Verdict with Ted Cruz - April 21, 2023


＂Hunter Biden Probe Is Being Mishandled＂, IRS Supervisor Says In Letter to Lawmakers- Lawyer Says ＂Client Has Info Regarding 'Investigation Of High Profile Controversial Subject'＂


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ben Fergus (D-New Jersey) join me to discuss a new report from CBS Evening News on a whistleblower who has come forward with information that points the finger at the Biden family.

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00:00:05.120 Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:08.960 Senator, I don't know if we call this a rapture alert,
00:00:13.640 but the media actually did some real reporting.
00:00:18.000 This coming from CBS Evening News,
00:00:21.860 they are now reporting on a bombshell IRS whistleblower report
00:00:27.940 in the Hunter Biden investigation.
00:00:31.240 There is an attorney representing someone with the IRS
00:00:34.480 that wants to come forward as a whistleblower.
00:00:37.140 Before I play this audio,
00:00:39.280 can you explain to everybody the legal aspect of this
00:00:43.540 when you're asking for whistleblower status?
00:00:45.980 Who grants that to you?
00:00:47.760 What does that allow you to do?
00:00:49.520 And why is an attorney involved this early on?
00:00:52.060 Well, we have a senior supervisory agent at the IRS
00:00:59.600 who is coming forward and saying that he or she
00:01:03.080 has incriminating information,
00:01:05.460 information about the IRS's investigation into Hunter Biden
00:01:09.860 and information that demonstrates that the IRS
00:01:14.480 has been giving political favoritism to Hunter Biden. 0.92
00:01:18.760 This is a big damn deal. 0.86
00:01:20.380 Now, under federal law, whistleblowers are protected. 0.96
00:01:24.380 Whistleblowers are protected from being fired.
00:01:26.340 So this individual presumably doesn't want to lose his or her job.
00:01:31.220 And if you are granted whistleblower status,
00:01:35.460 the agency cannot fire you.
00:01:38.500 They cannot retaliate against you.
00:01:40.180 They cannot punish you
00:01:41.500 because you have highlighted a illegality,
00:01:46.740 a breaking of the law.
00:01:47.720 And so I got to say, this is astonishing, number one,
00:01:51.960 that we've got a courageous senior official, career official at the IRS
00:01:58.200 who is standing up and calling out the political misconduct
00:02:02.500 of the Biden appointees.
00:02:04.600 But number two, even more amazing,
00:02:07.780 is you've got a major media outlet, CBS News,
00:02:13.260 who's reporting on it.
00:02:15.100 And so it's worth just let's listen right now to what CBS News had to say here.
00:02:21.140 There is breaking news in the federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's tax returns.
00:02:26.420 An attorney for an IRS supervisor sent a letter to lawmakers today
00:02:30.260 asking for whistleblower protection,
00:02:33.140 saying his client has information that suggests the investigation is being improperly influenced
00:02:38.740 by, quote, preferential treatment and politics.
00:02:42.280 Here's CBS News chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod.
00:02:47.180 My client wants to come forward to Congress.
00:02:49.960 He's ready to be questioned about what he knows
00:02:52.280 and what he experienced under the proper legal protections.
00:02:55.980 Attorney Mark Lytle's client is a supervisory special agent at the IRS
00:03:00.140 who's prepared to tell Congress the investigation he's been working on
00:03:04.620 has been hampered by what he thinks is special treatment.
00:03:08.720 Typical steps that a law enforcement investigator would take
00:03:12.440 were compromised because of political considerations.
00:03:16.720 Lytle wouldn't talk in specifics,
00:03:18.640 declining to identify either his client
00:03:20.780 or the target of the investigation his client helped conduct.
00:03:24.680 Can you identify him?
00:03:26.240 I can't at this stage, Jim.
00:03:28.260 But CBS News has learned the investigation the whistleblower worked on
00:03:32.120 is about Hunter Biden.
00:03:34.000 What we're doing is is being completely cooperative.
00:03:37.100 That was Biden two years ago after the DOJ opened an investigation into his finances.
00:03:43.320 The FBI collected what it believed was sufficient evidence to charge Biden with tax crimes.
00:03:48.960 And last year, Senate's findings to the U.S. attorney in Delaware.
00:03:53.360 Since then, silence.
00:03:56.600 Senator, you hear them say this on CBS.
00:04:00.300 Yes, this is, I think, clearly significant because the fact that they're doing it,
00:04:06.860 dedicating a minute and 39 seconds to it and explaining it this way
00:04:11.440 while they're interviewing this attorney.
00:04:13.860 Is it fair to say now that the Biden family is no longer able to control this story
00:04:19.380 and is losing their grip on the media protecting them at all costs like they did with a Hunter Biden laptop story
00:04:25.940 saying, we refuse to touch it?
00:04:27.980 Well, I hope so.
00:04:29.620 As I listen to that story, my immediate reactions are up is down.
00:04:37.660 The sky is green.
00:04:39.560 Grass is blue.
00:04:41.520 And cats and dogs are living together in the end times.
00:04:46.340 And I say that because you've got CBS actually reporting on serious evidence of corruption by Joe Biden's family.
00:04:59.680 The corrupt corporate media has not been willing to report on that.
00:05:02.980 As you noted, when it came to Hunter Biden's laptop, CBS and ABC and NBC, along with CNN and MSNBC,
00:05:09.620 along with the Washington Post, the New York Times and all of the corporate media engaged in a blackout
00:05:16.300 of any reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop in the two weeks before the 2020 election.
00:05:23.420 And they did so at the behest of the FBI, at the behest of the intelligence agencies.
00:05:29.620 And they did so in close concert with big tech that actively suppressed Facebook, Twitter.
00:05:37.480 They suppressed any references to Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:05:43.700 They blocked the New York Post, the newspaper with the fifth largest circulation in the United States,
00:05:50.080 from posting until they withdrew their story on Hunter Biden's laptop, a story that was true.
00:06:01.240 And yet it was politically inconvenient to the media.
00:06:04.760 You look at this story.
00:06:07.380 And if you just go back to our podcast on Wednesday and if you missed it, go back and listen to it.
00:06:13.400 But there was big breaking news center that deals with the Biden crime family, obviously,
00:06:19.480 and the expansion of the number of people that were on the take with the last name Biden.
00:06:23.920 But also there was these suspicious activity reports that apparently have connections to prostitution rings,
00:06:29.780 to Chinese business dealings worth astronomical sums of money.
00:06:34.220 Every time, as you described it, you flip over a rock.
00:06:37.220 There's another Biden on the take.
00:06:39.300 This story with a potential whistleblower at the IRS has nothing to do with that story that we covered on Wednesday.
00:06:46.280 Go back and listen to it.
00:06:47.580 But if you are the White House tonight, what's going through your head now knowing you have these types of stories coming out in consecutive days?
00:06:57.800 Look, this has been an exceptionally bad week for the White House.
00:07:01.480 I'll say one word, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine.
00:07:07.020 Our last podcast on Wednesday, if you didn't listen to it, go back and listen to Wednesday's podcast.
00:07:12.860 We laid out the evidence that the House committee investigating this corruption went to the Treasury Department.
00:07:20.920 They reviewed the suspicious activity reports.
00:07:23.780 And they came out and said that there was evidence that nine total Biden family members were on the take, were getting paid, getting paid from communist China and getting paid to the tune of millions of dollars.
00:07:42.160 We also know that Congresswoman Nancy May said the evidence indicated their involvement with prostitution rings.
00:07:51.240 Now, that is, you want to talk about a bombshell, salacious claims.
00:07:56.400 I don't know what truth or falsity there is to that.
00:08:01.200 I don't know if the Biden family was involved in prostitution rings. 0.99
00:08:06.100 But what Congresswoman May said is that the Treasury suspicious activity reports demonstrated that the Biden family was profiting from those.
00:08:16.240 What I called for on Wednesday, what I called for on Wednesday, I'm going to call for again right now, is Janet Yellen should release every one of those suspicious activity reports. 0.97
00:08:28.140 Let the American people see, is Joe Biden corrupt?
00:08:33.780 Is Hunter Biden corrupt?
00:08:36.180 Is the entire Biden family on the take from the communist Chinese party?
00:08:41.740 And by the way, if you're inclined to discount what I'm saying, listen, I'm a conservative Republican.
00:08:52.400 I don't support Joe Biden.
00:08:54.640 I don't support the agenda that he's putting in place that I think is very harmful for the country.
00:08:59.400 But the fact that CBS News is now reporting on this, that you've got a senior career employee at the IRS, not a political appointee, but a career appointee, who's coming forward saying something is rotten in the state of Denmark, that is a big, big deal.
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00:10:43.920 Senator, I want you to hear what Representative Comer had to say.
00:10:46.600 He was talking with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business.
00:10:49.180 He was talking about these six additional Biden family members that have been involved in shady foreign transactions.
00:10:56.540 He was clearly using and choosing his words carefully.
00:10:59.660 You can hear it kind of in the way he was talking, because I think he was even shocked by what they found in these suspicious activity reports.
00:11:07.580 Take a listen.
00:11:08.260 There are thousands of pages of documents relating to financial transactions.
00:11:13.780 And let me be very clear.
00:11:15.280 This isn't just about the president's son or the president's brother.
00:11:19.140 We've identified six new Biden family members involved in shady foreign transactions that we believe were a direct result of influence peddling.
00:11:30.560 That brings the number of Biden family members now to nine that were involved in the Biden family influence peddling.
00:11:38.060 And we still have more family members that we suspect were involved.
00:11:41.680 So this is a family affair.
00:11:44.380 This is something that should be troubling to every American.
00:11:46.820 And what we've learned from from going through these records are there are a lot of additional LLCs, a lot of additional bank accounts that we didn't know prior to going to the Treasury cabinet.
00:11:57.340 So we've learned a lot.
00:11:58.880 This investigation is ongoing.
00:12:00.500 But I can tell you without hesitation, it's very serious.
00:12:03.960 And the president of the United States is going to have a very hard time explaining how so many of his family members have received so much money from our adversaries around the world.
00:12:13.980 Senator, I mean, he talks about our adversaries around the world is where the money is coming in from.
00:12:21.180 This isn't just grabbing cash from individuals.
00:12:24.980 This is grabbing cash directly from people that you know that the United States of America is adversaries, people that want to harm us, that want to hurt us.
00:12:32.960 We're talking about you go back to Russia and people forget this.
00:12:36.400 It is a fact that Hunter Biden and the Biden crime family took money from the former mayor of Moscow's wife, who is a Russian oligarch, who is one of two different people that we know of that have given money to the Biden family who have still not been sanctioned in the list of sanctions that are coming out against people in Russia.
00:12:58.120 There are people that have been screaming about that as well.
00:13:02.040 You've got money coming in from China and other parts around the world.
00:13:06.000 And they're saying and he said thousands of pages of records now of suspicious activity reports of these bank accounts.
00:13:12.560 Is there anything now that would shock you?
00:13:15.140 You know, I wish there was.
00:13:17.160 I'd say the biggest thing that shocks me is that CBS is reporting on this.
00:13:21.580 That has not happened.
00:13:23.100 And that is a break in the dam that is significant.
00:13:26.780 Look, it's important to underscore the concern with Hunter Biden, the concern with with the Biden family is not their own personal circumstance.
00:13:37.100 It's not Hunter Biden's long chronicled struggle with drug addiction.
00:13:42.140 Many people deal with addictions.
00:13:45.120 Most American families have at least one person that has faced serious issues of that nature.
00:13:51.260 The concern instead is about official corruption by Joe Biden.
00:13:57.960 And the thing that is important to keep your eye on is this is all about Joe and the partisans in the Department of Justice and the administration who want to protect Joe Biden are going to do everything they can to shine the focus off of Joe Biden.
00:14:16.180 So when it comes to Hunter, it's easy to put together an indictment that indicts him on personal tax fraud claims.
00:14:25.420 He was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in connection to all of his conduct with foreign countries.
00:14:34.280 And by all appearances, he failed to report much of that income.
00:14:38.280 And so I think it's an easy IRS claim that that that is quite likely to be brought against him.
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00:15:16.940 I want to move to another issue, Senator, and that is on the border crisis.
00:15:21.000 This is another big story.
00:15:23.440 Obviously, being a senator from Texas, this is something that you've been seeing firsthand.
00:15:28.560 The just total abuse by this administration to look the other way and lie to the American people,
00:15:34.880 claiming that they've got things under control at the border. 0.98
00:15:38.220 One of the dumbest things that I've heard was, again, reiterated today by Mayorkas. 0.94
00:15:43.580 In his testimony, he said today that the border is secure. 0.99
00:15:49.340 That's a lie.
00:15:50.340 We know it from the data.
00:15:51.600 But here he is again saying it again today.
00:15:54.000 It is my testimony that the border is secure, and we are working every day, day and night, to increase its security.
00:16:02.660 The challenges that we are experiencing at the border cannot be overstated.
00:16:08.200 Senator, we know that's a lie.
00:16:10.220 We have a record number of individuals coming across our southern border.
00:16:14.800 You've been saying this for a long time now and blowing the whistle on just how bad things are at the border.
00:16:21.500 And he sits there and goes, oh, no, it's secure.
00:16:23.600 It's secure.
00:16:24.300 Everything's fine.
00:16:25.020 It's secure.
00:16:25.500 Well, I've got to say, I wonder if Alejandro Mayorkas and Merrick Garland have a bar bet for who can be the most brazenly dishonest to Congress.
00:16:39.040 And if they have a bar bet, I'm not sure who's going to win because each time one steps forward, the other seems to want to one-up him.
00:16:46.600 Now, in this instance, let me just ask the counterfactual.
00:16:52.140 If the border is secure today, what would it look like if it wasn't secure?
00:16:59.200 Like we have today the worst illegal immigration in the history of our country. 0.72
00:17:06.820 Over six million people have crossed illegally under Joe Biden.
00:17:10.920 Yet Mayorkas claims the border is secure.
00:17:13.300 Karine Jean-Pierre, the paid liar on behalf of the Biden White House, stood up and said at the White House podium, nobody walks across the border.
00:17:27.880 That's just not happening.
00:17:31.060 That's not a small lie.
00:17:34.760 It's not a medium lie.
00:17:36.080 It is a brazen, in-your-face, bold-face and bald-face lie.
00:17:45.420 As I've talked about on this podcast before, when you go down to our southern border, and I go down to our southern border frequently, and you go out on midnight patrol, when you go out with the border patrol, you don't have to spend hours hunting for illegal immigrants.
00:18:02.340 You go to the border, and inevitably, within minutes, you encounter groups of illegal aliens walking across the border.
00:18:13.080 What Karine Jean-Pierre claimed is disproven every hour of every day that Joe Biden is president.
00:18:21.220 And when they come across the border and they see you, they don't run, they don't hide, they come and seek you out, and they turn themselves into you.
00:18:31.240 So I've had multiple groups of illegal immigrants turn themselves into me, and they show up, they've got a Ziploc bag with them.
00:18:39.040 They've got typically some form of identification with their name, and then they have a phone number or an email or an address of somebody in the United States, and they go look for a border patrol agent, and they turn themselves in.
00:18:53.520 Why do they do that?
00:18:54.420 They do that because they know that the Biden administration is the last mile of the human trafficking network.
00:19:03.080 And when they turn themselves in, Alejandro Mayorkas, who claims the border is secure, this has not happened, do not pay attention to the 6 million people crossing, Mayorkas will put them on a bus or a plane and send them to any city in America where they desire to go.
00:19:21.960 And every city in America today is a front line city in the war on drugs, in the war on Mexican drug cartels, and in the chaos at the southern border.
00:19:35.260 And Mayorkas, I've never seen anyone like him who is so willing to lie without a tinge of guilt, a tinge of integrity.
00:19:48.380 You know, a few weeks ago when Mayorkas testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I told him, if you had even a shred of integrity, you would resign.
00:20:00.000 He hasn't resigned, and the implication is obvious.
00:20:04.140 He took a lot of heat at this hearing, and I want to play another back and forth with Mayorkas where he got very defensive.
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00:21:30.280 Senator, there was another back and forth, and this was really calling out Mayorkas for not agreeing, having a Border Patrol chief that is basically telling the truth about the border and testimony,
00:21:45.120 and then Mayorkas lying, putting him at odds with a person he's supposed to be agreeing with.
00:21:50.660 Not a single Democrat came to the hearing that we had in McAllen, Texas, and Chief Ortiz said that the border is not secure.
00:21:59.040 Do you disagree with Chief Ortiz?
00:22:01.700 Congressman, let me return to what you said.
00:22:04.860 Accountability is brought in a court of law.
00:22:07.360 Mr. Mayorkas.
00:22:07.860 I delivered accountability for 12 years.
00:22:10.120 Mr. Mayorkas, do you disagree with the head Border Patrol agent when he said that our border is not secure?
00:22:16.300 Congressman, I have testified to that issue.
00:22:18.320 So you do disagree with him?
00:22:19.940 You disagree with your chief of Border Patrol?
00:22:22.780 I respectfully do in that regard, Congressman.
00:22:24.360 You do.
00:22:25.500 I mean, Senator, your reaction to that, he's saying, I disagree with my own Border Patrol chief.
00:22:30.820 He testified, you know, we do not have operational control of the southern border.
00:22:35.860 You've said this.
00:22:36.920 We don't have operational control of the southern border.
00:22:39.380 It's wide open with more illegal immigrants coming across the border than we've ever had before.
00:22:43.820 This is not complicated.
00:22:47.060 When you have the worst border crisis in our nation's history, for the secretary of DHS to say the border is secure and we have operational control, it is utterly brazen.
00:23:00.060 It is a lie.
00:23:01.180 And by the way, it's not just an objective lie in the aggregate.
00:23:05.800 It's also an objective lie compared to previously.
00:23:10.480 One of the lines that Democrats and the media are trying to push is, well, immigration is too big a problem.
00:23:16.680 We just can't solve it.
00:23:17.860 There are no solutions.
00:23:18.980 So it's not Biden's fault.
00:23:20.140 It's just the world's messed up.
00:23:21.740 And it wouldn't matter if we had a Republican or Democrat as president. 0.67
00:23:25.040 This would be a problem.
00:23:26.740 We know that's a lie.
00:23:28.240 Because the last year of the Trump presidency, 2020, we had the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years.
00:23:41.380 What we were doing was working, and it was three decisions.
00:23:44.840 Build the wall, end, catch, and release, and enter the Remain in Mexico agreement, the historic agreement.
00:23:51.120 And that worked so incredibly well, where illegal immigrants stopped making the incredibly dangerous trek north, where they are over and over again physically abused, sexually abused.
00:24:04.760 We saw those numbers plummet under Donald Trump.
00:24:08.660 Fast forward to January of 2021, Joe Biden sworn in as president.
00:24:13.000 And almost to the day that Biden takes the oath of office, the numbers explode.
00:24:18.620 And they've continued going up and up and up and up.
00:24:22.020 And it is not inadvertent.
00:24:24.860 It is not an unexpected side effect.
00:24:27.800 The Biden administration wants to maximize the number of illegal immigrants entering this country.
00:24:34.560 And if you look at what Mayorkas is doing at DHS, not only is he not trying to stop illegal immigration,
00:24:42.440 his entire objective is to expedite illegal immigration, to make it more efficient.
00:24:48.620 To make it quicker and faster.
00:24:50.620 To make the turnstile whirr with speed.
00:24:54.520 And he doesn't care about the 853 migrants who died trying to cross illegally last year.
00:24:59.620 When I questioned him about it, he had no idea how many migrants had died.
00:25:03.200 He doesn't care. 0.91
00:25:04.180 He doesn't care about the women being sexually assaulted by the cartels.
00:25:09.360 He doesn't care about that at all. 0.99
00:25:10.460 He doesn't care about the children being physically assaulted, being raped, being sexually assaulted. 0.93
00:25:17.440 None of that matters.
00:25:18.780 He doesn't care about the dead bodies that are abandoned on Texas farms and ranches
00:25:23.120 by cruel cartels who do not give a damn about the people they're trafficking.
00:25:29.040 All this administration cares about is, number one, appeasing the radical left advocates.
00:25:36.980 And number two, they view every one of the millions of illegal immigrants coming into this country
00:25:41.680 as future, I don't even, maybe even present day, Democrat voters.
00:25:47.720 And so in the interest of politics, they're willing to subjugate every other interest.
00:25:55.660 They're willing to subjugate humanitarian interests, national security interests, protecting ourselves from drug interests.
00:26:02.900 All of this is less important to this White House than the political objectives of giving the radical far left open borders crazies everything they want.
00:26:14.640 Senator Mayorkas also says they're doing so very much, quote, to gain operational control at the southern border,
00:26:23.520 contradicting himself because last month he said they were delivering, quote, effective results.
00:26:29.980 Now, to be clear, you have 6.3 plus million illegal immigrants that have crossed the border since Biden took office.
00:26:38.040 The question you got to ask yourself is, all right, Mayorkas, which one is it?
00:26:41.720 And here's what he had to say now compared to a month ago.
00:26:45.020 That we use, I use a lens of reasonableness in defining operational control.
00:26:50.920 Are we maximizing the resources that we have to deliver the most effective results?
00:26:57.360 And under that definition, we are doing so very much to gain operational control.
00:27:03.600 So that is my response.
00:27:05.300 So, Senator, was he lying when he was talking to you guys in the Senate last month, or is he lying now when he's talking to the House?
00:27:14.000 Which one is it?
00:27:15.480 It's not an either or.
00:27:17.280 He was lying both times.
00:27:19.600 Mayorkas has demonstrated he's perfectly willing to take an oath to raise his right hand to swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
00:27:27.940 And then to break that oath over and over and over again.
00:27:33.840 We have the highest rate of illegal immigration in the history of our nation.
00:27:40.620 For Mayorkas to claim everything is fine, it is every bit as delusional as CNN standing outside of buildings on fire and describing the burning buildings as a mostly peaceful protest.
00:27:54.280 It is politics, it is not truth, it is not describing the world, it is not trying to accurately report on the world.
00:28:03.580 It is engaging in political deception and misdirection.
00:28:08.900 And I've got to say, today, if Alejandro Mayorkas wanted to secure the border, he could.
00:28:15.960 It's not complicated how to do so.
00:28:19.560 We know this because we did so.
00:28:22.420 We succeeded, let me repeat it again, in 2010, or rather in 2020, the last year of the Trump administration.
00:28:33.160 We had the lowest rate of the illegal immigration in 45 years.
00:28:39.920 Joe Biden and Mayorkas made the decision to end that because they are captive to and following the directions of the radical left-wing open borders zealots who believe we have no right to secure our border.
00:28:56.920 If you look at what Mayorkas is doing, listen, go down to the border and talk to border patrol agents.
00:29:02.740 I've got to tell you, those guys despise Mayorkas. 0.80
00:29:07.220 They loathe him.
00:29:08.300 Why?
00:29:09.200 Imagine for a second, let's say you're a border patrol agent, Ben.
00:29:12.680 You go out late-night patrol.
00:29:16.100 You're risking your life.
00:29:18.220 You apprehend a dangerous human trafficker, a dangerous drug dealer.
00:29:23.540 You bring them in.
00:29:24.600 You feel good.
00:29:25.300 Okay, I'm protecting America.
00:29:27.060 I'm keeping my children safe.
00:29:29.040 I'm keeping my community safe.
00:29:30.860 And your political superiors turn around and say, we're not going to charge him.
00:29:36.220 Let him go.
00:29:38.060 That is happening every day.
00:29:42.220 And yet they say that this border is secure.
00:29:46.000 Clearly, it's not.
00:29:47.360 The New York Times, and this goes back to what we were talking about earlier with the media, seems to be now not necessarily turning on Bidens, but not covering for them anymore and their failures.
00:29:58.020 Whether it's the Biden crime family or now with this issue of the border, they actually came out with a report today and a big, deep dive titled,
00:30:06.860 As migrant children were put to work, U.S. ignored warnings. 0.83
00:30:11.740 The White House and federal agencies were repeatedly alerted to signs of children at risk.
00:30:17.620 The warnings were ignored or missed in 2021 as images of children sleeping under foil blankets and overflow centers dominated the news.
00:30:25.660 Susan Rice, the White House head of domestic policy, told staff members she was frustrated with the situation, according to five people who worked with her.
00:30:34.100 Ms. Rice vented in a note she scribbled on a memo detailing the position of advocates who believed a pandemic-era border closure was compelling parents to send unaccompanied children, sometimes called UCs, to the U.S.
00:30:48.200 She said, in her words, apparently on this memo pad, this is BS, Ms. R.
00:30:54.220 Ice wrote, according to a copy of a memo reviewed by the Times, what is leading to voluntary separation is our generosity to UCs.
00:31:05.560 This is their own words.
00:31:07.140 They knew that they were encouraging this to happen, and they knew their policies were encouraging it, and they knew it was putting kids' lives at risk.
00:31:15.580 Of course they did. 0.99
00:31:17.220 These people aren't stupid. 1.00
00:31:19.540 They're zealous. 0.99
00:31:20.380 Every decision that has been carried out by this administration on immigration has been designed to increase illegal immigration.
00:31:32.640 When they refuse to prosecute people for crossing illegally, when they engage in catch and release.
00:31:38.580 So what does catch and release mean functionally?
00:31:40.400 Someone crosses illegally.
00:31:42.360 They get apprehended.
00:31:43.940 Usually they've turned themselves into Border Patrol agents.
00:31:46.320 And the Biden administration gives them a date, sometime months or years in the future, a court date.
00:31:53.600 And they say, hey, please come back for the court date.
00:31:56.180 And the overwhelming majority of those illegal immigrants, when they let them go, they're never seen again. 1.00
00:32:00.720 They don't show up to court.
00:32:03.560 Everybody knows this. 1.00
00:32:05.360 It's not like the Biden people are stupid. 1.00
00:32:07.540 They don't know this. 1.00
00:32:08.720 The reason they're doing this, they do not want to stop illegal immigration.
00:32:14.260 And it's a combination of two things.
00:32:17.480 One, the pattern of the Biden administration on every issue is they've handed the agenda over to the radical left-wing extremes.
00:32:26.760 On energy, they listen to the Green New Deal extremes. 0.55
00:32:29.600 On the border, they listen to the open border extremes.
00:32:32.900 On gender issues, they listen to the radical transgender extremes who want to do sterilizing surgeries on children because that is their zealotry. 0.99
00:32:44.160 Now, by the way, the positions that all of those extremes urge upon the Biden administration, that more and more the administration is adopting, those positions are wildly unpopular.
00:32:58.080 But this is all about politics.
00:33:01.800 And so Mayorkas knows that he's lying and he does not care.
00:33:07.920 It's incredible.
00:33:08.900 We just got a letter, and I love that we do this show live and sometimes news breaks while we're doing it.
00:33:15.100 That letter has just been released by the attorney, Mark Litter, the partner who is trying to, or is representing, I should say, the whistleblower at the IRS with Hunter Biden.
00:33:25.360 And this whistleblower saying he has information.
00:33:28.140 I want to read that to you, Senator, in just a moment.
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00:34:55.940 Senator, lastly, this letter has just been released, and again, this is the IRS special agent is allegedly overseeing an investigation to Hunter Biden is requesting whistleblower protection.
00:35:08.420 The whistleblower claims their disclosures contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee involve failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case and detail examples of preferential treatment.
00:35:27.300 The letter was sent to Dick Durbin, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, the Honorable Jason Smith, the Honorable Richard Neal, the Honorable Jim Jordan, the Honorable Jerry Nadler.
00:35:39.000 It says, Dear Chairs and Ranking Members, I represent a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent who has been overseeing the ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile controversial subject since early 2020,
00:35:52.240 and would like to make protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress.
00:35:56.500 Despite serious risks of retaliation, my client is offering to provide you with the information necessary to exercise your constitutional oversight function
00:36:05.200 and wishes to make the disclosures in a nonpartisan manner to the leadership of the relevant committees on both sides of the political aisle.
00:36:13.140 My client has already made legally protected disclosures internally at the IRS through counsel to the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General.
00:36:29.300 The protected disclosures contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee, involve failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,
00:36:40.440 and detail examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subjects were not politically connected.
00:36:59.320 Some of the protected disclosures contain information that is restricted by statute from unauthorized disclosure to protect taxpayer and tax return information.
00:37:12.000 Senator, you're hearing this for the first time as I was reading it for the first time.
00:37:15.900 You see a lawyer come out this strongly with this, telling this many people publicly that they know about it, this many sections of government now know about this.
00:37:25.920 Is there any way that he doesn't get whistleblower protection at this point?
00:37:32.200 I think he's very likely to get whistleblower protection.
00:37:35.640 I think it is important.
00:37:36.700 Let me speak out to all of the career employees in the Biden administration, all of the employees in the IRS, the Department of Justice, the FBI,
00:37:46.480 all of the employees that have seen institutions that you love and respect and many of you devoted your entire life to.
00:37:53.020 And these institutions are being corrupted.
00:37:56.020 It's what my last book, Justice Corrupted, talks about.
00:37:59.240 How first Obama and then the deep state under Trump and now under Joe Biden, the mechanisms of force in our society,
00:38:10.740 whether it is the armed forces, whether it is the police, whether it is protecting our fundamental liberties,
00:38:19.900 the mechanisms of force, the Biden administration supports their having the power to strip your liberties.
00:38:28.620 And that, I think, is incredibly dangerous.
00:38:32.420 Senator, we're going to keep following this.
00:38:34.240 If you are a listener, a verdict, make sure you hit that subscribe, that auto download button as well.
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00:38:44.720 We give you a lot more details on the on the Biden crime family and the new number going to a total of nine members of the family.
00:38:52.020 They're apparently on the take from these different business schemes that they've come up with over the over the last several decades.
00:38:58.460 Let me jump in and repeat that word nine, nine, nine.
00:39:03.260 I want every one of our listeners to ask, is there any universe where you can imagine nine members of your family receiving substantial sums in the aggregate millions of dollars from communist China?
00:39:18.140 That is weird.
00:39:19.520 I don't know of anybody else for whom that is true other than Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
00:39:26.400 And CBS has been willing to start reporting on some of this, although it's interesting.
00:39:31.400 What they reported on was directed still to Hunter Biden's misconduct.
00:39:36.580 It was not to Joe Biden's.
00:39:38.760 To date, the media does not want to report on the big guy, on his corruption.
00:39:43.860 They still want to scapegoat Hunter Biden rather than get to what is the real news and the real top topic of public concern.
00:39:53.340 No doubt about it.
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