1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: of you for being with us toll free our numbers 3 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine four one Sean. If you want 4 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: to be a part of this saxtravagance of this Friday, 5 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Happy Friday to you. Five days now after the first 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: classified documents turned up in this office at the Biden 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: Pen or the Penn Biden Center, the Biden classified documents 8 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: scandal is now officially under investigation by Congress, which is 9 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: why I wanted them to get up and running and 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: on the same page. They tried to get people to 11 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: welcome into doing it before January third. No harm, no foul. 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: Thank god, we've got people that I believe are all 13 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: on the same page. If then not, we'll find out quickly, 14 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: especially with the economy and the debt ceiling battle that 15 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: will be looming, maybe as early as next week. We'll 16 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: learn a lot about what people mean in terms of 17 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: standing firm on their principles. But this will be their 18 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: opportunity to now say no to reckless spending and being 19 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 1: great stewards of we the taxpayers money, which is conservatism 20 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: one on one. But anyway, Jim Jordan's first investigation as 21 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will examine Biden's mishandling 22 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: of these classified documents and the Justice Department's involvement in 23 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: the investigation. He said, we are conducting oversight of the 24 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: Justice Department's actions with respect to former Vice President Joe 25 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: Biden's mishandling of classified documents, including apparently unauthorized possession of 26 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: classified material at a Washington, DC private office and in 27 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: his garage in Wilmington, in residence there. And of course 28 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: the other room, whatever room hasn't been identified, not the 29 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: corvette room that's always locked, although we have many videos 30 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: of it not being locked at all, with his beautiful 31 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: Stingray corvette, which is not the corvette that anybody should want. 32 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: If you want to corvette, you need the zero six 33 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: that you can't get because they don't make them, make 34 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: enough of them, and if you're on the list, you 35 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: might get a ten years from now. Anyway, I digress, 36 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: but anyway, that's what they're doing. Jordan, questioning the alleged 37 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: concealment of this information by the DOJ as the White 38 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: House admitted that the first batch of documents at the 39 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: Penn Biden Center was discovered six days before the twenty 40 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: twenty two midterm elections, but they were not disclosed publicly 41 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: until January. I'll get to that timeline in a minute. 42 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: It's unclear when Democrats first came to learn about the 43 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: existence of these documents, whether it actively concealed the information 44 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: from the public on the eve of the twenty twenty 45 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: two mid terms. Jordan also continued, it's unclear what interactions, 46 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: if any, the Department had with President Biden or his 47 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: representatives about his mishandling of classified material. The department's actions 48 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: here appeared to depart from how it acted in similar circumstances. 49 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: The lawmakers referenced the fbis on precedented raid on former 50 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's Morlago home last summer, sez classified documents. 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: Now I go back and I remind you the FBI 52 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: had unfettered access to the room where they ultimately found 53 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: the documents, because they were in that room invited and 54 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: had all the access they wanted to that room. And 55 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: rather than look through the documents take anything they thought 56 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: that they needed to take, which they could have done, 57 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 1: then they called back and said, what would you mind 58 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: putting a padlock on the door. So they put a 59 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: padlock on the door. Unbelievable. And by the way, one 60 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: notorious National Security Risk zero experienced hunter lived at the 61 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: home where Joe stashed his top secret documents. So Hunter 62 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: Biden is living off and on at the Delaware home 63 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: where the documents was stored from Joe Biden's time as 64 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: vice president, giving him unrestricted access to America's secrets while 65 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: hammering out shady business deals with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine 66 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: and all the other countries that he was doing business with, 67 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: again with no experience making millions the money. I'm telling 68 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: you right now, it's not going to be the document 69 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: issue that found Joe Biden. His big problem is his 70 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: big lie. His big lie is not once did I 71 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: ever speak to my son Hunter or any other family 72 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: member about their farm business dealings. He's implicated by his 73 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: own son in the Laptop from Hell, which, by the way, 74 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: we knew pretty early on was real, and you know, 75 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: because I was talking to the people the New York 76 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: Post that actually had it, and that's why we knew 77 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: as much as we did as early as we did. Anyway, 78 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: so we're watching all of this unfold now there's other 79 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: things that we got to get into here just to 80 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: lay the foundation for this whole story. But you got 81 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: one batch of classified documents found at the U the 82 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: University of Pennsylvania, you penned Biden Center, and that had 83 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: a very closy relationship with China. The money here is everything, 84 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, it's gonna be 85 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: the money. It's gonna be the money. How much Joe got, well, 86 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: how would you feel if you had to give half 87 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: your income to Pops that's Hunter Biden on his own laptop. 88 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: How would you feel? Why do I have to pay 89 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: for pops repairs at his home? Leaving ten percent for 90 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: the big guy, Tony Bob o Lynski. You know, to 91 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: put all this together, you know, look at the deal 92 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: one point five billion dollars deal with the Bank of China. 93 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: Then you got one hundred thousand dollars shopping spree with 94 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: the Chinese National Then you got a five million dollars 95 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: no interest forgivable loan to the Bidens with China, and 96 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: then a grand total, according to John Solomon at justinnews 97 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: dot com, sixty seven million dollars in total going to Upen, 98 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: the vast majority of which just shy a fifty million 99 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: of that sixty seven million when Biden is out of 100 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: office and setting up that center at UPEN or the 101 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: Penn Biden Center, you gotta be kidding me. It's it's 102 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 1: pretty unbelievable. But if you look at them in Wilmington, Delaware, 103 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: his private residence more than two decades, they all called 104 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: this place at home, the Biden family, Joe Jill Hunter, 105 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: and the mansion also had numerous classified documents. He makes 106 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: the comment about him being in a a closed garage. A 107 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: lock garage is the exact term. Well, we've got videos 108 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: and pictures of it not being locked on numerous occasions. 109 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: And you should see the front cover of the New 110 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: York Post today. They got it circled. That doesn't look 111 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: very secure to us. And he's right, but again, there's 112 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: a double standard, you know, one standard for Donald Trump, 113 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: one standard for Hillary and the Clintons, one standard for 114 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Republicans and conservatives, and one for the Bidens. 115 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: And this is what I've been saying. We don't have 116 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: equal justice under the law in this country. It's what 117 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: I've been saying, we don't have equal application of our 118 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: laws in this country. Now, presumably the documents located near 119 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: the cardboard boxes. We showed you last night, we'll show 120 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: you again tonight. And according to Biden, it's not a 121 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: big deal because people know he takes classified materials seriously. 122 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: That's not a good excuse. If you took it seriously. 123 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,479 Speaker 1: You are the one on sixty minutes lecturing Donald Trump. Oh, 124 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: how does this happen? How? How could anyone be so irresponsible? 125 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: It might be people compromise methods. Name so, how how 126 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: did it happen? How that could possible? We don't want 127 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: to compare it. It's not anyway. People that take classified 128 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: materials seriously, don't stash this secret documents in a garage. 129 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: And now I love how the medium mob is contorting themselves, 130 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: turning and say, oh no, this is not comparable. Oh yes, 131 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: it is comparable. But the money makes it even worse. 132 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: It's never been in an accusations that Donald Trump got 133 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: paid by China or as children made deals with China 134 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: or deals with Ukraine. You know, Donald Trump never had 135 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: to leverage a billion taxpayer dollars to get a Ukrainian 136 00:07:55,480 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: prosecutor fired. Donald Trump never got his kids ever got 137 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: money from a Russian oligarch or investment money from a 138 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: Russian oligarch that never happened. And remember there's no visitor logs. 139 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: Forty of Joe's presidency has been spent outside of Washington, 140 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: most of it at his homes. And yet we have 141 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: no visitor logs at all whatsoever, no security logs at 142 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: all whatsoever. We don't have a clue who went in 143 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: and out of that house. So they care so much 144 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: about transparency, but they were hiding this information. And you know, 145 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: if you look at the timeline, it's simple. Last August 146 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: mar logo was rated. This is after the FBI had 147 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: unfettered access to the room where the quote documents were 148 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: eventually found. They were in the room. They were in 149 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: the room because they were loud and volunteered and invited 150 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: into the room for crying out loud. Then they said, 151 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: could you put a padlock on the door. Sure, we'll 152 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: put a padlock on the door. Then Trump went a 153 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: step further after reports that there were ton of reports, 154 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: oh the Justice Department. There's even today they think there 155 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: might be more papers. Donald Trump hired some not accounting firm, 156 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: some firm that actually went through every square inch of 157 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: every property he has and invited the Justice Department to 158 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: join them. Justice Department said no. Now they want to 159 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: interview the people that did go. Why didn't they go 160 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: because they got the invitation. According to everyone that I've 161 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: talked to anyway, last August they have to Trump invited 162 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: federal officials to his home. They put the padlock on 163 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: as requested. Then they raid Mara Lago in September. Biden 164 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: berated Trump on sixty minutes in November, on November second, 165 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: to be exact as trove of top secret classified documents 166 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 1: found in Biden's private office. The DLJ was notified immediately. 167 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: We weren't told this before the election. There was no 168 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: rate at Biden's private offices. And Biden says nothing to 169 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: the American people. Now here's where it gets even stranger. 170 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: Two weeks later, November eighteenth, Merrick Garland appoints a special 171 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: counsel to investigate Donald Trump, but not Joe Biden. But 172 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: they knew Joe Biden had done the same thing, and 173 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: it wasn't until yesterday. The guy that Garland, he had 174 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: no choice but to appoint a special counsel in the sense, 175 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: it couldn't be any better. The timing of Jim Jordan's 176 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: investigation and Jim Comer's investigation because they're gonna work in tandem, 177 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: and Jim Comer is looking into the Biden family syndicate 178 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 1: and all the money that we're talking about. I'm sure 179 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: he'll get the banking records at some point, and then 180 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan is going to look at the double standard 181 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: as it relates to Remember Christopher ray A Meerck Carland, 182 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: they personally approved the rate of Marlago. Jonathan Turley even 183 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: pointed out the claim by the way that they were 184 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: housed that the president had no classified documents, and they 185 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 1: were housed in multiple unsecure locations. They claim they're lying 186 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: to us on so many different levels. At least some 187 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: of those documents had to have been moved multiple times. 188 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: How do we know that? Because the Penn Biden Center 189 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: where that first batch of materials showed up, didn't open 190 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: the doors till twenty eighteen. He got out of office 191 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: in early twenty seventeen, over a year after he left 192 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: the Obama wine House, So where were the documents stored 193 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,079 Speaker 1: before then? By the way, who moved them? Who might 194 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 1: have had access to them? And the Upen Political Center 195 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: named after Joe Biden was probably one of the worst 196 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: places on Earth to store top secret information. Now John 197 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: Solomon even took even further. So there's sixty seven million 198 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 1: dollars going to UPEN from China between twenty thirteen twenty nineteen, 199 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: nearly fifty million of which the vast majority of that 200 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: money flowing in during Biden's lucrative rain at the UPenn 201 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: Biden Center, which he really wasn't even there much. And 202 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: get this, in twenty sixteen, an email uncovered on Hunter 203 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: Biden's laptop. He has his own agent referencing the creation 204 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: of the Upen Center while also discussing quote wealth creation. 205 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: And he's doing the deal with China on energy, and 206 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: China is looking for something in return. They wanted the 207 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: investigation into espionage against our country, our country. They wanted 208 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: it ended, and they got one hundred plus U Penn 209 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,199 Speaker 1: professors to sign a letter to Merrick Garland, and Merrick 210 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: Garland closed out the investigation of espionage by China, our 211 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: number one geopolitical foe. So we're gonna university that gets millions. 212 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: Of course, their professors want more money from anonymous Chinese donors. 213 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they probably means better facilities for them, maybe 214 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 1: even a pay raise. Who knows, and you know, prior 215 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: to this, Hunter was raking in millions of dollars from 216 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: Chinese foreign nationals. The proceeds from that one point five 217 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 1: billion dollars deal ink with the Bank of China ten 218 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: days after Hunter was with his father in China. The 219 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: Vice president on that trip to Beijing in February of 220 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, after getting millions and donations from China, 221 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: University of Pennsylvania scessfully lobbies the Biden Justice Department, that's 222 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: the executive branch of Joe Biden, his doj his ag 223 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: and sure enough that put an end to the counter 224 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: espionage program against Beijing's growing influence over academia. China's America's 225 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: number one political foe. This is not hard stuff to understand. 226 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:27,680 Speaker 1: These investigations are key, you know what. This is what 227 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 1: I wanted, This is what we all wanted. This is 228 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: what I kept saying in the middle of you know, Hannity, 229 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: why do you want this to end so fast? Because 230 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: everything's agreed on. The agenda was always agreed on, the 231 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: right to vacate, the motion of vacate was always agreed on. 232 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: Days and days before January third, some people didn't know it. 233 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: I did, totally them accountable. Sean gets the answers. No 234 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: one else does America deserts and know the truth about 235 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: Congress five to the top of the hour. So just 236 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 1: the news reported. So he got this new governor in Pennsylvania, 237 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: Josh Shapiro. He was the state's attorney general two years 238 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: ago when his office got a complain about the tens 239 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars that Upen had accepted from anonymous 240 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: Chinese nationals, in other words, from China. Upen hit the 241 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: China jackpot sixty seven million and the vast majority of 242 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: which almost fifty million, of which came when Joe Biden 243 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: showed up there. Letter sent by take Back our Republic 244 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: Address to the then Attorney General Shapiro and other high 245 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: ranking members of his team. That was sent in July 246 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one, nearly a year and a half 247 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: before the Biden classified document story broke. I remember it 248 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: was in the Hunter Biden laptop, you know, talk about 249 00:14:54,760 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: giving keys to people from China to the office the 250 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: top secret documents were being held. You think that Garland 251 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: would be a little more interested in that. Apparently not. Well, 252 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: neither was General Attorney General Shapiro. But anyway, and all 253 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: these people who sent this in July of twenty twenty one, 254 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: a year and a half before this story breaks, resulting 255 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: in Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel as if he 256 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: had a chance. Now, by the way, he should have 257 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: appointed one for a hunter because of the obvious conflict 258 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: of interest. That's a separate issue. Now. This letter requested 259 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: that the stated Attorney General opened an investigation into the 260 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: one million dollars in compensation or nearly one million, that 261 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: the university paid Biden over the years twenty seventeen through nineteen. 262 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: Biden was appointed a professor, he never taught a class, 263 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: the letter said, if Biden did not perform services for 264 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: the university worth nine hundred and eleven thousand bucks, that 265 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: would be a serious misapplication of nonprofit funds and violation 266 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania law. If there was any quid pro quoa arrangement, 267 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: for example, a promise to Penn President Amy Gutman of 268 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: an appointment similar to an ambassadorship for which he has 269 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: now been nominated, that would also be a violation of 270 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania nonprofit law. Now, citing the possibility that Penn was 271 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: used as a conduit for foreign donations to Biden's presidential campaign. 272 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: The group urged the Attorney General to share the results 273 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: of any investigation with the FEC and other federal authorities, 274 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: depending upon what you find. We sent this letter due 275 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: to the obvious quid pro quo, but now we know 276 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: that was just the tip of the iceberg, said John Putner, 277 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: president of Take Back Our Republican Action. He said in 278 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: an interview. At the time, we knew that we were 279 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: paying Biden, but we didn't know about the actual penn 280 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: Biden Center office, which appears to have served as a 281 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: de facto campaign office for Biden twenty twenty, used by 282 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: ten percent of a senior campaign staff. 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I'll 308 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: sum it up a little for you that thanks to 309 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland's reckless decision to target Trump the way they 310 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: did and over a minor irrelevant presidential documents case which 311 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 1: by the way the FBI had been in the room, 312 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: had unfettered access, requested the padlock, they could have come back, 313 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: They could have taken it that day. They didn't. There 314 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: was nobody, had no time. Did anyone even allege that 315 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: they were told no, they couldn't look And anyway, Republicans 316 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: still angry over the way the DOJ allowed itself to 317 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: be conned. Or in the twenty sixteen presidential election. You 318 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: know remember Hillary Clinton thirty three thousand emails, all of that, 319 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: the big Russia Gate hoax that was you you know, 320 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: created by Team Clinton to paint Trump as a putin pawn. Interestingly, 321 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: the guy that led up led the FBI effort into 322 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: talking to big tech companies in the lead up to 323 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty presidential election wrote a thesis in college 324 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 1: about how Trump and Russia colluded so Trump could win 325 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,479 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. That was not true. But yet this 326 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: guy is meeting weekly with every big tech company. You 327 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: got to be on the lookout for foreign disinformation campaigns. 328 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: They're gonna try to impact our elections, and you guys 329 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 1: can't be purveyors of misinformation. And it may even be 330 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: about Joe Biden. It may be about Hunter Biden. According 331 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 1: to the Integrity site monitor at the time at Twitter, 332 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: this guy by the name of mister Roth, he testified 333 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: under oath and Missouri about that fact. So anyway, the 334 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 1: you know, you would think Republicans have every right. That 335 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 1: was the FBI trying to put their thumbs on an 336 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: election in twenty sixteen. They tried to do it again 337 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. You know, some people made some crazy statements. 338 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,640 Speaker 1: There are things, as I pointed out, that nobody's paying 339 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: attention to, and that nobody nobody wanted to hear from 340 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: the real whistle blowers, people that swore affidavits under the 341 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 1: threat of perjury. Nobody cared that laws weren't followed, that 342 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: partisan observers were supposed to watch the vote count from 343 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: start to finish. They used COVID as an excuse to 344 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: just thwart the law. They should have made accommodations. Nobody 345 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: cared the constitutions like in states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, 346 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 1: were completely ignored and circumvented. And instead of going through 347 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: the constitutional process, which is to amend a constitution, they 348 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: just let the legislature bypass it. That's not how the 349 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: system works. Anyway, So kimberly points out that the Russia hoax, 350 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 1: you know, follow the FBI's decision to give Clinton that pass, 351 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: caught red handed. And you can add to that, Christopher 352 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: Steele offered a million dollars by the FBI to just 353 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: corroborate that as dossier is accurate. He could never collect 354 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: his million dollars. The FBI met with him in early 355 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 1: October twenty sixteen. By the end of October twenty sixteen, 356 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,199 Speaker 1: they were using the dirty disinformation dossier that not only 357 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 1: was unverified by its author, but it was unverifiable because 358 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: all of it was bunk. It was all fake, it 359 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: was all phony, it was all a fraud. And then 360 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 1: they used it to secure the FISA application warrants and 361 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: according to Andrew McCabe, Deputy FBI Director, without which they 362 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: never would have gotten the FISA warrants approved. You just 363 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: can't make all this up. I know, it's a lot 364 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 1: of detail here. We spent two and a half years 365 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: on that. Every single day we got it right. The 366 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: mob and the media gets it wrong anyway. Democrats, on 367 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: the other hand, argue James Comey's eleventh hourd decision to 368 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: open a brand new investigation in the Hillary emails found 369 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: on Anthony Weiner's laptop tip the twenty sixteen election of Trump. 370 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: Here's what they're not telling you is that there were 371 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: law enforcement officials in New York ARC that had that laptop, 372 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 1: that knew damn well that there was information the FBI 373 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 1: was holding back, and pressure was brought to bear. It 374 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 1: was going to break one way or the other. That's 375 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: the only reason it came out, according to my sources. 376 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: And four hours later, the dj decided to deep sixty 377 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: incriminating evidence they found on Hunter's laptop. That decision as well, 378 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: and you know, look at where we are, and you'd think, 379 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: as Kimberly Strauss said, that the Department of Justice would 380 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 1: have learned something from the FBI's disastrous decision to insert 381 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: itself into the twenty sixteen presidential campaign think again, or 382 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: now the twenty twenty campaign trying to warn oh, there 383 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: might be disinformation about Hunter Biden. How convenient that they 384 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 1: mentioned Hunter Biden, considering the FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop 385 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: since December of twenty nineteen. My goodness, this is all, 386 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: you know. There's a couple of other points here. Garland 387 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,439 Speaker 1: has consistently violated federal rules by refusing to name a 388 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: special counsel. Why didn't he appoint a special counsel in 389 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: the Hernu Biden case. Why did the medium mob and 390 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: everybody that was so worked up over the quid pro 391 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: quote Donald Trump saying, don't don't abuse taxpayer of money, 392 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: mister Zelinski like your predecessors did. He's looking out for us. 393 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: That's our money that they're giving over to Ukraine. And 394 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: by the way, they're wasting it. Now. Western Europe ought 395 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: to be fighting this wars right in their backyard, not ours. 396 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: And they never fight wars to win wars anymore. So 397 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: if you're not gonna fight to win, don't waste our money. 398 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: They're gonna knocked this out in three weeks and gotten 399 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: on with things. Now that they're not, you know, nobody 400 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: wants to pay for any of it. Why should they anyway? So, 401 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: you know, Biden, by the way, is you know, more 402 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: criminally at risk just because of the mere money factor. 403 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: And by the way, you know, Trump, they had unfederate authority. 404 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: He had unfedered authority. I should say to he classified documents. 405 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,640 Speaker 1: There's no system by which the federal government is laid out. 406 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: There's no law that's out there that says you have 407 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: to declassify this way or that way, none whatsoever, anyway 408 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: that doesn't exist. For Biden, he didn't have the power 409 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: as vice president to declassify and removing and storing top 410 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 1: secret documents at an unauthorized location. Democrats and the media mob, 411 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 1: they're the ones that screamed this as a crime. They 412 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: should put Trump in jail. How can they make any 413 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: excuses for jail? It's reckless and the standard, by the way, 414 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: is not just intentional, but reckless. This was reckless. Well, 415 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: it was next to my corvette and it was locked 416 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,199 Speaker 1: in a garage. Oh okay, that's safe. But that's what 417 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: his excuse was, the corvette defenses, Greg Jared called it, 418 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: which is pretty laughable, you know, because his garage is 419 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 1: in a secure location, because he owns an expensive old cars, 420 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: not a skiff a sensitive compartmentmented info facility. No, it's 421 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: not that that's designed to protect national security secrets. But again, 422 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: you know, here's where we find ourselves. It's just these 423 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 1: are pretty unbelievable times, and the mob in the media. 424 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: This is what I try to tell Republicans too. I 425 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 1: want your Republicans to understand something here, and this is 426 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: very important. This is why I quoted Reagan a lot. 427 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: If you're eighty percent in agreement with somebody, you're not 428 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: twenty percent somebody's enemy. You're just not. And you never, 429 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: you know, never underestimate Republicans' ability to create circular firing squads. 430 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: You know they do it all the time. They have 431 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: a slim majority. This was my message to everybody, privately 432 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,679 Speaker 1: and publicly. You're going to succeed or fail together, you 433 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: all of you, all of your Republicans. These investigations are 434 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: critical for the country. You know we have right now, 435 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: debt limit might be reached as early as next week. 436 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: There's going to be a showdown in Congress. You guys 437 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: need to be united in this showdown. The US will 438 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: hit its debt limit on Thursday, and Yellen is warning 439 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 1: that they need to take steps to avoid default. Now. 440 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: By the way, she says, they will be taking extraordinary 441 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: measures to prevent the US from defaulting on its obligations. 442 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: They're going to talk about, oh, shutting down the government. 443 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: Full faith and trust in the federal government. Let me 444 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:32,360 Speaker 1: tell you what doesn't happen during a government shutdown a grandma, 445 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: mom and dad. Social Security will be paid, Medicare stays working, 446 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: our military is up and running, and usually the people 447 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: that are furloughed end up getting back pay in a 448 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: free vacation. That's how it usually ends. Now, the question 449 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: is can Congress now use this, now that they have 450 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 1: their power of the purse, as a moment to start 451 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: cutting some of the reckless spending they ought to be 452 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: listing now and identifying now every single item that is 453 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: inappropriately being spent on things that we can ill afford 454 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: and that is not fair to the American taxpayer. That 455 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,120 Speaker 1: would be a good thing to do. Anyway. What else 456 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: do we have here? Big banks reporting mix earnings and 457 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: they are preparing for a recession in flesh flash and 458 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: crisis according to other people, as far worse than we 459 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 1: thought we've known. It's bad, none of it is good. 460 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: Uh An in Maryland has a funny comment and I can't, 461 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 1: I can't not take this call. What do you want 462 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: to say? I don't understand why they didn't go through 463 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: Jill underwear drawer. I mean like they did Milania, Like 464 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: they did Milania, all the violations that they did to 465 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: that whole family, and why is not Why is a 466 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,479 Speaker 1: Biden administration which is a lot more precarious orient they 467 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 1: examining all the whole the whole place, the whole place, 468 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: all the family and everything like they did. Let's Trump's son, 469 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: because we have a dual justice system. That's the short answer, 470 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: and that is the short answer. The big difference here, 471 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's about money. This is gonna come 472 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: down to I never once spoke to Hunter about my 473 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: farign business dealings or any other family member. Well, there's 474 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: too much evidence now of the contrary. We have photographic evidence. 475 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: We got times, dates, locations of meetings of Hunter, Joe 476 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: and his farign business partners. You got the big guy 477 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 1: identified on the laptop in terms of who it was 478 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: and who also met with Hunter and Joe and talked 479 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: about foreign business dealings. Now, this money with China is 480 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: bigger than ever. It's China Russia, I mean, our number 481 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: one and two geopolitical foes. And then of course he 482 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: sold you know, some of our strategic petroleum reserves the China. 483 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: Now Congress has had to deal with that, the new 484 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: Congress has had to deal with that. Anyway, I got 485 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: so much, I gotta get to We're gonna take a 486 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: little break from this though at the top of the 487 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: next hour, because of the life story of our friend 488 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith. I could not believe what he lived 489 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: through and how he's become a success. You're gonna want 490 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: to hear this story, and that is coming up straight ahead. 491 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine for one, Shawn our number. If you 492 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program. All right, 493 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty three. What do you want to do 494 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: to make yourself better this year than say, last year. 495 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: I do have a challenge for you, and that is 496 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: you can resolve to become a better educated American. Look, 497 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: every new year is a new opportunity. I have a 498 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: great way for you to make the most of this one. 499 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: Our friends at Hillsdale College have made their amazing online 500 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: courses absolutely free for anybody that wants to learn. So 501 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: all you have to do is take one of their courses, 502 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: and by the way, they have over thirty Hillsdale courses 503 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: to choose from. You can discover the beauty of the 504 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: Bible and the Genesis story. You can study the great 505 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: writings of C. S. Lewis. You can explore the true 506 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: meaning of a America in Constitution one on one. There 507 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: are many more to choose from, and all of them 508 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: are self paced, and they're absolutely free, and they feature 509 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 1: Hillsdale faculty and scholars. We set up a special website 510 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: at Shawn for Hillsdale dot com. That's Sea n f 511 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: O R Hillsdale dot com. Get your free course, do 512 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: it at your own pace, and improve yourself and get 513 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: more educated. In twenty twenty three, Sean for Hillsdale dot 514 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: com News, This is the Sean Show. So I've been 515 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: friends with Stephen A. Smith for many many I see 516 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: him out there, I look at him. I just love 517 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: seeing his face. He's smiling, he's all excited. I think 518 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: he's gonna be shocked. He probably thinks I didn't read 519 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: the book. I read the book. I can't believe what 520 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: I read in this book. You know, one of the 521 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: things about this life, I don't care who you are. 522 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: I don't care your socioeconomic background. I don't care about 523 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: any of that. I don't care about any identity anything. 524 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: There's nobody that I know in this world, in this 525 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: life that does not go through trial and tribulation. As 526 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: the Road Less Travel points out, life is difficult. Life 527 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: is hard, you know, no, no matter how but life 528 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: is not all sunshine and rainbows. No, no matter how 529 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 1: hard you get hit, you know nothing will hit harder 530 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: than life itself. Not no matter about how hard you 531 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: get hit, It's about a matter how hard you can 532 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: get hit and keep moving forward, keep moving forward. That's 533 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: how winning has done anyway. That's from Rocky. Not my 534 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: best imitation, but um I couldn't believe his story. That's 535 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: that's next.