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Media Ignores Hunter Biden Testimony, JAN6 Sentences Reduced, & Biden Sidelines Border Issue for 40MINS in SOTU Speech Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It was a massive week in political news. Welcome It's
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  Speaker 1: Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And these
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  Speaker 1: are the big stories that you may have missed that
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this week. First up, shocking testimony from
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Biden, and there was no coverage from the media
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  Speaker 1: as they were obsessed with the State of the Union. Also,
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  Speaker 1: lower sentences for January sixth offenders. Why did their sentences
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  Speaker 1: get reduced because of corruption with the Biden prosecutors. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: Biden doesn't cover border security until forty minutes into a
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  Speaker 1: State of the Union speech.
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  Speaker 2: It is the week in review and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: There's an impeachment inquiry that's happening of the President of
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  Speaker 1: United States of America, Joe Biden. The media is acting
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  Speaker 1: like it's not happening at all. Most people that listen
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  Speaker 1: to the show. If you're not listening to the show,
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  Speaker 1: you may not even know this is even happening. There
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  Speaker 1: was really some shocking testimony that happened last week in
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  Speaker 1: the House and info that was coming out from people
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  Speaker 1: that were having to sit in front of this committee,
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  Speaker 1: including the President's son, Hunter Biden. He had some admissions
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  Speaker 1: and the media refused to touch his story altogether. You
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't even know what was happening if you watched the
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  Speaker 1: nightly news.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. So Joe Biden in the twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty presidential election, he insisted Hunter had not made money
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  Speaker 3: from China. Well, Hunter has now admitted that was a lie. Now,
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  Speaker 3: he tried hard not to, but he admitted it anyway.
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  Speaker 3: And so deposition testimony was released, and let me read
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  Speaker 3: some of it. Question, your father went while he was
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  Speaker 3: running for president, said his family never received any money
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  Speaker 3: from China. Your father answer yes, has also said answer,
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  Speaker 3: you're right, he's never received he's never interacted with any
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  Speaker 3: of your business associates.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but if you introduced him to you, that would
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  Speaker 3: be untrue. No, that is not untrue. I'm telling you this.
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  Speaker 3: The question being asked that you're stating is that my
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  Speaker 3: father said that I never received any money from China,
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  Speaker 3: the government of China, unlike Jerry Kushner, I've never received
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  Speaker 3: any money from a foreign government, he questioned. He didn't
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  Speaker 3: say government of China, by the way, he said China
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  Speaker 3: from China. Well, so understand, Okay, this is the sleight
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  Speaker 3: of hand he's trying to do. He's claiming, now, well,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't get money technically from the government of China.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't signed government of China. But here's what he did.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what he did admit. He shifted it to, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: of course I got money from China. It was just
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  Speaker 3: a Chinese company controlled by the Chinese government and funded
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  Speaker 3: by the Chinese government. But what from the government of China.
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  Speaker 3: It was from a Chinese company. And here's so the
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  Speaker 3: questioning continued, how many millions have you received from Chinese companies?
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  Speaker 3: Because he admitted, and this is the bombshell, admissions, I
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  Speaker 3: have received money from a Chinese company. How many millions
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  Speaker 3: have you received? And he said, well, he didn't know
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  Speaker 3: the exact amount, but let me read this exchange quote,
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  Speaker 3: did you receive money from China or not? Answer quote,
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  Speaker 3: I received money from a Chinese company? Question how many
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  Speaker 3: millions have you received from Chinese companies? Answer? I don't
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  Speaker 3: know the exact amount, but I know that it was
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  Speaker 3: all completely legal and it was incredibly ethical.
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  Speaker 1: This lie, right, I mean, I'm sorry, I'm taken aback
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  Speaker 1: by the quote because it's just so funny.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was I never did it. I never did never
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  Speaker 2: did well.
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  Speaker 1: I did it, but it was all legal and ethical
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  Speaker 1: and everything was fine. So stop asking questions. How dare
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  Speaker 1: you act like we did anything wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Incredibly ethical And this is a guy who photographs himself
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  Speaker 3: smoking crack while being with multiple prostitutes, and who's made
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  Speaker 3: tens of millions of dollars selling favors from his father
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  Speaker 3: who was abusing a position of public trust. But understand,
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  Speaker 3: I received money from a Chinese company. This is an admission.
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  Speaker 3: And I want us to play what Joe Biden said
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  Speaker 3: because I want because you need to hear how this
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  Speaker 3: is directly contrary to what Joe Biden said.
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  Speaker 5: My son has not made money in terms of this
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  Speaker 5: thing about what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: China? I love that this thing about what about this thing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, China?
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  Speaker 1: Like I mean, what a brilliant move by him during
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  Speaker 1: the president of debates back then, where it's like, China.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what you're talking about. It's absurd.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's a flat out lie. My son has not
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  Speaker 3: made money from what is it this thing you're talking
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  Speaker 3: about China. That's what he said. Now here's what Hunter
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  Speaker 3: said under oath quote I received money from a Chinese company.
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  Speaker 3: Those two statements are categorically inconsistent. Joe Biden lied, and
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  Speaker 3: he lied in the presidential debate with Donald Trump, and
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  Speaker 3: he lied about the corruption of his son. That's what
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  Speaker 3: the testimony is. And by the way, did you see
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  Speaker 3: that in the six o'clock news this week?
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  Speaker 2: Nope?
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  Speaker 3: Wonder why?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Well, and there's also you and I predicted this months
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  Speaker 1: and months and months ago. Your favorite WhatsApp text ever,
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  Speaker 1: which is, you know, the shakedown with his dad saying
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  Speaker 1: next to him, he was asked about that, and I
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  Speaker 1: have to go back to it because it just it's hysterical.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I sent the text, but I was drunk
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  Speaker 1: or high when I sent it. My dad wasn't there,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly the amblibi we said they were going
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  Speaker 1: to use. Right, Oh, he was a drunk kid, he
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  Speaker 1: was a high kid. They treated him, Mike, He's a kid,
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  Speaker 1: not a grown adult in his fifties. You know, now,
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  Speaker 1: this is just an addict who was who was desperate
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  Speaker 1: for cash and didn't know what he was doing.
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  Speaker 3: When it works, he got the cash, He got the.
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  Speaker 2: Cash, and he's like, oh, my dad went there.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just remind people we could have found out for
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  Speaker 1: a fact using GPS data, and we still can't. We
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  Speaker 1: still can't, Okay, So explain for everybody how we could
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  Speaker 1: still find that, why and who's blocking it from us?
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  Speaker 1: Knowing for the GPS data if Daddy was in fact
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  Speaker 1: sitting next to his son.
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  Speaker 3: So listen, it's not complicated. We know the exact date
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  Speaker 3: and time that WhatsApp text was sent, and the investigators,
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  Speaker 3: the investigators wanted to subpoena the GPS data on Hunter's
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  Speaker 3: phone and Joe's phone, and if they were both in
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  Speaker 3: the same location, then it would turn out Hunter was
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  Speaker 3: telling the truth that Daddy was sitting there, and the
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  Speaker 3: irs whistleblowers blocked that said, no, you cannot subpoena the
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  Speaker 3: GPS location because it would prove that Daddy was there.
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  Speaker 3: And their objective, the Biden Justice departments objective day one,
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  Speaker 3: has been to protect Joe Biden. Look, look, I'll give
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  Speaker 3: you another example. So Jim Biden provided testimony about Hunter
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  Speaker 3: Biden and had an undisclosed meeting with a corrupt Chinese
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  Speaker 3: businessman whom Hunter has called and this is Hunter's language,
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  Speaker 3: quote the effing spy chief of China. Yeah, he didn't
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  Speaker 3: abbreviate efing. But and this in particular was a meeting
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  Speaker 3: that occurred in September twenty seventeen with Patrick Hoe. Patrick
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  Speaker 3: Hoe was an executive with Chinese Energy conglomerate CEFC. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, CFC China Energy paid Hunter and Jim
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  Speaker 3: Biden five million dollars. So this wasn't a small amount.
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  Speaker 3: Remember Joe Biden saying said Hunter didn't get money from
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  Speaker 3: that China thing except for that five million dollars. But
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  Speaker 3: they had a meeting. According to Jim Biden, he and Hunter.
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  Speaker 3: Biden had a quote pleasant lunch in Hong Kong with Hoe,
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  Speaker 3: and at the end of the meeting, Hoe asked to
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  Speaker 3: meet alone with Hunter Biden. And here's the quote from
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  Speaker 3: Jim Biden's deposition. Quote, Hoe said, can I borrow Hunter
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  Speaker 3: for you know, a half hour? We're going to go
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  Speaker 3: in the next room. And then Jim Biden said, well,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't know what they discussed in the next room.
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  Speaker 3: This is a man that he had a half hour
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  Speaker 3: private meeting with, a man whom Hunter is described as
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  Speaker 3: the effing spy chief of China. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: just two months after Hunter, Biden gets pulled aside for
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  Speaker 3: this secret half hour meeting. You know what happened. Two
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  Speaker 3: months later, federal prosecutors in New York indicted Hoe on
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  Speaker 3: charges that he offered bribes to African officials to obtain
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  Speaker 3: oil rights for CFC China Energy during a meeting at
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  Speaker 3: the UN General Assembly in twenty fourteen. So this is
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  Speaker 3: a guy who a couple months later gets indicted for
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  Speaker 3: bribing public officials, and he wants to have a private
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  Speaker 3: meeting with Hunter Biden, and he does have a private
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  Speaker 3: meeting with Hunter Biden. We know also that CFC China
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  Speaker 3: Energy paid Hunter Biden a one million dollars to represent Hoe,
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  Speaker 3: even though there's no evidence Hunter Biden did any sort
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  Speaker 3: of legal work on any of the cases. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: one of the things also that that Hoe did is
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  Speaker 3: he gave Hunter Biden a diamond ring, because you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's what the spy chief of China should do, is
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  Speaker 3: give the son of the vice president and now the
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  Speaker 3: son of the president a diamond ring.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Just but remember remember Joe Biden said told the American
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  Speaker 3: people that Hunter hadn't gotten anything from what is that thing,
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  Speaker 3: that China thing.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: You can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 1: from earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: Now onto story number two.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have a judicial system that's trying to
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  Speaker 1: lock up Donald Trump everywhere they can, going after and
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  Speaker 1: trying to bankrupt him, bankrupt his family, basically sending warning
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  Speaker 1: shots across about any other conservative's singing about running for office.
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  Speaker 1: But then we also have learned a lot more about
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  Speaker 1: what happened on January sixth, to those that were there
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  Speaker 1: in January six that were sentenced to jail. There was
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  Speaker 1: major corruption within the Biden Department of Justice. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it's really this has been underreported, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's an extremely important story that I would challenge everyone
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  Speaker 1: listening right now take this part of the podcast and
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  Speaker 1: put it on social media, because what we're about to
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  Speaker 1: explain to you, it tells you just how corrupt the
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  Speaker 1: Biden Department of Justice when they come against conservatives.
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  Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately, that's exactly right. In the past few days,
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  Speaker 3: there was a decision from the d C Circuit Court
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  Speaker 3: of Appeals now the d C Circuit Court of Appeals
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  Speaker 3: of the Federal Court of Appeals in DC. It is
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  Speaker 3: considered the second highest court in the land, second only
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  Speaker 3: to the U. S. Supreme Court. There were total of
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  Speaker 3: thirteen different courts of appeals, but the d C Circuit
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  Speaker 3: is the most prestigious. Judges from the d C Circuit
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  Speaker 3: regularly become Supreme Court justices afterwards. And this was a
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  Speaker 3: unanimous decision from a panel, and it's a panel that
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  Speaker 3: the full d C Circuit is one of the most
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  Speaker 3: liberal circuits of the country. But this panel was three
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  Speaker 3: judges appointed by Democrats. The opinion was authored by Patty Millett,
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  Speaker 3: who was an appointee of Barack Obama. It was joined
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  Speaker 3: by Cornelia Pillard, who was an appointee of Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 3: And it was joined by Judith Rogers, who was an
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  Speaker 3: appointee of Bill Clinton. So you have three Democrat appointees.
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  Speaker 3: And they concluded that the Department of Justice was wrong
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  Speaker 3: when they enhanced the sentences of individuals convicted of buieing
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  Speaker 3: or stormining the Capitol on January sixth. And they use
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  Speaker 3: an enhancement called the administration of Justice enhancement. And here's
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  Speaker 3: what Judgementleett wrote for the unanimous opinion. Quote the phrase
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  Speaker 3: administration of justice does not encompass Congress's role in the
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  Speaker 3: electoral certification process. Quote, text, context and commentary show that
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  Speaker 3: the administration of Justice refers to judicial, quasi judicial, and
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  Speaker 3: adjunct investigated proceedings, but does not extend to the unique
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  Speaker 3: congressional function of certifying electoral College votes.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: Administration of Justice enhancements are typically reserved for defendants who
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  Speaker 3: disrupt judicial proceedings, such as a courtroom trial or a
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  Speaker 3: grand jury investigation. More than one hundred of the defendants
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  Speaker 3: have had Administration of Justice enhancements applied to their sentences. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: and every one of them now is going to go
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  Speaker 3: and seek and presumably receive a lower sentence and potentially
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  Speaker 3: a significantly lower sentence. And what is striking is the
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  Speaker 3: Biden Justice Department sought this enhancement contrary to the law
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  Speaker 3: over and over and over again, because they are engaged
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  Speaker 3: in a jihad. They are like Javert going after Jean Valjean.
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  Speaker 3: It is their quest.
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  Speaker 2: Look.
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  Speaker 3: Merrick Garland has absurdly said the Department of Justice has
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  Speaker 3: devoted more resources to going after the January sixth protests
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  Speaker 3: than any other event in our nation's history. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, that includes September eleventh. What an absurd statement.
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  Speaker 3: And to be clear, individuals who engaged in violence on
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  Speaker 3: January sixth, and there were certainly individuals who engaged in
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  Speaker 3: violence who assaulted police officers. If you engage in violence,
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  Speaker 3: you should be prosecuted and go to jail. But what
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  Speaker 3: the Biden Justice Department has done is use the excuse
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  Speaker 3: of the violence of a limited number of individuals to
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  Speaker 3: persecute hundreds and even thousands of individuals who engaged in
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  Speaker 3: peaceful protests, who spoke, who expressed their passionate First Amendment views,
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  Speaker 3: but did not engage in violence. And this enhancement was
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  Speaker 3: an effort that they wanted to go after you, even
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  Speaker 3: if you engage in no violence. They wanted to lock
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  Speaker 3: you up. They wanted to lock you up a long
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  Speaker 3: time for the crime of being a Donald Trump supporter.
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  Speaker 3: And it is striking to have a unanimous decision from
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  Speaker 3: three judges, all three appointed by Democrat presidents, saying no,
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  Speaker 3: this is not the law. And of course, sadly the
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  Speaker 3: corporate media has not covered this virtually at all.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't and it's not just that, it's also journalists
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  Speaker 1: that are involved. And there's still harassment that's going on
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  Speaker 1: from January sixth, which I mean this was January sixth, was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, several years ago now. Blaize News investigative writer
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  Speaker 1: Steve Baker, who had been reporting on January six was charged.
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  Speaker 1: He was by the FBI, handcuffed by the FBI. And
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  Speaker 1: this is another example of the abuse of power here.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a writer, a guy who's been
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  Speaker 1: reporting on January sixth, and it's like they went after
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  Speaker 1: him because they don't like what he was actually reporting on.
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  Speaker 1: And he said this after he was arrested by the FBI.
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  Speaker 2: This is what he said.
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  Speaker 6: I probably don't have a lot to say right now.
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  Speaker 6: I need to process for a little while. I'm actually
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  Speaker 6: still shaking a little bit. I don't like what I
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  Speaker 6: just went through. I don't like the deliberate humiliation that
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  Speaker 6: they put me through. There was no reason to do that.
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  Speaker 6: There was no reason to march me into a courtroom
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  Speaker 6: in the leg chains today there was somebody there answering
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  Speaker 6: for a felony and they weren't in chains mike charges
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  Speaker 6: or misdemeanors. It's just it's mind boggling. But that is,
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  Speaker 6: unfortunately the type of selective persecution that January sixth defendants
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  Speaker 6: are facing and ultimately what we are looking at here
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  Speaker 6: and probably the only reason that many of the January
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  Speaker 6: sixth defendants have had to go through what they've had
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  Speaker 6: to go through, is because of what I've talked about
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  Speaker 6: so many times and what I've written about so many times.
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  Speaker 6: It's called scary words. It doesn't matter if it's Stuart Rhodes,
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  Speaker 6: it doesn't matter if it's the grandmother who chanted Usa
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  Speaker 6: Usa in the Capital. It's the scary words that were said.
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  Speaker 6: If you don't say the right thing at the right
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  Speaker 6: time and comport to the right narrative, that's what they're
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  Speaker 6: going to do, is they're going to come after us.
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  Speaker 6: And that's exactly what's happened. It's not this. These charges
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  Speaker 6: have nothing to do with my behavior at the Capitol.
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  Speaker 6: These charges are reflective of what I said before and
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  Speaker 6: after my speech, what I thought about things, what I
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  Speaker 6: joked about. That's what this was reflective of. And so
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  Speaker 6: that's what we're up against right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you hear him, and it's not what he
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  Speaker 1: did on January sixth, to what he said before and after.
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  Speaker 1: He talked about that grandmother that was charged when she
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  Speaker 1: chanted Usa Usa Usa. I mean they went after anyone
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  Speaker 1: that was in and around January sixth, even if you
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  Speaker 1: were not violent, and if you report it on it
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  Speaker 1: and they don't like your narrative, they came after you
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  Speaker 1: and they put this guy in leg change just to
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  Speaker 1: prove a point. We are bigger than you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it is selective persecution, and it's not prosecution. It
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  Speaker 3: is persecution. It is targeting the enemies of the regime.
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  Speaker 3: And I have to say it is sad. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Merrick Garland used to be a judge, actually a judge
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  Speaker 3: on the DC Circuit. It was his old colleagues who
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  Speaker 3: slapped him down. Understand there's a personal element to this.
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  Speaker 3: They all serve with Merrick Garland for years. He was
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  Speaker 3: very well respected when he was on the DC Circuit.
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  Speaker 3: And yet three of his Democrat appointed colleagues just unanimously
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  Speaker 3: reversed what his department is doing because it was contrary
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  Speaker 3: to the law. And it's sad to see Merrick Garland
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  Speaker 3: turning the Department of Justice into just a partisan enforcement arm.
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  Speaker 3: It's doing enormous damage to the rule of law. And
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  Speaker 3: to unanimous decision within days of each other doesn't seem
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  Speaker 3: to have caused them even a moment of pause, a
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  Speaker 3: moment of hesitation to say, hey, maybe we should change
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  Speaker 3: our course. And I will say also more broadly, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to discuss in a later pod the persecution of
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  Speaker 3: the media that the Biden Justice Department is engaged in.
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  Speaker 3: And you just gave a good example. But this is
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  Speaker 3: all about not the fair and even handed administration of justice.
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  Speaker 3: This is about abusing power to go after the political
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  Speaker 3: enemies of the White House. And today the d C
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  Speaker 3: Circuit decision that just came down a few days ago
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  Speaker 3: is a big victory for the rule of law against
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  Speaker 3: the political abuse of power by the Biden Justice Department.
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  Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
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  Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
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  Speaker 1: dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
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  Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big
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  Speaker 1: story number three of the week.
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  Speaker 2: You may have missed.
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  Speaker 3: So I predicted before the speech that there were four
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  Speaker 3: words that Biden would not say, Lake and Riley and
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Jeremy Caserras. Now, as it so happened, he kind of
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: sort of said Lake.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: And Riley, but he almost tried to.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: But he did so in response to heckling to someone
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: calling out say her name, and there were many members
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: of Congress wearing buttons and pins that said Lake and Riley,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: say her name, and.
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  Speaker 2: He said the wrong name.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: He said Lincoln Riley, which.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: The head football coach at USC.
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  Speaker 3: And he had one of those buttons. So I think
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: one of the members of Congress had given it to him.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Yes, I don't know if it was Congressman Andy Ogles
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: who actually invited me tonight, or if it was Marjorie
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: Taylor Green or what, but there were a handful of
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: the conservative congressman who had it, and what I heard
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: from one of the members was that they handed it
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: to the president. He leaned and he said, oh, I
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: like your button. But I don't think it was sarcastic.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: I think he legitimately had no idea what was going
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: on and what it represented.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Well, look when the heckling happened, he responded, and he
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: did sort of try to say her name, although he
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: didn't get it right. But then look what he said.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: He said, you know, she was killed, I'm sorry she
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: was killed, and he expressed sympathy for the parents. And
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I got to say that may have been the moment
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: that pissed me off. The most because listen, so Lake
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: and Riley's parents were invited, and actually, you know, they
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: were invited, and they decided not to come. And I
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: understand they are grieving the loss of their daughter, their
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: home in Georgia, and the Georgia House member who invited
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: them left the seat vacant in honor of Lake and Riley.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: And you know, frankly, they don't want Joe Biden's empathy.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: They don't want a Hallmark.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Card from him.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: They want their daughter back. And and what Joe Biden
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: didn't do is take responsibility for his direct culpability. And
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: let's walk through. Lake and Riley never should have been killed.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: The illegal immigrant who murdered her was caught. He was
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: apprehended in Texas, in El Paso. He came illegally from Venezuela.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: We had him. And what should have happened is the
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Biden administration should have followed the law. They should have
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: put him on a plane and flown him back to Venezuela.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: And if Joe Biden had done that, Lake and Riley
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: would still be alive today.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: But it wasn't. Just l Pass was so so frustrating
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: about this all totally preventable tragedies. They could have gotten
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: him in New York. They did get him in New York.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: He committed a crime in New York. They let him go.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: He was arrested for endangering a child.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: But New York City, again run by Democrats, calls itself
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: a sanctuary city, and they let him go. If Joe
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Biden had deported him, Lake and Riley would be alive.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: If New York City had kept him in jail, Lake
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: and Riley would be alive.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Forget about New York City. He ends up in Athens, Georgia,
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: and he steals from a store. I forget which store
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: it was. The Georgia authorities could I think he was
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: cited with a misdemeanor for shoplifting. You had three distinct opportunities.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Three chances to get rid of him.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: Three chances, three strikes, You're out, and a poor American
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: student winds up dead.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Because and by the way, let's be clear, Jeremy Cassaris
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: is a two year old boy, a beautiful little boy,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: who was murdered just weeks ago in Prince George's County
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: in Virginia, about thirty miles from where Joe Biden was standing,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: and that little boy was murdered again by an illegal immigrant,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: that Joe Biden let go. This is happening across the country.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: We're getting day after day stories of children raped by
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: illegal immigrants. Joe Biden has let go. And he had
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: zero acknowledgment of that, zero intention of changing anything. It
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: was just crocodile tears of I'm so sorry about your daughter,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: without acknowledging it happened because of his policies. And he
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: continues to do those policies, which means there'll be another
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Lake and Riley tomorrow and another set of parents that
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: he again disingenuously apologizes well.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And the proof that the President doesn't seem to care
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: about this issue is the fact that it took him
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: forty minutes into an hour speech to even mention the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: border on his own. That's how far they buried the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: border issue in his State of the Union speech.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: What I wondered when he was browbeating the Republicans for
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: not voting for even more illegal immigration, which is what
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: his border bill would have done, is is he just
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: counting on the American people not realizing that he is
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: dismantling the fence that the Texas border authorities are putting
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: up that it's not merely passivity that he's allowing.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Actually, I'll give you a little bit of correction on
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: that he wants to dismantle it, but he hasn't actually
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: done it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: He hasn't succeeded.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: No, No, the razor wire is there. And they ended up
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Texas had gotten an injunction preventing the Biden administration from
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: removing the razor wire, and that injunction got reversed, so
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: the Biden administration is no longer prevented from removing the
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: razor wire, but they have not done so.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: They wanted to do it, they're prevented from doing it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: They're then allowed to do it, but they got spooked
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: by the politics off.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Wow, Wow, that's.
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: That's actually encouraging that someone at the White House is saying,
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: hold on that that really crazy thing that we were
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: going to do. Maybe let's hold off, yeah for a
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: few days.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: All right, before we end, I got to get you
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: guys reaction to two different things, two clips from CNN.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You guys were obviously in the chamber and you didn't
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: get to see all the commentary. I want you to
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: hear what CNN had to say about the state of
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the Union, and this is clip one.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Listen, he seemed like walks you talking about this area,
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: he said, like wal Kowhowski and grand Tarino screaming at
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: kids get off my lawn, like an old guy screaming.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Again. My guess is that when he got into the
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: heart of his agenda, the things that you ridicule about
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: the cost of food and you know, price gouging and
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: so on, I bet you that scored with a lot
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: of people. I think that they the populist economic had
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: agenda is a powerful, powerful thing for him.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Look, there are parts of it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure that the attacks all landed exactly. They
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: may have landed well in that room for sure, and
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: they landed well with space voters for sure. I'm not
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: sure were those swing voters that they landed as well,
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: But I do think.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's David Axrod, the former Obama you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: senior advisor, who sang, you know, in response to one
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: of the commenters saying, look it was it was like
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: an old guy screaming to the kids get off my
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Watn's what you said earlier Center. But they're saying c
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: then and He's even admitting, Hey, there's a pretty good
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: chance that didn't play well or land with independent voters.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, Ben, you're really scaring me? Are you telling me that?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Unbeknownst to me, I was channeling David Axelrod on CNN.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Holy crap. I might have to just hang it all
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: up right now, it's over.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I am off the rails, Michael, poor Drake, right now.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: Something we need to correct something.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: And I got to say even worse acts Rod's analogy
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: is better. He threw up the hull Grand Tarino like
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: he took it one notch better. I am just thoroughly humiliated.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: And not only that, you'll like this one.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: So then there was another commentator on CDN who actually
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: said this about the president's speech.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Listen, he talked about snickers and snack chips before he
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: ever got to the border. He was obsessed with his
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: political rival more than he was obsessed with the condition
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: of the American people.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: It was so weird.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: This guy lectures us all on unity, the soul of
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: the nation, and he gives the most partisan convention speech
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: in place of a state of a Union that I've
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: ever heard. It's the literal opposite of unity. It's so partisan.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: He's obsessed with taunting Republicans. It's not statesman life. Can
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: let's say one thing on Israel.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was Scott Jennings, a former Coyl league
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: of mine, who said that.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: And he's right, by the way.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, he did talk about snickers and snack chips
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: before he ever got to the border.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: It was his words. It's just weird.
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: I like his observation that Joe Biden thought he was
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: at the DNC. Maybe that's as simple as that. You know,
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: he thought he walked into the convention Whoosie Daisy had
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: actually was a joint session for the State of the Union.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: But you know, the man doesn't remember his own name.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I will say one thing that also, that clip reminded
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: me of It was odd how many times he referenced Trump.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I cannot think of any State of the Union in
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: my lifetime with that many references to your opponent, the
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: former president, the former president, the former president, and and
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: you know he's like, you know, you know, I believe
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: in in truth and happiness and love and puppy dogs
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: and fairies, and my opponent believes in hate and suffering,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: in misery and dead puppies, like like it was just like, really, dude,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: a little defensive.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: You would say campaign when I want, I will tell
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: you the list of things. Biden didn't mention to say
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the Union as ready for this. He did not mention
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: US service members killed in Afghanistan. He did not mention
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: US service members killed by Iranian back proxies in the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Middle East. He did not mention gas prices. He did
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: not mention TikTok or China. He did not mention North Korea.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: He didn't mention Cuba. He didn't mention school choice. He
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: didn't mention the classified doc scandal. He didn't mention Hunter
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Biden or the Biden corruption. He did not mention fossil fuels.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: He did not mention deporting illegals. He did not mention
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: a border wall. He did not mention the attacks on
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: pregnancy centers. And he did not mention China's human rights abuses.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Notice a lot of those connect with people that have
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: given money of the Biden crime family.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: I'll leave it with that center.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Your reaction, well, but did you have anything to say
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: about how many chips are in a bag of chips?
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: I think you know, I think he did touch on
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: that important subject.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Do you know the state of the Union may be
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: in trouble, but the state of Chips is really in trouble.
• 30:00
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