Speaker 1: Hey, guys, ready or not, twenty twenty four is here,
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Speaker 1: But enough with that, let's get to the show. Hello, everybody,
Speaker 1: some stunning breaking news actually just happened. Attorney General Merrick
Speaker 1: Garland has just announced that the US Attorney David Wise,
Speaker 1: who was previously in charge of the Hunter Biden investigation
Speaker 1: and the lead investigator into those crimes, will now be
Speaker 1: given Special Council status. This is a big development. Let's
Speaker 1: take a listen to the full announcement by the Attorney
Speaker 1: General and I'm going to break it down for everyone
Speaker 1: on the other side.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon. I'm here today to announce the appointment of
Speaker 2: David Weiss as a Special Counsel consistent with the Department
Speaker 2: of Justice regulations governing such matters. In keeping with those regulations,
Speaker 2: I have today notified the designated members of each House
Speaker 2: of Congress of the appointment. In February twenty eighteen, after
Speaker 2: being nominated by the former president and confirmed by the Senate,
Speaker 2: mister Weiss was sworn in as the United States Attorney
Speaker 2: for the District of Delaware. Mister Weiss had been a
Speaker 2: career prosecutor, having served previously in the office for more
Speaker 2: than a decade. Beginning in twenty nineteen, mister Weiss, in
Speaker 2: his capacity as US Attorney and along with federal law
Speaker 2: enforcement partners, began investigating allegations of certain criminal conduct by,
Speaker 2: among others, Robert Hunter Biden. That investigation has been recently
Speaker 2: referenced in federal criminal proceedings in the District of Delaware,
Speaker 2: and as noted in those proceedings and other public statements
Speaker 2: by mister Weiss's office, that investigation remains ongoing. In February
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, US Attorney Weiss was asked to remain
Speaker 2: as US Attorney for the District of Delaware and in
Speaker 2: that capacity to continue to lead the investigation. As I
Speaker 2: said before, mister Weiss would be permitted to continue his investigation,
Speaker 2: take any investigative steps he wanted, and make the decision
Speaker 2: whether to prosecute in any district mister Weiss has told
Speaker 2: Congress that he has been granted ultimate authority over this matter,
Speaker 2: including the responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to
Speaker 2: file charges, and for making decisions necessary to preserve the
Speaker 2: integrity of any prosecution consistent with federal law, the principles
Speaker 2: of federal prosecution, and departmental policies. In a July twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three letter to Congress, mister Weiss said that he
Speaker 2: had not to that point requested special counsel designation. On
Speaker 2: Tuesday of this week, mister Weiss advised me that, in
Speaker 2: his judgment, his investigation had reached a stage at which
Speaker 2: he should continue his work as a special counsel, and
Speaker 2: he asked to be so appointed. Upon considering his request,
Speaker 2: as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter,
Speaker 2: I have concluded that it is in the public interest
Speaker 2: to appoint him as special counsel. This appointment confirms my
Speaker 2: commitment to provide mister Weiss all the resources he requests.
Speaker 2: It also reaffirms that mister Weiss has the authority he
Speaker 2: needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to
Speaker 2: take the steps he deems appropriate independently based only on
Speaker 2: the facts and the law.
Speaker 1: Okay, so obviously what does that mean? Why is this important?
Speaker 1: David Wise was appointed five years ago, he was the lead,
Speaker 1: he was attorney for Delaware. He was the one who
Speaker 1: investigating the crimes into Hunter Biden. Obviously he is kept
Speaker 1: on in his position and continuing on the Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: case after President Biden takes office. Mayor Garland has always
Speaker 1: said that he would give him the utmost independence while
Speaker 1: he was reviewing these charges. However, this has all come
Speaker 1: to head, specifically in the last year or so. Two
Speaker 1: things happened. Number one is that those two IRS whistleblowers
Speaker 1: who had previously come forward have alleged that there were
Speaker 1: political considerations that actually infected many investigated decisions, both by
Speaker 1: David Weiss and by the IRS. The agents remember previously
Speaker 1: had said and testified in open court that Weiss actually
Speaker 1: wanted to bring felony tax charges against President are Hunter Biden,
Speaker 1: President Biden's son, even though he was ultimately offered the
Speaker 1: two misdemeanor counts. Then what happened is that those two
Speaker 1: misdemeanor counts were brought before the judge in a recent
Speaker 1: showdown where Hunter Biden had ended up having to plead
Speaker 1: not guilty after previously reaching what he thought was a
Speaker 1: sweetheart plea deal. The judge actually rejected what they said
Speaker 1: this plea deal, pleading guilty to tax charges and entering
Speaker 1: then a separate agreement on a gun charge. The judge
Speaker 1: basically said, and this almost never happens, that it seemed
Speaker 1: like there was way too much of a sweetheart nature
Speaker 1: to all of this. She didn't understand why Hunter seemingly
Speaker 1: was being absolved of a lot of future crimes. This
Speaker 1: relates directly back to the decision to allow him, originally
Speaker 1: by Merrick Garland's Justice department, to actually have Hunter plead
Speaker 1: guilty to misdemeanor charges. One of the reasons that the
Speaker 1: case actually fell apart was because Hunter and his team
Speaker 1: were so arrogant that they thought that all he had
Speaker 1: to do was plead guilty to these misdemeanor charges, enter
Speaker 1: a separate agreement on a gun charge, which is serious
Speaker 1: gun charge, by the way, which is lying about being
Speaker 1: a drug addict anytime you purchased a firearm, and then
Speaker 1: actually try to absolve himself of all future criminal investigations
Speaker 1: that line, specifically saying that he would not be subject
Speaker 1: to the investigation of future ones by David Wise by
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice is ultimately why Hunter and his
Speaker 1: team decided to walk and they pled not guilty. And
Speaker 1: in fact, one of the big developments on top of
Speaker 1: the David Wise being appointed as Special Council is that
Speaker 1: apparently the police deal here completely has fallen apart. So
Speaker 1: there's some big reporting right now from CBS News which
Speaker 1: says that the talks between Hunter and the DOJ, specifically
Speaker 1: David Wise, now are at an impasse and that a
Speaker 1: trial is now more likely. That's according to the court
Speaker 1: filing that they obtained, which was just published in open court.
Speaker 1: So a lot is going on right now behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of different ways that we can
Speaker 1: interpret this. Number one and probably most important is Republicans
Speaker 1: wanted David Wise to come and testify before Congress. Now, traditionally,
Speaker 1: an active Special Council does not testify before Congress while
Speaker 1: that investigation is ongoing. They will issue a report, like
Speaker 1: you'll remember the Muller report, And that's actually important for
Speaker 1: all of us because we're going to get a full
Speaker 1: rundown into the investigation into really what happened the Biden family,
Speaker 1: any financial machinations. But two and then finally that really
Speaker 1: the most important thing is that this removes and gives
Speaker 1: him special counsel status that effectively makes it not nearly impossible,
Speaker 1: very difficult for the White House to mess with his
Speaker 1: investigation as it is run independently and fundamentally. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what anyone should really care about. David Wis has
Speaker 1: been charged this for a long time. And the biggest
Speaker 1: with you know, the bigse charge against him, not even
Speaker 1: really him, but by the Department of Justice, Merrick Garland
Speaker 1: and the Biden administration, by these irs whistleblowers, is the
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden got special status that he should have been
Speaker 1: prosecuted for felony tax charges. And if you combine this
Speaker 1: with some recent you know, some recent GOP oversight reports
Speaker 1: that came out about nearly twenty million dollars paid to
Speaker 1: the Biden family by these oligarchs from all over the world,
Speaker 1: Kazakh oligarchs, Russian oligarchs, Ukrainian oligarchs. I mean, I've detailed
Speaker 1: this ad in ouseium here on the show. There was
Speaker 1: just money coming out, you know, every witch orifice of
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden and his uncle, and it all just comes
Speaker 1: back to like, did President Biden benefit from this? Now,
Speaker 1: we don't know that yet, you know, we don't have
Speaker 1: evidence yet to that fact. But I think it is
Speaker 1: very clear the fact that it is now twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: And this is also a major indictment of the media
Speaker 1: that these facts, which have now been publicly available for
Speaker 1: five years, as I've said repeatedly, are now so undeniable
Speaker 1: because Republicans still control of Congress and forced it, you know,
Speaker 1: really forced it into the public sphere. They got those
Speaker 1: whistleblowers also who came to testify that the Biden administration
Speaker 1: had no choice really but to cave and to give
Speaker 1: special Council status. So clearly that is going to cause
Speaker 1: a lot of consternation. I think in the future. I
Speaker 1: think the media is gonna have a tough time with
Speaker 1: this one. Remember, these people basically have a special council
Speaker 1: fetish what happened with Robert Muller, but not this one.
Speaker 1: Not this one, right, I don't think they'll be selling
Speaker 1: candles with David Weiss's face on it. By the way, Republicans,
Speaker 1: please don't do that either. You know, Let's just not
Speaker 1: have a hay giography for all these people. Let's just
Speaker 1: see how they do. Do they do a good job
Speaker 1: or not. But overall, I think it's a welcome development.
Speaker 1: I think it's good. You know, we should actually prosecute
Speaker 1: no one actually should be above the law on ironically,
Speaker 1: and you know, I mean the two tax charges here
Speaker 1: which were brought against Hunter. Ultimately there's repultry because it
Speaker 1: was really only failure to pay income on what, in
Speaker 1: my view, and I think a lot of people's view,
Speaker 1: is a very corrupt amount of money flowing into him
Speaker 1: for all kinds of insane dealings where he's you know,
Speaker 1: on a text message saying he never wanted to register
Speaker 1: as a foreign agent. So there's a lot to go
Speaker 1: into there, and yeah, I'm excited to see where it
Speaker 1: all goes. Thanks for sticking with me. I apologize a
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