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Speaker 2: Fifty former national intelligence folks who said that what this

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Speaker 2: he's accusing me of is a Russian plant. They have

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Speaker 2: is a bunch of garbage.

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Speaker 3: They displayed naked photos of me during an.

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Speaker 2: Oversight here, and they have taken the light of my

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Speaker 4: The monster's gone, is on and your dad is here

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Speaker 4: and presented it as darkness. They have no shame.

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Speaker 5: I'm extremely proud of my son Hunter. He has overcome

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Speaker 5: an addiction. He is He's one of the brightest, most

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Speaker 5: not gonna do anything I said. I said, I ad

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Speaker 6: I will do that, and I will not pardon you.

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Speaker 3: The President would not pardon or community sens for his

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure that that is not going

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Speaker 4: The President's say it's.

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Speaker 3: Still a no, it's still an it's still a no.

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Speaker 3: It will be a no. It is a no, and

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Speaker 3: I don't have anything else to add. Will he pardon his.

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Speaker 7: Son No, CNN has learned President Biden will pardon his

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Speaker 8: Let me be the first one to congratulate the President

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Speaker 9: I hope that President Biden will also issue preemptive pardons

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Speaker 9: to all of those people threatened by the unjustice of

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Speaker 9: That of course includes Jack Smith and all of his staff,

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Speaker 2: Hunter.

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Speaker 6: Well, you knew he would, and now he has. Joe

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Speaker 6: Biden has pardoned his son Hunter for eleven years worth

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Speaker 6: of crimes, which raises a number of questions that we

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Speaker 6: take your calls. In a bit. One programming note, I

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Speaker 6: I have the best medical care. Doctor Mary Tally Boden

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Speaker 6: So we start with what a presidential pardon is. This

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Speaker 6: than you might imagine. Article one of our Constitution lays

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Speaker 6: And here we are, and he shall have power to

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Speaker 6: except in cases of impeachment. That doesn't cover this case.

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Speaker 6: So does Joe Biden have the actual authority to pardon

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Speaker 6: Now, what that pardon means, what it covers, that's the

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Speaker 6: covering eleven years going back to twenty fourteen, not coincidentally

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Speaker 6: the year that Hunter Biden joined the Barisma board. In

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Speaker 4: To talk about.

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Speaker 4: Against my life.

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Speaker 8: Bringing along bringing a law, breaking the law, breaking the law,

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Speaker 6: The Department of Justice as an office of the Pardon Attorney.

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Speaker 6: Since eighteen ninety three, that office has handled issues of

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Speaker 6: pardons and clemency. A pardon is a greater reprieve than

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Speaker 6: the Pardon Attorney within the Department of Justice. Of course,

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Speaker 6: a lesser reprieve, whereas a full pardon, which is what

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Speaker 6: Hunter Biden has been given, absolves him of those crimes

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Speaker 6: him later. Roger Clinton. On the last day of his presidency,

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Speaker 6: In nineteen ninety two, President H. W. Bush pardoned six

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Speaker 6: It will burn the image of Democrats as cheaters and

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Speaker 6: these are lies. The media knew it. They should be

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Speaker 4: Shout out to base your Hunter to roll up anole

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Speaker 8: He was gonna get his laptop fixed, but Hunter got.

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Speaker 8: He should have let Hilary Bleach hiss a hard job here.

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Speaker 8: He wasn't gonna mess with the hoes, but Hunter got high.

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Speaker 8: He was gonna take him home out on the boat.

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Speaker 8: But he's the smartest man show ever.

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Speaker 4: Knew in his life. Here got Hunter got Hounter go.

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Speaker 8: He was gonna go visit his dead, but Hunter got hid.

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Speaker 8: He thought he had a secret stash, but Hunter guy,

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Speaker 8: the White House got shut down. We all know why

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Speaker 8: your hone, God, Honter, he never could pay the Hunter

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Speaker 4: Now he gets a half a million up. Damn, that's high.

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Speaker 4: But I never used to start, would be you? Why

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Speaker 8: God, Honey hone, Ukraine wasn't part of the plan till

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Speaker 4: Shina wasn't that big of a fan. Till Hunter got

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Speaker 8: Many to Honter, God, to Honter God, Hunter got high.

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Speaker 8: He never been indicted before, but Hunter, God, his attorney's

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Speaker 4: And we all know why your Hunter.

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Speaker 8: Got honor, Honor, He was making eighty g's a month,

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Speaker 4: On a jod brother, I ain't never done. Honor got

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Speaker 4: He got more ll seised than John Gotti's ex y.

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Speaker 4: So damn why.

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Speaker 6: Scott Jennings is one of the bright lights to shine

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Speaker 4: At least here he is.

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Speaker 6: Making the point that an eleven year blanket pardon tells

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Speaker 7: Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case

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Speaker 7: do I want to hear, Oh, Donald Trump's a liar.

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Speaker 7: You can't believe anything he says. Donald Trump will abuse

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Speaker 6: They knew all along that Biden would pardon Hunter. And

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Speaker 6: the numerous things he did that are salacious, that get

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Speaker 6: He became an overnight sensation as an artist. So this

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Speaker 6: have begged for pardons in the past. Remember Lynn Anderson,

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Speaker 6: I beg your pardon.

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Speaker 8: I never promised you a rose garden along.

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Speaker 3: Withy the sunshine. There's gotta feel raised.

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Speaker 8: Sometimes when you take you gotta.

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Speaker 3: Give some heaven a heven go whoa I beg your pardon,