1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: A Chinese American bank has quote willingly provided Biden family 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: financial records. Senator Ron Johnson is revealing now that this 3 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: Chinese American bank is doing something that no other bank 4 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: has done so far. Here is the money, here are 5 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: the transactions, Here's where it came from. Total transparency. Now 6 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: you may be asking yourself the same question I was asking. Okay, 7 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: why would a Chinese American bank do this? Is this 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: a shot across the bow at the Biden crime family 9 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: that you better shut up and be quiet, because if 10 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: you don't, we're gonna bury you. Take a listen to 11 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: what Senator Johnson had to say about this bank. The 12 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: only bank records were you gotten? This is pretty interesting. 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: We got them from Cafe Bank. Is that the Chinese 14 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: Communist parties at a shot across across a President Biden's bow, 15 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: saying listen to this is some of them for me 16 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: we have. If you don't total the line, if you 17 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: don't do things that please us, we're going to even 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: provide even more information. A bank from China, Let's face it, 19 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: to the Communist Party controls those types of institutions. They 20 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: willingly gave us the documents that backed up the Treasury records. 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: Now you think about why would China do this, The 22 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: only reason I think is to make it very clear 23 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: that Biden crime family, you guys better shut up and 24 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,559 Speaker 1: play the game the right way, because if you don't, 25 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: we have you compromised. And here's proof of what we 26 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: have on you. These comments from Centa Ron Johnson also 27 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: tell you that this was a deliberate decision because China 28 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: doesn't give up anything. They don't want to look at 29 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: what they did with covering up for hunt insuit of virology. 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: China did this on purpose. A bank from China that 31 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: controlled by the Communist Party willfully gave the documents that 32 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: were asked from the Treasury Department from the back up 33 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: the Treasury records. They did this to to the Biden 34 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: family will ruin you. We own you. This is right, 35 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: We will own you, and you will be destroyed. Now, 36 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: let me give you some background on this bank, so 37 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: you understand this bank has been around for a long time. 38 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: This bank has actually been around since nineteen sixty two. 39 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: This was the way that the Chinese were able to 40 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: get into the American banking system, which they desperately wanted 41 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: access to. They did it under the skies of serving 42 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: Chinese Americans or people from China in America. That was 43 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: the way they did it, but they desperately needed ties 44 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: to the American banking system. A lot of suspicious activity 45 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: reports come out of this bank as well. Take a 46 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: listen to what Maria Bartomo had to say about the 47 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: history of this bank. Cafe Bank is the oldest operating 48 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: bank in the United States. It was founded by Chinese 49 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: Americans to serve the Chinese community. It has offices in 50 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, as well as representative offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei. 51 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: The GPS investigation finding that the Biden family received payments 52 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: from Hunter Biden's business associate, Rob Walker and their joint 53 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: venture with a Chinese energy firm. Mike I thought this 54 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: was really interesting that when Ron Johnson was demanding the 55 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: financial records, it was only Cathay Bank who handed them over. 56 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: Now we know that James Komer on the House Oversight 57 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: Committee has received some banking records from American banks, but 58 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: only having to do with one deal. Comer says there 59 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: are eleven other deals out there that he thinks will 60 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: be similar to what he saw with the first deal. 61 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: Which was Rob Walker got a check for three million dollars. 62 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: The very next day he sent one plus million of 63 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: that distributed to Biden family members. Wol Maria, you know, 64 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: a lot of this information was leaked. One Hunters laptop 65 00:03:55,600 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: came out, and some of the Rosemont Seneca Big records 66 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: came out. But look when the Democrats were in charge 67 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: and they demanded phone records without warrants on all sorts 68 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: of people attached to the Trump or We're bit, they 69 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: were given uniformly without question, and a lot of times 70 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: the people whose phone records are being turned over head 71 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: a day or two notice to try and sue and 72 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: block that. It's just funny how none of these banks 73 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: will comply with Congress now now that it's a Democrat. 74 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: It is beyond the pale of a two tiered justice 75 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: system on the way these things work. And let's just 76 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: let's just go back in time and remind everyone like 77 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: nobody gets a billion dollars sole mandate from the Chinese 78 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: government to start a private equity firm, especially one that 79 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 1: doesn't have any private equity experience, especially someone that doesn't 80 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: have any private equity experience, It as a debilitating crack Abbit, 81 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: So what type of influence did they buy As a 82 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: Chinese comedist party is running around with Russia, Saudi Arabia 83 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: Iran setting up a new reserve currency to take out 84 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: the United States of America. What did the Bidens give 85 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: up and what is it doing to our national security? 86 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: What did the Bidens give up and what did they 87 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: do to our national security? That is the exact question 88 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: that needs to be asked here. Now you go back 89 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: to the amount of money that we're talking about here. 90 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: We know three million is the amount of Chinese energy 91 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: firm paid to the Biden family associates, and that was 92 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: when the Biden crime family expanded. Okay, but that's actually 93 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: the smaller payments. Let's let's go back over these payments 94 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: for a second. So you understand, okay, you had from 95 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: Ye and Rob Walker the original three million that came 96 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: on three one of seventeen, that came from the head 97 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: of an affiliate of Shanghai bay Cefe wiring in that cash. 98 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: You fast forward the very next day James Glare again 99 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: another Biden crime family associate. There's one million, sixty five 100 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: thousand and change. Rob Walker wires roughly a third directly 101 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: to Hunter Biden associate James Glar's firm, European Energy and 102 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: Infrastructure Group. Then the money gets washed again companies linked 103 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: to him. Hunter Biden gets six hundred ten thousand, six 104 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: hundred ninety two dollars, Hallie Biden twenty five thousand, also 105 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: ten k from Robin Walker on to thirteen of seventeen. 106 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: Then James Biden, the President's brother, gets three hundred and 107 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: sixty thousand on six or excuse me, on three eighteen 108 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 1: of seventeen. And then there was the unknown Biden. They 109 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: got seventy grand. We don't know who that unknown person is. 110 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: We know they have the last name Biden. Now that's 111 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: just one of the paychecks that came in from the 112 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: Chinese communist government. But when you have a bank, they 113 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: just decides to let all this money go in China, 114 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: and then they're willing to give over the bank records. 115 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: They're the only bank that's willing to give over the 116 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: bank records. The question you have to ask is why 117 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: do they do it? And we also found out something else. 118 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: Hunter's business partner who paid Biden family a million dollars 119 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: we now know was a frequent visitor during Biden's Vice presidency. Now, 120 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: the bank records show that not only did Walker wire 121 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: over a million dollars in Chinese funds the Biden family members, 122 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: but Hunter Biden's former business partner, Rob Walker appeared to 123 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: have visited the White House at least sixteen times when 124 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: President Biden was the vice president. We didn't say his residence, 125 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: we said the actual White House. So why would China 126 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: be sending money to the Biden crime family. Well, if 127 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: you get sixteen visits to the White House, that's to 128 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: have a lot of visits to talk about Chinese interests 129 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: and to have influence. Is that worth it? How about 130 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: giving a billion dollars for a venture capital right from 131 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: a crackhead to a crackhead that doesn't have any experience 132 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: in that industry. You think that right there would be 133 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: enough for you to get some influence the White House. 134 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: Sixteen visits to sixteen visits, folks. Walker's name resurfaced again 135 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago after the House Oversight Committee 136 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: Republicans said they obtained the records showing members the Biden 137 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: family received more than a million dollars in payments from 138 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,119 Speaker 1: account through they did a Walker and they're Chinese business 139 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: ventures in seventeen. So again, connect these dots. You go 140 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: back to seventeen, you go back to Hunter Biden's former 141 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: business partner, you go back to visiting the White House 142 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: at least sixteen times minimum, and there is your smoking gun. 143 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: So then why did this Chinese bank give over all 144 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: the financial records to Jim Jordan and Senator Ron Johnson 145 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: and James Comer. They were sitting a signal. You want 146 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: to screw with us, all right, you want to play, 147 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: we'll play. You want to be put, you want you 148 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: want to go. You think you're gonna you think you're 149 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: gonna not do what you said you were gonna do. 150 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: We own you, Biden's that's what communists China is saying. 151 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: Right now, you better, you better calm down. Okay, you 152 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: better shut up? Right you better you better play the game, 153 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: because if you don't, we own you and we will 154 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: destroy you. It is not normal for a China American 155 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:05,079 Speaker 1: bank to willingly provide these financial records. That's just not normal. 156 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: And I think everybody understands that. We also know that 157 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 1: Biden denying in recent weeks as son Hunter Biden, his 158 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 1: brother Jim, and Hallie Biden, the widow of the sun 159 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: Bow receives split payments of a million dollars from Hunter's 160 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: business associate Rob Walker. Johnson claims a new Kathaway Bank 161 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: records solidify the House Oversight Committee's investigation into the family's 162 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: international business ventures. This is the Chinese Communist Party. This 163 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: is the shout across the bow. Right. This is clearly here, folks. 164 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: This isn't just a Chinese bank. This is an American 165 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: bank that was founded by Chinese Americans. After everything that 166 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: we've been through with China and this moment, only fifteen 167 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: percent of Americans actually trust China. The American people are 168 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: rightly concerned, is what Carter said. They deserve to have answers, 169 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 1: and I think at a minimum, the President needs to 170 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: make a statement address people's concerns because they are valid. 171 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: Now the question now is why is that the President 172 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: of the United States of America is not being asked 173 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: questions about this from the media. How is it that 174 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: he is able to sit there and not have to 175 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: answer these basic questions. It's because they don't care if 176 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: he's compromised by the Chinese, because he's their guy. I 177 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: want to just also remind you, when it comes to 178 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: all of the corruption of the Biden crime family. That 179 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: Representative James Comer said this. Now, I'm going to go 180 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: back to February all right, day after Valentine's Day, Representative 181 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: James Coomer said, that's about Hunter Biden talking about how 182 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: he was knee deep with China. And this comes after 183 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: the shout across about from the Chinese bank saying, hey, 184 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: Biden's get in line, shut up and be quiet, because 185 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: if you don't, we're going to expose you with more 186 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: bank records. Listen here, House Oversight Chairman James Coomer, Congressman, 187 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: it's good to see you. Good to be back. Hey, congressmen, 188 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: what was your reaction when you heard Obama's former DNI 189 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: James Clapper slam three years after the fact, say political 190 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: quote deliberately distorted his claim and the claim by fifty 191 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: other intelligence officials that Hunter Biden's laptop was rushing to 192 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: information before the twenty twenty election in order to help 193 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: out This is in order to help out Joe Biden. 194 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: What was your reaction when you heard this? Well, of 195 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: course he's going to try to back paddle, but the 196 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: truth remains that he didn't say a word about that 197 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: political story when it came out. If he was offended 198 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: by Politico, he should have made his statement that day 199 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: because we're right up against the presidential election when that 200 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: story came out. Yet he said nothing. So it's pretty 201 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: disappointing to see him comment at all, much less trying 202 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: to throw Politico under the bus for his mistake or 203 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: his bias. You know, we don't know, but we're gonna 204 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: find out. This is something that's very important to the 205 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: Select Committee on the Weabinization of the federal government. This 206 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: is an issue that Jim Jordan will champion, and he's 207 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: gonna give all fifty one of these people an opportunity 208 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: to explain himself. So maybe that's why he's now rushing 209 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: to try to clarify his statements three almost three years 210 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,719 Speaker 1: after the fact. And to your point, Congressman, he did 211 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: not rush to go on TV to fix it before 212 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: the election of us said we've got the receipts. Let's 213 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: watch this. Watch to me, this is this classic textbook 214 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,959 Speaker 1: Soviet Russian tradecraft. Were all of a sudden two and 215 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: a half weeks before the election of this laptop appears 216 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: somehow well, we know that this whole smear on Joe 217 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: Biden comes from the Kremlin. That's been clear for well 218 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 1: over a year now. The US authorities are seeing if 219 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,199 Speaker 1: those emails we just talked about are connected to an 220 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: ongoing Russian disinformation effort. It is so obviously a Russian 221 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: operation Hunter Biden, this laptop that intelligence officials have warned 222 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: is likely Russian disinformation, ongoing Russian disinformation effort. It's broadly 223 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: known and widely known, Peter, that there was a odd 224 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: range of Russian disinformation back in twenty twenty. Okay, that's 225 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: clearly propaganda. CNA, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC have 226 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: since authenticated information on the Hunter Biden laptop revealing the 227 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: Biden family was basically selling access via Joe Biden's gage job. 228 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,079 Speaker 1: This is alleged corruption. What was your response, what's your 229 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 1: reaction to what you just heard? Well, if Clapper or 230 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: those other fifty intelligence officials want to blame someone, if 231 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 1: they want to throw someone under the bus, they should 232 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: throw Joe Biden under the bus. Because remember in that 233 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: presidential debate, when Donald Trump phrased the term the laptop 234 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: from Hell, Joe Biden flatly denied that said it wasn't true. 235 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: He implied it was Russian disinformation. So these characters that 236 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: worked for the intelligence community all went along with Joe 237 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: Biden's narrative. So if they're really sincere about trying to 238 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: find someone to blame, they should blame Joe Biden. And 239 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: this is something the media. Remember when I had the 240 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: press conference in November after the Republicans the midterm elections 241 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: to formally announce that we were going to investigate the 242 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: Biden family for influence peddling, all those media outlets attacked 243 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: the Republicans for having the audacity to investigate Joe Biden, 244 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: and even the associated Preston Bloomberg. As early as November 245 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: of just a few months ago, we're saying that the 246 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: laptop was Russian disinformation and that it was a conspiracy theory. 247 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: Now everyone knows CBS did the forensic audit, the Twitter 248 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: executives testified in our committee last week. There's no question 249 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: the laptop is authentic, and there is very damaging evidence 250 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: within that hard drive that would implicate not just the 251 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: Biden family but also Joe Biden in influence peddling with 252 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: our adversaries, including communist China. So let's and you go 253 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: back to the communist China part there what James Komer 254 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: keeps saying, and this was before we got these bank 255 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: records that just came out from this Chinese American bank, 256 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: and it's clear that what they're trying to do is 257 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: they're trying to say, Hey, Biden's played by the rules 258 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: of our okay, played by the rules of our agreement, 259 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: whatever that agreement was, You better tow the line better, 260 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: you better really calm down and remember that we own you. 261 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: The only reason why China did the deal that they 262 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: did with the Biden crime family is because they wanted 263 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: to influence Pedal, but they also want to protection and 264 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: with that money that they were paying, there was something 265 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: else that happened. They were able to compromise them. This 266 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 1: is no different than the Russian government in the Russian oligarchs. 267 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: You look at today what has happened. We now know 268 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: that the Russians are holding an American journalist, an American 269 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: journalists representing the Wall Street journal who's now being held 270 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: on espionage charges. Did the White House immediately come out 271 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: and demand that he be returned. No, they're very quiet 272 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: right now. Okay, they're being very quiet. Maybe they can't 273 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: say anything at all. People need to really think about that. 274 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: Maybe they have to just let this happen and then 275 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: try to find somebody that can trade to get him back. Now, 276 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: this is also two Americans now being held, So we 277 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: were at two. We got the w NBA Woke starback, 278 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: Britney Griner. We left an actual American behind that'd been 279 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: there for even longer. Doesn't matter, right, that's a problem. 280 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: And now we have this also a really big problem. 281 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: We have another American. So the number has not gone down, 282 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: the number has gone up. People should be angry about that, 283 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: in my opinion. And this administration hasn't even had the 284 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: cajones to sanction the oligarchs that loaned not O money 285 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: gave money to the Biden crime family. There was another 286 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: round of sanctions that went out last week. And still 287 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: admitted from the sanctions is the former Moscow mayor's wife, 288 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: who's a Russian oligarch who should have been sanctioned. That 289 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: Russian oligarch is who gave millions of doors to Hunter Biden. 290 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,479 Speaker 1: There's another oligarch that gave millions of dollars to Hunter Biden, 291 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: the Biden crime family. That oligarch has also been admitted 292 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: from the Russian sanctions on oligarchs. Why is that? It's 293 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: only one way I think we can describe it at 294 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 1: this point. There's only one way you can describe this. 295 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: In my opinion, it's because they are compromised. There's no 296 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: other logical explanation for this, folks. They're compromised. They're completely compromised, 297 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: and every step of the way, especially with what the 298 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: Chinese just ad here, here's bank records. We dare you 299 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 1: ll let's remind you what we have on you. They've 300 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: got everything they can down. They could unload. The Chinese, 301 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: I believe, have the Biden crime family so compromise that 302 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: they could destroy them in three seconds with releasing data 303 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 1: they have on them. I think that's the same thing 304 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 1: for the Russians right now as well. I think that's 305 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: the reason why the President can't stand up to Russia 306 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: and demand Americans be back. I think that's the reason 307 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: why they're just sitting here saying, okay, it is what 308 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,719 Speaker 1: it is. One last thing on this that also I 309 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: think goes back to the lack of the media's focus 310 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: on all the intel we have in the laptop, which 311 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,880 Speaker 1: they all have one hundred percent access to. There were 312 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: emails in there where Hunter Biden was really boasting about 313 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: his connections to China. To China's ambassador, he was selling 314 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: this and they brought this up to James Comer. Listen, 315 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: so let's stay in this. Fox News is reporting emails 316 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: from the Laptop show. Hunter Biden boasted about having a 317 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: quote very very good relationship relationship with Obama's ambassador to China, 318 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: Max Bacas, set they quote can ask anything we need 319 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: right now is they were doing family business deals with China. 320 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: The family got paid millions of dollars out of China, 321 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: including things like selling liquid natural guest deals. As you 322 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: point out, out of five US states to China. Max 323 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: Bacas has not responded to The Evening Edit. We did 324 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 1: reach out for comment your thoughts on this. Well, the 325 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: whole Biden business model was revolved around convincing our adversaries 326 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: that Hunter Biden had access to the highest levels of government. 327 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: He convinced people that because he was Joe Biden's son, 328 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: he could help them navigate the bureaucracy of the federal government. 329 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: So obviously, the more people that Hunter Biden could prove 330 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: to Communist China that he had close connections with, the 331 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: more money his family would break in. And this is 332 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: another example of how Joe Biden or Hunter Biden, through 333 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's network, sold himself to our adversaries in China, 334 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:39,120 Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine. So this is proof that this family 335 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: was needy in with communist China and trying to sell 336 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 1: access to the federal government. Trying to sell access to 337 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 1: federal government. And that's exactly why this Chinese American bank 338 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: released all and they're the only bank to do this 339 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: so far, all of the bank records that were requested 340 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: by Ron John and the Republican Party. It was their 341 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: way of reminding the Bidens how much you are owned 342 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: by China. It's not just China, by the way, where 343 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: this Biden crime family has compromised, it's also Russia. And 344 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: the White House has been basically silent, and certainly in 345 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: the hours after we found out that Russia has now 346 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: taken another American hostage. Russia has detained a Wall Street 347 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: Journal reporter and plans to hold them until late in 348 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 1: May were now being told. The White House did not 349 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: come out and immediately and condemned this. In fact, it's 350 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: been twenty something hours they said nothing. Russian authorities We 351 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: know for a fact of detained the Wall Street Journal reporter. 352 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 1: Russia is one of the worst countries in the world 353 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: for press freedom. We also know that, but they have 354 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: not done what they just did since the Cold War ended. 355 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: Now Russian authorities have come out and said they planned 356 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: to detain the American journalist who works for the Wall 357 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: Street Journal for two months. The reporter was attained on 358 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: suspicion of espionage. According to the Russian Federal Security Services. 359 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: This is basically the same as the KGB. Shortly after, 360 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: a Moscow court ordered the attention to last until east 361 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: May twenty ninth. According to the Journal, which side of 362 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 1: local reports, the man's attention escalates already high tensions between 363 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: the US and Russia. The US government is spending billions 364 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: to support Ukrainians defense against the invading Russian forces. The 365 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: Biden administration has been in touch with the journal about 366 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: the situation, a senior administration official told NBC News. Now 367 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: they are alleging right the KGB, basically known now is 368 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: the FSB, is alleging that this journalist was quote collecting 369 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: information constituting a state secret about the activities of one 370 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: of the enterprises of the military industrial complex in Russia. 371 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 1: He's pled not guilty to the espionage charges, according to 372 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: the Russian state news agency. Yeah, I've convicted this journalist 373 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: could face up to twenty years in print. And look, 374 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 1: he knows this. He's not an idiot. I'm sure he 375 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 1: knows that. The only way he's going to get out 376 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: of Russia live is if there's a prisoner swap. This 377 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: is now the second American It also goes back to 378 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: how bad this White House is It actually protecting you 379 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: and protecting Americans around the world. They are allowing and 380 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: I think it's because they're compromised by the Russians. We 381 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: know millions of dollars are coming in to the Biden 382 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: crime family from Russia. Even Hunter Biden believes there's another 383 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: laptop of his that was taken by Russian prostitutes from 384 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: a sex trafficking organization tied to Russia that he had 385 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: an appetite for now. The Wall Street Journal has adamantly 386 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: denied the charges, adding that it sought the immediate release 387 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: of our trusted and dedicated reporter. They know that's going 388 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 1: to mean nothing to the Russians. We stand in solidarity 389 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: with Evan and his family. The journal said now, Russia, 390 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: as you, I'm sure no, is one of the worst 391 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: countries in the world for freedom of press. A nonprofit 392 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 1: advocacy group said it's gotten a lot worse since Russia 393 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: launce it's invasion to Ukraine in early twenty twenty two. 394 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 1: The country's government has a long history of harassing journalists, 395 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: including detaining foreigners on spying charges that appear politically motivated. Recently, 396 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 1: President Vladimir Putin has overseen a significant crackdown on free 397 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: speech and political dissent within his own country. Many Russians 398 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: have gone missing who stood up to not wanting to 399 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: go to war in Ukraine and are tired or frustrated 400 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: with their kids being called up for duty. If you're 401 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: an adult and you say that, there's a very good 402 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: chance you're gonna go missing. Now, Russia has not done this, 403 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 1: just so you understand what they just did for years. Actually, 404 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: let me rephrase that decades. He is the first American 405 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: reporter to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since 406 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: September of nineteen eighty six. There was a Moscow correspondent 407 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 1: for US News and World Reports that was arrested by 408 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: the KGB back then now that journalist was actually released 409 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,360 Speaker 1: without charges twenty days later in a swap for an 410 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: employee of the Soviet Unions United Nations Mission who was 411 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 1: arrested by the FBI, also un spying charges. Not this hearing, 412 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: the Moscow court ruled that this journalist is behind bars, 413 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 1: penning the investigation. Now, while previous American detainees have been 414 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: freedom prisoner swaps, the top Russian officials said, quote, it's 415 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: too early to talk about any such deal. There was 416 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: no immediate public comment from Washington. The AP is reporting 417 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: again nothing from the Biden administration. So how much is 418 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: that about the Biden administration not being able to say 419 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: anything because they're compromised by the Russians. And if you 420 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: notice here they're holding back. Why would a president hold 421 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: back on stating that this individual should never have been 422 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: grabbed and this individual should be released immediately. Unless you're compromised, 423 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: you would say that. And everybody reporting on this nose 424 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 1: this is clearly politically motivated. There was a representative Moscow 425 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: Witz who is on CNN that's said exactly that. Because 426 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 1: this is not hard to figure out. Listen, Lee, but 427 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 1: I do want to ask you about the breaking news 428 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: this morning, given that you serve on the House Foreign 429 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: Affairs Committee, what we're hearing about this US journalist who 430 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: has been arrested in Russia on espionage charges, the first 431 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: time we've seen something like this since nineteen eighty six. 432 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 1: What's your response, Well, thank you for having me. Obviously 433 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,160 Speaker 1: it's distressing news. I mean, we have been an unprecedented 434 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: territory with what's going on in Ukraine with Russia. You're 435 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: talking about a permanent Security Council member invading another country 436 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: and being able to veto resolutions at the UN about 437 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: at Putin again, a Security Council member, head of state 438 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: being declared a war criminal and now obviously him kidnapping 439 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: an American and so this is him raising the specter 440 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: we are in very dangerous territory with him. This is 441 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: all about leverage and so now we have a human 442 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 1: life in the balance and American and so you know, 443 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:05,679 Speaker 1: this obviously complicates things for the president because obviously Putin 444 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 1: is going to use this as leverage. But you know, 445 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: this is why, you know, Joe Biden put together an 446 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: entire coalition of the world and of nations against Russia. 447 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: And you know, listen, we all we pray obviously for 448 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: his safe release, and you said kidnapping an American. I 449 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 1: assume you believe that Russia should release him immediately, immediately. 450 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you know the problem is is 451 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 1: that you know they're now going to use him as leverage, 452 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: and so it's not going to be that simple unfortunately. 453 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,959 Speaker 1: But obviously you know, this is not the game that 454 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: Putin should be playing. I have I think Joe Biden 455 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: has shown that he's not someone who's going to be 456 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 1: toyed with when it comes to these sort of things, 457 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,239 Speaker 1: and so yes, for his family's sake, he should be 458 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 1: released immediately. I'm from the town where you know, Robert 459 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,160 Speaker 1: Levinson lived, and so I've seen what happens when members 460 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: are you know, taken away from their families, and so 461 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: you know, I'm hoping that's not this situation. Obviously. Just 462 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 1: go back to this is a Democratic congressman who clearly 463 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: is not compromised by the Russians, who is coming out 464 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 1: and saying exactly what the President the United States of 465 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 1: America should have said. Immediately. President should have gotten in 466 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: front of a podium and he should have said, do 467 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: not harm this man, do not screw with this man 468 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,360 Speaker 1: America is not going to stand for this. We will 469 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: do everything to get him back. That right. They should 470 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: have said that immediately, and they're not saying anything, and 471 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 1: they're gonna say, oh, well, it's because we don't want 472 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 1: to antagonize or make things harder on him. Behind the scenes, 473 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 1: somebody has to say this. This congressman just said it, 474 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: right that, this congressman just said this, So why couldn't 475 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: somebody else say it. Why couldn't another person stand up, 476 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: like I don't know, the actual president of the United 477 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,239 Speaker 1: States of America and say this. The only reason why 478 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: I believe it's not being said by this White House 479 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,199 Speaker 1: is because they can't say it. They don't have the 480 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: ability to say it, because they are compromised, just like 481 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: they are compromised by the Chinese. And in many ways, 482 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: I want to how much the are still compromised by 483 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: leaders in the Ukraine. It's amazing how what we're willing 484 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: to give Ukraine without any accounting, without any questions being 485 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: asked about where the money's actually going or the corruption 486 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: Ukraine is that because they have such damning information on 487 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: the President of the United States of America and his family. 488 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: Because the millions and millions of dollars that they were sending. 489 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: That is a question at also again should be asked, 490 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 1: why is no one asking that. I don't know, but 491 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: the media certainly doesn't seem to be curious about any 492 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: of these international incidents. Why why is that? I think 493 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: you can connect those dots. Make sure you share this 494 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: podcast with your family and your friends. Please write us 495 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: say five star review. We will keep you up doing this. 496 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,719 Speaker 1: Our thoughts and prayers are with this journalist in Russia, 497 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: and I'll see you back here tomorrow.