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Speaker 1: Hello America, Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: Secret Empires.

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Speaker 2: We have been on the.

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden story researching it beginning in twenty sixteen when

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Speaker 1: we ran across an obscure Chinese social media post with

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden meeting with top financial officials in China. It

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Speaker 1: seems so bizarre, so strange, we decided to check it out.

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Speaker 1: Twenty eighteen, Secret Empires comes out, exposes this for the

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Speaker 1: first time, and the Bidens basically pretend it didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: And they've had this history now, shifting narratives, trying to

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Speaker 1: explain this away. Listen to what they have to say.

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Speaker 3: How many times have you ever spoken to your son

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Speaker 3: about his overseas business dealings. I've never spoken my son

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Speaker 3: about his overseas for his service.

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Speaker 4: I have never discussed with my son, or my brother

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Speaker 4: or anyone else being having to deal with their business period.

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Speaker 4: One of your son's former business associates is claiming that

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Speaker 4: you were on speakerphone a lot with them talking business.

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 5: Never talked business any one?

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Speaker 2: And I know you have a lowsy question, Well what

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Speaker 2: do you Why is that a lowsy question? Thank you,

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Speaker 2: because it's not true.

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Speaker 4: Preis of the White House and the President still stand

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Speaker 4: behind his comment that it's never been involved and has

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Speaker 4: never even spoken to his son about his.

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Speaker 5: So I've been asked this question a million times.

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Speaker 6: The answer is not going to change.

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Speaker 7: The answer remains the same.

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Speaker 5: The President was never in business with his son. Can

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Speaker 5: you categorically say that the President United States was not

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Speaker 5: involved in those business dealings and did not profit from

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Speaker 5: any of them.

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Speaker 8: From our side of the I can tell you that

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Speaker 8: Hunter did not share his business with his dad. I

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Speaker 8: can tell you that he did not share money from

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Speaker 8: his businesses with his dad.

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Speaker 5: So I think that what you're hearing is the goalpost.

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Speaker 5: Continue to move from the Biden administration. And I think Peter,

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Speaker 5: that's one of the things that we want to talk

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Speaker 5: about in this segment right now, because now it's no

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Speaker 5: longer hey, did Joe Biden make money off of Hunter

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Speaker 5: Biden's business deals? It's well, can you prove that he

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Speaker 5: was bribey? Do we have enough evidence of a criminal allegation.

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Speaker 5: It's exactly what always happens. You say, well, what about this,

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Speaker 5: what about this? They never seem to be satisfied with

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Speaker 5: the evidence that you've been reporting on.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right, and I think what's happening is the

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Speaker 1: Democrats are moving congressional Republicans in a direction that they

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Speaker 1: don't need to go. They're saying, show us that Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden got paid, that Joe Biden got money, and of

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Speaker 1: course there's evidence that he got a couple of one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. But here's the thing that is irrelevant.

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Speaker 1: It's irrelevant if you look at eighteen US Co. Two one,

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Speaker 1: which is bribery of public officials. It explicitly says, and

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Speaker 1: this has always been the case in bribery law, it's

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Speaker 1: whether you are either directly or indirectly paying a politician

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Speaker 1: or a third party, that could be a family member,

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Speaker 1: that could be a foundation that you've set up the Clintons.

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Speaker 1: The point being, you do not have to show that

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden was paid. You have evidence that the Bidens

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Speaker 1: have been paid. The Biden family have been paid tens

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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars from these foreign entities, and Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden has taken policy positions. We want to walk through

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Speaker 1: one of them in explicit detail because oftentimes these details

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Speaker 1: don't get reporter, to get covered by congressional Republicans.

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Speaker 5: And it's not like there's a shortage of financial transactions

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Speaker 5: in which money goes to the Bidens.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: The number of transactions in which money from foreign governments

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Speaker 5: at PF Chains, which by the way, is one of

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Speaker 5: the only Chinese businesses not to pay Joe Biden and

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Speaker 5: Hunter Biden. But it's real, right, I mean, so you

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Speaker 5: have thirty one million in your last book. Thirty one

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Speaker 5: million dollars goes to the Biden family from people connect

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Speaker 5: to the highest rings of the Chinese espionage. You've got

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Speaker 5: money that's come from the former mayor of Moscow's wife.

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Speaker 5: You've got lots of money that aren't coming from reputable

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Speaker 5: of Hunter Biden. And that's why when money goes from

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Speaker 5: Hunter Biden to Joe Biden, Joe does get directly inplicated.

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Speaker 5: But that's not even the point, because your point is

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Speaker 5: if money went to somebody related to Joe Biden, which

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Speaker 5: it did, for something.

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Speaker 2: That Joe Biden would do, which he did, that's enough.

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Speaker 1: Exactly right now, I'm going to go to a case

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Speaker 1: that I was originally skeptical of, and this is the

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Speaker 1: firing of the prosecutor in Ukraine. And everybody's heard the video.

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Speaker 1: You know you're not getting the billion dollars until you

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Speaker 1: fire the prosecutor. And I thought, even Joe Biden is

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Speaker 1: not stupid enough to brag about this in front.

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Speaker 2: Of the world.

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Speaker 1: But we're just gonna indulge us here, audience. We're just

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Speaker 1: going to walk through a couple of points to make

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Speaker 1: the case and to demonstrate that in fact, what happened

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Speaker 1: in this instance was briber.

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Speaker 5: Well, let's start with this. What when does Hunter Biden

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Speaker 5: get hired by Barisma? Right, it's two months after Joe

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Speaker 5: Biden gets named point person for Obama administration Ukraine policy.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. It gets hired. In April of twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden has been named point person on Ukraine policy.

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's getting now beginning in April eighty three thousand,

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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty three dollars per month. That's roughly

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Speaker 1: one million dollars a year now, something that really gets

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Speaker 1: overlooked by a lot of people, but this is crucial.

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Speaker 1: In November of twenty fifteen, Hunter Biden and his business

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Speaker 1: associates get an email from Barisma, and this is important

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Speaker 1: because it basically describes what they are paying Hunter Biden

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Speaker 1: and his business associates to do. They had put together

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Speaker 1: a proposal. Hunter and his propos and as partners have said, hey,

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Speaker 1: here's what we'll do for the money. Vadim Bazarski writes

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Speaker 1: back that their quote suggested scope of work is largely

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Speaker 1: lacking concrete, tangible results and that we set out to

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Speaker 1: achieve in the first place. In other words, this is

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Speaker 1: not good enough.

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Speaker 5: Hunter's been on the payroll for a year, right, more

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Speaker 5: than a year kind of doing Hunter things, yes, and

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Speaker 5: we all know what that means. And then eventually the

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Speaker 5: boss is like, wait, what do we paying this guy

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Speaker 5: million dollars a year for. That's sends him an email.

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Speaker 5: It's on Hunter's laptop, It's in his Gmail account. We

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Speaker 5: know what happened. He says, No, you are not doing enough.

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Speaker 2: Breasonman. We know wanted one key deliverable.

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Speaker 1: And that's their word, deliverable. This is the deliverable they

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the quotes are the ultimate purpose quote unquote was

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Speaker 5: quote to close down for any cases pursuits against Brismus

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Speaker 2: That's what they wanted.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's explicitly they said, this is what you what

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Speaker 1: we are paying you for. That's November two of twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: December of twenty fifteen, what happens.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, in December of twenty fifteen, Joe

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Speaker 5: Biden's still very much the Vice president of the United States.

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Speaker 1: He's very much Vice President the United States. He's very

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Speaker 1: much the point person on Ukraine policy. So a month

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Speaker 1: after that email from Brismas saying, this is the deliverable.

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Speaker 1: This is the ultimate purpose of what we are paying

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Speaker 1: you for, Hunter Biden and brism executives called Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: for help on getting the pressure relieved on Zlachevsky. We

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Speaker 1: know this not because I'm making up, not because it's

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Speaker 1: some fake news. It's because Devin Archer, who was business

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Speaker 1: that that call took place. So, remember, Hunter Biden's getting paid.

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Speaker 1: Barisma says, this is explicitly what we're paying you for.

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden goes to his father and says, we want

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Speaker 1: help on this, and lo and behold what happens.

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Speaker 2: So we have the quid.

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Speaker 5: That same month, Joe Biden goes to of all places, Ukraine,

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Speaker 5: and when he's on this trip is later announced that

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Speaker 5: he says, hey, unless Ukraine gets rid of this prosecutor.

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Speaker 5: The prosecutor, by the way, that was the ultimate deliverable

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Speaker 5: for Hunter Biden and Hunter Biden's client, then they would

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Speaker 5: be withholding a billion dollars in US taxpayer fund today.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. So what do you have. You have

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden, the son of the vice president, getting paid

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Speaker 1: a million dollars a year from a company who's you know,

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Speaker 1: the head of the company is being pressured on criminal

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Speaker 1: charges by a prosecutor. Hunter Biden calls his father. According

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Speaker 1: to his business partner and says, we need help in

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Speaker 1: this area. The father then publicly later admits that he

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Speaker 1: got the prosecutor fired by threatening to withhold a billion

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Speaker 1: dollars from the United States. It does not matter in

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Speaker 1: that scenario as it relates to criminal statutes, whether Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden got a dime from Barisma his family got paid

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Speaker 1: according to this evidence, I would argue for actions that

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Speaker 1: he took and he was rewarded. And you know, one

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Speaker 1: of the responses Hunter Biden gives is that, well, I

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Speaker 1: was just sort of carrying out US policy. Everybody wanted

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Speaker 1: this prosecutor fired. Actually that's not true. John Solomon has

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Speaker 1: done some great reporting on this. The State Department at

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Speaker 1: this point was actually very happy with what the Ukrainian

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Speaker 1: It's not a defense for a public official to say, well,

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Speaker 1: I would have voted that way anyway. Yeah, somebody paid

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Speaker 1: my family for a vote, but I would have voted

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Speaker 1: that way anyway. That's not a defense. What Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: should have done the moment he knew that his son

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Speaker 1: son came to him and said, hey, Dad, we need

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Speaker 1: this help with the prosecutor. Joe Biden had a legal

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Speaker 1: obligation to say, I can't touch this. I need to

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Speaker 1: recuse myself. I'm conflicted. That's not what he did.

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Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 5: And he would reiterate the call to get the prosecutor

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Speaker 5: fired on numerous occasions. So he reiterated again in March

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Speaker 5: of twenty sixteen, once again as Vice president. A week

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Speaker 5: after he calls for the prosecutor's removal, the prosecutor actually

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Speaker 5: in somebody that Joe Biden calls quote unquote solid, Joe

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Speaker 5: Biden's about to have a phone call with the Ukraine president,

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Speaker 5: and the schedule for that call gets forwarded, among other people,

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Speaker 5: to Joe Biden's fake email address and Hunter Biden from

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Speaker 5: the official office of the Vice Presidents.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the line of communications continued. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was no longer Vice President of the

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Speaker 1: United States, Barisma cut back the amount of money that

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Speaker 1: he was paying him. So this is an enormously important story.

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Speaker 1: There are other developments. We are going to take a break,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back We're going to be joined

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Speaker 1: by Jason Chafitz, the former chairman of the House Overside Committee.

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Speaker 1: He's also a distinguished fellow at the Government Accountability and

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Speaker 1: Stewart we are and we are going to walk with

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Speaker 1: him through how Congress should be handling this situation and

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Speaker 1: what lies ahead.

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Speaker 2: Would be back in a minute.

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Speaker 4: This is one of the questions why you do an inquiry.

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Speaker 4: Well, look, I've been in that position. I was the

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Speaker 4: You would think a congressional inquiry would be enough. It's

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Speaker 5: Speaking of that the charge they've been filed against hunter

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Speaker 1: Peter Schweizer, Eric Edgars. We're having a blast filling in

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Speaker 3: How are you.

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Speaker 4: Hi?

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Speaker 3: Guys, Thank you for taking my call, Peter, Thank you

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Speaker 3: for the great book. Clinton Cash is excellent.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. What's on your mind? Don Well?

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Speaker 3: I I see everybody every day claiming that they've nailed

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden on bribery charges. His proof everywhere. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we've take an action on Ukraine by firing a prosecutor

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Speaker 3: that was investigating Barisma. But what what we saw in

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Speaker 3: making that action. But the action that he took when

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's one of the I think things that people

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Speaker 2: And I'd tell you what and thank you very much

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Speaker 5: Don you know, we've looked at this, and we've been

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Speaker 5: Accountability in Student You mentioned Clinton Cash, which was an

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Speaker 5: excellent book, and I think a collaborative research effort. I

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Speaker 5: Because if you think about what Don's his point about

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Speaker 5: And I think Hunter and Joe Biden saw what the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the funny thing, you know, the Clintons, Bill

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Speaker 5: And you mentioned the fact that Hunter Biden's payments from

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Speaker 5: Money's going into the Clinton Foundation. Everybody thinks this is

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Speaker 1: Of twenty sixteen, donations down seventy five percent after first.

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Speaker 5: Like the Clinton started doing masterclass stuff to make some

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Speaker 2: They're not paying for any more weddings, They're not paying

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Speaker 5: And only actually we did a podcast on this not

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Speaker 1: No, that's that's exactly right. Well, we've got another caller

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Speaker 6: to you as I drive through Mississippi on my way

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Speaker 6: to beautiful, historic, crime free Memphis, Tennessee to see somebody.

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Speaker 1: Well, stay safe, friend, stay for safe. What's on your mind?

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Speaker 6: Yes, sir, you know I live in Tallahassee, and I

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Speaker 6: understand you're also a Tallahassee resident. You know I went

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Speaker 6: to Florida State, I went to law school, and I'm

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Speaker 6: telling you Democrats have no shing. You're not gonna win

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Speaker 6: with these guys. They're gonna lie, They're gonna play that

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Speaker 6: slick Willie game, define the define a. What you got

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Speaker 6: to do with these guys is you've got to lead

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Speaker 6: them down the primrose lane and get them to confess

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Speaker 6: that they knew that their son was making all this money.

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Speaker 6: Didn't speak Ukrainian, had no idea what natural gas even was,

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Speaker 6: got high the first day in the Navy and had

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Speaker 6: a hot whiz quiz. You got to lead him down

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Speaker 6: this path and say, so, if you're that gullible and

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Speaker 6: ignorant naive, how can you be the president of the

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Speaker 6: United States? You can't. So let's go ahead to a

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Speaker 6: cognitive test and get this out of the way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't have it both ways. I mean the

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Speaker 1: Bidens have tried to have it both ways. When it

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Speaker 1: comes to Joe, you know, he's very close to his son,

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Speaker 1: He's super close. They talk all the time. But he

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Speaker 1: had zero knowledge, or so he said, for several years

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Speaker 1: of any of Hunter Biden's business ventures. They travel together

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Speaker 1: on Air Force two to China, but the subject of

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Speaker 1: business never came up, according to them. Of course, we

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Speaker 1: now know that Hunter introduced him to his business partner there.

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Speaker 1: So they try to on the one hand, say they're

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Speaker 1: very close, but they have no knowledge of anything. On

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Speaker 1: the other hand, they say with Hunter, you know, at

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Speaker 1: first they said no, no, no, he's an astud businessman, that's

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Speaker 1: why he's getting these millions of dollars. Now they've migrated

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Speaker 1: to he's a total drug crazed guy who had no

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Speaker 1: idea what was going on. So they're constantly changing and

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Speaker 1: floating their definitions, and I agree. I mean, look, they're

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Speaker 1: a moving target, but they are not going to confess

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Speaker 1: to these crimes. They have convinced themselves, in my mind,

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Speaker 1: that they are deserving of, let's say, you know, additional

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Speaker 1: funds from quote unquote business ventures, because they deserve it

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Speaker 1: because of all their public service.

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Speaker 5: Well, and if you're them, what incentive would you actually

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Speaker 5: have to tell the truth when they've gotten away with

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Speaker 5: Lyne for so long.

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Speaker 2: Like you talk about.

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Speaker 5: The they're not gullible, they're actually the opposite that they're brazen,

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Speaker 5: and really why shouldn't they be? You heard or at

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Speaker 5: the beginning of this hour, we played the clip of

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Speaker 5: the number of shifting narratives and how the story was

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Speaker 5: at first, I've never talked to mus then about business, No,

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Speaker 5: I can't even spell business. And now it's like, no,

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Speaker 5: I'm not financially involved, but I think the American people

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Speaker 5: know the difference now. But we got to think about this, like,

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Speaker 5: not only had they gotten away with doing these things,

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Speaker 5: not only have they gotten away with pay Hunter Biden

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Speaker 5: money while Joe Biden was Vice president, affecting US policy

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Speaker 5: in a way that I think directly benefit to people

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Speaker 5: that are paying his son, but they've gotten away with

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Speaker 5: keeping that story out of the news. Yes, with help,

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Speaker 5: with help from big tech before the election, that in

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Speaker 5: which they should have been penalized.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So when you can get the DOJ and the FBI

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Speaker 5: to sort of give big Tech and Twitter and FBA

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Speaker 5: and Facebook enough cover to actively suppress that story before

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Speaker 5: it would have made a difference, then why wouldn't you

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Speaker 5: think you could get away with anything else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but here's the thing. I'm always accused of being

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Speaker 1: overly optimistic. Maybe I'm doing it again. It's caught up

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Speaker 1: with them. If you look at the opinion polls now,

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Speaker 1: the Harvard Harris poll, the recent New York Times poll,

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Speaker 1: they all show that more than sixty sixty percent of

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Speaker 1: the American people, which means you're getting independence. You're even

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Speaker 1: getting some Democrats believe that Joe Biden engage in unethical

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Speaker 1: and or a criminal behavior to advance his family's business.

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Speaker 1: That's enormous. Think about it. When we first arded on

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Speaker 1: this in twenty eighteen, when the Hunter Biden laptop came

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Speaker 1: out in twenty twenty and they suppressed that information, nobody

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Speaker 1: knew about it. There were opinion polls then that demonstrated

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Speaker 1: as people learned about it, some Biden voters would have

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Speaker 1: switched their vote some eight percent, which could have made

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Speaker 1: a difference. But we're now not talking about those numbers.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about upwards of sixty percent of people, especially

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Speaker 1: in the swing states where Joe Biden's doing very poorly.

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Speaker 1: One of the big metrics is independence recognized this as

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Speaker 1: a problem. They don't like it. So I want to

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Speaker 1: believe still, whatever our criminal justice system do, I've lost

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Speaker 1: face in that the American people don't like that this

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Speaker 1: is going on, and I think it's going to hurt

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden if he is on the bout November twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four.

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Speaker 5: Well, absolutely think you're correct, and we know from the

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Speaker 5: New York Times poll that came out a month ago

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Speaker 5: in which it showed Donald Trump was leading these five

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Speaker 5: key swing states. And I think that's one of the

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Speaker 5: reasons why you start to see people saying, oh, should

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Speaker 5: we swap out Joe Biden with Gavin Newsom because we

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Speaker 5: need somebody that can beat the bad form of press.

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Speaker 5: But remember that one of those cross tabs, they said,

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Speaker 5: what do you believe Joe Biden personally profited off of

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Speaker 5: Hunter Biden's business dealings? And in the five states that

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Speaker 5: they surveyed, the four states that Donald Trump was leading in,

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Speaker 5: you had a double digit difference in terms of more

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Speaker 5: people believing that Joe Biden had personally profited than hadn't.

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Speaker 5: And so I do think that actually is a testament

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Speaker 5: to the work that we've done at the Government Accountabilding Institute,

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Speaker 5: the reporting that's been done on this program with Sean

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Speaker 5: Handen elsewhere. Because there's been a media blackout on this thing.

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Speaker 5: No one wanted to talk about this, and it's only

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Speaker 5: because people that are listening to this program don't just

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Speaker 5: let big tech and big news tell them what's true.

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Speaker 5: They actually go out and find the information for themselves.

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Speaker 5: And that's why a story that nobody wanted to touch

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Speaker 5: has actually reached mainstream saturation in such a way that

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Speaker 5: I think actually will make a political difference next year.

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Speaker 1: I think it will exactly. And look at the damage

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Speaker 1: that the mainstream media has done to themselves by essentially

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Speaker 1: covering up this story. In twenty eighteen, when I wrote Secret,

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Speaker 1: I actually had lunch with a well known reporter at

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Speaker 1: the New York Times who covers these types of topics,

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Speaker 1: was very interested in my revelations about Mitch McConnell in

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Speaker 1: Secret Empires. By the way, an opinion poll out today

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Speaker 1: Fox News reporting Mitch McConnell's approval rating is six percent.

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Speaker 1: That's the single digit six. But the New York Times

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Speaker 1: reporter was interested in the Mitch McConnell's ties to China,

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Speaker 1: and I said, well, what about the stuff involving the Bidens.

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Speaker 1: This is in early twenty eighteen, and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: if Joe Biden runs for president, we will be all

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Speaker 1: over that story. No, they were all over smothering that story.

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Speaker 1: And readers don't like the fact that they end up

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Speaker 1: looking and feeling ignorant when they read your publication. And

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be all the news that's fit to print,

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Speaker 1: and you don't print the news because it doesn't fit

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Speaker 1: your agenda. So this is going to have a real

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Speaker 1: long damaging effects on the mainstream media. People realize they

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Speaker 1: cannot trust them to give them the stories that are

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Speaker 1: important to their future.

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Speaker 5: We did a Doctor Henry also in twenty eighteen called

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Speaker 5: the Creepy Line. You're featured primarily on camera. I was

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Speaker 5: a producer for it, and one of the things we

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Speaker 5: talked about, and we had people that monitor big tech

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Speaker 5: is you don't know what the big tech companies don't

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Speaker 5: show you.

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Speaker 2: It's a sort of soft censorship.

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Speaker 5: And I think not only have Twitter and Facebook participate

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Speaker 5: in that, but obviously so have mainstream media companies as well,

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Speaker 5: and they've kept this story from the American people. So

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Speaker 5: thank goodness that the story has gotten out there. And

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Speaker 5: that's honestly one of the reasons why Peter and I

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Speaker 5: do the podcast we do each and every week at

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Speaker 5: the drill Down dot Com is so stories that no

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Speaker 5: one else will cover that matter to you and matter

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Speaker 5: to the country are able to be reported on. And

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Speaker 5: that's one of the things that we're continuing to do

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Speaker 5: and one of the things we're doing tonight on this program.

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Speaker 5: So we have a few more minutes to talk to you.

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Speaker 5: If you want to give us a call. It's twenty

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Speaker 5: one hundred and nine four one seven three two six.

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Speaker 5: He's Peter Schweizer, I'm Eric Eggers. We are the host

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Speaker 5: of the Drill Down podcast filling in for Sean Handy tonight.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. This is Peter

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Speaker 1: Schweizer with Eric Eggers. We have had a blast filling

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Speaker 1: in for Sean. We thank you to him very much

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Speaker 1: for giving up the microphone to us. We thank you

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Speaker 1: Linda and the team for being the adult supervision. And Eric,

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Speaker 1: my friend, I thank you for sitting here and doing

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Speaker 1: this with me. It's it's just been a lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: Is the fact that we've been able to host this

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Speaker 5: program for the third year in a row an indictment

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Speaker 5: of just what's wrong with Joe Biden's America? Or is

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Speaker 5: it the glimmer of hope for the fact that you

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Speaker 5: know our best day is still to come. We can

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Speaker 5: still be that shining city on a hill that I

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Speaker 5: would know who said that, But I went to a

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Speaker 5: liberal education at.

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Speaker 2: You know, university, so I have no idea. I think

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Speaker 2: it was MAO, that's right.

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Speaker 1: It is. It is a really troumping time and a

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Speaker 1: lot of respects, but it's Christmas and it's Hanukah, and

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Speaker 1: it's a time of celebration, a time of family. We

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Speaker 1: don't want to lose sight of that. Politics the future

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Speaker 1: of our country is tied with who are our leaders.

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Speaker 1: But let's always remember there's a higher power and we've

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Speaker 1: got family, hopefully that's around us, or friends that we

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Speaker 1: can love and cling to and try to take away

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Speaker 1: some of the pain of what you see happening around us.

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Speaker 5: Unfortunately, you and we spend a decent amount of time

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Speaker 5: talking about the DEI initiatives that are happening at these universities,

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Speaker 5: and I think what they with Richard Corker and the

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Speaker 5: president of New College and Scott Walker with Yaff didn't

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Speaker 5: talk about is the real pain that people feel this

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Speaker 5: time of year with all the diversity, education inclusion that's

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Speaker 5: happening in America's schools. And it's that the Christmas pageants

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Speaker 5: are way longer now, because I'm serious, you have so

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Speaker 5: many other songs that you've been to one you feel

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Speaker 5: my pain in America.

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Speaker 2: It's like, wait, we got a song for that. I've

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Speaker 2: never even heard of that celebration.

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Speaker 5: It's extending by dang night for fifteen more minutes, so

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Speaker 5: we can go through every cultural tradition that exists. That's

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Speaker 5: the real problem with Joe Biden's America, right The Christmas

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Speaker 5: pageants are way longer because they're not actually Christmas pageants anymore.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Then you've got the wonderful, incredible dance video that the

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Speaker 1: Biden White House put out. Hopefully that wasn't part of

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Speaker 1: the Christmas pageant you went to at your kids' school.

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Speaker 2: Not at the elementary school. Maybe for middle.

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Speaker 1: School, maybe from middle school, maybe in the elementary school

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Speaker 1: in a couple of years. But wishing everybody a merry Christmas. Eric,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for doing this. And I guess

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Speaker 1: you know, the final thought is things are going to

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Speaker 1: be okay if we fight for what we believe in

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Speaker 1: and we fight for truth. That's kind of the optimistic

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Speaker 1: note that we've tried to weave through all of this.

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Speaker 1: I know that's your spirit. You have a great sense

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Speaker 1: of humor, but you also have a real passion. You've

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Speaker 1: got wonderful children. You concerned about their future. You want

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Speaker 1: them to have the kind of childhood that you had,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll win and that will happen.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that there is one takeaway from the

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Speaker 5: three years that we've been doing this program. I think

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Speaker 5: the penetration of the reporting that you've done, that we've

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Speaker 5: done at the government kind of bill Institute, I think

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Speaker 5: it's obviously moving the needle. And so I think that's

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Speaker 5: one of the reasons why I like the top story

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Speaker 5: in the news today is they're talking about changing out

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Speaker 5: Joe Biden because he's that vulnerable.

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Speaker 2: His corruption is being reported.

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Speaker 5: People are paying attention, and that's the America that we know,

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Speaker 5: the America where truth and honesty still matter.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, find our podcast please the drill down dot com.

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Speaker 1: We'd love for you to listen and give us feedback. Again,

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Speaker 1: thank you for spending time with us before Christmas. Merry

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Speaker 1: Christmas and Happy Honuicah to everybody out there.

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Speaker 3: Thank you,