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As staged air raid sirens sound, THE BIDEN warmongers are trying to FORCE the USA into WW3! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden goes to Ukraine and then we find out
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  Speaker 1: that the entire thing was basically staged. What do I
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: mean by this? Number One, The White House tries to
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  Speaker 1: claim it was a surprise visit. The only problem is
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  Speaker 1: we're now knowing that journalists were basically tipped off to
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  Speaker 1: be in Ukraine weeks, possibly in advance. How do we
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  Speaker 1: know this because even CNN is telling us that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of this was political theater. I'll give you a
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  Speaker 1: perfect example. CNN, reporting live from Kiev was shocked, as
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  Speaker 1: many others in the media have now reported on that
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  Speaker 1: when Joe Biden walked out in public was Zelensky and
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  Speaker 1: the air raid sirens went off. People looked around, like,
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  Speaker 1: what in the hell's going on? Why? Because there had
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  Speaker 1: been no air raid signs sirens going on for days
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  Speaker 1: and days, There had been no explosions in and around Kiev.
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  Speaker 1: Four days and days, there have not been any warnings.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, right when President Biden
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  Speaker 1: was in the center of Kiev walking with Zelenski to
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  Speaker 1: sell the world and the American people of just how
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  Speaker 1: bad the war zone is and also how brave Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden is for just being there and how brave Zelenski is.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, air raid sirens go off. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't Fox News saying this. This is CNN, the
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  Speaker 1: most trusted name in news. Right, listen to what they
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  Speaker 1: said about the absurdity of this. Clearly bs political moment.
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  Speaker 1: I've been here for the past five days. I have
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  Speaker 1: not heard any explosions. I have not heard any air
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  Speaker 1: sirens until about half an hour ago, right when President
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  Speaker 1: Biden was in the center of Kiev. As clariss it,
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  Speaker 1: it was just mentioning. This is CNN saying that's like,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't heard any of this. Now that's CNN reporting line.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't heard any of this for days and days
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  Speaker 1: and days and days. Doesn't matter, No, no, no, because
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  Speaker 1: this is political theater. This is what we have to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna read the exact quote for you. I've been
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  Speaker 1: here for the past five days, CNN saying this, I've
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  Speaker 1: not heard any explosions. I have not heard any air
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  Speaker 1: sirens until about a half hour ago, right when Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden was in the center of Kiev. So what is this.
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  Speaker 1: It's fake It's fake, folks, this is fake news. That's
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  Speaker 1: what this is. It is all fake and everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: that it is fake. But Joe Biden wants you to
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  Speaker 1: believe that he's a big, bad and bold man, a
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  Speaker 1: man that's willing to take on Russia. And they're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well, let's do this, right, let's get it
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  Speaker 1: out there. I don't even I mean, can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: if a Republican did this, what the media would be
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  Speaker 1: is something that has never ever happened before. Right, these
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  Speaker 1: things didn't just randomly happen. Are we on the verge
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  Speaker 1: of war War three? Three? Yeah? By the way, is
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  Speaker 1: the president also saying really stupid things over in that
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  Speaker 1: I think we can all agree are completely out of line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: listen to this type of and many would refer to
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  Speaker 1: this as racism. I tend to agree. This is Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden in Poland, by the way, saying another stupid thing
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  Speaker 1: after he's left Ukraine and Warsaw. I was as a
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  Speaker 1: young man. I was born and a little cold town
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  Speaker 1: of scrand in Pennsylvania and northeastern Pennsylvania, in an Irish
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  Speaker 1: Catholic neighborhood. Then when Cole died, we moved down to
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  Speaker 1: Delaware to a town called Claymont, Delaware, which was a
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  Speaker 1: working class town. But everybody in town is either Polish
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  Speaker 1: or Italian. I grew up feeling self conscious. My name
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  Speaker 1: s ki oh No. But all kidding aside, the connection
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  Speaker 1: between I was telling, all kidding aside, Wow, really that's
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  Speaker 1: where we are now? Now? The president walks out, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to let you hear the air raid sirens
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  Speaker 1: so that you can understand. He walks out in public,
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  Speaker 1: right from underneath this bridge. They've got all the armed
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  Speaker 1: guards around him, He've got Zelensk and his military fatigues.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like the president. They're walking out, and then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, out of nowhere, air raid sirens
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  Speaker 1: go off. There It is all right. Joe Biden didn't
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  Speaker 1: look nervous, Zelenski didn't look nervous. The media didn't look nervous,
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  Speaker 1: The Secret Service didn't look nervous. None of them even
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  Speaker 1: looked up in the air like, holy crap, what are
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  Speaker 1: we doing now? Now this was real, I think that
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  Speaker 1: the Secret Service would be like, Hey, we got to
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  Speaker 1: get him the hell out of here fast and into
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  Speaker 1: a basement somewhere. We gotta make sure that we get
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  Speaker 1: him out of there. Now. You want to know how
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  Speaker 1: much money we're spending in Ukraine right now compared to
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America. Let me give you this example.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden has spent two hundred billion in Ukraine. What
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  Speaker 1: are we getting aid in support four in America? Well,
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  Speaker 1: when you don't put America first, this is what you
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  Speaker 1: get building for the border wall twelve billion, new nuclear
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  Speaker 1: power plant fourteen billion, new US aircraft carrier thirteen billion,
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  Speaker 1: Stay the Art hospital to build a billion. These are
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  Speaker 1: the things that we could have actually done with some
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  Speaker 1: of this money. These are the things that you could
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  Speaker 1: have gotten. But hey, and all of these things I
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  Speaker 1: just listed, by the way, if you add them up,
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  Speaker 1: that's what each one of these things would cost. You
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  Speaker 1: could have gotten a lot of these things and still
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  Speaker 1: had money left over. Steve Gruber, friend of mine, put
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  Speaker 1: this out. He said, not only could you have built
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  Speaker 1: the border wall for twelve building what bought one of those?
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  Speaker 1: You could have had new nuclear power plants fourteen billion.
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  Speaker 1: You could have built five of those. You could add
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  Speaker 1: a new US aircraft carrier thirteen billion, could have built
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  Speaker 1: five of those, and you could have built twenty five
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  Speaker 1: Stay the Art hospitals for two billion apiece and still
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  Speaker 1: had money left. That's how much money we have given
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  Speaker 1: to Ukraine. Let's move to Tucker Carlson. Actually, before we
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  Speaker 1: get that, let me go to Wesley Hunt. Congressen. Wesley
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  Speaker 1: Hunt put this out there with a headline that read,
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  Speaker 1: Biden visits Ukraine ahead of war anniversary, Kiev stands quote unquote,
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  Speaker 1: that's Biden's big quote now right, And Wesley Hunt, who
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  Speaker 1: was a congressman from Texas, said, quote, we can't afford,
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  Speaker 1: we can't defend, excuse me, our southern border. He won't
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  Speaker 1: visit the people of Palestine, Ohio, but he'll jet set
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  Speaker 1: to Ukraine for a photo op. This is incredibly insulting
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  Speaker 1: to the American people. I couldn't agree more with him.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson also had his take on this on his
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  Speaker 1: opening monologue last night. Listen to what he said about
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  Speaker 1: all of it. We're Tucker did a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a comparing contrast of the foreign policy disaster. There's allowed
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  Speaker 1: for a rise of China, Iran and also Russia to
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  Speaker 1: aligne comparing it to what Donald Trump did with his
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  Speaker 1: foreign policy back in the day. He made some interesting points,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to hear what he said about
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  Speaker 1: all of this. Take a listen. But in retrospect, Trump
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  Speaker 1: had asked a deeply patriotic question, if Russia ever joined
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  Speaker 1: forces with China American global hegemony, its power would end instantly.
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  Speaker 1: You'd have the world's largest landmass and largest natural gas
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  Speaker 1: reserves allied with the world's largest population and world's largest economy.
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  Speaker 1: So a Russia China access would be not just more
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  Speaker 1: powerful than the United States, but much more powerful. It
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  Speaker 1: would have the scale to control a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: world's economy and trade routes and raw materials. It could
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  Speaker 1: project military force that posturing aside, we actually don't have
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  Speaker 1: the power to stop. If Russia and China ever got together,
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  Speaker 1: it would be a brand new world, and the United
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  Speaker 1: States would be greatly diminished. Most Americans degree that would
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  Speaker 1: be bad. Now, as Donald Trump predicted very clearly, that
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  Speaker 1: is happening thanks to Joe Biden's reckless and self distructive
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  Speaker 1: response to the invasion of Ukraine a year ago. This week,
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  Speaker 1: the economies of Russia and China are intertwined. Chinese spending
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  Speaker 1: on Russian goods has increased by more than sixty percent.
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  Speaker 1: China now imports more coal from Russia than it has
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  Speaker 1: in the last five years. Chinese shipments to Russia, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: are up by nearly thirty percent. Companies like Ford and
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  Speaker 1: Toyota pulled out of Russia. They had to remember that,
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  Speaker 1: So what happened next? Chinese automakers stepped in. Chinese carmakers
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  Speaker 1: once made less than ten percent of all cars bought
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  Speaker 1: in Russia. Now China makes a third of them. You
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  Speaker 1: can see where this is going. The same thing has
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  Speaker 1: happened with smartphones and countless other consumer goods. Not surprisingly,
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese un is replacing the dollar in Moscow. Chinese
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  Speaker 1: currency now accounts for fully one fifth of all trades
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  Speaker 1: on the Moscow stockings change. That's up from less than
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  Speaker 1: one percent last year. So these are deep and growing
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  Speaker 1: economic ties, and they're formal. The thing about economic ties, however,
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  Speaker 1: is that they lead inexorably to military ties. So it
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't surprise you that China is actively helping Russia in
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  Speaker 1: the war against NATO, which we are leading. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: the country with more ships than any navy in the
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  Speaker 1: world has united with the country that has more nuclear
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  Speaker 1: armed ICBMs than any country in the world to fight
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  Speaker 1: us through proxy in Ukraine. Well, that's scary. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing is everybody involves seems to know it's scary, and
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  Speaker 1: just how scary it is. Our leaders understand that their
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  Speaker 1: push for total war with Putin, which is unnecessary, could
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  Speaker 1: lead to the destruction of the West. They know that,
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  Speaker 1: but they're doing it anyway. In an interview with the
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  Speaker 1: German newspaper today, the Ukrainian President Zelenski casually mentioned that, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the entire world may soon go up
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  Speaker 1: in flames. Quote. If China aligns itself with Russia, there
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  Speaker 1: will be a world war. There will be a world
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  Speaker 1: war if China aligns with Russia. Who could say something
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  Speaker 1: like that calmly, since as we has told you, China
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  Speaker 1: is aligned with Russia. It's already happened. That's not speculation,
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  Speaker 1: it's a fact. And as a result of that fact,
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  Speaker 1: according to Zelenski himself, hundreds of millions of people will die.
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  Speaker 1: No big deal as long as we take CRIMEA. You
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  Speaker 1: think about this alliance that the Biden administration has forced
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  Speaker 1: China and Russia into. This is a This is not
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  Speaker 1: a normal alliance. I want to make that clear, right,
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  Speaker 1: This isn't a natural alliance. This is an abnormal alliance.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Russia and China have been adversaries for quite
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  Speaker 1: some time, and now all of a sudden we've made
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  Speaker 1: them and put them in a position where it makes
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  Speaker 1: sense for them economically and with power to actually become allies,
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  Speaker 1: unnatural allies at that. And Zelenski just said to the
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  Speaker 1: world very calmly. If Russia and China a line, there
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  Speaker 1: will be a world war, wild War three. And these
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  Speaker 1: unnatural allies we have forced into a corner together so
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  Speaker 1: that they can make love to one another. That is
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  Speaker 1: the reality of this situation, all because Joe Biden wants
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  Speaker 1: to look tough and need some air raid sirens to
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  Speaker 1: go off that are fake for a video that will
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  Speaker 1: make him look presidential in America. You want to know
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  Speaker 1: how you get to the verge of War War three,
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  Speaker 1: This is how you do it. This is what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Media censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop story was horrible, and
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  Speaker 1: then it got even worse. Hunter Biden's laptop coverage went
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  Speaker 1: from guilt and fear to revising literally history. Here we
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  Speaker 1: are in February of twenty twenty three, nearly two and
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: a half years after the Hunter Biden laptop suppression story
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  Speaker 1: and the Washington Post fact checkers, Hollam published a new
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  Speaker 1: title of a report that says this the Hunter by Laptop.
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  Speaker 1: In Claims of Russian disinfo, Glenn Kessler noted that among
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  Speaker 1: his media colleagues in October of twenty twenty, few were
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  Speaker 1: willing to report information the New York Times, excuse me
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  Speaker 1: the New York Post stories without their own due diligence,
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  Speaker 1: especially if Russia was once again seeking to quote metal
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  Speaker 1: in the elections. He then drills into the infamous former
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  Speaker 1: Intel community member's letter, which points to the laptop story
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  Speaker 1: as one that has all quote the classic earmarks of
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  Speaker 1: Russian disinformation and a Russian disinformation operation. He talks to
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  Speaker 1: James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, one of the
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  Speaker 1: signers of the letter, who gave it quote extra credibility,
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  Speaker 1: and then Kessler proceeds to remove all culpability for the
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  Speaker 1: misinformation lack of accurate media coverage at the time. He
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  Speaker 1: allows Clapper to slam Politico, which picked up the letter's
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  Speaker 1: claims and had clear implications to say that now more
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  Speaker 1: than two years later, Politico quote deliberately distorted what he said.
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  Speaker 1: That's referring, obviously to James Clapper, the Washington Post fact checker. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Kessler let most of the media off the hook
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  Speaker 1: on purpose, and he knew what he was doing was
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  Speaker 1: covering for Joe Biden so he could become president. Now
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: you have the revisionist history that's happening. As one put it,
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  Speaker 1: Tweeted a reporter, Jake Sherman, then at Politico, who continued
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  Speaker 1: his misspelling laden apologetic tweet for daring to link the
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  Speaker 1: story at the time, saying, quote, my goal was not
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  Speaker 1: spread information. I'm assuming him at misinformation he misspelled the word.
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  Speaker 1: My goal was to raise questions about the story, as
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  Speaker 1: I did in subsequent tweets, and see how the Biden
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  Speaker 1: campaign was going to respond. They later did respond. It
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: was an utter panic, the author writes, and why the
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  Speaker 1: media wasn't overly outraged about the egregious overreach from Twitter
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  Speaker 1: and other social platforms against the media outlet because it
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  Speaker 1: had journalistic PTSD from twenty sixteen. There were two factors
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  Speaker 1: at the core of the media's relative silence on the matter.
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  Speaker 1: Guilt and fear. The press truly believed they were partly
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  Speaker 1: responsible for Donald Trump's shock victory over Hillary Clinton four
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  Speaker 1: years earlier because of all the coverage they gave him.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did they give them coverage, but thanks to
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the coverage of her emails right Hillary Clinton's email and
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  Speaker 1: her server, and the early easier treatment they gave him
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  Speaker 1: during the primary, they felt guilty and we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to make the same mistake again. Right. This is bring
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  Speaker 1: down Trump. This is what the media was obsessed with doing.
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  Speaker 1: They believed they gave it to him, and they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take it away from him. And then there was fear,
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  Speaker 1: the social media ostratization, the attacks from their colleagues. Maggie
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  Speaker 1: Haberman of the New York Times previously worked in The
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  Speaker 1: New York Post, and she dared to link to the
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  Speaker 1: story early on the fourteenth, even though she was questioning
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  Speaker 1: the sourcing of it. By the afternoon, she was trending
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter as Maga Haberman for her supposed crime. The
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  Speaker 1: author says, in my new book Uncovered, How the media
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  Speaker 1: got cozy with power, abandoned its principles, and lost to people.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I begin with a Hunter Biden laptop story because one
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  Speaker 1: thing it truly exemplifies the overly censorious era that was
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  Speaker 1: to come out of the Trump era. The media was
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  Speaker 1: fine with the censorship because it was a means to
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  Speaker 1: an end, really an into its presidency. Obviously. He goes
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  Speaker 1: on to say, for the book, I talked to dozens
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  Speaker 1: of media members on the record. I think there's a really,
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  Speaker 1: really worrying tendency of the left and the mainstream media
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  Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party to censor anything undesirable, as if
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  Speaker 1: that would make it go away. That's what Sean McCreesh,
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  Speaker 1: who worked at the New York Times at the time
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  Speaker 1: The New York Posts published its first Hunter Biden story
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  Speaker 1: in October of twenty twenty, said he now works for
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  Speaker 1: New York Magazine and told me, instead of either bearing
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  Speaker 1: the story inside the paper or just touching it lightly,
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  Speaker 1: the way they tried to wiggle out of covering it
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  Speaker 1: was by insinuating that it might not have even been real,
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  Speaker 1: which was a huge mistake because of course everybody knew
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  Speaker 1: it was real. It was knowable, it was so obviously real.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Selino Zito of The Washington Examiner told me the Post
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  Speaker 1: colleague should have come to its defense. That's the first
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  Speaker 1: thing that a journalist you should be concerned about is
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  Speaker 1: your profession, not as a team you work on, but
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: our profession as a whole. Rich McHugh, a long time
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  Speaker 1: investigative journalists previously at NBC News and other outlets, sees
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  Speaker 1: the tech suppression as a huge problem, saying it's shameful.
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  Speaker 1: It shouldn't be happening with big tech. He told me,
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  Speaker 1: it's this curious time where these major corporations are dictating
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  Speaker 1: what news we referring to the people get, and I
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: think there's inherent problems in that. It shouldn't be that way.
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  Speaker 1: However you feel about Trump or Biden. I think it
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: further diminishes, further erodes the trust and the media when
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: it looks like you're hammering Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia
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  Speaker 1: on the Trump side, and then there's one little hint
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: of impropriety on the Biden side, and it's like, we
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: can't even talk about that, we can't even acknowledge that,
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  Speaker 1: God forbid, because the other side is so bad. I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: think it's dangerous. That's what a former New York Times
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  Speaker 1: reporter who previously covered the Hillary Clinton campaign also said
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: for this new book. In the intervening years, outlets like
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: The New York Times and CNN would go on to
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: quote verify, quote unquote the original Hunter Biden laptop reporting.
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  Speaker 1: They eventually told their audiences the truth long after it
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: was no longer relevant or could change the election. But
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: even still, as we saw February thirteenth with the Washington
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Post fact checker, introspection and humility remain in short supply
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: among the press, particularly when it comes to a story
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  Speaker 1: it worked with its powerful friends in tech and government
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: to suppress, to suppress, consciously or subconsciously. Now, the point
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: of me reading this for you and reminding you of
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: just how bad the media is and how corrupt they
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: have become, is that they knew that the story was real.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: That's what the media is saying in this book. They
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: knew the entire time that it was real. They knew
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that Hunter Biden's laptop was real, The contents were real,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the story was real. They just didn't want it to
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  Speaker 1: be seen by the public. They didn't want you to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it, they didn't want you to be able
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  Speaker 1: to share it. These were the things that they were
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: working on. And now the media's coming back, and the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Washington Post fact checker Glenn Cussler let most of the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: media off the hook for their horrible Hunter by the
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  Speaker 1: laptop coverage gave them cover is now out there like, Okay, well, what,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: maybe we got it wrong, but we were trying to
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  Speaker 1: protect you from Russia, so really we should get an
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: honorable mention, right, That's what they're saying here. It's insane.
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  Speaker 1: Do I believe that the media learned their lesson, will
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  Speaker 1: not do this again. I do not I do not
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  Speaker 1: believe for even a moment, okay even a moment, that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to stop doing this. Should they be publicly
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  Speaker 1: shamed for this? Absolutely? Should these members of the media
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  Speaker 1: be trusted. No, the media is corrupt as hell and
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the media quickly works for the deep state. By the way,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, my co host on Verdict with Ted Cruz,
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  Speaker 1: had this to say also about James Clapper and James
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  Speaker 1: Clapper's explanation from the Hunter laptop letter that he's signed
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, I want you to listen to this
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: first saying now is obviously spin, and it's spin to
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: try to cover his own rear end because he is
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: now subject to subject to scrutiny from the House Majority.
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  Speaker 1: And okay, so the headline, here's the headline Politico ran
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: about Clapper's letter quote Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinfo.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Dozens of former Intel officials say so. That was the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: story Politico wrote because they leaked the letter to Politico,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and then lots of other media outlets, CNN and others
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: covered the Politico story. Now, Clapper at the time, did
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: he issue a clarification, this story is false. No, did
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: he go on TV and say this is not true?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't say it was Russian disinformation. No. The reason
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: they wrote the letter, the reason they leaked the letter
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: is they intended Politico to write exactly what they wrote.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: They intended the useful idiots and the press, the corrupt
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: corporate media, to go forth with their lie. And we
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: now know it was a lie. That it wasn't Russians information.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: The laptop was true and real. But James Clapper wanted
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: that story written two weeks before the election because he
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: didn't want anyone to focus on what was in in
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden lapt Senator Cruise saying this on our
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: podcast Verdict, quitech Cruise that I co host with him.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Go and listen to this because he goes into even
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: more detail. But that was just an excerpt that was
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: actually pulled from Fox News. I just played for you.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: They understand how damning this is to the entire media
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: apparatus in this country. The media is no longer independent.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: The media is no longer doing investigative journalism. The media
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: is no longer doing any of it. What the media
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: is doing is they're doing everything that they can do
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: cover all of this up to silence you if you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: say something they don't like. That's a big tech in
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the deep state, or to shut you up if you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: say something that's just too damning of any Democrat, and
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that's what they're now doing, all right, Make sure you
• 30:02
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• 30:06
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• 30:08
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