Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 09, 2024


Media Ignores Hunter Biden Testimony, JAN6 Sentences Reduced, & Biden Sidelines Border Issue for 40MINS in SOTU Speech Week In Review


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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergus bring you the biggest political stories you may have missed this week. First up, shocking testimony from Hunter Biden, and there was no coverage from the media as they were obsessed with the SOTU. Also, lower sentences for January 6th offenders. Why did their sentences get reduced? Because of corruption with the Biden prosecutors. And finally, Biden doesn t cover border security until 40 minutes into a State of the Union speech.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.540 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.060 It was a massive week in political news.
00:00:08.700 Welcome, it's Verdict with Ted Cruz,
00:00:10.560 Ben Ferguson with you,
00:00:11.780 and these are the big stories that you may have missed
00:00:14.340 that we talked about this week.
00:00:16.560 First up, shocking testimony from Hunter Biden,
00:00:19.440 and there was no coverage from the media
00:00:21.500 as they were obsessed with the State of the Union.
00:00:23.920 Also, lower sentences for January 6th offenders.
00:00:28.000 Why did their sentences get reduced?
00:00:30.700 Because of corruption with the Biden prosecutors.
00:00:34.620 And finally, Biden doesn't cover border security
00:00:38.300 until 40 minutes into a State of the Union speech.
00:00:42.120 It is the Week in Review, and it starts right now.
00:00:45.700 There's an impeachment inquiry that's happening
00:00:48.040 of the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.
00:00:50.860 The media is acting like it's not happening at all.
00:00:53.820 Most people that listen to the show,
00:00:55.120 if you're not listening to the show,
00:00:57.240 you may not even know this is even happening.
00:01:00.040 There was really some shocking testimony
00:01:02.740 that happened last week in the House,
00:01:06.920 and info that was coming out from people
00:01:09.360 that were having to sit in front of this committee,
00:01:12.100 including the President's son, Hunter Biden.
00:01:15.520 He had some admissions,
00:01:16.720 and the media refused to touch this story altogether.
00:01:19.380 You wouldn't even know it was happening
00:01:20.680 if you watched the nightly news.
00:01:21.940 Well, that's exactly right.
00:01:24.440 So Joe Biden, in the 2020 presidential election,
00:01:28.120 he insisted Hunter had not made money from China.
00:01:32.080 Well, Hunter has now admitted that was a lie.
00:01:35.640 Now, he tried hard not to, but he admitted it anyway.
00:01:38.640 And so deposition testimony was released,
00:01:41.120 and let me read some of it.
00:01:42.500 Question, your father went while he was running for president
00:01:46.520 and said his family never received any money from China.
00:01:49.040 Your father, answer yes, has also said, answer you're right.
00:01:55.240 He's never received, he's never interacted
00:01:57.500 with any of your business associates.
00:01:59.180 Is that correct?
00:02:00.340 Yes.
00:02:01.480 But if you introduced him to Yi Ziaming,
00:02:05.360 that would be untrue.
00:02:07.340 No, that is not untrue.
00:02:08.880 I'm telling you this, the question being asked
00:02:11.700 that you're stating is that my father said
00:02:14.640 that I never received any money from China,
00:02:17.000 the government of China.
00:02:18.660 Unlike Jared Kushner, I've never received any money
00:02:21.620 from a foreign government.
00:02:22.760 He, question, he didn't say government of China, by the way.
00:02:27.720 He said China, from China.
00:02:29.960 Well, so understand, okay,
00:02:32.580 this is the sleight of hand he's trying to do.
00:02:36.280 He's claiming now, well,
00:02:38.480 he didn't get money technically
00:02:41.140 from the government of China.
00:02:42.540 It wasn't signed government of China.
00:02:45.540 But here's what he did admit.
00:02:48.420 He shifted it to, well, yeah, of course,
00:02:50.300 I got money from China.
00:02:51.200 It was just a Chinese company
00:02:52.880 controlled by the Chinese government
00:02:55.300 and funded by the Chinese government.
00:02:56.440 But it wasn't from the government of China.
00:02:57.620 It was from a Chinese company.
00:02:59.100 And here's, so the questioning continued.
00:03:01.760 Quote, how many millions have you received
00:03:06.680 from Chinese companies?
00:03:08.120 Because he admitted,
00:03:09.060 and this is the bombshell admissions,
00:03:10.700 I have received money from a Chinese company.
00:03:13.900 How many millions have you received?
00:03:15.620 And he said, well, he didn't know the exact amount,
00:03:18.480 but let me read this exchange.
00:03:20.340 Quote, did you receive money from China or not?
00:03:25.900 Answer, quote, I received money from a Chinese company.
00:03:30.520 Question, how many millions have you received
00:03:35.080 from Chinese companies?
00:03:37.180 Answer, I don't know the exact amount,
00:03:40.740 but I know that it was all completely legal
00:03:42.680 and it was incredibly ethical.
00:03:45.300 What a lie, right?
00:03:46.560 I mean, I'm sorry, I'm taken aback by the quote
00:03:48.980 because it's just so funny.
00:03:50.140 It's like, well, it was, it was,
00:03:52.040 I never did it, I never did it, I never did it.
00:03:53.700 Well, I did it, but it was all legal and ethical
00:03:56.020 and everything was fine.
00:03:56.980 So stop asking questions.
00:03:58.460 How dare you act like we did anything wrong?
00:04:01.200 Incredibly ethical.
00:04:02.280 And this is a guy who photographs himself smoking crack 0.95
00:04:05.660 while being with multiple prostitutes
00:04:08.000 and who's made tens of millions of dollars
00:04:11.160 selling favors from his father
00:04:13.000 who was abusing a position of public trust.
00:04:16.020 But understand, I received money from a Chinese company.
00:04:20.860 This is an admission.
00:04:22.340 And I want us to play what Joe Biden said
00:04:24.400 because I want, because you need to hear
00:04:26.140 how this is directly contrary to what Joe Biden said.
00:04:30.100 My son has not made money
00:04:32.340 in terms of this thing about,
00:04:34.600 what are you talking about, China?
00:04:36.840 I love that, this thing about,
00:04:38.280 what about this thing, oh yeah, China.
00:04:40.280 Like, I mean, what a brilliant move by him
00:04:42.460 during the presidential debates back then
00:04:44.200 where it's like, oh, China,
00:04:46.140 I don't even know what you're talking about. 0.52
00:04:47.300 It's absurd.
00:04:47.940 Look, it's a flat out lie.
00:04:51.500 My son has not made money
00:04:53.420 from what is it this thing you're talking about, China.
00:04:55.800 That's what he said.
00:04:56.940 Now, here's what Hunter said under oath.
00:04:58.720 Quote, I received money from a Chinese company.
00:05:03.660 Those two statements are categorically inconsistent.
00:05:07.920 Joe Biden lied, and he lied in the presidential debate
00:05:11.000 with Donald Trump,
00:05:12.440 and he lied about the corruption of his son.
00:05:15.460 That's what the testimony is.
00:05:16.740 And by the way, did you see that
00:05:18.500 in the 6 o'clock news this week?
00:05:20.160 Nope.
00:05:21.560 Wonder why.
00:05:23.000 Yeah.
00:05:23.440 Well, and there's also,
00:05:24.500 you and I predicted this
00:05:26.420 months and months and months ago,
00:05:28.780 that your favorite WhatsApp text ever,
00:05:31.260 which is, you know, the shakedown
00:05:32.740 with his dad sitting next to him,
00:05:34.320 he was asked about that.
00:05:35.920 And I have to go back to it
00:05:37.440 because it just, it's hysterical.
00:05:39.760 He says, I sent the text,
00:05:42.400 but I was drunk or high.
00:05:44.320 When I sent it, my dad wasn't there.
00:05:47.740 Which is exactly the alibi 0.63
00:05:49.320 we said they were going to use, right?
00:05:51.040 Oh, he was a drunk kid.
00:05:52.500 He was a high kid.
00:05:53.480 They treat him like he's a kid.
00:05:54.620 Not a grown adult in his 50s.
00:05:56.960 You know, now,
00:05:57.600 this is just a addict who was
00:05:59.700 who was desperate for cash
00:06:01.580 and didn't know what he was doing.
00:06:02.840 But it worked.
00:06:03.380 He got the cash.
00:06:04.360 He got the cash.
00:06:05.260 And he's like, oh, my dad wasn't there.
00:06:07.080 Let's just remind people.
00:06:08.560 We could have found out for a fact
00:06:10.980 using GPS data.
00:06:13.140 And we still can't.
00:06:14.300 Oh, we still can't.
00:06:15.500 OK, so explain for everybody
00:06:17.340 how we could still find that
00:06:18.460 and why and who's blocking it
00:06:20.240 from us knowing for the GPS data
00:06:22.380 if daddy was, in fact,
00:06:23.720 sitting next to his son.
00:06:25.160 So listen, it's not complicated.
00:06:27.180 We know the exact date and time
00:06:29.420 that WhatsApp text was sent.
00:06:31.920 And and the investigators,
00:06:35.560 the investigators wanted to subpoena
00:06:39.040 the GPS data on Hunter's phone
00:06:41.280 and Joe's phone.
00:06:42.800 And if they were both
00:06:44.060 in the same location,
00:06:45.120 then it would turn out
00:06:46.780 Hunter was telling the truth
00:06:47.800 that daddy was sitting there.
00:06:49.300 And the IRS whistleblowers
00:06:51.320 blocked that, said,
00:06:53.260 no, you cannot subpoena
00:06:54.780 the GPS location
00:06:56.580 because it would prove
00:06:59.100 that daddy was there
00:07:00.700 and their objective,
00:07:01.760 the Biden Justice Department's
00:07:03.360 objective from day one
00:07:05.100 has been to protect Joe Biden.
00:07:07.460 Look, look, I'll give
00:07:08.540 another example.
00:07:09.720 So so Jim Biden
00:07:10.820 provided testimony
00:07:12.940 about Hunter Biden
00:07:14.500 and had an undisclosed meeting
00:07:16.400 with a corrupt Chinese businessman 0.91
00:07:19.540 whom Hunter has called,
00:07:21.980 and this is Hunter's language,
00:07:22.960 quote, the effing spy chief of China.
00:07:26.700 Yeah, he didn't.
00:07:27.260 He didn't abbreviate effing, but
00:07:28.700 and this in particular
00:07:32.140 was a meeting that occurred
00:07:35.220 in September 2017
00:07:36.460 with Patrick Ho.
00:07:38.800 Patrick Ho was an executive
00:07:40.880 with Chinese energy conglomerate,
00:07:42.760 CEFC.
00:07:43.920 And by the way,
00:07:44.660 CEFC China Energy
00:07:45.860 paid Hunter and Jim Biden
00:07:47.220 five million dollars.
00:07:49.760 So this wasn't a small amount.
00:07:52.340 Remember, Joe Biden
00:07:53.480 said Hunter didn't get money
00:07:55.140 from that China thing,
00:07:56.080 except for that five million dollars.
00:07:59.680 But they had a meeting.
00:08:01.740 According to Jim Biden,
00:08:02.960 he and Hunter Biden
00:08:03.660 had a, quote,
00:08:04.280 pleasant lunch in Hong Kong
00:08:05.540 with Ho.
00:08:06.860 And at the end of the meeting,
00:08:09.180 Ho asked to meet alone
00:08:10.780 with Hunter Biden.
00:08:11.780 And here's the quote
00:08:12.860 from Jim Biden's deposition.
00:08:15.640 Quote, Ho said,
00:08:17.140 can I borrow Hunter
00:08:18.820 for, you know, a half hour?
00:08:21.120 We're going to go
00:08:22.060 in the next room.
00:08:23.680 And then Jim Biden said,
00:08:25.140 well, he didn't know
00:08:25.660 what they discussed
00:08:26.260 in the next room.
00:08:27.920 This is a man that
00:08:28.980 he had a half hour
00:08:30.280 private meeting
00:08:31.020 with a man
00:08:31.620 whom Hunter has described
00:08:33.100 as the effing spy chief
00:08:34.660 of China.
00:08:36.080 And by the way,
00:08:37.200 just two months
00:08:38.440 after Hunter Biden
00:08:40.840 gets pulled aside
00:08:41.700 for this secret
00:08:42.560 half hour meeting,
00:08:44.040 you know what happened
00:08:44.800 two months later?
00:08:46.900 Federal prosecutors
00:08:48.020 in New York
00:08:48.720 indicted Ho 0.86
00:08:49.680 on charges
00:08:50.920 that he offered bribes
00:08:52.200 to African officials
00:08:53.240 to obtain oil rights
00:08:54.720 for CFC China Energy
00:08:56.900 during a meeting
00:08:58.060 at the UN General Assembly
00:08:59.320 in 2014.
00:09:01.200 So this is a guy
00:09:02.920 who a couple months later
00:09:04.800 gets indicted
00:09:05.600 for bribing
00:09:06.800 public officials
00:09:08.820 and he wants to have
00:09:10.720 a private meeting
00:09:12.020 with Hunter Biden
00:09:14.640 and he does have
00:09:15.560 a private meeting
00:09:16.220 with Hunter Biden.
00:09:16.880 We know also
00:09:18.860 that CFC China Energy
00:09:20.340 paid Hunter Biden
00:09:21.560 one million dollars
00:09:23.120 to represent Ho
00:09:24.420 even though there's
00:09:25.620 no evidence
00:09:26.060 Hunter Biden
00:09:26.540 did any sort of
00:09:27.620 legal work
00:09:28.220 on any of the cases.
00:09:31.040 And you know,
00:09:31.960 one of the things
00:09:32.580 also that Ho did
00:09:34.860 is he gave Hunter Biden
00:09:36.320 a diamond ring
00:09:38.100 because, you know,
00:09:39.540 that's what the spy chief
00:09:42.520 of China should do
00:09:43.700 is give the son
00:09:45.360 of the vice president
00:09:46.220 and now the son
00:09:46.940 of the president
00:09:47.520 a diamond ring.
00:09:49.340 You know, just
00:09:49.860 but remember,
00:09:51.140 remember,
00:09:51.980 Joe Biden said
00:09:52.880 told the American people
00:09:54.220 that Hunter hadn't
00:09:55.300 gotten anything
00:09:55.920 from what is that thing
00:09:56.880 that China thing.
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00:10:36.020 Now on to story number two.
00:10:38.480 You know,
00:10:38.780 we have a judicial system
00:10:40.540 that's trying to lock up
00:10:41.480 Donald Trump
00:10:41.980 everywhere they can,
00:10:42.920 going after him,
00:10:43.940 trying to bankrupt him,
00:10:45.000 bankrupt his family,
00:10:46.320 basically sending warning shots
00:10:47.800 across about any other conservative
00:10:49.240 that's thinking about
00:10:49.840 running for office.
00:10:50.900 But then we also
00:10:52.140 have learned a lot more
00:10:53.280 about what happened
00:10:54.380 on January 6th
00:10:55.940 to those
00:10:56.820 that were there
00:10:58.220 on January 6th
00:10:59.020 that were sentenced
00:10:59.820 to jail.
00:11:01.400 There was major corruption
00:11:03.120 within the Biden
00:11:05.540 Department of Justice.
00:11:07.780 And I think it's really,
00:11:08.800 this has been underreported,
00:11:10.320 and I think it's
00:11:10.860 an extremely important story
00:11:12.140 that I would challenge
00:11:13.160 everyone listening right now.
00:11:14.980 Take this part of the podcast
00:11:16.580 and put it on social media
00:11:18.620 because what we're about
00:11:20.100 to explain to you,
00:11:21.180 it tells you
00:11:22.080 just how corrupt
00:11:23.260 the Biden Department of Justice
00:11:25.120 when they come
00:11:25.820 against conservatives.
00:11:28.400 Well, unfortunately,
00:11:29.400 that's exactly right.
00:11:30.480 In the past few days,
00:11:31.320 there was a decision
00:11:32.220 from the D.C. Circuit
00:11:33.620 Court of Appeals.
00:11:34.400 Now, the D.C. Circuit
00:11:35.160 Court of Appeals
00:11:35.860 is the Federal Court of Appeals
00:11:37.100 in D.C.
00:11:38.420 It is considered
00:11:39.660 the second highest court
00:11:41.220 in the land,
00:11:41.760 second only to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:11:43.520 There are a total
00:11:43.880 of 13 different courts
00:11:44.920 of appeals,
00:11:45.500 but the D.C. Circuit
00:11:46.280 is the most prestigious.
00:11:48.240 Judges from the D.C. Circuit
00:11:49.540 regularly become
00:11:50.700 Supreme Court justices
00:11:51.720 afterwards.
00:11:52.900 And this was
00:11:53.740 a unanimous decision
00:11:54.920 from a panel,
00:11:55.700 and it's a panel
00:11:56.440 that the full D.C. Circuit
00:11:58.740 is one of the most liberal
00:11:59.860 circuits in the country,
00:12:01.340 but this panel
00:12:02.140 was three judges
00:12:04.140 appointed by Democrats.
00:12:05.280 The opinion was authored
00:12:07.380 by Patty Millett,
00:12:08.600 who was an appointee
00:12:09.680 of Barack Obama.
00:12:11.160 It was joined
00:12:12.160 by Cornelia Pillard,
00:12:13.660 who was an appointee
00:12:14.660 of Barack Obama.
00:12:16.060 And it was joined
00:12:16.960 by Judith Rogers,
00:12:17.840 who was an appointee
00:12:18.740 of Bill Clinton.
00:12:19.520 So you have
00:12:20.160 three Democrat appointees,
00:12:23.020 and they concluded
00:12:24.780 that the Department
00:12:26.760 of Justice
00:12:27.320 was wrong
00:12:28.320 when they enhanced
00:12:30.740 the sentences
00:12:31.560 of individuals
00:12:33.220 convicted of rioting
00:12:35.640 or storming
00:12:36.120 the Capitol
00:12:36.600 on January 6th,
00:12:37.740 and they used
00:12:38.680 an enhancement
00:12:39.360 called the
00:12:40.520 Administration of Justice
00:12:41.980 enhancement.
00:12:42.900 And here's what
00:12:44.000 Judge Millett wrote
00:12:45.820 for the unanimous opinion.
00:12:47.320 Quote,
00:12:48.280 The phrase
00:12:49.020 Administration of Justice
00:12:50.220 does not encompass
00:12:51.240 Congress's role
00:12:52.300 in the electoral
00:12:53.760 certification process.
00:12:55.880 Quote,
00:12:56.980 Text,
00:12:58.140 Context,
00:12:58.960 and Commentary
00:12:59.920 show that the
00:13:01.340 Administration of Justice
00:13:02.560 refers to judicial,
00:13:04.860 quasi-judicial,
00:13:06.380 and adjunct
00:13:07.220 investigative proceedings,
00:13:09.200 but does not extend
00:13:10.540 to the unique
00:13:11.240 congressional function
00:13:12.420 of certifying
00:13:13.340 electoral college votes.
00:13:16.800 Quote,
00:13:17.680 Administration of Justice
00:13:19.300 enhancements
00:13:20.080 are typically reserved
00:13:22.100 for defendants
00:13:22.780 who disrupt
00:13:23.440 judicial proceedings,
00:13:24.900 such as a courtroom trial
00:13:26.280 or a grand jury
00:13:27.640 investigation.
00:13:28.460 more than
00:13:30.700 one hundred
00:13:32.180 of the defendants
00:13:33.820 have had
00:13:35.380 Administration of Justice
00:13:36.920 enhancements
00:13:37.860 applied to their
00:13:38.960 sentences.
00:13:40.560 Wow.
00:13:41.360 And
00:13:41.840 every one of them
00:13:43.760 now is going to go
00:13:44.820 and seek
00:13:45.620 and presumably
00:13:46.300 receive a lower
00:13:47.720 sentence and potentially
00:13:48.860 a significantly
00:13:50.060 lower sentence.
00:13:52.100 And what is striking
00:13:53.240 is
00:13:54.580 the Biden
00:13:55.620 Justice Department
00:13:56.580 sought this
00:13:57.400 enhancement
00:13:57.900 contrary to the
00:13:58.720 law
00:13:58.980 over and
00:14:00.640 over and
00:14:01.380 over again
00:14:02.040 because they
00:14:02.740 are engaged
00:14:03.760 in a jihad.
00:14:05.480 They are like
00:14:06.060 Javert going
00:14:06.980 after Jean Valjean.
00:14:08.980 It is their
00:14:09.780 quest.
00:14:10.480 Look,
00:14:10.700 Merrick Garland
00:14:11.300 has absurdly
00:14:12.140 said the
00:14:13.040 Department of
00:14:13.620 Justice has
00:14:14.200 devoted more
00:14:15.000 resources to
00:14:15.840 going after
00:14:16.480 the January
00:14:17.120 6th protests
00:14:18.380 than any
00:14:19.900 other event
00:14:21.260 in our nation's
00:14:22.180 history.
00:14:22.480 And by the way,
00:14:22.900 that includes
00:14:23.500 September 11th.
00:14:24.440 What an absurd
00:14:25.340 statement.
00:14:27.140 And to be
00:14:28.220 clear,
00:14:29.620 individuals who
00:14:30.520 engaged in
00:14:31.320 violence on
00:14:32.080 January 6th,
00:14:32.960 and there were
00:14:33.300 certainly individuals
00:14:34.120 who engaged in
00:14:34.920 violence who
00:14:35.440 assaulted police
00:14:36.280 officers,
00:14:36.700 if you engage in
00:14:37.700 violence,
00:14:38.100 you should be
00:14:38.640 prosecuted and
00:14:39.820 go to jail.
00:14:40.900 But what the
00:14:41.620 Biden Justice
00:14:42.280 Department has
00:14:42.960 done is use
00:14:44.040 the excuse of
00:14:45.120 the violence
00:14:45.860 of a limited
00:14:47.140 number of
00:14:47.780 individuals to
00:14:49.480 persecute
00:14:50.600 hundreds and
00:14:52.660 even thousands
00:14:53.600 of individuals
00:14:54.380 who engaged
00:14:55.220 in peaceful
00:14:55.840 protest,
00:14:56.580 who spoke,
00:14:57.580 who expressed
00:14:58.180 their passionate
00:14:58.900 First Amendment
00:14:59.540 views,
00:15:00.180 but did not
00:15:01.180 engage in
00:15:01.800 violence.
00:15:02.220 And this
00:15:02.560 enhancement was
00:15:04.040 an effort that
00:15:04.700 they wanted to
00:15:05.240 go after you.
00:15:05.880 Even if you
00:15:06.360 engage in no
00:15:07.080 violence,
00:15:07.460 they wanted to
00:15:07.940 lock you up. 0.67
00:15:08.480 They wanted to
00:15:08.880 lock you up a
00:15:09.460 long time for
00:15:10.760 the crime of
00:15:11.540 being a Donald
00:15:12.160 Trump supporter.
00:15:13.040 And it is
00:15:13.480 striking to have
00:15:15.420 a unanimous
00:15:16.200 decision from
00:15:17.860 three judges,
00:15:19.140 all three
00:15:19.820 appointed by
00:15:20.500 Democrat presidents
00:15:21.520 saying, no,
00:15:22.620 this is not
00:15:23.660 the law.
00:15:25.300 And of course,
00:15:26.020 sadly, the
00:15:27.620 corporate media
00:15:28.400 has not covered
00:15:29.320 this virtually at
00:15:30.300 all.
00:15:30.920 They haven't.
00:15:31.920 And it's not
00:15:32.360 just that.
00:15:32.960 It's also
00:15:33.460 journalists that
00:15:34.220 are involved.
00:15:34.960 And there's
00:15:35.720 still harassment
00:15:36.540 that's going on
00:15:37.460 from January
00:15:38.160 6th, which I
00:15:39.340 mean, this
00:15:39.820 was January
00:15:40.360 6th was, you
00:15:41.400 know, several
00:15:42.160 years ago.
00:15:42.780 Now, blaze
00:15:44.540 news investigative
00:15:46.140 writer Steve
00:15:46.900 Baker, who had
00:15:48.500 been reporting on
00:15:49.400 January 6th, was
00:15:50.660 charged.
00:15:51.680 He was, by the
00:15:52.360 FBI, handcuffed
00:15:53.420 by the FBI.
00:15:54.920 And this is
00:15:55.480 another example
00:15:56.220 of the abuse
00:15:56.920 of power here,
00:15:58.640 I think.
00:15:59.560 This is a
00:16:00.240 writer, a guy
00:16:01.120 who's been
00:16:01.400 reporting on
00:16:02.260 January 6th, and
00:16:03.540 it's like they
00:16:04.220 went after him
00:16:04.860 because they
00:16:05.240 don't like what
00:16:05.960 he was actually
00:16:06.740 reporting on.
00:16:08.760 And he said
00:16:09.820 this after he
00:16:10.860 was arrested
00:16:11.740 by the FBI.
00:16:13.180 This is what
00:16:13.600 he said.
00:16:14.120 I probably
00:16:14.920 don't have a
00:16:15.680 lot to say
00:16:16.360 right now.
00:16:17.220 I need to
00:16:17.800 process for a
00:16:18.560 little while.
00:16:19.040 I'm actually
00:16:20.740 still shaking
00:16:21.360 a little bit.
00:16:22.860 I don't like
00:16:23.900 what I just
00:16:24.360 went through.
00:16:25.200 I don't like
00:16:25.780 the deliberate
00:16:26.400 humiliation that
00:16:27.380 they put me
00:16:27.820 through.
00:16:28.200 There was no
00:16:28.640 reason to do
00:16:29.280 that.
00:16:29.600 There was no
00:16:29.920 reason to
00:16:30.320 march me into
00:16:31.660 a courtroom in
00:16:32.400 the leg chains
00:16:33.060 today.
00:16:34.880 There was
00:16:35.520 somebody there
00:16:36.140 answering for a
00:16:37.520 felony, and
00:16:38.720 they weren't in
00:16:39.360 chains.
00:16:40.720 My charges are
00:16:41.800 misdemeanors.
00:16:43.120 It's just, it's
00:16:44.520 mind-boggling.
00:16:46.100 But that is
00:16:47.300 unfortunately the
00:16:49.800 type of
00:16:50.600 selective
00:16:51.620 persecution that
00:16:53.140 January 6th
00:16:54.340 defendants are
00:16:55.080 facing.
00:16:56.260 And ultimately
00:16:57.160 what we are
00:16:58.480 looking at here,
00:16:59.600 and probably the
00:17:00.420 only reason that
00:17:01.920 many of the
00:17:03.240 January 6th
00:17:03.940 defendants have
00:17:04.540 had to go
00:17:05.000 through what
00:17:05.320 they've had to
00:17:05.980 go through is
00:17:06.880 because of what
00:17:07.420 I've talked
00:17:07.840 about so many
00:17:08.460 times and what
00:17:09.060 I've written
00:17:09.400 about so many
00:17:10.040 times.
00:17:10.480 It's called
00:17:11.200 scary words.
00:17:12.480 It doesn't
00:17:12.880 matter if it's
00:17:14.040 Stuart Rhodes.
00:17:15.320 It doesn't
00:17:15.760 matter if it's
00:17:16.720 the grandmother
00:17:17.360 who chanted
00:17:18.220 USA, USA in
00:17:19.860 the Capitol.
00:17:21.340 It's the scary
00:17:22.300 words that were
00:17:23.220 said.
00:17:23.960 If you don't
00:17:24.480 say the right
00:17:25.020 thing at the
00:17:25.520 right time and
00:17:27.680 comport to the
00:17:28.620 right narrative,
00:17:29.520 that's what
00:17:30.180 they're going to
00:17:30.660 do is they're
00:17:31.120 going to come
00:17:31.500 after us, and
00:17:32.280 that's exactly
00:17:33.240 what's happened.
00:17:34.740 These charges
00:17:35.800 have nothing to
00:17:36.440 do with my
00:17:36.800 behavior at the
00:17:37.960 Capitol.
00:17:38.680 These charges
00:17:39.180 are reflective of
00:17:40.080 what I said
00:17:40.580 before and
00:17:41.100 after my
00:17:43.240 speech.
00:17:44.040 what I
00:17:44.900 thought about
00:17:45.340 things, what
00:17:46.840 I joked
00:17:47.240 about.
00:17:48.580 That's what
00:17:49.100 this was
00:17:49.380 reflective of.
00:17:51.020 And so that's
00:17:51.740 what we're up
00:17:52.060 against right
00:17:52.500 now.
00:17:53.120 I mean, you
00:17:53.800 hear him, and
00:17:54.700 it's not what
00:17:55.560 he did on
00:17:56.020 January 6th, it's
00:17:56.640 what he said
00:17:57.060 before and
00:17:57.560 after.
00:17:58.240 He talked
00:17:58.980 about that
00:17:59.380 grandmother that
00:17:59.960 was charged
00:18:00.420 when she
00:18:00.780 chanted USA,
00:18:01.740 USA, USA.
00:18:02.680 I mean, they
00:18:03.460 went after
00:18:04.120 anyone that
00:18:04.760 was in and
00:18:05.200 around January
00:18:05.840 6th, even
00:18:06.540 if you were
00:18:07.060 not violent.
00:18:07.940 And if you
00:18:08.600 reported on it
00:18:09.360 and they don't
00:18:09.680 like your
00:18:10.040 narrative, they
00:18:10.500 came after you
00:18:11.220 and they put
00:18:11.620 this guy in
00:18:12.160 leg change.
00:18:12.720 Just to prove
00:18:13.440 a point, we
00:18:14.160 are bigger
00:18:14.640 than you.
00:18:15.820 Well, it is
00:18:16.760 selective
00:18:17.300 persecution, and
00:18:18.440 it's not
00:18:18.760 prosecution, it
00:18:19.640 is persecution.
00:18:20.300 It is targeting
00:18:21.380 the enemies of
00:18:22.980 the regime.
00:18:23.580 And I have to
00:18:24.660 say it is sad.
00:18:26.080 You know, Merrick
00:18:26.540 Garland used to
00:18:27.460 be a judge,
00:18:27.980 actually a judge,
00:18:28.660 on the D.C.
00:18:29.400 Circuit.
00:18:29.680 It was his
00:18:30.900 old colleagues
00:18:31.660 who slapped
00:18:32.180 him down.
00:18:32.680 Understand there's
00:18:33.280 a personal
00:18:33.720 element to this.
00:18:34.500 They all served
00:18:35.200 with Merrick
00:18:35.640 Garland for
00:18:36.200 years.
00:18:37.140 He was very
00:18:37.660 well respected
00:18:38.380 when he was
00:18:38.800 on the D.C.
00:18:39.420 Circuit, and
00:18:39.900 yet three of
00:18:41.100 his Democrat
00:18:41.600 appointed
00:18:42.020 colleagues just
00:18:43.000 unanimously reversed
00:18:44.380 what his
00:18:45.040 department is
00:18:45.700 doing because
00:18:47.080 it was contrary
00:18:47.960 to the law.
00:18:48.900 And it's sad
00:18:50.060 to see Merrick
00:18:51.300 Garland turning
00:18:52.160 the Department
00:18:52.720 of Justice
00:18:53.280 into just a
00:18:54.500 partisan
00:18:55.360 enforcement arm.
00:18:56.600 It's doing
00:18:57.520 enormous damage
00:18:58.660 to the rule
00:18:59.240 of law.
00:19:00.180 And two
00:19:00.640 unanimous
00:19:01.300 decisions within
00:19:02.440 days of each
00:19:04.040 other doesn't
00:19:05.260 seem to have
00:19:06.000 caused them
00:19:06.560 even a moment
00:19:07.380 of pause,
00:19:08.260 a moment of
00:19:08.860 hesitation to
00:19:09.700 say, hey,
00:19:10.860 maybe we should
00:19:11.420 change our
00:19:12.000 course.
00:19:12.640 And I will
00:19:13.460 say also more
00:19:14.240 broadly, we're
00:19:14.840 going to discuss
00:19:15.420 in a later
00:19:16.320 pod the
00:19:17.640 persecution of
00:19:18.880 the media that
00:19:20.380 the Biden
00:19:20.820 Justice Department
00:19:21.620 is engaged in.
00:19:22.400 And you just
00:19:22.760 gave a good
00:19:23.200 example, but
00:19:23.900 this is all
00:19:24.780 about not the
00:19:26.380 fair and
00:19:26.800 even-handed
00:19:27.340 administration of
00:19:28.260 justice.
00:19:28.600 This is about
00:19:29.320 abusing power
00:19:31.220 to go after the
00:19:33.100 political enemies
00:19:34.060 of the White 0.86
00:19:34.720 House.
00:19:35.380 And today, the
00:19:36.680 D.C.
00:19:37.100 Circuit decision
00:19:37.840 that just came
00:19:38.740 down a few
00:19:39.200 days ago is a
00:19:40.540 big victory for
00:19:41.520 the rule of
00:19:42.160 law against the
00:19:43.460 political abuse
00:19:44.160 of power by the
00:19:44.940 Biden Justice
00:19:45.520 Department.
00:19:47.060 As before, if
00:19:47.920 you want to hear
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00:20:26.800 I want to get
00:20:27.620 back to the big
00:20:28.680 story number three
00:20:29.700 of the week you
00:20:30.240 may have missed.
00:20:31.340 So I predicted
00:20:32.560 before the speech
00:20:34.340 that there were
00:20:34.800 four words that
00:20:35.840 Biden would not
00:20:36.840 say.
00:20:37.580 Laken Riley and
00:20:39.020 Jeremy Caceres.
00:20:40.500 Now, as it so
00:20:41.840 happened, he kind
00:20:43.460 of sort of said
00:20:44.240 Laken Riley, but he
00:20:45.160 almost tried to.
00:20:46.580 But he did so in
00:20:47.520 response to heckling,
00:20:48.740 to someone calling
00:20:49.600 out, say her name, 0.77
00:20:50.760 and there were many
00:20:51.600 members of Congress
00:20:52.620 wearing buttons and
00:20:54.500 pins that said,
00:20:55.740 Laken Riley, say
00:20:56.580 her name.
00:20:57.840 Yeah, he said the
00:20:58.520 wrong name.
00:20:59.920 He said Lincoln
00:21:01.100 Riley.
00:21:02.540 He was the head
00:21:03.520 football coach at
00:21:04.980 USC.
00:21:07.380 And he had one of
00:21:10.000 those buttons, so I
00:21:10.860 think one of the
00:21:11.740 members of Congress
00:21:12.360 had given it to
00:21:13.360 him.
00:21:13.640 Yes, I don't know
00:21:15.060 if it was Congressman
00:21:16.540 Andy Ogles who
00:21:17.760 actually invited me
00:21:18.960 tonight, or if it
00:21:19.960 was Marjorie Taylor
00:21:21.240 Green, but there
00:21:22.560 were a handful of
00:21:23.360 the conservative
00:21:23.980 congressmen who had
00:21:25.340 it, and what I
00:21:26.820 heard from one of
00:21:27.440 the members was
00:21:28.120 that when they
00:21:28.740 handed it to the
00:21:30.000 president, he
00:21:30.820 leaned in and he
00:21:31.160 said, oh, I like
00:21:31.640 your button.
00:21:32.920 But I don't think
00:21:33.900 it was sarcastic.
00:21:34.780 I think he
00:21:35.160 legitimately had no
00:21:36.620 idea what was going
00:21:37.500 on and what it
00:21:38.080 represented.
00:21:39.220 Well, look, when
00:21:40.600 the heckling
00:21:41.220 happened, he
00:21:42.460 responded and he
00:21:43.520 did sort of try to
00:21:44.660 say her name,
00:21:45.400 although he didn't
00:21:46.200 get it right.
00:21:46.740 But then, look,
00:21:48.740 what he said, he
00:21:50.220 said, you know, she
00:21:51.380 was killed, I'm
00:21:52.160 sorry she was
00:21:52.840 killed, and he 0.51
00:21:54.720 expressed sympathy
00:21:55.600 for the parents.
00:21:56.700 And I gotta say,
00:21:58.700 that may have been
00:21:59.640 the moment that
00:22:00.240 pissed me off the
00:22:00.940 most.
00:22:02.340 Because, listen, so
00:22:04.060 Lake and Riley's
00:22:05.320 parents were
00:22:05.920 invited, and
00:22:06.860 actually, you
00:22:08.680 know, they were
00:22:10.360 invited and they
00:22:11.500 decided not to
00:22:12.200 come.
00:22:13.200 And I understand
00:22:14.220 they are grieving
00:22:14.980 the loss of their
00:22:15.720 daughter, their home
00:22:16.520 in Georgia, and
00:22:18.680 the Georgia
00:22:21.520 House member who
00:22:22.280 invited them left
00:22:23.300 the seat vacant in
00:22:24.700 honor of Lake and
00:22:25.540 Riley.
00:22:26.940 And, you know,
00:22:29.040 frankly, they don't
00:22:30.020 want Joe Biden's
00:22:31.820 empathy.
00:22:33.020 They don't want a 0.90
00:22:33.980 Hallmark card from
00:22:35.100 him.
00:22:35.480 They want their
00:22:36.100 daughter back.
00:22:37.120 And what Joe
00:22:38.540 Biden didn't do is
00:22:41.360 take responsibility
00:22:42.720 for his direct
00:22:45.200 culpability.
00:22:45.920 And let's walk
00:22:46.860 through, Lake and
00:22:48.920 Riley never should
00:22:49.720 have been killed.
00:22:50.920 The illegal 0.99
00:22:51.520 immigrant who 0.95
00:22:52.180 murdered her was 1.00
00:22:53.400 caught.
00:22:53.880 He was apprehended
00:22:54.840 in Texas, in
00:22:55.700 El Paso.
00:22:56.820 He came illegally 0.99
00:22:57.640 from Venezuela.
00:22:58.320 We had him.
00:23:00.160 And what should
00:23:01.260 have happened is
00:23:02.080 the Biden
00:23:02.460 administration should
00:23:03.360 have followed the
00:23:03.920 law.
00:23:04.160 They should have
00:23:04.540 put him on a
00:23:04.980 plane and flown
00:23:05.940 him back to
00:23:06.400 Venezuela.
00:23:06.740 Venezuela.
00:23:07.320 And if Joe
00:23:07.880 Biden had done
00:23:08.500 that, Lake and
00:23:09.140 Riley would still
00:23:09.800 be alive today.
00:23:10.780 But it wasn't
00:23:11.660 just El Paso.
00:23:12.860 What's so frustrating
00:23:15.120 about this totally
00:23:17.120 preventable tragedy
00:23:18.080 is they could have
00:23:19.140 gotten him in New
00:23:19.680 York.
00:23:19.800 They did get him in
00:23:20.460 New York.
00:23:21.000 He committed a crime
00:23:21.800 in New York.
00:23:22.440 They let him go.
00:23:23.280 He was arrested for
00:23:24.660 endangering a child.
00:23:26.600 That's right.
00:23:27.260 But New York City,
00:23:28.300 again, run by Democrats,
00:23:29.580 calls itself a
00:23:30.220 sanctuary city, and
00:23:31.440 they let him go.
00:23:32.600 If Joe Biden had
00:23:33.560 deported him, Lake and
00:23:34.460 Riley would be alive.
00:23:35.420 If New York City had
00:23:36.300 kept him in jail, Lake
00:23:37.280 and Riley would be
00:23:37.940 alive.
00:23:38.460 Forget about New York
00:23:38.960 City.
00:23:39.600 He ends up in Athens,
00:23:40.620 Georgia, and he
00:23:41.980 steals from a store.
00:23:44.620 I forget which store
00:23:45.320 it was.
00:23:46.740 The Georgia
00:23:47.400 authorities, I think
00:23:48.440 he was cited with a
00:23:49.380 misdemeanor for
00:23:50.240 shoplifting.
00:23:51.520 You had three
00:23:52.700 distinct opportunities.
00:23:55.140 Three chances to
00:23:55.880 get rid of him.
00:23:56.640 Three chances, three
00:23:57.560 strikes you're out, and
00:23:58.500 a poor American
00:23:59.620 student winds up
00:24:00.540 dead because of it.
00:24:01.300 And by the way,
00:24:02.060 let's be clear.
00:24:02.900 Jeremy Caceres is a
00:24:04.100 two-year-old boy, a
00:24:05.240 beautiful little boy,
00:24:07.920 who was murdered just
00:24:09.260 weeks ago in Prince
00:24:10.520 George's County in
00:24:11.600 Virginia, about 30
00:24:13.360 miles from where Joe
00:24:14.680 Biden was standing.
00:24:16.300 And that little boy was
00:24:18.740 murdered again by an 0.82
00:24:19.900 illegal immigrant that 0.98
00:24:21.180 Joe Biden let go.
00:24:22.520 This is happening
00:24:23.340 across the country.
00:24:24.380 We're getting day
00:24:25.000 after day stories of
00:24:26.800 children raped by 1.00
00:24:28.760 illegal immigrants. 0.99
00:24:29.600 Joe Biden has let go.
00:24:30.700 And he had zero
00:24:32.400 acknowledgement of
00:24:33.560 that, zero intention
00:24:35.220 of changing anything.
00:24:37.160 It was just, it was
00:24:38.460 just crocodile tears of
00:24:40.100 I'm so sorry about
00:24:41.200 your daughter.
00:24:42.380 Without acknowledging
00:24:43.340 it, it happened
00:24:44.120 because of his
00:24:46.100 policies.
00:24:47.420 And he continues to
00:24:48.700 do those policies,
00:24:49.520 which means there'll be
00:24:50.480 another Lake and
00:24:51.120 Riley tomorrow and
00:24:52.760 another, another set of
00:24:54.120 parents that he again
00:24:55.620 disingenuously apologizes.
00:24:56.700 Well, and the proof
00:24:58.040 that the president
00:24:58.700 doesn't seem to care
00:24:59.520 about this issue is
00:25:00.380 the fact that it took
00:25:01.460 him 40 minutes into
00:25:02.620 an hour speech to
00:25:04.900 even mention the
00:25:06.220 border on his own.
00:25:07.440 That's how far they
00:25:08.440 buried the border issue
00:25:09.960 in his State of the
00:25:10.980 Union speech.
00:25:12.220 What I wondered when
00:25:13.400 he was browbeating the
00:25:14.840 Republicans for not
00:25:16.020 voting for even more
00:25:17.520 illegal immigration,
00:25:18.400 which is what his
00:25:18.920 border bill would have 0.98
00:25:19.760 done, is, is he just
00:25:22.880 counting on the
00:25:23.960 American people not 0.97
00:25:25.120 realizing that he is
00:25:27.800 dismantling the fence
00:25:29.700 that the Texas border
00:25:31.220 authorities are putting
00:25:32.080 up.
00:25:32.460 That it's, it's not
00:25:33.260 merely passivity that
00:25:35.160 he's allowing.
00:25:35.980 Actually, I'll give you
00:25:36.840 a little bit of, of
00:25:38.020 correction on that.
00:25:39.840 He wants to dismantle
00:25:41.480 it, but he hasn't
00:25:42.100 actually done it.
00:25:43.180 He hasn't succeeded.
00:25:44.200 No, no, no.
00:25:44.420 The razor wire is there
00:25:45.840 and, and, and they
00:25:46.840 ended up, Texas had
00:25:48.960 gotten an injunction
00:25:50.020 preventing the Biden
00:25:51.400 administration from
00:25:52.340 removing the razor
00:25:53.260 wire.
00:25:53.960 And that injunction
00:25:55.200 got reversed.
00:25:56.320 So the Biden
00:25:57.940 administration is no
00:25:59.160 longer prevented from
00:26:01.200 removing the razor wire,
00:26:02.440 but they have not done
00:26:03.720 so.
00:26:04.080 They wanted to do it.
00:26:05.280 They're prevented from
00:26:06.360 doing it.
00:26:07.000 They're then allowed to
00:26:08.080 do it, but they got
00:26:09.140 spooked by the politics
00:26:10.420 of it.
00:26:10.620 Yeah.
00:26:10.960 Wow.
00:26:11.720 Wow.
00:26:12.820 That's, that's actually
00:26:14.560 encouraging that someone
00:26:16.520 at the White House is
00:26:17.340 saying, hold on, that,
00:26:18.620 that really crazy thing
00:26:19.920 that we were going to
00:26:20.500 do.
00:26:21.200 Maybe let's hold off
00:26:22.420 for a few days.
00:26:23.420 Wow.
00:26:23.960 All right.
00:26:24.460 Before we end, I got to
00:26:25.620 get you guys reaction to
00:26:27.160 two different things.
00:26:28.700 Two clips from CNN.
00:26:30.360 You guys were obviously in
00:26:31.740 the chamber and you, you
00:26:33.500 didn't get to see all the
00:26:34.700 commentary.
00:26:35.240 I want you to hear what
00:26:36.600 CNN had to say about the
00:26:39.020 state of the union.
00:26:39.820 This is clip one.
00:26:40.960 Listen, he seemed like
00:26:42.100 Walt Kowalski.
00:26:43.000 He talked about this.
00:26:43.700 He seemed like Walt
00:26:44.300 Kowalski and Gran Torino
00:26:45.400 screaming at kids, get off
00:26:47.180 my lawn.
00:26:47.680 Like an old guy screaming 1.00
00:26:48.600 at kids.
00:26:48.840 My guess is that when he got
00:26:51.800 into the heart of his
00:26:52.680 agenda, the things that you
00:26:54.320 ridicule about the cost of
00:26:57.180 food and, you know, price
00:26:59.720 gouging and so on, I bet you
00:27:01.660 that's scored with a lot of
00:27:03.160 people.
00:27:03.500 I think that the populist
00:27:05.380 economic agenda is a powerful,
00:27:09.000 powerful thing for him.
00:27:10.440 Look, there are parts of it.
00:27:11.460 I'm not sure that the attacks
00:27:13.280 all landed exactly.
00:27:15.400 They may have landed well in
00:27:16.340 that room for sure.
00:27:17.480 And they landed well with
00:27:18.540 base voters for sure.
00:27:20.080 I'm not sure with those swing
00:27:21.100 voters that they landed as
00:27:23.760 well.
00:27:24.100 But I do think.
00:27:25.280 I mean, that's David Axelrod,
00:27:26.740 the former Obama, you know,
00:27:28.520 senior advisor who's saying,
00:27:30.480 you know, in response to one
00:27:32.020 of the commenters saying, look,
00:27:32.960 it was it was like an old guy
00:27:34.400 screaming to the kids, get off 0.88
00:27:35.480 my lawn.
00:27:35.860 It's what you said earlier,
00:27:36.720 Senator.
00:27:37.060 But they're saying CNN and
00:27:38.420 he's even admitting, hey,
00:27:39.780 there's a pretty good chance
00:27:41.600 that didn't play well or land
00:27:44.700 with independent voters.
00:27:45.800 OK, Ben, you're really
00:27:46.680 scaring me.
00:27:47.540 Are you telling me that
00:27:48.520 unbeknownst to me, I was
00:27:49.800 channeling David Axelrod on
00:27:52.080 CNN? 0.99
00:27:53.260 Holy crap. 1.00
00:27:54.180 I might have to just hang it 0.98
00:27:55.540 all up right now.
00:27:56.580 It's over.
00:27:57.020 I am off the rails.
00:27:59.260 Pour him a drink, Michael.
00:28:00.780 Pour him a drink right now.
00:28:02.220 We need to correct something.
00:28:03.720 And I got to say, even worse,
00:28:05.820 Axelrod's analogy is better.
00:28:07.840 He threw out the whole Gran Torino
00:28:09.820 like like he took it one
00:28:12.160 notch better.
00:28:12.920 I am just thoroughly humiliated.
00:28:14.780 And not only that, you'll like
00:28:16.420 this one.
00:28:17.020 So then there was another
00:28:18.360 commentator on CNN who actually
00:28:20.020 said this about the
00:28:22.380 president's speech.
00:28:23.480 Listen, he talked about
00:28:25.400 Snickers and snack chips
00:28:27.380 before before he ever got to
00:28:29.140 the border.
00:28:29.960 He was obsessed with his
00:28:31.500 political rival more than he
00:28:32.800 was obsessed with the condition
00:28:34.540 of the American people.
00:28:35.320 It was so weird.
00:28:36.840 This guy lectures us all on
00:28:38.180 unity, the soul of the nation,
00:28:39.480 and he gives the most partisan
00:28:40.880 convention speech in place of a
00:28:43.540 state of a union that I've ever
00:28:45.340 heard.
00:28:46.020 It's the literal opposite of
00:28:47.400 unity.
00:28:48.180 It's so partisan.
00:28:49.240 He's obsessed with taunting
00:28:50.400 Republicans.
00:28:50.940 It's not statesman life.
00:28:52.600 Can I just say one more thing
00:28:53.480 on Israel?
00:28:54.560 I mean, that was Scott Jennings,
00:28:56.380 a former colleague of mine who
00:28:57.860 said that.
00:28:58.800 And he's right, by the way.
00:29:00.180 I mean, he did talk about
00:29:01.280 Snickers and snack chips before
00:29:02.760 he ever got to the border.
00:29:04.640 It was his words.
00:29:05.980 It was just weird.
00:29:08.260 I like his observation that
00:29:10.520 Joe Biden thought he was at the
00:29:12.280 DNC.
00:29:13.140 Maybe that's as simple as that.
00:29:14.560 You know, he thought he walked
00:29:15.460 into the convention.
00:29:16.880 Whoopsie daisy.
00:29:17.440 It actually was a joint session
00:29:18.620 for the State of the Union.
00:29:19.700 But, you know, the man doesn't
00:29:20.940 remember his own name.
00:29:21.940 I will say one thing that that
00:29:23.720 also that clip reminded me of.
00:29:25.400 It was odd how many times he
00:29:29.040 referenced Trump.
00:29:29.920 I cannot think of any
00:29:32.560 State of the Union in my
00:29:33.720 lifetime with that many
00:29:36.040 references to your opponent,
00:29:38.620 the former president, the
00:29:39.480 former president, the former
00:29:40.320 president.
00:29:41.280 And, you know, he's like, you
00:29:42.560 know, you know, I believe in
00:29:44.640 truth and happiness and love
00:29:47.180 and puppy dogs and fairies.
00:29:49.200 And my opponent believes in
00:29:51.380 hate and suffering and misery
00:29:53.440 and dead puppies.
00:29:55.360 Mwahaha.
00:29:56.460 Like, it was just like, really,
00:29:58.680 dude?
00:29:58.860 A little defensive, you
00:30:00.400 would say.
00:30:01.880 Campaign 101.
00:30:03.020 I will tell you the list of
00:30:04.060 things Biden didn't mention in
00:30:05.520 the State of the Union.
00:30:06.040 You guys ready for this?
00:30:07.620 He did not mention U.S.
00:30:08.920 service members killed in
00:30:09.840 Afghanistan.
00:30:10.820 He did not mention U.S.
00:30:12.240 service members killed by
00:30:13.220 Iranian-backed proxies in the
00:30:14.640 Middle East.
00:30:15.380 He did not mention gas prices.
00:30:17.820 He did not mention TikTok or
00:30:19.560 China.
00:30:20.620 He did not mention North Korea.
00:30:23.240 He didn't mention Cuba.
00:30:24.380 He didn't mention school choice.
00:30:26.020 He didn't mention the
00:30:27.040 classified tax scandal.
00:30:28.140 He didn't mention Hunter Biden
00:30:29.860 or the Biden corruption.
00:30:31.060 He did not mention fossil fuels.
00:30:33.420 He did not mention deporting
00:30:34.800 illegals.
00:30:35.640 He did not mention a border
00:30:36.900 wall.
00:30:37.660 He did not mention the attacks on
00:30:39.120 pregnancy centers.
00:30:39.880 And he did not mention China's
00:30:41.620 human rights abuses.
00:30:43.560 Notice, a lot of those connect with
00:30:45.300 people that have given money to the
00:30:46.560 Biden crime family.
00:30:48.660 I'll leave it with that, Senator, your
00:30:50.680 reaction.
00:30:51.820 Well, but do you have anything to say
00:30:53.140 about how many chips are in a bag of
00:30:54.500 chips?
00:30:54.880 I think, you know, I think he did touch
00:30:57.620 on that important subject.
00:30:59.400 You know, the state of the union may be
00:31:02.180 in trouble, but the state of chips is
00:31:04.720 really in trouble.
00:31:05.840 As always, thank you for listening to
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