1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:01,640 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz weekend Review, Ben Ferguson 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 2: with you, and these are the stories that you may 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 2: have missed that we talked about this week. First up, 5 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 2: Senator Marsha Blackburn and Senator Ted Cruz have joined together 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 2: asking for the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs to be made 7 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,799 Speaker 2: public with a subpoena. What will happen moving forward and 8 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 2: why are Democrats blocking it? 9 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 1: We'll have that for you. 10 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 2: Also, Israel funding Democrats saying no, but they want you 11 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 2: to send billions to Ukraine, and now it's all involved 12 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: with border security. 13 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: We'll have the latest on that financial fight. 14 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 2: And finally the latest with a Biden impeachment inquiry moving 15 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 2: forward and what this means for the days ahead. It 16 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 2: is the weekend review and it starts right now. Senator, 17 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 2: I want to move on to another issue this week 18 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: that was kind of shocking. Your colleague, Senator Marsha Blackburn 19 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 2: from Tennessee has asked for a basic request and that 20 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 2: is subpeeda the Epstein flight log They exist, we should 21 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 2: know who is. 22 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 3: On those planes. 23 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: And Dick Durbin kind of wanted to have it both ways, claiming, hey, 24 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: I didn't really know about this, so therefore I don't 25 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 2: have to do it, but I'm willing to talk about it. 26 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 2: But this should be a simple like yes or no 27 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 2: question for him. Do you want Epstein's call, you know, 28 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: flight logs to be out there? 29 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 4: Yes. 30 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 3: Do we want to know who's on those planes? Yes? 31 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:24,839 Speaker 3: Do we want to know who's involved and this human 32 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 3: and sex trafficking? Yes? 33 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 2: So why is he defending it? And you may have 34 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 2: been as shocked as I was. This doesn't seem like 35 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 2: a smart political move yet. Maybe there's so many Democrats 36 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 2: that he's trying to protect. Here are big donors. I 37 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 2: don't understand it. 38 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 3: Yeah. 39 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 5: Look, look Durbin is doing everything he can to cover 40 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 5: this up, to hide the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs. Take 41 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 5: take a look right here. This is a Fox News 42 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 5: reporter questioning Dick Durbin as he walks to a judiciary 43 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 5: committee hearing give a listen, I don't know. 44 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 6: Anything about his flight logs. 45 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 7: Why won't you subpoena them? Why don't you want to 46 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 7: know the issue? 47 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 6: I know who was, but I certainly don't know anything 48 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 6: about the issue. 49 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 7: Well, he was charged with sex trafficking, so why don't 50 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 7: you want to know who was utilizing his private plane. 51 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 6: Never been raised by anyone. 52 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 7: Senator Blackburn has wanted to subpoena them, and there hasn't 53 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 7: been a vote. 54 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: In your commission. 55 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 6: But to me, not a word. 56 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 7: But aren't you curious, like what high profile or powerful 57 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 7: people might be closeted predators and pedophiles. Doesn't that concern you? 58 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 7: So why won't you subpoena them if you can? 59 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 6: It's the first time anyone has raised it, Thank you Fox. 60 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 7: So do you are you curious about it? Will you 61 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 7: do it? All? 62 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 8: Right? 63 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 5: So Durbin is lying, just like when Claudie and Gay 64 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 5: said Harvard doesn't know how many Jewish students we have Bloney, 65 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 5: Yes they do. Durbin is flat outlined. Let me give 66 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 5: you some backstory. This fight occurred in the context and 67 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 5: we talked about this in a podcast about a week ago. Yeah, 68 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 5: where the Democrats subpoenaed Harlan Crowe and Leonard Leo. Harlan 69 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 5: Crowe very successful real estate developer based here in Texas 70 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 5: and Dallas. Leonard Leo has been very active with the 71 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 5: Federalist Society for a long time, very active in helping 72 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 5: with judicial selection, in fighting for constitutionalist judges. The Democrats 73 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 5: hate them, and the subpoenas going after Harlan Crowe and 74 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 5: going after Leonard Leo are part of their ongoing effort 75 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 5: to harass the Supreme Court, to delegitimize the Supreme Court, 76 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 5: and in particular to target Clarence Thomas. They despise Clarence Thomas. 77 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 5: So in response to that, a number of Republicans had 78 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 5: different amendments that we were pushing that if they were 79 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 5: going to force a vote on the subpoenas, we were 80 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 5: going to force a vote on our amendments. So when 81 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 5: we went into it, I had an amendment that would 82 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 5: subpoena the GPS data for Hunter Biden's cell phone and 83 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 5: Joe Biden's cell phone at the exact moment that Hunter 84 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 5: Biden sent the WhatsApp next to the Chinese Communists saying 85 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 5: I'm sitting here next to my father. Because we know 86 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 5: from the irs whistleblowers that when the investigators wanted to 87 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 5: find out was he in fact sitting next to Joe 88 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 5: Biden when he was extorting the Chinese communists, the Biden 89 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 5: DOJ blocked that and said, Nope, you can't find that out. 90 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 5: So that's what I wanted to tea up. I think 91 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 5: that was important. I think we should have voted for it. 92 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 5: I'm going to continue to look for an avenue to 93 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 5: vote for it. Marsha Blackburn came up with I think 94 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 5: it even better idea of a subpoena to vote on, 95 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 5: and her idea was that we should subpoena the Epstein 96 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 5: estate for the flight logs to his plane and in 97 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 5: particular the Lalita Express. The Express, the private jet that 98 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 5: flew down to Jeffrey Epstein's island with lots and lots 99 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 5: of politicians, allegedly mostly Democrats. We don't know, We don't 100 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 5: know who was on it. 101 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, show it. If there's a Republican, find find out 102 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 3: who they are. 103 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 5: Now, we do know that Epstein was an original friend 104 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 5: to Bill, that he was very close with Bill Clinton. 105 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 5: He was so close with Bill Clinton. Do you know 106 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 5: what Jeffrey Epstein had hanging on the wall and maybe. 107 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 2: One of the creepiest, weirdest things ever. Yeah, go go 108 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 2: ahead and tell everybody, because it's truly shocking. 109 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 5: A painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress Monticarry 110 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 5: red high heeled pumps. Like it's just weird. Yeah, that's 111 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 5: what Epstein had hanging on his wall in his New 112 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 5: York house. So Marsha Blackburn introduced an amendment to subpoena 113 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 5: the flight logs. I thought her idea was fantastic, so 114 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 5: I co sponsored her her amendment. So it was a 115 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 5: Blackburn Cruise amendment to subpoena the flight logs. Now, the 116 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 5: first time we were going to vote on on on 117 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 5: the subpoenas on Harlan Crow and Leonardale, we didn't vote 118 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 5: on them. And I can tell you, like all the Republicans, 119 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 5: we were all ready for combat. Let's go battle the Democrats. 120 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 5: This is a partisan witch hunt. And what happened. So 121 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 5: back behind the Diist there's a conference room where the 122 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 5: Judiciary Committee meets that you have the diists there and 123 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 5: behind it there's a conference room and you can go 124 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 5: and have meetings there. I can tell you Dick Durbin 125 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 5: was sitting in that conference room with John Ossoff, the 126 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,919 Speaker 5: freshman Democrat senator from Georgia who serves on Judiciary, and 127 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 5: Durbin and Osoff were having a heated, heated conversation. I 128 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 5: don't know for sure what they were discussing. I didn't 129 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 5: overhear their conversation, but it was energetic, and it delayed 130 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 5: and delayed and delayed, and then it Durbin ended up 131 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 5: deciding not to vote on the subpoenas. And I'll tell 132 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 5: you all the Republican senators who were like, what's going on? Yeah, 133 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 5: and a number of us thought it was a number 134 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 5: of Republican senators suggested the problem was Ossoff told Durbin 135 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 5: he was not willing to vote on the Epstein subpoena. Now, 136 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 5: I don't know if that's because he didn't want it 137 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 5: voted on or he didn't want to vote. No, I 138 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 5: don't know why, and I don't know if it's true. 139 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 5: I mean, we were Durbin never explained any of it 140 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 5: to us. He just canceled it. Fast forward then to 141 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 5: when they did vote vote out the subpoenas. The way 142 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 5: he did so, he allowed no amendments. He just rammed 143 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 5: it through and blocked all amendments. And so the logical 144 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 5: inference is the only way Durbin could get his votes 145 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 5: for the Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo subpoenas is to 146 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 5: stop a vote on the Jeffrey Epstein subpoena. And somebody 147 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 5: and I think the most likely candidate is John Ossoff 148 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 5: really really really doesn't want to vote on that. I 149 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 5: think that's all the more reason to vote on it. 150 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 5: And by the way, if Osoff is listening to this 151 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 5: and he says, hey, that's not true, I'm happy to 152 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 5: vote on it. 153 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 3: Great, let's vote on it. 154 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 5: Let's vote on it. There's an easy way to resolve it. 155 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 5: But it's interesting. So Fox News asked Durbin that question 156 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 5: in the hallway. You saw it the end, like, thikes Fox, 157 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 5: This like nastiness. Well, what happened next was interesting. So 158 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 5: Durbin went into the hearing room and he tried to 159 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 5: try to rehabilitate himself. 160 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, I cover your ass politics. 161 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 5: So watch what he said as soon as he came 162 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 5: into the hearing room. 163 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 9: Senator Blackburn, before you leave, I want to make a 164 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 9: point for the record, since I understand you made some 165 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 9: statements about the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs. There's a Fox 166 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 9: reporter in the hallway who asked me about this, and 167 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 9: I said, I had not spoken to you one time 168 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 9: about this issue. I think you'll back me up on that. 169 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 9: I'm not mistaken. I didn't know that this was even 170 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 9: a subject of your amendments, which, if you recall, you 171 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 9: were the first on the list until the two hour 172 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 9: rules invoked. I don't know anything about this request on 173 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,599 Speaker 9: your part. I'll be happy to discuss it with you, 174 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 9: but I haven't done any discussion with you to this point. 175 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 8: Mister Chairman, I know, and I think you're fully aware 176 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 8: that I had two amendments, one dealing with Epstein and 177 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 8: so to me, or i'd brought it up previously. 178 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 9: I have to confess I didn't know that you'd offer 179 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 9: that amendment. Happy to discuss it with you, but I 180 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 9: want to point on the record, you and I have 181 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 9: never personally discussed this have we. 182 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 8: We talked briefly on the floor, as never mentioned. 183 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 6: What the subject matter your amendment was. 184 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: You said you wanted offer committee. 185 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 8: I brought up the subject matter of my amendments. 186 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 3: Not in my presence. Do you believe him? 187 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,839 Speaker 5: Well, the nice thing is, as they say, we can 188 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 5: roll the tape. What he said there is a flat 189 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 5: out lie. It is objectively false, and we're going to 190 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 5: show that to you, and in just a moment it 191 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 5: is unequivocally false. It is possible, giving him enormous benefit 192 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 5: of the doubt, he forgot. Yeah, it is possible it 193 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 5: was not a knowing lie, but it is unequivocally, one, 194 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 5: one hundred percent demonstrably false that the words he said 195 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 5: are wrong. And I'll show you why. We're going to 196 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 5: right now play the tape of that first hearing. Now, 197 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 5: I was there, Marsha Blackburn was there, and Dick Durbin 198 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 5: was there, and you're gonna hear Marcia bring up her 199 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 5: amendment about Jeffrey Epstein. He just said, you've never mentioned 200 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 5: Jeffrey Epstein in my presence. I was not physically present. Well, 201 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 5: you're going to see Dick Derbin recognize her and then 202 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 5: cut her off while she's bringing up Jeffrey Epstein. Roll 203 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 5: the tape. 204 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,719 Speaker 8: I seek recognition, Senator Blackburn. Since we're in the business 205 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 8: of issuing subpoenas, now here are a few more that 206 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 8: I filed a subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein's estate to provide 207 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 8: the flight logs for his private playing. 208 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 9: Thanks, Senator. When I recognize you, I didn't know what 209 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 9: subject you wish to speak to. As I announced at 210 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 9: the beginning, the first thing will consider the two judicial nominations. 211 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 6: Then we will move to the subpoena. 212 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 2: So she's speaking. He's in the middle of the room. 213 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 2: He's right there in the middle. It's direct eye contact. 214 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 5: He's looking directly at her. He's at the hearing room. 215 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 5: He's in the center center. I'm in between Durbin and 216 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 5: Marsha Blackburn. We're all sitting there. She flat out says, 217 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 5: I want a subpoena Jeffrey Epstein's flight records AND's and 218 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 5: he hears it. He recognizes her. Then he interrupts and says, no, 219 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 5: I want to do some other stuff first. This is 220 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 5: easy to resolve. We should subpoena Epstein's flight records. If 221 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 5: there are politicians Democrat or a Republican or anybody else 222 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 5: who was on that plane who was going to that 223 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 5: island who was molesting and sexually assaulting children, we should 224 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 5: know who they are. We shouldn't have Jeffrey Epstein's client list. 225 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 5: And the fact that the Democrats are apparently in a 226 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 5: full on panic. I don't know if Durbin knows somebody 227 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 5: on that list, or multiple people, or I don't know 228 00:11:55,160 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 5: if they're just afraid. I don't know what their fear is, 229 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 5: but they're plainly terrified of voting on it. And if 230 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 5: I'm wrong. Durban can solve it very easily by bringing 231 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 5: it up for a vote and issuing the subpoena. And 232 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 5: to be clear, when we subpoena those flight logs, we 233 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 5: should make them public. I will tell you this, one 234 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 5: of my favorite moments in all of Senate Judiciary was 235 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 5: when John Kennedy leaned forward at a hearing and he said, 236 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 5: Christmas tree ornaments and Jeffrey Epstein, two things you know, 237 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 5: didn't hang themselves. 238 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 3: And this is why he is a legend of the Senate. 239 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 5: I almost laughed out a lung. And I'm sitting there 240 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 5: John sits a couple of seats to my right. I 241 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 5: almost fell over. I was like, I cannot believe he 242 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 5: just said that in a live and open hearing of 243 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 5: Senate Judiciary. He did, but it seems to me, I 244 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,559 Speaker 5: don't know if Jeffrey Epstein had a visit for Hillary 245 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 5: Clinton late at night. I don't know what happened, but 246 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 5: it seems to me Dick Durbin really, really really doesn't 247 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 5: want you to know what happened. 248 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 249 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 250 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, let's 251 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 2: talk about that Israeli funding, because this is really important. Obviously, 252 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 2: as you mentioned, democrats said hell no to it. No one, 253 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 2: not a single Democrat would go with you guys, What 254 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 2: does it look like now moving forward and how desperate 255 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 2: is the need from Israel at this point. It's amazing 256 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 2: that Democrats are going all in with Ukraine and the 257 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 2: corruption there asking no questions, whereas in Israel there's none 258 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 2: of those questions that need to be asked, and there's 259 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 2: transparency and we know what's going on, and yet they're saying, ah, 260 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 2: not so much. And even the White House now is 261 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 2: starting to distance themselves from Israel, changing their tune a 262 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 2: little bit over the last couple of days, which is 263 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,359 Speaker 2: what I expected, but it's also incredibly disheartening. 264 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 5: Well, look, the one word I disagree with that you 265 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 5: say there, As you said, even the White House listen, 266 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 5: We've outlined at length on this podcast how this White 267 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 5: House is the most anti Israel White House we've ever had, 268 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 5: and Joe Biden, this White House had been undermining Israel 269 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,359 Speaker 5: from the day Biden was sworn in as president repeatedly, 270 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 5: and we've outlined From the very first minutes of this 271 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 5: attack on October seventh, this White House has been undermining Israel, 272 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 5: has been urging Israel, do not retaliate, do not attack Hamas, 273 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 5: do not kill the terrorists from day one. The State Department, 274 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 5: the State Department literally tweeted that out on the night 275 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 5: of October seventh, while people were still being murdered, while 276 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 5: women and children were being raped. The State Department is 277 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 5: tweeting out, Israel, do not respond militarily, do not kill 278 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 5: the terrorists. And so, yes, you're right. The White House 279 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 5: doesn't really care about the Israel funding. In fact, we 280 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 5: know they don't because if they cared about it, we'd 281 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 5: pass it as a free standing bill. It has the 282 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 5: votes to pass as a free standing bill. But their 283 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 5: only interest on Israel funding is to use it as 284 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 5: a sweetener to try to convince Republicans to fund the 285 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 5: rest of the Democrats' priorities. And I think that's incredibly cynical. 286 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 5: I think it's wrong, and their focus is on Ukraine. 287 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 5: But it's interesting. If you want to take away from 288 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 5: what we've seen over the last six weeks in Washington, 289 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 5: it's the Democrats are much much more committed to open 290 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 5: borders than they are to the war in Ukraine, and 291 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 5: they're willing to abandon funding for Ukraine in order to 292 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 5: keep the tragedy of open borders at our southern border. 293 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 5: That is a higher priority for them. And it's incredibly 294 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 5: revealing because they self righteously claim otherwise. And look you 295 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 5: look at Wayseelenski came this week. It's Chuck Schumer trying 296 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 5: to browbeat Republicans into saying, give us what we want, 297 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 5: even though we will do nothing on the border. And 298 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 5: I think that has zero chance of success. 299 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 2: Senator, I want to also move to one other subject 300 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 2: real quick that I think is obviously an important one, 301 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 2: and that is to give an update on what's going 302 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 2: on now with impeachment. We've seen the House Committee is 303 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 2: going to vote on impeachment. The House Speaker, Mike Johnson 304 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 2: says the White House is impeding the investigation to President 305 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 2: Joe Biden and the next step will be a vote 306 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 2: to formalize an impeachment inquiry. This also as Fox News 307 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 2: is reporting that the Hunter Biden received two hundred and 308 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars wires originating in Beijing with a beneficiary 309 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 2: address listed as Joe Biden's home. This is all about, 310 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 2: as the House Oversight Committee put with the Biden's influence 311 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 2: peddling and what they have been doing. This vote center 312 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 2: is a very important vote and it's also going to 313 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 2: give Republicans more power. Explain why this vote is important 314 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 2: to happen now. 315 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 5: Well, the House is scheduled to vote today. It is 316 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 5: a vote on a resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry into 317 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 5: President Biden. And previously the High House had not scheduled 318 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 5: that vote because it wasn't clear that they had the 319 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 5: votes to pass it. And so Kevin McCarthy when he 320 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 5: was speaker, he didn't schedule it because it looked like 321 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 5: the votes weren't there. What Republicans are telling the press 322 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 5: at least is it looks like the votes are there. 323 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 5: And so a number of the Republicans who are in 324 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 5: blue districts that Biden carried are now moving forward. So, 325 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 5: for example, Mike Garcia in California said, quote, there is 326 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 5: enough substantiation to move forward, and quote the Executive branch 327 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 5: made clear they're not going to cooperate with the inquiry 328 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 5: unless we formalize it. So let's formalize it. Another one, 329 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 5: Mark Blinaro, who's a Republican from New York again in 330 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 5: the district Biden carried, said quote Congress has every responsibility 331 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 5: to provide oversight. There are serious questions of impropriety. The 332 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 5: White House and the President have yet to comply with 333 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 5: requests for information in subpoenas, adding that he is quote 334 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 5: inclined to support the measure. And another Republican from New 335 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 5: York again in a district and in fact, the most 336 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 5: Democrat leaning district of any Republican, Anthony Desposito, said said 337 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 5: that he will vote to authorize the inquiry. And so 338 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 5: what we're hearing is the votes are there. It's scheduled 339 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:23,679 Speaker 5: for a vote today, and the resolution directs the House Oversight, Judiciary, 340 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 5: and Ways and Means committees to quote continue their ongoing 341 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 5: investigations as a part of the existing House of Representatives 342 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 5: inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist to impeach Biden and 343 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 5: so formally voting this for this is a significant step forward, 344 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 5: and I'm glad they're going to do that. I hope 345 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 5: they pass it and we will discuss on the next 346 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 5: verdict what happens when the vote happens later today. 347 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 2: As before, if you want to hear the rest of 348 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 2: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and 349 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 2: now the podcasts from earlier this week to hear the 350 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 2: entire thing. I want to get back to the big 351 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 2: story number three three of the week. 352 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: You may have missed CENTA. 353 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 2: I want to move to the other major issue, and 354 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 2: they are very much intertwined, but separate, and so let's 355 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 2: look at this completely separately for a moment. The House 356 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 2: formalizing the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. There has been 357 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 2: a lot of media protection on this story, and I 358 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 2: think it's important that we remind people why this impeachment matters, 359 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 2: why it's not a witch hunt, how it's different from 360 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 2: what the Democrats did against Donald J. Trump when they knew. 361 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 2: For example, the Stell dossier was created by the DNC 362 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 2: and Hillary Clinton paid for by them. The FBI categorized 363 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 2: the Stele dohsier as user generated, meaning it was crap. 364 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 2: They even offered a million I think it was a 365 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 2: million dollars to Christopher Steel to authenticate anything in the Dohsier. 366 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,439 Speaker 2: Couldn't do it, and yet they still used it and 367 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 2: weaponized it to try to overthrow the will of the people. 368 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 2: And so I want people to understand that impeachment is important. 369 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: It shouldn't be used a political weapon, and Republicans are 370 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,879 Speaker 2: not using it as a political weapon. So let's go 371 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 2: back and remind people why the House is formalizing this 372 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 2: impeachment inquiry. 373 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 5: Well, the reason the House says open the impeachment inquiry 374 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 5: is because there is serious evidence of corruption. There is 375 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 5: serious evidence of bribery on behalf of the President of 376 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 5: the United States, and it's from multiple directions. But you know, 377 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 5: Jim Jordan sent out a very simple tweet that I 378 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 5: think is powerful. What Jim Jordan said was quote four 379 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 5: facts that will never change. One Hunter Biden sat on 380 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 5: Barisma's board, absolutely true. Two he was unqualified to do so, 381 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,919 Speaker 5: absolutely true. Three Barisma pressured him to get DC to 382 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 5: act on policy issues in Ukraine. And four Joe Biden 383 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 5: did just that. Now, of those four facts, the only 384 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 5: one the Democrats argue against even slightly is number three. 385 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 5: And they have some disputes. They say, well, well, no, 386 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 5: Barisma didn't really want the prosecutor fired who was investigating 387 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 5: the corrupt oligarch who owns Barisma because he was a 388 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 5: bad prosecutor. So they didn't really want him fired. Now, 389 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 5: I got to say that is an incredibly weak argument, 390 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 5: and it is contrary to the evidence the House is compiled. 391 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 5: But that's the whole of their argument. And so remember 392 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 5: when they say no direct evidence. We talked a minute 393 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 5: ago about what is bribery. Bribery is quid pro quo 394 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 5: this for that. That's the Latin phrase. That was for 395 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 5: Joe Biden to get the prosecutor fired in Ukraine. And 396 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 5: we know that Joe Biden did that. We know that 397 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 5: the quo happened because Joe Biden has confessed on video 398 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,199 Speaker 5: that he flew to Ukraine that he held over a 399 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 5: billion dollars in US taxpayer funds that are guaranteeing loans 400 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 5: to Ukraine. He held them hostage and said you will 401 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 5: not get that money unless you fire the prosecutor. And 402 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 5: then his response, we've talked about at length, was son 403 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 5: of a bitch. They fired the prosecutor. So the quot 404 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 5: is admitted, it is stipulated. Joe Biden has confessed on 405 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 5: video to it. The only question is the quid, which 406 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 5: is was he paid or and by the way, paying 407 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 5: his family for that. That official act is also bribery. 408 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 5: So it doesn't matter whether the money went directly to 409 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 5: Joe Biden's bank account or whether it simply went to 410 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 5: Hunter Biden's bank account. We know that he was making 411 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,360 Speaker 5: eighty three thousand dollars a month. Hunter was to sit 412 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 5: on a board. Now, mind you, I don't know of 413 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 5: another board anywhere on Earth that pays eighty three grand 414 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 5: a month to board members. That is bizarre. Just on 415 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 5: the face of it. It's a lot more than Exxon 416 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 5: Mobile pays their board members. It's a lot more than 417 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 5: any board I've ever heard of pays their board members. 418 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 5: And remember, Hunter Biden had zero experience in oil and gas. 419 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 5: He didn't speak Ukrainian. I'm not even sure he could 420 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 5: find Ukraine on a map. What he did have was 421 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 5: Daddy's cell phone. What he did have was Daddy's fake 422 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 5: email addresses. What he did have was Daddy's burner phones. 423 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 5: What he did have was access to Daddy. And I 424 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 5: got to say it was a good investment. If you're 425 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 5: a corrupt oligarch and you hire Skippy Boy here and 426 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 5: Daddy uses the full force of the US government to 427 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 5: get the prosecutor fired who's coming after you, that is 428 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 5: a great investment. So that is number one right at 429 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 5: the heart of the impeachment inquiry. But number two, we 430 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 5: have the WhatsApp where Hunter is shaking down a Chinese 431 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 5: communist and saying, I'm sitting here next to my father 432 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,719 Speaker 5: and he's threatening retaliation from Daddy, not from Hunter, from Daddy, 433 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 5: from Joe Biden if they didn't pay him millions of dollars. 434 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 5: And we know that they paid him millions of dollars. 435 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 5: So that again, look, bribery can be on either front. 436 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 5: It can be either for getting a benefit, but it 437 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,400 Speaker 5: can also be bribery, pay me money, give me a benefit, 438 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 5: or else I will do this bad thing through government 439 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 5: to you. That's also bribery. You know, if a prosecutor 440 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 5: for US attorney says, give me a million dollars or 441 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 5: else I will indict you, and you give him a 442 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 5: million dollars and he doesn't indict you, that's bribery. In 443 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 5: this case, the retaliation that Hunter was threatening from Daddy, 444 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 5: it would absolutely constitute bribery on Joe's part. And mind you, 445 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 5: the irs whistleblowers say that in the investigation they wanted 446 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 5: to get the GPS data. It's very simple to ascertain 447 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 5: when Hunter sent that WhatsApp text, was he in fact 448 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 5: sitting next to Joe. You'll have Hunter's GPS data, You'll 449 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 5: have Joe's GPS data if they're in the same room, 450 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 5: if they're sitting next to each other. That goes right 451 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 5: to the heart of that Joe knew and was involved 452 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 5: in shaking down these corrupt foreign players. That's why the 453 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 5: House has now opened the impeachment inquiry. 454 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 2: Sara, I want to get your reaction to something that 455 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 2: was said on MSNBC. They're claiming now that Biden's impeachment 456 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 2: inquiry is quote Trump's retribution. 457 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. 458 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 10: The fact that there is no he doesn't bother the 459 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 10: likes of Jim Jordan. I think Representative McGovern got it 460 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 10: right when he said when Trump asks them to jump, 461 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,640 Speaker 10: they say how high, and. 462 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,959 Speaker 6: That they're now jumping. They're now jumping for Trump. 463 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 10: This is his retribution and it's a pr a pr 464 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 10: very cynical, PR driven attempt to besmirch Biden without any evidence. 465 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: Without any evidence. You just went through that evidence. 466 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 2: But this is what we're up against the media saying 467 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 2: this is just retribution for Trump. 468 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,199 Speaker 1: No, it's not. This is based on the facts. 469 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 5: Well, MSNBC is not actually a journalistic outlet. They are 470 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 5: propagandas they are the left wing of the Democrat Party, 471 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 5: so they're going to repeat that and ignore the facts altogether. 472 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 5: They won't cover the facts. Look, if you watch MSNBC, 473 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 5: you have no idea that Hunter Biden sent a WhatsApp 474 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 5: text to a Chinese communist shaking him down for millions 475 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,679 Speaker 5: of dollars. You don't know that, because you know what, 476 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 5: if they don't report on any evident, then they can 477 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 5: send idiots on camera to say there's no evidence. And 478 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 5: if all you watch is MSNBC, you're right. You're right, 479 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 5: there is no evidence because they won't report on any 480 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 5: of the evidence. It's purely circular. And that is part 481 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 5: of why the Democrats their behavior is so bad. The 482 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 5: corrupt corporate media facilitates their blatant dishonesty because the corporate 483 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 5: media has every bit as dishonest as the White House is. 484 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think we should end with this. James 485 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 2: Comer took to the flour of the house. This is 486 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 2: the man that's been digging into all this. He's been 487 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 2: a guest on Verdict. There's a two part series. You 488 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: can go back and listen to it, but I want 489 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 2: you to hear what he had to say on the 490 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 2: floor of the House. 491 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: Just as a reminder, Kentucky's recognized for three minutes. 492 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 11: Thank you, Chairman Cole, Mister speaker, I rise today to 493 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 11: support House Resolution nine eighteen. Joe Biden has repeatedly lied 494 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 11: to the American people about his family's corrupt influence peddling schemes. 495 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 11: He told the American people he never spoke to his 496 00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 11: son about. 497 00:26:58,800 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 4: His family's business dealing. 498 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 11: He claimed there was an absolute wall between his official 499 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 11: government duties as Vice president and his family. 500 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 4: He said his family never made money from China. All 501 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,959 Speaker 4: of these are blatant lies. 502 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 11: Our investigation has revealed how Joe Biden you of participated 503 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 11: in and benefited from his family cashing in on the 504 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 11: Biden name around the world. Since January, we have learned 505 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 11: some of the following. The Bidens created twenty shell companies, 506 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 11: most of which were created while Joe Biden's Vice president. 507 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 11: The Bidens in their associates then raked in over twenty 508 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 11: four million dollars through these shell companies from China, Russia, Ukraine, 509 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 11: Kazakhtan and Romania between twenty fourteen and twenty nineteen, at 510 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 11: least ten members of the Biden family have benefited. 511 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 4: Or participated in these schemes. 512 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 11: The Bidens layered these payments through their bank accounts to 513 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 11: hide the sources of the money. The banks even flagged 514 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 11: many of these transactions in more than one hundred and 515 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 11: fifty suspicious activity reports to the Treasury Department. One bank 516 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 11: investigator was so concerned about Hunter Biden's financial transactions with 517 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 11: the Chinese company that he wanted to reevaluate the bank's 518 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 11: relationship with him. He noted that his transactions served and 519 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 11: I quote no current business purpose end quote. That's what 520 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 11: I call a shell company. According to Devin Archer, a 521 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 11: Biden family associate, Joe Biden. 522 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 4: Was the brand of the business. The brand showed up. 523 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 11: Joe Biden spoke to his son's associates by speakerphone over 524 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 11: twenty times, dined with foreign oligarchs and a Barisma executive, 525 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 11: and had coffee with his son's Chinese associate, all when 526 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 11: he was vice president. Weeks after Joe Biden left the 527 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 11: vice presidency, money from this Chinese Communis Party linked entity 528 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 11: began to make its way to the bank accounts of 529 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 11: several Biden family members. Based on one Biden associates interview 530 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 11: with the FBI, these payments were sent to the Bidens 531 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 11: as a quote, thank you. Ask any Justice Department public 532 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 11: corruption investigator about the importance of payments received after one 533 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 11: leaves public office. It's a hallmark of corruption. We are 534 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 11: now at a pivotal moment in our investigation. We will 535 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 11: soon depose and interview several members of the Biden family 536 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 11: and their associates about these influenced peddling schemes. 537 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 4: But we are facing obstruction from the White House. 538 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 11: The White House is seeking to block key testimony from 539 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 11: current and former White House staff. It's also withholding thousands 540 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 11: of records from Joe Biden's time as Vice president. President 541 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 11: Biden must be held accountable for his lives, corruption and obstruction. 542 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 11: I urge my colleagues to support this important and necessary resolution. 543 00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 4: I yield back, Senator. 544 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: I think you and I both can say listening to 545 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: him lay that out. Thank goodness. 546 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 2: We've got people in the Republican movement, the conservative movement, 547 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 2: like James Comer who's been willing to do this hard 548 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 2: work and methodically do it the right way. 549 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 5: Yes, and that's more substance than MSNBC is aired in 550 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 5: a year like in those three minutes that they can 551 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 5: claim no evidence because they won't air that. They don't 552 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 5: actually want you to hear what the evidence is. They 553 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,959 Speaker 5: only want their talking heads that are chilling for a 554 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 5: corrupt White House. And it's look, that's why Verdict so 555 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 5: many listeners keep coming to Verdict because you find out 556 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 5: information here that the corporate media will not tell you. 557 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 5: And this podcast is designed to give you that information 558 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 5: and equip you to go talk with your friends and 559 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 5: family and loved ones and co workers and go engage 560 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 5: the lies and counter them with truth. 561 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 2: As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Center 562 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 2: Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal 563 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 2: with my podcast and you can listen to my podcast 564 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 2: every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each 565 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 2: day when you listen, and a Verdict afterwards. 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