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Cocaine at the White House? "Lower Your Expectations" says Corporate Media, plus a WSJ Reporter who Needs to Come Home · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Lower your expectations. That is the media's propaganda talking about
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: the investigation into who left cocaine at the White House.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Lower your expectations, and if you'll just do that, you'll
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: be in much better footing. You'll love the response that
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: you're going to get. Just lower your expectations. That's the
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: number one thing that you need to do. MSNBC putting
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: out the propaganda that you need to calm down and
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: expect to never know who brought the cocaine into the
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: White House.
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: And the key thing is that multiple officials are cautioning
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: that it is unlikely and certainly possible that there would
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: be a resolution to this, meaning forensic evidence found that
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: could identify an individual scanning the video doing the testing,
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: But they are preparing us for a result that will
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  Speaker 2: be no conclusive evidence found, and that is still subject
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: to change as the work continues. But that should give
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: people a sense of where this is. They are looking
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  Speaker 2: at what's available. They're saying it's a very small bag,
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: limited ability to test it because as tests are done,
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: whether it's DNA or fingerprinting or other scientific type processes
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: in the lab, you further degrade that sample, making it
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: harder to get information from it, and of course they're
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: scanning the videos. This was found in a cubby off
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: of the lobby area of that pathway in and as
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: you know, often security cameras and so forth, they're getting
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: the big wide areas, and an official said a camera
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: would have had to have been trained in on the
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  Speaker 2: cubbies and be able to see from the right angle
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  Speaker 2: and individual dropping that packet. So expectations are being lowered
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  Speaker 2: about an eventual conclusion here that would lead to an
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: identity and then even the potential for prosecution at a
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  Speaker 2: misdemeanor level for the amount of drug we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, this is this is unusual, to
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  Speaker 2: say the least. Officials say they don't have any record
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  Speaker 2: of an illicit drug like this being found in the
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  Speaker 2: West Wing or in the White House before, and so
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  Speaker 2: it is truly rare, and it has gotten a lot
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  Speaker 2: of interest in the public.
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  Speaker 1: To just lower your expectations, folks, We're not going to
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  Speaker 1: know who did this. This is the most secure building
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  Speaker 1: in America in theory, but you need to lower your
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  Speaker 1: expectations to fit that right. MSNBC also saying this later
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  Speaker 1: on that this is a sigh of relief for them
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  Speaker 1: that they won't be named. Not joking. Listen carefully, this
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: is another report lowering your expectations and.
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  Speaker 2: Stay with me for a moment. We do have some
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  Speaker 2: breaking news that we're following some reporting on the small
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  Speaker 2: baggy of cocaine found in the White Lie.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a small baggie. Now, it's a small baggy
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  Speaker 1: of cocaine. Like it's just a little bit of blow.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: It's not like it's a lot of blow. It's a
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: small baggy of blow. Calm down, house.
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  Speaker 2: What more can you tell us about this?
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  Speaker 1: Ryan?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Aaron Kelly o'donald reports that it's possible that we
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: might not even get to learn who actually brought uh
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  Speaker 3: this small bag he is. So I'm sure that's a
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  Speaker 3: sigh of relief to whoever sort of made the boneheaded
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: move of bringing a bag of cocaine to the White House.
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  Speaker 3: But because this is in Ah, you know, not an
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  Speaker 3: area that you know, it's highly trafficked, but not wasn't
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  Speaker 3: necessarily covered by cameras all that, well, you know, it's
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: an area that a decent amount of people had access to.
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  Speaker 3: It just makes that investigation a little bit difficult. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this could all end without you know, necessarily
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  Speaker 3: anyone being named as the person who was responsible for
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: bringing that bag of cocaine to the White House.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, s I of relief right, whoever brought this cocaine
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  Speaker 1: to the White House. It's likely to end without anyone
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: being named. We'll never know. So if you were hoping, yeah,
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna just slow those expectations again. This
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: is the White House refused to say whether or not
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: cocaine belonged to Joe or Hunter. Biden won't even answer
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  Speaker 1: that question, like, hey, can you rule out the President
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: won't answer it, Hey, will you rule out the sun
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  Speaker 1: won't answer it. This is one of the most, if
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  Speaker 1: not the most secure building in America, and you're telling
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  Speaker 1: me that we can't figure this out. Jason Chafis, former congressman,
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  Speaker 1: said this on Fox about the idea that cocaine and
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: the West Wing you can't figure out who brought it in. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: there's an outside perimeter of security. They have badges. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: has a badge.
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  Speaker 4: There are multiple cameras.
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  Speaker 1: Going on through this.
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  Speaker 4: You don't just get to rock around the West Wing,
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  Speaker 4: even if your staff without a heavy presence of the
• 4:24
  Speaker 4: Secret Service and a distinct understanding of who's going where
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  Speaker 4: and why, And so I think they already know where
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  Speaker 4: it is. I think they're trying to wait for the
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  Speaker 4: DNA evidence that doesn't happen in just a half a
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  Speaker 4: day or a day. But the Secret Service, I do believe,
• 4:42
  Speaker 4: knows at this point who this person is.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's probably right. But if the media says
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: you'll never know, then there's a good change you can
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: get away with never telling us. Stephen Miller, who worked
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: at the White House, he was asked about this, saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: the idea that we don't know who this is is
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: had a plausible response to all of this, Like is
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  Speaker 1: that a realistic response? Listen to what he said last night,
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  Speaker 1: steph Okay. So the quote on the day that it
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  Speaker 1: happened by.
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  Speaker 5: The person that has Matt Team, who identifies it preliminarily
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  Speaker 5: as cocaine, is it's in the library, which is the
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  Speaker 5: inner sanctum, and then all of a sudden we're told, oh,
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  Speaker 5: it's where all the people come in. Now let's talk
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  Speaker 5: about where Karine Jean Pierre said it's found. Can you
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  Speaker 5: describe that area for us, Stephen?
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  Speaker 6: So the original area they appear to be referring to
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  Speaker 6: would be what is sometimes colloquially known as the Marine entrance,
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  Speaker 6: where you see the two Marine guards standing there, and
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  Speaker 6: that's where dignitaries come through, and that's where it scored
• 5:46
  Speaker 6: and guests come through, and then there's a waiting area,
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  Speaker 6: but that's only a very highly controlled area. That's an
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  Speaker 6: escort only area. You've been through extensive screening to be
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  Speaker 6: anywhere close to that area. So it's not just that
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  Speaker 6: you're going through a a mag.
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  Speaker 1: And getting wanted.
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  Speaker 6: You've been pre cleared and pre screened, and somebody knows
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  Speaker 6: exactly who you are and everything about you. We have
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  Speaker 6: an extensive history on you by the time you've reached
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  Speaker 6: that location.
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  Speaker 5: And in addition to that, Steven, are there not security
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  Speaker 5: cameras identifying everyone who's coming in and watching people.
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  Speaker 6: I would just put it this way, nobody is going
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  Speaker 6: into the West Wing of the White House without a
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  Speaker 6: million eyes being on you. This is one of the
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  Speaker 6: most secure facilities in the face of the earth. You
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  Speaker 6: were only steps away from the Oval Office, You're only
• 6:32
  Speaker 6: steps away from the Situation Room, You're only steps away
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  Speaker 6: from the offices of the National Security Advisor, and many
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  Speaker 6: other of the highest ranking officers in the US government.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop in there because I think there's
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  Speaker 1: another point here that has to be made. If this
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  Speaker 1: was any other substance, they would tell you who the
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: person was. If it was anthrax or any type of
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: biological weapon, any other type of chemical that could harm people,
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: they would have our arrested the person. The idea that
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: this baggie of cocaine has now moved around what three
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: different times, not once, not twice, but three different times. Okay,
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: three different times. This baggie of cocaine has moved around.
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: It was in the library, no, just kidding, it was
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  Speaker 1: an I have really populator, just kidding. Okay, it was
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: in the cubbies right by outside of the Oval office. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So what the hell is it? Right? What is it?
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  Speaker 1: Do we know what it is? Do we have any
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  Speaker 1: idea what this is going to be? I think they
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: know all of these answers. I think this baggie of
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  Speaker 1: cocaine has moved left and right, up and down and
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  Speaker 1: all over the damn place. And I think that's part
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  Speaker 1: of the cover up here in the corruption here, and
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  Speaker 1: we should all be asking these questions. Every part of
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• 9:37
  Speaker 1: James Comer, has now said publicly. Comer said Devin Archer,
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  Speaker 1: one of Hunter Biden's top associates, will be the first
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: member to pose to unravel the family's international business schemes.
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  Speaker 1: A source with knowledge of the committee's schedule has confirmed
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  Speaker 1: that Archer's lawyers are in con tact with the committee
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: about scheduling the interview in mid June. The committee subpoena
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: to Devon Archer to appear before it on June the nineteenth.
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  Speaker 1: A source familiar with the situations confirmed that he negotiated
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: later deposition date, saying, quote, we are entering the deposition
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: phase about this ongoing investigation into the Bidens. Lawmakers conceivably
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  Speaker 1: have about twelve months left to investigate the family shitty
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  Speaker 1: business deals. This campaign season in the summer of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four will likely become the priority in Washington, d c. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: We will have Devon Archer the first person who was
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  Speaker 1: involved in the Hunter Biden business dealings. He will be
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  Speaker 1: the first person we deposed. Comber said, we have a
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  Speaker 1: list of who's who's that we're involved in the Biden
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  Speaker 1: organization that we plan on deposing throughout the summer. Now
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: you may not know this, so I'll remind you. Devin
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  Speaker 1: Archer was unter Biden's quote best friend in business quote unquote.
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  Speaker 1: He got in major legal trouble just last year in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two for defrauding a Native American tribal entity.
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  Speaker 1: The court ordered him to pay forty three million, nine
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four thousand, four hundred and sixteen dollars
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: and seventy five cents in a judgment to the Native
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: American victims. Prior to his arrest, Devin Archer served in
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen with Hunter Biden on the board of Barisma,
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: that Ukrainian based energy company whose executive allegedly bribed not
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: only Hunter Biden with five million dollars, but with the
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: President of the United States of America Joe Biden with
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: his five million dollars for himself as well. Photographers infamously
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  Speaker 1: photographed Devin Archer playing golf with Hunter Biden and then
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  Speaker 1: Vice President Joe Biden in Southampton, New York, which was
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: the first picture to confirm clearly that the President of
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: the United States of America was lying to us when
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: he said he never discussed any of his business decisions
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: with his son or anything about business with his brother
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  Speaker 1: or any other family member. Clearly that was a lie.
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  Speaker 1: The photo was the first photo to raise questions regarding
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: the extent to which Joe Biden was aware not only
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: of his son's overseas business deals, but how involved he
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: actually was. Remember, he was never forced to discuss any
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: of that when he ran for president, the media covered
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: for him. Devin Archer was by Hunter Biden's side for
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: decades in the business deals. They knew each other for
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: quite some time. They attended Yale together in the late
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties, Archer went on to become the vice chairman
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  Speaker 1: of finance for John Carey's failed two thousand and four
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  Speaker 1: presidential campaign. Many people didn't know that he was connected
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: with his college classmate Chris Hines. That would be Kerrie's
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: step son. Now a lot of people don't realize that
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: John Carrey's step son, Chris Hines, was another Biden family
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  Speaker 1: business partner that we would expect to be deposed now.
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  Speaker 1: Archer is not the only associate James Comer has subpoena.
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  Speaker 1: The committee has not publicly produced any results of those subpoenas,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: but we do know that in May, Comer said the
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Biden family members will quote more than likely receive subpoenas.
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  Speaker 1: Those also appear out now that if they're gonna call
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: Hunter Biden, James Biden, the other Biden crime family members
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  Speaker 1: who are on the take here, there's a reason why
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: they're playing it this way. They want to get all
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: these other people on the record first. They know what
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: questions to ask the Bidens. Clearly there's a strategy here
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  Speaker 1: that is playing out now. All this is happening as
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  Speaker 1: the White House has now officially refused to say whether
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  Speaker 1: or not the cocaine found at the White House over
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: the weekend. It is a crime scene at the White
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  Speaker 1: House belonged to Joe or Hunter Biden. That's right. The
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  Speaker 1: White House Deputy pre Secretary Andrew Bates could not say
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  Speaker 1: whether or not the cocaine founder Joe Biden quote he
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  Speaker 1: is citing the Hatch Act. Quote. Are you willing to
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  Speaker 1: say that that's not the case, that it the cocaine
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  Speaker 1: doesn't belong to them. A reporter asked Baits aboard Air
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  Speaker 1: Force one. Quote. I don't have a response to that
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  Speaker 1: because we have to be careful about the Hatch Act,
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  Speaker 1: he claimed. The reporter did not follow up with Baits
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  Speaker 1: on how the Hatch Act would apply to this situation now.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: The Hatch Act's main provision blocks Executive Branch employees from
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: engaging in partisan political activity while on duty, in a
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: federal facility or using federal property. According to the Justice Department,
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  Speaker 1: I I will say is that I've noticed there does
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  Speaker 1: seem to be some increasing frustration coming from that corner
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  Speaker 1: in general, and I think it is probably it probably
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  Speaker 1: included in the contrast between their substances and their policy records.
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  Speaker 1: Bates tried to change the subject. Obviously that made no
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  Speaker 1: sense at all. What's absurd about this is that the
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: idea of the Hatchack would somehow be involved here is
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: maybe the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. It actually
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't even make sense. Now we have the audio from
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: the press gaggle aboard Air Force one en route to
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina. You're gonna hear it in the background. Listen carefully,
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  Speaker 1: Well one more, you know, president form.
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  Speaker 7: President Trump has made some pretty wild posts recently on
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  Speaker 7: social media. One of them was that the cocaine found
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  Speaker 7: the White House was it belonged to either the President
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  Speaker 7: or his son? Are you willing to say that that's
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: not the case, that they don't belong to them.
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  Speaker 8: I don't have a respect to that, because we have
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  Speaker 8: to be careful about the hatch Act. What I will
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  Speaker 8: say is that I have noticed there does seem to
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  Speaker 8: be some increasing frustration coming from that corner in general,
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  Speaker 8: and I think it is probably rooted in the contrast
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  Speaker 8: between their substantive policy records.
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  Speaker 1: That literally makes no sense. It's almost that's like a
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: response you would get if you were on cocaine. A
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  Speaker 1: second reporter asked the White House if they would comment
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  Speaker 1: on this, or even if they would commit to transparency
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: if the Secret Service discovered who smuggled the cocaine the
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: White House. If the Secret Service is able to determine
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  Speaker 1: the individuals and individual responsible, will the White House commit
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  Speaker 1: to transparency in this and making that information public? The
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: reporter asked, listen to the White House's response to that cocaine.
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  Speaker 9: I understand the Secret Service is conducting an investigation. If
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: the Secret Service is able to determine the individual responsible,
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  Speaker 9: will the Secret Service and the and will the White
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  Speaker 9: House commit to transparency in this and making that information public.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to defer to the Secret Service professionals who
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: are carrying this out. I'm just not going to engage
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: on hypotheticals about it. I would suggest you contact them
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: for anything more.
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  Speaker 1: Again, the biggest load of crap answer that you can
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: give this is a mid level Biden staffer. Can you
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: imagine if that's how they downgraded you, Like the White
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: House is telling you this mid level. Like, imagine if
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you see your name in lights and they're referring to
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: you as mid level because they're trying to diminish Andrew
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Bates saying, ah, it's a mid level guy, right. This
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: is how this is how non serious we are about this.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Now the question serious right if the Secret Service determines
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the individual responsible, And I want to be clear about this,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I have no doubt they know who did this. I've
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: been in the White House. I've been lucky enough to
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: go in the White House quite a few times in
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: my life, and the idea that this is would be
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: hard to figure out is totally and absurd. I want
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: to also be clear about that they know who brought
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: this in there. I have no doubt if this was
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: anthrax or something else, the person would have already been
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: apprehended and arrested. This would have been and charged. Okay,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I want to also make that very very very very clear.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I have no doubt that the cameras picked up who
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: it is and they figured it out. Now, I actually
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: believe there's a very good chance this was not Hunter
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Biden based on when they found it. I believe there's
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: a good chances could have just been these types of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: people that work at the White House who basically think
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: that the rules don't apply to them. And if you
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: look at this administration, you look at this White House,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: it makes sense that they would have a bunch of
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: a bunch of druggies around, right, A bunch of coke
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: heads around doing blow. I think there's a very good
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: chances the staffer they probably were out the night before,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: or they were going out that night, they needed their
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: cocaine with them, and they decided to bring it to
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the White House. Now, is there chance, of course, of
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the drug use of Hunter Biden that in theory could
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: be his, Yes, but I'm not obsessed with that story.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: What I'm upset about is the fact that the White House,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sure has figured this out. They know whose drugs
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: it is, They know whose drugs this is. I did
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: out number yesterday and I was sitting there with former
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: White House pre secretary on the panel with me as well,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Kaylee mcininnie, and she said, no way Hunter Biden was
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a source of cocaine at the White House. She dismissed
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the idea that the cocaine found at the White House
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: belonged to President Joe Biden's son. She said, quote camp David,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: there is no way it is conceivable to think cocaine
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: could sit for a seventy two hour period, So I
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: would rule him out at this point. She's probably right,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: it's probably a staff member either doing blow at the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: White House or was taking it in advance. Regardless, the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: fact that you felt comfortable enough to bring a hardcore
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: drug cocaine in into the White House tells you everything
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: you need to know about this White House. This is
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: who's running the country. I also would make this point,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I don't believe the presidents run the country. You look
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: at the stumbles, you look at the gaps, you look
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: at the schedule of this president. It's pretty clear he's
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: not running this administration. What concerns me is could there
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: be a kokeead at the high level in this White
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: House who clearly has significant influence on this White House?
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Is there a chance that that individual at the White
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: House is doing drugs with other people at the White
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: House who are making massive policy decisions for the United
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: States of America. That is the question that people should
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: be asking. And why are they protecting that staffer. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: have no doubt they know at this point who did it,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: What are they hiding and what employee are they protecting.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Let me also say something else. Experts are baffled by
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the White House invoking the hatch Haac to dodge questions
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: about this cocaine. Even a democratic ethics experts say if
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Biden campaign staffer were high as a kite, the Hatchac
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: would not cover the cocaine in question. The idea they
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: thought that that respond so I can't talk about this
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: because the hatch At act is absurd. Experts who understand
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the hatch Act understand that invoking the Hatchack when asked
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: whether President Biden or his son owned the cocaine found
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the White House truly is a middle finger to every
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: single American. That's something we need to understand. And when
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: you have the White House Deputy pres Secretary Andrew Bates
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: as being asked during this press gaggle whether the president
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: can deny that he or his son owned the cocaine
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: found the White House, and then he says, I can't
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: answer that question. Come on, really, I don't have a
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: response to that because we have to be careful about
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the Hatchac. That's your response. And the media, by the way,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: went along with It's like they're like, all right, we
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: asked the question. We're gonna move on now. We asked
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the question. We can check that box. And then Bates
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: compared Biden's policy record to his predecessor's record. No, they're
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: not the same folks. There was never a time that
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: cocaine was found the White House when Donald Trump was there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Then they said we got to invoke the Hatch Act.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with answering the damn question.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Attorney Bradley Moss said this, he is candidly at loss
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: as to why mister Bates believe the hatjack is relevant
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: with respect to addressing that question. Quote. I could envision
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: other legitimate basis for declining to respond, such as respecting
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the integrity of an ongoing investigation, but to reference a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: hatjack seems misplaced. Former Bush Administration Ethics chief chief Richard Paynter,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: who ran for Congress as a Democrat last cycle, said
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: he was and said this quote given lectures at the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: White House and publish articles on the Hatch Act, but
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the bill does not cover snorting cocaine, referring to the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Hatch Act being important again, saying it doesn't cover snorting
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: campaign What the blank does the hatjack have to do
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: with cocaine question mark? This is the most ridiculous invocation
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: of the Hatch Act I've ever seen. Painter add that
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: even if someone on Biden's campaign were hid as a kite,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the hat jack would not cover the cocaine in question. Yeah,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: very odd. The Baits would pivot to the Hatch Act
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and doesn't deny that the president or the son, the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: first Sons, that this cocaine was connecting them, because wouldn't
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: you want to get that out there? Right? If you
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: know that this isn't their cocaine, wouldn't you immediately say, Hey,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: this cocaine found the White House does not belong to you,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the president or son. That's the question they're asking, right,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: does it You would immediately say it does not? Right,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: You would immediately say that the that they are not
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: on drugs and the and the famous Hatch Act. You
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: may have heard about this before. This provision which does
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: it doesn't allow you to say, you know what, It
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: doesn't allow you to say what the White House said.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: The Hatch Act doesn't say or say to the people
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: with the White House had You can't answer the question
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: if cocaine belongs to the president or his son. That
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: is insane. So it brings up the question of Okay,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: well is it the president's cocaine? Is it the first
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: son's cocaine? Why wouldn't you answer the question say it's not,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: it's not their cocaine. It's not their cocaine. There is
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: more pressure now coming on the White House to bring
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: home a someone that needs to come home that's in captivity.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: This is pretty shocking. The Wall Street General reporter's family
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: is not reflecting on one hundred days of his attainment
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: in Russia. The mother of that reporter has now done
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: a sit down with the Wall Street Journal and is
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: now putting pressure on the Biden administration to bring their
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: son home. They brought home Brittany Grinder because she was
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: more important than another American being held there. Right, that's
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: what they've decided. Now take a listen.
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: It's even hard enough to leave him there then it
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: was the first time. I try not to think about anything.
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: That's just very hard.
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: You don't want your mind to go there. I don't
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: want my mind to go anywhere.
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: The conviction rate in Russia is nearly one hundred percent.
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: Exactly is there acal in cases like that?
• 25:51
  Speaker 11: Is there anything about his case that gives you hope?
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: No? No, I rely on President Bias than promise to
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: do whatever it takes to bring Evan back. I rely
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: on his team, on their expertise.
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: Just knowing that our government is doing everything in their
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: power right now, and just everyone wants to help and
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: is thinking about him. And I just know that we're
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: not alone in.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: This there it is. Oh, I just know they're going
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to you know, his expertise. If you're counting on the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: expertise of this White House. That's concerning. And I don't
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: mean that in a mean way. I mean that in
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: an honest way. This administration decided to value the life
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: of a WNBA player over and another American that was
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: there and there longer and didn't get him back. That's
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: concerning and everybody should be concerned with that. If you're
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: being held right now and you don't fit a box, okay,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and then you've got a real problem here. If you're
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: not one that they say is valued, okay, then there's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a real problem. Is this guy a white guy, yes?
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Is he a reporter? Yes? Do they care about him?
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think they value him. I think that's a
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: fair way of putting it. Like, I don't think they
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: value him at all. I think it's a complete opposite
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: of that. I think they look at this and they go, ah,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: you know, so what we got an American there. This
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: American is a guy that is he's a reporter, he
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: knew the risks. We'll get him back when we get
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: him back. But this is Vladimir Putin flexing his muscles.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: We also have an American that's gone missing in Iraq.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: You may not have heard about that either. You have
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: an American AID worker that was interact that was taken.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Is the White House doing much on that? You got
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: to ask yourself the question, now, do they even care
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: if Americans are taken? Do they have any muscle left
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in them? Apparently no, right, Apparently we don't have that anymore.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: We don't have that type of focus. We don't have
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: that type of protection if you are an American and
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you're going around the country or excuse me, around the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: world and you are taken. I don't think there's any
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: guarantee now that this administration does anything under the bare minimum.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Under the bare minimum means they move the fingers, they
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: click some boxes, they say something, and that's it, and
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: then they just kind of let it happen. They just
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: kind of let it play out for what it is.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna you know, it used to be if
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: you screwed with an American, you're mad. If you screw
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: with an American. And you mess with an American, there
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: was hell to pay. You mess with an American. Let
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: me say it again, there was hell to pay. That's
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: obviously not the case. Now it's not the case at all.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And it's incredibly frustrating to me that this is now
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: where we are in this country, in this world. We
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: have a White House that doesn't have to answer questions
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: about if cocaine is even the president's or his sons.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: They make up things about it being the hatch at
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: saying they can't answer that question. The media not freaking out.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: You've got two different Americans, this journalist who's been detained
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: for one hundred days in Russia. You have a woman
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: that goes missing, an American in Iraq being held by
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: what we understand is basically a fringe Muslim group. Anybody
• 29:47
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• 29:52
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• 30:02
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