00:05:43.040And we have utterly no idea where that $10 million came from.
00:05:48.160So in one year, right after he left the White House, now let's look at the timing here.
00:05:51.580The whistleblower says when he was vice president, a senior executive at Burisma offered him $5 million cash personally in order to make a corrupt deal and make official decisions for Burisma.
00:06:06.540The year he leaves the vice presidency, 2017, he reported over $10 million of income in two corporations that he and his wife set up.
00:06:20.060And we know nothing, zero whatsoever, about the source of that income.
00:06:25.420You know what the media ought to call on?
00:06:27.880You know what the House of Representatives ought to force him to do?
00:06:30.340You know what anyone who gives a damn about integrity on government should say?
00:06:34.480We need the tax returns of Celtic Capri Corp and Giacoppa Corp.
00:06:40.760If half of that $10 million is the $5 million payment for Burisma for the bribe, well, then Joe Biden better start sizing up for an orange jumpsuit.
00:06:55.220Because, as he rightly said, where's the money?
00:06:58.200If that's where the money is, then he's guilty of a serious felony.
00:07:03.900Yeah, and this is, as you just described it there, there's a serious chance that this happened.
00:07:09.200And he is in trouble with an actual felony.
00:07:12.300Now, the question is, Senator, that so many people are asking is, can the FBI and those that have some of this information stonewall,
00:07:21.540or is there a good chance, knowing everything that we know right now, is there a very, very good chance
00:07:27.600that the Republicans are going to be able to get some of these answers in the House that they can't avoid anymore?
00:07:50.420He would have appointed a special counsel already to investigate this.
00:07:53.800He would be demanding that the FD-1023 be made public.
00:07:57.700He would be demanding that the 17 voice recordings be made public.
00:08:00.940He would be fighting for getting access to the tax returns for these two corporations that funneled over $10 million to Joe Biden and Jill Biden the year they left the White House.
00:08:14.320And by the way, you want to know the most important question right now?
00:08:48.940Do you give a damn about being a journalist?
00:08:50.880Or are you just going to sit and talk to your 12 viewers that are still watching CNN and go on and on about how much you hate Donald Trump and ignore reporting on the news?
00:09:29.620Disclose the tax returns of Celtic Capri Corp and Giacoppa Corp, especially in 2017, where you had this massive windfall of cash that you've never explained and that no one in the corporate media has ever cared enough to ask about.
00:09:49.640You mentioned, by the way, the media not doing their job.
00:09:53.220They're having no problem, Senator, talking about saying over and over again, like there's some sort of cult that, quote, no one is above the law when it comes to Donald Trump.
00:10:04.860Just listen to a few of the different members of the media over the last 24 hours saying this over and over again.
00:10:10.700It's like they got a phone call from the White House and the White House said, here's your talking point on Donald Trump.
00:10:16.360The idea that no person is above the law is a bedrock principle of American justice.
00:10:20.620No man is above the law, no matter what the crimes.
00:12:17.060So presumably that's $2.3 million for that book.
00:12:20.100I'll tell you, someone who has written multiple books that have collectively sold hundreds of thousands of copies, I've never been paid $2.3 million for a book.
00:12:29.260And yet Jill Biden, she's claiming she got that.
00:13:11.120His book had a retail price of $27 for hardcover, $18 for paperback.
00:13:18.540If you assume a reasonable mix of sales, average price was $23.
00:13:24.880On 300,000 books sold, the gross revenues everyone makes is just under $7 million.
00:13:32.400What Joe is alleging is they paid him $8 million to generate $7 million.
00:13:37.940The book publisher lost $1 million and got no money for printing the book.
00:13:41.560Typically, an author, if you were just receiving a royalty, a typical blended royalty, you'd get about 15% for hardcover, about 7.5% for paperback is typical.
00:13:55.460If Joe was receiving 12% of $7 million, he would have yielded about $800,000.
00:14:09.080Now, maybe the publishers are such wild-eyed leftists that they just said, hey, let's give Joe Biden $8 million because we really love the guy.
00:14:17.100And we just want to write a check to him even though we're going to lose money like crazy.
00:14:20.360Well, do you know how many copies his prior book promises to keep sold?
00:14:32.320I got to say, having written three books, being in the middle of my fourth book now, I simply do not believe there's a book publisher that would give him $8 million given that his last book had sold 49,000 copies.
00:14:44.040As much as they're hardcore leftists, they do actually like to make money.
00:14:48.140And so you're looking at a tax return that has $10 million in cash that came from a mystery source.
00:14:58.940And so, listen, I want to give Joe Biden the respect he deserves.
00:15:02.900He said we should ask, where is the money?
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00:17:12.480If Joe Biden's tax return says X, and then we see these suspicious activity reports and money going to these LLCs and these S-Corps and all these other, you know, different web of lies, as I would describe it, then what can the House do to nail that down?
00:17:26.140Yeah, well, there's only one place that has any possibility of getting this information.
00:17:30.740DOJ and the FBI are not going to do so because Merrick Garland has thoroughly corrupted them and they're more invested in protecting Joe Biden and hiding him from any investigation into his corruption than they are in actually investigating it.
00:17:43.320Sadly, the United States Senate's not going to do a damn thing because Senate Democrats are equally invested in protecting Joe Biden and hiding him and preventing any investigation to whether the president of the United States took a $5 million bribe from a foreign national.
00:17:57.720So I'm on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:18:08.660I'll continue to do this podcast and shine a light on it.
00:18:11.400But what I don't have is the ability to issue a single subpoena because it takes a majority vote and the Democrats have the majority and no Democrat will vote for it, which means the only, only place that can have any forceful compulsory process is the House of Representatives, James Comer and Jim Jordan.
00:18:29.560They have been doing a yeoman's job so far investigating they need to continue to do so.
00:18:34.400They need to redouble their efforts and they need to focus on the famous question from Watergate, follow the money or, as Joe Biden put it, where's the money?
00:18:43.820Now, let me point out, in addition to these two corporations through which Joe and Jill funneled most of their income, at least according to their tax returns, and that they've hidden the tax returns for these corporations.
00:18:54.960We now know from the House Oversight Committee investigation that the Biden family created more than 20 companies.
00:19:05.580That's from bank records, more than 20.
00:19:08.48016 of the companies were limited liability companies formed while Biden was still vice president.
00:19:15.360I want you to think, do you know anyone who's formed 16 shell companies while they're in public office?
00:19:25.400The Biden family, their business associates and their companies, collectively they received more than $10 million from foreign sources.
00:19:33.880Those payments occurred while Biden was in office and when he left.
00:19:40.000And we know, according to the House's work, that at least nine Biden family members received payments.
00:19:47.680Those Biden family members include Hunter Biden, James Biden, Joe Biden's brother, James Biden's wife, Sarah Jones Biden, the late Beau Biden's wife, Hallie Biden, Hunter Biden's ex-wife, Kathleen Buell, Hunter Biden's current wife, Melissa Cohen, and, quote, three children of the president's son and the president's brother.
00:20:13.260That's at a minimum. And we know that an enormous amount of the money came from Chinese nationals and companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:20:23.620James Comer said that of the countries the Biden family was influenced peddling in, China is, quote, the most reputable.
00:20:30.880And actually, listen to James Comer this week explaining about this net network of shell companies the Bidens created.
00:20:38.240We can trace bribery. It sure does. But look what we've already found, Larry.
00:20:42.860The Biden family has at least 20 shell companies that were created for the sole purpose to launder money to at least nine Biden family members.
00:20:51.700When you create a bunch of shell companies for the sole purpose of laundering money, that's called racketeering and the and the the money laundering.
00:20:59.540Those aren't my words. Those are the words of at least six big publicly traded banks that filed bank violations to get the Biden family.
00:21:07.100They said it sure appears that they're money laundering.
00:21:09.800So these are some serious crimes that we've already uncovered.
00:21:13.420But there's still many more banks to go and many more shell companies that I think that we'll we'll discover along the way.
00:21:20.260So when you're having those accusations and using the words that he's talking about, money laundering and racketeering, he's not saying this on hypotheticals.
00:21:29.400He's saying this based on the evidence that he has seen.
00:21:32.580Well, and let me ask you, give me an innocent explanation for a senior public official.
00:21:41.020Creating 20 shell companies on the face of it, it screams that they're trying to conceal what's happening with those shell companies.
00:21:53.340You know who does that? Drug dealers do that.
00:21:55.320The mafia does that. Criminals do that.
00:21:57.800Now, maybe if you're like a billionaire tycoon, you might do that.
00:22:04.360If you're like developing, you know, projects all over the country, maybe you do that.
00:22:09.320But Joe Biden isn't doing any of that.
00:22:10.820He was vice president of the United States.
00:22:12.940He doesn't know anything about business.
00:22:15.300Why on earth does he need 20 shell companies?
00:22:19.180If it's not to hide and shield the income.
00:22:24.920And Joe Biden has invited us to ask, where is the money?
00:22:28.460Well, now is the chance to see, are there any journalists left in America who will accept that invitation?
00:22:59.320I want to move to something else as well.
00:23:01.500Senator, you really went toe to toe with the Biden administration over another issue.
00:23:05.820Frankenstein, like, you know, won Pulitzers and were acclaimed for their reporting on it.
00:23:10.920The problem is that the Washington Post, there are no reporters left.
00:23:13.600The New York Times, there are no reporters left.
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00:24:03.060I want to get to this other one, and that is a major issue.
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00:27:08.800Let's protect the Biden administration from accountability and concommitment with that decision.
00:27:15.440It's a decision to say the children being harmed are not important enough to the Democrat senators on this committee to overcome their partisan desire to play politics and protect the Biden administration from the consequences of their own failure.
00:27:32.820Now, Senator, I'm going to stop there because I want to get your reaction to this and to paint a bigger picture of just how horrific this humanitarian crisis is.
00:27:41.240And the fact that they are encouraging unaccompanied minors who are being abused, who are being sexually assaulted, sexually abused.
00:27:48.760They're basically being sold into slavery in the U.S., having to pay off the debts for the smugglers coming across.
00:27:53.360And this administration has, in essence, encouraged this behavior, which is making billions of dollars for the cartels at the same time.
00:28:26.220Joe Biden has turned these vicious murderers into global billionaire corporations that routinely savage people.
00:28:37.320And the children that they abuse, that they sexually assault, it is horrific.
00:28:41.580And they treat little boys and little girls as commodities, as cargo.
00:28:46.760And it is modern-day slavery that is playing out as a result of Joe Biden's political decisions.
00:28:56.080When you look at the political decision, you talk a little bit more about this and why this administration isn't stopping it at this hearing in the back and forth.
00:29:35.360In the Department of Health and Human Services, approximately 127,000 unaccompanied minors entered the United States during fiscal year 2022.
00:30:14.120Even one child in the custody of human traffickers is horrific and wrong.
00:30:19.000But 127,000, this administration, no wonder Secretary Becerra is too scared to sit there.
00:30:29.160He should be embarrassed of that record.
00:30:32.420Health and Human Services received $7.8 billion last year just for unaccompanied minor children.
00:30:38.480Troublingly, on February 24, 2022, HHS admitted in a letter to Representative Andy Biggs that it could not contact approximately 20,000 minor children it placed in 2021.
00:30:58.420No wonder Secretary Becerra is not sitting at that table.
00:31:01.560On March 22, 2023, Senator James Lankford pressed Secretary Becerra on a portion of the New York Times expose, indicating that HHS had failed to account for 85,000 previously placed alien children.
00:31:21.800Becerra disputed the question, saying it was unrealistic.
00:31:26.460But he failed to offer any concrete evidence or data or statistics.
00:31:31.560On April 25 of this year, I joined Senator Marco Rubio and my colleagues in a letter addressing HHS failures on this score, which actively highlighted the fact that the Biden administration loosened vetting, fired HHS staffers who filed complaints, and ignored HHS contracted organizations who voiced concerns.
00:31:53.860After the New York Times, after the New York Times published a second expose, the administration announced the Department of Labor was taking action.
00:32:08.140But how about the hundreds of thousands of children who are being smuggled in by human traffickers, who are being abused, who are being sexually abused, who are being physically abused, and whom the Biden administration has lost?
00:32:22.240This is a humanitarian crisis, and it is a man-made crisis produced by political decisions from this White House.
00:32:29.060And every American, whether Democrat or Republican, should be horrified at the state of affairs.
00:32:37.860Horrified is the exact word that should be used to describe this.
00:32:41.640And yet, it doesn't seem, Senator, that they're trying to do anything to stop this, even when you're exposing it this way.
00:32:49.600They held an entire hearing focused on the issue of unaccompanied minors, and yet they're not willing to hold in any way, shape, or form the Biden administration responsible.
00:33:05.300I mean, that's really a stunning level of incompetence.
00:33:09.660What it shows is this administration doesn't give a damn.
00:33:13.360The children who are being abused, they don't care about.
00:33:17.400The women who are being sexually assaulted, they don't care about.
00:33:20.560The illegal immigrants who are dying last year, 853 died crossing illegally into this country, they don't care about them.
00:33:27.780The crime that is surging, the people who are victims of murder and rape, they don't care about them.
00:33:32.880The 100,000 people last year who died of drug overdoses, 70% of which came from Chinese fentanyl coming across our southern border, they don't care about them.
00:33:40.720Why? Because their only, only priority is a political priority of open borders to maximize the number of people coming illegally into this country, because I believe they look at those illegal immigrants and think most of them are going to be Democrat voters.
00:34:00.200And so that political partisan objective matters more than the lives of the children who are being brutalized by their heartless policies.
00:34:10.720Yeah, no doubt about it. And this is going to be a big election year issue.
00:34:14.840Certainly, congressionally, Senate races in the presidency, and it should be.
00:34:19.420And it should be something that the Republicans should seize on to show it, explain it, and let the American people understand just how bad it is at the southern border
00:34:28.640and what's happening to these children at the southern border as well.
00:34:32.120I want to move on to something else, and it's something you worked really hard on, Senator, and it deals with the renaming of a street that is actually extremely significant in front of the embassy to Cuba.
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00:38:58.420Well, every communist thug that goes to the Cuban embassy will have to look and see the street sign in front of the embassy that says Oswaldo Paya Way.
00:39:14.960Every person who wants to write to the embassy will have to write Oswaldo Paya's name.
00:39:23.420Every person who wants to go visit the embassy has to get on their phone and Google what's the address and they will see Oswaldo Paya's name.
00:39:37.020There is something powerful about this and this is actually, it's a strategy that I adopted from Ronald Reagan.
00:39:42.540When Ronald Reagan was president, in standing up to the Soviet Union, one of the things he did is he renamed the street in front of the Soviet embassy Sakharov Plaza after the famed Soviet dissident for the same reasons.
00:40:00.300Tyrannical regimes are terrified of dissidents and they try to erase them.
00:40:04.940They try to pretend they don't exist and there is enormous power in saying their name, shining a light.
00:40:14.920As you know, Ben, my family was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba.
00:40:20.000Oswaldo Paya's daughter, Rosa Maria, I've spent time with her.
00:40:27.060She is a fighter for freedom like her father.
00:40:29.260And by commemorating his heroism, heroism for which the communists murdered him, we are also shining a light on that evil, repressive regime.
00:40:43.560And that's a step forward to causing that regime to crumble, which would be great for the people of Cuba and great for America to no longer have a communist regime 90 miles away from our surface.
00:40:57.480Yeah, these are important moments, especially as you described it, to show symbolism that, hey, we are not going to just sit here and act like this is not happening and this has not happened to these dissidents, these people.
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