Verdict with Ted Cruz - Sex, Drugs, and Violence

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00:00:19.200 about the dangerous Democrat crime waves

00:00:21.580 sweeping from coast to coast

00:00:23.120 and what that has to do with Hunter Biden.

00:00:25.460 In fact, since they recorded this episode,

00:00:27.320 the allegations against Hunter Biden

00:00:28.960 and the Fed's lack of action

00:00:30.820 have grown even more concerning.

00:00:32.980 And the crime in America's cities

00:00:33.880 is not getting any better.

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00:01:20.720 that Hunter Biden recorded himself committing.

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00:03:09.560 Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:03:11.240 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:13.380 Senator, I try to look

00:03:14.940 on the bright side of things,

00:03:16.420 but I'm looking at murders going up.

00:03:18.340 I'm seeing corruption galore.

00:03:20.060 I'm seeing violence breaking out

00:03:21.620 in cities around the country.

00:03:23.060 I'm seeing lawlessness at the federal level.

00:03:25.920 Things aren't looking so hot.

00:03:27.720 Well, sadly, the left embraces violence now.

00:03:31.480 You look at this Department of Justice,

00:03:33.620 Joe Biden's Department of Justice

00:03:35.060 has become thoroughly political.

00:03:37.680 We saw that with Merrick Garland

00:03:41.720 ordering the FBI to investigate parents

00:03:44.720 as domestic terrorists.

00:03:47.000 We saw that with Merrick Garland

00:03:50.100 refusing to prosecute protesters

00:03:53.680 at the homes of Supreme Court justices,

00:03:56.740 despite an explicit federal criminal statute

00:04:00.400 that makes it a crime to protest

00:04:02.180 at a judge's house while a case is pending.

00:04:04.140 These are protesters that are inherently

00:04:07.140 threatening violence, being at the home

00:04:09.220 while your spouse is there,

00:04:11.880 while your children are sleeping there.

00:04:13.920 And we saw the violence escalate

00:04:16.820 all the way up until someone arriving

00:04:21.700 and being arrested finally for attempted murder

00:04:24.540 of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

00:04:26.460 And throughout it all,

00:04:28.960 the Democrats, they continued their pattern,

00:04:31.280 which is to embrace mob violence

00:04:36.680 to further their political agenda.

00:04:40.760 We saw the White House press secretary

00:04:43.660 urging people to keep protesting

00:04:46.120 at the homes of Supreme Court justices.

00:04:49.700 In our nation's history,

00:04:51.280 I'm not aware of another situation

00:04:53.700 in which the White House press secretary

00:04:56.320 has urged the American people

00:04:57.960 to commit a federal crime.

00:05:00.280 We saw when people harassed

00:05:02.920 and harangued Justice Kavanaugh

00:05:05.400 at a steakhouse in D.C.,

00:05:09.700 we saw Pete Buttigieg

00:05:12.040 encourage them and celebrate

00:05:15.760 their harassing and haranguing him.

00:05:18.700 Mind you, this is just a few weeks

00:05:20.380 after he had faced an attempted murder

00:05:23.140 of a guy who came from California

00:05:25.180 with a gun and a knife and zip ties

00:05:27.060 to murder Justice Kavanaugh. 0.99

00:05:30.980 And it is,

00:05:32.600 this continues a pattern that we see

00:05:36.160 going back for years,

00:05:38.320 going back to 2020,

00:05:39.540 going back to the Antifa

00:05:40.940 and Black Lives Matter riots

00:05:43.760 all across the country.

00:05:45.100 Well, and there's a distinction

00:05:46.320 between what you're describing here

00:05:48.420 is there's the violence on the ground,

00:05:51.680 the BLM violence,

00:05:52.720 the Antifa violence,

00:05:53.800 the regular thugs in the streets

00:05:55.240 who are attacking people

00:05:56.040 and robbing people.

00:05:57.000 That's one kind of lawlessness.

00:05:58.680 But then there's this other kind

00:05:59.740 of lawlessness you're describing,

00:06:01.460 which is that the law enforcement

00:06:03.700 arms of the government

00:06:04.820 are looking the other way

00:06:06.440 and in some cases

00:06:07.280 actually encouraging the crime.

00:06:09.860 Sadly, that's exactly right.

00:06:12.600 Merrick Garland,

00:06:13.520 he's given no justification.

00:06:15.740 Listen, I've called on Dick Dermott,

00:06:17.680 the chairman of the Senate

00:06:18.560 Judiciary Committee,

00:06:19.580 bring Merrick Garland

00:06:20.560 before the Judiciary Committee

00:06:22.560 and have him testify

00:06:23.440 about why he's not doing more

00:06:24.960 to protect Supreme Court justices.

00:06:27.020 I mean, it's worth pausing

00:06:28.600 and reflecting.

00:06:30.260 Had the Supreme Court itself

00:06:32.100 not had marshals

00:06:33.780 at Justice Kavanaugh's home,

00:06:37.120 had the person who came there

00:06:38.900 intending to murder him,

00:06:40.020 had there not been

00:06:41.120 a detail there that night,

00:06:43.640 and had he gotten into the House

00:06:45.900 and actually committed his crime,

00:06:47.580 had he murdered Justice Kavanaugh.

00:06:50.460 That would have been an assassination,

00:06:53.220 but not just an assassination,

00:06:55.000 an assassination done

00:06:56.320 with an explicit intent

00:06:57.820 to prevent the court

00:06:59.700 from ruling on a pending case

00:07:01.960 because of the illegal leak,

00:07:04.320 which again,

00:07:05.100 Democrats refused to condemn the leak.

00:07:06.780 And then we almost had

00:07:09.400 an assassination

00:07:10.100 in furtherance of the leak.

00:07:12.560 And yet the Department of Justice

00:07:14.860 refuses to do more

00:07:16.360 to protect the judiciary.

00:07:18.800 They refuse to follow federal law.

00:07:21.940 And listen,

00:07:22.740 it's not just the Department of Justice.

00:07:24.720 It's Kamala Harris

00:07:27.200 was raising money

00:07:29.120 to bail out violent rioters

00:07:31.660 during the Antifa

00:07:32.480 and Black Lives Matter riots.

00:07:34.080 And then you have

00:07:35.440 the Soros prosecutors

00:07:36.500 across the country

00:07:37.300 who refuse to prosecute crime

00:07:39.340 and who Joe Biden rewards

00:07:43.620 one of the Soros prosecutors,

00:07:45.160 Rachel Rollins,

00:07:46.440 up in Massachusetts.

00:07:47.620 He nominated to be

00:07:48.920 the U.S. attorney

00:07:49.800 for Massachusetts

00:07:51.780 and every Democrat

00:07:52.540 voted to confirm her.

00:07:53.980 I mean, there is a pattern.

00:07:56.580 And listen,

00:07:57.540 I will say there is

00:07:58.800 there is

00:08:01.620 light at the end of the tunnel

00:08:04.240 because even in the bluest cities

00:08:07.320 of America,

00:08:08.040 these radical Soros prosecutors

00:08:11.020 are going too far.

00:08:12.120 San Francisco just recalled

00:08:13.800 Chesa Boudin

00:08:15.740 or Chesa Boudin. 0.51

00:08:16.620 I never know how to pronounce his name.

00:08:18.220 Nobody does.

00:08:19.800 The Soros prosecutor there

00:08:21.900 who is literally,

00:08:23.520 so I was having this conversation

00:08:24.620 with Heidi the other day,

00:08:25.740 that Chesa Boudin

00:08:27.940 is literally the son

00:08:29.780 of two convicted

00:08:32.260 domestic terrorists

00:08:34.400 who served decades in jail

00:08:38.220 for participating.

00:08:40.000 They were part of

00:08:40.400 the Weather Underground.

00:08:41.200 They were participated

00:08:43.320 in the Brinks attack

00:08:46.240 that resulted in

00:08:47.280 two police officers being killed.

00:08:49.560 That's who the Soros DA was,

00:08:52.040 was the child,

00:08:53.600 both his mother and father.

00:08:55.600 Yeah.

00:08:55.900 Were convicted

00:08:56.620 domestic terrorists.

00:08:58.060 Well, there's a recall effort

00:08:59.080 underway too

00:08:59.720 for George Gascon in L.A.,

00:09:01.420 another George Soros

00:09:03.400 funded radical left prosecutor.

00:09:05.980 You saw this case

00:09:06.980 out of New York.

00:09:08.480 There was a criminal

00:09:09.880 with a rap sheet a mile long

00:09:11.420 who was actually

00:09:12.180 already up on one charge

00:09:14.480 and he had,

00:09:15.080 I think he had

00:09:15.640 eight other crimes

00:09:17.060 in his past.

00:09:18.360 And he goes in

00:09:19.340 to a bodega

00:09:20.340 and he starts

00:09:22.000 getting rough

00:09:22.940 with the guy

00:09:23.980 working at the bodega.

00:09:25.000 And the guy

00:09:25.800 working at the bodega

00:09:26.560 tries to leave,

00:09:27.840 actually.

00:09:28.280 He doesn't even

00:09:28.980 try to fight back.

00:09:30.240 The criminal

00:09:30.740 won't let him leave.

00:09:31.840 He's pushing him back down.

00:09:33.360 Eventually,

00:09:33.680 the guy does fight back,

00:09:34.780 ends up killing the criminal.

00:09:36.380 And what happens?

00:09:38.020 Well, in New York,

00:09:39.200 where they're taking

00:09:40.080 a radically

00:09:40.560 pro-criminal stance,

00:09:42.960 the poor bodega guy

00:09:44.260 is now up

00:09:44.860 on murder charges.

00:09:45.800 So you're seeing

00:09:46.340 consistently

00:09:47.180 just what you're describing.

00:09:48.320 The Democrats

00:09:49.200 are taking the sides

00:09:50.180 of the criminals

00:09:50.840 and we know

00:09:51.600 how incentives work.

00:09:53.060 If you go soft

00:09:54.280 on crime

00:09:54.820 and you go hard

00:09:55.640 on the victims,

00:09:56.120 you're going to get

00:09:56.540 more crime.

00:09:57.820 So look, Michael,

00:09:58.400 as you know,

00:09:58.960 the next book

00:09:59.660 I have coming out

00:10:00.620 is on exactly

00:10:01.700 this topic.

00:10:02.400 It's called

00:10:02.740 Justice Corrupted,

00:10:04.320 How the Left

00:10:04.960 Has Weaponized

00:10:05.680 Our Legal System.

00:10:06.380 And it's coming out

00:10:07.260 Labor Day,

00:10:08.360 so it's not out yet.

00:10:09.320 You can't read it yet,

00:10:11.800 but you can go to Amazon

00:10:12.760 and pre-order it,

00:10:13.580 so you ought to go

00:10:14.060 and pre-order it.

00:10:14.820 And we'll talk

00:10:15.320 about the book

00:10:15.840 a lot more

00:10:16.400 when it comes out

00:10:17.400 over Labor Day.

00:10:19.060 But these issues,

00:10:21.700 the lawlessness

00:10:22.720 we're seeing,

00:10:23.820 look, we saw this

00:10:24.720 in L.A.

00:10:25.960 with Kim Glass,

00:10:27.640 you know,

00:10:27.960 the Olympic silver medalist

00:10:29.800 volleyball player,

00:10:30.860 Sports Illustrated model

00:10:32.460 who was coming

00:10:33.820 out of a restaurant

00:10:34.640 in L.A.

00:10:35.240 and a crazy homeless man 0.93

00:10:36.800 smashed her 0.99

00:10:38.120 in the face 0.99

00:10:38.620 with a pipe.

00:10:39.380 And I mean,

00:10:39.840 wounded her seriously.

00:10:41.540 And this is

00:10:42.440 when you have

00:10:44.160 district attorneys

00:10:45.140 who won't prosecute crime,

00:10:47.500 who release violent criminals,

00:10:48.940 who get into office

00:10:50.400 with the stated purpose

00:10:52.360 of releasing

00:10:53.300 violent criminals.

00:10:55.320 These Soros prosecutors,

00:10:57.000 look,

00:10:57.560 what the left understood

00:10:59.000 is you undermine

00:11:00.220 our entire system

00:11:01.560 of justice.

00:11:03.260 You know,

00:11:03.460 an elected prosecutor

00:11:04.500 has vast power.

00:11:06.320 They have the power,

00:11:07.360 A,

00:11:08.840 of whom to prosecute.

00:11:10.160 There's an old saying

00:11:12.140 that a prosecutor

00:11:13.720 can indict

00:11:14.640 a ham sandwich.

00:11:16.800 And the reason for that

00:11:17.900 is when you go

00:11:18.660 before a grand jury,

00:11:20.380 the criminal defendant

00:11:21.200 is not there.

00:11:21.940 So the other side

00:11:22.540 of the story

00:11:23.020 is not presented.

00:11:23.860 It's just the prosecutor's story

00:11:25.640 that gets presented

00:11:26.780 to the grand jury

00:11:27.700 that yields the indictment.

00:11:29.620 So that's one piece of it

00:11:30.960 is they can weaponize

00:11:32.360 law enforcement

00:11:33.860 to go after

00:11:34.580 their political opponents.

00:11:36.080 But the other piece

00:11:37.340 that is every bit

00:11:38.340 as dangerous

00:11:38.980 is they can choose

00:11:40.360 whom not to prosecute.

00:11:42.580 And we see this

00:11:43.520 in the Department of Justice,

00:11:45.100 whether it is

00:11:45.960 targeting parents

00:11:46.920 because they dare speak up

00:11:48.380 against sexual assaults

00:11:49.580 in schools

00:11:50.080 and critical race theory,

00:11:51.420 or whether it is not

00:11:53.420 targeting friends

00:11:55.140 and allies

00:11:55.980 of this White House.

00:11:57.500 And the most obvious example,

00:11:59.040 which you mentioned

00:11:59.660 at the outset

00:12:00.260 of the show,

00:12:01.860 is Hunter Biden,

00:12:03.040 which this Department

00:12:04.040 of Justice,

00:12:06.040 at this point,

00:12:07.660 it boggles the mind.

00:12:09.180 what exactly

00:12:11.380 would Hunter Biden

00:12:12.380 have to do

00:12:13.140 and film himself doing

00:12:14.720 for this profoundly

00:12:17.220 political Department

00:12:18.380 of Justice to say,

00:12:19.920 OK, enough already.

00:12:21.960 That actually,

00:12:23.360 OK, you can have a video

00:12:25.000 where you're measuring

00:12:25.700 out cocaine 0.99

00:12:26.400 with a prostitute. 1.00

00:12:28.140 Hey, come on. 0.99

00:12:28.720 Doesn't every kid

00:12:29.720 of a president do that?

00:12:30.980 Who doesn't?

00:12:31.440 You know, you can lie

00:12:32.980 on the forum

00:12:33.740 to purchase a gun.

00:12:35.560 You know, I mean,

00:12:36.200 really, doesn't everyone

00:12:37.400 violate federal law

00:12:38.400 to do that.

00:12:39.080 And this DOJ

00:12:40.480 turns a blind eye.

00:12:43.160 And it's why

00:12:44.140 I have long called

00:12:45.320 for a special prosecutor

00:12:46.700 because Merrick Garland,

00:12:50.160 Joe Biden's

00:12:50.900 handpicked prosecutor,

00:12:51.860 I have zero confidence

00:12:53.120 that this DOJ

00:12:54.460 will be willing

00:12:55.040 to enforce the law

00:12:56.160 out of pure

00:12:57.500 political favoritism.

00:12:59.060 There needs to be

00:12:59.580 a special prosecutor

00:13:00.680 to examine,

00:13:02.360 at this point,

00:13:03.260 just the,

00:13:04.080 you know, 1.00

00:13:04.940 the damn laptop 1.00

00:13:06.400 and the videotapes 1.00

00:13:09.040 of him that certainly

00:13:10.020 on the face of it

00:13:10.820 appear to be

00:13:11.640 committing serious crimes.

00:13:14.060 Well, so this

00:13:14.780 this is the

00:13:15.580 the third kind

00:13:16.840 of lawlessness

00:13:17.380 that I really wanted

00:13:18.260 to get to

00:13:18.940 because, sure,

00:13:20.420 you got the lawlessness

00:13:21.080 of the criminals

00:13:21.620 on the streets

00:13:22.160 and, sure,

00:13:22.560 you got the lawlessness

00:13:23.320 of the law enforcement

00:13:24.600 agencies that look

00:13:25.440 the other way.

00:13:26.440 But this this third one

00:13:28.120 where you've got people

00:13:29.060 very closely associated

00:13:30.700 with the White House,

00:13:31.900 possibly,

00:13:32.820 possibly implicating

00:13:33.900 the president himself

00:13:35.160 are committing

00:13:36.140 the crimes.

00:13:37.380 This is probably

00:13:38.280 the most scandalous

00:13:39.300 form of of lawlessness

00:13:41.360 here.

00:13:42.180 And yes,

00:13:42.640 it's the drugs

00:13:43.340 and yes, 1.00

00:13:43.860 it's the hookers 1.00

00:13:44.600 and yes, 1.00

00:13:45.340 it's the guns

00:13:46.080 and yes,

00:13:47.040 it's I I'm not sure

00:13:48.560 that Hunter Biden

00:13:49.120 has ever committed

00:13:49.720 a crime that he didn't film.

00:13:50.940 If he did,

00:13:51.760 I can't even imagine

00:13:52.600 what those crimes are.

00:13:54.200 Well, there is there

00:13:54.880 there is at least one

00:13:56.040 which which is

00:13:56.820 member Burisma.

00:13:57.680 I mean,

00:13:57.840 verdict started with

00:13:58.900 the whole he got

00:14:00.100 paid eighty three

00:14:00.800 thousand dollars a month

00:14:01.940 to be on the board

00:14:02.820 of a Ukrainian

00:14:03.440 natural gas company

00:14:04.660 when he didn't know

00:14:05.440 anything about natural gas.

00:14:06.620 He didn't know

00:14:06.960 anything about Ukraine.

00:14:08.720 But, you know,

00:14:09.900 he he did know enough

00:14:11.620 to say 10 percent

00:14:12.480 for the big guy.

00:14:13.360 I mean,

00:14:13.880 it I don't know

00:14:16.020 that he videotaped himself

00:14:17.560 going to board meetings

00:14:19.060 in Ukraine

00:14:19.840 and providing nothing

00:14:20.840 of value

00:14:21.420 other than being

00:14:22.160 the son of Joe Biden.

00:14:24.080 But we do have records

00:14:25.200 that we will.

00:14:26.820 We do have records here.

00:14:27.940 I mean,

00:14:28.160 so this is

00:14:29.680 the biggest crime of all

00:14:31.060 in putting the drugs

00:14:31.920 and the women 1.00

00:14:32.340 and the wine women 1.00

00:14:33.800 and song aside.

00:14:35.600 If if Hunter Biden,

00:14:37.580 as it seems pretty clear

00:14:39.440 he was doing,

00:14:40.400 was peddling U.S.

00:14:41.440 influence,

00:14:42.280 selling his father's influence

00:14:43.920 while he was vice president,

00:14:45.200 potentially while he's

00:14:46.040 still president.

00:14:46.900 Now,

00:14:47.480 after we already heard

00:14:49.100 about the laptop,

00:14:49.860 now we're hearing about

00:14:50.800 Hunter Biden's cell phone.

00:14:52.200 There seems to be

00:14:52.780 a lot of evidence

00:14:53.480 that he did set up

00:14:54.980 a crooked deal

00:14:55.600 with a Chinese energy company

00:14:57.300 and was giving

00:14:58.660 China sweetheart deals

00:15:00.420 and access

00:15:00.920 to American energy.

00:15:02.640 This while America

00:15:03.440 is in the midst

00:15:03.980 of a major energy crisis,

00:15:05.720 news breaks

00:15:06.480 just within the past

00:15:07.520 couple of weeks,

00:15:08.460 past few weeks,

00:15:09.540 that Joe Biden

00:15:11.540 is selling oil

00:15:12.400 from the Strategic

00:15:13.340 Petroleum Reserve

00:15:14.480 to China.

00:15:15.560 Why are we giving

00:15:16.300 our oil to China?

00:15:17.440 Doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:15:19.380 That seems to be

00:15:20.300 a much more serious crime

00:15:21.500 that involves me,

00:15:22.800 that involves

00:15:23.200 my political order,

00:15:24.440 much more so

00:15:25.060 than whatever crack

00:15:25.840 Hunter was smoking.

00:15:27.160 Yeah,

00:15:27.360 I mean,

00:15:27.600 let's take

00:15:28.280 the last example

00:15:29.360 you gave

00:15:29.800 because it raises

00:15:31.000 a very serious

00:15:32.620 specter of corruption.

00:15:34.680 And if you look,

00:15:36.460 so the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

00:15:38.060 is designed

00:15:39.080 to protect America

00:15:40.240 in a time of crisis,

00:15:41.440 typically military crisis,

00:15:42.760 where we need

00:15:43.760 to be able

00:15:44.100 to access energy.

00:15:45.800 And Joe Biden

00:15:46.960 has been using it

00:15:48.060 because suddenly

00:15:48.800 the White House

00:15:49.400 realized, 0.99

00:15:50.060 oh crap, 0.99

00:15:50.460 people don't like 0.97

00:15:51.120 five,

00:15:51.480 six,

00:15:51.740 seven dollar

00:15:52.160 a gallon gasoline.

00:15:53.560 And so he's been

00:15:54.380 releasing oil

00:15:56.080 from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

00:15:57.820 hoping to lower

00:15:58.700 the price of gas.

00:16:00.740 In November 2021,

00:16:02.820 Biden ordered

00:16:03.440 the release

00:16:04.000 of 50 million

00:16:05.020 barrels of oil.

00:16:07.620 March 1st,

00:16:08.640 2022,

00:16:09.580 he ordered

00:16:10.000 the release

00:16:10.600 of 30 million

00:16:11.540 barrels of oil.

00:16:13.500 March 31st,

00:16:14.580 he ordered

00:16:15.080 the release

00:16:15.720 of 180 million

00:16:17.460 barrels of oil.

00:16:19.300 And he has said

00:16:20.660 that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

00:16:22.360 will continue

00:16:23.120 to release

00:16:24.020 1 million barrels

00:16:25.760 a day

00:16:26.300 all the way

00:16:28.180 through October.

00:16:29.220 So right now,

00:16:30.220 the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

00:16:31.520 has fallen

00:16:32.600 to its lowest level

00:16:33.780 since 1986.

00:16:36.900 On top of that,

00:16:38.520 as you just referenced,

00:16:39.620 it's been reported

00:16:40.420 that more than

00:16:42.380 a fifth of the barrels

00:16:43.300 released from the SPR

00:16:44.700 were exported

00:16:46.180 to Europe and Asia,

00:16:47.340 including China.

00:16:48.460 And China

00:16:49.180 may now control

00:16:52.000 the world's

00:16:53.360 largest stockpile

00:16:55.240 of oil.

00:16:56.000 What's been reported

00:16:57.260 as total crude

00:16:58.220 inventory is estimated

00:16:59.540 at 950 million barrels.

00:17:03.720 So,

00:17:04.320 just on that front,

00:17:06.500 I've introduced

00:17:07.260 legislation

00:17:08.100 to prohibit

00:17:09.260 the federal government

00:17:10.040 from selling oil

00:17:11.000 to China

00:17:11.600 and Russia

00:17:12.260 and Iran

00:17:12.820 and North Korea.

00:17:13.640 That Biden

00:17:15.120 needs to stop

00:17:16.420 helping our enemies.

00:17:18.040 What was the argument

00:17:19.240 for selling them

00:17:20.160 the oil

00:17:20.500 in the first place?

00:17:21.600 Well,

00:17:21.800 we've got gas prices

00:17:22.740 at $8 a gallon

00:17:23.760 in America.

00:17:25.260 Look,

00:17:25.960 the Biden administration

00:17:27.980 systematically does

00:17:29.700 every foreign policy

00:17:31.100 decision wrong.

00:17:32.860 They've been soft

00:17:33.800 on China

00:17:34.240 from the beginning.

00:17:35.220 They've been soft

00:17:35.960 on Russia.

00:17:36.560 I mean,

00:17:36.680 we've talked at length

00:17:37.520 in the pod

00:17:38.020 about Nord Stream 2.

00:17:39.500 Biden waived

00:17:40.140 the sanctions

00:17:40.740 on a Russian

00:17:41.840 natural gas pipeline

00:17:42.940 which caused

00:17:43.720 the war in Ukraine.

00:17:45.360 This has been

00:17:45.920 a pattern.

00:17:46.580 Biden

00:17:46.860 has sent

00:17:48.060 the State Department

00:17:48.960 to Iran

00:17:50.320 and Venezuela

00:17:50.940 trying to get

00:17:51.620 them to produce 0.81

00:17:52.240 more oil.

00:17:52.820 When it comes

00:17:53.320 to energy

00:17:54.060 and our enemies,

00:17:56.080 take whatever

00:17:56.960 common sense

00:17:57.600 you can think of,

00:17:58.260 turn it upside down

00:17:59.280 and that is

00:17:59.800 the Biden policy.

00:18:01.460 But here's

00:18:01.960 the corruption

00:18:02.500 piece of it.

00:18:03.100 So not only

00:18:03.700 is it weakening

00:18:04.400 America

00:18:04.760 and endangering 1.00

00:18:05.360 us and just stupid, 1.00

00:18:06.980 but also, 1.00

00:18:08.620 so the Washington

00:18:09.340 Free Beacon

00:18:09.940 has reported

00:18:10.540 that 950,000

00:18:13.260 barrels

00:18:13.700 may have gone

00:18:14.520 to a Chinese

00:18:15.980 state-owned

00:18:17.020 gas company

00:18:17.820 that has

00:18:19.260 financial ties

00:18:20.320 to a private

00:18:20.920 equity firm

00:18:21.700 co-founded

00:18:22.280 by Hunter Biden.

00:18:23.080 And here's the facts

00:18:23.940 as has been reported.

00:18:26.020 In April,

00:18:27.500 the Department

00:18:27.920 of Energy

00:18:28.460 announced the sale

00:18:29.540 to Unipec,

00:18:31.620 which is the

00:18:32.920 trading arm

00:18:33.800 of Sinopec.

00:18:36.160 Now,

00:18:36.700 what is Sinopec?

00:18:38.380 Sinopec

00:18:39.040 is wholly owned

00:18:40.280 and operated

00:18:41.020 by the Chinese

00:18:42.560 Communist Party.

00:18:43.700 Unipec

00:18:46.080 reportedly

00:18:48.020 purchased oil

00:18:48.740 all across

00:18:49.260 the globe

00:18:49.740 and then

00:18:51.220 sells it

00:18:52.040 through its

00:18:52.500 Sinopec

00:18:53.140 marketing subsidiary.

00:18:54.260 Now,

00:18:54.380 what does this

00:18:54.740 have to do

00:18:55.100 with Hunter Biden?

00:18:56.380 Well,

00:18:56.560 Hunter Biden

00:18:57.080 founded

00:18:57.680 BHR Partners,

00:18:59.220 which is a

00:18:59.780 private equity

00:19:00.500 firm in 2013.

00:19:02.560 He co-founded it.

00:19:04.220 That firm

00:19:04.860 reportedly

00:19:05.500 purchased

00:19:06.200 a nearly

00:19:06.920 $1.7

00:19:08.700 billion

00:19:09.880 stake

00:19:10.820 in Sinopec

00:19:12.560 marketing

00:19:12.980 in 2015.

00:19:14.640 And at one

00:19:15.320 point,

00:19:15.700 Hunter Biden

00:19:16.260 owned a

00:19:17.000 10%

00:19:17.960 stake

00:19:18.760 in BHR

00:19:20.260 partners

00:19:21.700 through his

00:19:23.020 wholly owned

00:19:23.820 firm,

00:19:25.500 Scanty Tellies. 0.92

00:19:27.520 I don't even know

00:19:28.200 what that means,

00:19:29.080 but Scanty Tellies,

00:19:30.980 Scanty Tellies,

00:19:32.660 maybe it's

00:19:33.360 Scanty

00:19:34.240 Telephones.

00:19:36.080 I don't know

00:19:36.880 what that means.

00:19:37.540 Scanty Tellies LLC.

00:19:38.560 Right now,

00:19:41.480 it's not clear

00:19:43.480 whether Hunter Biden

00:19:44.440 still has a

00:19:45.400 financial stake

00:19:46.220 in BHR Partners.

00:19:48.220 So,

00:19:48.540 Biden's White House

00:19:50.000 has repeatedly

00:19:50.740 claimed in

00:19:51.460 2019 and

00:19:52.400 2020

00:19:52.840 that Hunter Biden

00:19:54.720 was out of the

00:19:55.780 equity firm.

00:19:57.280 But the Chinese 1.00

00:19:58.940 corporate records

00:20:00.640 still show

00:20:01.560 he has a stake

00:20:02.820 in the company.

00:20:03.360 And I've got to

00:20:03.860 say,

00:20:04.460 it is amazing

00:20:05.620 that our

00:20:07.060 corporate media

00:20:07.920 seems to have

00:20:09.300 zero interest

00:20:10.600 in reporting

00:20:11.220 this.

00:20:12.040 So,

00:20:12.220 so,

00:20:12.320 so this,

00:20:13.040 this,

00:20:13.440 this came

00:20:14.180 from a report

00:20:15.540 in the Washington

00:20:16.160 Free Beacon.

00:20:17.420 But where's

00:20:18.240 the New York Times?

00:20:19.100 Where's the

00:20:19.520 Washington Post?

00:20:20.340 You know,

00:20:20.500 the Washington Post

00:20:21.220 slogan is

00:20:22.000 Democracy Dies

00:20:22.860 in Darkness.

00:20:23.720 They've churned

00:20:25.020 what used to be

00:20:25.680 a slogan

00:20:26.200 into their motto

00:20:27.500 that this is

00:20:28.260 what they want.

00:20:29.080 More,

00:20:29.440 more darkness 1.00

00:20:30.440 to kill

00:20:30.960 democracy. 0.77

00:20:31.860 Like, 0.99

00:20:32.900 holy crap. 0.99

00:20:34.400 How do we 0.99

00:20:35.060 not know

00:20:35.960 if Joe Biden's

00:20:38.420 administration

00:20:38.960 is selling

00:20:39.820 oil from the

00:20:40.680 Strategic Petroleum

00:20:41.640 Reserve

00:20:42.180 purchased with

00:20:43.160 your and my

00:20:43.700 tax dollars

00:20:44.480 to a company

00:20:46.800 owned by the

00:20:47.660 Chinese Communist 0.72

00:20:48.480 Party

00:20:49.000 that Hunter Biden

00:20:50.900 may or may not

00:20:51.800 still have a stake

00:20:52.720 in?

00:20:52.940 He used to have

00:20:53.820 a massive stake

00:20:54.700 in it and it's

00:20:55.800 not clear if he

00:20:56.480 sold it.

00:20:57.000 And how does

00:20:57.460 the media not

00:20:58.240 care?

00:20:59.680 And where is

00:21:00.740 the Department of

00:21:01.480 Justice?

00:21:02.100 This is

00:21:02.780 lawlessness

00:21:03.720 because I

00:21:05.020 guarantee you

00:21:05.980 if his name

00:21:07.660 were Michael

00:21:09.160 Knowles,

00:21:10.080 the G-man 0.99

00:21:12.060 would be a

00:21:12.560 column.

00:21:13.060 Yeah,

00:21:13.320 I'd be in an

00:21:13.880 orange jumpsuit

00:21:14.780 right now.

00:21:15.400 And there are

00:21:16.020 just so many

00:21:16.640 layers to it.

00:21:17.580 I mean,

00:21:17.740 it gets to

00:21:18.380 kind of my

00:21:19.040 exasperation

00:21:19.780 earlier with

00:21:20.440 even the fact

00:21:21.140 of us

00:21:21.460 selling this

00:21:22.180 oil right now

00:21:22.740 to China

00:21:23.200 is you think

00:21:24.340 to begin

00:21:25.480 with,

00:21:26.060 Hunter Biden

00:21:26.600 is obviously

00:21:27.500 the biggest

00:21:28.380 blackmail extortion

00:21:29.660 risk you've

00:21:30.280 ever seen

00:21:30.900 in American

00:21:32.000 government.

00:21:32.720 The guy

00:21:33.000 has recorded

00:21:33.640 virtually every

00:21:34.680 crime he's

00:21:35.140 ever committed.

00:21:36.140 I guarantee

00:21:36.720 hostile foreign 1.00

00:21:37.580 powers have

00:21:38.420 more stuff

00:21:39.040 even than we

00:21:39.720 have seen

00:21:40.100 right now.

00:21:40.740 So that's

00:21:41.100 a really

00:21:41.340 bad sign.

00:21:42.140 You've got

00:21:42.540 lots of

00:21:43.060 evidence

00:21:43.480 linking

00:21:44.280 Hunter Biden's

00:21:45.220 business dealings

00:21:45.880 to Joe Biden.

00:21:46.740 Joe Biden has

00:21:47.240 come out and

00:21:47.780 said,

00:21:48.360 I have nothing

00:21:48.820 to do with

00:21:49.280 it.

00:21:49.440 I have not

00:21:49.760 even spoken

00:21:50.300 to my son.

00:21:51.160 No conversations

00:21:51.880 about his

00:21:52.380 business dealings.

00:21:53.620 Hunter Biden

00:21:54.120 contradicted that

00:21:55.060 during a televised

00:21:55.960 interview and then

00:21:56.960 he realized he

00:21:57.560 wasn't supposed to

00:21:58.180 contradict it,

00:21:58.680 tried to walk

00:21:59.120 it back.

00:21:59.800 Now,

00:22:00.120 because of the

00:22:00.620 laptop,

00:22:01.260 we have a

00:22:01.740 voicemail from

00:22:02.640 Joe Biden

00:22:03.340 referencing Hunter's

00:22:04.980 business dealings

00:22:05.820 overseas.

00:22:06.440 We know that

00:22:07.300 Joe Biden lied

00:22:07.960 about that.

00:22:08.720 Seems pretty

00:22:09.400 clear to me

00:22:10.100 that there is

00:22:11.040 some connection

00:22:11.620 here between

00:22:12.160 Biden and

00:22:13.140 Hunter's

00:22:13.520 business dealings.

00:22:14.640 Obviously,

00:22:15.220 just on the

00:22:15.620 face of it,

00:22:16.580 Ukraine and

00:22:17.360 China are not 1.00

00:22:18.200 doing business

00:22:18.720 with Hunter Biden

00:22:19.460 because he's

00:22:20.220 such a great

00:22:20.720 businessman with

00:22:21.460 such expertise.

00:22:22.640 The guy is a 1.00

00:22:23.100 complete degenerate 1.00

00:22:24.180 and the only

00:22:24.560 reason they're

00:22:25.320 working with him

00:22:25.960 obviously is

00:22:26.840 because of his

00:22:27.400 last name and

00:22:28.320 his connection

00:22:28.820 to the then

00:22:29.640 vice president

00:22:30.240 and now

00:22:30.740 president.

00:22:31.700 So you've

00:22:31.980 got all of

00:22:33.080 that corruption

00:22:33.760 and I guess

00:22:35.420 my exasperation

00:22:37.160 comes most from

00:22:38.120 my feeling that

00:22:39.740 no one is ever

00:22:40.900 going to do a

00:22:41.960 damn thing about 0.98

00:22:42.760 it because of 0.99

00:22:43.820 the lawlessness

00:22:44.400 in the federal

00:22:45.400 law enforcement

00:22:45.940 agencies.

00:22:47.200 Well,

00:22:47.480 I'll say a

00:22:48.280 couple of

00:22:48.640 things on

00:22:49.100 this.

00:22:50.200 One,

00:22:50.900 when we were

00:22:51.360 in the impeachment

00:22:52.100 trial,

00:22:53.660 the first one,

00:22:54.580 I was urging

00:22:57.220 the Trump

00:22:57.920 defense team

00:22:58.800 to get into

00:23:00.280 this further,

00:23:01.600 to get into

00:23:03.040 the facts,

00:23:04.080 to call

00:23:04.600 Hunter Biden

00:23:05.140 as a witness.

00:23:05.620 Remember,

00:23:05.820 we had a whole

00:23:06.200 fight about

00:23:06.580 whether to

00:23:06.900 call witnesses

00:23:07.420 and the Trump

00:23:07.860 defense team

00:23:08.380 decided they

00:23:08.860 didn't want

00:23:09.220 witnesses.

00:23:10.280 And I got to

00:23:11.080 tell you,

00:23:11.460 I was urging

00:23:12.380 them,

00:23:12.820 look,

00:23:13.820 you would be

00:23:14.900 well advised

00:23:15.760 to get to

00:23:16.440 the bottom

00:23:16.840 of what actually

00:23:17.520 happens because

00:23:18.120 on the face

00:23:18.600 of this, 0.97

00:23:19.080 this stinks. 0.79

00:23:20.080 And drilling 0.95

00:23:22.080 down and

00:23:23.140 using this

00:23:24.560 as an avenue

00:23:25.240 to expose

00:23:26.580 the truth,

00:23:27.240 I think was

00:23:27.760 a real missed

00:23:28.360 opportunity.

00:23:29.180 At the end

00:23:29.920 of the day,

00:23:30.800 the Trump

00:23:31.500 defense team

00:23:32.140 decided not

00:23:32.680 to do that.

00:23:33.300 And I said,

00:23:33.760 look,

00:23:33.920 I'm not going

00:23:34.280 to try your

00:23:34.660 case for you.

00:23:35.320 You got to

00:23:35.660 decide what

00:23:36.120 your defense

00:23:36.560 is.

00:23:37.620 But you're

00:23:38.940 missing a

00:23:39.600 real opportunity

00:23:40.460 not to

00:23:41.540 uncover this

00:23:42.380 corruption.

00:23:44.720 Secondly,

00:23:45.280 you know,

00:23:45.440 it was

00:23:45.560 interesting during

00:23:46.240 that impeachment,

00:23:46.860 I got a

00:23:47.380 call from

00:23:49.140 someone who

00:23:49.900 was a

00:23:50.300 former,

00:23:50.940 very senior

00:23:52.020 official in

00:23:53.520 a previous

00:23:54.580 Republican

00:23:55.040 administration,

00:23:55.980 who told me,

00:23:57.760 he said,

00:23:58.020 Ted,

00:23:58.340 people are

00:23:58.880 missing the

00:24:00.780 real consequences

00:24:02.020 of Burisma

00:24:03.060 giving $83,000

00:24:05.240 a month,

00:24:06.080 a Ukrainian

00:24:06.640 natural gas

00:24:07.380 company,

00:24:08.120 to Hunter

00:24:08.400 Biden who

00:24:08.800 knows nothing

00:24:09.220 about natural

00:24:09.680 gas and

00:24:10.060 doesn't speak

00:24:10.480 Ukrainian.

00:24:12.280 Which is,

00:24:13.600 look,

00:24:13.840 Hunter has

00:24:14.580 been a

00:24:15.580 troubled soul

00:24:16.820 his whole

00:24:17.360 life.

00:24:17.760 and he

00:24:19.940 has no

00:24:21.060 doubt been

00:24:21.900 a financial

00:24:22.720 burden to

00:24:23.540 his father

00:24:24.160 his whole

00:24:25.400 life because

00:24:26.000 the guy is

00:24:26.560 a mess.

00:24:27.280 I feel bad

00:24:28.340 for him.

00:24:28.760 He's clearly

00:24:29.580 got huge

00:24:31.200 issues.

00:24:32.000 He's a

00:24:32.520 struggling and

00:24:34.240 tortured soul.

00:24:35.400 But the

00:24:35.760 point that

00:24:36.560 this fellow

00:24:38.660 made to me

00:24:39.240 is by

00:24:40.780 giving Hunter

00:24:42.200 $83,000 a

00:24:43.780 month,

00:24:44.080 that's

00:24:44.620 functionally the

00:24:45.680 same as putting

00:24:46.340 it in Joe

00:24:46.800 Biden's pocket

00:24:47.600 because it

00:24:48.960 means that

00:24:49.760 he doesn't

00:24:50.420 need to

00:24:50.820 support his

00:24:51.320 son anymore.

00:24:51.860 It's relieving

00:24:52.940 Joe Biden

00:24:53.740 of the

00:24:54.780 financial burden

00:24:55.720 of taking

00:24:56.160 care of a

00:24:56.720 deadbeat

00:24:57.080 son.

00:24:58.520 And that

00:24:59.060 set aside

00:24:59.980 the whole

00:25:00.500 10% for

00:25:01.280 the big

00:25:01.580 guy and

00:25:01.920 whether Joe

00:25:02.340 Biden was

00:25:02.780 directly getting

00:25:03.640 cash from

00:25:05.360 these deals.

00:25:06.060 Simply taking

00:25:07.260 Hunter off

00:25:09.120 the

00:25:09.500 off of the

00:25:12.060 ledger,

00:25:13.200 off the

00:25:13.720 dole,

00:25:14.300 scandal is

00:25:15.180 a really

00:25:15.560 big benefit

00:25:16.320 for Joe

00:25:18.560 Biden

00:25:19.000 personally.

00:25:20.720 And let's

00:25:21.580 take another

00:25:22.140 aspect.

00:25:22.880 You know,

00:25:23.000 I mean,

00:25:23.260 it's at this

00:25:24.300 point,

00:25:24.520 there's so many

00:25:25.000 of these

00:25:25.220 scandals,

00:25:25.600 it's hard to

00:25:25.980 even keep

00:25:26.380 track.

00:25:27.180 But,

00:25:27.660 you know,

00:25:27.980 Hunter

00:25:28.240 Biden,

00:25:28.740 the artist,

00:25:29.920 which I put

00:25:30.540 in quotes,

00:25:31.320 selling his

00:25:32.520 art,

00:25:33.080 which I put

00:25:33.640 in quotes,

00:25:34.980 for like

00:25:35.660 $500,000 a

00:25:37.400 painting.

00:25:37.780 I mean,

00:25:38.220 what a 0.99

00:25:38.940 stinking 1.00

00:25:41.540 corrupt 1.00

00:25:42.360 way.

00:25:44.020 If you're

00:25:44.600 and the

00:25:45.360 Biden White

00:25:46.040 House has

00:25:46.540 refused any

00:25:47.380 modicum of

00:25:47.980 transparency.

00:25:49.960 What a

00:25:50.800 great way

00:25:51.600 for any

00:25:52.340 bad actor

00:25:53.260 who wants

00:25:53.820 to funnel

00:25:54.500 cash to

00:25:56.380 the Biden

00:25:56.900 family to

00:25:58.140 buy a

00:25:59.520 horrific piece

00:26:01.200 of art and

00:26:02.400 just send a

00:26:02.960 bunch of

00:26:03.240 cash.

00:26:03.820 And if

00:26:06.160 there was

00:26:06.620 even the

00:26:07.200 tiniest bit

00:26:08.060 of confidence

00:26:08.640 that the

00:26:09.200 FBI would

00:26:09.820 investigate,

00:26:10.500 that the

00:26:10.680 Department of

00:26:11.180 Justice would

00:26:12.640 bring charges

00:26:13.740 if criminal

00:26:15.400 laws were

00:26:15.880 violated,

00:26:16.420 that would

00:26:16.700 be one

00:26:17.060 thing.

00:26:17.980 But that

00:26:19.040 goes back

00:26:19.660 to why I've

00:26:20.260 called for a

00:26:20.820 special prosecutor

00:26:21.760 because I

00:26:22.320 have 0.0%

00:26:23.980 confidence that

00:26:26.260 Merrick Garland

00:26:27.340 and this

00:26:27.880 Department of

00:26:28.400 Justice will

00:26:28.880 be willing to

00:26:29.280 do that.

00:26:29.740 This is such

00:26:30.280 a great point

00:26:30.920 on the art

00:26:31.640 that I hadn't

00:26:33.480 really occurred

00:26:34.060 to me with

00:26:34.600 this kind of

00:26:35.160 clarity,

00:26:35.580 but Hunter

00:26:36.580 Biden made

00:26:37.580 all of his

00:26:38.140 money in

00:26:38.680 his career

00:26:39.280 peddling his

00:26:40.180 father's

00:26:40.620 influence.

00:26:41.460 When he came

00:26:41.880 under the

00:26:42.200 microscope,

00:26:42.900 when all of

00:26:43.300 the eyes

00:26:43.660 were on

00:26:44.040 him,

00:26:44.460 he no

00:26:44.840 longer could

00:26:45.360 do that.

00:26:46.340 Suddenly he's

00:26:47.060 inspired,

00:26:47.800 a man who's

00:26:48.280 probably never

00:26:48.860 picked up a

00:26:49.380 paintbrush in

00:26:49.920 his entire

00:26:50.280 life.

00:26:50.820 He decides

00:26:51.320 now I'm

00:26:51.720 going to

00:26:52.000 become an

00:26:52.440 artist because

00:26:53.420 it was the

00:26:53.980 next easiest

00:26:54.760 scam to

00:26:55.780 funnel money

00:26:56.320 into the

00:26:56.720 Bidens.

00:26:57.140 And so you

00:26:57.440 say, okay,

00:26:57.800 here are my

00:26:58.180 doodles on a

00:26:59.060 canvas.

00:26:59.880 Give me half a

00:27:00.500 million dollars,

00:27:01.300 please.

00:27:01.920 And people do

00:27:02.780 it.

00:27:03.060 And as you

00:27:03.420 say, no

00:27:05.580 look, the

00:27:07.120 only thing

00:27:07.780 more crooked

00:27:08.320 than that,

00:27:09.080 Michael, would

00:27:09.680 be if he

00:27:10.480 published a

00:27:11.880 book with no

00:27:12.520 words in it.

00:27:14.100 No, not even

00:27:15.420 Hunter Biden

00:27:16.060 would do

00:27:16.420 something like

00:27:16.920 that.

00:27:18.080 He's not

00:27:18.700 that creative.

00:27:19.520 He's not

00:27:19.840 that clever.

00:27:21.140 That would

00:27:21.620 be beyond

00:27:21.960 the pale.

00:27:23.100 So what

00:27:24.240 you're saying

00:27:25.060 is, and I

00:27:25.640 think this is

00:27:26.200 right, we're

00:27:27.560 not going to

00:27:27.920 rely on the

00:27:28.880 FBI.

00:27:29.240 The FBI sat

00:27:29.960 on that laptop

00:27:30.980 for years,

00:27:32.140 right?

00:27:32.340 For a year

00:27:33.040 and a half

00:27:33.400 or more,

00:27:33.980 two and a

00:27:34.180 half years.

00:27:34.520 So they're

00:27:36.200 not going to

00:27:36.700 do anything

00:27:37.100 about it.

00:27:37.760 Biden's DOJ

00:27:38.600 isn't going to

00:27:39.100 do anything

00:27:39.440 about it.

00:27:39.920 So the only

00:27:40.600 hope that we

00:27:41.060 have to see

00:27:41.680 any justice

00:27:42.700 done here is

00:27:44.100 a special

00:27:44.760 prosecutor.

00:27:45.360 What do you

00:27:45.580 think the

00:27:45.820 odds are that

00:27:46.220 we get it?

00:27:47.600 Zero.

00:27:49.560 I don't think

00:27:50.620 there's any

00:27:51.000 chance.

00:27:51.300 This is a

00:27:52.880 lawless

00:27:53.540 administration.

00:27:54.220 It's why I

00:27:54.520 wrote the

00:27:54.780 book.

00:27:55.080 It's why I

00:27:55.520 like we've

00:27:56.980 never seen

00:27:58.040 the lawlessness.

00:28:01.480 What Richard

00:28:02.680 Nixon attempted

00:28:04.020 did.

00:28:04.820 Yeah.

00:28:06.300 Barack Obama

00:28:07.360 succeeded in

00:28:08.760 and Joe

00:28:09.960 Biden took

00:28:10.540 to the

00:28:10.800 next level.

00:28:12.740 And it

00:28:13.880 is it's

00:28:15.620 one of the

00:28:16.200 reasons why

00:28:16.780 the November

00:28:17.180 elections matter

00:28:17.960 so much,

00:28:18.420 because if we

00:28:18.960 have congressional

00:28:19.760 majorities,

00:28:20.700 I hope we see

00:28:21.960 Congress

00:28:22.340 investigating this.

00:28:23.340 Now it's going

00:28:23.640 to be incumbent

00:28:24.060 on Republicans

00:28:24.660 to actually do

00:28:25.360 something and

00:28:25.860 to have the

00:28:26.160 courage to

00:28:26.560 get into

00:28:26.800 this stuff.

00:28:27.760 But even

00:28:28.520 if Congress

00:28:29.140 investigates,

00:28:30.100 it's only the

00:28:30.940 Department of

00:28:31.480 Justice or a

00:28:32.660 local prosecutor

00:28:33.600 that can bring

00:28:35.060 criminal charges.

00:28:36.000 The legislature

00:28:36.860 doesn't have the

00:28:37.860 ability to bring

00:28:38.580 criminal charges.

00:28:39.500 Only the

00:28:39.940 executive can.

00:28:41.320 As long as we

00:28:42.100 have a lawless

00:28:42.640 executive,

00:28:44.080 the criminal

00:28:45.800 law will be

00:28:46.560 used as a

00:28:47.220 weapon rather

00:28:48.080 than a fair

00:28:51.660 principle to

00:28:52.860 hold everyone

00:28:53.360 accountable.

00:28:54.440 Right.

00:28:54.620 And it's not

00:28:55.560 that you can

00:28:55.940 just isolate

00:28:56.620 one of these

00:28:57.540 three parts.

00:28:58.920 The lawlessness

00:28:59.780 on the streets

00:29:00.600 does pertain

00:29:01.660 to the

00:29:01.940 lawlessness

00:29:02.420 in the

00:29:03.140 enforcement

00:29:03.500 agencies,

00:29:04.140 does pertain

00:29:05.000 to the

00:29:05.660 criminality

00:29:06.260 coming from

00:29:07.140 the people

00:29:07.680 who are

00:29:07.960 associated

00:29:08.380 with the

00:29:08.820 White House.

00:29:09.340 It's such

00:29:09.620 scandalous

00:29:10.380 criminality. 0.60

00:29:11.300 You've really

00:29:11.900 got to tackle

00:29:12.540 all of them

00:29:13.380 and that's

00:29:14.300 a much bigger

00:29:15.120 fight.

00:29:15.720 Before we go,

00:29:16.160 we do have

00:29:16.660 some questions.

00:29:17.340 You brought

00:29:17.720 up Ukraine,

00:29:18.740 so I did

00:29:19.340 want to get

00:29:19.600 to this

00:29:19.820 two-part

00:29:20.180 question from

00:29:20.980 a Verdict Plus

00:29:22.000 subscriber,

00:29:22.500 Godzilla.

00:29:23.540 First part,

00:29:24.380 if China

00:29:24.920 invades

00:29:25.540 Taiwan,

00:29:26.720 how long

00:29:27.520 will that

00:29:28.360 take?

00:29:29.560 Presumably,

00:29:30.160 I guess,

00:29:30.500 what's being

00:29:30.840 implied here

00:29:31.260 is how long

00:29:31.680 will it take

00:29:32.020 before China

00:29:32.540 conquers Taiwan? 0.91

00:29:33.620 And then

00:29:34.100 the second

00:29:34.580 question,

00:29:35.660 who will

00:29:35.980 win the

00:29:36.300 war in

00:29:36.900 Ukraine,

00:29:37.680 in whichever

00:29:38.220 order you

00:29:39.060 like?

00:29:40.340 So I

00:29:40.580 think those

00:29:40.880 two questions

00:29:41.480 are related.

00:29:45.200 Rewind

00:29:45.720 to when

00:29:46.540 Biden had

00:29:47.960 his

00:29:48.360 catastrophic

00:29:49.180 withdrawal

00:29:49.720 from

00:29:49.960 Afghanistan

00:29:50.500 and surrendered

00:29:51.140 to the

00:29:51.460 Taliban.

00:29:53.620 I think

00:29:54.300 that had

00:29:54.700 massive

00:29:55.120 repercussions.

00:29:55.860 I said

00:29:56.160 at the time

00:29:56.700 when he did

00:29:57.180 that,

00:29:57.420 I said

00:29:57.780 the chances

00:29:58.720 that Russia 0.72

00:29:59.260 invades

00:29:59.700 Ukraine

00:30:00.060 have just

00:30:00.440 risen

00:30:00.680 tenfold.

00:30:01.380 I said

00:30:01.600 the chances

00:30:02.000 that China 0.93

00:30:02.520 invades

00:30:02.880 Taiwan

00:30:03.240 have just

00:30:03.740 risen

00:30:03.980 tenfold.

00:30:07.840 If you

00:30:08.740 asked me

00:30:09.640 six months

00:30:11.400 ago,

00:30:11.800 I thought

00:30:12.500 the odds

00:30:13.220 were very

00:30:14.100 high,

00:30:15.240 substantially

00:30:15.740 higher than

00:30:16.340 50%

00:30:16.960 that China 0.93

00:30:18.220 would invade

00:30:18.880 Taiwan

00:30:19.420 before the

00:30:20.260 end of

00:30:20.860 Biden's

00:30:21.540 first and I

00:30:22.120 suspect only

00:30:22.840 term.

00:30:23.200 I think

00:30:27.340 those odds

00:30:27.800 have dropped

00:30:28.280 and I

00:30:28.960 think that

00:30:29.240 those odds

00:30:29.760 have dropped

00:30:30.320 significantly

00:30:31.460 because I

00:30:34.220 think China

00:30:34.920 is watching

00:30:35.660 what's happening

00:30:36.300 in Ukraine

00:30:36.860 and I

00:30:37.940 gotta tell you

00:30:38.340 at the

00:30:38.520 beginning of

00:30:38.920 the war

00:30:39.220 on Ukraine

00:30:39.840 and I

00:30:40.620 think Joe

00:30:41.020 Biden

00:30:41.380 and his

00:30:42.260 appeasement

00:30:44.120 and capitulation

00:30:44.940 to Putin

00:30:45.460 especially on

00:30:46.120 Nord Stream 2

00:30:46.760 is what

00:30:47.100 caused the

00:30:47.680 war on

00:30:48.060 Ukraine.

00:30:48.440 But when

00:30:49.880 that war

00:30:50.380 started,

00:30:51.060 the entire

00:30:51.760 Biden

00:30:52.340 national

00:30:52.860 security

00:30:53.360 team,

00:30:54.500 the Defense

00:30:54.960 Department,

00:30:55.760 State

00:30:55.980 Department,

00:30:56.720 the CIA,

00:30:57.900 all of the

00:30:58.860 intelligence

00:30:59.300 community

00:30:59.920 briefed

00:31:00.500 Congress

00:31:00.820 with multiple

00:31:01.420 classified

00:31:01.940 briefings

00:31:02.440 and they

00:31:02.920 said over

00:31:03.400 and over

00:31:03.700 again,

00:31:04.120 they said

00:31:04.440 this war

00:31:05.660 is going

00:31:05.880 to be over

00:31:06.200 in a couple

00:31:06.500 of days.

00:31:07.520 Putin's 0.59

00:31:07.820 going to

00:31:08.020 come in,

00:31:08.520 wipe out 0.97

00:31:08.960 Ukraine, 0.65

00:31:09.420 take it

00:31:09.700 all over.

00:31:11.180 Ukraine

00:31:11.580 has no

00:31:12.440 prayer.

00:31:12.820 And there

00:31:13.020 was not a

00:31:13.460 dissenting

00:31:13.860 word.

00:31:14.180 The Joint

00:31:14.500 Chiefs,

00:31:15.040 I mean,

00:31:15.180 they were

00:31:15.440 every single

00:31:16.660 national

00:31:17.860 security

00:31:18.360 figure

00:31:18.760 said

00:31:19.160 a couple

00:31:19.500 of days

00:31:19.920 it's all

00:31:20.360 over.

00:31:21.820 No chance

00:31:22.860 of anything

00:31:23.240 else.

00:31:24.400 That was

00:31:25.600 wildly,

00:31:27.000 completely,

00:31:27.920 disastrously,

00:31:29.080 catastrophically

00:31:29.840 wrong.

00:31:30.900 Of course,

00:31:31.160 nobody's lost

00:31:31.700 their job.

00:31:32.420 Just like

00:31:32.960 after Afghanistan,

00:31:33.880 nobody lost

00:31:34.440 their job.

00:31:35.340 This is the

00:31:35.860 most consequence

00:31:36.640 free administration.

00:31:37.960 You can

00:31:38.220 screw up

00:31:38.680 everything.

00:31:40.500 And there

00:31:41.740 are no

00:31:42.120 consequences

00:31:42.720 in the

00:31:43.080 Biden

00:31:43.300 administration.

00:31:46.500 The reason,

00:31:47.540 one of the

00:31:48.080 reasons why

00:31:49.080 the war

00:31:51.260 in Ukraine

00:31:51.660 has taken

00:31:52.080 so long

00:31:52.480 is the

00:31:52.680 Ukrainians,

00:31:53.220 I think,

00:31:53.360 are fighting

00:31:53.720 heroically.

00:31:54.480 I mean,

00:31:54.620 you've got

00:31:55.000 grandmothers

00:31:55.600 throwing Molotov

00:31:56.440 cocktails at

00:31:57.140 Russian tanks.

00:31:58.320 I also think

00:31:59.380 the United

00:31:59.760 States and

00:32:00.420 Europe has

00:32:00.960 stepped in

00:32:01.400 and provided

00:32:01.900 very substantial

00:32:02.920 military

00:32:03.360 assistance.

00:32:03.880 That has

00:32:04.400 mattered.

00:32:05.760 But the

00:32:07.840 effectiveness of

00:32:08.840 the Ukrainians

00:32:09.560 in defending

00:32:10.020 their own

00:32:10.500 homeland is a

00:32:12.340 factor Putin

00:32:13.040 didn't count on.

00:32:13.800 And I think

00:32:14.120 Putin's army

00:32:14.940 has been a lot

00:32:15.600 less effective

00:32:16.240 than he

00:32:16.600 expected.

00:32:17.140 They've had

00:32:17.580 problems with

00:32:18.520 logistics.

00:32:19.180 They've had

00:32:19.500 problems with

00:32:19.900 execution.

00:32:21.140 It hadn't

00:32:21.860 been good.

00:32:23.140 I think

00:32:23.980 Xi and

00:32:24.620 China is 0.85

00:32:25.140 watching all

00:32:25.780 of this

00:32:26.260 and saying,

00:32:27.820 gosh,

00:32:29.580 invading

00:32:29.960 Taiwan might

00:32:30.720 not go

00:32:31.100 well.

00:32:31.540 I don't

00:32:31.920 want to be,

00:32:32.640 I think Xi

00:32:33.220 may be

00:32:33.720 thinking,

00:32:34.720 where Putin

00:32:35.460 is.

00:32:35.880 This is a

00:32:36.520 mess for

00:32:37.020 Putin.

00:32:38.280 So,

00:32:39.140 on the

00:32:40.040 question,

00:32:40.580 what happens

00:32:41.080 in Ukraine,

00:32:41.740 I don't

00:32:42.180 know.

00:32:42.520 I believe

00:32:45.020 a victory

00:32:45.800 is possible.

00:32:48.000 Part of

00:32:48.600 a victory

00:32:49.180 involves

00:32:49.820 energy and

00:32:50.500 taking away

00:32:51.020 Russia's 0.70

00:32:51.520 energy

00:32:51.920 customers by

00:32:53.580 having Europe

00:32:54.300 shift from

00:32:54.960 Russian energy

00:32:55.720 to buying

00:32:56.720 from America

00:32:57.480 and buying

00:32:57.980 from our

00:32:59.060 allies that

00:32:59.660 are not

00:32:59.960 Russia.

00:33:04.260 But it

00:33:04.860 could easily

00:33:05.320 take a while.

00:33:05.960 It's taken a

00:33:06.460 while so far.

00:33:07.200 I don't know

00:33:07.740 how long it

00:33:08.240 will take.

00:33:09.340 You know,

00:33:09.600 the Biden

00:33:09.960 foreign policy

00:33:10.600 team said it

00:33:11.220 would take a

00:33:11.640 couple of

00:33:11.980 days.

00:33:12.260 We know

00:33:12.580 that was

00:33:12.940 wildly

00:33:13.300 wrong.

00:33:13.680 It seems

00:33:13.980 to be

00:33:14.220 dragging

00:33:14.520 on.

00:33:15.380 Listen,

00:33:16.420 Russia was 0.98

00:33:17.220 in Afghanistan

00:33:18.040 or the

00:33:18.720 Soviet Union

00:33:19.200 was in

00:33:19.580 Afghanistan

00:33:20.060 for,

00:33:20.520 what,

00:33:20.580 a decade?

00:33:21.900 So,

00:33:22.400 does this

00:33:22.900 become a

00:33:23.360 quagmire

00:33:24.000 that Putin

00:33:24.880 gets dragged

00:33:25.500 down in?

00:33:26.120 I don't

00:33:26.620 know.

00:33:27.060 Maybe.

00:33:28.720 I do

00:33:29.560 think the

00:33:30.060 greater cost

00:33:30.920 Russia pays 0.94

00:33:31.760 for it,

00:33:32.640 the more

00:33:33.840 deterrence

00:33:34.520 there is

00:33:35.360 to China

00:33:36.120 invading

00:33:36.580 Taiwan,

00:33:37.260 because Taiwan

00:33:37.760 has a

00:33:39.280 significant

00:33:39.900 military.

00:33:40.760 They have

00:33:41.100 significant

00:33:41.660 weapons.

00:33:42.080 They have

00:33:42.440 significant

00:33:42.960 financial

00:33:43.500 resources.

00:33:44.160 I mean,

00:33:44.800 one of the

00:33:45.460 reasons Taiwan

00:33:46.440 is perceived

00:33:48.140 as such a

00:33:48.920 threat to

00:33:50.260 China is 0.85

00:33:52.060 Taiwan,

00:33:53.000 the people

00:33:53.420 there are

00:33:53.940 ethnically

00:33:54.460 Chinese.

00:33:54.920 There's no

00:33:55.500 difference between

00:33:57.060 the human beings

00:33:58.100 in terms of

00:33:58.700 their background

00:33:59.380 and ethnicity.

00:34:00.400 There's no

00:34:01.000 difference between

00:34:01.380 the people in

00:34:01.860 Taiwan and the

00:34:02.400 people in

00:34:02.740 mainland China.

00:34:03.460 China, but 0.90

00:34:04.220 the standard

00:34:04.780 of living in

00:34:05.540 Taiwan is

00:34:06.560 orders of

00:34:07.660 magnitude

00:34:08.180 greater because

00:34:09.060 they're a

00:34:09.600 free market

00:34:10.300 capitalist

00:34:11.380 economy and

00:34:12.260 not a

00:34:12.860 communist

00:34:13.240 economy.

00:34:13.800 And they

00:34:15.000 also are a

00:34:16.220 democracy.

00:34:17.100 They enjoy

00:34:18.120 human rights

00:34:18.940 and freedoms.

00:34:19.620 And the

00:34:20.940 Chinese dictators 0.91

00:34:22.360 are terrified

00:34:23.260 that 1.3

00:34:24.480 billion Chinese

00:34:25.420 people will

00:34:27.000 look over at

00:34:27.700 Taiwan and

00:34:28.320 say, wait a

00:34:28.780 second, why is

00:34:29.800 their life so

00:34:30.540 much better than

00:34:31.080 my life?

00:34:32.180 Like, what's

00:34:33.160 the difference?

00:34:33.980 The difference is

00:34:34.780 their government

00:34:35.280 system works,

00:34:36.120 their economic

00:34:36.620 system works,

00:34:37.400 and ours really

00:34:38.220 stinks.

00:34:38.740 One consequence 0.96

00:34:42.140 of that is

00:34:42.920 that potentially

00:34:43.600 makes Taiwan

00:34:44.480 more formidable.

00:34:46.120 Now, the

00:34:46.400 Chinese army

00:34:47.100 is much, much

00:34:47.960 bigger, but

00:34:49.360 you know what?

00:34:49.740 The Russian army

00:34:50.420 is much, much

00:34:51.060 bigger than

00:34:51.480 Ukraine's.

00:34:53.000 And so, I

00:34:55.220 still think the

00:34:56.020 risk of China 0.99

00:34:56.720 invading Taiwan

00:34:57.720 is disturbingly

00:34:59.480 high, but I

00:35:00.980 think it has

00:35:01.440 dropped dramatically

00:35:02.340 the last few

00:35:02.980 months.

00:35:03.980 That's some

00:35:05.140 bit of hope,

00:35:06.000 I guess, to

00:35:06.880 restore some

00:35:07.440 global order,

00:35:08.280 even amid

00:35:08.940 the recent

00:35:09.840 chaos, we've

00:35:10.900 got to reinstill

00:35:11.700 some order by

00:35:12.860 leaving things

00:35:13.680 right there.

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