WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 31 October 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:07.200 On scoring Lis Oscodia. This is the Reader Panehy Show. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.760 Good evening, Anne, Welcome to the readA Panehy Show. Coming 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.000 up tonight, your gas bill is about to jump up further. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:19.160 We'll look at why a magistrate causes outrage by asking 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.680 a violent criminal she was sentencing to perform a Welcome 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:26.480 to country. Nick Kata will join you shortly to discuss that. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.120 Also on the program tonight, we have the A team 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.600 Josh Hammer, Kosher Geta and later in the hour Kinsey Schofield. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.839 We'll explain why celebrity endorsements are hurting not helping the 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.720 Harris Wall's team and Left is losing It features the 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.080 Leader of the Free World, Remember him, He's still the President. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.960 Joe Biden's moved on from putting his foot in his 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.920 mouth to putting a baby's foot in his mouth. Oh dear, 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.080 but first, an eighteen month legal challenge brought by the 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:09.640 Victorian Premier's office to keep a single phrase secret has failed, 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.480 and he has now been revealed that Victorians who are 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.319 skeptical of the state government straconian COVID restrictions were called 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.200 pig headed no at Alls by the Department of Premier 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.679 and The cabinet email was originally released under freedom of 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:29.000 information laws last year, but the Premier's office redacted that insult, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.920 claiming that it should be kept secret as its release 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.640 would be contrary to the public interest. I bet the 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.959 email containing the insult was sent during the pandemic on 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.480 April sixth, twenty twenty two to former Premier Daniel Andrews 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:50.440 taxpayer funded political strategy firm q DOS Research. Joining me 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.440 now is a senior fellow at the Menzies Research Center 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:59.280 and columnists with the Australian newspaper, Nick Kita. Nick, is 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:05.520 anyone some rise that government bureaucrats were disparaging Victoria's Victorians 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.400 in this manner, that they treated the entire state like 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.080 mushrooms throughout the COVID. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:18.120 Era, Yeah, portrays their absolute contempt for ordinary people. You know, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.960 most people are capable of making sensible decisions given the 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.200 right information. They don't have to be told instructive what 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.240 to do. Pick headed, No, it alls takes one to 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.000 no one, doesn't it. Reader, And I think there were 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.840 a lot of pig headed nodles that were actually running 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.520 this whole health campaign. They were the ones who told us. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.360 You remember in the early days that we could catch 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.480 COVID from door handles. They were the ones who said, 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:46.120 don't catch peaceaball it comes hurtling into the crowd. Yeah, exactly, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.919 football that. They were the ones who said, oh, yes, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.519 this has been spread by the pangolin. It couldn't possibly 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.720 have been invented in a lab, and so on and 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.880 so on. You know, if they'd have got things right 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.520 every step of the way, well we might be listening 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.320 to them. But the fact is that the picktic nodles 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.880 out there in the community generally got it much much 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:12.280 brighter or much more more correct than the bureaucrats and 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.040 the politicians sitting isolated in their ivory towers. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.400 So many of their instructions were ridiculous on the face 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.880 of it. He didn't have to be an infectious disease 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.840 expert to know that telling people to go indoors when 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.600 there is a virus circulating as opposed to being outdoors 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:37.760 in the fresh air was crazy advice, telling people to 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.840 wear masks outdoors, all sorts of instructions that just seemed 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:47.480 to defy logic. But Victoria's former chief health officer, Bret Sutton, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.160 remember him. He served as Dad Andrew's right hand man 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.520 essentially during the pandemic. He has refused to admit that 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:59.640 the restrictions imposed on Victorians were too extreme to draconian, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.600 saying that it should have just been communicated better. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:03.880 Nick. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.960 That was the problem. It was the communication problem, not 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.480 a policy problem. I'm not sure how it can be 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:15.000 so utterly clueless about how wrong he and the Victorian 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:15.760 government gott it. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:16.080 Nick. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.039 It was a disaster on every measurement. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.400 Yeah, there's a curfew was put in place for the 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.880 absolutely needless reasons. So they should have just communicated that 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.920 curfew better. You know, people were arrested for stepping off 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.599 the outside the boundaries of their property to put the 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.680 binner out. I remember, so what they just communicated that 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:41.159 bessage wrongly. No, they got it utterly and completely wrong 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.320 from starting to finish. And actually Brett Sutton said one 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.560 thing he said was that he felt that people's trust 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.320 in health officials had diminished. And he spot on there. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.320 And this is the trouble. When you come up with 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.520 these author authoritarian rules, you don't listen to people, you 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.919 don't give them the benefit of saying, well, you're intelligent, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.720 we'll give you the information you make your own choices. Then, 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:08.000 of course, of course trust in public health officials diminished. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.839 So this would be one legacy if we know, God 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.720 forbid we get another of these pandemics. But if we do, 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.040 people will be trusting the officials a whole lot less 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.359 because of the pig headedness, the pig headed know it 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:21.760 all to run it last time. 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.040 Well, I do wonder about that, because as we are 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.280 trying to hold the bureaucrats responsible, the politicians responsible for 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:36.200 the many, many mistakes, we've got to acknowledge the media 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.320 was a big part of this problem. The hysteria, the 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.800 scare mongering from the media was absolutely out of control 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.640 and the population, overwhelming majority of the population was on 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.760 board with these restrictions. I know that well because I 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.640 was one of the very few in the media and 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.239 as a Victorian who was against it, and you knew 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.080 you were in the mind at that point, and it 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.200 felt very, very strange because I think most of us 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:11.200 who are not crazy lefties in the media, we normally 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.080 know where outsiders in the media, but when it comes 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.480 to the majority of Australians, we're very much in the mainstream. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.960 But on this issue, my goodness, I was certainly in 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.520 the minority. Now I've gotten more good news for Victorians. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.599 They can look forward to extra charges of around one 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.960 hundred and forty dollars on their gas bills. OSNET, which 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.479 services six hundred and eighty thousand customers in Victoria, wants 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.880 to hike network access fees to account for the Victorian 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:44.119 labor government's ban on new household gas connections. OSNET says 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.600 the ban means that its gas network must inevitably sees 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:53.000 growing and start declining in size due to the energy 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.720 source being essentially outlawed in this state. Nick, we are 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:02.559 paying exorbitant amounts for gas in Victoria despite sitting on 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.040 hundreds of years of reserves. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.240 Exactly, and we opened up those reserves in Victoria's you know, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.920 we've spoken about this before. The price of gas would 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.240 come down and there would be no threat of a shortage. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.360 There is gas there. We have some of the best 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.760 gas reserves in the world. You know, we are i 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.120 think now now the third or fourth largest exporter of 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.520 natural gas, but we can't find enough for the people 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.040 of Victoria, who are used more gas than anybody else. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.559 By the way, where it's more heavy use of gas 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.440 in Victoria and now, as if the price of energy 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.480 wasn't enough, as if it wasn't punishing households enough, they're 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.280 now finding another reason to put up the price of 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:51.360 a basic energy supply at this time, gas not electricity. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.960 You know, this is just punishing for ordinary people, as 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.480 you know, I mean, people on large incomes hardly notice this. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.480 But if you're on a low income, you've got to 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.560 heat your home, you've got to do your cooking, you've 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.000 got to power the place. It hurts a lot. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.320 Oh absolutely. Now let's talk about Broken Hill, home to 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:16.920 nineteen thousand residents. It's continuing to experience rolling blackouts for 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.640 the better part of a week since a storm brought 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.920 down the transmission line connecting the town to the East 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.200 Coast grid, even though the town is connected to enough 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:32.240 renewable energy to supposedly power one hundred and seventeen thousand 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:37.040 homes via the Silverton wind Farm and Broken Hills solar plant. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:42.400 These two renewable energy plants are backed by agl's big 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.520 battery facility at Pinnacle's Place. It's one of the largest 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.040 in Australia. Nick, is this a little preview of what 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.480 we can expect if we've become dependent on renewables and 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:54.800 battery backup. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:56.960 Yeah. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:02.200 So Broken Hill, they're connected by long piece of wire 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.600 to the rest of the grid, so they're always vulnerable, right, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.360 especially if we're going to get these free weather events 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.880 we're told to expect more of. So when the power 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.559 lines did come down and they were disconnected with the grid, 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.520 no problem in theory, because they've been told that they 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:20.480 would have this little micro grid, you know, renewable energy, wind, battery, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.600 solar would just keep the place alive any event, None 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.720 of it happened. The wind and the solar were offline 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.080 because the transmission lines had come down, so that was 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:34.040 absolutely useless. The battery was useless for about the first 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.520 eight or nine days, and then when they did get 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.520 it up and running, they had to charge it up 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:43.400 with diesel. And still they've had rolling blackouts in Broken Hill. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.199 So I think were this shows if you can't keep 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:51.959 a town like Broken Hill nineteen thousand people properly equipped 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:57.080 with power using renewable sources alone, what hope for the 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.760 rest of the country reta, which is the way it 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.960 was be going with Bowen. You know, we're all going 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.920 to be in Broken Hills situation. Pretty soon the whole 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.640 thing comes crashing down. You need baslow power, that's it. 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.840 And most of Broken Hill at moments being powered by diesel. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.760 They've even told people to turn off their solar panels 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.680 on the roof because they're playing havoc with the diesel generator. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.079 So you know, this is when push comes to shop. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.679 The whole dream, the whole fantasy of renewable energy just 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.600 comes crashing down. And it's of course serious if you're 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.079 running a butcher's shop or something and you lose stop 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.960 because of this. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:39.120 This is the disaster for every every household in absolutely 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:45.160 unless you've got a generator in Broken Hill, everything in 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.000 your free freezer is gone, and I don't know how 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.840 you're getting by over that long, lengthy period without reliable energy. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.280 Before you go, I'm going to just quickly ask you 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.720 about Judge Penelope Wass of the Tari District Court in 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.480 Regional New South Wales. She invited an indigenous teen to 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.600 give a welcome to country before being sentenced for multiple 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.319 break and enters, two of which involved a ninety two 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.560 year old woman and one involving an eighty eight year 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:18.640 old woman who was also sexually touched during the robbery. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.960 The team pled guilty to all the charges and was 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:26.400 released on parole given time already served by the judge 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.160 who sentenced the teen as a child rather than an adult, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.200 and she reported also said he was welcome to perform 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.960 the ceremony again, the welcome to country again in any court. 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.520 She presided over. Nick, I'm lost for words. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.800 They should have they should have said, you welcomed your 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.720 new prison cell and here's your new cell mate. That's 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.000 the only welcome he should have been given. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.560 It's just incredible, incredible. We do not want to have 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.560 a two justice system in this country. Nikata, thanks for 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:04.520 your time this evening. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:06.680 Thank you. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.560 Joining me now is Newsweek's senior editor in chief and 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:15.840 Article three Projects senior Council Josh Hammer. Josh, let's start 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.959 with the media gas lighting we've seen over the past 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.800 twenty four hours after President Joe Biden called half the 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.520 country garbage. It's on tape. It's clear what he said. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.920 Only garbage I see flowed down there is his supporters, 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.199 but many in the media happy to accept the official 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.880 White House explanation instead of believing their lying eyes and ears. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.079 Just to clarify, he was not calling Trump supporters garbage. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.000 The President wanted to clarify because he understood that what he. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.559 May have said was he understood that what he was 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:48.199 saying was to be. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:52.480 Taken out of contacts Josh, he said it. He may 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.319 regret saying it. Certainly Kamala Harris regrets him saying it, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.920 but that requires an apology, not gas lighting the. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.880 Yeah, I mean, let's talk a little bit about taking 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.440 things out of context while we're on the top at 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.520 Kreine Jean Pierre Shaley. I mean, how about this notion 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.319 that Donald Trump was calling for an American blood bath 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.160 on day one and office come January twenty twenty five, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.959 as opposed to what he was actually talking about, which 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.240 they blood bath for Detroit and the American auto industry 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.920 of Kamala Harris's EVY mandates go into place. You want 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.760 to talk about context Green, Jean Pierre, how about Charlottesville, Virginia, 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.880 the whole fine people on both sides, Folks about the 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.280 tiki torch, neo Nazi losers, the little dweaves there. Donald 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.240 Trump did not say that that was totally taken out 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.640 of context one thousand percent. Look, we just saw the clip. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.400 The viewers here just saw the clip Joe Biden called 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:45.720 half of America garbage. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.120 This is actually worse. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.800 This is considerably worse, in my opinion than the infamous 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.679 Hillary Clinton basket of deplorables gaff from eight years ago. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.439 I mean, this is a Freudian slip, frankly, if there 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.520 ever were one. This is what they think of us. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.720 They have said it over and over and over again. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.800 Joe Biden had a reprehensible speech over our holiday labor 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.640 Dight weekend in September twenty twenty two. The speech that 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.160 had dare I say the naziesque red lighting in the 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.760 background at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, blanked by US mareens 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.760 at both sides, saying that MAGA is an existential threat 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.560 there they think that we are of the threat, not 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.760 just Donald Trump, all of us and what I've been 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.880 calling in my supporters over these past twenty four hours 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.400 to do, read my audience, whatnot there is to get 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.080 out there with your vote this Tuesday, November fifth, and 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.000 prove to them that you are not garbage, rather that 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.360 you and I and all of us are the actual 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.760 ones who control our own destiny in this still free 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:39.560 United States. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.640 Well, we've got Donald Trump using this saga to create 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:50.280 more iconic moments. He was taking the garbage jat not 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.840 the American people, the Democrat administration. There he is. He 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.000 said this at a rally in Wisconsin today. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.720 I have to begin by saying, two hundred and fifty 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.400 million Americans are not garbage. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.480 I thought we had the last of the iconic moments 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:15.480 in this campaign with that McDonald's episode, but now we've 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:20.120 got another one. You put this together with the assassination attempt, 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.440 what he did after that, getting up with the American 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:27.480 flag behind him. This campaign is unlike anything we've ever seen. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.800 This whole presidential cycle is unlike anything we've ever seen. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.160 I mean, I mean, for god knows how many reasons. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.720 I mean, the Democrats pulled their horse mid rates. I 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.760 mean they pulled a coup right in front of her eyes, 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.240 swapping out Joe Biden for Kamala Harris, the garbage thing 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.320 in particular, Donald Trump doing this utter brilliant. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.720 I mean, this is just pure showmanship. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:52.360 This is why Donald Trump, rita at this point, is 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.720 not just a political figure. He is a simple He 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.680 is a tribute to the people. He is a cultural icon. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.400 He frankly has been a cultural icon in many ways, 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.000 especially in New York City circles for forty fifty years now, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.440 I mean for a very long time. That's part of 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.760 the reason why he was so politically successful in the 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.960 first place. But he has a knack for showmanship. The 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.040 guy was the host of The Apprentice. He knows how 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.200 to put on a show for the audience. And most 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.000 important above all, as I wrote in my column after 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.880 the McDonald's photo off which you mentioned there, Donald Trump's instincts, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:27.640 his sensibilities, his concerns, his values are not with his 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.880 fellow billionaires for a long time now. They have always 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.240 been with the working people of America. He was actually 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.360 always a skeptic of globalism, going back to the nineteen nineties. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.200 He was a supporter of ross Puro's Reform Party at 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.840 a time when their skepticism of things like NATA was deeply, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.240 deeply unpopular with his fellow ultra millionaires and billionaires in 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.400 New York City. His sympathies, his sentiments, his sensibilities have 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.760 always always been with the forgotten man in America. And 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.040 ultimately read it, I think it is things like this, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.760 and it's things like McDonald's, things like that iconic image 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.520 Pennsylvania that are ultimately going to carry him to a 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:03.520 victory this Tuesday. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.360 Now, Josh, We've always known this, but here is confirmation 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:14.040 that the FBI knew Hunter Biden's laptop was real, it 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:19.560 wasn't Russian disinformation, and the IRS whistleblowers who have come forward, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.440 Gary Shapeley and Joseph Ziegler, have told veteran journalists Catherine 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:29.040 Hedridge in an interview that the IRS, FBI, and the 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:33.280 Department of Justice knew the laptop was not Russian disinformation 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.000 and they were banned from investigating it before the twenty 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.800 twenty election. Here's just some of that interview. There was 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.639 no question in your mind the big guy was Joe Biden. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.120 We corroborated the big guy of s Joe Bonius. 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.720 We knew that the laptop was real. Doj knew that 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:52.760 the laptop was real. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:54.520 FBI knew the laptop was real. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.480 There were a lot of over investigative steps that we 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.320 were not allowed to take because we had an upcoming election. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:06.240 When we were doing the interviews, the prosecutors specifically told 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.280 us that they didn't want to ask about the big 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.320 guy because they knew it was Joe Biden. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:17.719 Just incredible to have these bodies, the IRS, Department of Justice, 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:22.560 the FBI. We saw those former intelligence chiefs coming out 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.439 before the twenty twenty election and saying, this laptop, the 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:31.600 contents of it are Russian disinformation. This is election interference, Josh, 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.639 I can't see it in any other way. They knew 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.920 how damaging this was for the Biden camp, and they 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.479 tried to bury it, and they succeeded in burying it 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.359 and discrediting it completely. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.240 No, they absolutely succeeded, frankly, in doing all the above. 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:51.640 I mean, the way that they took it down from 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.920 social media was definitely a de facto ban, if nothing 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.720 else there. So look what happened with the Hunter Biden 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.240 New York Post story back in October of twenty twenty 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.160 is you have the Biden campaign basically immediately get on 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.200 the phone with the FBI, get the phone with Jack Dorsey, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.679 who at that time was leading Twitter with Mark Zuckerberg 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.920 over at Facebook Meta whatever we're calling it these days there, 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.720 and they immediately were able to get these fifty one 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.359 deep state spooks, people like Brennan and Clapper and all 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.680 the rest of those folks, to put out this letter 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.040 saying that it was rushing disinformation. But here is a 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.199 very important factory that a lot of people don't know 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.920 or don't remember. When it comes to that fifty one 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.680 deep State spook letter that came out within twenty four 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.560 to forty eight hours. Do you know who the Biden 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.920 campaign staffer was who was responsible for orchestrating that entire operation. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.520 It was a foreign policy staffer by the name of 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.720 Anthony Blincoln, who happens to be the current US Secretary 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.000 of statean Now, last I checked there, So I mean, 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.080 this whole thing has always just stunk from top to bottom. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.560 Of course, we knew, of course, we knew that the 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:57.119 laptop was actually legitimate. We knew it because there was 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.800 just ample empirical evidence available to anyone. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.240 Who cares to look at that time. 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.199 The worst thing about this, in my opinion, is that 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.359 there have never been any consequences for it. Rather, what 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.199 happened was two years three years later, in twenty two, 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.640 twenty twenty three, you saw albuts like the New York 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:15.040 Times CBS News that somewhere like eight to nine paragraphs 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:16.960 into a story. This is what CBS News did. They 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:19.680 casually drop the paragraph deep in the weeds of his 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.280 lengthy article, saying, oh, by the way, the laptop at 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.600 this point has been acknowledged to be real, no kidding. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.320 The federal prosecutors actually invoked it at Hunter Biden's gun 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.000 trial in Delaware this summer. 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:32.680 They used it as evidence. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.640 So not only is it not disinformation, now it's evidence 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.199 for the for the federal government. 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:38.960 I mean, it's just so crazy. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.600 Unfortunately, but you know here in America, whether it comes 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.600 to the laptop, whether it comes to COVID nineteen, the 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.560 Wuhan lab. Unfortunately, just the people that really really really 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:50.720 messed up, we have to get used to fat that 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:52.360 there are not going to be repercussions. 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:57.360 Unfortunate, And just a little bit more on that saga, 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:02.360 a report by the House Judiciary Cantee It's a subcommittee, 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:08.160 revealed that the FBI misled social media giants and how 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:12.080 willing the social media giants were to be misled. The 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:14.920 likes of Facebook and Twitter at the time, they were 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.440 quite happy to censor their users, including The New York Post, 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:23.760 which had its accounts suspended and Josh. Facebook executives even 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:29.000 discussed making decisions about censorship to curry favor with what 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:33.400 they assumed would be then coming Biden Harris administration. They 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.480 thought there was going to be a change at the 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.360 White House, and they wanted to be in the good books. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:45.240 Yeah, you know, unfortunately all of this confirms what many 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.359 of us immediately suspected at that time. So just to 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:50.119 put a little more context on this, because this was 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:52.680 a shocking story when it happened, you know, hence we're 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:54.960 still talking about it now four years later. So this 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:58.359 habit of memory serves is right around October fifteenth. October sixteen, 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.960 there was about two and a half weeks before the 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:03.320 twenty twenty presidential election. The New York Post has this 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.960 bombshell store. The New York Post, which last I checked 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.560 was America's fourth largest newspaper in circulation, was literally founded 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:12.320 by Alexander Hamilton, one of our great family fathers that. 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:14.520 Has a very rich heritage here. So they put out 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:15.400 this story. 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:19.159 They were literally Twitter immediately banned you from posting it 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.600 or privately sharing it in your DMS, in your private messages. 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:26.680 Facebook heavily, they heavily suppressed it. If you posted it, it 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:30.280 would essentially be algorithmically put way way way down in 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:33.320 your social media fees. There and yeah, of course they 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.919 were doing it to curry favor. But one of the 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:39.159 most abominable parts of this and the reason why it 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:44.119 is so relevant, is because a rather high percentage of Americans, 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:46.520 or at least a non negligible a serious percentage of 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:50.600 Americans at that time told pollsters that if they had 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.640 known the full details of this story, they actually would 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:56.480 have changed their vote from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump. 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:58.760 The data that I saw. The data that I saw 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.840 was that I think was sixteen percent. Sixteen percent of 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:06.400 Hillary Clinton voters, when subsequently informed about this story, said 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:08.320