Verdict with Ted Cruz - Biden Corruption： It's Time for a Merrick Garland Special Counsel, plus Biden Builds the Wall!

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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, 1.00

00:04:01.540 we know that was crap, 1.00

00:04:02.840 we know the two liberal senators 0.99

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 0.67

00:05:26.940 with a man for a husband. 0.95

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. 0.90

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:09:53.120 and corrupt 1.00

00:09:53.740 as hell 1.00

00:09:54.140 and scumbags. 1.00

00:09:55.460 I don't think 1.00

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 0.95

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 1.00

00:11:42.420 damn crime 1.00

00:11:43.080 that they're 1.00

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 0.89

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 1.00

00:14:50.480 with was a crook. 0.98

00:14:52.700 Well, and that's 0.98

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 1.00

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 0.99

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.

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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 0.96

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. 0.99

00:28:45.180 He's an addict. 0.98

00:28:46.300 He's a guy who 0.95

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 0.99

00:29:02.700 done his damn job 0.99

00:29:03.440 for years when that 1.00

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 0.50

00:30:23.440 hostile lefties,

00:30:24.900 but it used to 0.94

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 0.91

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 0.51

00:31:49.200 is an addict 0.51

00:31:49.940 and gosh 0.98

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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

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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 1.00

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 0.70

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 1.00

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 0.89

00:41:44.800 she's done in the 0.99

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 0.72

00:42:12.880 well the cackle 0.95

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 0.79

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 0.94

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 0.69

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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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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