Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator,
Speaker 2: We've got a lot to chat about tonight, and including
Speaker 2: this bill and funding over the Ukraine War. I want
Speaker 2: you to walk us through what happened. But before we
Speaker 2: get to that, there is some news that deals with
Speaker 2: the impeachment inquiry into the President United States of America,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden, and there are people that are giving testimony
Speaker 2: now in a shocking opening statement from Tony Bobolinski. Tony
Speaker 2: Bobolinski is someone that knows the Biden crime family. He's
Speaker 2: an individual that was a whistleblower before election day to
Speaker 2: remind people of that, and then he went and sat
Speaker 2: down with the FBI for several hours. He had multiple
Speaker 2: electronic communication devices, cell phones, he had documents, he had
Speaker 2: everything about the Biden crime family, and not a single
Speaker 2: person ever followed up with him. Not only that, no
Speaker 2: one at the DOJ, none of the special prosecutors, none
Speaker 2: of those that were investigating at the IRS ever contacted
Speaker 2: him for anything that he had about the Biden crime family,
Speaker 2: a family that he worked with extensively. He also confirmed
Speaker 2: he had meetings with Joe Biden and then he had
Speaker 2: an opening statement today that was remarkable. Tell everybody about
Speaker 2: what all he said.
Speaker 3: Well, in his opening statement, here's what Tony Bobolinski said.
Speaker 3: And I want you to focus, in particular on how
Speaker 3: much he is talking about Joe Biden, not Hunter. The media,
Speaker 3: the Democrats want to make it all about Hunter, but
Speaker 3: I want you to focus on how much this is
Speaker 3: about Joe Biden's personal corruption.
Speaker 1: Here's what he said. Quote.
Speaker 3: I want to be crystal clear. From my direct personal
Speaker 3: experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it
Speaker 3: is clear to me that Joe Biden was quote the
Speaker 3: brand being sold by the Biden family, His family's foreign
Speaker 3: influence peddling operation from China to Ukraine and elsewhere, sold
Speaker 3: out to foreign actors who were making to gain influence
Speaker 3: and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.
Speaker 3: He was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex
Speaker 3: scheme to maintain plausible deniability. The only reason any of
Speaker 3: these international business transactions took place, with tens of millions
Speaker 3: of dollars flowing directly to the Biden family was because
Speaker 3: Joe Biden was in high office. The Biden family business
Speaker 3: was Joe Biden period. Other key players have made this
Speaker 3: point clear as well. Hunter Biden himself has adamantly stated
Speaker 3: in a variety of communications, as did another Biden family
Speaker 3: business associate, Devon Archer, in his testimony last year. Foreign
Speaker 3: nationals on the other side of these transactions, including from China, Ukraine,
Speaker 3: and Romania, have also explained how and why these transactions
Speaker 3: took place. Once again, I would call that evidence extensive.
Speaker 3: And then Babbelinski gets into some details focusing on China. Quote,
Speaker 3: the Chinese Communist Party, through its surrogate, China Energy Company
Speaker 3: Limited or CEFC, a CCP linked Chinese energy conglomerate, successfully
Speaker 3: sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama
Speaker 3: Biden Whitehouse. The process started in the fourth quarter of
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen and continued through when Joe Biden left office
Speaker 3: in January twenty seventeen to March of twenty eighteen, when
Speaker 3: CEFC chairman Ye was detained for corruption in China, never
Speaker 3: to be seen again. Note that on October twenty first,
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen, Joe Biden announced that he would not seek
Speaker 3: the presidency in twenty sixteen. It is not a coincidence
Speaker 3: that CEFC's aggressive approach to the Biden family happened around
Speaker 3: that time. It is also not a coincidence that CFC
Speaker 3: used the Biden family's weakest link, Hunter Biden, and the
Speaker 3: promise of large sums of money to the tune of
Speaker 3: tens of millions of dollars initially and eventually the profits
Speaker 3: from investing billions of dollars in the United States and
Speaker 3: around the world.
Speaker 1: You hear that.
Speaker 2: And this opening statement is one that shocked me because
Speaker 2: it's clear that Tony Bobolinski is saying I need everyone
Speaker 2: to know this. I witnessed it, I saw it, I
Speaker 2: was therefore it and no, no one is listening to
Speaker 2: what happened here in our government, no one sitting down
Speaker 2: and asking any of these questions. Thank you for having
Speaker 2: me to basically Congress to tell you what I've been
Speaker 2: trying to tell the American people and the authorities. And
Speaker 2: that is the most shocking part of all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's exactly right. The six o'clock News doesn't
Speaker 3: cover this, The Washington Post doesn't cover this, The New
Speaker 3: York Times doesn't cover this. Let me reach you some
Speaker 3: more from this opening statement, because every paragraph is a
Speaker 3: bombshell it continues quote Joe Biden was aware of the
Speaker 3: CEFC transaction, he enabled it, and had a constitutional responsibility
Speaker 3: and obligation to the American people to shut it down
Speaker 3: before it began. This is because CEFC had been identified
Speaker 3: as a known surrogate of the Chinese Communist Party by
Speaker 3: the US government and prosecutors in the Southern District of
Speaker 3: New York as far back as twenty sixteen, possibly earlier.
Speaker 3: I would encourage Congress to gather all of the exact
Speaker 3: facts and date. It is clear to me that alarm
Speaker 3: bell should have been going off of theden the Obama
Speaker 3: Biden White House, and that Joe Biden should have been
Speaker 3: aware that his own administration had red flag CEFC as
Speaker 3: a tool of the Chinese Communist Party. That should have
Speaker 3: made any business transaction with CEFC a non starter. And
Speaker 3: let me just stop and say, holy crap. Yes, like like,
Speaker 3: I've been in the Senate twelve years, I don't know
Speaker 3: a senator, all right. I was about to say, I
Speaker 3: don't know a senator who would do that, and then
Speaker 3: I thought about Bob Menendez. Yes, I do know a
Speaker 3: senator who's currently under indictment for corruption by being approached
Speaker 3: by Egypt. Now Egypt happens to be an ally of ours.
Speaker 3: It's not even the Chinese Communist Party. But how the
Speaker 3: hell does any sane elected official not just walk away
Speaker 3: but turn and run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not just run, but even think want to
Speaker 2: report it just to be on the record of like, Hey,
Speaker 2: I was approached for this, and I want to make
Speaker 2: sure everybody knows that I knew that this was bad
Speaker 2: and I didn't want to be.
Speaker 1: Involved in it.
Speaker 2: And yet this is what the Biden family seemed to
Speaker 2: be seeking out, which is what Bob Olenski is saying here.
Speaker 2: It also goes to another point of reporting before you
Speaker 2: read a couple more points in there that he said
Speaker 2: in his opening statement. Catherine Heritage, who actually was laid
Speaker 2: off within hours of her reporting on how Biden may
Speaker 2: have quote retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving
Speaker 2: his family's foreign business dealings. This coming from the committees.
Speaker 2: We've talked with, James Comer, We've talked to Jim Jordan said,
Speaker 2: quote the committees require this Biden slash her interview transcript.
Speaker 2: There is concern that President Biden may have retained sensitive
Speaker 2: documents related to specific countries involving his famili's foreign business dealings.
Speaker 2: That is what she posted on Twitter from these documents
Speaker 2: that she got from the committees. And this was a
Speaker 2: letter that went to the Honorable Garland from these committees,
Speaker 2: and it was simply saying, we believe, from what we've
Speaker 2: been told, the President Biden may have retained these documents
Speaker 2: related to these countries involving his family and families foreign
Speaker 2: business dealings. And further, the committee says, we seek to
Speaker 2: understand whether the White House or President Biden's personal attorneys
Speaker 2: placed any limitations or scoping restrictions during the interview that
Speaker 2: would have precluded a line of inquiry regarding evidence emails,
Speaker 2: text messages, or witness statements directly linking the president to
Speaker 2: troublesome foreign payments. You combine that with what Bob Olenski's saying,
Speaker 2: and they line up about one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. And recall that when Robert Hurr
Speaker 3: was appointed, we said on this podcast, the tell of
Speaker 3: whether DOJ wants to cover up malfeasance by the White
Speaker 3: House is whether there's an investigation into the nexus between
Speaker 3: the documents, the classified documents that Joe Biden had illegally
Speaker 3: and the foreign entities paying the Biden family tens of
Speaker 3: millions of dollars, and as best we can tell, that
Speaker 3: was not investigated by DOJ. Now, this is what James
Speaker 3: Comer and Jim Jordan are trying to get to the
Speaker 3: bottom of to find out what is the connection. And
Speaker 3: you know, look, I got to stop and say, Catherine
Speaker 3: Herriage has been really a unicorn. She has been a
Speaker 3: reporter for the corporate media for CBS, and she's been
Speaker 3: willing to actually report on the Biden corruption. So what
Speaker 3: did CBS do today? They laid her off. They fired her.
Speaker 3: They said, you know what, we had one person in
Speaker 3: our entire staff doing journalism. We've decided we don't need
Speaker 3: any journalism at this outlet. You're out of a job.
Speaker 2: And by the way, not just amazing journalism, journalism that
Speaker 2: was above reproach and a history of it.
Speaker 1: And you notice, yes, I understand that layoffs happen.
Speaker 2: I get that at CBS, but she was someone that
Speaker 2: was doing unbelievable reporting at the highest level in Washingt
Speaker 2: d C. On the biggest news stories that involve our government.
Speaker 2: And just hours after she puts this out there, like yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get rid of you too.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was three percent of the workforce.
Speaker 2: You're telling me you couldn't have kept her in this
Speaker 2: very important reporting position.
Speaker 1: Give me a break.
Speaker 3: Well, CBS is corrupt. Unfortunately, so is ABC, so is NBC,
Speaker 3: so is CNN, so ISMSNBC. They have all abandoned any
Speaker 3: pretense of journalism, and they are advocates, and so somehow
Speaker 3: Catherine Herridge slipped through the crut cracks and CBS it
Speaker 3: is not accidental that when they're doing layoffs they decide, nope,
Speaker 3: we can have noiceent from the orthodoxy. We have a
Speaker 3: mission here and that mission, let's be clear, is to
Speaker 3: defeat Donald Trump. And everything she was reporting that was
Speaker 3: inconvenient to that was contrary to their narrative, and therefore
Speaker 3: they let her go.
Speaker 2: And they've silenced that narrative now completely by getting rid
Speaker 2: of her.
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Speaker 1: Before we get into.
Speaker 2: And I know everybody wants to hear your thoughts on
Speaker 2: this Ukraine funding bill that it worked its way through
Speaker 2: the Senate, I do want to connect what we just
Speaker 2: told the audience about Tony Bobolinsky to something else. It's
Speaker 2: also not being covered by the media, and that is
Speaker 2: the House Oversight Judiciary committees have released Rob Walker's transcript
Speaker 2: as well as their finding that deal a lot more
Speaker 2: with the Chinese Communist parties connection to this Chinese energy
Speaker 2: company CEFC and chairman Ye as well as others that
Speaker 2: were in attendance with meetings that dealt directly with Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: Well, that's right, and when you combine the two, when
Speaker 3: you look at Bobolinsky's opening statement and then you look
Speaker 3: at the testimony from Rob Walker, it paints an incredibly
Speaker 3: damning picture of Joe Biden's personal complicity. So James Comber
Speaker 3: tweeted out a series of tweets specifying exactly what it is,
Speaker 3: Rob Walker said. And here's what Comber tweeted out about
Speaker 3: the Bob Walker testimony. Around the time Hunter Biden and
Speaker 3: his associates received a three million dollar payment from a
Speaker 3: CEFC entity, Joe Biden attended a CEFC meeting at the
Speaker 3: Four Seasons in Washington.
Speaker 2: D C.
Speaker 3: CFC chairman Yi Jingmang and other CEFC officials were in attendance.
Speaker 3: In other words, let's just take that first tweet, Hunter
Speaker 3: Biden's associates get three million dollars at the same time
Speaker 3: Joe Biden is personally meeting with the chairman of CEFC,
Speaker 3: the Communist Party energy company. Now let's go back to
Speaker 3: what Comer put out. Hunter Biden's associates work with CFC,
Speaker 3: a Chinese government linked energy company, began in February twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: when Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States. However,
Speaker 3: Hunter Biden and his associates were not paid until after
Speaker 3: Joe Biden left office. Rob Walker admitted Hunter Biden's last
Speaker 3: name would quote probably get people in the door, and
Speaker 3: he had a letter he drafted to CEFC director Zang
Speaker 3: placed on Hunter Biden's letterhead because he was the son
Speaker 3: of the vice president at the time, Rob Walker's account,
Speaker 3: Robinson Walker LLC, received the three million dollar payment from
Speaker 3: the CFC entity on March first, twenty seventeen. The next day,
Speaker 3: he wired one million and sixty five thousand dollars to
Speaker 3: James Gilliar, a Biden family associate, and then over the
Speaker 3: course of several months, wired incremental payments to the bidens,
Speaker 3: totaling around one million, sixty five thousand dollars. Rob Walker
Speaker 3: told investigators Hunter asked him to send incremental payments to
Speaker 3: various Biden accounts, including Halle Biden and James Biden, who
Speaker 3: were not affiliated with the CEFC deal.
Speaker 2: Now, to be clear, this goes back to exactly what
Speaker 2: James Comer said to us the last time we sat
Speaker 2: down with him, which was this is money laundering. This is, yes,
Speaker 2: moving money from accounts to.
Speaker 3: Accounts, breaking it up in pieces, sending it all over
Speaker 3: the place, hiding where it's coming from. That's called money laundering.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there is no service that's being rendered by
Speaker 2: any of the bidens that are being paid. They're not
Speaker 2: selling anything. There's no actual business activities within these accounts.
Speaker 2: It's just cleaning the money laundering the money and giving
Speaker 2: it to this person and that person with the Biden
Speaker 2: last name, funneling all into the Biden crime family. And
Speaker 2: this now back set up without a shadow of a
Speaker 2: doubt that this was how they've been running business, not
Speaker 2: just for a year or two, this is apparently how
Speaker 2: they've been doing business the entire time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at another thing in the Rob Lawucker transcript.
Speaker 3: It's not just China, it's Ukraine, it's Russia, it's Romania.
Speaker 3: Here here's another portion. During the Obama Biden administration, Hunter Biden,
Speaker 3: Rob Walker and James Gillier had a lucrative contract with
Speaker 3: Romanian businessmen Gabriel Papa Visiou, who was under investigation. Walker
Speaker 3: was unable to articulate what services the partners provided for.
Speaker 3: I don't know, what do you think would be a
Speaker 3: good amount for some Romanian businessman to hire the son
Speaker 3: of the Vice president.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm assuming you know they like to deal
Speaker 2: with millions, right, So let's stick with that.
Speaker 3: How about this one hundred and eighty thousand dollars a month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how you get to millions real fast.
Speaker 3: One hundred and eighty thousand monthly from Papa issue. The
Speaker 3: payments ended abruptly shortly after Joe Biden left the vice presidency.
Speaker 3: It ain't subtle, no, not at all. What services did
Speaker 3: Hunter provide? Well, those services ended as long as Daddy
Speaker 3: was no longer Vice president.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you just want to do simple
Speaker 2: math to put this in perspective of hard working Americans,
Speaker 2: they this romanian was paying the Biden family six grand
Speaker 2: basically every day.
Speaker 3: And you know what, in my experience, people don't give
Speaker 3: away money for nothing. They were getting something and it
Speaker 3: was not complex legal advice from Hunter Biden.
Speaker 2: Let's also dive in just for a second, and I
Speaker 2: want your opinion Joe Biden over and over again. And
Speaker 2: we played the montage in the show before of him
Speaker 2: saying I never had anything to do with my son's
Speaker 2: business dealings. I never talked business with them. We have
Speaker 2: these firewalls between him and me. He also then when
Speaker 2: it came to the issues of China, said I never
Speaker 2: made it. My family's never made a dime from China.
Speaker 2: We've never done a business with China. I've never made
Speaker 2: any money from China. How dare you say that? And
Speaker 2: then said you should be looking at Donald Trump and
Speaker 2: investigating him, right, that's the line. Not only was he
Speaker 2: lying on both of those accounts, he also then had
Speaker 2: this lie, which was he never talked business with him,
Speaker 2: He never met with any of his been associates. This
Speaker 2: is a new dinner we didn't know about. This is
Speaker 2: outside the Cafe Milano dinners that he had with other
Speaker 2: people from China as well as from Russia and Romania.
Speaker 2: So it looks like the product, which was Joe Biden
Speaker 2: and this all deals with his impeachment inquiry, was a
Speaker 2: product that had to go to dinner with some of
Speaker 2: the shadiest figures in the world to get the money flowing.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, that's exactly right. What was being sold here,
Speaker 3: I believe was not just access, It was favors from
Speaker 3: Joe Biden. And what is so striking about the testimony,
Speaker 3: about the transcript that was released is how much of
Speaker 3: this connects directly to Joe. The corporate media doesn't want
Speaker 3: to focus on it, but that of course is exactly
Speaker 3: why the House is open an impeachment inquiry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be important to see exactly what
Speaker 2: happens with this moving forward.
Speaker 1: We're going to keep you updated on it.
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Speaker 2: so many republic Wilans defected and did this deal with
Speaker 2: Democrats to send more funding to Ukraine than we'll be
Speaker 2: spent to secure our southern border, putting Americans last and
Speaker 2: putting others first around the world. And this money we
Speaker 2: don't have, We're gonna have to borrow this money. We're
Speaker 2: gonna have to pay interest on this money. And it
Speaker 2: seems like there's no in insight for the obsession with
Speaker 2: sending money to Ukraine. We're sending more money to them
Speaker 2: than to Israel as well. Why did so many Democrats
Speaker 2: get along so well with so many Republicans on this one?
Speaker 2: How is it that so many Republicans can't just stand
Speaker 2: their ground.
Speaker 3: Well, it's incredibly frustrating. Look, you and I are recording this.
Speaker 3: It is ten oh seven pm Texas time on Tuesday night.
Speaker 3: I started this day this morning at a little after
Speaker 3: five am, voting on the Senate floor. And the reason
Speaker 3: we were voting at five am is because Chuck Schumer
Speaker 3: had kept the Senate in all night in order to
Speaker 3: try to force this vote through, and he succeeded. The
Speaker 3: vote was seventy to twenty nine. In other words, seventy
Speaker 3: senators voted yes, twenty nine voted no. All the Democrats
Speaker 3: except three voted for the funding bill, and yet there
Speaker 3: were just twenty nine of us. I was a no.
Speaker 3: There were twenty nine of US, and that was twenty
Speaker 3: six Republicans and three Democrats who voted no. And listen,
Speaker 3: my reasons for voting no. We've talked about at length,
Speaker 3: but it's worth revisiting. There are elements of this bill
Speaker 3: that I support. There are even elements of this bill
Speaker 3: that I strongly support. So for example, this bill includes
Speaker 3: emergency military funding for Israel. I think that is incredibly important.
Speaker 3: I think we should have passed that months ago. This
Speaker 3: bill includes funding to help Taiwan defend itself against communist China.
Speaker 3: I think that is very important for US national security.
Speaker 3: Most notably, this bill contains tens of billions of dollars
Speaker 3: of funding for Ukraine. Now, my views on that are mixed.
Speaker 3: I think it is very important that Russia lose and
Speaker 3: Putin loses, and there are certainly circumstances in which I
Speaker 3: would be willing to support military funding for Ukraine to
Speaker 3: stop Russia because I think that's in the United States's interest. However,
Speaker 3: just a couple of months ago, every single Republican in
Speaker 3: the Senate we stood united, and we made a united stand.
Speaker 3: We said, we will not fund additional money for Ukraine
Speaker 3: unlessen until we secure our own border. That we're not
Speaker 3: going to spend billions to secure the border of another
Speaker 3: nation until America secures our border. And we're not going
Speaker 3: to spend billions to stop the invasion of another country
Speaker 3: until we stop the invasion of our own country. Now,
Speaker 3: when I said that, I meant it. Unfortunately, I think
Speaker 3: for a lot of my colleagues they did not, because,
Speaker 3: as you know, what happened was Chuck Schumer and the
Speaker 3: Democrats refused to negotiate and agree to meaningful border security. Instead,
Speaker 3: they demanded a bill that in many ways would have
Speaker 3: made the border crisis worse, would have codified Joe Biden's
Speaker 3: open borders, and when as soon as the bill TECHS
Speaker 3: was released, they negotiated in secret. Within twenty four hours,
Speaker 3: the bill had collapse because everyone reading it realized it
Speaker 3: was a terrible bill. What Republican leadership did next, I
Speaker 3: think was indefensible. They said, Okay, well, a few people
Speaker 3: don't like Chuck Chuck Schumer's open border proposal, then never mind,
Speaker 3: we'll just pass all the funding with nothing on.
Speaker 1: The border at all.
Speaker 3: I think that is an absurd position, But unfortunately seventy
Speaker 3: senators just cast a vote that way.
Speaker 2: So what happens now, because what we're hearing is that
Speaker 2: this could move the House side Speaker Johnson has indicated.
Speaker 1: No or probably not, This isn't going to happen.
Speaker 2: And then now Democrats, apparently Kim Jeffreys is saying, all right, well,
Speaker 2: they're going to get together and they're going to get
Speaker 2: a game planned or basically ram this down everyone's throat.
Speaker 2: What would that look like and what does that mean
Speaker 2: moving forward? On top of the fact that the House
Speaker 2: majority for Republicans just got slimmer as well tonight because
Speaker 2: we've lost a special election.
Speaker 3: Well that's exactly right. Look, if it is up to
Speaker 3: House leadership, if it's up to the Speaker of the House,
Speaker 3: this bill will not pass. The Speaker has said so
Speaker 3: unequivocally that the House is not going to take up
Speaker 3: and pass any military funding for Ukraine unlessen until it
Speaker 3: contained serious and meaningful border security. And by the way,
Speaker 3: the House has already passed strong border security legislation, that
Speaker 3: is HR two. The House passed that months ago. Chuck
Speaker 3: Schumer refused to take it up. I entered STATEHR two
Speaker 3: in the Senate. I'm the author of HR two in
Speaker 3: the United States Senate. I had it as an amendment
Speaker 3: to this bill. And by the way, I was clear.
Speaker 3: I said, you know what, if we pass HR two,
Speaker 3: I'll vote for this bill. If we pass strong legislation
Speaker 3: that forces Joe Biden to secure the border, I'm on board.
Speaker 3: And Schumer said, not just no, but hell no. Refused
Speaker 3: to allow a vote on HR two. When we were
Speaker 3: voting this morning, I was trying very hard to get
Speaker 3: a vote. Schumer locked down and blocked every single amendment vote.
Speaker 3: What I expect Republican leadership in the House to do
Speaker 3: is to take up this bill and to attach strong
Speaker 3: border security to it and then send it back to
Speaker 3: the Senate. That's what I think is likely to happen.
Speaker 3: There is a chance, and you referenced it. There's some
Speaker 3: Democrats talking about trying to do what's called a discharge petition,
Speaker 3: which is all the House Democrats teaming up with a
Speaker 3: handful of haw GISs Republicans to basically overrule the Speaker
Speaker 3: of the House and force the bill onto the floor.
Speaker 3: I don't think that will happen, and it is the
Speaker 3: sort of move that would be just absolute rebellion by
Speaker 3: the rank and file Republican members. And but that is
Speaker 3: really what Mitch mcconnlin Chuck Schumer's plan is, is to
Speaker 3: try to use this bill to directly attack the Republican
Speaker 3: speaker of the House. And I got to say, Ben,
Speaker 3: I don't understand why Senate Republican leadership is trying to
Speaker 3: lead the attack on House Republican leadership.
Speaker 2: Well, one final question this what was in it for
Speaker 2: Republicans that just caved on this. I mean, I know,
Speaker 2: and I'm cynical because I've been around it probably too long,
Speaker 2: and you're probably you see it every day, so you're
Speaker 2: cynical too. I'm like, all right, so what did you
Speaker 2: get like to make you not listen to the American
Speaker 2: people and just go along with this? What was the
Speaker 2: incentive of there to side with the Democrats?
Speaker 3: So so let me be a little more forgiving in
Speaker 3: this sense. You know, there are folks that said, what
Speaker 3: did they get? They're compromised. Look, in my experience, that's
Speaker 3: not how Washington works. I don't think there's anybody with
Speaker 3: a folder of people having, you know, sexual relations with
Speaker 3: barnyard animals. And I don't think this is compromant. I
Speaker 3: don't think it's And I also don't think for the
Speaker 3: people who voted for this that what did they get?
Speaker 3: I don't think that they're like the Biden family in
Speaker 3: terms of making millions of dollars off of this. I
Speaker 3: don't think that's why it happened, At least among the Republicans.
Speaker 3: I think a great many of them passionately believe that
Speaker 3: it is in America's interest for Ukraine to beat Russia.
Speaker 3: And I understand that sentiment. I think Russia's winning this
Speaker 3: war would be very, very bad for America and over
Speaker 3: the long term would be much more expensive for American
Speaker 3: te payers than it would be to defeat Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 3: So want I want Russia to lose. And I think
Speaker 3: it's combined with there are a lot of Republican senators
Speaker 3: that basically they don't like a fight, and in any
Speaker 3: given fight, when you ask them, all right, let's hold
Speaker 3: the line and say we won't do this unless we
Speaker 3: get real border security, they look at you and say, well,
Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer would never do that. And I don't understand
Speaker 3: why they expect Chuck Schumer to stand strong and never blink,
Speaker 3: and yet their solution is always, well, therefore, we got
Speaker 3: to give Schumer what he wants. But that's temperamentally the
Speaker 3: view of far too many Republicans in Congress.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be a tough year for the Republicans,
Speaker 2: especially on the House side, as their majority has gotten
Speaker 2: even slimmer after we have lost a special election in
Speaker 2: New York today as well. We're going to keep you
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Speaker 2: Biden crime family and these new testimony and documents coming
Speaker 2: out in the impeachment inquiry of the President United States
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