Verdict with Ted Cruz - Emergency Hearing-Fed Judge Says Hunter Biden's Lawyers May Have LIED, plus the WH Backtracks, Implicitly Admits Joe Biden LIED about Overseas Business Deals with Son Hunter

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00:00:05.900 Welcome.

00:00:06.660 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you as well.

00:00:10.380 And we have got a packed show for you, including some breaking news

00:00:14.120 that deals with the sentencing of Hunter Biden,

00:00:17.840 plus a massive change in narrative from the White House,

00:00:22.500 basically now admitting that, OK, yes,

00:00:25.300 the president did get involved with his son's business dealings

00:00:28.180 and they were hoping that no one would notice this admission.

00:00:31.160 We noticed it. We're going to play that for you.

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00:00:39.560 Senator, let's first start, though, with this judge.

00:00:42.500 Break this down because this scandal in Delaware

00:00:45.500 on the eve of Hunter Biden's plea deal,

00:00:47.540 he's supposed to be in court at 9 o'clock,

00:00:50.100 and apparently there could be some people that are sanctioned

00:00:54.440 for misrepresenting to the court what they were doing with Hunter Biden.

00:01:00.160 Break all this down.

00:01:02.160 Well, we have massive breaking news that broke last night.

00:01:05.420 So this morning at 9 a.m.,

00:01:08.740 Hunter Biden is scheduled to appear in federal court

00:01:11.500 and plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges

00:01:14.520 for failure to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018.

00:01:17.360 He is also expected to avoid prosecution

00:01:21.480 on a separate felony gun possession charge

00:01:24.760 of illegally possessing a firearm as a drug user.

00:01:29.240 All of that is scheduled to go down at 9,

00:01:31.600 and it's a plea deal that is designed to be a slap on the wrist

00:01:34.300 so that Hunter serves no jail time whatsoever

00:01:37.980 and that its real purpose, as we've discussed,

00:01:41.000 is to protect Joe Biden from any exposure

00:01:47.900 to Hunter's influence, selling, and corruption.

00:01:51.920 Well, last night, a bombshell went off,

00:01:55.380 which is the U.S. District Judge in Delaware,

00:01:57.900 Mary Ellen Norieka, issued an order,

00:02:01.760 and the order is directing Hunter Biden's lawyers

00:02:05.280 to show up at 9 a.m. this morning

00:02:06.940 and explain why they shouldn't be sanctioned

00:02:09.480 for lying to the court.

00:02:11.400 And let me explain what happened here,

00:02:12.720 because this is a big damn deal, 0.62

00:02:14.400 and to be honest, I've never seen anything remotely like it. 0.82

00:02:17.200 So, the plea hearing this morning,

00:02:20.580 Hunter's expected to come in and plead not guilty.

00:02:23.340 The judge could approve the plea deal today,

00:02:27.260 say, okay, plea deal's done, slap on the wrist,

00:02:29.540 all done, it could be over today.

00:02:31.860 Well, the House of Representatives is dismayed by that.

00:02:35.240 They've seen the hearings on all of the corruption,

00:02:37.720 the evidence that we've discussed at length on this podcast.

00:02:41.820 And so, the House of Representatives filed an amicus brief

00:02:44.880 with the court, laying out the evidence

00:02:47.880 against Hunter and Joe and the corruption,

00:02:50.200 and really making the case that a slap on the wrist

00:02:53.280 is not in the interest of justice.

00:02:55.340 That's pretty unusual.

00:02:56.800 It's not often that a criminal defendant

00:02:59.020 has the House of Representatives

00:03:00.520 of the United States Congress file a brief

00:03:02.600 opposing their sweetheart deal.

00:03:04.840 What happened next is extraordinary.

00:03:09.260 Apparently, Hunter Biden's lawyers picked up the phone

00:03:13.060 and called the clerk's office of the court

00:03:15.660 and pretended to be the lawyers

00:03:19.180 for the House of Representatives.

00:03:22.280 And Hunter Biden's lawyers apparently said,

00:03:25.580 hey, we're the lawyers for the House of Representatives.

00:03:27.440 We filed this amicus brief with attachments.

00:03:29.940 Could you withdraw that, please?

00:03:31.540 We didn't mean to file that.

00:03:32.860 And the clerk's office apparently did so,

00:03:37.160 said, okay, if you want to withdraw that filing, we will.

00:03:40.120 Well, it turns out that at least what the court believes right now

00:03:44.580 is they were lying.

00:03:45.400 And I want to read, because late last night,

00:03:47.920 the court issued a special order.

00:03:50.500 And it's a short order.

00:03:51.540 I'm going to read the order.

00:03:53.200 It's oral order.

00:03:54.560 The court is in receipt of the party's letters regarding the motion for leave

00:03:58.660 to file an amicus brief.

00:04:00.280 As an initial matter, defendant has not indicated what specific information

00:04:03.560 should be sealed or made any showing as required under a particular case.

00:04:09.780 In fact, defendant has not filed a formal request with the court to seal anything.

00:04:13.780 The court will temporarily place the document under seal until the close of business

00:04:17.360 on July 26th to afford defendant the opportunity to try to make the requisite showing.

00:04:22.580 Should the defendant fail to make that showing, the document will be unsealed in its entirety.

00:04:27.160 In addition, the court has reviewed the allegations in Mr. Catilla's letter,

00:04:30.720 that's the lawyer for the House, made to the clerk's office regarding the amicus materials.

00:04:36.160 Mr. Catilla asserts that an individual associated with the firm representing defendant Hunter Biden

00:04:43.500 called the clerk's office, pretending to be associated with Mr. Catilla

00:04:48.680 and requesting the amicus materials be removed from the docket, which the clerk's office did.

00:04:55.780 The response from defendant's counsel on this issue was that, quote,

00:04:59.920 as far as he was aware, the managing attorney from Latham called the clerk's office to note

00:05:04.200 that personal tax information of the defendant had been filed in a non-redacted manner

00:05:08.880 and to inquire regarding having the information sealed and that, quote,

00:05:13.040 the clerk took the filing down on their own accord.

00:05:17.080 Defendant's counsel also added that he hoped Mr. Catilla had, quote,

00:05:20.300 an affidavit from the clerk in support of his version of the events.

00:05:24.380 The court has discussed the matter with relevant individuals in the clerk's office

00:05:27.680 and has been informed that the caller, Ms. Jessica Bengals,

00:05:31.700 represented that she worked with Mr. Catilla, in other words, the House's lawyer,

00:05:38.380 and requested the amicus materials be taken down because they contain sensitive grand jury,

00:05:43.800 taxpayer, and Social Security information.

00:05:46.320 Here's the critical language from the court's order last night.

00:05:49.260 It appears that the caller misrepresented her identity and who she worked for

00:05:57.100 in an attempt to improperly convince the clerk's office to remove the amicus materials from the docket.

00:06:06.340 Therefore, it is hereby ordered that, on or before 9 p.m. today, on July 25th,

00:06:13.540 counsel for the defendant shall show cause as to why sanctions should not be considered

00:06:20.400 for misrepresentations to the court.

00:06:24.340 Now, Ben, I've got to say, I've practiced law a lot of years,

00:06:29.520 just about 30, nearly 30 years now.

00:06:32.060 Yeah.

00:06:32.220 I don't know another instance where a lawyer for one party calls the court

00:06:39.100 and pretends to be a lawyer for the other party.

00:06:41.860 Like, that just doesn't happen.

00:06:43.640 That's the kind of thing.

00:06:44.900 Do you get disbarred for that minimum?

00:06:47.100 Yes.

00:06:47.200 I mean, you ruin your career, right, if you do that,

00:06:49.300 because you're literally calling up and lying about what team you're on in a court case.

00:06:56.500 I would assume that's instant.

00:06:58.320 You're disbarred.

00:06:59.060 You're never going to practice law again.

00:07:00.460 And is there even the possibility of, like, you get charged with a crime for that?

00:07:05.060 Potentially.

00:07:05.620 Look, a lawyer is an officer of the court.

00:07:07.520 You have an obligation of candor to the court.

00:07:09.960 You have an obligation of truthfulness to the court.

00:07:12.880 A lawyer lies to a judge at his or her peril.

00:07:17.260 Now, I don't know what happened.

00:07:19.400 And we're going to have a hearing at 9 a.m. this morning.

00:07:22.120 I expect there's going to be some real fireworks.

00:07:23.960 But the DOJ and Hunter Biden's lawyers were hoping this would be a quiet little plea hearing where we got a plea agreement.

00:07:31.980 Okay, all is good.

00:07:32.840 Slap in the wrist.

00:07:33.740 It's all over.

00:07:34.360 Instead, the judge is saying, tell me why I should not sanction Hunter Biden's lawyer for lying to me and pretending to be the lawyer for the House of Representatives. 0.95

00:07:48.300 That's a big damn deal.

00:07:51.800 And this single-handedly could scuttle the plea deal. 0.94

00:07:56.640 Now, let's go to just a normal case, okay?

00:07:59.780 Take Hunter Biden out of it.

00:08:01.180 Yeah.

00:08:01.440 Take the fact this is a sweetheart deal.

00:08:03.760 And you can now, I think it's very clear you would agree, Senator, this judge knows that this is a sweetheart deal.

00:08:09.440 Would you agree with that at this point?

00:08:10.760 There's been too much information out there.

00:08:12.660 There's been too much that's been exposed from the House.

00:08:14.500 Look, it's too early to say.

00:08:16.760 Okay.

00:08:18.160 We'll see what happens at the hearing today.

00:08:20.820 We'll see what the judge says.

00:08:22.240 If I were a judge, I would not take this plea deal.

00:08:25.320 A judge doesn't have to take the plea deal.

00:08:27.020 A judge can press back.

00:08:29.260 It is clear the Biden DOJ wants the plea deal taken because the plea deal is designed to, number one, make Hunter Biden the fall guy, but do it in a way that there's zero jail time, the most serious charges have gone away, and that's just a little slap on the wrist.

00:08:44.500 But, number two, most critically, this is designed to protect Joe Biden.

00:08:50.680 If this plea deal gets thrown out.

00:08:53.380 Yeah.

00:08:53.880 What happens next?

00:08:54.760 That was the question I was going to ask you is if he throws it out and says, no, I don't accept this, then what happens next in this case?

00:09:01.440 Does that mean that all the other things that they didn't have to deal with now all of a sudden become a reality in this?

00:09:08.040 No, what would happen if the plea deal is thrown out, so Hunter can withdraw his guilty plea because the guilty plea is based on a plea deal, and the judge could say, try your case.

00:09:18.620 You have brought charges against Hunter Biden.

00:09:21.080 We want to see you try your case, and we're going to impanel a jury and have a trial.

00:09:26.440 But then at the end of it, the judge can say, I'm going to sentence the defendant if he's found guilty, that I'm not going to take the plea deal, that I've determined this plea deal is not in the interest of justice.

00:09:37.420 If the judge determines that Hunter Biden's lawyers have lied to the court, have misrepresented, and this order says the judge thinks they have.

00:09:47.840 Now, the judge may be mistaken, but what the order says is she went and asked the clerk's office, hey, what did the lawyer who called you say?

00:09:57.060 And according to the order she entered, that's what made her enter the order to show cause why Hunter Biden's lawyer should not be sanctioned.

00:10:05.720 I have, in nearly 30 years of practicing law, never seen an order like this, and I got to say, if you're Hunter Biden's lawyers right now, you are freaking out, and if you're the Biden DOJ desperately wanting to protect the big guy, you're freaking out.

00:10:24.240 This is a major development.

00:10:25.480 Is it just one lawyer that would be sanctioned, the one that made the phone call, or is there a good chance that all the lawyers on the case that knew that this happened, are they going to be held accountable for this, basically, in essence, because it would be a strategy that they would have done as a legal team?

00:10:42.800 It depends on what the facts demonstrate.

00:10:46.000 The lawyer who's most directly on the hook is the lawyer who is accused of lying to the court, and each lawyer is an officer of the court, and you have an ethical obligation to the court, and so that lawyer is the one most directly at risk.

00:10:59.300 But if it turns out other lawyers on Hunter Biden's defense team knew about it, directed her to do this, were part of the decision to do this, they could all be sanctioned.

00:11:08.420 And it depends on what the facts are.

00:11:10.440 I don't know what the facts are. 0.86

00:11:11.780 I'm just reading an order that is a holy crap order.

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00:12:48.120 Senator, I want to ask you about the narrative that's also changing at the White House.

00:12:53.360 I've not actually heard anyone talking about this.

00:12:56.940 You and I talked about this earlier, and this was a very big change in the narrative at the White House.

00:13:02.880 Now, the White House has said for a long time over and over and over again.

00:13:06.500 Joe Biden said it over and over and over again.

00:13:08.800 I've never talked to my son or any of the family members, the Biden family members, about any of these business dealings.

00:13:15.820 He said that.

00:13:16.680 He said it during the campaign.

00:13:18.620 Now, the White House has changed that narrative.

00:13:22.180 Listen carefully.

00:13:23.120 You'll probably pick it up.

00:13:24.380 And if not, we'll play it a second time for you.

00:13:27.500 Chairman James Comer today says that the Oversight Committee, excuse me, has evidence that the president in the past communicated directly with foreign business associates of his son, Hunter Biden, many times.

00:13:39.280 I'm curious if the White House and the president still stand behind his comment that he's never been involved and has never even spoken to his son about his business.

00:13:48.220 So I've been asked this question a million times.

00:13:50.480 The answer is not going to change.

00:13:51.920 The answer remains the same.

00:13:53.120 The president was never in business with his son.

00:13:55.900 I just don't have anything else to add.

00:13:57.240 Senator, I know you heard it.

00:13:59.700 The narrative's now changed.

00:14:01.240 It used to be I never talked about business with my family.

00:14:04.340 Now it is, quote, the president was never in business with his son, quote unquote.

00:14:12.440 So, Ben, this is a big deal.

00:14:14.880 You are right that Joe Biden has said over and over and over again, he never talked with Hunter Biden about his business.

00:14:20.940 He never talked with Hunter Biden about his business.

00:14:22.900 The White House has said Joe Biden never talked with Hunter Biden about his business.

00:14:26.580 That was their line.

00:14:28.020 They said it repeatedly.

00:14:30.100 Here's the problem.

00:14:31.940 It is now more and more clear that Joe Biden talked with Hunter Biden and with Hunter Biden's business associates about his businesses a lot.

00:14:40.480 And so, for example, Miranda Devine, who's done just fantastic reporting on this entire scandal for The New York Post, she wrote two days ago a story that the headline is Hunter Biden put then VP Dad Joe on the phone with business associates at least two dozen times.

00:15:00.980 Ex-partner Devin Archer to testify.

00:15:04.040 And Devin Archer, who was Hunter Biden's former best friend, he was his business partner.

00:15:08.280 They were both on the board of Burisma together.

00:15:11.520 Apparently, Devin Archer is going to testify, according to the report in The New York Post, that Hunter Biden would dial in his father, then Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone in the meetings with his overseas business partners, according to testimony expected before Congress this week from Devin Archer.

00:15:26.000 Here's what James Comer said.

00:15:31.060 We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devin Archer about all the times he has witnessed Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden's overseas business partners when he was vice president, including on speakerphone.

00:15:40.760 One such meeting was in Dubai, late in the evening of Friday, December 4th, 2015, after a board meeting of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which was paying Hunter $83,000 a month as director.

00:15:52.960 Archer, who was also director, is expected to testify that after dinner with Burisma board at the Burjal Arab Hotel, he and Hunter traveled six miles north to the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jiraiya Beach to have drinks with Hunter's friends.

00:16:10.760 While they were sitting outside at the bar, Vadim Pozharsky, a senior Burisma executive, phoned to ask where they were because Burisma's owner, Mikhaila Zlochevsky, who we talked about a lot on Monday's pod, needed to speak to Hunter urgently.

00:16:26.380 Soon afterwards, the two Ukrainians joined Hunter and Archer at the Four Seasons bar, and Pozharsky asked Hunter, can you ring your dad?

00:16:35.100 At the time, it was early afternoon Friday in Washington, D.C.

00:16:37.720 Hunter then called his father, put him on speaker, placed the phone on the table, and introduced the Ukrainians to Joe Biden by names as Nikolai and Vadim.

00:16:49.000 He also said words to the effect that the Burisma bigwigs need our support. 1.00

00:16:55.500 Joe Biden greeted the Ukrainians, but spoke only in vague pleasantries, Archer is expected to testify.

00:17:00.240 They will note in context that three days after the speakerphone call, Joe Biden was due to fly to Kiev to address the Ukrainian parliament.

00:17:11.400 Ten weeks before the call, on September 24th, 2015, the U.S. ambassador had given a speech about corruption in Ukraine, in which he targeted Zlochevsky by name.

00:17:24.240 But by then, the Ukrainian prosecutor general, that's Viktor Shokin, who we talked about again at length on Monday's podcast.

00:17:32.040 And if you didn't listen to Monday's podcast, go back and listen to it.

00:17:34.800 It's incredibly important what the FD-1023 said.

00:17:38.100 But Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma for corruption.

00:17:44.020 And a month later, Shokin was fired right after Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine.

00:17:52.860 So, here's the problem, Ben.

00:17:56.020 Joe Biden has said repeatedly, I didn't talk to Hunter about his business.

00:18:00.340 I didn't talk to Hunter about his business.

00:18:01.820 The White House has said that.

00:18:03.280 And now you've got Hunter's business partners saying, oh yeah, Joe Biden talked to our business partners all the time.

00:18:11.880 That's a huge problem.

00:18:13.780 And so I want you to play two things.

00:18:15.500 Number one, I want us to listen to what the old White House message was, which is, I didn't talk to Hunter's business partners.

00:18:26.860 Take a listen.

00:18:27.860 Mr. Vice President, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?

00:18:33.660 I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.

00:18:36.220 Now, that was in 2019, Senator.

00:18:38.740 That was in Des Moines, Iowa, when he was running for president.

00:18:42.460 And he's saying, oh, I've never, I never talked about it ever.

00:18:45.640 Now they're saying, okay, man, we did, but we were never officially in business together.

00:18:50.220 So, he said there, flat out, on the campaign trail for president.

00:18:54.520 This is not a long time ago.

00:18:56.360 This is while he's running for president.

00:18:57.980 He says, I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business deals.

00:19:02.640 Now, his problem is, Devin Archer's supposed to say that he's spoken at least two dozen times.

00:19:08.940 So, I want you to play again.

00:19:10.320 Hold on, hold on.

00:19:11.060 Let me also add this real quick, because this is where I just, I have to do this because it makes me laugh.

00:19:16.620 It's not just that first time.

00:19:18.660 I forgot about this, and I just pulled it.

00:19:20.780 We put together a montage of Biden answering this question over and over again, which the White House has just undone now by their new admission.

00:19:30.060 Here's the entire montage, starting back in 2019.

00:19:33.980 How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?

00:19:39.040 I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.

00:19:41.740 I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses, period.

00:19:50.000 And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration.

00:19:54.000 There will be an absolute wall between personal and private and the government.

00:20:00.120 Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business dealings?

00:20:04.960 Yes, I stand by that statement.

00:20:06.160 Do you think it was wrong for him to take that position?

00:20:09.040 No.

00:20:09.680 Knowing that it was really because that company wanted access to you?

00:20:14.100 Well, that's not true.

00:20:15.020 You're saying things you do not know what you're talking about.

00:20:17.780 No one said that.

00:20:18.700 Who said that?

00:20:19.340 I mean, that's a lot of times you said it, Senator, and now you're undoing it at the White House from the podium.

00:20:25.000 So his answer is, I've never talked to Hunter.

00:20:27.540 I've never talked to Hunter.

00:20:28.480 I've never talked to his business associates.

00:20:29.960 And I want you to play again yesterday's answer.

00:20:33.200 Because the beautiful thing is, Corrine Jean-Pierre says, I'm going to give you the exact same answer I've given before, and then she says a totally different answer.

00:20:40.980 So play that once again, because this is a massive shift, because the White House realizes, oh crap, Joe Biden's been caught in a massive lie that implicates him in foreign corruption.

00:20:54.160 So listen to Corrine Jean-Pierre's trying to be very clever and shift their answer.

00:21:00.440 Chairman James Comer today says that the Oversight Committee, excuse me, has evidence that the president in the past communicated directly with foreign business associates of his son, Hunter Biden, many times.

00:21:13.200 Curious if the White House and the president still stand behind his comment that he's never been involved and has never even spoken to his son about his business.

00:21:21.500 So I've been asked this question a million times.

00:21:23.640 The answer is not going to change.

00:21:25.200 The answer remains the same.

00:21:26.400 The president was never in business with his son.

00:21:29.140 I just don't have anything else to add.

00:21:30.840 There it is.

00:21:32.260 So the answer is not going to change.

00:21:34.300 So if the answer is not going to change, you would expect the president's never spoken to his son about his business deals.

00:21:38.600 The president's never spoken to his business associates about his business deals.

00:21:42.080 But she doesn't say that.

00:21:42.900 She says the president was never in business with his sons.

00:21:46.980 Now, let me show you it gets even worse.

00:21:48.720 There's a subsequent article came out in The Federalist that is entitled Joe Biden allegedly interacted with son's clients more than 200 times.

00:21:57.420 So you've got the story from The New York Post for Miranda Devine that Biden spoke with foreign businessmen and potential investors for Hunter at least 24 times.

00:22:11.380 But The Federalist reports that there are more than 180 other episodes where the president interacted with his son's business partners.

00:22:20.980 So, for example, then President Joe Biden reportedly met with Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakhstan business partners at Cafe Milano, which is a really shi-shi restaurant in Washington, D.C.

00:22:33.760 Vadim Pozharsky, an executive at Burisma, thanked Hunter in writing for the introduction to his father.

00:22:42.080 So here's an email that Pozharsky wrote, quote,

00:22:46.840 Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to D.C.

00:22:50.980 And giving me an opportunity to meet your father and spend some time together.

00:23:00.020 Now, by the way, Joe Biden says, nope, never talked to my son about business.

00:23:04.260 Pozharsky, the Ukrainian Burisma official, says, hey, thanks for introducing me to your dad.

00:23:08.200 Give me the opportunity to meet your father.

00:23:09.880 I mean, it is stunning.

00:23:14.580 Visitor's logs show that Hunter Biden's business associates visited the White House.

00:23:23.500 How many times do you think Hunter Biden's business associates visited the White House while Joe Biden was vice president?

00:23:28.620 If you count them all up, it's countless.

00:23:31.040 I mean, it's not one or two times.

00:23:32.840 And many of the people got to go like a dozen or more times while he was the vice president.

00:23:38.080 So according to Fox News, it's at least 80 times.

00:23:41.540 There you go.

00:23:44.940 Hunter Biden's diary shows more than 100 events at the vice president's residence while Joe Biden was living at the Naval Observatory.

00:23:52.540 Photographs from the same day as one meeting on the calendar, November 19th, 2015, features two Mexican billionaires, Carlos Slim and Miguel Alaman Velasco.

00:24:04.640 And Hunter spent years leveraging the White House to pursue business deals with Slim.

00:24:11.820 But this pattern, listen, at this point, it is becoming almost impossible to maintain that Hunter Biden was doing anything other than selling not only access to daddy, but favors from daddy for millions of dollars.

00:24:31.600 And you want proof of that?

00:24:34.480 Here's a simple question.

00:24:36.760 Why did the White House change their story?

00:24:39.660 Karine Jean-Pierre said, I'm going to give you the exact same answer I've given before.

00:24:43.360 And then she gave a totally different answer.

00:24:44.840 She'd said, here's the exact same answer.

00:24:47.140 Joe Biden's never spoken to Hunter about his business dealings, never spoken to his business associates.

00:24:50.780 That would be the same answer.

00:24:52.080 She didn't do that. 0.99

00:24:52.880 She says, oh, Joe Biden's never been in business with his son.

00:24:57.940 They realize they're in hot water.

00:25:00.000 They are backtracking mightily.

00:25:01.440 And you know what?

00:25:01.940 I'm going to make a prediction.

00:25:04.200 I love it when you do this, by the way, because it's always good.

00:25:06.460 But not a single corporate media outlet will report on this massive shift.

00:25:12.540 ABC is not going to report on it.

00:25:13.960 CBS is not going to report on it.

00:25:15.660 NBC is not going to report on it.

00:25:17.060 CNN is not going to report on it.

00:25:19.040 MSNBC is not going to report on it.

00:25:20.720 The Washington Post is not going to report on it.

00:25:22.560 The New York Times is not going to report on it.

00:25:24.360 They are all covering up for Joe Biden.

00:25:27.140 And I hope I'm wrong. 0.85

00:25:28.060 You know what, if by 1030 today, one of them is so shamed, they say, holy crap, I'm actually

00:25:36.640 going to be a reporter and report on the fact, just like at Watergate, when the story starts

00:25:42.180 changing, that's news.

00:25:44.180 Any real journalist will report on that.

00:25:46.280 We'll see if anybody does today.

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00:28:09.780 Senator, lastly, there's also another big issue.

00:28:13.180 Hasn't gotten a lot of press, and it should.

00:28:15.680 It's a big win for not only the people in Texas, but a big win when it comes to the issue

00:28:21.900 of national security.

00:28:22.840 And it's something that you led on with the Strategic Oil Reserves, the Petroleum Reserves,

00:28:28.120 that have been raided by this administration to artificially drop the price of gas before

00:28:33.940 the midterm elections.

00:28:35.380 And they don't seem to be wanting to put oil back in our Strategic Oil Reserves as well.

00:28:41.200 That is a national security issue.

00:28:42.760 But you also did some other things.

00:28:44.560 Tell us about this victory.

00:28:46.240 Well, that's exactly right.

00:28:47.180 The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was established to protect our national security and our energy

00:28:52.840 security, that if we get at a time of warfare, if we get at a time of crisis, that we have

00:28:57.120 oil we could rely on, that we won't have our economy grind to a halt.

00:29:00.580 And it's there for emergencies.

00:29:02.360 It's not there to be a slush fund for Democrat presidents to try to cover their rear end in

00:29:07.540 an election.

00:29:08.680 Well, Joe Biden last year sold 180 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum

00:29:16.720 Reserves.

00:29:17.620 And the reason is he was trying to drive down gasoline prices right before the election,

00:29:21.600 not because he wants prices low.

00:29:23.360 Mind you, Biden wants prices higher and higher and higher.

00:29:26.080 He just wants them to dip right before an election.

00:29:28.400 So he thinks the voters won't notice that.

00:29:31.040 Now, the result of those sales is it pushed the levels in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to

00:29:37.560 the lowest they've ever been in 40 years.

00:29:41.240 And last July, as part of selling 39 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

00:29:49.060 the Biden administration sold 1 million barrels to Unipec America, which is a subsidiary of

00:29:57.320 China's Sinopec.

00:29:58.660 And I will point out also that Hunter Biden, our friend who knows how to monetize daddy,

00:30:06.460 has done business with the Chinese entities that are profiting off of daddy's sales of

00:30:13.560 oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 0.83

00:30:16.580 It is corrupt. 0.99

00:30:17.820 It's also stupid that we would take our oil there to keep our economy, our national security 1.00

00:30:23.540 safe and sell it to China, our enemy. 0.99

00:30:25.940 So I introduced an amendment to ban the United States government, to ban the Biden administration

00:30:33.100 from selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, to Russia, to Iran, or to

00:30:41.460 North Korea.

00:30:42.720 Basic principle, let's not sell our oil that's here to keep us safe to our enemies that are

00:30:48.600 not there to keep us safe.

00:30:50.420 We forced a vote in the Senate last week.

00:30:53.460 This was an amendment that was authored by me and Joe Manchin.

00:30:57.400 So it was bipartisan.

00:30:58.560 And actually, you know what the lineup was on the amendment?

00:31:01.580 What do you think?

00:31:02.580 There were two other senators that were the lead sponsors.

00:31:04.900 Take a guess.

00:31:06.140 Oh, gosh.

00:31:06.640 I'm trying to think here.

00:31:07.780 It would be, you said Joe Manchin.

00:31:11.340 I'm going to laugh.

00:31:12.200 Can I throw out a curveball?

00:31:13.500 Yeah.

00:31:14.100 Mitt Romney.

00:31:15.480 No, but that'd be a good guess.

00:31:16.820 Mitt voted for it.

00:31:17.860 Yeah.

00:31:18.160 I mean, I was trying to think.

00:31:19.360 You're stumping me here.

00:31:20.620 I was like, all right, I got to go with a really good name here.

00:31:22.920 Okay, so I'll give you even better than that.

00:31:25.480 So number one, we had Joni Ernst, which is not shocking.

00:31:27.660 Joni's a good friend.

00:31:28.380 We do a lot together.

00:31:29.480 And John Fetterman.

00:31:31.080 So this was Cruz Manchin, Ernst Fetterman.

00:31:34.920 That's interesting.

00:31:36.160 That's an interesting dinner right there.

00:31:38.540 Y'all should do that.

00:31:39.700 So we had a vote on it.

00:31:41.260 Do you know what the vote was?

00:31:42.860 What was it?

00:31:44.260 85 to 14.

00:31:46.460 So we didn't just win.

00:31:47.840 We won by a massive margin, 85 to 14.

00:31:52.560 And so that's now part of the National Defense Authorization Act.

00:31:56.680 When this bill passes into law, which I believe it's going to,

00:32:00.020 the Biden administration will no longer be able to sell oil

00:32:03.120 from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China or to Russia

00:32:07.420 or to North Korea or to Iran.

00:32:09.580 Now, 14 people voted no.

00:32:11.820 The lead Democrat who opposed me is Chris Murphy,

00:32:14.320 very, very liberal senator from Connecticut.

00:32:16.540 And what's the reasoning for not just him,

00:32:18.840 but the other 14 to oppose this?

00:32:21.600 Well, let me give you their own reasoning.

00:32:23.180 So in the last Congress, I went to the Senate floor

00:32:25.420 and I tried to pass this by unanimous consent.

00:32:27.660 And one of the ways you get things passed in the Senate

00:32:29.760 is you can pass it by unanimous consent where you stand up

00:32:32.800 and if nobody objects, it passes.

00:32:34.360 And a lot of stuff gets passed that way.

00:32:36.360 So I went to the Senate floor.

00:32:37.820 I said, look, this is basic common sense.

00:32:39.440 No one should object.

00:32:40.220 Let's pass this.

00:32:41.480 Chris Murphy from Connecticut came and objected.

00:32:44.560 And one of the things I argued is I said, look,

00:32:47.180 there's a war waging in Ukraine right now.

00:32:50.480 We should not be selling oil to our enemies.

00:32:52.920 If anything, we should be selling to our friends

00:32:55.020 and not enriching our enemies.

00:32:57.860 Chris Murphy countered with Democrat legislation

00:33:00.440 that would prohibit all sales of oil and gas,

00:33:04.280 not just from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

00:33:06.200 but from any private entity in the United States

00:33:08.380 to any foreign nation.

00:33:11.520 And the two of us had a debate on the Senate floor

00:33:14.260 where I said, wait a second,

00:33:15.240 I'm standing up saying America should not send oil

00:33:18.160 to our enemies.

00:33:20.480 Yeah, makes sense.

00:33:21.620 I think it makes common sense.

00:33:22.120 This isn't crazy, right?

00:33:23.640 The Democrats are countering with,

00:33:26.600 we shouldn't sell oil to our friends.

00:33:29.660 We should tell our friends, our allies,

00:33:32.140 nope, you can't have any of our oil.

00:33:34.220 And we should force our allies.

00:33:36.660 We should force Europe.

00:33:38.280 Sorry, you got to buy from Russia 1.00

00:33:39.940 because the idiot Democrats in Washington 1.00

00:33:42.920 don't want to sell you American oil. 1.00

00:33:44.800 So go put money in Putin's coffers.

00:33:46.560 It was truly insane.

00:33:49.080 And yet Chris Murphy doubled down.

00:33:50.760 But I got to say, when we came to a vote,

00:33:52.980 85-14 is a pretty good margin.

00:33:55.600 Yeah, that's a big margin.

00:33:56.840 And it's also really an issue,

00:33:58.800 as you just described it, of national security.

00:34:01.500 Yes.

00:34:01.700 And this, when people that don't understand

00:34:04.180 the national security aspect of this,

00:34:06.060 if we sell our oil to our adversaries

00:34:10.360 and we get low on our strategic oil reserves,

00:34:13.780 that's a double whammy from us

00:34:15.720 from a national security standpoint.

00:34:18.300 No, that's exactly right.

00:34:19.900 And China is in the middle of amassing 0.93

00:34:21.840 an enormous reservoir of oil

00:34:26.580 precisely because they want to be

00:34:28.880 in a strong national security position.

00:34:31.160 So when the Biden administration

00:34:32.920 is selling oil to China,

00:34:34.160 they are weakening America and helping China, 0.99

00:34:36.900 which is why the Senate overwhelmingly said,

00:34:39.780 stop doing that.

00:34:41.160 And I got to say,

00:34:41.820 it says a lot that Senate Democrats voted

00:34:43.600 to say, Joe Biden, stop doing that.

00:34:45.980 Yeah.

00:34:46.740 And that shouldn't be very controversial at all.

00:34:49.980 A big win on this one.

00:34:51.560 Congratulations on the leadership

00:34:52.940 also being bipartisan.

00:34:54.300 And it's also amazing that 14 people

00:34:56.860 would vote against this.

00:34:57.800 But welcome to these strange times

00:34:59.300 in Washington, D.C.

00:35:00.640 Senator, one last thing.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 26, 2023

Emergency Hearing-Fed Judge Says Hunter Biden's Lawyers May Have LIED, plus the WH Backtracks, Implicitly Admits Joe Biden LIED about Overseas Business Deals with Son Hunter

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