1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, where I'm coming sent got to play our guns show, Mary, 2 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: I'm the scenes information on breaking news and more bold 3 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: inspired solutions for America. All right, glad you with us, 4 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: Thanks Scott Channing, and thanks to all of you. Eight 5 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: hundred and nine four one. Sean you want to be 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: a part of the program. Well, I'm not a good 7 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: day for Karenne Jean Pierre, who was just sparring with 8 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: our own Peter Doocey at the Fox News Channel didn't 9 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 1: go particularly well, and uh, she just stormed out of 10 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: the room. It's pretty funny that Paul returns back home 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: safely to his family. She's one of the topic. You've 12 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: said a few times that you really can't talk about 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: communications between the THI and campaign and Twitter. Who is 14 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: telling you that that's off limits. I've already had that 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: conversation with you, with your colleague, I believe yesterday. I've 16 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: already addressed this multiple times this week. So I don't 17 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: have anything more to add. Again, I've we've we've we've 18 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: litigated this all week. Don't have anything to add, So 19 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to the back. I'm going to the back. 20 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to back. Go ahead, I'm getting out of here. 21 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. 22 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: I can't take it anymore. I'm out. I'm out. That's it. 23 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm finished. H Why is that UM anyway? 24 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: So I want to start with this, this issue about UM, 25 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,680 Speaker 1: this prisoner exchange, and if those of you may recall, 26 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: I've on a number of occasions said that the US 27 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: needs to go to bat for Brittany Griner Um, the 28 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: WMBA player, and and get her out of prison. She 29 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: was sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia, you know, 30 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: over a minor of marijuana, a law that she broke, 31 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: which is so far excessive and insane. That happened today. 32 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: But that's that's not the issue that is getting my 33 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: attention the most here, And I'm very happy you should. 34 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: I want to be very clear. We wanted this day 35 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: to come. We wanted her free, there's no doubt about it. 36 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: But was the price too high? And now we have 37 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: an NBC News report that I'll explain to you that 38 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: the Biden administration may have lied to us today in 39 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: terms of whether or not they had a choice between 40 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: a marine by the name of Paul Whalen that has 41 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: been in prison in Russia since twenty eighteen, and what 42 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: they had to give up just to get Brittany Grinder 43 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: to be free. Now Russia is getting back as part 44 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: of this deal. It was a one for one exchange. 45 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: Now Russia's getting back one of the world's most notorious 46 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: arms dealer while they're at war. And would anyone be 47 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: surprised by the way if we see a story one 48 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 1: day about you know, is the is selling US weaponry 49 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: given to Ukraine or US weaponry confiscated by the Taliban? 50 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: Who knows? So anyway, the US to get Brittany Griner free. 51 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: I'm happy she's free. I mean that. And I know 52 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: all about her history. I know her position on the 53 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 1: national anthem. I'll get to that too. It doesn't matter. 54 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: She's an American. She was being used politically by Putin. 55 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: This was an excessive sentence. It was ruining her life, 56 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: you know, as an athlete, chilling as a small window 57 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: in terms of career opportunity to make money. But to 58 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: get her free, this prisoner's change was with this arms 59 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: dealer by the name of Victor Boot. His nickname is 60 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: the Merchant of Death. Now he's a Russian arms dealer, 61 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: He's been serving a twenty five year prison sentence in 62 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: the US on charges of conspiring to kill Americans, acquire 63 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: an export anti aircraft missiles, provide material support to a 64 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: terrorist organization. Convicted in twenty eleven. And Boot has maintained 65 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: his innocence, But every prisoner pretty much maintains their innocence innocence. 66 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: Some occasionally we convict innocent people, but not in this case. 67 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: He became the world's most notorious arms dealer by fueling 68 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: civil wars around the world. Boot originally made his name 69 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties arming young civil war fighters in Africa. 70 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: Was arrested in a two thousand and eight sting operation 71 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: in Thailand led by US drug enforcement agents that were 72 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: posing his Revolutionary Armed Forces for Colombia. This was years 73 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: in the making. It was an incredible successful operation called 74 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,239 Speaker 1: Operation Relentless, and was eventually handed over to the US 75 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: in twenty ten. Convicted in twenty eleven after a protracted 76 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: court proceeding. And anyway, they think he's fifty five years old, etc. 77 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: He had been held in a US penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary. 78 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: How do you say the word in Maryon, Illinois? In 79 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: a special unit nickname Little Guantanamo because it's so restrictive. 80 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: Boot was the inspiration for Nicholas Cage's character in a 81 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: two thousand and five movie called Lord of War, which 82 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: I've never seen. Here's where things we need some answers. Again. 83 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: I'm very happy that Britney Griner is free. I said 84 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: it many times that I wanted her to be freed. 85 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 1: I wanted our government to engage. I understand sometimes in 86 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: negotiations you give more than you probably should. In this 87 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: particular case, it sounds like the price was too high, 88 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: and especially considering what we now know, and that is 89 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: about Paul Whalen. He's a fifty one year old resident 90 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: of Michigan, was arrested, was arrested, and he's been in 91 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: the Russian prison since twenty eighteen. And the question is 92 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: why didn't they go after him? Now? The family of 93 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: US Marine Paul Whalen again he's been detained now since 94 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen on this espionage conviction the US believes to 95 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: be false, has come out and supported the deal to 96 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: bring Whalen's Russian detainee, Brittany Career home, but in a 97 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: statement given to CBS and other outlets, Paul Whalen's brother, 98 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: guy by the name of David Whalen, spoke out in 99 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: support of the swap. There's no greater success than for 100 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: a wrongful detainee to be freed and for them to 101 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: go home. The Biden administration made the right decision to 102 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: bring miss Grinder home and to make the deal possible, 103 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 1: rather than waiting for one that wasn't going to happen, 104 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 1: and Whalen noted the President Joe Biden's administration gave the 105 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: family a heads up that the Grinder deal was being made. 106 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: The early warning meant that our family has been able 107 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: to mentally, mentally prepare for what is a public disappointment 108 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: for us and what is a catastrophe for Paul. Now, 109 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: obviously they're being very very gracious. Now here's where things 110 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: go sideways for Joe Biden. Now. NBC News just put 111 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: out a report contradicting Joe Biden's claim that Russia offered 112 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: to free only Brittany Griner in exchange for this Russian 113 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: arms dealer and that the releasing of the marine and 114 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: Iraq war veteran Paul Whalen was never on the table, 115 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: and commenting this morning on the fact that Whalen will 116 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: remain imprisoned in Russia while Griner goes free. Biden said 117 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: this was not a choice. Biden said, sadly, for illegitimate reasons, 118 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: Russia has treated Paul's case differently than Brittany's, and while 119 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: we have not yet succeeded in securing Paul's release, we 120 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: have not given up. Now here's where NBC News they're 121 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: saying it's not true what Biden said from NBC News, 122 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: I read verbatim. A senior US official told NBC News 123 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: that the US government had sought to have both Griner 124 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: and Whalen released as part of the swap with the Kremlin, 125 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: but the officials said Russia has treated Whalen differently because 126 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: he's an accused spy, and that the Kremlin gave the 127 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: Biden White House the choice of either Griner or Whalen 128 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: or none, which then begs the question, why did Biden 129 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,559 Speaker 1: pick Britney Griner, who's been in prison for just about 130 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: ten months. Paul Whalen has been a serving time in 131 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: the Gulag since December of twenty eighteen, and I think 132 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: a lot of By the way, if the choice was there, 133 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: it's a far more serious charge that Paul Whalen is 134 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: facing than what Britney Griner was facing, meaning down the 135 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: road it would be easier to get Griner, I think 136 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: in a prisoner exchange here. But anyway, people are gonna 137 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: wonder why a marine has served his country in Iraq. 138 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: Did Biden pass over Whalen for Grinder? And if he did, 139 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 1: why is he lying to us about it? You know? 140 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: And you know, and then people have brought up the 141 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: fact that in twenty twenty in the Arizona Republic, Britney 142 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: Griner said that she didn't think the national anthem should 143 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: ever be played before w NBA A games and that 144 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: she would not be on the floor if it was 145 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: social media than you know, mocked the sentence that she 146 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: had received nine years in prison because they didn't like 147 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: her political position. That to me shouldn't have any impacts. 148 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: She's an American that's being held unjustly in Russia, an 149 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: enemy country, and you want her home. So you know, 150 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: we can be happy for Britney Griner and her family. 151 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: And it's something that we stated before that we wished 152 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: would happen. But was the price too high? And why 153 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,599 Speaker 1: didn't Biden insist if we're going to give you this lunatic, 154 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: you know, this merchant of death as he's called. If 155 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 1: we're going to give you the merchants of death, we 156 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: should at least get back our marine. And Britney Griner, 157 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: why didn't you drive a better bargain? This is not 158 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: the best. This is not apples for apples. Here you're 159 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: talking about a minor marijuana in fraction versus you know, 160 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: a guy that is a world renowned arms dealer that 161 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: was convicted of trying to kill Americans, among other things, 162 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: conspiring to kill Americans. So you know, the question is 163 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: you know what happens to all Whalen now? And anyway, 164 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: by the way, and Mark Fogel as a teacher, and 165 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: there are also our lives, you know, Biden, is it 166 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 1: because Britney Grinder was famous, she was a basketball player. 167 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: I mean, should she have gotten nine years in prison 168 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: for a minor We don't know. She shouldn't. But Paul 169 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: Whalen needs to be set free too. And Biden demonstrated 170 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 1: to Putin that Russia's hostage diplomacy works, because this is 171 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: about as good a deal as as Putin could ever 172 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: hope for. There's no there's no equality in this deal, 173 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 1: And does that mean it's going to result to more 174 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: Americans being grabbed by Russian security services if they're on 175 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,559 Speaker 1: Russian soil. Now, by the way, I'd recommend no American 176 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: go to a hostile regime like Russia. I mean, you 177 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: know all these people that do deals with hostile nations, 178 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 1: I want no part of it. I'm never doing a 179 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: deal with China in my life. I'm never doing a 180 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: deal with Russia in my life. I'm never doing a 181 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: deal with most of them, these Middle Eastern countries of 182 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 1: my life, or Venezuela or Iran or any of these countries. 183 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people do them. You 184 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: read about it all the time. I want no part 185 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: of it now. The Daily Mail had an interesting side 186 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: note in all of this that the Saudi Crown Prince 187 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: the other merchant to death of you will, according to 188 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:23,439 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, the Parian nation of Saudi Arabia, the murderer 189 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: of Jamal Kashogi. According to Biden, MBS led the talks 190 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: to help Biden free Britney Griner in this prisoner swap. 191 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but they're claiming that, 192 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: in fact, that that's true, and what role they may 193 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: or may not have played is beyond any any information 194 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: that I have about this. But this prisoner swap is 195 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: getting a lot of play by a lot of different people. 196 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: And I think if I'm Paul Whalen and his brother 197 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: and his family, and you were told one thing by 198 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 1: the President and NBC News is reporting the exact opposite, 199 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: then you have to ask the question, well, wait a minute, 200 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,719 Speaker 1: why did you lie to us? And if you have 201 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: the choice, why wouldn't you take the person that was 202 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: there a lot longer, that had far more severe charges, 203 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: Because it should be on paper at least easier to 204 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: get out somebody with a minor WE conviction than somebody 205 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: that they're they're viewing as a potential spy. So don't 206 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: you know, let's see what happens. I'm not nobody's saying 207 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: that this is a good deal. This is the dumbest 208 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: deal ever, however, you know, and what Biden should have 209 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: done is demanded that he get both uh John Paul 210 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: Well and whatever his name is out along with Brittney Griner. 211 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: That would have been the deal at that point. If 212 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna have released the merchant of death, that would 213 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,559 Speaker 1: be the deal. If you're going to do that. Amazing 214 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: Democrats member back in the day arms for hostages and 215 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: how they felt about it. Um, I'm of the mindset 216 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: that I want I don't want our fellow Americans in 217 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 1: this case now we're talking about Paul Whalen. I don't 218 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: want any American held by a hostile regime. And if 219 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: you can make a deal that is you know that 220 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: is going to get them free, I'm willing to go far. 221 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: This is the worst deal imaginable because I would bet 222 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: if they would have held out, they probably could have 223 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,199 Speaker 1: gotten the two of them free. Just guessing. I doubt 224 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: Donald Trump would have gone for this deal. He would 225 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: have demanded more. God only knows what Putin would demand 226 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: for freeing Paul Whalen. I mean, who knows. It's it's 227 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: got to be so disappointing for him and his family. 228 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: But the question the family is gonna want to have 229 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: answered and deserves to have answered, is were they given 230 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: a choice to Joe Biden line of them? Because that's 231 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 1: what NBC is claiming. Not Sean Hannity, I'm going by 232 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: the NBC report. You got to give Republicans some credit 233 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: when they do something good. And the House of Representatives 234 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: now passed their Defense funding Bill eight hundred and fifty 235 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: eight billion, and in it they got rid of the 236 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: vaccine mandate for the military, and it was also approved 237 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: by the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden. That 238 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: was one of Kevin McCarthy's promises that he would get done. 239 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: I know, the battle over leadership continues. We shouldn't be 240 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: hearing more about that, and probably any day now, That's 241 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: what I'm being told, my sources are telling me. House 242 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: Republicans also released a plan to restore border security, including 243 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: finishing the wall and bringing back the stay in Mexico 244 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: policy that was extraordinarily successful if you listen to may Orcas, 245 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: or you'll listen to Joe Biden. Oh, the border wall 246 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: is secure. The border is secure. No, it's not secure. 247 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: We're gonna have five million people in two years entering 248 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: this country illegally because of Joe Biden not enforcing the 249 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: law and aiding in a betting law breaking all right, 250 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: twenty five to the top of the hour, Republicans, and 251 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: we have some interest, We need some answers from Biden, 252 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: not only on this merchant of death exchange, but Republicans 253 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: now are going to have to investigate why did Joe 254 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: Biden give China a two hundred million dollar grant a 255 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: Chinese battery company despite our own intelligence communities repeated warnings 256 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: that China poses the greatest threat to our national security. 257 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: So Joe Biden awards a Chinese battery company two hundred 258 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: million dollars your dollars. It's not alone, it's not an investment. 259 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: It's a grant. A grant means there's no strings attached 260 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: to it. Washington Free Beacon, says Top Republicans on the 261 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: Senate Energy Committee, launched an inquiry on Wednesday into why 262 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: the Biden administration granted a China based battery company under 263 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: scrutiny from US financial regulators, and the announcement came in 264 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: the wake of the Beacon report about the Biden Administration's 265 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: attempt to spind the grant as a boon for America 266 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: Made clean energy. Senator Barasso, the ranking member of the 267 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said the Department of 268 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: Energies grant in this particular case undermines the US's position 269 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: in its race against China for technological supremacis why are 270 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: we funding the Wuhan Virology lab. Why are we funding 271 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: a Chinese battery company, giving them grants, giving them our money? 272 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: Why are we doing this? What part of China being 273 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: an enemy hostile regime does Biden not understand? Is this 274 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: is just insanity. And it even gets worse now we 275 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: see Biden is going to reward as friends at the 276 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: Teamsters Union and offer thirty six billion of your dollars 277 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: to bail out the Teamsters pension fund. Why don't we 278 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: look into what they did with the money that was 279 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: in the fund and how they lost the money that 280 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: was in the fund. Anyway, he announced yesterday or earlier today, 281 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 1: spending thirty six billion taxpayer dollars to bail out the 282 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: Teamsters Union's pension plan, which is projected now to run 283 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: out of money by a twenty twenty five. The money 284 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: being doled out to Central States Pension Fund, the largest 285 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: ever federal bailout of any pension plan. Now you want 286 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: to you wonder why unions support Democrats and donate all 287 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: their money and force rank and file members to you know, 288 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: give over money to Democratic candidates. Is it a thirty 289 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 1: six billion dollars you know, gift to the unions not. 290 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: I care about that. I care about people's retirements plan. 291 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: But if money was given by the rank and file 292 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: and put away for their retirement, well, how did they 293 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: squander it? We're not even going to ask that question, 294 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:59,440 Speaker 1: because that's a question that should be answered. It's unbelievable. Now, 295 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: I want you to pay attention. This may not sound 296 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: like a big deal to you, but this is a 297 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: very big deal if the threshold is now going Remember 298 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: one of the promises Republicans have made is they're going 299 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 1: to defund the eighty seven thousand IRS agents that they 300 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: want to hire and anyway, so but if they in 301 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: fact it working, that's more than doubling the number of 302 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 1: IRS agents we have in the country. In other words, now, 303 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 1: is it going to impact my life? Probably not, because 304 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 1: it's probably going to impact many of your lives. You're 305 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: just gonna end up with the Hannity treatment, which is up, 306 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: it's Hannity Puller's file. Let's audit them every single year. 307 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 1: And meanwhile, I have two accounting firms on a law 308 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 1: firm go over my taxes. Because I'm not making a 309 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: mistake on my taxes. I'm paying every penny and then some. 310 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't tell you how many conversations I have. Well, 311 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,239 Speaker 1: this is really a legitimate deduction. They may question it, 312 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,959 Speaker 1: but it's a legitimate deduction. I'm like, pay it. Just 313 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: why do I want to? Why do I want to 314 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 1: deal with these people? It's not worth that. At some 315 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: point anyway, the current threshold for reporting payments are going 316 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: from twenty thousand dollars to six hundred dollars. Now, if 317 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 1: you think about that in terms of you know, venmo 318 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 1: or any of these means that people transfer money. Do 319 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: you use Venmo, Linda, I don't ever use this. Oh, okay, Venmo? 320 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: What's the other one? Paypals? Another one? If you use okay? 321 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: So now you're gonna have to send a ten ninety 322 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: nine for every person that you send six hundred or 323 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 1: more dollars too, and probably if you don't, then you're 324 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: gonna have to answer why you didn't. Like, for example, um, 325 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: did you get your Christmas bonus yet? I don't even know. 326 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: I would have to check that. You'd have to check that, 327 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: all right, So I give Christmas bonuses every year. But 328 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: then also you get a follow up from from my 329 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: accountant that says you have to fill out of ten 330 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: ninety nine. Right, Um, I mean I've been here a 331 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: long time. They have my ten ninety nine. Okay, but 332 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 1: every year you get a ten ninety nine. Jason, you 333 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: you confirm you get a ten ninety nine every year? Right? Yes? 334 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: I think maybe it was sent just in case any 335 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: information changed. It didn't, but I filled it out anyway. 336 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: I got you. But I mean, so you know we 337 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,360 Speaker 1: have to you have to literally dot every cross every tea. 338 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: Now that's for twenty thousand dollars. Now they're gonna make 339 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 1: you do it for six hundred bucks. So for all 340 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: this talk that they're going after the rich people, the 341 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: rich people have the accountants, The rich people have the lawyers. 342 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: The rich people know the laws inside and out. Now 343 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm trust me. I don't know any of 344 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 1: this stuff. But I'm just telling you this is insanity. 345 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: They're just they're gonna harass us to death over six 346 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: hundred dollars financial exchanges. What if you sell a few 347 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: items in your closet, somebody buys up at six hundred bucks, 348 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: or you better send them at ten ninety nine, or 349 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: you get a ten ninety nine, whatever it happens to be. 350 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,920 Speaker 1: Or you buy something for six hundred bucks. The better 351 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: fill out that ten ninety nine. Now get this. The 352 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 1: Biden administration also announced the new proposal that's going to 353 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: prevent new or newly renovated federal buildings from being powered 354 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: by fossil fuels by twenty thirty. What are they going 355 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,719 Speaker 1: to power them with? Oh? Electricity? Okay, where does electricity 356 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: come from the grid? What is the grid made of? 357 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: That's right, fossil fuels? That's great. Have you heard of 358 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: these ESG accounts? These? It could violate anti trust laws, 359 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: you know. Now you can put pensions in this, in 360 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: these funds that are green as you call them, and anyway, 361 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: which I think is a far more riskier investment economists 362 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: predict already saying this year has been a watershed moment 363 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,719 Speaker 1: in real estate, and not a good one. The housing market, 364 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,120 Speaker 1: closely watched industry metric that gauges the outlook of our 365 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: home sales declined to thirty three in November on one 366 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: hundred point scale. That is the lowest level in a 367 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: decade save for you know, one of the months during 368 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: the pandemic. Anything under fifty means real trouble for the 369 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: housing industry. A month earlier, interest rates. Get this. We 370 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: started the year with interest rates for a thirty year 371 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 1: fixed rate mortgage at at three percent, when now over 372 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: seven percent, and we're going to get another rate hike. 373 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's this week or next week. 374 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: Whenever we I guess next week. At this point, we'll 375 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: probably get another rate hike, either a half basis point 376 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: or a three quarter basis point increase that's going to 377 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: bring in a thirty year fixed rate mortgage to eight percent. 378 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: You know, buy a five hundred thousand dollar house now, 379 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna pay two thousand more dollars than you would 380 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: have paid in January of this year. That's how bad 381 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: these interest rate hikes are and how they're impacting you, 382 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: the American consumer. Who's gonna buy a house now and 383 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: pay two thousand dollars more per month? And who's going 384 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: to sell a house when you got a two point 385 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: seven percent thirty year fixed rate. Nobody's going to do it. 386 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Elon Musk is about to drop his second 387 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: you know a bit of information if you will, as 388 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: it relates to the suppression of the hunter Biden's story. 389 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 1: I don't know what they've got left one of the 390 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: questions that they were asking here, and Elon Musk even 391 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: said it himself, and Miranda Divine at a good column 392 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: about this reporting that you know after FBI Russia Gate 393 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: hoaxer former general counsel for the FBI, James Baker, who 394 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: was working as Twitter's general counsel, he's fired because of 395 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: Elon Musk this week anyway, He's worried that they may 396 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: have deep sick some of Twitter's most important files related 397 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell, Miranda 398 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: Rights having parachuted into Twitter conveniently five months before the 399 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty election as the deputy General counsel and Vice president. 400 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: Former top FBI lawyer James Baker played an instrumental role 401 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 1: in the censorship of the Post Hunter Biden laptop story 402 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: in October twenty twenty, and Baker was involved in the 403 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: potential suppression of material that Musk ordered release from Twitter's 404 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 1: files last Friday to reveal who was involved in killing 405 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: the New York Post story and preventing the derogatory material 406 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 1: about a candidate Joe Biden from being disseminated widely. Because 407 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: all of it was true, the most important data was 408 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: hidden and may have been deleted, Musk says, and he's 409 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: worried about it. In his interview that he had he 410 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 1: actually talked to Baker before he fired him. This was 411 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: a pretty interesting, unreported part of the story here. But 412 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: Musk questioned Baker before the firing about the event surrounding 413 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 1: the laptop suppression scandal, and he said the lawyer's explanation 414 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:51,360 Speaker 1: was unconvincing his words, and I bet it was unconvincing 415 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways. I mean, you think 416 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: about the FBI's involvement in this. You think about Jane, 417 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: how did James Baker involved in the Russia collusion hoax himself? 418 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: You know, how did he get this top position at 419 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: a time heading into the election. I'll think about this. 420 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: The FBI had Hunters laptop. They had this in December 421 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen. They had eleven months before the twenty 422 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,719 Speaker 1: twenty election. They had all the opportunity if they wanted 423 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: it to look into whether the laptop was authentic. It 424 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: turns out it was authentic, then the question is why 425 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: the FBI got involved in the first place, and why 426 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: the FBI was having meetings weekly meetings with all these 427 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: big tech companies. Why the FBI was warning all these 428 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 1: big tech companies to be on the lookout for hacked 429 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: material or leaked operations from foreign actors. You know Twitter's 430 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: former head of cite integrity, Yol Roth, just last week 431 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: in this case with Eric Schmidt that we've been telling 432 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: you about. It's why we keep having Eric Schmidt on 433 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: the program. He's the one that testified they absolutely were 434 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: warning about a hack and leak operation on a weekly basis, 435 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: and they absolutely mentioned that it might be about Hunter Biden. Now, 436 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: the FBI had the laptop, they knew Rudy Giuliani had 437 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: the laptop, they knew the likelihood was pretty high that 438 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: that laptop story was going to leak before the twenty 439 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,120 Speaker 1: twenty election. So in the lead up to the league, 440 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: they decided to get ahead of it by getting big 441 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 1: tech companies to believe that it's going to be some 442 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: type of misinformation or propaganda from some you know, some 443 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: outside entity or force or enemy or hostile regime anyway. 444 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: So the FBI asked, Facebook, asked Twitter, asked all these 445 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: big tech companies to be on high alert for a 446 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: dump of Russian propaganda, likely hacked, etc. Etc. Mark Zuckerberg 447 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 1: even told Joe Rogan at the time about the FBI 448 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: warning them to be on high alert for a dump 449 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: of Russia propaganda. And so if you have Twitter admitting 450 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: that they were talking about propaganda involving Hunter, well they 451 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: knew that the Hunter Biden laptop story was likely to 452 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: come out. So now if it's perfectly now we understand. 453 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: And the FBI agent who organized these weekly meetings with 454 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: the big tech companies, this guy, Elvis Kahn, I think 455 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 1: is how you'd pronounce his name. Anyway, his postgraduate thesis 456 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: claimed that Russia interfered with the twenty sixteenth election to 457 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: help former President Donald Trump. Okay, he should have gotten 458 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: an F on his thesis because he's wrong. Anyway, He's 459 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: the one that organized the weekly meetings with big tech companies, 460 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: and conveniently, when questioned by the Solicitor General of Missouri 461 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 1: under oath, he couldn't remember ever bringing up the name 462 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. But on the other hand, also questioned under oath, 463 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 1: Twitter's former head of Sight Integrity, you old Roth, said yeah, 464 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: they brought up Hunter Biden's name a lot. Unbelievable. Why 465 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: did the FBI get involved in this? Why did they 466 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: not because they wanted to put their finger on the 467 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: scale of the campaign. It's exactly what they did in 468 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. It didn't work out the way they wanted. 469 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: They knew this story would be explosive, so they basically 470 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 1: instead of debunking, they prebunked the Hunter Biden laptop story, 471 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,479 Speaker 1: preparing all of these big social media companies, this is 472 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: likely going to be hacked material, this is likely going 473 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,679 Speaker 1: to be Russian disinformation. You're not going to want to 474 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 1: publish this. And sure enough these companies didn't publish it. 475 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: And at Twitter, the General Council was involved in the 476 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: Russia collusion hoax to begin with. The organizer Apparently this 477 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: guy Khan is friendly with not only Baker, but if 478 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: the likes of struck in Page. According to one report 479 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: that I heard or one source that I talked to, 480 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: so you know, Elon Musk very bravely is saying, hey, yeah, 481 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: Twitter was involved as acting as the arm of the 482 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: Democratic Party. They were, you know, the media mob was 483 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: completely complicit and lying to the American people by not 484 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: giving them accurate information. And he said by shutting down 485 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: to centing voices, that is by its very definition, election interference, 486 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: and yet it all happened. I can't believe it. By 487 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: the way, one other thing that I learned I went 488 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: through you know all these how yesterday Republicans need to 489 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: embrace the tactics of ballots as it involves campaigns. And 490 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: we went through, for example, all the different laws in 491 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: terms of what it means to do ballot harvesting. Let 492 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: me just point out something that every Republican needs to know. 493 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: In Nevada, Adam Laxall was outspent by forty five million. 494 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: In Wisconsin, Ron Johnson was outspent by twenty three million. 495 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: In Georgia, herschel Walker was outspent by one hundred million dollars. 496 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: In Arizona, Blake Masters was outspent by sixty five million dollars. 497 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: If you look at North Carolina, Ted Bud was outspent 498 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: twenty eight million, Doctor Oz thirty nine million. He was 499 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: outspent by General Bulldock outspent by thirty two million. Ohio 500 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: j d Vance outspend by eleven million. Tiffany Smiley was 501 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: outspent by seven million. Joe O'Day was outspent by twenty 502 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: three million. In Colorado, even Marco Rubio was outspent by 503 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: twenty one million. That's on the Republicans and not funding 504 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: their candidates to the degree they should. I'll come back 505 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: without the latest on the Twitter issue and the FBI's involvement. 506 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 1: Straight ahead