Latest / The Ben Ferguson Podcast / Biden Pays Ransom to Iranian Terrorists

Transcript

Biden Pays Ransom to Iranian Terrorists · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

0:01
Speaker 1: The Iran prisoner swap. It's happened, my friends. How much
0:05
Speaker 1: did it cost us? More than a billion dollars per
0:08
Speaker 1: American who are now on their way back to the
0:11
Speaker 1: United States of America. Yes, I am very happy as
0:15
Speaker 1: we saw the images of the Americans walking off the
0:19
Speaker 1: plane in Qatar, and these five Americans who spent years
0:23
Speaker 1: in prison in Iran were freed on Monday as part
0:27
Speaker 1: of a complex diplomatic deal That's what the White House
0:30
Speaker 1: described it as with the United States of America and Iran.
0:35
Speaker 1: Now these hostages who were flown out of Tehran to
0:39
Speaker 1: Qatar are now flying back to Washington, d C. On
0:42
Speaker 1: a US government plane as part of the deal. The
0:45
Speaker 1: Biden administration also unfroze This is paying ransom, whether they
0:50
Speaker 1: want to lie to you or not, that's what this is.
0:53
Speaker 1: We unfroze nearly six billion in oil revenue that have
0:57
Speaker 1: been held in South Korea since twenty eighteen. The Iranian
1:01
Speaker 1: Foreign minister said two of the Iranian prisoners held in
1:05
Speaker 1: the United States planned to stay in the US and
1:08
Speaker 1: two planned to return to Iran, and one would go
1:11
Speaker 1: to a different country where family lived. Those are the
1:13
Speaker 1: ones we exchanged with Iran for our American citizens, and
1:17
Speaker 1: by the way, we paid over a billion dollars for
1:20
Speaker 1: each American life. President Biden said in a statement, five
1:24
Speaker 1: innocent Americans who were imprisoned in Iran are finally coming home.
1:28
Speaker 1: I'm grateful to our partners at home and abroad for
1:32
Speaker 1: their tireless efforts to help us achieve this outcome, including
1:36
Speaker 1: the governments of Qatar, Oman, Switzerland, and South Korea. Now,
1:41
Speaker 1: these five Americans that were being held in Iran as
1:44
Speaker 1: part of this prisoner swap deal. Of course, the US
1:48
Speaker 1: government wants you to believe that this was not a
1:52
Speaker 1: pay ransom plot. It is, however, because we unfroze a
1:57
Speaker 1: seven billion of Iran's oil revenue that had been held
2:00
Speaker 1: for years. The five Iranian systems being held in the
2:04
Speaker 1: US were also released in this exchange. They didn't give
2:07
Speaker 1: us any money or unfreeze any assets or anything like
2:10
Speaker 1: that at all. So this was clearly a one sided deal.
2:14
Speaker 1: This is a president, by the way, that promised we
2:18
Speaker 1: weren't going to pay right, we weren't going to pay
2:20
Speaker 1: ransom for Americans. Well we now know he will pay
2:24
Speaker 1: more than a billion dollars per American that we left
2:28
Speaker 1: behind now. The prisoners we also have been told they
2:32
Speaker 1: felt like they were left behind to rot in an
2:35
Speaker 1: Iranian prison. One of the men who had been detained
2:38
Speaker 1: in Tehran since twenty fifteen, while visiting family, wrote a
2:42
Speaker 1: New York Times op ed in June of last year
2:46
Speaker 1: entitled I'm an American? Why have I been left to rot?
2:51
Speaker 1: As a hostage of Iran?
2:53
Speaker 2: Now?
2:53
Speaker 1: USA Today did an extensive kind of look into this
2:59
Speaker 1: man and and the details of what living in this
3:02
Speaker 1: Iranian prison was actually like. Now, this hostage when he
3:06
Speaker 1: told his story in this op ed, said it was
3:08
Speaker 1: horrendous how he was treated, especially early on, saying this
3:13
Speaker 1: quote often. I was kept in a bare closet size room.
3:18
Speaker 1: He slept on the floor, he said, and received food
3:21
Speaker 1: from under the door, just like he was a dog.
3:24
Speaker 2: He said.
3:25
Speaker 1: He endured unutterable indignities during the twenty seven months he
3:30
Speaker 1: spent in that corner of hell before being moved.
3:34
Speaker 2: To the general ward.
3:36
Speaker 1: He pleaded to President Biden for help, according to USA Today,
3:41
Speaker 1: writing in a message shared by his lawyer, saying this
3:44
Speaker 1: all I want, sir, is one min of your day's
3:46
Speaker 1: time for the next seven days devoted to thinking about
3:50
Speaker 1: the tribulations of the US hostages in Iran. Well, this
3:55
Speaker 1: is going to be treated by the media, by the way,
3:57
Speaker 1: as a big victory for the Biden A minister. Obviously,
4:02
Speaker 1: I'm glad that these Americans are back. What I'm not
4:05
Speaker 1: happy about is the fact that we have paid more
4:08
Speaker 1: than a billion dollars per hostage, and that means that
4:12
Speaker 1: others around the world are going to end up taking
4:14
Speaker 1: more American hostages when they can, because they know the
4:17
Speaker 1: Biden administration will pay now ransom now Biden, of course,
4:22
Speaker 1: the White House not letting any of that just disappoint
4:25
Speaker 1: their media day and the families of the five Americans
4:28
Speaker 1: freed from the from Iran spoke to President Biden on Monday.
4:32
Speaker 1: According to the family members of those who had been released,
4:36
Speaker 1: CBS News report that Biden a national security advisor Jake Sullivan,
4:41
Speaker 1: spoke with all five families on the same call for
4:45
Speaker 1: just under ten minutes. Biden told the families he started
4:48
Speaker 1: the process to bring their loved ones home when he
4:50
Speaker 1: took office in twenty twenty.
4:53
Speaker 2: Now.
4:53
Speaker 1: The breakdown of the US sanctions on Iran is also
4:56
Speaker 1: another part of the story that's not been covered. The
5:00
Speaker 1: prisoner swap was underway, there was something else that happened.
5:04
Speaker 1: The United States announced on Monday that it has been
5:08
Speaker 1: that it has imposed quote news sanctions on Iran's intelligence
5:12
Speaker 1: ministry and the former president over the disappearance of Bob Levinson,
5:19
Speaker 1: who's a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in
5:23
Speaker 1: mysterious circumstances and is presumed dead. Iran is already one
5:28
Speaker 1: of the world's most sanctioned countries, and AFP had to
5:33
Speaker 1: break down of those sanctions that they published this morning.
5:37
Speaker 1: And let's go back so you understand the history of
5:39
Speaker 1: this country. If you go back to the Iranian hostage
5:43
Speaker 1: crisis back in April of nineteen eighty, that was midway
5:46
Speaker 1: through that four hundred and forty four day hostage crisis
5:49
Speaker 1: of the US embassy in Tehran. Washington not only broke
5:53
Speaker 1: off diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed restrictions on commerce
5:58
Speaker 1: and travel, but fifteen years later, then President Bill Clinton
6:02
Speaker 1: announced a complete ban on trade and investment in Iran,
6:06
Speaker 1: accusing of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and supporting terrorism.
6:10
Speaker 1: To this day, nearly all US trade with Iran is banned,
6:13
Speaker 1: from oil to cars, to carpet and even food. There
6:18
Speaker 1: are some exceptions, as well as medicine and humanitarian goods.
6:23
Speaker 2: Then you look at the arms race.
6:25
Speaker 1: The US continues to ban the trade of all weapons
6:28
Speaker 1: with Iran, even though they have plenty of weapons at
6:31
Speaker 1: their disposal. Three years after a US arms and UN
6:35
Speaker 1: excuse me, arms embargo on Iran expired. The UN embargo
6:40
Speaker 1: ran out under the terms of an international deal on
6:42
Speaker 1: curbing Iran's nuclear program, from which then President Donald Trump
6:46
Speaker 1: withdrew from in twenty eighteen. But the US continues to
6:50
Speaker 1: sanction any individual entity in the US or elsewhere that
6:54
Speaker 1: trades weapons with Iran. And then you've got the financial
6:59
Speaker 1: aspect as well. The US blox Iranian government assets in
7:03
Speaker 1: the United States and banns US companies from engaging in
7:05
Speaker 1: business with Iran central bank. It also bans American banks
7:09
Speaker 1: from serving as intermediaries in the transfer of funds to Iran,
7:13
Speaker 1: and in twenty eighteen, the Trump administration expanded the sanctions
7:18
Speaker 1: to foreign institutions that do business with Iran's central bank.
7:23
Speaker 1: They risk losing access to the US financial system if
7:26
Speaker 1: they try to go around this.
7:28
Speaker 2: And then there's the issue of oil.
7:30
Speaker 1: After having already banned oil exports to the United States Washington,
7:34
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six enacted a law also sanctioning foreign
7:38
Speaker 1: companies that invest in Iran's oil sector, the country's top
7:42
Speaker 1: foreign exchange earner.
7:44
Speaker 2: For them. Without it, they're poor.
7:46
Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, the US lifted exemptions that it allowed
7:49
Speaker 1: eight countries, including Turkey and India, to continue purchasing Iranian oil,
7:54
Speaker 1: causing a collapse in the Iranian oil exports. But don't worry,
7:58
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's back and off and now everything's fine and Iran.
8:02
Speaker 1: There was also a big lie. It was a massive
8:05
Speaker 1: lie that was told. The White House said that the
8:08
Speaker 1: money that we had given them access to, this six
8:11
Speaker 1: billion dollars, right, more than a billion per person American
8:15
Speaker 1: that we got back, is what they received in this
8:18
Speaker 1: deal was only going to be used for quote, humanitarian
8:22
Speaker 1: reasons or humanitarian purposes.
8:25
Speaker 2: We also know now that that is a lie.
8:29
Speaker 1: The Iranian president said, they'll use the money for whatever
8:32
Speaker 1: the hell they want to laughing at this idea, right,
8:36
Speaker 1: I mean literally laughing at the idea that we or
8:41
Speaker 1: that they were going to be told where they could
8:43
Speaker 1: and could not spend the six billion dollars that they
8:46
Speaker 1: just got their hands on. But First, I want to
8:49
Speaker 1: tell you about a company that I really want you
8:52
Speaker 1: to check out. Every day we hear about another familiar
8:56
Speaker 1: brand that sells out their customers and is going on.
9:01
Speaker 1: Americans like me and you're probably one of them, are
9:04
Speaker 1: sick and tired of having leftist propaganda jammed into every
9:08
Speaker 1: product that we consume. Well, woke mobile companies are no different.
9:13
Speaker 1: The company that you're paying your bill to right now
9:15
Speaker 1: may be giving major donations to Planned Parenthood, for example,
9:18
Speaker 1: and for years they've been dumping millions of these liberal
9:21
Speaker 1: causes and we had to take it because you need
9:23
Speaker 1: a cell phone and probably thought there was no alternative.
9:26
Speaker 2: Well, I've got news for you.
9:27
Speaker 1: There is, and I want you to make the switch
9:30
Speaker 1: and stand up for a company that stands up for
9:32
Speaker 1: your values. Patriot Mobile is America's only Christian conservative wireless provider,
9:38
Speaker 1: offering dependable nationwide coverage on all three major networks. That
9:42
Speaker 1: means you get the best possible service in your area period.
9:47
Speaker 1: But guess what you do lose the leftist propaganda. Now,
9:50
Speaker 1: when you switch to Patriot Mobile, you're sending a message
9:53
Speaker 1: that you support free speech, religious freedom, the sanctity of life,
9:57
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment, are military veterans and first responder heroes.
10:01
Speaker 1: That's because they give a piece of your bill every
10:04
Speaker 1: month to those causes. They have one hundred percent US
10:07
Speaker 1: based customer service team that makes switching easy. So just
10:10
Speaker 1: go to Patriotmobile dot com slash ferguson. It's Patriot Mobile
10:15
Speaker 1: dot com slash ferguson, or you can call them eight
10:18
Speaker 1: seven eight Patriot. That's eight seven eight Patriot. Get free
10:22
Speaker 1: activation today with the offer code ferguson. Ask about their
10:25
Speaker 1: coverage guarantee when you're on the phone with them. Get
10:28
Speaker 1: the same dependable service and take a stand for your values.
10:31
Speaker 1: Make the switch today Patriotmobile dot com slash ferguson or
10:35
Speaker 1: eight seven eight Patriot. There's another aspect to this deal
10:40
Speaker 1: that we also have to talk about, and that is, now,
10:44
Speaker 1: how many more Americans are going to be taken hostage
10:47
Speaker 1: because we just paid all of this money. Now, while
10:51
Speaker 1: President Biden is being hailed as a hero for the
10:54
Speaker 1: return of these Americans that have been imprisoned, and Iran
10:57
Speaker 1: Republicans also on Capitol Hill are lashing out this deal saying, quote,
11:03
Speaker 1: this is a hostage swap for six billion. That's what
11:06
Speaker 1: represented Michael McCall, a Republican from Texas and chairman of
11:10
Speaker 1: the House Foreign Relations Committee, said on Fox and He said, quote,
11:13
Speaker 1: and guess where it's going to go. It's going to
11:15
Speaker 1: go into terror proxy operations. He's absolutely right. Even Senator
11:21
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney, who I rarely agree with, also characterized the
11:24
Speaker 1: deal as a hostage swap, warning that the exchange could
11:28
Speaker 1: lead to more kidnappings of American citizens. Quote The idea
11:32
Speaker 1: basically paying to release in this effect a hostage is
11:35
Speaker 1: a terrible idea, Romney said to The Hill newspaper. Republicans
11:40
Speaker 1: are also lashing out at Biden over the deal as
11:43
Speaker 1: a I the Democrat, is the number one threat to
11:46
Speaker 1: national security. This is a hostage swap for six billion,
11:50
Speaker 1: is what another Republican said. And former President Donald Trump,
11:55
Speaker 1: the front runner in the twenty twenty four Republican primary,
11:58
Speaker 1: criticized Biden with the deal was announced last week, saying quote,
12:02
Speaker 1: can you believe that Crooked Joe Biden is giving six
12:05
Speaker 1: billion to the terrorist regime in Iran? The money can
12:08
Speaker 1: be used for terrorism all over the Middle East and
12:10
Speaker 1: indeed the world. This incompetent fool, all capital letters is
12:15
Speaker 1: absolutely destroying America. Trump wrote on True Social adding he
12:20
Speaker 1: had the audacity to announce this terrible deal today. It
12:24
Speaker 1: happened on September the eleventh. To pay for hostages will
12:28
Speaker 1: lead to kidnapping, ransom, and blackmail against Americans across the globe.
12:35
Speaker 1: Now I'm glad these Americans are coming back in general,
12:38
Speaker 1: I really am. I want to make that clear. But
12:41
Speaker 1: this idea that this is a good thing, it's not.
12:44
Speaker 1: It's not a good thing for this country, and it's
12:46
Speaker 1: certainly not a good thing for the world because now
12:49
Speaker 1: Americans are worth even more. And what the Biden administration
12:53
Speaker 1: is said is we, as Americans, okay, are willing to
12:58
Speaker 1: pay you if you take Americans, and we're willing to
13:01
Speaker 1: give you a lot of money. Let me also remind
13:04
Speaker 1: you about the announcement of this happened on nine to eleven.
13:08
Speaker 1: Why well, listen to what Scott Kirby had to say
13:11
Speaker 1: about that.
13:12
Speaker 2: John Kirby told me, essentially, the dates are a coincidence.
13:17
Speaker 3: Not tied to nine to eleven, not tied to the
13:19
Speaker 3: You and General Assembly, simply tied to the hard work
13:22
Speaker 3: over months and months and months by diplomats to secure
13:26
Speaker 3: this release.
13:28
Speaker 1: You're telling me that nobody at the State Department, the
13:30
Speaker 1: DoD or the White House looked at the calendar when
13:32
Speaker 1: announcing that we're going to send six billion dollars to Iran,
13:36
Speaker 1: the number one killer of Americans after nine to eleven
13:39
Speaker 1: in Iraq and Afghanistan, who were making sure that there
13:43
Speaker 1: was safe haven in safe harbor for terrorists to go
13:46
Speaker 1: in and out of those countries. You're telling me that
13:49
Speaker 1: you no one said, hey, we probably shouldn't give six
13:53
Speaker 1: million dollars to Iran on the same day as nine
13:55
Speaker 1: to eleven. To be clear, i Ran supports terrorism around
14:01
Speaker 1: the world. Iran supports Hesblah, Iran supports Hamas, Iran supports
14:06
Speaker 1: al Qaeda and ISIS. Iran supports the most extreme fighters
14:11
Speaker 1: in the world. They have no problem with it. They
14:14
Speaker 1: still to this day chant death to America. And you
14:20
Speaker 1: just gave them back six billion dollars. Let's also remember that,
14:25
Speaker 1: if you're forty or forty one or above, this is
14:28
Speaker 1: the same country that held American hostages in our embassy
14:33
Speaker 1: for four hundred and forty four days in our lifetime.
14:38
Speaker 1: And so now we're sitting here seeing them six billion
14:42
Speaker 1: dollars and Scott Kirby's like, oh, no, no, there was,
14:47
Speaker 1: there was, There was not tied to nine to eleven.
14:49
Speaker 1: It wasn't really. Scott Kirby was also on CNN and
14:54
Speaker 1: had this to say about the quote takeaways from the day.
14:58
Speaker 4: Finally, you represent, you speak for national security issues for
15:03
Speaker 4: the White House, for this administration. How is US national
15:06
Speaker 4: security better today because of this deal? And not worse off?
15:10
Speaker 4: As I've heard many Republicans say.
15:12
Speaker 3: First of all, what's really better off our five families?
15:17
Speaker 3: So I think that's really important to remember number two.
15:20
Speaker 3: As I said earlier, Well, we just executed more sanctions
15:23
Speaker 3: on entities in Iran today, specifically for the offense of
15:27
Speaker 3: wrongfully detaining Americans, And just in the last couple of weeks,
15:30
Speaker 3: we've upped our military presence in the Gulf region. We
15:33
Speaker 3: added some additional sanctions on Iran just a few days ago.
15:36
Speaker 3: I mean, we are holding Iran to account, and we
15:39
Speaker 3: are mindful of our national security interests in the region,
15:41
Speaker 3: and we're doing everything we can, not just on the
15:43
Speaker 3: economic space, but even in the military space, to protect
15:46
Speaker 3: our troops, to protect our interests, to protect our allies
15:48
Speaker 3: and partners in that part of the world. No one
15:50
Speaker 3: should take away from today's events. Any idea that we
15:53
Speaker 3: are somehow turning a blind eye to what Iran is
15:56
Speaker 3: doing in the region or around the world.
15:58
Speaker 2: Not at all. Quite the contrary.
16:00
Speaker 4: We're seeing, though, as we just saw in that video
16:02
Speaker 4: from Iran, are Americans on their way home and families
16:06
Speaker 4: who are going to.
16:07
Speaker 2: I love how they wrap that up right.
16:09
Speaker 1: You notice how they're like, oh, well, what we're seeing
16:11
Speaker 1: is americans coming home. You need to be happy about this.
16:14
Speaker 1: You don't need to ask any questions. We're not turning
16:17
Speaker 1: a blind eye to what's happening and what Iran is doing. Well,
16:20
Speaker 1: then why did you send them six billion dollars? Because
16:24
Speaker 1: if you're not turning a blind eye and you're looking
16:26
Speaker 1: at what they're doing, you would know this is a
16:28
Speaker 1: regime that you do not give six billion dollars too.
16:32
Speaker 1: John Kirby on the Iran swap deal also to the
16:35
Speaker 1: regime does not get their hands on the money.
16:37
Speaker 2: That is a lie.
16:38
Speaker 4: Listen, speaking of President you know we've talked about this
16:41
Speaker 4: many times before the President that critics of this agreement
16:44
Speaker 4: or any kind of negotiation in this way have of
16:47
Speaker 4: what they're looking at. Because what Iran often wants is
16:50
Speaker 4: it wants it's money. So you've got six billion dollars
16:53
Speaker 4: of Iranian money that they now regain access to for
16:55
Speaker 4: humanitarian purposes. What can the United States do if it
16:59
Speaker 4: is seen that they're using this money not for food,
17:01
Speaker 4: not for medicine, for bad reasons.
17:03
Speaker 2: Lock it back down.
17:04
Speaker 3: We can stop a transaction. It's important to remember, Kate,
17:07
Speaker 3: that the regime doesn't get the money. That they can
17:11
Speaker 3: request a withdrawal for humanitarian goods, agricultural products, medical supplies, food,
17:17
Speaker 3: and then we will run a process through which those
17:20
Speaker 3: goods are contracted for. The Iranians don't even get to
17:23
Speaker 3: let the contracts. We'll make sure that the contracts are
17:25
Speaker 3: let with vendors that we know we can trust, and
17:27
Speaker 3: then that material will be delivered to the Iranian people.
17:30
Speaker 3: The Iranian regime does not get hands on this money.
17:34
Speaker 1: Now here's the problem. Iran says they can do whatever
17:37
Speaker 1: they want to do. The Iranian president said, they're going
17:39
Speaker 1: to do whatever they want to do. And here's the
17:41
Speaker 1: other thing. If you get let's just say a big
17:46
Speaker 1: you know, hey, we want to spend a billion dollars
17:48
Speaker 1: on X. Well, once it gets into the hands of
17:51
Speaker 1: the Iranian I'm sure they could probably already have a
17:53
Speaker 1: buyer for it and sell it and get their money
17:55
Speaker 1: that way. You don't think Iran's going to call other
17:58
Speaker 1: countries and other broke around them and say, hey, what
18:01
Speaker 1: do you need that is in these categories and we'll
18:04
Speaker 1: give you ten percent off so that we get you know,
18:07
Speaker 1: nine hundred ninety nine million, you know, and instead of
18:10
Speaker 1: the one billion in our bank accounts. If this is
18:13
Speaker 1: to believe, by the way, I don't believe that the
18:15
Speaker 1: US government's not going to get screwed on this one.
18:17
Speaker 1: I think the US government is going to always get
18:19
Speaker 1: screwed when you're dealing with a terrorist organization. They keep saying, oh,
18:22
Speaker 1: this is a great thing, and the Uranian regime will
18:25
Speaker 1: never get their hands on the money. Let's be very
18:27
Speaker 1: clear about this, They absolutely will. Democratic Representative Crow, by
18:32
Speaker 1: the way, said the prisoner swap deal with Iran has
18:35
Speaker 1: actually created an additional quote oversight on the six billion, not less.
18:39
Speaker 2: This is the way they're going to spend this. I
18:41
Speaker 2: want you to be ready for it.
18:43
Speaker 5: All right, We have breaking news right now at half
18:46
Speaker 5: past the hour, five Americans have been freed in a
18:49
Speaker 5: prisoner swap between the US and Iran. A Katari plane
18:53
Speaker 5: carrying them took them off took off from Tehran not
18:57
Speaker 5: too long ago. According to a senior dip met in
19:00
Speaker 5: the region with knowledge of the prisoner exchange, we're told
19:04
Speaker 5: the freed prisoners are accompanied by two of their relatives
19:09
Speaker 5: as well as the Katari ambassador to Iran. They are
19:12
Speaker 5: reportedly in good health, but we'll get quick medical checks
19:17
Speaker 5: before they head to America. This after years of negotiations
19:23
Speaker 5: to bring the detainees home. In exchange for the imprisoned Americans,
19:27
Speaker 5: Tehran will gain access to about six billion dollars in
19:32
Speaker 5: frozen funds. For more now on this and much more.
19:36
Speaker 5: Joining US now, Democratic Member of the House Armed Services Committee,
19:39
Speaker 5: Congressman Jason Growe of Colorado. He's a US Army veteran
19:43
Speaker 5: who served our country in both Iraq and Afghanistan. So,
19:48
Speaker 5: from your many perspective in including the committees that you
19:52
Speaker 5: said on, what do you make of this prisoner swap
19:55
Speaker 5: from what we know so far?
19:57
Speaker 2: Well, good morning.
19:58
Speaker 6: I mean, this prisoner swap is actually a good deal
20:01
Speaker 6: for the United States. Number One, we don't leave our
20:03
Speaker 6: people behind.
20:04
Speaker 2: We just don't.
20:05
Speaker 6: Every administration has done swaps like this.
20:08
Speaker 1: But I love this. He's like, we don't leave our
20:10
Speaker 1: people behind. Well you have for a while. Number one,
20:13
Speaker 1: that's not true. We still have Americans left behind in Russia.
20:17
Speaker 1: You guys did a prisoner swap recently in Russia, and
20:19
Speaker 1: you decide a lesbian basketball player was more important than
20:23
Speaker 1: an American citizen who is just a random white dude there.
20:26
Speaker 1: So don't tell me we don't leave Americans behind. Second
20:29
Speaker 1: thing is you said there's president here, then people do
20:31
Speaker 1: this all the time, right like that, Oh, we do
20:33
Speaker 1: this all the time. Give me another example of where
20:36
Speaker 1: an American has been paid for at more than a
20:40
Speaker 1: billion dollars in a prisoner swap. You will not find it.
20:44
Speaker 1: And the reason why is because it doesn't happen. It's
20:49
Speaker 1: never happened.
20:51
Speaker 6: Just to make sure we're getting US citizens out of Iran,
20:55
Speaker 6: Iran does this. They take hostages and they try to
20:57
Speaker 6: gain leverage. So you know, every American should know don't
21:00
Speaker 6: travel to Iran because you are at risk of being
21:02
Speaker 6: taken hostage. But there's also we have to correct a
21:05
Speaker 6: misunderstanding here. These funds were not frozen funds. The United
21:09
Speaker 6: States is not making this money available. This money came
21:12
Speaker 6: from a fund that the prior administration that the Trump
21:15
Speaker 6: administration negotiated with several countries that allowed them to purchase
21:19
Speaker 6: Iranian oil in exchange for medical supplies in food and
21:23
Speaker 6: medicine South Korea, and this instance did that they purchased
21:27
Speaker 6: some oil and that money was allocated to food, medicine,
21:32
Speaker 6: and medical supplies. This money could be spent or could
21:35
Speaker 6: be sent to Iran. Today the South Koreans could do that.
21:39
Speaker 6: We were able to negotiate additional restrictions on top of
21:42
Speaker 6: the restrictions already in place for this money, additional restrictions
21:45
Speaker 6: and oversight through the Treasury Department to make sure this
21:48
Speaker 6: money is only being spent for those purposes. So this
21:51
Speaker 6: deal actually created additional oversight on that money, not less.
21:55
Speaker 1: So Congress, by the way, this is another part of
21:58
Speaker 1: this lie here. Oh, it's more oversight, not less. There's
22:03
Speaker 1: no because when they couldn't have the money, you didn't
22:06
Speaker 1: need this type of oversight. The reason why you're having
22:09
Speaker 1: to make this up now is because they have access
22:11
Speaker 1: to the money. So you're still misleading at best, lying
22:16
Speaker 1: in reality to the American people and to the world.
22:20
Speaker 1: And everybody knows that Iran. The President of Ran said
22:23
Speaker 1: we will use this money however we want. They know
22:27
Speaker 1: how to lie, they know they know how to cheat,
22:31
Speaker 1: they know how to steal. They're going to know how
22:34
Speaker 1: to manipulate the system. And I promise you this money
22:37
Speaker 1: is going to be used as six billion dollars is
22:39
Speaker 1: not going to be used for humanitarian reasons all the time.
22:43
Speaker 1: Some of it might sure to check a box. They
22:45
Speaker 1: may say, oh, look what we did with this amount
22:47
Speaker 1: of money. See everything's good, there's our cover. Meanwhile, they
22:50
Speaker 1: funnel the money. They also know how to sell goods.
22:53
Speaker 1: Iran's not stupid. If you can take six billion, hypothetically
22:58
Speaker 1: and turn into five billion of cash by buying six
23:01
Speaker 1: billion and a product that somebody else wants and they
23:03
Speaker 1: get a discount, that's a good deal because you still
23:05
Speaker 1: got your hands on five billion dollars that you can
23:08
Speaker 1: use however the hell you want to. Why would we
23:11
Speaker 1: ever trust the Iranians with any of this money, knowing
23:14
Speaker 1: what they do. You know, if you're a man or
23:17
Speaker 1: a woman that served this country and you were blown
23:20
Speaker 1: up by a roadside bomb, the probability that roadside bomb
23:23
Speaker 1: came through Iran is about ninety plus percent based on
23:27
Speaker 1: the latest data that we have. We know that many
23:31
Speaker 1: of the jihadis used Iran as as a gate to
23:36
Speaker 1: go in and out and back to protection, into a
23:39
Speaker 1: protected area when they need to rest. We saw that
23:42
Speaker 1: there were the Toyota trucks that would be going through
23:45
Speaker 1: the desert. They would do their hits and where would
23:47
Speaker 1: they flee to. They would flee to Iran. We have
23:49
Speaker 1: the drone video of them crossing the border into Iran.
23:53
Speaker 1: A Ran was harboring terrists for the entire time that
23:55
Speaker 1: we were in Iraq and Afghanistan. And when the terrorists
23:58
Speaker 1: knew they need to fight America, they need to bring
24:00
Speaker 1: in new soldiers after we had invaded, where did they go.
24:03
Speaker 1: They went to I Ran first and they said we
24:06
Speaker 1: need your help, and Iran said sure. And that's who
24:09
Speaker 1: he just gave all of this money too. And the
24:13
Speaker 1: White House wants you to believe that this is no
24:16
Speaker 1: big deal. Now, I understand why they did this deal,
24:18
Speaker 1: and I want you to understand why they've done this deal.
24:21
Speaker 2: They've got some problems right now.
24:23
Speaker 1: Okay, you have the Biden impeachment inquiry, where the facts
24:26
Speaker 1: and the emails and the suspicious astivity reports and the
24:29
Speaker 1: whistleblowers and the meetings and the phone calls are so damning.
24:32
Speaker 2: The White House needed a victory. Okay.
24:35
Speaker 1: You also have the United Auto Workers that are fighting
24:38
Speaker 1: for the the they say, the American dream, which is
24:42
Speaker 1: work hard and play by the rules. And now they're
24:45
Speaker 1: being squeezed out right. The Democrats were supposed to protect them.
24:50
Speaker 1: They have not done that. Hakeem Jefferies was on TV
24:54
Speaker 1: talking about this as the as this this has really happened.
24:57
Speaker 1: The UAW fight is now happening in this that's happening,
25:01
Speaker 1: and how these people are going to be have a job.
25:02
Speaker 1: Democrats are to blame for this because they promised they
25:05
Speaker 1: were going to get deals done that they didn't get
25:06
Speaker 1: done if the UAW actually voted for them. This is
25:11
Speaker 1: one of the promises in Michigan where the governor there, Whitmer,
25:14
Speaker 1: was saying, vote for me again.
25:15
Speaker 2: I'll hook you guys up. She lied to them.
25:18
Speaker 7: Obviously.
25:19
Speaker 2: This is happening against the backdrop.
25:20
Speaker 7: Of the UAW strike.
25:22
Speaker 2: Are you going to Detroit? Are you with the auto
25:25
Speaker 2: workers on this?
25:27
Speaker 7: I'll be heading to Detroit a little later on today,
25:29
Speaker 7: looking forward to standing and solidarity with the United Auto
25:33
Speaker 7: Workers who are fighting for the fundamental American dream, which
25:38
Speaker 7: is quite simple. If you work hard and play by
25:41
Speaker 7: the rules, you should be able to provide a comfortable
25:44
Speaker 7: living for yourself, for your family, educate your children, purchase
25:49
Speaker 7: a home, and one day retire with grace and dignity.
25:53
Speaker 7: That's the principle upon which the United Auto Workers are
25:57
Speaker 7: standing and I stand with them. Long you think this
26:00
Speaker 7: is going to drag on, well, I think it's all
26:02
Speaker 7: of our hope that it will end sooner rather than later.
26:06
Speaker 7: But record profits have been generated, Incredible economic prosperity has
26:12
Speaker 7: been generated for the corporations upon whom the UAW works with,
26:17
Speaker 7: and so I think it's only fair that everyone share
26:22
Speaker 7: in those record profits, in the prosperity that has been created.
26:26
Speaker 7: That's a fundamental American principle. That's why we were able
26:29
Speaker 7: to build in the aftermath of World War II the
26:32
Speaker 7: great American middle class, and we need to keep that
26:35
Speaker 7: going for everyone.
26:38
Speaker 1: Now you hear him there talking about this, and let
26:40
Speaker 1: me tell you, the auto workers are furious with Democrats
26:43
Speaker 1: because everything that they promised them they lied to them about,
26:46
Speaker 1: they played them, and now they understand that it was
26:52
Speaker 1: a lie on a level that was I mean, it
26:56
Speaker 1: was a fraud.
26:57
Speaker 2: It was a straight up massive fraud.
27:00
Speaker 1: They promised the UAW that if you voted for Democrats,
27:03
Speaker 1: the Democrats were going to take care of you and
27:05
Speaker 1: get you a good deal. And that didn't happen. Didn't happen, folks,
27:10
Speaker 1: And the reason why it didn't happen was also very clear,
27:14
Speaker 1: because they'll always lie to you to get your vote.
27:17
Speaker 1: They don't give a crap. And so you put these
27:21
Speaker 1: stories together. You have the economy that's bad. You have
27:25
Speaker 1: high unemployment rates that we're starting to see tick up.
27:29
Speaker 1: You see what's going on Wall Street. You see what's
27:30
Speaker 1: happening with interest rates of twenty one year high on homes.
27:34
Speaker 1: You see the auto workers fighting back now and now
27:36
Speaker 1: they're on this strike that could take quite some time.
27:39
Speaker 1: You have this hostage crisis where they're trying to spend
27:41
Speaker 1: this to say this is a great day for America,
27:43
Speaker 1: even though it puts more American lives at risk around
27:45
Speaker 1: the world. Right, the six billion dollars and what does
27:50
Speaker 1: this all come back down to comes back down to
27:53
Speaker 1: this issue. The President of the United States of America
27:56
Speaker 1: is looking for a distraction because the biggest issues, the
28:01
Speaker 1: most concerning issues about impeachment are coming up. This boils
28:06
Speaker 1: down to a present that desperately needs a change.
28:10
Speaker 2: Look it.
28:11
Speaker 1: By the way, this and I'm going to talk about
28:12
Speaker 1: this more tomorrow, I promise you. But Hunter Biden actually
28:16
Speaker 1: sue is suing the IRS. He sues the IRS. He
28:20
Speaker 1: claims the wistle blower agents quote targeted and sought to
28:23
Speaker 1: embarrass him by discussing his tax returns. He's now suing
28:27
Speaker 1: like they did something wrong. He filed a lawsuit against
28:31
Speaker 1: the IRS. Legal records are now showing, and the lawsuit
28:34
Speaker 1: alleges the agents targeted and sought to embarrass him by
28:37
Speaker 1: discussing his tax returns. The IRS, he said, did not
28:40
Speaker 1: create safeguards to make sure his details were kept confidential.
28:45
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden, the President's son, filed this lawsuit against the
28:49
Speaker 1: Internal Revenue Service. This after the special prosecutor allowed for
28:56
Speaker 1: the statue of limitations to run out on the most
28:58
Speaker 1: serious tax crimes, okay, the most serious tax crimes against
29:05
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden.
29:06
Speaker 2: They did that on purpose.
29:09
Speaker 1: David Weiss allowed the statue limitations on purpose to expire.
29:14
Speaker 1: And what do we get in response now from the
29:16
Speaker 1: Biden crime family. They're suing the IRS. What's even more
29:22
Speaker 1: shocking than that is there's a chance nowadays, based on
29:26
Speaker 1: what I've seen, that this could actually happen. There's a
29:30
Speaker 1: real chance that this could actually happen, that they could
29:34
Speaker 1: win a lawsuit because of what I just described. Don't
29:39
Speaker 1: forget to share this podcast with your family and friends.
29:41
Speaker 1: Will keep you updated on all of this with the
29:43
Speaker 1: Biden crime family, and we will see you back here
29:46
Speaker 1: tomorrow