00:03:39.720Do you know anyone who is in the business of running prostitution rings or profiting from prostitution rings?
00:03:46.320Like, I don't know what the evidence is, but holy crap, if she's saying that Joe Biden's family is personally profiting from prostitution rings, now to be clear, I have not seen this evidence.
00:03:59.800So I am commenting on what Congresswoman Mace said publicly, but if there is evidence that the president's family is personally profiting from prostitution rings, and I don't know if those prostitution rings are connected to China or not, but you want to talk about bombshell.
00:04:20.720And you know what's not happening tonight?
00:04:23.860It's not going to be on the six o'clock news.
00:04:25.920Because ABC, I'm going to, I'm going to wager you a hundred dollars right now, Ben.
00:04:35.480I don't take stupid bets because you and I both know there's no way that they would ever report on six additional Biden family members on the take.
00:04:45.840ABC, NBC, and CBS all reported on the Steele dossier that was one drunk guy in Europe that claimed that prostitutes like to urinate on Donald Trump.
00:04:54.900So that story, with no basis, no evidence, and now thoroughly discredited, every network reported on.
00:05:03.120But here, if I'm understanding what Congresswoman Mace is saying correctly, there are reports in the U.S. Department of Treasury that indicate that the Biden family is directly profiting from prostitution rings, presumably connected to China in some way.
00:05:56.040I want to make sure we understand that for everybody listening.
00:05:58.020This is nine official Biden family members that are now connected with suspicious activity reports of the Treasury Department.
00:06:05.200So what James Comer said is the panel has identified six additional members of Joe Biden's family who may have benefited from the Biden family's businesses that we are investigating, bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine.
00:06:19.460Like nine, like is the dog fluffy on the take?
00:06:24.160Like like how do you find nine family members and have them all cashing a check from Communist China?
00:06:51.700This is not the White House when Joe Biden was president.
00:06:54.200This is the White House when Joe Biden was vice president.
00:06:57.340So he lived at the Naval Observatory, which is a different residence, about 20 minutes away from the White House.
00:07:02.760And yet apparently all of Hunter's business partners were going in and out and in and out of the Obama White House meeting with senior officials.
00:07:12.820And the Biden White House won't tell us who they met with.
00:07:15.940They won't tell us how many times Joe Biden met with him personally.
00:07:19.560They won't tell him how many times Joe Biden's staff met with him personally.
00:07:22.480But listen, if it's all of Hunter's business partners, there's no reason to think they're just coming to visit the social secretary because they want to help arrange the flowers for the French state dinner.
00:07:49.420Well, and my question is, when you add these new names in, Senator, if 80 meetings were what were connected to Hunter Biden and the vice president at the White House meeting at the White House,
00:08:01.820what does that number now go to if you have another six family members that apparently, from what we understand,
00:08:07.940probably had the same exact access to bringing in their business associates into the White House?
00:08:44.680When we've got members of Congress seeing these reports who are horrified, who are appalled, they're going, holy cow, how is there so much money flowing from China?
00:09:29.900I want to ask you about the Treasury Department.
00:09:31.840And is it is it supposed to be a nonpolitical?
00:09:34.720Because it's clear, I think, to many of the American people it is acting politically right now.
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00:11:01.500Senator, let's talk about Treasury for a second here because I think the history now of how this has played out is extremely important.
00:11:08.140The Treasury Department used to allow any of you in Congress to see suspicious activity reports based on the reporting.
00:11:15.500Then when Democrats had control of the House and Senate, the Treasury changed the rule and said, well, you've got to have a Democrat that wants to go with you to see them and then we'll release them.
00:11:26.560That's how they protected the Biden crime family.
00:11:29.000And now, only after Republicans were able to regain control of the House were we able to see these reports, which we should have been able to see two years ago or more.
00:11:38.900Well, listen, there's a broader pattern of this, which is the Biden administration is trying to keep as much classified as possible, as much secret as possible, as much hidden as possible.
00:12:49.420And their ridiculous explanation was, well, we might be bringing Department of Justice prosecutions, so we don't want to tell anyone in Congress anything about anything because we might be bringing DOJ prosecutions.
00:13:05.860Congress has a very legitimate and important role to ensure that classified materials are protected.
00:13:12.500to understand what kind of classified materials were at Trump's home, Biden's home, Pence's home.
00:13:21.580Were they – so, look, I've read a lot of classified materials in my 11 years in the Senate.
00:13:26.900There are some classified materials I've read that are so banal, that have so little insight, you could read them in a thoroughly mediocre op-ed in the New York Times.
00:13:38.680There are others that are really serious.
00:13:40.960If you want an intelligence assessment on how many nuclear weapons we have in a particular location or the vulnerability of our troops to a particular kind of attack,
00:13:53.420or if you have materials that are based on covert sources, someone close in the orbit of Xi in China or Putin in Russia,
00:14:04.780and we have a spy that we flipped someone on their staff, and they've given us internal information,
00:14:12.060that's the kind of classified information that's incredibly dangerous.
00:14:15.240That's the kind of classified information that, if made public, can endanger or even cost the lives of people who have decided to help the U.S. intelligence agencies.
00:14:30.420We don't know what category of classified materials were at Trump's, Pence's, and Biden's homes.
00:22:57.840The Wuhan Institute for Virology is literally 400 yards away from the wet market where allegedly this outbreak began.
00:23:08.420Not only that, we now know that three employees at the Wuhan Institute for Virology were medically treated and hospitalized in November of 2020 for serious flu-like symptoms that, in hindsight, sure look an awful lot like COVID-19.
00:23:27.280We also know that in December of 2020, when Chinese doctors and whistleblowers began trying to shine the light on this virus, that the Chinese government disappeared them, hid them, silenced them, did everything they could to cover it up.
00:23:45.140We also know that months earlier, the Chinese government was stockpiling protective medical equipment, things like masks and gloves, to limit the spread of a virus like COVID-19.
00:23:58.060At this point, and frankly, two years ago, I think the overwhelming weight of the evidence, 80-90%, is that this virus escaped from a Chinese government lab.
00:24:12.180Now, I'll go further than what John Radcliffe testified today.
00:24:19.940I think that it is a preponderance of the evidence supports the hypothesis that COVID-19 didn't just escape from a Chinese government lab, but that it was genetically engineered and essentially created in a Chinese government lab.
00:24:36.220They took a virus that occurs in nature with bats, and they modified it to make it more lethal and more transmissible.
00:24:47.420And that particular proposition, I don't think, is proven to the same level of confidence that the proposition is that it escaped from a Chinese government lab.
00:24:58.280But I think it's, oh, I don't know if I were to pick a number, 60, 65, maybe 75% likely.
00:25:05.780I think it is more likely than not that it was genetically modified by the Chinese government to make it more lethal.
00:25:13.560We know, and this is 100% fact, that the Chinese government covered it up, hid it, did everything they could to avoid accountability.
00:25:22.120And we also know that the Biden administration and the Biden White House refuses to hold the Chinese government accountable.
00:25:30.040Now, why, I don't know, is it that nine members of the Biden family were getting cash from the Chinese communist government or proxies thereof?
00:25:41.280I don't know, but it sure seems to me the American people ought to be concerned.
00:25:45.460And if we had a media that gave a damn about anything, they ought to be concerned.
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00:26:19.780I want to get to another issue that you guys are dealing with in Washington, D.C. right now.
00:26:27.900It's an important one with the Senate Committee replacement procedures that deal with Dianne Feinstein.
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00:29:59.580But the radical left wing of the Democrat Party lost their mind.
00:30:07.380They truly went into fits of rage that she would dare hug Lindsey Graham.
00:30:15.800Now, Dianne Feinstein was slated to be the next chairman of the Judiciary Committee if the Democrats took the majority.
00:30:22.420Because the radical left wing was so angry, within days, Chuck Schumer announced Feinstein is no longer in line to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
00:30:35.120Basically, he took Feinstein to a back alley and effectively shot her.
00:30:40.600And it was giving in to the most extreme left wing voices in the Democrat Party.
00:30:46.600Instead, what he did is Dick Durbin was on the committee.
00:31:00.960Under Senate rules, typically, the majority leader, the minority leader, the majority whip, the minority whip, can't be a committee chairman also.
00:31:11.540There's a basic principle that if you have one leadership position, you can't have another one.
00:31:15.280Well, the Democrats decided, screw that.
00:31:18.620We're going to make Dick Durbin both majority whip and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
00:32:21.500Because on almost every Joe Biden nominee, Lindsey Graham votes for them.
00:32:26.800He has a view that the opposing party should vote for the nominees of the other party, even if you disagree with their ideology.
00:32:36.360Now, I don't agree with Lindsey's view, but that is his longstanding view.
00:32:40.340He's voted to confirm numerous liberal Supreme Court justices.
00:32:44.260He votes to confirm most Biden judicial nominees.
00:32:48.320I vote against almost all Biden judicial nominees.
00:32:52.800But given that Lindsey votes for practically all of them, the Democrats can move almost the entirety of Biden's judicial slate.
00:33:02.300The ones they can't move are the most radical, are the most extreme, are the nominees that are so extreme they can't get even a single bipartisan vote.
00:33:13.580And the reaction of the radical left wing, number one, their primary reaction is throw Dianne Feinstein out, force her to resign, shame her, throw her out of the Senate.
00:33:25.600Her response to this has been to send a letter to Chuck Schumer saying, please temporarily remove me from the Judiciary Committee until I come back.
00:33:39.380Now, as we sit here, I think the chances of that happening are exceptionally low.
00:33:51.100So the way senators get on committees is at the beginning of a Congress, the Senate passes an organizing resolution.
00:33:59.580The organizing resolution names the chairmen of every committee, names the ranking members of every committee, names the members of every committee.
00:34:54.900Like, there's no chance Schumer is going to get unanimous consent to do that because a bunch of us would object.
00:35:00.540I don't see any reason why we should be complicit in helping the Democrats confirm their most radical and extreme nominees.
00:35:09.320The second way he could do it is he could try to move it through regular order, which would take 60 votes, which would mean that he would need to get nine or 10 Republicans.
00:35:23.640Um, we've seen in the past few days, multiple Republicans come out and say, we're not going to help Schumer do this.
00:35:30.120I think right now the chances that he gets enough Republicans to get 60 votes are really, really low.
00:35:37.920Given that the Democrats are in a fix and what they're doing is they're just trying to put massive political pressure on Feinstein to get her to resign from the Senate.
00:35:49.920If she resigns from the Senate, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, look, there is a vigorous primary going on to replace Dianne Feinstein.
00:35:59.140She's not running for re-election, so her seat will be up in 2024.
00:36:09.300Um, Gavin Newsom has promised if there's a vacancy, he will appoint an African-American woman and he will only appoint an African-American woman.
00:36:18.540So if you're white, you need not apply.
00:36:23.080If you're Hispanic, you need not apply.
00:36:25.460He is openly and explicitly racist and sexist in saying who he will appoint.
00:36:30.780Now, if you look at the primary contenders, there's only one of those candidates who's an African-American woman.
00:36:35.720That being said, I suppose Adam Schiff could announce tomorrow that he identifies as an African-American woman.
00:36:41.400But absent his doing that, Barbara Lee is the only person who qualifies.
00:36:46.000Um, the radical left would love for Feinstein to resign and Barbara Lee to be appointed to the race and give her a leg up over Schiff and Katie Porter.
00:36:56.440I don't think that will happen, although the press and the Democrats are trying to shame her into it.
00:37:01.240And I gotta say, Ben, I've been in the Senate 11 years.
00:37:04.260Look, the Senate is a body with a crap ton of really old people.
00:37:08.940Like the, the, the, there are a bunch of people in their seventies and eighties.
00:37:12.740I've served with a bunch of colleagues who are way past their expiration date.
00:37:20.800Um, it's striking to me that the only Senator I've ever seen that a party has tried to drive out because of health is Dianne Feinstein.
00:37:32.280Listen, John McCain, who I served with for a long time, John McCain was hospitalized and was incapacitated for months.
00:37:39.640He was the chairman of the armed services committee.
00:37:42.460There was no effort to throw John McCain out of the Senate, nor should there have been.
00:37:46.540I, I, I would not have supported that.
00:37:51.820By the way, right now, Joe Biden is profoundly mentally diminished.
00:37:58.000None of these left-wing radicals calling for throwing Dianne Feinstein out or calling for throwing Joe Biden out.
00:38:04.100And by the way, to be clear, John Fetterman, the Senator from Pennsylvania, has been medically unavailable and absent for most of this Congress.
00:38:13.980He's been, been in the Senate only a few days since he was elected.
00:38:17.980And none of these radicals who are calling to throw Dianne Feinstein out are calling to throw Fetterman out.
00:38:23.720And so it raises an obvious question, why the double standard?
00:38:31.200Yeah, it is shocking to see the way that they're treating her.
00:38:34.140And especially while she's dealing with, as you mentioned, a medical issue in shingles.
00:38:39.280Imagine you're trying to get over this.
00:38:41.780And, and this is what you're hearing about every day, that the Democrats, while you're out trying to get better, are basically trying to force you from your office.
00:38:51.260I want to ask you about the human aspect of that.
00:38:54.640And will this backfire, do you believe, on Democrats just looking like they have no compassion whatsoever for, for Dianne Feinstein in this, in this situation?
00:39:05.540Before I do that, I want to tell you about chalk.
00:39:07.840If you're a guy and you're dealing with the real aging issue of losing your strength and your vitality,
00:39:14.720and you don't want to just say, all right, I'm willing to give in and be weak and complacent.
00:48:48.820Your recollection is spot on on that one.
00:48:51.800Well, and that was actually Pat Leahy who threw in the wry comment, first time ever.
00:48:56.760So, look, the point is there's some irony that I'm now defending Dianne Feinstein, but it's because the radical left, she was more than eager to be the tip of the spear on gun control.
00:49:10.500But now their view is she has shingles, get the hell out, because we've got radical judges to confirm.
00:49:16.900And again, it's worth noting that the judges, the vast majority of Biden judicial nominees can move forward.
00:49:28.500It's only a handful of the nominees who are extreme.
00:49:32.660And let me tell you some of the ones that they really want to move forward.
00:49:36.240So there's a nominee named Michael Delaney.
00:49:38.400Michael Delaney is nominated to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:49:40.940He was representing a very elite private school in litigation against a sexual assault victim, and he argued in court that the sexual assault victim should not be allowed to use a pseudonym, but rather should be publicly outed as a victim.
00:50:03.200Now, that's a pretty extreme position.
00:50:05.540It's a position that, frankly, none of the Democrats wanted to defend in this confirmation hearing.
00:50:12.220And the only way they're going to report him to the floor is if Feinstein is back and they have a straight party line vote, because there are going to be no Republicans who vote for him.
00:50:20.200Lindsey Graham has said he would vote no.
00:50:22.440A second nominee is Sharnel Becklegren, who's nominated to the Eastern District of Washington.
00:50:29.860Now, Becklegren, astonishingly enough, John Kennedy asked her, and we've played this on the podcast, asked her what Article 5 of the Constitution was.
00:50:40.040Article 5 is the provision that lays out how you amend the Constitution.
00:50:43.880He then asked her, what is Article 2 of the Constitution?
00:50:48.300Now, I've got to tell you, Ben, if you're not a lawyer, you might not know what Article 2 is.
00:50:52.480But if you are a first-year law student and you're asked, what's Article 2, and your answer is, I don't know, you will flunk Con Law.
00:51:01.300Article 2 is the provision of the Constitution that creates the president and the executive branch.
00:51:06.240And the fact that she didn't know demonstrates she is manifestly unqualified to be a federal judge.
00:51:12.660And by the way, Dick Durbin, the chairman of the committee, his defense was, well, gosh, there are a bunch of members of this committee who don't know what Article 2 is.
00:51:18.980If there are any, they ought to get the hell off the Judiciary Committee.
00:51:23.120You really ought to know what Article 2 is.
00:51:26.120The Beckel-Grant is nominated to be what is called an Article 3 judge.
00:51:31.940Article 3, which I suspect she has no idea what it is, is the provision that creates the judiciary.
00:51:38.080The other two nominees are an individual named Cato Cruz, C-R-E-W-S, so not spelled like me,
00:51:45.940a nominee to the District of Colorado, who failed to describe the holding of Brady v. Maryland,
00:51:52.480a foundational criminal law case, and said, and it deals with the production of exculpatory evidence to defendants.
00:52:02.680And instead, this nominee said, quote,
00:52:05.740I believe the Brady case involves something regarding the Second Amendment.
00:52:09.300I've not had occasion to address that.
00:52:11.980That's a level of absolute unfamiliarity with criminal law that makes you unfit to be a judge.
00:52:19.760And then the fourth nominee is someone named Marion Gaston, nominated in the Southern District of California,
00:52:26.480who co-authored a position paper arguing that sex offender restrictions are too tough.
00:52:34.400The paper argues, and this is a quote,
00:52:37.400difficult as it might be, laws that regulate where sex offenders may not live should be repealed
00:52:43.860or substantially modified in the interest of public safety.