Verdict with Ted Cruz - Biden Coverup： Absurd Claim of Executive Privilege to Hide Biden Senility, plus Hiding the Countries Terrorists Coming from

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00:00:05.260 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.220 And Senator, apparently there's some really juicy audio that the White House is now saying

00:00:15.940 they don't want the American people to hear it at all costs.

00:00:19.400 They're willing to protect it and make sure it never gets out and it deals with the Biden crime family.

00:00:25.520 Yep, that's right.

00:00:26.300 Today's topic is Biden cover-ups.

00:00:29.180 We're going to talk about the Biden administration trying to desperately cover up the tapes of Joe Biden's interview

00:00:37.940 with the special counsel, Herr, and the absurd and frivolous claim of executive privilege.

00:00:45.080 We're going to talk about how Hunter Biden's sugar daddy has cut him off, which is interesting and revealing.

00:00:51.600 And finally, we're going to talk about how the Biden administration is doing everything they can

00:00:56.340 to cover up, to block the public release of the countries that the individuals on the terror watch list crossing the border are from.

00:01:05.100 All of that is what we're talking about today.

00:01:07.700 Yeah, truly shocking trying to keep that information from the American people, and you're going to want to hear all of that.

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00:02:51.440 All right, Senator, let's get into this news that broke.

00:02:54.660 It is actually shocking how much the White House is now trying to protect this Biden interview audio with special counsel her,

00:03:06.220 and apparently it's so damning they don't want any of us to ever hear it.

00:03:11.300 No, that is exactly right, and I want you to understand how absurd the legal position of the White House is.

00:03:19.280 So the House of Representatives is trying to get the audio of the interview between special counsel Robert Herr and President Joe Biden,

00:03:28.420 and we learned this week the Biden White House is claiming executive privilege to block the release of that audio.

00:03:36.660 By the way, at the same time, a whole consortium of media outlets, including ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times,

00:03:46.020 all of the corporate media, they're actually suing trying to get this audio as well.

00:03:50.320 So the media is trying to get it.

00:03:52.160 The House of Representatives is trying to get it.

00:03:54.340 And we saw this week the Biden White House claim executive privilege.

00:03:58.840 Now, listen, if you're not a lawyer, you may think, okay, well, that seems like, I don't know, I've heard those terms, executive privilege.

00:04:05.380 What does that mean? I guess that's a reasonable claim.

00:04:07.680 They're fighting back. Okay, that's fine.

00:04:10.440 I've got to tell you, as a lawyer, as a constitutional litigator, this is one of the most absurd legal claims I've ever heard.

00:04:19.800 So let me tell you what executive privilege is.

00:04:23.000 Executive privilege is a privilege that is attached to the law for a long time,

00:04:26.920 and it is it protects conversations between the president and his senior advisors.

00:04:33.340 So if a president is talking with his chief of staff, if a president is talking with his national security advisor,

00:04:39.120 and they're talking about what do we do in Israel?

00:04:44.120 What do we do in Ukraine?

00:04:45.320 What do we do in South America?

00:04:46.760 What do we do on a particular issue?

00:04:49.560 Executive privilege protects forcing those employees to disclose what they've talked about with the president.

00:04:58.520 And there's a very important reason for that.

00:05:00.800 You want a president, whoever the president is, Republican or Democrat,

00:05:04.280 you want a president to get candid advice, real advice, straightforward advice.

00:05:09.980 And if every employee of the president is worried, holy cow, I could be forced to testify in front of Congress on this,

00:05:16.600 I could be forced to testify in court on this, you will end up having people giving the president advice that is CYA,

00:05:23.440 that is covering their own rear end, that is trying to protect themselves,

00:05:26.960 and it's deeply damaging to the executive operating effectively.

00:05:32.400 So executive privilege is a real, it is a very important privilege.

00:05:36.520 Now, let me stop here and point out that the Democrats and the court system and the media

00:05:44.500 have not given a damn about executive privilege if it concerns Donald Trump.

00:05:51.000 Yeah, that's, I mean, you have a hundred examples you could use to prove that point.

00:05:55.380 And let me give you two, Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon.

00:05:58.940 Again, Peter Navarro is in prison right now because the Democrat House of Representatives subpoenaed him,

00:06:07.460 tried to force him to testify.

00:06:08.740 He claimed executive privilege because he was a senior advisor to the president.

00:06:12.360 He didn't want to testify by what he talked about to the president.

00:06:15.660 He's in jail right now.

00:06:17.060 Steve Bannon is headed to jail right now for the same reason.

00:06:20.220 So when it came to Republicans, they did not care.

00:06:25.320 The Democrats, the media, the court system did not care about executive privilege.

00:06:29.120 Those decisions are outrageous.

00:06:31.560 But what happened this week, I want you to understand,

00:06:35.220 the Biden White House claimed executive privilege not concerning his discussion

00:06:40.120 with senior advisors in the White House,

00:06:43.000 not concerning Biden's discussions with cabinet members, his senior team.

00:06:48.500 That would be appropriate.

00:06:51.100 Instead, they focused on Robert Hurt.

00:06:54.420 Robert Hurt is the special counsel appointed to investigate allegations that Joe Biden committed crimes,

00:07:00.760 committed felonies.

00:07:02.660 And Robert Hurt was investigating him.

00:07:05.640 He interviewed him.

00:07:06.860 And the Biden White House claimed executive privilege for the audio of the interview

00:07:12.480 between Joe Biden and the special counsel.

00:07:14.280 Now, under no way, shape or form was that conversation a conversation between Joe Biden

00:07:21.360 and his senior advisors about a policy issue or substantive issue.

00:07:25.240 Listen, if Joe Biden were talking with Merrick Garland about what the administration's policy

00:07:30.480 should be on immigration, what the administration's policy should be on any issue,

00:07:35.560 on abortion and what have you,

00:07:36.860 that is something that is properly covered by executive privilege

00:07:41.540 because the president is entitled to talk to a senior team without it being forced to be made public.

00:07:47.540 But in this case, Robert Hurt was not operating in the role as an employee,

00:07:55.260 as someone reporting to Joe Biden.

00:08:00.260 And rather, he was a special counsel.

00:08:02.420 The reason he was appointed special counsel is because there was credible and serious evidence

00:08:08.640 that Joe Biden had committed multiple felonies.

00:08:11.560 And so Robert Hurt was in the position of a prosecutor.

00:08:14.860 He was investigating a potential criminal defendant.

00:08:19.300 He was interrogating a potential criminal defendant.

00:08:22.680 And by the way, the report from Robert Hurt concluded that Joe Biden committed multiple serious felonies,

00:08:30.600 that he violated the law, particularly concerning the treatment of classified documents,

00:08:35.500 that he did so in a way that was knowing, that was repeated, that was brazen.

00:08:43.780 And then Robert Hurt's recommendation is, even though he's committed multiple felonies,

00:08:47.680 and by the way, for the same thing on which the Biden Justice Department is right now prosecuting Donald Trump,

00:08:56.360 Robert Hurt ultimately recommended we cannot prosecute Joe Biden

00:09:00.220 because he is so old and senile that he is not competent to stand trial.

00:09:08.140 And what the recommendation from Robert Hurt was...

00:09:10.420 Can we just pause there and go back?

00:09:12.060 Because I think a lot of people forgot about that.

00:09:14.060 Yes.

00:09:14.200 I mean, the excuse for not prosecuting Joe Biden for having classified documents that he'd had for decades, right? 0.85

00:09:23.540 Dating back to when he was a senator, was that he's just too old and feeble,

00:09:28.180 and we couldn't get a conviction because the excuse would be he's too old to convict

00:09:33.280 and doesn't know what he's doing anymore.

00:09:35.160 Yet he's the president of the United States of America with the nuclear codes.

00:09:39.340 Well, that's exactly right.

00:09:40.800 So to convict someone of a criminal crime, you've got to make the case that they have the mens rea.

00:09:47.600 Mens rea is the legal term for the intent that they're knowingly and willingly violating the criminal law.

00:09:54.520 What Robert Hurt said is you could not convince a jury that Joe Biden had the mens rea to violate the law,

00:10:03.100 even though he did so repeatedly, knowingly, that he was openly, brazenly, shamelessly.

00:10:10.780 But what Hurt said is, and by the way, he said this on behalf of the Biden Justice Department,

00:10:16.780 he said any jury would conclude that the Biden was too old and senile and forgetful,

00:10:23.020 that he could not realize he was committing felonies, and so you couldn't prosecute it for him.

00:10:28.000 It's amazing that's the excuse for the president of the United States of America.

00:10:32.740 Yet he's apparently in good enough shape to run for re-election and be president for another four years.

00:10:39.100 Like you mentioned a minute ago that he has the nuclear codes.

00:10:43.440 Understand the Biden Department of Justice has publicly maintained to the American people,

00:10:48.800 Joe Biden is not competent to stand trial.

00:10:52.540 And yet he is competent to be the commander in chief, to have the nuclear codes.

00:10:58.580 And let's be clear, if Joe Biden tonight decided to annihilate humanity

00:11:03.980 and to fire nuclear weapons at our enemies, he could exterminate human beings from existence.

00:11:11.120 And yet, according to the Biden DOJ, he's not competent to stand trial.

00:11:16.340 Only in Biden's America is this possible.

00:11:18.840 The Speaker of the House, by the way, he has come out and said he is very concerned about this issue as well.

00:11:27.100 From the House side, here is what he said earlier.

00:11:30.400 But first, I want to address the breaking news from this morning.

00:11:34.560 About an hour ago, we learned that President Biden has invoked executive privilege

00:11:38.900 to prevent the American people from hearing the audio recordings of his testimony with Special Counsel Robert Herr.

00:11:44.840 The American people will not be able to hear why prosecutors felt the President of the United States

00:11:52.220 was, in Special Counsel Robert Herr's words, a, quote,

00:11:56.600 elderly man with a poor memory and thus shouldn't be charged.

00:12:01.180 Just think about that for a moment.

00:12:03.440 President Biden is apparently afraid for the citizens of this country and everyone to hear those tapes.

00:12:09.600 They obviously confirm what the Special Counsel has found and would likely cause, I suppose,

00:12:15.820 in his estimation, such alarm with the American people that the President is using all of his power

00:12:21.000 to suppress their release.

00:12:24.620 And rather than defend our closest ally at war,

00:12:27.920 President Biden is using his authority to defend himself politically.

00:12:33.980 I mean, it adds up, doesn't it?

00:12:36.420 It's so damning that we've got to do this at all costs, protect it, make sure it never gets out there,

00:12:42.220 make sure we don't see the light of, this is the light of day.

00:12:44.840 And the next question is, Senator, for you is, okay, well then what happens next on this?

00:12:49.640 Is there a way to get these recordings out there?

00:12:53.160 So the Speaker of the House is precisely right.

00:12:57.320 What this tells us is these recordings are bad.

00:13:01.080 They are damning.

00:13:02.820 They are embarrassing.

00:13:04.100 They are the sorts of things that if you listen to them,

00:13:06.800 the natural inference from the fact that they're fighting so hard

00:13:11.440 and they're making a demonstrably frivolous legal claim to protect them

00:13:15.940 is that the White House has determined, holy cow, people heard this,

00:13:21.940 they would say Joe Biden is utterly incompetent to be president.

00:13:24.960 But that Robert Hur, the special counsel, was right.

00:13:30.000 He's not competent to stand trial.

00:13:31.940 If you're not competent to stand trial, you're not competent to be president of the United States.

00:13:36.060 You're not competent to be the commander-in-chief of the United States military.

00:13:40.280 So it's not just you're saying what they were talking about on the recording,

00:13:43.520 which would be damning enough on the substance and the subject matter,

00:13:46.980 but it's also about the incompetency that then can be used against him

00:13:51.000 and the American people would see basically pull back the curtain

00:13:53.720 and this is what the guy running your country really is like right now.

00:13:57.420 Are you going to give him a chance to run it for another four years?

00:14:00.440 Right.

00:14:00.640 Look, my assumption is the audio is incredibly damning.

00:14:06.000 Remember, we talked about when Robert Hur was appointed.

00:14:08.640 Robert Hur had been the right hand to Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general,

00:14:15.220 who had been Barack Obama's U.S. attorney in Maryland.

00:14:19.360 Rod Rosenstein is responsible for much of the abuse of power we saw in the DOJ.

00:14:25.200 He's responsible for appointing Robert Mueller as the special counsel to investigate Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:14:32.880 And when Robert Hur was first appointed, we said, look,

00:14:36.740 what will reveal whether Mr. Hur is actually doing his job

00:14:41.300 is whether he's willing to go after Joe Biden.

00:14:44.120 And if he just if if he walls off any evidence of criminality from Joe Biden,

00:14:50.580 that will be an incredibly damning conclusion.

00:14:53.380 Now, I will say his report was frankly better than you and I expected. 0.96

00:14:58.220 Yeah, because because his report on its face concluded, yes, Joe Biden is a criminal. 0.99

00:15:03.240 He's a felon.

00:15:03.960 He violated the criminal law over and over and over again. 0.98

00:15:08.340 He knew he was violating.

00:15:09.500 He said he was violating.

00:15:10.760 He didn't care.

00:15:11.660 He was brazen.

00:15:14.160 But then the reason that that Mr.

00:15:18.780 Hur said he was not going to recommend charges against Joe Biden,

00:15:23.240 exactly like the charges that were being brought against Donald Trump for the same offense,

00:15:28.160 is because he said Joe Biden's not competent to stand trial.

00:15:33.120 Now, Democrats were horrified at the second part of that conclusion because they're like,

00:15:37.580 no, don't reveal pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

00:15:41.960 Do not reveal that the Wizard of Oz is a fake and a fraud.

00:15:46.320 Now, listen, you and I have talked about we're three and a half years into the Biden presidency.

00:15:51.740 You know how many times I've talked to Joe Biden since he became president?

00:15:55.060 I'm assuming it's still zero.

00:15:57.340 Zero.

00:15:58.280 Not once.

00:15:59.040 And that's not normal.

00:16:00.200 So people understand how it normally works.

00:16:02.200 It is absolutely weird and bizarre.

00:16:05.860 When Barack Obama was president, I talked to him regularly.

00:16:09.560 When Donald Trump was president, I talked to him every week and sometimes every day.

00:16:14.260 And I got to say, it is an amazing thing.

00:16:17.860 And by the way, you might say, OK, Cruz, he's a right winger.

00:16:21.460 Maybe maybe just Biden doesn't talk to him.

00:16:23.320 But Biden has talked to virtually zero Republican senators.

00:16:30.160 Is that because they're hiding him?

00:16:31.840 Yes.

00:16:32.200 I'm being serious because they say, you guy, it's better to it's better to protect him

00:16:37.420 and shield him from from y'all so that you don't understand how diminished he is.

00:16:42.300 Is that part of it?

00:16:43.720 Absolutely.

00:16:44.860 So listen, the Republican senators, we have lunch together every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

00:16:49.840 So three days a week we have lunch together.

00:16:52.000 We talk regularly at lunch about how weird it is that none of us have talked to Joe Biden.

00:17:00.560 Actually, there's an interesting story.

00:17:03.160 We were sitting there at lunch talking and the only senator at the table with me who had spoken with Joe Biden was John Kennedy.

00:17:10.120 John is a great friend.

00:17:11.280 He's a fantastic guy.

00:17:12.400 Amazing sense of humor.

00:17:14.180 John told the story at lunch.

00:17:15.860 He said, listen, I spoke with Biden once and it was fairly early on in the Biden presidency.

00:17:21.500 And there was a bill that John had authored that passed.

00:17:25.620 And it was a bipartisan bill.

00:17:27.360 And John said, look, they wanted to do a signing ceremony in the Oval Office.

00:17:31.980 You know, presumably to show they were bipartisan.

00:17:35.980 Look what we're doing together in this grade.

00:17:38.120 And so John said he went to that signing ceremony.

00:17:40.720 He was in the Oval.

00:17:41.520 And and he said Biden in the middle of the conversations in the middle of the signing ceremony struck up a conversation with John.

00:17:49.960 And and Biden said, hey, hey, John, have you ever been to the cabinet room?

00:17:54.560 And John Kennedy being John Kennedy, he said, I lied.

00:17:58.540 And I said, no.

00:17:59.260 And Biden immediately says, well, come on, let me take you over there.

00:18:04.200 So he goes over to the cabinet room and John said, but Biden begins telling war stories.

00:18:09.620 And they were from 40 or 50 years ago.

00:18:12.640 And he's just talking about things that happened decades ago.

00:18:15.900 And he's telling it, telling them on and on and on.

00:18:18.620 And the the Biden White House staff is freaking out.

00:18:22.900 And they're going, Mr. President, Mr. President, you need to go.

00:18:24.760 You need to go to your next meeting.

00:18:25.660 They were really worried that Biden is talking to John Kennedy and and Biden apparently like gave him the back of the hand and said, shut up.

00:18:33.340 I'm telling stories.

00:18:35.720 And Kennedy said that Biden spent 45 minutes telling war stories.

00:18:41.760 And it was like it was like your grandfather reliving World War Two.

00:18:47.960 Yeah.

00:18:48.960 But that is.

00:18:52.720 And it's worth noting, by the way.

00:18:55.660 All of us know Joe Biden.

00:18:57.620 Remember, he was a man of the Senate.

00:18:59.040 He spent 40 years in the Senate.

00:19:01.020 Joe Biden swore me into the Senate when I was first elected in 2012.

00:19:05.040 The person who delivered my oath of office was Joe Biden.

00:19:08.780 So it is weird that the White House staff keeps him hidden from us.

00:19:14.280 And the natural assumption is that his mental diminishment is so great that they cannot let him speak to us.

00:19:22.160 And so you put that in the context of this Robert Herr interview.

00:19:26.360 Understand the claim of executive privilege is absurd because Robert Herr was not meeting with him as a subservient employee discussing the administration's policy.

00:19:38.140 Rather, Robert Herr was appointed as special counsel to investigate.

00:19:42.320 Did the president commit criminal conduct?

00:19:44.820 By the way, he concluded the answer is yes.

00:19:47.400 Well, and he testified to that on Capitol Hill.

00:19:49.300 I want to play that for people because it's important to remind you what Herr had to say about Biden's memory and his mental state.

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00:21:40.480 All right, I want to play for you, Senator.

00:21:42.640 This is her on Capitol Hill when he was being asked questions.

00:21:46.360 So, you have audio recording from his ghostwriter where the president acknowledges that the information he has is classified and he's sharing with his ghostwriter.

00:21:55.980 We have an audio recording capturing a statement from Mr. Biden saying to his ghostwriter in February of 2017, quote, I just found all the classified stuff downstairs, end quote.

00:22:07.560 And then again, reciting passages from a meeting in this situation.

00:22:11.820 Yes.

00:22:12.260 And those are in President Biden's own words.

00:22:14.920 Correct.

00:22:15.300 Right, so he's, and the ghostwriter has no classified, no, he has no clearance, no classified clearance to anything, correct?

00:22:23.580 That is our understanding that Mr. Zwanitzer was not authorized to receive classified information.

00:22:28.380 Now, that was, he said in 17, so he knew he had classified data, classified documents 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, when they started to find these things in his garage right by the Corvette.

00:22:42.300 Yes, and remember, remember the joy Democrats felt when they began bringing charges against Donald Trump for having classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

00:22:53.900 Now, listen, as a president of the United States, you have the authority to declassify documents.

00:22:59.000 Every president in modern times has taken documents from his presidency for his memoirs, to write things.

00:23:05.100 That has been part, we've covered this at length on this podcast.

00:23:08.480 So, the prosecution against Donald Trump for the classified documents was always weak on its face.

00:23:14.400 But then the Democrats had this enormous political problem, because they were gleeful.

00:23:18.860 They're like, ha-ha, classified document, you have them, okay, we got you, finally, we finally have something we can charge you on.

00:23:25.820 And then the news broke that Joe Biden had done the exact same thing.

00:23:29.820 And then the news broke that it wasn't once, it was twice, it was three times, it was four times, it was five times.

00:23:35.740 It was over and over and over again.

00:23:37.860 And then the news broke that Joe Biden seemingly had classified documents stored just about everywhere, as you noted, by his garage, in his garage next to his antique Corvette, all over the place, in one house, in another house.

00:23:50.420 And by the way, it wasn't just from his time as vice president, and to be clear, Joe Biden as vice president had no legal authority to declassify anything, so he could not have done what Trump could have done.

00:24:01.760 It is also the case that there were multiple classified documents from Joe Biden's time as a senator.

00:24:08.360 Now listen, I've spent 12 years as a senator.

00:24:09.980 I've read a lot of classified documents.

00:24:13.920 I can tell you, I'm sitting right now in my D.C. apartment, we have a little apartment by Capitol Hill, I can tell you with absolute certainty there's not a classified document in my apartment.

00:24:24.240 Why is that?

00:24:25.520 Because I have never, ever, ever, even once, read a classified document outside of the SCIF, which is the secure compartmentalized facility in the basement of the Capitol.

00:24:36.820 I've read lots of them in the SCIF.

00:24:38.040 I go into the SCIF, I read the document, I leave the document there, and I walk out.

00:24:43.920 So, is there a classified document in my D.C. apartment? No.

00:24:47.360 Is there a classified document in my home in Houston? No.

00:24:50.360 How do I know that?

00:24:51.440 Because there's never, ever, ever been one.

00:24:53.240 Like, there's no chance of it.

00:24:55.220 And it takes a degree of culpability to willingly, and by the way, like, nobody takes them out.

00:25:03.820 I mean, this is, it's weird that Joe Biden had them.

00:25:08.500 And it's because it's such a big deal, and you guys are briefed on it beforehand.

00:25:12.260 Classified documents are not something you screw around with.

00:25:14.700 So, when I was at the Department of Justice, I was an Associate Deputy Attorney General.

00:25:20.220 I read classified documents in that role as well.

00:25:22.920 I had a safe in my office.

00:25:25.340 It was a big steel safe with big doors.

00:25:27.940 In fact, once I jammed my thumb in it, it really hurt.

00:25:32.640 If I had classified documents in my office, you know what?

00:25:35.460 I could not leave them on my desk.

00:25:37.200 It was a crime to leave them on my desk.

00:25:39.460 So, if I was reading a classified document, I had to put them in the safe and lock the safe.

00:25:45.500 Dealing with classified documents is a big deal.

00:25:49.020 And what Robert Hurt concluded is Joe Biden had them just about everywhere.

00:25:53.480 So, if Joe Biden has committed the same crime Donald Trump has alleged to have committed,

00:25:59.220 if he's done so for decades, if he's done so brazenly,

00:26:03.840 that's a big political problem for the Biden Department of Justice.

00:26:08.200 Because, remember, early on, their great hope was we're going to get Trump on the classified documents.

00:26:15.840 Because their objective is to stop the voters from voting for Trump.

00:26:19.200 And they thought the classified documents was their avenue.

00:26:22.360 And then they had a real problem.

00:26:23.700 Wait, Biden's done the same and worse.

00:26:26.800 And so, their answer was Biden is not competent to stand trial.

00:26:32.460 Now, set all of that aside.

00:26:34.060 But, understand the claim of executive privilege is lunacy.

00:26:42.320 Why?

00:26:43.680 Because when Joe Biden sat down with Robert Hurt, there is no arguable claim he was sitting down with a senior advisor.

00:26:50.700 There's no arguable claim he was talking about administration policy.

00:26:53.980 There's no arguable claim that he was asking,

00:26:56.300 give me your advice, my employee, as to terms of what I should do.

00:27:00.260 That's what executive privilege protects.

00:27:03.900 Instead, Robert Hurt was a prosecutor investigating him as a potential criminal defendant.

00:27:10.200 And so, this claim is objectively frivolous.

00:27:14.080 And yet, the media and the Democrats are ignoring the obvious inanity of this claim.

00:27:20.200 Yeah.

00:27:20.400 And you don't have to go back far.

00:27:21.580 Because back in February, White House spokesman Ian Sams bragged about Joe Biden not asserting executive privilege during Special Counsel Hurt's investigation,

00:27:31.920 saying he had nothing to hide.

00:27:35.520 Listen to this.

00:27:37.200 Three, he didn't exert executive privilege over any contents of the report.

00:27:41.920 He was transparent.

00:27:43.060 He had nothing to hide.

00:27:44.280 There it is.

00:27:44.980 That's from the White House's podium.

00:27:46.860 And so, understand, Joe Biden arguably could have asserted executive privilege in the interview.

00:27:55.460 He could have said, I'm not going to answer a particular question about the conversations I had with my senior advisors because of executive privilege.

00:28:03.000 That would have been arguable.

00:28:05.140 He didn't, according to the White House, unless the White House spokesman was lying.

00:28:10.380 So, he didn't assert it in the interview.

00:28:13.500 He answered the questions.

00:28:14.680 Instead, what they're saying is the tape of a prosecutor investigating the president for criminal conduct, that's executive privilege.

00:28:23.400 And that is, I got to tell you, Ben, if you were a 1L law student on your con law final exam and you wrote that this is executive privilege, you would flunk.

00:28:35.140 It is that frivolous.

00:28:37.280 And that's what they're claiming.

00:28:38.860 Over, under, we ever get to hear these tapes.

00:28:41.080 I put it 30-70.

00:28:46.640 Okay.

00:28:48.380 Because they're just going to be that good at hiding it?

00:28:51.120 Look, they're going to try.

00:28:52.420 Look, we only have six months until the election.

00:28:54.520 So, they've got to delay it for six months.

00:28:57.600 They're going to fight.

00:28:59.280 The House is going to, now, the next step is to hold Merrick Garland in contempt.

00:29:04.180 But the problem is, look, there are checks and balances.

00:29:08.640 The House can hold an attorney general in contempt.

00:29:10.940 And, by the way, the House held Eric Holder in contempt when he was Barack Obama's attorney general.

00:29:16.820 But a contempt holding is not self-enforcing.

00:29:21.240 It takes the Department of Justice to go and prosecute it.

00:29:25.600 Eric Holder wouldn't prosecute the contempt holding against himself.

00:29:29.040 And you know what?

00:29:29.720 Merrick Garland is not either.

00:29:31.060 And so, at the end of the day, the fact that the Biden Justice Department is so political and so corrupt means, in all likelihood, to be honest, 30-70 is probably optimistic.

00:29:45.180 It may be less than that.

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00:30:16.840 There's another report that has hit the same time that Hunter Biden's sugar daddy, Kevin Morris, is, quote, tapped out of cash after funding President Biden's son.

00:30:31.940 That would be the famous Hunter Biden.

00:30:35.560 He has been funding the president's son's legal battles now for almost half a decade.

00:30:41.420 His, quote, close friend, Kevin Morris, who said, I don't know, I'm not getting anything out of this guy.

00:30:48.040 I'm just a good guy.

00:30:49.760 He's said to have loaned Hunter Biden more than $6 million.

00:30:53.720 This, as Hunter Biden is facing two criminal trials starting in a few weeks, and now the sugar daddy's saying, I'm out after six grand.

00:31:03.700 My question is the timing of this.

00:31:07.380 He's seeing the same poll numbers you're seeing.

00:31:09.820 He's seeing the same momentum that you and I are seeing day in and day out with Donald Trump.

00:31:14.040 He's seeing the same economic news that's coming out, and he's seeing these trials come up.

00:31:19.380 And is he cutting, basically, a bad investment at this point, saying, OK, I'm hedging my bets.

00:31:25.960 Joe Biden's not going to be able to do me favors for another four years.

00:31:29.340 Why would I keep spending my money?

00:31:31.700 Of course he is.

00:31:32.800 So the headline in the Daily Mail, which broke the story, is Hunter Biden's sugar brother, Kevin Morris, quote, tapped out of cash after funding President Sun's legal battles for almost five years.

00:31:48.140 Here's how it begins.

00:31:49.580 Hollywood lawyer and Hunter Biden's sugar brother, Kevin Morris, is said to be tapped out of cash after financially supporting Hunter's legal battles over the last four and a half years to the tune of $6 million.

00:32:03.360 Let me ask you, do you have any friends that are good enough friends that you give them $6 million?

00:32:07.900 No, and not only that, I love how the money apparently is supposed to be paid back after the election.

00:32:13.640 The Daily Mail continues.

00:32:14.780 The withdrawal of financial support for the president's son comes at the worst possible time for Hunter, with two trials looming, which could end up seeing him serve jail time.

00:32:25.820 I got to say, this is striking.

00:32:29.240 Nobody seemed to care.

00:32:30.600 The press didn't seem to care that there was this lawyer in California funding Joe Biden's son's legal defense up until this stage.

00:32:39.280 But the fact that he is bailing out, I got to tell you that there is the old phrase, the rats are running from the ship.

00:32:46.820 That starts to suggest that's exactly what happened here.

00:32:50.860 Yeah.

00:32:51.140 Quit pro quo.

00:32:52.420 You got to have somebody that can hook you up on the end of it.

00:32:54.700 And if Joe Biden's out of office, what's the point of keeping your money flowing to this to Hunter Biden?

00:33:00.280 This could be major, could mean major complications also for Hunter Biden's legal defense.

00:33:06.340 Can that be used as a delay tactic is my question.

00:33:11.160 Oh, they'll try, but I don't think it will succeed.

00:33:13.720 Here's what the Daily Mail reported.

00:33:15.300 Quote, the pair met in 2019 during dad president's Biden's campaign for the White House.

00:33:20.980 They quickly developed a close friendship just as Hunter was trying to get his life on track and stay sober.

00:33:27.260 At the time, Morris helped him get safe housing.

00:33:30.560 He was dubbed Hunter's sugar brother after he agreed to loan the first son or reported $2.8 million to pay off his tax debts

00:33:38.980 and joined his legal team amidst criminal and congressional investigations.

00:33:44.080 But now, after four and a half years of shouldering the financial burden,

00:33:48.560 having loaned him more than $6.5 million, Morris is no longer willing to foot the bill.

00:33:56.380 Where does he get the money now?

00:33:57.660 I'm going to guess it's probably going to be from some of his foreign businesses.

00:34:00.700 Or, hey, maybe it's some really nice artwork that'll go for more than a half a million dollars.

00:34:04.940 Because apparently getting a half a million dollars to do finger painting is pretty impressive.

00:34:09.260 That's just the going right now if you're the president's son.

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00:36:12.100 Finally, Senator, one other thing that has happened,

00:36:14.640 and this is going to continue to break and become a bigger story.

00:36:18.680 But we are now finding out that the White House is refusing a FOIA request.

00:36:26.280 It is a request that was filed to find out about the nationalities of people on the terror watch list

00:36:33.100 that have been arrested by Border Patrol in recent years.

00:36:35.880 The CBP now says they will not turn over the data, citing privacy and law enforcement sensitivity exemptions,

00:36:44.500 saying that, yeah, deal with it.

00:36:46.780 We're not giving you the intel on how many people have come across the southern border

00:36:50.320 that are on the terrorist watch list and what nations they're coming from.

00:36:54.920 Well, this is the third story we're covering today that deals with Biden cover-ups.

00:37:00.000 That's the unifying theme behind all these stories.

00:37:03.540 In this instance, they're covering up the likely terrorists and the criminal threats

00:37:09.620 that are crossing into this border illegally through Joe Biden and the Democrats' open borders.

00:37:14.940 And let me read you a tweet from Bill Malugian.

00:37:18.000 Bill Malugian, as you know, is the heroic, the fantastic reporter for Fox News

00:37:23.400 who's done more reporting on the border than, I think, any reporter in the whole country.

00:37:27.100 So here's what Bill Malugian tweeted, quote,

00:37:30.840 New, six-plus months ago, I filed a FOIA request with CBP

00:37:35.160 seeking the nationalities of people on the terror watch list

00:37:39.120 arrested by Border Patrol in recent years.

00:37:42.320 CBP now says they will not turn over that data,

00:37:46.200 citing privacy and law enforcement sensitivity exemptions, telling me, quote,

00:37:51.060 The privacy interests of the individuals in the records you have requested

00:37:54.560 outweigh any minimal public interest in disclosure of the information.

00:37:59.300 Any private interest you may have in the information does not factor into the aforementioned balancing test.

00:38:05.920 Malugian continues, quote,

00:38:07.300 I did not ask for any names, IDs, addresses, anything that would breach privacy,

00:38:13.740 nor did I ask for any law enforcement sensitive information.

00:38:16.500 I simply requested only, and only as bracketed by asterisks on both sides,

00:38:22.840 the nationalities of people arrested on the list

00:38:26.280 so the public can have an understanding of where in the world they are coming from.

00:38:31.880 CBP acknowledges in the opening paragraphs of their response letter to me

00:38:35.420 that all I asked for was the nationalities of those arrested on the terror watch list.

00:38:39.880 But they then go on to cite exemptions that have nothing to do with what I requested,

00:38:45.020 including medical files, phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, etc.

00:38:51.320 None of which I sought.

00:38:53.700 And they even cite an exemption regarding, quote,

00:38:57.620 records which could be reasonably expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual.

00:39:02.820 I disagree with CBP's withholdings of this data based on exemptions that have nothing to do with my FOIA request,

00:39:11.600 and I will be appealing immediately.

00:39:14.260 Let me ask you something, Ben.

00:39:16.280 What is Joe Biden, this administration, and the Democrats, what are they hiding?

00:39:22.540 Yeah.

00:39:22.940 And the question is, where are they hiding, and how is it affecting, most importantly,

00:39:26.840 our security in this country with terrorists coming across the southern border?

00:39:30.640 We know they're coming across, but is it because...

00:39:33.280 They don't want us to know what countries.

00:39:34.900 Yeah.

00:39:35.260 And why is that?

00:39:36.420 What is your guess?

00:39:37.720 Because it's damning.

00:39:38.940 Because the countries are countries where there's massive terrorism, 0.94

00:39:42.560 they're jihadists, they're people that want to kill Americans, 0.99

00:39:45.240 and it illustrates, I've said repeatedly, 0.96

00:39:48.060 we're at a greater risk of a major terrorist attack in the United States

00:39:51.120 than we have been at any time since September 11th.

00:39:55.420 It is tragically going to happen.

00:39:57.540 And I don't want it to happen, but Joe Biden and the Democrats are inviting terrorists

00:40:02.000 to come into this country.

00:40:03.620 Iran has demanded global jihad against America.

00:40:06.720 Hamas has demanded global jihad against America.

00:40:09.700 Hezbollah has demanded global jihad against America.

00:40:12.320 And Joe Biden and the Democrats are inviting people in.

00:40:15.100 And I assume, from their refusal to tell us,

00:40:19.380 so we know there have been hundreds of people on the terror watch list

00:40:22.740 who've been apprehended.

00:40:23.620 They have not released what countries they came from.

00:40:27.260 I assume, based on their refusal to do so,

00:40:30.260 that the country list is really damning,

00:40:32.700 that they're from countries that are dangerous, 1.00

00:40:35.500 that have lots of terrorists who want to kill us. 0.74

00:40:37.740 And this is political. 0.80

00:40:39.640 This is all about hiding the politics.

00:40:42.460 It reminds me of, you remember, and we talked about this,

00:40:46.240 we did a whole podcast on this,

00:40:47.660 when the data broke about the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants

00:40:52.820 that Joe Biden had flown into America,

00:40:54.880 flown into cities all over America,

00:40:56.580 and the Biden administration refused to disclose which cities,

00:41:01.700 and they claimed it was national security information,

00:41:06.520 they wouldn't release it.

00:41:08.460 Ultimately, we got that information.

00:41:10.220 We covered that on this podcast.

00:41:12.260 What cities?

00:41:13.080 They were overwhelmingly cities in Florida and Texas,

00:41:16.260 which is not surprising,

00:41:17.480 given this administration is so political,

00:41:20.180 they're trying to do everything they can to screw Florida and Texas. 1.00

00:41:24.140 But their claim that it was a national security risk

00:41:28.160 to release those cities was a lie.

00:41:30.500 It was politically embarrassing,

00:41:33.160 and that's exactly true here.

00:41:34.880 It's politically embarrassing.

00:41:36.860 I hope through litigation or political pressure,

00:41:39.720 we can get the information.

00:41:41.280 But Joe Biden and the administration are counting on

00:41:44.120 that they can stonewall until at least the election.

00:41:46.920 It's all about the election, isn't it?

00:41:48.680 Don't forget, we are going to keep you updated on this story.

00:41:51.380 I have a feeling more will break on this.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - May 17, 2024

Biden Coverup： Absurd Claim of Executive Privilege to Hide Biden Senility, plus Hiding the Countries Terrorists Coming from

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