was coming here to
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oversee the translation. And then it was being internationally just distributed. And I was
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invited on an interview for channel one. And so I was here for about a week. You know, that's
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it was the plan originally. And when did you get that way too? In late May? Correct. May 20.
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Okay. I know that you have a lawyer now. She released a statement this morning saying that
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the plane ticket was was paid for by I believe it was Russian television. Who paid for it?
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It was channel one Russian television. So yes. So why did they pay for your ticket to Russia?
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Um, they wanted me there for the interview. And we discussed my book and my case.
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Okay. And then where were you staying during that, that week?
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Um, I stayed at a very modest, uh, accommodation. So yeah.
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Yeah. And in Moscow, I don't really want to say.
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No, no, I understand that. But was it, was it a hotel or was it the home of somebody?
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Yes. Yes. It was just like a hotel and a very modest one at that.
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Okay. And so you're over there. And at that time, was your intention to return to the United States?
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Well, yeah, I was actually coming back probably, you know, it's a couple of days travel because
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you can't go directly into Moscow, as you know. Um, so it required me to go to another country and
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then have a layover and then come back. So it was about a two day, 11 hour flight from the
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secondary country. So five hours to that country, a flight, and then another 11 hours back to the
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United States. So I was going to leave that Saturday and be home probably by Sunday night,
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if I made my connections correctly. So you had a round trip ticket?
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No, I had, um, a different, they, they gave me a one way and then I was getting another one way
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because I think, um, I was going to go through a different country on the way back home. Um,
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yeah, because I had come through Istanbul and I wasn't sure about leaving through Istanbul because
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at that time there was having the elections and whatnot. So I was thinking about leaving through Dubai.
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So when you were in Moscow, had they purchased you a return flight home prior to you receiving
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the calls that were, yeah, they actually, well, while this was going on in the middle of the week,
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they were about to, um, purchase my ticket and I was deciding if I was going to go through Istanbul
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or Dubai. And then, um, we were in conversation and then I started getting information that if I
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returned, um, that I might be at risk of being picked up at the airport. Okay. So let's talk about
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that. What was the first inkling you had that you might be in danger of being arrested or worse?
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Um, I was getting, um, some feedback, um, from people that, you know, and I, and, and this is,
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and you, you know, I don't conceal anything, Megan with you. I've been very open and I don't like to do
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that, but when it comes to other people's safety in their cases, I can't out them, but there are other
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people who have sought safety in this area and their former journalists, former intelligence,
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and they've had to not be able to go back to their home of origin anyway, but they still have
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intelligence ties. And I was given two separate messages that, um, there may be, uh, you know,
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that the U S government wasn't happy with my vacation choice. And, um, there may be something
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happening. If I flew back in, um, I was given a very specific message around the middle of the week,
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um, when I was about to purchase the ticket. In fact, it was that day and I was in conversations
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with a person to get it, you know, arranged. And then I got a message, um, from someone else who said,
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um, you know, if you please, uh, think about staying because there may be a red notice
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Interpol warrant for your arrest if you go to an airport. So not even necessarily at the home
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airport, it might've happened at the connecting flight. Now, when you say somebody told you this,
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is this loose talk in expat circles in Russia by somebody saying, you know, Tara, he came over here
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on the Russians dime that could get you in trouble. Given all the sanctions, you better look into that
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before you go. I mean, was it loose talk or was it a specific threat by somebody who would be in a
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position to know that you were actually in legal danger? It was two people, um, with specific
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knowledge that I was in specific danger. And, um, now I have, you had mentioned, I have a lawyer, um,
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he's a American lawyer. His name is John, um, Levy. And then, um, Rada, who you mentioned, Sterling is
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helping with finding out where these warrants are. So exact. So she's contacting, and I don't really
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understand all the process. It's very complicated, Megan. I know. And, you know, you know, I have a
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law degree and you do too, but this is a very specialized area of law and I'm not really familiar
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with Interpol international warrants, but, um, there is a mechanism to find out. And we're in
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the process of doing that now. Right. You're trying to find out whether there is a red notice on you
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through Interpol, which is an international organization that helps make arrests that when
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a citizen from one country travels elsewhere and it might be a fugitive or a potential criminal.
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Um, and you're trying to find out whether there is a quote, red notice for you with Interpol right now.
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Exactly. And not just that, but I have a, I have a case, um, that's sealed, um, by the DOJ,
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um, that was opened in 2020 and it, um, I can't, I mean, the case was opened by the DOJ and FBI.
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They pulled all my Twitter, um, communications that attorney informed me that all of my communications
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were taken under sealed warrants, meaning that other companies like Google, Gmail, phone, whatever,
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but Twitter had chosen to go to court to inform me. And they had to make several motions in court
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to even tell me that there's a sealed case. They impaneled a grand jury. And I thought,
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because it's been three years, it's been since 2020, um, maybe this was over, um, you know,
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cause it had to do with, you know, Joe Biden, you know, and all of that. And I thought, well,
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if nothing happened, maybe that's the case. And what I found out is no, actually,
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you know, it can sit there for as long as they want. And then they can choose to indict
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like they did Julian Assange. He sat there for 10 years and then they indicted in my case. Um,
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it's been three. And, um, I was advised that that needs to be looked at. I've had journalists try to
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get that information. I've had a member of Congress I've had tried to look. I've also had,
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um, you know, obviously I've gone through different methods with an attorney to try to
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get it open. I have no information, but it's just sitting there. Um, so you believe that you're
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under, you believe you're under investigation right now by the Biden DOJ prior to going to Russia,
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that this was an investigation open, a grand jury investigation opened,
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looking into something about you back in 2020. Correct. It's been sitting there. Um, and I
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thought maybe it was over and it wasn't until I was on this trip that I was informed when I got
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more educated about all of this, no, that it could be in diet that could be activated at any time. Um,
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and there was also some other things that went on. Um, when I made my decision, as you know,
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Megan, cause you've known me over the years and you know, I'm pretty methodical. I don't,
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I'm not impulsive. I make decisions, um, based on analysis and data points. And I looked at the
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cases that are, are, you know, and the activity since the election's ramping up as far as people
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making threats, all of that thing. And then those two warnings that I got, and then there was one
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more conversation that I had, which I know you want to get to, um, that put the seal on it, that I
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decided, made my decision and I decided to err on the side of caution and not get on that plane.
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Hmm. Can we talk about the two warnings? Because it, how did they find you? You know,
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you're over there promoting a book, you give an interview to channel one. Um, that's, I mean,
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all media in Russia is basically state run. Um, but so you give this interview and how did they,
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what did people come to you personally? Did they call you? How did they reach out to you to say
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there, there may be danger of you being arrested? They took great personal risk,
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professional risk and personal risk and reached out through a friend. I did not know them directly,
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um, and gave me the message. And may I ask if these are American citizens? All American.
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Okay. So former, former Intel people from the American Intel intelligence agencies.
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Absolutely. Yeah. And, and were these people in Russia?
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I, I, again, I can't, I can't say anymore. No worries. Um, okay. And so they're saying,
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Tara, you might be arrested if you leave Russia. And what did they specifically mention for violating
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sanctions? Because we, as the audience probably knows, we have a bunch of sanctions on Russia right
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now because of the war in Ukraine. And your lawyer was pointing out this morning in her statement,
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and Rada Sterling, uh, one of your lawyers was saying, uh, this, this would be basically a joke
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because she's the sanctions that are in place right now, um, against Russia would make it
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inappropriate for companies to advertise on these Russian television stations to offer professional
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services to said channels, but do not include a ban on receiving a plane ticket. So did you feel
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that, uh, that's the sanction threat or the arrest threat was real?
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Yes. Um, and the sanction issue, um, we're still trying to sort through. And then I made several
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phone calls and nobody seemed to have the answer. And I called lawyers like in New York and DC
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that had federal backgrounds. And they literally read said that some of these sanction laws are pages long.
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They're relatively new. Megan is, you know, they're 2022, 2023. So some of them haven't even,
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you know, really been enacted or they haven't been, you know, litigated in any way. Um, they're just
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sitting there sort of. Um, but in my case, I had accepted this plane ticket from channel one and I was
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told that that could be considered a violation. Now, what people need to understand is a violation of
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sanctions, um, couldn't lead to prison time. Like it can lead to actually not just,
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financial penalties, but actual prison. Hmm. So you've got that potential violation of
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sanctions though. You know, your lawyer says that's a bunch of BS. You're, you're not a company
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advertising. Uh, you're a citizen going over with a plane ticket to give an interview. Um,
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that that's one piece of it. And then there's the possibility of some grand jury investigation,
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some DOJ action in connection with something else started back here in 2020 on that front.
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Do you believe that the government suspected you of being a Russian agent, that that investigation
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had anything to do with that? Do you recall our conversation when we got, we kind of talked about
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this? Yes. The first thing. Yeah. Right. The first thing that Joe Biden did when the New York times
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called him, apparently according to Lisa layer was, um, she, they, she asked the campaign about me
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and about that. And their first response was to send them blogs and statements I made about Vladimir
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Putin and about Russia that were considered pro-Russia and inferred that I was a Russian
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agent. And Edward Isaac Dover, who worked for the Atlantic did an article about me possibly being a
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Russian asset. So it was that wild connection. And you and I had even joked about that, right?
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Yeah. On your show because of how absurd it was. I was this girl who grew up in Wisconsin,
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lived, you know, born in California, lived all my life in America. And then all of a sudden I'm,
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I'm, you know, this Russian asset because I simply came forward about Joe Biden, but that, but, you know,
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we were also in the thick of the whole, um, Russia gate, which has now been, been proven to be
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all false and, um, a narrative that's been overturned, uh, you know, by several outlets
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that those were outright lies. And now it's been proven in hearings in Congress. So I was sort of
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swept up in that. This is so crazy. I want to show the audience this when, when we sat together
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again, right in the heart of the COVID pandemic, I remember flying out to see you. There was no one
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in any airport. It was completely desolate. I was like the only person we met. Um, we did our own
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hair and makeup. It was like the world was shut down, but, but you wanted to speak and I wanted
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to hear it. And I asked you about your past writings about Putin. And here's part of that
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exchange. Okay. You've said he's a genius with athletic prowess. That's intoxicating. He has an
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alluring combination of strength with gentleness. His sensuous image projects his love for life,
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the embodiment of grace while facing adversity. Uh, and that like most women across the world,
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you like president Putin a lot shirt on or off. Well, that was a joke, but, um, that was humorous
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meant to be humorous, but you sound pretty enamored with it. You know, I've never been to Russia. I
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don't know what it's like to live there or the human rights violations that, you know, he is accused
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of. And what I would say now is that I don't appreciate his views about, for instance, domestic
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violence, um, programs. Like there's not a lot of support for women from my understanding.
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Okay. And then your heart's changed back since then from the sound of it, because you were saying
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very, very different things. Well, you know, I, I'm not going to speak to anything about, um,
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Russian laws or anything because I I'm just been here a week. So I can't really speak to anything
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actually except tourist stuff and how pretty it is, but, um, here, but what I can tell you is that,
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um, I've been, it's a very efficient city. It's very good, you know, Moscow itself. And,
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and I really enjoy it here as far as, uh, Vladimir Putin goes, the president of Russia. I don't know
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him. I still haven't met him and I probably will never meet him. It was just, um, a blog that I was
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doing for a novel that I was writing. And you and I kind of, if you, if people watched that interview
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further, we would talk about that as well. Um, and, you know, it's one of the, it's one of the
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posts you should go back and look at, at it, keep going. Yeah. But, but what I was going to say is,
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is you should definitely, um, you know, give president Putin credit, um, right now for
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protecting or taking in people that are, that have no place to go. They, I mean, when you look at the
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world right now, if there is an Interpol arrest warrant, I literally have no country I can go to
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for safety except Russia. And I think just a couple others. So, um, there are people here
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whose only, um, crime may be just to simply tell the truth or to present what's going on in Ukraine,
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like, um, filming in Donbass and talking to the residents of Donbass about how horrible they're,
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you know, it's been to have the key of regime attacking them, that there are neo-Nazis,
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um, in Donbass and that there is the Azov battalions, which are Nazis. Um, and that,
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you know, I mean, so you have people that have been bringing that truth and have been to those
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places and talk to the residents that are happy. The Russians are there to protect them.
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And, um, that's not being allowed in the Western media. It's being suppressed and the journalists
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doing it are being, um, demonetized. If they're independent, they're being harassed. Look what
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just happened to Kit Klarenberg. Kit Klarenberg does deep investigative reporting. Um, but he's
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not following the narrative of the Great Britain, you know, or, or the state department from the U S
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and they, um, detained him in London, England and took his DNA and took all his electronics and he
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didn't commit a crime. He's a journalist. So, you know, we're, we're, you know, I have to give,
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um, President Putin credit for allowing a safe haven, um, for people that are trying to,
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you know, tell the truth. Wow. I understand that's your perspective. It is, it is only part
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of the story, obviously about what's happening in Ukraine as children are dying by the thousands and
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the tapes are absolutely deeply disturbing. And there are very good reasons to see Putin in a very
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different way as a villain, as the aggressor and as his actions entirely unjustified. That's not
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the purpose of our debate today. Okay. So I don't, but yeah, and I don't see him as a villain. I see
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him, you know, that's simply not true. I don't, I think that that, that narrative, and that's been
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the problem is the Western has been controlling the narrative so, so hard that they're not allowing
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the truth to come out, which is that. Or we see the truth and we have different opinions on it.
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I mean, that's, that's, there's another, there's no reason for you and I to, I see your point,
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but that's, that's a debate for a different day. We've been having it ad nauseum on this show and
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others. Um, though I, I do want to ask you at the time we sat and we talked about your allegations
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against Joe Biden, had you ever been in contact with anyone from Russia at the time that we talked
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of? No, of course not. No. So there was no, because now there's speculation back then you were a Russian
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agent back then you were being used by Russia to smear Joe Biden. Absolutely not. No, I was writing a
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novel as you know. So now. Okay. And, and you were, when you did a press conference about your
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circumstances just the other day, you were with Maria Butina, uh, who was convicted here in America
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of being an undisclosed Russian agent and went and was sentenced to, I think, 19 months in prison,
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then went back home and is a journalist over in Russia now, or actually she's a, she's a representative
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of the state Duma, which is the lower house of the legislature. And she, um, had, when was the first
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time you met her? I actually met her because, you know, I have a podcast called the politics of
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survival and I try to bring on stories that, you know, weren't told very often. And she, the focus
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of that story, um, because she wasn't a Russian spy and that, and, and there was even a American
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journalist who did a, a good piece called, um, Maria Butina, the spy that wasn't, um, I'd encourage
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people to read that. She was sort of used politically again, caught up in that Russia gate narrative that
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Hillary Clinton was, was rabid about at that time. Um, she, um, our focus of our interview was about
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prison conditions because she was put in solitary confinement for months and, um, which is considered
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by the UN and, and by most as a form of torture. She talked about, um, the systemic racism. She talked
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about the women she met in prison and just the conditions and what she saw. And, um, you know,
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like she mentioned one woman had been in solitary for six years in solitary prison, you know,
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solitary confinement. I mean, no one would defend that. I got a feeling it's not much better in
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Russia. They're not exactly known for their human rights championship over there, Tara. I hate to
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tell you, but you may have jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire. We don't know. We don't,
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we don't know because the narrative is so controlled. We're not allowed to know.
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I hope you don't find out. I hope you don't find out. I really do. I don't think you're going to get
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arrested over there, but let's face it. Putin's record on human rights is abysmal. That's the
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truth. Um, okay. That's not to excuse anything that's being done to you possibly by our country,
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because you don't deserve to be to any retribution for speaking out about Joe Biden and the, the DOJ
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investigation back in 2020, seeking your Twitter account, uh, correspondence, I'll be in there among
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others, uh, is highly suspicious, highly suspicious, unless they had real evidence you had done something
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criminal or we're actively coordinating with some known Russian agent. What like, let's have it. We've
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been three years now. Let's have it. So do your lawyers feel that they can unearth anything that's
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happening there? Do they have any right to know what's happening there? Well, what my lawyers were
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told is no, and they may never know. And, um, they don't. And, you know, my hope was that a member of
00:23:17.560
Congress could get it opened, um, with higher, you know, uh, status for, for intelligence, I guess,
00:23:23.780
or like, you know, being able to open it. So, you know, that was my inquiry. Um, right now,
00:23:29.280
of course the, the international lawyers and the, the one that's in DC area, we'll be looking into
00:23:35.660
that to see if they can get it open. But as far as I know, what the main thrust of, of that is when
00:23:43.360
they seal a file and seal the grand jury, it's, it's really hard to open it unless they choose to
00:23:49.080
indict. Hmm. Okay. So let's go back to the week of, I think you said it was May 20, 21st to that
00:23:56.020
week when you had flown over. Well, yeah, I landed May 20th. So I left May 20th is Saturday. Just
00:24:01.220
looking at my calendar. So that you said around that Wednesday, you got these calls or the, you
00:24:05.560
were contacted later. No. Yeah. So later in that week, so it would have been, what is that the 25th
00:24:10.580
or whatever the 23rd? So Wednesday's the 24th, Thursday's the 25th. Okay. Yeah. So you, you get
00:24:15.840
contacted and you reached out to Congressman Matt Gaetz's office. Now the reason you re the reason
00:24:22.820
you reached out to Matt Gaetz's office is because Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor green, as I said, in the
00:24:27.220
intro, we're working with you to potentially have a hearing on the sexual abuse allegations against
00:24:33.100
Joe Biden. You're not the only woman to accuse him of harassment. There were at least seven plus,
00:24:37.380
um, who came forward when he was running. Yours are the most egregious. And I should state for the
00:24:43.460
record. He vehemently denies them. Um, so they, as I understand it, Tara wanted to, um, take you,
00:24:51.640
uh, my, and my, this is my understanding, according to a Matt Gaetz source, uh, their plan,
00:24:56.840
because they had sent a letter to the Senate on behalf of you requesting any and all records
00:25:02.120
relating to your allegations of sexual abuse. When you worked for Joe Biden, you told me you did
00:25:07.680
complain at the time, not about the abuse allegation where he allegedly stopped you in the
00:25:12.540
hallway and hurt you, but about harassment that you were enduring at his hand. And you did go,
00:25:18.200
you wrote it down, you made a formal complaint. And yet we've never found those records. And that
00:25:23.140
my understanding was that Gaetz's office and Marjorie Taylor green's office were trying,
00:25:27.600
they had sent a letter to the Senate on your behalf, seeking any and all records of those
00:25:31.700
allegations. And then they were responded to, um, by the Senate saying, we're going to protect the
00:25:37.840
privacy of Tara read. We're not giving you your records because we need to protect her privacy.
00:25:42.540
And that the next move was going to be to go with you to Capitol Hill, where you would sign a waiver
00:25:49.420
in person saying, hello, they're acting on my behalf. I want those records. I've been trying to
00:25:54.380
get those records every way I can. Now I'm going to try to get them through these two Congress people,
00:25:58.380
turn them over. And that that was the next plan step for you here in the United States. Is that correct?
00:26:04.060
Correct. But I think you could sign the waiver. Yeah. And they were going to hand in the notice,
00:26:10.020
but I did sign a waiver as well online, but it's just a matter of if they, you know, require it.
00:26:16.180
So you were going to go in person and do that and then have a press conference to tell people what
00:26:21.900
had just happened. Correct. With Matt Gaetz. All right. So you're coordinating with his office
00:26:27.080
about that possible next move, which may or may not lead to congressional hearings and so on. You're
00:26:32.180
laying the foundation, trying to get your documentation, which you were trying to get
00:26:35.540
back when we talked three years ago as well. Yes. And, and then you fly to Russia, you're promoting
00:26:42.660
your book that those wheels are still in motion back on Capitol Hill. And when you get this warning,
00:26:48.100
you call Matt Gaetz. What happened in that convo?
00:26:50.000
Well, you know, I have to give him credit. Um, he's, I now think of him as quite a noble person
00:26:57.820
because, you know, he didn't advise me. Um, he simply gave me information. I said, Hey, look,
00:27:03.120
I told him my information about the warnings I was given about being arrested at the airport or in
00:27:08.840
transit. And, um, I asked for immunity. Can I be immune from this? Cause I haven't done it,
00:27:14.060
committed any crimes. All I'm doing is talking about the truth and I feel targeted by the DOJ and FBI.
00:27:18.880
This is part of, and ironically, one of the cases that I was going to, I was going to testify about
00:27:24.580
my case, but I was also asked to testify with other whists about the whistleblowers that are
00:27:30.360
being persecuted by the DOJ and FBI by Joe Biden on a panel. And I was going to also participate in
00:27:36.600
that. Right. Um, so, you know, I, we, we had that conversation about it and he basically said,
00:27:43.040
look, I can't, I can't, uh, promise anything about blanket immunity or immunity, but he said,
00:27:50.340
but I'll tell you this Tara, you know, um, I'm really concerned for your personal safety
00:27:55.060
here because I know how these people operate. And I found that stunning, you know, he's a U S
00:28:01.340
congressman. And as you know, one of the whistleblowers has disappeared. Um, and I think
00:28:06.900
they're trying, I think as of today, there was new news that they're trying to locate that person,
00:28:11.060
but they are so scared. I guess they, they are trying to do this from underground kind of like
00:28:16.860
I'm trying to testify from Russia, but this tells you the mafia state that the United States is in
00:28:23.420
right now under the Biden regime. Um, that we're literally, let me ask you about that. Let me
00:28:28.840
press you on that because does it, I'm not, I don't know what they've done or what they haven't
00:28:33.040
done, but so far all we have is, you know, you, you interview so many people and you are so good
00:28:39.720
at reading them. Right. And people always tell you who they are. Don't you remember when Joe
00:28:44.540
Biden had his mic off and he said, um, or he didn't know that he had the mic still on, excuse
00:28:49.980
me. And he said on a hot mic, he said, nobody fucks with a Biden. And I mean, who says that
00:28:56.520
that, but, but that's his mentality. And that's how this team works that, I mean, I have been under
00:29:01.820
so many, and you know, how many threats I've been on over the years.
00:29:05.380
Oh, they're trying to destroy you. The media has tried to destroy you and I can't put it on
00:29:10.400
Biden, but yeah, the audience should know that is real. I witnessed that firsthand. The left,
00:29:16.880
the organized political left went after you with a vengeance and tried to smear you because you'd
00:29:22.840
filed for bankruptcy, looked into your college records, counted up the credits. Did she really
00:29:28.260
quite get over the line on her degree? She held herself out as an expert. Was she really an expert?
00:29:32.840
I mean, they, you were trying to help domestic violence victims and they treated you like you
00:29:37.480
were chief abuser of, of truth. And look, that's what they do, but it was such a juxtaposition from
00:29:43.880
believe all women that it was absolutely telling. So I, I validate that whole experience for you.
00:29:50.960
And it's also true that Biden administration has been targeting its enemies for sure from parents who
00:29:57.280
speak out at school board meetings, who get the FBI potentially involved on down. We've covered all of
00:30:02.700
that. But here, what we have is proof is two people. We don't know who you say were former
00:30:09.020
American Intel who said, be careful. There might be an Interpol red notice on you that could lead to
00:30:14.980
your arrest for violating sanctions. Matt Gates saying, I don't know. Maybe he's saying, I don't
00:30:20.100
know, but I know how these people operate and that, you know, I hope you're safe. That's not exactly
00:30:24.540
proof, proof positive of the Biden administration doing anything to you.
00:30:28.160
Well, you know, it, it was for me as far as making a decision about whether I felt like
00:30:34.620
I could just go home and not be walking into a very bad situation because right now under the
00:30:39.900
current new laws, like if they were charging me with say the FARA act, which the, that's a foreign
00:30:45.000
registration act, um, which is, um, you know, kind of speculation if that sealed case, if that's what
00:30:51.660
that is, um, if you're acting as a Russian agent here in America and you haven't disclosed it,
00:30:57.260
you could violate this act. Go ahead. Right. It's administrative act. That's kind of a backdoor
00:31:02.140
into the espionage. And it wasn't really ever even enforced until Maria Boutina's case, but also
00:31:08.860
January 6th, a couple of the cases, you know, where they designated people as terrorists. And now with
00:31:14.520
chairman O'Malley, that the black socialist group, um, they've now been indicted, they're facing 10
00:31:21.360
to 15 years in prison maybe. Um, and they've had their passports revoked. Uh, and that's chairman
00:31:28.420
O'Malley. He's 80 years old. He's been an activist, a black African, um, American activist for 50 years.
00:31:35.720
And he's not a Russian agent, but that's what the charges are. And they've been, and in the
00:31:40.160
indictment, they said he was sowing discord. Um, and because he was pushing back against the proxy
00:31:46.460
war that the U S and NATO's waging against Russia via Ukraine. And for that, they, three of them in
00:31:52.860
that, or I think four, excuse me, are now facing prison time. They've been arrested, indicted, whatever.
00:31:58.720
So with this new law, they can hold people up to 18 months without even charging them. And you may not
00:32:04.720
even get access to counsel. Well, guess what? The, the election's coming and I'm just about to
00:32:10.420
testify. What would Joe Biden love more than anything else than to have me silent, to have
00:32:15.600
me put away, to have me not testifying before Congress. Right. So I made my decision alone
00:32:22.820
without anyone coercing me. So you're right. I, but I did, it was looking at several data points
00:32:29.060
and looking at listening to people and weighing it out. And I even like took notes and wrote it down
00:32:34.700
and did pluses and minuses. I mean, I really thought about this. Um, you know, I didn't sleep
00:32:40.780
one night just thinking and thinking about my options. And I really, so I, I analyzed it,
00:32:47.980
but also I went with my gut and my gut was telling me, don't do it. You're going to walk into something
00:32:53.160
bad. We reached out to Congressman Gates's office to try to get confirmation of this conversation.
00:32:59.440
We were unsuccessful in getting any comment on that though. A Matt Gates source told us that he did
00:33:04.480
express sympathy to you when you called him, um, no ownership, you know, and, and, you know,
00:33:11.380
and I don't want him to become a target again because he was honest with me because he could
00:33:16.680
have said, yeah, Tara, come on, get on that plane. And then I, you know, I would have had a different
00:33:22.400
fate. And by the way, did he know you were going to Moscow? Did he know? I told him, I told him exactly
00:33:28.700
where it was. Did he know that you were going before that, before you went? No. Okay. So he,
00:33:35.600
you called him up. He says, where are you calling from? And you say, I'm, I'm in Moscow. I mean,
00:33:41.000
that must've been a moment. I'm in Moscow, Russia. My God. I mean, was there like, I just, as a human,
00:33:47.280
was there like a holy right moment? People are like, what? No, he, he just said, he knew I explained
00:33:54.840
that I was there for the book and for an interview and that I was trying to get the translation done.
00:33:58.900
And it was going out to not just Russian, but it was going out to French, Spanish, Italian. It was
00:34:03.220
going out to all different being distributed internationally. And we should say, give me the
00:34:07.500
name of the book again. I have it here. I think he said, I can't remember his exact words on that
00:34:12.400
because I, but I think he said something like that's unfortunate. And then I think he said something
00:34:16.160
like, um, well, I can't go there because it's sanctioned. And I said, well, apparently I can't go
00:34:20.080
either. Um, uh, something like that. Um, but other than that, you know, he focused more on
00:34:25.600
what he was trying to do to further the investigation into Joe Biden. And that was
00:34:30.460
his focus of his conversation. And then he gave me the name of the book again, just so people know
00:34:34.960
why there's interest in it. Sure. It's left out when the truth doesn't fit in. And it's about this
00:34:41.400
whole experience you're talking about. Yes. And I'm having to add three chapters. So this will
00:34:46.880
probably be a chapter at least, at least. Okay. So that, so you're over there. You decide,
00:34:52.280
can I just say though, I know from our previous dealings, you have a, you have a daughter who you
00:34:57.440
absolutely adore. You have all these pets who I know you're like a diehard lifelong animal lover.
00:35:02.980
I mean, it's not, what about your daughter? What about Michaela?
00:35:08.820
Yeah. Um, you know, it's been, it's been horrendous to, to make that decision and I'm going to get
00:35:14.240
emotional. I miss her. Um, but I'm not going to do her any good if I'm in a cage and I'm,
00:35:22.640
she wouldn't see me anyway. And I feel like I'm so targeted right now and I feel so unsafe in the
00:35:29.080
United States and how it started amping up and the election hasn't even really started in earnest.
00:35:33.880
And Joe Biden apparently is running that. I don't feel, um, you know, that I can go back safely and
00:35:40.900
I feel she might be at risk because I'm in that proximity and you know, it's hard. It's the
00:35:46.080
hardest decision. One of the hardest decisions I've ever made in my life, but, um, and I missed my
00:35:51.640
pets desperately and it was sudden. So I'm still scrambling to try to sort everything, but all I can
00:36:00.020
tell you is that somehow there's a piece inside me that I know I avoided something really negative
00:36:06.820
and I refuse to be intimidated and bullied and pushed out by Joe Biden from trying to get justice.
00:36:16.240
Now, and I say that knowing I might not get personal justice, right? But I, I at least want to be able
00:36:23.700
to testify under oath in Congress about what he did and see an investigation. I don't even care anymore
00:36:30.420
at this point of the results. I want to raise up the issue that Joe Biden is weaponizing the FBI and
00:36:36.920
DOJ against private citizens. Look what they're doing to like Matt Taibbi who exposed the, the,
00:36:43.100
the infiltration of the DOJ and FBI into, um, social media and Twitter by Hamilton 68 and all that
00:36:51.200
reporting. He had IRS. Yeah. So IRS after him and everything else. Rather than retreading that ground
00:36:56.280
because we've talked about that a lot on the show, but what can I ask you about when you did,
00:37:01.040
did you have to call your daughter at some point and say, I did Michaela, I'm in Russia and I'm
00:37:07.320
seeking citizenship here and staying. So how did that go? It didn't. Okay. That wasn't one
00:37:15.080
conversation. That was several. And you know, there's a time zone difference and it was hard
00:37:19.600
and it was heart wrenching. And I didn't tell her right at first. I told her in increments
00:37:23.400
because I wasn't sure what I was doing. Like I, you know, I, I wasn't sure what my options were.
00:37:28.500
Right. And I still completely don't know, like, I don't know how long I'll be allowed to stay.
00:37:34.580
If I would be granted citizenship, I don't know the answer to these questions. Um, and they have a,
00:37:40.060
you know, they have a complicated process just like the United States does. They have their own
00:37:43.860
process and I don't know. Why, why seek citizenship? Why give up your, I mean, this is sort of how a lot
00:37:49.740
of people over here have reacted. Like why is she seeking Russian citizenship and why is she bashing
00:37:54.640
the United States on a Russian stage? Well, first of all, I've been saying the same thing about I'm
00:38:01.540
not bashing the United States. I love my country. I don't like the elites and the corruption that's
00:38:08.060
running it. I don't like the military industrial complex that has hijacked it. We're spending a
00:38:13.200
trillion dollars next year on defense alone while our infrastructure is falling down. You know,
00:38:18.580
you know, there's a difference Tara between saying that from California or Seattle and saying that
00:38:23.780
from Moscow. There's, it has a different feeling. I know, but you're, when you're on Russian soil
00:38:28.900
asking for Russian citizenship and you start bashing the United States as a current American,
00:38:32.980
people get rather upset and see you as a traitor. I'm not a traitor. And I want to remind everyone
00:38:40.000
too, that, you know, that would think of me as a traitor, that I worked as a democratic,
00:38:44.100
you know, aid like on congressional races. I worked for Leon Panetta. I worked for Joe Biden.
00:38:49.720
I worked in public service. I helped people in social services that needed help. I testified
00:38:56.520
in legislatures to try to make laws better. You know, in Washington state, I did a lot of pro bono
00:39:04.720
public service work. And then when I needed help, when I came forward about Joe Biden, look how I was
00:39:10.760
treated, Megan, my country betrayed me. I haven't betrayed my country.
00:39:16.840
And that's how I feel. And I feel, and it's not even the country itself. It's the elites. And I
00:39:22.620
know who it is because the P the people of the United States are good people. And most people do
00:39:27.080
not want to be close to world war three Biden is. And you know, I said in 2019, that Joe, if Joe Biden
00:39:34.100
became president, he would take us to war with Russia. And here we are. And I got a lot of flack for
00:39:39.200
saying that, but here we are, we're on, we're in the most dangerous moment in history. And while my
00:39:44.420
case is important to me and it's important, I think one of the most important conversations we
00:39:49.700
all need to be having is why aren't our leaders using diplomacy? Why do you have Lindsey Graham?
00:39:55.060
Okay. I get it. But we're rounding back to a policy debate that is for another day.
00:39:58.540
I understand it's important to you and it's important to the country, but again, why seek
00:40:02.960
citizenship in Russia? Why not? I mean, like, why can't I be free to seek citizenship,
00:40:09.420
dual citizenship, wherever I want? Like people have European passports and they have American
00:40:13.160
passports. Why not? I'm doing, I'm doing a book thing here. I also got another book that's coming
00:40:20.740
out in September, a manuscript that got approved. So I needed to do research here and I wanted to go
00:40:27.280
back and forth and I wanted the benefit. You can go back and forth as an American. I've been to Russia
00:40:32.440
a couple of times over the past five, you can go back and forth as an American. You can go back and
00:40:37.360
forth, but I wanted to explore doing both. And I think there's nothing wrong with that. I think
00:40:42.080
there's nothing wrong. It doesn't sound right. I got red flags all over it. When you say that
00:40:46.400
there's gotta be a reason Tara, what, what is the reason? The reason is that I, I personally find
00:40:53.480
this country beautiful. And, um, for the first time I felt safe and I felt free and I wasn't
00:41:02.320
feeling that in the United States. And I think that, that the geopolitical world is changing. I
00:41:06.980
think that it is becoming a multipolar world. I think that the East is becoming strong and
00:41:12.080
economically, and I think there's opportunities. So I wanted to have the experience of, of, of having
00:41:17.080
both places and there's nothing wrong with that, but also going to live to support yourself.
00:41:23.480
Oh, well, I'm a writer. So, and, you know, I just got the book approved and I'll do other
00:41:29.240
writing jobs and, and work, you know, in, in that realm, but I, I, I hope, and I already
00:41:36.360
have, um, offers to do that. And, you know, I'm going to, to pursue those offers to write
00:41:41.880
and to, as I said, I have a manuscript that's due in September. So I have that project that I'm
00:41:48.680
working on. And I think you speak Russian. I do not speak Russian, but this is going
00:41:54.100
to be a problem. This, this plan has got some holes in it. Uh, yeah. And I have, I have plans
00:42:00.820
to have tutors and to learn and to, they have classes here just like they do in America.
00:42:05.520
And then, and of course I even have an app and I've been learning, like I can say, you know,
00:42:09.480
private and I can say a couple of words. Yeah. Um, but you know, it's, I don't, I just don't
00:42:18.840
buy into the Russophobia. It's like, it's like if I decided to make a second home in Italy,
00:42:24.040
which a lot of people are doing, actually, they're retiring in Italy or Mexico or other
00:42:28.600
countries that are maybe have a better cost of living. Um, you know, no one questions that
00:42:34.280
white question, Russia, Russia. I understand. And listen, you said this to me back when we
00:42:38.460
interviewed three years ago, you know, that you didn't like the Russophobia and look, having been
00:42:43.180
there, having been to St. Petersburg, having been to Moscow, it is a spectacular, it's absolutely
00:42:47.840
beautiful there. The people are lovely. I know that they're, they, they get demonized because of
00:42:52.780
the Russian politics and the Russian behavior that you have to be able to separate the two, you know,
00:42:57.000
the people of Russia from the politics of Russia, same as we hope they do for us. So I,
00:43:02.520
I don't mean to, yeah, the food, is that what you said?
00:43:06.420
The food is really good. And you know, what's remarkable about the food is, is it really shocked
00:43:11.940
me because no one really talks about this, but it tastes like it does food tasted like when I was a
00:43:16.760
kid. And I was like, what is that? So I asked Rand and what it is, is they don't allow GMOs.
00:43:21.000
They don't allow, um, hormones. They don't allow any of that Monsanto, anything, those products.
00:43:26.700
They also don't allow gays. So it's like, it's a trade-off. Um,
00:43:30.980
I look, I want to ask you whether you think you can come back because you still say you're going
00:43:37.920
to testify. So how, if Gates and Taylor green get this hearing going, so how are you going to do
00:43:43.680
that? Oh, I'm glad you asked that. Um, the lawyer that I spoke to, um, is going to prefer, I think
00:43:50.140
is the term prefer, um, Congress, um, and request that I be able to come in video link. And, uh,
00:43:57.280
so I can do so safely. And I would like to testify that way. Um, and we'll see if it's accepted.
00:44:02.900
Uh, um, and then, um, yeah. Yeah. I want to ask you this because, uh, John Kirby, who's the Pentagon
00:44:08.340
spokesperson for the administration has been for a long time was asked about these allegations
00:44:13.420
that your life is at risk here as a result of policies by the U S government or at the hands
00:44:18.180
of the U S government. Here's what he said. Sot nine. She announced yesterday, she's seeking
00:44:23.220
citizenship in Russia and she feels safer there. Does the white house have any reaction to that
00:44:29.620
announcement given the accusations that she's made against president? I think we'd be loathe
00:44:33.720
to comment on the, uh, uh, on the musings of a potential Russian citizen. That's really up
00:44:38.860
for her to, to speak to. Does the white house, uh, believe that her allegations may have been
00:44:44.840
motivated by her allegiance to affinity for Russia? Difficult to say. One thing I will say is
00:44:51.680
that the allegations that, uh, her life was at risk, uh, by the United States government,
00:44:57.580
absolutely false baseless. There's nothing to that. Does that reassure you? Um, Julian Assange,
00:45:05.900
Edward Snowden, you know, I mean, come on. If you, if you speak out against the empire,
00:45:13.280
um, and besides like how many times have they stood up there and been lying to us and that's those lies
00:45:21.020
have been revealed recently about Russiagate. Um, so, you know, no, I don't trust the words of John
00:45:27.480
Kirby and he knows very well why I'm frightened. He knows very well. And, and by the way, Megan,
00:45:33.340
why didn't they just have the press secretary answer? Why would they have someone from the NSA?
00:45:39.000
Hmm. Well, we may get questions there as well as the news cycle unfolds. I want to show the audience
00:45:44.100
picture you sent me of you sitting in the Russian Duma. Um, yeah, which is, oh, the state Duma is
00:45:49.940
beautiful. It's incredible. This is again, the lower body of the legislation. Um, and I'll put
00:45:55.560
that up on the board, but it's not going to help with the people who think this is all part of your
00:46:01.700
Russian agent, secret agent operation for the record. What, what are your ties if any, to the
00:46:08.400
Russian government, the Russian Federation? Absolutely none. I think it's so silly. It's
00:46:13.360
so ridiculous. I mean, I got a tour of the Duma. That was pretty exciting, but like, so do school
00:46:17.540
children there. I think though for, for foreigners, it is, um, you know, different. Like I think I'm,
00:46:23.000
because there are not many Americans visiting. Um, I was like the second one, but I, I wanted to bring
00:46:28.420
up something, you know, you brought up something about, um, about homosexuality earlier, you know,
00:46:33.820
that it's legal in Russia, that it's not illegal here. So I don't know why that there's this myth
00:46:39.280
that that's illegal in Russia. Cause it's not, but anyway, because, well, there's a history of
00:46:43.460
persecution, but, but going forward, as far as like what I saw, homosexuality as, as far as like what
00:46:54.020
I've been able to see, um, I've been typical kind of tourist things, red square, but you've been there
00:47:00.080
for a week. So let's, let's not, it's anecdotal stuff on that. It's fine. I, uh, it's not that
00:47:04.760
it's illegal. It's that there's a history of persecution. You're not allowed to openly promote
00:47:08.480
prosecution. Uh, sorry. You're not allowed to openly promote homosexuality. And there are very
00:47:13.360
different approaches when it comes to these and other human rights in Russia, as you know,
00:47:16.580
you'll undoubtedly see the longer you stay there. I'll say this too. John Kirby said for the record,
00:47:22.260
um, the question was, does the white house believe Tara is part of a Russian influence operation?
00:47:26.420
And he said, I've seen no evidence or proof of that. Finally, uh, your lawyer says you are filing
00:47:32.760
a case with the United nations. What, what help do you hope to get from them?
00:47:39.860
To talk about freedom of expression, freedom of speech. And, um, that because I do feel, um,
00:47:47.220
because I came forward about Joe Biden and because of the corruption, you know, that has gone on and
00:47:52.220
speaking freely about that, that that's made me a bit of a target or more of a target. And so that
00:47:58.560
is a mechanism to address it and to address the fact that if they did put out these, um, you know,
00:48:04.960
these different, uh, Interpol, you know, that, that is basically political targeting because that's what
00:48:09.740
I think it is. Um, and we, and we all know, um, when that's been happened to whistleblowers, you know,
00:48:16.400
John Kiriakou, you know, we can name so many, right?
00:48:19.060
Hmm. Well, I certainly hope you get resolution of it. I would love to see you come back here.
00:48:24.460
I, I feel like this is a battle you can fight legally through lawyers right back here at home
00:48:30.400
with your daughter and your animals, your pets and your country, Tara. I hope, I hope you're able
00:48:36.180
to do that. I hope you're open-minded to it. I hope so too, but we need to ask, um, you know,
00:48:41.780
we need to ask that the Biden regime basically is what has become. They need to stop targeting
00:48:49.400
people the way they are. I mean, and look at the domestic terrorism, the way they're going after
00:48:53.560
people that are considered MAGA, you know, I'm not a Trump supporter and I'm not a MAGA,
00:48:57.120
but I don't believe they should be persecuted any more than I should be persecuted for my political
00:49:01.280
beliefs. You know, I love my country too, but I want it to be better. And right now we're slowly
00:49:08.040
seeing our freedom of speech being pulled away from us. And, um, you know, the whole movement
00:49:13.540
towards disinformation and deciding being a filter and deciding who gets to know what that's not
00:49:19.480
healthy and it's not, you know, it's not good. So it's affected my life. Like Tara, you realize
00:49:27.080
you, you understand where you've moved, right? In terms of the citizenry being targeted,
00:49:33.960
not being able to access information. I have never felt so free. I have never felt so free.
00:49:36.800
Wait until you try to access the internet. Wait until you try to do a Google search on
00:49:40.380
Putin's background. Things are very different over there. And you may come to learn firsthand
00:49:44.300
that, um, as I said, you've jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire. Our two countries
00:49:48.720
are vastly different. Let's bring it back though, to the fact that Joe Biden was a U S Senator and I
00:49:54.220
was a U S Senate aide. He raped me in the U S Congress. It had nothing to do with Russia or any
00:49:58.960
other foreign country. I tried to get help. I tried to come forward and instead I'm being sidelined and
00:50:06.160
being silenced. And when I try to go through a process of, of, you know, testifying, you know,
00:50:10.680
I get targeted and he's weaponizing the DOJ and FBI, not just against me, but others.
00:50:15.860
Your particular circumstances. I understand. I understand, but there is no comparison when it
00:50:20.380
comes to human rights on the record of the United States of America and the record of Putin's Russia,
00:50:26.440
period. I, I, as you know, I wish you all the best. I want to stay in touch and please let us know
00:50:31.080
how you do with all of this. All right. Thank you very much. All right. To be continued.
00:50:36.880
When we come back, Greg Jarrett from Fox news is here. He's a lawyer as well. He's going to talk
00:50:41.040
about this, his new book and much, much more here with me now to react to my interview with Tara
00:50:50.000
Reed and much, much more is Fox news host and legal analyst and old friend of yours. Truly Greg
00:50:56.380
Jarrett. Greg is out with a new book titled the trial of the century. And it's not about OJ Simpson.
00:51:02.780
It's about something else, which we'll get into and which has a lot of lessons for what's happening
00:51:07.260
right now in the United States. Greg, so good to see you. Hey, it's great to see you, Megan. And
00:51:12.860
congratulations on your wonderful show that is so popular. And I'm, you know, grateful that you have
00:51:19.900
me on. Oh, thank you. You look amazing. You look the same. You don't age. Hey, I'm two years away from
00:51:26.260
70 years old, which I'm dreading, but it's kind of you to say so. Oh, all right. So I know you've
00:51:35.260
been listening and Tara Reed there. It was tense at times. She made a lot of allegations. She said
00:51:42.220
at the top that she only had a one way ticket to Russia, which is kind of interesting. She went on
00:51:47.760
to say all sorts of positive things about Putin and Russia's human rights, which was a bridge too
00:51:56.060
far. But what did you make of the crux of her allegations here? Well, I was glad to see you
00:52:03.260
challenge her. We learned some incredibly interesting things. For example, the food in Russia is great.
00:52:08.760
You can't beat that borscht. She seems to miss her pets more than her daughter, which I thought was
00:52:17.500
interesting. Look, when you are attending- Definitely not. I know she loves her daughter.
00:52:21.620
She misses her daughter. When you attend a Sputnik event with Maria Butina, who Enquirer,
00:52:31.760
I recall magazine referred to her as the international woman of whoopee, convicted Russian
00:52:39.740
agent. When you're doing all of that, you're claiming that you're there because Biden was
00:52:44.800
going to put you in a cage. What you have done is put yourself in one gigantic cage with wolves at the
00:52:53.500
door. I mean, Russia is one of the most oppressive societies on earth. Their human rights
00:53:01.540
abuses are just egregious. I mean, they put political dissenters in, you know, the gulags. People
00:53:12.240
still disappear in the dark of the night if they dare to voice opposition to Vladimir Putin. You know,
00:53:22.460
look, I've been to Russia. I know what it's all about. It is not the place of refuge. It is a place
00:53:31.520
frankly of evil. Now, look, there's some great parts of Russia that are worth visiting. And as you
00:53:38.940
pointed out, Americans are free to go there. We have American businesses who've set up offices
00:53:43.840
there. You've got more than 100,000 Americans working in Russia and so forth. She's entitled to
00:53:49.760
go there, but applying for citizenship and claiming that she's only there because she'll be put in a cage
00:53:55.420
by Biden in the United States. Sorry, but I don't buy that. That's the thing. So it's like, I feel for
00:54:01.520
Tara Reid and what she's gone through since she came forward as a Biden accuser very much. Yeah. But to
00:54:07.740
then take it to, I'm going to go to this lovely place where they respect human rights as opposed to
00:54:13.680
America, you know, pointing out Maria Boutini was in solitary, confined. Why don't you talk about like
00:54:18.760
Alexei Navalny, who's looking at a year in prison with zero visits from anybody who's been poisoned,
00:54:26.880
you know, he says by Putin, we believe is by the government over there, the torture of citizens
00:54:32.180
over there. We got into the gays. Yes. Now it's technically not illegal to be gay in Russia,
00:54:37.360
but it was just a few years ago. They were trying to cleanse gays from existence in Chechnya.
00:54:43.580
Um, you're not allowed to openly praise homosexuality or describe it as normal over
00:54:49.980
there. We could go down the list of what they do. And not to mention like when I was there,
00:54:55.140
the Russian citizens were saying to me, we can't get outside information. They shut down the websites
00:55:00.300
so we can't. And, and just in the Ukraine war, Greg, they shut down telegram, um, because telegram
00:55:06.780
would not comply with the Russian mandate that it open up all of its user files to the Russians,
00:55:12.960
give them the keys so they could see the private communications of all Russian citizens. I mean,
00:55:17.320
this is the kind of thing they do over there. And she's been there for a week and is kind of saying
00:55:21.720
like, it's so pretty and the food is so good. And I'm, I'm home. Yeah. Wait till she spends a Russian
00:55:28.780
winter. Uh, and you know, she doesn't speak any Russian. Yeah. David Oporuski, maybe that's about all
00:55:35.660
she knows how to ask. Um, I sense that she will pretty quickly come to regret her decision, uh,
00:55:44.700
and likely will reverse course. It can be a very lonely place there, uh, for an individual such
00:55:52.500
as herself, but you know, I, and she's, she's intelligent. I mean, your conversation was in
00:55:58.300
ways interesting. Uh, I held her ground really agree with her when she argues that the Biden
00:56:05.160
administration has weaponized government for political purposes. And we've seen that with
00:56:10.180
the FBI, Merrick Garland's department of justice, the IRS. Um, you know, I think they're running a
00:56:17.060
protection racket for the Biden family. And of course they always have the witting accessories,
00:56:22.340
the mainstream media that is more than willing to do their bidding. So, um, you know, her, her point
00:56:28.520
about that was absolutely valid. But Russia is not the answer. I mean, literally they killed
00:56:35.680
journalists in Russia for reporting the wrong information. They, they lock them up. They don't
00:56:42.300
have free access. I mean, you go over to listen to a Russian press conference and it's truly like
00:56:47.420
Mr. Putin, just as wonderful as we think you are. Are you even more wonderful? Could you tell us
00:56:51.480
about that? That's how Russian state TV is. That's how the Russian press is. It's all controlled by
00:56:55.780
the Kremlin. So, I mean, it's just, I don't, I feel like the odds of Tara read. And of course,
00:57:01.860
I don't want to get ahead of my skis because I have no firsthand information about what context
00:57:06.380
she's had with the Russians, but the odds of the Russians finding this poor single mom who had
00:57:14.820
publicly made allegations of abuse against her first husband. She had to flee. She had to change her name
00:57:19.440
who devoted her life to helping abused women. She's got her cats. She loved her horse and said,
00:57:25.900
oh, she wrote some nice things about Putin in a blog or a book. Let's, let's turn her into an agent.
00:57:31.220
Like how, what, who is she going, what, who is she going to exploit out there in her house in
00:57:37.320
California for information? It's just, it makes no sense to me. What makes more sense
00:57:41.320
is they're taking advantage of a woman who's been all but destroyed by the vicious left and media in
00:57:50.760
this country and preying on her fears to lead her to believe something is afoot at the hands of the
00:57:57.240
U S government. Yeah. I think you put your finger on it as you always do, Meg. And I think that's a
00:58:03.560
pretty fair analysis of what's going on here. And I, you know, I do fear that she's led a troubled life,
00:58:10.760
but she is now being manipulated. Uh, and she doesn't see it. And you tried your best to sort of point it out
00:58:17.980
to her, uh, in a terror, there's some holes in your plan. You said, yeah, some gaping holes as big as a
00:58:26.080
grand Canyon. Um, you know, I, she's just been through it, Greg, you know, this is what the
00:58:30.860
media does. They, they destroy you or she, she, yes. As I pointed out, there were other accusers
00:58:36.640
against Joe Biden. We're all familiar with his weirdness when it comes to young women, but her
00:58:41.680
allegation was much, much more explicit that he stopped her in a, in a Senate hallway. She was
00:58:46.180
trying to give him his gym bag. She was one of his aides that he shoved her up against the wall
00:58:50.180
that he said, come on, man, I heard you like me that he then digitally penetrated her, lifted up her
00:58:55.400
skirt right there in the middle of this Senate, you know, corridor, which is what many people found
00:58:59.620
on unbelievable. I asked her about all of that in our 2020 interview. It's on our YouTube feed.
00:59:04.460
One of the first offerings we had, and, um, she says it happened. And then she said he threatened
00:59:09.520
her. He threatened her at the end of the exchange. So the media turned, she had to be destroyed, Greg,
00:59:15.740
whether she's telling the truth or not, she had to be destroyed. No. And, and we certainly saw that
00:59:21.560
unfold and, and I do, uh, have empathy for her. Um, I have no inside information about the, uh, the,
00:59:30.140
the truth of her accusations, but she was certainly treated different, uh, by the mainstream liberal
00:59:36.540
media, uh, than comparable accusations, uh, toward Donald Trump. Or Christine Blasey Ford.
00:59:43.720
Yeah. And yeah, excellent, uh, uh, point to make. And so, you know, I, I do think she has been
00:59:51.420
victimized in a great many ways and I'm, you know, concerned that she's being victimized yet again
00:59:58.260
in a very different way. Yeah. I want her to come back here. If they try to slap some BS charges on
01:00:04.920
her, the lawyers will handle it. That's the way it's supposed to be done. I don't think she really
01:00:09.060
wants to be a Russian citizen. I think she's gotten herself spun up into a real fear cycle.
01:00:13.720
That's proven very damaging to her and her family. And, you know, I've spoken with friends of hers.
01:00:18.900
I've, I, by the way, her story about Joe Biden was confirmed. She told, I shouldn't say confirmed,
01:00:24.180
but it was, it was repeated as told to them by friends who knew her at the time. And I've spoken
01:00:29.640
with one of them now that was considered dispositive when E Jean Carroll came forward against Trump with
01:00:34.700
that story about Bergdorf Goodman. But in the case of Tara read, no, she's a psycho. She's a Russian
01:00:38.960
operative. And anyway, so I hope she comes back home and people can find it in their hearts to
01:00:44.700
forgive the things, you know, whatever they're holding against her. She doesn't.
01:00:47.780
I hope so too. And I wish her the very, very best. Um, you know, because if you read any profile about
01:00:54.460
her, it's abundantly clear. She's had a very difficult life and you can't help, but have
01:00:59.600
sympathy and empathy for her. So let's talk though, about the broader scope of what she was trying to
01:01:06.980
say, you know, her comments about what's happening right now in America to whistleblowers with our
01:01:12.600
Intel agencies, you know, very extraordinary pushback by the administration on those who
01:01:19.500
are trying to come forward and say things about Hunter Biden, about alleged influence peddling
01:01:24.280
by Biden's family members when he was VP, all of which gets suppressed, mocked by the mainstream media.
01:01:33.780
I mean, it's normally just totally ignored, but to the extent that they cover it, they just mock it.
01:01:37.420
And yet there have emerged some real questions over the past month alone, Greg, about whether
01:01:44.100
there really was an influence peddling scheme going around, at least around the then VP. And that may
01:01:49.620
have actually involved then sitting vice president Joe Biden. Yes. And in fact, the, uh, oversight
01:01:55.640
committee has in the course of four and a half months, dug up more information and made public,
01:02:01.160
uh, than Joe Biden's, uh, department of justice and Christopher Ray's FBI. Um, and that's,
01:02:08.540
I think just the tip of the iceberg, uh, you know, they disclosed $10 million flowing into,
01:02:16.920
you know, some 20 shell companies and LLCs that was then shuffled around throughout a bunch of them and then
01:02:26.600
distributed to, you know, up to nine members of the Biden family. Now the question, there were a lot of
01:02:33.960
questions, you know, what were, what was this company, this country, uh, buying? What was Joe
01:02:41.720
Biden selling? What was Hunter Biden and Jim Biden selling? And, and why were these family members
01:02:48.840
getting this money? You know, as chairman Comer pointed out, uh, there appears to be no other
01:02:54.500
legitimate, uh, purpose for these LLCs than to be a receptacle for truckloads of cash, uh, coming from
01:03:04.580
foreign adversaries. And, you know, I keep laughing every time I see a, uh, you know, television host or
01:03:11.220
a member of the media say, well, you know, it's legal to have an LLC. Sure. It's legal, but if it exists
01:03:18.980
for the purpose of hiding the original source of cash, that's money laundry. And, you know, the other
01:03:27.380
excuse that, that members in the media love to say, well, there's no evidence that Joe Biden, uh, received
01:03:34.500
any cash into his bank account. As you know, you're a fine lawyer, Megan. That's irrelevant under the wall,
01:03:41.640
under the law. It is a crime for a, uh, public servant to misuse his office, to confer a benefit
01:03:50.440
in exchange for money to himself or his family. He doesn't have to receive the cash. If the cash goes
01:03:58.520
to his family members, it's still a crime. It's a violation of the foreign corrupt practices act.
01:04:04.160
It's conspiracy to commit bribery, uh, not to mention the, the fairer violations that are involved,
01:04:11.260
the foreign agents registration act. So these are vacuous excuses, but the media is always ready
01:04:19.000
to offer them up at every turn to protect Joe Biden. The first thing they go to is, okay,
01:04:24.680
no proof about Joe Biden, not a, not a hint about Joe Biden, as opposed to his many family members and
01:04:30.400
no proof that he worked to change policy as VP to help China, to help Romania, these countries that
01:04:37.660
were funneling the money according to these allegations to Biden family members. So, you
01:04:42.480
know, where was the bribery must include a quid pro quo. What were these countries getting? My reaction
01:04:48.960
to that is, well, why let's have an investigation. What, why is it just, there's no proof. Right. Of
01:04:54.880
course there isn't. We were just starting. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. Which is why
01:05:00.740
it is so vitally important, uh, that both the oversight and the judiciary committees in the
01:05:06.560
house, uh, which just commenced in January, their investigations, because Republicans, uh,
01:05:13.780
retook control of the house of representatives. Why, why those hearings and investigations are,
01:05:20.020
are so critical. You know, Americans need to know, uh, as Richard Nixon said so famously,
01:05:26.520
is their president a crook. Um, and you know, the house as well as the Senate, they have
01:05:33.100
constitutional authority under their oversight duties to conduct these investigations. They
01:05:40.300
are not a witch hunt. They are an attempt to uncover, uh, more evidence that already exists that
01:05:48.520
the Biden family, particularly Hunter Biden was engaged in the selling out of America. Uh, you know,
01:05:55.840
promises of influence promises of access in exchange for money. And, you know, it's important. I think
01:06:04.540
this confrontation between Christopher Ray and James Gomer over what appears to be a very important
01:06:11.060
document, a document. Let's talk about that. Let's look. I don't know if my audience is up to speed on
01:06:14.860
that, but things are getting very tense between house oversight and the director of the FBI because
01:06:19.980
house oversight said to the FBI director, hand over this document. The document is
01:06:25.840
hard to decipher from where I sit. They haven't released that much info on it. It's called an FD
01:06:31.720
dash 10 23 form, and it is submitted by a confidential informant containing unsubstantiated
01:06:39.140
allegations about president Biden and his family. The FBI has it and the house oversight committee
01:06:46.900
wants to see it. And Christopher Ray has not even been confirming that it exists, that he has one of
01:06:53.940
these confidential informant documents, alleging misdeeds by Joe Biden himself and family. He
01:07:00.580
hasn't been confirming it even exists until now. Now he finally, as the house was zeroing in, pushing
01:07:05.840
him saying, we've given you a subpoena. You answer to us, give us the document. He said, you can come
01:07:11.680
here to review it. So now he's confirmed. It does exist. And the house is saying, that's not good enough.
01:07:16.820
You, you can't make us come there to review it. The FBI is saying that involves a confidential
01:07:21.080
informant. So you got to come here. Otherwise the name could get out. And, uh, FBI or house oversight
01:07:27.160
is saying, no, that's not okay. And we will hold FD FBI director, Christopher Ray in contempt of
01:07:32.100
Congress, Congress, if he does not fork over the document, which at least we now know exists. So
01:07:39.800
what are we supposed to glean from all that? The FBI is taking the position. Trust us.
01:07:45.820
I mean, who with an ounce of intelligence would ever trust the FBI after the evidence of misfeasance
01:07:54.580
and malfeasance that we have seen unfolding over the last several years. Uh, and it's not
01:08:00.840
just the malicious aberrant behavior of the FBI during the Russia hoax, uh, using a phony
01:08:08.880
dossier as a pretext to try to destroy a sitting president of the United States. No, it's more
01:08:14.100
than that. It's the FBI, uh, directing and pressuring social media companies to censor a story,
01:08:20.800
uh, to help Joe Biden get elected and, and it succeeded. And you've got, you know, a whole host
01:08:27.540
of whistleblowers lining up to talk about how the FBI buried incriminating evidence of Biden family
01:08:35.320
influence peddling schemes, put it under lock and key with nobody, uh, able to see it. So, you know,
01:08:42.240
when the FBI says, Oh, we looked into this allegation in the 10 23 form and there's nothing
01:08:47.240
to it. I wouldn't believe Christopher Wray for a moment, uh, that the FBI exercise due diligence
01:08:55.380
in properly investigating. And that's why James Comer and the oversight committee aren't trusting
01:09:00.140
the FBI either. They've squandered trust. Trust is earned. They don't have it anymore. Just look at
01:09:06.100
the polling data. You know, the FBI, uh, has an abysmal approval rating, uh, because Americans are
01:09:13.500
smart and they've seen what they've done. So look right now, uh, there, this is not responsive to
01:09:21.920
the subpoena. There's no legitimate basis to resist. It's an unclassified document. If there's
01:09:27.660
concern about a confidential informant, you can redact the name. Uh, but there are two, two choices
01:09:33.960
here, uh, criminal contempt of Congress or civil contempt of Congress. Uh, if it's criminal,
01:09:40.040
that's problematic because it goes to the U S attorney in DC who reports to Merrick Garland.
01:09:46.640
Uh, and that U S attorney was appointed by Joe Biden, who is the subject of the disputed document.
01:09:53.000
Oh my gosh. And you know, the person who would be held in contempt also reports to Joe Biden and
01:09:58.640
Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland won't do anything about a criminal contempt. So the alternative
01:10:03.620
is civil contempt. The final lawsuit, you go to a federal judge. And if you're lucky and find an
01:10:10.340
impartial one, he might just, well, order Christopher Ray to cough up the document that Congress is
01:10:18.040
entitled to have. Let's talk about this document. Is this the same document that Comer was touting
01:10:24.040
about two weeks ago saying, I've got it. There is a document. It came from a whistleblower who is
01:10:31.840
saying that they might be able to prove bribes that Joe Biden accepted bribes. This is the same
01:10:38.960
document that they're arguing over right now. It is. It is a document. If you could just put it into
01:10:44.380
one sentence, uh, that is based on a reliable confidential informant that the government has
01:10:51.000
used before to the government's benefit. And he says there was an agreement, a bribery agreement,
01:11:01.400
Joe Biden would institute or confer a policy decision in the United States that would benefit
01:11:09.460
this foreign government in exchange for money. As I say, that's bribery. It's also, as you well know,
01:11:18.520
selling out to a foreign government, uh, if it's supported by evidence, that's a big gift. We
01:11:25.360
don't know that granted you, but if it is, it's also an impeachable offense. Remember what that is
01:11:31.540
treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanor. So bribery is a basis for, uh, an impeachment proceeding
01:11:39.060
against the president of the United States, even though the action just took place when he was vice
01:11:43.760
president. Just so I'm sure I'm clear on where this came from. So that, that allegation was
01:11:48.520
a whistleblower. Some whistleblower came forward and said, look at this document. I've got it. I got
01:11:53.740
this document. And this document has information from a confidential informant that allegedly shows
01:11:59.260
a bribery scheme, including the then vice vice president, Joe Biden. And then, then Comer,
01:12:06.640
the head of oversight went on with Maria Bartiromo and she asked him about all of, about this document
01:12:12.840
and so on. And he told her that they could not track down the actual confidential informant that
01:12:19.400
the whistleblower, I think he knows the whistleblower and like the person who turned over the document,
01:12:24.420
but that he couldn't track down the actual confidential informant, making the allegations
01:12:29.160
inside the document and said, look, these guys don't tend to want to, you know, be on the front page
01:12:34.460
or be all that findable because they're operating inside of the Intel world. And then it made all
01:12:41.540
like, then people were mocking Comer, like you lost the confidential informant. You're such a dope.
01:12:46.000
That's not really what happened at all. He's saying, how, how am I supposed to find essentially this
01:12:51.960
spy who's producing the document? I only know from the whistleblower that there is a document and I
01:12:57.720
want to see the document and have the FBI investigate whether any of this is true.
01:13:01.380
which justifies the subpoena, which was duly authorized by Congress. They're, you know,
01:13:08.600
they're entitled to see it. They're entitled to know it. Christopher Wray is essentially saying,
01:13:14.760
well, you can come over here, maybe a handful of people and, you know, we'll put you in a skiff and
01:13:19.820
maybe we'll show, show you the document. I, you know, I'm skeptical of all that, but again,
01:13:25.800
the subpoena is duly authorized. And in my judgment as a lawyer, and I don't know if you'll agree,
01:13:32.760
but you're, you're a great lawyer. Um, you got to comply with the subpoena. You got to, you know,
01:13:37.440
Steve Bannon had to comply with the subpoena was held in criminal contempt when he didn't
01:13:42.300
and was prosecuted for it. So, you know, you can't have it both ways that it's only enforceable
01:13:49.340
against a Republican, but not, uh, you know, against, uh, you know, a Democrat or somebody
01:13:54.940
that Democrats embrace. Now she, Maria was asking him about, well, I mean, you could,
01:14:02.360
you could bring forth maybe the whistleblower, you could do something. And Comer had some thoughts on
01:14:07.380
what's been happening to whistleblowers right now, coming forward with allegations against Joe Biden
01:14:13.380
or top officials in the administration or Joe Biden's family, what have you, because we have a
01:14:17.980
whole separate investigation into Hunter Biden and his alleged crimes when it comes to taxes,
01:14:23.080
when it comes to guns, et cetera. And there've been whistleblowers there who are saying that
01:14:28.760
they're slow rolling the investigation into Hunter on those. So we have a bunch of whistleblowers and
01:14:33.700
there was an interesting exchange. And this is kind of what Tara Reid was talking about and what's
01:14:38.800
happening to the many whistleblowers. Listen to this. Nine of the 10 people, uh, that we've
01:14:45.180
identified that have very good knowledge with respect to the Bidens. They're, they're one of
01:14:50.400
three things, Maria. They're either currently in court, they're currently in jail, or they're currently
01:14:57.780
missing. So it's of the utmost importance that the FBI work with us to be able to try to identify,
01:15:05.000
uh, what research they've done, what investigations they've done, because we have people that want to
01:15:10.780
come forward. But honestly, Maria, they fear for their lives. I'm sorry, but that does go back to
01:15:16.840
what Tara Reid was saying, that she sees herself as a whistleblower, that she doesn't trust this
01:15:22.320
administration and she doesn't want to be in one of those three categories he just listed.
01:15:26.480
Look, James, James Comer knows a whole lot more than he's disclosing. And in fact, said so last
01:15:33.740
night on our air. Um, I suspect he has a pretty good idea of, uh, you know, who the confidential
01:15:42.160
informant is, but he is worried about, uh, you know, the backlash, the punishment, uh, the retaliation
01:15:52.960
that many of these whistleblowers have faced. And, you know, all you have to do is look at the FBI
01:15:58.380
whistleblower who came forward and he is, and his entire team that was investigating for years, uh,
01:16:07.060
the Hunter Biden IRS case, failure to pay taxes, tax fraud. Um, they were removed from the investigation
01:16:14.820
after he blew the whistle and said, the department of justice, Joe Biden's team, uh, was interfering
01:16:22.940
and exercising political favoritism and slow walking an investigation that has now, uh, gone on for
01:16:31.020
more than five years. So, I mean, it's self-evident that it's been slow walked, right? I mean, how do
01:16:36.580
you explain a five year long investor investigation of Hunter Biden and his influence peddling and his
01:16:44.140
tax fraud and so forth, uh, in the face of, uh, of overwhelming evidence on his laptop alone
01:16:52.120
and no criminal charges have been brought, you know, charges against people, uh, who broke the
01:16:59.420
law on January 6th, uh, were, were brought very quickly. Somebody on our air last night said, you
01:17:05.380
know, so quickly, in fact, that some of them have already been convicted and served time and been
01:17:11.120
released. Right. And yet Hunter Biden, nothing, absolutely nothing. So I will say for the record
01:17:17.800
that, uh, again, uh, Kirby, uh, responding to questions about Biden corruption weighed in.
01:17:24.100
This is what he said. There was a Harvard Harris poll this month that found that 53% of the public,
01:17:30.140
including a fourth of Democrats believe quote, Joe Biden was involved with his son in an, in an
01:17:36.000
illegal influence peddling scheme. Uh, there's of course evidence that the president interacted with
01:17:40.820
his relatives, associates from China, uh, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. Uh, so what do you
01:17:46.440
say to the majority of Americans who believe that the president is himself corrupt? Wow.
01:17:55.980
Can I take that question? President, the president, the president's spoken to this,
01:18:01.360
uh, the president has spoken to this, uh, and there's nothing to these claims.
01:18:07.120
How does he know? How does he know? And can, can you believe the snickering by the White House press
01:18:11.760
core? Yeah, of course, you know, uh, they're on Joe Biden's side. Uh, they are, as I described
01:18:18.100
earlier in our discussion, winning accessories to the coverup and the protection racket that's being
01:18:23.980
run. Um, Joe Biden is already, there's nothing to it. He's already spoken about it. Joe Biden has
01:18:31.680
consistently said that he, uh, knew nothing about his son's business deals overseas and was not
01:18:39.940
involved. Really? White House records during the Obama administration show that more than 80 of
01:18:47.020
Hunter Biden's business partners and overseas clients had meetings with Joe Biden at the White
01:18:54.800
House. There are photographs, there are other, you know, records, uh, that demonstrate that, that
01:19:01.080
Joe Biden, the big guy was not just involved. He was the cornerstone. He was the pivot point.
01:19:09.600
For these influence peddling schemes. And it, you know, it's ludicrous to claim otherwise. And yet,
01:19:17.580
you know, I saw an interview on MSNBC the other night and questioning, you know, Joe Biden, it was a
01:19:23.500
sit down. And of course you had nothing whatsoever to do with any of that. Uh, the, the host said,
01:19:29.940
you know, I just laugh that, I mean, all you can do is, is laugh. They are so in the pocket of the
01:19:37.700
Democratic party and Joe Biden that, you know, they just do his dirty work for him.
01:19:44.200
Okay. Now we have agreed that when one receives a subpoena, unless one has valid legal objections
01:19:50.460
that are registered by a lawyer in response, it said, cabina said, subpoena, one must respond
01:19:56.120
and comply. And this is what Trump is accused of not doing in connection with the feds probe into
01:20:03.500
documents. He took with him from the white house and kept at Mar-a-Lago. There's news on that today
01:20:08.160
as well. Um, the, the media is hyperventilating over an alleged tape that they say Trump is on that
01:20:16.840
they admit they haven't heard, but on this tape reports, CNN reports, the New York times reports,
01:20:23.000
the Washington post is allegedly Trump in 2021, discussing a sensitive military document he kept
01:20:32.180
after leaving the white house. They say, again, having not heard the recording, but they report
01:20:36.480
that Trump suggested on the recording, he knew the document was secret and that it admits that he had
01:20:42.960
not declassified it. Uh, they say this was held. This was, this happened during a meeting he held
01:20:48.580
in July, 2021 with people helping his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, write a memoir of his 10
01:20:54.360
months in the white house. They met Meadows wasn't there, but Trump reportedly began railing about the
01:20:59.220
chairman of the joint chiefs, Mark Milley, and then began referencing a document he had with him saying
01:21:04.000
it had been compiled by Milley and was really related to attacking Iran on the recording.
01:21:09.580
Allegedly Trump's comments suggest he would like to share the info, but he is aware of limitations on
01:21:15.120
his ability post presidency to declassify records, which they are suggesting is an admission that that
01:21:24.600
document and presumably the others from which it came in the trove at Mar-a-Lago had not been
01:21:29.500
declassified by Trump as he now claims in excusing his behavior and connection with this. And aha,
01:21:35.300
this is the gotcha moment. You've got, um, certain, um, certain, um, legal experts like former Mueller
01:21:43.420
probe investigator, Andrew Weissman saying, if this is true, the game is over. There is no way
01:21:49.720
he will not be charged. Do you agree? Uh, I never agree with anything that comes out of the mouth of
01:21:57.140
Andrew Weissman, who is a hyper partisan. And to me, one of the most unscrupulous and unprincipled
01:22:03.980
lawyers I've ever witnessed, he was leading up, uh, you know, the, the Mueller witch hunt. Um, look,
01:22:13.600
as for the tape itself, I, I reserve judgment and I am skeptical. Why? Uh, because this is the same
01:22:23.000
media that spent three years promising us that Trump, uh, was a Russian agent who colluded, uh,
01:22:32.020
you know, with Vladimir Putin in the bowels of the Kremlin. And of course it all turned out to be,
01:22:37.860
uh, wrong, but you know, the New York times, the Washington post won Pulitzer prizes for getting
01:22:43.340
the story fundamentally wrong. While those of us who wrote, uh, books like the Russia hoax and witch hunt
01:22:50.140
were mocked, ridiculed and demeaned and, and declared liars by the mainstream media. Well,
01:22:56.960
it turned out everything in both my books were a hundred percent correct. Somebody sent me a message
01:23:02.420
the other day. We could have saved a lot of time and money if John Durham had simply reprinted your
01:23:07.340
books. Um, you know, the, so I, I'm not sure that I trust the context of an alleged tape and what is
01:23:17.820
contained therein. Moreover, uh, Trump's position has always been that he is authorized to take
01:23:26.580
whatever he wants under the presidential records act, which is a civil, not a criminal statute.
01:23:33.760
And indeed that was the position for the last 10 years until the Mar-a-Lago raid of the department
01:23:42.260
of justice established in the bill Clinton case, uh, in which he took, well, that's why they like
01:23:47.700
this alleged admission that they, that he's allegedly admitting. I don't actually believe
01:23:52.880
that I don't have the ability to declassify post-presidency, which is another alleged admission
01:23:58.100
that he didn't do it while president. But I'll tell you something, Greg, when I look at this,
01:24:02.580
I like, you want to see the action here, the actual tape. Um, but what does it mean? So it could be a,
01:24:08.120
maybe he forgot, maybe he forgot that he had issued a declassification order on something like
01:24:12.000
this. I don't know where the document came from. Did it come from those same Mar-a-Lago files
01:24:15.480
or someplace else? And secondly, um, how do we know Trump just didn't want to show him the document?
01:24:21.360
So he was just like, Oh, I can't show that to you. It's, it's classified. Like how, who the hell,
01:24:25.520
I don't know if this, if this is an admission or a manipulation by Trump to sort of dangle
01:24:29.160
something sexy and exciting in front of the minions around him, but say, I'm not showing it to
01:24:33.840
you losers. Right. Who the hell knows? You've got to know the context. Did you say Megan? Um,
01:24:40.200
you got to know who's there, why are they having this discussion? What's the purpose of it? Um,
01:24:46.200
and you know, if you've ever spent any time around Donald Trump, you know, in casual conversation,
01:24:51.640
he's very loose with his words and free with his thoughts. And, uh, you know, I, I'm concerned that
01:24:59.740
the reporting so far on this, um, is based on no knowledge of the context and the intent behind the
01:25:09.060
words spoken. And that's critical, you know, in, in criminal law, as you well know, uh, you know,
01:25:15.320
it's intent and deliberation and willfulness and so forth that are key to things like that.
01:25:20.620
Well, the other question is how, how, how did, how did the Washington post and the New York times
01:25:24.300
and CNN, how do they have it? Where'd they get it? Where'd they, where'd they get this tape?
01:25:27.760
Like his Trump's lawyer, uh, was spoke out last night on CNN and kind of raised that point. Take a
01:25:34.540
listen. You won't even say whether this document was declassified. And in fact, there is a tape that
01:25:40.420
your client has said that the document is still classified. So you can make that argument, but
01:25:46.120
only if you are also trying to establish that this document is declassified. No, I, I am not going to
01:25:52.420
sit here and dignify leaks that are incomplete, that are unfair and that are dishonest. This is a leak
01:25:58.860
campaign. And you guys have the access to somebody from DOJ or FBI. You're touting the official line
01:26:04.880
that they want you to pursue because they want to legitimize something that was never criminal.
01:26:09.760
And for no other president has there ever been a document retention issue that's been treated as a
01:26:15.040
criminal investigation. DOJ is trying to justify this persecution of the current administration's
01:26:20.940
leading opposition by saying, Oh my God, he had these sensitive materials that he shouldn't have had.
01:26:26.340
And then they leaked to you guys vivid details of a document that they say is classified.
01:26:32.440
Remember when Merrick Garland, after the Mar-a-Lago raid was like, we don't leak, you know,
01:26:37.960
trying to protect the integrity of the justice department as stories about what was in the
01:26:42.540
documents kept popping up in the Washington post and the New York times. And here we are again.
01:26:48.020
Yeah. I mean, Jim trustee is a fine lawyer was making the same argument I was alluding to a moment
01:26:53.120
ago. You know, the Department of Justice in the Bill Clinton case went to federal court and a judge
01:26:59.860
agreed with their arguments that, you know, a former president can pretty much take whatever he wants.
01:27:05.420
The other thing you have to understand is that Trump didn't pack up the boxes and send them off
01:27:11.780
to Mar-a-Lago. He's actually under law, not allowed to. That is a service by law performed by the
01:27:18.280
Government Services Administration, which is the GSA. And they're an incompetent agency to decide
01:27:26.600
what's classified, what's not, what goes where. And that's the reason, Megan, why, you know, we've seen
01:27:33.640
so many other, you know, wayward papers end up in locations where they likely shouldn't be, whether
01:27:41.480
it's, you know, Joe Biden in four different locations, whether it's Mike Pence. We saw it in
01:27:47.320
the Bill Clinton case, Barack Obama, apparently. You know, that is a system that needs to be fixed.
01:27:54.640
But the overriding point here is that Merrick Garland decided he was going to criminalize a civil
01:28:00.820
statute, the Presidential Records Act. The property, proper remedy under the law is if you're not getting
01:28:08.020
documents you want under a subpoena, you go to a civil judge and you file a motion to compel
01:28:14.220
production of the documents. You don't turn around and send a phalanx of armed FBI agents under a
01:28:23.100
warrant that was overly broad to a former president's house to seize the documents. And there were people
01:28:31.600
reportedly at the FBI, top officials, who told Garland, you really can't do this. He offered to give us
01:28:37.280
everything we want. All we have to do is go back there and take them. But that foiled Garland's
01:28:42.820
plan. He wanted to criminalize a civil violation. This is so much sexier. And, you know, the Democrats
01:28:50.240
think it's their ace in the hole, this investigation and the other criminal investigations that they're
01:28:55.460
launching against him right now. All right. Stand by. More with Greg Jarrett coming up, including his
01:29:00.740
new book, The Trial of the Century. I love this. And Greg will tell us who his very favorite lawyer of
01:29:08.160
all time is and how he would be looking at some of the biggest legal issues we're debating right now
01:29:13.700
in this country. Here with me today, longtime Fox News host and legal analyst and friend, Greg Jarrett.
01:29:23.540
Greg's out with a new book titled The Trial of the Century. It's a book about a trial that lasted only a week
01:29:28.860
back in the 1920s, but still has wide ranging implications today. Before I ask you about Trial
01:29:34.380
of the Century, can I ask you about a dispute that's unfolding right now on Twitter that
01:29:38.760
it's getting a lot of conservatives upset and concerned? It's between The Daily Wire and Elon Musk.
01:29:45.520
And tonight, The Daily Wire, they struck a deal with Twitter to air Matt Walsh's What is a Woman?
01:29:50.940
It was going to air on Twitter. They were going to offer for free. Normally, you have to subscribe to The
01:29:54.260
Daily Wire to get it. They're going to offer for free. And they paid Twitter, I guess, for this
01:29:58.940
opportunity. And then, according to Jeremy Boring, who's CEO of Daily Wire, they were told, nope,
01:30:04.780
never mind, because there's two instances in this movie in which someone is, quote, misgendered.
01:30:09.480
And that just means you refer to a trans person by their original, you know, their actual gender,
01:30:15.320
not the ones they claim to have adopted. That is crazy to me. I can't believe Elon himself knows
01:30:21.860
about this and is allowing it because he bought Twitter in part to resurrect the Babylon Bee
01:30:28.940
account, which had been suppressed for tweeting out Rachel Levine, that Biden administration trans
01:30:33.640
person, is a man. So how can it be that? What do you make of this? Because conservatives are freaking
01:30:40.060
out that Elon is not running the ship the way they thought. Yeah, well, my idol, Clarence Darrow,
01:30:47.640
would be outraged. He cared more about free speech than any other individual right in America.
01:30:55.060
And Elon Musk has arguably betrayed the free speech principles upon which he, you know, decided to
01:31:05.420
buy Twitter because it was being abused. Conservatives were being shadow banned. There was wholesale censorship,
01:31:12.100
suppression, uh, silencing of dissent and so forth. And they bought it to turn around and change it and
01:31:18.440
make it a venue for the free exchange of ideas and information. So if Walsh's accusations are true,
01:31:27.440
then he's violated the very principles that he was advocating. Now, I agree with you. I'm not sure Elon
01:31:34.500
Musk hadn't knew anything about it. And, you know, he may be unfairly tarnished and feathered here,
01:31:41.320
uh, without an opportunity to properly respond and look into it. And I hope he does, because I do think
01:31:48.640
that Twitter has a golden opportunity, uh, to adhere to the principles of free speech.
01:31:53.720
If you can't refer to a trans person by the pronoun that captures their actual biological gender,
01:32:02.480
we've crossed a bizarre and troubling Rubicon on Twitter. I have to believe he's off focused on
01:32:07.860
Tesla today or SpaceX, whatever, you know, like the rockets he's got, like, there's just no way
01:32:13.460
that Elon knows about this. I just can't believe it. But Twitter right now is saying to the daily
01:32:17.140
wire, all right, you can air it, but we're not going to support it. We're going to suppress it.
01:32:20.580
We're not going to, even your supporters who follow you, your followers won't be able to see
01:32:24.560
it. So what is that? Anyway, more, more to follow on this tomorrow as we see what actually
01:32:29.420
happens. All right. Let's talk about the book trial of the century and Clarence Darrow. I remember
01:32:35.260
growing up, if I had an argument with my Nana, she'd say, who are you Clarence Darrow? What do you
01:32:39.580
think you are Clarence? And there's a reason his name is the equivalent with the standard for great
01:32:46.320
lawyering. It's captured in this book. Yeah. You know, I was a young teenager when on a summer
01:32:53.240
day, I plucked a book off my father's densely packed bookshelf. And it was a biography on the
01:33:02.700
great Clarence Darrow, who I'd never heard of. And, you know, I sat down, I started reading it. The
01:33:09.120
more I read, the more fascinated I became. And it was 520 pages by the great writer Irving Stone.
01:33:17.260
And as soon as I finished the 520 pages, I turned back to the beginning and started
01:33:23.160
all over again. I've revisited that book throughout my life. So I guess you could say
01:33:29.560
this trial of the century, my new book, is more than 50 years in the making. At the, towards the
01:33:37.740
end of the biography, there was a chapter on the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Dayton, Tennessee. It
01:33:44.800
was actually Darrow's most famous trial of the many famous trials that he had. And it told the story of
01:33:54.300
how in the 1920s, the religious fervor sort of swept the nation and they began banning books in
01:34:02.200
science, particularly evolution. And the state of Tennessee took it a step further and made it a crime
01:34:07.460
for a school teacher to utter the word evolution in a classroom, even though there was a subchapter
01:34:13.920
on evolution in the state-approved textbooks. There's a picture of 25-year-old John Scopes,
01:34:21.380
school teacher. He was promptly arrested, handcuffed, taken away, and criminally charged
01:34:28.440
with teaching evolution. And the great fundamentalist leader, William Jennings Bryan,
01:34:33.640
three-time presidential candidate who had helped pass the law, was so happy about it. He volunteered
01:34:40.380
to prosecute and convict Scopes. That incensed Clarence Darrow as he's sitting in his Chicago office.
01:34:47.600
And he volunteers to, for free, defend John Scopes in what became a trial of the century. A
01:34:57.140
titanic clash. There they are together at the beginning of the trial, sitting in the courtroom,
01:35:02.620
Darrow and Bryan, this titanic clash between two epic figures in American culture in the 1920s.
01:35:10.260
Both lawyers, both poetic orators. And the climactic moment in the trial came when Darrow
01:35:18.860
realized he's losing. He's got a biased judge, a biased juror. And he decides to call Bryan,
01:35:26.720
the prosecutor, to the witness stand. And the judge said, wait a minute, you can't do that.
01:35:31.100
He's the prosecutor. Bryan stands up and says, Your Honor, I have nothing to fear. I'm happy to testify
01:35:39.020
as an expert on the Bible that everything in it should be taken literally. So the judge says,
01:35:46.440
well, okay, but there are too many people in this courtroom. People are fainting
01:35:50.220
because of the heat. I'm fearful that the courtroom is going to collapse onto the first floor.
01:35:56.260
So he moves the trial outdoors to a stage left over from July 4th activities. And you can see,
01:36:04.220
I printed 38 photographs from the trial in the book, 1925, thousands of people standing out on
01:36:12.640
the lawn in front of the courthouse. They are listening to this withering cross-examination
01:36:19.520
by Clarence Darrow, who utterly destroyed William Jennings Bryan. The crowd, of course,
01:36:25.480
they were all Bryan supporters. By the end, by the time the gavel bangs down, the crowd is
01:36:33.180
surrounding Clarence Darrow and congratulating him. They've changed their opinion. And Darrow looks
01:36:39.980
back and there he sees Bryan, a solitary figure standing alone, not a friend in the world,
01:36:45.480
utterly broken. Days later, Bryan lays down for a nap and he never wakes up. It's an incredible story.
01:36:52.900
The New York Times at the time described it as the most amazing court scene in Anglo-Saxon history.
01:37:00.880
It was the trial of the century then, and it still is now, Megan.
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I only have a short time left, Greg, but how do you think Clarence Darrow would see some of these
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issues that we're debating right now in this country, like the bans on critical race theory in
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school rooms and some of the stuff that DeSantis, who's anti-wokeness, I support. But there's a
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question about whether he's gone too far in trying to shut down this kind of speech.
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I talk a lot about it in the book, especially the epilogue. Darrow would fight against the
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partisan censorship and political discourse, the polarizing disinformation campaigns,
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classroom indoctrination, the punitive cancel culture whereby conformity of thought now supplants
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robust debate in America. He would wage war against all of that. And you know what?
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Hmm. You think that Darrow would be against the forced indoctrination of our children with messages
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about our country, how awful it is and all the rest. How do you think he'd view the pushback?
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You know, this is something I've been divided on myself. Do we ban CRT because it's so pernicious
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and it's racist? Or do we let the teachers teach it and just leave it up to the parents to
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counterbalance? You know, I feel like Darrow wouldn't want just one side. America's terrible
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being forced on children. But what do you support the bans, do you think?
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Well, the problem is that there are disparate versions of critical race theory being taught
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in America. The more benign aspect of it teaches that, you know, we have to give lesson plans and
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our history books have to properly account for the shameful legacy of slavery and racism and
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segregation and Jim Crow laws and white supremacy. We cannot sanitize that. And Darrow would agree with
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that. But there are other aspects that are more extreme, such as, and I cite these in the book,
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specific examples where students are being told that they fall into one of two groups based on
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the color of their skin, oppressors and the oppressed. And thus classrooms have become in
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some places venues of guilt and shame. Darrow would say that is fundamentally wrong. He would argue
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against it. Along the way, he would seek common ground because that's what Darrow always did.
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But paramount would be free speech, the indispensable proposition that no one should be told how to
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think. His personality jumps off of these pages. Thanks to you. The stories about him make you fall
01:39:50.540
in love with the guy in the way Greg Jarrett has. One of the things you write about him is as follows.
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I also found in Darrow the same human frailties and foibles that afflict us all. I identified with
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his flaws and failures just as I struggled with my own. And you write that despite devastating defeats
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that led to bouts of disillusion and anguish, Darrow persevered. Over time, he evolved into a
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heroic figure. That leads me to a story I've been dying to talk to you about. And that is what you've
01:40:20.200
said publicly about Roger Ailes. I've been talking to him about talking to him, talking about him on the
01:40:25.500
show quite a bit lately because of what's happening at Fox and all that. But I have been quick to point
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out that despite Roger's flaws, which have been, of course, well documented, the man obviously was a
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genius, but he also had a huge heart. And your story that you've spoken about publicly is one of
01:40:47.760
the ones that's always stayed with me about the goodness of Roger Ailes and how he was such a
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complicated figure. And I wonder if you'd be willing to talk about it here.
01:40:59.460
Well, I've only talked about it once before publicly, but it's well known. I am an alcoholic.
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I've been sober now for nine years and Roger saved my life together with the love and support of my two
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daughters and my wife whom I adore. But Roger could have given up. What people don't know is you
01:41:20.780
contacted Roger and said, you need to help Greg. And Roger was already doing that. And then you,
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I was away for three months at the Betty Ford Center getting the treatment I so desperately needed.
01:41:36.720
And you sent me the kindest letter I've ever received. You took the time and longhand to send me a
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letter, which I still have. And that lifted my spirits and sustained me, uh, in my recovery
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process. And, uh, it was really one of the kindest acts anybody has ever conferred on me and God bless
01:42:00.100
you for doing that. I still have your letter and I will keep it always. I'm so touched by that. No,
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I don't want to make it about me. Like I know, but people should know how thoughtful and kind and
01:42:13.860
generous you are. And, and, you know, Daryl cared about humanity and charity and decency. Those were
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the principles he embraced. I didn't care that he was a liberal or agnostic. I'm neither one.
01:42:29.340
And it was his values, uh, that mattered to me and it animated my own. And, you know,
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in many ways, you're just like Daryl, Daryl, you care about people, Megan.
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Oh, well, you know what? I, it takes one to know one, Greg, you were always so kind to me at Fox
01:42:49.320
through everything thick and thin. And the story with Roger really embodied, I think why a lot of us
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enjoyed working there for so long and enjoyed working for him, you know, warts and all, um,
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because when you fell down, he was there. He viewed it as a, we problem, not as a, you problem.
01:43:08.360
Right. And there's just so few bosses like that out there today. There's so few who would see
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somebody who was faltering and arguably embarrassing the channel and say, let me help. Let's tackle this
01:43:23.460
together as opposed to you're done 10 foot pole between us. And now having had, you know, other
01:43:29.120
bosses past Roger, uh, I see it all in an especially appreciative way. Yeah, absolutely. Um, you know,
01:43:37.320
he, he called up my wife and said, don't worry about a thing. The checks will keep coming. We're
01:43:42.600
not going to pull the financial rug out from under you and your two lovely daughters. Um, Roger's wife,
01:43:48.860
Elizabeth, uh, you know, said, would you like me to come over and sit with you? You know,
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these, these are the same Christian values that it, that Clarence Darrell embraced, albeit as an
01:44:00.740
agnostic. And, uh, yeah, you gotta, you gotta love somebody like that. Yeah, I know it's complicated.
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You know, we take the measure of a man, not by his lowest moment, um, but by the, the lifetime
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contributions to this earth, to our country and so on. And I want people to remember that about him
01:44:20.280
and about all of us, hopefully, uh, you and me included. I'm so glad to have you here and see
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you looking so well and doing so well. Thank you. Good luck with the book. Thank you. Trial of the
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century in bookstores nationwide and available online. And I appreciate your taking an interest
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in the book and your willingness to talk about it. I'll come back anytime. It's great to see you,
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my friend. Good to see you. Thanks for listening to the Megan Kelly show. No BS, no agenda and no fear.