Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with
Speaker 2: you as well, and we have got a lot to
Speaker 2: talk about, including a new Speaker of the House, plus
Speaker 2: breaking news that Hamas fighters were trained in Iran. What
Speaker 2: will America's response be to that? And also new information
Speaker 2: coming out from the FBI that apparently they received criminal
Speaker 2: information from over forty I'm going to say that again,
Speaker 2: over forty confidential sources on Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and
Speaker 2: James Biden.
Speaker 1: We're going to deal with all of that.
Speaker 2: But first, Senator, let's talk about who is the new speaker.
Speaker 1: A lot of people had never heard his name before.
Speaker 2: This is someone that came after weeks of debate and
Speaker 2: different bigger names that you knew. This seems to be
Speaker 2: a really good, staunch, hardcore conservative, principled individual.
Speaker 1: You know him personally, so I do.
Speaker 3: Mike Johnson is a good man, and I think he's
Speaker 3: going to make an effective Speaker of the House. I
Speaker 3: think this is a very good development. Mike is from Louisiana.
Speaker 3: He's a member of the House. Obviously, he's fifty one
Speaker 3: years old. He's relatively young, he is smart, he's a
Speaker 3: constitutional lawyer. So his career before he was in Congress,
Speaker 3: he was in the state legislature. But before that he
Speaker 3: was a constitutional lawyer and he worked with the Alliance
Speaker 3: Defending Freedom. Now, the Alliance Defending Freedom is a group
Speaker 3: that I know very very well. They focus principally on
Speaker 3: religious liberty, and they litigate cases all over the country,
Speaker 3: including at the US Supreme Court in defense of religious liberty.
Speaker 3: And Mike worked for ADF ADL for years and did
Speaker 3: a terrific job. Mike now is, or had been, prior
Speaker 3: to being elected Speaker, was the ranking member on the
Speaker 3: Constitution so Committee of the House Judiciary Committee. Now at
Speaker 3: the same time, I'm the ranking member on the Constitutions
Speaker 3: Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. So we have the
Speaker 3: same roles in our respective houses. Now Mike was also
Speaker 3: he was a conservative talk radio host in Louisiana. He
Speaker 3: also in the House, he served as chair of the
Speaker 3: Republican Study Committee, which is a large group of the
Speaker 3: more conservative House members, and until he was elected Speaker,
Speaker 3: he was vice chair of the House Republican Conference. Mike
Speaker 3: is someone who is a conservative. He's an evangelical Christian,
Speaker 3: He's a Southern Baptist. But he's also someone who gets
Speaker 3: along with everyone, whose personality he is not. He's not
Speaker 3: someone who gets in people's faces. He's not someone who
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, Look, we had an
Speaker 3: enormous battle where Kevin mc carthy was toppled that caused
Speaker 3: lots of really rough and hurt feelings. Then we had
Speaker 3: a whole battle where Steve Scalise made a run at
Speaker 3: being Speaker. Steve who's also from Louisiana. It's interesting that
Speaker 3: you're going to have likely the top two Republicans in
Speaker 3: the House both from Louisiana. And Steve is a good guy.
Speaker 3: Steve is a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: I like Steve. Steve came up short.
Speaker 3: A different group of House members voted against Steve than
Speaker 3: voted against Kevin. Then you had the run for Jim Jordan,
Speaker 3: and Jim was the one person that I publicly endorsed,
Speaker 3: and in that then I made an exception. So in
Speaker 3: eleven years in the Senate, I've always stayed out of
Speaker 3: House leadership battles. I figured we got enough fights in
Speaker 3: the Senate, why get in the middle of fights there.
Speaker 3: I made an exception for Jim because Jim is someone
Speaker 3: I've worked together very very closely. He's a strong conservative leader,
Speaker 3: and I enthusiastically endorsed Jim. By the way, Mike Johnson
Speaker 3: also enthusiastically endorsed Jim. Jim made a run at it,
Speaker 3: and at the end of the day he couldn't get
Speaker 3: the votes. There were a group of Republicans, mostly moderates,
Speaker 3: who kept voting no, who said no to Jim Jordan,
Speaker 3: and then finally it ended up after a few more rounds,
Speaker 3: it ended up with Mike Johnson. Mike, look, I think
Speaker 3: this is a very positive development. I can tell you
Speaker 3: Mike and I over the past couple of years, he
Speaker 3: and I have together led multiple amicus briefs at the
Speaker 3: US Supreme Court, where he was the House lead, I was.
Speaker 1: The Senate lead.
Speaker 3: Mike and I together led an amicus brief in the
Speaker 3: case of Groth versus de Joy, which was a big
Speaker 3: victory we talked about on this podcast, where the Supreme
Speaker 3: Court upheld religious liberty, in particular with a Post Office
Speaker 3: employee who wanted to observe the Sabbath and the Post
Speaker 3: Office said no, you can't, and the Supreme Court six '
Speaker 3: three ruled in his favor and protected his religious liberty.
Speaker 3: Mike and I teamed up for the amicus winning that,
Speaker 3: and then Mike and I also teamed up in an
Speaker 3: amicust together on on Gonzales versus Google, which is a
Speaker 3: case where we were urging the Course Court to take
Speaker 3: on big tech censorship and to defend free speech. And
Speaker 3: so I think Mike's job is not going to be
Speaker 3: easy being Speaker of the House with this incredibly narrow
Speaker 3: majority just four Republicans. If any five Republicans go run
Speaker 3: for the hills, you're in trouble. It is an unbelievably
Speaker 3: difficult job. But I'm confident in Mike, and I'm optimistic,
Speaker 3: and I've already reached out to him and said, hey, congrats.
Speaker 3: I said, it is a big friggin deal, and I
Speaker 3: look forward to you and me working together because we
Speaker 3: got a lot to do delivery on our promises for
Speaker 3: the American people.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the things I think is so
Speaker 2: cool about him is his mentor is actually Jim Jordan.
Speaker 2: He also served as legal defense for Trump during both impeachment.
Speaker 2: He voted against all Ukraine spending after the initial bill,
Speaker 2: and he also I think this is really cool.
Speaker 1: He clearly cares about his faith.
Speaker 2: He was very open about that as he took that
Speaker 2: gabbl and also was seen praying beforehand during that vote.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that I.
Speaker 2: Don't guess really he had an ambition to be the
Speaker 2: speaker per se. It was more like, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: going to serve if you want me to serve. And
Speaker 2: and everybody got behind him. He got every Republican except
Speaker 2: for one that didn't vote. This is pretty awesome, I
Speaker 2: think for a happy ending to a tough three weeks overall.
Speaker 1: You know it is.
Speaker 3: And I'm reminded of one of my kind of key
Speaker 3: political advisers right when the battle over over Jordan was happening,
Speaker 3: and I was asking, what do you think do you
Speaker 3: think Jim can pull it out? And as I said,
Speaker 3: I was publicly endorsing him, and and this this member
Speaker 3: of my team said, I think the next guy who
Speaker 3: gets nominated will become speaker. And there was some wisdom
Speaker 3: to that that that you had, you had hurt feelings
Speaker 3: the battle over McCarthy it was rough, and people's feelings
Speaker 3: were hurt and they were angry. And then the battle
Speaker 3: over Scalise, and that was rough and people's feelings were hurt,
Speaker 3: and then they were angry. And then in the middle
Speaker 3: of the battle over Jim where a lot of people
Speaker 3: were engaged again, it was rough, and I think Mike
Speaker 3: had the advantage of coming next. There was a moment
Speaker 3: with Tom Emmer, but Trump came out hard against him,
Speaker 3: and I think that torpedoed his run, and then Mike
Speaker 3: was seen as a consensus choice. He's a conservative, so
Speaker 3: conservatives were willing to support him, but yet his temperament
Speaker 3: is mild mannered enough that the moderates were not scared
Speaker 3: of him. Now, this is not going to be an
Speaker 3: easy job. I do not envy him the choices because
Speaker 3: he's going to be to say, hurting cats is a
Speaker 3: massive understatement to the job he has to do. So
Speaker 3: I'm sympathetic to how difficult it is. But i think
Speaker 3: he's a good and capable man, and I'm proud of
Speaker 3: him going forward because Lord knows, our country is in
Speaker 3: crisis and we need strong conservative leadership in the House.
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Speaker 2: we tease at the beginning, and one of them is
Speaker 2: one that I'm not shocked by. You and I have
Speaker 2: talked about this, uh, the relationship between terrorist organizations Samas
Speaker 2: and Hesbalah in Iran. We know that Iran was involved
Speaker 2: in giving safe haven during and after nine to eleven
Speaker 2: when we were fighting in Afghanistan and fighting in Iraq.
Speaker 2: And now this new report is out that the Hamas
Speaker 2: fighters that did this attack on Israel trained in Iran.
Speaker 2: And this is this is something I guess you'd say,
Speaker 2: have a massive bombshell that this happened. And what does
Speaker 2: this mean for our response to it as a country
Speaker 2: when they trained there against one of our biggest allies
Speaker 2: in the Middle East.
Speaker 3: Well, the Wall Street Journal has broken this story, and
Speaker 3: it's a bombshell. The journal reported quote in the weeks
Speaker 3: leading up to Hamas's October seventh attacks on Israel, hundreds
Speaker 3: of the Palestinian Islamist Militant Groups fighters received specialized combat
Speaker 3: training in Iran, According to people familiar with the intelligence
Speaker 3: related to the assault, Roughly five hundred militants from Hamas
Speaker 3: and an allied group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, participated in the
Speaker 3: exercises in September now it's October right now. Septembers last month,
Speaker 3: which were led by officers of the Kuds Force, the
Speaker 3: Foreign operation arm of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Palace.
Speaker 3: Stanian officials and Iranian Brigadier General Smil Kwani, the head
Speaker 3: of the quad's Kuds Force, also attended. Now, this is
Speaker 3: a huge damn deal. We've talked about before, how the
Speaker 3: journal has reported that Iran planned this attack, they funded
Speaker 3: this attack, they directed this attack. And by the way,
Speaker 3: the Biden administration has been furiously spinning against this. They
Speaker 3: had been saying, no, no, there's no evidence Iran was involved.
Speaker 3: This was not Iran, This was not Iran. This is
Speaker 3: not Iran. And you can understand why, because these idiots
Speaker 3: have flowed nearly one hundred billion dollars into Iran and
Speaker 3: so they are desperate to say Iran is not involved.
Speaker 3: I got to say, even though I was not surprised
Speaker 3: that Iran had planned and directed this, the fact that
Speaker 3: five hundred plus of the Hamas death squad. Terrorists trained
Speaker 3: in Iran last month. You know what that means. That
Speaker 3: training was effectively paid for by Joe Biden. So Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: the Democrats who have been the Iran appeasement squad for
Speaker 3: two and a half years, they can take credit. We
Speaker 3: trained the mass murderers who killed over fourteen hundred Israelis,
Speaker 3: who killed thirty one Americans, who raped women and young girls.
Speaker 1: Connect those dots, by the way, because you know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen.
Speaker 2: Some psycho fact checker is going to sit here and go, oh,
Speaker 2: I can't believe that center Ted Cruz said this. Let's
Speaker 2: connect those dots. So people truly understand why you're saying this.
Speaker 3: Okay, So, assuming the journal reporting is accurate, I have
Speaker 3: no reason to doubt that it is over five hundred
Speaker 3: of the terrorists who committed these acts of mass murder
Speaker 3: trained physically in Iran by the CUDS forces just last month.
Speaker 3: That's the training of a military invasion. That that is
Speaker 3: preparing people to commit the greatest act of mass murder
Speaker 3: against Jews in a single day since the Holocaust. Iran
Speaker 3: train them. Now, We've discussed on this podcast at great
Speaker 3: length nearly one hundred billion dollars has flown. It flowed
Speaker 3: into Iran from Joe Biden the Democrats, six billion in
Speaker 3: the ransom for five American hostages, ten billion from Iraq
Speaker 3: that they flowed several weeks earlier, and over eighty billion
Speaker 3: because Joe Biden the Democrats refused to enforce oil sanctions,
Speaker 3: and they're allowing Iran even today to be selling two
Speaker 3: million barrels a day of oil, mostly to communist China.
Speaker 3: That money, what do you think it went to? Listen,
Speaker 3: I'm going to start with two really damn simple principles.
Speaker 3: Stop giving money to terrorists who want to murder us,
Speaker 3: number one, Amen, And number two, stop letting into this
Speaker 3: country terrorists who want to murder us. This combination is horrible.
Speaker 3: They're flooding cash to psychopaths who want to kill us
Speaker 3: and who want to kill Israelis, and they're letting them
Speaker 3: into this country, and they are inviting something really, really bad.
Speaker 3: Ben And what, by the way, is the Biden administration's
Speaker 3: answer to this? Immediately after this terror attach, what do
Speaker 3: they say, We want to send another hundred million of
Speaker 3: gaza Because it's worked so well sending money to terrorists,
Speaker 3: Let's send them some more money, because surely they won't
Speaker 3: use this more money to kill yet more Israelis and
Speaker 3: more Americans.
Speaker 1: It is insanity.
Speaker 2: I have to ask you another question about the intelligence
Speaker 2: breakdown here. We spend a lot of money center on intelligence.
Speaker 2: Obviously Israel does as well. I have a concern that
Speaker 2: everyone seemed to miss five hundred people training in Iran
Speaker 2: for this type of invasion. But what concerns me even
Speaker 2: more is if we missed this, and if the best
Speaker 2: intelligence services in the world missed it, combined Israel in
Speaker 2: the US, what could we be missing when it comes
Speaker 2: to Iran getting a nuclear weapon. That's the reason why
Speaker 2: I'm asking the question.
Speaker 1: It's a very good question.
Speaker 3: Or for that matter, what could we be missing about, say,
Speaker 3: Iran training five hundred terrorists in Mexico to invade our
Speaker 3: southern border and carry out a mass murder just like
Speaker 3: the kind they carried out in Israel. Look, that's a
Speaker 3: question that's horrifying to ask. But we have seen the
Speaker 3: Iatola chance death to America, and it is a strange thing.
Speaker 3: Today's Democrats don't seem to want to believe him when
Speaker 3: he says that. I believe him. I believe if he
Speaker 3: could murder a thousand Americans tomorrow, he would. If he
Speaker 3: could murder ten thousand Americans tomorrow, he would. If he
Speaker 3: could murder a million Americans tomorrow, he would. If he
Speaker 3: could murder one hundred million Americans tomorrow, he would. And
Speaker 3: what is particularly terrifying. Look, we've seen mass murdering despots before,
Speaker 3: but it is relatively rare to see a mass murdering
Speaker 3: despot who is driven by a theocratic urge, a theocratic
Speaker 3: urge that celebrates death and suicide. And so listen, if
Speaker 3: Iran launched a massive terror attack in the United States,
Speaker 3: even a commander in chief as utterly weak and impotent
Speaker 3: as Joe Biden would be forced to respond, and presumably
Speaker 3: many Iranians would die. The problem is the Iyatola, I think,
Speaker 3: might be perfectly happy to let many Iranians die if
Speaker 3: he could murder Americans and he could murder Jews. That's
Speaker 3: when you have a theocratic radicalism. Ordinary cost benefit analysis
Speaker 3: doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Senat I also got to ask you about our focus,
Speaker 2: and I'm talking about specifically the priorities of the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: We have spent a hell of a lot of time
Speaker 2: or this administration has focusing on quotas and Kumbayaya and
Speaker 2: having men that dress like women, being military and all
Speaker 2: these you know, key roles. We've seen them be obsessed
Speaker 2: with going after anyone that was in around the Capitol.
Speaker 2: On January sixth, there was a video that came out
Speaker 2: of a guy's home being rated that didn't even go
Speaker 2: into the capital. And this has been going on now
Speaker 2: for a couple of years. Is my concern is, and
Speaker 2: I want to know if it's your concern, is that
Speaker 2: they're not focusing on the right issue here and they
Speaker 2: have all of these these people they've weaponized for political purposes,
Speaker 2: staring down at Americans instead of looking at terrorist activities,
Speaker 2: whether it be here or around the world.
Speaker 3: Look, unfortunately, you're exactly right, Joe Biden. The Democrats are
Speaker 3: fundamentally unseerious about national security, about protecting America from the
Speaker 3: very real enemies we have. You know, if you look
Speaker 3: back at this Wall Street Journal reporting on what happened here,
Speaker 3: I want to read you some more details.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 3: Hamas attackers used aerial drones to disable Israeli observation posts
Speaker 3: and high tech surveillance equipment. Some used paragliders to fly
Speaker 3: into Israel. Others rode on motorcycles commonly used by Iranian
Speaker 3: paramilitary groups, but not by Hamas until October seventh. US
Speaker 3: officials said Iran has regularly trade militants in Iran and elsewhere,
Speaker 3: but they have no indications of a mass training right
Speaker 3: before the attack. US officials and the people familiar with
Speaker 3: the intelligence said they have no information to suggest Iran
Speaker 3: conducted training specifically to prepare for the events of October seventh.
Speaker 3: On Wednesday, Israel's military offered some of its most blunt
Speaker 3: comments yet on Iran's role in aiding Hamas and other
Speaker 3: militant groups.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 3: Before the war, Iran directly assisted Hamas with money, training
Speaker 3: and weapons and technological know how, said Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari,
Speaker 3: the military's chief spokesman. Even now, Iran is helping Hamas
Speaker 3: with intelligence, and while this is going on.
Speaker 1: Can you say that again?
Speaker 2: Even now, let's go back to that, because that's a
Speaker 2: really important point that people need to make sure they understands.
Speaker 2: The White House has been running away from this fact
Speaker 2: you just said even now, as Iran is helping Maas right.
Speaker 3: Now with intelligence. That's the quote from Israel's chief military spokesman.
Speaker 3: Even now Iran is helping Amas with intelligence, and even now,
Speaker 3: Joe Biden, the Democrats are still not enforcing oil sanctions,
Speaker 3: so they're allowing Iran to sell two million barrels of
Speaker 3: oil a day, and they're using that money to fund
Speaker 3: their military, to fund their intelligence, to fund their terrorism,
Speaker 3: to fund Jamas, to fund Hesbela, to fund terrorists that
Speaker 3: are trying to murder former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,
Speaker 3: that are trying to murder former National Security Advisor John Bolton,
Speaker 3: that are trying to murder former Assistant Secretary of State
Speaker 3: Brian Hook. All of this is being funded by money
Speaker 3: the Democrats are allowing to flood in. And that doesn't
Speaker 3: even begin to touch the security threat from our southern border.
Speaker 3: Democrats treat national security as political pr Everything is about politics.
Speaker 3: Look go back to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Joe
Speaker 3: Biden and the Apparatricks in the White House decided we
Speaker 3: want to pull out of Afghanistan by September eleventh. Why
Speaker 3: because we want to hold a big press conference and say, see,
Speaker 3: on the anniversary of nine eleven, we're out of Afghanistan. Now,
Speaker 3: the military said, well, hold on a second, we need
Speaker 3: sufficient forces there to evacuate people safely. We don't want
Speaker 3: our soldiers to die, we don't want Americans to die,
Speaker 3: we don't want the Afghans who assisted us to die.
Speaker 3: And the White House said, nope, tough luck, get out.
Speaker 3: We got a political deadline to happen, and so we
Speaker 3: abandoned Bagram Airfield. We ended up doing the evacuation through
Speaker 3: Kabo International Airport, a commercial airport in a dense urban environment,
Speaker 3: and thirteen servicemen and women were murdered as a result
Speaker 3: of it. It's the same approach. It's a cavalier approach
Speaker 3: that it's all about politics rather than a seriousness. Listen,
Speaker 3: we know tomorrow and the next day and the next
Speaker 3: day Israelis are going to be murdered by Hamas. And
Speaker 3: what is Joe Biden proposing. Let's send another hundred million
Speaker 3: to Gaza. Gaza is controlled by Hamas. Let's send them
Speaker 3: on another one hundred million, because that's clearly what the
Speaker 3: terrorists who are at war with Israel need is more money.
Speaker 3: And I pray to God that the attack doesn't come
Speaker 3: here at home, but I believe every day the responsibility
Speaker 3: lies on the head of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and
Speaker 3: Merrick Garland and Chris Ray and this entire administration that
Speaker 3: is too busy focusing on their own political agendas rather
Speaker 3: than defending the American people.
Speaker 2: Final question on this, before we get to the Biden
Speaker 2: crime family and the shocking news of FBI informants. Does
Speaker 2: America have an obligation if everything that the Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal is saying comes out to be one hundred percent faction.
Speaker 1: We have no reason ive it's not.
Speaker 2: But does the United States American does Joe Biden's administration
Speaker 2: have an obligation to respond to Iran militarily if this
Speaker 2: is all in fact solid.
Speaker 3: Well, in addition to everything we've been discussing, Iran has
Speaker 3: been regularly attacking and AMAS has been regularly attacking American
Speaker 3: military targets. We have seen multiple servicemen and women, American
Speaker 3: servicemen and women injured, and to date, the Biden administration
Speaker 3: has done not a damn thing.
Speaker 1: And let's explain this more. This is over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. People.
Speaker 2: Yes, this has not been covered by the news, so
Speaker 2: we probably need to explain this real quick. American military
Speaker 2: targets have been being hit in the Middle East, particularly
Speaker 2: in Iras, is particularly Iraq over the last couple of
Speaker 2: weeks since this attack on Israel happened.
Speaker 3: And multiple servicemen and women American servicemen and women have
Speaker 3: been injured, and Joe Biden hadn't said anything about it,
Speaker 3: hadn't done anything about it. Look, these guys still want
Speaker 3: a grand Iran nuclear deal and so they're terrified to
Speaker 3: actually criticize Iran that they've gotten up to saying Hamas
Speaker 3: is bad. All it took was then murdering fourteen hundred
Speaker 3: Israelis than thirty one Americans for them to say Hamas
Speaker 3: is bad. But the people who funded it, who trained it,
Speaker 3: who brought them to Iran, who gave the training sessions,
Speaker 3: who taught them how to do this, this administration still
Speaker 3: won't take them on. It is insanity.
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Speaker 2: and that is this Fox News report that has come
Speaker 2: out saying, quote, the FBI maintained more than forty confidential
Speaker 2: human sources on various criminal matters related to the Biden family,
Speaker 2: including President Joe Biden, dating back to his time as
Speaker 2: the Vice president, according to information obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley,
Speaker 2: You've got a lot more on this, and I want
Speaker 2: you to take it from there.
Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. The evidence against Joe Biden and
Speaker 3: the Biden crime family has extended for a long time.
Speaker 3: According to the Fox News reporting, the confidential human sources
Speaker 3: providing criminal information to the FBI relating to Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: James Biden, and Hunter Biden. Those confidential human sources were
Speaker 3: managed by multiple FBI field offices across the nation, including
Speaker 3: the FBI's Seattle Field office. But and this is something
Speaker 3: also that my colleague Chuck Grassley has learned and reported,
Speaker 3: an FBI task force within the Washington Field Office sought
Speaker 3: to and in some cases successfully shut down reporting and
Speaker 3: information from those sources by falsely discrediting the information as
Speaker 3: foreign disinformation. That effort caused investigative activities to cease. So understand,
Speaker 3: they're getting confidential human source after confidential human source after
Speaker 3: confidential human source saying these guys are crooks, these guys
Speaker 3: are selling favors from Joe Biden to foreign nationals, to
Speaker 3: foreign oligarchs, to corrupt Ukrainians, to corrupt Russians, to corrupt Chinese,
Speaker 3: to foreigners. And the response of the top brass that
Speaker 3: the FBI is no, no, we don't want that, shut
Speaker 3: it down, don't talk about this. This is foreign disinformation.
Speaker 3: The disinformation was coming all right, but sadly it was
Speaker 3: from the FBI.
Speaker 2: And center, your colleague Grassley alleges, in essence, look, the
Speaker 2: FBI and the DOJ were in essence part of a
Speaker 2: cover up here. They sought to shut down the investigations
Speaker 2: into the Biden while knowing that the FBI received this
Speaker 2: criminal information from over forty confidential sources. Now, to be clear,
Speaker 2: forty sources center is a hell of a lot of
Speaker 2: confidential sources. When you're talking about people that are telling
Speaker 2: you about a legal activity, they believe they're witnessing on
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden, on James Biden, on Joe Biden, and then
Speaker 2: they're like, hey, yeah, we know about this, we just
Speaker 2: want to shut it down.
Speaker 1: That's not normal.
Speaker 3: So that's exactly right. The only thing that I disagree
Speaker 3: with you is you said that Grassley alleged this is
Speaker 3: in essence a cover up. No, he didn't say in
Speaker 3: essence a cover up. He alleged it was flat out
Speaker 3: a cover up. Let me quote from Chuck Grassley quote.
Speaker 3: Based on the information provided to my office over a
Speaker 3: period of years by multiple credible whistleblowers, there appears to
Speaker 3: be an effort within the Justice Department and FBI to
Speaker 3: shut down investigative activity related to the Biden family. Such
Speaker 3: decisions point to a significant political bias infecting the decision
Speaker 3: making of not only the Attorney General and FBI director,
Speaker 3: but also line agents and prosecutors. And I got to
Speaker 3: say the politicization of the FBI, particularly under Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: and the politicization of DOJ is one of the worst
Speaker 3: and most damaging legacies of this administration.
Speaker 2: Put your lawyer hat on for a second. Explain this
Speaker 2: terminology used. It says the confidential human sources quote provided
Speaker 2: criminal information to the FBI relating to Joe Biden, James Biden,
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden. Those confidential human sources were managed by multiple
Speaker 2: FBI field offices across the nation, including the FBI's Seattle
Speaker 2: Field office. So when they use words like providing criminal information,
Speaker 2: what does that mean?
Speaker 3: That means you've got individuals informants who are coming forward saying, hey,
Speaker 3: I have an evidence of a crime, evidence of a
Speaker 3: crime committed by Joe Biden or Hunter Biden or James Biden. Now,
Speaker 3: some of them may not have been telling the truth,
Speaker 3: some of them may not have been pointing to actual crimes.
Speaker 3: But when you have forty different sources coming up saying
Speaker 3: I've got evidence of a crime, that's unusual.
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: You know, ordinary public servants don't live a life where
Speaker 3: you have forty people coming forward saying hey, I've got
Speaker 3: evidence of a crime. And by the way, they're millions
Speaker 3: of dollars flooding into them from communist China and Ukraine
Speaker 3: and Russia and everywhere else like that is not typical. Look,
Speaker 3: I serve in the United States Senate, my colleagues are
Speaker 3: not getting millions of dollars from communist China or Russia
Speaker 3: or Ukraine. That is exceedingly unusual. And to have forty
Speaker 3: different sources coming forward, a normal law enforcement process would say, Hey,
Speaker 3: this is really concerning, we need to investigate this.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 3: And what Grassley is alleging is that the evidence is
Speaker 3: The FBI Field office in DC shut it down and
Speaker 3: said nope, ixnay on the Idenbay investigation, a like like
Speaker 3: they just did not want to look into crimes committed
Speaker 3: by Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: And I got to say that well, and they also
Speaker 2: use the words they wanted to shut down or they did.
Speaker 2: The Washington Field office in some cases successfully shut down reporting.
Speaker 2: So they were saying, see no evil, hear no evil.
Speaker 2: If you have something that deals with the Biden last name,
Speaker 2: we don't even want you to report it much. Let's
Speaker 2: give us the information that we would receive. We don't
Speaker 2: even want it to come in the door.
Speaker 3: Well, and this is part of this is the consequence
Speaker 3: of the whole Russia, Russia, Russia, nonsense. And we saw
Speaker 3: for years the FBI and DJ wage war on Donald
Speaker 3: Trump alleging Russia, Russia, Russia, and we now know the
Speaker 3: vast majority of that was nonsense. It was made up,
Speaker 3: it was fabricated. Included actually an assistant General counsel at
Speaker 3: the FBI literally fabricating an email, creating a false email
Speaker 3: and submitting it to a federal court, which is a
Speaker 3: felony because they hated Donald Trump so much that they
Speaker 3: wanted to go after him. But the danger of the
Speaker 3: Russia Russia, Russia narrative is when you had the Hunter
Speaker 3: Biden laptop, the FBI could just say, well, this is
Speaker 3: Russia disinformation. Never mind that at this point Hunter Biden's
Speaker 3: lawyers have essentially admitted, yes, it is his laptop. By
Speaker 3: alleging all evidence of criminality as Russian disinformation, they convinced
Speaker 3: law enforcement to ignore what is enormous evidence of corrupt
Speaker 3: conduct by Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: In one of those critical FD ten twenty three's we
Speaker 2: talked extensively on Verdict about was first reported earlier this year.
Speaker 2: It was that form that included the reporting from a
Speaker 2: quote highly credible, confidential human source who alleged a criminal
Speaker 2: bribery scheme between then Vice President Joe Biden, his son
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden, and the founder and the CEO of the
Speaker 2: Ukrainian natural gas firm Barisma, where we know that Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden was on the board. If if that's one example
Speaker 2: of what we were getting from these forty plus informants,
Speaker 2: what other intel do we not have? And is there
Speaker 2: a way to go to the FBI and for you
Speaker 2: guys and sent to even get it.
Speaker 3: Well, we don't know. There should be, but unfortunately, this
Speaker 3: FBI and this DOJ believes that they are not accountable
Speaker 3: to the United States Congress. They're not accountable to the
Speaker 3: American people. So when you ask them, their standard answer
Speaker 3: is piss off, go jump in a lake. We will
Speaker 3: not answer your questions. And there's an arrogance, there's a contempt.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 3: We had and we talked about this in a previous
Speaker 3: pod a deputy director of the FBI, where I was
Speaker 3: questioning him and as I asked questions, he said, well,
Speaker 3: I don't want to answer that. He said. I asked,
Speaker 3: why not, because I don't want to?
Speaker 1: Like, who the hell?
Speaker 3: What do you mean? You don't want to that. This
Speaker 3: is not just a chat at a coffeehouse. Dammit, You're
Speaker 3: giving testimony in front of the Judiciary Committee of the
Speaker 3: United States Senate, and you have an obligation. You're giving
Speaker 3: testimony on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But
Speaker 3: there is a hubris on the part of these individuals,
Speaker 3: these partisans who are at the senior career positions that.
Speaker 1: They believe how dare you question.
Speaker 3: What we're doing? And I got to say, look, I'm
Speaker 3: an alumnus of DJ I respect and revere the institution
Speaker 3: and they have corrupted it to a point that it
Speaker 3: is heartbreaking, and it is dangerous for the rule of law,
Speaker 3: and it's dangerous for liberty in the United States.
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Speaker 2: Last question for you, next time the Attorney General Merrick
Speaker 2: Garland comes before Congress, what question should he be asked
Speaker 2: about this.
Speaker 1: A lot.
Speaker 3: But I will say, even to our beloved listeners at Verdict,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to give a preview of the questions
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask. Well, we'll we'll figure that out probably
Speaker 3: the day before and the day that Merrick Garland arrives.
Speaker 3: It will be time sensitive, but it will be driven
Speaker 3: by all of these issues because I view my responsibility. Listen,
Speaker 3: when I'm sitting there, it's not just me asking questions.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm elected to represent thirty million Texans, and
Speaker 3: so I'm trying to do my very best to ask
Speaker 3: questions on behalf of thirty million Texans, to ask questions
Speaker 3: that Texans have a right to know. And sometimes I
Speaker 3: do it well, sometimes I do it less than well.
Speaker 3: That's the blessing and curse of being human. But I'm
Speaker 3: trying to fulfill my responsibility to the people of Texas
Speaker 3: of defending the constitution and.
Speaker 1: The rule of law.
Speaker 3: So you can be assured the next time Merck Garland
Speaker 3: testified in the Senate Judiciary Committee, We're going to be
Speaker 3: talking about it on Verdict afterwards, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: do my very best to ask the questions that thirty
Speaker 3: million Texans want asked.
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