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BIDEN in serious trouble with ‘Garagegate’, What Is the White House Trying to Hide · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Well, there's some major Biden document drama. As a special
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Speaker 1: council has now been appointed to probe Biden and his
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Speaker 1: classified documents. They found more of them, Yeah, not in
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Speaker 1: secure locations. The President going off script this morning when
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Speaker 1: he tried to tell the world that while the documents
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Speaker 1: were secure, they were in my garage. And since my
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Speaker 1: corvette that I love is in that garage, they had
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Speaker 1: to have been safe in that garage or classified documents
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Speaker 1: supposed to be in anyone's garage. No, but this is
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Speaker 1: how the President tried to explain it away classified material
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Speaker 1: next year, corvette. What were you thinking? I mean, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna get a chance to speak on all this, God
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Speaker 1: William soon. I love that I'm gonna get to speak
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Speaker 1: on all of this, God Willing soon. You're speaking about
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Speaker 1: it right now. How are you acting like you're not
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Speaker 1: able to talk about it right now? Now? Let me
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Speaker 1: also be clear that he was making these comments before
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Speaker 1: a special counsel had been appointed, before the special you know,
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Speaker 1: the special counsel was announced. So the idea that he's
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Speaker 1: trying to say, well, I can't say anything since there
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Speaker 1: is a special counsel, Robert her that's been named to
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Speaker 1: lead the probe into the classified documents I've had for
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Speaker 1: years that apparently have been moved from multiple locations for years.
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Speaker 1: And there's these top secret documents that are in his garage, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is totally insane. And he's like, well,
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Speaker 1: I want to speak on this soon. Well, right now,
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Speaker 1: you can speak on it, because when you're making these comments,
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Speaker 1: the special counsel her had not been appointed by your
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Speaker 1: attorney general. Keep listening, I said earlier this week. People,
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Speaker 1: And by the way, my corvette's in the locked garage. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so it's not like you're sitting out in the street
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Speaker 1: at any rate. Yes, as well as my corvette. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's amazing. It's like he doesn't understand the gravity of
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Speaker 1: the situation here, and he's like, well, it's in the garage.
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Speaker 1: It's locked with my corvette. I promised. By the way,
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Speaker 1: that was not on the teleprompter, and that was not
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Speaker 1: on the note cards. I'm sure his staff in the
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Speaker 1: PR department wanted to in the communications department all immediately
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Speaker 1: just wanted to resign when that was said, because it is,
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Speaker 1: in fact that stupid, It is in fact that ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: You have a special counsel's been appointed. You have a
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Speaker 1: special counsel's appointed it with a Marlago rate. And now
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Speaker 1: this is coming back to haunt in a major way.
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Speaker 1: The President of the United States of America when Garland,
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Speaker 1: by the way, made his announcement, all right, he looked
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Speaker 1: like it was in a hostage video. But the President says, well,
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Speaker 1: everything's really fine because my my, you know, my car,
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Speaker 1: my corvette is secured. No it's not. Yes, as well
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Speaker 1: as my corvette. But as I said earlier this week,
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Speaker 1: people know I take classified documents and classified materials seriously
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Speaker 1: do you if you did, they wouldn't be in your
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Speaker 1: garage in an unsecured location. Now, let's also talk about
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Speaker 1: how long he's had these documents. He has had these
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Speaker 1: documents for an incredibly long time. Okay, he has had
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Speaker 1: these documents in his garage. We don't even know for
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Speaker 1: how long or how many years. What we do know
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Speaker 1: that in during the time in which he had these documents,
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Speaker 1: there is one important thing, one important factor that you
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Speaker 1: do need to understand. He did not have Secret Service
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Speaker 1: protection for many of the years, meaning that his home
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Speaker 1: was not a secure location, and that means his garage
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Speaker 1: sure as hell, wasn't a secure location. Vice Presidents, Just
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Speaker 1: so you understand, do not okay, I want to say
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Speaker 1: this again, do not get do not get secret Service protection.
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Speaker 1: That was part of the reason why it was shady
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Speaker 1: as hell when his son's gun went missing and the
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Speaker 1: Secret Service showed up while he did not have a
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Speaker 1: Secret Service detail to try to get the documents so
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Speaker 1: they can make the gun cell disappear, and that gunshop
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Speaker 1: owner in Delaware would not turn over those documents to
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Speaker 1: the Secret servicemen that came in that again at that
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Speaker 1: time were not assigned to him because he was a
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Speaker 1: private citizen at that point. Now this is obviously significant.
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Speaker 1: The DOJ also is now confirming a third document that
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Speaker 1: they set of documents that they have also found. This
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Speaker 1: is again another example of the problems that we have
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Speaker 1: right now with this administration. They have classified documents apparently
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Speaker 1: all over the place. Now there are there's even a
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Speaker 1: Twitter video that was put out by the President of
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Speaker 1: the United States of America. It was there's been a
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Speaker 1: lot of talk about my vetting process lately. Here's a
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Speaker 1: look inside and what is it. It's him talking in
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Speaker 1: his corvette. What's behind him that you can see in
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Speaker 1: the garage, a bunch of documents in boxes. I think
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Speaker 1: it's pretty clear to say they those documents. If those
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Speaker 1: were in fact the documents, we're not okay, we're not
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Speaker 1: in a secure location. There's something else you need to know,
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Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States of America. That's when
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Speaker 1: he had these documents and how long he has had
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Speaker 1: them since his vice presidency. They are not allowed to
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Speaker 1: declassify documents. The president can do that. That was part
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Speaker 1: of the argument that Donald Trump was making when it
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Speaker 1: came to the issue of Marlago and the documents that
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Speaker 1: were found there. But the vice president does not have
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Speaker 1: any power to do what we were just describing. The
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Speaker 1: vice president doesn't have the ability to declassify these documents.
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Speaker 1: Now the White House says, well, look, you guys need
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Speaker 1: to calm down. And the reason why you need to
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Speaker 1: calm down is because we've been transparent, even on the
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Speaker 1: new batch of classified documents and Biden's garage. We told
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Speaker 1: you again, we have been transparent. So where somehow different.
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Speaker 1: Now the media is also coming to the defense of
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. The view and you know how stupid the
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Speaker 1: people and the view are. They actually said this about
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Speaker 1: the difference between Joe Biden's documents in his garage next
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Speaker 1: to its corvette. There's differences and what happened, yes, but
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Speaker 1: not good. Well, we all know that Trump is a
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Speaker 1: liar and a thief, you know, so it's not that
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Speaker 1: bit of a jump to say that he obstructed and
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Speaker 1: he lied. We don't think that Biden is a lawyer
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Speaker 1: and a thief, so we give him the benefit of
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Speaker 1: the doubt. That's pobly what's going We give him the
7:28
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt because we know that Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: is not a liar and a thief, so we give
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Speaker 1: him the benefit of the doubt. So, in other words,
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Speaker 1: you're allowed to break the law if those in the
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Speaker 1: media's believe that you're a good person, and therefore you're
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Speaker 1: to twenty eighteen, when he was not in office, he
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Speaker 1: was asked a question about documents. Listen to this, look
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Speaker 1: my understanding, and I don't know. I don't have access
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Speaker 1: to classified information anymore. I don't get briefed every morning
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Speaker 1: by the agency. I don't have access to classified information anymore. Well,
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Speaker 1: that was a lie. That was in twenty eighteen. Apparently
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Speaker 1: you had it all over the place. You had it
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Speaker 1: in your garage, right, you had it somewhere else, you
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Speaker 1: had it in your office. How you didn't even know
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Speaker 1: where all your classified information was. But when you said
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Speaker 1: you don't have access to classify documents anymore, that wasn't true.
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Speaker 1: Now what we're in these documents? What are these documents?
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Speaker 1: What we know is that these documents they've known about
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Speaker 1: for a long time, and they dealt with Ukraine, they
10:16
Speaker 1: dealt with Iran, and they may have dealt with China.
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Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary, refusing to comment on why the
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Speaker 1: White House waited for two months to inform the public
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Speaker 1: of these classified documents. You won't know why they waited
10:29
Speaker 1: because they didn't want this to affect the mid term elections,
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Speaker 1: because they desperately needed Democrats to keep control of the
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Speaker 1: Senate and they didn't want to lose control of the House.
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Speaker 1: They hid this from you on purpose, and this was
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Speaker 1: under review. This is under review by the Department of Justice.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to go beyond what the President shared yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to go beyond what my colleagues at
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Speaker 1: the White House Council shared with all of you as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about this now that they're
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Speaker 1: a special prosecutor. I'm really not going to talk about this.
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Speaker 1: Fox News is Peter Doocey, Press, the White House Press Secretary,
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Speaker 1: after the Special Council had been appointed, about what now.
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Speaker 1: Some in the media are referring to It's a great name,
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Speaker 1: garage Gate, And this was the question he asked, Thank
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Speaker 1: you creating another one on garage Gate? What is the
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Speaker 1: White House trying to hide nothing? Someone gave the President
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Speaker 1: a statement to read on Tuesday that was incomplete at best,
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Speaker 1: misleading at worst. Who So I have read out the
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Speaker 1: president's statement. I have read it out yesterday and what
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Speaker 1: he said, he said that he will he respects or
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Speaker 1: he takes classified information and documents very seriously. That's what
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Speaker 1: he said. They're lying to you. Now, there's also a
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Speaker 1: timeline here that we have to talk about the timeline
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Speaker 1: of events so that you understand and this garage Gate,
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Speaker 1: you understand this big lie. You understand why they are
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Speaker 1: telling this lies because they know they're in deep trouble
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Speaker 1: with this whole entire timeline. Okay, you go back to
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Speaker 1: mar Lago and you look at when that was going down,
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Speaker 1: that happened August eighth, mar Lago was rated. You fast
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Speaker 1: forward to September the eighteenth, Biden slammed Trump for being
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Speaker 1: you know, you being careless and reckless and putting sources,
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Speaker 1: as he described it, at risk, saying, this is, you know,
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Speaker 1: this is the worst thing ever. November the second, this
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Speaker 1: is before the election, Biden classified documents were found. Amazing
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Speaker 1: how that kept quiet? Right while everybody in the government knows,
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Speaker 1: No one leaked out before election day. November the fourteenth,
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Speaker 1: Garland appointed a US attorney to look into the Biden documents. Again,
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Speaker 1: no leaks. November the eighteenth, Garlin appoints special con on
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Speaker 1: the Trump document case. So Garland knew on the fourteenth,
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Speaker 1: that there was a problem, right, and maybe before that,
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Speaker 1: because the documents were supposed to believe we're found on
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Speaker 1: November the second, before the election, and on the fourteenth.
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Speaker 1: He then says, all right, US attorney looking to these documents.
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Speaker 1: Four days later, Garland appoints a special counsel in the
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Speaker 1: Trump document case. You fast forward from November the eighteenth
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Speaker 1: to January the twelfth, and bam, a special counsel's appointed
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Speaker 1: in the Biden case. That timeline tells you that there
13:36
Speaker 1: was a cover up, or at least a delay to
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Speaker 1: make sure that this did not affect the mid term elections.
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Speaker 1: That is a problem. And the presents like, well, my
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Speaker 1: garage is secure. That's not an excuse, by the way,
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Speaker 1: for having these classified documents. Okay, understand that this is
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Speaker 1: not an excuse. It's gonna hold up right the I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to This is not going to work.
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Speaker 1: NBC News also reporting now that the FBI has now
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Speaker 1: interviewed multiple Biden aide Joe Biden aids about all of this,
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Speaker 1: Listen and Harry very clearly he might feel that he
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Speaker 1: has to because of the political pressure. Carol Lee, what
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Speaker 1: have you learned? Have you learn anything more about this, well, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: we're learning. My colleague Mike Memily and I are reporting
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Speaker 1: that as part of this Justice Apartment review of the
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Speaker 1: classified documents in President Biden's possession, they've interviewed multiple Biden staffers,
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Speaker 1: those who worked for him in those closing days of
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Speaker 1: his time as vice president, including Kathy Chung, who had
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Speaker 1: served as executive assistant to the president, who's described to
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Speaker 1: us as somebody who would have had a key role
14:51
Speaker 1: in packing up those boxes in those final days of
14:55
Speaker 1: President Biden's term as vice president. Now, what we're told
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Speaker 1: is that the who have been interviewed they did so
15:02
Speaker 1: when they were asked to be interviewed by federal law enforcement,
15:05
Speaker 1: that they agreed to do so quickly, and that those
15:08
Speaker 1: who were involved in packing up the former vice presidents
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Speaker 1: now president vice presidential office were not they were just
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Speaker 1: putting things in boxes, that there was no intent here,
15:19
Speaker 1: that they weren't looking and seeing what exactly was in
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Speaker 1: these papers, That they weren't intentionally putting classified documents among
15:28
Speaker 1: commingled with the president's political and personal documents. So we
15:33
Speaker 1: don't know, Andrea, if these interviews are concluded, if federal
15:36
Speaker 1: law Enforcement officials are continuing to talk to people who
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Speaker 1: worked for President Biden at that time, but we do
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Speaker 1: know that a number of them have been interviewed, including
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Speaker 1: someone who served as his executive assistant who now serves
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Speaker 1: in a position at the Pentagon, Andrea. So that's kind
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Speaker 1: of an important thing. So the API has been interviewing
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Speaker 1: multiple Biden age So let's go back to the timeline here.
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Speaker 1: You we can now say that this was clearly not
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Speaker 1: done in a transparent manner. The White House set on
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Speaker 1: this information for more than two months. Based on the timeline,
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Speaker 1: what does the White House say? They have no answer.
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Speaker 1: Why do they have no answer because now they can
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Speaker 1: hide behind the special prosecutor, as crazy as that sounds, saying, wow,
16:22
Speaker 1: this is an ongoing investigation. We're gonna let him do
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Speaker 1: his work, but we are doing this by the book, right,
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Speaker 1: that's the distinguishing factor. They say as well, Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: didn't do it by the book in Marlago. He was
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Speaker 1: a former president. By the way, who can actually declassify information.
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden for years now has had these classified documents.
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Speaker 1: He does not have the ability to have these documents
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Speaker 1: and doesn't have the ability to make them or declassify them.
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Speaker 1: So what did the White House Press secretary to say
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Speaker 1: when she's pressed about all this, She's like, well, we're
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Speaker 1: doing it by the book. We're the good guys. Goes
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Speaker 1: back to that comment I played for you from the
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Speaker 1: view what the view I would say, Well, we know
17:04
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is a liar and a fraud right
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Speaker 1: in a criminal The audience collapsed New York City, and
17:09
Speaker 1: she said, and we know we can trust Joe Biden.
17:11
Speaker 1: So therefore, Joe Biden didn't mean you will with these documents.
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Speaker 1: We know we can give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Speaker 1: That's the logic of the media. The review was underway
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Speaker 1: when you guys gave a detailed statement about the first
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Speaker 1: set of documents. The review was underway when the president
17:24
Speaker 1: spoke about the first set of documents. You're not saying
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Speaker 1: that you didn't talk about the second set of documents
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Speaker 1: discovered almost a month prior, because the review was underway.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense. I think
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Speaker 1: it was underway the entire time. The only difference was
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Speaker 1: that reporters had information on the first set of documents
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Speaker 1: enough for where you chose to exclude the second set
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Speaker 1: of documents until reporters get information on the second set
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Speaker 1: of Well, let me I confuse you for a second. Phil. Look,
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Speaker 1: we are trying to do this by the book, and
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Speaker 1: I said yesterday this was under review by the Department
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Speaker 1: of Justice, and the process is as such. When the
17:59
Speaker 1: president's lawyers realize that the documents existed, that they were there,
18:03
Speaker 1: they reached out to the archives, they reached out to
18:06
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, rightfully, So may I add, that
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Speaker 1: is what you're supposed to do as lawyers. That's what
18:12
Speaker 1: they did, and they have fully been cooperating with the
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Speaker 1: Department of Justice. We did it the right way, right.
18:23
Speaker 1: We're the moral ones. We're the ones that understand how
18:27
Speaker 1: to do things like this the right way. Right. We're
18:30
Speaker 1: the ones that know what is really going on. We're perfect.
18:38
Speaker 1: We are the perfect stewards, We're the perfect individuals. We're
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Speaker 1: doing it by the book. Everybody else doesn't do it
18:45
Speaker 1: by the book, right, but we are the ones that
18:48
Speaker 1: do it by the book. Well, hold on, didn't you
18:49
Speaker 1: sit on this information for two months? I think its
18:52
Speaker 1: initial statement Monday? The Partment dress on Tuesday into the city.
18:56
Speaker 1: All the conversations about the documents of the Office, however,
18:59
Speaker 1: pointed training in general, the documents are bound in December twentieth,
19:02
Speaker 1: and it's Roger Wilmington. Why was that not immediately addressed?
19:05
Speaker 1: Is all? Its being transparent about that if that was
19:07
Speaker 1: already known and not discussed up front. So just to
19:10
Speaker 1: you said transparent, I want to say that we have
19:12
Speaker 1: been transparent here. That is why the minute that his
19:16
Speaker 1: lawyers found those documents, they reported it. They reached out
19:20
Speaker 1: to the Archives and the Department of Justice, and they
19:23
Speaker 1: did that voluntarily, and they were not compelled to do it.
19:26
Speaker 1: They did it voluntarily. By the way, this idea they
19:30
Speaker 1: were they were compelled to do it, they did it voluntarily.
19:32
Speaker 1: They weren't compelled to do it. They did it voluntarily. Right,
19:35
Speaker 1: So I guess basically you're saying you want an honorable
19:37
Speaker 1: mention because you guys didn't try to shred classified documents
19:41
Speaker 1: and destroy them. Is that what you're telling me? So,
19:44
Speaker 1: so you broke the law for years. You've got classified
19:48
Speaker 1: documents found next to your corvette in a garage that
19:55
Speaker 1: is unattended on many a days. It was not secured
19:59
Speaker 1: by the Secret Service in the time between you being
20:02
Speaker 1: the vice president and then running for president, and then
20:06
Speaker 1: you have these other documents at this University of Penn area.
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Speaker 1: That's not a secure location where people are in and
20:14
Speaker 1: out there all day long, all the time without you
20:16
Speaker 1: even knowing who they may be, who may be in
20:19
Speaker 1: that building, and you're like, oh, it was fine, they
20:21
Speaker 1: were secure. It was not secure location. Okay, it was
20:25
Speaker 1: not a secure location. Don't tell me it was a
20:30
Speaker 1: secure location. It's not. Again, another lie. And what they're
20:37
Speaker 1: saying now is well, you can trust us because we
20:41
Speaker 1: really do things by the book here, right. This is
20:44
Speaker 1: this is just an oversight, This is an accident. This
20:47
Speaker 1: was a little oops. But we're the ones that self reported,
20:51
Speaker 1: so therefore we should not be in trouble. But Donald
20:54
Speaker 1: Trump should still go to jail. Which brings me to
20:57
Speaker 1: the hostage video. When Merritt Garland had to announce this,
21:03
Speaker 1: it absolutely looked like a hostage video. He was speaking
21:07
Speaker 1: from attella prompter and it was like a deer in headlights.
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Speaker 1: Because he realized now he's in a really bad spot,
21:16
Speaker 1: he had no choice but to allow for a special prosecutor.
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Speaker 1: I'm here today to announce the appointment of Robert Herr
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Speaker 1: as a Special Council pursuing the Department of Justice regulations
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Speaker 1: governing such matters. In keeping with those regulations, I have
21:31
Speaker 1: today notified the designated members of each House of Congress
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Speaker 1: of the appointment. I'm joined today by John Lausch, the
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Speaker 1: US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, who conducted
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Speaker 1: the initial investigation into the matter that I will describe today.
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Speaker 1: On the evening of November fourth, twenty twenty two, the
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Speaker 1: National Archives Office of Inspector General contacted a prosecutor at
21:54
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice. It informed him that the White
21:58
Speaker 1: House had notified the Archives that documents bearing classification markings
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Speaker 1: were identified at the office of the Penn Biden Center
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Speaker 1: for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, located in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 1: That office was not authorized for storage or classified documents.
22:16
Speaker 1: The prosecutor was also advised that those documents had been
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Speaker 1: secured in an archived facility. On November ninth, the FBI
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Speaker 1: commenced an assessment consistent with standard protocols to understand whether
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Speaker 1: classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law.
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Speaker 1: On November fourteenth, pursuant to Section six hundred point two
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Speaker 1: B of the Special Council regulations. I assigned US Attorney
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Speaker 1: Lausch to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision
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Speaker 1: whether to appoint a special council. Mister Lauche has served
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Speaker 1: as the US Attorney in Chicago since twenty seventeen. Before that,
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Speaker 1: he spent more than a decade as an assistant US
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Speaker 1: attorney in that same office. Selected him to conduct the
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Speaker 1: initial investigation because I was confident his experience would ensure
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Speaker 1: that it would be done professionally and expeditiously. On December twentieth,
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Speaker 1: President Biden's personal counsel informed mister Laoch that additional documents
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Speaker 1: bearing classification markings were identified in the garage of the
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Speaker 1: President's private residence in Wilmington, Delaware. President Biden's counsel informed
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Speaker 1: mister Looch that those documents were among other records from
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Speaker 1: the period of the President's service as vice president. The
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Speaker 1: FBI went to the location and secured those documents. On
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Speaker 1: January fifth, twenty twenty three, mister Loosh brief me on
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Speaker 1: the results of his initial investigation and advised me that
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Speaker 1: further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. Based on
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Speaker 1: mister Loosch's initial investigation, I concluded that under the Special
23:54
Speaker 1: Council regulations, it was in the public interests to appoint
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Speaker 1: special Council. The takeaway from this is that they knew
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Speaker 1: this and they made sure that you didn't know about
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Speaker 1: it until after the midterms because they knew that it
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Speaker 1: would affect the elections. The timeline shows it. The White
24:15
Speaker 1: House knew it. They didn't say a damn word about
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Speaker 1: it because they didn't want to affect the midterm elections.
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Speaker 1: Then they didn't want the voters to have this information
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Speaker 1: before election day. If this isn't the definition of a
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Speaker 1: political cover up, I don't know what is. And a
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Speaker 1: Special Council is gonna have to ask this question about
24:38
Speaker 1: the documents that they did find, because apparently there was
24:40
Speaker 1: a lot of documents that the President had that were
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Speaker 1: not quote classified in marking that dealt with Ukraine, I
24:48
Speaker 1: ran and possibly from what we've been told from Leeks China,
24:54
Speaker 1: were those documents to help the Biden crime family. Do
24:58
Speaker 1: they connect dots from the Biden laptop that we now
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Speaker 1: know about, was the big guy keeping these documents on
25:06
Speaker 1: purpose for the family business. Those are all questions that
25:11
Speaker 1: are gonna have to be answered. Those, by the way,
25:14
Speaker 1: are important questions that need to be answered. I promise
25:21
Speaker 1: you we're gonna stay on top of this, okay, because
25:24
Speaker 1: this is literally literally just the very beginning. And when
25:28
Speaker 1: you hear the media say that Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Wow,
25:31
Speaker 1: these are two different scenarios here. And he did the
25:33
Speaker 1: right thing and he turned them in and he made
25:35
Speaker 1: the appropriate phone calls. Remember he's had these documents for
25:39
Speaker 1: years and years and years and has moved them at
25:43
Speaker 1: least two to three times minimum, just based on when
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Speaker 1: the library opened. And to have them in his garage
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Speaker 1: classified documents next to his corvette and say, well, the
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Speaker 1: garage is locked. Is your excuse? I'm not buying it now.
26:00
Speaker 1: I want to deal with this other issue and that
26:02
Speaker 1: is another important one about what's going out the border,
26:05
Speaker 1: also the Transportation Secretary Mayor Pete and his excuses. I
26:12
Speaker 1: was supposed to sit down with US Senator Marsha Blackburn
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Speaker 1: yesterday but was delayed with flights because of the grounding
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Speaker 1: of every aircraft in American in America, the last time
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Speaker 1: that happened was on nine to eleven. Joining me now
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Speaker 1: is a good friend of the show. My guest US
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Speaker 1: Senator from Tennessee Marsha Blackburn, Senator. Sorry, yesterday we were
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Speaker 1: supposed to chat and I got stuck in the ground
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Speaker 1: stop on a flight, and so I appreciate you switching
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Speaker 1: with us to today. Sorry about that, do we? By
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Speaker 1: the way, I love that our transportation secretary said, at
26:46
Speaker 1: least as of yesterday, we still don't know what happened.
26:50
Speaker 1: Like that's good, right, When your translation secretary doesn't even
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Speaker 1: know what happened? Does that concern you at all? Oh?
26:56
Speaker 1: It concerns me. And if he were the CEO of
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Speaker 1: a major US corporation, he would have been fired. When
27:03
Speaker 1: you have actions that are affecting so many different people,
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars of productivity lost, and you can't find
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Speaker 1: an answer. And we have to remember Pete Buddha Judge
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Speaker 1: has zero experience in transportation. He is not a transportation professional.
27:24
Speaker 1: He was the mayor of a small town in Indiana.
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Speaker 1: He ran for president, and he went to DOT and
27:34
Speaker 1: decided his priority was going to be to turn it
27:37
Speaker 1: into a roke institution. He was more concerned about renaming
27:43
Speaker 1: the motem system than he was about making certain that
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Speaker 1: the system worked. He had changed it from airmen to
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Speaker 1: air mission because that suited the diversity, Equity and Inclusion
27:57
Speaker 1: agenda of the Department of Transportation that he has set forth. Yeah,
28:02
Speaker 1: it's a check the box administration. He's running now, trying
28:04
Speaker 1: to become woke on every single issue. And then you
28:07
Speaker 1: have an entire groundstop. We've not had this, by the way,
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Speaker 1: since the actual day of nine to eleven. And then
28:12
Speaker 1: he's asked about He's like, oh, I really don't know
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Speaker 1: what happened. It's like, well, then who's in charge because
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Speaker 1: it's obviously not you. You know, Ben, think about this.
28:21
Speaker 1: You've got the Secretary of Transportation, and here we are
28:27
Speaker 1: thirty six hours from when this thing started, and they
28:31
Speaker 1: still don't know if it was an equipment failure, if
28:34
Speaker 1: it was a cyber attack, if it was spyware or
28:38
Speaker 1: now ware that some have became embedded in the system.
28:42
Speaker 1: They don't know, and they thereby do not know if
28:46
Speaker 1: it is going to happen again. You know, they had
28:49
Speaker 1: an issue yesterday in some of the areas where the
28:52
Speaker 1: system started going down again. If flights were delayed again
28:56
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon. Now think about this. People can't get from
29:01
Speaker 1: point A to point B, and they can't get there
29:06
Speaker 1: with predictability and companies are now having to give people
29:10
Speaker 1: a day to travel. Some companies are even saying, look
29:15
Speaker 1: at this meeting is within six hours of where we are.
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Speaker 1: We're going to rent you a car and you are
29:21
Speaker 1: going to take a day and you're going to drive.
29:24
Speaker 1: And that is what people are having to do because
29:27
Speaker 1: of the unpredictability. You look at the mess at Christmas.
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Speaker 1: How many people lost their Christmas holidays and never made
29:35
Speaker 1: it home for Christmas because JELF flight got canceled. And
29:39
Speaker 1: I know people that were to fly out Christmas date
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Speaker 1: somewhere and they said, oh, we can't get you there
29:45
Speaker 1: until Thursday. Thursday. Look, I was in DC and I
29:50
Speaker 1: was at an embassy for an event and that embassy
29:54
Speaker 1: will rename anonymous. But the ambassador looked at me. He's like,
29:58
Speaker 1: I don't understand how you guys can do this in America.
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Speaker 1: This would never happen in our country as the way
30:03
Speaker 1: he described it. And I said, dude, I can't argue
30:05
Speaker 1: with you like I mean, you're you're absolutely right. I
30:08
Speaker 1: literally cannot argue with you in what you just said.
30:11
Speaker 1: And he and his point was, y'all are supposed to
30:14
Speaker 1: be the greatest country in the world. And the leader
30:17
Speaker 1: in so many different ways. And because you decided to
30:20
Speaker 1: check a box and go woke with a individual that
30:26
Speaker 1: was not qualified for a job. You've had disasters with transportation,
30:30
Speaker 1: You've had disasters with the logistics of the porch, You've
30:33
Speaker 1: had disasters with shipping. I mean, give me one big
30:37
Speaker 1: victory that mayor Pete has had. I don't think you
30:40
Speaker 1: can name one either or not even trying to be mean,
30:42
Speaker 1: I'm being serious here. Well, he has not had a victory,
30:47
Speaker 1: but he's got criscious every clear he look and he
30:52
Speaker 1: does not focus on solving the logistics problems of the country,
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Speaker 1: whether it is with rail or with air or with
31:04
Speaker 1: Graham transportation, He's not focused on that. He is focused
31:09
Speaker 1: on d EI and that is his primary goal. And
31:14
Speaker 1: we obsceniently, repeatedly, this is someone who has zero transportation experience.
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Speaker 1: He has zero experience to do that job. You got
31:27
Speaker 1: another very interesting issue. And rarely do I say that
31:31
Speaker 1: you Senator and the President have something in common, but
31:34
Speaker 1: both of you guys got to go see the wide
31:36
Speaker 1: open border. He says it's secure. He went to al Paso,
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Speaker 1: which is pretty much eight hundred miles from the corridor
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Speaker 1: of where the worst problem is at the southern border.
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Speaker 1: He goes into a place that we've seen the pictures.
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Speaker 1: The night before he got there, we saw people arresting people,
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Speaker 1: homeless people, people that were on the streets living in
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Speaker 1: ten season a passo. They basically hose down the city
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Speaker 1: before he got there, in the twenty four hours beforehand,
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Speaker 1: so it didn't look as bad for the national press.
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Speaker 1: Hilariously enough, he actually went to a border wall where
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Speaker 1: he felt safe in the Secret Service, felt that he
32:11
Speaker 1: would be safe to visit, and then said CIA and
32:15
Speaker 1: took off. And you have my archists who many believe
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Speaker 1: he should be impeached over this failure at the border.
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Speaker 1: Who's saying the border is secure, the border is not open.
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Speaker 1: You're down there with a delegation, and you know that's
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Speaker 1: just a lie. Well, he should have gone with me
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Speaker 1: to Eagle Pass. And by the way, I did invite
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Speaker 1: Vice President Harris to join us, since my trip was
32:39
Speaker 1: in the all women's trips, three female senators, and we
32:43
Speaker 1: were focused on the humanitarian side of this as well
32:48
Speaker 1: as the national security and economic implications. But then you're right,
32:53
Speaker 1: they gave him the sanitized view of what there's nothing
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Speaker 1: to see here. And the ridiculous lessness of saying, hey,
33:02
Speaker 1: we've got an app. If you want to come here illegally,
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Speaker 1: go to this app and wink, wink, not not, you're
33:09
Speaker 1: going to be made legal. Can you even believe he's
33:12
Speaker 1: trying to offer a way to circumvents the rules of
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Speaker 1: this country. The scary part is, yes, I say there
33:23
Speaker 1: is an app. Immigration law in this country has not
33:27
Speaker 1: changed since nineteen ninety six Clinton, Bush, Obama Trump. They
33:34
Speaker 1: were able to get the numbers down and maintain that
33:39
Speaker 1: border and work with border patrol. When you go on
33:42
Speaker 1: that border, border patrol will tell you it has exploded.
33:47
Speaker 1: And in the first three months of this fiscal year,
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Speaker 1: in equal past Texas they apprehended one hundred and forty
33:56
Speaker 1: three convicted criminals, people that have been convicted and served
34:02
Speaker 1: time for violent crimes. They've been deported from the country
34:08
Speaker 1: because it was rape, it was burglary, it was robbery,
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Speaker 1: it was manslaughter. And now they apprehended them at the border.
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Speaker 1: And those are the ones they apprehended out of the
34:23
Speaker 1: give ups, as they call them. Now you've got the
34:26
Speaker 1: known and unknown got aways. And there's no telling how
34:30
Speaker 1: many convicted criminals that are coming to your community were
34:35
Speaker 1: in that list of gotaways plus the games, plus the
34:39
Speaker 1: drug traffickers, plus the plus there's people that were on
34:42
Speaker 1: the Terrace watch list that also had that they had
34:45
Speaker 1: coming across the eight of them. Yeah, and do we
34:48
Speaker 1: know do we know anything about those ninety eight? Have
34:51
Speaker 1: you guys gotten a legitimate briefing on that setter? We
34:53
Speaker 1: have not gotten a briefing on that. We Judiciary Committee
34:58
Speaker 1: have not gotten a briefing. And to our last hearing
35:02
Speaker 1: in December that was to be with majorcas for some reason,
35:07
Speaker 1: they decided to cancel that hearing. How about that? And
35:11
Speaker 1: we are looking forward to getting him back over there.
35:14
Speaker 1: I know that the House is going to begin impeachment
35:18
Speaker 1: proceedings on him and we will see. You know what
35:23
Speaker 1: happens with that is they move forward. Last question for you,
35:27
Speaker 1: and I want to I want to pivot back to
35:28
Speaker 1: some breaking news, and that is apparently fifty four million
35:32
Speaker 1: dollars senator in Chinese gifts were donated to the University
35:37
Speaker 1: of Penn, the home of the Biden Center. Anonymously, the
35:44
Speaker 1: government Watchdow Group is now demanding the US Attorney probe
35:48
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden and that's probing Hunter Biden delware investigate this
35:52
Speaker 1: tens of millions and again anonymous donations from China to
35:57
Speaker 1: the University of Penn where this academic center name for
36:01
Speaker 1: President Joe Biden. The Ivy League College raked in this
36:06
Speaker 1: money between twenty fourteen and twenty nineteen directly from donations
36:10
Speaker 1: from China, including twenty three point one million and anonymous
36:14
Speaker 1: gifts starting in two sixteen, according to public records. How
36:20
Speaker 1: are we allowing this type of influence coming in from China,
36:23
Speaker 1: specifically from anonymous donors, and how is it that they're
36:28
Speaker 1: at the same place where all this money's coming in
36:30
Speaker 1: There just happens to be classified documents now that we
36:32
Speaker 1: know deal with Iran and also Ukraine from what we understand,
36:38
Speaker 1: And why is it that DOJ and the FBI don't
36:43
Speaker 1: seem to be bothered by this at all, like they
36:46
Speaker 1: weren't bothered by Hillary Clinton's thirty thousand emails. There are
36:50
Speaker 1: two standards of justice over it's a DOJ, there are
36:55
Speaker 1: two different sets of protocols. And if you're a Republicans,
37:01
Speaker 1: they want to flog you in the press. If you're
37:05
Speaker 1: a Democrat, they're going to provide you every single justification
37:09
Speaker 1: they can to say, Oh, there's really nothing to see here,
37:13
Speaker 1: it was not intentional. Oh the vice president never saw
37:16
Speaker 1: those documents, he did not know they were there. We
37:19
Speaker 1: have no idea he puts them there. Well, you know what,
37:23
Speaker 1: then if they have no idea who puts them there,
37:25
Speaker 1: then they have no idea who had access to them.
37:29
Speaker 1: They have no idea who was controlling them. They have
37:32
Speaker 1: no idea if anybody scanned and copied or used those
37:38
Speaker 1: and the science that you have the Chinese Communist Party against. See,
37:41
Speaker 1: they like to tell you soft propaganda is a big
37:46
Speaker 1: part of their initiatives to global control. By the time
37:51
Speaker 1: we get to twenty fifty, now they're big on this.
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Speaker 1: This is why they're donating to the Penn Biden Academic
37:58
Speaker 1: Center at the University a Pennsylvania. They like that influence.
38:03
Speaker 1: They think that if they give you enough money, then
38:06
Speaker 1: you're not going to call them out, and you're going
38:08
Speaker 1: to allow confucious institutes, confucious classrooms, sister city programs, all
38:16
Speaker 1: which are important to their process that they're moving forward
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Speaker 1: with this soft opaganda and global domination center. Thanks for
38:28
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