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Hunter Goes to War Defying House Subpoena · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

0:01
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden goes to Washington.
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Speaker 2: He has time for a press conference, but no time
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Speaker 2: to go into a closed door deposition. Contempt proceedings have
0:13
Speaker 2: begun officially for hunter Biden. A jail threat after defying
0:17
Speaker 2: this subpoena is significant in theory.
0:21
Speaker 1: There's just one problem.
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Speaker 2: You have the Department of Justice that would have to
0:25
Speaker 2: pursue those charges, and there's absolutely no indication that they
0:28
Speaker 2: would pursue those charges. Now this on top of a
0:33
Speaker 2: vote on biden impeachment inquiry. So let's start with him
0:37
Speaker 2: not showing up, and I want you to hear with
0:39
Speaker 2: the House Judiciary Committee chairman had to say after hunter
0:43
Speaker 2: Biden skipped the deposition, and there was some shock, but
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Speaker 2: honestly it's what I predicted. He knows the DOJ I
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Speaker 2: think will back him up. Take a listen, we'll.
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Speaker 3: Just why they didn't show up. I mean, he was
0:57
Speaker 3: just across away at the Capital. You think you could
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Speaker 3: here in separate question. If you do it in an.
1:02
Speaker 4: Open format, now you're going to get You're going to
1:04
Speaker 4: get fillibusters, You're going to get speeches, You're going to
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Speaker 4: get all kinds of things. What we want is the
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Speaker 4: facts and the way you get the facts, and every
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Speaker 4: single depth, every single investigation I've been involved in is
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Speaker 4: you bring people in for an interview behind closed doors
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Speaker 4: where you can get those facts. And then, as the
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Speaker 4: Chairman said, we'd left for him to come public. Finally,
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Speaker 4: I would say this mister Biden's counsel and the White
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Speaker 4: House and both argue that the reason he couldn't come
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Speaker 4: for a deposition was because there wasn't a formal.
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Speaker 3: Vote for an impeachment inquiry. Well, that's going to happen
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Speaker 3: in a few hours. We think it's going to pass.
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Speaker 4: We think the House of Representatives will go on record
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Speaker 4: with the power that solely resides in the House to
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Speaker 4: say we are in an official impeachment inquiry phase of
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Speaker 4: our oversight, and when that happens, we'll see what their
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Speaker 4: excuse is. Then they should have been here today. But
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Speaker 4: once we take that vote, we expect him to come
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Speaker 4: in for his interview for his deposition, and frankly, we'll also,
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Speaker 4: I think, look at contemp proceedings as we.
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Speaker 2: Move forward, say the contempt proceedings are in fact moving forward.
2:03
Speaker 2: Now let me let you hear what James Comer also
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Speaker 2: had to say about Hunter Biden missing his deposition, this
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Speaker 2: closed door deposition, but having plenty of time to do
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Speaker 2: a press conference.
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Speaker 5: The president son that we expect him to come in
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Speaker 5: and be deposed.
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Speaker 3: This is a normal process and an investigation.
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Speaker 6: This has been a serious, credible, transparent investigation from day one.
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Speaker 6: We've published four vein memorandums, We've had countless press conferences.
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Speaker 6: This is an investigation about public corruption at the highest level.
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Speaker 5: We have accumulated mountains of evidence that's concerning to an
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Speaker 5: overwhelming majority of Americans. We have specific questions in there,
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Speaker 5: and I think we're going to allow you in there
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Speaker 5: to see the piles and piles of documents and bank statements,
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Speaker 5: of emails and text messages that we've worked very hard
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Speaker 5: on in this committee.
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Speaker 1: Over the last eight or dozen.
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Speaker 7: One.
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Speaker 5: We expect to depose the president's son, and then we
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Speaker 5: will be more than happy I have a public.
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Speaker 2: With him and then have that public hearing with him. Now,
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Speaker 2: there was a lot that was said by Hunter Biden.
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Speaker 2: He had a press conference on Capitol Hill, not showing
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Speaker 2: up for the meeting, but having a press conference. Here
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Speaker 2: is Hunter Biden, in his own words, outside of basically
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Speaker 2: the United States Capitol Building.
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Speaker 8: Uring I'm here today to answer out a public hearing
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Speaker 8: any legitimate questions Chairman Comer and the House Oversight Committee
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Speaker 8: may have for me. For six years, I've been the
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Speaker 8: target of the unrelenting Trump attack machine, shouting where's Hunter. Well,
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Speaker 8: here's my answer. I am here. Let me state as
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Speaker 8: clearly as I can. My father was not financially involved
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Speaker 8: in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as
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Speaker 8: a board.
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Speaker 9: Member Barisma, not in my.
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Speaker 8: Partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments
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Speaker 8: at home nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist.
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Speaker 8: During my battle with addiction, my parents were there for me.
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Speaker 8: They literally saved my life. They helped me in ways
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Speaker 8: that I will never be able to repay, and of
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Speaker 8: course they would never expect me to.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's just stop there and recap that first
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Speaker 2: minute a BS number one. He says, I'm here today
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Speaker 2: for a public hearing. Well, there's no public hearing that
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Speaker 2: was scheduled, So that's stupid. That's like saying you're going
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Speaker 2: to show up to the airport for a flight and
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Speaker 2: you don't have a ticket.
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Speaker 1: That's dumb.
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Speaker 2: It's like showing up to a school that you don't
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Speaker 2: attend for the first day of class that you haven't
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Speaker 2: applied to and saying I'm here for school. That would
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Speaker 2: be stupid. That is how dumb Hunter Biden was to
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Speaker 2: do this. Now, obviously it was a publicity stunt right
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Speaker 2: here today for a public a public hearing. Well, that's
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Speaker 2: not what today was. That's not what today was scheduled.
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Speaker 2: There was no room for this public hearing on the books.
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Speaker 2: In fact, there is no plan for a public hearing.
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Speaker 1: Now. This is for a deposition.
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Speaker 2: This would be like showing up to court after you
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Speaker 2: you've been charged with the crime saying I'm here today for
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Speaker 2: the sentencing and the trial hasn't even started yet. That
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Speaker 2: would be stupid, or walking in saying I'm ready for
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Speaker 2: the judge to declare me innocent today when the judge
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Speaker 2: hasn't even heard the facts of the case. Right that
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Speaker 2: you don't get to dictate this way yet, Hunter Biden
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Speaker 2: believes he can dictate this way on Capitol Hill because
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Speaker 2: the DOJ is going to protect him, because if he
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Speaker 2: is held in contempt of Congress, then they would be
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Speaker 2: the ones that would have to prosecute. They're not going
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Speaker 2: to second point here. It's exactly what their game plan
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Speaker 2: has been all along.
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Speaker 1: I am an addict. I was deep into drugs.
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Speaker 2: My parents love me, They saved me countless times. And
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Speaker 2: this is just a story of a diction and bad
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Speaker 2: choices while I was an addict, and you should feel
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Speaker 2: sorry for me.
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Speaker 1: This has been the Biden's plan all along.
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Speaker 2: In fact, they exploited his addiction and continued to bring
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Speaker 2: in the millions of dollars, knowing that the money was
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Speaker 2: going to feed his addiction. They knew he was an addict,
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Speaker 2: and they didn't care because he was going to always
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Speaker 2: be the fall guy. His uncle, right, Jimmy, was never
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Speaker 2: going to be the fall guy. Joe Biden's wife was
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Speaker 2: never going to be the fall guy. In fact, none
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Speaker 2: of the other people in the Biden family were going
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Speaker 2: to be the fall guy. Hunter Biden had the excuse
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Speaker 2: he was the addict. So exploit this addicted individual. And
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Speaker 2: if you think about how sick that is from a
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Speaker 2: parent's perspective, You're you're sending this kid out into the
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Speaker 2: world to get to do business with the worst people
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Speaker 2: in the world to make you money. Is the big
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Speaker 2: guy and be your bag man, and you're exploiting his
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Speaker 2: addiction and the cash he needs for this addiction, and
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Speaker 2: for the sex addiction and the and for the Constitution,
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Speaker 2: and for the abuse of women and the sex trafficking
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Speaker 2: of women. They actually looked at his addiction as an opportunity.
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Speaker 2: On that standpoint, I actually do feel bad for Hunter
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Speaker 2: Biden because they weren't trying to help him. They were
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Speaker 2: basically shooting this guy up. And then they'd sober him
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Speaker 2: out to go get the money, and then come back
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Speaker 2: and let him get high as a kite and go
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Speaker 2: back into the depths of hell. And then they would
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Speaker 2: sober him back up to get on the plane to
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Speaker 2: go do the next big deal.
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Speaker 1: And then he would come back and he would.
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Speaker 2: Get and they let him get high as a kite
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Speaker 2: and do whatever the hell he wanted to do with
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Speaker 2: addiction and women. They didn't care. And then they needed
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Speaker 2: some more money, and what would they do. They'd sober
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Speaker 2: him up, throw him on a plane, put a suit
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Speaker 2: on him, and get him to, you know, sober out
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Speaker 2: a little bit, do another deal.
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Speaker 1: And then what would they do.
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Speaker 2: Here's your money, addict, go get high again, go get
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Speaker 2: you some prostitutes. Job well done, boy. That's how they
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Speaker 2: treated Hunter Biden's addiction. They didn't cut him off the
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Speaker 2: flow of money. They didn't try to stop his addiction.
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Speaker 2: They didn't tell him he couldn't be in the family
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Speaker 2: business any longer. They didn't stop giving him the access
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Speaker 2: to the funds and the money and the millions of dollars. No,
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Speaker 2: they said, keep the money coming, Hey, hunter, you need
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Speaker 2: some more drugs, all right, Well, then sober up.
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Speaker 1: We got to get on a plane to China.
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Speaker 2: We gotta go meet with some Chinese people, get this
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Speaker 2: deal done, and then you'll have another million dollars you
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Speaker 2: can blow on hookers and blow.
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Speaker 1: Literally. That's how they treated their own son.
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Speaker 2: So if you think you think Joe Biden gives a
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Speaker 2: crap about you, or about the interest rates, or about
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Speaker 2: the economy, or about the crimes against children at the
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Speaker 2: southern border, the sex trafficking at the southern border, the
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Speaker 2: fetanyl that's killing our kids and grandkids in this country,
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Speaker 2: let me be clear, they don't care. Because they don't
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Speaker 2: even care about their own son. When they abused him
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Speaker 2: as an addict, they took advantage of him as an addict.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I would argue they.
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Speaker 2: Kept supplying him with the dollars needed for the addiction.
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Speaker 2: have to say it again, have the plan all along.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be our alibi. Just tell them
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Speaker 2: that your parents loved you, and tell them you were
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Speaker 2: in the depths of an addiction problem and that you've
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Speaker 2: overcome that, and that's these bad decisions you made the past.
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Speaker 2: You don't even remember him because you were such a
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Speaker 2: drug addict. That's their alibi. And sure enough in the
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Speaker 2: press conference, that's exactly what he said. Now we're just
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Speaker 2: admitted into this press conference and he's already put this
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Speaker 2: story out there exactly like I expected him to, but
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Speaker 2: keep listening.
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Speaker 8: To what he says, and in the depths of my addiction,
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Speaker 8: I was extremely irresponsible with my finances. But to suggest
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Speaker 8: that is grounds for an ampeacement inquiry is beyond the absurd.
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Speaker 9: It's shameless.
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Speaker 1: There's no evidence to.
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Speaker 8: Support the allegations that my father was financially involved in
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Speaker 8: my business because it did not happen.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's not true.
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Speaker 2: We know now countless times that your father met with
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Speaker 2: your business associates without you there, one on one, Countless
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Speaker 2: trips that were taken by you and your father to
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Speaker 2: meet with people that you were doing business with. Countless
12:05
Speaker 2: times they were doing meetings at the White House where
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Speaker 2: you were not there, and at the Vice Presidence residency.
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Speaker 2: Times that you had dinner at Cafe Milano with your
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Speaker 2: business associates, and direct payments going to your father, some
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Speaker 2: of them reoccurring payments, quarter of a million dollars and
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Speaker 2: direct payments on the day that massive amounts of money
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Speaker 2: came in WhatsApp text messages to the Chinese communists saying
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Speaker 2: you better send me the money. My dad's sitting next
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Speaker 2: to me. And what happened. Five million dollars shows up
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Speaker 2: within a week of you sending that text message. So
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Speaker 2: the idea that there is no evidence and that you
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Speaker 2: shouldn't have to answer these questions.
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Speaker 1: I'll say it simply.
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Speaker 2: You are a liar, and everybody knows that you're lying,
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Speaker 2: because we have the facts and the suspicious activity reports,
12:57
Speaker 2: and now the check stubs that went to your father,
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Speaker 2: and the emails and the phone calls, and the wisdom
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Speaker 2: blowers and others who worked with you have testified that yes,
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Speaker 2: your father was involved. In fact, the product of your
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Speaker 2: business was selling access to US government through your father,
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Speaker 2: who was the Vice President of the United States of America.
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Speaker 8: James Comer, Jim Jordan, Jason Smith, and their colleagues have
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Speaker 8: distorted the facts by cherry picking lines from a bank statement,
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Speaker 8: manipulating texts I sent, editing the testimony of my friends
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Speaker 8: and former business partners, and misstating personal information that was
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Speaker 8: stolen from me. There is no fairness or decency and
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Speaker 8: what these Republicans are doing. They have lied over and
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Speaker 8: over about every aspect of my personal and professional life,
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Speaker 8: so much so that their lives have become the false
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Speaker 8: facts believed by too many people, no matter how many
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Speaker 8: times it is debunked. They continue to insist that my
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Speaker 8: father's support of Ukraine against Russia as the result of
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Speaker 8: a non existent bribe. They displayed naked photos of me
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Speaker 8: during an oversight. Hearing all right, this part makes me laugh.
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Speaker 8: He's now going to act like he's a victim.
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Speaker 2: This is the guy who exploited women in sex, trafficked women,
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Speaker 2: and now he's going to say they showed pictures.
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Speaker 1: Of me nicked.
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Speaker 2: You're the one that left a laptop, lied about the laptop,
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Speaker 2: said the laptop wasn't yours, and lied about it and
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Speaker 2: had the entire media lie for you and the deep
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Speaker 2: state life where you saying that the laptop was not
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Speaker 2: real and it was Russian disinformation. And now we found
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Speaker 2: out that it would have there's a very good chance
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Speaker 2: it would have changed the entire election. But all of
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Speaker 2: these members of the Deep State did everything they could
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Speaker 2: to pro protect you. And when they went to protect you,
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Speaker 2: when they decided to protect you, Now you want to
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Speaker 2: claim that you're a victim. So you're an addict, right,
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Speaker 2: that's your excuse Number one. Number two, you're like, oh, well,
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Speaker 2: they showed you things you shouldn't have seen before. Let's
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Speaker 2: talk about all the pictures and videos you took of
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Speaker 2: the women you were sex trafficking.
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Speaker 1: What about them?
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Speaker 10: Oh?
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Speaker 2: I was an addict, so therefore it's okay, I can
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Speaker 2: excuse it away. Oh okay, got it. So people showing
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Speaker 2: that these pictures are actually you to prove a point
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Speaker 2: that you were lying and your father was lying and
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Speaker 2: the media was lying about the how authentic the laptop was.
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Speaker 2: You're now wanting to claim that you are some sort
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Speaker 2: of victim in that process. Really, Oh, it gets even better.
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Speaker 2: Listen to this again. The story is just so much,
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Speaker 2: it's so sad. You don't understand. I'm the victim here, right,
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Speaker 2: And he says, the Republicans are shameless.
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Speaker 8: And they have taken the light of my dad's love,
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Speaker 8: the light of my dad's love for me, and presented
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Speaker 8: it as darkness.
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Speaker 1: They have no shame. All right, Well, let's be clear.
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Speaker 2: No one's taking your dad's love and shining a light
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Speaker 2: that is darkness. The only person that's done that is
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Speaker 2: your own father, who used your addiction to his advantage
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Speaker 2: to enrich himself in your entire family.
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Speaker 1: That's the truth.
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Speaker 2: Your entire family used your addiction as so that you
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Speaker 2: would have be the bag man number one they put
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Speaker 2: you in this situation where I'm sure they said, hey,
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Speaker 2: don't worry, we're gonna be able to protect you because
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Speaker 2: no one will ever find out about it, and even
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Speaker 2: if they do, we've got the deep State to cover
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Speaker 2: for us. And you're the one that's so stupid you
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Speaker 2: left your laptop so so to be clear, that's number one.
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Speaker 2: But number two on this, and the most important part
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Speaker 2: of this is the fact that you want me to
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Speaker 2: believe that you are somehow a victim of your family
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Speaker 2: or of everyone else but your family. Your family is
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Speaker 2: who did this to you. Yes you're a grown man.
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Speaker 2: Yes you had to say so in it. Yes you
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Speaker 2: were a part of this crime family, no doubt. But
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Speaker 2: this crime family, they weren't high and drunk from what
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Speaker 2: we understand, they weren't one bad hit away from an overdose.
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Speaker 2: They were allowing and supporting your addiction because it brought
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Speaker 2: in their cash, because.
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Speaker 1: It was the alibi they needed.
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Speaker 2: They wanted you to take risks that they would never
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Speaker 2: take on their own, and you were the guy that
17:43
Speaker 2: could take those risks, and then they would cover for you.
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Speaker 2: And they needed you to take those risks, and they
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Speaker 2: had your alibi.
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Speaker 1: No one is turning your dad's love into darkness.
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Speaker 2: I'm not, by the way, you might want to go
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Speaker 2: talk to somebody, because I'm not so sure your dad
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Speaker 2: loves you as much as you think. No father that
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Speaker 2: truly loves her son would use and abuse their son's
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Speaker 2: addiction this way and play Russian Roulette with drugs so
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Speaker 2: they could make money.
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Speaker 8: Yet here I am, mister Chairman, taking up your offer
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Speaker 8: when you said we can bring these people in for
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Speaker 8: depositions or committee hearings, whichever they choose.
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Speaker 1: Well I've chosen.
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Speaker 8: I am here to testify at a public hearing today
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Speaker 8: to answer any of the committee's legitimate questions. Republicans do
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Speaker 8: not want an open process where Americans can see their tactics,
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Speaker 8: expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what I have to say.
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Speaker 1: What are they afraid of?
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Speaker 9: I'm here, I'm ready.
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Speaker 1: That was it.
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Speaker 2: There's the end of the press conference. I'm here, I'm ready.
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Speaker 2: Well there's there was no public hearing for today, so
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Speaker 2: that was stupid and you're an idiots. But again, you
19:19
Speaker 2: and I both know what this really is. This was
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Speaker 2: a publicity stunt. We all know that he's an idiot.
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Speaker 2: There is nothing that day planned. There was nothing on
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Speaker 2: the for that day to happen. There was no public
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Speaker 2: hearing schedule, there was no I mean to dictator to
19:36
Speaker 2: think that you can do this also just tells you
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Speaker 2: how de range the Biden crime family is. Now, why
19:44
Speaker 2: did he have this press conference because they're betting that
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Speaker 2: there's enough Americans that will be stupid enough to say.
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Speaker 1: Well, he showed up today.
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Speaker 2: Well they they you know, they could have talked to
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Speaker 2: him and they chose not to. And they also believe
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Speaker 2: there's enough Americans are stupid enough to fill sorry for
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Speaker 2: him because of his addiction, which goes back to the
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Speaker 2: other part of this. White House, by the way, was
20:08
Speaker 2: asked about this defying of a congressional subpoena.
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Speaker 1: You want to know what the White House said today
20:14
Speaker 1: was amazing.
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Speaker 11: Listen, is the President okay with his son defying congressional subpoena.
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Speaker 11: I'm just not going to get into specifics on that.
20:22
Speaker 11: I would have to have death refer to the President's
20:27
Speaker 11: not the president, but Hunter's personal personal representatives. He's a
20:30
Speaker 11: private citizens. I'm just not going to get into it.
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Speaker 3: He tells him. The last time the two of them spoke.
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Speaker 11: I mean, I'm also not going to get into private
20:36
Speaker 11: conversation that the president has with his family. We've been
20:38
Speaker 11: pretty consistent that's nothing new. We're just not going to
20:40
Speaker 11: get into it from here.
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Speaker 2: By the way, it is new that you have a
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Speaker 2: present son that is defying a congressional subpoena, the same
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Speaker 2: congressional subpoenas that we're given to Joe or to Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump's children. And guess what on that witch hunt which
20:55
Speaker 2: ended up being a witch hunt, You know what happened.
21:00
Speaker 2: They ended up showing up for those depositions for hours
21:06
Speaker 2: on end. But apparently, when you own the deep state
21:11
Speaker 2: and you're Joe Biden, your son can do whatever the
21:14
Speaker 2: hell he wants to do and there is no issues.
21:19
Speaker 2: I want to also move to something else that's important,
21:22
Speaker 2: and I promise you I'm going to keep covering the
21:25
Speaker 2: Hunter Biden disaster and the next moves by Republicans to
21:30
Speaker 2: hold him in contempt. But there's also some other issues,
21:32
Speaker 2: and it deals with Israeli funding, border security and Jeffrey
21:37
Speaker 2: Epstein's flight logs, and Democrats are blocking you from seeing
21:42
Speaker 2: those flight logs. Join me to talk about that. As
21:46
Speaker 2: United States centator from Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn. Durbin was walking
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Speaker 2: down the hall just a couple days ago and a
21:52
Speaker 2: Fox reporter asked him a basic question. He was not happy.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen, I.
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Speaker 4: Don't know anything about his flight logs.
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Speaker 10: Why won't you subpoena that? Why don't you want to
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Speaker 10: know the issue?
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Speaker 4: I know who Epsteine was, but I certainly don't know
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Speaker 4: anything about the issue.
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Speaker 10: Well, he was charged with sex trafficking, So why don't
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Speaker 10: you want to know who was utilizing his private plane?
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Speaker 4: Never been raised by anyone.
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Speaker 10: Well, Senator Blackburn has wanted to subpoena them, and there
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Speaker 10: hasn't been a vote in your commission.
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Speaker 4: But a word to me, not a word?
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Speaker 10: Are you curious? Like what high profile or powerful people
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Speaker 10: might be closeted predators and pedophiles? Doesn't that concern you?
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Speaker 10: So why won't you subpoena them? If you can?
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Speaker 4: It's the first time anyone has raised it. Thank you Fox.
22:37
Speaker 2: Very snarky, he says, thank you Fox. Now let's play
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Speaker 2: the lie, because Senator you previously go back to November
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Speaker 2: the ninth, said this in front of Durban, who's sitting
22:49
Speaker 2: directly in front of you in the in this in
22:52
Speaker 2: in one of these committee meetings.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen, I.
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Speaker 7: Say, recognition. Since we're in the business issuing subpoenas, now
23:02
Speaker 7: here are a few more that I filed a subpoena
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Speaker 7: to Jeffrey Epstein's estate to provide the flight logs for
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Speaker 7: his private plane.
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Speaker 2: By the way, that was said directly to Durban, who's
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Speaker 2: chairing the committee. So he flat out lied to foxing
23:19
Speaker 2: that's the first thing he's ever heard of it. And
23:22
Speaker 2: then got a little snippy in the Senate committee meeting
23:25
Speaker 2: as well that day, saying, hey, Fox just asked me
23:27
Speaker 2: about this. I want to be on the record. You
23:28
Speaker 2: and I have never talked about this. Well, you had
23:30
Speaker 2: talked about it. We just played the audio. Why is
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Speaker 2: he fighting so hard to protect the Jeffrey Epstein flight
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Speaker 2: logs and those abusers that were on flying on that plane?
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Speaker 7: You know, Ben, One of the things that we continued
23:44
Speaker 7: to say is people that were on this plane were
23:47
Speaker 7: participating in this sex trafficking ring that Jeffrey Epstein and
23:51
Speaker 7: Julaane Maxwell had manufactured. And we know that she was
23:58
Speaker 7: the one that recruited and groomed the girls and brought
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Speaker 7: them into Epstein's orbit, and now through her trial through
24:09
Speaker 7: Jeffrey Epstein's death. What you're finding is flight logs were
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Speaker 7: heavily redacted during her trial. People don't want to reveal
24:24
Speaker 7: who all was a part of this, and it gives
24:27
Speaker 7: the appearance that these are high profile, high dollar predators
24:33
Speaker 7: and now they are trying to cover their tracks. So
24:37
Speaker 7: as we work on the issue of sex trafficking and
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Speaker 7: human trafficking, which ben this has become a one hundred
24:45
Speaker 7: and fifty billion dollar a year business over the last
24:50
Speaker 7: few years, we need to know who all was involved
24:54
Speaker 7: with Epstein, Are they still doing this international sex trafficking?
25:00
Speaker 7: Who all was on his plane? That's going to give
25:03
Speaker 7: us insight into who actually was a part of his network.
25:10
Speaker 7: And that's what we're trying to get. And of course
25:13
Speaker 7: this all got started because the Democrats have been on
25:17
Speaker 7: a tear to delegitimize the US Supreme Court, and they've
25:21
Speaker 7: been going after Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Alito, and
25:27
Speaker 7: they were going to subpoena two private individuals, Harlan Crowe
25:31
Speaker 7: and Leonard Leo. So when we started that hearing, I
25:36
Speaker 7: thought recognition, and I said, these are the two subpoenas
25:41
Speaker 7: that I would like to push forward the one on
25:44
Speaker 7: Epstein and one on Sonya Soda mayor a justice who
25:48
Speaker 7: got a three million dollar book advance and didn't report it,
25:53
Speaker 7: whose staff sells the books to the groups where she's
25:57
Speaker 7: going to go speak, her court appointed, taxpayer paid staff.
26:03
Speaker 7: She's made like four million dollars on this book deal. Well,
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Speaker 7: if you played the totality of that clip. After I
26:10
Speaker 7: finished speaking, Dick Durbin says, I would not have recognized
26:14
Speaker 7: you if I knew that's why you were seeking recognition.
26:18
Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 7: And so he was fully aware. Not once did I
26:24
Speaker 7: do this, but twice. And as you mentioned at that hearing,
26:28
Speaker 7: he said, well, he tried to say we had never
26:31
Speaker 7: had a conversation about that, and I told him, no,
26:36
Speaker 7: that was incorrect. We had talked on the floor, and
26:39
Speaker 7: also I brought it up in committee and that I
26:42
Speaker 7: would gladly give him the transcript. And before I got
26:45
Speaker 7: back to the office, some reporters had already put the
26:48
Speaker 7: clip up where I was calling for this and the
26:54
Speaker 7: interaction with Durbin. So either he was aware of it,
26:59
Speaker 7: he has a bad memory, or he was not listening
27:02
Speaker 7: to what I was saying.
27:03
Speaker 2: So Ry was just flat out lining to cover his abs.
27:07
Speaker 2: I like that one. That's my favorite, just personal point here.
27:10
Speaker 2: I think he knows exactly what's going on. Durbin's not
27:12
Speaker 2: a dumb guy, but he there's obviously people here he
27:15
Speaker 2: wants to protect. And that's what brings me to my
27:17
Speaker 2: second question, which is, look, if there's Republicans, I don't
27:21
Speaker 2: care who they are that we're on this plane, that
27:23
Speaker 2: we're partaking in this sex trafficking. I want to know
27:27
Speaker 2: who the hell they are. I don't give a crap
27:29
Speaker 2: if you're a Republican or Democrat. Let us see the names.
27:34
Speaker 2: And I have a feeling there's a lot of Democrats
27:36
Speaker 2: based on how hard they're trying to protect this this
27:38
Speaker 2: flight logs from coming out. I still find it astounding.
27:42
Speaker 2: And you may agree with me on this, And I
27:45
Speaker 2: want your take that we had a trial for her
27:48
Speaker 2: he quote hung himself, and the and the and the
27:50
Speaker 2: cameras just happened to be offline the exact moment where
27:53
Speaker 2: he hung himself. You know, we can debate that another day,
27:56
Speaker 2: but just reminding people of Jeffrey Epstein what happened to
27:59
Speaker 2: him in prison, and not a single person outside these
28:02
Speaker 2: two have been charged within the sex crimes are you
28:04
Speaker 2: kidding me?
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Speaker 7: And this is why we have to begin to unravel
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Speaker 7: this network and see who all was involved with this
28:14
Speaker 7: and who may still be involved. Now you know, you've
28:17
Speaker 7: heard some of the big blue city mayors talk about
28:21
Speaker 7: prostitution rings and how they have proliferated in their communities.
28:26
Speaker 7: It's worse than it has ever been. Some of that
28:30
Speaker 7: is tied to cartels that are bringing women and girls
28:35
Speaker 7: in the country, some of it is rings that have expanded.
28:39
Speaker 7: But what we do know is in twenty nineteen, human
28:43
Speaker 7: trafficking was a five hundred million dollars a year business
28:46
Speaker 7: and now it is a one hundred and fifty billion
28:50
Speaker 7: dollar a year business. And then it is women and
28:55
Speaker 7: girls that are having their lives ruined. Some of these
28:58
Speaker 7: girls are being recruit it online, then they're being groomed,
29:03
Speaker 7: and then they're being put into these rings and into
29:08
Speaker 7: these associations, and it is devastating for their young lives.
29:13
Speaker 7: It is devastating for their families. And it is time
29:19
Speaker 7: for us to really drill down on this. And I'm
29:21
Speaker 7: the top Republican, I'm the Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights,
29:26
Speaker 7: and this is one of the issues we need to
29:30
Speaker 7: take up.
29:31
Speaker 2: Let me ask you about another issue, and it's another
29:33
Speaker 2: shocking one. There's a new report out that reveals nearly
29:36
Speaker 2: two billion has been funneled to big abortion providers, and
29:41
Speaker 2: you're now looking into this. Give us the backstory on
29:43
Speaker 2: this and how the hell did two billion dollars get
29:46
Speaker 2: funneled to big abortion providers.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, Representative Chris Smith and I decided
29:55
Speaker 7: last January to ask the government accountability off it's the GOO,
30:01
Speaker 7: to look at what was happening with the money going
30:05
Speaker 7: to abortion groups. We had heard that the Biden administration
30:11
Speaker 7: pretty much opened up the spigot for these groups, and
30:16
Speaker 7: of course, by an overwhelming majority, the American people and
30:21
Speaker 7: Tennesseeans of al add do not want taxpayer funds going
30:25
Speaker 7: to pay for abortions. So GOO got their report back
30:30
Speaker 7: to us this week and what we found out is
30:33
Speaker 7: right at two billion dollars has gone in the past
30:37
Speaker 7: three years under Joe Biden to these abortion groups. And
30:43
Speaker 7: we also found out that Planned Parenthood took ninety point
30:48
Speaker 7: four million dollars in PPP loans that were there during
30:53
Speaker 7: the pandemic to help small businesses and mom and pops.
30:59
Speaker 7: So that is the amount of money that these big
31:02
Speaker 7: abortion providers are pulling in and while they may say, well,
31:09
Speaker 7: you know we do women's health, No, they send people
31:14
Speaker 7: for women's health to the local community clinic around the corner,
31:20
Speaker 7: and that is who primarily does well health checks and
31:26
Speaker 7: checkups for women. So anyway, we are going to continue
31:32
Speaker 7: to work on this. People can go to our website
31:36
Speaker 7: Blackburn dots in it dot gov. They can pull down
31:38
Speaker 7: the GAO report. They can find it on my social
31:42
Speaker 7: media at Marsha Blackburn. But when this administration says, oh,
31:48
Speaker 7: we're not putting money into abortion, look at where the
31:52
Speaker 7: money has been going.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be very interesting how this works out.
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Speaker 2: Center is always it's a pleasure, good to chat with you,
31:58
Speaker 2: and I'm sure we'll have you back again real soon.
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Speaker 3: You got it.
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