Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is his verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
Speaker 2: with you. Nice to have you with us today. We've
Speaker 2: got a lot to talk about, including some breaking news
Speaker 2: with Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, plus an update on
Speaker 2: one of our shows that went viral, dealing with Clarence
Speaker 2: Thomas and what's happening on Capitol Hill, and finally the
Speaker 2: end of Title forty two and what's happening at the border. Senator,
Speaker 2: I want to get your initial response to the ex
Speaker 2: spy and this is really big news behind the discredit
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden letter claiming that that laptop was Russian disinformation
Speaker 2: said he wanted to provide the Biden campaign with a
Speaker 2: debate talking point quote unquote your reaction to that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: We now have an email on October nineteenth, twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: where Michael Morrell, former senior official in the FBI, is
Speaker 3: emailing to John Brennan, who was Obama's head of the FBI.
Speaker 3: The email says, John, can I add your name to
Speaker 3: this list? We'll be adding Leon Sue Gordon, Jay Johnson,
Speaker 3: George Lisimonico, and Mike Rogers today and working on adding
Speaker 3: Dan Coates. Mike Rogers and Tom Bossert, and lists of
Speaker 3: other ic career folks trying to give the campaign, particularly
Speaker 3: during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push
Speaker 3: back on Trump on this issue. Thanks Michael, And here's
Speaker 3: Brennan's entire response. Okay, Michael, add my name to the list.
Speaker 3: Good initiative, Thanks for asking me to sign on. This
Speaker 3: was politics, This was senior officials of the intelligence community
Speaker 3: lying for politics. Give Biden a debate talking point. Never
Speaker 3: mind that it's a lie. Falsely claim the true information
Speaker 3: in Hunter Biden's laptop is actually Russian disinformation because they
Speaker 3: know Biden will be all all the happy to lie
Speaker 3: about it. And by the way, who is John Brennan.
Speaker 3: John Brennan was Obama's CIA director. Who is such a
Speaker 3: radical that when he was a young man, nineteen eighty
Speaker 3: election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, do you know
Speaker 3: who John Brennan voted for.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess not Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 3: Not Ronald Reagan, but not Jimmy Carter. He voted for
Speaker 3: the communist on the ballot.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: He said, Jimmy Carter is not liberal enough, and so
Speaker 3: he voted for the communist nominee. To be president of
Speaker 3: the United States. That's who Obama put put in place.
Speaker 3: It was Gus Hall was his name, and he was
Speaker 3: the nominee of the Communist Party of the United States.
Speaker 3: He was the nominee in nineteen seventy two, nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty four. And John Brennan said,
Speaker 3: now that Jimmy Carter guy too much of a right winger.
Speaker 3: Give me the full fledged communist. And you know, one
Speaker 3: of the things communists are happy to do lie, lie
Speaker 3: when it helps them politically. Actually, communists embrace lying as
Speaker 3: one of the tools they engage in. That is who
Speaker 3: Tony Blinken, who got rewarded with Secretary of State. That's
Speaker 3: who Tony Blinken was rounding up. Give me the communist
Speaker 3: wh run the CIA. You know, it's sort of like,
Speaker 3: let's call Mikey, he'll eat anything. Let's call John He'll
Speaker 3: say anything. And they got their talking point at the debate,
Speaker 3: and Biden was more than happy to repeat it, even
Speaker 3: though it was an utter and complete lie.
Speaker 2: This is you and I have had this discussion behind
Speaker 2: the scenes, and I'm excited to tell the audience we've
Speaker 2: decided on Wednesday to do a special show really recapping
Speaker 2: where we are with Joe Biden, the Biden Krame family,
Speaker 2: the nine family members that we know of taking money,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna have a very twelve Now that's a
Speaker 2: twelve after twelve excuse me twelve people.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Tell everybody who we're going to be having on the
Speaker 2: show on Wednesday and why they don't want to miss
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll be having my longtime friend Jim Jordan. He's
Speaker 3: going to join us on the pod and we're going
Speaker 3: to do a deep dive into the investigations that Jim
Speaker 3: is leading in the House of Representatives. We're going to
Speaker 3: talk about where they stand, We're going to talk about
Speaker 3: the details, and the nice thing about it is we're
Speaker 3: going to go through it at a level of specificity
Speaker 3: that you don't get into watching a TV show. Look,
Speaker 3: you know, I go on Fox News, I go on Newsmax,
Speaker 3: I do TV hits. You do also, you're doing a
Speaker 3: six minute hit, an eight minute hit. You can get
Speaker 3: a little talking point in, you can say something, a
Speaker 3: brief little a line that's catchy, maybe a tiny little vignette.
Speaker 3: But that's it. A big part of the reason I
Speaker 3: like the podcast format is, you actually have the ability
Speaker 3: to discuss something of substance. So we're going to sit
Speaker 3: down with Jim Jordan and say, let's talk about this.
Speaker 3: What's this about? What are the issues, what are the facts,
Speaker 3: what do we know? What do we need to and
Speaker 3: so if you really want to understand all of the
Speaker 3: evidence of corruption surrounding Joe Biden, both in his time
Speaker 3: as vice president and his time as president, Wednesday's podcast
Speaker 3: is going to be one you won't want to miss
Speaker 3: because we're going to walk through the details carefully, in clear,
Speaker 3: understandable ways.
Speaker 2: One last question on this one. There does seem to
Speaker 2: be a narrative change recently on this There does seem
Speaker 2: to be now a White House that's willing to speak
Speaker 2: out and not just dodge sayings being forced, I would
Speaker 2: argue to speak out on this. Do you feel that
Speaker 2: even in Washington, d C. Where there's so much numbness
Speaker 2: to scandals and even jadedness, that this does seem to
Speaker 2: be changing a little bit?
Speaker 3: It does, and look to show you how bad it is,
Speaker 3: let me just read you three headlines from the past week.
Speaker 3: Headline number one from CBS News Grassley Comer alleged bribery
Speaker 3: scheme in involving Biden and demand documents from FBI. That's
Speaker 3: one headline. Here's a second headline. This one is from Politico,
Speaker 3: Bracing for impact Biden World preps for Hunter Biden fallout.
Speaker 3: Biden aids are more worried about the personal toll it
Speaker 3: will take on the president as a father. So that's
Speaker 3: headline number two. All right, let me just give you
Speaker 3: one more headline number three, Biden's setting stage for pardoning
Speaker 3: Hunter as he frames potential DOJ charges as political witch hunt.
Speaker 3: Biden denied that a potential Hunter indictment would have any
Speaker 3: impact on his presidency. That's from Fox News. Again, just
Speaker 3: in the past couple of days. This is getting worse
Speaker 3: and worse and worse. And the amazing thing is this
Speaker 3: is all why while DOJ is desperately trying to cover
Speaker 3: up the connection to the big guy to they're trying
Speaker 3: to put it all on Hunter, the poor troubled soul,
Speaker 3: and protect against any investigation into the real corruption that
Speaker 3: is the matter of public concern.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Wednesday show is going to be one for
Speaker 2: the books. Make sure you hit that subscribe, that auto
Speaker 2: download button wherever you're listening to this podcast and tell
Speaker 2: your family and friends about it, especially on Wednesday. It's
Speaker 2: going to be a really fun, in depth, deep look
Speaker 2: at this story and where it stands now with this
Speaker 2: actual investigation on the house side with Jim Jordan. He
Speaker 2: will join us on Wednesday show, so make sure for that, Senator.
Speaker 2: I want to also move to another update. And this
Speaker 2: was dealt with Clarence Thomas. We talked about it, had
Speaker 2: a special guest talking about Clarence Thomas. The attack on
Speaker 2: Clarence Thomas was going to happen. We knew that next
Speaker 2: day by Democrats. They're trying to undermine him, really undermine
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. And you had a very interesting conversation
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Speaker 2: exposing the baseless smears that were directed to Justice Thomas
Speaker 2: by Democrats and the media who has been doing this
Speaker 2: as well. They have been all in on trying to
Speaker 2: take down Clarence Thomas. I want to play for everybody
Speaker 2: because it was just so brilliant you exposing just some
Speaker 2: of these lies before Congress as Democrats were gearing up
Speaker 2: and they want to get rid of Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety one, Justice Clarence Thomas appeared before this
Speaker 3: committee in one of the most disgraceful performances by the
Speaker 3: Senate Judiciary Committee in our nation's history. Justice Thomas rightly
Speaker 3: described the treatment he got from then Chairman Joe Biden
Speaker 3: and Senate Democrats is a quote high tech lynching. It
Speaker 3: is sad to see thirty years later, this media is
Speaker 3: again engaged in the same despicable tactics. Senate Democrats and
Speaker 3: their lapdogs in the media are engaged in a twofold
Speaker 3: political campaign. Number one, to delegitimize the Supreme Court of
Speaker 3: the United States because they are angry that they're a
Speaker 3: majority of constitutionalists on the Court. But number two, very directly,
Speaker 3: this is a political campaign designed to smear Justice Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 3: And the reason is simple. The Left despises Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 3: And they do not despise him because he's a conservative.
Speaker 3: The left despises Clarence Thomas because he is a conservative
Speaker 3: African American. Here's what Clarence Thomas said at that confirmation hearing,
Speaker 3: he said, if you are a free thinking African American, quote,
Speaker 3: you will be lynched, destroyed, and caricatured by a committee
Speaker 3: of the US Senate. Well, in three decades, that hasn't changed,
Speaker 3: and it's gotten worse. And to be clear, here's the
Speaker 3: left's view. I point to one article just three weeks ago.
Speaker 3: The Democrats need to destroy Clarence Thomas's reputation. They'll never
Speaker 3: successfully impeach him. But so what make him a metaphor
Speaker 3: for every insidious thing the far right has done to
Speaker 3: this country. That's what the left is trying to do.
Speaker 3: And I will tell you if you look at the
Speaker 3: next poster board. The left has repeatedly attacked Clarence Thomas
Speaker 3: with a racism. This is a magazine cover that showed
Speaker 3: Justice Scalia every bit as conservative as Clarence Thomas, but
Speaker 3: he's portrayed as the master, and Clarence Thomas, in a
Speaker 3: bigoted attack, is portrayed as shining his shoes. I'll show
Speaker 3: you another one to give you a sense of the
Speaker 3: racist vitriol from the left. Here's a racist caricature of
Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas. Lon jockey for the far right. This is
Speaker 3: the bigoted contempt the left has. I'll show you another
Speaker 3: another magazine cover offensively. This is how the left views
Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas. Now, it's important for people at home to
Speaker 3: understand this is not about judicial ethics. You can take
Speaker 3: those down. This is not about judicial ethics. This is
Speaker 3: not about rules that should apply to judges across the board.
Speaker 3: We could have a reasonable discussion about that. This is
Speaker 3: about applying a double standard to Clarence Thomas and only
Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas. The attack that my Democrat colleagues breathlessly repeat
Speaker 3: is that Clarence Thomas stayed at the vacation home of
Speaker 3: a very close friend of his, a successful Texas businessman,
Speaker 3: flew on his plane and went on his yacht. Well,
Speaker 3: if that's the standard going and traveling and being paid
Speaker 3: for by others, then guess what. Just about every Supreme
Speaker 3: Court justice has done so, and done so in much
Speaker 3: greater numbers. Justice Thomas was appointed in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 3: In the time since then, he's taken one hundred and
Speaker 3: nine reported trips, five international trips. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Speaker 3: was appointed in nineteen ninety three, two years later. In
Speaker 3: the time she was on the court, she took one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty seven trips, including twenty eight international trips.
Speaker 3: Mister Payne, Yes or no. Do you think Ruth bader
Speaker 3: Ginsburg was corrupt? No, nor do I. Ruth bader Ginsburg
Speaker 3: was not alone. Justice Stephen Bryer, appointed the year later
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety four, took two hundred and thirty three
Speaker 3: reported trips, including sixty three international trips. Again, yes or no,
Speaker 3: mister Payne, do you think Stephen Bryer was corrupt? No,
Speaker 3: nor do I. I would point out Justice Kagan has done
Speaker 3: the same thing. Justice so too, my ore has done
Speaker 3: the same thing. And yet none of my Democrat colleagues care,
Speaker 3: because this is a political attack directed at a justice
Speaker 3: they hate. And by the way, let's spend a moment
Speaker 3: focusing on Justice Stephen Brier, a delightful human being, someone
Speaker 3: I know personally, someone who served decades on the Court.
Speaker 3: Justice Stephen Bryer repeatedly traveled on the penny of a
Speaker 3: prominent Democratic billionaire, the Pritzker family. Now JB. Pritzner is
Speaker 3: the Democrat governor of the state of Illinois, from which
Speaker 3: our chairman hails I would be shocked if the chairman
Speaker 3: of this committee has not had multiple meals with the
Speaker 3: Pritzker family. Justice Bryer was a longtime member of the
Speaker 3: board that awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Now what did
Speaker 3: that mean? That meant Justice Bryar traveled on the dime
Speaker 3: of these Democrat billionaires. In twenty nineteen, Justice Briar traveled
Speaker 3: to New York City, to Vancouver and Paris. In twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: Justice Bryar traveled to Ireland and Spain. In twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: he traveled to New York, Spain and France. In twenty thirteen,
Speaker 3: he traveled to Norway, Sweden, Denmark. In twenty twelve, he
Speaker 3: traveled to Beijing and to London. All of this paid
Speaker 3: for by the Pritzker Foundation. Now, none of my Democrat
Speaker 3: colleagues are mad about this, And let me be clear,
Speaker 3: I'm not suggesting Justice Bryer is corrupt. What I'm suggesting
Speaker 3: is this committee is corrupt because this is a kangaroo
Speaker 3: circuit circus. And I will note we had fifteen Senate Democrats,
Speaker 3: including six members of this committee, send a letter to
Speaker 3: the Appropriations Committee threatening to cut off the funding for
Speaker 3: security at the Supreme Court. The left is willing to
Speaker 3: threaten the lives of the justices. Justice Samuel Alito this weekend,
Speaker 3: and the Wall Street Journal said that the attacks directed
Speaker 3: at the justices are making them targets of assassination. This
Speaker 3: is disgraceful. Every Senator who signed this letter should be embarrassed.
Speaker 3: Mister Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to this letter be
Speaker 3: admitted into the record, and also that the interview with
Speaker 3: Justice Alito from this weekend being entered into the record.
Speaker 3: Democrats can have disagreements based on law, but this attempt
Speaker 3: to delegitimize the court, this attempt to personally smear Clarence Thomas,
Speaker 3: is dishonest. And everyone in the media echoing it is
Speaker 3: participating in a shameful report. Prize of nineteen ninety one
Speaker 3: high Tech.
Speaker 2: Lynching Center unbelievable by the way, the way that you
Speaker 2: laid it out for everybody, and I'm glad that you
Speaker 2: were able to do that, But the media hasn't stopped
Speaker 2: since then. They're still coming after Clarence Thomas and his
Speaker 2: family members.
Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. So what you just played was
Speaker 3: from the Judiciary Committee hearing last week. It was the
Speaker 3: hearing un quote judicial ethics, and it was the reason
Speaker 3: we released the pod a day early last week. We
Speaker 3: normally do Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Last week we did Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 3: and Friday because we wanted last Tuesday's pod to be
Speaker 3: out before the hearing and judiciary. That pod provided in
Speaker 3: great detail some of the background on Clarence Thomas as
Speaker 3: to why the charges weren't accurate, and I got to say,
Speaker 3: it really was striking because the hearing did not go
Speaker 3: the way the Democrats wanted, and by the end of it,
Speaker 3: the Democrat senators had fled the room. They realized their
Speaker 3: hypocrisy had come out, and they wanted it to be
Speaker 3: just a slugfest beating up on Justice Thomas.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And it didn't play out that way because they have
Speaker 3: no defense. They have no response. It's not like they
Speaker 3: can say, oh, well, Justice Briar flying on lavish trips
Speaker 3: to Europe paid for by Democrat billionaires, that that's very different.
Speaker 3: They have no They literally just ignore the point. What's
Speaker 3: happened since then, Well, what's happened since then is the
Speaker 3: drip drip drip of attacks. And we talked about this
Speaker 3: before in last Tuesday's pod. This is an organized political attack.
Speaker 3: This is just like if you're running a campaign for
Speaker 3: governor or senator or president. The other side has an
Speaker 3: OPA research department. They're putting out a daily attack and
Speaker 3: they are running a campaign against Clarence Thomas. And to
Speaker 3: be clear, let's be very clear what their objective is.
Speaker 3: Their objective is to destroy Justice Thomas. Let me read
Speaker 3: you a little bit from an opinion column than the
Speaker 3: Washington Post by Ruth Marcus, the associate editor. The title
Speaker 3: is Clarence Thomas should get out his checkbook and reimburse
Speaker 3: Harlan Crow. The opening line of it is the Clarence
Speaker 3: Thomas story has now entered the Abe Fortis danger zone. Now,
Speaker 3: who is abe Fortis? Abe Fortis is a Supreme Court
Speaker 3: justice who resigned in disgrace because of corruption. That's what
Speaker 3: the left wants, and that's the analogy we're hearing lots
Speaker 3: and lots of people tell the story of abe Fortis.
Speaker 3: Why the left is convinced themselves if they can relentlessly
Speaker 3: drag Justice Thomas through the mud, at some point he'll
Speaker 3: surrender and go away, and they can replace one of
Speaker 3: the greatest constitutionalists ever with a left wing activist who
Speaker 3: will undermine the Constitution and implement and force the left's
Speaker 3: radical agenda on the American people. That's what they're trying
Speaker 3: to do. By the way, you know, it's very interesting
Speaker 3: the post says Clarence Thomas should reimburse Harlan Crowe. You
Speaker 3: know what they didn't say. They didn't say Stephen Brier
Speaker 3: should reimburse the Pritzkers. They didn't say Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Speaker 3: should reimburse everyone who paid for her trips. They didn't
Speaker 3: say Sonya Sotomayor should reimburse everyone who paid for her trips.
Speaker 3: They didn't say Elena Kagan should reimburse everyone who paid
Speaker 3: for her trips. This is designed to be a very
Speaker 3: deliberate attack going directly at at Clarence Thomas. And so
Speaker 3: now they've launched yet another attack. And the latest attack,
Speaker 3: which they saved until after the hearing so that there
Speaker 3: would not be a forum to provide the response to it,
Speaker 3: is that this same Texan Harlan Crowe, also paid thousands
Speaker 3: of dollars of tuition payments. And then this is now
Speaker 3: what has the left clutching their pearls. Now, let's talk
Speaker 3: about the facts. So Clarence Thomas and his wife Jenny
Speaker 3: spent twelve years helping not their son, not their brother,
Speaker 3: but rather their great nephew, an individual named Mark Martin
Speaker 3: who was in trouble. He was in real need, and
Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas and Jenny Thomas stepped forward heroically to raise
Speaker 3: their great nephew and to raise him and to take
Speaker 3: care of him. And this is what the Left is targeting,
Speaker 3: is that for a period of time, Harlan Crowe paid
Speaker 3: tuition payments to the schools where the Thomas's great nephew
Speaker 3: was attending. Now, I want to go back Tuesday's podcast.
Speaker 3: We interviewed Mark Paoletta, who has been doing just such
Speaker 3: an incredible job defending Justice Thomas and putting the facts out.
Speaker 3: And I want to do a little bit of an
Speaker 3: in depth examination of the statement Mark Paoletta put out
Speaker 3: on this attack on the toy payments, because it's important
Speaker 3: to understand. So I'm reading from the statement of Mark Palett,
Speaker 3: a friend of Justice Thomas quote. The Thomases have rarely
Speaker 3: spoken publicly about the remarkably generous efforts to help a
Speaker 3: child in need. They've always respected the privacy of this
Speaker 3: young man and his family. It is disappointing and painful,
Speaker 3: but unsurprising that some journalists and critics cannot do the same.
Speaker 3: The Thomases quietly and honorably devoted twelve years of their
Speaker 3: lives to helping a beloved child in desperate need of love, support,
Speaker 3: and guidance. In nineteen ninety seven, Justice Thomas and his
Speaker 3: wife brought their great nephew to live with them. They
Speaker 3: agreed to take in this young child much as Justice
Speaker 3: Thomas's grandparents had done for him and his brother in
Speaker 3: nineteen fifty five. Justice Thomas's grandparents changed the trajectory of
Speaker 3: his life, and the Thomass hoped to do the same
Speaker 3: for a child in need. Justice Thomas and his wife
Speaker 3: made immeasurable personal and financial sacrifices and poured every ounce
Speaker 3: of their lives and hearts into giving their great nephew
Speaker 3: a chance to succeed. In the summer of two thousand
Speaker 3: and six, the Thomases were struggling to find a school
Speaker 3: where they could send their great nephew. In discussing these
Speaker 3: challenges with their dear friends Harlan and Kathy grow, Harlan
Speaker 3: recommended that the Thomases consider one more option. Sending their
Speaker 3: great nephew to Randolph Macon Academy. Harlan had attended Randolph
Speaker 3: Macon and he thought the school would be a good fit.
Speaker 3: Harlan had financially supported Randolph Macon since the nineteen eighties
Speaker 3: and had funded scholarships for students from disadvantage ban backgrounds.
Speaker 3: Harland offered to pay the first year of Justice Thomas's
Speaker 3: great nephew's tuition in two thousand and six, and that
Speaker 3: payment went directly to the school. Harlan Crowe's office confirmed
Speaker 3: that he did not pay the great nephew's tuition for
Speaker 3: any other year at Randolph Macon. After some time, Randolph
Speaker 3: Macon recommended the great nephew attend a boarding school in
Speaker 3: Georgia for one year. Harland offered to pay the first
Speaker 3: year of tuition for their great nephew at the Georgia school,
Speaker 3: and again those tuition payments went directly to the school
Speaker 3: by the next year. By the next school year, two
Speaker 3: thousand and nine, the Thomas's great nephew returned to Randolph Macon.
Speaker 3: He moved back to Savannah and December two thousand and nine,
Speaker 3: after he turned eighteen. The Thomases love their great nephew.
Speaker 3: It is despicable that the presses dragged him into their
Speaker 3: effort to smear Justice Thomas. This story is another attempt
Speaker 3: to manufacture a scandal about Justice Thomas. But let's be
Speaker 3: clear about what is supposedly scandalous. Now, Justice Thomas and
Speaker 3: his wife devoted twelve years of their life to taking
Speaker 3: in and caring for a beloved child who was not
Speaker 3: there own Justice Justice Thomas's grandparents had done for him.
Speaker 3: They made many personal and financial sacrifices to do this,
Speaker 3: and along the way, their friends joined them in doing
Speaker 3: everything possible to give this child a future. Harlan Crow's
Speaker 3: tuition payments made directly to these schools on behalf of
Speaker 3: Justice Thomas's great nephew did not constitute a reportable gift. Now,
Speaker 3: this is where it's getting into the specific legal charge,
Speaker 3: because the Left is claiming, aha, you did not report this,
Speaker 3: So listen to the clear legal analysis. Justice Thomas was
Speaker 3: not required to disclose the tuition payments made directly to
Speaker 3: Randolph Macon and the Georgia School on behalf of his
Speaker 3: great nephew because the definition of a quote dependent child
Speaker 3: under the Ethics and Government Act, which is five USC.
Speaker 3: Thirteen one oh one. Section two does not include a
Speaker 3: great nephew. It is limited to a quote son, daughter, stepson,
Speaker 3: or stepdaughter. Justice Thomas never asked Harlan Crow to pay
Speaker 3: for his great nephew's tuition, and neither Harlan Crowe nor
Speaker 3: his company had any business before the Supreme Court. This
Speaker 3: malicious story shows nothing except for the fact that the
Speaker 3: Thomases and the Crows are kind, generous and loving people
Speaker 3: who tried to help this young man. Now there are
Speaker 3: two really important things in there. Ben One is the
Speaker 3: personal story. He had a story of generosity, a story
Speaker 3: of caring for a child in need, a child who
Speaker 3: was not their responsibility, was not their child, but they
Speaker 3: stepped forward for a dozen years to help their great nephew.
Speaker 3: But secondly, the whole legal hook, as they say, well, gosh,
Speaker 3: Justice Thomas should have reported this on his financial disclosure.
Speaker 3: The law is clear you have to disclose a payment
Speaker 3: for a dependent child. And the statute I want to
Speaker 3: read read this again. The statute defines a dependent child
Speaker 3: as quote. The term dependent child means, when used with
Speaker 3: respect to any reporting individual, any individual who is a son, daughter,
Speaker 3: step son, or stepdaughter. By the way, that same definition
Speaker 3: doesn't just apply to judges. That applies a lot of
Speaker 3: other places, including to Congress. Do you know right now
Speaker 3: that if you Ben Ferguson decided you wanted to give
Speaker 3: a million dollars to the great nephew of Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer would not have to report that because the
Speaker 3: reporting requirements do not extend to great nephews. Now, I
Speaker 3: don't know if Schumer has a great nephew, and I
Speaker 3: wouldn't advise giving you a million bucks if he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the principle is very queer, and the rule
Speaker 2: is very queer.
Speaker 3: The rule it is defined by statute. And in this instance,
Speaker 3: you've got Harlan Crowe has with Randolph Macon, a support
Speaker 3: of the school for years, has paid for scholarships for years,
Speaker 3: he knew of a child in need who could benefit
Speaker 3: from the school, and he's being painted as a villain
Speaker 3: for caring for a child in need.
Speaker 2: And this was obviously a pre planned orchestrated smear campaign. Yes,
Speaker 2: and they're going after Clarence Thomas. I also think there
Speaker 2: are significant racial undertones here. They've been doing this. You
Speaker 2: mentioned this and what you said and what we played earlier,
Speaker 2: but the racial side of this. They hate Clarence Thomas,
Speaker 2: I think honestly because he's an African American man yep,
Speaker 2: who has not gone to the little wolk left, and
Speaker 2: therefore he's such a big threat they want to be
Speaker 2: done with him for that reason as well.
Speaker 3: It is a qualitatively different and double standard. And Scalia
Speaker 3: was incredibly conservative and yet the left didn't loathe him.
Speaker 3: William Rehnquist, my former boss, was incredibly conservative, and yet
Speaker 3: the left didn't loathe him the same way that. There
Speaker 3: is a unique vitriol that gets piled on Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 3: In the left's view, he is not a black man.
Speaker 3: He doesn't qualify as a black man. By the way,
Speaker 3: in the left's view, I'm not hispanic. If you're not
Speaker 3: a leftist, you don't get to be hispanic. Look, we
Speaker 3: did an earlier podcast where Don Lemon, before he got
Speaker 3: fired for saying idiotic things like this, described how Nicki
Speaker 3: Haley was past her prime and he gave nasty, misogynistic
Speaker 3: statements about a woman as in her prime in her
Speaker 3: twenties or thirties, which is idiotic, but in a certain
Speaker 3: leftist logic it made sense because to the hard left
Speaker 3: Nicki Haley is not a woman. You don't count in
Speaker 3: whatever category you are, whether it's African American or Hispanic
Speaker 3: or woman. The left's view is they own you if
Speaker 3: you're in any one of those categories, and if you
Speaker 3: dare disagree from their ideology, you have lost any right
Speaker 3: to fall within that category. And so you know, my
Speaker 3: dad who came as a penniless immigrant from Cuba, not
Speaker 3: speaking English, Nope, not Hispanic doesn't count. That's their view.
Speaker 3: And Clarence Thomas, I don't know that there is an
Speaker 3: individual more despised by the left than Clarence Thomas. Donald
Speaker 3: Trump is close, and it's a different sort of hatred,
Speaker 3: but they might well be running neck and neck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lastly, on this, do you believe they're gonna finally
Speaker 2: at least hit the pause button and put this to bed,
Speaker 2: or do you expect there to be more attacks in
Speaker 2: the coming weeks?
Speaker 3: More more more, It is drip, drip, drip. It is funded.
Speaker 3: I don't know who's funding it, but someone is putting
Speaker 3: serious dollars behind this attack. This is a political campaign.
Speaker 3: It's listen. You got to stand up and defend Justice
Speaker 3: Thomas because he can't. Justices have no ability that they
Speaker 3: don't know how to fight pr fights. They don't have
Speaker 3: a press secretary, they don't have staff to do it.
Speaker 3: They're literally just sitting there like a pinata getting whacked.
Speaker 3: And the people whacking the pinata are are the Democrats,
Speaker 3: are the media and all of their cheerleaders. And so
Speaker 3: it's got to be the rest of us providing the
Speaker 3: truth and the facts to counterbalance this very coordinated and
Speaker 3: very well funded attack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about that, Senata. I want to also
Speaker 2: talk about what's happening title. An important statue is going
Speaker 2: to expire at the border. We're now hearing that we're
Speaker 2: going to have an incredible on sought of illegal immigrants
Speaker 2: coming across the border. The National Guard, which is something
Speaker 2: that the Democrats said they didn't want to happen and
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Speaker 2: Let's transition quickly to the border. This has become a
Speaker 2: big issue with Title forty two. Some of the latest
Speaker 2: statistics that have come out have been brutal for this administration.
Speaker 2: When it comes to Title forty two, almost fifty five
Speaker 2: thousand border patrol apprehensions, eighteen thousand, six hundred plus that
Speaker 2: known got aways in a single week at the border.
Speaker 2: There are some of the highest weekly totals that we've
Speaker 2: ever seen in Title forty two hasn't even dropped yet.
Speaker 2: These are stunning numbers, especially that how many got aways
Speaker 2: there were in just a single week. You had agents
Speaker 2: that were assaulted, You had fifty four nine U and
Speaker 2: fifty one apprehensions, twenty thousand basically got aways, seven hundred
Speaker 2: and fourteen thousand dollars, sees one hundred and one pounds
Speaker 2: of cocaine, a thousand fifty pounds of marijuana, two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven hundred and twenty one pounds of meth one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty eight pounds of fetinyls, sixteen firearms, six
Speaker 2: sex offenders in the group that we did catch in
Speaker 2: one week, seven gang members. And that's what happened to
Speaker 2: the border in one week. And yet this administration continues
Speaker 2: to tell the lie that the border is secure.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 3: You're exactly right, And the stunning thing is it's fixing
Speaker 3: to get worse. We have the worst illegal immigration in
Speaker 3: the history of our nation, six and a half million
Speaker 3: people across illegally under Joe Biden. All of that is
Speaker 3: a direct political decision Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made
Speaker 3: and it is about to get worse. On Thursday of
Speaker 3: this week, May eleventh, the administration is going to lose
Speaker 3: the authority to deport people under Title forty two. Title
Speaker 3: forty two was essentially the only legal basis under which
Speaker 3: they were deporting anyone. So now it is truly going
Speaker 3: to be Katie bar the door anyone who crosses. Guess what,
Speaker 3: Joe Biden is your travel agent. Pick a city and
Speaker 3: come on in. And you know what. It is so
Speaker 3: bad that even the corrupt corporate media is forced to
Speaker 3: acknowledge it. Listen to face the nation, describing the crisis
Speaker 3: that Joe Biden has created and what's going to happen
Speaker 3: when when Title forty two is lifted.
Speaker 4: Listen, Margaret, the clock is ticking down on an to
Speaker 4: Title forty two, another flashpoint in the immigration debate. But
Speaker 4: here on the US Mexico border, it's not just a
Speaker 4: policy change. It's the frontlines of a humanitarian crisis. In
Speaker 4: South Texas, the Department of Homeland Security says they've encountered
Speaker 4: an influx of migrants ahead of Title forty two's and
Speaker 4: driven by an uptick in Venezuelan nationals. Still others wade
Speaker 4: in Mexico, camped along the Rio Grande River. New Biden
Speaker 4: administration guidelines that kick in after May eleventh promised more consequences,
Speaker 4: like a one way ticket on ice Air. We watched
Speaker 4: as one hundred and thirty three migrants, hands and feet shackled,
Speaker 4: boarded a plane back to Guatemala Friday, does said Minnesuela
Speaker 4: in Laredo, Texas. This emergency shelter is a welcome reprieve
Speaker 4: for many, like twenty nine year old Margerita Habry, who
Speaker 4: crossed the US Mexico border pregnant with her five and
Speaker 4: three year old daughters back at home in Venezuela. She says,
Speaker 4: there is nothing. The mayor of Laredo has declared a
Speaker 4: citywide emergency.
Speaker 3: The disaster is an eminent disaster. It may not be
Speaker 3: here right now, but it's like a hurricane that's coming.
Speaker 3: You bored up before the hurricane.
Speaker 4: With this week's policy change, US officials expect as many
Speaker 4: as ten thousand migrants a day to traverse the US
Speaker 4: Mexico border at crossings like the one behind.
Speaker 2: Me, Margaret, I mean, Senaer. You listen to this and
Speaker 2: they're all saying it. They're all calling it a pandemic
Speaker 2: air legislation that is going to expire and then explode
Speaker 2: into another type of pandemic.
Speaker 3: In essence, it is when even CBS calls it a
Speaker 3: humanitarian disaster. That tells you something. When even CBS is
Speaker 3: saying what the Biden administration is doing is going to
Speaker 3: produce ten thousand people a day. And I got to say, look,
Speaker 3: they aired that on the Sunday show on Face the Nation.
Speaker 3: The images you see people just homeless, just gathered in
Speaker 3: the streets. It is a crisis in South Texas. It
Speaker 3: is a crisis that is overwhelming. It's overwhelming the hospitals,
Speaker 3: it's overwhelming, the jails, it's overwhelming, the schools, it's overwhelming
Speaker 3: the communities center.
Speaker 1: Emergency has been to clarnel Passo. I mean that's not normal.
Speaker 3: There's a state of emergency in El Paso, there's a
Speaker 3: state of emergency in Laredo. There are states of emergencies
Speaker 3: up and down our southern border. And the cause of
Speaker 3: the emergency is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and congressional Democrats.
Speaker 3: And not only do they affirmatively want this emergencies to exist,
Speaker 3: they want it to be worse, and they're deliberately making
Speaker 3: decisions to make it worse.
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Speaker 2: any accountability? How many illegal immigrants are going to take?
Speaker 2: How many criminals is it going to take coming across
Speaker 2: the border for my orcis, And he's still out there
Speaker 2: lying to the American people. Myorcists is that the border
Speaker 2: not long ago or you know his definition of the
Speaker 2: border saying this.
Speaker 4: The border is not open, it has not been open,
Speaker 4: and it will not be open subsequent to May eleventh.
Speaker 2: That's just not true. We know that he was lying then,
Speaker 2: We always lying. Now more than six point three now
Speaker 2: probably six point four million illegal immigrants acrossed the border
Speaker 2: since Biden took office.
Speaker 1: We gave those stats a moment ago. What happened in
Speaker 1: just one week.
Speaker 3: Well, within the Biden administration, there are zero consequences for lying.
Speaker 3: Mayorcis lies on a daily basis. Kareem Jean Pierre said
Speaker 3: that that illegal immigrant illegal immigration had dropped ninety percent
Speaker 3: under Joe Biden. That's such a wild, bald faced lie.
Speaker 3: I actually wonder if the reporters sitting in the press
Speaker 3: briefing room moved because they were afraid lightning was going
Speaker 3: to strike her as she was talking and she does
Speaker 3: that on a daily basis. And here's what we've learned.
Speaker 3: Number One, there are no penalties for lying in the
Speaker 3: Biden administration, but number two, you get rewarded. The only
Speaker 3: reasonable inference is idi is their job to lie. Like Baghdad,
Speaker 3: Bob Sadam Hussein's lying press spokesperson, Mayorcis and Karine Jean
Speaker 3: Pierre are sent out every day with the instruction, go
Speaker 3: lie because Joe Biden wants you to lie, because the
Speaker 3: Democrats in Congress want you to lie, and they're counting
Speaker 3: on the dishonest corporate media not to call them on
Speaker 3: their lies. Now, there are moments where there're cracks in
Speaker 3: the facade and you get things like face the nation
Speaker 3: actually admitting there's a humanitarian crisis these guys have caused. Now,
Speaker 3: mind you, although CBS acknowledged that they didn't point out
Speaker 3: that every word that comes out of the White House
Speaker 3: spokespeople's mouths is a lie, there's still no consequences you ask,
Speaker 3: will be the consequences to pay. Two groups will determine that.
Speaker 3: Number one the House of Representatives. As you know, I
Speaker 3: believe we should impeach Alejandro Majorcis. I hope they do
Speaker 3: exactly that. Number two, the American people. I think the
Speaker 3: real accountability is going to be in November of next year.
Speaker 3: And I hope the American people say enough is enough
Speaker 3: and throw the bums out, throw Joe Biden out of
Speaker 3: the White House, and throw Democrats out of the Senate
Speaker 3: in the House, and give us Republican majorities in both.
Speaker 3: If we have a Republican president and a Republican Senate,
Speaker 3: a Republican House, we can solve this problem. We can
Speaker 3: do it fast. And we know we can do that
Speaker 3: because we did it before. In twenty twenty, the last
Speaker 3: year of the Trump presidency, we have the lowest rate
Speaker 3: of illegal immigration in forty five years. We can do
Speaker 3: it again. And if the American people want this insanity stopped,
Speaker 3: the way to get there is a big, big win
Speaker 3: next November.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great point. Don't forget.
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