WEBVTT - The Classified Document Saga with Mike Davis 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.640 So now former Vice President Mike Penns has admitted to 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:09.360 mishandling classified documents. That didn't stop him from previously criticizing 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.960 former President Trump. Listen, and clearly possessing classified documents in 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.960 an unprotected area is not proper. I guess Mike Penns 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.040 thinks it's fine when he does it. I want to 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.160 get to the bottom of all of this with Mike Davis. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:26.439 He joined the show after the FBI rated President Trump 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.319 a little while back. He's the former Chief counsel for 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.000 Nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley. He's also the 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.040 founder and the president of the Article three Project. I 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.239 want to have him on to break down what do 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.040 you need to know about all of this? We had 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.360 the raid on former President Trump, We've got Joe Biden 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.239 admitting to misshandling classified information, including when he was in 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.720 the Senate. Now you've got Mike Penns. What do you 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.760 need to know about all this? Why does it matter? 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.520 Doesn't matter. We're gonna break it all down with Mike Davis. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.600 We're also going to talk about this new select subcommittee 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.959 on the weaponization of the federal government. What they need 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.600 to uncover where they should focus all of that with 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:10.920 Mike Davis. So, Mike, now we've got the former Vice 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:15.920 president Mike Penns who has mishandled classified documents. It seems 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:20.039 to be in vogue these days. What are your thoughts 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.119 upon hearing this news? Well, thank you for having on LEASEA. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.280 I would say this that former presidents presidents of the 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.960 United States have the absolute constitutional power as commander in 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.720 chief to classify or to classify anything they want, and 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.920 they have the absolute statutory power under the Presidential Records 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:42.280 Act to take personal copies of their presidential records when 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:47.800 they leave office, classified or not. So President Trump had 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:52.600 his presidential records in the office of the former president 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:57.520 in mar Laco, and Attorney General Merrick Garlands UH got 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.960 this unprecedented, unnecessary, unball full home raid warrant from a 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:06.000 bias judge Bruce Rinehardt and did this political circus going 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:10.680 after President Trump for documents President Trump was lawfully allowed 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.120 to have in his heavily secured office of the former president. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.320 That's why Congress gives former presidents uh secure office space 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:24.239 called skiffs, federally funded office space, federally funded staff, staff 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.080 gets security clearances, lifetime secret Service protection. Contrast that with 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.160 former vice presidents like Biden and Pets, they get none 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.720 of those things. They get Secret Service protection for up 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.360 to six months after they leave office and that's it. 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.680 So with Biden, there was a two and a half 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.799 year gap where he did not have Secret Service protection. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.960 And we have clear evidence that the Biden family was 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:56.079 on Ukrainian and Chinese payrolls, and there's evidence with Moranda 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.720 divine she as she pointed out this twenty two point 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:06.000 Now we're Hunter. Biden clearly used classified intelligence on Ukraine 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.920 to write a twenty two points geopolitical analysis of Ukraine 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:16.280 back in two thousand fourteen. So the Bidens can enrich themselves, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.080 so Hunter can get on the Breezema board in Ukraine 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.840 and enriched themselves with this illegal scheme that they were in. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:30.680 So it's amazing how Attorney General Merrick Garlands uh sent 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.920 in the FBI rad to go after Trump, including going 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:39.680 through Millennia's lingerie and their son teenage son Baron's room. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.680 Yet Attorney General Merrick Garland colluded with Biden, the Biden 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.560 White House attorneys, and the and the Biden personal attorneys 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:50.120 for over two months to cover up the Biden stolen 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.520 classified doctor. Well, and I think that's what's really sketchy 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.960 is the fact that one in the Department of Justice 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.480 sat on this information. And then secondly, as you pointed out, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.360 you've got documents pertaining to Ukraine that were allegedly found 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.480 at the Biden Penn Center. And then the Biden pen 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.600 Center is a Chinese backed think tank, and we know 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.320 that these are two areas where the Biden family has 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.400 had business dealings, both with Ukraine and then China as well. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.160 There's a lot going on there with the Biden family 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.240 and the fact, remember we're in the divine also pointed 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:24.480 this out that remember Hunter had a team made to 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.240 these to one of his Biden's offices when he left 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.640 the Vice presidency for their Chinese agents. Right, So we 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:38.960 have Chinese funded's university University of Pennsylvania fake professorship for 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:43.200 former Vice President Biden, this unsecured office that he was using. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.360 We have keys made for Chinese agents that the Bidens 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:52.800 on these Uh, Chinese and Ukrainian oligarch's payrolls. And there's 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:58.719 clear evidence that Hunter Biden is using Ukrainian intel for 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:03.160 their business dealings. Uh, it's if this doesn't scream for 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:07.520 an FBI rate. I don't know what does the FBI actually. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:12.360 So people say that that Vice are President Biden cooperated 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.920 with with the probe. He immediately turned over this information 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.080 to the Biden Justice Department. That's actually not true. When 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.960 they found these documents on November two, they turned them 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.120 over to the political head of the National Archives, and 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.400 it was the Inspector General of the National Archives that 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.800 got wind of this and turned it over to the 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.200 Justice Department. If that Inspector General did not get wind 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.520 of this, they probably would have just swept us under 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.960 the road. There probably would have been a just a 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.039 political cover up between the Biden team and had their 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.680 political appointee at the National Archives. So when the Biden 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.600 Justice Department, when Attorney General Merrick Garlands uh found out 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.719 about this from the Inspector General of the Archives, they 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.960 knew that they couldn't just bury it completely because the 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:59.000 Inspector General has reporting requirements to Congress. But what did 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.200 they do. They had they let the Biden lawyers, the 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.600 Biden personal lawyers and Biden Biden White House lawyers do 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.800 their own searches of the crime scenes. They let Joe 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.839 Biden and Joe Biden and who whatever other Biden go 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.360 to these crime scenes, taint these crime scenes, and then 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.599 they let Biden's lawyers go to the searches they tainted 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.800 the crime scenes, they did not send in the FBI, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.160 And when they finally sent in the FBI on the 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.560 fifth search, they let the Biden attorneys go along with 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.160 the FBI during the search. And contrast thought to what 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.160 they did with Trump, where they made they made the 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.719 Trump attorneys stands stand outside of Moral Lago in like 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:42.080 nine degree heat, ninety five percent humidity in August for many, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.679 many hours, while they let Biden in his attorneys taint 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.560 their crime scenes for months. How do you think the 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:53.760 discovery of classified documents with both Biden and Vice President Pence, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.479 how does that impact this ongoing case against President Trump. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.839 I mean, you already clarified that presidents of the oldim 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.360 authority vice presidents do not. But how do you think 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.800 this impacts the case they're trying to make against the 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.480 former president? The Train to America Land appointed special counsels 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.760 for both Trump and a separate special counsel for Biden. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:17.040 I think that these are handpicked allies of the Unit 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.280 Party in both cases but at the end of the day, 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.880 it's going to be Merrick Barlan's decision whether to prosecute 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.200 or not to not prosecute, whether to prosecute Trump or 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:31.880 not prosecute Biden. It is politically very difficult to move 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:36.520 forward on any prosecution of Trump when when he had 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:41.800 an absolute constitutional in statutory rate to have his presidential records, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.640 including classified presidential records, in the office of former President 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.120 moral Ugal, while at the same time not prosecuting Biden. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.320 This was no accident that Biden had these records. Remember, 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.400 they found five sets of classified records in at least 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.920 three different locations. Right They found him in his garage 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.720 next to his corvette. He admitted of Peter Doocy on 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.200 from Fox News that Biden knew that he had those documents, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:07.760 then it was no big deal because they were in 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.080 his secure garage next to his corvette. He had documents 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.960 in his personal files and his personal office in his 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.600 Wilmington's home, and he had these documents in his personal 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.920 files and his penn Biden home to China funded University 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.920 of Pennsylvania fake professorship in Washington, d C. So he 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.640 had five sets of documents at least three different locations. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.440 That shows that it was clearly not an accident that 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.400 he had these records, and it was clearly not an 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:38.080 accident when Hunter is using intel about Ukraine to make 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.000 millions for the Biden family. So you contrast that with Pence. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.480 We don't know a lot about what's going over with Pence. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.600 We don't know if it were you know, if if 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.200 he had his records boxed up and sent to his 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.640 house after he left the vice presidency, and he's such 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.960 a boy scout when he heard about Biden having these records, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.640 he had his lawyers search and found him. I don't 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.320 know what the circumstances are. Regardless, under the Espionage Act, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.600 it is an Espionage Act violation to have these records. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.800 Whether you use them for to enrich your family or 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.080 you just recklessly have them in your papers at home, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.719 it's still an Espionage Act violation. But there are there 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.040 are there are other crimes that you can look after 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.920 the Bidens if they actually did in fact use this 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.960 classified material on Ukraine to enrich the Biden family. But 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.880 it just shows you that we have two systems of 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.920 justice in America that we've known for a long time. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.440 Leads one one for the Democrats and the ruling elite, 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.480 and one for the rest of us. Well, you know, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.199 Edwards Snowden tweeted about this, and I want to get 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.640 your thoughts on that. He tweeted, how is it possible 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.160 that I fear classified documents in my house than the 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.880 last few White House admins? The Espionage Act is a 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.240 strict liability crime, good intentions or no defense under the 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.200 quote unquote or parentheses dumb law. These guys are all 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.439 unindicted criminals. Uh well, what do you what do you 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.160 make of that? We eat from Edward Snowden? You know, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:07.040 someone who fled the United States to escape espionage charges. Yeah, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:08.760 I mean you have to look at what the intentive 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.880 is when they do what they're doing. If you're a 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.760 president of the United States, the Espionage Act never applies 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.320 to the ESPIONAGA Acts applies to everyone else on the 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.600 planet except for the President of the United States because 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.040 he is the classifier or declassifier as commander in chief 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.640 under the Constitution. So that's why I've argued since August 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.280 that it is legally impossible for President Trump to have 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.160 violated the Espionage Act in the way he handles classified information. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.720 He could he can declassify anything he wants, just like 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.000 President Clinton did when he had eight years of highly 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.960 classified audio recordings of his presidency and his soctore, just 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.520 like President Obama did when he leaned over on the 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.200 hot mic and told the Russian puppet president that Obama 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.280 would have war negotiating room after the two thousand and 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:59.559 twelve presidential re election. Clearly classified information, But clearly the 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:04.400 president has the constitutional power to do what do with 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.400 whatever he wants with classified information. That is not the 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:12.040 case with vice presidents or anyone else. And so unless 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.520 President Obama told Vice President Biden that he can take 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.400 those classified records with him when he left office, president 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:26.480 Biden faces uh, serious Espionage Acts violations for what he did. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.920 Now only thing happened to him. I seriously got it, 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.280 because we know that there are two systems of justice 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.560 in America. But he clearly violated the Espionage Acts, and 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.720 snowdon's correct that it's not you don't have to have 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.200 specific intent to do it. The mere fact that you 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.880 have these records, uh is oftentimes all you need for 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.800 an Espionage Act violation. So now, of course the left 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.240 wing fact checkers are trying to come to Biden's defense. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:57.439 You've got PolitiFact, Snopes, so these left wing organizations and publications, 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.160 and they say that farmer pres in Obama had issued 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:06.320 an executive order in two thousand nine, Executive Order twenties six, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.640 title the Classified National Security Information. Uh. And what they 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.600 allege is that this order gives both the president and 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.080 the vice president original classification authority and that it's not 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.720 been changed since by or wasn't changed under Trump, so 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.000 it still bears uh, you know, fruit, it is still 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.959 in existence. What do you what do you make of that? 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:31.440 Is that the case is Biden covered under this. So 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.440 if you read that executive order, Biden may have the 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:39.520 ability to declassify records that he classified in the office 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.320 of vice president, but he doesn't have the ability to 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.960 declassify records across the government or the president has that authority. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.600 So that's just a nonsence. And where were these same 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:54.320 people with that executive order with with Trump who was 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:58.600 the president? Right? What they're arguing that Trump could not declassify, 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.599 that he was an espionage by accilation for Trump to 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.920 declassify as the president of the United States, But this 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:09.000 executive order from from Obama gives the vice president more 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.160 power than Trump had as president. That's just complete quick 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:18.800 commercial break more with Mike Davis. Well, I think what 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.880 bothers me is the hypocrisy, as you just pointed out. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.800 And I guess it's not really hypocrisy because it's not 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:29.080 apples to apples, But you know, even pens like, let's 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:34.439 play this clip from Mike Penns who recently criticized Trump 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.000 in his handling of classified information. Let's play this clip, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:42.200 and clearly possessing classified documents in an unprotected area is 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.960 not proper quick to condemn Trump when in reality he 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.760 is mishandled classified information. And to your point, you know, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.160 didn't have that same authority as Trump. So do these 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.880 people know that they're mishandling classified information? Like how easy 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.360 is it to accidentally handle it? You know what kind 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.440 of what's the what's the situation with that? I think 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.840 it really depends on the factual circumstances. It is amazing 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.400 how sanctimonious both Biden and Pence were about Trump because 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.920 they both want to run against Trump as president, right, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.840 so that of course they want to politicize this against Trump. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.200 That it came back and smaxim in the face. Right, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.440 because they both got caught with classified records as the 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.360 vice president, which is clearly a favor vice president, which 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:32.680 is clearly an Espionage Act violation unless their president Obama 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.680 or Trump gave them permission to take those classified records. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.120 And there's no evidence that either president allowed their vice 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.080 presidents to do that, right. So, but I mean, it's 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.480 I will say this, the Obama Justice Department just excuse me, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.760 the Biden Justice Department just put in prison a woman 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:54.240 who worked for the Pentagon who moved uh secret documents, 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:58.360 not even top secret secret documents from her government office 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.440 in Hawaii to a ten periory duty office and did 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:07.000 not send the documents through a secure courier so or 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.840 a secure case that you you say, classified documents through. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.840 So they take this very seriously. I know that I 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.880 had top secret clearance in the government. I had above 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.960 top top secret clearance in the government. And everyone knows 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.720 that when you have those security classes, especially when you're 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:29.160 dealing with s c I Secure compartment and information above 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.880 top secret information, that you have to have that information 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.800 in skills, right, And uh, you know, it's it's just 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:43.760 not it's Biden had to have known that having classified documents, 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:48.800 including SEI documents, codenamed documents, and his personal residence and 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.000 in his an abandoned office. He had to have known 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.200 that he could not have done that, right, and so 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:54.840 why did he do it? Well, it looks like he 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.520 was doing it because he was trying to let Hunter 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.600 use that intel to run his corrupt family business, including 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.560 at Parisma. Well, and what's strange too, is you know 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.080 documents from his time and the Senate. And Ted Cruz 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.000 raised at this point on Twitter not too long ago, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.000 and he said, how on earth did he do that? 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.920 I've served in the Senate for ten years. Every single 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.800 classified document I've read a hundred percent have been at 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.640 a secure skiff in the basement of the capital. What 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.720 the hell? He asks? So how would Joe Biden even 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.680 get those documents out of the skiff had out of 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.920 the basement of the Capitol? As Ted Cruz pointed out, Well, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.040 I mean that's a that's a very good question. Um, 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.120 he could have you know, if it's it depends on 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.720 the classification, If it's top secret, he can read those 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.880 in his office, right, So you could have had when 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.040 he was the Senate Foreign Relations to the Sherman, he 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.280 could have had someone from the State Department bring documents 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.800 to him when he was the Foreign Relations Community showman 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.000 and just forget to take him back or if they're 0:16:56.040 --> 0:17:01.440 if they're if they're sci documents or SAP documents. Uh, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.080 those are codenamed documents that would had to have had 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.920 to have been in a skiff. So who knows how 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.000 he got Hi out of the skiff. I know that 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.800 in the Senate skiff. I don't know how it was 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.560 back then, but I know that in the Senate stiff 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.760 from what I worked there in two thousand seventeen to 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.680 two thousand nineteen. It's a big room and it's heavily guarded, right, 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.240 so um it's it would be it would be difficult 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.159 for some for a senator to walk out of the 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:29.280 skiff with a codenamed document. But it sounds like Biden 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.320 found away. Quick break more on all this classified documents stuff. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.000 This sort of seems similar in the way that they've 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.160 gone after former President Trump with the way that they 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:48.840 have enacted or or executed on the Foreign Agents Registration Act, 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.840 because it's one of those things that like everyone in 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.000 d C does, but then they only selectively applied justice 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.879 to Trump people with vera uh. And it seems like 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.240 this where you know, you've got all these violations of 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.879 classified documents, and then they went after Trump when he 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.360 didn't even do it, but just to stick it to him. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.520 Like I just I really dislike forget to have laws, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.000 make them known and execute on an even basis, you know, 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.439 don't just selectively apply them or you know, when you 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.960 know you can punish your political opponent. Well, and that's 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.200 that's the problem with a lot of this Spionage Act 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.359 stuff is it's used by the intel community, it choosed 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.119 by the FBI, and choosed by the deep state to 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.960 punish people, right it's to so you can you can 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.480 you can cover this up. You can bury it when 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.920 it's Joe Biden, when it's Obama, when it's Clinton. Sandy 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:43.200 Berger stuffed classified documents down his pants. Hillary Clinton had 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:47.720 an illegal home server of our nation's most classified secrets 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:52.680 that was hacked by hostile foreign governments. She destroyed the server, 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.399 she destroyed of the hard drives, she destroyed the phones. 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.280 Nothing happens to her. But they want to do a 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.840 home raid on form President Trump, who had the absolute 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:06.159 lawful right to have this presidential records, including classified presidential 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.840 records in the office of former President Marl So that's 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.720 the problem is is that if we need to I 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.560 mean we have to. You have to follow you have 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.720 to follow these laws and apply them evenly. And that's 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.119 the problem. When you don't, is we have this reaponization 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.360 of the federal governments. And I really do hope I 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.080 I really do hope that House Republicans start to get 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:30.760 serious about this. I know that they set up that 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.800 Select committee. Um, they need to get moving on this, 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.040 because you know, if if you have laws but they're 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.040 not applied evenly, then what's the point of those laws? 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.920 You know, I wanted to ask you. So the National 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.720 Archives had flagged the documents that they wanted Trump to 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.960 turn over, the former president Trump to turn over. How 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.920 do they not flag earlier that these Biden documents were 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.959 missing and they've been missing for years. That's a very 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.679 good question. That's a very good question for oversight. Like 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.840 James Khmer on the Government Affairs Committee oversight of the 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:08.280 National Archives, I think the National Archives has been completely politicized, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.760 just like the d o J, including the FBI. Just 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:15.080 like many other government agencies, these agencies are run by Democrats, right, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.800 and and they're run by Democrat operatives throughout many layers 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:25.000 of these agencies. And you have to ask this, um, 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.200 you know what, what was the timeline we have? They 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:33.199 found these documents with Biden around November second, supposedly. Uh, 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.280 it's very fishy how they found these documents because President 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.679 Biden was paying his private attorneys fifteen hundred bucks an 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.800 hour or whatever. He was paying his private attorneys to 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:47.479 go close down his his abandoned Penn Biden office at 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.560 the University of Pennsylvania. I'm a I'm a lawyer. I've 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.639 never heard of a client paying me to go close 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:55.399 down an office. You would have a junior aid go 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.800 do that, not a high priced attorney. They come across 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.520 these class of five documents. The lawyers think about it 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:05.520 overnight and come up with the plan. They call the 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:09.399 National Archives. Had the political head the next day and 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.560 they were going to cover this up. That's November two, 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.040 six days before the mid term election. The Biden Justice 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.760 Department finds out about this because the Inspector General blew 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.080 the whistle on them, and then what happens. Attorney to 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.480 America Island covers this up for two months when he 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.720 should have immediately appointed a special council on November two. 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.879 He should not have been investigating his own boss for 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:36.159 clear Espionage Act violations. And he does appoint a special 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.159 council on November eighteen, sixteen days later, but as a 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:43.040 special counsel to investigate Trump. And during this time, there 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.640 was no mention whatsoever for two months that Biden got 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.800 caught with the stolen classified records. And so you have 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:52.760 to wonder if a lot of what they were doing 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.320 with Trump was do they know about these Biden records 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:57.760 a lot sooner than this? Was this all a deflection 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.000 or is it? And these part of it was the flection. 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.200 And when they appointed a special council for Trump on 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:08.240 November eighteen, sixteen days after they found the Biden records. 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:13.320 So the House Republicans, James Klemer, he's sitting off, sending 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:15.560 off letters. I hope he issues a slokana because they 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:18.719 need to get to the bottom of what's going on here. 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:23.600 The National Archives is supposed to be non partisan bureaucrats 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:26.240 and librarians who keep government records and they should not 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.960 be politicized and recognized like they have that. Well, yeah, 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:32.120 they withheld that information before the election before the midterms, 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.879 that Biden was in possession of these documents made it 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.800 all seem that, you know, Trump Republicans were unethical, all 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.239 these different things, when you know, meanwhile they're sitting on 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:44.320 this bombshell about Biden. You know you you mentioned, uh 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:48.399 this the Select Subcommittee. Uh. Speaker Kevin McCarthy has now 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:51.639 announced the individuals who are going to be on this subcommittee. Fortunately, 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.040 he's been falling through his promises, so fingers crossed on him. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:56.680 You know, he took Adam Schiff and Eric swell of 0:22:56.720 --> 0:23:00.520 off the Intelligence Committee. Good moves. But so this Select 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:03.879 Subcommittee on the weaposition of the federal government has been announced. 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:06.680 What do you hope they accomplished? What do you want 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:08.960 them to look at? You know, sort of what areas 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.760 of interest do you think would serve them best? I 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:14.000 hope they get moving, first of all, because we I 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:16.600 was I've not I've been a pretty vocal critic of 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:20.400 Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan's but I they were elected, 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:23.199 and I really do hope they succeed because there's so 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.480 much at stake for our country. We could not have 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:30.399 two systems of justice in America, one for the ruling 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.439