Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 12, 2023


Biden Corruption： It's Time for a Merrick Garland Special Counsel, plus Biden Builds the Wall!


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Summary

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is joined by Sen. Ben Fergus Ferguson (D-Massachusetts) to discuss a new song being played at the White House, a new scandal involving a bag of cocaine being found in the West Wing, and more.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:05.540 Welcome. It's Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:08.380 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.680 And the White House has got a new official song they're playing,
00:00:12.840 apparently, when people come in the door.
00:00:20.920 Senator!
00:00:24.700 I can just see, like, the Secret Service.
00:00:27.040 Like, you know, you're walking through.
00:00:30.740 You've got to hand them your phone.
00:00:33.480 They're like, welcome to the White House.
00:00:35.020 We've got a great party for you tonight.
00:00:37.880 That's how they get Hunter Biden to come over so often,
00:00:40.420 working the business deals.
00:00:43.140 Oh, you can't make it up.
00:00:44.680 We've got problems with cocaine at the White House,
00:00:46.880 and now we're being told that Congress may get some answers.
00:00:51.080 Fill us in on that.
00:00:52.980 Well, I've got to say, so far,
00:00:54.900 all we've gotten from the Biden White House is a lot of malarkey.
00:00:57.680 Um, I don't know.
00:01:00.840 Well, there is that.
00:01:02.100 You know, I don't know if Corn Pop was a cocaine dealer.
00:01:06.340 But, you know, let me make a serious point.
00:01:10.720 We are just a few days out from a bag of cocaine being found in the West Wing of the White House.
00:01:16.280 And the corporate media has altogether dropped this story.
00:01:22.140 Doesn't exist anymore.
00:01:24.000 Can you imagine how the corporate media would have lost their mind
00:01:29.380 if a bag of cocaine were found in the Trump White House?
00:01:32.600 Like, we would have had every night round-the-clock coverage.
00:01:38.840 And by the way, the claim from the White House,
00:01:42.740 oh, we don't know who did it.
00:01:44.340 Look, the White House has records of every person who enters the building.
00:01:49.080 They know what time that person enters the building.
00:01:52.440 They know what time that person leaves.
00:01:54.600 At any given time of day, you know exactly who is in the building,
00:01:59.700 what entrance they came in or out of.
00:02:01.680 All of that is kept.
00:02:02.880 There are Secret Service agents everywhere.
00:02:05.360 There are cameras.
00:02:07.120 And yet, the reason that the Biden White House wants to tell us
00:02:10.640 they can't figure out whose cocaine it is,
00:02:12.740 is because any answer to that question is politically damaging.
00:02:18.520 And this administration's approach is,
00:02:20.300 to hell with the rule of law,
00:02:21.880 it's politics, politics, all politics, all the time.
00:02:25.340 Yeah, it brings us into the other big story.
00:02:28.360 And this is one that a lot of people are paying attention to.
00:02:31.560 And that is the House Oversight Committee put out a tweet.
00:02:35.340 And they said, part of the Biden family cover-up,
00:02:38.400 they said, quote, for those keeping score at home,
00:02:40.640 today, the U.S. Attorney David Weiss confirmed
00:02:44.420 the October 7th meeting happened.
00:02:47.600 The whistleblower Gary Shapley's October 7th meeting wrap email says,
00:02:52.140 David Weiss claimed, quote,
00:02:54.140 he did not have the authority to bring charges against Hunter Biden.
00:02:58.940 Mr. Shapley's boss confirmed the accuracy of those notes
00:03:03.400 in a follow-up email.
00:03:06.060 And David Weiss is now changing his tune
00:03:08.760 about having the authority to bring charges
00:03:10.800 and is quibbling about what type of authority status
00:03:13.600 he sought out instead.
00:03:15.340 Now, we talked about this in the last podcast, Senator.
00:03:18.640 Weiss was saying, well, I didn't say,
00:03:20.520 actually, I wanted special prosecutor status.
00:03:22.920 He tried to change it a little bit.
00:03:25.080 And now Weiss is acknowledging
00:03:26.540 that Gary Shapley, as a whistleblower,
00:03:29.860 Weiss also acknowledged that the FD-1023 form,
00:03:33.760 alleging that the then-Vice President Joe Biden
00:03:36.800 and Hunter Biden received $5 million each
00:03:39.860 as part of a bribery scheme
00:03:41.400 with a Burisma executive,
00:03:43.240 is part of a, quote,
00:03:45.280 ongoing investigation.
00:03:47.240 So when you see this all of a sudden
00:03:49.840 backpedaling from Weiss,
00:03:52.040 I see it as clearly we know what team he's on.
00:03:55.120 He's on Team Biden.
00:03:56.640 And this whole idea that he's some great guy
00:03:58.980 that we're supposed to be excited about
00:04:00.320 because Donald Trump appointed him,
00:04:01.540 we know that was crap,
00:04:02.840 we know the two liberal senators
00:04:04.100 had to say he was okay to get the job,
00:04:06.220 otherwise he would have never gotten that job.
00:04:08.180 And now we're seeing his true colors come out.
00:04:10.920 You know, I gotta say,
00:04:12.240 the most amazing word in all of that tweet
00:04:15.180 that you just read is the word each,
00:04:18.660 which is that the FD-1023 form
00:04:21.740 alleges that then-VP Biden and Hunter
00:04:24.500 received $5 million each
00:04:26.820 as a part of a bribery scheme
00:04:29.080 with a Burisma executive.
00:04:30.080 So, let's be clear.
00:04:33.320 The Bidens,
00:04:34.660 if they're for sale,
00:04:36.560 it's not cheap.
00:04:38.040 It's not $5 million to buy the Bidens.
00:04:40.680 It's $10.
00:04:42.660 It's $5 for Hunter
00:04:43.900 and $5 for the big guy.
00:04:46.520 That is astonishing.
00:04:48.020 And listen,
00:04:49.060 every day,
00:04:52.520 the facts
00:04:54.560 implicating Joe Biden
00:04:57.020 in personal corruption
00:04:59.840 and the facts implicating Merrick Garland
00:05:03.460 in corruption,
00:05:06.300 in politicization,
00:05:07.980 and in cover-up,
00:05:09.740 they get worse.
00:05:11.200 So,
00:05:12.980 we have now
00:05:14.820 that the two IRS whistleblowers,
00:05:19.400 Gary Shapley
00:05:20.180 and the other unnamed individual
00:05:22.060 who,
00:05:22.800 all we know about him
00:05:23.840 is his own self-description
00:05:25.240 that he's a gay Democrat
00:05:26.940 with a man for a husband.
00:05:28.200 And presumably,
00:05:31.360 that means
00:05:32.120 he does not have a
00:05:33.280 political axe to grind
00:05:35.340 with Joe Biden,
00:05:36.960 but rather is coming forward
00:05:38.520 because he is dismayed
00:05:40.780 about the corruption
00:05:42.500 he observed.
00:05:43.260 we now have essentially
00:05:45.360 a third whistleblower,
00:05:48.080 which is
00:05:49.860 that Mr. Shapley's boss
00:05:52.620 has confirmed
00:05:54.660 the accuracy
00:05:55.840 of Shapley's notes
00:05:57.860 in a follow-up email.
00:05:59.820 Now, mind you,
00:06:00.940 Shapley's boss
00:06:01.620 is not willingly
00:06:03.260 a whistleblower,
00:06:05.320 but he inadvertently
00:06:07.500 confirmed in writing
00:06:08.840 what Shapley is saying.
00:06:11.040 And listen,
00:06:11.740 when you're dealing
00:06:12.480 with allegations
00:06:13.240 of criminality,
00:06:14.320 you need to approach them
00:06:15.920 with skepticism.
00:06:18.320 And so,
00:06:19.120 as I'm sitting here today,
00:06:21.160 I don't know for a fact
00:06:22.580 that the allegations
00:06:24.440 these whistleblowers
00:06:25.540 have put forward
00:06:26.400 are true.
00:06:27.860 They may not be.
00:06:29.420 I will say
00:06:30.640 the indicia
00:06:31.420 on the front end
00:06:32.360 are highly credible.
00:06:36.360 There are no indications
00:06:37.440 that these individuals
00:06:39.400 had a political motive.
00:06:40.640 There are no indications
00:06:41.440 that they had a grudge.
00:06:42.480 There are no indications
00:06:43.620 that they're trying
00:06:44.180 to pursue an agenda.
00:06:45.560 These are career
00:06:46.540 IRS employees
00:06:47.760 who are stating
00:06:49.860 that they were outraged
00:06:50.960 by what they saw
00:06:51.940 and all of the
00:06:53.400 objective indicators
00:06:54.600 are confirming
00:06:58.160 that claim.
00:06:59.400 That being said,
00:07:01.240 what needs to happen
00:07:03.120 is the House of Representatives
00:07:05.660 needs to bring
00:07:06.660 both IRS whistleblowers
00:07:09.680 under oath
00:07:11.560 to testify
00:07:12.080 before the House.
00:07:13.640 The House needs
00:07:14.760 to bring
00:07:15.280 David Weiss,
00:07:17.240 the U.S. Attorney,
00:07:18.800 under oath
00:07:19.420 to testify
00:07:20.140 before the House.
00:07:21.540 And the House
00:07:22.300 needs to bring
00:07:23.120 Merrick Garland,
00:07:24.120 the U.S. Attorney General,
00:07:25.240 under oath
00:07:25.780 to testify.
00:07:27.240 Now,
00:07:28.180 I don't know
00:07:29.980 if and when
00:07:30.560 that's going to happen.
00:07:31.420 My understanding
00:07:33.480 is Abby Lowell,
00:07:34.560 who is the attorney
00:07:35.880 representing Hunter Biden,
00:07:37.700 is trying to do
00:07:39.000 everything possible
00:07:40.440 to discourage,
00:07:41.740 to threaten,
00:07:42.560 to intimidate
00:07:43.900 the whistleblowers
00:07:45.360 to prevent them
00:07:46.040 from testifying publicly.
00:07:48.200 The Biden administration
00:07:49.800 is desperate
00:07:51.520 to prevent
00:07:53.340 David Weiss
00:07:54.720 or Merrick Garland
00:07:55.620 from testifying
00:07:56.420 on these issues.
00:07:57.180 if they follow
00:07:58.880 past patterns,
00:08:00.200 if and when
00:08:01.740 Merrick Garland testifies,
00:08:03.040 and he's going to have
00:08:03.640 to testify
00:08:04.120 before Congress,
00:08:05.840 he'll stonewall.
00:08:07.060 That's been the approach
00:08:08.180 of DOJ and the FBI.
00:08:10.260 But I will say
00:08:11.560 every day
00:08:12.600 as the evidence
00:08:13.440 keeps coming out
00:08:14.460 and it keeps
00:08:15.860 getting worse,
00:08:17.900 the merits
00:08:19.900 of what I said
00:08:20.780 on this podcast
00:08:21.660 now over a week ago,
00:08:24.340 that the Department
00:08:25.780 of Justice
00:08:26.400 needs to appoint
00:08:27.500 a special counsel
00:08:28.760 to investigate
00:08:30.360 Merrick Garland
00:08:31.220 for lying
00:08:33.180 under oath
00:08:33.760 to Congress
00:08:34.320 in response
00:08:34.960 to my questioning
00:08:35.920 in the Senate
00:08:36.360 Judiciary Committee
00:08:37.200 and to obstruction
00:08:39.020 of justice
00:08:39.920 engaging
00:08:41.680 as a political
00:08:42.700 operative
00:08:43.400 to block
00:08:44.220 investigation
00:08:45.180 into Hunter Biden
00:08:46.580 and even more
00:08:47.160 critically into
00:08:47.800 Joe Biden
00:08:48.560 to protect
00:08:49.260 the big guy.
00:08:51.960 That point
00:08:53.440 that there needs
00:08:54.300 to be a special counsel.
00:08:55.820 You and I
00:08:56.480 on verdict
00:08:57.080 called for that
00:08:58.480 and within hours
00:09:00.220 of our calling
00:09:01.000 for it
00:09:01.440 on verdict,
00:09:02.560 Kevin McCarthy,
00:09:03.300 the Speaker
00:09:03.660 of the House,
00:09:04.320 likewise,
00:09:05.380 called for the
00:09:06.020 Department of Justice
00:09:06.880 to appoint
00:09:07.440 a special counsel.
00:09:08.280 At the end
00:09:09.760 of the day,
00:09:10.300 Ben,
00:09:11.060 the Attorney
00:09:12.240 General
00:09:12.780 is not
00:09:13.320 above the law
00:09:14.200 and that's
00:09:15.640 what he's
00:09:16.020 trying to be.
00:09:16.720 He's trying
00:09:17.260 to behave
00:09:17.800 as if
00:09:18.660 the criminal
00:09:19.420 laws don't
00:09:20.020 apply to him,
00:09:20.640 that he can
00:09:20.980 commit felonies,
00:09:21.840 that there could be
00:09:22.600 serious allegations
00:09:23.600 of felonies
00:09:24.380 by the Attorney
00:09:24.940 General
00:09:25.340 and no one
00:09:26.460 investigates
00:09:27.400 because
00:09:28.960 he's above
00:09:31.180 the law.
00:09:32.240 That is not
00:09:33.020 the way
00:09:33.320 our system
00:09:33.800 works.
00:09:35.000 It's not how
00:09:35.440 it's supposed
00:09:35.820 to work
00:09:36.200 and that's why
00:09:36.720 I think so many
00:09:37.300 people are so
00:09:37.800 upset about this.
00:09:39.020 This comes
00:09:39.660 on top
00:09:40.260 of another
00:09:42.140 big issue.
00:09:43.860 Biden's Department
00:09:44.660 of Justice
00:09:45.360 indicted
00:09:46.240 a whistleblower,
00:09:47.680 a guy who,
00:09:48.740 full disclosure,
00:09:49.640 I think anybody
00:09:50.340 that's doing business
00:09:51.060 with Hunter Biden
00:09:51.900 was shady
00:09:53.120 and corrupt
00:09:53.740 as hell
00:09:54.140 and scumbags.
00:09:55.460 I don't think
00:09:56.080 this guy's any
00:09:56.900 different than
00:09:57.440 any of the other
00:09:58.380 business partners
00:09:59.100 that Hunter Biden
00:09:59.800 have because
00:10:00.400 you have to be
00:10:01.360 at the bottom
00:10:02.280 of the barrel
00:10:02.800 to do this type
00:10:03.960 of corruption
00:10:04.600 and bribery
00:10:05.340 and money laundering,
00:10:08.240 et cetera.
00:10:09.080 But you got this
00:10:09.880 guy, Gallup,
00:10:10.940 who maybe was
00:10:11.840 a smart enough
00:10:12.660 guy to say,
00:10:13.260 hey, I'm going
00:10:14.280 to keep intel
00:10:15.180 on the Bidens
00:10:15.800 if they ever
00:10:16.260 cross me,
00:10:17.320 if they ever
00:10:17.680 try to screw
00:10:18.220 me over.
00:10:19.420 This reminds me
00:10:20.500 a lot,
00:10:21.080 Senator,
00:10:21.500 of the idea
00:10:22.520 that maybe
00:10:22.920 the FBI
00:10:23.400 has tapes
00:10:24.180 where there
00:10:25.120 were conversations
00:10:25.940 between Joe
00:10:26.700 Biden and Hunter
00:10:27.320 Biden that
00:10:27.680 were kept
00:10:28.120 by someone
00:10:28.640 else they
00:10:29.100 were doing
00:10:29.440 deals with
00:10:30.100 that dealt
00:10:31.000 with maybe
00:10:31.380 some of those
00:10:31.820 payments coming
00:10:32.600 in.
00:10:33.240 But Gallup
00:10:33.940 is a guy
00:10:34.640 who is now
00:10:35.360 under indictment
00:10:36.680 from Biden's
00:10:37.820 DOJ after he
00:10:39.360 put out a video
00:10:40.260 and this is a guy
00:10:42.220 that's now been
00:10:42.820 charged with
00:10:43.360 Farrah violations.
00:10:45.340 He worked
00:10:46.060 with CEFE,
00:10:47.640 the same company
00:10:48.380 that Hunter Biden,
00:10:49.320 James Biden,
00:10:50.180 partnered with
00:10:50.920 and the president
00:10:51.660 played golf with
00:10:52.900 them and had
00:10:53.420 multiple meetings
00:10:54.180 at the White
00:10:54.720 House with
00:10:55.180 them,
00:10:55.780 allowed them
00:10:56.300 to come in
00:10:56.660 the White
00:10:56.920 House countless
00:10:57.620 times and
00:10:59.100 this is the
00:11:00.560 company that
00:11:01.220 bankrolled
00:11:01.980 millions of
00:11:03.160 dollars,
00:11:03.620 the Bidens,
00:11:04.160 the five million
00:11:04.760 here,
00:11:05.040 the other five
00:11:05.600 million here,
00:11:06.180 and countless
00:11:07.180 other paychecks
00:11:08.220 in between.
00:11:09.680 They've now
00:11:10.580 charged this guy,
00:11:12.820 Dr. Gallup,
00:11:13.980 for failing to
00:11:14.880 register as a
00:11:15.600 foreign agent
00:11:16.760 of CEFE Energy
00:11:18.240 company.
00:11:19.100 The same
00:11:19.580 company for
00:11:20.740 which Hunter
00:11:21.260 Biden worked
00:11:22.060 for and made
00:11:23.080 even more
00:11:23.760 money than
00:11:24.340 this doctor,
00:11:25.700 and yet,
00:11:27.300 now Luff,
00:11:28.360 a guy who's
00:11:29.000 a fugitive,
00:11:29.860 a guy that
00:11:30.360 maybe should be
00:11:31.620 charged with
00:11:32.100 crimes.
00:11:32.480 I don't think
00:11:32.920 he's probably a
00:11:33.480 good guy at
00:11:33.880 all, but the
00:11:34.960 fact that he
00:11:35.740 gets charged
00:11:36.560 from Biden's
00:11:37.180 DOJ, and
00:11:38.580 they've never
00:11:39.220 charged Hunter
00:11:39.980 Biden or
00:11:40.520 James Biden
00:11:41.300 with the same
00:11:42.420 damn crime
00:11:43.080 that they're
00:11:43.460 accusing this
00:11:44.200 guy of committing
00:11:44.820 with the same
00:11:45.400 exact company
00:11:46.360 working in the
00:11:47.580 same area
00:11:48.920 with the
00:11:49.400 Bidens.
00:11:50.560 How angry
00:11:51.160 are you over
00:11:51.700 that?
00:11:52.940 Well, I am
00:11:54.040 angry about the
00:11:55.080 overall pattern
00:11:56.020 of double
00:11:56.600 standards and
00:11:57.360 corruption, both
00:11:59.000 from President
00:11:59.920 Joe Biden and
00:12:00.740 his family, and
00:12:01.440 also the cover-up
00:12:02.540 from the DOJ
00:12:03.860 and the FBI.
00:12:05.280 With regard to
00:12:06.580 this particular
00:12:07.340 individual, I
00:12:08.180 think we need
00:12:08.620 to be very
00:12:09.040 careful.
00:12:09.880 And listen,
00:12:10.420 on this
00:12:10.720 podcast, we
00:12:13.480 have tried to
00:12:14.100 be very
00:12:14.480 measured, even
00:12:15.160 with the
00:12:15.600 IRS whistleblowers
00:12:17.080 who the
00:12:18.220 objective
00:12:18.680 indicia are,
00:12:20.940 they suggest
00:12:23.080 that they have
00:12:23.680 a high level
00:12:24.200 of credibility.
00:12:25.200 But I've
00:12:25.640 tried to be
00:12:26.040 clear and to
00:12:26.620 say I don't
00:12:27.300 know if
00:12:27.760 they're telling
00:12:28.180 the truth.
00:12:28.680 They might
00:12:29.000 not be.
00:12:29.800 We need to
00:12:30.240 investigate
00:12:30.640 further.
00:12:32.080 With this
00:12:32.820 individual,
00:12:33.540 Gal Luft, who
00:12:34.660 is an Israeli
00:12:35.840 professor, a
00:12:36.800 dual Israeli
00:12:37.640 American citizen,
00:12:39.340 I think we
00:12:40.700 need to look
00:12:41.160 at what he's
00:12:41.620 alleging.
00:12:42.660 But I also
00:12:43.340 think we need
00:12:44.060 to be very,
00:12:45.360 very cautious
00:12:46.320 with his
00:12:47.660 testimony.
00:12:49.880 The indictment,
00:12:51.240 so he's been
00:12:51.820 indicted in a
00:12:52.980 comprehensive
00:12:53.700 indictment that
00:12:55.620 describes Gal Luft
00:12:57.000 as operating as
00:12:58.200 an agent, at
00:13:00.160 best, of
00:13:00.780 China, and at
00:13:01.640 worst, someone
00:13:02.680 who was actively
00:13:03.520 helping China
00:13:04.380 develop assets in
00:13:05.880 the United States.
00:13:07.420 And it in
00:13:07.920 particular alleges
00:13:09.500 that he recruited
00:13:10.900 Bill Clinton's
00:13:12.460 CIA director,
00:13:13.440 James Wolsey, to
00:13:15.180 put his name on
00:13:16.500 articles written
00:13:17.340 by Luft, which
00:13:19.020 portrayed China
00:13:20.180 favorably, and
00:13:21.960 that he had
00:13:22.400 assisted Wolsey
00:13:23.540 with efforts to
00:13:25.560 get placed in the
00:13:26.660 Biden administration
00:13:27.480 in a political
00:13:28.600 role, either as
00:13:30.560 Secretary of DHS
00:13:31.540 or Secretary of
00:13:32.360 Defense or
00:13:33.320 Director of
00:13:33.800 National Intelligence.
00:13:35.720 Luft also
00:13:36.320 discussed, according
00:13:37.600 to the indictment,
00:13:38.300 with the Chinese,
00:13:39.920 how to get
00:13:40.560 Wolsey, quote,
00:13:41.700 educated in our
00:13:42.880 narrative so the
00:13:44.480 other side, the
00:13:45.300 USA, doesn't shape
00:13:46.660 his views.
00:13:48.520 Those are serious
00:13:49.560 allegations.
00:13:50.400 I don't know if
00:13:51.140 they're true.
00:13:51.940 I don't know what
00:13:52.740 evidence the
00:13:54.040 Department of
00:13:54.620 Justice has.
00:13:55.400 And it is true
00:13:56.200 that this indictment
00:13:58.000 happened after
00:13:59.260 Luft created an
00:14:01.320 18-minute video
00:14:02.680 alleging corruption
00:14:05.020 from Joe Biden
00:14:06.400 and Hunter Biden.
00:14:07.180 So, it is
00:14:09.560 conceivable that
00:14:10.560 this indictment
00:14:11.420 is retaliation
00:14:12.640 for those
00:14:14.240 allegations.
00:14:15.160 That being said,
00:14:16.540 for that to be
00:14:18.100 so, the
00:14:19.880 government would
00:14:20.460 also have to
00:14:21.220 fabricate enormous
00:14:22.480 amounts of
00:14:23.360 false emails and
00:14:24.700 calls and texts
00:14:25.660 and bank
00:14:26.780 statements to
00:14:29.000 make this case
00:14:30.640 against Luft.
00:14:31.460 And so I want
00:14:32.420 to caution,
00:14:33.460 I want to
00:14:34.500 caution conservatives,
00:14:35.440 I want to
00:14:35.780 caution people who
00:14:36.660 care about
00:14:37.540 integrity in our
00:14:39.100 government, that
00:14:40.440 you may want to
00:14:41.320 believe Luft's
00:14:42.320 allegations, but
00:14:44.700 recognize that it
00:14:47.160 seems just about
00:14:48.060 everyone Hunter
00:14:49.380 Biden did business
00:14:50.480 with was a crook.
00:14:52.700 Well, and that's
00:14:53.200 what we were talking
00:14:53.860 about a moment ago
00:14:54.520 and even before the
00:14:55.240 show is the fact
00:14:56.220 that, hey, this
00:14:57.340 guy may be just as
00:14:58.820 shady as Hunter
00:14:59.480 Biden and the
00:15:01.300 federal government
00:15:01.840 knew it and they
00:15:02.720 didn't charge him
00:15:03.560 with these crimes
00:15:04.300 until after he
00:15:05.520 spoke out.
00:15:06.940 And then he
00:15:07.280 speaks out and
00:15:07.800 they're like,
00:15:08.040 all right, now
00:15:08.560 we're coming
00:15:09.180 after you.
00:15:09.860 But the blaring
00:15:10.920 double standard
00:15:11.780 with Hunter
00:15:12.280 Biden is the
00:15:13.360 part that I
00:15:13.920 think so many
00:15:14.620 Americans are
00:15:15.220 furious about.
00:15:15.780 It's okay, this
00:15:16.780 guy does it and
00:15:17.760 maybe he should
00:15:18.420 have been charged
00:15:18.960 three, four, five
00:15:19.780 years ago with
00:15:20.480 these crimes that
00:15:21.280 they just charged
00:15:21.860 him with now.
00:15:22.500 But it's the fact
00:15:23.380 the timing of it,
00:15:24.400 senators, looks like
00:15:25.120 it's just straight up
00:15:25.860 trying to silence
00:15:26.740 anyone that comes
00:15:28.360 out and says
00:15:28.940 anything about what
00:15:30.080 you've done.
00:15:30.800 And if he did
00:15:31.820 commit these crimes
00:15:32.740 four, five, six,
00:15:33.820 seven years ago,
00:15:34.580 why didn't they
00:15:35.580 charge him earlier
00:15:36.560 than after he puts
00:15:37.540 out his 18-minute
00:15:38.280 video also exposing
00:15:40.100 his friends, the
00:15:41.680 Bidens?
00:15:42.360 Well, look, maybe
00:15:43.440 that's right.
00:15:44.740 It's also possible
00:15:45.960 he put out the
00:15:46.680 18-minute video
00:15:47.760 because he knew he
00:15:48.540 was about to get
00:15:49.200 indicted and was
00:15:50.840 trying to create a
00:15:51.720 defense for himself.
00:15:52.840 And so when someone
00:15:53.900 is facing a serious
00:15:56.020 indictment, you have
00:15:59.320 to be cautious about
00:16:00.660 their activity.
00:16:01.960 Now, that being
00:16:02.860 said, it is striking
00:16:04.860 that right at the
00:16:05.980 heart of the charges
00:16:06.760 against this
00:16:07.700 individual is the
00:16:10.200 fact that he had
00:16:11.520 ongoing business
00:16:12.620 relationships with
00:16:14.180 CEFC, the Chinese
00:16:15.640 company, that is
00:16:17.380 alleged to have
00:16:18.340 been bribing and
00:16:20.040 paying off Hunter
00:16:21.300 Biden and Joe
00:16:22.060 Biden.
00:16:22.980 Yeah.
00:16:23.160 And so at some
00:16:25.140 level, if Mr.
00:16:26.880 Luft, who I don't
00:16:27.620 know, I have no
00:16:28.280 interactions with him
00:16:29.140 at all, so I don't
00:16:29.920 know if he's a
00:16:30.480 crook or not.
00:16:31.060 But if he was
00:16:32.360 involved in crooked
00:16:33.400 deals with CEFC, as
00:16:35.680 the indictment
00:16:36.640 alleges, that raises
00:16:38.860 a very significant
00:16:41.120 question.
00:16:41.700 Well, gosh, who else
00:16:43.400 was engaged in
00:16:44.380 business deals with
00:16:46.120 this same Chinese
00:16:47.400 company?
00:16:47.860 And if Luft was
00:16:49.120 corrupt, how much
00:16:51.080 more so for the
00:16:53.420 millions of dollars
00:16:54.840 that flowed to
00:16:56.500 Hunter Biden and
00:16:57.340 Joe Biden and the
00:16:58.780 extended Biden
00:17:00.000 family?
00:17:00.640 And so what I
00:17:02.340 would say, I'm
00:17:03.760 going to give a
00:17:04.480 word of caution.
00:17:05.500 Don't get too
00:17:07.560 invested in the
00:17:08.900 allegations of this
00:17:10.000 one individual
00:17:10.800 because they need
00:17:12.900 to be investigated.
00:17:13.620 We don't know if
00:17:14.700 they're true, but
00:17:16.720 they are part of
00:17:18.320 the broader
00:17:18.780 mosaic and
00:17:19.900 when overlapped
00:17:22.420 with the
00:17:23.680 allegations from
00:17:25.060 whistleblower after
00:17:26.920 whistleblower after
00:17:28.060 whistleblower, many
00:17:30.000 of whom are career
00:17:31.080 government employees
00:17:32.040 with no political
00:17:33.380 axe to grind, the
00:17:36.060 cumulative mountain
00:17:38.140 of evidence against
00:17:39.400 Joe Biden and the
00:17:41.000 entire family is
00:17:42.280 growing by the
00:17:43.660 day.
00:17:44.460 Yeah.
00:17:44.780 I want to also
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00:19:12.500 Senator, I want to talk
00:19:13.660 about the Biden, not
00:19:15.700 only the DOJ, but the
00:19:17.040 FBI and this whistleblower.
00:19:19.740 Apparently, the United
00:19:20.680 States Attorney David
00:19:21.320 Weiss is admitting now,
00:19:22.800 and you mentioned this
00:19:23.560 earlier, that the FBI
00:19:24.960 informant form alleging
00:19:26.240 the Biden family bribes as
00:19:27.460 part of a, quote, now
00:19:28.360 ongoing investigation.
00:19:30.360 According to House
00:19:31.180 Oversight Committee
00:19:31.880 Republicans who reviewed
00:19:33.120 the Bureau's FD-1023 form,
00:19:36.280 an FBI informant claims
00:19:37.560 to possess two pieces of
00:19:39.200 evidence that show that
00:19:40.960 President Joe Biden and
00:19:42.320 Hunter Biden received
00:19:43.160 $5 million each after
00:19:45.320 Joe Biden threatened to
00:19:46.740 withhold aid to Ukraine
00:19:47.880 until a prosecutor was
00:19:49.120 fired.
00:19:50.000 A source familiar with the
00:19:51.540 FBI's informant document
00:19:53.320 confirmed that Hunter and
00:19:56.480 Joe Biden allegedly
00:19:57.460 coerced the Burisma
00:19:58.580 executive into paying
00:19:59.600 them the $10 million in
00:20:00.540 bribes.
00:20:01.040 Now, the FBI informant
00:20:02.260 also claims that this
00:20:04.720 individual kept these 17
00:20:06.140 audio recordings of his
00:20:08.080 conversations with Hunter
00:20:09.320 and Joe Biden as an
00:20:10.800 insurance policy.
00:20:12.180 Chuck Grassley, we played
00:20:13.160 that audio a couple shows
00:20:14.240 ago where he talked about
00:20:15.800 that from the floor of the
00:20:16.680 Senate.
00:20:17.040 Now, you put all that
00:20:18.700 together with now the
00:20:21.200 DOJ and them and refuting
00:20:25.340 what the IRS whistleblowers
00:20:26.840 are saying.
00:20:27.820 Lindsey Graham, your
00:20:28.620 colleague in the Senate,
00:20:29.420 he put it this way when he
00:20:30.840 was asked, hey, do you
00:20:32.560 trust the DOJ now seeing
00:20:34.940 these two stories come
00:20:36.200 together?
00:20:36.960 Here's what he had to say.
00:20:38.420 So this is an important
00:20:39.560 moment here.
00:20:41.380 Here's what I can tell you
00:20:42.860 without any doubt.
00:20:44.200 When it comes to the
00:20:45.060 Department of Justice, I
00:20:46.260 don't trust them.
00:20:48.160 They've got to come forward
00:20:49.220 under oath and testify.
00:20:50.840 So here's what the
00:20:51.820 whistleblower has said, the
00:20:53.800 group of whistleblowers, that
00:20:55.460 Hunter Biden got the benefit of
00:20:56.820 the doubt, unlike anybody
00:20:58.600 they've ever seen and they've
00:21:00.020 been there for decades, that
00:21:01.800 every time there was a
00:21:03.280 question, it wound up being in
00:21:06.020 Hunter Biden's favor.
00:21:07.820 They claimed that Mr. Weiss,
00:21:09.660 the U.S. attorney from
00:21:10.620 Delaware, sought special
00:21:12.540 counsel status and was denied
00:21:14.340 that status and that he wanted
00:21:16.240 to bring charges in D.C. and
00:21:17.960 California, but he was told no.
00:21:20.400 So what did I do?
00:21:21.380 I wrote Mr. Weiss and said,
00:21:23.200 what's the deal here?
00:21:24.620 Did you ask for special
00:21:25.940 counsel status?
00:21:27.220 He told me in the letter he
00:21:28.460 had a discussion about it, but
00:21:30.380 he was sure he could get it if
00:21:32.000 he needed it, and he never
00:21:33.520 really answered the question.
00:21:35.160 The second thing that he said
00:21:36.620 in the letter back to me was he
00:21:38.500 never went to D.C. or
00:21:40.120 California for more serious
00:21:41.580 charges.
00:21:42.440 He was never rebuffed by those
00:21:44.020 jurisdictions.
00:21:45.040 But here's the big one.
00:21:46.180 I asked him about the 1023.
00:21:48.280 Remember the 1023 report?
00:21:50.100 If it had not been for
00:21:51.540 Senator Grassley, we would
00:21:52.700 never known that there was an
00:21:54.380 accusation that Hunter and Joe
00:21:56.060 Biden both were involved in a
00:21:58.220 bribery scandal involving
00:21:59.620 Burisma, the giant gas company
00:22:02.340 in Ukraine.
00:22:03.820 That 1023 investigative report
00:22:06.860 was found by Senator Grassley.
00:22:09.560 It was redacted.
00:22:10.700 He got the redactions lifted.
00:22:12.940 And we now know a credible
00:22:15.060 source for the FBI, literally on
00:22:17.820 their payroll, claims that they
00:22:19.880 were conversations up to 15
00:22:21.840 between Hunter and Joe Biden
00:22:23.840 regarding a gas company
00:22:25.160 official in the Ukraine.
00:22:27.800 Here's what Mr. Weiss said.
00:22:29.640 I cannot tell you about that
00:22:31.220 accusation because it's part of a
00:22:33.320 criminal investigation.
00:22:34.820 That's one of two things, that
00:22:36.560 they're still looking at Hunter
00:22:37.720 Biden for additional charges.
00:22:39.200 I don't believe that.
00:22:41.040 They don't want to tell me what
00:22:42.560 happened to the 1023
00:22:43.760 investigation.
00:22:44.460 And I can tell your audience,
00:22:46.540 you're all going to know what
00:22:47.680 happened.
00:22:48.120 Did they sweep it under the rug?
00:22:49.920 Did they investigate and find out
00:22:51.560 it was fraudulent?
00:22:52.680 I want to know what happened to the
00:22:54.760 accusations regarding Hunter Biden,
00:22:57.020 Joe Biden taking bribes in Ukraine.
00:22:59.000 I did not get that answer in this
00:23:00.840 letter.
00:23:01.240 I'm not going to stop until I found
00:23:03.200 out to find out how that accusation
00:23:05.600 was disposed of.
00:23:07.300 Senator, you hear Lindsay there.
00:23:09.720 This infuriates me.
00:23:11.740 The fact that we can't even get now
00:23:13.780 a straight story from David Weiss.
00:23:15.860 And are they still investigating
00:23:17.560 the president's son?
00:23:19.820 Or could they have thought, hey,
00:23:21.580 we're going to stop it.
00:23:22.780 We'll give them these these couple of
00:23:24.260 charges we know about.
00:23:25.220 The plea deal will go through and
00:23:26.460 we're done.
00:23:27.160 And now are they having to backtrack
00:23:28.920 because all this is coming out?
00:23:31.160 Well, I don't believe they're still
00:23:32.300 investigating Hunter Biden.
00:23:33.660 I think they're trying to sweep it
00:23:35.100 all under the rug.
00:23:36.000 I think this is a sweetheart deal.
00:23:37.860 This is designed to make all of the
00:23:39.680 allegations go away.
00:23:41.340 That's why Democrats in the
00:23:42.560 corporate media repeatedly said
00:23:43.960 when the plea deal was announced,
00:23:45.240 this resolves everything.
00:23:46.700 Everything's done.
00:23:47.540 We're finished with this.
00:23:49.240 Oh, and by the way, Hunter spends
00:23:50.500 no jail time and nothing implicates
00:23:52.400 Joe Biden at all.
00:23:53.680 That's what this is designed to do.
00:23:55.340 I don't think it's going to succeed.
00:23:57.420 But but listen,
00:23:59.660 that clip from from Hannity last
00:24:02.020 night where Lindsay said,
00:24:04.440 I mean, it is significant
00:24:05.560 that that Lindsay and Lindsay
00:24:07.940 is a friend.
00:24:08.760 We start we've served together.
00:24:09.980 We're on judiciary together.
00:24:11.760 Lindsay is the ranking member.
00:24:13.300 He's the senior Republican
00:24:14.340 on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:24:16.940 It's a big deal for the ranking
00:24:18.920 member of judiciary to say,
00:24:20.540 I don't trust
00:24:22.160 the Department of Justice.
00:24:24.480 That has not happened many times
00:24:26.680 in our nation's history.
00:24:28.520 Usually the Department of Justice
00:24:30.660 has enough credibility
00:24:31.700 that the minority party trusts
00:24:35.160 the Department of Justice,
00:24:36.880 at least to some extent.
00:24:39.620 That is an incredible commentary
00:24:42.120 on just how politicized
00:24:45.260 the Biden Department of Justice is.
00:24:47.900 And and and Lindsay is right
00:24:49.520 also in what he says
00:24:50.600 that David Weiss
00:24:51.540 inadvertently confirms
00:24:53.800 where when he was asked
00:24:56.060 about the FD 1023,
00:24:57.600 alleging bribery from
00:25:00.440 that Joe Biden
00:25:02.520 and Hunter Biden
00:25:03.200 both received bribes
00:25:04.460 from senior executives
00:25:05.880 at Burisma,
00:25:06.880 he said,
00:25:07.620 I can't answer
00:25:08.320 because it's part of an ongoing
00:25:09.760 criminal investigation.
00:25:11.140 Now, that is implicitly
00:25:13.240 a confirmation.
00:25:14.540 Now, it's a confirmation
00:25:16.420 that I suspect
00:25:17.480 is less than fully honest
00:25:19.980 because they're not,
00:25:21.940 I believe,
00:25:23.200 actively investigating
00:25:24.560 it anymore.
00:25:25.220 They may never have
00:25:25.920 investigated it,
00:25:26.820 but I don't think
00:25:27.540 they're actively
00:25:28.020 investigating it anymore.
00:25:29.200 And it's an example
00:25:30.100 of how the Biden DOJ
00:25:32.300 and the Biden FBI
00:25:33.260 use the words
00:25:35.420 active investigation
00:25:36.560 as a shield
00:25:38.580 to prevent any oversight
00:25:41.060 into their misconduct,
00:25:42.560 which is if you ask them,
00:25:44.380 what evidence do you have
00:25:45.540 of criminal conduct?
00:25:46.960 They say active investigation.
00:25:48.980 If you asked him,
00:25:50.340 what do you,
00:25:51.480 did you do
00:25:52.040 to investigate that evidence?
00:25:53.420 They say active investigation.
00:25:54.800 If you ask him,
00:25:56.260 what's the status?
00:25:57.220 Are you going to indict anyone?
00:25:58.580 They say active investigation.
00:26:00.180 And you know what they don't do?
00:26:02.180 They don't actually follow through
00:26:04.520 and investigate
00:26:07.060 and prosecute
00:26:08.280 the massive evidence
00:26:10.280 of actual corruption
00:26:11.700 by the President
00:26:12.940 of the United States,
00:26:14.500 Joe Biden,
00:26:15.180 and even more so,
00:26:17.380 Biden's Attorney General,
00:26:18.780 Merrick Garland,
00:26:19.580 the evidence keeps suggesting,
00:26:21.100 is actively obstructing
00:26:24.020 that investigation.
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00:26:57.340 Jake Tapper,
00:26:58.560 a great example,
00:26:59.740 a guy I had to work with
00:27:01.340 against my will
00:27:02.820 for seven years
00:27:03.940 as I was a commentator
00:27:05.320 fighting the good fight
00:27:06.220 over at CNN.
00:27:07.480 He's now saying
00:27:08.920 that he, quote,
00:27:09.940 insists that he won't shy away
00:27:12.200 from covering
00:27:13.780 the Hunter Biden scandal
00:27:16.120 after avoiding
00:27:17.400 the Hunter Biden laptop scandal
00:27:19.620 in 2020.
00:27:21.320 Now, he was a guy
00:27:22.280 that has a lot of weight
00:27:23.380 in the D.C. office.
00:27:25.100 I know this
00:27:25.740 because I was working there
00:27:27.460 at the time
00:27:28.260 and he made it clear
00:27:30.440 early on,
00:27:31.500 you're not to talk
00:27:32.400 about Hunter Biden,
00:27:33.540 you're not to talk
00:27:34.420 about the laptop.
00:27:35.740 We had directives
00:27:36.840 come down from CNN
00:27:37.980 from the very top
00:27:39.280 telling us
00:27:39.880 we were not to mention
00:27:41.620 the story about the laptop,
00:27:43.520 anything on the laptop,
00:27:45.120 or Hunter Biden
00:27:46.520 when we were there.
00:27:47.640 That's part of the reason
00:27:48.580 why I left.
00:27:50.240 But Jake Tapper
00:27:51.220 is now acting
00:27:52.680 like he's Mr. Journalist
00:27:54.700 playing journalist now
00:27:56.240 saying during an interview
00:27:57.880 on a podcast,
00:27:59.100 he was asked
00:28:00.560 about the recent plea agreement
00:28:01.800 with President Biden's son
00:28:03.020 that he reached
00:28:03.820 with the DOJ
00:28:04.380 over his tax crimes.
00:28:06.400 And critics
00:28:06.880 have panned this plea,
00:28:08.380 obviously,
00:28:08.820 a sweetheart deal,
00:28:09.860 particularly in the wake
00:28:10.660 of the explosive
00:28:11.240 IRS whistleblower allegations
00:28:13.060 that prosecutors
00:28:14.440 were blocked
00:28:15.100 from bringing heavier charges
00:28:16.900 and investigators
00:28:18.040 were told not
00:28:18.980 to look into
00:28:19.500 potential financial ties
00:28:20.920 directly between
00:28:22.320 Hunter Biden
00:28:22.960 and his father,
00:28:24.020 the President Joe Biden.
00:28:25.860 His response,
00:28:26.900 I think we cover it.
00:28:28.140 We have been covering it
00:28:29.500 and we need to cover it.
00:28:31.640 Then he goes on
00:28:32.760 to give the liberal
00:28:33.840 media's line.
00:28:35.120 Look, I mean,
00:28:35.840 Hunter Biden
00:28:36.460 is who he is.
00:28:37.800 It's pretty clear
00:28:38.500 who he is,
00:28:39.160 Tapper continued.
00:28:40.240 In addition to being
00:28:41.100 an addict, right,
00:28:42.180 so there's the alibi
00:28:43.340 that every,
00:28:44.100 oh, you should feel bad
00:28:44.880 for him.
00:28:45.180 He's an addict.
00:28:46.300 He's a guy who
00:28:47.340 ethically has,
00:28:48.720 there have been
00:28:49.320 questions raised
00:28:50.540 about his behavior
00:28:51.420 and I think it's worth
00:28:52.180 covering.
00:28:53.580 Well, then why the hell
00:28:54.340 didn't he cover
00:28:55.120 the actual laptop,
00:28:57.120 which it was
00:28:58.180 not hard to verify,
00:28:59.280 it was authentic,
00:29:00.320 if he actually meant this
00:29:02.280 then he would have
00:29:02.700 done his damn job
00:29:03.440 for years when that
00:29:04.180 was going on.
00:29:05.460 You have a long history
00:29:06.660 with Jake Tapper,
00:29:07.520 so do I.
00:29:08.240 I know Jake well.
00:29:11.080 Jake and I met
00:29:12.260 24 years ago
00:29:14.820 in 1999
00:29:15.720 when I was
00:29:17.400 a young staffer
00:29:18.280 working on the
00:29:18.880 George W. Bush campaign,
00:29:20.300 I was domestic policy
00:29:21.340 advisor on the campaign
00:29:22.580 and Jake Tapper
00:29:23.920 was a cub reporter,
00:29:25.580 a young,
00:29:26.380 young reporter.
00:29:27.400 He was on the
00:29:28.700 campaign plane,
00:29:29.700 he was on the road
00:29:30.660 covering the campaign
00:29:31.660 and so I met him then
00:29:32.820 long before he worked
00:29:34.460 at CNN,
00:29:35.180 he worked at Salon,
00:29:36.360 the left-wing
00:29:36.960 website.
00:29:39.600 He has since
00:29:40.720 gone to CNN,
00:29:42.160 risen to become
00:29:43.660 their top
00:29:45.520 political reporter
00:29:47.320 and their
00:29:47.920 Sunday show
00:29:48.760 anchor.
00:29:49.940 And look,
00:29:51.580 I have conflicting
00:29:52.580 feelings on Jake Tapper
00:29:54.120 because I think
00:29:54.780 Jake Tapper,
00:29:55.820 unlike many
00:29:56.560 in the media,
00:29:58.320 actually has
00:29:59.320 some tiny
00:30:00.420 inkling,
00:30:01.140 some little voice
00:30:02.280 buried deep
00:30:03.240 in his soul
00:30:03.840 that wants
00:30:05.600 to be
00:30:06.200 a real journalist.
00:30:07.980 There were times
00:30:09.240 when he actually
00:30:10.440 did try
00:30:11.780 to be a real
00:30:12.540 journalist.
00:30:13.160 I used to go
00:30:14.020 on CNN all
00:30:14.780 the time.
00:30:15.460 I used to go
00:30:15.920 on CNN when I
00:30:16.840 started in the
00:30:17.380 Senate.
00:30:17.640 I was on the
00:30:18.020 CNN once a week
00:30:19.460 and it used to
00:30:21.480 be possible to
00:30:22.340 get,
00:30:22.620 look,
00:30:22.820 they were always
00:30:23.440 hostile lefties,
00:30:24.900 but it used to
00:30:25.380 be possible to
00:30:26.160 get a reasonable
00:30:28.020 interview from
00:30:28.980 CNN even while
00:30:30.220 they're being
00:30:30.640 hostile.
00:30:31.920 What happened
00:30:32.960 to Jake Tapper
00:30:33.840 is Donald Trump
00:30:35.700 broke him.
00:30:36.460 He's emblematic
00:30:38.060 and we've talked
00:30:38.880 a lot on this
00:30:39.440 podcast about how
00:30:40.320 Trump broke
00:30:41.000 the media
00:30:41.440 across the
00:30:42.020 board.
00:30:42.740 They hate
00:30:43.320 Trump so
00:30:44.020 much that
00:30:45.040 they abandoned
00:30:46.040 their objective
00:30:46.980 of being
00:30:47.380 journalists.
00:30:47.920 There is no
00:30:48.500 one for whom
00:30:49.080 this is more
00:30:49.640 true than
00:30:50.540 Jake Tapper
00:30:51.160 and I
00:30:51.840 actually in
00:30:53.560 significant ways
00:30:54.620 feel sorry for
00:30:55.420 Jake because
00:30:56.780 some of these
00:30:57.300 other hacks have
00:30:58.120 never been
00:30:58.620 journalists.
00:30:59.260 They've always
00:30:59.600 been political
00:31:00.160 hacks and so
00:31:01.600 they don't feel
00:31:02.360 any guilt about
00:31:03.140 it.
00:31:03.780 I actually
00:31:04.380 believe there's
00:31:05.280 a tiny still
00:31:06.560 voice in Jake
00:31:07.600 that is crying
00:31:08.860 out for the
00:31:10.300 journalist he
00:31:11.100 used to be
00:31:11.900 that he's
00:31:12.900 just given
00:31:13.640 away because
00:31:15.420 CNN decided
00:31:17.100 to be
00:31:17.560 rabidly
00:31:18.320 partisan and
00:31:19.180 an anti-Trump
00:31:20.240 hate station
00:31:21.400 and he
00:31:22.740 saluted put
00:31:23.520 on his
00:31:23.840 captain's hat
00:31:24.540 and said
00:31:24.840 let's go.
00:31:26.300 So what's
00:31:27.980 happening now?
00:31:28.780 Now he's
00:31:29.480 saying on
00:31:30.020 this podcast
00:31:30.580 this week
00:31:31.260 that well
00:31:33.020 we CNN
00:31:34.960 should cover
00:31:36.000 the allegations
00:31:37.880 of criminality
00:31:39.040 concerning
00:31:39.500 Hunter
00:31:39.740 Biden.
00:31:40.060 Now mind
00:31:40.400 you he
00:31:40.620 didn't say
00:31:41.060 cover the
00:31:41.520 allegations
00:31:42.060 concerning
00:31:42.920 Joe Biden
00:31:43.620 so he's
00:31:44.080 still trying
00:31:44.660 to cabinet
00:31:45.820 to the
00:31:47.420 son Hunter
00:31:48.260 who he
00:31:48.600 quickly notes
00:31:49.200 is an addict
00:31:49.940 and gosh
00:31:50.460 isn't that a
00:31:51.000 shame.
00:31:52.240 But let's
00:31:53.680 be clear what
00:31:54.460 Tapper's
00:31:54.900 behavior was.
00:31:56.940 In October
00:31:58.280 of 2020
00:31:59.300 which is when
00:32:00.580 the Hunter
00:32:00.920 Biden laptop
00:32:01.580 story broke
00:32:02.460 do you
00:32:04.140 know in
00:32:04.660 the entire
00:32:05.260 month how
00:32:07.060 many times
00:32:07.940 Jake Tapper
00:32:08.800 mentioned
00:32:10.680 Hunter Biden's
00:32:12.080 laptop on
00:32:13.640 either of
00:32:14.560 his two
00:32:15.100 CNN programs?
00:32:16.320 Yeah he had
00:32:16.680 two by the
00:32:17.160 way and I
00:32:17.760 know this
00:32:18.440 answer
00:32:18.880 Senator
00:32:19.560 because I
00:32:19.920 was there
00:32:20.300 I'm gonna
00:32:21.140 well I'm
00:32:21.500 gonna guess
00:32:21.920 I'm pretty
00:32:22.880 sure it's
00:32:23.420 zero times
00:32:24.340 because they
00:32:25.300 refused to
00:32:25.940 cover the
00:32:26.300 story.
00:32:27.680 Zero
00:32:28.000 nada
00:32:28.500 nyet
00:32:29.120 nada
00:32:30.060 caca
00:32:32.540 sorry I
00:32:34.000 ran out of
00:32:34.900 languages and
00:32:36.120 so I just
00:32:36.840 went back to
00:32:38.840 what they were
00:32:39.300 really doing
00:32:40.060 and by the
00:32:41.300 way part of
00:32:42.740 the reason they
00:32:43.280 wouldn't cover
00:32:43.800 it is because
00:32:44.540 well it was
00:32:45.080 the month before
00:32:45.700 presidential election
00:32:46.660 and covering it
00:32:47.400 might actually
00:32:48.040 hurt Joe Biden
00:32:48.840 and help
00:32:49.160 Donald Trump
00:32:49.780 and to be
00:32:50.980 clear CNN
00:32:51.720 is not a
00:32:52.360 news organization
00:32:53.280 it is a
00:32:53.780 political
00:32:54.060 organization and
00:32:55.000 so they don't
00:32:55.320 want to do
00:32:55.720 anything to
00:32:56.720 harm their
00:32:57.940 political
00:32:58.340 objectives
00:32:58.900 but it's
00:32:59.940 also worth
00:33:00.560 noting that
00:33:01.240 they and
00:33:01.860 big tech
00:33:02.400 were responding
00:33:03.240 to the
00:33:03.660 FBI who
00:33:05.100 was actively
00:33:06.120 asking big
00:33:07.100 tech suppress
00:33:07.920 the Hunter
00:33:08.280 Biden story
00:33:09.020 because they
00:33:10.320 they had
00:33:11.000 claimed they
00:33:12.120 had pre-warned
00:33:13.000 big tech that
00:33:14.120 the Russians
00:33:14.640 would engage
00:33:15.520 in a hack
00:33:16.180 and leak
00:33:16.740 operation.
00:33:18.440 Now here's
00:33:18.840 the amazing
00:33:19.320 thing the
00:33:20.200 FBI had in
00:33:21.240 its physical
00:33:21.780 possession Hunter
00:33:22.640 Biden's laptop
00:33:23.580 since December
00:33:24.740 of 2019 so a
00:33:26.140 year earlier
00:33:26.880 so they
00:33:27.680 knew or
00:33:28.260 they should
00:33:28.680 have known
00:33:29.060 for a fact
00:33:29.740 that it
00:33:30.280 was real
00:33:30.780 that it
00:33:31.060 was authentic
00:33:31.660 that it
00:33:32.040 was not
00:33:32.680 a Russian
00:33:34.140 counterfeit
00:33:35.600 laptop
00:33:36.500 but the
00:33:39.120 partisans
00:33:39.900 at the
00:33:40.380 FBI
00:33:40.760 worked with
00:33:42.300 the partisans
00:33:43.060 at big
00:33:43.920 tech
00:33:44.300 worked with
00:33:45.520 the partisans
00:33:46.240 at the
00:33:46.620 corporate media
00:33:47.300 to cover up
00:33:48.960 the story
00:33:49.540 and and so
00:33:50.820 as we sit
00:33:51.360 here today
00:33:51.780 I gotta say
00:33:52.760 it is
00:33:53.040 significant
00:33:53.600 we talked
00:33:54.100 about this
00:33:54.760 a week or
00:33:55.920 two ago
00:33:56.340 on the
00:33:56.600 pod
00:33:56.920 CBS is the
00:33:59.240 first major
00:34:00.280 corporate media
00:34:01.340 outlet to
00:34:03.020 begin covering
00:34:03.840 these allegations
00:34:04.700 CBS had
00:34:05.780 Gary Shapley
00:34:06.600 one of the
00:34:07.760 two IRS
00:34:08.360 whistleblowers
00:34:09.140 for a two
00:34:10.640 minute interview
00:34:11.300 now yeah
00:34:12.580 two minutes is
00:34:13.820 not saturation
00:34:14.880 coverage but
00:34:16.540 it's not
00:34:16.860 nothing that
00:34:17.880 they actually
00:34:18.440 acknowledged it
00:34:19.300 existed and we
00:34:20.220 talked about
00:34:20.860 how wow
00:34:22.960 there are
00:34:23.280 cracks in
00:34:23.800 the facade
00:34:24.380 Jake Tapper
00:34:25.820 saying CNN
00:34:26.700 ought to
00:34:27.040 cover this
00:34:27.640 that's another
00:34:28.920 crack in the
00:34:29.560 facade that
00:34:30.260 is significant
00:34:31.080 if you now
00:34:31.600 let's see if
00:34:32.920 Jake Tapper
00:34:33.440 and CNN
00:34:33.880 actually do
00:34:34.780 cover it
00:34:35.400 as compared
00:34:36.160 to telling
00:34:36.580 a podcast
00:34:37.040 host yeah
00:34:38.100 we ought to
00:34:38.660 actually cover
00:34:39.380 news boy
00:34:40.140 that that
00:34:40.740 it's amazing
00:34:41.540 that that is
00:34:42.260 newsworthy
00:34:42.860 someone who
00:34:44.340 claims to be
00:34:44.860 a journalist
00:34:45.240 saying they
00:34:45.760 should cover
00:34:46.260 breaking news
00:34:47.140 about multiple
00:34:48.480 whistleblowers
00:34:49.320 coming forth
00:34:51.020 with evidence
00:34:51.660 of corruption
00:34:52.360 by the
00:34:52.820 president of
00:34:53.280 the United
00:34:53.520 States and
00:34:54.280 the attorney
00:34:54.680 general of
00:34:55.200 the United
00:34:55.500 States and
00:34:55.980 by the way
00:34:56.380 that's not
00:34:56.860 just about
00:34:57.460 the son who
00:34:58.760 as Tapper
00:34:59.380 says is an
00:35:00.080 addict it is
00:35:01.700 about the
00:35:02.280 highest level
00:35:02.900 of government
00:35:03.420 speak truth
00:35:04.140 to power
00:35:04.660 which the
00:35:05.300 corporate media
00:35:05.780 never does
00:35:06.480 but all that
00:35:09.260 being said
00:35:10.120 CBS is starting
00:35:12.020 to crack
00:35:12.600 now CNN
00:35:13.320 is starting
00:35:13.860 to crack
00:35:14.420 that's
00:35:15.780 significant
00:35:16.400 and as the
00:35:17.040 evidence grows
00:35:17.920 we're going to
00:35:18.740 see more
00:35:19.060 of this
00:35:19.420 yeah you're
00:35:20.140 absolutely
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00:35:20.960 going to be
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00:35:21.660 see how it
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00:36:44.460 senator i want to
00:36:45.400 move to another
00:36:46.040 big issue and this
00:36:47.180 deals with the
00:36:47.760 border wall it's
00:36:49.360 amazing how this
00:36:50.360 didn't make headlines
00:36:51.740 and being sarcastic
00:36:52.820 obviously but now
00:36:54.780 as we get closer to
00:36:56.200 a presidential
00:36:57.040 election year we're
00:36:59.300 being told
00:37:00.120 apparently that the
00:37:02.140 white house is all
00:37:03.760 on board now with
00:37:05.040 this idea of
00:37:05.800 filling in parts of
00:37:08.300 the border wall
00:37:09.200 filling in the
00:37:10.120 gaps the same
00:37:12.080 border wall that
00:37:13.060 biden canceled
00:37:14.280 calling it trump's
00:37:15.760 wall and now we're
00:37:17.180 being told that
00:37:18.000 well biden's saying
00:37:19.060 okay maybe we
00:37:20.020 should fill in those
00:37:20.800 gaps because illegal
00:37:22.300 immigration is so
00:37:23.380 out of control
00:37:24.320 this is just
00:37:25.820 hypocrisy 101
00:37:27.180 well you're exactly
00:37:29.620 right and and we
00:37:30.760 now have media
00:37:31.800 reports that say
00:37:32.840 the department of
00:37:33.480 homeland security
00:37:34.280 is halfway through
00:37:36.020 filling in 129
00:37:39.140 gaps so a lot of
00:37:40.100 gaps in border wall
00:37:41.740 projects after
00:37:43.880 joe biden had
00:37:45.240 abruptly halted the
00:37:46.400 remaining 300 miles
00:37:47.660 of trump era wall
00:37:49.440 construction within
00:37:51.320 days of taking
00:37:52.460 office in january
00:37:53.500 2021 dozens of
00:37:55.920 gaps have been
00:37:57.200 filled across
00:37:58.660 arizona california
00:38:00.740 new mexico and
00:38:02.360 texas where more
00:38:04.620 than 450 miles of
00:38:06.980 18 foot and 30
00:38:08.640 foot slatted steel
00:38:09.760 wall was installed
00:38:11.740 by trump but
00:38:13.600 despite such
00:38:14.740 efforts much of
00:38:16.920 the 2000 mile
00:38:18.480 border is still
00:38:20.400 open biden
00:38:22.380 promised in an
00:38:23.940 interview with
00:38:24.640 npr in august of
00:38:25.980 2020 that quote
00:38:27.240 there will not be
00:38:29.220 another foot of
00:38:31.480 wall constructed on
00:38:33.400 my administration
00:38:34.640 now that promise
00:38:39.820 he is broken but
00:38:41.540 he's broken it
00:38:42.180 quietly you know
00:38:43.160 there was not a
00:38:43.980 major announcement
00:38:44.800 there wasn't a
00:38:45.580 white house speech
00:38:46.760 there wasn't a
00:38:47.500 speech from the
00:38:48.700 administration saying
00:38:49.760 we were wrong
00:38:50.480 trump was right the
00:38:52.540 republicans were
00:38:53.200 right we need to
00:38:53.820 build a wall none
00:38:54.600 of that they're just
00:38:55.700 quietly doing that
00:38:56.860 and here's some
00:38:57.580 border stats from
00:38:58.920 may of 2023
00:39:00.000 cbp reported
00:39:02.480 204 561 alien
00:39:05.140 encounters along
00:39:06.020 the southwest
00:39:06.540 border just in
00:39:08.260 may of 2023
00:39:09.300 that's a 13
00:39:10.280 percent increase
00:39:11.160 from may a year
00:39:12.000 ago
00:39:12.320 35 317 aliens
00:39:15.820 were encountered
00:39:16.420 at ports of
00:39:17.020 entry that's a
00:39:18.400 17 percent in
00:39:19.540 17 percent of the
00:39:21.220 total encounters in
00:39:22.060 may this is a
00:39:23.660 20 percent increase
00:39:25.060 from just a month
00:39:26.520 ago in april of
00:39:27.580 2023 and it is
00:39:29.660 a massive
00:39:31.000 34 percent increase
00:39:33.060 from january of
00:39:34.840 2023 so far in
00:39:38.020 fiscal year 2023
00:39:39.320 cbp has arrested
00:39:40.620 20,923 aliens
00:39:44.020 with criminal
00:39:45.740 convictions so
00:39:46.640 these are aliens
00:39:47.580 that have different
00:39:48.420 criminal convictions
00:39:49.280 including 442
00:39:51.900 known gang members
00:39:54.060 134 of those
00:39:56.540 were ms-13
00:39:57.860 members and in
00:39:59.740 just the first
00:40:00.640 eight months of
00:40:01.360 the fiscal year
00:40:02.140 125 people whose
00:40:05.160 names appear on
00:40:05.920 the terrorist watch
00:40:06.920 list were stopped
00:40:08.680 trying to cross our
00:40:09.740 southern border
00:40:10.420 surpassing the last
00:40:12.760 fiscal years in
00:40:14.120 tighter tire total
00:40:15.320 of 98 so 125 this
00:40:19.680 year 98 last year
00:40:21.020 and back when
00:40:22.600 republicans were in
00:40:23.600 charge those numbers
00:40:24.560 were something like
00:40:25.300 four and six
00:40:26.540 they were in the
00:40:27.480 single digits as
00:40:29.100 compared to hundreds
00:40:30.600 of terrorists
00:40:31.560 crossing the border
00:40:33.300 illegally and coming
00:40:34.500 here presumably
00:40:35.340 to threaten the
00:40:37.880 lives and security
00:40:38.760 of americans
00:40:39.520 when you hear this
00:40:42.820 happen and the
00:40:43.860 fact that the
00:40:44.620 white house
00:40:45.360 doesn't publicize
00:40:46.700 it you don't have
00:40:48.220 the borders are
00:40:48.940 going down there
00:40:49.760 the vice president
00:40:50.700 of the united
00:40:51.040 states america
00:40:51.840 wait do we have
00:40:52.600 the borders are
00:40:53.240 yeah who would
00:40:54.120 that be
00:40:54.520 yeah right
00:40:55.140 the woman who's
00:40:55.800 never really seen
00:40:56.880 the border yes
00:40:57.560 she's she's the one
00:40:58.440 that's in charge of
00:40:59.180 the border
00:40:59.540 so i have a serious
00:41:00.600 question sure
00:41:01.620 is kamala harris
00:41:03.120 actually in witness
00:41:04.980 protection
00:41:05.480 because i have to
00:41:08.140 admit look look i
00:41:09.100 work in politics my
00:41:10.680 job is to go to the
00:41:12.300 u.s capital work in
00:41:13.380 the senate
00:41:13.720 i okay i i was
00:41:16.960 going to say i can't
00:41:17.700 recall the last time i
00:41:18.660 saw kamala that's not
00:41:19.660 true i last saw her
00:41:21.620 when india's prime
00:41:23.120 minister modi spoke
00:41:24.280 a couple of weeks
00:41:24.920 ago on the floor of
00:41:25.620 the house and i was
00:41:26.380 chatting with kamala
00:41:27.280 as we walked over
00:41:28.580 because she was
00:41:29.060 sitting there for
00:41:29.900 that but other than
00:41:32.080 sitting there where
00:41:33.780 her entire job was
00:41:34.840 to sit there and
00:41:35.500 smile and try to
00:41:37.100 avoid cackling
00:41:37.940 uncontrollably other
00:41:39.860 than that i genuinely
00:41:42.060 cannot remember a
00:41:43.580 single damn thing
00:41:44.800 she's done in the
00:41:45.740 last three months
00:41:46.500 can can you
00:41:47.160 seriously no i
00:41:48.280 can't i mean it's
00:41:49.140 it's the weirdest
00:41:49.720 dynamic at the
00:41:50.860 white house you
00:41:51.280 have a president
00:41:51.800 that keeps the
00:41:52.300 schedule maybe
00:41:53.420 noon to noon to
00:41:54.280 four and then you
00:41:55.060 have a vice president
00:41:55.880 that i i don't even
00:41:57.060 think the white house
00:41:57.900 wants to use her at
00:41:58.760 this point
00:41:59.260 look i i actually
00:42:01.520 wonder if she's
00:42:02.620 living as an
00:42:03.280 accountant in
00:42:03.880 nebraska under
00:42:05.060 an assumed name
00:42:05.940 because they've
00:42:06.640 they've told her
00:42:07.200 that that please
00:42:07.980 stay away from tv
00:42:08.920 cameras because
00:42:09.580 you're really hurting
00:42:10.720 the administration
00:42:11.560 anytime you open
00:42:12.380 your mouth
00:42:12.880 well the cackle
00:42:16.020 does kill it right
00:42:16.920 let's let's just be
00:42:17.740 clear about that
00:42:18.560 you you look at
00:42:19.880 this white house
00:42:20.940 and they're moving
00:42:21.840 into this presidential
00:42:22.860 by the way i got
00:42:23.980 another question ben
00:42:24.820 i'm ready
00:42:25.560 has anyone ever
00:42:26.820 taken kamala's
00:42:28.560 cackle and
00:42:29.940 hillary clinton's
00:42:30.700 cackle and like
00:42:32.540 overlaid them and
00:42:33.640 set them to music
00:42:34.480 i just think you
00:42:35.440 could do something
00:42:36.220 with that like if
00:42:37.480 you combine the two
00:42:38.800 like like this sort
00:42:39.720 of overlapping cackles
00:42:41.500 it would be really
00:42:43.020 something somebody
00:42:43.900 could do that as a
00:42:45.120 beat and probably get
00:42:45.960 it to number one with
00:42:46.880 the right lyrics
00:42:47.600 right just because
00:42:48.500 people like yeah i
00:42:49.260 know those two
00:42:49.780 people i can put
00:42:50.760 those two together
00:42:51.580 this white house
00:42:53.160 senator if they're
00:42:54.880 gonna do this right
00:42:56.020 before the election
00:42:56.940 what does that tell
00:42:58.920 us about what else
00:43:01.020 they may change going
00:43:02.280 into the presidential
00:43:03.180 i mean if they're
00:43:03.800 willing to start
00:43:04.400 building the border
00:43:05.120 wall but not tell
00:43:06.000 you about it and the
00:43:06.760 media by the way is
00:43:07.540 not covering this at
00:43:08.520 all and i think
00:43:09.880 that's something else
00:43:10.540 that should really
00:43:11.060 frustrate people is the
00:43:12.100 fact that the media
00:43:12.880 this is a big story
00:43:15.120 this is one they
00:43:16.000 should be covering
00:43:16.900 because as you
00:43:18.380 mentioned the very
00:43:18.920 beginning it's a
00:43:19.520 flip-flop it's a
00:43:20.320 huge policy flip-flop
00:43:21.900 from joe biden who
00:43:23.240 said there won't be
00:43:24.280 another inch of this
00:43:25.100 border wall that's
00:43:25.920 going to be built now
00:43:26.740 he's actually building
00:43:27.780 it well we ought to
00:43:29.220 have an honest
00:43:29.740 conversation is a
00:43:31.320 wall a good idea or
00:43:32.520 a bad idea now i can
00:43:34.300 tell you when you talk
00:43:35.340 to border patrol agents
00:43:36.640 and i spend a lot of
00:43:37.980 time on the southern
00:43:38.640 border i've spoken
00:43:40.120 with hundreds and
00:43:41.280 hundreds of border
00:43:41.960 patrol agents every
00:43:43.700 single one i've asked
00:43:45.120 and it has been
00:43:45.880 large large numbers
00:43:47.280 over more than a
00:43:48.080 decade have said of
00:43:49.600 course we need a
00:43:50.540 wall now a wall is
00:43:52.500 not a magic wand it's
00:43:54.640 not a panacea it
00:43:55.500 doesn't fix everything
00:43:56.440 and and part of the
00:43:57.960 reason a wall doesn't
00:43:59.080 fix everything is is
00:44:00.360 there's an old adage
00:44:01.360 if you build a 10-foot
00:44:02.960 wall someone will come
00:44:04.660 with an 11-foot ladder
00:44:05.780 and that's actually
00:44:07.100 right that they see
00:44:08.600 where the wall is
00:44:10.320 constructed that people
00:44:11.300 bring ladders they find
00:44:12.400 ways to get over it
00:44:13.340 the reason a wall is
00:44:15.280 beneficial is that
00:44:17.500 what is critical if
00:44:19.500 you're trying to stop
00:44:20.400 illegal immigration is
00:44:21.440 time between detection
00:44:22.660 and apprehension that
00:44:24.380 when you see someone
00:44:25.340 crossing you want to
00:44:26.660 get boots on the
00:44:27.420 ground you want to get
00:44:28.120 border patrol agents
00:44:29.020 there to stop them
00:44:30.360 apprehend them and
00:44:31.120 deport them and what a
00:44:32.660 wall does is slows it
00:44:33.760 down and it's
00:44:34.420 particularly important in
00:44:36.520 urban environments in
00:44:37.940 places where when they
00:44:39.000 cross the border they
00:44:39.880 can disappear into a
00:44:40.880 populated area quickly
00:44:41.940 there's some areas for
00:44:44.100 example in very rural
00:44:45.920 and rugged areas of west
00:44:47.160 texas where a wall
00:44:48.720 doesn't do much good
00:44:49.720 where it's such rough
00:44:51.240 terrain that when you
00:44:53.260 cross the border you've
00:44:54.580 got miles and miles of
00:44:57.000 desert and so a wall is
00:44:58.340 not really significantly
00:44:59.420 slowing you down from
00:45:01.620 from the natural terrain
00:45:03.040 barriers but when you're
00:45:05.020 crossing in an urban area
00:45:06.500 where you've got a few
00:45:08.100 hundred yards and you're
00:45:09.060 suddenly in the middle
00:45:09.660 of a city in texas and
00:45:11.480 can disappear a wall is
00:45:13.500 really important to slow
00:45:14.560 you down but a wall
00:45:17.680 alone doesn't fix the
00:45:18.840 problem because it takes
00:45:21.500 number one border patrol
00:45:23.200 agents on the ground to
00:45:24.600 apprehend people but
00:45:25.600 number two it takes a
00:45:27.640 president and administration
00:45:28.640 willing to deport them
00:45:30.140 and the single biggest
00:45:31.360 cause of our open border
00:45:33.560 crisis is Joe Biden
00:45:36.260 refuses to follow the law
00:45:37.880 and deport people instead
00:45:39.640 he lets them go he
00:45:40.800 follows catch and release
00:45:42.100 and until he changes that
00:45:44.040 he can build all the wall
00:45:45.460 he wants it's not going to
00:45:46.640 fix the problem
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00:47:27.240 last question I got to ask you
00:47:29.560 Senator and this is a another
00:47:31.300 point that I know is going to
00:47:32.640 come up the secret service and
00:47:36.480 you mentioned this earlier but I
00:47:37.620 want to go back to this it's going
00:47:38.840 to brief Congress obviously on
00:47:41.240 this on this cocaine at the White
00:47:42.660 House over under that we get any
00:47:46.120 real answers from them or do you
00:47:47.840 think this is unfortunately now
00:47:49.300 lost cause like the cover-up's been
00:47:51.020 done we'll never know who the
00:47:54.120 person is that that brought this
00:47:56.060 cocaine in the White House
00:47:57.160 publicly I think they already know
00:47:58.700 privately who it is but will we
00:48:00.760 ever know if this is a staff member
00:48:02.520 or a high-ranking official will
00:48:04.080 have that we ever get that answer
00:48:06.060 well I don't know I think if we
00:48:08.400 ever get it it will be dependent on
00:48:09.880 the House of Representatives to
00:48:11.820 press for answers on this and to
00:48:14.640 vigorously question the secret
00:48:15.960 service the Senate's not going to do
00:48:18.240 that because Senate Democrats don't
00:48:20.120 care they don't care if if the
00:48:23.060 president of the United States they
00:48:24.300 don't care if the president's son
00:48:25.760 they don't care if the entire senior
00:48:27.800 staff are actively on drugs how do I
00:48:31.020 know they don't care because they
00:48:32.180 won't hold a hearing on it they won't
00:48:33.420 ask a question about it it doesn't
00:48:35.420 matter to them it's all politics so
00:48:38.380 it's got to be the House that presses
00:48:41.040 for accountability and the question is
00:48:43.000 is is the secret service going to
00:48:48.180 stonewall the same way the Biden
00:48:51.240 Department of Justice and the Biden
00:48:52.700 FBI has I suspect the answer is yes
00:48:55.820 but I but I hope you know you know
00:48:58.160 some small part of me is an idealist
00:49:00.440 that hopes there's someone in the
00:49:02.480 federal government willing to actually
00:49:04.340 honorably serve and not just be a
00:49:07.220 political hack and so maybe the secret
00:49:09.760 service will do the right thing but
00:49:11.280 what I suspect is the Biden
00:49:14.120 administration has made the decision
00:49:15.880 we don't want to know the answer that
00:49:19.300 they are they are Jack Nicholson and a
00:49:23.480 few good men you can't handle the truth
00:49:25.680 that's their view is importantly Joe
00:49:29.620 Biden can't handle the truth because the
00:49:31.800 truth is it is going to be someone on the
00:49:35.640 Biden administration staff possibly the
00:49:38.360 senior staff who's using drugs and you
00:49:42.340 know the Biden administration sent out a
00:49:44.100 press spokesperson this week to say we
00:49:46.720 drug test our employees we take we take
00:49:49.660 drug policies very seriously and there
00:49:52.580 will be consequences if we find out who
00:49:54.540 did this I got to say based on their
00:49:58.700 pattern of stonewalling and cover-up I
00:50:01.480 find that very very hard to believe but I
00:50:04.040 also find it hard to believe they cannot
00:50:06.480 figure out who did this so if they don't
00:50:08.640 figure it out it's because they don't
00:50:11.420 want to know yeah great point don't
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